The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 17, 1919, Page 1

PALMER SAYS WRATH OF PEOPLE WILL CONVICT PACKERS LALLA AAPA AAPA AAPA AAA AREA PAPA PAPA PAPA PAPRAPM RRMA PAPAP RPS PPPS PR PRP PRP PPA PAP PR PRPS PRP PPP PRP PPP PRP PPP PPP PPP PPP PPP PPP PPR PRADA PP PPP PRP PPP PPP PPP PPP PPP PPD PDP DP WEDNESDAY serv Virst First tet 1244p ow Tide Vide w The Tides in Seattle RSDAY Ts Second Low Tite An American Paper That Fights for Americanism This is Robert suffering from a gunshot —Creas-Dale Photo wound accidentally E guess that the Prince has a pretty good time at i that. E HAVE been following his majesty — guess that’s his designation-— the Prince of Wales, for cokes. A prince these days is quite a study, you know; a sort of living document, linking the earth with } its dead past. ; And the movie filma come a» } near giving you the man as he is as anything could, except daily companionship; and to date we ven't been invited to personally conduct any princes about for their love of our genial com Well, this pr have to himwelf; it looked like he was always surround- ed with old, dreased-up, stately fel Jows; that his risings up and his so forma) that sittings down were he couldn't find a minute to be with himself, and e the pleas ure @ young man ¢ es But one recent filb gave different idea It was a ¢ making a drive course And the way the laid hands on that club: up and down ar dexterity a his stroke, t Aifferent, manner b club, and the plop that his « ball, which imm from that pl 7 all that showed that had somehow f of solitary tramping over for hours of unmixed me 4 on the knotty prot | me, and/that it had not WMgh state and ceremony young life We understand he goes trout fishing; we would like to see him pull down pheasant, going like yards away; or make t and left on a brace of quail, whirring Up from the brush; we would like us a se-up of the prince on a Canadian golf young the the pecu omenchs of even in led. the © the chap swish ent away ull been in his shoots and a Chinese bullet 40 a 4 STEEL WORKERS. _ SET FOR STRIKE Gary Worried PITTSBU Sept. 17.—Unit- ed Press.)—"“A declaration of in- dependence will be issued at to day's session of the steel work. ers. The strike will go thru by 100 per cent.” This statement was made by John Fitzpatrick committee of steel workers meeting here te declared: “So far ote postponing t from September 22 until | labor confe not be taken,” r the 2. H. Gary, | u of directors |erett ¢ chairman of the board | TAKES HIS OWN LIFE Mother Declares Son Shot Himself Accidentally, Not Suicide |HE WAS OUT OF WORK John Bretthauer died lat the city hospital Wed- nesday, a victim of a sui- cide attempt, according to {the story he told attend- ants. The boy, who lives with his mother, Mary Brett- hauer, at 206 29th ave. N., fired a shot into his abdo- men Tuesday afternoon. He told hospital attendants he had quit the shipyard be- cause the work was too dif- ficult and he couldn't find anything else to do. “Played” With Revolver Despite the boy’s story, the mother declared the shooting was accidental. She said the youth had left the house early in the day to look for work. She left the house later. The boy, in the mean- time, had returned home, and, Geary, 16, who lies in the city hospital inflicted. | it,” On. the cot next to his lay John Bretthauer, 15, who died he told me it was an acci- at noon today as the result of severe gunshot wounds in dent.” the abdomen, inflicted in an attempt at suicide, according to the story he told hospital attendants. chairman of the general | | AS MURDERER as 1} rike | nee in Washington will | while playing with the revol- jver, shot himself. “I asked him why he did sobbed the mother, “and Another Boy Shot Actoas the room in an adjacent bed, lies Robert Geary, 16, the vie | Um of an accidental gunshot wound thru the left leg, below the knee. Geary, who was employed by the | Phe pe Shom Co., waa visiting a boy friend on a farm near Kent. He [declared he took his revolver with pice tor target practice walking along the country “be. explained, “when. I As Vat : 'Walk-Out Sure, Says Chief; | cided to try the gun to see if it would | work Just ax I pulled the trigger I made a step and the gun swung inward. The bullet passed thru the |flesh. It didn’t hurt much at the |time, but gee, when they took it out!” | Geary’s father, T. W. Geary, is | proprietor of a soap factory on Jet |ferson st HE MAY HANG New Law The first murder trial in King county under the new capital pun ishment statute started in Judge Kv Smith's courtroom Wednes. of the United States Steel corpora-|4ay morning, when Deputy Prose tion, following a meeting of the 4|cutor J. A. Frater opened the state's her terday. He had been asked | Case against Pete Perkovich, Perko: |if the diretcors had discussed the | Vich Is accused of stabbing Pete Cor. ed strike of employes, Stand Back, You Swains! Lizzie Is After a Million SALEM, Ore., Sept. 17 ernor Olcott has a new job and one that promises to be most difficult of accomplishment. He has been asked to find a husband for Lizzie Leslie of Pueblo, Colo Miss Leslie's order tor a “good looking bachelor” might be filled but she adds the qualification that th sired spouse must have a million dollars Gov to see a close-up of him casting a dry fly out over a boulder and making it hit the foot-square bit of water at the head of the eddy. |Then we would know for sure whether he had been given @ rea sonably good time or not, lack to death in a brawl over a poker game at 710 Dearborn at., July 1, | First Case on Trial Under} The greater part of the day was spent in picking a jury The poker game was in the home of George Kranarich, where Perko vich had been living. Alleged cheat ing started a melee, in which Corack was killed and Krznarich and his wif Perkovich were badly cut Ww rnbart is defending Perko. vich, while Frater is assisted by Dep uw Prosecutor Wallace Mount, Jr |Boston’s General Strike in Doubt BOSTON, Sept. 17.