The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 13, 1919, Page 1

MONDAY OCT, 18 First Low Tide « 1 HE black twine bag of the Seat- tle housewife daily lugs away tons on tons of fruit, meat, butter, eggs and veg- etables. proficiency the Ameri- : can housewife had with the telephone. Almost every day we were ob Jurgated and entreated to do our | shopping ourselves instead of with a telephone and the handy ear of friend grocer The market basket habit was de elared to be nigh unto death in this | tand, and most serious events were going to transpire because of It. So far as Srattle is concerned, fo alarmist need churn the curds of his fretful spirit, because the | only reason there are not more Shoppers in town is because there are no more folks. Everybody who buys food these Gays buys it directly from the pro ducer, and if you don't believe it, “try "to sqteeze in anywhere in the ~ half-square mile of market blocks | any morning and contract for a ( couple of bunches of radishe: | We watched the legions of housewives marching on the public market Saturday morning. _ They came four to ten abreast. a steady stream pouring in for hour after hour. At dawn there were tons and tons of vegetables heaped high on scores of tables. There were boat loads of fish and clams and crabs. ‘There were long lines of slaugh- tered beeves and muttons and hogs. Endless chains of sausages, looped like rosy coral necklaces, ali over the stands and shops. Mountains of chickens, pyramids Of eggs, slabs on siabs of butter, a commissary that looked as tho it would feed a nation for half a doz en meals, And early in the afternoon these mountains and pyramids and fes toons and heaps and mounds and piles had either vanished or shrunk to mere memories—me- mentoes. ‘The only thing heavy in the mar- ket.place was the cash box. And these tons on tons of fruit, OT long ago all our profes sional viewers were viewing with alarm the ‘ fish, meat, vegetables, had gone ,. home in little black bags and bas A kets slung on the husky arms of men and women marketers. A fleet of trucks would have : seemed hardly big enough to tote bso. such a heap of things so quick- ly, but the little old black twine bag and the equally antique black { basket did the trick Carian i} y housewife a old @oing his own selling We suspect it is a lean time for the commission men. We surmise that these country storekeeper doesn't | all the eggs his district, and let them « 7 for a week or two before sending q them to the city jobber, > if The farm butcher now brings be his carcasses to the market place 4 4 does his own carving, and gets the retail price. The rural smokehouse sends its delectables te purse is The and the family wn, ntal showed us that the selling end of the farm business is even more important than the producing end, and today these big city markets hold sco of American producers who selling fresh fr Hh: thing produced It Is good busi ¥ producer at f worth, tr and it gives the be produce, and, what important, it ¢! better produce is much more her freaner, and forces her to buy for cash, t lo her own mar- keting; and at the end of the month there are no butcher and baker and grocer bills eating the heart ou of the ay check for day y visite i DENY EMMANUEL REPORT z (De yed.)—An of. of the report that King Emmanuel's abdication is imminent, ‘way issued today, IT CANT BE! It can’t be because Seattle is support It must be that it merely was a bit dilatory. Very well, then, let us be up and doing must come in. The Salvation Army deserves it—and we, in Seattle, are not ingrates. A subscription blank will be found on page 14. JAPS REACHING FOR CONTROL OF SEATTLE MILKY On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise Tides in Seattle TURSDAY oor, 14 First Low SEATTLE, WASH., MONDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1919. The SeattleStar |Z Baiered as Second Clase Matter May 8, 1999, at the Postoffice at Beattie, Wash. under the act of Congress March 3, 1879 to the Salvation RUSS TOWN POUNDED BY COLUMBUS FOUND!) Hunsitus Riga Is Hard Hit by Bom-| , bardment; Letts Fighting | ase sob we celebrate the discovery of America by Christo- }} to Death pher Columbus 427 years ago. We have marched a con- siderable way since that day—and our greatest progress BRIDGES ARE BLOWN UP) has been our ability to abide by the will of the majority. It VIENNA, was:in America—even before the establishment of the gov- ernment of the United States—in the days of the colonies Ot ormy reported to be march- ing on Budapest to attack the | Bl Kamanians. Horth: forees | —that the rule of minorities went into the discard. Here, et ee Se Saw | removed from the influences of crown and court, we decided - LONDON, Oct. 14—<United to test social policies by their own power to gain the favor |) of the majority. And this rule of action may, indeed, have greater claims to glory than Columbus’ discovery. For this is democracy. | Shall we now give up democracy in favor..of. economic. “direct action” upon the political field? This direct action would make rulers of a minority who occupy a strategic industrial position. This minority is now composed of workers, the class which, as a whole, consti- tutes a majority. Yesterday the same policy was practiced, if less openly, by those who held that ownership gave power Press.)