The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 1, 1919, Page 11

Pages 11 to 20 | 4 The of the Sopwith plane (Hawker and Grieve) came over to see the preparations of the later arrival, de, which got to St. Johns, Newfoundland, about a week later than the Sopwith, but whose pilots say expect to cross the Atlantic first. Maj. Morgan, assistant pilot of the Martinsyde machine, is here seen (in ‘aviation costume) talking to the visitors. i ! It was very sad, they ad mitted, but there is the fact. There fs no window glass and no glass ae li ¢ i} i pen the bureau: iaapeet ogden Ph rere Fa geen j that the you need. We will lay it Ansty resndd French docks at the actual ) possible. li! g td | two more lines for two she wept. She has red & regrettable temper. “It's foolishness.” she wept “You're a lot of fack- bureaucrat with whom she had the unpleasant manners > to every true bureau- French, British or American. Was superior and insulting. leave the stuff here before in line for two more “You can’t have it,” said the bu- reaucrats. “That would tend to cheapen the frano—" “Then my 6,000 work people get mo work?” asked the manufacturer. “They starve, then, if the state does not feed them?” “It is most unfortunate,” said the bureaucrats. “But you cannot have the license.” o ”, pas” she wept. “And Till write|“g, the 6,000 work people are idle I and the town of Verdun is still enpre ‘ podlbe ipeed ot his empty because of bureaucratiam. Se whee he heard the threat. In|On® might multiply example Lum: Tlie her busincen had been | Det 1 badly needed for reconstruc but a plan to im tion purposes, to, the petty duties paid She had | Port Jumber at cost from Scandi i“) navia was turned down the other have been ag, irs ay. The bureaucrats said that & The French people who also|French lumber must be used be- ‘Mefore the various windows |cause of the deteriorating franc. (doubt thought she was a rude|But there is not enough French e nd also that she had a|lumber. What will you ask the | They are accustomed to this|bureaucrats? It i» very said, is it ie loss of time. They have | not? ae ears ue that way. Cost of Living Formidable Secs wise foo op ea ‘The outery against the high cost Pound foolish. 1 would pot|ot lving became formidable not long ago. Of all the major belliger- things, knowing as I do “ } extraordi: . ent countries, France comes nearest nary penultive the 14 feeding herself in normal times, are to cept tha Criticlem, except that rie the standard ration here costs are saying them more : yf nore | aimost twice as much ax in Eng- I can. When they r ef the horizon blue and|!and and considerably more even tn the vot! t |than in the United States. 10 get Pid of homes unticnaten |fore England and the United States nd methods. Here in an ex-|ollaborated to Hooverize France of the out of her high cost hole. Cotncl- Teter” W#0°™ | Gentally, one of the Paris news . 4 papers discovered that on the docks mss Type Boche Reasoning |i" Marseilles “there were moun- day the mayor of Ver-|tains of sugar and tapioca and to- to Paris, Of the|baceo and rice and #0 on and #0 he in that heroic town|on.” The docks were so full that Jonatd been in some meas-| ships could not unload there, Some by German shelis.| of these mountains of eatables had Batter they knew that the civil BONE and the soldiers lived ‘eanable citadel, the Ger- kept on hammering after day and month been on the docks for more than three monthe. ‘The edible mountains were firmly lashed tm place by red tape. ‘The bureaucrats could not move them. ‘Their intent was, it| It is not a# tho this were an iso Mestroy Verdun. If the| lated instance. Thruout the war isles were exerted after|there has been a constant outcry Tebullding ruined towns! that the civilian administration has Jess competition for been inefficient and obstructive and ne day ie, ution Against Government Inefficiency FLEET DIRECTOR | in France, SaysCorrespondent Corey OUT OF OFFICE . Here and there it brushed aside by the military, but that could not be done everywhere. Wherever bureaucracy has been brushed aside, however, some one learned a lesson. ‘ M. Lebureea en Thin I When the armies are demobilized and the ex-soldiers begin to practice what they have learned, the revolu- tion will come. It will be a pacific one, without doubt—but it will be « revolution. M. Lebureau, as the French papers call ‘the bureaucrat, artist for himself. has not yet shown that abil- combine which was one of All. this ia fully realized by the French commerce. They plan along big lines. They are talk: great export and import trades and of establishing huge com- binations and of cutting costs and speeding up production. In the lat ter the @pponition of the trades unions may be counted on. Prefer Leisure to More Pay Until the ized workers are mentally again they will con- | tinue to prefer more leisure to more pay—for in the vigorous competition to come that is what opposition to speeding up will boil down to. as to the first— In the Paris theatres one buys a ticket of four coupons. Each must be separately stamped to validate it. | Each ticket must be entered in a book.