The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 22, 1919, Page 1

SPRUCE SOLDIERS UNDERFED ICHARGE IS MADE BY LUMBERMAN> Tides in Seattle FRIDAY SATURDAY AUG, e2 AUG, 23 First Migh Tide First High The Le am, 10a te |e 1 First Low Tide 159 am, —@ Second High Tide Secow 4:18 pom, 110 te | « Second Low Tide 10 Dom, O4 econ: An American Paper That Fights for Americanism eSeattle Star Hatered as Second Clase Matter May 3, 1999, at the Postoffice at Seattle, Wash. VOLUME 22. NO. 153. ZATTLE, WASH., inder the Act of Congress March 8. LATE EDITION TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE Per Year, by Mall, $5.00 to $9.00 FRIDAY, AUGUST 22, 1919, t and Saturday, fair; westerly winds. Weather ‘Forecast: ae me a en NIFJAP LEAGUE FORM FAT MAN has his troubles, but he alone does not chuckle; nor does the autoist who hits the sand that hugs the Tacoma road; .and every once in awhile we run across men of the stone age. Sprucers Treated “Rough” | Manager Chisholm of Mary- land Lumber Co., Accuses | Government Officials . a, EXPOSED TO ELEMENTS takes the troubles of a fat man seriously? No mat- Soldi ter how vexing these trot: \dier bles may be, there is no-| spruce Dety home to welcome hia sorrows. | "> We bet that a fat man could get ehdvies in the production division |would not work for the sim- im the wild, wild woods, or float ple reason that they were! _ for a week or two on the high | “weas, or fall down a well and get all | junderfed. “ muddy and catch a right amart cold; This accusation in the head, and still nobody would jeled at the heads ispruce division of the army by William J. Chisholm, man- ager of the Maryland Lum- Co., of Deep Creek, who man whose whole’ was a witness before the ee | congressional investigating | |committee Friday morning. og thor ‘This benighted brother, on a hot.| Not only were the soldiers com & right hot afternoon, stuck to “| ae to go without sufficient food, telephone for three solid hours, try-| but they were compelled to live in| ing to find in the city of Seattle ONE tents, according to Chisholm, and MBER EIGHTEEN AND A| thus became exposed to the elements. HALF COLLAR. | Dissatisfaction resulting from inade ‘The collar he had was a rag, he| Wate living conditions put the sol sf was moist and miserable, and he had | UF-laborers in a frame of mind bor: anv important engagement. dering on mutiny, and the tension | Was relieved only after Chisholm's expense, erected bunkhouses and installed camp kitchens and cook stoves, | Chisholm told the investigators. Not until then, Chisholm assert did the soldier laborers function as men of the woods should 1 had a contract with the spruce production division thru the terms of which I was to furnish the food only for the soldiers. I had 150 sol@iers and 150 civilian laborers in the woods as loggers and something }like 20 civilian and 200 soldier la borers on the rallroad. A Mafsor Hitehcock, with whom I dealt, told me that he would provide tents for soldiers’ sleeping quarters and would fend field kitchens to cook the fogd I was to provide) He Protests protested against these prepar. I told Maj, Hitchcock that were wholly inadequate for ping quarters as the soldiers must go thru rainy weather. As for the field kiteh I told him. and it afterward proved true, that was lev- man can't do any courting without a collar—aye, without «@ stiff cotlor. Our friend finally found one lone, | lorn 18% collar, and hastened out to| get it. But !f he has that much grief try- ing to get a collar, what might oc- cur if a frolicsome pup retrieved his trousers while he was visiting the old swimming pool” Even a barrel wouldn't serve: he would require a hogshead eee NCE a day, at least, some careless, or ignorant, or overobliging driver gets off the narrow pavement that runs like a thread be- tween Seattle and Tacoma. And he stays off. The dust-like sand that cuddles Fight up to the pavement is some- thing that no auto ever dug out of unaided. The usual proceeding for the autoist thus caught is to wait until a truck comes along, driven by an|not enough food for more than obliging chap with a willingness to|men could be cooked properly. T Make an extra dollar, and a stout all my protests Maj. Hitehcock re rope. plied, ‘Let them live in tents; the Sometimes a board or a few yards | boys ¢ as are living io them.’ of brush will set a light car free of| “What I told Maj, Hitchcock eame the trap, but mostly they are yanked | true. The soldiers actually did not p out by main force get enough food to p them in Take our tip—if you get off into 1 physical condition. The result