The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 25, 1919, Page 1

PUEBLO FEARS PARADE IS CANCELED; Tides in Seattle THURSDAY SEPT. 23 VOLUME 22. NO. 180. FRIDAY SEPT, 26 i i most regal bus in town’ starts an argument. If boys would work like they play ball, good night WO autoists of our ac- quaintance were arguing. One is the chaperon of a twin-cylinder devil just one door at the ou weren't falling over the other folks’ feet every time you get in. Believe me, boy, that was some class, and—" “Yeh; I know that bus,” returned the other. “That's the swellest in town.” And it is. eee HESE mellow autumn evenings, when we £0 home, we pass a park ground where half a dozen teams are indulx- iyg in the task of football Y or #o young fellows in Sweaters and leather helmets, padded as to elbows and knees, and rigged out with shin and ¢l- bow guards, are hard at work. Eleven of the 50 will achieve the team, but everybody is on the job as tho the game of the season was tomorrow, and every lad was sure of a place. Hour after hour they run with the ball; they kick, they dive in the dust,” they heap themselves in wriggly piles, they butt inte each other like belligerent Angoras, they snap to it as tho their young lives depended on it. There is no harder work than this, no more arduous a grind, and yet these impatient boys, ease-lov- ing and eager for the devices of pleasure-seeking youth, volunteer for this long training, go thru it with vim, and all this on a five-to- one chance of not making the m., If dad could only devise some scheme to stir the same ardor for the hoe handle, the lowly lawn mower, the plebelan bucksaw, in the hearts and backs and biceps of the rising generation, how much pleasanter it would be about home for father. Still, father has something of the game spirit. Probably he will spend 14 hours in the rain; 14 hours of climbing over rocks and falling down ra- vines; 14 hours without his hot coffee, and knowing full well that his rheumatism will give him what for when he gets home, and all for the odd chance of snaring with hook and device half a dozen flab- by trout. But if ma has a carpet to beat, or a few rose bushes to set out, dad requires » lot of coaxing, and feels he is abused and down-trod- den, Having a good time means work- your head off at something it you don't have to do, and that 't iheans anything when you it done d work in anything that D CALVERT BOY 4 IN AUTO MISHAP > Young William Calvert, who \was severely injured when ‘struck by an automobile Wednes is a brother of Lawrence who wag seriously hurt the tragic automobile arci- when three were killed. | | Japanese | _ Explained Japanese methods ef financial aod racial enereschment en the Pacific Coast were made the subject of congressional inquiry today when the house immigra- tion committee requested two Prominent westerners to explain in detall the fight against Ori- ental Invasion. Miller Freeman, of Seattle, leader in the antiJapanese movement here, was called by Albert neon. ta Cangitions in the jpearaconloy t's McClatchy, of report announcing the be ginning of the important hearing state that the committee hopes to |frame a “post-war immigration pol |icy” before the end of the present seaston. Japan is consistently violating her | immigration agreement with the | | United States, Miller Freeman told the committee, He charged that Jap- anese officials encouraged “syndl-| cates,” which made it easy for Japa: | Nese to obtain passports to the Unit ed States and allowed the unlimited | |immigration of “picture brides.” He | warned that the Japanese, because | jot their lower standard of living, | were rapidly driving «mall busin men of the Pacific coast into bank- ruptey. Several prominent men of Seattle, | Freeman claimed, have been hood! | winked by the Japanese officials and | | have received medals of the Order of | teh Rising Sun for their services in| | behalf of the Japanese position. | “The Japanese are rapidly mak: | ing & Japanese colony out of the Pa-| |elfic coast,” Freeman said, “and the | ‘only remedy is to close the immnigra-! | tion doors,” | | V. 8. McClatchy, Sacramento, told the committee that if immigration | were allowed to continue as at pres Jent, the United States would be a Japanese colony in 100 years, | STRIKER KILLED IN NEW RIOTING FARRELL, Pa, Sept. i One striker was killed and one seriously beaten in a gun fight with state police here today. The police raided a house from which ft was declared men were “snip- ing” at the steel plant. —_— | | WASHINGTON, Sept. 25.