The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 31, 1919, Page 4

from the countless prep iy being advertioed for the | ‘or the making thin people fleshy, ing arma, neck and bust, and | ugly hollows and angles goft curved lines of heaith ity, there are evidently ds of men and women who 1 thetr excessive thinness, hosphate, ‘which ate, whie! ‘and’ is sold by most PRESIDENT 10 PROBE PRICES Careful Consideration Given Request of Engineers eae Continued From Page One] P Sarbeieca ani peared broadened today by the introduction of two resolutions Representative Igoe, Mis- sourt, directing the federal trade commission to look into an al- leged scheme to increase immedi- ately the price of shoes, also di- recting the ways and means com- mittee to ascertain whether cor- porations are making money enough to pay their taxes under the war revenue bill by raising prices. Profiteering is responsible for high costs, according to the Brotherhood | of Locomotive Engineers. The ad- | men, ae eins tor. felt as strong and past 12 im weight also carries improvemen' ‘th ¢ energy, which nearly al y amccssive visory board of the brotherhood, 16 headed by Warren 8. Sto called on President Wilson late yes- terday. “At this time we find ourselves obliged to againgrequest an increase in wages,” Stone told Wilson. “We believe the true remedy for the situ ation, and one that will result in lifting the burden under which the whole people are struggling, is for the government to take some ade- quate measure to reduce the cost af the necessaries of life to a figure that the present wages and incomes of the people will meet. “Should not this be considered feasible, we will be forced to urge that those whom we represent be granted an increase in wages to meet the deterioration of the purchasing price of the dolar.” Food Thru Mail In a@ letter to Postmaster General Burleson today, Assistant Secretary of War Crowell asked that a rep- resentative of the postoffice de- partment be appointed to confer with Assistant Director of Sales Emorse, of the war department, re- garding arrangements of details “in connection with distribution of food supplies to the public thru the channels of the parcel post.” The surplus totals 341,000,000 pounds. It has been stated that the cost of postage, under the plan, would be included in the price of the food. Burleson said he would be glad to co-operate in the “direct to ta- ble” sale of the millions of dollars worth of food. | Under the scheme orders for food | may be placed with any of the 55,- 000 postmasters in the country. They will send the orders to the proper distributing station and the provisions will be brought around to the house by the postman. Price | lists will be supplied. | The postmasters will also adver- of trust law is good, but it 4 tedious process.” he Los Angeles Is Buying Surplus LOS ANGELES, July ,31—Los end | Angeles has joined the list of cities tentes | buying surplus army food. City rep- resentatives have been instructed to order two car loads of bacon, two car loads of sugar and one car load ts | of flour at the government sale of FOR INDIGESTION __ SAYS DR. PARRISH average layman d a remedy for his own case would give substantial and last- ing that the ne. to “fin if su! stomach irregularities buying 5 ad irat the one “cure,” then another leavor to obtain relief. lions of the treat- ja, gastriti: from h: ene bh ged wi any good cost. ‘oday’s Health Hints co 'ATION--If people trou- 4 with soustiration would spend bre to five minutes each day in ing a body bending exercise that f the abdo- Ss Sot tite, ‘secce : ry pur xiol, pent and highly satisfactory results follow. Drink nee, of surplus supplies. The goods will be retailed in Los Angeles ufder city supervision, If the demand 1s good and the plan proves a success, more food- stuffs probably will be bought later. DEMOCRATS TO HONOR BRYAN ‘i He Will Talk on Politics at Breakfast William Jennings Bryan, former secretary of state, will be the guest of honor at a breakfast in the Ma sonic club rooms at 8 o'clock Fri- day morning. It was first an- |nounced that the breakfast would be held at the Hotel Butler. The switch to the Masonic club in the Arcade building was made to ac. |commodate the crowd expected. ia- The speech Bryan will make Friday morning will be the only political address to be made by him while in the state, TEN WORD LIMIT ON TRANSPACIFIC CABLE SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 1.—One urgent message, consisting of 10 chargeable words, is the limfe that will be accepted by the Commercial iring | Pacific Cable Company for the Phil- ippines, China and Japan. The same sender will be allowed but one mes- sage in 24 hours, Officials of the company also an- nounced that extreme economy ‘of should be used in sending urgent messages, as the cables over- crowded with ordinary messages, TREATY NOW IN PUBLIC HEARING Senate Is Today Shattering Century of Precedents BY L. C. MARTIN (United Press Staff Correspondent.) WASHINGTON, July 31.