The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 14, 1919, Page 1

ITH a flivver and a pup tent, this is the U. S. A.--no country like it; and once upon a time, milk was 5 cents a quart and butter 16 cents a pound! The city spends heaps for street cleaning, but no one cans that lit- tle old can. T was a dusty motorcycle with a side car, It had & California license, a heap of bedding, a pup tent. @ dish pan and a amp stove, along with its pair of tourists, “How are the roads down _flouth?” we asked the dusty young Man on the driver's saddle “Oh, so, 80." “Awful rutty and dusty Sometimes not any road at al Offered the girl in the side car It developed that the couple had eft their home in Oakland packed the outfit on the faithful Motor and treked thru California And Oregon, by way of Crater lake, and thence up the “high Way” to Seattle. Those who have driven this trip In big comfortable cars, and have been bounced and jarred and “Jumbled into incoherency, wil! Appreciate the nerve and endur- J ance this small woman possesses ) to endure the trip in a side car Man and wife, he a skilled typical Americans; tired the old job and scenes and Ko to try Seattle for a while “Guess a skilled man can get “We are hunting an apartment ‘Of two or three rooms,” said the wife. “We had @ nice one in Oakland for $18 a month, but We suppose we will have to pay more here,” remarked that they prob ably would pay about $40 & month if they found one anywhere that did not have the §. RO. sign out ft. ; al itd; ; agty Uy ra u bay iG is iy fue IP. S.—It Is costing a lot more year, and the department is ing $30,000 a month behind its payroll. UST before the first of T the shop girl brigade starts to besiege the city each week day, another line of skirmishers charges from flat and apartment ind housekeeping room. It is the breakfast milk bottle Sleepyeyed men with slippers wr ad galluses small children m somen wan and sliattern; an army [Ait ill-tempered folks, who dash out f their various pens and nooks ina corners and seize a pint bot- Seldom do you see more than a pint botiin being carried, and the If pint bottle is becoming quite f popular. In time they will sell milk by the spoonful and city folks will uxe it for a gargle. Do you remember when ‘a‘boy in the home town? Milk was 5 cents a quart the neighbor's boy night, fresh from t Jersey that pastured lots adjacent Brought in two quarts, or m four quarts of it bucket; lard being 10 a pound. and 2 family commodity instead of a farnily as in these day And this milk had inches thick yellow cream on it. whi was fed to the chilir n nae berries, on their peac fee on thelr read. Mont fortes had a cow Way, and there won real butter milk with big chunks of fat float Ing on ton And regular cottage chrone Clabber with sugar dish. And butter it you were and brought it each the vacant in lard a big cents treasure, of any made « fine was 16 cents a The Seattle Star An American Paper That Fights for Americanism Rotered as Second Class Matter May 499, at the Postofficw at Seattle, Waah., under the Act of © ¥ OLU ME NO. 146. LATE EDITION TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE oar, by Mall, $5.00 to $9.00 gross March %, 1879 "SEATTLE WA 1, FE Greatest. Time Ever for Fleet! — | Seattle Plans to Outdo the Coast on Reception of Jackies to Visit Here |SOME TREAT FOR TARS Pacific and better reception | Seattle intends to give the fleet a bigg than San Francisco staged. | Which ts only Jing that Seattles reception wili be | the last word in elaborate entertain j ment for every sailor in the fleet, nother way of say | from Admiral Hugh Rodman, down |to the “powder monkey.” If pres lent. plans aré followed the Pacific | feet will drop anchor in Elliott Bay on September 9. j And here is now Seattle proposes | to do it gob in the fleet a single thin dime | to have the time of his life in Seattle | when the battleships drop anchor in| Elliott bay : | Everything Free There will be free auto rides, free cata, free awitns, free street car rides, free theatre tickets, free dances, tree | barbecues, free boxing matohes. free | weil, just _mendon any line of @ne tertainment for the gobs, and the committees in charge of the proposed Joyfest will see that it In handed to the sailormen free gratis for noth ing. But above all lines of good times for the gobs, dancing will be the main event. There will be street dances, pavilion dances and dinner dances. The gob who wishes—and he numbers legion—may dance his head off. He probably will To make this feature one of the most fascinating and popular, the commit tee in charge of all terpsichorean events will spend a lot of money. | To Be Here Three Days The Pacific fleet will remain a guest of Seattle for three days only, (CONT'D ON PAGE a FORD CASE NOW BEFORE JURY!, Million-Dollar Suit Ends Aft-| er 14 Weeks’ Trial MOUNT CLEMENS, Mich., Aug. 14.The jury in the Henry Ford- | Chicago Tribune million-dollar suit | retired to deliberate on a verdict at 11 a. m. today. Judge Tucker took only two hours for the charge The judge left the jury to define |the word “anarchist” as applied Ford by the Tribune. He a the word is permissible In any sense recognized by the dictionary. Th Jury. he said, is not obligated to construe sense—as m ponent of gc Ford at }the jury lthe ‘Tribune archist It meant @ The court of fair position as head of the I ympany, in which titude toward th who joined the & subject of great He sald the edite jot by Ford w stif! question befo fixation of the sustained by It will not cost a single have maintained ider that Ford an omb thrower subjec of