The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 25, 1917, Page 1

The Greatest Daily Circulation of Any Paper in the Pacific Northwest ‘SS. TheSeattleStar LAST EDITION WEATHER: Gene « M VOLUME 19, \ WILSO BIG CROWD DANCES TO AID SI ATTLE, WASH., SATURDAY, AUGUSI 25, 1917 here PRICE 2" ONE CENT. EXEMPTS MARRIED MEN Building Trades council, threat Exchange of views with 'ASK CONGRESS WILSON TO TELL | 4 | MONEY ROLLS | TOFIXLUMBER POPE THAT THE | CAMERA CATCHES | IN FOR SM KES PRICE AND HOURS KAISER MUST GO © “Holdup” Victims Slowly|cr #20 Tn ime | | Dropping; Three More} wtrsnsinr tee sie | soses"goteran' se twat | § Come Thru; Last Call To- day for Others. LAST CALL, FELLOWS Today we settle the score few other affairs. We didn’t With the gentlemen named in have bis name on the list, but the left-hand column printed be- thus wired from Colville, low. They've got to come thru, Wa be “held up” like good fellows Greetings from jungles of for $5 each for ringside seats to Northeaste a Washington, Just the Arena show, or else be label- Saw Star's efforts in behalf of Our Boys in France Tobacco ed slackers to the cause of pro ind, and want to be counted viding tobacco for the Sammies in France. For the Arena on this bit of patriotic help " smoker and boxing exhibition babs js given for this worthy object f Believing them to be good waterye fellows, we had thought of hon add $6 oring the men whose names HERBERT A Billy's “Billy” were selected by allowing them , Yesterday to be “held up.” But now the a ssenger came end has come, Today te the UP With a big sack. He sald it Tat Gay. Thee. who ‘oney came from the county-clty Bitar scnchror toees met duilding, room 909, It waa Ro further opportunity to give officially and unofficially seal us their ringside money if 04 up and tied with rope. We ’ had a deuce of a time opening they/ go to the smoker Tues- it E e na o day, the: Uke amy ordi; Ana it had gy nary fight Were they to hies, a mysterious not craw! on ‘ir knees and beg WK 40 oak Ed Chilber us to take their money, we'd Ai/en Charles Reeve refuse them ringside seats bury, and a few others. It We Won't Play contained a “billy” and a black ‘i ‘ s mask, a bullet and and an ap- No, siree! Our pride has oie and a written injunction been touched, and our dander for’ us to “go to It’ is up. They've got to be “held "We aig “a tittle detective up” today, or we refuse to play work, and discovered that Billy bandit. That's all there’s to ¢, MEE Hei, “ere. Goad tone’ re Connor, one of the draft board pembers was thus getting in lots of names of folks who'd feel even with us for “holding him Just love to be held up. And In other words, w it hurts our feelings to find Hy ec lle a eda out that we left those oyt and ow, if Ed Chilt rs. G berg, George put om the names of some Ajlon Charlie Maybury oe elackers. Want to show up some chaps, For instance, there's Herb let them hurry up. We'll ac. Schoenfeld, the furniture man, cept their money, you bet of the Standard Furniture Co, Here's the “hold up” box the father of Dads’ day and a score to date These Haven’t Paid These Men Paid Hazen J. Titos Cot. Geo. Lamping 5. “4 Sem HN Judge Barke Gleason D e | Ballinger Gen. tk Saves pad Brown & Hulen HB. Ke K. J. Brown Jake Frederick Strave Joe Newberger Dr. M. A. Matthews Anten Delkin ¢ A. L. Landin Chief Nat) sign Fert Butterworth HS. Prye i Bert Sweree Dr. Clyde M. Mattice Dr. Carlyle De Mille Barney Lustig John G. Yon Herberg Alex Pantages Ted Daken K. V. Ankeny James Marmadake Dan Base ® E Sweeney Walter Fulton % W. G. Potts Sel Spring John B. Agen W. W. Connor Judson F. Wilson A. Cheshire Mitchell dames D. Hoge Chaencey Wri * *£ © & H & it was SOME dance! , knew it was for a good cause Seldom has Dreamland seen their money was being spent in such a crowd. a noble cause, ert It is too early yet to deter- During Fi D 1 uring Friday night's perform- mine Just how much was real- lance of Ringling Bros.’ circus, the ized for the “Boysin France To | show was stopped while an an bacco Fund,” because of tardy | nouncement was made of The reports on ticket sales. But (star's dance at Dreamland, for the the amount will be in excess benetit of the tobacco fund. The of $200. rn Ps audience was urged to drop in at 4) Every one who was there Dreamland for a dance on the way re had a good time, and enjoyed | | it all the more because they | (Continued on page 3) _ Sharles Edward _ Russell’s Fourth the allies has been With most of the Ing problems out of completed. price fix. the way ening to tie up building opera- tions there unless congress provides an eight-hour day for lumber mill workers by Sep and the burden of the coal tember 1 was read to the sen. work on the shoulders of Con. ate today by Senator Jones. trolier Garfield and R. 8. Lov. Senator Newlands, Nevada, | ett, the president has been said he believed it would be | able to devote much time to necessary for the government | the peace note to fix not only the hours of la | No Deal With Kaleer bor, but the price of lumber ress and the country have President Wilson has been nte n this reply, fol informed of the development th the a Jana The resolutions adopted by the 1 Press of |Seattle Building Trades council at ortginal the ting Friday night follow t labor of Seattle and - a pro y of all Washington, will re © ro . fuse to handle lumber except from " t elght-hour mills after Sept , h included Centra © thour cla ty - tracts, or, be OY elas adhgpeusicd of war work er and operate sufficient * now well ¢ ~ The al ply industries tmme-| led purchasing boa ion of diately which was nnounc some time ago by the United Press has been officially proclaimed now that all TIMBER UNION HEAD ies Gucetous “fevctsoa “in tts | work have been settled | CHARGES COLLUSION rp gtd | Bernard Baruch will bead tt and | ‘ the board will buy all TO N. W. LUMBERMEN ‘suasive Peggy.” 'Nuff sed Russian Article | OLD REGIME, THE WORST GOVERNMENT ON EARTH, -—_—___—_—0 —_——$—____— y appear © article will By ‘Charles Edward Russell The Russians are fighting and struggling on toward an advanced and stable form of democratic government, but they still have the legs of the Old Man of the Sea around their necks The remaing of the seven times accursed old system still hamper them They canned the czar, but they couldn't can all P of the vast swarm of evils that the ezar style of government had nailed down upon them Everything in the old autocratic government of Russia that wasn't done was done stupidly, and everything that wasn’t stolen was hashed The government, good or bad, of a nation of 180,000,000 people stretched over continent 6,000 miles wide m a colossal machine—that is to say offices and men at work in them. The revolution ousted the chief engineers of the Russian machine, but it couldn’t possibly oust all the millions of cogs, wheels and pistons corru Also, it could not possibly change at once the methods and plans by which these did, or were sup posed to do, thelr work ! | methods and plans, the very worst from th beyond doubt, the cov But it began to strip and revealed in detail what had been, government ever known on this earth Everything about it was done badly except the police job. When came to watching, overawing and terrorizing people, to spying, and mudslinging for pretexts to send men to jail or was efficiency to burn orld-beater at all that. But sonable government, it half-witted. Also mont it eavesdropping Siberia, there at carrying on was dull, slow monstrously Czarism was daily busine thumb-h and ext In the army, propriated for rifles nothing but ticks: They stole the money armies to be slaughtered lum waste: huge beri ful of re d and ant stole the firing line money ap responsible armed with troops up to the men in positions and sent for artillery and left whole by foes that had up-to-date equipment. They grafted on every contract, They stole stores, supplies, boots and buttons. Their motto was, Anything That Isn't Spiked Down, and Then Fetch the Crow-bar to Pry the Rest Loose. appropriated that pper, steel | the! They allowed traitors to bury in the earth the great gun England sent to Ruasia’s ald, and German spies to overrun and poison| every t of the service | In the bureaus large forces of men did little work, and botched that little TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM BROKEN DOWN Mayor Gill at work in his war garden, in the parking space in front of his home on 35th ave. The mayor as a gardener is shown in the new StarLiberty weekly at the Liberty theatre starting Sunday. | By United & ‘BOYS IN. F RANCE” TOBACCO F UND DRAFT RULES ARE MODIFIED” No Family Heads Will Be Taken Unless They Have Income to Support De- pendents. 98 Leased Wire Direct to The Star : WASHINGTON, Aug. 25.