The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 30, 1917, Page 1

i Read “Confessions of a Husband”! It Starts in “E.D.K.’s Column” on Editorial Page of The Star Today WAP PPL LD PLP PPL L LLLP LPP PPE PPD PPP PPP PPP LE PPP PEE PO Ne Pee The Seattle Star The Greatest Daily Circulation of Any Paper in the Pacific Northwest LAST EDITION wWratThen ' and FULL LEASED W UNITED PRESS VOLUME AS: IRE SERVICR SOCIATIONS SEATTLE WASH., TI {URSDAY, AUG, 30, 1917. here ¢ : n tle A 2 PRICE { CENT DRAFT APPEAL BOARD WILL: 1 STICK TO SECRET SESSIONS Open the Doors HARLES ‘ ES $L IE M AJOR, 308 1-2 Olympic place, when registered under the draft order on June 5, gave his age as 29, unmarried, and stated that he was not employed. He was drawn, passed, and certified into the army by his division board. Before the district board of appeals, two months and a half after registration, he submitted sworn statements to prove that he is employed in a Seattle shipbuilding plant, AND THAT HE IS— INDIS- PENSABLE TO HIS EMPLOYERS. Upon this showing the board gave him the usual temporary discharge until Janu- ary l. Today The Star, having learned by ac- cident of the case, made inquiries of the appeal board. A few‘minutes later an employe of the board called up The Star office to say that the board had decided to re- open the Major case and would con- - sider it further before reaching a final deciajon. The district board of appeals has bar- red from its hearings not only the public, but newspapermen as well. If the case of Charles Leslie Major, who became indispensable to the ship- ping industry in a period of a little more than two months, is a sample of what is done behind the closed doors of the district board of appeals, The Star wants to have those doors opened. There must be no talk of favoritism in draft exemptions. Members of the appeal board cannot afford to let this sort of talk arise. Yet that is surely what is going to hap- pen if these questions of life or dtath are discussed in private. The way to quiet suspicion, gentle- men, is to do business in the open, and t rule holds true in draft exemp- tions just as well as in any other activ- ity of life, military or otherwise. he SENATOR'S WIFE DIES TRY TO FIND RELATIVES WASHINGTON, Aug. 30.—Mrs Effort is being made by the au Thomas J..Waleh, wife of the jun ties to locate the relati for senator from Montana, died to-| who died day ina B o follow-} Vedne tay 6 of many week ' received wh ing an ilines PUBLIC BARRED FROM HEARINGS | ON EXEMPTIONS Following the demand of The Star that the hearings of the district board of appeals in ex- emption cases be open to news Papermen, the board Thursday announced it would reopen the case of Charles Leslie Major, 29, of 308! Olympic place Major's case was the one cited by The Star to support its contention that the secret Sessions now held by they board should be replaced by more public hearings Or Registration day, Ma he had ptior H amber was called In the draf He was examir found and Was ce the local b« Give Him Discharge appeals the Dut bmi ted ar aying that Ma he , Duthie | Meet in Closed Session Major. rom this, be cat indi about 4Wwo in month And the district board agreed that Major should be ex tempt on pational grounds.” Whe 3 ed ntion to this e the need of > chamber See kly decided to It insisted tings must be ore Swamped With Work open meet nped with held behind closed ¢ Hins t have pub 1 boards oral evide Not even the altogether on affid written ¢ ments, and act like an apr ae itted on brie ta ments are Fear Interference If we let down the ba and will be h interference, thru 80 ¢ ay our work B aren't going to make and take 1 r time, ling was told They will ilent Hsteners he 1 represent the public in the hearings.” Co 1 see no force in that was st August 2 by an auto O. Brown, 404 SEATTLE’S CHAMPION WOMEN WAR-TIME KNITTERS» THAT'S T@ RESULT ae 4 Mrs. Elizabeh left, and Mrs Bliss, right, who knitted socks for Uncle Sam's soldier boys more than 50 years ago, and who now spend sunny after- noons together in an old- fashioned garden, knit- ting for Sammies in an- other war. Benson, Lucy M " “’ Women of Interbay Who Made CANDYMAKERS, ‘Socks for Civil War Vets Are MOSTLY GIRLS, ' Knitting Now for Our Sammies Mindful of days when Ameri can young men were marching off to another war, fleet fingers at performed brothers and hearts on the O Seattle and when home nimbly tasks for and sweet ie front, two» are loving grandmothers spending many hours together, knitting muh needed woolen socks for Uncle Sam's boys in France 2829 They are Mrs. Lucy M. B 14th ave. W., and Mrs. Elizabeth H. Benson, 2839 