The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 6, 1919, Page 1

THURSDAY NOV, @ First High Tide 22 am, 110 tt First Low Tide oat 9.03 « Kecond High 2:31 pom, 12a & Second Low Tide 23 pom, ah “VOLUME 22. NO. 215. a a AS IT SEEMS TO ME DANA SLEETH F YOU haven't been thru the countryside after dark this autumn, you will scarcely know the old-time rural scenes. For a hundred miles in every di. Fection from Seattle, the old home- steads are all lighted up like @&Christmas tree. Miles‘on miles of brightly lighted houses dot the fields, and far into the t the brilliance lasts. 5 farmer is sitting up with the lar egg and giving his. White Leghorn pullets the induce Ments Of a city life of a white way, Of evening entertainment and spir. d discoufee, that the pullet may derytand the seriousness of life, } and also derive some few pleasures | While she labors. Sines some egenostic sharp dis claimed the idea that the chicken should go to bed early in the Winter afternoon, our rural life has changed. Night life, bright lights, 10 p, m. ‘much wheat and corn and tion, because of the ar- Of science on the farm, you going to get all the benefit of night work, and eggs are go- to be cheaper. -Well, take it from one who of giving all his energy, and all his surplus, and all his business man- agement earnings to the middle man, the packer, the ultimate con- @umer. ‘The only reason the farmer is staying up nights with his hens ts because eggs are 90 cents a dozen. It eggs drop to 40 cents, the Ughts will go out and the hens May go to bed at noon for all he cares. ‘The American farmer worked his head off for three generations for the fun of it, and because he wasn't well informed; but the eight-hour day idea, and the dollar atrhour idea, and the beauty of having something from your labor besides sweat, have appealed to the farmer finally. And any time the manipulators think they can rob the farmer as of yore and get away with it, they are wrong. Recently the farmers were loot- #4 out of millions by an unneces- sary drop in hog prices that bene- fited the consumer but little. ‘The farmer will take his revenge by selling his brood sows, by get- ting rid of his fall shoats, by pre paring for no spring pigs, and next year the packer will pay high and get few pigs. And the packer will pass It on to the public, and the farmer will chuckle while the city folks go porkiess, ND the labor leaders who imagine they are fooling the farmer by speaking kindly to him for politi cal purpose, and then boosting his labor charge, cutting down the field hours for farm hands, and then, on top of all this, demanding cheaper food — well, those labor leaders will discover that the farmer ts not solid ivory from his ears up and out. My hunch is that nowhere will there be a permanent alignment between the city labor men and the organized farmers, ‘The farmers’ interests are exact- ly opposed to the Interests of the townfolks, Town labor wants high wages, short hours, cheap food. The farmer must either get more money for his produce or pay less for labor, work it longer hours, and pay less to the mill trust, the ma- chinery trust, the seed, feed, pack- ing and fertilizer combines, fo any talk of Big Threes any- where, #0 it seems to me, is just attempts to jolly him that he is the Tide |head and eye. |at EERE Tides in Seattle FRIDAY NOV. 7 First MWigh Tide 4:15 a om, LL First Low Tide obi a om, be tt Second High Tide 2:09 pom, 12,3 ft Second Low Tide 10:18 pam 2a tt * On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise The Seattle Star Hotered as Becond Class Matter May 8, 1899, at the Postoffies at Beattie, Wash., under the Act of Congress March 8, 1879 Se SEATTLE, WASH.,, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1919. i ROBBERS STEAL WOM terial advantage.” Japan is past.” In a local interview, Prince Konoye, a guest at the Wash- ington hotel, speaking for Japan’s ideals and Japan’s ruling class, says some interesting things. The Prince, who was secretary to one. of the Japanese peace delegates, wisely say: istic class. Their opposition is based upon their own com- mercial interests and will be swayed as it is to their own ma- “We do not Japan need not fear the selfish business interests of Se- attle, certainly; it has already shown these interests that they may profit thru Japanese alliance