The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 9, 1919, Page 1

| 3 disaster. dictator, lations which are TURSDAY SEPT. » First Wiah Tide omar First Low Tide legions were driven into Rumania, where Tides in Seattle Second High Tide Second Low Tide - ef on the allies. printed below. Hun WEDNESDAY SEPT. to First High Tide Viret Low Tide Serood 8 p they hammered their ruthless conquest, in an effort to fool the entente. many tried to force a victorious peace up- Each chapter of Luden- dorff’s book will throw new light upon the world war, and reveal the strange psychol- ogy that prompted Germany’s leaders to Then Ger- VOLUME 22 ERE’S a lot of IT loose; The sneeze season starts out well, but every wait- ress hopes masks will not be worn this winter; The sad story of an honest. house hunter. ———————— E DON'T know what it ts they get, nor how they get it, nor just where they get it, but get it they do, and its effects resemble those of forty-rod Jersey _Mehtning. Of Yate we have noticed in the rs dewy morn and in the da: and foggy eve various starry eyed wan- derers down on First ave 7 We didn’t sniff ‘em, but we know the symptoms. As to legs they were uncertain. and as to gaze they were glassy. and as to direction they were wob- bty. As we remarked before, we don't know where they got it, but they sure to get it in quantities: And there seems to be a Jot of It lying around loose, for we have noticed every day for a couple of weeks straggling victims of its wrath. Maybe some of the esteemed Canadian Club our northern breth ren are dispensing has seeped into town Perhaps Billingsley has returned to our erstwhile dry city. Mayhap somebody is saving some more evidence, and somebody else has borrowed a corkecrew. As to that deponent sayeth not we merely take oceasion to remark that there is a lot of IT some where abouts, and we haven't caught up with any of IT. Tho we did hear tell of a fellow who spent $190 one evening recent ly and managed to get himself and company nicely illuminated But he paid too much, and had too much company. Anyhow, those fellows have no business making hogs of them selver They would feel better if they would leave nome of IT for some of the rest of us. Eh, what? eee HE cool the hea’ apartments. are produc ing a fine crop of colds in the head and sneezes and snuffles and grip Already the run has started on the bromoquinine counter, and several have taken the night boat north, where they can secure the entire treatment for grip and sich without having to bribe a purity squad or two Sneezing thru breakfast, we said to the efficient young lady who brings us Our fodder *, what @ cold! Hope the flu started already.” Believe me, I do #0,” she replied with conviction I don't mind the flu, but I certainly won't wear a Mask agai hasn't FRIEND of ours with stood a great temptation Sunday and deserves public acclaim He had been house hunting with his Sundays for three weeks Among the houses listed sun day he noticed one out Lake t way 1 in the ad it “Call between 2 and 4 toda He t 11, and the house he had been seek ing. exactly the thing, the best he had found; the price wa: mentioned in the ad, and it was reasonable “TN atick p.m and tool: his porch 5 1 o ncene over he woticed a card stuck - latch: he i We couldn’é get in; kine house rented to ux; we will pr ably be buck about v i pond was a business card and this how he door t and read rning and sider the signed FEARED ALLIES WOULD REALIZE | HUN WEAKNESS BY GEN. ERIC VON LUDENDORFY Dangerous additional strength was given to the enemy’s numerical superiority (late in 1916) by the ever-increasing devotion of } | | | } | their industries to war purposes. Far-reach-| ling restrictions on labor were passed into ilaw in entente countries, and accepted with- jout serious protest; ample labor force was available, and there was no shortage of raw | materials; the output per man had not fallen and life, in short, pursued its normal course. ‘The seas of the world were open army must be equipped. organized to the entente. The United States | and trained to the highest pitch, and | was now giving help on the largest everything possible was done to | scale, and breaking new ground, The achiewd this We knew, however. | technical equipment of the entente only too well that the enemy would }armies grew continually stronger soon adapt himself to our new tac land more complete, reaching indeed tics, and that our advagtage was an unprecedentedly high level. This | only temporary was demonstrated with pitiless clar ity on the western front. e The supreme army command had to bear in mind that the enemy's great the campaign of superiority in would be even more painfully 1917 than in 1916. It was pla be feared that early in the in| “Somme fighting” would burst out and in various points on our fronts, and that even our troops would not be able to withstand such attacks tn if the er men, and materjal felt in In the east, too, 1916 had showed a sensible increase in supply, espectally in ammunition. Russia had to some extent estab- shed a