The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 16, 1919, Page 5

“Tt ts the audience, after all, Gone in the theatre,” says Henry Miller, appear in “Moliere,” which com ing Aug. 18th. for their pleasure are effective. And to “Audience Likes toSeeMan Get Deserts,” Says which conditions everything that is who, with Blanche Bates, wil! the Metropolitan for the week start “The audience tells us whether or not our litte schemes what is it that pleases an audience? ‘To see a human being obtain his deserts. An audience yearns over the spectacle of a man or a woman struggling upward, by sheer fiber and faith conquering adverse influences “That has been exemplified by many parts I have acted: Neil Sum: of environment. four outstanding roles among the ner in ‘The Rainbow,’ Stephen Ghent in “The Great Divide,’ the Drainman in ‘The Servant in the House’ and Sidney Carton in ‘The Only Way.’ @ woman or a child to rise out of T™ each play the man is inspired by @ degenerate environment, the three Phases of his experience being degradation, aspiration, exaltation “It so happens that these four plays have, essentially, a@mental story. Tho differences in the four treatments of this story of regenerations, the same fund background and detail, manifest in constitute the new clothing of a tale which is of perennial interest to an audience whenever observation and humor | “What is the universal human Tent impulse is the touchstone of dramatist builds his play upon this it is retold with freshness and intelligence. The touches of symboli«m, In the dialogue are all qualities that jue the interest of the audience; but beneath these surface variations the simple elemental story that sustains the interest rhythm? Benevolence. The benevo- fuccess in the theatre. When the impulse with intelligent and skillful simplicity, and when the players transmit the dramatist’s message with clear and forceful charm, the audience is shaken out of the superficl ties of self-interest that make it a collection of individuals, and ix welded into @ masse expressing love of humanity.” Army Planes Put Air Jinx on Mountain Forest Fires ‘ _MATHER FIELD, SACRAMEN- ‘TO, Cal, Aug. 16-—-It's a bumpy “fead, the alr path 7,000 feet high mbove the Sierra Nevada moun- \tains of California, but after two of experimentation, the States forest service has de- pided that it's worth the trouble @anger. ‘The new airplane fire patro! fs a from Placerville to Chinese Camp, was speeding along the other day, thinking of his girl in Oregon, when @uddenly the right bank of his motor stopped like a shot. He quit thinking of the girl, and finalty managed to locate a tiny meadow about the size of a dinner- plate, several miles away, McKee. after madly pivoting on one wing, dropped into {t with a dished wheel and « torn right wing. Ho tied up the wing with his pocket handkerchief, undished the wheel, fixed the motor and got home in time for supper. The four army aviators between them fly 1,000 miles a day, and watch over 3,800,000 acres of rough but rich timbered country, As soon as smoke is seen, they report by signal to the rangers below, locating the fire by meana of « map divided into numbered squares. |The Mather field patrol is com- manded by Lieut. Tobin S. Curtis, Other patrols ascend from Rock- well field and March field. The “fire-flyers” use planes of the Curtis JN«D type. Consideration is now being given to a plan for dropping bombs on the heads of unruly campers who leave their camp fires burning. PREDICT EVEN BREAK ON FOOD City Sale Receipts Will About Equal Cost Practically all of tne excess army foodstuffs has been sold and only a few pounds of bacon will be left by Saturday night, according to a state ment made Saturday by Chris R. Frasch, health department inspector, who has had charge of the sale. Frasch said that the city’s debt to the army for the food was $18,744, avhile total sales to date aggregated $15,200. He estimated the value of the food left in the stalls when the market opened Saturday morning at about $3,500. The ten day limit for payment of the bill expired Friday. The coun- cil has provided an ordinance, which will probably be voted upon Monday, providing for the payment of the debt in case the entire amount is not obtained by the mle. UNDERTAKERS MAKE MERRY DETROIT, Aug. 16.