The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 24, 1919, Page 15

THE SEATTLE WHOLES LE INJUSTICE PyNE of the strongest arguments for reform 15 years’ imprisonment for refusing to hand over STAR-—MONI ‘Ot every 100 such shovine made, 98 go to rial. Of every 100 trials, 92 result in convic- . These figures are from records of the ‘ar Department. They would not be startling if caution were reised in making accusations against pri- s. But of the army raised by the United tes for European duty 400,000 men were martialed and convicted. Samuel T. nsell, former brigadier general nd acting judge advocate, who resigned from the army to fight for courtmartial reform, es- mates that 68 per cent of the convictions are just. Here is injustice on a wholesale scale. UR present cofirtmartial system places the private soldier at the absolute mercy and im of his officers. ' Officers decide whether or not the trial shall e held. Officers appoint the court, the prose- or and the accused man’s counsel. Officers ermine all questions of law and their inter- tion. Findings are kept secret. Ansell cites the following three cases among jousands illustrative of the injustice of our ilitary code : man i ina New Jersey camp was sentenced to panoo URGES Coal Operators Made) rit names, but corridorial chatter at the County-City building has it “Shocking” Profits ‘ j |that Charles B. Wood, ‘% YORK, Nov. agent for King county, 24.—(United | those present William G. McAdoo, in al It seems that a dozen automobiles today to Fuel Adminia-| Were lined up on Third ave. near the Garfield, urging concession to| County-City bufiding last Saturday miners of the wage increases | 4fternoon declared that in 1917 many| .ODe of them was to be used to tool ners made “shocking and in | Charles to the county farm at The, profits on bituminous Willows. . Gg It further appears that Charles Raserted the operators’ conten. | 2nd a companion spotted a high-class hat further wage increases | Juggernaut which they thought was Receasitate higher prices to| to be theirs for the afternoon ner Was unjustified. Tho chauffeur was missing, but no behalf of the public, already | doubt would soon show. d with the high cost of| So Charles and his sidekick piled i, I earnestly urge that the coal | Into the classy gasboat. rs be not permitted to impose nal charge on the public ful examination has been their income tox ran ¥ r iy t ls ae pane Dit our army courtmartial sy&tem is that a box of cigarcts to an officer. preferment of charges against a private Another man was given 99 years for a trivial ries with it an almost certainty of convic- offense of being absent without leave. A third man was confined for overstaying his pass two hours. After 13 months of confine- ment he attempted to escape, for which he was dishonorably discharged and sent to prison for 18 months. These Prussian sentences are due to our mili- tary code being founded on the Prince Rupert articles of 1642 and the British articles of 1774. Technical changes have been made, | the 1 wale of the medieval inheritance remains un- changed. Ansell sums up the courtmartial system: “The subordinate has no right which his superior is bound to respect. Our army system is the same which governed the armies of Europe in the days when soldiers were either impressed into service or were serfs.” RE 2FORM of courtmartial laws must be based on recognition that the real evil lies in the attitude of officers toward their subordinates. Ansell’s plan for reform would provide that privates be courtmartialed before a jury com- posed partly df privates. A trained lawyer would preside as judge advocate, that the law be interpreted fairly. Specific penalties would be provided for specific offenses, so that no un- American interpretation of the law could be made thru ignorance or vindictiveness. It’s a Wise Man Who Can Pick POPULATION OF — Buzz —— Eh, Charlie? CITY 390 663 After writing wome — ’ ivonght ‘was: the thacivons These Are Figures According “This way, fellow, and quickly,” to Polk Directory erupted Charles, «r lly fifteen what he purchasing was among Seattle has a population of 390,663 wocording to Polk's cit directory for 1919, just off the press. panion the polaric squint, th © to appear in the low” spake in Arctic tones a lows, viz: “If you lobsters will dive will ev at my t It in maid that the most anybod: aid