The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 17, 1919, Page 1

American soldiers have been voted $60 by congress as a bonus upon their discharge, and our state senators fail- A series of interpretative news stories on the Dominion’s plans for its veter- ans, by Jack Jungmeyer, begins today. Canada Pays Her Men TEN TIMES AS MUCH ed to vote them anything further. The And Lane Milady’s 17th of here, March is is chief city dad; gowns growing longer, are And Father's purse 99 oc. VOLUME NO. 20 is sad, Read first article on Page 1. An American Paper That Fights for Americanism e Seattle Sta THE GREATEST DAILY CIRCULATION OF Kntered as Second Claes Matter May 3, 1899, at the Po SEATTL E, Ww /ASH,, MONDAY, ouncil Reorganizes for Is President | Dr. Read was discharged from the Seattle's city council reorgan- _ fed Monday afternoon and elect ed W. D. Lane president for the coming year. Old business was of at » snort meeting Mayor Hanson refused to state » “definitely, Monday morning, wheth “er of not he would appoint Dr, Read the vacanc: PAID $420 ON A $2,000 4-oOM Ph distriet $125 for wanted equity mick action 4 3 Elliott fee 102 Seaboard Bidy 3640 Produces. more than 30 replies. It sold the place. Have you some- thing for sale? Phone your ad to Min 900, Transient rate, 11% cents # line. ANY PAPER IN MARC H THE PACIFIC NORTHWE the ren March 8, NIGHT EDITION TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE Per Year, by Mail $5.00 to $9.00 17, 1919. uenda vuthea SENATORS FIGHT LEAG ANADA OFFERS GOOD START FOR VETERAN, 4 Puts Enough Money in| |service on January 28, 1919, after he had attained the rank of major with a regular organization |Camp Dodge, lowa, where | chief sanitary officer Dr. Read has been temporarily lo- cated in the Lumber Exchange build }ing since his return to Seattle Should Mayor Hanson appoint [health commissioner, the apy |ment would be up for confirmation |at the Monday council meeting. Held Caucus Saturday Councilman Lane was picked to |head the city council at a secret |caucus held Saturday. | Councilmen Erickson, Cotterill Bolton and Moore supported Lane at the Saturday caucus, Hesketh, Haas and Thompson were for Fitz gerald Bolton is the the council. fome changes were made committee assignments man Erickson retains bis d of the city utilities committer and Fitzgerald will continue as lead er of the finance committee, Coun- cilman A. F. Had takes the place, left vacant by the elevation of 14 |to president of the council as chair man of the committee on judiciary |and department efficiency army he was him nt retiring president of in the Couneil Committee Shake up also suceseds Councitman Cotterill s member of the committee, Cotterill going to the committee on judiciar partment efficiency to rep! erick son, Cotterill also will retain his place as chairman of the committee on harbors and public grounds, | Councilmen Hesketh and Thomson | will keep the chairs of the Meense (CONT'D ON PAGH FIVE) \Canadians Have Better Grasp Soldier’s Jeans to Tide Him Over Acute Peri-' od of Unemployment Married Canadian Private Queen of Diamonds Dazzles ’Em Again Minimum = Maximunt’ in lump sam, according to lemgth and Post discharge pay, length of service War service gratuity, according to character of service ose Clothing allowance And mileage home . Bey Total—S125 Married American Private Post discharge pay, universal . Clothing allowance . Mileage home . Excess of Canadian private over American. BY JACK JUNGMEYER N. E. A. Staff Correspondent VANCOUVER, B. C., March 17.—I have spent a month in Canada, for The Star, watching our Northern neighbors) blaze the reconstruction trail for a new, a} better and bigger national life. | For the light it might throw on our! own readjustment needs, I observed Can-! ada settling such post-war problems as these: | Demobilization. | Soldier land settlement. | Unemployment. The veteran in politics. Profiteering. | Woman's new station. | These and others that are bound to have reciprocal effect across the border. | ‘yee on Reconstruction Work Canada knows that her biggest job is getting the re-| /turned hero back to work QUICKLY; replacing an army} lof 400,000 in the shop and on the farm. Talks with legislators, workmen, business men, sol- diers and their wives, impressed me that the average Canadian comprehends better than the average American how much all the other problems ‘depend upon this. And the Dominion demobilization policy hews straight |to that line. It puts enough money in the discharged man’s jeans so that he needs become neither a beggar nor a Bolshevist during the process of repatriation. Gets Discharge Bonus of ‘Cash; $400 to Married Men He’ gets post discharge pay ranging from three to six months’ army wage, amounting in many cases to over $400 for the married man and somewhat less for the single, in a lump sum. ' : He gets, on top of this, a war service gratuity, {rom} $300 to. $600 for the married private, and