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* * * * SATURDAY NOY. 8 SOT Am, whe 10:40 & om VOLUME 22 22. | AS IT SEEMS IT SEEMS TO W DAN A SL Pans GLESTE: Mi) NO. 217. am a nightly reader of your column f note that you have developed an interesting philoso Phy of life. I agree with you on #ome points and disagree on oth- rs, which merely proves that you and I are just two wnits in a mult! tude of hapless, uncertain human atoms. Of late you have been dealing With the mud of the Pacific high Way. Would that every one could Mud thus--mentally. Too Many men believe that mud must be bandied physically—thrown, * But. friend. why worry about ‘the mad of the highway, when the whole world is floundering In a bog hate, and confusions, and ur and doubt’ You, who at times, consider this: Is it sad that the race, after hun- ‘Greds of years, is still clashing at f ‘purposes, each man fondling ‘a pet theory and damning the “other fellow for his ignorance. What constitutes the law of God and man, and thereby live in har- > What inevitable influence thus | Srawe us into this vortex of tur- Why, if a man so desires, can he live his life peacefully and atu- ly, working out his own salva- | Ewould give you my address. but #E fear some half-wit would seek me and spoil an evening setting Tight on the file of the uni- EAR MR. MURRAY: My gueKs as to what it ts all about is as good as that of any one else. It doubtless is not a whit better. Probably not even half a whit My impression is that the world going thru a period of reforma revival, revolution. ‘That a historic epoch will date from this time, just as one dated from the birth of the son of Jesse, @r from Martin Luther—an epoch the moving causes of which ht the world war, which itself ‘was but an effect. You y console yourself with this thought: That never again be an bad a world to live ft always has been, until we get all our various boiled out, we will see personal t national existences, may- facial supremacies, vanish in ‘ A man, or a nation, or a people, are mighty «mali rubbish in an eternal evolution In short, the entire known of the things of earth are turn the hand aside that is mold- ing the world destiny . by fretting Some of us, in the Years when the enthusiastic bloom Of youth coated our hopeful hearts, hoped to help things along HICH indicates that there is nothing to worry about nor to be helped We we going to right the wrongs and make things perfectly lovely. So we figured that it was the tax system, or the control of gov. ernment by capital, or the per gona} political bogey, or the domin fon of kings and ezars, or the pro fective tariff, or the per capita consumption of booze, or the mis erable cigaret. or something And we fought for a land tax, and ousted czars, and kicked out the republiean party, and took Bryan's word for it and drank grape juice, and ‘ewore off on smoking, and poker, and wild wom en, and put the workers in the saddle, and went to prayer meet *{ng, and gave women the vote, And, dawg gone it, after we had done everything, and reformed ey- erything, and righted everything, our latter estate was worse than our former. And prohibition didn’t stop erime; and the land tax in Canada Gidn't bring the millennium; and the women voted about an father had been voting: and the ezar and the kaiser and the various kings nglets vanished, and nothing a that was an improve some of us have about t the job of saving the First High Tide tt First Low Tide Bs ft ‘1 Serond Migh Tide | Second High Tide * * * * Tides in Seattle SUNDAY NOV Pivet then } 21:29 4:29 & | Sewond Low 1 tt48 pom * % -_ * * AER Lee en ea 9 eta Re OY ERS NORE RE rR cmap ~ * * * se ® On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise 7 RUSSIANS PLOTTED — OVERTHROW OF U.S. Y DEAR MR. SLEETH: 1 «etme More Deadly Than Bol- | sheviki Extended to All Parts of | American Nation | A nation-wide revolutionary plot in the United States, alleged to have been fostered in Russia, has been frustrated by federal agents, it was announced in Washington today. | wi The uprising, which is said to have been planned to start th general demonstrations today, apparently was averted \thru a series of raids by department of justice operatives in {nearly a s¢ore of cities last night and early today, in which close to 600 men and women were arrested. The revolutionary movement, according to government | officials, was directly in charge of the Union of Russian - Workers, declared to be “more radical than the Bolsheviki.” Organized in Petrograd, it was said to have 7,000 members| |in this country who were ready to establish their own form | of government as soon as the United States | been