The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 8, 1919, Page 13

Section Two * ¥ x ‘ * TION-WID UPT POLITICS MINATES CITY BY E. C. RODGERS :- E, A. Staff Correspondent. | MEMPHIS, Tenn., Aug. 8.—This is the town where by've sent an editor to jail for daring to say, “Right will imately triumph in Memphis.” This is the town where the boss system of municipal rnment still prevails, and where the political boss rules h an irén hand; where most of the public officials serve boss—not the public. No American city is as boss-ridden as is Memphis to-| y. And what Memphis is today she has been for years ¥ ¥ | Ed Crump, notorious among American political bosses, | Sovereign supreme in Memphis. Not only in Memphis, | in all western Tennessee, and by alliances, thruout all! state. He is as powerful in the state capital as he is) the municipal building here in Memphis. } — in a nutshell, is why Editor Edward T. Leech | ba } | Before a Press Editor ‘as Put in Jail by Crump Gang | A former editor of the Press was sent to jail because! Press exposed the corruption of the Crump gang. “They d keep him in a cell for a day only, but Crump proved power in Memphis, and naturally enough expected other s would fear him the more. For let me tell you, the Memphis jail is the worst hole the world in which to spend a summer day. And Editor ch has to spend TEN days and nights there because was fearless enough to tell the people of Memphis the — political oar ag in their city. ears ago Ed Crunip came up here from Holly Springs, Ss. He could handle other people's votes, vest aly at ip vari He early acquired leaders! in the ninant democratic party, and eight years ago became city Since then Memphis has been torn into two factions: Crump and anti-Crump factions. Generally Crump Seems when he was beaten at the polls he found of winning over public officials after they were { ; 1 an avowed anti-Crump lawyer, | appointed chancellor of the chancery court of this| iby) county. He was named by Governor Rye, an anti- imp man, indorsed by the Memphis anti-Crump faction. | In 1918 a Crump legal case came up in his court. The e election board had ordered the removal of a Memphi ption official. This official was a Crump man. An anti-| imp man had been appointed in his place. Crump’s election official refused to get out. On the) of the i he came into Judge Peres’ court and d for an injunction restraining the state board from ting him. And this injunction Judge Peres granted. itor Makes a Shoe for a Judge— d Judge Peres Puts It On! Next day it happened that the Memphis Press printed seevial in which it denounced politions Poca? nig in- is: ven courts have been brought into disrepute and have abandoned the principles of loyalty and in- rity, have made a farce of the laws they swore to en- have dragged their courts in the mire, have turned! s to their friends and supporters; “and enemies to! Principles they professed because the politicians have their hands on them and forced them to do their lin This was a “shoe” especially made by this fearless ed : it it would FIT. ee And some of Judge Peres’ friends jumped at the conclusion that ht fit HIM. And Judge Peres pulled Editor Leech into his court contempt charge. Judge Peres was a candidate for reelection. The election official! in office over the state board's protest was one of those who eee oe Judge's own election a few days later. ludge Peres and his friends thought the editor was hitti t hi he wrote that editorial. eee Tea) [Editor Leech, in court and out, has insisted he was strikin 7 i at political sonditions here in Memphis. Just two years before wrote this editorial Judge Jess Edgington of the criminal court helby county was removed following a state-wide scandal centering in county courts. 's and Officials Wink at ‘orious Law Violations ‘or years the courts. and other law-enforcing officials of this county city stood by and blinked at the most notorious law violations ever d in any Amercian city Or years, under state-wide prohibition, this city had o: inaloon keepers had to sell a certain brand of whiske, distitied by «| of Ed Crump, or they had to stop violating the law. There wna drunkenness, more debauchery, more vice in Memphia than in Other city of its size. Ed Crump’s henchmen ran roadhouses » vice dens, gambling resorts, without hindrance. An inspector of e confessed on the witness stand that he had collected thousands ollars of “slush” money, which he swore he had turned over to| ump, The inspector was ousted, and Ed Crump, who then was Or, resigned just before ouster proceedings hit him. To show his on elections here, he came back as a candidate for county trustee job paying $35,000 a year, and was elected j lemphis for years has reveled hased by wholesale, negroes ware voted in squads by the box force was merely the right arm of the gang, and courts, leriminal, spoke for the boss and took orders from him alone. Wor striking at this vile condition, Editor Leech of the gained the enmity of the boss and ail his gang : in corrupt elections, Votes were} the elvil Memphis | Bolsheviki U-Boat Sunk in North Sea LONDON, Aug. &.