— Shattering a century of prece- dents, the senate foreign rela- tions committee begins today ac- tual consideration of a peace treaty in public session. Bernard M. Baruch, financial ex- pert, who has been an adviser of the American peace mission in Paris, appeared before the committee to explain many features of the eco nomic clauses. President Wilson {s opposed to having the United States share in any indemnities paid by Germany, Baruch said. No final decision has yet been reached on whether the United States will get any of the 20,000,000,- 000 marks to be paid by Germany by May 1, 1920, under the reparation clauses to the treaty, Baruch said. “I think it is a matter to be deter. mined by the president,” said Baruch. “By the president alone, or by the President and congress?” asked Sen- ator Knox. “Well, I'll amend that by saying, ‘It's a matter for determination,’” said Baruch. The committee planned to ascer- tain just as definitely as possible from the experts who advised on the drawing of the treaty how the United states is affected br the com- Plicated financial and economic pro visions which compose a substan tal portion of the peace settlement. But the real significance of today’s meeting of the committee in the view of the many senators, is that it sweeps aside the senate’s traditional policy of deep secrecy in considera- tion 6f treaties. For a hundred years, treaty deliberations, both in committee and before the full sen- ate, have been jealously guarded. No European chancellory took greater pains to keep its state secrets than did the senate. Now, without debate, without a dissenting voice, simply by common consent, this custom has been abandoned. Open consideration of the treaty in the senate was forecast months ago by Senaters Borah and Johnson, but they thought they would have to fight for it. The reason for the open sessions, well informed members of the for- eign relations committee naid today, is based on the kwowledge that se- crecy creates “leaks”; that the way to insure both the opponents and ad- vocates of the treaty against distor tion of their views, as expressed in committee or the sfnate, is to open the doors and allow the public to get the views of both sides at first hand. WILSON OBJECTS TO COMPROMISE Senator New Argues for League Reservations WASHINGTON, July 31.—(United | Kerang gage Wilson today ught up for discussion with re- publican senators the possibility of the senate passing a resolution ex- Pressing in a general way the inter- Pretations by this government of cer- tain provisions in the league of Bations covenant, it was learned. Such a resolution, it was hinted, would not require re-submission of the document to other signatory na- tions, The president did not say he is willing to compromise, but discussion of a possible resolution, couched in general terms, is regarded as signif- icant by observers here. New Unconvinced Senator , Indiana, republican member of the foreign relations com- mittee, said he told Wilson today it was impossible for the league to pass the senate in its present form. Res- ervations will be made, he told the President, or the league will be de feated. “I am not at all convinced,” said Ney, as he left the White House, “It is utterly impossible for me to recon- cile myself to a vote for the cove- nant as it now stands. I am strong- ly in favor of reservations. I believe the United States should have the right to withdraw and that we should be able to determine for our- selves whether our obligations are discharged. I am utterly opposed to Article 10.” New said the president insisted that Article 10 is not designed to in- terfere with the war-making power of congress, Callers at the White House said the president has not evinced any willingness to compromise, The date of the departure of the president on his speaking trip re- mained unsettled, altho the itinerary was complete, except for filling in the dates, Developments indicated the tour would not begin before August 20, ‘The president will review the Pacific fleet at San Francisco, September 2 or 3. Keyes Also Opposed Senator Keyes, republican, left his conference with President Wilson to- day, declaring that “his back is stiff- er than ever” for reservations to the league of nations covenant. Keyes said his conversation with the president was mostly about res- ervations, and the president pointed out that he considers the desirability of unreserved acceptance of the cov- enant by the senate. Senator Fernald, Maine, and Sena- tor Harding, Ohio, made similar statements after their conferences yesterday, Opponents of the league were jubl- lant at the announced results of the president's conferences, declaring they are making no inroads on the opposition, League supporters be- lieve that republican senators are giving out statements with the ex- press purpose of belittling the effects of the president's efforts, ‘THE SEATTLE STAR—THURSDAY, JULY 81, 1919. 