The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 21, 1919, Page 1

Tides in THURSDAY ALE ACE MISSOULA An Ameri Seattle FRIDAY at : Pirst High Tlie First Low Tide Second igh Tide OME DAY there'll be a fine paved road between Van- couver and Mexico; in the meantime the city and county can save a lot of pro- fanity by attention to spikes; yes, an auto sometimes goes by itself--down hill; and movie fans at least make fine mu- sic possible. AVE you noticed the num ber of California license | tags you see on the streets | these days? * It is the first little skir | mish line of a mighty army, which, in a few years, will invade the Pa-| ciffe Northwest. | The roads between Seattle and California t@fay are wretched for the | most part. | South of Centralia, along the Cow: | litz river, ix a stretch that defies de- scription; across on the Oregon side, between Goble and St. Helens, is an- | other long. weary streteh. In South- | ern Oregon are miles of bad going But, despite these handicaps, tour-| ists by the hundred are coming over | these long, utty, dusty, rocky agues to visit us. A few years, and we will have a) highway from Vancouver, B. C., to} the Mexican line; no man can guess what it will mean, but we will ven- ture thet as soon as the barriers are Jown, and the tens of thousands of tourists get a chance to see the real Northwest, that this region, from Se- attle to far below Portland, will get the greatest boom in its history There is nothing, California in cluded, in the entire country that will compare with the region along the Northwest coast as a place to live. ‘To this time it has been almost un. known and unvisited. Once open these reaches of crys tal stream and mountain meadow, of deep “forest and magnificent river and bay, and ocean beach, and there will be a rush of home builders like the old-time rush of nugget hunters eee EANTIME, if the city and county authorities really want to do something that will make all local and| touring autoists arise and call them blessed, tet them commis sion about # dozen husky hammer men to pound down the spikes that | festoon and decorate the plank! bridges and roadways and pavements about the town Some of these plank streets have serried rows of spikes sticking up for blocks. One spike can utterly ruin a $60 tire in half a second, It ix a useless addition to the cost of high living, and a needless outpour- ing of the streams of profanity, to maintain these spikes, cee E SUPPOSE that sometimes an automobile does get tired of just standing saroung until its driver starts it off. Yesterday"afternoon a big Frank lin touring car ambled down Eighth ave. all by itself It missed by an inch or two a few assorted pedestrians, and street cars and autos, and wound up with a sul en thud, with its nose in a telephone pole at Union st Nobody was especially in its gyrations, except a peeved mo torman who wanted a clear track In time, along came an army offi with a couple of buck privates, | and backed the machine across the street and to the curb, and then much argument and cross-examina- | tion and discussion took place | Outside a smashed headli fender, and the natural chag dignified officer must feel when | ed upon to chase after a hitherto | ate machine th has suddenly arnuck, t was slight damage done. fext time. If-brick interested t and re Mr. Offi under better prop t starboard OR one t are thank ful. That the movie has developed far enough to attract enough fans| who in enough cash #o that we can get real music in| some movie houses. Occasionally a mov moves us to appla mostly they Move us to mental profanity, but we always are repaid when we hear a master perform on the or with | great pipes, or an orchestra develo and make perfect an operatic ma terpiece Thankful, too, we are that there we ia, we we fe that |v | where the | three an Matter May 2, 1899, at the Postoffios at DAY, AUGUST 21, LATE EDITION TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE $5.00 to $9.00 Paper That Fights for Americanism Seattle sta Rntered as Second Clase Per Year, by Mati, Beattie, Wash. under ihe Act of Congress March 8, 1879 ght and Friday, fairy ate westerly winds 1919. Belore Fleet Comes! HE STAR is getting some rent hog stories that would make a stone man mad, It has at hand an account of a widow, her only grown boy serving in France. This widow made a valiant struggle her family while the boy was Over There, she fell ill and was taken to the hospital. When she was able to retfrn “home” she was in- formed that she would have to find another house because the rent had been raised. Not only was the rent raised, but when she agreed to pay it, she was informed that the place was rented to another person and that she must get out. Then she was advised that she might remain until she found another house. And then she was informed by an attorney for the landlord that she must appear in court and face a suit for double damages because she-had not moved out! This attorney stated that he didn’t give a wen if the woman had six sons in France. This house is an old shack. It badly nem repair, and it is owned, irony of it all, by a fraternal order, the members of which desire to do justice but are helpless, so they say. Anybody having a.nice dog kennel! or empty barrel will do this widow a favor by advising The Star. Be- cause she has to have somewhere to shelter her children. ¢ And we wonder what her returning soldier boy will think of how Seattle kept the home fires burning. ~ He4s another suggestion to help restrain the rent hog: One reader advises that taxation *on property be governed’ by the rental income. Put it on a 7 per cent basis, consider that the rent income is 7 per cent of the