—Dropping their professionally long faces, al lowing them to break into hun- dreds of sunny smiles, Michigan un- dertakers made merry here last night at their annual convention bail. SEARCH NATION FOR MAIL CLERK Failed to Deliver Consign- ment of Currency, Charge A nation-wide search for Mark H. Maxwell, 20-year-old railway mail clerk of Seattle, who disappeared on August 6 with $9,000 in currency en trusted to tis care, is being con- ducted by postal authorities Maxwell, who had been in the em ploy of the government for a short time, was on the Wenatchee to Mansfield run It is alleged that on August 5 he |was given two registered packages jof currenc consigned to Water ville banks, one containing $5,000 and the other $4,000. The packages were never deliv Jered. On the following day Maxwell | returned to Wenatchee and dropped out of sight sight shortly after. WELFARE WORKER SAYS GRANDMA AWFUL THING LONDON, Aug. 16.—“Grandmoth ers, with thelr old-fashioned ideas, prejudices and superstitions, are the greatest enemies of welfare work jamong children,” declares Miss Edith Scott, health visitor, in her re. port to the Malden district council of Fwnex DON’T MISS THE GRAND OPENING of Seattles Newest Public Market Corner Jackson a: BAND nd 7th Ave. South MUSIC Coupon for 5c, Good for This Amount in Food, Free to Each Family, Opening in charge of S. Office 1726-7 L, 3 Boys a Girls Wanted to Distri a | T. Manard, Saturday, August 23d who opened the LAberty Market, C, Smith Bldg, bute 5e Coupons to Beattie Homes. Miller THE SEATTLE STAR—-SATURDAY, AUGUST 16, 1919. GRANGE WOULD END PRICE-FIXING PLAN Extensive Program Outlined By Organ-| ization Representing 700,000 Farmers in United State wel BY RAYMOND CLAPPER Jexcept to support his family |(United Press Staff Correspondent) | feel it our patriotic duty to fully ad | WASHINGTON, Aug. 16.—A pro-| Vise Congress as to the effect of such | | @ram calling for the repeal of war-|/4Ws Labor has gone up to un } time food control, abolition of con. | he@rdof figures, and feed, such as! trol of exports, and enactment of |! Meal, for instance, has increased | [legislation to protect farmers was | $25 a ton | }announced today by the National) Marmers apparently are centering lerange, representing 700,000 farm. their drive on the suggestions of | President Wilson for broadening the | food control act to cover wearing ap parel, and addition to it of penalties for profiteering Blanket exemption from federal antitrust laws also is asked | “Labor Ix exempted, and the farmer ors, The grange plan to be urged upon congress at once is as follows nding of wheat price regulation and all price fixing on primary food Or clothing material at the end of | the present crop season Removal of @ restrictions and | is a#king only for the right of collec regulations based on war powers of tive bargaining for the products of congress, including the food admin. | hs labor,” Lyman explained. Heads of farm organizations sald that the drive against high prices has turned public indignation unfair istration activities. Clear definition of the constitu tional power of congress to deal with hoarding, conspiracies and combina: |!¥Y upon the farmer. tions to enhance prices or with) Farmers announced to the room: | waste or destruction of food of simi-|fUl of senators and congressmen lar products under peace-time condi-| that they have no sympathy with | tons. poltical quackery hey enlled on the city “dawdlers” to sacrifice “Remove Food Tax” profits if they expected farmers to Immediate termination of the pow accept lower prices | ers of the war trade board J. R. Howard, president of the} Removal of all internal revenue! towa arm Bureau Federation, mad taxes on food products a declaration of the farmers’ atts Immediate revision of discount | ude and grading rules, especially on The American farmer does not} wheat, and adequate representation sympathize with artificial or political quackery for befogging the real ts Howard declared. “If prices are cut to the b all along the | ine he will go as far along that line an any—Dut he will not go alone. to actual producing farmers in the } formation of grades and discounts to be adopted in the future Liberal appropriations for tn creased work and legislative author: ity, If necessary to extend activities! -1¢ increased production will clan of the interstate commerce commis lity the