The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 30, 1919, Page 1

Tides Taymenat First Lew Tide om, Le “Wiest igh ‘Tae, 10:02 a m,, 109 fe Second Low Tide “on pm Second High Tie VOLUME 22. NO. 209. [| AS IT SEEMS | TO ME DANA SLEETH UT im our neighborhood () now because a ragged lout of a halfwitted boy ; persists in popping out of the brush and scaring little girls ‘on their way to school. in due time, some able-bodied citizen will attend to the half-wit; meanwhile, little chil- dren are getting their first lessons in fear and human cussedness. One of the saddest things about Srowing up is how the bloom is rubbed off your golden apple of faith and love. You meet surliness, and suspi- » and sneers, and you, in time, calloused and cynical, and | pass on to some other innocent “third party the slings of outrage fortune you have endured. The average child, until tt starts “to school, is loyal, lovable, inno. cent and kissable. A year or two of contact with the world, and its “dear little playmates,” and the sone is Nip, fresh and sophisti gg ‘and you can’t build a wall about Your children and keep them from _ the taint of the wastreis that are | ‘to be found in every nelghbor- ‘hood. _ “Except ye become as little chil- @ren, ye can in nowise enter the 4 of heaven.” ‘We could retain some of the and sweetness of our baby we would not have to wait ewe-entered the kingdom of But always we have the half. _Witted louts to pester and destroy. / oe E ARE advised to patron ize white markets and gardeners rather than he pesticating and per J jap. ubtiess all very well, i of us have to do our shopping in something less than hours, and we shop where we ean find What we want. __ For months we have beer wateb- “ing one of the downtown stall mar- | kets... Gradually the Orientals took over more of the stalls, until Yast week the final place was Japanned, and the last white mer- ‘chant disappeared, without leaving “even a forwarding address. ' We notice that once the Japa | start on a street, they keep going | land growing until they monopolize it. and in market lines the patri- etic customer who patronizes ‘white men as a matter of principle ‘will spend more time hunting a | White man than he will earning | the money to do his buying. | And you wil! natice that these tle Jap shops, and stores, and Festaurants, are always on the job. Wo six and eight-hour day for them; no Sunday closing; no holi- | days off. They live under the counter and keep at it; of course they drive out white men who think eight hours’ work enough; ‘who want a day of rest; who divide their hours with their families: who take time off to go to church, to vote, and to attend union and lodge meetings. Any average man can become Tich if he cares more for the dollar than he does anything else on “earth. Very rightly our national ideals ‘Are along other lines, but, forced to compete with those who seek only the dollar, and who will sacrifice time, health, family, comfort, honor and civic duty to their idol, ‘we wil! always lose. Indeed, the aesthetic nations, | and the races that preferred cul " ture and leisure to work and mate. Tia] wealth, have always perished, | and the savage, the brutal and the | anima} nations and races have al- ways survived. Maybe the fail of the Hun broke | the spell; maybe not; we will know more about that 200 years from | now, | cee may be another | { HERE American city of conse. quence that has myriad flocks of wild fowl nest ing within its limits all winter, but we know of none such, But Green lake and Lake Wash- ington these days are covered with | ali manner of wild fowl. Big mal- lard drakes paddie idly along with- in 20 feet of the boulevards. Cana dian honkers swing in over the emokestacks, and spend a night a block from the trolley lines, Black brandt, seldom seen by hunters even in the remote places, may fre- quently be noted close to shore in the city’s heart; and many marine wpecies of water fowl, that usually _ fire seen only in books, can be /pudied close up from the back doors of many homes, Fifteen minutes’ driving in sev- eal directions will take you into forests where the grouse still drum, and probably there are deer and bears clofler to the town’s edge than most of us suppose, And forever will the clean wa- tere of the Sound, and the bal- a everybory is excited just | | the last wail of the afternoon. |sued a general | advocates,” GIVE UP HOPE | the mule on its way thru the flames. jsamed breezes [sic in Seattle | FRIDAY OCT, 3t | First Low Tide 2:20 am, LS rh High Tide. 10:6 tt RENT BILL IS AGAIN |Too Much Oratory Prevents Action by Members of | the City | Council ‘The wail of the apartment house owner and the hotel proprietor filled the council chambers Wednesday afternoon in opposi- | tion to the proposed antirent | hog ordinance. | It was a three-hour wail, at the| finish