The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 29, 1919, Page 1

WILSON TO REACH SEATTLE SEPT. 13 Tides in Seattle us) eSeattle Star THURSDAY AUG. 8 First Low Tide tah Tide md Low Tide Second Miah VOLU ME 22, HARD luck story in real life is not rare, but here is a good one; traveling --and the sick old lady; when it’s about money, news moves swiftly. A Seattle man has for Months been dreaming of taking a trip South in a new road ster, He worked overtime for weeks getting his business in shape to leave. He turned in his old car, bought the new one, loaded in his luggage and away for the open road and the sunny South. The car ran fine and he made Portland in eight"hours. Stopped at a hotel, saw Portland, took his ear from the garage and left it on the street for a minute, to go and Bet a thief lock. He returned in ten minutes and his shiny new roadster was not there. ERE ts a true story that is our flea of tough tuck. All he had was a pretty lock and his engine number. He waited for a couple of days While the police were more or leas busy, and finally came this tele ecChiet of Police, Portland: Caught two boys in new Foadster stolen at Portland Mon- day; will hold car and thieves here for orders. “SHERIFF'S OFFICE. “Roseburg. ‘The Seattle man took the next _ train to Roseburg. On alighting. he noticed that there had been a fire on Main at. But he didn’t think much of that; he was chiefly interested In one big. red roadster and some hand bagcage. He found the deputy sheriff ‘who had made the arrest; he was asked if he wanted to interview the thieves. “No; I want to interview the _ car.” he said, real pert like. “Sorry, mister,” said the deputy. “but your car burned up last night im the garage fire; nothing left but some junk; there wasn’t any suit cases or bags when we caught the thieves.” Among other things this man ‘was going to get. and didn’t, was some fire and theft insurance, Can you beat it? NEVER _ traveled enough to get tired of it. We like the rush of big railroad stations, the New scenes, the cindery smell of the engine puffing up a grade, the ceaseless unrolling of the nation-wide panorama outside the window. But if we had to travel gs one old Jady did who came to ttle ye@erday, we would lose all our geatfor the rolling wheels, ‘he Northern Pacific from rolled in, and on a bag- truck from one of the coac was lifted a cot. An old lady, wasted away until two slig! men pick@ her up with ease, was the traveler. They lifted her from the cot to invalid wheeled chair and her to a waiting ambulance whistied its important way thru the rush of the city with its fragile cargo of suffering. yhen we're sick, we want our own little bed, and somebody to nurse us who, we know, loves us, and neither noise, nor strangers, nor baggage trucks included in the dietary E RAVELERS in savage lands bring back strange stories of how hews travels from tribe to tribe without the help of couriers, wireless or tele maltis. graph. The Seattle citizen who waa stuck with a Canadian half<dollar yesterday had cause to nder about the same sort of pathy A smal] item in the day’s routine news stated that t nks were going to discount Canadian money 10 per cent, and within an hour there was not a merchant, cashier, clerk newshboys, car con ductor waltress didn't know all about it We found a few Ca in our private started out to unload as swe wsaw that walked off $3-vorth of good er, and we didn’t find nary who didn't all street or that lan pleces collection, and soon as item, and we Seattle See Saturday’s Star for announce- ment of new Want Ad Rhyme Contest. Botered W feel the javelins of vision enough to protect ourselves. ae Second Class Matter May a, 9, at the Postoffics at Beattie, Wash, under _SE ‘TTL, BE, W FRIDAY AUG U ust SH., 29, 1919. | misfortune before we get Why The Star is anti-Jap and why the Business Chronicle is no The latest issue of the Business Chronicle has for a “lead” an article entitled “Why Anti-Japanese Agitation?” Perhaps the writer is merely pretending ignorance; merely assuming a depth of numskullishness, an impregnability of cra- nium; probably he is merely putting rhetorical questions, for we hate to think that there is a white man, an American citizen, that is so stupid as not to know the few simple things underlying all American anti-Japanese agitation. But, perchance, the man is really ignorant. Every day we are newly appalled at the mass of mental inertia that pins folks down into the dust of the earth. So, let’s assume for a moment that the chap knows no more than he pretends