situation the American far sion, federal trade commisison, tar mer will jointly, with all his fellow |! if commission and the department | citizens, buckle bis belt for a most | of justice on the basis of pre-war! strenuous campaign of production— lowe but here again he is determined that | 4 Recognition of organizations of!) wit} not work alone producing farmers in making up the| «1¢ capitalistic monopoly wants | personnel of committees, boards oF | enough food produced that it may be| commissions to direct enforcement sues, feasted; if arganized labor wants food of existing or proposed laws. that 1 meg be fed. if the do-nething Immediate restoration of govern: | dawdiers want enough food prod@red ment to prewar conditions by! a that they may occasionally eat, let hastening the demobilisation of! them stand forth at this time, when fighting forces and superfluous gov- ernment employes. Abandonment of unnecessary gov. ernment functions. Enactment of laws to define legal ity of collective bargaining among agricultural people. Safeguard Purchasers Enactment of laws to safeguard purchasers of feedstuffs, commercial | fertilizers and farm seeds. Appointment of a special commit tee to prepare and issue official statements to inform the public of critical conditions affecting agricul: | 94, ry because of jo’ y tural production for the coming a Se ee year. | farmera, he added. Thin program was Iaid before a| Strikes and walkouts, reaulting in joint session of the house and senate | *4enation of production, along with agricultural committees by National | Price manipulation and extravagant grange representatives, They aajd|Protite of middlemen, were blamed it is supported in whole or in part by | fr the high cont of Itving by How other farm organizations. jard “The effect of legislation which May reduce the price the farmer re- the farmer must determine his 1920 | food production program, and declare | by deeds—cutting out of profiteering in goods and wages, going honestly | to the business of preparing and pur. Veying necessities of life, going hon eaUy to the job of doing # full day's work for a full Qay's pay—their willingnems to cooperate. Howard declares there is no sur. pius grain in the mid-west and that he never knew the stpply of corn to be so low. The cattle suppty also has been President Wilson was criticised for vetoing the daylight saving repeal ceives for his grain, live stock and| “I regret the president put the dairys products would be to decrease | matter as he did." said Howard production,” Charles A. Lymah, aec-| “President Wilson balanced agricul retary of the national board of farm organizations, raid today. “Tho farmer will quit producing, tural production against industrial production and decided against the farmers.” Begin Quest Here for Airplane Landing Site Preliminary inspection Pro-|upon us, and we don’t want to be posed sites for a landing field for| caught napping.” } commercial atrptanes, was begun| Chairman Whiteomb said that the Friday by @ committee recently ap-|committee wanted to select at least pointed by A. J. Rhodes, upon the/three tentative fields to be placed) request of Mayor Hanson. before the city council. The fields The committee, composed of| will first be investigated from the David Whitcomb, chairman; 8. V.\air by Myers and later by engineers. W. Peters, former army pilot, and/If the council thinks it advisable, @ trustee of the Aero Club of the the proposition will be placed be Northwest, and F. W. Graham, |fore the citizens at an early elec president of the Transportation | tion. club, was accompanied by Frank Public hangars, machine shops M. Fretwell, a former pilot, and|and other facilities for air work B. L. Lambuth, president of the|will be built and an invitation ts Real Estate Dealers’ association. |sued to the government and private Two sites were visited Friday,|concerns to make Seattle port and the committee announced that of call there were at least a dozen other of a sites in various parts of the city which will be investigated. The first site visited was the! low, marshy land, between the Unt-| versity of Washington campus and| Roosevelt park, which was formerly | part of Union bay before the canal| was built | CONDEMNATION Ground Is Soft wii H ; ji ‘The main objection, according to| Will Be Biggest Suit Since members of thé committee, to