—The boats Vancouver and Valorous hav e} sunk spaper Woman Back From France inging news of Belgium’s rapid peration from the effects of war Norma E. Abram, Seattle new woman and official Red Cross lan, returned to Seattle ¥ night after an absence of pnths. igium is recovering from her eondition with astonishing ity,” she says torpedo a Bolshevik submarine in the tle sea, the admiraity announced toda /ECONOMIST TALKS AT | CHAMBER LUNCHEON) Dr, Edward T. AWARE CAPITALIST Devine, economist, of New York, spoke before the Fri-| AND POLITICIAN DIES |, luncheon of the Chamber of | YORK, Aug. %—Jobn 1/|Commerce and Commercial ub| ks, three times a candidate| Members’ council. H, H. Hiirayama| he senate and a powerful gas|of Tokio wpoke on his experiences ite of Delaware, died Thurs-|in the Czccho-Slovak republic as a night from heart disease, Japanese Y. M. C. A, man, : SEATTLE, WASH., FRIDAY, AUGUST 8, 1919. ~~. ‘THE SEARCHLIGHT O F ¥. N TRUTH _ ae: | | ton,” =f TURN OFF BA THAT LIGHT! Be Sure to Call Elliott 1570 ond Hire Ex-Service Man ‘Next Time 35,000 YANKEES DISCHARGED Altho the problem of the return; being turned down when he asks| | ed soldier, sailor and marine §*| for a job that hurts the ex-service| Pretty well in hand, the question of | | 350,000 will Jin the biggest w | Broo! officially | } man. It's being turned down in ‘ place _ Y Proper placement of the @x-service | savor of a man or woman who is less deserving. ‘These men do not ox pect jobs to be made for them| where there are none, purely an a matter of sympathy, but to find that| jthey are being overlooked brings | jover them a feeling of disappoint ment.” | Have Office Here | ‘Thru the efforts of the clubs of Seattle, the Veterans’ Wel fare committee, ¥. M. C. A., Knights | of Columbus, War Camp Community | Service, Red Cross and the Amer |ican Legion, a consolidated employ | ment bureau for returning soldiers, ' man continues to call for the pa triotic, unselfish and loyal support ot employers and individuals of Seat. tle and the Northwest until every man discharged from the military and naval forces of the United States has been located in a satis factory position ‘These are the words of representa. tives of the office of Capt. Edwin C. Wemple, western district director for Col. Arthur Woods, special as sistant to the secretary of war, in talking of the soldier employment situation in Seattle. According to war department figures, during the months of June and July approximately 800,000 men were demobilized, leaving about 650. 900 still in the army, including those at home and those yet overseas. Dur ing the month of August close to be discharged. This means that approximately 10,000 men per day during the present month will be dependent upon the employ ers of the country for jobs They Want Jobs ‘These men have had enough of army life and are anxious to get into civilinn clothes and settle down | to peace-time ambitions. They are thru. picking Germans off the Rhine. They have discarded their khakis. They have shaken off the dust of warfare; have done their work well and now want to forget it all and take up their work in t business world “The public must realize that the soldier has seen things, has doné things and has been thru a portion of life that has strengthened him in many ways,” says Byron P. Spry representing Capt. Wemple here. “He has been placed in positions where he was compelled to exercise t highest degree of initiative his power and is not content in some down to old ambitions and to make It is not to his desire a job which nd intelligence, He 8 instances routine. has and a desire discredit that } ability of returned soldier first consideration requires is worthy “The given should be It isn’t klyn Transit Lines Are Tied Up NEW The Brook n Rapid company again attempted ume this another night of from YORK, Aug ‘Transit to res following service morning complete paralysis the strike of union employe Officials admitted early today that service on the surface, elevated and bway en more meagre than ye when le than 20 per cars and trains were in operation Mayor Hylan sought to force Lind ley M. Garrison, receiver, to submit to arbitration. The former secre tary of wat, however, said he would resign first. resulting lines was ev morning. the terday cent ¢ He feels | good | various SPEEDERS' CARS| ‘ARE HELD AT JAIL Heavy Fines Collected and| Autos Seized | Two speeders drew down heavy | |fines from Judge Gordon in police |court Thursday, and their machines| | will be held by the police for the |next 20 days. Edward Haugman, 18, arrested by Patrolman B, W. Morris August 5 while speeding 60 miles per hour on | his motorcycle in Ballard, was fined | $75, and the judge ordered his motor. held for 20 days, Hausman paid his fine Leslie Pakhurst. worker, who was arrested |m, Thursday by Motorcycle man A. J. Hill while “doing” 48 miles | per hour on Stone way, was send !direct to court, where he was fined $60 and given the alternative of ving the 30 days himself or letting his machine do it. Parkhurst ¢ 1p his machine, cycle a shipyard at 8 p Patrol |Wenatchee Orchard | Sells $3,000 an Acre | WENATCHEE, Aug. 8—Eleven| | thousand dollars was the A V. Huff paid L. W. Smith for three acres of orchard land Thursday, The crop on the land this year ts ¢ pected to be worth $3,000, This in| the highest price ever pald for orch ard land here, averaging $3.6 re price ac Report Garrison | at Posen Breaks| BERLIN, Aug (Delayed.)