6,000 TROOPS ARE GUARDING CHICA READERS WRITE ON JAP MATTER [Discuss Both Sides of Pa- cific Coast Problem Continued From Page One beg permission to pi before I clone. I believe that our much-loved and adored Declaration of Inde- pendence says: “We hold that all men are born equal.” And then they signed it; and when they signed it they held one mil- lion black men as staves in the South. We were glad enough to accept the black man as a sol dier during the late war. God bless our consistent souls! Yes, but we don’t want him to move into our neighborhood or to live next door to us, or his children to go to our schools or our church, T. J. PIERCE. { Japs Must Retire ¢—________—_—__a Editor The Star: Your ef- forts to expose the “Japanese menate” are timely, and deserve the support of every citizen, It js a simple question, but a most serious one. The question is whether we want to retire from the Pacific coast and leave it en- tirely to the Ji or whether they must retire leave the Place to us. “Assimilation” is wholly out of the question, Dif- ferent peoples of the white race, or any other race, may assimi- late each other, but there is no instance on record in any coun- try or in any time where one RACE assimilated another. Ev- ery such effort has always been @ most lamentable failure. We fought a four years’ civil war over the settlement of one race question, and we settled only one part of it The “race riots” now going on in Chicago, Washing- ton city and other places, should satisfy the most obtuse minds that other parts of the question are more serious than what we settled in that bloody and fra- ternal strife between 1861 ard 1865, The negro question in the South arose thru our own fault The white man's greed, original- ly, supplemented by his passions, black man’s fault, but the Inno- cent usually suffer with the is just and, at the same time, effective. To bundle them up and ship them beck is both un- Just and expensive. That they are a great detri- ment to the country, nobody will deny, but so were the Germans, as the war has revealed, and the Germans are no worse than any other nationality. Now it is pat- ently impossible to close our ports against all fmmigration, because they will, like the Chi- nese now, sneak in via Canada and Mexico. There is, therefore, only one way to drive them out, and keep them out without of- fending Japan or any other na- tion; Make it unprofitable for them here. In 1885, during the Dennis Kearny agitation fin San Fran- cisco, a bill was presented to Candidate Morrow and approved by him, to be taken to congress, that provided, in substance, as follows: the treasury of the a monthly protection tax equal to the difference between their wages or earnings here and their own country, to be collected from their employer or by estimate of the business they are engaged in. | The bill died in the committee room then, tut it would not now, s congress urgently needs the money now. If this bill became a law now, immigration would at once stop, and emigration, especially of Japs and Chinamen, commence, and congress would get & good part of the war debt out of it. F. .E, ALBRECHT, 1014 Marion St. May Oppose Payne for Shipping Board WASHINGTON, July 30.—Favor- able report on the nominations of John Barton Payne, Chicago, and Henry N. Robinson, Los Angele: be members of the shipping board, was voted by the senate commerce committee today. The vote was taken when only three members of the committee were Present, two democrats and one re- publican, It is expected that the full committee will reconsider the action of today, as the nomination of Payne will likely be opposed, CHICAGO STRIKE NOT YET ENDED May Settle Street Car Walk- out by Saturday CHICAGO, July 31—(United Press.)—Chicago' today. Hope that it will likely end by mid- night Friday was seen in a decision of President W. D, Mahon, of the In- ternational Car Men's union, to sub- mit a referendum vote to the strik- ing employes, to determine whether they will abide by the will of an ad- mitted minority of so-called radicals, who were alleged to have forced the strike over cooler heads within the union. The proposition of the referendum vote was made by Gov. Lowden, who issued a statement saying he believed the wages and working conditions provided in the compromise fair. Appeals to Men “TI appeal to every member to re- alize and appreciate the situation,” Mahon wrote in an open letter. “This proposition of a compromise ‘wage of 65 to 67 cents an hour and an eight-hour day, if not accepted by Friday night, will leave ts with no proposition at all.” Mahon told the men the most ser- fous objection to the compromise, the } clause requiring all runs to be com- pleted in 14 hours, will be taken up and adjusted by the state public utili- ties commission. “I want to take this occasion to say that, in my opinion, the agree ment is altogether fair,” said Gov. Lewden, who suggested the com- promise proposal. “It includes the highest wages ever paid street rail- way men in any large city of this country.” While officials parleyed, Chicago ans continued to walk or ride in automobiles and makeshift hacks. Traffic today was much better handled than on any previous day during the strike. CELEBRRATE BIRTHDAYS According to an established cus- tom, the Borrowed Time club will celebrate the birthdays of two of its members, John Cashner and Rev. EB. B. Sutton, at @ meeting of the or ganization this afternoon at 2 o'clock in Mallory‘s hall, 14th ave. N. E. and EB. 45th st. Rev. Sutton will preach at Occidental ave, and Washington st. at 6 o'clock Sunday night on “The Christian Life from Start to Finish.’ NOTE: Pointing out what he asserted are weaknesses in the evidence intro: duced by witnesses for Portland in the rate reduction hearings before the interstate commerce commission in the federal building Thursday, Henry P, Blakely, veteran Northern Pacific traffic expert, said that ac tual showings rather than theoreti cal testimony was necessary before anything but general conclusions could be drawn regarding Portland's claims for a reduced freight rate from Eastern Washington points to the Oregon terminals, He sald that the extent of the ad- vantages of the Portland route, as suggested by the evidence placed be- fore the Hearings, must be backed by actual showings. He asserted this hadn't been done. Serve Most People In comparing the east-way traffic of the Northern’ Pacific railroad as compared to the Seattle, Portland & Spokane railroad, running out of Portland to the wheat district in Eastern Washington, he said the bal ance of favor rested entirely with the Northern Pacific line. He testified the northern route, in passing thru a territory 164 miles in length, reached a population of 35,009, while the Portland line, in a mileage distance of 215 miles, only offered service to 7,499 persons. The haul from the summit of the Cascade mountains to Pasco is en- tirely down hill, while the Spokane line from Portiand into the same vicinity 1s up grade. The members of the commission visited Everett Wednesday night, where an examination of port and terminal conditions was made. E. H. Leonard, grain dealer and miller, testified Wednesday after- noon that Portland would gain con- trol of the grain-growing market of the interior if the Interstate Com- merce Commission grants the Ore- gon city a lower freight rate on this commodity than is already in effect. Leonard, who has interests in both Eastern Washington and Oregon, eaid the grain growers wanted to reach all markets on the Pacific coast on the same basis. He believed the grower wanted to sell to the mar ket offering the best price, and that an equal freight rate wag necessary if this was to be done. Liverpool Controls Considerable discussion as to the influence that governed the price of wheat was held. Commissioner White inquired whether or not the price of wheat r 4 in Eastern J : Fatima i oo balan: f the ‘skillfully blen PORTLAND SHOWING FAILS, SAYS EXPERT Washington was determined by the Liverpool market. Leonard explained that the local price was generally governed by the Chicago market, which, in turn, was set by the Liverpool price. He said that sometimes Seattle paid more for the commodity than Portland, and then again these conditions were reversed, with Portland getting the higher figure. L. C. Gilman, assistant regional director of the railway administra- tion, in his cross-examination by O. B. Thorgrimson, attorney for the | port of Seattle, said that the con- sumer ultimately paid the freight rates, but that the purchaser paid them upon the shipment, Rate Not Unfair H. E. Lounsbury, Oregon-Wash- ington Railway & Navigation gen- eral freight agent, and representing the railroads involved in the rate controversy, presented evidence on the history of freight rates on grain, showing that the claim was unsound that a 13%-cent rate is reasonable to Puget sound and excessive to Port- land. Lounsbury said that the shipments of wheat from inland ports were di- vided about equally to the Eastern and Western coasts, He said this ‘was due to the inability of the West coast to supply sufficient ships. Owing to the great amount of work ahead of the investigation, it was decided to open both the morn- ing and afternoon hearings earlier. The hearings probably will close Sat- urday, WIFE OF CLERGYMAN DID “SHIMMIE,” PLAINT OAKLAND, Cal., Aug. 2.—Alleg- ing that his wife danced the “shim- mie,” Rev, Joseph N. Callender is seeking a decree of divorce. He told Superior Judge St. Sure that his wife shocked him by her indulgence in what he termed an “insidious and wicked thing that sways its victims from the paths of righteousness.” Archie Williams, cafe dancer, corro- borated his testimony and gave a demonstration from the stand. But the judge wants to find out for him- self, so he continued the case. EVERYBODY TO SING Community singing will be held Thursday night at the university campus, at Leschi park and at the City Hall park. The singing will last from 7 to 9:30 o'clock. skish | og ie me that it has non why Fatimas are first package will proves —a gain of 21 per clock-tick since 1917 ATIMA'S big gains are - mostly among men who like the Turkish tobacco taste but who tire of the over-rich- ness of too much Turkish, One ay of proving this isto Point to the fashionable clubs and hotels of the country, Until a year or so ago these Fatima contains East and W. leader—at fact, the largest ‘seller, more Turkish than pisces had little call for any ut straight Turkish cigarettes. Today at nearly all of them, est, Fatima is a many of them, in If you want {ust cnough Turkish, try Fatimas, any’ NEGROES START BITTER FIGHT New Battle Quelled by Army Men After Fight CHICAGO, July 31—(United Prees.)—The death list in Chica- 0's four days of rioting stood at 30 today—17 megroes snd 13 whites—following the death of Thomas Coppelan, 18, negre, this morning. The black belt, where most of arson and rioting has taken was calm today, patrolled militiamen and members nois National Guard. The troopers were sent if sltrrrtts ; bred titer &: i I 3 af z i l < E i i tH rik i i | ! i i i g é i H 1 Gocketed for