The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 5, 1917, Page 1

FULL UNITEOL VOLUME LEASED WIRE D PRG AUTOS CARRY i Boys OFF TO CANTONMENT They are gone! There are heartaches and tears in Seattle, for to-| day the city sent the first of her boys to the great| Select service national army. | Some of them she knows will not survive the} Storm of shot and shell on an alien front, but she sent} them to the American lake cantonment with a smile| and a laughing farewell. A cavalcade of nearly 100 flag-draped automobiles carried the 93 men who compose Seattle’s first con- tingent of select service men away at 10 a. m. By special arrangement made with J. S. Miller, Tepresenting the provost marshal general in the mobili- ation of Washington selected men, the first 5 per cent of the quota to be furnished by the 14 divisions of Se- attle and King county made the trip to American lake by automobile. SOME SAMMY NEEDS A SMOKE! } More than 100 private machines. draped with Mags, and led by a big automobile with the fireman's band earried the on a triumphal trip thru the usiness section of the city before | ving for Ameri ean Lake. The men were scheduled to arrive at the lake at noon Mothere Weep “At present, what is most needed GIVE TWO-BITS For the most part the crowd lis a heavily—a very heavily which collected at the county-city | graduated tax on th cess profits building to give the men a last |due to war fons; a tax as farewell, was jolly. There was far heavy as Great Britain has now im more laughing than crying, altho| posed,” he said { here and there a mother or sweet: | | Roosevelt advised against “any heart sobbed unashamed on the} rentric of profits as shoulder of a rt youngster | red production or lower | of ¢ with the honor badge on his coat and said | | “The taxes should be laid pro- Now howled with de | gressively those able to pay, up Mr. and Mrs. 0. F. Taylor, n'a band to, but not beyond the point where | Sette Bist ave 1.00 Yixte.” | nt becomes or oppres oe boys! _ |nive or interferes with production Fred’k Waldorf McCollough e machines passed | [2% | Roosevelt } as “enemies ra SN es jous to the fact of lof the Uni tes” the war ee een ee a both sides of the profiteers, workingmen who refuse 4g K. Taylor, 1907 ae aot first<class a f class w 1.00 | auto | —_- — wage, pr professional ond broke ae pacifists, ¢ advocating eace oa m were load with victory,” the I. W. W. and Ten Million, wh ed with his ther, Mrs. E. C. Million, at 418 N. Broadway, was one of the sociali« ty machine ed in Ta men who left first quota for Ca Lewis Wednesday. His mother, who ne colonel verbal! 4 “shit #00 | coma at 12 red almost e to the county-city bu wn with him in the picture ly-shatly arations 23 || as loudly as they were cheered by Ten Million ought to x ’ into Hun trenches, He spent several (and ess. “It the as they rasons in profes ane laying wi the American league? during a part | too seren Meo | | streets before going on to Camp| of the 1912 seas ing to make a perr St. Louis, he was sent to Calgary, | months to cong 1870, Lewis. | and later played with Tacoma a vie toria, he said, “and now, after’ these 1.00 There were no mishaps between seven months of preparation, we 100 | | Seattle and Tacoma other than the still are nothing like as formidable collapse of the band car. Farm as Belgium or Rumania.” > S=22S55 ECHO ZAHL AT GOOD-BYE DANCE’... ce a ‘wand =” | , Wave thelr hats and shout encour as hideous beyond belief, ob : seo||ment as the ° (savalonde cruel, brutal and unspea | Mrs. FM. Rundquist, Brin so | (Passed. Town peoy Honor Men Gaily Hum “Rag ”” She Says, While They One-Step «' Taty iu” he toentied Ginees lan non. Wash. - d waved flags and protic + had scribbled t Then eud Wanted-4o « im, Dut tm: ords | SUAKE Paper ax “scandalot gy oar gr ® | | lustily | By Echo June Zahl ppt yy ic hoger 0 7F} BB on him, but my words |joyai" to the United State i ave. 1.00 | j vgn’ ° th tte declared that any man—in con ' It is strings of the y Midn't my attem greas. 6f Out~who tried to have rs —s |e art Senger hushed—the y geet He was hur For Me and |tnose of German desc _ TURN TO PAGE 7 ialctiseaine of blue 6 My Gal.” ‘and laughing @s be | trom army duty again American soldiers are now Stn stay of Youdday atitiict Kabeitoeg cere among the other 300 | nen Minny In France. More are going big parade and farewel 1 | ia eitoa re seuia aad Wont ackers of England are also trai every week. Out of our own diers will be found on 7. | wae Godeates © er up Me eee ree a, [tone he sate city and state, in the new se- D And a n in a 1 go this last eve of joy—and lect service army, have gone, — swirled me away danced on into the day on which and will go, boys whom we Hilartously, the men who wore | the first “honor men” were to know and love. OREGON BOY FIRST notes of “Near their civilian clothes for the last carried away to American Soon they will be fighting \ er, My God, to | time, last night mixed with their | lake up in the front trenches “over IN AT CAMP LEWIS Thee,” crept out | brother-men in uniform. Wom So-long,” said my tege hon there” in France. of the