—President Wilson today dese clared that the first draft (87,000 citizen soldiers should” be made up of who are not heads. of families a In a letter to tary of War Baker, he said that the? only exception to this rule should be in the case of a mam” secking exemption who has dependents but has sufficient gy income to supply the needs of those dependents. be The president's action is expected to result in a modifica= > tion of the rules recently promulgated by Provost Marshal = General Crowder on the subject 4 The president to Baker was made the subject of between immediate conference jaker and Provost Mars! General Crowder The war department expected to make an announcement bearing on exemptions for married men today The president also wrote Senator Weeks, ing his views on the subject Only 5 per cent of the national army will be mobilized © September 5, instead of 30 per cent as originally planned, it Mass., outlin= u and other supplies needed both by| Mayor Gill has @ war garden. spot. Gill is rightfully proud of! was announced by Provost Marshal General Crowder todays) Inside information on why | this country and her allies It's some garden, too. that garden. And the movies which ——— ig lumber operators of the state The Moscow conference—expect-| Not satisfied with putting every |J#ke took are to be part of the ie of Washington have repeatedly ed to be historic in the records.of |avatlable foot of the back yard of | StarLiberty weekly, shown begin. | 5 refused to grant the demands | Russta’® revolution-drows the at-|his home, 526 25th ave. into gar-)2/ng Sunday on the new bill at the for an eight-hour day made by |tention of the world today. This! qen, the mayor is growing truck in| Liberty. the strikers in the industry [country awaits with great confl-|the parking space between the curb Other pictures in the weekly was given out by J, G. Brown, [dence the outcome. Jand the sidewalk. Every mornin: show the American lake can- president of the International fight to conacript|the mayor arises between 4 and 5| tonment, where Seattle's draft- Shingleweavers’ union in a w tack today in/o'clock, and spends a couple of; @@ Men are going to go in a us statement Saturday ned to round up hours in his garden before break-| week or two to live. Dozens of married men who! Burrows, recorder “Between the time when the |“slacker dollars” and disclose bid-| fast | Orafted men drilling at the |have been certified for the war vita 7, said that the pie pe strike was declared and the (den wealth Every one who owns or can get) 09 - commissioned officers’ |gervice in Seattle will be exempt- fected in his division would sala 4 date it went into effect,” sa’ i] — the use of a bit of ground ought to| Camp at Fifth ave. and Beil st. led, and many single men called to to from 15 to 20. Brown, “the members of the |PRIDE STUMBLING have {t working for him,” the mayor Seattle “Bills” at the Elks’ take their places, if orders are re We resolved all doubts in taro e lumbermen’s protective league | declared It ta ing what a state convention this week at ceived here to enforce President ing the government and then im | got together and signed a bond- garden will do toward cutting down Wenatchee. Wilson's plan to leave heads of structed, and in many cases mad@ ed agreement that any operator BLOCK TO PEACE, grocery bills. I've Rept my table A balky automobile crashing | families out of the first draft army. | out for the men, appeal papers {0 / who complied with the de In vegetables and garden truck all) into the display window of a At Governor Lister's office in the district board,” said Burrows.g7 | mands and opened up his mill | ARCHBISHOP SAYS summer, and I don't expect to| Second ave. store. Olympia it was predicted that at “We thought that since so manyr | on the eight-hour basis would | 1, cntted Press Leased Wire have to buy any for a year to/ least half of the work done by lo- Of the boards were following differs) | forfeit a bond of $500 a day to KANSAS CITY, Mo, Aug, 28, |come.” WOMEN DOCTORS cal boards thruout the state would Pt interpretations of the ru : the league —Aisace-Lorraine, Trieste and Frank Jacobs, the Star-Liberty have to be done over if President that the district board should eo E “About 50 per cent of the Indus-| Trent—the two stumbling movie man, had tried at various Wilson forced his contention, as Sider all claims and equalize try is ted this | blocks in the path of peace— |times to get movies of the mayor ASK ARMY TITLES outlined in United Press dis- Tvlings of the division boards.” eague, and th could be easily and satiefac. jat the city hall | By United Press Leased Wire patches Want Slacker Informattion mil a sald! torily disposed of if the third Nothing doing, 1 invariably SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 25.