The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 2, 1919, Page 1

aap | 7 . | Tides in Seattle SATURDAY SUNDAY b AUGUST ¢ AvGUST § Pivst Low Tide Tide 10.8 ft Second High 99 “NO. 136. An American Paper That Fights for Americanism The Seattle Sta Mntered as Becond Class Matter May 8, 1 SEATTLE, WASH., SATURDAY, AUG JST 2, 1919. Williams, Purveyor of | Eau De Vie to Care-) Taxpayers, the. Patron | THE Such a High-Power Peddler that One) be Justified in Dub-| “THAT'S ATRKON. Gene Hatton, the Sarto- rial Sensation of Second that Stub Considered the Patron as the Sole Pro- — of a Long Head | led with Cultured | Gray Matter when it Came to Fictioneering. have « bird hammer's Minah Bird. if you walk weeriog @ that one It Seems that the Patron Hap- | down and pened Along in Time to See Stub jt’ Palen fe and a Choice Covey of Cronies in the Throes of a Debate on the Power of the Yellowhammer's Peck- ing Apparatus. | some of the Hawaii a Stub Was Going Good when the Patron Bulged into the Grape Juice Garage. ae FACT, IT 1S VIOLATING BF NO CONFIDENCE TO STATE : THAT STUB HAD HIS FRIENDS | FLooreD. : i STUB INSISTED AND ‘@ CONVINCINGLY — RELAT-! ® ED THE TALE OF A YEI LOWHAMMER THAT WA EMINENTLY ABLE TO MASTICATE ONE BARN RIGHT AFTER ANOTHER WHERE HE CAME FROM. STUB W. GOING Stub Why First Place. 1 ABOUT THE q GOOD WITH A GOOD és — - PATUS, Aug 4 “T Can Show You Whole ™!tte? the recommended Sides of Barns that Been Punctured by Have Yellow- German peace by a vote of 34 of « beantiful maiden. thinks Patron Into the Discussion in the STUB TRUANT ehaambe ratification | treaty late yesterday | id In the Classic Words of hammers,” Orated Stub. row RAIL SHOP MEN c= OUT ON STRIKE NOTHING,” | xomeip?” the Patron demanded. ow there in the Hawnile hs inen of the forest, let me state. } every partial to Panama hats, too. Why jong the name, Minah Birds will swoop swipe your sky-plece unleas to your eonk. It's @ fact that our forests reets DIDN The p to one. that Hor If the Patron was Looking for Atten- thon, He Got Exactly What bing Dog FIXING THE PATRON Hiss the pee 9 Do) WITH A FISHY EYE, STUB lichocephalous Dome. DROPPED HISTORIC sige WORD WHIC S$ COME Hurrying Around to DOWN TO US AS “SHOOT?” THE PATRON SHOT. Avenue, I Later Learned | wicee do you get this yetlowhammer “Why, telands we makes your yellow look like the soft caress I refer to the 1 is some feathered den. And he Honolala it's @ I-to-10 shot ‘They out there are filled with nests from Panama hats which once co most patrician polls If you don't believe—" T ¢ make bailt | “fhe Ananias Sweepstakes have just been run and you win by a country mile,” in- terrupted the Defeated Stub. And then the Patron Waltzed out without pay- ing for his Root Beer. ARE NICKEL, of But He Hates to Play Sec- ond Fiddle when it Comes to Feats of Athletic Birds. of deputies the = S = el i? 2) i | duction in the cost of living. | clared the delay entailed by this plan | | might mean a strike, | Balking at’ High Food Recommendations for Re- duction in Living Cost Will Come Soon | PRESIDENT TAKES HAND wig BULLETIN WASHINGTON, Aug. 2.—Sale of surplus army food to the con- begin August 18, the war de partment division of sales an- nounced today. (United Press)—With the cost of living problem holding the Interest of the nation almost ¢x- clusively today, both congress “and the executive arm of the government were seeking a solu. — thon, | The developments were: | Henda of three of the great rail | way brotherhoods condemned the plan of putting up to congress their demands for increased wages or re All de- | Attorney General Palmer and a committee of high government of. fictals were drawing up a program which will probably form the basi# for recommendations which the | President has promised within a fort. | | night. | “Attention of the senate hae been | fwitched from the treaty, and the house, which planned a recess, will stay in session while leaders are working out plans for adjustment of wages in relation to living coats. Misa Jessie BR. Haver, tegisiative agent of the National Consumers’ league, demanded that the packers release food in storage. George P. Hampton, director of the Farmers’ National council, advo. cated passage of the Kenyon bill to regulate the packers. Meanwhile demands of the rullroad | employes, which hold the prospect | of a possible rate increase, again | stimulated talk of government own ership of rallroads, which congres- sional leaders believed a dead issue ' | Union Official Says Walk- | out to Affect 100,000) CHICAGO, Aug, 2.