The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 16, 1919, Page 9

. Readers of The Star Voice Opinions ain Letters on Japanese Question. to the ANE M sure to 4 {fruits of AMER! 1 it exelusion o * not our idea of Sound | the Pacific cous fs one promi-|woman are going to be newspaper sufficiently its inspiration and I space and influence efforts of Mr Miller, Freeman to bring to a focus the Japanese situation. It would perhaps surprise The Star to know ow numero tho with “inarticu te voices,” are those who stand with you on this question. We are glad to see you empha- Bim@. the basic fact of the situa- tion, which ts, that brown and white mixed won't make white. Let us go even more than half- Way in our concessions to the “ & source it many try that t daily Mmerican gratification of the and and equ y means citizens there bbs rn accepting Men tth: dob the any Mr have be like th race > harm prosent the Jar for their presence here Faulty = statecraft er &nd commercial toryiem have been | Dig factors. The have been down—are down hould }put up. not f economic They be Why From Japan? The white agents who act as fiscal > "| walets and chambermaids to the well jelal “equality” theory. | todo Japs for the money there is in lat new sn eager oe mle rd BS ought to be branded with the hartotry as a proper | twenh mark of public oplnion-—and Bice of te cisink cater = they will be, They are, as citizens. . Hews desirable than the Japanese. government does not, they are The cultue Americ: re moral people than we | perteser " Reale oneal , gitation should sweep forward g Concede Intelligence | unui the intolerable “picture bride” sy Yet us concede that while we breeding pest be absolutely wiped A ® good deal of pride in the out. Imagine America standing for lectual powers and accomplish- this sort of thing! its of our people from genera-| Would we stand for the “picture, tions past down to the present, we bride” business from England, or | by no means the equal of the| France, or Canada? Hardly. Then ipanese in intellectual ability. why from Japan’? This method of . tet us concede that while we) providing new generations of Amert > moments during which we | cans is repulsive and is a direct blow mo fault with ourselves asiat the sanctity of the American tere and warriors, and that we! home. F frequently admit our prowess in| The Star is entitled to every sup Public places, we are nevertheless | port and encouragement in its Second to the Japanese in all| straight-out fight for undefiled Amer- things having to do with the ar-|icaniam. J. L. HARPER Ditrament of the sword. o—— Concede Even Democracy NEEDS ATTENTION NOW Let us concede that while the} Editor Star Japanese government is the anti-| 1 Want to thank you sincerely for thesis of our government, the|‘h® "Pace you have devoted to the Japanese are nevertheless more de- | J8Panese problem that we are now Voted to the ideals of democraay |°OMtending with in Seattle, This x & than we and bette? examples of | ™#tter that needs the attention of free men. the people now. Unless there i* These concessions will please the |*0Mmething done at once, something Japanese, whose feelings, even |*¢Tious must follow, The Ameri While we discuss this Japa: small merchants can not compete Problem, we have no destre Yo) With the Japanese merchants, so far hort, will comfort the Rev. Mr,| 44 living expenses are concerned. 1 Matthews and Mr. Samuel Hijil,;}#™ Out of business because of dis and do no hurt whatever to the | 4sreeable Tapanese competition, The rest of us. situation is getting worse every day. Being matters of opinion, they| Let's have this menace solved—th @re concessions we my make, but| Somer the better for theocitizens Seattle. I heartily appro ate what The Star and Mr. Miller Freeman} have done, and only wish we had more real Americans in this beaut ful city, AR. we remain white. No amount hecus-; is can blend the two Se still produce white. Efforts 4 that line have been frequent futile. JOBS BELONG TO AMERICANS Editor Star: | Witt. Editor Star As long as the Ja MAKE CHANGE tion was working the wa # men intended all right. Nobo Japanene or plac N are t to int the middle out Thi tne with men. WH Tap it in Saturda pape been going on for to m knowledge, The troubl is that this nuisance tiated until means