The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 18, 1919, Page 1

“KNOW JAP SITUATION.” SAYS ROOSEVELT rut sk RSDAY PT. 18 First Low Tide 422 a om, O89 fe Tide 10.6 tt 4 Wiest Mh : 1 Second Low Tide m, O5 ft Tides in Seattle | FRIDAY SEPT. VOLUME T’S VULGAR, and hot and costly, but they will have ‘em. Million dollar Mary remains a perpetual marvel. E DESIRE, before it goes any further, to get on record on this leather coat craze, ’ _ And ‘more particularly @o we desire to rave anent the Near-leather codt thing. Aviafors, during the war, dis- covered the leather coat. And the leather vest made from the old gloves of the patriotic. But after the war some Idle head started the fad of the leather coat for autoing. It was a hot, unventilated, un comfortable, costly rig, but it looked unusual, hence “classy.” Then autoists took to wearing the coats for the street. ‘Then some other slack-wit seized on the leather coat and began to wear it every day regular, wear it on the sunny side of the street, on an August day. Just because {t was supposed to be classy, and cost money. That was bad enough; bad taste, waste of money; but now they have the imitation leather coats out, and everybody is doing it Ani imitation vulgarity; truly, de votion to fashion can go no fur ther. Last evening, on Third ave., saw a poor girl who thought she was dressed up. She was going to a movie or something, and had on light shoes, summer hat, thin stockings, of course; a flimsy evening gown of @some sort, and, over and above it all, she had on a new, shiny, glis- tening imitation ather coat of a dirty olive drab tone. A coat that looked considerable we like the olicloth did in the log " ging camp eating room after a | long, hard winter An ugly, cheap, uncomfortable blob of a thing; and she, poor crea- ture, imagined she was dressed up because it was near-leather, and eyerybody was doing it. Sometimes we despair of the hu man race entirely. eee they first told us Mary Pickford half a million dol HEN that made lars a year, we refused to bel e it Then along cam the income tax, and it was proven that Mary made considerably more than a million Then we took comfort in the wort movi thought that she couldn't be so much ™ the managers were plain crazy. That idea made our pay look better to our pride Then looked, and Mar had gone into business herself, because she wasn't ting enough of what she made the producers. And finally we and admit that M der. Every night this week, coming from dinner, we have had occasion to pass the theatre where Mary is check we behold! for get for ad to give up y was a won entertaining, Every night it's the same—a triple line nt folks half a twek long wa for a chance to get in Old men, young girls, gobs, rookies, busi men, mothers with babies gets ‘em all, with a un nd at eatho licity that the founder of a new re Mgion n@ight well envy How docs she do it? Nobody knows—least of all, M hen you figure the the ain 15,000 movie country, to way nothing of foreign royalties, and figure that y will pack the theatres where other at tractions merely half fill them, | You get an idea of the millions An American Paper That Fights for Americanism DAY, | KILLS DAUGHTER'S BETRAYER FREED BY Uh } OREGON EX-SOLDIER IS SAVED BY. THE UNWRITTEN LAW GOLD BEACH, Or., Sept. 18.—After a trial which lasted here France. “It is difficult, but it will be Ludendorff Told Kaiser That Big 2.) i" Drive Would Win victorious.” So Ludendorff pledged the German Kaiser, as he prepared to launch his great offensive of 1918. the battle approached, he was not certain that he would Beach At the worst he hoped to weaken the Allies so that the Americans would not be able to turn the break thru. jagainst him. balance | In the preceding winter he sent his whole army to school. Even the commanding generals were put thru a course of instruction in the new tactics | Yet even as he got ready to strike My Thoughts and Actions,” he ing extract from his book, of offensive. » he shows in the follow- was troubled by signs of unrest at home and agitation in the army. Rigid discipline was made the cure for this condition at the front. night in The Seattle Star. BY |G . ERICH VON LUDENDORFF | In my audience of the em ow at | Homburg on February 13 I had ex pressed my view of the forthcoming ‘ent to him and the imperial chan. in the following terms battle in the West is the task that has ever The greatest military been imposed upon an arm. and one England