—(United Press.) | That every railroad system in the country will be affected tonight by the strike of shopmen, which was Hed yesterday, was the prediction today of John D, Saunders. tary of the council directing the Chi cago strike Twenty-five thousand were ed out in the Chicago district. Union | officials said the strike will affect 100,000 over the nation. ‘The men nded a wage of 85 centa an| an increase of 17 cents over schedule, A 60 cents wa report: | hour, thi minimum ¢ uffect chinists, ins blacksmiths and sheet-me present Those J are car repr tors Rallway officials denied the men have struck on their roads, They | admitted, however, a general strike would seriou traffic The roads affected, union officials said, were the Pennsylvania, the Chi cago, Burlington & Quincy, Lake Shore & Michigan Southern, Chicago Western, Ilinois Central. orthwestern, Wheeling Erie and Chicago Belt Line LANTA Aug. 2.—(United Press.)—Altho instructed by national officers to postpone thelr scheduled kout, union leaders declared to that the railroad shopmen at thruout the southeast would rem in effect “until substantial pr d been made toward set tlement” of their grievances. Retween 25,000 and 30,000 men were out in the 13 Southeastern tem, it was stated by union he today ore a man doesn't know the [less he doubts. | nner isideiempesesnunesinemsnsunesteunensterenersesbnsnisinbiinsapemthananthetinnsnaning At the Postorfics at Meattie, Wash,, under the Act of Congress March *79 NAL=-LATEST=EDITION IN SEATTLE Per Year, by Mati 55.00 to 39.03 i ! Weather Forecast: Tonizh* a: x nday CAPES HOLDS UP SEATTLE STORE; OVERLOOKS $10,000 CAS A lone bandit failed in a daring daylight attempt to obtain $10,000 in cash at 11:45 \of him, had been taken to the Miksehen © pie 8 | The bandit did not see thi clothing store, on Pier 2, foot of Yesler way. dark complexioned. After ha tily leaving the store, he escaped. /PROTESTS POUR ~ “INTO CAPITOL! High Cost of Living Occu- pies Center of Stage | WASHINGTON, rd (United Press.—With nationwide protests against the high cost of living pouring into the capitol, } | interest president's statement that he ex pected “recommendations to be with bviously nervous, the young man walked into the store waving a revolver. forced the four clerks to lie down in the rear of the store. Several customers, evidently ; | frightened, made no attempt to halt the robber. sumers thru the pareet post will and scooped out $192.75. The $10,000 which he was evidently seeking, and which was on the counter back store to be used in cashing shipyard workers’ pay checks. money. He was about five feet four inches in height and Aug centered today in the Twelve years ago, the first , market for 1 1 years. He has watch- Can’t Bar.Japs, City Inspector | of Market Says (DEMANDS FOOD } | Saturday morning, but he managed to escape with $192.75 snatched from the Pearce e The bandit opened the cash register BE RELEASED Urges Huge Store of Sup-| plies Be Placed on Sale BY RAYMOND CLAPPER '(United Press Staff Correspondent) WASHINGTON mands that the packers immediately release millions of pounds of food stuffs to bring down the high cost Aug. 2 De be a of living, were ma today by the ae Deane assis 1 these | “Public Rinthet In Genttlo was jed the srowth of ee Se National Consumers cue, thru ” re er j Lg he gradua n a o Miss Jessie R. Haver, legis recommendations would originate! opened. Not a single Japancee | they have established complete con-| agent i ser & commission consisting of Ws in evidence. trol of truck garden products. Such | “These stocks have been officta'ly Federal Trade Commiasioner Colver, | {1 Director Hines and Assia | market has more than 100 Jap. because the Japanese raises garden Bec y ©. y . ruck oun retary of the ‘Treasury Leffing:| anese proprietors and THEY | truck th ar round well, who have been appointed to a “ Helpless to'Stop It whip into shape recommendstions by| ENJOY A ROCK-RIBBED MO- : 7 cabinet officers and other high of-| NOPOLY ON TRUCK GARDEN The control of truck garden prod | ucts by Japanese ix a condition we —_ het PRODUCTS. are helpless to vitiate,” arket Mas. They expect to complete thelr! rheoretically, the Japaness.propri-|ter Winship told The Star Thurs task Monday, and on Tucsiay Ob bain’ a’ there to. undérsell Goenmile- | Qny inet members: and others: who: met | ton Row, but does he do it? heoretically, the public with Attorney General Palmer, will auuagt tb yg ol pp Boe forbes in authority for the xtatement that |man‘s profit—to bring the psoas hed a the Japanese truck garden product | and consumer together A variety of suggestions for fed. | Proprietor not only does not under: | ducer and constmer eral action have been advanced—re. | %¢! Commiasion Row, but, on the gether, all right, but duction of money in cireulation, con-|°Dtrary, his prices are a trifle| price seems to maintain a traction of credit. cheaper wheat,| Sher than those which obtain in| higher level than th Hoenaing of dealers and limitation of | 8Tocery stores thruout the city American groceries and truck garden profits. Rm ga to Market by ceetay PS : alla. hashes should be [ do not ~ » variéus government en-| tip, the Japanése control 60 per | know, excep PA og beep Riri io Basig igh pels cent of the 200-odd stalls at the Pike|anese truck garden have been brought to a focus by de-| Place public market b.en inoculated by the mands of the railroad men, the presi heir monopély of the truck gar- | microbe. dent bax had wholesale complaints {4M products ts unquestioned “There are, on an from other sources. Both the preai.