| When one presents it at the door, three men at a high desk re- stamp and re-validate it and enter it in more books. From five to eight employes handle a transaction that in New York is more efficiently handled by two. It is the French way. The revolution to come may change the bureaucrats and wipe out the bureaucratic ways. The war has shown that no nation can speed up more than the French, once the need of speed ia shown. It is fairly cer |tain that peace will prove the need | of speed MEN TO MEET Executive Council to Assem- ble Next Monday PAfUSs, May 1,.—What in effect is | the first meeting of the executive | council of the league of nations will be held Monday, when the organiza- tion committee will take up certain preliminary work. The organization committee com- prises nine members selected by the nations, which will compose the first executive council—the United States, Great Britain, France, Italy, Japan, Greece, Serbia, Belgium and Spain. Either President Wilson or Col. House will represent the United States. Among other things the committee will consider Switzerland's renewed plea for continued neutrality. KASTNER REACHES U. 8. News of the arrival in New York from overseas of Lieut. Louis Kast ner, graduate of Ballard high school and the University of Washington, was received Wednesday by his fa- ther, Henry Kastner, of Ballard, SEATTLE, WASH., THURSDAY, MAY 1, 19*9, DENOUNCES HURLEY SHIP CANCELLATION ORDER PPP APRA PAPA PPAR ALAA LALA Hawker and Grieve (here seen beside the Sopwith plane) have been playing in hard luck. winds were right for flying the ground got so wet they couldn’t wheel the machine around, First Photos of Rivals Warming Up in Newfoundland for Oversea Race eee eS yen Whenever the and when the ground dried up the zephyrs became cyclonic and there was nothing flying. They are shown here on their return to the Sopwith after their visit to the Martinsyde. Roasts “Scrapping Work Thus Far Done” PHILADELPHIA, May 1— (United Preas.)—Charles E. Pie, director-general of the emergen- cy Meet corporation, today goes . back to civil tife. His term of office as a war worker expired last night. “I have finished my term, and can say what I please,” Piez declar ed at the farewell dinner last night, Attended by shipbuilders from ali Parts of the country. With this pref- ace he attacked the recently an: nounced policy of Edward N. Hur- ley, chairman of the shipping board, which cancels contracts for more than’a million tons of shipping. Piez expressed his opinion that be- fore such cancellations were ordered @n opportunity should have been had to sell the eurplus tonnage to the navy yards. Fears for the fu ture of many thousands of men made jobless by the tonnage can- collation, were expressed. “We should continue to build ships with the privilege of selling our sur- plus, rather than scrapping the work thus far done,” Piez said. “Future ware will demand the en- tire rebuilding of the shipyard facil ities that will be lost under such a policy,” he added. “To replace what we are scuttling now will mean an expenditure in the future of $18,000, 000,000. will cost ua more In the coming year to cancel our contracts than we will save,” The guests united In an appeal to be sent by cable to President Wilson to prevent cancellation and to lift the ban against building for foreign orders in the yards here. LABOR COUNCIL BUYS V BONDS Objections Overriden -and $1,000 Subscribed The Central Labor council sub- scribed for $1,000 in Victory bonds Wednesday night, after an appeal by Corporal Leonard Regan, winner of the croix de guerre, and a member of the United Mine Workers’ union “The war is not yet over,” Regan said, “because a million men are still in France and must be brought home. Every one of these boys is patiently looking westward and wait ing for the time when he shall re- turn once more to his native land. “By subscribing, we will bring the $1-a-day boys home and be enabled to pay European labor a living wage to perform the werk the soldiers are now doing in France, “The success of the loan will mean that disabled wounded heroes of the Great War will not have to go about the streets in future years peddling pencils and passing the hat.” Several members of the labor coun- cil leaped to their feet after Regan finished