this Denny Hill Regrade \¢ particular site, lay in the fact that the ground is too soft, the bottom! being of a mucky vegetable growth. | Plans for the condemnation Prefontain way, of | yhich will be the In order to prepare it for a land- which wi ing field it would be necessary pice of its kind since the to do considerable dredging and) // beied \ regrade, according to An- | filling in. : 8 re ‘orporation Counsel Alex | The second site, located at Sand seepaaitalat’ vos ee saa Point, on Lake Washington, con-| (ity teinege ane, quaturday b tains about 400 acres, mostly wood. |“! r A. nock. ed_ land. From the plans and the ordinance the condemnation pro- which have already been the corporation counsel Peters said that he believed thia| eaatialng one of the best sites he had seen, | ceedings, declaring it offered a wonderful | Prepared, takeoff for hydroplanes. It will be|W!ll Prepare notices for the prop- necessary to clear the land and|¢tY owners thru which the ex- probably Mud lake, a small body | tension of Prefontain way will be of water on one side of the site,| ™#d° would eventually have to be filled|,, The extension, which will run in | thru the two blocks between “This site Is apparently all rigtit| (eae sig OP pg voor for airplane purposes,” declared | yu." 00" Fas Pag igs pt Chairman Whitcomb, ut we pro: | eri ‘o relieve th AA poner cage i ag ebeee avaiahs raffic on Jackson st., and facili- \pit of land we can find, We want| *#@ all clty traffic out Jackson st. | the public to know that this ts no|Prefontain way ts the street which real estate game, and that we are|“"#!es off from the Frye hotel. not’ trying to favor any one par-| ss Itieular owner. If any person, who | FRUIT ORCHARD IS knows or has a plot of land which has a water «ide, will communicate REPLACING VINEYARD with the committee, we will ap ONTARIO, Cal., Aug. 16.—What is preciate it claimed to be the largest vineyard in ‘The proposed uite must be ac-| the world, owned by Segundo Guasti, companied with a sketch and con-|Jr., of Low Angeles, and located a tour map with descriptions. ‘The|few miles north of here, has been land must be more or less level| converted into a fruit ranch. The nd must be at least 1,800 feet|4,000-ncre tract of land will be irri square re must be no high| sated and set out to walnut and fruit hills borderingthe field, and there| trees, according to Mr, Guast!, who must be transportation facilities, |Fecently announced the completion of the sinking of four wells on the Have to Build One ranch and the construction of a res "Seattle, unlike Tacoma and Call-|ervoir with a capacity of 13,000,000 fornia cities, is not bleseed with| gallons, favorable sites. We will have to| More than a year ago, in anticipa build one, just like we've built our | tion of prohibition, trees were set out docks and railroads, There is no|among the grape vines on the land doubt, in my mind, but that the day | Now of commercial airplanes is nearly : } these grapes are being taken it entirely, | Venwel will anchor tomorrow | drensen HALIFAX AWAITS BRITISH PRINCE Heir to Throne Due to Ar-| rive Tomorrow ST. JOHN, N. B, Aug. 16 (United Press.)—Dearing the prince of Wales, the British cruiser | Dragon waa steaming eastward to day toward Halifax, where the along- side the Renown, which brought the prince acroms the Atlantic After divine rervice on the Re- nown, which will be held shortly after noon tomorrow, the heir to the British throne will begin a two- day program of receptions and ad- He will leave aindag evening for Chartottetown, P, FE. where he is due Tuesday auchicg, The prince's entertainment in St John closed inst plight with a dance. Mrs, William Pugsley, wife of Lieutenant Governor and Mrs. William Pugsley, Jr of the governor's son, were prince's only partners POLICE CHIEF TO GET RAISE! wite |City Salaries Will All Jump Up October 1 All civil service employes receive a $20-a-month «inning October 1, it upon by the council noon The aggregated an increase of $37! in increase be was doc Friday after total will mean 100 to the city’s payroll for the last quarter of the year and $1,500,000 for the year 0 Both the chief of police and the fire department chief will have| thelr salaries increased from $3,000 $4,800 year, the couneil| naveed, while the superintendent of a buildings will Jump from $4,000 to! 500 @ year, iL get $3,600 and the port warden | instead of $3,000. Civil service commiastoners wil! ket $100 a month instead of § and election officials will get a 10. cent-an-hour boost during their working They used to get 40 cents spells an hour, The flat increase of $20 applies to city employes save policemen, | firemen, street car entployes and la- borers, who already have received thetr increase. Tt is pointed out that the $20 in crease ty slightly in excess of 124 per cent, the increase asked by employes and recommended by the | beard of public works, but it is be Neved that the increase is a just one and will be approved by the em. ployes, A new classification of the various civil service positions was made, whereby the various types of work were classified under common heads FIREMEN SAVE r WOOD BUILDING Extinguish Blaze in Paysse Hardware Store Broken water maine, which flooded the basement of the Paysse Hardware Co., 3610 Sixth by the fire inspectors to have caused the blaze, which broke out in the hardware company’s store at 6:30 a, m. Saturday, and which, for a while, threatened the entire business district in that portion of the city. Quick work prevented the flames from spreading to an adjacent wooden building. The Unieord Tire company, with offices in the same building and with store rooms over the hardware com pany, suffered slight lors. The La tona garage, 3604-06 Sixth ave. N. FE, an adjoining concern, sustained al small loss. None of the machines in the garage was harmed. 8. P. Paysse, owner of the hard- ware store, declared Saturday that his entire stock, valued at between $7,000 and $8,000, was practically ruined. The damage to the build ing, according to Paysse, is en: timated at $2,000 ‘Three fires were reported Friday ‘The lors was nominal in all cases. An overheated stove caused fire In_ the home of Mrs, 225 Ninth ave. N. | Sparks falling on the dry shingles of the roof of the story-and-a-half house owned by Samuel Brooks 135 25th ave. N., damage, which is partially covered |by Insurance, The contents were not damaged Fire broke out in the warehouse | of the Olsen & Warren Motor Co., at Boren ave. and Pike st. The loss is estimated at $150, partially covered by insurance, combustion is given an the cause Spokane Shop Men Are Back on Job| SPOKANE, Aug. 16.—Striking shop men and machinists of the ‘eat Northern, Northern and the O-W. R. & N, railroads, to the number of about 1,600, went back to work this morning, bringing the local railway strike to an end The vote to return was taken yes terday, following receipt of a tele gram from their delegates at the Chi cago convention Running Wild, Car Wrecked on Pole Running wild, an automobile be longing to Miss Alice A. Brown, which she had parked in front of her home, at 2320 Tenth ave, N., plunged down the steep hill and crashed into a telephone pole at the bottom of the grade at Tenth ave. N and Roanoke st, Friday afternoon. Miss Brown had just returned from taking members of the National Ed {torial aasociation on an automobile tour of the city, EDINBURGH, Aug. 16.—Hlow John Wilson, soldier, walted 32 years fot a divorce, was told here. On his wedding day in 1882, his regiment was ordered to Ceylon, In 1887 he leamhed that his wife had a child of which he was not the father. At the time he was unable to afford a divorce, Granted, * Pugriey, | the | Mary Moore, | at | cansed $150/ Spontaneous | Pacific | _ PAGE 3 “We Forgive Him,” Say Wives of Bigamist Who Killed Himself |Liar, but Gentleman, Avers | No. 2; I’m So Sorry, Says No. 1 SA RANCISCO, Aug. 16.— | Maj. David KE. Barney, army of- fleer recently retired, found him- | self in & moral impasse, from whie ly # miracle could extri- cate him. So he boldly appealed to the | greatest of all miracle workers— Death. | A shot tn the temple from his own | jarmy revolver ended his honeymoon | trip with his #ix weeks’ bride. That shot cheated the detectives who were waiting on the plier just ahead to ar rest him ax he landed, It left two mourning women, both bearing the ne of Mra, David E. Barney, too ricken with grief to feel anything but pity for the dead man and toler ant sympathy for euch other, Death worked these miracles where life would only have brought disgrace, shame and a triangle of ee hatred. Maj. Barney's choice was miade without hesitation second bride, As he and