The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 29, 1917, Page 1

MUTT AND JEFF Bud Fisher's comic pair are stirring up a lot of fun across the top of the sport page oi ! TION Bon March t 2:30 Thursday atternoon, and hear the t-talked-of subject in America today lifferent sides of this subject explained by men and you know why it-should women who know what they are talki tbout 1 ecessary the land of enty Do you You'll hear what the food-speculators have been try know what uecess of t war Do , to do to the people by taking advantage the emer know what about it Do vou know eney, and what the people are gomg to do to them you Robert: Bridge port comm er of Seattle ne of the ng up with, the pace of you leaders in the control of food-speculation, will tell you country the times that ( t educationa at the Yow hear what the public schools of Seattle are lr ghts the Select Servi ice Army La WELLS ADMITS > PAYING BILL TO | FIGHT ARMY LAW Before a crowd of dozen of whom were women, | the hearing against Hulet M. Wells, prominent labor leader, and Sam Sadier, socialistic circles, was begun this morning by U. 8. Commis sioner McClellan in the district courtroom in the federa' build: ing. on the charge of sedition DONATIONS . TAKEN TO 4 AMD CASE Jitneys changed with cha- meleon-like rapidity into “Do- nation Busses” and 29 were prominent in operating Tuesday, despite sits | Sue circplation of panphiets asi urging r the injunction obtained against | sande tan them by the traction com- The hearing was still in pany from Superior Judge progress during noon Smith Monday. ! Wells and Sadler were “Free Bus” signs on the, Monday Gerson. Walle ls : ‘ 4 " Ps mer president of the Seattle Ce windshield beside the old sign Se, take temaen< eats, designating the route is all) ran for mayor as a soctalist and _, that ope outward evidence! polled more than 10,000 votes. Lic . the traction company at- le employed in the city lighting de - partinent, was formerly a posiol: | me asked the court to) ¥ ; fice employe, and graduated from | | marily stop 29 cars pen- Hulet M. We! the University of Washington law 1 to the su- gy tn jechool in 1909. He is a native of| ding their, appeal preme court in the bond fight. On the side of the card one sees, Washington adier Didn't Make Bond (CONSERVATOR Wells was released on $3,000| poee sonia ta the jitneys, is a Ibail, but Sadler, who was formerly | gentle hint: jconnected with the Longshore. | “Donations accepted for our) fight with the traction al Patrons Enjoy Gam men's union, failed to produce pail | jand was held at the detention sta: | tion over night __OF GARNEGIE’S the am bd “That's the strategy | “We shall present no defense be Drivers’ union used to meet the fore the commissioner,” said Wells, injunction attack of the traction| because he has no power to pass company. i a Seed on the law, #o far as a demurer ix Titagy patrons laughegiand took} Df. Meary 8. Pritchett, whose! concerned. We intend to fight it the hi The driver 12pas-| @ppointment ax conservator of the p the district court sengeP far on i%th av said} vast Carnegie fortune, owing to the charged on two counts, | late Monday Ps ‘. nd defhronement of the old fron-| ‘rst. the cireulating of argument! passenger had to donat i? | master’ pas against the conseription iaw, and was roasted by his fellow pas-| er's reason by sorrow over the nd, of using the malis illegally. sengers | war, was made public yesterday As to the first, the circulars Passengers usually took pains to| Was in Seattle in 1909, were distributed before the con:| tell the “Free Bus” drivers that He was at that time a member! scription law was passed. We op-| they were donating. They seemed of the United States lighthouse posed its passage, as we had a| to enjoy participating in what ap-| board, and was on a trip to Alaska| right to do and presented reasons Pealed to them as a clever contest./to Inspect coast protection and| why it should not pass The remaining 200 fitneys, which | needs. Charles A. Stone, of Boston, Opposed to the Law were not affected by Judge Smith's| of the firm of Stone & Webster, “Now that the law has passed, I veh hel wine Ie " the Unite relation hear dd St oft of the public he Floyd ¢ he the production of u cou foe en Dabney upervisor ' home \merica od ipp the " m inst ates health. department ir ttle, about fabel Abbott t The alth i Me rani) Senty davidulturies Kr to the Bon Marche at 2:30 Thursday anties are co-operating by increasing th afternoon, and go away with a new grasp of the The Seattle Star | of The Star every day They're in the wrnnbhanmnnnmpnnaiaaprpaannprnndodninnadinnnocpeni aia dianinae ams Sone... ee terest ef phon tect ne Went si _GREATEST DAILY CIRCULATION OF ANY NEWSPAPER IN