to know, and give him a few little truths. In words of one syllable so that he can understand. A few facts: Wherever the Jap has competed with the white man he has driven the white man to the wall. Wherever the Jap has gained a foothold in a white man’s country, he has built up his standing until the white man had to get out. The Jap does not assimilate Occidental ideas. He cares nothing for the land of his adoption, ex- cept to make money from it. No white man can live as white men desire to live; no white man can earn a living wage, conduct his business decently, or educate and clothe his family sufficiently, in competition with the Jap. The “American” Jap does not live; he exists in a hovel, he works 20 hours a day, he seeks first, money. Next he seeks land and a monopoly of business. Racially, the Jap is impossible of digestion. Commercially, the Jap invariably ruins his white competitor. Just as this nation could not exist half slave and half free, so it cannot exist half Oriental and half white, And an American who, for the temporary ad- vantage of cheap Jap labor, or for the financial benefits of Japanese trade, or because of fear of the local Japanese business clique, will even re- motely aid the Japanese penetration of the Pacific coast—such an American is either dangerously Says U. S. Entry Into War Not Surprising! Gen, Ludendorff, who directed Germany's military destines, ex pected the United States to join with the ‘allies in the world war. The Hun leaders believed they could halt the flow of Amer- jean soldiers to the battle front by a wholesale sinking of trans- ports, | This is one of the revelations made by Ludendorff himself in the first | | chapter of his own book on the Ger: man side of the war, which reveals how the enemy leaders plotted the {gigantic soheme to dominate the | world “It was not a matter of surprise to me that the United States joined the ranks of our enemies,” writes Ludendorfft. “I had reckoned upon their doing so, provided th ance of the war continued in our favor, or if the unrestricted submarine cam paign had never been opened, Expected Sinkings ndorft declares that the Ger ‘at a decision in na of an offensive which must succeed if the submarines had by that time been able to reduce tonnage so that the quick transport of new American armies was out of the question, or if a certain propor tion of the transports had been sunk The y counted upon being able Ludendorft’s book, which was re- | completed in Sweden, where following the with a large mass of | jelusive rights from the McClure Syn dicate for the Ludendorff book in Seattle and vicinity The first chapter will The Star Monday one installment thereafter. If you are not receivin regularly, write ing, Main 600 Tries to Help ‘Cub, Is Killed by Bear SPOKANE, Aug. 29.—An unknown tourist was killed by a mother bear appear in September 8, and will appear dally ¢ The Star or phone Star build near the Old Faithful Geyser hotel Yellowstone nati , according to tourists arriving here The dead man attempted to extrt cate a club which with its head in on a dump, the The mother objected, and crushed in his! ad been caught an old can report say Well, we don't get fuswed up cently about political change of gilt much went immediately igning of the armistice taff of assistants Released September 8 Ludendortf’s book, which is awalt by every civilized country, will be released for publication Monday, Sep = In the brave old days and @ and ermine and swords, the popu off and king lace took @ w new with everything from roast ox to red and mead flashed moved wine 8 glittering the pomp of power flowed in flood: and the monarch was embedded so deep four umstance and al tokens that th n tire kingdom took days to get over it bd Yesterday the kingdom of Seat and tember 8 id Ont tor one newspaper In each terri-| panopl About will be permitted to print the book blanket publication rights for Great Britain and America have been purchased by Lord Northcliffe ; and the McClure Newspaper Synfi cate of New York, The Seattle Star has obtained ex- great new ignorant, or his love of the dollar is greater than his patriotism. The Star stands for a white America. Asia for Asiatics and America for the white race to work out its destiny in. The issue between the Jap, seeking to control American business, and the American citizen seeking his proper work in a free country is the only issue involved; and the man who cannot see this, or who will not see this, is a dangerous man to have any voice of authority in an American community. The