have pu Charles and his companion for tt price of six tickets good for age on any one of Thomas F. | phine’s electric sits ation is Zylntra, 15th av Aabling a xbip N.W and Zyl th Appear £00 0 Johnsons, 1,600 Smiths ot to mention an tmposing array of | Whites Greens, Blacks, Blues, Reds and a single Orange—Charies T., a traveling salesman, residing at Eighth ave. N. W There are Lincoins, Wilsons, Bry ans, Washingtons, Marshalls, Lan Clarks galore 5 f them bears the name of Woodrow Wilson The directory enumerates 173,628 individual names, Multiplying this number by the multiple population is conservati mated at 390,663 panne | worker 1 Mur-| Worker tivi mens BAY SHIPYARDS WANT TOLEARN -“OPEN SHOP" NOW SEA BUSINESS? Association Claims 10,000 State Nautical School Will : Are Back to Work Open in January iT and 1918, McAdes ruaea of 100 to 300 percent uncommon,” he said. “Of} fi do not know what the/| of the operators were in 1915, } Yeft the treasury in Decem-| and these reports were not | March, 1919, byt if they/| any such profite as earned! ae Poperators im 1917 it would be| SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 24.—Bay! Young men of good character with wrong to permit them to/| district shipyards are operating to-\an inclination for seafaring, may [from the public additional| day on an open shop basis, but with|/now enter the new state natuical fin the form of increased|only a small proportion of their school on the U. S. 8. Vicksburg, for , |tormer 49,000 employes, |a twoyear-course which includes if profits were even| When work was begun at $ o'clock \cruises during the summer months as great in 1918 as in| this morning over 10,000 men had/to home and foreign ports operators can well afford! filed thru the gates at the various| The Vicksburg is now moored tr the increased wages to the| yards, according to the statements Lake Washington the wir and still have a larger re-|of the California Metal Trades asso-\ yon from 17 to 2 want Hi upon the capital employed in ciation. y, for the ¢ at 216 than they are justly en-| The leaders of the striking ship dock | yards workers claim that only tw met pees a physical earnestly urge that these in-|or three thousand men returned t and menial examination. Compie ¢ the jail will b fax returns be published.| work. They also say that © large|ticn of the course, it is sald, will fit pod ac BAe Pe American people are entitled to| proportion of those who picked up| +).o/5 become officers in the| ‘Re. uture, rt an Information and there is no rea-| their tools today are unskilled work American merchant marine at | t Why it should be withheld, since| men, and that the yards will be #e-| 700% salary ee ee el vane |. W. W. COLLECTOR OF | FUNDS IS ARRESTED that the income tax returns| All the yards were surrounded by! © women 3) n va ca Companies are more likely | Union pickets today, but no attempt, gid sometime in Dec ee vf Watate than to overstate net|W28 made to prevent men from .en wos ver fo tering the gates, Several thousand arday me power for the purposes of porinee He strikers filled Illinois and 20th sts. Young Thugs Beat outside he Unio Tron Works putside nion Iron Oo Up Old Man; Flee jics silently watching the proceedings {Some fifteen or twenty policemen! 5 young, 73, 1168 Harrison st |were on hand to prevent possible! ooctea to the police Monday that two young men attacked him at disturbances | Minor ave. and Harrison st. late Sun home. Hie sail phat the soutte est RICE SOLD BY TICKET TO HUNGRY FILIPINOS dentally intended to rob him, but be MANILA, Nov. 24 came tighten after be him shortag ce, the | Nine days’ search for Werner! up and disappeared down Minor ave islands rer, Search County Jail for Cache of ‘Dope’ Deputy sheriffa “nhook down” the ull Monday. The pi ed, Altho d jailbrenk and raffic in the jail ything was found. | rumors of of eautes r flouriah ing dope heard t hes mi Stringer to The school will open in lidaten Jar ember was arrested Sat ked for fe ® tigatic was a ed Madison claim they found W. W. literature ing Collins had an I W. de at his home } later facts show an increased where ie is justified, the American peo- fe will, I am sure, be willing to “” y January 26 for Wilson Tria | MARYSVILLE, Cal., Nov. 24.