The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 2, 1917, Page 1

E’RE just a little bit proud, and very, very happy today—we in The Star office—be- cause the fund which we're raising to buy tobacco for our boya in France has now reached the $3,000 mark. ; Three thousand dollars will buy 12,000 gackagea of tobacco, each worth at retail 45 cents, for the lads in khaki, who eoon will be in the trenches of Europe, fighting under the siarry folds of Old Glory. A Twelve thousand packages of tobacco seems like a lot, doesn’t it? But when you consider that each package will last a soldier not more than a week or two, and that be- fore long we're going to have a million or two soldiers over there, our 12,000 packages seems a pitifully small amount. RARAAARAAAAAAAAAARAAAAARANARAARAARAAA PARRA nn a So, you see, we're really just starting. We've got to have more money—thousands and thousands of dollars. Readers of The Star have been remarkably and patriotically gen- crous. - But they've got to give even more. In this war, we who stay at home have got to give—as The Star has said before—until it hurts. We are planning some stunts for our tobacco fund that ought to “hurt” some of you a lot. But we're going to try to make it easier for you, by giving you your money’s worth of entertainment. We'll tell you about some of these stunts from day to day. And, of course, in the meantime, you can clip out the coupon which you'll find in the paper every day, and send it with whatever you can afford to give to “Our Boys in France Tobacco Fund,” The Seattle Star. bias : 2: ILL LEASED WIRE SERVIC VOLUME 19 Gib iis “iMac tons TheSeattleStar . The Greatest Daily Circulation of Any Paper in the Pacific Northwest SEATTLE, WASH., TUESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1917. LAST EDITION RECAST T cA THMI night and Wed ay, probably er tonight, f southerly winds Everywhere in Seattle PRICE ONE CENT OCAL GERMANS AID LW.W. ISCHOOL BOARD MOVES TO | re ‘a 2 | | - | ) Our School Board and the Kaiser! \ | HILE the government today presents to the public damning evidence of German aid and comfort given | \ | to the 1. W. W. in-Seattle, our school board sits supinely back, heedless of the pro-kaiser propaganda | OTE TO OUST IT. Eckstein, Winsor and Shor-! rock Willing to Bar “Im! Vaterland” From Schools. R.M. White Denounces It. nm Vaterland,” the German textbook which declares crown prince is a fine fellow and that woe be to ericans who forget the Fatherland, may continue din Seattle’s schools. board members, at their meeting Monday night, d for an hour, and then decided to wait before dealing | h blows to subtle Kaiser Kultur President Nathan Eckstein moved to exclude “Im ” until further notice, on the ground of “expe Richard Winsor seconded the, motion. Blocks Action Vote on to “Can” Kaiser's Kultur | Bat before a vote was taken, the board adopted a substi motion made by Dr. Anna Louise Strong, to postpone and give the members further opportunity to read the and judge it for themselves She contended it should not be thrown out as long as was uncertainty as to its matter being improper Richard Mansfield White started the fireworks by de- ing exclusion of the book The gist of the dialogue that took place follows RICHARD MANSFIELD WHITE There's a book Vaterland—which is Dutch propaganda, teaching that ich is not true, in use in Seattle schools, and it ought to excluded. “It is a subtle attack on our teachings and teaches just : thing people from over there have to swear against Fiticcene eats citizens | *If we teach imperialists are to be respected, how can] we ct our own teachings to be respected? I ask that fim Veterland’ be excluded.” SUPERINTENDENT “Ever read the book? | JUDGE WINSOR: “TI never heard of the boo Bat Arnold Was Damnable Traitor, White Tells Superintendent Cooper COOPER: “My attention has been called to it. I ex-| Mined the book and found nothing objectionable—from the} Sandpoint of a texthook. We cou k that would Save better. I know the author personally and (turning to} White) his blood is as red as yours or mine. He's an Ameri @. If German or German history is to be taught in the Mhools, I sce no objection to this book.” WHITE: “B aching that the crown prince is t Wipected we are simply the Dutch imperialistic “As for the matter OF SCHOOLS COOPER n't use a boc be helping f the author—Benedict Arnold was| an—but he w amnable traitor.” | | VICE DENT ECKSTEIN |I spent Inst night reading the jand I think If we can teach | without it, it would b |to use “Im Vate mined it afte ere is nothing k REV. SIDNEY STRONG, SEATTLE PASTOR, IS ROUTED BY POLICE “:: By Colter Preae Lensed Wire ; LOS ANGELES, Oct. | With three of their leaders | Wonder arrest, and twice driven | By the police from downtown | | when you con 2— | had better not use it, so long 100- | think it is bad | Dr. Strong Says It's Silly | ANNA LOUISE STRONG-—Who t has read it thinks it is treason I haven't read it KSTEIN—We have sufficient text-book thout it. When a great m think something is lic meeting places, the |! istian Pacifists met the sit- with a meeting in a Private home last night with the challenge that they would Continue