from $210 to $480 for the unmarried, according to length of service on a belligerent front. iis is paid in six monthly install ments. The incapacitated man receives eight months’ tional training under the Invalided Soldiers’ with pay of from $40 to $75 per month. ability compensation runs up to $850 for the private, and widow's pensions are $40 per month with an additional $8 for every child unc 16 Employment bureaus are men Move Against Profiteering on Maimed Soldiery prevent profiteering upon its maimed la placed the handling of artificial limbs, ey and like appliances with the Invalided Soldiers sion. The permanently disabled and those suffering from recurrent wound trouble are cared for in sanitaria, the latter receiving tempora pay based on rank and period) of service, the former pensioned. | These are some of the more important provisions made to tide Canada’s fighting man over the period between khaki and mu(fti. And here, linking up with the demobilization program, § PAGS FIVE) voca- commission, maintained for discharged , GERMANS YIELD RIGHTS |‘ <r | from the Bol SIRS. “Evpmues H. AN THO: A stout band of metal and diamonds on the wrist, anchored by a stout rope of diamonds to a diamond finger ring, that is Mrs, Charles H. Anthony's newest sparkling idea. But she has other diamonds. You see some of them in the picture. (Special to The Star by No. Ad NEW YORK, March is nothing in the world so pretty asa Mrs pretty woman ¥ ing jewels. |Chartes H. Anthony, “The Queen of| “I regard ax absurd the attempts | Diamonds,” of Muncie, Ind., has jof the members of certain women's knocked ‘em cold again on Peacock | | clubs here in the East to have dress alley |regulated. I regard as perfectly pre A few years” ago she laws that forbid the sale New York first with her diamond | of aigrettes, What did the good Lord heel#, and then with a watch set in| make these pretty things for if not her left xtocking. Now is bewil- | for women to wear? People who rave dering new York with t warm nst women’s fashions make me staggered ne of constructional work 1 in jewelry was designed 1 fash foned by Mrs. A herself. It is as substantial as a fabricated ship. In terms of ering, it consist of a stout band of metal monds surrounding the wrist fastened by e of diam to a smaller ring of diamonds finger “T don't & nsational think it Paradise nd wild its wings some people the bird of 11d be wed to fly a the jungle and break bumping against trees! Why not start a propaganda uinst the wearing of the fur of an imals for a change? But dress and jewelry do not in teres half so much as does the or career of my boy, who is in the na- val air studying the radio “but I do love here at Columbia univers! HUNGENERAL — VOLCANONEAR ISKILLEDIN =TOKYO BREAKS BOHEMIA RIOT INTO ERUPTION COPENHAG ¢ TOKYO, Von Arnim, former ander ile n Flander to death tb a mob of in nts in Asch, Gohemia ted in dispatches receiv This piece suppose be that and dia vd a stout re t me being showy Mrs. Anthony things, There yolieve in ays pretty rvice ot was Mareh 17.~Asama-Yama a voleano on Hondo island, 90 miles north t of ‘okyo, beearm tive yesterday, Bruption had been ex- pected for two weeks, following rum blings and a flow of hot mud With a tremendous roar, the vol- cano exploded yesterday, showering lava rocks three inches thick many neat-by towns. Flames leaped hundreds of feet into the air, and dense smoke darkened a wide radius. No life low is reported. Dam: « heavy, according to ad from Kanazawa, One rock the anes freight car fell in that elty ROMANONES TO PARIS MADRID, March 16,—Premier Ro- manones will go to Paris shortly confer with President Wilson, it was announced today furiated pea it was re ed here today The murder of Von ed his fifing shots trespassed his wards the ante castle Arnim follow sants who After the at pen grounds. pillaged on peas March 17-—The Aug Zeitung fays an agreement has signed by representatives of various German states whereby renounce their rights, particu y regarding military questions BOLSHEVIKI DEFEATED sLettish | STOCKHOLM, “March 17 Frauenburg troops have captured viki, according to ve-| ZURICH, March 17.—The bill for ports received here today, Frauen-| union of Austrin and Germany 42 miles | passed its third reading, a Vienna burg is in Hast Prussia, southwest of Koenig dispatch reported today AUSTRO-GERMANY UNITE! DEMOCRATS "OPPOSITION: | Forty- One Republicins and 11 Democrats in New | Line-Up HAVE A CLEAR MAJORITY} } BY L. C. MARTIN (United Press Staff Correspondent) | WASHINGTON, March 17.