—The | steel industry's “open oppression of | labor is the rotten apple of the in-| \ dustrial situation,” John Fitzpatrick, | |chairman of the strikers’ committee, | told the senate labor committee to- | | day. | Fitzpatrick was the first witness | in the hearing authorized by the sen-| ate Tuesday when it passed the Ken- | yon resolution | “Just as a rotten apple will con- | taminate the entire barrel, so the | steel industry is doing to the entire | [labor situation,” he declared | ‘This is the reason, Fitzpatrick de-| clared, why the steel industry pee be organized now, Bad conditions in the steel industry, he said, were used to prevent getting better working | conditions in other occupations, | | WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 25. William J. Flynn, chief of the secret service bureau of the department of justice, today was in Pittsburg in-| vestigating the steel strike. ‘Thru Flynn and a group of special | agents scattered thru the strike dis- | | trict of western New York, Pennsyl-| vania, West Virginia and Ohio, At- torney General Palmer j# studying the strike and keeping in personal touch with the entire situation, it was made known here today. Department of justice agents make clear today that they will not ac-| cept without verification by their | own agents either the claims of the | steel companies’ officials that the} strikers are “radicals,” or the claims of the strikers that the plant of ficials and steel town authorities are (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) An American Paper That Fights for Americanism Rntered as Gecond Clase Matter May 8, 1899, at the Postoffice at Beattie, Wash., under the Act of SEATTLE, WASH., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1919. Congress March 3, 1878 \ The Seattle Star ” WILSO CENTS Final Edition Mail 9.00 Per Year, b: $5.00 to Weather Forecast: 7° * gentle northwesterly DANGER AHEAD! The expert-economist of Forbes’ Magazine says this: “The amount of producing capacity at pres- ent kept idle is immense. “The tightness of the money market dem- onstrates the time is not far off when pro- ducers and merchants will be shading prices because of inability to finance themselves otherwise. The notion that the existing price level will be permanent is sheer nonsense.” Granting that these things are so, what are the logical conclusions and the prospects? Save as to comparatively few localities, ENGAGE- MENT OF LABOR OR CAPITAL IN NEW ENTERPRISES IS AT A STANDSTILL. The war- time fever of creating new or transforming old enter- prises has been followed by lethargy due to uncertainty as to cost of labor and material. The cost-plus basis of doing things is spreading everywhere. To build a house, or to open a factory, or to start a store is a gamble, and is so recognized by bankers and others who f@rnish money in bulk for new undertakings. The 50-cent dollar, withheld from investment to- day, is likely to be worth 200 cents in the near future. Under these conditions, naturally, productive capacity is idle on an immense scale. Moreover, the amount of idleness is bound to increase. The money market is tightening and will continue to tighten. Higher prices cannot FOREVER run a “dead” race with higher wages around the circle. There must surely be a point under’ such a process where progress will bump up against a crisis. Thruout the country today, particularly in the Pacific Northwest, evidences of the im- pending crash are piling up. Danger signals aplenty are displayed. Surely the situation demands that we stop, look AND REASON! Benton, Toney and McCarty; Causey, McQuillan and Gowdy. | Score: R. H S) Brooklyn ......0ssreees. 9 1 18) At Philadelphia . +10 18 | Cadore and Krueker; Smith, |ney, Ames and Adams, Clarke. . B,| Score: R. 1|New York .4 At Boston su Johnson, Zinn and J, Walker; Mo: gridge and Ruel. E.| Score 4|Cleveland . o| At Detroit . AMERICAN LEAGUE Soore R. Hu. St. Louis .... -4 9 At Chicago .. oe ae bY Tas Vangelder and Collins; Williams and Lynn | NATIONAL LEAGUE Score H. E.| First game: Philadelphia . . 4 1 New York . At New York 0! At Boston 2 a R. H. B * a BE. Che+ H. EB. 1 5 0 President’s Plans PUEBLO, Colo., Sept. 25.