The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 23, 1917, Page 1

a A RR I a ~_ ,OFFERS ARBITRATION TO AVERT CAR STRIKE Many more women workers are needed to aid the Red Cross war fund campaign committee. Give your time, as well as your money, Report at headquar ters, on the fourth floor of the Arcade buliding. AISER BILL. has a loyal subject carrying on anti-American propaganda work in Se attle’ His name is PAUL H. Ortman is editor of ORTMAN the Seattle GERMAN Press ORTMAN IS NOT AN AMERICAN CITI 1 In justice, however, to a man who has m onstrated that he does not deserve considera tion at the hands of Americans, it should be said that he applied for American citizenship April 10, 1917, FOUR DAYS AFTER CON GRESS DECLARED A STATE OF WAR EX ISTED BETWEEN AMERICA AND GERMANY But Ortman's haste to become a citizen doesn't mean that he was prompted by love for this country He came to the United States 1906—NEARLY Il YEARS AGO. A more important reason is to be found in his disloyal editorial utterances, not alone before he applied for citizenship, but almost daily since. The federal authorities have done their ut- most all over the land to impress alien enemies that the wise course for them is to “OBEY THE LAW AND KEEP THEIR MOUTHS SHUT Mayor Gill very wisely has forbidden antiwar agitators to speak on the streets. Ortman’s disloyalty is far worse than that of the ordinary street speaker, because he ts em ployed by American citizens, who are supposed to possess a comprehensive knowledge of their obligations to their government. His employers, all substantial citizens of Seattle, and officers of the company publishing the German Press, are: HENRY HECKMANN, coal dealer, who lives at 508 20th ave. S. F. A. AUSMAN, proprietor of the Madison St. Market and Grocery, October 20, JIEVERYONE IS VOTING | IN RUSSIA! CORRESPONDENT SHEPHERD OF DITIONS IN: PETROGRAD; GIVES WORD PICTURE STILL NEED HELP VOLUME 19 1019 E. Madison st. CHAS. OSNER, of Osner & Mehlhorn, Inc., Mehlhorn Bldg., agents for the North German Lloyd Steamship Co. The fair amption is that they pre approve o ng Orth kalser's publicity ar daily at ent Wilson and the are misrepresenting those a of German birth or descent who came to this country, as Carl Sehurs did, to es cape mi autocracy, which this nation ts nder impotent helping to make {t their full duty by th determin Instead of citizens to do country, Ortman is trying to poison thelr minds and hearts Here are a few samples of his transparent trifling with treason and sedition taken from recent issues of the GERMAN Press pwsition against conseription w 0 of the 80. Kaiser Bill's man Ortman couldn't conceal his chagrin over the result of the Liberty loan He under the capt mature Jub jon, “F tions “The Liberty } according to } conclusion decidedly there le browght to « happ Kt hae EVEN bee On the other hand. reine hymas Thos déew the Kateor's weet In Senttle ask for American citizenship one day and tnsinu the next that the Amertean people w idiate their pledge to loan thei gov two lion do! A tip to other nament aliens of his lik was passed ‘Daughter of Former President Will Wed’ CON- THIS ON SEATTL . WASH.,, by Ortman in the following the resident's note to Russia Of particular Interest te th the Imperial Germ: Ie osing for thelr comment on Vresident Wilson is entirely too optimistic if he vee that Germany will he satiafind with = status Co Ortman have made it any plainer if be cheer, fellow Germa' Germany ie he able «oe prevent m, Serbia, Human He tinued with a charge that Wilson trifles with bis large powers Wilson evidewtiy Mid not expeet to aewamplish Russia: he ie How such constant an fcans and President W disloyal utterances |« ing letter, printed In the in English ering at America, Amer: ison Inspires others to ustrated by the follow jerman Press, June 18, enough GERMANS and to put up ® strong pre. if necessary flabt, against soch names as Must we also be English and be run by Eogtioh here In America? Can we people mot run our own country? Must we Jet an English dude come over here to dictain what we omeht to do? Keough countries bave had te submitted themectves to these Ringlieh- * trols, EB 8” And herein you get a clear statement that it is ness of Herr Ortilam in Seattle to de fend the Kaiser and his barb@ria: soldiers—the enemies of Amerticn and Humanity—-1 to resent the murders of Americans, Wefore war was deCtared “Today there came @ letter from an indignant reader which Inclesed (we clippings from The Siar, Both etip- pings