destroyed. government had | | According to government officials, quantities of arms, | gathered in preparation for the revolution, were seized in the Prees)—Resident physicians at San| | raids. | |oners were Russians. It, was regarded as significant that most of the pris- BY RALPH F. COUCHE WASHINGTON, Nov. Raids upon radicals, which began | \Terrorists’ Organization in | U.S.Has 7,000 Members| of banners were all ready to put into (United Press Staff Correspondent) | circulation. — Last night's haul tnehuded red) | Mage, guns, revolvers and tons of pamphlets, it was announced at the | department of justice. “The organization is more radical than the Bol«hevikt,” said the depart. ment of Justice “It was organised in New York ys SEATTLE, WASH., SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1919. Bold Rah-Rahs Hold Up Train; 150 Are in Jail SACRAME! ~Clad tn mm 160 #tudents of California TO, Cal, querade costumes, of the Univeratty farm at Davis started out last night to adver, tine a football game. Today the 166 are in the Sacramento city Jail, facing charges of interfer ing with the United States mati Shortly after 9 o'clock last night the Overland mall train No. 6, eastbound, reached Davia, The students boarded it. They re fumed to pay their fares and were te strong In numbers to be put ‘off the train by the train ofew, Outside of Sacramento Con: ductor Ward stopped the train, detached the engine and came into the local station for help. The police were notifed. A riot call was sent in and policemen were hurried to the station to i ! SAN QUENTIN, N s {Ul ot fer of $10,000 from a prominent bust him the reproductive interstitial At the Postoffics at Beattie, Waah walt dents. When Ward returned in engine to hin train the students had gone. way to and shoutt on the bridge by the police They are laying a United States mail train for more Southern funed to night from all the fares, The company will prem char; dents. Had the students confessed thin morning, they were morning mati train going back to Davis town red." « Offers $10,000 for Energy Glands of Doomed Convict rapher, who formerly wan a Califor. for the the . Under the Act of Congress March 3, 1878 trainioad of stu the ‘They were on their city, serpentining ing. They were met facing charges of de than an Pacific company hecept a cheek one of the boyr hour. The re lant for ‘fen Againnt the stu ir plan worked, the going to capture the after “painting this |rel Thomas J. L. other without % Whether Mayor ordinance, designed to curb the rapacious rent hog in Seattle, will become a law as an emer. gency measure, or will take the usual course of legislation, sub- dect to referendum, will be de- cided when the city meets, next Monday afternoon, for final action on the bill. First Asaistant Corporation Coun- Kennedy | mitted two drafte of the ordinance to members of the council, ing an emergency clause and the * * The Seattle Sta A an Becond Clase Mu IMINERS LOSE! » & & % GOVERNMENT RAIDS ALIEN ANARCHISTS CENTS Final Edition Anti-Rent Hog Bill Is Due Nov.10 Effort Made to Defeat the Emergency Clause Fitzgerald's council has wub- one carry: If the ordinance passes the council nia banker, ie kept busy every day | With an emergency clause, ft will be Quentin prison today received an of:| replying to letters from men @long | ©°M© operative immediately im years or prematurely olf who newt man if they would transfer to| want Interstitial glands If a man 1 the } without, the were to commit a ordinance emergency ertthe| lll be subject to a referendum’ by become a feature, aw it glands of Antone Lapara, who ia to such as forging a check he might/ the Poters of the city be hanged December 19 | But the glands are not for sale. Francisco bay district asked that the operation be per- formed on him, but even profiional abate cannot break down | prison rules. Vigor that money cannot buy will be transferred by the doctor | Doorent specimen of manhood they jean find in the prison—a man with | owt money and without friends, who | has been rejected by society. } Many Wish Glands | | ‘At. [in 1907 by a group of 11 men jed| Hundreds of letters have been re — yey ma men by William Szatow, now chief of| °lved by the doctors from men whe | | torney neral Gary | police of Petrograd want the glands. These letters come someees Mae ts will be | “The purpose of the society was| from all parts of the United States | cap ge perce hg jto amalgamate all the Russian !" each case the doctors reply that mane hs hae a copy of the society's |KFOUpS in the United States into one|the operation at present can be per | conatitgtion, sshich’be’ sand piedas| reaninntion, |formed only upon