—Su Judge *. MeDaniel today January 26 as the date for the % Mrs. Gertrude Wilson for| Murder of Charles A. Brown, faiser, on November 1. | Prank A. McCormick, brother of Wilson, will be tried on the charge following the conclusion | sound 4 sister's trial | about wood, north of tt mpeition of the attorneys for without avail, Two decoys, ed | Coke compan defense that the court appoint|to have been set by Johnson, were | reopened te jon to go to Des Moines, | Picked up on an island off Stanwood | operate with former home of the defendants,|by Bertel Wennerstrom, 8034 10th » employed Nake depositions from prominent| ave. N. W. miners returned t there, was granted by Judge; Mrs. Johnson and young | stated at the Pentel. daughters fear Johnson have| Norma “2 |drowned while setting the 8 yree of dhseinst | Sinn Feiners crave 1 of Johnson, 8044 10th ave. N. W., ended! stotorc Officers coula find no Monday without a trace of the miss youths: ing man being found. Werner went duck hunting November 13 s have aatte traces of th Wilkeson Mine Is Open; 20 at Work) ‘The mine of the Wilkeson Coal and) TAXI-DRIVING APPEALS wl atteniptet ts) TO FORMER CONVICTS and attempted to| ut 20 new men who| CHICAGO, Nov, 24.—Members of of the union|the city council, investigating the r jobs, it was| crime situation, are disturbed by the fact that more than 100 for con employs a! victs been giv licenses to drive taxicabs: makes it nec 1 only by issued thru co that day searching parties scoured the shore of Pug * for a congider: stance ti ay i! we pe two may mine the comps 200 men have en foi WHY, THERE’S PLENTY OF GOOD HUNTING! 1 MADE IT MYSELF AND, DUBLIN, Nov. The govern today issued a proclamation hing the special status of po: Prisoners. In future hers will be treated as ordinary ts, the order was interpreted Mean Keores of prisone Proclamation, such rs are affected by which was taken a* @ direct challenge to the pain. Is BROKEN AS ,, MOTOR CARS COLLIDE 8 John st., rom a broken nose Monday as the result of an auto-| Collision on Marginal way. © Moreland, Hudger's son in-} / Wan driving the machine. The ued with another automo. driver of which has not Mentitiea, ISH CREW TAKES | OVER GERMAN LINER | YORK, Nov. 24.—The for- liner Imperator, recent | 8 4n Acrican transport, to- B sormaliy turned over to a! WEVE NOTICED JOB HUNTING 19 2 q NOW GOING ON HONTERS CUT IN THEIR TIME HUNTS ING FOR A PLACE TO HUNT INI is suf. — HUNTING CONTINUES TO BE A POPULAR SPORT * It's Always OPEN SEASON BaTHeTiC RE OF RABBIT OUT HUNTING t FOR COLLAR BUTTONS Co JAY, NOVEMBER 24, BURGLARS ON A RAMPAGE HERE |Enter 13 Houses in the Uni- versity District 1919. PAGE 15 80 PRISONERS GO ON STRIKE! Alleged Anarchists Serve Notice at Ellis Island HE WHO LAUGHS LAST— (3 Burglars went on a house ES): : NEW K, 3 ae Sunday night, eae, Pee oe ook robbed in the district be sity of Washingte mont, Eleven th in the University dix trlet Two homes on Queen Anne hill entered, while four other burs » reported in other tion, in which they at 4 rtation the which them from the remainder of i of the station is removed other alien depo} wire n sections mates © believe that at least two ed in the University 4 o only one man wa. 23 16th ave, N. I from do ard n the bers of the conducting bout 10 © one trying t © back door nlight and payn hy #, when He turned o D ble t him with a nwith an congre filed out of the sta to lunch the behind the b nationale,” ints Y.M.C.A. Defended by World Leaders DETROIT, Nov. United Preas.)—John R. Mott, tary of the ¥, M. C. A., declared he today that the “final answer t eriticisms of the | was giv in the gen tional ocnvention by the tives of most of the ional committee elgh ar anthem of the AWRIGHT, co ANEAD'N EAT IT ALL .'N SEE IF PCARE ! \\YOU'RE GONNA CATCH IT IN TH’ NE g Neer IY way ¢ Bolshev- following he University Stell, 6 usem were ente dintrict 1 16th Towers, 6525 Hanson, Williams: Porter PA Ave, 16th ave ir sab A nr 6200 10th ave 1405, and 8 J. PF at.; C. BE. Ridgewa Nettleton sil N Day 623 14th ave 4304 Fe ourth | ave bt e ont 44th wt; N, BL, W H. Lant E H. Har ave e. N. £. a quantity of jewel in all of the above verse nations of the eclaring that he would think it presumptious to further answe ——— | critics of the “Y¥,"" Dr Nobody Sent to Jail as =: Sea ace Ten Indicted pan-German Plot BY HARRY B. HUNT Revealed at Kiel ‘. E. A)!dropped from 10 to 35 per cent in| BERLIN, Nov. Seventy-eight au“ cert localities, or in certain! machine guns, bell "1 to have been prison today