The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 9, 1919, Page 1

PORTLAND and Spokane have gone over the top for the Victory Loan. Portland made good nearly a week ago. Shall Seattle be rated less worthy, less capable of meeting its obligations? There is one more day left in which to save the honor of this city. Let us not ignore the opportunity. Tides in Seattl FRIDAY | SATURD. May ® | May 10 Ist High Tide | 4am, 11.2 tt Ist Low Tide | filam Fatt ted High Tide 28 fo te tnd Low Tide S03 pm. Att tnd High tat High Tide (| The Seattle Star ted Low Tide oe e AY Loft rite Tide An American Paper That Fights for Americanism Bntered as Becond ines Matter May 3, 99, at the Postoffice at Meattle, Waeh., Per Year, ander the Act of Congress March #, 1879. by Mall, §| LATE EDITION TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE o to 99.008 > Oo VOLUM NO, 67. UT this in your little old hookah, and puff it for a spell, Mr. and Mrs, Loan Laggard: Unless Seattle kicks in with $2,691,550 by Saturday night—and this is FRI DAY, the day before—she will be Branded the Piker of the Pacific Coast. And rightly, too. The fore- g0ing bunch of boodle must be raised for the Victory Loan — Buyabond — F SEATTLE'S $19,000,000 NET PS Pe’ FRIDAY, MAY 9, 1919. Weather Forecast: 7 T and derate mo! fair; wind Saturday, ¥ ithweater WILL NOT BE FREED ATTORNEYS quota i# not to be regard: | ed as a pliocene pleasant ry. A lot of our “best” citizens—the kind who sit ft banquet tables and peddle fossilif @rous flutdtub to credulous, if “dis- ‘Ainguished™ visitors, doling the Dur ham about doing things in a big way : have taken to the woods ICKING in to help Uncle Sqm pay his war debts, ac- cording to R. H. Michael, county chairman for the Victory Liberty : in, THAT ts the extension of the “Umit in pikerdom. Think of these Bond-dodging birds, spouting patriot dem until the dollar test comes along. ‘THEN pulling a Benedict Ar Meld! Some class to them! —— Buyabond — ERY city {se soiled with such slackers, opines Pat Mahoney. demon chauf feur, but, supplements J A. Swalwell, chairman of state central committee for the Loan, Seattle isn't going to forget them. A fine young list of juitt is under careful compilation, IGHT. time they will? be eRe eas sent oe curl. Never fear, Mr. and Pn Witiose, chaseha ot residential business: @ivision for the Victory while it ts — Boy abend — D APPROPRIATE right ~ now to put the piker on the pan, as It were, it is sUll more appropriate and vital to buy, buy again. stirring words of Mra. R. F. vice chairman of the solict- committee for the Victory “The Victory Loan Limited at all stations, takes on all of passengers, so 4 — Bayabené — UNDLE aboard™ “And,” % 4 B | urges Bill Short, the = youthful, peppery hm leader, “GET THAT BUT- TON!” Bill's okeh. There ‘only one article of personal adorn- that is fashionable and beyond reach of the new federal tax—a Liberty Loan button. IT for a BIG achievement, — Buy abond —— if it 1s small, com- ments C. P. Burnett, state chairman of publicity, C. P. says: “The button 4 gives YOU the right to talk about YOUR part in the war.” He's wholly, totally and completely And picture this, Mrs. Ber- tha Collier, info expert, reminds us: “A wounded Yank, lying in a French =— Buyabond — G the hours away, ) Festive from pain, but highly cheered by the news that he is soon going home; a doughboy, grip- . by homesickness, patrolling his ‘on the Rhine, or billeted among Huns, wondering when he will receive orders to pack up and gail for ‘God's country’; flag in the window of her cottage, who will be able the government pays her a aay ' taken by her only son be fore he was killed in action.” — Buyabond — al 24 ment, and you'll) accumu # ° late a few reasons why Uncle Sam wants you to gre some reasons.” In other words, @on't quit till quitting time! Be a Yank. Make it Five Straight draped the “V" on the big electric sign downtown un- til Seattle shall have tak- of our, prominent citizens” to come thru, that will be draped for the ‘falance of its life. But never mind —~ Buyabond SEE SCA’ OY POSITION PARIS, May 9.