and France has n trying for two years to com-| pass, Yesterday I spoke with the |commander of the Seventh army; he told me that the more he thought \about this task, the more impressed was with its magnitude. That| which, is how all responsible men in the| | West think | I believe, too, that I, who have to furnish the field marshal with the |foundation on which he bases his |request for his ma ty’s decision. than anyone impressed by n immensity of the undertaking. | It ean only be successfully accom- | plished if the authorities who con duct the war aré relieved of all in- tolerable shackles, if the very last man is employed in the decisive con flict, and is animated, not only by love for his emperor and his native jam more land, but by confidence in the strength of the military leadership the greatness of our ec : e spiritual forces cannot be| jun lerestimated tion of the er est deeds They must be strengthened by of our action in the East | AMERICANS’ ARRIVAL |A VITAL FACTOR | The army in the Weat Is waiting for the opportunity to We must not imagine that this of. fensive will be like those in Galicia or Italy; it will be an immense strug: | gle th egin at one paint, con- tinue at another, and take a long time; it is difficult, but it will be victoric The crown of success was Jeration in which we could bring to | bear the whole of our superiority. It | wae our great object. If we did not succeed at the first attack, we should have at the next; by then, indeed situation would have be | the energy act an op. to do #0 the (CONT'D ON PAGE NINE) | Mary means to the producer, the box office and to Mary We wonder how Mary will pull when she's as old as the Divine Sarah! | choice. Read one chapter of Ludendorff's book each ‘COMMISSION TO HANDLE BOXING The Mayor, Prosecutor and Sheriff Appoint Boxing contests in now on will be under a commission, At a conference Th Ing, Mayor Fitag: Stringer and Prosecut Brown announced the of Charles O. Hulen. Members Seattle the from control of ursday morn Id, Sheriff ing Attorney appointment manager of a downtown poo! and billiard room; Al Wisamolek, manager of the Elk# club, and Dr. BE. T, Hanley, as mem bers of commission all bouts in the future. Hulen was Mayor Wisemolek wa: Str r, and trown namec Sheriff commission will f the board of an Franeclaco in the ing The & plan calls for ination of each contest petent physician, the a trustworthy referees, of admittan: fees and reliable promoters lowed by contests. n to supervise Fitzgerald's # named by Prosecuting 1 Dr. Hanley announced that the boxing the plan fol supervisors of ontrol of box an Francisco a rigid physical exam ant by a com ppointment of establishment the choice of Seattle First to Ask Roosevelt to Enter Public Life) Seattle first Jr sked Roosevelt and follow father in a car I kel and a prominent in the oclation, wired months azo and a candidate for vice pr United States Roosey ed back thanking the S their interest, but said Interest was the organ American Legion took up the velt enter at length to the r of se sociat papers enter footsteps of War Par young asked 1 out public Col life his rvioe William ore who ¥ nts’ Roose him to sident of t It te! his immediate ization of the stern news proposal that public life and A month or 10 days in a courtroom packed with eager spectators, George Che- noweth, world war hero, former member of the Oregon legisla- ture and ex-commissioner of Curry county, stands acquitted to- day of the murder of George Sydnam. Chenoweth accused Sydnam of being the father of a child born to the defendant’s daughter while he was fighting on the fields of | He testified on the witness stand that he was sane when he killed Sydnam. His attor- iney, D. C. Lewis, a brother legislator, pleaded emotional insanity, “war madness,” in-| And tl of an hour and a_ half, brought in a verdict of not guilty. The unwritten law won. JOINED IN CANADA | When the war with Ger- many broke out in 1914 Che Yet he admits that as noweth left his home tn Gold and hastened’ to Canada, where he enlisted in one of the first regiments sent across the seas by the Dominion. He fought brilliantly, his record shows, in some of the most terrific battles in the early part of the wir He was wounded and ¢ 1 and finally ordered home, disa d and suffering from shell shock Shot Him Without Word On bis arrival heré he drew from his 17-year-old daughter the story of her ged betrayal by young Sydnam. Calmly the father buckled