—Altho voting on the question of a general strike in |sympathy with the striking police continued today, it was believed in | many quarters that the action of the |city firemen in refusing to join the |movement may cause abandonment |of the plan Milliner# bills are the taxes whi the malp gex has to pay for the beauty of Cre females. | SEATTI E, WASH, Editor Seattle Star: Believing your paper to be a champion of the people, | wish to ask a question. Why all this unrest? Can that question be satisfactorily an- swered, or is it simply a mental disturb- anc which is not quite comprehensible to any of us? Surely, there is something vital, and not a mere illusion, that is caus- ing so much unrest bordering upon desper- ation. There must be a cause, also a rem- edy. What is it? I believe it is because the people are tired of the way things are carried on by our public officials, In Bible times, the people were completely under the control of public officials, compelled to submit to every whim, which became a law of said officials. We ‘are little better off today, are we not? Take the State Legislature, for instance. What good does the ballot do us, when it is the only means we hav t our dis- posal of putting the men we believe to be best fitted into these important offices of State, when, after their election, they prove to be anything but what they rep- resented themselves to be before election? The present em must be wrong—all wrong—and the people are waking up to this fact, which is the cause of the unrest. A change in the System is what is need- ed. We need a Governor, we need State Senators, etc., etc., of course, but we need them in the capacity of servers, not dic- tators, Legislation is nece sary, but let the peo- - + Mr. Frank Lappin Dear Sir: + at Beattio, Wash WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER. 17, Why all the UNREST? What causes unrest today? | TheSeattle Star Entered as Becond Class Matter May 2, 1899, at the Postoftic under the Act of Congress March 3, 1878 1919. ple of the State be the Legislators, and not a few men at the State Capitol, who are supposed to represent the people. Every bill presented for legislation should be published in the daily papers, verbatim, and voted on by the people. All lobbying should be done by the press also, which would eliminate days and weeks of wrang- ling over one single issue, and save the State thousands of dollars. Laws and appropriations would be made by the people, which would result in the greatest good to the majority. The legis- lation we now have is a relic of ancient times. We need a change—something more progressive. Many very worthy bills find their way to the wastepaper bas- ket, instead of going “over the top” with- out hesitation. Take the Lamping bill, for instance. This bill was defeated by a few irresponsible representatives, who are wholly unfitted for the responsible office of State Senator. If, under a different system of legislation, the people had voted on this bill, the result would have been overwhelmingly in its favor, thus reliev- ing the financial distress among the boys in blue and olive-drab. Let us hope that the next election will make a few radical changes in the system of administering to the needs and desires of the people of this State. Here's to your success Hopefully and § FRANK Late Ws Supply Co., 14th U. 5627 N. W., Sexttle. Third Ave. Everything and nothing. It is one of those evolutionary periods when the world shakes itself up and starts on a new cycle. The apparent causes we can see: The war, that mixed millions of men in the great pot of strife, and that made men think outside the old routine channels. The feeling tnat if these men were good enough to die for their coun- tries, they were good enough to have a returned home. good living and a fair chance if they The feeling of labor that it had not been getting its due, and the realiza- tion the war brought that labor is a fundamental need of society High taxes, outrageous costs of living, official inefficiency—oh, there are a thousand outward causes for this surging and seething, but the final cause lies way back in the heart of the infinite. It was the appointed time for a change, a world change, a casting off of old garments and donning of new. Blindly, selfishly, cantankerously we are scratching and fuming, bobbing about in the whirlpool, like chips on the flood tide. Out of it will come newer justice and better A WHILE. daughters of men. BUT NOT FOR things for the sons and We will labor, and loaf, and agitate, and argue, and, little by little, we will reach an irreducible medium of fact and base our future progress on that for another thousand years or so. This is another Reformation; an exodus out of Egypt; a great hegira of the clans of men to new lands. Mental lands, this time, instead of empires and principalities. NO SINGLE REFORM WILL AVAIL TO CHECK THE SURGE. No set of laws, no condescension of calm the tumult, because it is mostly mental; sapital, no submission of labor, will it is a state of mind, and it is a sudden, world-wide distaste for all things as they were. So these conciliation bodies and pretty resolutions; these arguments and new wage scales, and price-fixing bodies will mostly work in vain—just as machine guns