war industry of her own. part in the Donets coal basin had greatly increased her output Japan was steadily giving better de liveries. With the completion of the | definitely Murman railway and the improve-| ave us ment of the trans-Siberian line, an | #ecumulat increased import from Japan, Amer Our position was England and France was inevit. cult expecially unusually diffi and no way of escape was vis able ible. We could not contemplate an In every theater of war the en | attack 01 *, having to keep our nle for defense ore ente was able to add to her numer tente was able to add um of a collapse of any jeal superiority an enormous addi tional strength in every department of technical supply, and to destroy nte rs. If the war seemed inevitable were in a high sition for a war onomica we greater scale s ly unfavorable p | then. be rg Be paved OM the | ce exhaustion. There was weakness Somme and at Verdun bie. Cosetions of the suppiy ct Much could be done and had to be foodstuffs caused gre anxiety, and done by our industries to increase | 46 too, did questions of morale. We our strength, but plainly no little) wor. nor lormining the spirits of | rangements this end could belticckades and propaganda. The fu: | carried into effect. It was clear that ture jooked dark, and our only com our munition factories, in spite of! ror was,to be found in the proud their immense output, and however workmen they might have able to overtake the 1 hithe enemy su and that our thought that we h rto sud periority in numbers line was everywhere beyond our frontiers, é The field marshal and 1 fully at one in this many would never be enemy #0 long aa the enormous in of the latter continued fisturbed under what ce conditions. In defying the dustrial are: to work wu were virtually p were unxious view of the then circumstances it seemed line eituation. Our conclusion was no impossible to achieve , equality of | suaden one, but had gradually forces grown upon us since we took over With our sensible Ynferiority in| our posts numbers and equipment, training | 1916 for defensive warfare became more| Aw a It was obvious that our at the end of August result of ONT'D ON PAGE SAFE CRACKERS (PLAN ATTACK ROB RESTAURANT ON HIGH COST Safe | importan atx) crackers made another lcexaful haul early Tuesday morning ays of attack on the high cost of when thi robbed the Boulevard|living in the Northwest by the fed Chop He 420% Pike and |eral government being threshed escaped with a $60 Liberty bond, a|out sexday in the office ‘of the bank k and insurance papers.|Unit States district attorney Entrance was gained either thru/by District Attorneys Robert C the sky or rear r Outer | Saunder Bert Hane of Portland foors wafe had neen left nd Francia A. Garrecht of Spokane per »bbers “Jimmied” the! Garrecht has been in Seatt ner No arrests have been | yonda morning, while Han made b the police This is the rived here early Tuesday third safe robbery in three days. | going into confere they an nounced that they had a number of with a woman's name lconstructive suggestions and a com Well, what would you have | prehensive statement on the plan of done the government to lower the of Remember, this was the first | living will be issued after the confer kely house in three weeks of | ence eareh In Spokane the launching of a No: he didn’t tear up the card He put it back in the door and ‘went on house hunting. Poor fish! extigation caused an immediate reduction in the cost of | breads and m " declared District Attorney Garrecht. government | opinion the} * | settlement,” “SE ATTL E, WASHL, TU LUDENDORFF SAYS HUNS LOST HEART IN 1916 Two years before the end of the world war, Germany’s military leaders faced This is admitted by General Erich von Ludendorff, Germany's military in the second chapter of his reve- carry on the struggle for world domina- tion. chapter closely. pear daily in The Star. If you failed to start the Ludendorff story in yesterday's issue, you can get copies of same at The Star office. Star readers should follow each One installment will ap- Or, An American Paper That Fights for Americanism The Seattle Star Entered as Becond Class Matter May 2, 1899, at the Postoffice at Beattie, Wash under the Act of Congress March 3, 1879 you may begin the Ludendorff series to- day. Yesterday’s installment dealt prin- cipally with the idea that Ludendorff ex- pected the U. S. to join the war against Germany, even tho the unrestricted sub- marine program had not been inaugurat- ed. He cited what he considered Amer- ica’s unneutrality as far back as 1914. Late Edition t 9, 1919. Fair tonight and Wednesday; warm er Wednesday; gentie northerly wind _Weather Forecast: GAS HEAD DEFIANT PRESIDENT “MAY DANCE N STREET Sailors Ready to Welcome Mr. and Mrs. Wilson to Midnight Jazz |WILSON WELL GUARDED! President find Mrs, Wilson may dance to the latest jas tunes with the men of the fees, at Fourth ave. and Bell st, Sat- urday night, After the speech, the president and the first lady of the land will be free to do as they choose, W. 4. Spangter, assistant