on hin revolver, went to a dance hall, where he found the youth, walk ed across the dance hall floor, without a wo: shot him mptying his gun into the ott bod Aw I would ha a anake Chenoweth, giv himself up t sheriff ant er sheriff, a tical con atituent personal friend locked Chenoweth up in the county jail, not doubting, he said later, that the prisoner would knock a board off the wall during the night and escape without difficulty. But Chenoweth made no attempt to escape. Jail Door Open After a preliminary months hearing three Chenoweth no longer held under lock and key, He was allowed the freedom of the Jail, the door of which was left open. All thru the was sunny days ef summer he sat in the open doorw calmly smoking his briar pipe, awaiting the September term of court He chatted pleasantly with people passing by, talking of the war and the battles he had taken part in, His only comn that he had shot him de. served, having seen better men killed by thousands ov #, and what dif. ferenc ke—the life of a man as he does it n Planned to Kidnap Him When the day of the trial proached, it saw scores of f many living more than 100 miles | away, bi 1 for the little courtroom at Gold Teach nam by the lator had be ject of | Cowboys came » shooting of Im, deliberate ex-le n the uppermost sub: raation for months to the trial on frac tious bronchos. Miners and pros pectors trekked in from the hills |The population of Curry county, one Jof the most sparsely settled locali ties of Oregon, turned out en masse There was talk that if Chenoweth were convicted, he never would pay the penalty for his deed, but that a ya. cony kidng ty would spirit him aw » he could never again be found ‘Today the courtroom doors are closed and the crowd has melted away, apparently satis! Cheno so later he was elected to the New|weth, free again, is secluded in his York state assembly and now holds home with the daughter whose hon. {the Masonic club a# honor guest of a seat Ingthat body, or he defended with hig six-shooter, & nt on the killing of Syd. | nam was his oft-repeated admission | "TEMBER 18, 1919. Col.T.R. Snappy Fellow Answers Questions; Doesn’t Use Excess Language Smokes “20-for-18” ROOSEVELT’S | Program Here 1143 a, mo—Arrives by auto fror Tacoma and is welcomed by American Legion at Union sta- tien, 12:00 m nor guest at public luncheon, Masonic club, Arcade building 1:00 p. m.—Auto tour of elty. 600 p. m.—Private dinner, Hotel 4 Washington. £:00 p. m.—Public address, Arena, on “Americanism—the 100 Per Cent Variety.” *” * “I know about the Jap sit- uation on this coast, because I lived in Francisco for two years,” declared Lieut. Col. Theodore Roosevelt to The Star Thursday. “But, | won't have anything to say about it until the Minneapolis convention of the American Legion.” Col. Roosevelt refused to comment on the appointment by the American Legion of a committee to investigate Jap penetration on the Pacific ,coast. “That action was taken after I left New York,” e said: “ | The legion committee will) make its report at Minne- papolis. | | Asked about his opinion Of the army court martial system, Col Roowevelt agwerted: “There are many things of contfoversial nature I can not of because it might be] interpreted ax representing the} views of the American The subject in very broad. views represen in articles I have written about it | I believe the cases which have| been cited In attacks the court martial whould be reviewed, but not that occurs in the “peak nd my are the on system every ny Needs Some Revision | I do think Yeu nome revision of made, but not revi proposed by who have talked on ‘The principle difficulty rds on their face show at the aystem should b particular of thom et the many the «ub: « that on times but little of the merit In them. For instance, the only case IT had reed in my outfit was that of an dishonorably discharged and nced to Leavenworth io wa with drinking cognac and ating with privates. As a of fact, he was guilty of cowardice in the face of the enem altho we couldn't prove it Later this same man stole the pay of enlisted men and ted to Switzerland. He was caught and given a more severe sent | Uses No Excess Words { never had any difficulty over court-martial cases in my outfit, avide from this single instance.” | Col. Roosevelt dived into his pocket after a cigaret, It was a "20-for-18 variety, and he amoked it with relish He grinned and declared himself “de Ughted” just like his father would