ord Motor when call an nt army amount ¢ the defend | S90n2 399.04 | have an empty room for rent, Which causes no alarm; The amaltest ad to The Star that’s sent Would rent a whole darn farm. The above was written by Miss Adelia Converse, Bellingham, Wash. Miss Converse is after a prize in The Star Want Ad Rhyme Contest. See par- ticulars on the Classified page. |moned to THURSDAY, AUGUST 14, 1919. y, fair: warmer THE FIGHT IS ON! | OnW hich Side Do You Stand. ? Asks Sen. Phelan NE-THIRD of the births i in the country district outside the city of Los Angeles are JAPANESE. The'state board of health reports the Japanese births in the last ten years in California to have in- creased THREE THOUSAND per cent, and the white births have decreased about 9 per cent. What has happened, and is happening in California, is repeated here—in King county, in the state of Washington. “I do not think we uire any further confirmation,” says Senator Phelan of Gatifornies“of the-sitent-ieasior-of California directed from Japan, because Japan controls her nationals wherever they go. California is now just as Hawaii has been for some time past, a tributary colony to Japan. The rats are in the granary. They have gotten in under the door and they are breeding with alarming rapid- ity. We must get rid of them or lose the granary. “What I mean to say, the rats have gotten in under the door, is the stipulation that no laborers would be given passports from Japan, but women are given passports on the theory that they are the wives of the men who are al- ready here. They, of course, cannot be bona fide wives of the men whom they have never seen, as we understand marriage. “These women work in the fields as laborers and so circumvent the agreement and then they give birth to ch dren and thus defeat the purpose of the agreement by in- creasing the horde of non-assimilable aliens who are crowding the white men and women off the lands. “If this is not checked now, it means the end of the white race in California, the subdivision of American institutions and the end of our Western civilization. “The fight is on. On which side do you stand?” terly winds OTHER FOODSTUFFS ALSO; BIG HOARD SEIZED IN CHI _ _ Reports of government investigation of the high cost lof living i in Seattle produced a noticeable effect Thurs-. day, particularly on pore butter prices. A lowering lof other foodstuffs was also observable. All grades of but- 'ter came down two cents. The wholesale price in cubes is {today quoted at 58 cents; in bricks at 59 cents. Highest retail price-asked _ 70 cents per pound at grocery stores, Ee lon of the past tow daghth shat the Laces paces ai $55 0 — \tation of the ew days for cheaper food prices has 00 BUTTER 5 ae SEIZED BY U. $, |resulted in the drawing out of storage of an average of {15,000 pounds of butter daily for the past week. | | The price of butter in Seattle has averaged 2 cents ja pound above Portland prices all summer. This big supply thrown on the market has naturally PIS ‘come into competition with the fresh production and the Big Hoard Is Seized by Of- drop has resulted. Dealers claim that now they face a big ficials in Chicago lloss in their storage stock if prices contimue to decrease. : | Selling prices on storage stocks may soon be lower than CHICAGO, Aug. 14.—Twelve — |the original cost Price, they claim. | hundred and eighty-two tubs of — Soft fruit prices have also hit the toboggan on the] butter, valued at $55,000, were _ |heels of the government announcement of. an investigation, ‘tized by federal authorities here _ |Almost every article on Western ave. was slightly lower. today at the warehouses of the ~ Bartlett pears are today selling at $2.00 to $2.50 per} Central Cold Storage company, — |box, a setback of 50 cents on the previous day’s quotations.| fficit!s previously — had am | Peach prices have receded to 75c to $1.00 per box for the nounced no seizures would be made | Eastern Washington variety. until a complete survey of food com Cantaloupe quotations were a good deal weaker on the | “U0"* '" Chicago had been made, }local wholesale market Thursday. There appeared to be a the: sovernioeet a | surplus of the commodity. i against hoarders and profiteers The livestock market showed a very quiet tone Thurs- abo ag ats, sh aa besa va |day. Killers are apparently inclined to go slow about buy-/,,. os ehieoege the : ra S he apt jing while the present agitation is on. pany’s warehouses at ne toad i Wheat quotations are down $2 per ton. The hide mar-| where it was alleged the corel |ket is very nervous, with most dealers predicting a falling} had been selling its stock at 14% |market within a few days as the result of a probable gov.|°e' 4 8 announced. by Henry H. Rolapp, head of the sugar distribution committee of the food administration Officials of the ‘ernment investigation. | | In a@ fetter to Assistant United | situation. | States District Attorney F. R. Con-| The secret “ | way, received Thursday morning, At-| down food profiteerin |torney General A. Mitchell Palmer | ing the war, and have were arrested in uaid that he had requested Secretary jin hand. a of the Treasury Carter Glass to in Similar action will be taken im” other cases, Rolapp said, prosecuting under the libel clause of the food which provides seizure for hoarded food, Steps in was officials ran ages all dur- sugar company extensive data Pittsburg last “Even if we're thorized to go in not actually au on the work, we| can to the bureau the department of struct his cret service operators to join in the search | will give all aid we That the entrance of the secret | of investigation of rervice operatives in the investiga: | justice,” declared Capt, Thomas Fos Committee Coming to GIANTS GRAB Study Jap Situation SHINGTON, Aug. 14.