dimness | en in Red Cross d d wom: | or to me at my doorstep In the lull of battle they will| By United Press lensed Wire of the orchestra in the plain white of rellet See you later thi bf home and the dear ones Camp LEWIS, Tacoma, Sept. pit corp anced with the men whose 1 tened for a break in bis By United Press Leased Wire they left behind, and their city an ap mld we the a wan as if l | anguished calls for assistance | whistle, “For ha and My Gal, oc ei ; Sept ; A German A thel he old als u jrafte jammy to regie | — had peremptori the “ing to answer in that as he stepped briskly off down submarine bombarded the Britist lips ve tyr eee ter here at what in a few | Eche June Zahl yy piped a bik the street town or Scarborough last night, es for whom they ave fighting weeks will be the largest train- | o@t of a future that was an “honor The last note came as clear as Lord French, announced toc it this reverte, they ing cantonment in America. He very opaque. Within myself | man ighed down at me as we the first, I suddenly remember. Three persons were killed and s out thelr toeacco arrived this merning from there an a struggle to clear onestepped around the mirrored! ed that 1 had even forgotten to five injured. The material damage and find it empty; if, in| Hoff, JeWerson ceunty, Oregon, the huse of that page of the com ha ask his pame. to the town Was slight. The sub ‘ | ‘um anniqnes to serracks = ing montis and » to see Even yet I don't know ba ‘ Well, it didn't matter—HE | marine fired rounds in halt (Continued on Page ® __to read—what the Masier Hand what he meant by “great WAS AN HONOR MAN, of the shells falling on land DID YOU EVER WANT TO BE A HERO? LOOK AT BILL-DARN HIM! Gh, ne, we're met talking of going to war or joining the aviation corps. What we refer to io that ever gutee beputiful maiiep’s life and get © etary in the papers. .O’Commer has been drearfing that. By MATT O’CONNER Matt O’Conner, a reportgr for The Star, is the hero of the hour. Showing great prese ° ° e of mind and utterly regardless of danger, he lédped from a light skiff into the cold raters of Elliott bay and rescued pretty Mina Shore as she was going down for the third time. (You are to imagine here that you hear the shrill, insistent clamor of an alarm clock. It is my alarm clock. | turn over for 40 winks.) oo ee Miss Shore had gone in bathing with a party of friends, and, venturing beyond her depth, called for help. Jones heard kes. Jones? O'Connor 88 ASSOCIATIONS | t 1 | j | | | The Greatest Daily Circulation of Any Paper in the Pacific Northwest SERVICR SEATTLE, WASH., heard her, and bending to his oars, craft with powerful strages in the dir the call came. ‘ithout waiting to remove his coat or oes, Jones—or ‘Conner—who is a strong swimmer, propelled his ction Whence (e) prangQnto the watergand, seizing the drowning girl, started for the Work when Miss Shore, in tones of irrit tiong said “The coffee *, getting cold! You'd better hurry or "ll be late to the office.” Which seemed stances. “T'll-be rigpt down,” O'Connor who said that. a queer thing to say under Wecircum- called Jones. No, it was WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 1917. ! | } ? | i] THERE WAS A REASON Aug Ameri bar LONDOD Mail.) dier Said an an * to a London maid “This beer's a little Said the Americar waiting thre T. R. DEMANDS WAR TAX BIG Take All cess Profits Possible Without Curbing Production HITS TRAITORS Hy United Press Leased Wire CHATHAM, N. Y., Sept Conscription of war profits to meet war expenses was de- manded today by Col. Roose velt. Speaking at the Columbia county fair, here, he himself in favor of heavily graduated tax cess profits due to war con- a tax as heavy as tain has now impos British war profits cent they should follow the English and rman models This is very puzzling . a . I have been a newspaper reporteMtor a considerable time Is there a fire—a murder—a disaster or accident of any kind I am_the ND re orters dream. The favorite dream of every reporter is being a hero. In this dream we rescue beautiful ladies from burning buildings and raging floods Not many of us realize this dream. I never@have I almost did—once, A policeman and 1 were“the first to enter a burning building. We went up a fire escape. We went thru a window There Was a. women in the atioke-filled room. .She wi? not beautiful, but she was a woman, She was lying on a hair mattress, 1 would have saved her, but she weighed 220 pounds and I weighed 150. So the policeman carried her out and down the escape. And I rescued the hair mattress. The rest of the dream is the return of the reporter to the office, w he modestly tells of his exploit. Another re porter- writes the qtory. begis@ng Bias The Seattle Star . W. W. RAIDED City’s | Honor Men Report at Camp ‘fo ‘Drafted. Man's Mother Comes toSay’ Good- Bye SEAR | AS ENGLAND'S «: HARD |. ated = inheritance }and Income taxes are also neces sary, Moowevelt asserte He said | | | Ed Williams served the order of at- present humch that some day you'd save But another fellow did the saving. | @ But where a LAST EDITION WraTins nda, mostly # night