Contained revolting incendiary articles. In one Ts asserted that the Germans defiterately fired beospital chips and stations of the Red Cross ® e The strain of trying to become legally an ema gcent Seattle's Red Cross war fund campaign will end with a big open auction of mercy gifts at the New Washington hotel at 8 p. m. Monday Almost universal giving Sat urday brought optimistic pre “ dictions at headquarters that yew the $300,000 mark of the local at a few we committee will be passed “Make it half a million,” is the plea of Publicity Manager | ’ ‘ Hazen Titus now . One man unscrewed his gold tooth Saturday and dropped it er than . SATURDAY, JUNE 23 Ba tiet i GIVES HIS GOLD —SEIZEU. S, OIL TOOTHTOHELP FIELDS FOR WAR, OUT RED CROSS SAYS DANIELS — - e THE 78TH DAY OF OUR WAR ° { GREATEST DAILY CIRCULATION OF ANY NEWSPAPER IN PACIFIC NORTHWEST ONE CENT XY" _LAST EDITION PARAL Every time you think of buying @ luxury Monday take the money and toss it into a Red Cross mercy barrel. Weather Man Salisbury says: “Showers today and Sunday.” American, 0 that he can remain on the for the kaiser, is telling on Ortman This is shown by bis call, on June Registra tion day—for all those disloyal residents of Seattle who would defend ( atrocities com mitted by German soldiers to boycott the city’s American dallies Ifls plea for boycott fol lows ' wh find thin sort of imeem aries local paper. cut the article out eaily show ALL your treads; not only « tut also to the Iristy sand copies of are contermaaded each day, they will soon apply then elven to greater cleanliness, and the offensive artiries The sinister thing about Herr Ortman's threat ig that In it we have an undisguised attempt by a loyal subject of the kalser to openly organize other aliens of Irish and Swedish extraction to assist him in proGerman propaganda work in America, while America is at war with Ger many Herr Ortman’s editorial sanctum is at First ave. and Spring st., within the half-mile zone of for and received permits from the federal au- thorities. Herr Ortman will be 26 years old July 11 He fs @ man of education and experience, He can't plead ignorance ax an excuse for the thoro manner iu which he has abused Ameri can hospitality and tried American patience The Star's advice, therefore, to Herr Ortman “OBEY THE CAW IN SPIRIT KS WELL AS LETTER, AND KEEP YOUR MOUTH SHUT.” So that the people may know, The Star will print additional excerpts from the German Pr which show the rt it bas t making to justify the “German” part of its name FEW SENATORS PLANNING WAR BY ROBERT J. BENDER WASHINGTON, cune 23.— Only a “dry” fight will prevent : Passage late today of the ad tne Ministration food contro! bil! in the house * woe Administration leaders, how ever, were confident the entire tod ¢ liquor element would not inject 5 strength sufficiently long to “hold up the measure. At the e same time a new iine of wage developed in the when it at a time appeared . : ves eee o ¢@ a Mrs. M 1 Stearns, 4114 Inter points in the upper branch roo next week, a very small clique ssagnaassastessssesssssessascsssietesseatessassssseessse! nt os seb sdepnt by »y Senator Hardwic re story o ra t set of garnets nt art Fan f gy pheno » i has announced {it will in and whose articles have . ; ¢ law was @ . sist that no food control measure ads _ rife ‘ his permona bass and that no such department Nate ee -t nig \ R should be created for Herbert theatre, after making a yover and t nothing bu MARION CLEVELAND hea {said: “Daddy and I WASHINGTON, June 23.— | they : seat lias ; ‘ aving here's! Declaring it a “queation of very Thid element fh ae Hiss Cle ring. V d like short time before the govern: ut and out fight and the speakers t her engage ‘ we have none. ment must commandeer al! oil n a cde ; u "| ng. nce en that particular side won't begin Dell, o! H her money | and coal in the country,” Sec- [inti next week f : wome There isn't ymar oungest daug . i i next Wee proba late mace ) chee e ver wed- retary Daniels today told the (thus endangering the spects of ttle in Russia. Everybod epts th € | President Cleve But she turned and| senate public lande committee | the measure going to conference by } t erfectly natu I tory| Thomas J. Pre i eT ee that the oil situation is serious. ily 4, Tiss Wollt between brewer chat there has never beer Ay atthe gd tA dae Be 1 ere th ch Daniels said that if the com: and distillers is too wide, it is be pe here A " Teache : ¢ / pide pap get foe simnine mandeering was not done nego- lieve to permit solid opposition : ma sorts ¢ , DY | 19 a gradua pe teg eo a SUFFINE tiations must be entered into rom the “wetelemett..