—Fighting continues in the Baltic region, with the Let tith troops maintaining their de- fense against the Germans, ac cording to the latest reports re- ceived here, Reports from Reval today said nn. Yudeniteh, in command of in Rerthweat troops, has ¢ap- tured Yamburg, 70 miles southwest of Petrograd. | A dixpateh to the Daily Chronicle | from it« correspondent in Riga, de clares at on Batur 2,000 Letts. under Col. Berkais, were still holding the c againet heavy German at tacks Remaining In Fuga to cover the eva of the government 6.H00 "and « small rear guard to dictate political policies. Soot, icanend ot iy ely the e * . ae Germans, as they had been ord ered | Because autocratic capital sometimes thwarts political Jf os commanting the! democracy is no reason why labor should do the same. It Russian forces which co-operated with Gen, Von der Golts's Germ: troops in their attacks on the Let has suggested arntiistice negot be held in Mit further the Le palgn Letts re Heavy the Ge all Friday and Sat ing. Airplanes 4 on the city. T forced a Wrench is a reason for abolishing autocracy in industry. Because railroad employes, miners and steel workers can inflict great suffering upon society it does not follow that they can impose their will upon a majority. Kings, em- perors and capitalists could inflict greater suffering in de- fense of their power. But liberty loving people invoked that suffering to overthrow or restrict that power. It will be fatal to labor’s cause if it discards political loodat ot Riga by rman-Russian forces continued | and stroyer to withdraw from the port. | a British de . . . . . Heavy shells wrecked much of the| democracy or attempts to terrorize it with industrial power. J masonry in the terion near the ral! | Those who work are a majority, and are easy to convert to aie thx cure wie any just demand of any section of labor. They can be edu- the ral ot ie Le irate PAGE NEGOTIATIONS ALL OFF NOW * Build- | cated and convinced but not intimidated. No determined majority can be coerced by a strike. No general strike paralyzes industry as does war. Yet life went on everywhere in the midst of war. The stoppage of no single industry will bring society to its knees. Stopping railroads, mines and steel mills simultaneously will not do it. This would only send us back to a stage where these things did not exist. Society will endure this and much more before it will give up democracy. A strike directed at industrial autocracy has a chance to win. It is working with the sweep of the age. A strike at political democracy is doomed to failure. We have chosen democracy and will follow it to an end that at least is not yet visible. We will certainly not reject Ultimatum of Maste ers in Eifect arbitra plan lrawn, went into effect would at 10 o'¢ Frank Building Wtimatum, the it at the demand of a violent minority. fe wkes in aatltal ce ae And no class has greater reason to rejoice over this fact could not return and work with non union m The arbitration plan of than labor. ie hd provided that. strikers should return pending | settlement Master builders say they are open to| jartitgation any time, | RUMORS FLY ABOUT PRESIDENT MAY Lose vorE More than 12,000 voters must WASHINGTON, Oct. 13—On onset of his illness, The kidneys are, son again resume his duties now, teblathe:batage dntdnlatit et Movers, the ground that the president Is | functioning normally.” | Grayson stated again that, should | ber 11 or lose their votes at the not in physical condition to at at one vas cenee 4 Drs.! any alarming symptoms arise, the | school election to be held December 2 tend to official duties, the senate es ty ‘don. Tt| Public would be informed | and the port election, four days later. consultation. foreign relations committee to- pie Me $7 " Hip wen gh cae page About 13,000 residents of Seattle sedaibely on ; r detail than pre | It had been expected that a de-|ratted to cast their ballots last | Vious statements. tailed diagnosis of the president's ail-| March. Unless they rewegister be: | Improves Slowly ment would be issued after the|fore midnight, November 11, they | physicians’ conference, in answer to| Will be disqualified —— Grayson said informally the presi | HINGTON, Oct. 13. ed|dent continued to improve slowly rts that he had wuffered a brain | Pressj—The statement of P: He said jt had been decided no at.|1eslon, Instead, it was learned, the Wilson's physicians, iasued at 12:20 | tempt will be made to deny the many | 49ctors have adopted a policy of ts-| p. m, today 1 rumors heard in Washington and | "ering rumors, “Th jdent’s condition remains | elsewhere. ‘The agreed not to! ‘Thirty-seven car of steel the same for the past several daya. In a pinch the president would be | t#lk the presi-/rails, for ratlway construction in| His temperature, with the exception |able to sign measures, or to act,” it| Gent's rned, and any| Japan, were aboard the liner Ka- | of one day, pulse and ‘respiration, | was stated, but hia physicians do not| duestions as to Wilson's condition |shima pfaru, which sailed for the eart action and blood pressure, are| wish to abandon the rest cure and|™ust be taken yp by all of them |Orient Sunday. The ship also took normal and have been so since the! will resist every effort to have Wil- (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) 24 carloads of sulphate of ammonia, the relations between the boy (prac- Army that it failed to raise the whole of the $250,000 fund last week. this week. We have still to raise $125,000. And