—A] clear majority of the next senate is| pledged to vote against the league ot ions constitution, unless, amended, league opponents declared today Eleven democrats, they say, have either openly or privately declared ; their opposition to the compact in itp present form. Forty-one republi- 1 he covenant Thix makes a total of ea three more than a majhrity of the senate. In addition, of | other democrats are ki to be l opposed to some provisions! of the constitution, but their objection may not be strong enough to lead them to vote against it | The republican opposition to the | Present form of the constitution ts | made up of the 39 signers of the “round robin,” with Norris and Ker yon added since adjournment of con- ress. Democrats openly in epposi- tion include Reed, Thomas and King. Those who have not come out open- ly are refraining from doing so, they said, because they see the strongest indications that amendments will be | made which may satisfy them | THey feel, one Of them said today, | that President Wilson should be | given an opportunity to make the| constitution conform to American [ideas before they “embarrass him |further by coming out openly against him.” Much interest was manifested |here today in the effort of Demo- |eratie National Chairman Homer 8. Cummings to put the republicans, thru Will Hi thelr national chair. man, on record as a party. The present week sees the begin ning of the opposition’s invasion of the Middle West. Borah and Reed | are scheduled for meetings in St Louis and Kansas City, and Boreh | may speak in Cleveland HUN REDS ARE HOPEFUL FOR SOVIET REIGN BY FRANK J. TAYLOR (United Press Staff Correspom 0 (Copyright, 1919, by United Press) | BERLIN, March 13—(By cour. | ier to Paris.—German radicals, | heartened by the failure of the | government to completely stamp | out the Spartacan uprising, are planning to proclaim establish ment of a soviet republic next month, While pntinues to struggle with the 8 ans and tries to untangle the apparent! hopeless food, industrial and polit problems, all radical elements ar uniting in perfecting their revolu tionary program, They are, confident they will win from ‘exhausted government Even rnmental officials are be- | ginning to admit the cabinet's posi | tion is seriously threatened, despite | the optimistic reports given out by the official bureau and the | semi-official Wolff agency | Conservative members of the for- eign office, supporters of War Min are specu ance of the rt-Scheidemann government. Al tho the government has by no means | suffered military defeat, its troops have not succeeded in surrounding the ‘tacans, Who have escaped from various nets, and have retreat ed into the suburbs, whe they are resisting desperately and cleverly. Ast®Y alunteers ‘The government so far has been | unable to muster enough troops to capture the Spartacans and, at the ‘game time, guard the large Berlin (CONT'D ON PAGE FIVE; the cabinet JOINING THE | ONCE M | are definitely on record against | liminary LEAGUE IS IN DISPUT ' Officials in — Confused Over Cont versy Arising in Paris PRESIDENT DETER yiew*here that the inary treaty” with be virtually only an armistice, not subject ton by the senate, and, th necessarily containing the” covenant. United Press dispatches however, indicate that the °p inary treaty will be subject to, Ate ratification and will cover & of the peace treaty articles, ‘ing those for reparation and ing nities, and for arranging Fight to Finish In view of this, the certainly carry his fight to a for embodiment of the league first treaty. b Obstacles in the path of this involve the calling of a m neutrals on March 20—just fi before the preliminary treaty Germany is now scheduled ready—for neutral views on_ league question. Also the demands for an early peace the allied countries and the seriousness of the situation many, as disclosed by a United I Pr (CONT'D ON PAGE ) PICHON CLAIM: ON LEAGUE | FIRMLY DENIE BY CARL D. GROAT (United Press Staff Cy P ARIS, March 17- ‘oreign ister Pichon's claim that the |of nations will not be included in| preliminary peace treaty wast phatically denied today in official circles, President Wilson and the | American commissioners are ling pat on its inclusion, it was ed, Surprise was expressed Pichon should hold views to the trary. Pichon, yesterd: who made his state in his weekly con’ with correspondents, declared th tho fundamental principles of final peace are laid down in the pi treaty, the league of. tions probably will not be ine He said that Wilson had not |that it be included. The question: yet to be decided, he said, but dm much as neutral countries will asked to submit their opinions garding the league before final }tion of the covenant, he believed th preliminary pact would be signed fore the league is completed, The preliminary peace, ace to Pichon, will end the state of but will not permit Germany toe sume full relations with other tries. The blockade will not be lifts completely before the final He said the question of Austria has not been taken that the allies may offer vantages to that country if mains independent, which will n allowed if it persists in uniting} jermany, The president, it is known, to make a strong fight for ine of the league. He feels that and Great Britain need the even more than America, Pichon's statement astound somewhat piqued the G