a big job common people are going change in the near future A VETERAN OF was not inves which But the to make Almont n the too end 1 FOR FAIR PLAY Editor The Star: It ma that the Pike pi market has than 100 Japanese stall proprietors but it is absolutely untr the | prices asked by the J war the and are deners (as other even ar well as Italian nationalities) higher high, as prices charged by stores thruout the city statement that Japanese gar: | deners undersell Commission Row (s, to say the least, silly Aa I under stand it, the market was primarily | established to bring the producer and nwumer closer together and| minate the mid@ ‘0 « large | extent this has be both by | reducing the consumer and providing him with much fresh. | or Vegetables } Western ave. commission men sell only at wholesale, and well at times quantities of produce (that are | out of Keason locally) to these self same Japanese, who in turn retail at the market. If The Star, or the mar ket master, or any one else, thinks / that the commission men seil at re-| tall, Just let them try it and see how | far they will get with it | T have been an almost daily pur- chaser at the public market af its inception, and | know from very: | day experience that one can buy bet-| ter and fresher vegetab! and &t & lower price than can be bought at any grocery store In Seattle | It is true that the Japanese are father tricky and sharp in their lit tle deals at the public market, but} #0 are the Italians and all the othe gardeners. Every one of them se-| leets from his stock all the best and | perfect vegetables or fruit and places | them, tastefully arranged, in the! front of his stall, while all the eulle| are at the.back. And if you want to buy any of his wares, you are served or ery the ¢ n done they * there This ts the point The Star _makes—end it must be driven home, temperately and politely if fou will, but none the less posi- tively and permanently, T had planned to make place for a|from the culls, and if you object he returned soldier and Increase my | refuses to sell to you at all, and you) business, but not long since some | have no recours except to complain Japanese secured property near mejto the market master, and well-—you and now my business in consequence | might just as well save your breath! | is falling off to such extent that Iwill] Hut the Japanese are not alone in not need more help. | this: practically all the other poor tond How long is It going to take union labor to learn that the Japanese is greater menace to labor than to any | one else? There are hundreds of Places being filled by Orientals that belong to women, girls and boys of | our own. | Is it possible that this Japanese Question will endure unt! they as numerous here as {n California It is @ well known fact that the rich | of this city wish the Jaapnese to stay because of the low waxes he will ac: | cept. | Under conditions not competitive Heaven and the] with the Japanese I could pay a man the | $4 @ day. A SMALL BUSINESS MAN. TIME TO ACT IS NOW | Editor The Star: As @ reader of) your valuable paper, I wish to com: | pliment you on your stand on the Japanese question. I am much sur-| prised that anyone calling himself an American citizen would support | and favor the Japanese side of this) situation. Each and every one of) Us must be for or against Japanese domination here. That is the ques tion, and we cannot sit on the fence or dodge it. This twaddie about how smart the Japanese are has no bear ing on the case. This talk of mixing races is foolish. If a person has not racial pride enough to keep this a white man’s country, he iy @ traitor and @ slacker, and is sure to gain) the contempt of the other race, an the ‘negroes say of the whites who mix with them. ‘The time to act is NOW—and not when the Jap outnumbers us, and outnumber us he surely will. We will then, like the Sandwich islands, be a Japanese colony under the/ Amerienn flag. Some of your letters received from Jap admirer# claim that we would be without vegetables if we were without Japanese. I won: | der sometimes how all those cities | with their millions of population on | the East coast ever got along with- | out the Japanese |r so many years. | The land south of Seattle is rented | to Japanese at from $30 to $50 per | acre yearly. The