The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 20, 1919, Page 1

NATION'S HEALTH GUARDS WARN OF THE FLU There is likely to be another epidemic of influenza this autumn and winter! is is the unanimous ians, American nicipal and state officials. Be prepared. and don’t become panic-str to prevent it. commissioners Protect your home NOW against the advance army of flu germs. Never more true was it that AN OUNCE the of verdict of jury health, 3e on your guard, Don’t get frightened utmost own icken. But do your own body and your TION IS WORTH A POUND OF CURE! Last winter's flu epidemic cost the United States of mu- ? OF PREVEN- 500,000 lives, and the money cost in lost manpower, incapacitation and medical treatment was over $3,000,- 000,000, Flu germs thrive best and do most harm in the colder months. The colder months are near, Because of this fact The Star asked this question of the nation’s leading health commissioners, doctors who fought the last flu epidemic, and who know what they talk about. “Is there a possibility of an influenza epidemic this autumn and winter? That was the question put up to the health commis- sioners of America. Here are their replies: “Yes! “y —John Dill Health, Chicago, Tl. “Yes!” —H. Cleveland, O. York City. —Dr, Rupert Blue, U. 8S. Surgeon General. “Yes!”—H, M. Read, Commissioner of Health, Seattle. Robertson, L. Rockwood, Crumbine, Copeland, Health Commissioner, New “Yes!”—W. L. Dick, Acting Health Officer, Colum- bus, 0. Dr. H. M. Read, Seattle’s city health commissioner, urges the citizens of Seattle to reduce influenza to a minimum, should it gain a hold in Seattle this fall, by a strict observance of the following precautions: Avoid crowds. Smother a sneeze or cough in a handkerchief. Consult a reputable physician at the first appearance of a cold. Have plenty of fresh air in sleeping rooms. Do not expectorate in public places, Commissioner of Commissioner of Health, Secretary Kansas State Tides in Seattle SATURDAY SEPT, 20 1 Tye Bit Fite aa tt hecond Migh, Tide 238 pom second 229 pom, | SUNDAY | SEPT, 21 First High Tide [252 a om. 98 tt First Low Tide am Le tt Second Migh Tide Spom, 113 tt low An American Paper That Fights for Americanism eSeattle Sta oatoffics at Beatile, Wash. Entered as Mecond Class Matter May 3, 1899, at the under the Act of © CENTS Late Edition Mail Per Year, b; 9.00 $5.00 to ‘ongress March 3, 1879 ~ VOLUME 22. NO. 176. SEATTLE, WASH., SATURDAY, SE PTEMBER "20, 1919. : a . Tor 4 Sunday, fairs Weather Forecast: gentle northwesterly winds DANIELS ADMITS OUR “GREAT” PACIFIC FLE RINGING a fra- grance of the old home memories tho within closed walls. The Good Samaritan gets bumped again. Why snakes as ads? WO of the most talented musicians in the state of Washington are winter- ing at McNells island, where a paternalistic Government is providing board, Foom, recreation facilities and a @ertain modicum of healthful exer- Yes, they are convicts. One is a piano artist, the other fs a banjoist, and either one of them can get by on the “big time” when he has the opportunity. ‘The two, on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays have impromptu con- certs, and a classicist would find Rothing to sneer at in their reper, toire or their rendition ‘The gianist has been judged by expert musicians as a wizard, a ue artist. Strange world that men so tal- ented, with the feelings of the ar- + tat, the love of beauty and all of it, must roll around in the mud of Ute. But maybe these two are work. ing out their destiny better where they are than where they were. Certainly, they give enjoyment and forgetfulness, and renew the fra- grance of old home memories to More than 200 convicts on that grim island, and that's consider- &bly more than many of us do who Gre on the outside E KNOW a waiter who ts off humanity for life. His private jug of hu- man kindness has - turned to clabber, and if anybody asks him for bread henceforth, he will give them a stone or a bat on the jaw. The other night, before he re- formed, this waiter was ap proached by a hungry person who was going to get a bit of money the next day, but who, meantime, was in urgent need of a steak and a cup of Java. ‘The waiter, being alone on the late night shift, obliged, set out a 00d