have done. His eyes are clear and keen; he carries himself like a sol dier, When he talks there is no |hesitation; he goes straight to the point, says exactly what he means and quits. Nod excess words, no quibblin ROOSEVELT TO TALK AT-ARENA Public Is Invited to Hear Young Col. Teddy Surrounded by a swarm of smiling world war veterans and admiring civilians, Lieut. Col. Theodore Roosevelt, jr., stepped from an auto that had brought him from Tacoma to the King st. station here at noon 1 day a as he smiled tended his right hand cordially, his first words were: ineo—Fine—Detighted!” Typically the son of his illustrous father, “Young T. R.” arrived with | Adjt, Gen. Harvey J. Moss, of Seat tle, who had gone to Tacoma to meet jhim, and was taken thru of} Yank “buddies” to the Masonic club in the Arca building, where tumultous greeting awaited him. | Is Luncheon Guest | With Mayor Fitzgerald in the wel ming committee was Captain Wil m J. (Wee) Coyle and a group of a lane other local ion offic Spanish | War and G R. veterans, The Y s of Foreign Wars’ band Ve | playe 1 the welcoming selection. Young Roosevelt took lunche nm at (CONT'D ON PAGE THIRTEEN) . Under the Act of Congress Ma The Seattle Star Entered as Mecond Class Matter May 3, 1899, at the Postoffics at Beattie, Wash. SEATTLE, W ASH., THU hoa, 1879 Lieut. Col. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. Lieut, Col, Theodore Roosevelt, son of the late president of the United States, is small in stature. He carries himself with military erectness. has his father's fighting jaw and protruding low- er lip. He docs not radiate ergy like hiy father, the impression of superabundant vitality straining at the He is more restrained, more sub dued, with Jess natural nervous But his strength is oll quieter, nor give leash. energy there, more reflective. Theodore the Younger has the face of « fighting man, His nose is the nose of a prizefighter and his eyes are the eyes of a soldier, Young Roosevelt is a fighter and he is an American— the 100 per cent variety. Young Roosevelt's grin is from the heart. His blue eyes crinkle, the velns stand out on his fore- head, and his teeth flash in a whole-souled, intense greeting. Roosevelt, like his father be- fore him, is made for the crowds; he will be in the thick of the fight, he will be the center of the fight if he can. Roosevelt looks like Battling Nelson would if the Battler had gone to Harvard. At the King St. station Thurs- when Roosevelt’ was and something by a crowd of World ans, his dynamic per: sonality flowed out over the crowd. In a minute he was the r of a cheering mass of peo- ple, striving to shake his hand. “Fine—fine — delighted!” was Roosevelt's greeting to two vet- erans of the war, who each wore the war cross. One of hobbled on a crute e getting along Roosevelt sympathoti to another, a memb mous Rainbow division to us one time in France. of the fa- division—“42nd —"“You were right next I re- member you. I met you ever there,” CENTS Late Edition by Mail $5.00 Per Year, $5.00 to nt and Friday, fair and gentle northeasterly wind / (} Copyright, Press Miustrating Service, Inq ave, to the New Wi hotel, his brown, soft felt hat was clinched in his right hand, son,” she began. Roosevelt ed her: “What name? A feeble old lady tottered up. interru Fine, fine, he was in my bat- his teeth flashed and his eyes talion, Splendid chap. How is crinkled, and the crowd howled he getting along? Golly, but I'm | their welcome to him like they glad to meet you.” used to do to his daddy before And when he drove up Second him, 3 e+ S* & WELCOME, TEDDY! You’re in a red-corpuscled city to- day, Theodore Roosevelt—a city that likes big, vigorous, healthy-minded, and clean-cut men. It’s a city that gave your dad its votes and its sup- port. It loved to think of him as a man of the free West rather than the effete East. We like to think of you in the same way—a man not afraid of new things because they’re new. It was in this city that a boom was launched in your behalf for vice presi- dent—and had your age permitted it, Seattle would have continued the fight. Seattle is not afraid of young men—who have the goods. The city was built up by young men of that caliber. And young tho it is, the city today is among the leading ports of the world. Seattle is warming up to you, Teddy, because we believe you have the qualities we like—the quali- ties of sturdy-spirited, unadulterated Americanism. Here’s luck, Ted! * 8 &