The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 26, 1919, Page 1

5 First Low Tide .t ah Tide tt ieee NO. 156. ” First Low Tide Piest High Tide a aeal a a ac al PRUCE MAN SCORES DISQUE An American Paper That Fights for Americanism 10 am, 22 tt 181 tt Hotered an Second Clase Matior May 3, 1899, at the Postoffios at Beatt'o, Wash. under the Act of Col The Seattle Sta eos LATE EDITION TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE Per Year, by Mall, $5.00 to $9.00 Maren. 8, 1979 2. s pa for the hich And nice fur-trim- “sich.” The pumps slender lines and high of all women, but the foot of the They cost from $10 tet with a touch of on the collar, and a PO Muskrat on the pocket. 2 Ut of rabbit on the cuff, mt father back for what a d when he was ma,’ sult for Willie, aged 14, it what dad paid to tailored when he for the younger gir! 96.50, and for the tad to kindergarten, year dad will be #0 thoroly J school starts that atch up before taxes are Claus may ax well 9m thr until July next AZARENUS SAYS | Siw SOME CouGAR| Nazarenus of 700 Ve. recovered suffictentiy Feport having seen a ou pase of @ barn on 4 6 road between and the tally Sunday : Macks measured six inches four inches wide,” Nazar " “He didn’t seem to 1 “a hurry, but pranced | hing arg? Middle of the rou y 4nd my auto, 1 didn't a he was going so | SEATTLE, WASH., TUESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1919. Weather Forecast: ? nenkhe, preneste wen westerly winds ore AME ANTI-JAP ORDINANCE E HAVE noticed that the fellow who yells most about the other fellow’s intolerance is the one who himself is so full of suspicion, and peeve, and grouch, and hate that all of God’s good sunshine cannot boil out the swampish malaria of his shut-in soul. . Once in a while we like to publish a nut letter, not only to show our fairness, even to a monomaniac, but to give the public a chance to see what funny cerebral spasms contort the brain pan when a man has fed himself on hate until he sees yellow, feels yellow, is yellow. Take the accompanying letter, for instance. This poor chap has gorged him- self on the bran and f of dis- is He squeals because in a little sketch in the town sidelight “eolyum" on the first page his name was not mentioned, and his business given fifty dollars worth of free advertising. Not knowing, or caring, enough about such things to understand that names are never mentioned in this column, or that his store's name was of no c uence; but that the mental attitude of the man who was reading his red- eyed slush was of considerable con- sequence, We have noticed that the fellow who yells most about the other fellow’s _ intol- erance is the one who him- self is so full of suspicion, and peeve, and grouch, apd hate that all of God’s good sunshine cannot boil out the swampish malaria of his shut-in soul. We read everything; Pearson's as well as Leslie’s; we read The Masses until it was massacred; we read Hun propaganda, Bolshe- vik mush, Wall street bunk, and 17 varieties of socialistic theory; and then we take a whirl at The Nation and the Unpopular Review and a demi-tasse of Smart Set and Punch. And we note that the nar- rowest, most bigoted, least ' humane and nearest alto- gether wrong, all the time, lads are the professional reds, who make a living by trying to excite their working brethren to destroy. We never saw a red-hot radical yet who did not hate his fellow radical more than he di body else. Stee vataled the unbalanced totter on their little ropes across the abyss ; and most of them fell off because they had no balance pole of reason or experience. — We believe in free speech, and a free press, and we believe that the best thing to do with the ultra wild-eyed radical is to let him rave, instead of making a blooming martyr out of him. i ‘ A shotgun is no argument, neither is the cursing of the average vag street orator an argument. ee : R The professional pook-seller, who shoves out anarchistic poison against the gov- ernment that gives him protection, is the last little bird in the human tree that should chirp about firing from ambush, or impugn the other fellow’s motives, because he is so wide open to just criticism himself. : We wont not prevent you peddling your red-hot dogs of Russian mental mush. All we would ask of you is that, like other garbage collectors, you handle your offal without scattering it all over the street. } f Phere is always room in a city for one such shop as yours; just as there is room for a few padded cells, a certain number of sewers, and a number of garbage collectors and chimney sweeps. 