The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 1, 1919, Page 13

| PRA PAIRS PPAR PRS APARNA AARP PRR PPS ME OFFICERS COMMANDING PACIFIC FLEET Ne amen iw °* ADMIRAL ©: S! WILLIAMS PACIFIC FLEET EQUAL TO JAPAN'S NAVY No Such Thing as_ |! . . . View of Scientist BY DR. JUA DON BALL {internationally famous criminolo- sist and neurologist, lecturing at the University of California.) There is no such thing as “war madness” in the sense that war of itself unbalances the previously normal mind. The strain of war, {ts shocks and unrestraints, however, un- doubtediy brings to the surface individual weaknesses hitherto Perhaps unsuspected and dormant. War—the overcoming of resist- ance by force—brings up the pre- dispositions of the abnormal man, but the inclination to acts of vio- lence must have existed before. The stress of battlefield or train- ing camp would only be the fina Push to topple an already unbal- anced mind. The four phases of compulsion Neurosis (irresistible impulse) are (1) clear consciousness or realiza. tion; (2) agonizing struggle; (3) fa- tal defeat, and (4) relief after the act. Homicidal impulse, in which the slayer recognizes the difference between right and wrong, is legal insanity, but the “criminal” can- Rot control his actions. Every state needs a psycho Pathic hospital for the treatment Of such cases. | | | } SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 1— “War madness!” It's the new crime defense that may take its Place beside the “unwritten law” in mitigation of murder. | The gruesome and curiously Parallel cases of Harry 8. New, | ar, who killed his sweetheart, } Lesser, in Los Angeles, and of Herman Knaesche, who shot his wife to death at Ukiah, | Gal, have focused the interest of | He naid he killed his sweetheart when | £ i ) of These F our “War Madness” Latest Defense of Crime War Strain Affects criminol and nearologists br og debatable factor in homi- Weak Minds, Says Noted Police Chief BY AUGUST VOLLMER (Noted criminologist and presigent of Police Chiefs’ Association j of United States) Both these men who confessedly | “killed the thing they loved" have seen military service. Both expressed great grief after | the slaying. | Beth are preparing to plead insan-| it7 at the forthcoming trials, with in dications that the stress of war on already weak minds will loom big/ in efforts to save them from the gal lows, Both floundered ta seeking to pre. sent a motive. Herman {‘naesche, of Ukiah, who deliberately Joaded a shotgun and killed his bride of two weeks when she expressed fear of the weapon, said in his confers'on that he had acted simply on an “irresistible im-| pulse,” much o« a cat might fee!) when pursuing a mouse. In Many Batiles Knaesche lad recently returned from Frange, where he had partici pated in a number of battles. New, claiming to be the son of Senator New of Indiana, and who confexsed to shooting Frieda Lesser, whom he expected to marry, during an auto ride in a canyon near Los Angeles, had also been in the acrvice Physical, nervous and mental stress occasioned by war, fro- quently brings to the surface criminal pre-dispoaition, espectally where the subject is tainted with hereditary tnsanity in its vartous forms. Such crimes follow war because of a great number of abnormal men subject to great strain The man of ftee thought and conduct suddenly subjected to iron discipline may suffer mental re- action of an unhealthy type if predisposition existed prior to the change in environment. Tho morally blameless, the law punishes the victim of compulsion neurosis. ‘To punish patients in hospitals for having typhoid fever would be as sensible. Such cases sharply emphasize the fact that while criminology has made rapid advances, crimin al procedure has been at a stand still for 150 years Bvidence in the Knaesche case thus far conclusively shows the confessed wifeslayer to be moral. ly blameless, yet legally guilty of murder. Until the law is altered, such men will go to the gallows instead of to institutions for men- she refused to accept impending motherhood. For hours he drove the body about the streets, finally deliv-| ering it himself to the police. ps wo canes big tasks ie" oy, Tnbcent but | | tal and nervous rehabilitation. sharp controversy among the coun- EE ECE try's notable neurologists on the sub-| iii) stirs the primal instincts and ject of “war madness.” has a decided tendency to bring final y of the New and Knaerche| disorganization to the mind already ex, torether with many other sim! | predieposed to Insanity homicides involving men wie wave 2 ed from batt'e, has thu : DARED ar. brought a aaeeaad of opinion RETAIL JEWELERS MEET to the effect that there is no “war 1 Washington Retail Jewelers’ madness” in the sense that battle ex woclation will hold their seventh perience unseats the normal mind. [annual convention on August 4 and But there ia general agreement!5 at the Washington hotel. An ex- that its shocks and the education to tensive program hag‘ been arranged. ADDL WM RS CHOONMARER. The Seattle: r a PLL LLL LLL LLL LLL LDP PPLE Dl ALMIRAL SS WOOD Pages 13 to 24 SEATTLE, WASH., FRIDAY, AUGUST 1, 1919. Establishment of New Armada Is Only } First Step in Assertion of United)” States’ Naval Power on Pacific; We Can Meet on Equal Terms Any Squadron That Can Be Assembled By F. M. Kerby and A. E. Geldhof WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 1.