value of the property, and assess it accordingly. It would be interesting to see what some downtoyn apartments would be valued at on such a basis. NOTHER reader gives us a little experience show- ing that certain hotels are taking advantage of the present congestion to boost the transient rate. This visitor tramped the streets for half a night and finally found accommodation in a downtown hotel. And he was charged just double what the regular tate was for the room he secured. That sort of piracy will do more to damn Seattle with the tourist and outside shopper than any other one mistake she can make. to support but finally HE STAR suggests that before the fleet arrives the matter of hotel rates be thoroughly understood, and that there be no quarter given any hotel that takes advantage of the extremity of our + guésts. A $100,000 entertainment fund is a fine thing, but common justice to.our guests is even a finer one, This time The Star will NOT print the name of the offending hotel. Next time it will. Next! “Soldier-Labor” Companies Produced Little Spruce |to cope with the I |forms of industrial The four * that turned out lens Less than eight per cent of the produced during the war came from the four favored corporations which employed soldier labor, it veloped from the testimony Col. C, B. Sten of staff i W. W. and other unrest air eo spruce than eight per Siems-Carey |baugh corporation, Co., Airplane Spruce Co, and Grant’ Smith, Porter Bros, Co. Col. Stearns’ admission that the} four “cost-plux” companies produced | only 7.4 per cent of the alrp spruce during the period of war yeqr and seven n he stined after a spirited on as hour and 1 w §, Ker Warren Spruce spruce produc tion division under Brig. Gen. Brice P. Disque, at the hearing before the congressional investi gating committee Thursday morning. The b for cent mills and logging ne ce of the spruce de a construction cross gamps which had| ? turned out McGee total cost of the colonel 000,000, Sale ipment and suppli | mated, would pruce produc 1, was about f government he esti Fefund between $8, 000,000 and $10,000,000, ‘The lies, England, France and 1 t of the cost of pre testified, the United per cent of the tota Will Be Out Twelve Million "The United es will not be of pocket an $12,000,000 esult of the atelvities of the spruce division,” Col, Stearns told the com “L are tant to give « enough phonographs today ex ough folka an under tanding of real music, #0 that an or chestra dares play something be 4 Sousa March or a jazz fox tre Of this we are reminded ju because we have heard this week a movie orchestra pla “Mme, But fly” selection; and espe sive thanks for the cello p harp thre sympathe undertone, and th flute occa wionally interrupts with a pure note | of joy The now bore m he ing out afternoon we babies burat lusty yodel during the passage, we felt thrice blessed, heard it, only forth in th a nd | ave here (Continued on Page Two) a half} Want U.S. Troops to Withdraw Official Request to Be Filed With Washington Gov- ernment TWO MEXICANS SEIZED WASHINGTON, Aug. %1— Protest against the American alry expedition Into Mexico, after bandits who captured two army aviators, will be made to the state department today or to- morrow by the Mexican ambas- sador A . Mexican foreign office state ment, whieh said Ambassador Bonit- | The department of foreign relation} and req | corporations | still tal spruce production, | Hons early te the | outr |and no uneasiness is reported among | one | the troops is not s | ican people lax had been ordered to protest was received in Washington todag. The statement said “The aviatora of the army of the} United States, thru error, state, flew over our terr ing approximatgly 112 ki h of thé frontier, where they ptured by a band of 20 ban dite. They have now been liberated. “Some troops of the Bighth cay alry of the United States croased the frontier in pursuit of the outlaws | gave instructions at once to our em. bassy in Washington to make appro- priate sentations, protesting ing Immediate withdraw al of the Invading troops.” Mexico City newspapers take the view that the solution is to obtain a better understanding between Mex ico and the United States, A mani festo issued by the Federation of La- bor union @ Mexico City urges Car ranza to form a representative cab inet and immediately adjust difficul ties with the United States, The lib eral constitution party has published a cireular urging ite adherents thru out Mexico to work for a good Mex jean-American understanding. TANKS LINED UP AT BORDER POST Carranza Cavalry Now Fol- lowing Trail of Bandits EL PASO, Texas, Aug. %1.— The withdrawal of American troops from Mexico “to avoid difficultics,” was suggested to Col, George Langhorne at Marfa, | in # message from Mexican Con- sul Bengoechea at Presidio, A force of Carranzista cavalry, variously estimated at 125 to 260 men, was sighted by an Amer. ican airplane 40 miles from the The Mexican troops are ard the Candelaria district, where the Eighth United States cavalrymen are hunt the Mexican band which had eld Lieutenants Peterson and is for ransom, of a clash betw re n jously considered in military circles here today, The American force will be withdrawn when further search for the bandits | seems futile. 1 or, the columns under Captain Leonard Matlack were n the saddle, with no sign. of joning latest indf@a. | } porsibility aba ant, at With two regiments of cavalry in neighborhood of Candelaria st is believed amply pr the ted | border residents there. Thirty-two whippet tanks are lined | up at Fort Bliss, while thousands of | troops stationed there are trained to| fineness in preparation for any emergency, General Erwin, post commandant, is expecting ‘further | shipments of tanks | 21,—(United | governm ein the « MEXICO CITY, Press).