of which the council voted to! hold a conference Saturday with the! housing committee of the Chamber) of Commerce and a member each of the Realty Association and the Ten nants’ Protective League. The Sat jurday conference will not be public, | but will be held in an effort to word! & new ordinance that will hit at than at landlords in general ‘The first wail was voiced by Otto Rupp, attorney for the Seattle Real Estate Association. H. J. Ramsey was to have wailed for the down-| When the verdict was read, Smith | trodden landlord, but at the last minute Rupp was substituted. Three hours after the Rupp wall) had been made Ira Bronson walled) In between walls scattering fire} from tenants was heard, | but for a time it was feared that the desultory firing from the tenants’ |trenches might be completely A2-centimeter verbs, adjectival “seventy-fives” and a withering fire| of adverbial hand grenades from the ranks of the landlords. Quiet Is Ordered | ‘The repuise of the tenants might have been accomplished at that, had net Councitman William Hickman Moore, chairman of the council sit ting as a committee of the whole, is-| order to the as wembled landlords, drawn up in battle array “If you are ladies and gerfitiemen you will give this gentleman the same fair and courteous hearing that the tenants have accorded your Chairman Moore said.) after wielding his gavel with force and vigor. “If 1 hear another interruption, 1 (CONTINUED ON PAG INE) || FOR 22 MINERS Rescuers Fear Men Are. Buried by Cave-In | AMSTERDAM. 0., Oct. 30.— | All hope for the lives of the min- ers imprisoned in the burning No, 2 mine of the Youghiogheny tically abandoned near noon to day when a cave-in occurred at a spot where the miners were be- Heved gathered. Mine officials raised their estimate of the num | ber caught in the mine from 19 to 22. | Mule Saves Man ‘There were 155 men in the mine when the alarm was given, yesterday morning, All except 20 made their escape thru a long underground passage to an abandoned entry. Ben Delibra is the only one of the 20 known to have escaped so far, He | credits a mule with saving his life. Delibra said when the fire broke out, about 200 feet down the shaft, and cut off escape, he threw himself into | the bottom of a mine car and urged | The clothing was burned off Deli- bra’s body and he was badly scorched. He brought no news of| the others. An overheated eleetric generator operating a fan) was believed to have caused the fire. | Last reports indicated the rescuers were within about 50 feet of the im- prisoned miners. A cave-in caused | by the burning of timber supports is making the work of rescue more dif-| ficult, Watson reported, of the firs and cedars preserve the town from the infernal soot smell, and choking, fetid stench that makes most mod- ern cities unclean, While 4 man can't live on seen ery, he also can't live decently, happily, healthily, when his air is soot and his sky is smoke, and the good, warm heart of mother earth in replaced by asphalt, cement and | a |\from the enemy armature on an) On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise Entered os at the Postoffice at Beattie, Wash,, under the Act of Congress March 3, 1879 The Seattle Star Becond Clase Matter May 3, 18) MEIFNER PLEADS CUILT DEMOCRATIC LEADER FINED IN BOOZE CASE SE ATIP Don't public cough Consult @ reputable physician At the first appearance of a cold, Have plenty of fresh air in sleeping rooms. Do not ex pectorate in public places And thus keep guard against any ance of the “flu.” | SMITH GUILTY, SECOND DEGREE sneene ir Don't yourself on reappear Eight Hours’ Deliberation James M. Smith, ‘Canadian war veteran, was found guilty of murder in the second degree for the killing here, last February, of hls girl wife, Helen, in » ver- diet returned by a jury in Judge John S. Jurey's court at 9:30 a Thursday Smith will be sentenced Satur. day, or the Saturday following, it was announced. The penalty for second degree murder in this State is “not less than 10 years.” The jury retired at 4:50 p. m. Wednesday and arrived at its verdict at 2 a.m, Thursday, They took a| full hour off for supper, during | [lease speculators particularly rather! which they did not discuss the case, | attorney, their deliberations in the jury room lasting eight hours and 10 minutes. Smith Weeps Bitterty showed no signs of surprise, and re-| mained unmoved in his seat, facing | J Jurey, On his way back to cott in the county fall, however, he broke down and wept bitterly, ac- cording to his escort, Deputy Sheriff Charles H. Jarrett. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas McMahon, parents of the murdered bride, in whose home, 2534 Hudson st, the |drowned out by the detonation of| killing occurred February 3, were not in the courtroom when the ver dict was brought In. tho they had been in constant attendance during | the trial. Before the jury took the case, Dep (CONT'D ON PAGE PIGHTEEN) Ella Wheeler | Wilcox Dead SHORT BEACH, Conn., Ogt. 90. Ella Wheeler Wilcox, author and poet, died today at her home here She had been ill for several weeks. following a nervous collapse, suffer ed in ‘England Mrs. Wilcox died at 2:10 this morn- ing. Members of the household said she had not recovered from the gen | eral breakdown suffered nine months ‘ago Mre. Wilcox was born at Johns | town Center, Wis. in 1856. Her child hood days were spent in Wisconsin, obtained her d the and it rly University ‘HEY, KIDS! LAY OFF RUDOLPH’S GARAGE Rudolph Oser, living in the Siivian was here she education, She at of Wisconsin. apts, 914 E. rison, haw asked for police protection on Hallo’ following threats of neighborhood boys against his garage Acting as his own linsion officer jhe said he has obtained information that his garage is to be taken in the first onslaught The police say they will be on hand WESTERN MAYORS ~ FIGHT HIGH COST SACRAMENTO, Cal., Oct. 20. (United Press,)—With mayors of 30 Western cities attending, the con-| ference called by Mayor Brown, of Sacramento, to consider measures to fight high living costa opened here today. CANDY STORE IS ROBBED Burglars rang up a nickel and helped themselves to $7 from the cash register of the Standard Con fectionery store, 221 Pike st., early | Thursday morning, 1c was reported to the police. Harold P. Levy, 720 22nd ave, N., says: I'l need some things for Hal- loween, I'l need them pretty bad; But 1 have Warned the quick- est way In to insert a Btar want ad, Have YOU sent in a rhyme this week? See the Classified See- tion for particulars. —And don’t forget that it IS way” wants. the “quickest to satisfy your ATTLE, W ASH., 1S GUILTY | ‘Took Courthouse Whisky for| | Humanitarian Purposes, to Aid Sick Relatives Pleading guilty of unlawful possension of Hquor, Charies G. Heifner, former Democratic »1 chairman, admitted Thursday | that he had taken a sack of | whisky from Superior Judge Clay Allen's courtroom on June 4. It was done “for a humanitarian purpose, to give to sick relatives and friends,” he dectared. { do not feel morally guilty Helfner added | Superior Judge heard Helfner's plea of $100, Hefner's adminsion of guilt came an a distinct surprise and was made, it in maid, A. W. Frater, who imponed « fine Robert 8, Terhune. Along with 11 other prominent de fendants, including Judge Allen bim- self, Heifner waa indicted by the county grand jury on two counts. |The first comnt charged him with | pecketing two betties of whisky | that had been seized by deputy sher- iff* in raid April 24 on the farm of August Henagen and was being held as evidence in Judge Allen's court. The second count alleged that | he took a sack of the same evidence }in addition Helfner denied the allegations in the first count and the charge was| dixmianed ing it was supposed he intended to j pies not guilty of the second count nd go to trial Heltner in at present receiver for | the Meacham & Babcock shipyards | The appointment wan made by Judge | Alten Judge Allen and Deputy Sher | iff* Starwich and Brown have been | Aequitted by juries of charges grow | ing out of the same disappearance of courthouse” boose Hefner’ address to the court, in part. follows | “On the 4th day of June, 1919. Judge Clay Allen dined at my house, and during the early part of the evening he stated that he felt he should return to his courtroom. asked me to accompany him “Woman Very Low" “Upon entering the jury room thrn his courtroom I saw two men busily He I did. engaged in pouring the Mquid con-| tents 6f certain bottles into the waah basins draining into the sewer, sAt no time, then or since, did I taste the | contents of said bottles. During the evening several prominent physt- | clans and representatives of the city hospitals came to Judge Allen and urged that they might be permitted to xave some of the liquor for medici nal purposes, Those requests «um gested to my mind a way by which} I, too, might render a service. | “A relative very near and dear to Me had found, over o period of many years, that no other medicine than whisky would #0 quickly or #0 effec tively alleviate that pain and dix trean entailed since the days of Eden to the mothers of men “The frail daughter of a friend lay in the hospital still within the valley of the shadow of death in bringing into the world a man-child, and the attending physician, despairing al jmost of her life, had preseribed | whist as the surest remedy for re | viving her waning strength ‘And still another woman, the | wife of a friend, having lain for four | long weeks near life's border line as the result of a major operation, was on medical adyiee in need of whisky | as medicine “Your honor, would you or would any other red-blooded man within the