history of the Japanese in Hawaii, in Califor- nia, aye, in Washington, short as that history may be, is enough to give any honest, right-thinking, loyal American citizen every reason he needs to support those of us who are trying to keep this country free for the destinies of the white race, and clear of the impending peril of Asiatic supremacy. There is no mystery about the anti-Japanese “agi- tation”; there is considerable mystery about this powerful counter barrage, that some few big interests in Seattle are firing, against those who simply are trying to keep this Pacific coast free from Asiatic dominion. The Star has frankly stated the case for the anti- Japanese crusaders. Will the Business Chronicle be as frank in giving the lotul interests who favor*Ja nese monopoly of the Pacific Northwest; in sthng their financial standing, and the private reasons for their un-Americanism? Of course it won't, because these interests know that the day will come when Seattle will wake up to the inner peril of the Japanese, and in that day damned, indeed, will be the man or firm who helped plunge the city into the pit it will find itself in. TEN YEARS FROM NOW THE BUSINESS CHRONICLE EDITOR WILL BE SAYING, WITH EVEN MORE VIGOR THAN THE STAR, WHAT WE ARE SAYING HERE. And 10 years from now no American, no matter how ignorant, nor how venal, will be guilty of aiding the rise of the sun of Nippon on our fair shores. That’s the pity of it; we have to bleed a little and weep a little and feel the javelins of misfortune, before we get vision enough to protect ourselves. Always our most respectable citizens are the blindest, and the money wor- shipers heedlessly invite ruin to come and dwell within their homes. { (20 ARE KILLED IN EXPLOSION 40 Missing on British Moni- tor Glow Worm ARCHANGEL, Aug. 28.~(De layed.) — Twenty men were killed and 40 are missing, it was reported today, as a result of the explosion of an ammuni tion barge, which destroyed the British monitor Glow Worm, || City’s Doors Fail to Open for Boys of Pacific Fleet | Onetenth the daily quota is the present rate at which Seattle is responding to the call of the fleet w committee for rooms and beds in which to } house the men of the fleet and } fleet visitors. Only | to housing headquarters buil Biliott neceanary 120 rooms were reported 205 Com daily } mercial Thursday enrollment reach 1,000 rooms or Seattle sorely clouded la critical The necessary must immedi come will be the ittee announced F problem has become boarding and room nd other usual places full. An 40,000 rooms comm The as all hote {Divers Searching for Body of Woman PASCO, Wash. Aug today are attempting over the of Mrs, J, 1. Crane, which Is trapped under an overturned auto at |the bottom of the Columbia near Bossburg. Mrs, Crane was the wife of the president of the Bank of Pasco. Crane, who was driving, lost control of his on the ferry ing houses Leet Jation are Divers additional irgentl ot to Phone y to Elliott 2432 pe yur offer 1 room 4 } body 5 Were it not for the things we are to do, life would not be worth car while crossing E HAVE to bleed a little, and weep a little, and A 4 | Seattle, An American Paper That Fights for Americanism he Act of Congress March &. LATE EDITION TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE Per Year, by Mall, $5.00 to $9.00 a aii colt ather Forecast: 7 artnet's. gautie meets fair and anterly wind 4 ppears in ‘Portland to Face Spruce Probe PRESIDENT MAY REVIEW FLEET HERE Will Make Speech Saturday Night and Visit City During Sunday MAY DELAY WARSHIPS WASHINGTON, Ang. (United Press.) —The official itinerary for President Wikon speaking tour over the nation in behalf of the treaty of peace and the league of nations was announced today. 2. PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 29.—General Brice P. former commander of the spruce production division former president of the spruce production corporation, un- expectedly returned to Portland today to face his detractors; in the congressional spruce production investigation which: — is now under way in Portland. Disque arrived here from New York, where he is presi-: dent of the G. Amsinck company, an exporting and import- ing concern. He immediately called upon Congressman: — James A. Frear, chairman of the congressional sub-commit- tee, for opportunity to be sige In a formal letter, he said I have come across the ceateiae | for the purpose of assisting your committee to rive at the facts | concerning spruce production while you are here in the Northwest. | where the subject