the sand, possess your soul in pa y would not work, and tience and wait for the truck, It ame them a bit. It was will be cheaper on your purse, easier the later, when my com on your tires and make better read y built wooden bunkhouses ing for the recording angel who ed real kitchens that the sol keeps track of human conversation supplied with sufficient wr ations. tents wise HE National Chamber of Commerce, or the Nation al Association of Manufac turers, or some such or ganization, has sent us a Neat plan to solve the labor unrest problem. They gun. They would make it unlawful for the @orkers to strike on the raik| foads, or in any industry that was a public utility And the would enforce this law with federal troops, if necessary We would advise thene bosses to wake up There in a Uttle town that makes a specialty cal literature Spread on the counters in front of the store radica} magazines, red newspapers, ver advertisements of anarchy, and cute “explanations of how much the R yement is doing for the down-trodden work ers there And every after ing you can see # line of workers stand ing reading these papers and maga zines. You can see them taking these red Threaten Court-Martial “Another reason for the miserable howing of the loggers was the fact that they did not know a thing about the business. When I went to the Vancouver barracks, 4 I did, time after time, to app Jexperienced men, army officers would select a crew, telling me that the were experienced woods men it work would solve it with a shot men these men fail do I was told by the UBD ON PAGE to army the offi TWO) (CONTIN stone-age the Thrilling creeds of th And in a free country, where « man has the right to his own opin jons, there # no legal way to prevent the circulation of such stuff. But, for the most part, this in ity of violence will be drowned in the good sense of the American worker, IF. The boss does Not endeavor to club him We set forth. wild cries sophisms there to the reds 2 in this | and of radi are ian m pon and eve would admire to have some of these haughty bosses, who hate la bor, and who make property rights sbominations home with them to| supreme, stand with us by that lit ead aloud to the family. |the book store for an hour or two ‘You can see them puzzling over some afternoon, of the|° and 1 for | CONSIDER THE CASE OF GIRL WHO WORKS There is one standing excuse the local rent h ves for boosting his rents: “It is costing us more ire aires | apartments.” | It is a poor alibi. The fact is, that the apartment house landlords are pay- jing out little more than they did one or two years ago, | Apartment house janitors, that take care of a dozen apartments, work 16 hours a day for $70 a month. | The slight raise these janitors have received has been more than met by the boost in the rent of ONE apartment. Telephones have been raised a few cents & month, but the rents have [been increased dollars. : i | AID OFFERED WIDOW { Within an hour after ths Wilk deat & thin Gadilie eb | | Star was published yesterday the rent story it contained had lords hay liberately gone out to get all they could grab, and rents to | brought results for at least one |day are higher in this town than in| | the Feat gouge twice as big in the East—| } Ww whe fe about ae jcities where the cost of living is al-| | her houre need not worty. | ways far more than it in here, Fy inquiring at Mumford & There ie another side to this ex-| | Beck, 1318 Prospect at, she oan cemsive apartment rent thing. oeere SS. foes ae | What does it mean to the working| | 294 chitdrent: ‘Tits waltraiat | girl, who was before just getting | the foot of Howard »t, Mum. Jone. and who is forced to meet an| | ford & Beek, carpet cleaners. | The rooms are upstairs and are lexorbitant rent or move? i | generously placed at the dis | Move where, please? | Mere in a letter to Cynthin Grey| | Possl of this widow who fs about to lose her home. | from a working girl that should give | every decent person In Seattle pause. Thanks. Publicity helped a “I bave had four to support Ittle, anyway, $100 a month, When my rent was $22.50 and $25, 1 could get along, by | having few comforts and no fine clothes “But now these rent hogs want | }$30, and more, for a room and bath | Ment and b apartment, with kitchenet, unfur-|% Couple of | ished hog’s greed. “I lived in an apartment for three| “On an apartment in the Capitol |years, and not a cent's worth of| Mill district the owner, who ments paint. kalsomine or repaird was put|to more than 20 families, raises hiv jon it in that time rent more than 10 per cent each I made improvements