land is owned by | white men who either will not sell, or who ask a prohibitive price for it. I rede thru that section last) Friday night, at 10 p. m., and the| Japanese men and women, with little | | babies, were at work in the mud. | Do you think life with such drudg. ery is worth living? It will be the same thing for white men and wom. en, bye and bye, unless this problem is settled. Now let every one # sak either for white domination or J. anese. Do not dodge it. Come out flat-footed for one or the other. J. B. DeGRACH. Seats may be reserved for the entire OPENING WEEK of ORPHEUM CIRCUIT VAUDEVILLE WANTS EARLY CLOSL | Editor The Star: | While many white storekeepers are forced to make their living between | the hours of 9 a. m. and 5 p. m., your} Chinese laundries, which, 1 believe, | are mostly owned by Japs, keep<jpen | which starts | till 2 and 3 a. m. every day There ought to be a city ordinan SU NDAY | compelling storekeepers to clove at 11] Pp. m., or by midnight at the latest. | | Nobody leaves laundry at that time AUGUST lof the night, and the Chinese ought | | not to be allowed to take advantage | of the whites who are forced by the| unions to close up at certain hours. | | The all night restaurants also| ought to come under the ban. Aa it is| | they are forming the greatest lure for | the young girls. Conditions in this city today are much worse than in | pre-prohibition times, A little dope in the food or the drink, and another case of white slavery Hotels may need late zt ia with meal: citizen does not w midnight mare. ONE WHO HAS BEEN THE MILL, to serve, their | but to eat 1 good after | THRU | it only gives him a night-| jf rs do the same. It im true that this is simply a case | of selling goods under false pre | tenses and it i* also true that the one man responsible for thin condi tion is the market master. He can right the wrong done if he wishes Dut so far he has not done #0. He either hasn't the nerve to do it or don't want to make any more trouble for himself than ia necessary But whatever the reason is, he is the ofe that fx to blame. T have com plained to him more than once about | this method of selling culls, but could | never get any satisfaction out of him He would protest that he could not | do anything with them and all that| | rot, and generally he was uncivil and | Vinaine galore. arrogant. The truth of the matter is that buyers at the public market do not complain of the higher prices or as! high prices as elsewhere, but they do| complain most emphatically of the! practice of being consistently awin- | died in the quality of goods al, chased For alr play J. N. MAYBURY, 1823 12th ave, N WHERE BLAME BELON Editor The Stas About 10 or 12} years ago big bum ess was bringing the Japanese in by the boat load, because they were cheap labor and as near to slaves as they could l« wally get. 1 was in the greenhouse business at the time and getting $12 a week, working 10 hours a day. The first thing I knew I was out of work, and the reason was a Japanese was on the job at $9 a week. This was fine for the boss, Now take a look houses around Seattle, You will find the Japanese is there strong. He has learned the business and is rent ing from the white man The florist puta up a yell now about people patronizing the Japa nese. It is a different story now that big business is getting hit This is not the only line of busi ness turning out the same way. They were hired by the restaurant men, tailors, grocers, and even down to— or rather up to—the bankers. Th have learned and are now beginning to run these businesses. Here is my reme Let every working man and woman buy from Japanese whenever it is possible Then it will not be long until we have either a state or a national law keeping them out, Yours for getting them out, A LABORING MAN, at the green DEBT ~ i THE SEATTLE STAR—, tan Monday night ENRY MILLER and Blanche Bates open at the Metropoli- Midsummer Folly Company at Levy’ to present melodramatic burlesque; Vaudeville at Palace Hip and Pantages; Moore soon to re-open with Orpheum program. METROPOLITAN There is natura ent in the Miller and Blanche at the Metropolitan theatre on Monday night and for the remainder of the week in “Mc he play by Philip Moeller, the American author, which achies a big nuccemm at the re