—Congress will send a sub- omit on immigration to Seattle in the fall to study the Japanese situation, according to a statement issued by| Representative Albert Johnson, chairman of the house im-| migration committee, today. FOUR PACKERS WILL TESTIFY Chiefs to Be Summoned Be- fore Food Grand Jury in Gotham New York, POLO GROUNDS. |Aug. 14.--Cold threatened « mome rain, hung over today when the met in , “I expected to be in Seattle by this time myself, to study the mat ter,” Johnson said, “but I have had NEW skies to gray to abandon the plan FM T immigration a pects to perfect a bill with an im proved passport system by which | 2° | prevent exempted classes of aliens |) gig” may come to the United Sti | be limited yriods of time. result literal fulfillment of the agreement between the | which, if ration of | committee ex Reds ad their ucial series, the was were in game ates for |! pdt « should | eo gentlem: United St lolate 4! the pre CLEVELAND, Ohio, Aug Those Swift & Co great Chi moned to testify which establishes @ of} line north and south thru the Pa: | cific ocean, beyond which no Orien taly may enter the United Stat It is ed that the men's agreement" between and the United States is being dodged by the Japa: e listing immi | grants to America “students.” highest in authority Morrisy& Co four of the & Co Armour and Wilson & Co © packers will be before the investigating the price of foody of the desired char Toney, D Umpires—-O' Day and Quigley. First Inning Cineinnath — Friseh |Rath. Daubert flied |Fletcher threw out Groh |no hits, no errors New York -~ Groh Burns. You singled, threw out Fletcher. Frisch Daubert No runs, 1 sum grand threw to jury the managers here, unless local branches provide Wallace Miners May Stage Strike WALLACE, Ida., Aug, 14.-—A thou «in the Burke and Mul-| Kopf to information, County Prosecutor | threw Doerfler said today | The local munagers were give testimony today sand min said he had information| lan districts, are scheduled to quit at/no errors quantities of taeat were|7 4, m tomorrow, The walkout will | here by the four,;come unless the operators grant an | eighthour day Doerfler that huge in storage Second Inning Cineinnath push sin {CONT'D ON PAGE FI » CLOSE MELEE Congress Slow to Grant Beat Reds 2-1 in 14 Innings! YORK. | that} drip| Polo Grounds | Giants | louble header} Less than| - stands | , called. | }m Young. No runs, Wingo out, tion would materially hasten the ar-| ter, secret service chief here. rest of a number of food profiteers | Simmons, sp attle was the declaration of | partment of jus | federal officials in touch with the|in to see m ‘ants for 600 tubs billed to Pittsburg were among those is sued. One ¢: ice could be The tubs were left in storage, with government seals affixed Authorities said there would be no action toward its disposal for the present Unofficially, it was indicated the raid was the first of a series which later was to extend to alleged sugar hoards, 11 CENTS ‘FAIRY | PRICE ON SUGAR So Declares U. S. Prosecut- or of Profiteers BY RALPH F. COUCH (United Press Staff Correspondent) has already been to secure information.” | Money for Food tin BY RAYMOND CLAPPER | (United Preas Staff € | demand for lower prices. “The money mieht better be spent | in buying food than in further inves tigations,” Senator Townsend, Mich: | igan, said today, He is chairman of the special sub-committee named to recommend measures to reduce prices “All kinds of schemes are (CONT'D ON PAGE called before the senate agricul- ture committee today, to answer | objections of senators to exten sion of the food control act, as urged by the department of jus- tice to reduce living costs, arry out the campaign of} | publicity” on prices as of reducing the cost of living, WASHINGTON, Aug. 14.—Eleven nt of agriculture today for an appropriation Are Charged With Violating} cents a pounds has been adjudged Anti-Trust Law a “fair” retail price for sugar by ary Houston, in a Gillett, stated that s to establish a market to inform the people on the pr they should pay each day for marketable foods, In addition, the department of commerce today asked an appropria the department of justice, Assist- tion of 000 to enable it to place ant Attorney General C. B. ADA at the disposal of American business announced. today, information its foreign trade experts charging more will be collect said Ames. “Ten Today's request puts the total the cents a pound is a fair wholesale price, The additional penny should be enough profit for the retail dealer.” Ames asked consumers who are charged more to write, either to him at the Department of Justice, Washington, or to the nearest departments have asked in the high United States district attorneys being FIFTEEN) | letter te jhe prop | news servic TOLEDO, Ohio, Aug. 14.— Eight food concerns, one of them the Rock Iskind Butter company, a national house, were indicted here to by # county grand jury o charge of violating the state anti- trust law by fixing a minimam price on oleomargarine, County Prosecutor A charged the eight concerns with be ing In agreement not to sell to the consumer under $2% cents a pound. out out the cost of living campaign to $3,637,000. Congress showed signs today of be ant to appropriate quickly | ey asked by putive de | partments to reduce tt of liv ale|ing. But it was believed the money ) bills would go thru because of public t 4 . hit belonged to several con- \ |