PACIFIC NORTHWEST eye peeatestsatssits VOLUME 19 SEATTLE, WASH., TUESDAY, MAY 29, 1917. ONE CENT amv WW HEHE BARE KAISER’S PLOTS IN S. A. JITNEYS DEFY JUDGE; RUN AS “FREE BUSSES” GOING TO BE A KILLING! situation. CISsSeSSESISSSiSH its tise tists ters eistostrsitstossssss A One day way to observe Memorial s to resolve to buy a Liberty ARGENTINE IS SPY HOTBED AS WASHINGTON, propagandists to align South and Central American — countries against the United States, was exposed by the = state department today. ey. In three of the southern republics the propaga q has assumed menacing proportions. This is in Argen- tine, Venezuela and Colombia. Bs In Brazil the activity of the propagandists has” proved a boomerang,” culminating in the chamber of deputies voting to revoke the declaration of neutrality — ,as_a forerunner to an actual declaration of war on Argentine has become a hotbed | cre reached Berlin, but it = of proGerman’ and anti-American | cepted as a ch . e propagandists, according to state Open hig -Apces ' department information. The aimj In Colombia anti-American of these propagandists was brand: | feling has existed since the ed by the state department as “an/ separation of Panama has been effort to create irritation against fcnned ‘greatly by German propa’ this country.” |candistsa, A constant. effort riin Directs Propaganda Leen made by German agents i There is evidence that the prop-|the U, S. entered the war to keep” ‘aganda has been conducted direct-| the Colombians stirred up. propa. ‘ly from Berlin by use of the cable} In Venezuela, German from Spain to Buenos Aires, andists have revived the bitter” German firms in Argentine have | feeling that existed in the days of heen the agents of the Berlin gov- Castro's power. As in Colombia,” ernment in stirring up antl-Ameri-|the insidious work of the German ~ can feeling in that country, it was! propagandists has been exerted, cificially declared. No official not on the government, but on the would say that this cable provided|people in order to make the new ive means by which the news of |trality of the country a mere cloak ‘the departure of American destroy. to cover pro-German activity, LANSING EXPOSES GERMAN PLOT TO INVOLVE U.S. WITH ENGLAND ction, are still operating, but! and the late Jacob Furth, of Seat-|do not urge resisting it by force, | (cost of riding in them {s no/|tle, made the trip to Alaska with| tho I claim we have a right to! . CHferent from the cost in donation him on a revenue cutter. He re-| appeal to congress and the presl-| ¢¢ ° ” ° WASHINGTON, May err by Mer mete Bet Saie a 4 busses, it is sald. [poree to the government the need| dent to repeal that law. Mr. Wil Another startling hom erg Met = ie" t reat Britain or 4 Pyery jitney bus in the city will /®f more lights and better charting! son was elected because many peo ll | oover, e al was revealed before arms. | ge Seah’ ih tists" take part in the parade Thursday | of the Alaska coast ple honestly believed he would per hgg. Peseta 7 Renting Ase vacccrdite to announcement| _D. P. Robinson, of Boston, head|keep:us ont of war, and because I | TE Eee ue toot, ee WILL RAISE $13,500 made by ‘the bus union offic of Stone & Webster Engineering, believe that he could have kept us ‘ ” sing cepa anes | Baabdéy corporation, who ix in Seattle on|out of war fust as honorably tow X pe O 00 O rm Germany or German officials’ | Fifty men started out Tuesday The parade will go down Third|# business trip, knows Dr. Pritchett] as in the past, that the questions @f attempted, ny? , a e 4 nis worning to raise $13,500 as the ave, around Jackson st., and up| Well | both war and select service should nation's war ne vty ws ur pyr eity’s share of the $3,000,000 oe Second ave. Permission to hold it} “I had not heard of the appoirt-| have been passed on by a referen- 8 pe! M. MANLY | Brewers are here in force, determined to block | volve the pe ga hg sag {tional fund to be spent by tte 4 a Gnas: obtained. | ment of Dr. Pritehett as conserva-| dum of the people, the same as In ASHINGTON, May 29.—Thruout America, the any food measure that threatens their industry. ree Py ti Sof a, )oung Men's Christian Associa: | At noon Tuesday no more fitney| tor of Carnegie’s funds,” said Rob-| Australia. plain people are doing all they can to solve | The distillers have an army here—high-priced rance t ie ag safe ytd jtion in providing buildings, games rivers had been arrested for oper-|!nson Tuesday, “but the two men| “As to the second charge, that the food problem, but here in Washington, | ‘accelerators of public opinion.” big steam: roe % vce ON ed ‘and entertainments for soldiers” iis withent = Meenas. jhave been closely connected, Dr.