and has, as he prophesied, bought them off quite easily. But the Prince is not so wise when he continues: “It is in your intellectual classes that I see danger. state that the intellectuals are opposed to Japan because they are against its militaristic power and ambitions. And he endeavors to calm our fears by saying that Japan has no such program—that “the militaristic attitude of The Prince has us all wrong. We, who oppose Japanese penetration of do-ntrtieias Whevime vedo scared of Japan, scared of its armies, its navy, the strength of its warriors, or the lead- ership of its genera Seeking no clash of force, still this nation would not shrink from such a clash, and no American, worthy the name, has an atom of fear for Japan’s armed power. You flatter yourself unduly, Prince. Indeed, we do not fear Japan at all; but we do oppose the continued invasion of the Japanese into our marts, and our fields, our workshops and factories, and our homes. Because we know the Jap cannot be assimilated. He, by un-American methods, by lower ideals of living, by an utter conscienceless urge for the dollar, will drive out of the field the white men in any line he undertakes, and we refuse to have our opportunities monopolized, the heritage of a free nation seized from our children, and our institu- tions overthrown by the dominion of an alien race, that does nothing for its host but loot him while he sleeps. MAN IS STRUCK BY STREET CAR Auto Accidents Bring Toll of Seven to Hospital Automobile and street car acct dents furnished the city hospital with seven victims Thursday morning and Wednesday night. George Williams, 212 Taylor st, who was struck at 6:10 a. m, Thursday by a municipal repair car, is the most seriously in jured. He was removed to the city hos pital, where the examining physt clans reported he was suffering from possible internal injuries, a fractured shoulder and severe scalp and face cuts Williams was waiting for a down town-bound car at Fifth ave. and Thomas st. When he walked out to get the car, he was struck by the |repair car, going in the opposite di rection. His clothing was caught by the fender and he was dragged 100 feet before the car could be stopped. Machine Skidded Edward Knowlton, an Edmonds farmer, and his wife, were both seriously injured late Wednesday, when thelr machine was struck by an automobile, driven by A. G. John son, 1915 Third ave, on the Hast ake bridge, late Wednesday Both Knowlton and his wife were taken to the city hospital, Knowl ton suffered possible internal in- juries, a cut head and a bruised hand. Mrs, Knowlton suffered a bruised Knowlton’s machine was badly damaged. Johnson said his machine skidded on the wet pavement Dean ¥F le, Snoqualmie Falls, | driving a machine on East Union st., llth ave,, collided with a car driven by J, Wuschak, 2114 Jackson st. Mrs. Helon Ridley, a passenger in the Wuschak machine, was taken | | to the Seattle General hospital, | where three stitches were taken In a scalp wound F. G. Richter, 61, a cook living at the Arcade hotel, was admitted to} the hospital to be treated for an In jured knee late Wednesday, as the result of an aceident on the Du | wamish bridge | Stage Hits Auto A Seattle-Auburn stage, driven by P. C. Rice, skidded into another auto. mobile on the bridge Tice was un injured. Andrew Karbney, 1113 Seventh ave, was struck Wedne y by al jtruck driven by B. Trumbull, 3626) a \ayton ave., while he was dodging |Madison st. cable car, He suffer an injured chest and hand, it was learned at the city hospital. 1 Carl Tollefson, 1207% Seventh ave., was struck by a machine driven by Chester Hanson, 1519 Third ave., on University st. between Sixth ave jand Seventh ave., Wednesday, He |was taken to the city hospital, where Jit was found his back and legs were |severely injured. He was standing by his machine when the accident| occurred. | Old Ptolemy Had Nothing on Tom! O14 King Ptolemy was one of the! best judges of strong liquor in Egypt | in the ancient days, the history books | | relate. | | He got acquainted with a girl | named Cleopatra, started the first Jazz band, and they finally mar. ried, The music got on Ptolemy's | and he went off on a toot.