hearing of my voice, privileged and circumstanced as I was, would you or would you not avail yourself of the opportunity to render a service, alleviate pain and suffering at the risk only of doing a thing which in itaelf harmed no one and which but recently became malum prohibitum? “LT would—and I did. “But my conscience is clear, your |honor. I transgressed no moral law. | 1 invaded no man’s rights or privil- |eges. I added to no man’s burdens, |intended no disrespect to the canons |of society, violated, perhaps, the let- ter, but not the spirit of. the law. “In conclusion, I have but this to say: I have lived here 30 years, I have stood for decency and justice— socially, economically. In the days of legalized saloons I was a rare and infrequent patron. No man in this {community ever saw me intoxicated, | L denounced the saloon in the heyday of its power and assisted in its | destruction. In what I have done I have not been inconsistent with my public record, nor have I done aught to lessen the faith, confidence and respect of those who know me, over the objection of his Up until Thursday morn: | ., THU RSDAY, OCTOBER MORALLY WILL MEET ~ SATURDAY [Jury Verdict Reached After HEIFNER IS FINED $100) 30, 1919. NEW YORK, Oct LOWS i. SEOKER 20.—Miss Alice Louise gecker, who has just won $10,000 for being the most beautiful girl in Greater New York, said to- ‘day she hasn't decided yet what she ts going to do Misa Secker is a working girl, old. George M. Cohan, playwright and producer; producer of motion pictures, who chose Miss today the picking of the most beau- | artist. and D. W. Griffith Secker as the prize winner, declared “with all that money,” a factory worker. She is 23 years Harrison Fisher, noted tiful girl in the world's greatest city waa “a most Gelighte 1 task.” Shoes Seem to Pinch the Wrong Fellows ANDLORDS who disclaim hoggish proclivities have no business putting on the shoes which should pinch only those who are guilty of conscience- less practices. Yet one apartment house keeper after another at the hearing on the proposed rent ordinance yesterday took up the council's time to assert the reasonable- ness of the rents in their particular places. If they ing their teeth? bill. tell the truth, why should they be gnash- THEY won't be molested by the THEY won't be injured or interfered with. The ordinance is aimed—and justly so—at apart- ment buildings, whos tial interest in Seattle. caused apartment leases lease speculators, who add nothing to the » investments produce nothing in the way of additional homes, who have no s olid, substan- These speculators have to be so pyramided that the time has come when they MUST be curbed if we are to have peace in this community. The housing committee merce recognizes thi the representatives of the equally recognize it. of the Chamber of Com- , let it be said to its credit; and Seattle Realty association It is an insult to the intelligence to have any law- yer or sleek apartment house keeper declare that the Kennedy ordinance will operate unjustly against those who are reasonable. Neither the mayor nor the council would permit it to work that way. The Kennedy bill has teeth im it. more apparent every day. That becomes Yet it is not as drastic as the measure passed by congress to protect the ten- ants in Washington, D. C. No doubt it can be amended—and there is no objection to that if the amendments do not wreck it. If not, the bill as it stands concise, well and good, now, should pass. RAILWAYMEN ARE AWAITING ANSWER WASHINGTON, Oct, 30.—(United Press.)—Ratiroad workers who are asking bigher pay expect to hear the verdict of the ratlroad adminis- tration on their requests within the next few days. Director Generil Hines today had before him the report of his wage adjustment board. He planned to| summon officials of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen and the Order of Railroad Conductors to a confer. lence before Monday, If it can be made more AWAKENED BY THUG S HAND ON HIS THROAT Awakened in the dead of night by a hand that clutched his throat, W. 8, Schwarts, 611% Sixth ave. 8. shook off a burglar in time to prevent bodily injury, but not the theft of his coat and trousers, Schwarts saw two men dart from the room, T. Fujino, proprietor of the lodging house, said he saw two |negroes leaving the building early Thursday morning. One of them had formerly been a roomer, One of the men left a black hat in Schwartz's room, | | | } | brought about Weather Forecast: PRESIDENT IS CRITICISED BY MINERS’ CHIE ‘Strike of 500,000 Coal Workers Ord to Start Friday out Is Inevitable BY J. L. O’SULLIVAN (United Press Staff Correspondent) INDIANAPOLIS, Oct. 30.