his appeal, and made bitter attacks on the Victory Loan, oppos- ing any subscription by the council. BUILD NEW CHURCH Plans for the construction of a new building for Christian Scientist church of the university district have been completed and work will begin soon. The structure will be at the corner of B. 60th st. and University boulevard, VAUDEVILLE PROGRAM FRIDAY A Vaudeville program will be given by the Christian Endeavor society of the First Presbyterian church Friday | evening at eight o'clock at the! chureh building, Spring st. Seventh ave, and| nection with the There will be no admis- | Bothell, Execution Wall Is Bullet Scarred | UPPER—Calmly against the bullet-scarred execution wall stand these surrendered Zapatistas, The firing his camera, LOWER—One of the 37 sugar squad consists of Jack Neville and mills of Morelos, after Zapata's de- structive policy had swept the region bare of all artificial and natural pro- duction. The machinery in this mill, worth $1,000,000, was demolished, sur- rounding came fields were burned. BOY HELD FOR THEFT OF $890 Spent $160 During Two Glorious Days; Arrested A 12-year-old boy is In the juven: ile detention home charged with the theft of $890 from the home of Capt. Fred Kelly, 130 N. 85th st. According to the boy, he entered Capt. Kelly's residence last Sunday while the family was absent and garnered the captain's pocketbook containing the money. During the time elapsing between Monday morning and Wednesday afternoon the boy, with another boy friend, managed to disburse $160 over the counters of sporting goods stores and thru the cage of the movie houses, Wednesday morning both lads went into the Exclusive Bicycle Shop, 604 Stewart st. They told the proprietor, Rudolph Lindgren, that they wanted two bikes and peeled off $80 from a good-sized roll. Lindgren became suspicious when he remembered that the boy had bought a bicycle a day or 80 before and called the police. Wednesday afternoon they we arrested by Detective Waechter. WANTS BOTHELL ROAD Green Lake wants a paved con new highway to Petitions are being circu- sion charged, but a silver collection | lated for the paving of KH. 72nd st., will be taken, Maple Leaf place, and Fifth ave, CAR EXTENSION NOT PRACTICAL Murphine Opposes South Park Service Plan Extension of the Marginal way street railway line to South Park would »not be a profitable venture ¥ for the city, according to Superin- tendent Thomas F. Murphine, in re- ply to a petition from residents of the South Park district Wednesday afternoon. Such a continuation of the line from the south end of the elevated to South Park, would mean the con struction of two miles of track and overhead, The line would benefit only about 2,000 residents of the South end, who work on Marginal way. They would ride at peak hours and at other times there would be no traffic over the line, he said. The city would losé $250 a day from such service, superintendent estimates. Falls 80 Feets Off Mast; Will Recover KELSO, Wash, May 1.—Walling 80 from the top of a load mast to the ground, and landing squarely on his back, George Jensen, employe at the Inman-Poulson camp, was re- moved to @ Portland hospital, where he is reported resting easily, and on his way to recovery. fer the traction | gon: BY JACK NEVILLE (American Newspaperman and Investi- gator, who bas lived for years in Mex- feo, and who has just spent four months there om special detail for The Star) (Copyright, 1919, Newspaper Enterprise Ansociation) CUAUTLA, Mexico, May 1.— | “I spent 60 years a slave, but | mow it looks like freedom at last!” These are the most significant “Our children,” he said, “for the first time in years, many for the first time in their lives, are attending school. “We are working half the old man- killing hours, at twice the old hun- ger wage. We have a chance to buy our own land, We can come and go as we please. And we can get jus- tice before the proper authorities.” ‘They're Free Now ‘The only American among 15,000 formerly blood-thirsty Indians, I was sitting with them at one of their re- Ngious festivals—in the revolt-torn empire of Zapata now converted into a mniling, peaceful Mexican state by Gen, Pablo Gongalez, President Car- ranza’s right hand man “The vast majority of us are satis- fied,” resumed the old peon. “We know we have a chance for ourselves and a better future for our children. We have money for clothes, for food, for cigarets—and time enough to smoke them without an overseer’s Jash. Freedom at last!” I stepped into a pulquereeking cantina. A group of former Za Patistas invited me to join them-— to have a glass. It was like open sesame. They chattered like chil- dren. Presented me with cornhusk cigarets. Told