and paint-| Fourth of July. Bach time he te ed the kitchen at my own expense, | them there will be no more increase and then they started to boost the| and each y he breaks his word. rent. It was raised until it reached} Last Fourth he placed a big fing $40, then it went to $45, then to| Over his apartments, boosted the $47.50, then to $50, and at Inst ac-| rents 10 per cent, promised he would counts it was held at $55! I got out| not raise them again, and on Janu \when it reached $35 lary Ist he repeated the extortion “Did it cost the landlord any more ‘A business man, in a small old for me to oceupy that apartment| building at Third and Cherry, has than it did a year ago? | Just been raised $100 a month. The “Didn't he Just take that 100 per| landlord requests him to pay $250 a cent profit without any excuse? | month this year; $400 next year and “Whose salary has increased 60 to | $450 the year after, Th: 75 or 100 per cent, like the rents} boosted the rent of the place next have? door 200 per cent. “IT have raise,| “Why not call a special session of but what good when | the legislature and enact a statute rents 100 per cent higher? | to curb these outrageous thefts? “Lam a working girl and have| “Take their right of ejec bad many trials, but when I see girls | tion. getting less than I and living in $50| “The attorney general jand $60 places, with elegant clothes,|the rent hog trust of too, I wonder vicious and dangerous | “The rent who are helping] city’s safety and welfare « send girls to the devil deserve to| packing trust or the cold \have the finger of scorn pointed at| combine n | Since they can legislate about our | » much, why can’t they leg 5 morale? SRATION.” rents both an apart- ce of business gives of the A citizen wh ph in 10 per cent that do had a does away find as will rattle “M. MEGRATTH.” Send in your rent hog letter to The Star. By hammering will help morals we Potatoes Rot in Storage | While Consumer Is Gouged n Ne Miss Strong out of the 1919, and will be gone for several we Her father, Dr, Sydney Stron tle clergyman, that little of but that Mins interest | potatoes wa He said the oes had been ad to daughter by W, H. Kaufman lingham to be marketed thru a producer-to-consumer"” plan and e not being held for profit Will Go to Hogs Federal officials Friday morning 46,500 pounds of the original | 51,900 pounds held in Miss Strong's |name to the Pacific Meat company’s hog ranch at Redmond. The probe of the department of justice agents shows that August 12 W. H Kaufman sold the potatoes to Law (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) city ks aut knew was sure in th Placed in stor betwe m= | |ber 25, 1918, held there force a higher potato market nd May with and intent to 342,800 apparent said matter, Strong's nominal shipt pounds of potatoes were in the hands of federal authorities Friday, en seized in a raid made Thursday on the port commission warehouse at Spokane st. by Deputy United States Marshals Edwin Tobey and Edward Williams. | Mont of the potatoes are rotted and | unfit for consumption. The pro portion of the holdings still in fair condition will probably be pla the market at reduced 8 pending | decision of the United States district |attorney as to the actidn to be taken the owners. mt to Redmond A warrant was iswued for the selz ure of 51,900 pounds of potatoes held in the name of Anna Louise Strong, former member of the school b at the port commission's Spokane st warehouse, Port records showed that the 519 sacks had been stored in her name November 25, 1918, The | potatoes, however, were not seized, as the deputy marshals were inform od that they had been removed Wed. nesday by W. H. Kaufman of Bell ingham. having afternoon aint on Ambassador Page Quits Italy Post WASHINGTON, Aug, 22.—Am: bassador Thomas Nelson Page to |Italy has resigned, the state depart ment announced today Brand Whitlock ix understood to be slated to succeed him. Whitlock was to see President Wilson. n the agency | HUnited Presa) | tack | reports rent} his | of | | | Tex., | ported | that | pear r it The Anti-Japanese league is today a fact. '@ John J. Sullivan, former assistant U. S. district attorney, and now first national vice president of the American Legion, heads the organization. @ A fund of $12,000 for immediate campaign purposes is to be raised. Sub- \scriptions should ‘be forwarded to Frank Kannair, , secretary-treasurer, 1012 Green building. Americans Slay Four Mexicans WASHINGTON, Aug. 22.