The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 20, 1919, Page 1

~~ THURSDAY NOV, 20 Virst High Tide 415 am, 108 tt First Low Tide 28 « sate 239 pm, 1 Second Low Tide tae p me, 227. VOLUME 22. NO. TO ME DANA SLEETH @nd sousing large black sisters, for the devil to perch on. Hadn't thought about immer Momersion was a right live issue. Dad's church was liberal on the mubject. Those who wanted to be sprin “Rled were sprinkled, and those who they should dive, dove. Or were doven, to be exact. Ries and «pectactes; the men's bh Tide O98 tt 4 NE of the current events § films this week shows a baptism scene down South, with a small ; black preacher dousing | NRA RRR Tides in Seattle “ OAT. | LOE Dm, 08 te 1 | clothed in white, down and down, | until not a single hair sticks out | gion for years, but in our youth | Immersions were town ceremo | | Bathing suits for women had not | Were voluminous. j Busties and balloon sleeves and Petticoats in layers were In vogue, And to plunge such a body entirely was no slight chore Tt seemed strange that some @ouls felt their immortal salvation entirely depended on having their Roses shoved down fairly into the ereek’s muddy bottom, but many doubtless lived happily 7—such as did not die of . @id not defer their plunge until warm weather. And the minister was their obe ‘Gent servant. Many and many a time we re Member their breaking the ice tn & small stream a mile from town, nd long lines of girls and women ome into vogue, and the styles | os Passing over the ice to be plunged | Into the icy depths. _ And the minister, modern mar- | tyr, standing there in the foe and Slush and the December wind un- ti the last baptisee was ducked mersion have tanks at their dis- ; tanks within the church; tanks with their waters of cleans ing for the spirit heated to a prop- er temperature A lot of the rough edges have been planed from religion these Jast 20 years, whether for the bet- ter or worse is not so evident. cee N THE old days a minis ter was a servant. More so even than the country doctor; and the = doctor was slave enough A circuit rider would have per: haps a dozen small congregations seattered over a hundred miles of | i: nigh trackless wilderness. ! His saddie horse, or his light cart, transported him, and he faced Blizzard and sunstroke, and hail [and lightning, and all manner of lesser hardship, every day for | —s- months. ie His wage in cash was about what a skilled mechanic gets in a Month now: only he got it for a year's faithful, 24-hours-a-day ef. fort And until he died, or was broken On the wheel of exposure, the min ister kept hia post, carrying good plift- ing faith, ag might be nee i No more representative, or effec tive, or courageous Tied the light of ¢ dark places the oid-ti who mig’ " erdinner speaking, on gocial usage, and on the finer points of the higher criticism, but who could lay hold on the sacred soul of the dying on the brink of shoulders of faith Beulah land ARRIE wrote an epic on gonous rat eities and coze corruption Ike an Arkansas swamp oozes chilly and fever. ad z Nowadays those affecting im- | am, 67 ft | Second High Tide > 10 tt * FRIDAY NOV. 1 First High Tide ‘a. Wa tt First Low Tide 10-08 3:01 p Secom: => TRUCK the Act of SEATTLE, WASH., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1919. Congreas March 1, 1879 THE ONE BIG BOS (EDITORIAL) The Star is glad to see that President Short of the State Federation of Labor, and other leaders of his type are beginning to assert themselves in the Seattle labor situation. We believe the situation needs the aggressive assistance of such men, and, too, that it needs the sanity and stabilizing guidance that only these leaders can give it. In the one test within labor during the year, Presi- dent Short and his principles were indorsed. This test at the Bellingham convention gave Mr. Short, we be- lieve, an advantage—or, better, an opportunity which to a large extent he neglected. Had he and his type of leaders been more aggressive, perhaps the present situation could have been avoided. -. -The Seattle public must;know that Seattle labor at heart is not the all too arrogant thing that has posed for it during the past year. Despite the claims and the charges of certain papers the REAL labor movement is not in bad with the public. Only the direct-action faction of labor is in bad. The Star believes the people of this city as a whole will take for granted the honesty and the loyalty of a majority of union men. The people are, however, im- patient—and rightly so—over the inaction of the ma- jority and over the inaction and lack of aggressive- ness shown by such leaders as Mr. Short. * * * k * For Seattle, the year 1919 has been one of hysteria —a grand time for hysterical minds — “the lunatic fringe.” It has been a period demanding adjustments and readjustments—a period in which every organi- zation and every institution needed careful and con- servative leadership and management. Hysterical minds never adjust anything. They upset, tear down and generally mess-up everything. Now this hysteria has shown itself in varying de- grees in various places. It has been rampant in cer- tain editorial minds, with resultant effusions and preachments and cussings of labor. On the other hand it developed equal virulence in a part of labor, with the consequent actions and reactions. Most of Seattle’s troubles are unnecessary and some are purely imaginary. This city, despite all of the blunders, is still prosperous and it should be happy. The strained “situation” is largely a “state of mind.” The city needs, in addition to a firm enforcement of law, a bit of tolerance and a full measure of sanity. The Star doesn’t propose to preach to labor. It will leave that to others. The Star for twenty years has generally fought with labor or for labor simply be- cause The Star believed labor to be GENERALLY right. Public opinion has been with labor for the same reason. The Star has been against labor at times be- cause The Star considered labor wrong. The Star has never been the organ of labor or of | ] any other class or of any political party, and it never will play false to all the people by playing the narrow, bigoted, biased role as somebody’s organ. Right or wrong, an organ-newspaper