| For the right to sell truck garden | stalls and. tables in ,the dent and Hines have shown they | Products, the Japanese pays the city | ket on w days, and the sum of 10 cents a table a day like an average of 300 on Saturdays consider the railroad and ing problem as one que: Ask International Food Buying Agent) ”’ "*?"""* LONDON board of supervisors to the ite members to exert every effort in the campaign to lower liv The resolution declares t s ‘ 4 ent prices make it impossible for a P. B: F P Ss d art prices make 1 impowve for] Part in Big Free Pageant’ Sunday . family proper! One thousand girl . geant, "Seattle, Seaport of Succe at Den ERZ0G GOES TO CUBS of Washington gampy ; at,7 p.m. Sunday CHICAGO, Aug Charley Her Admigalosrin tres. "Ths production "la veteran infielder now with the War Gath Conistanity Rvied on » Brave haw heen: traded: ‘to. Denny Field is ext ached by entering th the Chicago Cubs, it was announced und 2008 vee ®. Ie toms Lealle Mann, outfielder ‘ Take a Cowen Park, Roosevelt Park: or Brave Herzog will report here 3 congressional deleg Today, the Pike Place public monopoly But Market Master John Winship | In other words, the » of $2.50 a month for the of competing with Amert. firms elsewhere which The panese pay the market ean grocery not know City Treats "Em Fine Aug. 2.—(United Press.) | gestions.” Califor urging possible in charge of the Pike Place public ! lege tion Japanese half of the stalls and ta products that they undér thé a hazard that the Jap. ny Field 6 campy Wullingford car is enjoyed the year round, was designed to eliminate the middle producer pro re brought to Th somehow t maintain proprietor own or profiteer average public something ontrol The purchasing and control of| The only control which Market ‘. ia food supplies by an international | Master Winship is enabled te er agency as a means of preventing | Cl#e over thé Japanese at the public further price advances in all parts | Market is to compel the sale of fresh of the world, has been practically n truck | agreed upon te pending assur » small of 10 cents a day operate in the movement. proprietor is for the purpose of meet Proposals with thia end in. view |ing the expense of maintaining thé} were receiving further consideration | Market master's office beitoG6,” Aus.’ dcccmied from the supreme economic counell,| Not only does the Japanese proprie: | which declared that increases in coat | tor at the public market enjoy a| Pr es s)—Seventy-five houses, in the past 30 days had been unjusti. | neeli¢ overhead expense, but he most of the homes of Mexi- | fied. »lution of the p n would | does not even have to pay for the cans, i other for- be accomplished by a revival of the | Temoval of debria he leaves behind eigners employed at the stock international organization which ex-| him at the end of each day's busi-| yards, were destroy isted during the war ness here today, which ra ‘The City of Seattle foots the bill,| hours before fir : thru its garbage system it under control. Los Angeles Joins Moe Tuiatas, pedoriles anioeaan th Whe Houale Were: of the chéapie i unassailable —monoy pays 10| grade, built of wood, and were quick Campaign on H. c. L. cents a day for the privilege and} ly consumed. Police declared five LOS ANGELES, Aug. 2.—Lo# An) the City of Seattle pays the bill for | negroes were résponsible for geles county made its first move in} cleaning up after his work for the | ti They were seen running away the battle against high prices today: | gay in done! from the neighborhood soon after the A resolution was forwarded by the Market Master Winship has been | fire alarm was sounded, it was 1,000 Girls, 500 Men Ready to Take and.500 men will take part in the elaborate Uniyersity Luspices of the 45th st and th ave market slightly a by mar one s thruout but it is in truck garden domina what can be done edy the situation I do to rem I am open to sug | Ge immediately “The patriotic government war,” said they wish t they packers service ! jorge F that the Kenyon the packers, should be passed with Miss © show will turn loose largest