meal, with his best wishes, and let it go at that. ‘The next evening the boss of the works came around and demanded the waiter’s time, “I can't have anybody around here that hands it free meals without any check in them,” said the boss Yes, the fellow who got the free meal had chanced on the boss, and, for lack of anything else for | his jaws to chew on, had told the | story, only he boasted that he had been given the mea friend ship's sake, or something There are critters like that know. “I trust and 5 that gazabo just the waiter. | for you | I meet up with | eee ERE’S a problem for you What particular psy chological hunch is it | that seduced an exclu sive Third ave. hat store to uncoll a big snake right in its chief show window, s with a dozen of the fall model < a woman 6 everything elwe, it is a The bigger the snake, the more she reacts, We venture that not | one woman in 40 will ever bother with the hats in that window when they catch a glimpse of that realis Maybe, for a circus troupe, or tle snake crawling toward th’. for the snake-charming lady, that ht be a drawing card, but for | and the girls we say not | Why the snake? Quezal, a bird of Guatemala and southern Mexico, adopted an the na tional emblem of Guatemala, birds in the world, ’ | France. | pression. Harry Treat and Fair Dianas eit comes tothe worst hell + a ere: clan? Unless Harry Whitney Treat, for years a leader in Seattle so- ciety, calls off the fox chase he has planned for Sunday in the furze-clad prairies of South Tacoma, the law may get him Mrs. Lois Harper, member of a women's committee interested in the protection of dumb ant- mals, has sounded the knell of the red-coated sport She has sounded the knell. played “taps r the opeh grave dirt on the coffin, and written the obituar tonned LUDENDORFF SAYS DIPLOMATS FAILED Ludendorff had some strong grievances after his break} thru in March, 1918. Berlin did not display good diplomatic strategy, and follow |up his blow with a peace campaign while the allied peoples Also it did not send him the help he needed were still shaken. after his huge sacrific On the other hand, Britain and America pushed troops to His only comfort in this was his thought that the | 4 American procedure of hurling forces across the ocean an for supplies would have resulted in ‘ if the war had lasted long enough. In the extract printed in The Star today from his book, ’ he tells of his battles to widen | the great salient of Amiens, his defeat again near Arras, and his failure later to break thru to the Flanders coast. | his hungry troops stopped to eat. “MY THOUGHTS AND ACTIONS” By Gen. Eric Von Ludendorff Dictator of | depending on the allies reaction” |\“My Thoughts and Actions,’ Military On ‘the ene ™ matic sense to utilize it. workers were enrolled in | establishment. the defeat produced an overwhelming im- In spite of my request we did nothing in the diplo- France trembled. be sure of the military support of England and America. |Clemenceau appealed to the In England tens of thousands of miners and munitions} the divisions could not for the time being be brought up to} They disappeared from the front, and most| |of them did not come in again until the autumn. j»|of service was prolonged but the British government did called one of the most beautiful | not yet dare to think of enforcing compulsory service in (CONT'D ON PAGE BRLI® Fox Hunt to Go Way of Gin Rickey? Humane Society Leader to War on Nee, Layer her milling to be chased Mr. Treat is neither (nnocent nor defenseless. Mr. Treat {s not troubled, however, by this ultimatum, If Seattle must have a “fast hunt- ing set,” like they have in the magazines, and the worst comes to the worst, Mr. Treat is willing to lead a dog's life, altho mind ful of Shakespeare's admonition against seeking “the bubble repu- tation in the canine’s mouth.” The jail may yawn for Mr. Treat and the dainty Dianas of Seat e's smart set. But hunter or hunted, it is all one to Treat. To satisfy the sportloving, tradition-respecting members of Seattle's four hun- dred, he is willing to stagger, hounds at his heels, across the ice floes of American lake, just like Eliza in Uncle Tom's Cabin, or to reel down Main st., South ‘Tacoma, two reels abead of the bloodthirsty pack, lke