—(United Press.) ot the German treaty to the r today there would 12 votes in opposi- to live the few remaining | them, the evidence disclores that not| great world in a backwoods cabin in — Buyabond — Al WIDOW with gold service years of her life without necessity of being forced to work, JUMINATE on Pertha’s thumbnail sketches a mo buy a bond, As the gob would say “77 tell the cock-eyed world those — Buy: i GO, we it thru. They've en the “tory” out of “Vic: tory.” If Seattle depends on certain glackerquitterpiker—the Fifth and Last—Let's go. ‘of the American peace com- , informally discussing sub: sum out of the life insur: | _|the eyes of Mrs, Garrison and, after | |Plead That Ruth Garrison) Be Sent to Asylum In- stead of Prison JURY DECIDES TONIGHT Mac: | “She belongs In an asylum, and not within prison as a criminal,” So declared Defense Attor- ney A. R. Hilen at noon Fri- jday, in addressing the jury |which is to determine the “fate of 18-year-old Ruth Gar- rison, slayer of Mrs. Grace Storrs. Prior to the opening of court this morning, Attorney Thomas Askren, also of coun- sel for defense, gave the first, |intimation that the defense | would not ask for absolute | liberty for the girl. While contending for a verdict of “not guilty by reagon of mental irre: | | sponsibility at the time of the com mission of the crime,” the attorneys Point out that it does not mean she jshould be turned loose altogether. | | Under the instructions of the cart. | the jury can find her not guilty and | at the same time also deterniine that | | ahe is not safe to be at large. In | other words, the Jury may find that |at the time she poisoned Mra. Storrs |she was mentally irresponsible, and therefore not guilty of murder, but | [that this irresponsibility still con-| tinues. In that event, Ruth Garrt- | son would be committed to some| state institution until such time as/ she can prove to a jury that she has) recovered her sanity. | The case will go to the jury Ia! today, in all probability. With a simple directness, height lened by flashes of pungent wit and stinging sarcasm, Deputy Prosecut ing Attorney Charles E. Claypool flayed the defense of “mental irre: | sponsibility.” as advanced in behalf lof Ruth Garrison, when he made | |the opening address to the jury | Friday morning before Superior | Judge John S$. Jurey. The court- | room, packed to the doors, listened | without a sound, except when Judge | Claypool injected a telling anecdote, [illustrative of his argument. | Claypool confined his argument | almost entirely to an attack on t | alienists who appeared in Ruth's de fense | “We, of the state, are not here | today to ask retributive justice,” the | Prosecutor said, after a musterly ex |ordium on the philosophy of crime. |"A human soul's deserts may well be | |left to a Higher Power. The scope | of society is to punish merely as a | deterrent. Under the genius of John | Carmody, the defense was made to jecept one of two pleas—guilty, or ‘go crazy.’” | | ‘We have not said one unkind| | word to this defendant, nor will we. All we ask is justice Ruth Garrt son has made no effort at self-de- |fense, no excuse. Her sole defense is epilepsy, but of all the two dozen! |or more of relatives who. according | | to the defense, have been victima of epilepsy and so have teft the taint in this defendant and rendered her mentally irresponsible, not one of | lone of them ever fell in an epileptic | fit. Fell on Own Test | “Dr. Williamson, the main alien-| ist for the defense, is a scholarly old! |man, but his scientific attainments | are far from commendable, Remem- | ber how Mr. Carmody trapped him| in his ‘pleture’ of Ruth's epileptic state; remember how Dr. Gulick fell) before hie own test of mental re sponsibility til he ran down.” In contrast with the allenists for | ¥ the defense, Claypool dwelt upon the simple testimony of Dr. Donald E. | Nicholson, the alienist summoned by the state—one whom the attorneys |for the defense “dared not cross. examine to any great extent.” “And #0,” concluded Claypool, “in the name of decency, in opposition to the adulterous bed which leads to | murder, I ask you to return a ver | dict of guilty.” Hilen began a