| we used the mail illegally, it ig| Where the great problem of food distribution and | These are only a few of the special interests here,| aS eet ote ib wien Sa camps. Piles i Guiy Mabioas | Pritchett being the head of the Car-| based on the statute against send-| control must be solved, I find members of house and | blocking every attempt for proper utilization and, e¢lgn trading-with-e geared --— Fraction Fight Only Starte negie Foundation, which adminis-| ing obscene matter senate, aided by a swarm of special food interest lob-.| equitable distribution of foodstuffs The plot is being investigated by] ELECT PRESIDENT The Traction company’s lawyer® tery a large part of Mr. Carnegie’s This charge ix too silly for con-| byists, doing all they ean to block administration ef- Each of these special interests has its “experts” | the department of justice upon au-) told Judge Smith Monday that thev | | benevolence. tradiction.’ forts to feed America and our allies | ready to swear to anything their bosses direct. There thority of reliable government in-’ Mrs G.°A. Rochester has been Pn Ltr ve - pe Lo, Pl “Before that, he was president of] Wells admits that he read proof} ‘This is my observation, after a tour of the vital xperts” bere, testifying under oath that whole formation, Lansing told the commit:| reelected president of the Seattia jthe Massachusetts Institute of|on the cireniar. He says he is not) food centers of the nation for The Star. bread is deadly poison, end that any bread tee Day Nurse’ association, which 6 pee eae hag Fi ae Technolog, the author of the pamphlet | yea# small-minded men in Washington are deter. | not made of bleached flour is a meni to the nation Lansing Makes Charge |cared for 8,327 children of working | thor gga oredr: i eae 2 mined to bind Herbert Hoover hand and foot, just as | All this “expert testimony” is bought and paid for| Secretary Lansing, Secretary of mothers last year. le ania -Attorusy Orawisehcatl | the Lilliputians ted down Gulliver, They are ready | at 80 much per day Commerce Redfield and Assistant | 49 some ay sey gua hn | | to see the people starve before they will consent to| And in addition to this swarm of lobbyists, all the| Attorney General Warren, author | “They bus . bg i ‘ ; - yield their petty pel¥ate interests old-time food adulterators are on the job, seeking to|of most of the war legislation, were | y have been pulling the wires, oh w 2) before 6 prstate ci | Es habit the costae 40 Ghana | The big flour millers have their lobbyists here pay ne ‘hye ng ty oe tae “a will wipe | today hefor the ant hr Pitas revere whee Stay have sntxed up King Goan | to eee nothing le done that, may affect thelr ve » pu tre aw and leave them free to poison) merce committee in bevel of the ty courts in fine shape, tho said | “brands,” for the establishment of which the merica’s ¢ ren : Adamson trading-with-the-enem eho as cate ee | dope have for years paid high prices to cover There is just one way to solve the problems of|act introduced last week. Lansing | tne ares ean'e teal | ULET M. WELLS, proininent leader in labor circles, has beén| favien advertising costs. famine prices and food manipulation—make the food| was questioned by a committee | Advertising Reduces get adage an't tout | arvesiod aad will face ifial @n & eharec Of dedition in bonnsetan' profiteers and speculators get off the backs of the| member regarding the real need] g Ili Cc ie fitneys for operating without} With the ‘eisculationh ‘of Antara ‘propaganda, Other areal: Bakers ae here uy botah , eves no mien people. This is what the food contro! bills are intend-| for such an act elling Cost ense, pending heir suit} ” shall be taken to interfere wi eir profits. ed to accomplish 1 sey . ” ea have been made, and still more are to follow ed to plish There was an attempt,” Lan hyp heen “ur | Star has no knowledge of whether Wells is guilty or innocent} They, Will have no ES ue ae If they continue to be blocked, or if congress is/ging said, “by Germans or German| Mr. Sullivan, — secretary-” udge ¢ h says you de 7 : hore nas ribs a Pig es 6 the phares, Silp arrest, howevér, has called public atrention to ant by inte onrTane Program to save themacives a permitted to Rewcleaieng another two months while | officials—I don't know whieh—to| — treasurer of the Association tempt of court | apparently organized movement on the part of certain parties in advo: stl é the robbery and exploitation of the people's food con- force a breach between this coun of National Advertisers, We hope to inject a litt cating forcible resistance to the t service law The packers, so far as | have discovered, are | tinues, there Is sure to be grave trouble, and the prog- try and either England or France ag turiiad 9 ac We hope to inject a little clar ng