° different bje there ia ¢ minute (ed inthe A © corps n tay snd Bat will be bY. the government to require awiwick Anke nob eink thatahy Soldic re o re n France he ve i‘ Perigo’ vrent| the opening up of oll and coal | compromise is satisfactory unless it Shinists wa te wt Marche park| {le!ds. He said the fuel supply | ejiminates the whole bill with the be a J ‘ite 1 must be regulated and the gov. | avception of the peculation sectior rivers, street wil re ; : ernment empowered to fix AA Adda wotthing favor abl They are ¢ ¢ ADVERTISING MANAGER'S gers ight a) prices on both oil and coal ompromise Facclion: Shen on hour ! te DAILY TALK a ! M chorch rf The navy ofl reserves must be/the house bill, if 4 1 : . ate: chureh da Merey barrels 4 J baby the house bil a at t orders shall ¢ ther e kept on the street and placed|*Aved, Ne said, for the futureltaxen up for amendnient hold meet the trenche and send them in f the churches, for dona-| “U/ch we cannot foresee sen agricultural committee Mo iol fs Pes 1 to represent the in tt nat l ather-| ' Hast at thi 6 tor Doesn't Know Available Supply day and then r »rted to the floor agli ; Oe a | Truthful ‘Tolliver Speakers and Red Cross coin cole) With 200 of] burning ships being A substit for the present a ° ag (ceian Hayat thet lector appear at all park con-| hurriedly built, Daniels admitted he | senate bill Governrsent on Tiptoes (Tk Ciakhatpery certs Sunday afternoo: does not know what the available A DAY'S PAY TO RED CROSS — a, " f under the ie Three thousand Red Cross kites oll supply of the country | He — j ad while #2 torm of voting i ide ay He ut the Coliseum . sa over Becoud » | suggested a government ey of} tion would be immediate. vernment, alert { on " waits to know the (The ileir of the to be flying r nd ave | te . ryly Pl ra murray f tion w wld be immediate ; gpvernment le ang oo eaverandasienent Ae cnet idee feta POR ! urday ; fall o . 0 determine where Daniels protested against opening popu Il and translate it I govern E harlie Chaplin at the ar thruout the city were! fresh supplies might originate. Hej up the present naval reserve in ~ ‘Land. governments without armies are (The Immigrant) to give one day's salary | Said the government was going to| California until pending litigation 2808 BONE geunle-4n fact, tha Sfarauatite Chair at: the Rex Monday, and everybody 4s| get as much of oll as possible| has been pressed to termination pe € _ The a : a nian eek al (Wildflower) rego luxuries and toss | from outside the United Stat in} He declared some of the men on a i the people o iong a fy : Peggy-Hylar the Clemmer in the merey barrels. lorder to conserve our own the reservation are holding titles } the of th e it the support. of gy id ath Ww If the war goes on for a year orjin the names of “dummies.” If it th Wherefore vasters of public opinion like : ? two, it would be absolutely vital|is opened, he urged the opening be Meren keep em * ‘ pres ty % tially increased because the de jor of some agency and “not by men the publ i‘ 1 ertain matter ma A e Cla KEEP uP THE FIGHT mand would be increasingly great.) who hold vuidulent title he th trikes an rican in 1 The Men Reat God er,” be Ceclared Every d of oil land in America the th century torn ‘ saute ‘ WASHINGTON, June 23. Oil Is Basis for War honld be opened to the publie be is interfere ith tl I ine 1 a Pagal a At) Pree storm of cheers, which periore In other words, oil is the basis we open our naval reserve,” iy se cia gate eh have agree tea hts atl and reverberated thru the capi conducting this war, Every-| Daniels said. “Il Nave heard much “ De BE ARS aera art , : ubjects| ™ * * tol, greeted Professor Boris sends on it [talk of California's need for oil, 1 wofessional army behind ' Bakhmetieff, head of the Rus If Mexico were cut off as a source | Suppose it exists, But this commit are not wed to posse se sian mi and new ambasea of supply, be declared, the drain|te¢ must decide whether Califor But professional armies are killed early in such great dor to the United States, when | on this country would be tremen.