and Thursday Kevery: fn Ben! PRICE ONE CENT Duty E HALL HED IN FEDERAL RAID Acting simultaneously SEATT. with federal agents thruo United States, deputy U. S. marshals led a squi of police in a raid on 1, W. W. headquarters fi cleared the hall at 20814 Second ave. S., and seized of the organization’s property at noon today. At the same time, police and’deputy marshals wei carrying out similar orders at offices maintained by th W. W. in the Union block, foot of Cherry st. It was part of a concerted nation-wide drive to p a stop to alleged pro-German activities of the Indus trial Wo! ge" rs ty ies World. No |. were arreste The ie ‘from W ashington declared that the property has been used to obstruct the draft, enlig ments, incite mutiny in the army and provoke induj trial disorder! There were no disorders plein About 1 p.m. nearly 1,000 1. | 1 ks were put on the W. W. had assembled in front |here, and at the headquarters of their hall, Suddenly some of them start |!°wing the raids | The literature seized weigl ed singing their rally song, thes “Hold the Fort, for | Am Com- je undreds of pounds, and was ing.” ed foreign languages, billy found in the hall, [oor discovered clubs The crowd kept growing. Pai It was this song that was sung aboard the Verona when it carried |, W. W. to the dock before the battle with citizen deputies in Everett last fall. Deputy United States Marshal Two boxes of ironic stickers. [among confiscated papers. | The stickers read: “Don’t copper nails in fruit trees grapevines. Jt hurts the | Ford and Sure are in jail Ford and Sure were two I. W. operators arrested in California, © German C aught i in d and fifty cleared out chment. One », bewildered, hall gathered in little groups ardly understanding what hun were outside. Sar em soyer| Raided I. W. W. Hall w with Police ut. Charles By United Press Leased Wire PORTLA , who led a squad of blue r ters of th While the raid was still in prog-|@t Boon today by reas, the news fas Marshal Montag, with a wires to the newspapers that simi-| deputy sheriffs and policemen, ralds were going on from one|!4Tge quantity of letters and lit end of the country to the other ature was seized amd one Seize All I. W. W. Chattels | "ade ent order was made ge, stating that committed and Bs One hundred mem found in i 4 Industrial Workers’ rooms closely examined. One, Cart 0s der, a native of Germany, who eee eenlcle from 1 | unable to give a pood account every article irom “;| himself, was arrested. nd correspondence ack boards. i for the raid were secret by the fed eral officials of the department of ustice here. lt was known that U. S. Attorney |By_ Vitewt Pease Leased wiry Clarer Reams of Portland) ™I APOLIS, Sept. §—Thres stated y that “the govern. te offices, maintained ment has positive information, * mers of the I. W. W. in ving that certain 1. W. W. city, were raided by govern ovements resulted from pay- | Officers here shortly after 2 p. FE ments of German gold. I. W. W. literature and the memes. Records Confiscated bership books of the organisation) | The officers started removing | ¥¢% confiscated the confiscated property imme Government agents are still bo fiately Piles of re pt books Mssession of the offices. were among the papers. Them showed payments. made Boe to RAs a8 CHICAGO bers, largely for picket duty, Sora + CHICAGO, Sept. §.—Governm operatives this afternoon sw of the checks were for amounts ge high as $60 For more then an hour tee 3 W. down on I W. W. and W., crowded on the walk in fwee etrongholds in Chicago, of their hall, were still trying a@ literature and records. earn vat the trouble wee ell) National and state headqualtaaa about of the socialist party and nati Doors Are Locke headquarters of the I. W. W, vere, They couldn't uaderstasd what included in the raid, was happening Adolph Germer, executive secre No threats were made. tary of the socialist party, At th id on 64 Union block, | present when his offices were bia bund of pamphlets and pa-j/ed. Wm, Haywood, internat! pers Were removed. Thi had been or distributing station, for secretary of the I. W. W, in his office. Nelther were moe lested. & depot, 4 “Showing great Osi 45 | of danger,qMatt O'Conner burning bIMding and | "ee ee nee of mind. a reporter andagutterly for The Star, regardless entered @ s Jones come in? His full name is William EI 1 @pow Jones. Imer Jones. He | cova@, @olice for the Post-Intelligencer, A quiet, unassuming | fellow—Jones. Always fooling around in a rowboat in Puget sound when he isn’t working It was Jones, not O'Conner, who saved pretty Mina Shore. She was swimming near the municipal bathing pier at Alki point the other day when the wash of a passing steamer sub- merged her. Patrolman Brady went to her aid, but failed to save her @ It was Jones—-darn his hide!—Jones, whom I work with on the police beat, who sprang from his light skiff and | reseued pretty Miss Shore as she was going down for the third time, and brought her to the beach It was Jones who returned to the office and modestly tol@ of his exploit. And another reporter wrote the story. I never had any luck! [e)