National 1,000 farmers claim in years. Counet thru it: Hampton, de bi they did n supplying meat during Have But true jotism huge meat they are holding. “Control of the dustry Kenyon bill as may be hearings, is sure for the cost of living. Hampton, m in th packing thru i to reg n, stores of n with such modifications found a very necessary at th important mes reduction of the hig sumers as well as the producers.” A h It will help the con The farmers, he declared, would save from $80,000,000 to $100,000,000 a year alone thru adoption of the bill FRENCH TROOPS REPORTED SLAIN Revolutionary Outbreak in Strassburg Is Announced BERLIN, (Delayed. stratic have Several diers were w St Rhine, is Fr tered there sace sburg, the neh troops have been quar the Aug. 1 Revol rej 'rench re capil orted killed in the disorders n thrown into the river. artial law was threatened today two miles west of the (United Press utionary ported demor today curred in Strassburg ry officers andy so to have bee and some ¢ tal of Tower A armistice AMERICAN LEAGUE At Philadelphia St. Louis Philadelphia The batteric ied; Rogers and Perkins (First game) At Boston. R. H, B Chicag ARMED Boston 5 11 0 The batteries—Ctootte and Schalk; | Musser Russell ) n i n ot R. H. B 10 Sotheron and Serer und Schang NATIONAL LEAGUE (14 innings) At Chicago. R. H. B Iphia Po 4 Ago Tae batteries—-Smith, Meadows '& essor, Adams; Alexander and Killifer At Pittsburgh rR. HW. B Boston 2 5 Pittsburgh “i Sh The batteries--Fillingtm, | Mayer and Gowdy Cooper and Blackwell, Japanese | Get Meat | Business | Crowd White Man Also in | Raising Hogs in King i County | HELPED BY CHEAP LABOR | “If we attempt to compete with the Japs, we must smash our American ideals, tear down the American standard of living and live like the Japanese, and accept their working conditions to 18 hours @ day. “As it is, we are slowly bat surely being forced out of busi- ness. It is a question of living. If we do not take immediate and drastic action, we might as well move to the other side of the Cascades and give the Pacific coast to the Japs.” i So declared I. W. Ringer manager a of the Pacific Meat @ou SOF Virst a Jave., an dmanager of the company’s) | hog ranch. | The Japs are pushing the white | man out of the meat business as well | as out of other lines of business, he asserts. “There is usually Jap kitchen help in the restaurants.” says Ringer. “If a Jap contracts for the refuse i | for hog food, they help him at every | turn, But if a white man has the contract, they put him to every in- @f convenience imaginable. They mix the refuse so that it is unfit for hogs; they dog the white at every | turn “Five years ago it was said that the Japs were getting the skim milk of life, and we were getting the J jcream. That can't be said now, if Look at their banks, their automo- if s and their magnificent resi dences, which are springing up im jf our best residence districts. It seems 1 to me that the Japs are tting the cream nowadays. Either t or 4 there is something wrong with the separator.” The main issue in Ringer's griev | ance was the tre 2ent of meat men by the restaurant proprietors. If a jf Japanese offers a few dollars more a |} month than a white man, his offer is immediately snapped up HUNGARY ‘RED’ CABINET QUITS Bela Kun, Soviet Chief, and | Aides Fall With Government VIENNA, Aug. 1.—(Delayed.) (United Press.\—Hungary’s so viet governmental experiment ended today, according to re- ports from Budapest, when Bela Kun and the entire “Red” cab- inet resigned. The conference which move fol- of several the com- ared the captiula- Bolshevik govern- ly means of | ngary, due to the re cent military defeats. 4 1 i A social-democratic coalition gov | H lowed a of the was the ernment is being formed, under the leadership of Julius Peidl, who will be premier. The Hungarians have de cided to ¢ » up the soviet system ording to the repor The and democrats ate tempted a government in Hungary diately following the overthrow for good, a socialists Hapsburg ime. The two parties are equally represented in the { Karolyi cabinet until they resigned as a protest against the allied arms istice terms. The socialist<lemocratic party is the strongest in Hungary, and fas | vors a constitutional republic form of government. It has advocated compliance with the demands of the ilies, in order to make peace ag soon as possible COPENHAGEN, Aug (United Trade unionists h list government, with Julius 1 as premier, in succession to Kun’s government, which has according to unofficial ad+ today issue Press.) ve formed Bela resigned | vices from Budapest cabinet The new a proctas tion stating its main objects were negotiation with the and the | maintenance of order [Julius Peidl \ allies