The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 4, 1919, Page 1

THURSDAY pre. «4 First High Tide Pirst Low Vide AS IT SEEMS TO ME DANA SLEETH YNESDAY morning. an before the wan shivered its path over the horizon, I beat ck by a nose. c dinnings © that the youth- er of the tribe might r's snooze, fires were started faucet to fill the to, d behold, urgle in the and there fot a drop nor a trace of per ‘atiON. *Pipés frose,” quoth I. and jonted over the bath and cellar, and outside in the frozen lawn, but ino sign of congealed pipes. f Then I noticed that one neighbor gas digging in the chill half-light and another had a merry bonfire Built up against his house, and a third was bumping about under the front porch. “Bet a dollar the pressure is oft the whole main,” sez I to myself, Bes I. and, being of a naturally lazy disposition, ceased my Inboru. Telephonic inquiry proved that I was right; a main had broken and flooded the street and left the neighborhood without water sup iy. A lot of ambitious citizen puldn't believe me and kept jiding bonfires regardiess, ahd humping about under the plazza it the net result was the same y had any water for break O SOME folks, who knew water boiler, got a few gallons of rusty easence, others walked two blocks @utside the arid vone and lugged Wwater home in buckets and ket files, and some te dry wast and went coffe: ered to town, wit lof water in the f nd bewhis ven a pint er radiator. the morning the me on and all was well, ex cept where careless citizens had deft faucets « n the cellar, o had not tur e water off and Grained the hot water system and ad kept the fire goir until a jug or something t at srooned And in the ch pint of milk and half a ture for a Fwith lion of cider an » lamily and cul i dawned on us how vital these tak enfor-granted little utilities are. $0 accustomed t and having a never diminishing aiways forthcomir unfailingly pure flood of water pour forth Hahat we are as helpless as babies If the amallest accident occurs. feattle might easily perish of ing a tap Phirst, or of « or bot a dozen other disasters, should a main pipe line become disabled for m week We would be n Plight if the lights went out, the Meera quit running, or the gas me ters quit turning. as helpless a METIHES it seems to me that we become more helpless as we become more cit Fach ar sething new that we i} in another i probably have to stay in ill day if our automatic out of whack and fails to put jothes on us jen can ea become gi upon them. oll lamp and a gallon of coal D ith half a dozen candle too, t | of grief wouldn't cost much to build an old-fashioned cistern and fit a and the family would be independ ent tor two months ‘And if more boys and men, had | bicycles and kept in practice, car | ‘etrikes would not hold the wrrors a for us they do now. Life tricked her into a deadlock. Where had been the fault, and whose? She was caged—a comfortable cage, to be sure—was it better than the howling darkness of the unfamiliar desert beyond? Young Beautitul RS RNAS gan ~ ve Se gmt Te we These were the secret broodings in “THE HEART OF RACHAEL.” Kathleen Norris, master of modern fiction, who weaves romance, tragedy and love into throbbing novels of American life, is the author of “The Heart of Rachael.” This story—the best Kathleen Norris has ever written— will appear serially in THE SEATTLE STAR. Watch for first installment TOMORROW, F RIDAY, DEC. 5 Tides in Seattle Virst High Tide Becond Low Tide Second High Pld FE BEATEN: MAN Celebrating Marian Sullivan and Dean Smith, members of the graduating class of McDonald school, ense” hair dress trating the new mode of “common ing in vogue at the school today, “plain hair day.” It’s “Common Sense” Style, inc abou whe | Say Teacher and Parents i.) drew And the Children? Oh, very girl at MeDonald school ed straight b 4, drawn tight under with a simp strand down the back 200 Are Arrested inknowr ' f Clever | TRAIN SERVICE TO WEST IS CUT | APP AL PL ALL ALLL PLP On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise eSeattleStar 2==@)) $5.00 to $9.00 May 2, 1899, at the I attic, Wank, under the Act of vHles 4 . Friday, fair 1 0 cold moderate casterly winds. SHO 2ATTLE, WASH., THI / y t 4, 1919. Weather Forecast :772\4n' 4 ; 4 ; | s | bee | “Plain Hair” Cho | | ain Hair” Day enators Start bYrother-ii- | i 1 s | . nd | ; |Special and Pleasure Trains| ituatio rar : 4 Will Not Be R Hears Screams of Sister ill Not Be Run, Say Bee | “i ae ¢ : ee and Rushes to Her Aid; Officials cnitea ey ts O, MARTIN break diplomatic relations with Car- : ¥ | Mota nited Press Staff Correspondent | ranza, congress would back him up| Shot Lodges in Neck WON'T AFFECT THE MAIL WASHINGTON, D. €., Dec. 4. The committee did not vote on i S| —teginning consideration of |tither the Fall resolution or the HE THEN MAKES ESCAPE: © —— | Senator Fall's resolution direct- so else en re CHICAGO, Dec. 4.