—Po- lice and troops stationed at Posen, | Prussia, mutinied today and attacked | several officers, said a dispatch to} the Vorwaerts. A number of the offl- cers were wounded. | scheduled to go up sailors and marines has ¢been ex tablished at Roam 3, Central build ing. Their telephene is Elliott 1570. This concentrated bureau is looked to by the ex-serviee men for em ployment—for help. The people of Seattle did not hesitate to contribute to this bureau financially, but their continued patriotiem and co-opera tion is needed for the successful placement of returned men. Jobs | should be reported to this bureau to be filled with the jobless soldier, The word “jobless soldier” covers a large territocy. It does not only mean a laborer or a flunky, It means the technical man, the office manager, the accountant, engineer and every class of position in the walk of fe. ACTORS STRIKE: THEATRES DARK First Walkout in History Closes N. Y. Playhouses NEW YORK, Aug. &—The first strike of legitimate actors in history AS a re- 28 big theatres were was under way here today sult, 12 of the closed. Tho strike was called by the Actors’ | Equity association, following refusal of the Producing Managers’ assc tion to recognize the union. In addi tion to the union de manded recognition, engagements of two weeks two weeks’ notice of dis- missal; limited number of perform- ances in a week, and limited number of free rehearsals More than 300 actors participated in the strike, which was called only a few minutes before the curtains were night Aud- thrill They were into Broadway, refunded, at an hour when that famous thorofaro is com paratively deserted. They wandered about t in dense throngs, turning jtuation into an im- Minimum jences got a new turned loose their money | promptu celebration The theatres closed were the Prin *, Shubert, Playhouse, 44th St wyric, Republic, Astor, Gaiety, Broad. hurst, Selwyn, Cohan & Harris and Knickerbocker In instances: attempted performances with chorus ris in principal role The aud- jences were treated to unintentional some other theatres comedy Francis Wilson, president of the Actors’ Equity association, is direct- ing the strike, EH, H. Sothern sought to bring about an amicable adjust ment of the situation at the strike meeting last night, but was hooted into silence. ‘The producers have they will fight the strike, announced with | The Seattle Star | OW BEING PL I ] | | | Army Plan Rapped by. H. Johnson He Says Universal Military Training Idea Is “Peace Conscription” COST BILLION DOLLARS BY RAYMOND CLAPPER United Press Staff Correspondent | WASHINGTON, Aug. 8.—The war department's plan for universal mil! tary training fs “peace conscrip, Senator Hiram Johnson, Cali fornia, declared today in comment: | ing on the proposal as outlined by Chief of Staff March to the senate military affairs sub-committee The war department believes a/ new military policy should be adopt: | ed “which will not find the country again in the state of unpreparedness we had at the outbreak of the war,” Chief of Staff March told the senate | committee Military officials are divided be-| tween compulsory service arid uni-| versal training, March sald. Secretary Baker now favors unt versal training, Senator New, Indi ana, said, while Gen. March was tex tifying. Gen. Pershing, Gen. Leonard Wood and other advocates of universal training will eventually be called be fore the committee | Universal training, March said. would cost $94,066,500, while the} standing army on the basis of pres | ent pay would cost $79,660,000 a) year | Johnson said the program would | wt one billion dollars when in op-| eration, each year. “Peace conscription at a cost of | one billion dollars a year ts the price | we are to pay for the league of na-| tions,” Johnson said, “Does univer. | sal peace bring with it universal | military training? I cannot see why when we are facing an era of unt | vernal peace we should have arvermy | many times larger than we ever had | before.” } March, who was called before the | committees again today, said the gen-| eral staff plan could be abandoned | “if we want to go back to the sys | tom of defenselessness we had at the | | beginning of the war.” | He explained that the actual au- thorized strength of the peace army | under the war departm@t plan, | would be 576,000 men, besidd 600,000 | to 800,000 youths available under the } | mit@ary training provision, Senator Thomas, Colorado, said to | day that if the war department esti mates for clothing and feeding soldiers were to hold good, the cost | of living would have to be consider: | ably reduced. | Senators New and Chamberlain be lieve that preparedness is essential land that in addition to the physical benefits of three months rigid war schooling for every youth, the na | tion will benefit in an economy way. | \Taken as Train | Robber Suspect SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 8.