chairman of the fleet entertainment com- mittee, announced Tuesday At that time the only event of put» re which the presidential the gobs party jazz hop on the «treet We haven't asked him to dance naid Spangler, “not knowing whether he trips the light fantastic or not but you bet we'll be glad to have him When the president and Mre, Wil son alight from the train, at the Union depot, at 190 p.m, Saturday they will be surrounded by a body of joe agents, seven of whom mpanied* him from Wash ington as a continuous bodyguard.4 be augmented by a num ber of men from the Jocal secret serv tee office, who will scatter thru the crowds to the dential party during their stay here to prevent any attempt at violence The extra number of men compris ing the bodyguard ix held secret Arena Holds 5,500 Ans all who wish to hear m, Sat allowed may attend will be mecret ae have « keeping clone presi Bn the president's speech at § p » Arena will be ng capac room will 1,500 no me urday att the opportunity ity ix 5,500, and « permit admi as poxsible etetary of the 2 ace, under whose the prewident will speak, T: we want to be democratic in pick vudience. We would like to ybody, but that, of course. ing the admit ev will be impossible The president wants an audience } which, as nearly possible, will be repgesentative of all the people, and with that end in view, the committee probably will be ed to ask representatives from vari c zations, But a large number of seats (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR) SETTLEMENT OF | STRIKE LIKELY Strike of building trades men ap: compe settlement Tuesday peared nearer with two meetings between master builders And union men scheduled Revision of the mediation board plan submitted by the M will be taken up ter Bullders > firnt meet scheduled at CHAPLIN SOLVES Women! It’s Up to You! ZAR MRS. AND MISS SEATTLE: You are going to entertain, in a few days, thousands of boys who were, and are, willing to lay down their lives for you and yours. | Between the Pacific Coast and pogsible danger stands just one force—the Pacific fleet. Between your home, your children, your dearest, stand these men of the navy—and they alone. This is their holiday; it is your opportun- ity as well. | Thousands and thousands of these Amer- ican sailors will tramp Seattle’s streets hun- gry unless you do your part, The city cannot feed these tens of thou- sands of sailors in its regular eating places. If it could, it would hardly be hospitable to profit from our guests. So, the fleet committee has given the wo- men of the city a chance to do something for the hungry gob. You can fill a lunchbox with home good- ies—one lunch box, anyway, can’t you? When you fill this box, tuck in the paper napkin on top of the fried chicken, wrap the dill pickle in its blanket of waxed paper and stick that big piece of layer-cake in the cor- ner, you know you have made one sailor boy happy and have been, for the moment, a mother to a lad who maybe has not had a taste of home cooking for a year. Here is your opportunity. Won't please get busy? You can secure you a lunch box with full di rections at your grocery store. Twenty-five thousand of them are needed at the least,.and there are more than 25,000 Seattle housewives. Do it as soon as possible and avoid the confusion and vexation of the last minute rush, But do it, won't you? It’s the only chance you'll have to express your pent-up feelings. Think of it, 25,000 boys away from home, doing our work, nation’s work, without thought of personal advantage! Anyhow, one lunch is their due. And Now What ? 1 ¢ k, when ommittees of the genéfel committees of the ‘as HOUSING PROBLEM] wasutnaron, sept. 9—In a oclation and the Building Trades LOS ANGELES, Cal. Sept tentative report, the interstate com council will meet, ‘They will try te harlie Chapt movie J, merce commission today ruled “un effect a romise on the media has purchased the J just’ and unreasonable,” iner tlon board 4 port Berbeimer | charges for loading and unt a meeting of general committe cattle cars made by the Union from both organizations at 3 o'cloc Stock Yards Transit company at I think we are on our way to Chicago sald Arthur Gerbel, pu licity agent for the association, Tues P| day ‘There may be a settlement,” I k Cotterill, secretary of the | oq Building Trades council, declared. | pur from the und th puncil met Mond: first time since th ago. The nned for Tuesday Committ strike a course of action Di was then work ed out Carpenters, tathers. cement mixers are asking $10 a day [and building iaborers §7 a day. | House Will Probe Inc Burleson’s Work WASHINGTON, igated by the adera had practically decid sociation | inve * ean ed today YORK quotations today plasterers and | $04.84: ases were 25 cents per car for unloading and 60 cents for loading. | pt, 9—(Unit Postmaster General administration will be repub Replies I got would fill a car Of all the papers in the For news or ads The West, Star's the dest. I phoned a want ad to The Star, | Submitted in the Want Ad Rhyme Contest by H. E. Bennett, 