inmates of the |thousands of members to bring! “Last night's raids Included lead-| Prison | about a revolution by force and the | 6re Of the organisations in Buffalo,| One prisoner, the doctors’ Ae stage yertie, Bo Akron, Youngstown, New York, | — ae “The society hax branches in af Chicago, Pittsburg, Philadelphia, jmost every part of the United|Cleveland, Detroit, Baltimore | States,” mala Garvan. “It hax been | Newark, N. J, and Elisabeth, 6. J lin operation more than 10 yeare Waterbury Ansonia, Bridgeport Garvan earty today began tab lating reports of arrests from moi | than a score of cities. Reports we | being received hourly Has 7,000 Members lorganized by the revolution, which throw the American government, tlee today. Arms had cumulated and were seized night's raids. been in la | 4s the United States government ha | been destroyed, it w: ned. Newark, N. J., the 1 raide leaptured a complete | plant with which it ts charged, p for their Bolsheviks regime. fed Bund world is not as simple as we once thought it yself when young did eager- ly frequent doctor and saint, and heard great argument, about it and about. ever more care out the same door that in If went,” “And OR can we be left alone to | work out our own salva | tion. There is no happiness in being a hermit We have to carry the hod, bear our mutual burdens with our fel lows; do our bit in the eternal round, | But if we that finally it right, And dd our best each day as we nee It. And refuse either to take our. selves too seriously; or to get too excited over things that can't be helped. Why, #0 I've discovered, such a bad world, at that Finally, this i# all there ts to it: Fear God and love thy neighbor as thyself. ‘That's all I can find in Holy Weit to define our duty to our- selves and to our fellows under the New Dispensation And, tho many refuse to have any traffle with it, the Golden Rule is the only golden thread running thru the dark, stubborn, hating human years, convince ourselves is bound to come it's not uu re re} The Union of Russian Workers William Bzatow, now chief of police of Petrograd, was for was to over- Was stated at the department of jus ad At rs counterfeiting the conspirators, ned to make money oye | | | | Jers Saturday, | wide said New Haven and Seymour, Romen "Mosic of the union at Trenton one arrested. In his room were found gunpowder, copper and brass wire, electrical batteries and wax paper it was charged “The union held a convention in Detroit in’ 1914, attended by dele gates from all principal cities in the United States and Canada,” the state ment said. “The delegates adopted resolutions Which later became a part of the constitution and which have not been substantially changed | | The 7,000 members of the omgani- | ince.” zation were prepared to begin oper lating their own government as soon NEW YORK, Nov. 8.—(United Press). —Forty-eight men and two women were under arrest here today as part of a nation. wide round-up of alien radicals, starting Just night. They were charged in warrants issued by Immigration Inspector Cami- netti with being “alien criminal anarchists.” The raids were said to have been|* (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR) \No Raids Praae in Seattle Zone There were no raids upon radical headquarters or arrest of f roundup of to FD. agent in charge of the department of justice here. “We have “red” lead. wing the foals, nation according Simmons, Je no raids recently,” Saturday, “and we eived no instructions to pro Simmons have re ceed against any organization, diyidual arrests are being made for violations of government statutes.” On Classified sheets of today Are listed those whom we “pay.” Is your name there? we question, Of course, "TIS ONLY a suggestion, If you look and find not Try again next week— “Ih, what?’ In-} Many Times This Thing of Casting {Bread on the Waters, ‘is the Same as Toss- |ing Pearls to the Pigs. Or Pouring Water into a Sieve. Or Wasting Sweetness on the Desert Meir. ALWAYS. *_ * BUT NOT PROT iy Something like Seventeen Years ago, Francis E. Cadell | was a policeman in New York | City. * * He was on the Chinatown Squad. AS SUCH HE RAN ACROs ya i FELLOW PLAYED IN THE ASTIME OF Listy ADE uT YOUNG Bi LOWBRAL DON WHEN TH GOT TOO GAY | Cadell Guessed that® the | Young Bouncer was Not Hopeless, even tho His Bread ‘and Butter Depended on his} | | | | Dexterity in Tapping the Boys on the Turret at the | |e aveRnlagheet Moment. THE RESU 1 OF A LOT OF | ae MOVED THE COP TO DI- THE BOUNCER FROM DB AS EXPORTER OF |JOLTS AND JAI | 4 seems that the Cop Slipped the Rouncer a Five-dollar Bill and Told | | sain admission to the prison, leven then he might y A prominent