—T! Mexi has complete confi¢ intentions and the spirit of jus! of President Wilson and the Ar Secretary of State Ber United Press today for an expression of Aug lang told the when asked ‘lopinion on the crossing of the inter national boundary troops near Candelaria, President Carranza Jopinion of the incident, said Am bassador Bonillas, in Washington been instructed to make repre itationa to the American govern by American a salvage statement of the ment asking immedi withdrawal American cavalrymen and alr planes. Two Outlaws Held by U. Ss. bers of | the cavairy will give up the search, ked for his | # MEALOoNs may have ean wasted in onli spruce production in the Northwest. No doubt a good deal of profiteering had goneon. But not all the millions wasted—whether one million, or ten, or fifty” —can be as degrading or as humiliating as the system of peon labor said to have been forced upon men wearing the uniform of the United States. If a single man was compelled to work for a private contractor for $1 a day—THAT is far worse than any amount of waste and inefficiency that may be charged to Gen. Disque or his assistants. The American public is more interested in the treatment accorded our soldiers a than in the actual dollars of war cost. On the stand yesterday, “Col. Stossel Disque’s right hand man, testified that only “green men” were farmed out to p vate concerns for $1 a day. He claimed that when they became more efficient were paid as much as civilians. What a pitiable position for an officer of the United States army to take. Eveul the greenest of green men was worth more than $1 a day. That amount may be justified when the man in uniform is in government/service—but when he is work. ing for a private concern, a concern that makes money on his labor, then that $1 a day becomes nothing less than a crime. One dollar a day for “green” hands only! And who determined when the “erecn" * hand should be paid more? What percentage of the green men ever got > more? The dollars-and-cents waste in airplane production is only a minor item with — the general public, gentlemen of the airplane spruce committee. The big and foremost item is the human element—the peon system. Investigate that thoroly, fearlessly. If our soldiers have been exploited that a few contractors might reap a harvest of gold, WE WANT TO KNOW IT. : IF COL. DISQUE OR COL. STEARNS KNOWINGLY AND DELIBERATELY ~ PERMITTED SUCH AN OUTRAGE, COURT-MARTIAL AND PRISON ARE ~ NONE TOO DRASTIC FOR THEM. YANKS CAPTURE IMMIGRATION MEX. KIDNAPERS FOREST FLAME? AE TO BE STOPPED?” SPOKANE, Aug. 21.—With ashes falling on Wallace Johnson’s Bill Would Sh {streets and Missoula seriously fire menaced, “out of con- Doors for Two Years \trol’’ repe are flooding forestry officials from a score tebaae of camps in Montana, northern Idaho and eastern Wash-| WASHINGTON, Aug. 21 —Immigration to the United ington, Nine years f Wall was pfetort tag Bang Ata roy States would be stopped alto- had wiped out scores of houses gether for two years under 1 35 persons w ; |ndeath,. Many. poopie four Gnether the terms of a bill introduced: jin the house yesterday by Representative Albert Johny son, of Washington, ¢ visitation of the kind, Firefighters are being rushed to} of the immigration con tee. Missoula from as far away as Den. ver. Business ig partially sus After this period, foreigners ea can't grow out of Ja e a9 ss be admitted under certain pended described him a The Meadowbrook fire ged and one-armed man 20 miles General Dickman will arrive at | Selw: control of Korea in any manner or | form or in any degree. , That control has Khoa eed ee to | was not inaugurated and is not con-| tee ene Would be required: ia | tinued for unselfish reasons.” ister every year, Othersoag |come merely as visitors, such & Marfa early today, according to in formation received at his office here. merchants, students, ete, would required to leave after the visiting period is over, ‘The latter provision is aimed ticularly at the Japanese, “It is hoped that this time tion,” said Johnson, “will end coming into the United States @ Japanese under exemption elau and cause a Lieral fulfilment of so-called ‘gentlemen's’ ag which exists between the States and Japan, The latter try is under obligation to send & coolies to this country, but it been disclosed that many Jap arrive with passports as merch students and the like and once they remain, send for. picture b jand produce families, their chil being citizens of the United St iby right of birth,” Force Across Border SAN ANTONIO, Tex., Mexic believed to be 21 mem Aug Two ne, is Rentario’s kidnaping Says. Japan Does Not Mean Reform WASHINGTON, Aug. 21.—Japan’s | announcement of reforms in the ad. ministration of Korea means noth- neman Rb of Korea, here today. gang, have been captured by Amer lean troops south of Candelaria, ac: | cording to information received here today A ca with the m not t | | | rson, one of the | progressed jumping the cing down into ountry fire, south of is spreading rapidly est phone’ system around Koo: has been destroyed forcing the fighters back Clearwater and Nez Perce fires are beyond control | Inland empire towns have been | rained of all available men for fire fighting WASHINGTON, Aug. 21— (United Press).—Beliet prevails among army officers here today that the troops of the Eighth cavalry will be withdrawn from within the next few days, ition which was started ne early Tuesday, it was ent to follow a cold I want to trade my old gray mare o For a Vord or house or anything that’s fair. 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