—| On the other nand, many local} A® Part of his plan to investiga Brown an control the rest} ang greatest obstacle to a just ‘replied to Jake's a soee | Army commissions for w« hy-'board officials declared that the 82d check up all claims for : | peace—pride—could be elim. 1 But when Jake got the hunch of/ ioiany who serve in dical number of men affected here would|¢mption filed with the dist Western! [hated photographing the mayor in his! ‘crys were demanded today by \be very small—iess than 100 board or with division be to Seat: | This is the opinion of Arch. | arden he touched him in a tender | 4, physicians of San Francis. The district board of appeats| Thomas J. L. Kennedy, the gow? for the | bishop Bonzano, apostolic dele | ~~ we Joo. The war departmer s of- and Governor Listet have laid|ernment’s agent in select servic et off | egate and the pope's special |fered to contract for their services down the principle that married | @Ppeals, Monday morning will open) bix $500 a t their) representative in America, HE K H lat $1,800 a year salary, but with no men were not entitled to exemp-|@ “bureau of information” in the il might open up ‘ish | given the United Press today rank. The women, according to tion on dependency grounds unless |™ayor'’s “throne room.” % lumber for Aberdeen shipyards. ‘It fs an armistice—to persuade | Dr. Louise Deal, secretary of the their wives would ¢| Here all information tending te The Grammer Scheme the warring nations to lay down Woman Physicians’ 6 feel charge if they we expose slackers may be taken, and y e promises not to] tneir ns and cease their| they are just as much entitled to Local officials declare they have|® Staff of clerks and investigators © j man lumber for the com: | fratricidal slaughter that the holy commissions as the male members exempted most of the men fn this | Will be on hand to run down slacker | mercial rket,” Brown declared, | rather seeks,” Bonzano said, “Once of their profession class ever since President Wilson Clues brought in by other investi> ishing only material for |they have laid aside the sword to outlined his position in a letter to|€ators and the general public. E. 8. Grammer re-| secure peace thru justice and per Senator Weeks, intimating that he Believes Claims Fraudulent t the mill to 0 suasion, they will never take it up would insist that heads of families Kennedy is convinced that many — . aay | Bae YY i es again : Councilman Robert Hesketh YOUNG BRIDE AND be discharged except where they claims ey by shipyards workers ; i The amplific of the pope's! may resign from the council had separate incomes are fraudulent, and will do all in der thone conditions, and | iret message to the poblic| and heseme @ candidate for $i DISAPPEAR Yet a canvass of men certified his power to run down the slackers: tern mill stayed closed. | seu the United 4s was the holy mayor next spring 5 shows that a large number of child. and also the bosses who are signs 4 in the extent of the operators’ | father tps to those who A good many of his friends, |f nenne extrait, write of H. Trew: fies men who claimed exemption |ing the supporting .affidavite, patriotism ‘ sought to misinterpret and miscon says Hesketh, are urging him || porket and disappeared # few because they headed a family were | ©. D. Bowles, president of the | Information at the strikers’ head-|strue his firat message; it was! ¢ take this action. after they were married tified’ because their wives were Duthie Shipyards, appeared before quarters Sat irday Stated that the] aiso an answer to the charge that! “1 haven't decided definitel hat sae mi later discovered Bast ne and apparently able to sup- the district board Saturday and Cascade mill, @ large plant In Van-|the proposals ¥ inspired by one! said today, “but I'll admit I'm|| aaere He joined her there nselves Was requested to witharaw iia couver, B. C., opened up on the! of the belligerent powers, Bonzano|thinking about it, Se 1 