—Extraordi tions to pee holo Eee inert resulted this afternoon in abandonment of plans for his a itendance at the state fair. Secret service have been in Pueblo several days advised na ei The official announcement of the change mt | atigue” by the chief executive as the reason. A ¢ \sible surveillance. Wilson’s public appearance will now practically limited to his address tonight. A downtc parade also has been abandoned. “MUTINY POISONED ARMY” --LUDENDORFF One of the dramatic incidents of the war was the breaking \of his long silence by Prince Lichnowsky. German ambassador in London at the outbreak of the war land had co-operated with Sir Edward Grey in trying to avert He returned to Berlin to find himself the scapegoat for jit. public anger over the British intervention. Lichnowsky, disgraced, brooded long, and finally wrote, for ‘circulation among his friends, an account of his and Sir Ed- | ward Grey's effort to promote the peace of Europe. He showed how, at every point, he had been blocked by the Ger- | man militarists and the kaiser; how he learned weeks before |of German plotting to precipitate war, and finally how, when jit seemed as tho Grey's efforts were succeeding in bringing | | Austria and Russia to an understanding, the conflict was | forced by Berlin. One of these books got to Sweden, and was published. Lichnowsky, when the outéry of the Junkers against him be- came too hot, went to Switzerland. What effect his truths had on the German army and peo- | ple, is bluntly set forth by Ludendorff. “MY THOUGHTS AND ACTIONS” By Gen. Eric Von Ludendorff r thru special arrangeme Harper and tein by Hutehingon & in Ital 1919, by ix and Barlel; te reserved for Fran re were increased rumors 1918) in the army of the un of the home nd also from | une, favorable morale at the front | home of the bad morale of the anny. ‘The army complained, too, of the en- emy’s propaganda Y ee the army tible to it by home in- influence ce, Belgium, by Fratelli Treves Hollane British Rail Men to Meet Officials LONDON, Sept. 26.—(By United | of the party, Ed Hagen and After an hour's delibera- | Smart. It could not but tion, thd executives of the National | ‘uced by Assistant District Attorney Press.) was Railway union decided today to ac- He had been the with the McClure Newspaper | All rights reserved. ny and the London Times: in Canada and | Russia and the U.S. Che of liquor from the U. S. ware- house last March, The closing feature of the go ment's case was the attempt to plicate Fred Smart, former e of police, in the liquor conspiracy, | | Albert Osbourne, a customs officer, jtold on the stand of how he f 122 bottles buried in the fl garden of the Smart residence }1136 36th ave. The seven defendants, several whom were accompanied in the courtroom by their wives and small children, are: Ed Hagen, Dick Rus sell, W. F, Patton and Fred Smart, former patrolmen; Tom Russell, former truck driver for the elty | health department; Ed Carey, jitney driver, and Jim Morrison, waiter, Locknane, who was jointly indicted: with the other members of the al- leged wholesale booze robbers, plead ed guilty and became a witness for the prosecution. i Read Confession ‘ Carey's confession, which was read into the testimony at the afternoon || session, incriminated two n ‘ Fred» The confession was intro- | Ben L. Moore, who is_ prosecuting the | case for the government, after Loch: ” ©. jcept the government's invitation to|nane, who had pleaded guilty at the The fourth army rep lowing incident ganda had got hold of Prince Lich- |nowsky's brochure, which ascribed, | Jin, to me, an incomprehensible way, the fault for the outbreak of the to 3 government, | y and the tmperial chancellor continually explained that | the entente alone was responsible for | the kaiser were SEVEN) The words of (CONT'D ON PA THREE KILLED; HOUSE WRECKED BATAVIA, N. Y¥. Sept. 26.—/ Blackhanders are believed to be re-| |sponsible for the wrecking by a bomb of a two-story dwelling of | Carl Trimarcht, early today, killing | three persons and injuring four, | The dead: Joseph Battagti, Mrs, Joseph Bat- tagli and 2-year-old son, » fol-| hold a conference in an effort to | commencement pa-|avert a threatened strike. of the trial, had | turned state's evidence on the stand ATTENTION RHYMSTERS If it is more con- venient, rhymes for the Want Ad Rhyme Contest may be left at the Downtown Classified Branch, lo- cated in Bartell’s Drug Store, 610 See- ond avenue. jand incriminated six of hit accomplices in the booze theft. “I have krown Ed Hagen between four and six months,” Carey's alleged ; confession reads: “On the night Sunday, March 30, sometime about 12 or 1 o'clock, while I was asleep: home, Ed Hagen called at my house” jand woke me up, He then told me there was some whisky in the jernment warehouse, and asked me I would go along with him and it. He told me this whisky was in the customs warehouse, on Westel (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) Parents of Ten ‘ After 29 years of married life, which they raised 10 children, and August D. Reichert are seeking divorce. The action is b tried in superior court Thursday. decide which is entitled to the vorce. Desertion, he says, and she answers, non-support. He is “too set in his ways,” abe told the court,