Jean Val- jean escaping from Steilacoom, Mr. Treat is a @portsman, and if fox hunting must go the way of the gin rickey and the country club cocktail, Mr. Treat declares he will immediately go in for clam bunting on a large scale. If it isn’t too brutal. In fact, says Mr. Treat, he may have to act the fox. ——ee Mr. note,” she declares, “that Harry Treat intends to bold a fox hunt on the prairie near Camp Lewis. The Humane society will call a meeting shortly to protest vigorously against any such display of brutality, If Mr. Treat is 80 keen for the chase, let Mr. Treat's hounds track down not the innocent an fenseless fox, but Mr. Trea They want Mr. Treat to be chased, not the innocent and de fenseless fox hei ia seema to Intimate that Foxes are not plentiful. Fox terriers will not do. Some foxes will not play at fox hunting. Two years ago, during the height of the fox hunting season in South Tacoma, they had a fox. One hundred enthusiastic and experienced fox hunters from Seattle had gathered for the autumn meet. The hounds were straining at the leash, The bugie 4 over hill and dale. Slim bi ed horses pawed th ground nervously and Seattle's hunters, in white stocks and peaked caps, flicked the haunches of their steeds with jeweled crops. All were tense and eager and a thrill of anticipation ran over the mbled throng as the master of the hounds slipped the that bound the slim, red Again rermany quarry There was silence. A gathering up of reina. | A tensing of muscles. The fox, stunned for 4 moment into inaction, gazed warily about, sidled over to a tre And went to sleep! He just curled up and refused to be chased. So there may be a fox hunt ten| ‘omorrow-—or there may not be | And in the meanwhile the rest of us are content to hunt apart ments—-with little better success than Mr. hunts the fox Note: Why doesn't Mr. Treat organize a landlord hunt? Even the Humane society wouldn't ob- Ject to that, It wanted to lies, and yet army, some The term OF Steel Men ‘Preparing for ‘Fight Call State Police; Meeting Halls Refused to Strikers; Barricades Built [UNIONS ARE CONFIDENT By FRED 8. FERGUSON United Press Correspondent “PITTSBURG, Pa. Sept. 20.— Prospects of trouble with possible clashes began to grow thls after- noon as plans and preparations for the big steel strike progressed. With two companies of Penn- sylvania’s famous state police— loyally hated by every union man—ordered out, and 10,000 deputies being sworn in by the steel corporations, brought pres- idents in the steel towns about Pittsburg announced that steps will be taken to prevent mass meetings of the steel workers, called for Sunday. Local ordinances require that per. mits be obtained for all public meet ings or gatherings. The call for mass meetings has gone out from national headquarters to all points. Permits will be refused, and the borough pres- idents declare will order the ar- rest of persons attending meetings without permits. Prohibit Gatherings Mayors or borough presidents of such towns as McKeesport, Clairton, Homestead, Rankin and other big eel centers issued proc tions or ments this afternoon declaring herings would be prohibited and that they would see that life and erty are protected | companies were reported to day to have rented all the halls in Braddock and Homestead, in the | hope of preventing moetings of steel | workers after they strike on Monday. Union offictals, meanwhile, assert |that the men will insist upon their |right of ably and will find | places to nts Stiut Down In the absence of positive develop: | ments in the impending strike, aside from one or two milig closing tempo rarily, all man f reports and ru- | mors of rations being made by the nies floated about Pitts |burg. These had to do with string ing of barbed wires and alleged arm. ling of plants, but all were beyond | | verification, | The Allegheny and West Penn mills, at Breckinridge, suspended op. erations today, nable the men to hold a meeting at which they will consider the action they with regard to the strike. The com. pany, at the same timo, issued a statement, asserting its opposition to (CONTINUED ON PAGE 18) com t ° will take | JAPAN AWARE WEAKNES The Pacific fleet, composed of half the sea power of the United States, is a naval fighting