—Passenger ing the president to sever diplo- tary Lansing was asked to erate J. train service on all Western rail matic relations with Mexico, the PUP*AT this after ommit Hearing the scream. 9¢) 3ie 5 roads from Chicago to the Pacific senate foreign relations commit- rf seengeuies ut taking sister in the room beneath him | comnt will be cut omethird, be- tee today questioned Henry P. | “*)\°" | ot bom. Thee, Sere ginning Monday, D ber &. Fletcher, United States ambas- 4 aap the session. Hitchcock Beneditti, of 4115 26th ave. B, | je . ta tec here was \derable ¢ hed downstairs, burst epen. |” This notion was decided upon here autor to Mexico, its first witnem. {sity of bey 28 germ me sh gay . WA 4. Meanwhile the state d * y opinion” in the committee. the door and shot Joe A May at a conference of the thre a jepart Wenger sectonal directors Rt t¢,| ment walted for 4 reply to its American Claims inl, hie sister's Sushand, o raters si i A): gente bbe ‘rommabtions fommsote.. | ‘ , he neck, with a 2h-calber re Aishton, Northwestern region, Hale requesting im The president is directed ate release of ito use the volver. The wound is believed Holden, Central Western region, and : of W. 0. Jenkins, (army and navy to force settlement of t fatal a i. F. Bush, Southwestern ree merican consular agent jailed [claims held by American citizens, Ot fat : Th duction will effect a one at Puchia. So far as this gov- against 0, should that gover Beneditti escaped after the shegtui bene ia tants taltee the number | frmment knows, Jenkins is still ment refuse to parti vate ine join, | 2n& and was still at large at a late 7 tions Pane so tientioning of Fletcher followed a provision of a Joint resolution otte aI rd Younseran jong statement by Fall, in which he by Senator K democ j yer bi business or pleasure traffic. No sec-/which he said proved Gérrs foreign relations committee,’ | after her husband had been fe ond sections of regular trains are Ql: | back of a prop: in. arate in thin) * resolution , pr ory ei that the, Moved to Providence hospital, that lowed. Overflow traffic must walt country comparat in extent and United States shall request the Me Lorenzini was beating her when her for Iter trains, No parlor or 1OUN@ | victounness to the German efforts be. can rntment to join In creating « Brother appeared and stopped the core may used lore ~ r s . 2 may be used : f America’s entrance into the war t commigsion to consider and set-| Procedure with a bullet. She e@x= Appeals thru advertixements fn all comm that in his all claims raised against the Mex-| hibited a mashed nose and bruised arge cities in the district included in warrant for the « n government for damage to prop-| face evidence. 3 the order will ask the 5 le to re United States of all f American citizens. Lorenzini is about 32 years old. frain from all unnece matic and consular id Mexi © to partic. Beneditti is 26. At the hospital The order does not afte withdrawal of Ameri- pate, the resolutior les that the| Physicians said the injured man xpress trains, except in pr ng (can officia ‘om Mexico. resident shall app . commission Probably will live, altho the wound additional trains to take care ¢ decres 11 Americans, to include army of. 18 serious. “f day tretfi Fietober teutified before the com-|* und civilians, which shall con > > iatttnn an eeniah ca) es , Sider such claims and decide the Seattle and the Western Washing: | were reticent concerning his testi s of settlement n t t will be ffected b ™ s ator Hitchcock offered Mexican Air Force ders curtailing ervice, Ac | the committee a substitute for the The Mexican government is n ording to announcement b Fa exolutio: tha if ating for a strong road mimi t = ft to NT ED PAGE TWO) SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 4.—Belie® bas a nae és that the barkentine Thrasher, which - left here Oct. 26 for Seattle, has. ve" Report Carranza Buyin |iindrca es sapttcne Sega Bhs: S 1 «| marine experts of the Chamber of mines in ‘Beith, Columba. Arms Supply From Spain “22H, wien cars a va received j rew of ten, men, is 25 days overs ‘ EL PASO, 1—Ther | dido Aguilar, son-in-law of Car-/due. No word has been received explosive elements in the Mexi- | "&nza, is said to be in Spain purchas-| from the ship since it cleared from | 4 COAL RATIONING on a iy Whitten 18 ammunition. His ac-| San Francisco. 