me tales of Zapata; his perfidy, his ruthlessness. His Army Dwindled Not more than 800 rebels were yet in arms when Zapata was killed, they said. ‘These, they explained, had ousted Zapata from leadership because he had refused to divide the loot with them. They told :ne of Za- pata’s former army of 30,000 biood- letting surianos, and ayetes (un- armed men carrying ropes)—who formed the rear guard to carry away the loot. I went outside and sat down on the curbing with a number of men, wo- men and children from a nearby vil- lage. They spoke only Indian dia- lect, but they lighted my cigarets from theirs and gave me fruit and melons. I was as safe among them as I would have been under the eyes of & policeman in San Francisco or New vork. Early the next morning I mounted a horse and rode thru, the town. People were pouring into the streets from the humble houses. Others were walking or riding into the town from the country or nearby villages. Women were cooking breakfast at the edge of the curbing. Hundreds of men were rushing about, scores of them wearing pistols, machetes and eartridge belts. It looked like a frontier town in gold rush days, Alongside the old church where the patriot Morelos had more than a cen- tury ago made a successful stand against the Spaniards, a train was disgorging families returning to their home, now that Zapata was 0. A little man stepped out—the bishop of Cuernavaca, coming back to his old diocese under the concili- atory program of Don Pablo ‘after | 1 rode into the country with Cot Sanchez Neira and talked with the workmen in the field. They crowded round to pose for pictures cv AUGHED A) WHILE THEY WORKED. We rode to the headquarters of one of the 2,000,000 acre haciendas. ‘bThe gigantio sugar mill, formerly i/B Zapata Dupes Now Reaping Crops Under New Regime | worth more than $1,000,000, was a | shell filled with debris. We rode to janother mill, The same! Thirty | seven of them. All ruined, wrecked wantonly under Zapata's misrule, his communistic, Bolshevist government. In the village of Youtepec I drank lemonade with Gen. Pilar Sanchez | while Zapata’s captured band sere |naded us. We rode down the Inter Ocean railway and viewed the right of-way strewn with wrecked rolling stock. We saw utterly demolished villages, the work of Zapata and communism I saw a bridge where train after train was dynamited, where Zapatis- tas had ruthlessly executed more than 3,000 peaceful men, women and ¢ehildren passengers, AND THEN WE RODE BACK ACROSS THE NEWLY SPROUT. | Ee FIELDS AND TALKED WITH. WORKING MEN, MEN WHO SIX MONTHS BEFORE IN VOLT, HAD PILLAGED, MASSA- CRED AND BURNED THE FEET OFF THEIR VICTIMS. We met a gang of armed Za‘ patistas. They took off their hats, shook hands, told us they had just surrendered and were on their way to their mountain villages. Don Pablo had permitted them to keep their arms because they lived in re- mote places and might have to de- fend themselves against the broncho Indians. A STATE PASSING THRU AN ERA OF REGENERATION, THE PEOPLE UNCONQUERED BUT PACIFIED! MEXICO STATUS IS ESTABLISHED Must Prove Stability Before She Can Join League BY FRED S. FERGUSON (United Press Staff Correspondent) PARIS, May 1.—Mexico and Costa Rica, like Russia, must of to membership, it was learned today. The United Press was informed that there is no significance in the failure to include Mexico among the neutrals invited to immediate mem- bership, beyond what shows on the face of the action. The United States recognizes the Carranza government, but the French, British and other Europeans do not. The French and British recognize the Costa Rican govern- ment, but the United States does not. In these circumstances, those who attended the meetings of the league committee say it simply agreed that these two nations should not be in- vited to membership. If the propo- sition of admitting them had been pressed from any source, it would have been necessary for all to recon. sider their attitude toward them, one way or another. It is doubtful if any nation would have been ready to change its policy without further investigation, Reports of a rupture in Paris and that Mexico “withdrew its represent- atives from the conference” are mis- leading in that Albert Pani, designat- ed by his government as Mexico's minister to France, but whose cre- dentials were never accepted, never ‘was in any way connected with the peace conference. Capt. C Colvin Joins City Legal Staff Newly appointed as assistant to the corporation counsel, Capt. |Ewing D, Colvin, just discharged from service after a tour overseas with the 91st division, commencs work in Corporation Counsel Walter FE. 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