MUST be for its clique or party. Consequently people as a whole seldom believe the organ even when it is truthful. The Star, so far as cliques, factions, parties, classes, churches and such like are concerned, is independent. It is its own boss; its own master. The Star aims to give everybody, every organization and every class a fair, square deal. But always The Star is to be the sole judge of what is fair. To have it otherwise would mean to surrender its independence—its right of de- cision. If inthe long’run’ The Star’s idea ‘or judgment of what is fair is wrong or biased, then the general pub- lic will exact the penalty. The Star, wanting to be fair to all men, and having no motives, no connections, no obligations to sway it, should really be able to be fair most of the time. In the past we have been misjudged, damned and stabbed in the back by labor just as often, but no more so than by other factions. We don’t expect any- thing different in the future. We hope to be RIGHT MOST OF THE TIME, but we also expect to make our share of mistakes. It has been a fashion of Seattle papers of late to pro- mulgate platforms—to tell where they stand, and so forth. It has always seemed to The Star that the readers of a paper know exactly where it stands, where and when it wobbles, where, when and why it lies down. Therefore The Star, if it wanted to, would not expect to deceive anybody. You readers of The Star know where it stands and, judging it by its rec- ord, you can judge with certainty where it will stand in the future. * a Just so the public knows where labor stands, where it is wrong and where it is right. The public has dem- onstrated its confidence in labor on countless oc- casions during the past score of years. Wherever and whenever The Star has conducted a campaign for the general welfare, The Star has had the support of the general public—and always a good part of that gen- eral public consisted of labor. It will be so in the fu- ture. The public’s confidence in labor, built as it has been on a solid foundation, cannot be swept away by ruthless, unreasoning policy. xk Kk S° 2 “& * * Today the public is just as ready as ever to stand with labor, IF LABOR WILL MAKE IT POSSIBLE. But it is up to labor, and there is where President Short’s opportunity and duty come in. The public is patient, fair and tolerant. Also the public is stern, exacting and unrelenting. The public is unafraid. It can’t be bribed or bunked. It is judge and jury combined. It is the court of last resort. It is our one big boss. Weather Forecast: y ‘ * * & * *% * * * ** *% * + & | TWO INJURED; HITS STREET CAR On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise The Seattle Star Entered as Second Clans Matter May 3, 1999, at the Postoffice at Seattle, Wash, under C Late Edition Per Year, by Mail $6.00 To n | | | | | | | ' | | | same speed, and the impact a } | were uninjured. |aceident revealed the fact that a | Spring controling the front axle i | | | moderate northeasterly winds | The street car, Eddy said, | truck’s course impossible from the | urally make a weak spring weak | was shaken by the jolt. | hurt | Edwin Selvin, publi ENTS to $9.00 night and Friday, rain; DEFECTIVE: GEAR CAUSE Driver Unable to Control Stearing Apparatus and Smash Results DEATH INSTANTLY One fireman is dead, another lies in the city hospital with both legs broken, and a third man is suffering from bruises and lacerations as the re- sult of a collision between @ hook-andtadder truck and street car this morning at 8:45, The firemen were ans false alarm turned in from First ave. 8. and Connecticut st. Peter Coughlin, 40, a truckman, 4058 Eighth ave. N. E., was in ly crushed to death when the t whose steering gear was bro now develops, slewed across street car tracks at First ave. 8. Railroad way and crashed into north-bound South Park street Alex Muir, 30, the other truck of 643 W 77th st., who saw the er coming, attempted to crawl up # side of the truck to safety. He rowly escaped with his life. between the car and the bis legs -~ a barber in a shop at 906 | car. of the car preparatory to gett at the next stop when the came. The force of the eo hurled him against the side of t car, bruising his right shouS@er ant skinning his right wrist. H. 8. Eddy, 1107 234 ave, driving the fire truck. His speed, said, was about 20 miles an 2 Suddenly, he said, he felt the st ing gear give, The wheels of the truck turned sharply, and tho ie tugged at the steering wheel, he unable to change the direction his course. bearing down upon him at about before anyone on the truck had chance to jump to save themselves. The glass in the front vestibule of the street car was smashed to and the fender broken. The runnin& board was bent near th rear wheels. Motorman H. J. Colman, 711 See ond ave. N., miraculously escaped being cut by flying glass. He said he had brought the car to a stop be fore the impact. Conductor Seyeher, 432 Fifth ave. N., said that the car was stopped. Passen- gers with the exception of Woodruff © Examination of the truck after the had the broken, making control of driver's seat, Eddy said. “From the looks’ of the break, think the steel in the spring had be- come crystalized,” Eddy said. “The truck is not an old one, but we make long runs from headquarters station over rough roads. This would nate Eddy and Capt. Fred A. Galer, 41) Warren ave., were seated together on the front of the truck. Neither Campbell, 1 2 Bloomfield, 1512 29th ave., who were riding on the opposite side of the ~ truck from Coughlin and Mulr, were _ thrown from their position but um | Selvin Is Arrest Business Chronicle, wa day by the U. 8. p nspectors’) | department, on a warrant charging he caused to be published unmatk. able matter, The article whic eaused Selvin's arrest was an torial in the last issue of his pap Later the editorial as an advertise ment was printed in part of the edl- tions of Tho Star and P.-I. The statute under which the war rant issued, and which the Selvin article is alleged to have violated, makes it unlawful to write any+ thing which tends to ineite “mui der, arson" or any other crime, Selvin was brought before Com: missioner MeClelland, where he was represented by Attorney Wilmon ‘tucker, He asked for his on bai