14th ave. W. Ly were resent ft if they Mrs. Blise is would called old. oth and Mr But the are the ays young ecause they are always working for others. That is their philoso. ph Talk War In Knitting Nook They ho two day doors from each other Mrs. Benson's garden, an o! fashioned place, fringed with holly b no quaint old-fashioned ide at In live in on on a h jovial nd big. wers In one corner is a hammock shaded by an awning, and this is the favor ite knitting nook And so their friends have come to call them the tting twins Seated there. ttle pools of yellow sunlight r thru the eaves upon the e heads, the to recall those time: racy at stake 1 a at fur ® when the civil war broke « said Mr BR in the garden toda I went right to work making heavy bl braid on the « nade right there in our nd sold to the government Knitted In Civil War “And there was nitt to be done too, mittens and socks and wristers 1 was living on Swan tsland near Bar Harbor, Maine, at that time,” sald Mrs, Benson. “I 4 know that we knit ar war than we did Most Remarkable [esichiive Body in m were to ge World Governs Russia, Says Russell rk ; | know any climate il that Is} has ever had Ve 1 be the! More unhe for dictators now] Even now, without formu Kassin, where he three months as! 1 sigh the | that climate of Russia. Gentle-|lated constitution, the people are a imember of the yates alee peop: ; Ne! men planning to go into that line| supreme Sommission to the ew Kussian govern people I! willl of buaine de. aaPihaily. AVL ‘C rs ar Sommon People Rule men’ ule it ABSOLUTELY to | eluewhere, The prospects The most powerful institution in t r s A er fra are not ubrious Rus ® 1° Nationa oune By Charles Edward Russell itocra het | all Russia is the National Council je labeied (weet thie name Russia will not have a dictator|of Workmen's, Soldiers’ and Peas y ‘thi bout|czar or neatly discuised 1 trary to cave dwel ts’ Delegates, and that is a pure Many other hes vse) Segal ee re des i need a dictator.|ly democratic power Russia may be doubtful, but/constitutional monar i It 1s no One n Country and| Local councils, similarly formed there is one dead one Russia Keep the never will be ¢ furnish for the time being the gov Russian cer- Germans out and it will never Democratic Spirit Strong jern steam in the muntelpalities The N al Council furnishes it tainty all may again have a look in there I don’t know any country where |") ional affales bank upon why Wise things may be done;|{he national democ¢ Meee ee tan| The National Council is the only confidence also foolish. But whether wise awake to jte Jobe [source of authority. What it says Barring only or foolish, whatever is done Wise democratic heads in | itm 930 delegaten were elected German vi suc- will be by the ice of the! Russia are now studying out | from all parts of Russia by men cess, jemoc- eople of Russia, free and i lines for the new Russian con- | and women voters equally endowed m a lin titution. No one need be as. . : ¥¢ e i : “ ane racy has come dependent stitu D pe a with citizenship. 0) sta tonished if, when their work Is there O rf y- Reactionaries At Work dene and the conatitution Workers Control Not Bali-way Reactionary influences in th adopted, it proves to be the the most remarkable legis lemocracy nor and other countries are strivin most advanced document of the | la body in the world, and, as Ske mis-call hard to create the impression that| kind ever put together. Noone | it looks to me, the most significant ed by democ Russia has or is about to have al need be astonished if it pro. he most satisfactory and admir ¢ ”) dictator vides for a government more | able facy's nam ¢.CW6.E-RUseL yo can put all that aside an th THE GOODS—THE REAL |idie dreams of troglodytes. 1 don’t directly and truly democratic than any other nation on earth | The National Council is com. (Continued on page 5) t | Coast | {ting in those days Why, I've known how for 70 years. The other | Jay I read of a woman who could knit tw of socks a day, and t. So I timed me five be knis } to mighty few %uo can do 1 Mrs, Bliss “That story about the two pairs in one day was elther a mistake or a le. Mra. Benson's husband was one of the last three sons of Revolu tionary war soldier: He died in Cle Elum tn 1911 And Mra. F ho formerly lived in Camb: ‘ sonally acquaint ith Henry Wadsworth Lonef both of them love of those old days But their conve the poet So to talk tion is not all ink vigorously cruel a war mented Mrs as dles flashed thru the white in the sunlight Yes, but folks are not aware of what it means, yet,” said Mrs Henson, “They're not aroused as they were in civil war times. More of them should read what the presi dent has to say about it.” 1 ed to think he was slow in taking action. Mra. Bliss R ow I kno » was right Meanwhile the 8 flew the white yarn balls wandere to the grass and the socks grew for ies In that, hollyhock garden there is another flower abloom, namely unselfish devotion to the cau And “4 lovely because its istble sign is so a thing as a yarn simple sock made white NO SHIPYARD STRIKE HERE WASHINGTON of Aug. 30.