delega- || later In some cases childless men Claim for exemption made for Hats eight-hour basis this week. The! believes tions came to ty office 10 talk thal According ¢ vene Thompson, | had been certified, over claims of Old Sherrett, a timekeeper at the McKenna Lumber Co., of McKenna F sinks UK the |] author of Peggy.” the | o" r Pg a, | yards, and baseball play: orce Is Futile matter over yesterday | novel which begins “in | exemption, when it would mean Yards, and player, 4 also resumed ¢ tions with &@) «1 have received no information| “¢ { heli I can serve the pub: || The Star Monday, this young bride | the loss of newly acquired homes Howles held that Sherrett had pnion crew Jot the amplification except thru jie better as mayor than I can in|] Et, S6ay with some real ° A clerk in District No. 7 is re-| Worked as a ship fitter and thesia jthe papers,” he said, “But if It 18/the council, I'll resign and make || pend submisive, ‘Me sure te reed | Ported to have told one wife that he was placed in the timekeepers’ Maravene Thompson wrote “Per-/ authentic, and I believe it is, then }the run.” this story they were certifying four out of Office when an injury to his hand ” (Continued on page 3) a » toi ast AN every five childless men examined. | (Continued on page 2) "NEW RUSSIA’S PROBLEM IS TO REMOVE THE WRECKAGE _ HAD MISMANAGED MATTERS FEARFULLY, FAMOUS WRITER DECLARES government steadfastly faces come from a broken down transporta-! that tion system. Broken down by the sheer incompetence of the czar’s govern ment, When democracy came in it found the trans-Siberian, the main artery of the Russian railroad system, doing only sthird of its normal work because of the thick-headed or dishonest work of the old regime had not been maintained, The road was there, but it Equipment % woefully shy of cars and locomotives, and the old methods of ation lost one-half of the value of what rolling stock there was. One direct result of all this was that, while other parts of Russia ran over with food supplies, Petrograd and Moscow were short of food. Another wes that munitions and supplies absolutely required for military operations were hung up at the ports or the factories be cause there were no cars to load them in and no locomotives to haul them Surely the curse of God is upon autocracy and all its works! Surely it is the blight and plague of mankind, for surely nothing else leaves in its track a train of evils so great and terrible. The democratic government of Russia came in to find itself all | but overwhelmed with a situation the like of which had never con fronted any other government in the world Take, as one example of many triumphs of mismanagement, the| matter of transportation About one-half of the maddening problems that the provisional NEW REGIME MEETS PROBLEMS SKILFULLY | Russian story it threatened every minute to fall in These appalling conditions it is meeting with courage and skill. Slowly, steadily, it is getting the better of them. And here I point out one of the most interesting phases of the You see men that have had very little experience im public affairs, or perhaps none at all. Of a sudden this almost ins conceivable job is thrust upon them of changing over this enormous — and they tackle it and get away with it, learning how ag machine, they go along! Hecause they have the inspiration of an ideal, they have a vision, they see something to work for a million miles beyond and above the ~ pay envelope or a place at a murderous monarch’s table. They see a whole world lighted up for a new democracy if they can make demoe- racy go in Russia, and they work without sleep and defy disease or 9 weakness to make that vision real wa pry day things go better in Russia, These men are substi tuting order for slipshod and efficiency for a mad riot of blundering, But they can’t do it all at once, They can’t wave a magic wand |and exchange a punk old machine for a bright new one. It is easy enough for people in other lands to ask why the Rus sians don't do this thing or don’t do that? GIVE THEM A CHANCE AND THEY WILL DO WHATEVER — BE BY HUMAN AGENCIES, AND DO IT WELL, Bey a ARB CARRI ALONG TO ACHIEVEMENT "i It had to fight a great and terrible war and at the same time it ST POWER IN T WORLD, WHICH IS THE I TAIT had to operate for the daily life of the nation a machine so rickety; AND FEELING OF DEMOCRAC ‘ ‘ . 4