their “peace confer. ence” Eagle Rock How do you know is hook would be ar tries to start 2 that, on the , the book be rrounded outspoken in their de. Bouncement of these envoys of the | dropped hay. DR, STRONG—1 think it would be silly to drop it Just because The Star gets up a campaign. Shorrock Backs Eckstein “yf Sydney Strong een Anne ions Church, of Seattle, was one of a Ministers who routed WINSOR—The charge is that the Meeting w book tends to teach imperialism Rev. Stron ‘ ‘ 4 | If it doesn’t, no public clamor ought | “The Shame Mudience of the po was when to drive it out DR, STRONG the matter laid over for a week (Continued on page 10) I'd like to have ot friends of the kaiser ve interfered. He was ldo more than advocate the passage Kk, | also which has invaded even our school rooms. In this moment of our national peril, there can be no room for dilly-dallying with Hohenzollern encomi- ums. And the school board of Seattle IS dilly-dallying when it fails to throw out the German text book “Im Vaterland.” It is giving aid and comfort to the enemy every time a Seattle school boy or girl translates the text that the kaiser is a lovable man, and that the crown prince is a fine fellow, and that Germany is “uber alles.” Members of the school board say they hi no patience with the idea that “Im Vaterland” is a shrewdly planned bit of German propaganda. Great Britain, at the start of the war, considered the rumored activities of German spies as a bizarre idea, too, until several of them were caught and shot to death in London Tower. Remember, this is the year 1917. This is the year in which German duplicity and treachery has been overwhelmingly exposed. And this is the year when there can be no debate on such a text-book as “Im Vater- land.” It is pro-German, pro-kaiser, pro-Kultur-savagery. “Im Vaterland” has got to go, and those who fail to see this must also go. SLACKERS WON'T|STAR'S ARTISTS TELL WHAT THEY'D DO TO KAISER BILL GET PLACES OF Today—Condo, Who Draws “Everett True”; Tomorrow—Satterfield SELECTED MEN [etch eeee py ee DRA SLE KAISER, 1 Beceve, eno YoU ViSH DISS “ = INTERVIEW, YET ¢ So Declare Draft Officials and Business Men of Seattle ALIENS TO LOSE OUT} Slackers who claimed exemp- tion from the draft on the ground that they were allens, and who are now seeking the Jobs of the patriotic Americans who answered the call will find hard sledding in Seattle, If the statements made by employers today are any Indication of the general stand on the matter. Chairman Collins, of the dis- trict appeal board, was particu larly vigorous in his support of the move by Appeal Agent Ken- nedy for a law making It com- pulsory for aliens within the ge to take out citizenship p ‘or stand deportation. } ‘There are hundreds of these} slackers who are bragging now that they will have good jobs, since the| selected men have gone,” declared Collins, “The board Is powerless to | I WISH TO SINK You WITHOUT make them become | amenable to the draft law or go WARNING elsewhere, but it Is strongly in favor of a working agreement among Seattle employers which will keep this brand of moral coward from reaping the benefits of the patriot n of others.” Preston to Join Collins Chairman Harold Preston, of the King county council for patriotic) service, expressed a similar opin-| fon | ‘Something said Preston “1 have beard t complaint from several source Aitho the council has never taken definit tion on the matter, I feel}! sure that it will be taken up at an| Not only do I favor | impossible for| of a bill to iem should be early meeting a jaw to make it these men to escape service, but} some method of preventing them from taking advantage of the jected men's leaving.” | Manager A. L. Kempster, of the fon company, which employs @ number of men of draft age,| s emphatic in supporting the 6 | move No Allens for Traction Company “It is the policy of this company to employ none but Americans, and it will not be a party to any | Abo alien's attempt to profit by the/ Wat FRENCH AIRMEN MW’ADOO IS DUE HERE IN WEEK BOMB 4 CITIES " By United Press Leased Wire PARIS, Oct. 2—In reprisal for recent German raids ov Dunkirk, French airmen last night bombed Stuttgart, Treves, Coblenz and Frankfort, an of- ficial statement announced to- |treasury chief here, day. | The time of Mr. McAdoo'@ ar: The German air raid on Dunkirk|rival here and the hour of the “What would Everett True is Condo's answer. for their cartoons. of put The Star to Cartoonists asked Cartoonist Satterfield and Gove editor been do to the The same the has kaiser?” question the Central Labor paid cash for a $50 Frank R. Wilson resentative of W. G. McAdoo, se retary of the treasury, arrived in SBattle Tuesday morning and im mediately went into conference |with the executive committee of |the state central committee for the \second Liberty Loan to arrange for \a mass meeting, which Mr, McAdoo | will address in Seattle next Tues day and for the reception of the personal repr Seattle sub-| president 000,000 Mon-| council. could | bond. John Flarherty, No reports had been received| Charles ‘st, who from local banks, altho they have|for the Northern Pacific, walked