|Nia’s interests are to take prece. rs ast rid it becomes necessary to put workingmen|THE FASTEST GROWING PAPER| he told the house today that | dous and the need of the govern-|dence over the demand of national 7, . P and give them guns and rect IN THE NORTHWEST ia rejects any idea of a | ment. assuming control of oll sup: Daniels told the com and farmers into uniforms and g ? ; © peace. plies and enforcing its conserva (Continued on page 2) 4 1 % ON FOOD BILL DEMANDS FOR HIGHER WAGE * Agreement by officials of the Traction company to arbi- trate wage and other demands made by the newly organ- | ‘ized union of their employes at 1:20 p. m. Saturday averted | Jimmediate danger of a car strike Che arbitration agreement was reached mittees, representing the union, -which 75 per cent of the company's employes, had conferred ‘with | President Leonard, Vice President McGrath and General) | Manager Kempster in Leonard's offices in the Stuart build= ling after two com- officers say include he first union committee was composed of the newly> = l elected officers. 2 “President Leonard told us he would arbitrate with a7 committee of his employes but didn't want to treat with offi-” |cers of the union,” was the statement issued at union heade ” !quarters in the New Standard hotel “When the officials left Leonard | — 1 committee of employes who have | joined the union went to see the | ae company officials. On that com: | y is. . tea-were J) A. Stevenson, chair | tan; James Manders, | H. K — ie J. E. MePherson, K. E. Bradley om ; FP. Doran hey presented their demanea nd selected James A. Duncan, sec retary of the Labor Council, as their member of the arbitration board 17 “The company has 10 —PU TNAM rovisions of its franck Sensations kept a “standing * members of the room only” crowd in Judge rd and then the two Ronald's court on tip toes Sat- the third membér urday morning during the cross- The demand were for 37 examination of G. M. Wardell, cents an b nd 40 cents for over witness for the state in time, with « ht-hour 4 the Mike Powers bribery case. New union officials insisted that Wardell, a private detective, there w i be x strike unless alleges that Inspector of Police they were locked ¢ or members| Powers accepted $50 from him of their union discharged for their February 27 in return for ctivities organizi gambling house protection, His direct testimony was given Fri- Claim 1,000 Join in Two Days day afternoon and drew from The local union ts Loca Pa vey the defense a searching in- Railwa Quiry into his past activities as porte Prosecutor Lundin's investi- ~ gator , Powe me when I was in < o bruary 9 that Dr. Matthews was a meddlesome par that Seret. Putnam of the dry alarm and that was the worst in the chair,” redirect @x+ wsack, Squad was a false Beckingham put stified in id,” Wardell told the ngsley and the dry be mayor didn’t eut — e Sergt. Putnam of the dry An official nm squad took the stand and pan Saturd told testified that Or. Mark A. Star report W. R. Crawf Matthews of the First Presby- ettorney f Seattle jitne iriver terian church furnished the t against the a money which he paid to War . t r delt to maintain hi two e car v Gambling houses. Wardell was Ge the con paid $5 a day salary for his to the I ‘ T services, Putnam said _ Contradicts Deputies These 2¢ t is ated " | wa ly grilled for . aes : n te irs Saturday by : " t elve Fulton, Powers’ attofhey, in the union movement examination, He contradicted * testimony of three puty sher " ho said Saturday he (War: " ha n Pow office ” Fet ry when be paid al bribe waited for Pow- and alf-hour, and for between SAYS ERICKSON = > woman equaint- joyed at The policy of the Traction com: th ables, and that Jou aan Piee end not patient ut sing what his cut was on tes and not paying its bills ity’s horses?” asked This is the way Oliver T. Erick. F son, chairman of the council publi 1 did t was Wardell’s reply, utilitles committee, interprets the ogee , that yen rew policy of the Puget Sound | you have cre th Dink’ In Traction, Light & Power Co. an- Chica nd that ‘Hinky” alwane winced’ Friday by Pres. A. W.! got a cut Leonard No. aid Wardell The compan said Ericksor has been working with the state Isn't it also true,” continued public service commission for a hat after McGee long time to get out of paying its t e anything to do with share of » on brid o Now they announce that rates 1 lenied he keen le raised. Rates in Seattle o to go down instead of up, in t w did you see opinion 7" res, Leonard stated he did know whether the increase would wi quite a number, be brought about thru the abolition “ of the transfer privilege or a raise Deputy Prosecutor “Eilis began in fares. the state's effort to prove that In« “No ‘definite plans have been Spector of Police Powers accepted made as yet,” he said ‘ (Continued on Page Seven)