forctb an mn . et Ge a hen says, € e ma ace tying law into the muddle Wed “Resist conscription” is a slogan that breathes anarchy and chao not openly represented, but their influence is rass of the war against Germany will be seriously Berlin Backs Steamship Company dune Pt ‘ aval uesday.” It is unpatriotic, of course. And it is violently opposed to the great surely exerted. menaced A" steamship company was or| "1 — maaes oreal ke } a 7 | 006 segan to advertise, his Com American spirit of representative democracy. ganized, with an American board | 4 ay areentions | Our representatives—the president and congress—have snoken. | QOUNCIL ASKS FOR GAMBLERS BUY UP jot directors, to make trouble—be-| goods sold at I5c a package. Bd gp pede beg of the com | They have passed the select service law because modern warfare has | fore the American declaration of Toda the package is Splred ta ng, ditney men have con-| demonstrated the vital importance of centralized control and system- cost FIGURES ON war—between the United States] por Cent larger and the pri Me oenitine c, yy 2 ee b oll) atic organization, both on the battlefield and in the potato field BUTTER AND E@es and England or France pay e 4 a mentioned in the franchises of the| ,@00¢ Americans accept that decision, the same as they accept the N LINES CHICAGO, May 29.—Grain gam- Lansing declared that before this] has been reduced to 106, company, and that a» a reautt the | Verdicts at the election polls. EX Biers, “riven Gut" ot te soard ‘of lcountry was forced into the war,| Advertising did it. : company is losing $250 a day. {t| We differ before the count is finally made, but whemit is over, the cerimatda eh aescont of ooh. | ‘Trade By recthotive trating.tules, |Germany sent an agent here, or y ; ta also charges that some of the jit; American spirit tells us to forget party qnd factional squabbles and) structing and operating an ex. | have bought into the produce game| Two members of the crew of the| delesated one of her sples on Amer ou are, using one. of thm neys are large and cumbersome) *hake hands over the result . tension of the city’s str and are staking their chips on but-! Nor 1 teamer Baja Calif lican soil—to organize the steam- greatest powers of modern and affect the operation of the We may have differed about the war, and about the select service) jines to give service to ship- ter, eggs and cheese, it was declar-| ee: Catia hte oe (MED SOMDARY business when you read the street cars 4 law, and we shall differ on the war tax and on a great many things, | yard workers along the south | ed toa; jnia were turned over to federal of-| ‘phis agent, he said, loaned Amer:| ade 9 The fact that the jitneys are not but our Americanism falters and staggers on to ruin if each of us shall’ front were requested Butter jumped 2 cents, to 43 ficers at Port Townsend Tuesday, ‘icans the money to buy in and r bonded as required by Secretary forcibly resist the verdict and decision of our own represer tives in the a depart. conta d pound, today, after a rise of charged with atiempting to disable piace it aboard ships in order to] "Phe Hest offerings of Seat Siate |. M. Howell is the basis for, this government, selected by free ballots 5 ment by a resolution introduc. | cents last week her machinery, according to word Tis? me issue between this! to's best storessappeat fe 5 he action Ve are at ¥ and we must not tle our own hand ed in council by Councilman - ne word country and one of the allies over! tores:.apg tS % torney Howe, for the traction} We must fight with our b ability, and this, it has beeh deter-| grickson Monday and pi CAPTURES FORGER received by the Merchants’ Ex- tho question of seizure of Ameri-| ularly in The Star. HY, 18 expected to continue! mined, is by select service, The “resist conscription’ advocates want)» unanimously. change. can cargoes. | Hetieenentieemans — { The fight started by the restraining | individual opinion to control. They want mob rule, They want chaog, In the meantime the public | Detective Dan McLennan, after a The ship carries nitrates from “There are many cases,” Lansing caanbey: GROWING PAP! order, and this probably means the) | And chaos means a longer war and a bloodier one, utilities department is prepar- | fist fight, arrested R. H. McClurg,| South America to the DuPont pow-|said, “doubtless inspired by Ger-| THE fa elie Nowrewiee ER | heginning of a long war between | THERE 18 NO PLACE IN THE UNITED STATES FOR THI Ping an eetimate of the revenues caped forger from Monroe re- | der plant, near Tacoma, and AYpPe |e while we were neutral, of or- the company and the Jitne; SORT OF ANARCHY. ‘ auMmioh might be expected. formatory, Monday. at Mexican ports, ganizations effected in this coun- a |