—The stage jset today for what may prove the most lreaching industrial battle in America’s h tory. The curtain will go up at midnight F \day. At that time orders calling bituminous coal miners, members of United Mine Workers will become effective. Preliminari “that of industrial They on firm on their nited Mi ies were finished today. The battle warfare, was chosen by the miners, ht and Frida: tonight nr nig! at Midnigh’ ight; W: of America, to {Aw strike, Jol determination to oh e Workers of Ame . os rip to gaoanioen The message to Wilson declared: “It is, indeed, a sad commen- tary upon principles of square dealing when the president of the United States and his cabi- net, by unanimous vote, ally jen with sinister finan- interests which seek to deny Justice to labor and ite our country into industrial tur- In a statement Lewis said: “Ui and = unwar- ranted of the cabinet and president he United States in tssuing statements Saturday last has done more to prevent satis- factory settlement of impending strike and working out of wage agreement than any other ele- ment which has entered into the situation.” He characterized the president's statement as a “bitterly partisan” document. “It attacks the intentions of the workers without even suggesting that mine operators may have the unhappy situa- " Lewis said “Threat is made to exercise full force of government to prevent stop- page of work, without any corre- sponding threat to exert full force of government to enforce fair work- ing conditions and living wages.” Lewis claimed the miners, when in conference with operators and Secre- tary Wilson at Washington, were willing and anxious to open joint ne- gotiations without reservation, ‘Our position remains the some to " he continued. ourselves in readiness to attend any joint conference which may be ar- ranged by you upon fair basis, and stand ready to convene international (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) CALL TROOPS IN COLORADO National Guard: Mobilizes for Strike Duty DENVER, Colo., Oct. 30.—By United Press.)—Colorado's nation- al guard, on orders from Gov. Oli- ver H, Shoup, is mobilizing today for duty in the coal strike. The governor also asked for a confer- ence Saturday with state officers of the American Legion to ar- range for the aid of war veterans in preserving order. Gov. Shoup announced his de- termination “sternly to repress vio- lence and disorder,” and to protect “the constitutional right of every man to work when, where and for whom. he pleases.” The state troops, numbering about 1,000, will be used principally to protect. miners who have announced their intention of continuing at work. Prices on soft coal at the mines jumped $3 per ton on the cheaper grades, as a result of the coal strike threat, according to officers of the Liberty Fuel company, independent dealers, here today. The raise made retail prices prohibitive, leaving many consumers without fuel, the company stated, i “We shall hold | is’ telegram was yt secretary of labor by the conference of union h terday, in which Wilson made “certain su in settling the difficulty between the miners and 0 | U.S, PLANNIN STRIKE AC Government Ready to serve Order in Wall WASHINGTON, Oct, The meeting was attended y] Director Hines and Fuel trator Garfield, in addition to cabinet members, . Following the cabinet m tornéy General Palmer issued ti lowing statement: “The president will be asked to make an order cancelling |tions on the price of fuel, jhave the effect of establishing mum prices, | “On making the order, the fuel |ministrator will take such action’ |may be nécessary to protect sumers, both as to price and tribution of fuel.” Garfield, who arrived here day, has been in almost continuo’ conference with other government fictals on the coal situation. It 4 understood he has advised 7 |revival of the fuel adminiatration, |it was constituted during the The railroad admnistration, it is can perform many of the fi of the fuel administration, thru control of car supply. Government's Position Preferential lists used during war will be used by Hines in the fuel supply, if this necessar; Today's cabinet meeting foll meeting at Attorney General er's office late yesterday, at it was decided: The government would watch tribution of the coal supply the ground, and prevent profit. because of the strike. Miners who wish to continue despite the strike order, will be tected by federal troops, if sary. The Lever food and fuel act, ing it unlawful to hinder tion of necessities, will be inve if necessary. Congress Helpless : Congress was virtually helpless J the face of the announced de! ation of labor leaders to go thet with the strike as scheduled, It was expected that the and possibly the house would go © record in vigorous protest any compromise, but congress | appre. to the White House of the government, huysen, New Jersey, chi the sub-committee investigating: coal situation, said today. “ nothing we in congress can do, now we have a chance to find 0} if we have a strong [aot