masterly address in | behalf of the defendant at 11 o'clock and for a hour held the close at tention of jury and spectators. As he drew a pathetic picture of the} young defendant, tears sprang to| ja vain attempt to stay the flood, |broke down and wept openly. Mrs, John H. Rice, sister of the defendant, sobbed hysterically. Hilen unmercifully scored Doug. laa Storra, the mas in tee GBee.! |hands and dropped her head to the| Dr. Gulick talked un-| n § Fight for Bonus ST. LOUIS, May 9—(United | How Can Man v } y= geld K now What I s months’® y bonus to supplant le ~ lin Her Heart? Yanks Commence Once I the presént grant of $60, it was Indicated today. ‘The resolutions committee will present t the American legion caucus ® request i BY CYNTHIA GREY that congress grant the additional { | ) bonus to all soldiers In service \| Yesterday I witnessed a battle of | ( during the war. | sai supreme—and the goal was the | br narrennnnnnnennnennd!| freedom or enslavement of a young ———- | girl's soul. Expert men physicians Hilen branded him a degenerate and| vs. clever men prosecutors construct: | placed the blame for Ruth's plight |¢d and tore down a mental picture of on his shoulders. je woman's innermost being, Thru| When Hilen, in his denunciation |!t all, Ruth Garrison, the accused) of Storrs, said that the result of | #iflwoman, sat staring at them with Ruth's actions on March 18 would | bewildered eyes of blue, have been the same as tho he had} A penny for her thoughts! “igsued a direct command to little | fancied she looked a bit amused | Ruth to slay his wife,” the young|When Dr. Nicholson, testifying in be defendant bit her lips, clenched her | Half of the prosecution, attempted to | convinces the jury that Ruth had table, shaking with sobs. Her moth.|Committed her crime purely thru a & lfish, cold-blooded, premeditated er, with tearreddened eyes, patted |° ls! © Ruth comfortingly and whispered | Motive with s Hort of Pree gd yd } 3 ely Wares oe Dethete anve! cuser, as much aa to say: “You don't In part Hilen’s speech to the Jury | know any more why I did it than follows: |the man in the moon. What can “About 18 years ago, Ruth Garri- | you—what can any man know of the son opened her baby eyes upon the'secret sanctuary of « woman's heart?” And I ponderbda: Here they were, men—all men—old enough to be her father, superb of intellect, attempt ing to prove why peculiar, impulsive, one of the mountain villages of the old state of Virginia. In appearance she was just a bundle of pink and dimpled flesh, the dearest of all God's creatures, a blue-eyed baby | passionate Ruth Garrison killed the | girl. If you or I could have seen | wife of the man who exerted almost | her then, as she lay nestled #0 con-|auperhuman influence over her. | tentedly in her mother’s arms, wel WAD ‘THAT SURNCE ANY.| could not have guessed, much less |pHING TO DO WITH HER DED? | prophesied, that in few short!) wonder!—Ruth, still in a daze, to| yeara she’ would sit In this court: | at) appearances, cannot seem to an-| (CONT'D ON PAGE FOUR) awer. builded a case of epilepsy. The pros: | ecution has attempted to tear it| down with the argument that no oth- er epileptic on record has eyer com- mitted such a deed under similar cir cumstances—that is to say, they had no definite purpose in view, What about the old and reliable saying that it takes the exception to prove the rule? Or, supposing that she is not epileptic, were there ever two individuals preoisely and exactly alike? Then is it fair to judge what} Jone person does by what some one | else haw done, even tho the cases be jaimilar? ‘To me jt seems almost pitt {ful that there 4s no more humane way to handle cases of the Ruth Garrison type. Her monotonous calm, her apparent disinterest thru out the whole affair, seem to point clearly to the fact that the girl is not mentally capable of realizing the pre; monstrosity of her deed, | | In the meantime, her defense has | | It's Hard to Get a Housemaid Would-be employers of house maids are finding it hard to secure competent help. ‘The lure of the factory has created a shortage in Seattle, But if your want ad carries