— Shipyard workers of the Pacific will not strike, A. J Berres, secretary-treasurer of the Metal Trades department of the American Federation of Labor, said today. The recently announced plan for an adjustment board repre senting the government, the public and the workers, will be given its first trial on the coast and the shipyard em ployes will await the board's action, Berres sald. MAY CALL STRIKE IN’ TWO DAYS---M’KILLOP. Local union heads declare there Ja still grave danger of a shipyard workers’ strike here, despite dis patches from Washington, stating there would be no coast walkout “I don't know on what authority Berres speaks,” declared Dan Me Killop, president of the ttle Metal Trades Council, in discussing the Herres statement “Certainly not on the authority of Pp omen here. The matter is clearly up to the ipping be: All the board has to do 4 OUT ON STRIKE Three of the largest candy and biscult plants in the city were closed down morning as @ result of a strike of 450 candy workers, mostly women and girls, called by the unions Wednesday night to en force wage demands and com- pel unton recognition, Thursday The three plants affected | are the Imperial Candy Co., em- ploying 275 persons; the Pa cific Coast Biscuit Co., with 135 on its payroll, and the Koenig Candy Co., with 40 employes. Twothirds of the strikers are and the remainder are candy ers *, teamsters, en gineers and elevator operator Refuse Recognition According to the company man. gers, the strike will seriously af fect the carrying out of army and navy ce t ific Coast Co. alon und or der for ate delivery All of the managers have agreed to pay the union scale or a scale closely approximating that asked | by the unions, but have refused ab solutely to grant recognition to the union The girls w average wage of $2 a day of the state law minimur week. The ba eded nine ho The a want increases of from 50 a da cents to $1 | The Real Issue “The real issue of the strike,” sald W McGuern, of the Bakers union Thursday, “is the closed shop. When we first presented they to n own ployes and offered wage rea. which almost came to we asked for Picketing was lat the Im lant T vorning perial T between no tre the de pickets hos t the ant and MeGuern, the | picket instructed to re ma at 1 times | ‘There ix a chance, he says, that |strikes will be called in the other and smaller plants of the city. He expected to arrive at an agreement with the Washington Candy Co. Thursday and already had signed a scale with the Queen Anne Candy | Co. iMISS RANKIN BACKS 15,000 STRIKERS Dy United Press Leased Wire CHICAGO, Aug. 30.—No doubt remained today as to where Co gresswoman Jeanette Ran cin |stands in the Montana labor war ty sympathle are with the 5,000 workmen who have walked Jout of the Montana mines," she told a Chautauqua audience here Jlast night. ‘They walked ont as “Jan unorganized body, Possibly 200 of them are members of the I. W W., but the remainder are with no desire in striking than to better their condition Young Business Men ‘yes’ or ‘no! The yards canno . bisa: Macon edlibcutstharooieant ot See Palace Hip Bill) the board, and we will not work} Dija hear the noise! unless our wages are increased.| Well, it nearly raised the roof We have nothing to arbitrate and |at the Palace Hip theatre Wednes | will not arbitrate strike will be called within two or three days unless the board grants us the wages before thei ee at! day night Manager |Star newsboys, Muller was host to 4 who went wild ap n,"plauding his snappy vaudeville bill, American lake for immedi Peace Soon or Two Years of War | ereattiee o-5 FROM WILSONIAN PEACE ULTIMATUM Offer of Square Deal on | TradeAfter War Expected ! to beat Kaiser at Home, | THE antic program Wilson's declination ef preparations, the first f clr way to France. The greatest assemblage of people parade, wept at lines. | The fi nent’s sanction. The 30,000 men may not have eme kood-bye. They go to camp, and some day, weeks oF will quietly bourd transports for France. weather all but stopped major fronts, South, on the Austrian-1 ally cheered nee, the other side of the water story y on the British and Pr © reported « ving progress. Londen enthusiasts y received President Wilson's reply to Pope Beastial | meralding ite ee @ model for all the ellles. West Point graduated 150 cadets of next year's class today—boys whe ordinarily would not have concluded their training at the national military academy for another year {i Carl D. Groat oid. Pre Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Aug. 30.