and bayonets in Russia will work in vain. You can give the malcontents ALL there is to give, turn over the nation, or the world to them, and they will be less contented than before. Russia proves that perfectly. We are so accustomed to settling everything by a resolution and an act of congress, or a municipal statute, that we imagine we can soothe this universal surge towards the new horizon of the soul of mankind by cutting the price of pork chops, and making one pound of butter spread over two loaves of bread instead of four. As well hope to restrain the sunrise with an injunc- tion from the federal district court. Weather Forecast warmer ney general, packers will amaze “The wrath of the big five Chicago pack ment. buying. HUN ARMY Why did Ludendorff’ fenses so completely in his off concentrate such huge masses of artillery, Actions,” tions. gun every 11 yards on a fron the range for each gun with BY GEN. ERICH VON LUDENDORFF The training of the army for the 1918 offensive was a tremendous task. For this we had to utilize the winter of 1917-18 one had been devoted to training in as the previous defense. the same way in which tactics al * go now in Position r into being. We had to revive in the minds of the fighting forces all those excellent offensive principles which inspired our war regulations. They ‘had to be | suppl d by more recent experi ence actual battle, Without in checking the vigor of the attack, we had to keep down losses as much as possible, The whole line of thought of the Army had to be diverted from trench warfare back to the offensive. While in the defense the forces in a given sector were more evenly distributed, in the attack, the prob- |lem was to discover some decisive point and arrange th» accordingly, In defense, ing ground had lost mu command: n of demonstrated it Positios held which were were open to the enemy's view troops had thought they could not exist without the possession of some height or other; but if they did not get it they managed to carry on. Often the In the ment the capture of ground brought about the decision. fore, be striven for as a matter of | principle. | It was thoro understa front to be allo’ emphasize the principle that men must do the work, not with their bodies alone, but with their wea- pons. The fighting line must be kept thin, but must be constantly fed from behind. As in the defense, it was some high tactical ssary to ereate ling of the ex CENTS Final Edition FOOD PLOT 10 AMAZE NATION ALBANY, N. Y., Sept. 17.—(United — Press.) Forecasting the conviction of the Chicago packers under the crimi- nal clause of the anti-trust laws, A. Mitchell Palmer, United States attor- declared today in a speech “that the story of the Chicago” compel a verdict of conviction against the stated that evidence will be presented to the grand jury, which will result in their indict- Palmer promised that the conspiracy of - the meat packers would be broken up \there was power enough to do it and..de- clared that they had apparently entered into a plan to control the table of the United | States thru corners on meat, meat products and canned goods and other food products. He urged that the people of the“country turn a deaf ear to the “buy now” slogan of mer- chants since it was plain to him that there is a plan on foot to create a shortage of such FROM‘ TANK FRIGHT” s armies smash the great British de~ forces of infantr; without being discov In the following excerpt from his book, “ printed in The Star His method of concentrating his artillery with a big and expose its position, is a r pre |g distribution | ts | ‘The Battle of Arras had once | completely | attack in the war of move: Its possession must, there: | dt in attack, and to} Mail $9.00 Per Year, b $5.00 to fair; cboler tonight; nile northeasterly wind and Th Thursday America.” American people will | he declared. He ers,’ ‘SUFFERED sive of 1918? How could he even move such red by air scouts? My Thoughts and today, he answers these ques- t of over 30 miles, and gettit out being compelled to fire evelation of artillery tactics. | necessary loose fantry in the atttack to adopt formations and work out im group tactics clearly, We must not copy the enemy's mass _ tactics, which offer advantages only in the case of untrained troops. In the infantry company the light machine gun had to become a thoroly familiar weapon. It’ was, however, still regarded as an auxiliary weapon, The fact that the light machine gun was now the true ‘antryman,” while the infanereanar of yester-_ day was nothing more than a “rifle” carrier,” had not yet sunk deep into the mind and conscience of the im y alone the rest of the Owing to {ts power compared with that of a rifle, the light machine gun, as its introduction became more get- eral, was bound to become the main infantry weapon. This did not mean that the rifleman was not to shoot, Quite the contrary, The greatest stress was laid on that part of his | duties, The light machine gun and the jrifleman formed the infantry group, which had to hang together in trow ble and danger and the life and |death struggle. Its fire power was further increased by quick.firing (Cone: D bial PAGE NINE) Find Baby Safe in Box on Bay, CORPUS CHRISTI, Tex., 17.—Apparently uninjured Be result of a voyage over the storm. swept by in a small wooden box, a baby was rescued here by work: ers, A relief party saw the box float: ing shoreward and waded out, rescuing the child. It is cared for in Corpus Christt uni identified, ¥ | CORK, Ireland, Sept. 7.—Sertous clashes occurred at Kilcrobane Rallinspittle yesterday, when and police broke up Sinn meetings.