in New York. It ts» orag feration to my that this must clam as the distinetly noteworthy dramatic offering of the year, The appearance of either Mr. Miller or Mins Bates At the head of own company would be an event in the theatre of but the combination, in of the greatest plays of the de eade, with the complete original New York production and a company of dintinetion, makes the oceasion some. thing very much out of the ordinary. Moliere” is in three acta, the first and third acta showing the study of Motiere, the actordramatist, in the Palais Royal, with the entrance to his theatre leading off at the right. The second act discloses the richly appointed apartment of Madame de Montespan in the Mr, Miller will be meen as Moliere, toward the close of his career, and Mins Rates as the beau tiful and fascinating mistress of the king, Madame de Montespan inter Henry marked appearance of Ve new Liberty 7 importance, Louvre AD SAT THEATERS LEVY'S ORPHEUM ‘The patrons of Levy's Orph be treated to something a | of the ordinary next week Midnight Express” which ffor of the Midsum. ompany for the week nt perform out in “The will be th 10u8 rleque on the it was Lincoln J. Car of the ented by There funnie the por pr ular musical company will be everything from blank cart ridges, paper snow, switch houses, paper knives and last, but not least be in the hands of Art Hunt as Des perate Desmond and Bob Sandberg as Tony, the keeper of the Red Light Inn, And then, of course, there will be the girl in the question, KILL THE RATS TO-DAY By Using When Your & Doctor Says “Take th bd R. Bra because hb will get Just w ou to have—A"l 8 WITHIN THE BOUNDS OF REASON. My prices « the same pe Profit used ten years agc m natiafied with a rea sonable profit for my drugs I do not preseription 0 oft . Phone Elliott 3106 We do not add delivery charges to the prescription cost. SOeneReeneaes| Stop borrowing from Peter to pay Paul We will loan you money at reasonable rates diamonds, furs and jew you on elry and allow to pay it back month month in ments so you out of debt small pa can . N SOCIETY FOR iy tt IN SEATTLE BeconBe MACHO Weeks Left of our big reduction sale on high-grade Jewelry. We are selling some things at wholesale prices, as it’s too much trouble to pack and move t} Everything is going f Hurry. I. M. BENNETT Manufacturing Jeweler Plaza Hotel, Westlake, near Pine st. The dirty work will! THEATRE PROGRAMS METROPOLITAN — Memry and Manche Bates in is Monday night, Vs ORF UEOM — Midsummer Folly Company in “The Midmight | Miller | featuring “The Three Bea: } PANTAGES — Vaudeville featuring | “dervia Feotlight Revue.” which will be none other than Olive Finney, who is in poxremsion of some Dlank papers that the villains are anxious to wecure, Also there will be the bold brave hero, Lew White, as a Jewish tramp. who always hap Dens in to spoil plans of the soft shoe artivts The offering will be filled with a number of mustcal numbers, of which the main attraction along this line will “Taming Wild Women,” with Lew White as the tamer and the large chorus taking the role of wild women, being seen in cages on the stage. Olive Finney, Bob Sand berg. Fley Ward, Pauline Arthur and Lawrence Orth will also have catchy numbers with the girls on the large runway over the audience. A new episode of Houdint's serial, “The Mastery Mystery clade the offering the be PANTAGES Topping the new bill at the Pan tages, opening with the matinee per formance Monday, will be the Jarvis Kr ¥ ‘ue a ig musical A number of well known fun-makers and singers are featured in cast also @ pretty chorus Yor the added card Manager Pan tages has arranged for the appear ance of Porter J. White, an actor of the ffret rank, in hin latest dramatic The Hideaway.” her numbers will be: Al Wohl comedian and mimic Rome, in patter and gi Anita Ariinw, late star of “The Chocolate Soldier.” and the Four Morok Staters in serial acrobation An Eddie Polo feature picture will tho contribution of the week the an in Ruccesn « man, singing Canfield and be wereen. PALACE HIP Lote of vaudeville variety will be found In the new show scheduled to open Sunday at the Palace Hip. One of the leading features will be “The Three Beauties,” a trio of young women who have an offering called A Travesty In adddition to om edy the act will