— President Wilson and Secretary Lansing conferred for more than an hour af the White House _. it was intimated that they had under consideration the re- ply to the protest of the Mext orf alcy ‘sent across the border in pursuit of the bandits he withdrawn hmmediately. av. SAN ANTONIO, Tex., Aug. 22 Capt. Leonard, Mat pursuing Mexican bandits, hoped to encounter Rentario, the leader, some time today, according to to Southern headquarters here The Eighth cavalry renewed the chase with dawn today, Four ban: dits were killed yesterday, when troopers came upon a group of Ren tarians in an adobe fortress. As the valry appeared, rifles blazed from portholes, The soldiers rushed at once, taking the position without in jury toa man, Three or four ban dite were known to have fled on the approach of the Americans, No trace of them was found, Three of the Mexican dead were identified as, Jesus and Janir and Jose Fuentes was unknown Telegraphic reports from Marfa, give details of the return of The fourth Capt He made his report on the slaying of the four bandits and was to re turn to the pursuing force today, The American troops, Capt. Mat lack maid Carranzistas, The Mexican com mander courteously told the Yankees to “Ko ahead” when informed that they were pursuing outlaws. Good Progress are making progress in th * said Capt, Matlack, who re that all of the men in the avenging force are in high spirits and eager to continue the hunt “Hard storms have slackened our d somewhat, but w we made good time one in the pursuing force “After leaving the Rio Grande (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) We pursuit Two More Airmen Reported Missing SAN DI 10, Cal, Aug. 2 Two United States aviators of the Ninth a equadron here have n mins: Wednesday afternoon to an announcement made A. J. Hanlon, commanding forces at tockwell field, ing sin: ac cording by Col aviation orth Island The men Frederic Idaho, nd terhouse, H. Connolly, Lieute nt of Welser, nd of San had started @ patrol from Yuma, Ariz, to When they failed to ap planes were sent in search but reported a fruitless errand It is believed the two flyers were forced to make a landing, possibly below the Mexican line » airmen flight Diego |Mexican Arrested by U. S. Army Men) NOGALE Ariz, Aug. 22 (United M. J. Domingues, who said he is a paymaster in the Carranza army “nd a member of the staff of Governor Calles of Sonora, was held for investigation by United States officials today. Dominguez was arrested by army intelligence officers near Nogales. He had 6,000 rounds of revolver am- munition in his possession, officials asserted, Francisco | Matlack by airplane last night. | passed near a force of 200) San] Organization of the Anti-Japanese_ league, to campaign again |further penetration by Japanese i in the Northwest, was comple at a meeting held in the Masonic club rooms, Arcade buildi Thursday noon. John J. Sullivan, attorney and national vice president of American Legion, was chosen chairman of the organization. Frank E. Kannair, secretary of the Mutual Business club, named secretary-treasurer. He will take immediate steps to the $12,000 starting fund, which was decided necessary at iday’s meeting to get the movement under way. : After the temporary officers had been selected, the board itrustees was named. Those selected were: A. Berridge, presid jof the Retail Grocers’ association; George F. Shep |, presid \of the er ary “Lege 3 . — Shifted J. Lombard, the, Vk jspector o inute, Men; war representing terkiks of Foreign Wars; Morrey E. Weisfield, business ‘the Retail Clerks’ union; Edwin E. Severns, of the A Industries of Seattle, and Frank E. Kannair, secretary of the’ ~ tual Business club. This board of trustees will function until such time as p nent officers are selected. The board decided to appoint a m bership committee soon, to propagate the work of the league. i board will meet again next Tuesday. : | The selection of a director to guide the active work of the | league will be made at an early date. At the meeting Edward Clifford, representative of the Vet- lerans of Foreign Wars, declared that he had found that Japanese seriously interfered with the replacement of the returned soldi in civilian life. Erastus Brainerd pledged his sup- port to the new organization. | “I've known only one ‘straight Jap in all my dealings with them,” Brainerd said. “They are too cunning, slippery and underhanded. Their methods were illustrated by the way Raron Ishii twisted Wilson and Lan- sing around hia finger when he was Jambassador at Washington, We know what their aims and ambitions ore, A worse war than the one we've just been thru looms if Japan can get a great enough domination In the Fast I