The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 18, 1919, Page 1

An American Paper That Fights for Americanism The Seattle Star THE GREATEST DAILY CIRCULATION OF ANY PAPER IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST Montered an Hecond Class Matter May 3, 1899, at Tides in Seattle Today Piret Low Wa TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE Per Year, by Mall, $5.00 to $9.40 ¢ Postotfice at Seattle, Wash, under the Act of Congress March 8, 1879, SEATTLE, WASH., TUESDAY, MARCH 18, 1919. Weather Forecast: Toqieht.s94,Woinenday, rates southerly a Tide Rising * Canadian Veterans Take Hold Khaki Legions Start “It SERVICE - Housecleaning and rr _ Steer Ship of State Business R * * of Politics Uncertain Period Is ' Past Now and Big LOSES POSITION | jayor, “by Backing |. on a New Course he SERVED THREE YEARS, Gearge P. Listman, civil serv. | Begun in the U. By RICHARD SPILLANE Leading American Authority on Business and Finance, and Special Economic Contributor to The Star The tide has turned. Dismiss all notions that this country is goir jhave depression, unemployment, hard times. ” A period of great activity is near. The probl eon will be to find men for jobs rather than job r men. ; Four Signs Point | How Many Returned Men Are on Your Payroll, Mr. Employer? Mr. Employer! ‘5 i: pay roll? The American Legion of Liberty has the names of 350 men, of varying occupations, on file at the Soldiers and Sailors’ clab. If you have & vacancy, get in touch with the Legion officers. They'll find a returned soldier or mailor to fill the niche, Three hundred and ten ex-servics men were pinced by thin or ganization last week, and 126 men were given temporary jobs. “If you've gét the job, we've got the mag”—-this is the Ameri can Lesion of Liberty siogan. And this organization must have community support. ° At wate, 204A night, Ensign JR. Foulds, heud of the emalarmene . Waa given charge of a committes to inves: te employment from the enlisted men's viewpoint, How many returned service men are on your The specific charge was that List man acted as surety for the bail bond of Walker C. Smith, notorious ww. Gist and author, to Prosperity ‘ No one capable of reading the baromieter o! Valve time |2€88 can mistake the signs. | a the months of January and February the and contracts signed building that portion of America east of the Mi and north of the Ohio exceeded in amount of the corresponding months for the last 10 | except 1917 and 1918, when we spent extrao sums on munition plants and war structures, Fonent) kvetee ter det ae aie 1 rae &F (Fiditor’s Note—This ia the second of a series of articles on the way Canada is caring for her returned soldiers.) BY JACK JUNGMEYER | United Press Staff Correspondent | VICTORIA, B. C., March 18.—The returned soldier is| going to run es any, started. lere’s how: & ‘ i Organizing in two big khaki organizations, the Great| a his tirtcmnees toward the lnolees oe and aed a. and a ae Sod enarchistio 1 w. gO in service men y wil more powerful influence} “1 4m inst any oF than any other single group in the Dominion. SF Lagan: pines pitiamataaen teats oe Almost half of Canada’s able-bodied then of military|cember after his three-year term of age are or have been in uniform. Re-established in shop, | office had expired. office and factory, these men are injecting the ex Tn regard Ap tha. custiounl of Sens: -spldier’s demands into civil affairs with a punch that would sur-)/T™mstceers, tte city charter. states prise the average American. tion, remove any commissioner, but Soldiers Have Thus Far Been 1 EF legal right to do this, but I be- e it is a bad example to set for 3,000 city employes, and I there- him as civil service FEF ‘ebruary average for the 7 years, 1900 to clusive. What is more significant is that, January of this year showed well, the not begin to show fully until February... gives promise of a still greater increase. Sapa gage prices continue to decline. ip reports show a pronounced demand overalls and workingmen’s shirts. 4% st., which always is able to forecast Prosperity or depression, has given evidence thru the stock market of a pronounced revival. _ There is not an even distribution of the contracts, Gaia, western Pennsylvania and West Virginia they & jow par. In Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, Wisconsin, Michigan, ie. souri and eastern Kansas they are bigger than ever recor in corresponding months. In New England they are below the average. = pelt hk a eo fair. in Philadelphia, timare and Washi nearly twice the normal amount. oe The Northwest has not begun to feel the impulse. | The president of a great university estimates that this country is $5,000,000,000 require- ments in building and engineering. operations. His estimate may be high, but there is no. doubt we are in need of more construction than ever before in our history: ’ Now that a beginning has been made, the sentim ial —— effect will spread thru every branch of | lustry. Mild Winter Aids General Trade, Cattle and R. R. Railroads and trolley lines are in urgent need ~ 5,000,000 tons of steel this year. Their financial conditie has been improved greatly by the mildness of the wint (CONT'D ON PAGE TEN) . the girl of the Golden Apple. She is Miss Edith Hyde, the unanimous 0 famous American artists—Howard Chandler Christy, James Montgom- : cee Fisher, and Penrhyn Stanlaws—as the most beautiful woman