have good singing and the skit itself a surprise ending. The Three Fishers, with “A Night In the Evergiade: are known as boneless wonders.” They are excep- tional contortionists and have a very elaborate scenic ironment as the setting for their work Conrad and Jone ments,” will provid offering. Sam and Goldie Harris have a novel satiric pmedy, singing and talking skit called “At the End of the Trolley 1 ul Kayle and Coyne, who insist these are their real names have a “com- edy manipulating oddity,” which in cludes Juggling, gun and baton spin- ning and other ntricities of speed, with tumbling to boot. Marker and Schenck have a clas«y harmony singing, comedy and danc- ing act, lively musi | . . | MOORE TO OF SOON Manager Carl Reiter of The Moore announces that the box office of The Moore theater will open tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock for tho sale of seats for the opening week, which will commence Sunday August 24, Seats will always be on sale one week in advance, There will be the usual two performances every day, matinee and evening. ‘The opening bill, which consists of seven Orpheum circuit vaudeville act# and travelogues, is headed by a sensational dancing act headed by Bessie Clayton. Starting tomorrow the box office will be open every day from 10 a m, | to 9 p.m. | Arrangements can be made for sea- son's reservations beginning tomor-: row. CHERRY CROP LARGE IN FREMONT COUNTY CANON CITY, Colo, Aug. 16.—The Fremont county cherry crop this year was one of the biggest on ree- ord. More than 1,000,000 pounds of the crop were purchased by the Canon City Packing Company. The canning company is now preparing to handle a very large tomato yield, ind will close the selison late in the year with apples, Good prices were obtained by the growers of the cherry and it is expected that the to- matoes will net the farmers a hand- some profit, Apple growers are en- thusiastic over thé outlook, because of the shortage of this fruit in other ections of the country, crop. n you think of advertis- ink of The Star, —% || will con: | in “Musical Mo. | | | | int, comedian, at Levy's | Orpheum, 2—Blanche Bates, com-| Ing to Metropolitan Monday night. | 38—Porter J. White, coming to Pan-| tages Monday, 4—The Fishers—Pal- | ace Hip, | | | | first carload, receiving $2.50 per | Valeska Suratt is in Norway. Grace LaRue, who appeared here [many Umes in Orpheum vaudeville | appearing with the Fulton players jin Oakland, Cal, Hale Hamilton | | (Miss LaRue's husband) is also one | of the leading players of the Fulton company } chenck, one of the most popular members of the executive | division of the Marcus Loew circuit has resigned and will hereafter de vote his time to picture productions Schenck in Norma Talmadge’s hi band | Jonoph Dixie White of Seattle is scheduled | to appear at the Pantages in a big! act which comes out this way in| September. Miss White has appear. | ed in musical comedy, cabaret and vaudeville and is well known among local entertainers Ethel pianist, Newcomb, the American | hi been Invited to join a concert company which is be ng formed to make a tour of South America next season. Marruerita Sylvia, the opera estar, has signed a contract to appear in| motion pictures. | | caste | Ernestine Schumann-Meink ts en- route to Holland. Mme, Schumann- Heink plans to bring with her back to America the widow and children | of her son, August, who lost his life when the submarine that he com- manded was sunk in 1915. AD her other sons were in the United States service, The diva states she positive ly will not set foot on German eott. | PLAYFUL HUBBY SUED BY WIFE) ‘Hugged Her Until It Hurt,| She Charges | SAN FRANCISCO, Ang. 15 [Being “slapped and squeezed until! | she could hardly stand the pain” was | jmot the proper way a husband] should treat his wife, according to} Mrs. Florence Bell Bruce, who oe | cured a divorce from Robert Olym.