am in favor of the restric tion of further Japanese and will stand behind and aid this movement} way.” ~ | |Those present were: Erastus Brain-|Seattle chapter, erd; Edward Frescoln, retail mer » chant; Charles A. Huttin, Virginius hotel; Ralph D. Major, attorney; Ed win E. Severns, Associated Indus tries of Seattle; A. Berridge, presi- dent of the Retail Grocers’ associa tion; John Matson and KB. C. Bussi, |S. J. Lombard, state inspector of of the Retail Grocers’ association; T,| Minute Men; Morrey E. Wel Fi R. Kinsey, secretary of the Retail | business agent of the Retail d Grocers® ‘= ation; George Shep-| union; Frank E. Kannair, secretary pard, presid@ht of the Seattle Laun-|of the Mutual Business club, and drymen’s association; F. A. Naramore,! Miller Freeman, publisher. PRESIDENT MAY MOVIE PLAYERS | GREET PERSHING HURT IN CRASH ‘will Probably Welcome the! 26 Are Injured; | One W General in New York May Die 22,—(United| LOS ANGELES, Aug. 22.— on MAY KO tO passengers from the Metro Gen, Pershing, hieveds dol : who is exp rrive from over , m a sight: stab alow or 8 or 9, it was that was hit by a Van at the White Hd@se to. Nuys street car near the Cahunga Pass and Burbank road today, Twenty-six injured, some” American Institute of Architects; E. J. Friedlander and, Edward Clifford, Veterans of For eign Wars; W. C. Meeker, Cabinet. makers’ union; Thad G, Dennis, pres | ident of Team Owners’ associat ery possi Want Agitation Hushed in ev Sheppard, of the Laundry. association, said that the of Commerce had urged soft pedal” be put on the » agitation | Weisfield, of the Retail declared that white employing too many G men’s Chamber that “the ntiJapar Morrey Clerks’ union | employers Japanese “Union labor will go down the line ag s0On as we are sure to help the mployer,” P WASHING Press.}—President Wil New York to greet are studia ere Jin this fight stunt baie that you are workin employe as well as the said Weisfield. “We don’t want to compete with the Japanese, and we can't work our families 18 hours a day The se indorsed b Minute men @anization was ready to ald in every w the tivities: nnounced | day, } It was also announced that the president will declare a holiday for the parade of the First division in bi condition, One, oe Washington September 16, altho he|@ Woman, may die, Some of the) 7) may not be in the capital on that|injured were rushed to the Universe ice ‘date of na-| 8a! Studio hospital and others tions tour taken to the receiving hospital, It is not believed probable that the “ | president will be in San Franciseo to review the Pacific fleet were being serious 4 ade timents of Welsfleld were 8. J, Lombard, of the who said that his or ack up and league's ae if he goes on his league WASHINGTON, Aug, 22—(U; i” ss.)—-Repeated attacks b; si 1, as plarined. Tt would be n revolutionists upon an v ‘ae for him to go direct to the Coast and|can Red Cross relief supply ae give up his plan of making speeches | traveling from Paris to Bucharest)” en route. were reported to Red Cross heads quarters here today. ‘8 Business Killed It ‘The employer was now ing the economic sreasure of the Japanese as labor had felt it for ye w. § Meeker, of the Pattern Makers’ |union, declared. He said that only |by honesty could the two work hand in hand The anti-Jap movement had fallen down several years ago because big business opposed it so strenuously, Frank Kannair, secretary of the | Mutual Business club, asserted, but 1 it now, ed on PARIS, Aug. Pershing returned to Paris today from his visit | and the Italian battlefields Gen |Kato Is Ordered to Siberia Post TOKIO, Aug 19.4Delayed,) Tsunataro Kato, former minister to Belgium, and at present & member | of the house of peers, was today ap- pointed minister plenipotentiary and | ordered to Siberia, Kato resigned his post at Brussels in 1907 to become editor of the| Osaka Shimpo, an independent daily, | Bldg., lowing to the Want Rhyme Contest: leven if big business oppos the movement should proc American basis, | “As soon as the other fellow gets |his toes tread on he will come in,! * Kannair said. An appeal for the movement to be presented as an issue of Ameri canism was made by T. R. Kinsey, secretary of the Retail Grocers’ as- sociation, ‘The meeting Thursday was attend ed only by those especially invited. I want to trade my old gray mare! rt put @ want ad in The Star, As that is quite the fashion, to Watch for announcement of winners in Saturday’s Star, also particulars new contest. New. York state now has 525,000 | motor cars, or more than 10 per cent | of the 5,000,000 in the United States.