— |America’s Pacific coast is guarded as never \before. T- When the fleet, now coming up the||« coast, is assembled on the western ocean,| |Uncle Sam will have a Pacific armada equal | |to the entire Japanese navy. In some} jrespects it will be superior. This United States fleet can meet on} equal terms any other naval force that can be assembled in Pacific waters. When the vessels from various parts of the Atlantic, | and those already in Pacific ports, get together, Admiral Rodman will have 200 ships under his command. The entire Japanese navy numbers 207. Other comparisons of the two fleets follow: Pacific Fleet EIGHT dreadnaughts. EIGHT pre-dreadnaughts. (Making 16 battleships) FOUR battle cruisers ELEVEN cruisers. TWENTY-NINE cruisers | But at this point the tabulation loses effectiveness be-| cause of the differences in classification between the two} navies. The U. S. navy has no battle cruisers in commis-| sion, for instance, but the eleven cruisers are considered |superior in fighting power to the Japanese similarly classed. In addition Admiral Rodman’s fleet has a large number of “small cruisers’ and gunboats which are useful as scouts or patrol boats against weak or uncivilized states, but which are not counted as modern fighting vessels. But in destroyers the comparison is: Pacific Fleet Japanese Navy 108 (all new) 90 The figures are up-to-date, from the navy department and the Japanese embassy. The Pacific fleet’s tonnage is 535,000; the Jap navy's |780,000. | But the Pacific fleet is superior in hitting power, equal |in gun power and nearly equal in man power. | And in addition— | There’s our Asiatic squadron! That’s the fleet in the Philippines and around Guam and our other farther islands, Establishment of the Pacific fleet is only the beginning of the assertion of United States sea power in the Pacific. When congress in 1916 adopted the navy department’s “Three Year Building Program” it authorized a total addi- |tion to our navy of 156 vessels of all types, including 10 |battleships and six battle cruisers. Every one of these \ships is either now in commission or under construction. | The new three-year program (to be complete by 1928) | |vious program, including ten dreadnaughts and six battle- |vious program, including ten dread naughts and six battle- ‘eruisers. By 1923, therefore, the U. S. navy will include {61 first-line, heavy-gun vessels—dreadnaughts, pre-dread- naughts and battle cruisers—which will give about 30 of \these ships to the Pacific coast. The ultimate aim of the Japanese navy department is javowedly toward the eight-eight system; that is, elght bat- | tleships and eight battle cruisers to a squadron, and to have lin time at least three such squadrons. Up to the present One of the Giants of the Pacific Japanese Navy FIVE dreadnanghts. ee TWELVE pre-dreadnanghts. (Making 17 battleships) $17,000,000 More for Alaska R. R.’s WASHINGTON, Aug. 1.—The bill providing for the appropriation of $17,000,000 for the completion of the work on the Alaskan railway was |reported favorably by a unanimous PRIEST SEEKS HIS FREEDOM Applies for Haveas Corpus Hearing Friday PLAN LECTURES AT UNIVERSITY, (Rabbi Koch and Dr. Gowen to Speak Rabbi Koch will lecture Monday, vote of the house committee on ter-| ritories Thursday. The appropriation | was made t e 0 eo ©: stion | y. Francis Hrachavsky, of St ause of the exhaustion | of the origi * ‘ r al appropriation of $35,- a ps time, however, the state of Japanese finances has permitted | Cyril's Catholic church, of Minneap-| 999 990 and prey : ja prinatiad ha August is 8 P. m. in so a8 only an eight-four system, but the program put forward | olis, is seeking his release from the | work by December $1, 1920. | Washi me he he New Jewial beas corpus for this year alters the plan to eight battleships and six city jail, A writ of ha |bgttle cruisers by 1928. Thus Japan will aim to have 14 was issued to Attorney Walter Metz Bible Translatiorf.” Dr. H, H. Gowen, expert on China Cat Carr thao | first-line ships in 1923, while our Pacific fleet will have at|enbaum, attorney for the priest, and and Chine history, will lecture r F s' Sadine Cs : . Wednesday evening, August 6, im \least 20 superdreadnaughts and battle cruisers in that year. |!# Teturnable before Judge Calvin 8, to Head Riflemen Denny hall, on “The Relations (a Hall Friday afternoon1 Hrachov- sky was arrested on July 25 by city At the same time both the Atlantic and Pacific fleets will Capt. George W. Carr, of Seattle, be rounded out with the proper proportion of scout cruisers (of which ten were authorized in 1916 and a similar num- ber will be built before 1923), of destroyers, in which branch the American navy leads the world, and of submarines and auxiliary craft of all kinds. | During the next six years Japan only proposes to build |two new battle crui three cruisers’ of medium type, . he rf China and the United States, Past the bint lected to take charge of | History, Present Policies and Future detectives in his room at the New| ‘he Mfle team of the Washington | Outlook.” Both the lectures by National ard, to represent the | Richmond hotel, on wire advices} state at the National Rifle associa. |**?>! Kock and Dr. Gowen are free from the Minneapolis sheriff. | tion target m N. | EER: R. §. Jones, Minneapolis attorney, |J. August 2 Beat ONE-LEGGED RUNNER IS THIRD IN SPEED G. Rogers, of Seattle, who arrived in Seattle Thursday to | named an alternate that help clear Hrachoveky, declare ‘ ; the specific charge against the priest aes ee LONDON Aug. 1—A_ onelegs jeleven large destroye sixteen medium destroyers, forty-| PELbAr iissdha Acad deairent. was LODGE TO PICNIC preg {itor finished third in & eight submarines and six special service boats—eighty ships] corn to by one of his parishioners, | ye 2hhu*! feunion and plente of between 15 wounded soldiers in all, In the next three years alone, the United States charging that $450 was intrusted to i woasae Paget ad eae RM a ia “ cote p< will build 156 vessels and complete a large number now un-!,,,, priest, and that a proper account-|2. A program of sports and a band| hands and the one leg for the reat d tructir 1 c ler cons’ on, fs « ak ph dia bs ing was not made. concert are planned. of the journey.