| pus Bruce, of the late Robert |Bruce, wellknown San Francisco| politician. The decree was granted lby Superior Judge J. J. Van Nos | trand But that was not all of Bruce's alleged ecruelties, according to Mrs. | Brucey who lists them in her com: plaint following chronological order: December, son | 1915: While attending a wedding she took a glaas of re- freshments, which her husband |knocked from her hand and then |wlapped her face. Tho guests were shocked and Mrs. Bruce greatly hu-| miliated | November, 1916: Mrs, Bruce was |d@ragged out of bed and then locked be of doors in her night clothes. | September, 1917: Mrs. Bruce was locked in a closet and kept there un- til she was nearly suffocated June, 1918: Bruce grabbed his wife and “playfully drew a razor across her throat.” | September, 1918: Bruce grabbed a |pair of scissors and clipped a hand- |ful of hair from her head. And in addition to these specifi cally stipulated incidents Mrs, Bruce charges that her husband frequently | linformed ber she “was crazy.” The Bruces were married January 1, 1916 GOLD BRICKS STILL SELL IN NEWARK} NEWARK, N. J., Aug. 16.—There are people still willing to pick prizes | from the crop of gold bricks, It has been discovered, for three residents of this city were recently fleeced by slick strangers dealing in “old.” Samuel Pelz met two engaging men who whispered to him that a box one of them carried was filled with raw gold. Pelz lifted the box and found it delightfully heavy. He was asked to take care of it for his new-found frie and agreed to do so. But they said they must have security, so Pelz drew a thousand real dollars from his bank, and the strangers kindly left the box with him. It contained about 90 cents’ worth of brass fittings, as Pelz discovered when a little bird whispered to him) that his friends might find it incon- venient to return. “A “bag of gold” to gouge $1,000 out | trusting Newark men. | Still angther resident admitted paying $1,000 for a “diamond” ring | which might have been worth 68 cents, was the bait used of two other THEATRE Second at Spring PALACE HI Continuous Daily 1 to 1 TOMORROW TO WEDNESDAY 4 BRIGHT NEW snow oF HIPPODROME VAUDEVILLE BEAUTIE very” aed Conrad and Janos “Musical Moments” Marker and Schenck 4 Har- neing “THE THRE on “The Three Fishers i “A Night » th five | Bam and Goldie | arris | Kayle and Coyne edy Manipulat-| ng Oddity In a m FEATURE PHOTOPLAY (Monday to Wednesday) BERT LYTELL IN “EASY TO MAKE MONEY” COMING—Julia Arthur as Edith Cavell, in MONTROSE POTATO | SHIPMENTS BEGIN MONTROSE, Colo, Aug. 16.—Po- tato atiipments from Montrose county began this week, and from now on until late in the winter the movement | will be heavy. T. C. Anderson, of Olathe, haa the honor shipping the 100 were M Fallow township, for $5,000 against Samuel Snyder, Miss Catherine Coaterville business ground that she was kissed twice him against her will. pounds, Ten thousand acres planted to spuds this year, and the| yield will run from 100 to 150 sacks} an acre, making the entire crop worth im the neighborhood of $2,000,000, Brown BEER IN WASHTUB STOPS HER WAGES KANSAS CITY, Mo, Aug. 16 Mistah Lawyuh, Ah just can't do washin’ when mah husband keeps mah washtubs full of beer,” complained @ colored woman to the Pree Legal Aid bureau here The woman said she was forced to sup- port herself and family by taking in washing, and that she was will- ing to do this, but objected to him) keeping the tubs full of beer Diamonds and 8. LUCIO’S JEWELRY CO. | 5 SECOND AVENUE PANTAGES Matinees 2:30 Nights 7 and 9 BEGINNING MONDAY AFTERNOO Jarvis Footlight Revue Merry Musical Comedy, featuring William Jarvis, Charlie Jordan, George Offerman, Sara Marie and a quintette of beautiful girls. PORTER J. WHITE & CO. In his greatest dramatic success “THE HIDEWAY” Al Wohiman, singing comedian; Canfield and Rose, in comedy and song; the Four Morack Sisters, in a sensational aerial act, and Anita Arliss, late star of “The Chocolate Soldier.” ¢ Positively First Run Starting Sunday— William Desmond Versatile actor of the screen — hero of the Wild West, the drawing room and the business office—in a role refreshingly differ- ent and absorbing- ly entertaining, in ue Done, “The MINTS ott JaDEJLIL” A drama of the frozen Yukon country in the days of the gold rush, picturing the wild scramble gold-mad men made for wealth—vivid portrayal of the risks they ran—built around the romance of a tenderfoot ' prospector and a daughter of the North. WESTCHESTER, Pa, Aug. 18-0 Barnes, of Bast has brought sult * man, on .the "Dr. Edwin J. Seattle's’ Leading Dentist 106 Columbia St aad = om —_ BRING THIS AD pair any Ameri. We pay cash for) Liberty Bonds, also! Ww. 8,