3 tivities are being closely watched by| This report, coupled with ning Himate intervention pereeptibl ‘ Dp ith wart : ultimate intervention perceptibly | Americar service men. Ar-/ issued today by the Anited States | closer and endengering the lives exican munitions ship in! weather bureau to all shippiig afl ORDERED BY U $ of thew of Arparicas | time, should! gale now reported off Point Reyes, exico. ors pressing ations breaking point, | left small ho) 8 V8) ward to a real crisis betw might mea , Vera Crus iseus. | veseel hope for the safety of the the nations are Non-interventionists, however, still] ‘T, “ 4 an , : iene eligh e ne gale will strike the bay some Orders Received in Seattle i... 7) ’sccicocrsintiony with this Bleek, wart tree dent Wilson would) time this afternoon and may reach ‘ of Mexi elations wit! * block war at the maneuvers of/50 miles an hour, the weather bu- to Conserve Supply tr At hearings scheduled in| the presidential campaign in the| reaw ‘experts eaid q i Paso, 1 Ar und other | United States would postpone a Me: x v2 tod Bes H PEN aay EL in ion to evidence the ican war at least until after 1 The invention of a liquid coating pe ok Wed i et hand committee will make public nator or hoped that ar iron man” would for moked meats that hardens and Bo Fy athe a the | Fall is expected t nake good his | arise in Mexico to pacify it suitably | preserves them indefinitely, is claim al sv 1 hi bel . what threat to astound the world In. for America led by 1 Austrian chemist. eae ee ee At terventionists count heavily on the hacen Sake eee incoin high his was je wa issued tO- | reir position with the public “K . ° ° fen th aay from local dtfices of the fuel aa | “Keep th I Lights Burning,” : FOR TERMINAL”. ; mormeaan stteaects of ores] | ENR SOG Ses if : cnd city author: | Pinned in Spain for the Carranza ; : gs 5 e iter, government. Attempts to purchase | gt The superintendents of the public rt hisog these supplies in Belgium were utilities, water and light depart blocked by the state depar, ent in| “Bill Eltiett, motoreyele police. ments, were requested Thursday to Washington. thru. pressure drought Man, swapped his putt-putt chariot file estimates not later than Janu on the Belgian government, it is, long enough last night to hop aboard 14 ry 1 to the end that the city cour Carranza ig expected to; Pegasus and give her the old rowel. | may proceed to conalder the cor be more successful in Spain. An-| Little does “Rill know about the ‘ ery of coal F ut th iet of a terminal build ore Popeye? pri.{ other sequel like the Vera Cruz oc-| st sesquipedalian; still less @oes and t 1 f the ment ¢ mued by 4 W. Proctor of upation in 1914, similarly aused,|he ken the festive triplet or the . v », head of the federal fuel and|"™ i er ae hig { The request, made by the uilway committee, The list author The Jenkins case. This issue) put, accept it from “Bill's” fellow f tment came is not favored by American border " n es obal very to the following cops, as a bard he is a bird f man A. T. Drake pointed oUt | cinngee nf covet yiecw in the order| officials for a showdown, but con “boo sh pe t d hospitals; public utilitte nota une te ince the exodue, they did not have their tail light ¢ ! ate u sta! conic cetaieaes Jepot®, | Wart to Americans to leave that|) The machines, not the drivers, we yy i ‘ 1 hig vita 1 . 1 hasten to explain | By the same orders the . Flock to Tampic Anyway, “Bill” felt an inspiration : y tration irtu: eine Ame n ha ny ito the il tnd o8 h ; rda, in transit and for later de-| Tampico oil regic .. boom in]. anight « é urned the| remember that it-ean be warbled to ; perinte ivery, in order that It may be ra-|the silver market has re 1 ir dry : ’ the tune of “Keep the Home Fires i ¥, Mu me time tioned out in compliance with the| hu of Americans returning to], Tolled he with stubby penell and) puping” \ ledo Raids ni In NO case fre industries or resi-|{n Parral the Americans sleep night-|, 4nd om Thursday mornin Or two bucks you'll be ‘mourning ; yullding at ‘Thir 5 Blan: | den: that have more than one|ly behind # stockade, heavily armed | the Bard, not of Avon, released for) You'll be atour sity “oan'* i ard st, from which street car! week upply of coal on hand/and with sentri n guard to pre. | Publication his maiden effort atpoesy. |... Wish roulsnatid. bs 3 i w radiate, Elimination Of}to be replenished. Dealers are! vent a surpri ut. * | Just before “il's” merry madrigal| Keep your headlights shining , tem, t effecting | placed under contr of the rai The ly visible unusual activity |is brought forth into the glare of| On each side, till you get home, 1 in year aving to pa-|road administration and warned tojin the border a was arrival of! publicity it may well be observed! Like all true poets, “Bul” the Bara Pappa municipal street rail| make certain that 1 delivered to}a numt fa automobile, me-| that while “BiVs" iambie feet do not }does not expect to realize mere pelt > : esis of traftic,| private homes and t esx places | chanics who started work of elean-| exactly track, still the epopee ts not| from his brain-child, but will be sities nuin benefits pointed out! ic to be used for the purpose for| ing out carbon in he motors of] without excellence | fied if automobilists will paste a copy | } Lury | which it was sold camouflaged tanks here, | However, ist to “Bill's” lilt, and]of his canto on theipy windshields, ‘ ‘ j @ ® é ‘i