every cent of it PPP LLL AL PA LPP LAPP LPP Judge Faces Jail; Protects Boy Who Says He Shot Dad, Tho Mother Says She Did It Neal Wright, central figure in the Wright murder case, who says he and not his mother killed his father. Judge Ben B. Lindsey (left), who was sentenced for contempt of court for refusing to violate Neal's confidence, t and ize John A. Perry, the trial judge. * * * * * * * * * DENVER, Colo,, Oct. 13,—-Boys tically a ward of bis court) and the thruout the nation are uniting to | Juvenile judge were the same as {those between lawyer and client, ry |doctor and patient, priest and peni-| “Judge Lindsey shall not go to ent jail.” Judge John A. Perry found him They're fighting to establish this |Sullty of contempt of court (WITH OUT A JURY TRIAL, of course) and legud: precedcn | sen’ 4 him to pay $500 fine When a boy tells his seerets to @} Lindsey announced he wouldn't pay venile court judge that confidence |the fine—he'd jail first. Then hall not be betra he appealed to the state supren® uprem f the United |court the law. And This court by a vote of four to regan led by the|three upheld the lower court's se Brother 1829 R ‘ building, Chi rising Andsey asked for a rehearing funds to carry on the light which This all dates back to the Wright He to the United murder trial in Denver . before which Neal Wright's father drank and case ubused his family al Wright when he says he Neal defended his mother, and the shot his father, and now 16—has father t ed to come back and je a good record as a soldier in clean out th |France, He enlisted in the army He wen r whicky He re-| pite his youth. turned and found the door locked.! His mother ts happily remarried He banged on the door and demand. admittance mmeone fired—and Wright dead on his own doorstep. “1 Killed Him!" Says Mother Neal's mother hysterically seream- ed tho had killed her husband Later she confessed to the cutor. ~ SAFE IS ROBBED, Burglars ransacked the Compton | Lumber Co.'s offices at 1428 Western prose.|*¥e., some time Sunday night, and ved valuabl pers from it was reported to the police y The thieves did not obtain any money Then Neat came forward and said his mother was trying to shield him. “I fired the shot,” Neal insisted. “I grabbed the gun from my mother who had threatened to kill, herself. It exploded.” Police laughed at the lad A minister brought him to Juven- |ie Judge Ben B, Lindsey. “Tall to \Seattle Obadives Columbus Day | the lad said. versary of the discovery of Ameri Lindsey did so on the, understand:|by Christopher Columbus today jing, whic hared, that any-| Banks and courts were closed, but! tty said ¥ schools were The annual n Judge Lir alled as| Columbus day ball was to be held a Gite by the Knights of Colurnbus in Col ‘The prosecution pd him to re-| umbus hall, 1401 Harvard ave,, Mon peat what the lad had told him in| day night confidence: Columbus day came on Sunday, Lindsey refused. He asserted that| but celebration was postponed until Monday, CENTS Late Edition Per Year. by ROBBED OF $95 the | Seattle celebrated the 427th anni. JAPANESE First Inroad by Nippo Into Milk Distribution Business in the City ‘OWN MOST MILCH COWS With the purchase of Westlake Dairy, Japanese have taken the initial step t controlling the distribution of | milk in Seattle, according City Milk Inspector Alton BD,” Hurley, They dominate the in the White River valley, city’s main source of comes from Jap cows.” Hurley called attention to in the county auditor's office show that two Japanese in controlling large interests have purchased the Westlake 1111 Virginia st. They are b by the Japanese Commercial b The new owners of the dairy 8S. Aoki and K akashima. have retained W. L. Nettleship, mer chemist of the dairy, as f ager, according to Hurley. It had long been the dream Japanese to control a dairy Once getting a foothold in that rection they could easily thelr operations, At first was found locating one that be bought. It was only after | was offered double what Hurley |mates the Westlake dairy to |worth, that the deal was mated. A difficulty sti! remained. | would nog do for Japanese to ly operate the dairy. That would: drive the white trade away. So L. Nettleship, former chemist @ |the dairy, was retained as “dummy,” Hurley says. ‘This the pl In effect today. one of the buyers a power in Jap tions in the city. He is owner of the New Cecil hotel, among his minor holdings aré Atlas Theatre building and Olympic apartments, He lives & rit | Nakashima, he dairy, is the Alps hotel, 621 King st. | Aoki is also interested in the las ‘Theatre building and lives the Alps. The Westlake fs one of the main dairies in the city. six, The ot! all owned by whites, are flower, Broadway, Seattle, ndent, Bayview and Kri who has been bu |Wwith a man named Brady at jobe hotel, awakened ning to find his room Upon investigating Kelly di his purse had 1” for $95. ‘The purse his pillow during thief had removed jextracted the money and rep |the purse without disturbing sleeping Kelly. la summer girl many he fet but the telephone girl the most rings, Pat Kelly, ls cove “touch Jbeen ur night. T I need a first class serving | maid And she will not be underpaid, je | A Star Want Ad she'll surely © | see And it will bring her here to, me, The Want Ad Rhyme Contest starts today and 4 ends Friday noon. Win” the cash prize. See th show at the Clemme The above rhyme is by Mrs. John De Graaf, 71 80th ave. S.