—Peace this winter or’ next spring as a result of President Wilson’s reply to the pope or at least two more years of prospect ahead. Military men and diplomats constructed that out- | Hook today in the peace situation. Insofar as § war—that is the — |United States is concerned. it is going ahead with wag |preparations, It will not waver: until the German peo= ple have stripped the kaiser of his present: autocrati¢ i powers. | Military men believe there is a chance of peace in™ the president’s note. They point out that Germany is showing evidences of “cracking under the strain,’ and they believe the libarals will force German gove ernment. department officials said today, It will be up to Germany's lead ers to decide whether to fight on or it will be futile. or to accept peace now. The presi nt's note {s concrete evidence st ambition of her enemies is not to crush her. Against Trade Wars President Wilson has dec! inst dismemberment of er inst post bellum trade wars. ared FACING FAMINE OF WINTER COA ag and In th circumstances the German people, for the time. car realize that the war against her is not | mercenary or aggressive; that it is Quick steps to accelerate the one of altruistic purpose. Hence, 0a! production of the state, in (Continued on page 5) the face of increasing consump- ° tion of fuel by industries, must ————-® be taken by Fuel Administrator . a Pistol Pockets | HA. Garfield to meet the pres: ; ‘ ent emergency, according to a |! for Women, Decree telegram sent last night by the | Seattle Chamber of Gf FE ‘ashion I veague | cattle jamber of Commerce and Commercial Club, Wednes day night. That the fuel situation in Ore Introducing gon and Washington is completely upset by the action of the oil com- !panies serving notice that no fuel oil will be sold in this territory ° Ry United Press Leased Wire CHICAGO, Aug. 39. pistol pocket” the for women. The Fashion Art league announce that the latest thing in la after Aug. 31, was the statement of ial styles will be the old-fash- (the telegram, which asked that the 1 hip pocket—an institution | admir tion protect. the public been purely masculine! from h prices resulting from nen discarded knickerbockers | supply shortages. r trouser On account of the diversion of Hut the nearest approach to fire-/oil, says the message, and the en- arms Women will carry in the pock-/tire territory increasing fuel re ets will be powder—of the facial va-| quirements because of the govern- riety ment shipbuilding campaign and Another conservation move was/the shutting off at the same time proposed today by Mme. Margaret of shipments of coal from British Johnson, of Chicago. She said that) Columbia and Wyoming, the total navy blue would be used in wom-|increase of coal production to |en’s suits this fall and winter, to re-/ meet those needs, will be not less place khaki-colored materials. {than 100,000 tons per month, and | probably much greater The message urges that the ad- | ministration perfect a policy which wil insure this increase, |BRAGELETS TO TELL SOLDIERS APART, ora netomt wie, GATHOLICS TO MEET WwW MISHING TON Aug. 30. War has invaded Washington jewelry FRISCO NEXT YEAR stores. Among other trench novel: | ties played today is the “iden. | By United Press Leased Wire tification bracelet liny| KANSAS CITY, Mo,, Aug. 30.— gold chain with as gnet har) San Francisco was chosen today as in the center of (he circle, upon | the next meeting place of the Amer which is engrave! the enlisted|ican Federation of Catholic Socl- man’s identification number. etie ARK IN HAYFIELD STARTS CULIAR TRAIN OF HARD LUCK KIMBALL, 5. 'D., Aug. 30. —The heal “luck champion of the Middle West, A. W. Bovey, farmer, living near here; that's him x a | SPA MOST PEC Today, while mowing hay, a spark from the sickle set fire to the grass, The flames set fire to blankets on his horses’ backs. The team became frightened and ran to the | barn En route the flames caught a 100-acre wheat field and destroyed it. Meanwhile the horses dashed into the barn with the cutting machine in flames. The barn caught on fire. A heavy wind carried a shingle from the burning barn to several stacks of grain and they were destroyed. Bovey thinks he’s lucky—he was not hurt. a reconstruction of J This must be bona fide, state”