5 We do, however, insist that the garbage man juggle his cans in the alley instead of the dining room, and we would remind the sooted sweep that the place for him to abide is the chimney and not the bridal suite. ‘ 2 Life stinks enough at the best without making a parlor pet out of the night-prowling skunk. covert and underhanded method of “boosting” business smacks too much of Prussianism. Of course I know that your rancor can be at tributed in part to the fact that I do not spend much of my income in advertising in your more or less re spected pages, for the reason that the more intelligent portion of the population would not be likely to see the advertisements. I confess that I am the guilty party that you were too cowardly to call by name, and I admit that I sell literature that the people . If it is not under the ban of the law. As for the “red abominations,” if you would read some them you might be less of the kind of a journalist that the masres are losing confi dence in. Immediately after reading your sereed I nmde « canvass of the customers in my store and I found as follows: There were eight “workingmen” present One was looking over the works on economics; one bought “The Progressive Thinker,” a spiritualist pa per; one was looking over the current magazines, finally purchasing “The Nation.” One was browsing thru the fiction shelves, finally buying two mechan- {eal books. Another wax scanning the medical books, and the last one searched thru the old school books tor some work he wanted, On the men and women were glancing at the window display, also looking at the magazines, buying the “Saturday Evening Post” and other highly respectable literature. We do not deny that we sell all sorts of radical lit- erature that is not under the ban of the government, and we wish we could sell a good many times as much, really believing that you would becorne more reasonable and tolerant if you would purchase some of it and learn a little truth. Your desire to stand in with the clases which enriches itself by exploitation of the “workingmen” makes you appear to despixe the latter and leads you to some despicable acts, expecially that which led to a boycott last winter when you in-, advertently showed your true nature ‘The next time you wish to advertise us, please give names, We are not worried for fear that you will do so, for we know that you prefer guerilla warfare where you can fire from ambush Yours fraternally, CHAS. D. RAYMER. Favoritism IsCharged | by Logger ‘William C. Butler of Everett | Testifies Spruce Contracts | Showed Partiality |DISQUE OFFER ABSURD spruce, thru Isbor differentials and prohibitive wages to govern- ment employes, te William (€. Butler of Everett, one of the biggest operators in Butler in a brother of Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Colum- bia university. Aside from exten- corporations, ‘The congressional committee, as_ well as @ large audience of jumber. | men, wan visibly impressed by Hut- ler's testimony. Offer Ignored “The loggers of Washington were | in & position to produce 10,000,000 j feet of epiuce @ month when war. loomed,” Butler told the committee. | \"We were in a position to supply a) |veer substantial amount of equip- ment. Our employes were enthusi-| astic and anxious to aid the gov-! ernment in its effort to aid the air | craft program. | “On February 17, 1918, the log) gers of this state made a distinct Proposal to Lieut-Col, Disque, head | of the spruce division, to produce |80,000 spruce cants a day for $85) a thousand. To this day that pro- poral, sent in the form of a letter) |to Disque, has not been acknowl edad } “Charles Cobb, one of the Nestors jof the logging industry in the | Northwest, told me personally after | no acknowledgment of the letter! |had been made, that he believed |Dieque did not want to produce} spruce. Whereupon Cobb packed |his grip and went to Southern Cal- Year Passed By “Humiliating to the jogging in-| | dustry of this state as well as to the nation, a year and seven months | passed after the entry of the United | | States into the war with Germany | before the first contract for the pro: | duction of spruce for airplane pur | poses was let. And then it came out of a clear sky in the shape of the | Siems-Carey-Kerbaugh contract, ‘The | logging industry of Washington be | |came disturbed at the extravagance | jof operations by the Siems-Carey: |Kerbaugh corporation. The labor | market, eaten into by the draft, left | us with a shortage of labor, and the tales of high wages and enormous | profits to be taken under sub-con |tracta let by the Slems-Carey-Ker baugh people, caused a serious dis: | turbance in the outlook of the| logging business. | “It was while the loggers faced | such a crisis that a meeting of log: | |gers and representatives of the| | spruce production division was held |in Seattle on September 21, 1918, | ja meeting at which Major Hitchcock | was the principal spokesman for the | | spruce corporation, | | “We were told by Major Hiteh-| | cock, as Apeaking for Colonel Disque, | that the government proposed to | stand back of the Sieme-Carey-Ker (CONT'D ON FAGH FIFTEEN) No String to Jhis “Central, give me Main 600, please, | | 1 want to rell a hive of bees. You won't get stuno—I promise that "Cause The Star want ads will see to that.” H. M. Tremaine, @B5 Henry Bldg., is the author of the above rhyme. He || ') seeks a prize in the Want |! Ad Rhyme Contest. Par- | ticulars on the Classified | page. apartments, rooming stalls, driving automobiles ‘for hire'or vending from wagons, if WAR VETERANS PRESENT PLAN Non-citizen Japanese will be prohibited from operating hotels, houses, restaurants, butcher shops, market the city council passes an ordinance that has been prepared by the Veterans of Foreign Wars. The