the prop er inducements, you can se- cure the maid, Phone Your Ad to Main 600 Give the Carmen a Square Deal! The carmen’s demand for time and a half pay for over- time work is a cry for elementary justice. The city cannot afford to ignore it. In practice, as well as in theory, the city must be a model employer. It was among the first to adopt the eight-hour en It wrote it into its charter as part of the fundamental aw. From time to time, the city has, directly and indirectly, asked private employers to follow suit. And they have. The eight-hour day is almost universally in effect in Seattle. Can the city now, having become one of the largest, em- ployers in the state, go back on this policy? For that is what a denial of the carmen’s claims means. The eight-hour day means eight hours’ work per day. It does not mean nine, or ten, or twelve. When an employer must, because of some cogent reason, have the services of his employes for more than eight hours, he must pay extra for it. He must pay time and a half or double time—or else the eight-hour day principle falls. Private employers have recognized th The city of Se- attle alone has thus far failed to recognize it. The charter, it is claimed by some, prevents such a recognition. Yet it is the same charter which has established the eight-hour day. If the city assumes the right to violate the eight-hour day, it can also assume to violate any technicality which pro- hibits the payment of overtime. If the city makes carmen work nine and ten hours a day, it must pay extra for it. It cannot escape the respon- sibility. It cannot blow hot and cold at the same time. It cannot hide behind the charter in one case, and ignore it in another. The carmen are plainly entitled to a square deal. And “If Ye Break Faith With Us Who Died We Will Not Sleep” FOES SEEK © ‘CHANGE If “THE TREA 1 aa Government Instructs 0 | gates to Make Counter” | Proposals to Allies |SCHEIDEMANN OPPOSIN Reférring to President Wi points, Scheidemann asked: becomes of the exchange of | tees mentioned in the fourth | Despite Wilson's fifth point, many loses her Solonies and Africa. x “Count Brockdorff-Rantzau f fully interpreted the feeling of lempire and the government |he said that we will examit terms with good will. The ment earnestly wishes a “Versailles today p deepest point in the fall of G “Yes’ or ‘No’ can lead as Jo we face uti annihilation, “wit hope of getting up. If the abr conditions. ate in. the eit 3 the main conditions, we | tomb of the German people.” GERMANS RAIL AGAINST TERN |Bertin Press 1s Bitter in De nunciation of Treaty ‘ | “Acceptance means poverty, jger and slavery,” said the ™ ‘The terms could observed the Taglische Rut “The most humiliating point is demand for the kaiser’s “The treaty oversteps the expectations,” according to 4 rageblatt. “The delegation must 4 ts utmost to change the terms.’ “The entente, who, thru | prated of justice and rights of ple, is unmasked,” declared the waerts. “We maybe forced to. thru fear of hunger, but we will fuse inwardly. We must trust. international proletariat to real peace.” “Compared with the Brest treaty, the terms are moderate,” the radical Freiheit. “But parts are in violation of Wilson's points.”” ~~ Buyabond —— PROTEST FILED BY BELGIANS Austrian Peace Treaty Being Completed BY FRED S. FERGUSON (United Press Staff Corres; PARIS, May 9%—Work on the Austrian peace treaty ts nearing completion, it was learned today. The “big four” called in its economic and reparation, experts to go over the final detalls of that section for the pact, Aside from dissatisfaction with the apportionment of ma over former German territories va 2 the part of some of the allies, the” German treaty apparently with full approval of the allied gates themselves. The Belgians have filed a pro with the. “big four” against at ing the British the mandatory German East Africa, because of important part played by Belgium i the conquest of that region, U1 cial reports also have been cireu ed that the Italians resent being off entirely from’ mandatories, Buyabond CHICAGO GETS LEGION ST. LOUIS, May 9% — (U1 Press.)—Chicago will be. the next te