has become one | of public interest, and where I feel | that my evidence is necessary in| j Ship Probe Hints of lorder to prevent a misunderstanding | The president will spend part of | ‘Saturday, September 13, in Tacoma, He will leave in the afternoon for jan evening address at Seattle. He) | will spend Sunday, September 14, in| in the public mind of our opera- tions.” | PORTLAND, Ore, Aug. 29— | That $5,000,000 was squandered, misapplied and converted to the use of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad company, in the construction of the Siems- Carey-Kerbaugh spruce road thru the Olympic peninsula, is fag from th " attle, and which opened hearings land. iad ee SS ee | here this morning, forwarded The president, according to pres-| frog og exh Hag aged Be ent plans, will speak in an open alr| amphitheatre at Tacome.. This te| ' S*#°* one of the few open air addreases| “ThOse directly responsible for ex- the president will make cessive expenditures, used to ad- , . |vance large business interests, The president will leave the capt- : tal much relieved at the turn fan | Saal bs: ‘held to © wteiet legal) re tional problems have taken in the | "PO! A pant few aye. Tie Ue anid to. be|g ihe Tepert, which te the first of particularly pleased over the stand; Oca! finding of the spruce adminis of railroad #hopmen leaders, who| man James Frear and Representa have urged the men to defer action | tive Ww. Wo M Congres an for at least 90 days, and with the Clarence F. Lea, of California, demo: action of brotherhood chiefs in sid Jerat, did not affix his signature ing with the railroad administra Mitwaukee Line . tion in the, strike dispute in the] ,, . southwest. ‘He takes these things| wat ‘not to carry spruce loxm, but as as an index of labors attitude An extension of the Milwaukee rail The president is said also to feel|*" A | way for commercial purposes,” the that national labor leaders, now in| \Coerassional report declares conference here with Samuel Gom-|""wrne Milwaukee railroad officials pers, will throw their influence in] an4 siwaukee engineers apparent- favor of his plan for an industrial| i,” controlled the location and de. truce, and act as a balance wheel/ termination of the road which has against unauthorized strikes and|heon puilt. A Milwaukee engineer radicalism |buiit the road. Mry Ryan (ohn D. The president's car will travel as! Ryan), then government director of | a special section of regularly sched/ air craft, and director of the Mil- uled trains. | waukee line, personally examined it President Wilson will make bis!in July, 1910, According to informa first epeech at Columbus, Ohio, n/ tion received.’ September 4. He will journey across! ‘The report recommends that the country and is scheduled to reach | scheduled scale of spruce production Spokane the afternoon of Septem-|equipment September 2, be deferred ber 12. After the Seattle and Ta-/ until Secretary Baker and the war coma speeches the president will go|department make a full investiga- to Portland, Monday, September 15,/ tion the and evening. From! “It ts belleved from the fore- he go to San Francisco.) going facts, as set forth,” con- cludes the report, “that approxi- mately $5,000,000 were squan- dered, misappropriated and con- verted to the uses of the Mil- waukee railroad interests. And such acts were permitted by men in positions of authority, whose duty is was to prevent such wasteful and unnecessary ex- penditures. “In order to awaken public ent to the situation pre- ited we would rather see this day will for there Plans for t welcome week were being rapidly changed Friday, fol- | lowing receipt of a Washington dis patch announcing the visit of Presi: | o and Mra, Wilson here Septem Spangler, chairman of + committee, announced at nber of Commerce that an ef. | would be ma at once to} the date of the fleet arrival 1%, that the president might the warships as they team into the harbor If this effort is successful, the president, Mra Wilson, Admiral Carey T, Graygon, Secretary Jo: », Tumulty, Secretary of the Ni Daniels, the governors of the fi Northwestern states, and the pre mier of British Columbia, will be in the reviewing stand. If these plans fall thru, the fleet will arrive and will re main until 8 fort change to September eview in to have the government sell to the Chicago, Milwaukee - Paul railroad for an in- their ‘The facts here presented speak for ives and further investigation may disclose con- ditions upon which a recovery can be had against John D. Ryan and others who are responsible