his Mildred Irene Owens | Barney, boarded the ferry-boat at Sausalito, on their return to San Francinco, after an idyllic honeymoon in the redwoods, @ newspaper pho- tographer sought to get their pic ture Aboard the boat, 25 minutes later, Barney called the photographer | axide and questioned him. He learned that his first wife, Mra, Josie May Barney, had sworn out a warrant | charging m with bigamy His second wife had been led, false telegrams, | wife dead “Excuse me for » moment, my dear; I'm in a bit of trouble,” casu ally remarked Maj, Barney to the | girl at his side, A moment later the ferry-boat docked, The detectives detained the | bride; together they waited for Bar- ney to appear. A boat attendant came running. He had seen a blood stream trickling from beneath the door of the washroom, serap-| | Believe Robber Is : The noise of the ferry-boat ing the pler had drowned the report Hiding in Seattle » trace has yet been found by the of Barney's pistol. police afteattle or Kent of the man| 25 by to believe the first Figures in the tragic triangle”—Mrs. Mildred Owens Barney, No, 2 and bride of six weeks, above. Below, Mrs, Josie May Barney her husband, Maj. David E. Barney, who killed himself to avoid arrest | bigamy. \Actors Demanding ~~ Union Recognition, NEW YORK, Aug. 16.— nition of the Actors’ Equity associas Mrs ie May Barney, whose bigamy charge precipitated the sul cide, is « cripple from partial paraly She and Barney had been married | tion of $40 at 4.30 a m. Friday, |Tie® to settlement of the actors’, 18 years Marahal F. J. Francisco, of Kent, be. | Ske Jen We Hved happily.” she said, “un-|iieves that the man made his way| Both the Equity and the Prodi | tit my husband took me to the Sali:/ta seattle and is in hiding here.| Managers’ association have ex} nas Rodeo, in 1917. He visited a side j show, and there met Mildred Owens. Later, as he was packing to return | | to the army, a card with her name nm it fell from his pocket. I cried | Ho was sorry, and promised to have | their willingness to arbitrate all points in the dispute, but the insist upon recognition of union and the managers declare they will never grant this. There were about eight patrons of the lunch room in the depot at the time of the hold-up, but none of these was molested The managers issued a a ae more to do with her, at |Five Are Killed following a conference with Ey ‘our months ago he stoppe Sothern and five members of the? © | ending me money. Then, like a blow | in Auto Smashup fiuiy, dccaring they ave ready to. out of the dark, I read in the paper| LIMA, Aug. 16.—When the of his marriage to the Rodeo girl. biaesemiis in which they were rid- “I am sorry for her, for him and jing was struck by a Western Ohio for myself. We all must suffer.” o., make contracts individually with members of the Equity—far than that organization det & traction car, five persons, on thelr | will not treat with the unfon, Mra. Barnéy No. 2, who rives sob ae home from a Catholic pilgrim seornieninlinacaaaenae ; age as 21, declares sho had been led|age at Carey, O. were instantly to believe the first wife dead before | killed near here Friday night. The| WALLACE, Idaho, Aug. iGamem the consented to marry Harney “He showed me two telegrams, tell ing of her death,” she state realize now that he lied to m: Hardly a mine is operating in the |Coeur d’Alenes today. Most of “ }large producers will make no | Yet _ |tempt to operate during the be was always a gentleman. Our/I do not blame her. I would’rathér | The Bunker Hill and Sullivan honeymoon had been wonderful; | be alone, and free, than have faced | at Kelloge, are practically the there was not a cloud In the aky. the other woman. I only admire | properties being operated. | “I do not blame the first Mrs. Bar. | that poor man for his bravery— Robert McWade, government. ney for taking legal action. Even| “He was courteous even in his! diator, is endeavoring to bring tho that brought the disaster about, | death.” a settlement. TT 7 JEONTAL Asi wi | Wine A ‘ma hime TT goup “ tabawsl tM seat-! sole occupant to escape was a 15 year-old boy, who was driving th car. q f “Ml STARTING TODAY ANITA STEWART IF STARS MAKE A PHOTOPLAY LOOK AT THIS CAST un { Anita Stewart Harry Morey Lincoln L. Rogers Lytion Julia Swayne Gordon | We Admit It’s Some Picture! | | ARLEY ™ HE COMEDY KNOCKOUT