been instructed to send in reports,into beadquarters and planked as soon as possible, |down $4,000 for bonds Tuesday Sales Will Increase | “I'm a loyal British subject,” he The amount of subscriptions {s/said, “and want to help the United expected to increase daily as the| States and England win the war.” drive progresses Every salaried employe and wage The sale of Liberty Bonds con-|earner in Seattle will be listed tinued steadily thruout the city to: this week with the industrial com claimed “numerous civilian vic-| mass meeting will probably not be day at headquarters at Second ave. | mittee of the Second Liberty Loan tims.” according to an offictalldetermined until tonight, This and Marion at., at the banks andj drive, which held its ¢ ng atatement today, “and did serious| will be Mr, McAdoo's first trip to) bond houses, and at the postotfice. | at noon today at the headquarters Just how much seribed toward the $1 day and Tuesday morning, not be estimated laborer, 108 gleans coaches 1 ! steve to the city, The German |the Coast in belalf of a Liberty |One of the buyers at Liberty Loan|of the state central committee, at aerial attack was in force.” Loan. [headquarters was R. 1, Proctor, (Continued on page 9) Condo. | BAR KAISER’S BOOK EXPOSES WAR DELAY PLOT “We Have Good Will of Ger- man People Here,” Writes Rowan to Haywood of Se- attle Situation. ed Press Leased Wire Direct to The Star CHICAGO, Oct. 2.—A nation-wide plot to paralyze in- dustry, thwart military operations, obstruct conscription and cause America to lose the war, is divulged in the evidence upon which 166 members of the I. W. W. were indicted in Chicago. Much of the évidence had to do with Seattle and Pacific coast industries, Chas. Rowan of Seattle and Spokane being one of the leaders. « Among Rowan’s boasts in a letter sent from Seattle to W. D. Haywood in Chicago, August 2, 1917, was that “we have the good will of the German people here and we feel they are in sympathy with our cause.” William D. Haywood of Chicago, international secretary, jand Frank Little, who as lynched in Butte, Mont., are al- leged to have been the ring leaders. Others frequently men- tioned in the indictments are Ralph H. Chaplin, Richard Bra- lzier, William Wiretcla, James Rowan, Francis Miller and Chas. L. Lambert. |Half Indicted Men Are Under |Arrest and Rest Are Being Hunted About half the indicted men are under arrest, federal of- ficials stated. Search for the others is being carried on. The indictment, which covers 40 printed pages, alleges 15,000 offenses under 10 specific charges. Some of the most startling plans of the I. W. W. are con- tained in a book which Haywood sent to Duluth to be trans- lated into Finnish for the benefit of agitators. “We are going to take over the industries some day for the very good reasons: “Because we need them; because we want them and because we have the power to get them. “Whether we are ethically justified or not is not our concern. “Is a strike contemplated by the most indispen- sable workers—those of the alimentary trades? A quart of kerosene or other greasy and malodorous matter poured or smeared on the level on an oven * * * and welcome the scabs or scabby soldiers to come and bake the bread. “Is a strike coming in the iron, steel, copper or oth- er mineral industry? A little sand or emery powder in the gear of those machines * * * and they will become useless.” As a means of paralyzing the railroads, the Haywood book suggests that “it would be well to choose those workers among the most. skilled and experienced * * * who would, by a single stroke, disable and render useless for several days the materials necessary for the regular perform- ance of the service and the movement of trains.” |Seattle Germans Encourage Lawless I. W. W. Program, Is Rowan’s Boast In a letter Rowan wrote Haywood from Seattle August 1917, he said: . “The old bugaboo of ‘patriotism’ is being preached on™ all sides ‘We have the good will of the German people here, and we feel that they are in sympathy with our cause. “We are going to carry our points, if we have to stop every industry on the Pacific Coast. We did not declare war, and we have not consented to the workingman giving jup his liberty and being drafted.” | ‘The newspaper “Solidarity,” on August 2, said: | “Any one with good sense now objects to being told | » |that Czar Wilson is working for the interest of the working | in trying to force them against their wills into the |bloody European slaughterfest.” In another issue, it said: He * ™* Then, if war is declared, let us, by all means, pull off the general strike to prevent it. What more simple?” : | Otto Christenson, chief counsel for the I. W. W., con- |ferred with defendants in the county jail, after copies of the indictments were delivered to them, and announced that they all assured him they were “innocent of any of the charges made therein.” George F arrive here \ campaign is said to have W members not under indictment for defense of the indicted men, and to obtain the release of Jeaders on bonds. class | is Vanderveer, of Seattle, another today attorney, was |to W. the the started by T $500,000 been to raise