machine in name only. Its dreadnoughts, cruisers, destroyers and subsidi- ary craft are a mere skeleton armada. Its approximate- ly 200 ships, large and small, are sadly in need of repairs. Numerically its personnel is far below the danger |limit. All its ships are sadly undermanned. The more of its officers and men is at low ebb. ’ Japan is fully informed of this condition. —From Article in Cleveland Plain Dealer. Official representatives of the Japanese government well know today that the “great” Pacific fleet-—half a million tons of floating steel—over which the people of Seattle and the entire Coast are still wildly excited, has neither the men nor the morale, nor the actual fighting ability to withstand, much less repulse and shatter, any real naval attack that might be launched against it. It is time the American people learned the facts, as admitted by the highest naval officials, including Admiral Rodman, and by Secretary of the Navy D: els himself during his visit here last week. These are the startling disclosures made by the Cleveland Plain Dealer, whose staff representative accompanied President Wilson’s party to the Coast. The Plain Dealer goes on to say: “Secretary Daniels says the disturbed morale solely to high cost of living complications. “It is the hope of navy officials that the interest and enthusiasm stirred up by the visit of the fleet to the deep} harbor ports up and down the Pacific coast will stimulate | sufficient enlistments to solve the problem of personnel. | * ‘E ven a full personnel will not be of immediate assist- ance,’ said Secretary Daniels. ‘The fact is the ships are in such need of repairs that we could not use a full personnel for months. The Pacific fleet is in for a hard winter.’ | “Effective training can only be obtained thru fleet forma-| tion and fleet maneuvers. The present prospects are that the new Pacific fleet will be unable to engage in any fleet maneuvers before next spring. | “Several reasons are advanced for the present condition in the fleet. As to these reasons there is agreement be- tween Secretary Daniels and the higher officers of the fleet on many points. On other points there is a wide divergence of opinion. “It is agreed many of the ships need overhauling because of the hard usage during the war, followed by the decision to dispatch immediately to Pacific waters. The ships have |not been thoroly overhauled since the start of the war. “That accounts in the main for the | fleet, begging him to grant their for- | fact t »yractically the entire fleet pmal sented resignations . In will be up for a protracted per- | prac ly every instance the rea fod of idleness as soon as the sched-| song assigned are the same, namely, |uled celebrations are over. a statement that the officers cannot government under sasune con; ditions, li is due | Rumor $100,000 Stolen on Train Rumors were current Saturday that more than $100,000 was taken by the lone robber who: Friday morning held up, bound and gagged Mail Clerk Harry Mero on the Northern Pacific train No. 4, just as it was leaving the city’s limits bound for St. Paul. The money was to be used in paying off workers in the Roslyn mines. It is known that the monthly pay check amounts to more than $100,000, Post Office Inspector Swenson denied the rumor, J. 8. New Want Ad Rhyme Contest Announced Today This is the first line: “Some One Stole My Motor Car” Write three more lines J Bi that will rhyme with the | above line. See the show at the Clemmer. Win a cash prize, Particulars on Classified | } “Four ar |straight for San Pedro, Cal, whe they will go into drydock for an in | definite period. “Im this connection it {s {mportant |to note that the pay of the officers jof the navy has not been changed) since 1908. |. “There is serious discontent among | the experienced officers of the fleet, too, shared by north Atlantic und this ts a situation the officers in the fleet. “One commander, whose name is Officers Leaving |as well Known as any officer in the “Officers are leaying the service |fieet, has written that he has a by the score, President Wilson has|wife and aix children, He says that before him the pleading requests of }iving costs have mounted to the more than 60 officers of the Pacitie (CONTINUED ON PAGE 18),