as| stor declared by the labor | intended for use in a proposed Pan- profiteering leg-| statistical experts to! Germanist uprising, have been dis- so far an indicating | covered at peording to the general downward panes bore Anzeige ah, 1245 Fifth ave, N., ported the loss of a watch, wh B. Harrison, 1719 First ave 6. Minx Mattle Willis Apartments, 1713 Relmont $150, and FE, C. Oda, Windac ments, lost $180; L. BE. Murphy N., lost some jewelry High Court Asked to Test vieketas © WASHINGTON The suprem: by the government case texting the 4 leaders to picket plants during | °* strikes, dexpite t injunction. The case involves a Toledo laber picket confiden th ave prices of certain commodities have | nan of in result anti in the whole of any sha have been in-|in costs. ec (eslbeaing ACTUAL I MORE THAN The “peak month” jeost of living since when th cent Just 10 persons, United Sta’ 4 under the right 7 ture of $10,000,000,000 would b jquired to equip the United 8: high | with all tillage tools necessary to Aug e its farms up to the highest of eatin oduction the 1913 ‘ five and one-half of food had kept in September it other way, the ions are be wcutions are says Howard one in the pen we expect to have | | ‘Numerous investi¢ ing made and other pr expected to follow,” RUSH OF EMIGRATION pontisse vee tat or FEARED BY ENGLAND) in the | For years the cost | climbing. But ttorney | started back the of L.|!merease over 1913 being at campaign |time 88 per cent. These are He told a reporter: | partment of labor figures. “Food prices’ have dropped from, Since Septemper 1, average food 3 per cent since the amended | prices have declined slightly more Lever law went into effect.” j tan 2 per cent from the maximum. Which is interesting and enthus-| To date the department has is- ing if left unqualified. sued no November figures. Whether continued | tis month will show a further “We have reports to that effect! decline, and how much, is uncer- f several communities, and | |tain, but it is practically certain TME that the sai is true all that no increase will be shown. It the nation NOT, IT / is held to be a good omen that the BE. |soaring has been checked. Meeker, commissioner of | « after studying returns | from every large city In the coun-| Chemical concerns in Switzerland try, tells his staff jpay their married men 10 per cent “There is nothing to indicate any|above the salaries of the single men immediate change of importance injat the same work, and married men| the neral cost of living level.” jeet 54 cents a week besides the 10) Stories emanating from the de-|per cent increase, of justice telling how|under 15 years of QUOTES PRICE HIGH AS 38 Figg is special asnistant | general in charge of the H. C. AS T pping facilities permit em) to leave the country for and the colonies. Mean the birth rate and marriage | rate have fallen off to an alarming|2 to extent CHICAGO MAY LOSE STOCKYARD SCENT AGO, Nov Health Com r John Dill obertaon, who ed the «mo! nuisance in is now prepared to elimi the stockyards odor which ' when the wind is in the right quar ter, gives the city a rich and dis tinctive atmosphere. An official list of the records of n aviators who served with alr forces shows they de-| and 55 balloons. | partment rica But Figg cnc r IF SHOULD yal C sticn, “What are the principal places of for each child | interest here?” The offices of the money lenders.” oy atroyed 428 airplane | {| Keep the Home Baking safeguarded Housekeepers who have always used Royal Baking Powder with utmost satisfaction are sometimes importuned by canvassers to try other baking powders because they are cheaper or under the false pretense that they have been especially selected for Government use. The Government is now using Royal Baking Pow- der and has used it continuously for forty years. Be on your guard against cheap baking pow- ders as they invariably contain alum which is . derived from mineral sources. The label on the can will show whether the baking powder you now use, or any brand new or old that may be offered, contains alum. Royal Baking Powder is made from cream of tartar which is derived from grapes. It contains no alum, leaves no bitter taste and is absolutely pure. “We always use Royal Baking Powder because we know when we use it we are not usin anything i injurious.” From an unsolicited letter. mame Royal Baking Powder Co., New York