1726 L. C. Smith Bldg. See Classified | Page for particulars, | famine “NOBODY'S BUSINESS HOW WE DEAL WITH OUR MEN,” HE STATES Developments in Gas Strike Outlying low districts report insufficient gas press- ure for continuous flame. Gas company officials promise steadily increasing — Pressure and a normal continuous supply in 24 hours. State Public Service Commissioner Frank R. Spinning — arrives from Olympia to investigate gas situation. Mayor Fitzgerald attempts to speed up negotiations — between workers and Seattle Lighting company. General Manager Lane of the gas company, says it’s a business” how the strike is handled by the — pany. "Comahy officials ignore Mayor Fitzgerald’s request — for a speedy conference with workers to settle the strike — and prevent further suffering. ‘ Striking gas workers meet in executive session at Labor Temple. : Workers ready to meet in conference to try and ar- range settlement at any time, says A. E. Miller, repre- senting striking gas men. “It’s nobody’s business how we settle wit! the unions. We're supplying gas and that’ ‘all we’ve got to say to the public.” " This was the attitude assumed toward the _ | public today by the Seattle Lighting Co., and voiced by General Manager S. K. Lane. State and city officials were atl s R. Hutchinson Tuesday to work Tuesday, attempting to protect | his mouth closed” and make no state the public from further gas famine. | ments to the public. State Public re Commissioner — Non-union workers are stoking the Frank R. Spinning hurried to Seat-| company's six coke ovens, but pro tle from Olympig to check up on the | duction is only 75 per cent normal, situation. Flecause the gas company) All gas consumers are warned to is legally responsible to the state! keep their gas turned off tight, whem commission, and not to the city g0v-| not trying to utilize a flame. i ernment, Spinning has authority to|iy grave danger of cephyisiationll take steps to insure service. covks are left open, when gas waves Mayor Fitzgerali concentrated his | surge thru the pipes and main, efforts on an attempt to force speedy | “We are ready to meet any time in negotiations between Seattle Light conference to try and arrange @ set ing company officials and striking! teme nt.” said A. E. Miller, represent. workers. ;ing striking gus workers Tuesday. Altho gas pressure had increased | “We shall insist on our original de slightly outlying low dis-|mands of 50 cents a day increase. © tricts were without sufficient gas/ Until the company settles with the | to support a flame. workers there can be no adequate Numerous complaints gas service." ceived by The Star from Mount| Striking union gas workers am Baker park and Rainier valley.| sembled at the Labor Temple Tues Housewives said fruit was spoiling day morning for-an executive sem on their hands because of the gas| sion. They were still meeting behind which prevented them from | closed doors at noon. Oh, Joy, Folks! Hart Will Run Again, He Says were re| canning. Gas company officials maintained their independent attitude and re fused to say whether or not they intended to negotia speedy settle ment t has partially para Mayor Fitagerald requeste attle Lighting company off 2 d the Se Is to with employes a settle a conference to work out arrange and attempt me | OLYMPIA. sept. 9— This request had been ignored, and ae PIA, Sept. 9.--Oh, dry those ? swer had been received by the| “ACting Gov. Lows F. Hart am up to noon Tuesday It was in response to & message sent by Mayor Fitzgerald that Pub- lic Service Commissioner Spinning |, came to Seattle ald sent the following mes. to the state capital | Public Commission, Olyr nounces he will noc retire when his term of office expires. Nope. He'll run again, if the rank and file” of the republican party want him Acting Gov, Hart let himself be nterviewed here yesterday to the effect that the story sent out from Spokane, where he addressed a meets ling of Methodists, is all wrong. He didn’t say he. wouldn't run again, {What he said was that he hoped |when the late Gov, Lister's term, which he is now filling because the governor died, isended, the state's | voters will say, “Well done.” ‘That's a duty upon you to regulate mat- | ail he said. Absolutely nothing about: ters of this kind, I respectfully | retiring. request that you take such steps | Dr. P. oH as may be essary to insure continued service. The welfare of the inhabitants of Seattle is jeopardized by existing condi- tions, for which reason I req:est Immediate. action.” 36 Per Cent Normal General Manager Lane of the gen company instructed @Guperintendent! among all rvice men: The Seattle Lighting ¢ any is not fulfill- ing obligations placed upon it by the public service commission to furnish gus, because of its fail- ure to adjust differences with its employes. Since the law places Garlyon, state senator of Thurston county, who, with Sen- ator Howard Taylor, of Bagle Gorge, runs the state senate republican ine ner circle, was pot with Gov, Hart when that Spokane speech was | made, Beene, ee in