The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 4, 1917, Page 1

= ; - NIGHT i EDITION © We sre voreeas lay, THE GREATEST DAILY CIRCULATION OF ANY PAPER IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST Hin; moder } VOLUME 19 EXtteb™ Sits “AMC HONS SEATTLE, WASH., TUESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1917. PRICE ONE CENT fy*ggntee AR ON NSTI i EXT {WILSON ASKS | T--POIN TS WAY TO WORLD PEACE | BAKER T0 PASS Mackintosh for Chief—and Mayor GERMAN WRONGS — “ON MACKINTOSH) 72-0 sos ug | MUST BE RIGHTED. By all means, let us have him. The idea seems almost an in- spired one. It can very well be the key to our whole distressing mu- nicipal-vice-mayoralty problem. It will not only solve the imme- diate difficulty—the lifting of the quarantine from Seattle by a thoro cleanup of vice conditions— but it will settle also the perplex- ing question of who the next mayor should be. Let Judge Mackintosh take hold of the police job and make good, as he can and will do, and he should be the next mayor of this city by acclamation. We need his type as mayor of the city in these war times. In ordinary times, Judge Mack- Judge Kenneth Mackintosh, who Is hailed as the “man of the hour” to release Seattle from the military quarantine. He intosh would never think of accept- is a native son of Seattle, being born on the site now known as Third avenue and University street, across from the Pan udge, Ready to Assume Chief's Job, esmits It Up to War Head to Lift Ban n City if Cleanup Is Real Word was eagerly awaited in Seattle today from the war department at Washington approving the ap ppointment of Superior Court Judge Mackintosh as chief mot police, who has consented to take the position if as ®sured that following a thoro cleanup of the cit r Phis dire the quarantine imposed by Gen S would be lifted. In the meantime, anti-Gill forces announced they P would continue their efforts to have the mayor im peached by the city council in any event Other high spots in the vice-cleanup situation were the arrest of 24 women by deputy sheriffs, and the an- mouncement by the police that men who live. off the arnings of unfortunate women will be interned found disease Justice for All the Peoples of All War- _ ring Nations Only Basis on Which © Lasting Peace Can Be Made, Says | By United Press Leased Wire A WASHINGTON, Dec. 4.—President Wilson today called’ upon congress to declare a state of war against Austria-| Hungary. Pledging America to war to victory and declaring noth=! ing shall tu side, he asked that Austria-Hungary be ~ formally listed among America’s enemies to remove this = “embarrassing obstacle that stands in our way.” : Any peace that America makes must include delivery’ of the peoples of Austria-Hungary, Turkey and the Balkans as well as northern France and Belgium from Prussian domination, he said. The president suggested remedial legislation to meet the railroad and food-price situation. The latter, he said, was based on “selfishness” at present ratner than on the law of supply and demand. He urged legislation for fi use of natural resources and water power of the country, more drastic laws to punish alien enemies and an |ment to include women as well as men under the alien enemy act. The president suggested that, instead of confining jenemy aliens in comfortable internment camps, they be put jin penitentiaries where they can be made to work “as jother criminals do.” 1 us step aside, appea to the situation Tu Ele is acceptable to Mayor Gill kintosh will not take the job er, unless - cer aasurances Mackin the | intow: Ma r ¢ GONGRESS WILL IMMEDIATELY MAKE NEW WAR DECLARATION. ae prosecuting attorne gerving his third term fudge. He is a native : : a aan Gaeen Oke ° ° ° e Bhs conditions under which Juder Mere «9 em || Ing the job of chief of police. ere | Pv Cotes Prose Lenees Wie | arr ae gress will immediately respond to President Wilson's call for a declaration of war on Austria. The house foreign affairs com , Pittman’s resolution im U be redrafted to ce to Turkey and ainst whom the presi+ mittee and the senate foreign | dent does not call for a war declara- relations committee both will | tion | _meet Wednesday prepared to re Both committees are practically: THIRD VICTIM: OF POISON DIES K. 3 Police were made clear Tuesday. “First,” he said. “I want all evidence in the hands of committees turned over t . ond, I want assurances that the ban | © b 3ut these are not ordinary former mayoralty campaigns and times—and Mackintosh is big does not invite factional prejudices. enough to recognize that fact, even This is not the case with the Grif- if he has to become a policeman for _ fiths, the Gills, the Heskeths, and a the time being. few others. They belong to another Mackintosh for chief—and for period. In this war crisis, Judge mayor! A happy solution, indeed. Mackintosh, clean, human, a_re- laration. The house commit- h e resolution Wed+ get action immediately, | 7 is expected to pass It of Austrians thruout o to date have ree ae a He’s a refreshing type for this mo- — spected citizen, active, and equal to J. fg from stem act. wile ‘ordered. foe dings agninat Mayor G Continued on Page 5 ~ DONWORTH SEES -. IRONS AT CAMP camp LEWIS ven co WILSON'S MESSAGE vn GOES TO THE WORLD 514) By United Press Leased Wire mentous time. the occasion, towers high above the His name has not cluttered up usual mayoralty type. sic onmoaea tw vm ALLIES TO AFFORD tng woke whe, on Seterday and vo fone arsine’ nom PEACE IN RUSSIA GERMANS TAKE = sah Britches ss za wg ay OE DEOLARES LAVACQUERC IN wove tc WASHINGTON, Dec. te President Wilson's message was cabled, today, to Europe, South America, Japan and China, Sik multaneously with its delivery before congress today, the war * message will be made public in all parts of the world, except the central powers. 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