physician of the San) glands, ag there te a long waiting also = has) list of old men who want them. remarkably has filled 0: pounds. The wound has completely | healed. J—-—'s sentence expires in! posed to paxsage sas without an emergen. Lapara was reported in perfect) “The ordinance health He has not indicated/ with an emergency whether he his youth rome aged Lapara is ¢ low" by thy but i not get the etwtant ut and he has gained 10) of Columbia has heard the news that legislation. Wants Emergency ‘The ordinance, as returned by A» Corporation Counsel Ken- }nedy, also contains a provinion that 3, dhe old man who got the| would render it effective for two! first pair of glands, reported to I.) years only. the L. L. Stanley and Dr. G. David Keb | manent | Ker, bis sexistant, today that he falt instead of becoming per Kennedy in. |108e millions of dollars thru lack of | formed the council that he incorpor: | coal supply,” he said. well and vigorous ax @)ated the provision to follow the rent | re to th@\reqult of the operation, which was | | profiteering bill [performed recently on him. Has face! to ge need by concrens nm rent bogs in the District } Mayor Fitzgerald in strongly op: | € his ordinance clause. should be enac’ ae ix to be transferred to | ket,” prinoner after his death.| afternoon, when it lescribed as a “good fel-| him that at ieast e doctors, and they bd-| were insisting Keve he would not object if he should | emergency feature. stenog: hear of their plans. thing of 1 The Bor ate ac o se (0 fe) fe Ue. | the Sixteen Years Later Cadell was still AN Came an Automobile Party, bound for Coney Island. CADELL There Grip. The Him to Get out and Make Sonv MANHATTAN BROOKLYN Driver Remembered the emergency der the charter, tion will the peoph next claw council emergency | the self. nance int In Seattle uncer Got. a Copper. HE WAS STATIONED Lia EYE ON TRAF U. of W Harvard 10, Rutgers 13, r : Pittsburg 7, ferson 6, LaFayette Columbia 0. Je 14, Brown was a Tight Hand 48 nnsylvania 19, | passes without an emergen: }will remain up in the air until after municipal election, | “What the people of this city want * |iw action right now on the rent ordt Intolerable rents such as ex- mand immedi: | so that; on thig meas gullty may be punished and the vietima of high rentes may Football Results | tt PE SS NNER End First Quarter 0, Fleet 0, Syracuse 0, Bucknell 0 Princeton 10. Boston College 7 Dartmouth 20, 9 0. Diel Stevens 13. New York University 17, Union 6 Amherst 9, Wesleyan 7 clause, or <Aussa be chasers tani tas pale ae: |1€ in In force until the war is Wexal- the mayor remarked Thursday was reported to two councilmen on elimination of the | | Would Hold It Up “If this measure ie passed without clause, | by opponents of the measure it will mean Un per cent of the! vote cast for mayor at the last elec be necessary to place the fate of the ordinance in the hands of next’ March, | “If the ordinance passes the city | Monday without the the whoh fight against rent hogs will have been use leas and lost. Not only that, but if | }a referendum is launched, tt will |mean that the ordinance, even if it clause, be re Heved of an onerous burden.” Washington and Jef. kinson 0. West Point 9. y " a ‘ » Williams 19, Middlebury 0. op Be Hand out Sixteen! iiinois 10, Minnesota 6 ears Before. Chicago 18, Michigan 0. 7 # » + @ © | Notre Dame 12, TIME AGO 1 HA | orgetown 6. N A LITTLE TOW Cols Rochester: 0: Yhic State 20, Purdue 0 “Yep. T've got a Life Job with we. . him now,” Cadell me. “No|Distvict Wants more worry. The wife and the kids like this big farm something im- nfense, boss. A eds years ago—"* Who was it who said some- thing about “Good Measure Pressed Down and Runhing Over"? Darned if T Baden: but Ain’ I'm the boss next to the F. 8. ot of things have hap- 1 first met my boss 17 the vice on 65th st, Friday mee money, opposed t it the Truth? © j conc Better Service Russell was appointed chair man of a committee to investigate the possibility of improved car ser, Ravenna conclusion of a meeting of the Uni versity “District Improvement club in the Bryant school, 32d ave, N. 8, and line at the night. Mayor Fitsgerald ng said he wa ing for improvements out to addressing the opposed to pay of fare establishing 2 yetem or raising fares which, id, would tend to congest living itiens in the center of the city, next March. | Weather r “Forecast: Strike Suit INDIANAPOLIS, jers of America today |The judge also made a temporary injunctio were allowed until 6 miners to state that his mind involved. life,” he ‘said. is. ‘The judge deciared + the strike would result in “irreparable injury.” “The government alone stands to The