at the discusses “N on page 6 cut funny capers on “We are for and with those who kept our home fires burning, who played the game as patriots, no matter where or what their work— but God help the ones who didn't!” CANADIAN SOLDIER ‘ein ‘G TO HAVE He is now'in bad re-lin, MeNeil Island federal penitenti| were denied an opportunity to reach the war zone, ary and $10,000 fine will be made by the attorneys of J. Henry Albers, Pacific coast milling man, and a} leged pro-German. He was sentence ed in federal court Mon And on another day, will pay ‘tribute to her dead, who whole city will Join in this demon Albers | of the Golden Apple will have something mighty interesting for Star aoe: : the vacancy thereby created must be Yo 9 filled by the city council, and that - ¥ |the mayor shall, within five days i Definitely Constructive after the removal of a commissioner, 2} a report in writing any such removal { , Their representatives sit in the provincial to the council, with his reasons for ae legislatures, making laws. They are given ear by the act. ‘m8 | a a business men in determining industrial policies. regenerator cate Rye "| E } CITY ALSO T They are fighting the workingman’s honest, con- Sg ee oe jae p | $ | structive battles, And they have given profes- “Hanson has undoubtedly been popes ' } sional politicians the toe of their boot. All this Walnns See-Sake Sow Sa ere PRs | only back rid of me,” said Lisuman today, “He URA Y HARDEN DR. CRANE } PAY RESPECTS | with a third of the overseas forces |doesn't like organized labor. The we 5 |) Beer, No Work,’ } | home! ae a only reason I went on Smith's bond ‘ ; LLS WRITER CYNTHIA GREY'S letters ap: | T0 HERO DEAD Soldier statesmanship in the Dominion thus far has| was pecause I heitove 3 the duty - 4 Beaton page § been liberal and definitely constructive and h layed a] any man to get his fellow-man out i } WEBSTER has a funny car ; lbig part in pre igita ar. Une | jail. If the man is guilty, it is a vee toon that will interest every )/ o ad P o * | the fault of the bondsman, and aren 2, TAMIR ol} :tasband and wite.’ Puge 6 {| garetts historic days will be set |" Great War Veteran leaders are acting in the passionate | went on bond to insure the presence Press Staff Correspondent) a {| aside on Seattle's calendar to pay se a . i “nr 9, by the United Press) PETE AND ANNIE, Tom and (tribute to the men who offered | belief that the returned soldier viewpoint, clarified and of Smith at the trial. I aia my duty as {By Courter} MF® Duff. Ev True, and Balmy |) heir tives for democracy. broadened under fire and in the trench, must be the|** ! wit" : | BERLIN, March 13—(By Cour! rong {i o ¢ A e i | to Paris.)—Maximilian Harden, ed-|} page 10. Bil gota pa Posteabanga tito shape dominant one in guiding their country. | ‘or & series of demonstrations that| ftor of Zukunft. and Germany's most | SPORT fans have a page of will reveal the community's spirit of . ‘HELD FOR THEFT — citizen, told the United |} lve dolngs on page 1. (| Sratitude to her soldiers and nailors Rodeeed ri sao - today that: iy F }} No exact dates have been deter H Be me cia val capes mney mck ater have been deter) Bolshies an't Swing ’Em and will be overthrown. rs out by the executive committee of It- was from its. membership that I heard most often own. the soldiers’ and sailors’ welcome i fi i Canadi i The German people are crazy. | committee, componed of vepreeune during my month’s trip along the C adian reconstruction ‘Aides bo. Wie haa toe welled é : trail, what can be summed up thus: cians aka te ‘The kaiser, if hé were not a cow tives of all Seattle war organizations. | J 7 autos in their possession, an _ gr, could return to Germany and re. | ‘Phere will be an overseas day, | ‘Our citizen soldier must be restored to the have been “stripping” a third when she thenne | when every man who crossed the| job in such a way that the Bolshies can never make captured, Frank Johnson, 20, and G. ean ; “a te 1 4 a shniie | Atlantic will parade. A military ball| a convert of him.” Anderson, same a e ee ef Bete eal cles gt Tonge seit exer With that always in mind, the| p B avejiapd B. iat) and world peace depend upon close | | orp " vill b , h uesday, and friendly relations pains Ger: | PENITENTIARY hg rit Pe sak ates heen combined soldiery of Canada is) Both disclaimed Regn pe when ‘ica, | | who have returned. whacking the profiteer, the indus- booked. They are he! on open panda Acre’ tes sak: tocovered P Tinitea Ged will be set aside in| trial and political exploiter, the red charges, pending the filing of a com- © from several weeks’ illness, dis-| PORTLAND, Ore., March 18—Ap-|honor of the men who left civitian| radical and. the bone-head reaction: | plaint by the prosecuting attorney's cussed conditions in Germany freely | peat from a three-year sentence at| life, and went into training, but who| #@TY Ne aig : ah | and frankly. pute with all classes—with the old) oe of because he continually geen it during the war, and with | the revolutionaries because Ger- | many has not benefited so far by fol Jowing President Wilson, as he advo stration of devotion. There will be “oy sediet ssh, Detnorh feums| mente idle. ts..at.Bherty on $10j000|% Sreet parade, 18 whieh every or “1 am fi with letters from) mea " f m . ganization may take part 7 asking me why I told them to/ bail, a 30-day stay of execution be-| At a later date a special day may Se Wilson, and why Germany Is) 10 granted by Juds> Wolverton be set aside in honor of the 9int divi: Pull starved by the blockade,” said “Aibers was convicted of seditious | sion men, most of whom are still B : “I don't understand the lat |. terances, made on a train during | overseas a but my faith in Wilson is un-| i, closing days of the war. He| “We want every soldier and sailor ished. I realize the tremendous ¥ 14 charged with affecting con.