| | | who rorves He was pretty well jingled for five long years. | | But, at that, he had nothing on| |Tom Ptolemy, of Seattle, according |to Mrs, Tom Ptolemy, who has en | gaged O, F. Webb, an attorney in the Stokes building, to get her a divorce. | “Tom has been drunk for five years, too,” says Mrs, Ptolemy. fear your capital- He goes on to the Pacific coast, PLACE BOMBIN UCHIDA'S HOM Three Japanese Are Under Arrest in Tokyo TOKYO, Oct. 30. — (Delayed) (United Preas)>—Thr Ja me are susp d of having pmced the bomb on the premises of Foreign Minister Uchida this evening. They are be 1 to have been actuated by a jesire to create a panic, rather than to do damag Uchida's residence was only slight ly damaged. The bomb exploded shortly before a grand dinntr and ball, celebrating the emperor's birth which the premier, members of cabinet and other high person agen attended. Oklahoma Bank Is Robbed of $10,000 FLUSHI Okla, Oklahoma ate 8 banks here was | robbed of $10,000 early today by two masked men. The cashier, alone in the bank, was locked in the vault. “Almost a Husband” —That is the title of the picture which begins a week’s engagement at the Clemmer Saturday. FREE TICKETS For a few lines of jingle —See classified pages for particulars, Nov, 6.—The | | | FORCE OPEN Coal Shortage Nurse Worked for Years to! Accumulate Missing Money DETECTIVES ARE ON CASE| Daylight burglars robbed Mins Ellen Kelly, an elderly, white haired nurse, of $2,500, her life time savings, during her absence Wednesday from her apartment, 1103 Fifth ave. They also entered the apartment of Misa Lavena Douglas, at 11 Fifth ave., next door to Mis» Kelly and made off with two $10 bills taken from a bureau drawer, $8 or $10 emptied from a «mall bank, three drensen, some small articles of jew elry and Metropolitan bank book. | | “It's a lucky woman, I am," said) | Mine Kelly to detectives Thursday,! that 1 was downtown at the time | and not in my apartment. I might have been killed, for lying on my bed after the robbery I found a |mmali hand ax where they had left i are the was in gold ees A Bea OL tater puree * leather purse concealed in her trunk. She left for | downtown about 1 p. m., visited the leas company and telephone offices, went to the Pike #t. market and re- turned home about 2:20. “When I got in,” she said, “I found they had unlocked the back door and | had emptied out the bureau drawers, | turned down the mattress on my | bed and carried my trunk over by | the window and stolen my money. It | waa every dollar I had in the world T had saved it from my hard-earned wager. For years I was a nurse in the Sacred Heart hospital in Spo kane.” The hatchet left on Misa Kelly's) bed by the robbers was one she kept on her back porch to split kindling with, she said | Police bulletins for Thursday con: | tained a number of other night re ports of house prowlings and rob beries, | Mra, H. D, Steinwinter, 917% Spruce st, reported the theft of a! large amount of jewelry and ailver-| ware. B®. J. Hungerfora, 89 Yesler way. reported the theft of two eray| blankets from the Hotel Norman Mrs. P. Jechlin, 36th ave., report. ed her house ransacked and a watch stolen from her trunk. Mrs, Thomas | | Rameey, 714 or st, dropped a | purse containing $42 in the Butler drug store. A clerk saw a woman/ | pick it up, but thought nothing of | | the occurence until Mrs. Ramaey re turned later and made her loss | known SUGAR HOGS TO | BE PROSECUTED vgur hoarders in Seattle will mecuted. Housewives will not be molest. ed unless an abnormal supply of sugar is found in their possession. The rationing of sugar on the wartime basis of one and one-half pounds per person per month will be enforced until the present | sugar shortage ceases. ‘These were the statements of U 2 8. | District Attorney R, C, Saund |'Thursday, following the resolution passed Wednesday by the King county fair price committee to en- force the sugar rationing regulations in effect during the and to prose cute the hoarding and illegal use of | sugar in Seattle, | “Despite the fact getting its normal sugar, the situation here remains acute,” said Saunders. “Far more sugar is consumed than ought to be. There is a disposition on the part of some people to buy sugar in small |lots daily and to store {it away | Against a possible sugar famine, Gov. Jernment agencies are going to in. vestigate these cases and sugar hoarders will be vigorously prose- cuted.” that Seattle is shipments of \Stores Stay Open On Armistice Day Seattle retail stores will remain open Armistice day, according to an- |nouncement made Thursday by Har: |old N. Moore, secretary of the retail trade bureau of the Chamber of Com- merce. The bureau embraces 700 re- tall dealers, The Christmas rush is the reason given for remaining opén. __ Weather Forecast: N'S LIFE SAVING Per Year, $6.00 to $3.00 + Rain tonight and Friday; PEACE WITH RUSSIA LOOMS Mail $$$ moderate southerly gales, —) Is Increasing TAKE ‘Deadlock Is On in Big Walkout as the Attorneys Prepare for Legal Fight on Saturday WASHINGTON, Nov. 6.