proposed ordinance will be presented to the board of trustees of the Anti-Japanese league at its next meeting, which will probably be held Wednesday after- ¥ i | All non-citizens are barred | from obtaining licenses from |the city in the proj | ordinance, but it is designed primarily to cope with the fast increasing Japanese eco- ‘ nomic in Seattle. sca a al Bars Alien Landlords _ When Ambassador Gerard returned to Amer- | pepviden ‘thet ftaa' 6 oetien all ho- ins See Berlin, he wrote: ; : |Notwe" or balding in which wor The supreme power of Germany is firs iota or rooming house, This vested in Ludendorff — he is the ent. hous BRAINS of the general staff.” would bring apartment houses un- Ludendorff dominated Hindenburg. Foreign Wars. This commit- tee is co-operating with the Japanese investigation com- egg of the same organiza- ion. der the ordinance. No license: would a i | Vision. This would bar all Japanese Ludendorff conceived and directed the colos- fj she were not born in the United sal Hun campaigns. re elnateauan cities x? Ludendorff was termed “the astute—the ser- ff) _No. cprporation could obtain a Ik pent—the genius” by his fellow-officers. ley e'non-cittaen: c¢ He preferred to operate behind a veil of mys- ff , Vicenses for “second-hand dealers tery. His edicts were directed to the army, the [J strictea to American citizens. German civilian population, the German diplo- jj) Curbs Jap Grocers mats and the allied world. Often they appeared ff No space in the public market over the signatures of his pawns. Petgneclaptictcecieseigh Poca owen The world has been waiting for Ludendorff “}) he!4 by « non-citizen. to speak. He alone can reveal all that happened siete chase rege etic in the high German councils during the war, [J be confined to citizens and all-Amer- Ludendorff knows better than any man in Ger- fH “Tyc same restrictions woutd apply at 3 when bey te. = eee ae oe |{0 licenses for operating automobiles at is why orthcliffe an e@ Mc- Bh) truste ee aie : Clure Newspaper Syndicate of New York paid Bes pring halt ‘einaaet ta won ak Gen. Ludendorff $500,000 for the rights to pub- Byrn, er 'skn tratntecs te apanese lish his historic book on the German side of the. cording to Acting Secretary Frank war. | tive meeting: la ot otiattely enewn. haces oyna someone = ge simul- Sais Sole pean ig hy taneously in Great Britain, Sweden, Norway, American Legion, composed of Spain, France, Germany and America. - SSocutee H ahane Bo oper Only one newspaper in each territory can ob- tes ee ee tain publication privileges. The Seattle Star Gustelen tn Beatale aoe te rele. has completed negotiations to publish Luden- Gon 2 She. ncebiem Se cites dorff’s book in serial installments—at the high- Lannea est price ever paid for Northwest rights by any Thomas M. Swale, exstate legi# newspaper. |lator, lawyer, and active among the 5 me younger business men, was named fs or ~ gn acta will appear Monday, Sep- tember 8th. jas chairman of the ‘investigation body by Post Commander William |J. Coyle. Other members are E. BE. |Heg. physician; Carl E. Croson, law- lyer and prominent as a four-minute - speaker; Ren Ohnick and Capt. E. 8. | Gil, produce man, The committee ) was Instructed by the post to make a searching investigation of the Jap- nese control, and to bring in recom- jan mendations to the post at the next business meeting, in two weeks. | Democrats Meet The committee appointed by the - |King County Democratic club met = po haa to Ba any trace | in the office of John T. Casey, chair. ie Teutenante aterhouse 8nd) man of the committee, in the New Connolly, army flyers missing since] yor block Tuesday afternoon. to ine ‘ bE ey Mexican troops draw up resolutions which are the re a Cantu are result of investigations the different yiieee yi! California) members of the committee have con- Motricte, jducted into the Japanese coloniza- vary tion of the Northwest. The com: * ~——{_ mittee is composed of John T. Casey, Liberty Bonds Quoted | |/. ¥. Riley, Capt. D. 'T. Davies, G, A. x Ds | Pidduck and Mrs. A, V, Robinson, NEW YORK, Liberty bond AU white of Seattle have $99.82; first 4's, been called t nd a mass meet- vf O48 ing in room « C. Smith build- 1h, Vietory dare, ing, sat 8 p, m, Muesday, to discuss 2 the expansion of Japanese into the ee ——_—_—— retail grocery business. The plans The repartee you think of when) of the AntiJapanese league will be it is everlastingly too late to work | outlined to the grocers by Frank Ey off may save you a friend, Kannair, CHICAGO, Aug. 26.—Fifteen brew-| Another night and day of sea ers in Chicago and the Northern I Iinois district are to be arrested and indicted by the federal grand jury Y received 1 the according to instructions Governor from the department of justice at Guilt of Washington by District Attorney Clyne today. In addition to the brewers, prac- tically 200 saloon keepers in Chi cago will be arrested for violation ot the war-time prohibition act, it Aug. 2 ‘Thirty-one were arrested ‘ was said, yesterday Attorney General Edward J Brundage issued a statement that| evidence gathered by his office shows | that practically every saloon keeper | in Chicago is a violator of the pro fotory 4's