—Tat- | too marks on the left arm Charles Bacigalup! caused him to| be held in the county jail today awaiting arrival of authorities from Bellingham, Wash. | They will take him north for} trial on charge of robbing a Great} | Northern train near there in June Bacigalup! was arrested recently Jand the tattoo mark noted. Simt- larity of the design to the one| listed in a circular sent out of Bellingham resulted in “his arrest. } The prisoner denies taking any | part in the robbery. | JOHN D. RECALLS | CHEAPER SHAVES; BEATS THE BARBER SYRACUSE, N. Y., Aug. 8 John D. Rockefeller had no ob: Jections today to paying 20 cents for a shave | But paying that much for a |} shave caused him to ruminate on the good old days when shaves were only 6 cents. | He told Ch Messenger the barber who shaved him, |] that he could remember the day | when he could have his week's removed for no more || than 6 cents. He confided to the || tonsorial artist that for many years he shaved himself |] growth MALCOLM DOUGLAS TO | RETURN TO CITY SOON; Capt. Malcolm Douglas, former | Seattle attorney, who served in nee since August 1, 1917, will re turn to Seattle Thursday, according | to a telegram received by friends | here, Douglas is the wearer of the | croix de guerre. He will resume | law practice in Seattle . | OSTEOPATHS MEET | The first session of the 19th an nual meeting of the Washington Os. teopathic association was opened at | the Frye hotel Friday morning at 10 o'clock. The meetings will end Saturday afternoon, | planeization | carrying. Pages 13 to 24 ae “GANG” GOVERNMENT RULES MEMPHIS E AIR TRAFFIC IS CROSS-CONTINENT MAIL LINES NEXT | Congress Urged to Make Air Laws ATLANTIC CITY, J, aeronautical convention here, traffic was urged Proposed regulations provide Aug. passing of federal 8.—At the second Pan-American laws governing alr That aircraft navigating between points less than 500 miles apart shall not go over th 5,000 and 10,000 feet feet Eight American mapped out. between and two Special to The Star oN, D, C, Aug. & Giant airplanes that will rueh United States mails from N by Otto Praeger, head of the U. 8. airmail system, who said today “They'll go into operation within | Was signed. a year. That will clip three days and a half from the present schedule for mails between Atlanti¢ and Pa cific coast citiew. It will make the United States just one day and half wide where it now is nearly five. Canadian York to San|>rings new strides Francisco in 36 hours are planned #Viaton | 900 altitude level; from 500 to 1,000 miles, between points 1,000 miles apart, over 10,008 have been airways already BY J. H. DUCKWORTH N. E. A. Aviation i NEW YORK, Aug. 8.—Every day in commercial Development been startling since the armistios After thoroughly the situation, I predict many short air routes now in op eration or about to be started will quickly comes as easy part of the to get from one United States to ame It will be the first step in the air | Other by airplane as it is now te of the entire United States postal system. Within ten years the railroads will carry mails only on short runs of, say, 100 miles. travel, by trolley transfers, one part of a city to another. Many aerial transportation com- panies have been organized the last Airplane mail routes will touch every | few months and are now operating big city In the country. THREE TRANSCONT ROUT! PLANNED “We'll operate three continental NTAL big trans successfully. rail of air science has be linked up until it bew — from ¢ As in the case of the — roads more than three-quarters: lof a century ago, these air routes — ANNED | will in time be consolidated into big” routes, over which big| realize it, regular mailplanes will swing in squadrons) traffic will be a settled feature of transportation systems. carrying hundreds of tons of letters| American economic life. and packages “Feeder routes will connect cities on the Great Lakes with those on the Gulf of Mexico and the Mississ- | {ppl, Ohio and Missour! river valleys will be aerial highways “Rillions of dollars will be saved every year for American business. men.” | | | | | PAY-AS-YOU-ENTER AIRPLANES POSSIBLE Pay-as-you-enter be expected to appear country is spider's web with airways. When a man wants to somewhere quickly, he will go The United States now has the|‘? the nearest airdrome, buy only government airmail system in the world operating daily, Routes connect Washington, Philadelphia, New York, Cleveland and Chicago. Praeger began work with five bat- tered training planes donated by the war department Within a few weeks Praeger is to jump into the air a big fleet of| planes he designed especially for mail They're being built now. Each will carry from 