—Issuance of a court order commanding officials of the United Mine Workers’ union to withdraw the strike order will be urged upon Judge Anderson in Indianapolis Saturday by Judge 'Ames, assistant attorney general. WASHINGTON, Nov. 6.—The coal strike situation was completely deadlocked on this, out. shortage was being felt. Demands for immediate del , the sixth day of the walk- There were indications that the first pinch of a fuel ivery of coal poured into the} railroad administration offices here from schools, factories, governors, mayors and local country. Railroads were reported cuttin, down their train service to the mi mum. ‘The coal strike will be taken up by President Wilson's cabinet when it theets tomorrow tn the regular week- ly easton. Tuteday te the regular day for cabinet seksion, but this week's theeting was postponed be cause of the absence of cabinet mem- bers. The government was making no/ apparent move toward mediation, fol | lowing the announcement of the} Department of Justice thet the in Junction against the strike would not be withdrawn. Operators reply-| ing to the government's contention officials in all parts of the workers approximated about one third of the nation’s normal output There i# still hope at present of increasing the output of non-union mines, according to Kentucky opera tors, here to confer with Fuel Ad End of Horrible Death Org | — Is Forecast by High Officials SOVIETS SEND QUER! factory peace,” with ending the terrible orgy of death bloodshed, might be evolved fm unofficial. mission to brought back notes from the government similar to those © by William Bullitt, investigator the American peace mission. dence that agreements made ministrator Garfield, who now has/tory they authority to fix prices of beth bituminous an’) anthracite coal as a result of action by President Wilson, The senate labor committee, which has been investigating the steel | strike, is ready to make its report nd take up investigation of the coal strike, Chairman Kenyon said to- day. The coal probe will not be started until after the injunction hearing Saturday at Indianapolis, that the nettlement of the atrike in| & private question which is up to them and the miners again made clear they are willing to’ negotiate, | provided the strike order is with drawn “We cannot negotiate as long as the Injunction remains valid,” was the stand of Edgar Wallace, Wash. ington representative of the strikers, who went out Saturday and are still | out Few Miners Return | Few miners are returning to work, according to reports to both the op-| erators and the government. Altho | the operators late yesterday claimed 31 mines were in operation in West Virginia, the Justice Department fail- ed to verify the report. The only+re- port made public by the Justice De partment showed that “50 per cent more mines are running today than yesterday” in two Colorado countt Meanwhile the public, which the government sought to protect by the injunction, being forced to get along on the 4,000,000 tons weekly which 150,000 non-union miners are getting out, plus the tonnage being doled out by the railroad administra. tion from the reserve supply that was on hand when the strike began ing mined by non-union | Firemen Rescue 18 Children in Fire SAN FRANCISCO, Noy. ¢.—Fire- men rescued 18 children today when fire destroyed the private orphan- age of Stanley Ozeck. The chil- dren ranged in ages from 7 months to 8 years. The building was a mass of flames when the firemen arrived, and the fire fighters risked their lives when they entered the build- Ing. The loss ts estimated at $5,000. Defective wirling probably caused the fire. Roosevelt Is Not Legion Candidate NEW YORK, Nov. 6.