judge sald that he did not | think the juestion of when the war ends a just issue in the case. “It is a political question,” ‘and the courts must follow statutes. “The Lever act applies to the very | things these defendants have done. he said, the ly ended. The war has not been of- ficially ended.” The judge would not Permit attor- * MUST WITHDRAW. “I Consider This Rebellion,” Is Decision _ of Federal Judge Hearing Nov. ; Press.) —Officials of the United Mine Work. eral Judge A. B. Anderson to withdraw their order calling 400,000 members to strike. preventing them from furthering the st 11, to withdraw the strike order. The judge interrupted arguments of attorneys for the | “I think this is the most lawless thing I ever saw in m I consider this rebellion. That is what” The government is supreme, even to labor unions.” % * % Per Year, b $5.00 to Mail 9.00 Tonight and Sunday, fair gentle northeasterly wind — (Unii were ordered by Fed- the restraining ord nm. The union lead o’clock,'on Novembh was made up on the questions. {sere for the miners to present | arguments. When he said his mind was up that the act was in fores, A ney Warrum said: “I am thru,” and sat down, | Wiltam Rooker took up — | miners’ arguments, but Judge json said his statements were | less At the opening of the e | Attorney Warrum asked that |hearing be postponed for one “The questions at issue are of vital importance to the whole eo try that they must be settled diately,” Judge"Anderson said. Union officials refused to co foliowing the decision. % _ far DRAWS Captures Alleged Thug Looking into the muzzle of a re- volver pointed at him by George Oban, alleged highwayman, Police- man George F. Reynolds drew his gun, disarmed Oban, and placed him under arrest Friday night, following a series of three daring robberies. Oban was being held on an open |echarge in the city jail Saturday. He |is said to have confessed. The prisoner is 21, and has been jemployed in the roundhouse at Auburn. At 7 p.m. the holdup of an as yet unidentified Japanese woman at 12th ave. and Jackson st. was re- ported. “The thug snatched her purse, At 7:45. p.m, M, Nishiyama, 509 Yesler way, was held up on Eighth ave,, between Yesler and Washing: ton st., and relieved of $25 contained in his pocketbook, Nishiyama rushed into the Japan ese mission at 208 EBighth ave. and phoned the police. Patrolmen R, R. Moulton and George F. Reynolds were dispatched to the scene of the latest robbery At police headquarters the pris- oner is said to have confessed after the Japanese woman's pocketbook was found on his person. yama later identified him a: robber who had held him up. Shortly before noon Friday Oban was taken to the county jail, An information was filed in superior court charging him with highway robbery, Shipping Board to Sell Vessels WASHINGTON, Nov. 8.—The house today, by a vote of 238 to 8, passed a bill ordering the sall of all shipping board vessels to American interests, Report Denikine’s Staff Blown Up LONDON, Nov. 8.—(United Press.) -A Bolshevik wireless report today said Gen. Denikine’s staff headquar- Policeman ame Reynolds | ITALIAN TOWNS. : _ TORN BY — J Heavy Casualties Fe Hundreds Homeless ~ BY CAMILLO CIANFARA |” (United Press Staff Correspo ROME, Nov. 8—Rome today aits further Hundreds persons were homeless and com-— munication with the stricken’ area was crippled. Meager dispatches from last night said two distinct shoe 4 were felt. The towns of San Sepolero | and San Bartolomeo were reported badly damaged. More than 160 — houses collapsed, according to the — dispatches, The frightened inhabit-” ants were reported camping in the streets, a Is Second Quake Last night's quake was the s¢e 3 to visit the district in less unis fortnight. Property was dan severely by earth tremors late October, but no loss of life was Fe ported, The dispatches did not mention the extent of the property damage im Arezzo, an ancient city about 140, miles north of Rome and birthplace | | of the historian Petrarch. The earths ( quakes apparently extended | the Appenines from Arezzo sou into Apulia, more than -200 miles. FLAMES RAGING IN COAL MINE Largest Bituminous Shaft in World Is Burning BICKNELL, Ind., Nov. 8.—Fire of — mysterious origin today threatened © destruction of American mine No. ly” near here, the largest bituminous coal mine in the world. Momentarily a great explosion expected from the gases which a generating with the heat, It is Heved no one was in the mine wh the fire broke out. - The mine is valued at $1,000, ter at Daku had been blown up, It gave no further details, It may be a month before we is exti

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