for the wasteful expenditure of public funds,” tration probers, was signed by Chair- | | { “The Seattle Plumbing |company had a contract to | the Sloan shipyard at Olympia [certain specially ground | Revelle told the investigating mittee. “That contract was c in open competition. After |plumbing firm had supplied ab one-third of the material called f jin its contract, it was notified tl | the contract was canceled and gi to the Crane Co. Lost One Month “I tried hard to learn the | for the cancellation, but I was Vinced from a jetter from the | ping board, bearing the signature of | Capt. W. A. Magee, that either was a big fool or something worse, In the meantime, Howard Cosgrove, district counsel for the shipping” | board, straightened out the mess and our contract was renewed, but not until the Sloan shipyard had lost a month of valuable time because the cancellation of the valve cone tract.” “It wns because of this inefdent |that I opposed the appointment of — Capt. Blain as permanent recet jof the Meacham & Babcock Ship- {building Co. I did not think |was a fit man for, the place. 2 further opposed the appointment of |Capt. W. C. Dawson because I was and am convinced that Capt. Dawe {son and Capt. Blain were hand-in- |siove with each other. At a meets jing which was attended by Capt. Blain, my creditors were told by _ Capt. Blain that if they opposed — |the appointment of Capt. Dawson jthey probabty would not receive |their money. If they approved — | Capt. Dawson's appointment, Capt, ” | Blain told the creditors, they would | receive their money within a week. United States District Attorney _ eres C. Saunders was closeted — with the investigators for nearly ai 'hour preceding the taking of Re |velle's testimony. Neither Saunders jnor the committee would discus@ their conference. | Two government Gg | « SONT'D | ON PAC are al TWO) |MEETING OF LABOR AND CAPITAL URGED WASHINGTON, Aug. 29.—Dee mand that congress take immediate action on his resolution calling for |a conference of capital and labor, [Was made today on the senate floor ‘py Senator Poindexter, Washington, off his show reporter took a new t political 4 new ruler Seattle 4s ™ than a lot of duchies and that tanding court ream richer re worth cigar and th was “L hereby tion as mayor, Moved. "vepted ; the show 8 while on tender my read the clerk nation rmie and and of historte And how did secon rried tired gent running tled it with the ent of his colleagues seconds and a half more made be ordered the yawning Seattle pick its nom 80 new bo: Well, along afternoon hundred bored citizens, 1 than a t of in 26 A minute and slip: paper Mr rald the new ruler of the and in a casual sort of would, do his and hoped would get them smoking it drab men ambled into the a pir ’ 1 few of netl chamber ri kes Another “Chaw™ kingdom clerk te chew way, he said he dirnest for the town, he and the counell along all right wnother of tobacco, ier high official moved the apittoon nearer his lordly seat, a casual body Cares | and they voted aye. Took another three minutes to elect A, T. Drake to fill the place of Councilman Fitagera and it was all over in unde; an hour, No glory, no pomp, no circum. stance; a few indifferent lobby- ists for sole witnesses, and the | city had an entire new outfit in and $400,000 less in the they spent 18 minutes passing ordinances; in that time ht blase gentlemen J to spend about $400,000 of people's cash the if No Discussion It was $7,500 for street car fares for the fleet gobs; $60,000 for a new mark street railway bond ind better than twenty thousand a minute was the average. All favor, ight ayes, no noe Bo * TRat's all there waa to it No discussion, no explanation, no tedious argument, or bother. ‘The committee said ‘Vote aye” Fair enough; no use putting on | a lot of dog; might as well go | thru the motions, slide the cut and dried program along, and get back to something worth while. The removal of one mayor, the election of another, the appro- | | | | | | | | | priation of a huge sum, meant no more in the life of the city, touched no more the routine of any citizen in it, outside the few on in the council chamber, n did the aimless meanders ings of any doodle bug. Suppose that's all right; short and sweet and on your way, BUT— Suppose they weren't all good men and true up there and some measly gang wanted to elect a mayor and steal a few million dollars, Under the pres: ent system, the present cloud of public indifference, couldn’t they — loot the big till without a blat being sent up? They could pipes Meet ad |