|to know and to feel Seattle's pride tion and difficulties he has nt for the United States, and/in him.” said Frank Gates today } Dp pe hand a Ce ee eisent ne,| confiderice in Germany's ability to|Gates 4s devoting practically all his geeyeel. But i is he » ‘| win the .wars «Federal officers. on|time to the welcome plans. sy or “an iar BAD nid zope the train and others heard him, and| “Parents of returning men should are using the situation against) | va. placed under arrest. ‘fhe | notify me by calling Main 5900, Local and us liberajs. larrest and sensational dixclosure re-|10%, so we may know when any de Pans Government sulted in considerable public agita-|tachment of men is likely to arrive. Fe» ‘* new republican goy-|tion against the products of the) We can't hold a celebration every ee ane paca 4 reg proud company, headed by Albers brothers, | time one or two men return, But It is entirely too much like the | who ate in Seattle, Tacoma,| we will set the big days for regime. But for the time being | Portland and San Francisco, group welcome and when any de t to be recognized and dealt | Motion for 4 new trial was denied, | tachment of 100 or so start for home Yiberally by the entente, to pre-|and sentence pronounced at once anh will arrange @ hurry-up celebra- D UN PAGE YOURTKEN) | Fequest of Albers. tion, all Seattle | made the supreme war sacrifice. ‘The| UARE DEAL “We are going to have » square | Columbia Veterans’ Weekly, told me {aa spokesman for the Great War Veterans, “for only in that way can the Dominion give itself a square deal, “We have come bien geet Naber an Uns s great axtorwaiviation to clean up the country, politically, economically and socially. “We are showing the citizens who remained at home and organized labor that the Canadian fighting man is neither a» fool, a bum or a ‘scab,’ much to the surprise of some politicians who hoped to use us as pawns. we organized to assure the re | turned soldier that he and his chil- | dren shall not he shoved aside by the man who stayed at home and his children. a matter of simple justice, | | MORE ASSERTIVE | There's nothing timid about the | Canadian Great War Veteran. He's | much more self assertive than the | average Yank soldier who has thus |far returned—perhaps because he | had a longer period of battle seadbn- ling. He isn't begging or waiting for George to do it when It comes to what he believes he's entitled to. And he isn't going to run after any strange gods or wave any strange flags to get it, if I've sized him up right, after talking to hundreds of him, private and officer, The Great War Veterans’ associ- ation, composed entirely of men who |xerved in this war, is under federal charter, having chap: ters in practically every Canadian city and town, with headquarters at Ottowa. Its purpose is nominally fraternal —to look after every material and spiritual need of its members. Its political activities are by influence, by the weight of numbers well or- ganized and with common ideals, not partisan or direct, established | New York Brewers Say They’ll Make | Light Brand Beer | .NEW YORK, March 18.—Brewers of New York announced today they would resume manufacture of beer |containing not more than 2.75 per jeent alcohol. They contend that such a beer is not an intoxicant, and \therefore not prohibited under the | president's order, issued last Decem- | ber, which stopped the making of in toxicating beverages from food- stuffs. The decision to resume the manu-| facture of light beer was made by the Lager Beer Brewers’ Board of | ‘Trade, after receiving an opinion on the legality of their action from Eli- |hu Root and W. D. Guthrie, lawyers. HOFFMAN BAVARIAN MINISTER! BASLE, March 18.—Herr Hoffman | has been elected premier of Bavaria, a Munich dispatch.announced today. This Is Written by a Yank Who Sli Slang; What He Means Is That You Need Not Pay Any Excess on Your Pi O, ye who, with many misgivings, have skidded your 20 coppers across the glass top for your “humps” in the past few weeks, take heart and take heed. For the nifty young thing who passes out your favorite brand of pills is a profiteer of the first water when, he rings up 20 cents against you f@r certain brands of cigarets, And Uncle Samuel is after him. So, when next you glide into the) little red corner store for your coffin nails, and you get nicked 20 cents, just lean over the counter and Caruso in his shell-like ear, thusly: Ml getcha if you DON'T WATCH out” For the tax of the brand that was selling a few months ago for cents is only 1.95 cents, and you pay 20 cents for that kind jf are giving George, behind counter, just three cents more is coming to him. And if he it, he is liable to a year in or @ $1,000 fine, or doth. to the revenue act of 1918, the ing price, plus only the actual} tax, is allowed, Seattle internal revenue are going to check up on Profiteers and teach them a so, when you want that little pack with the eight-day the front, just lay 17 cents haughtily on the