—Lieut. Col, Theodore Roosevelt, .assemb!yman- elect, will not be a candidate for any office in the American legion, which convenes next week in Min neapolls Roosevelt issued this statement today in answer to numerous in- quiries, He leaves for the ven- |tion as a delegate from New York | state. BELLEVILLE, Mil, Nov. . killed, one injured and hundreds ¢ dollars property damage was the t& today of an explosion in the | Powder Co, plant, at Signal Hil, en miles west of here, $ ‘ The dead are: Thomas Moody, 46, | Edgemont, Ml, and William Dougal | 43, Believille, Ti. Lightning striking the- press of the plant caused the dent, according to officials, Offers to Buy It For $5 a Bott! A flurry was caused in the of the port commissioners Wi day, when Perey May, business for the Truckers’ union, take Commissioner T. 8. Lippy on a port commission dock and him a bottle of whisky for $5. May's invitation grew out |charges made by M. J. Ki 4 |business agent of the Taree union, and May, that boot r disguised as non-union wat were growing rich smuggling if |Nquor brought here by Maru boats Both men insisted the employment of |union watchmen would do away with the bootlegging traffic on com: mission piers. The commission took the matter under advisement. | | BY H. P, BURTON NEW YORK, Nov, 6.—Declaring that the pre t income tax is greatly increasing the cost of living and placing undeserved burdens on the poor, while not costing the rich anything like a proportionate amount in the final analysis, Theo dore Price, famous American finan cial expert, came forward today and demanded a new national taxation system. This system, he says, should be built around a tax levied | on capital instead of an ificome as | at present. | In a forthcoming issue of his pa “Comm and Finance," | Price will say this on the subject “The time has arrived when some revision of the income tax law ought to be made. It is greatly aggra- vating the Inflation and materially increasing the cost of living. In order to recover the tax that must be paid to the government everyone iy demanding a larger profit on his | goods, a bigger price for his prop: erty and higher interest rates on his capital, The word ‘spiralysis’ has Pay National War Debt by Taking Tenth of Everybody’s Wealth This Is No Wild-Eyed Radical’s Dream—It Is the Wall Street Advice of Fe New York Financial Writer “The income tax h on to the consumer and he in turn has to ask more for his work, adding again to the cost of prod tion and the cost of living. “There is a great deal of build, ing and constructive work that ought to be done in this counry, It is held up because those who own the real estate required wont sell it even at the high prices offered because they would have to pay most of the profit realized to the government, “In the stock market securities have advanced to figures that are in many cases absurd because the larger capitalists cannot dispose of their holdings without incurring an income tax liability that would ab- sorb most of their gains, “The theory upon which the gradu- been passed 80 ated super tax was imposed as: sumed that it was possible to take from the rich without muleting the impecunious, but the result has only been to make capital inert and so re- | strict enterprise and opportunity while increasing the cost of living for the poor, “We hold no brief for the rich been coined to discribe the result, and think they ought to pay aj higher rate of taxation than those — who have less, but we are coming | to the conclusion that a tax on cap ital or property is to be preferred te a tax on income, “A great capitalist said to us the other day that» he would be glad te surrender 10 per cent of his wealth to the government at once if he could be free of the inquisitional im come tax and we are inclined te think that there are many rich men who feel the same way. “In 1914 our national wealth was | estimated at two hundred and fifty | billion dollars, Measured in dollars |of the present value it is probably four hundred billions, Our national debt is about twenty-six billions, Even if the relatively impecunious — were exempt, a 10 per cent tax upon — roperty would pay this debt, reduce | the inflation and enable us to start again with @ clean slate. “Germany has imposed such @ tax, | England is thinking about it, Would — it not be well for us to consider t it? cttect of paying ‘ ee “The tonie debt ts