1,800 to 2,000 pounds of mail in fireproof sacks at 100 miles an hour. AIRMAIL TO STIMULATE COMMERCIAL AVIATION Praeger thinks commercial ation in the United States will re- celve ment from the airplane mail sys tem The airmail system has already worked out, with the aid of scien | tific departments of the govern-| ment, special instruments possible flights in all weather and at night | “The wireless compass, by which | the NC-4 picked her way through | the fog to Ponta Del Gada, was first | worked out on postal planes,” said | Praeger. avi kinds of | the stimulus for its develop: | | | | | | permit | company Ucket, and step aboard a plane fi up something like this: holstered seats for ten. Room — for light baggage. window for each person dividual height and speed im dicators to add to the interest of _ the trip.” Adjustable ventilation et heating. Speed 100 miles an rr. The Vickers people of England are already putting out aircraft lik ger plane. Betore we commercial ale; airplanes may when the crisscrossed Hike a and is. RS Handley-Page is building a el ‘ The Curtiss Aeroplane & has bought 2,800 army planes for commercial use on air routes. They have also bough® six army fields. A regular now running between Los Angelem and Fresno, Cal. The Trans-Come Unental Aerial Transportation come making | P@?Y is now purchasing aircraft, s@ | that before the year is out the seria: | transportation of passengers prome ises to be as extensive as the routes and landing fields which tablishing thruout the country wilh “The bureau of standards now is| THIRTY-TWO CITIES ASK working out a system by which mail| MU planes, flying in a fog, automatically | come landing place. This prevents a or in a fog. The airmail service is encasing engines in asbestos to prevent fires | in flight. engine already hi by which aviators can fight flames while flying. NICIPAL AIRDROMES Thirty-two cities have already of | will get wireless signals when they | made application to the war depart within a half mile of their|ment to co-operate with them in ese tablishing municipal airdromes which | Possibilit’ of running past at night will be properly lighted, policed an@ which will contain hangars, accessore ies, parts, ete, The air mail service between New An air compresser fire | York and Chicago is only the fores been developed | runner of a regular passenger serve [ice between the two cities. The fact |that army fliers, mail fliers an@ Mail sacks now used in planes are) nassenger-carrying fliers can all use designed material which refuses to | scorch when dipped in gasoline and | lighted, One department is experimenting with planes which will take on mail in flight suspended high in the air) on steel towers ‘Driving airmail planes will the one big romantic job of Amer-| ica soon.” says Praeger. “I wish | {1 were younger, I'd try it myself.” re- | fire and waterproof through specially | the same aerial station will reduce costs, Basing their figures upon | work done in carrying passengers, {mail and express between London jand Paris, a large British concern is now submitting figures to the poste be | Office department for carrying aire mail from New York to Chicago, which they believe can be done at the same price as is now charged by the regular mail service. This |company has been carrying news SPLIT REPORT ON JITNEY BILL Moore Is for Its Erickson Voices Opposition } Final action on the proposed jit ney ordinance, regulating jitney traf. fic and schedules, will be settled by the city council at the next meeting Monday The public safety committee was unable to reach & unanimous deci sion on the proposed bill Counc! man William Hickman Moore favors | the ordinance, while Councilman Erickson is against it Superintendent Thomas F. Mur phine, of the public utilities depart ment, urges the adoption of the ordi nance. He says the fits operate par- allel to street car lines, taking a| daily revenue of $1,000 from the city in fares, | HER BADGE STOLEN FORT WORTH, Tex., Aug. &.— Ungallant thieves have stolen Mrs. Ollie Hargraves’ badge, She is city probation offices | papers from Manchester | every jby parachute, just as this company | hopes to deliver mail and express in | cities like Pittsburg, Cleveland, ete | Expect Clemenceau | of the truck. miles into Scotland, delivering newspapers morning. These are dropped without alighting. to Come to America PARIS, Aug. 8.-Premier Clemen- ceau probably will attend the meets ling of the league of nations to be |held in Washington this autumn, the Echo de Paris reported toda | TRUCK RUNS OVER BOY; FAILS TO STOP Leo Chain, 14, 1910 Main st, @ newsboy, suffered a broken leg early Thursday night when his bicycle slipped while he was being towed up Jackson st. by a Standard Of! Co, truck. He fell beneath the wheels The driver failed to stop, according to Patrolman G. W. Wilson, who investigated the ac cident. Chain was taken to the city hospital. Some girls consider a kiss a cheeky, thing. Motor Passenger service ip ‘ the 4 | municipalities and the army are eg investigating that the