The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 8, 1919, Page 1

‘irs NOT 700 LATE TO BEGIN ° Tides in Seattle MONDAY DRC, & First High Tide VOLU ME 22. NO, 243. i TO ME DANA SLEETH RNING! Prof. Porta, @ scientist of interna tional reputation, has predicted the end of the world Dec ar next.” That heading over an ad urday caught my attention, also made me madder than been since I stepped on the and fell down the cellar stairs. The ad was by @ purported sci entist who was combing the high ways for scared folks to come and Usten to his ideas about the end of the world; everybody welcome ata dollar a head. ‘There is enough insanity tn the Work’ without scaring people to death with fakes. Prof. Porta did not prophesy the end of the world for Dec. 17, or Any other time, And any alleged scientist who Feannot come nearer the plain tryth than that ts not likely to have anything to say that is worth @ dollur or a dime. And moreover, if Prof. Porta had foretold any such thing, any man who will take advantage of the Mob superstition to fatten his private purse is beneath contempt. God hates a coward, so they say; I imagine He hates the profiteer from cowardice a lot more. oe BOUT all the progress we have made since we have ee re Sat and I've cat everything. The ultimate man will be afraid of nothing, because he will be all ‘wise. Fear and ignorance are partners. Superstition, hate, fear, these three have mangled manhood since long before the cave age; know!- edge, love, courage, these three mean salvation, and the greatest of these is courage. eee EB are far from the witi- mate heaven of perfect courage and knowledge, as ene may see if he ob- serves the trembling wornen and nervous men who are Moday huddling in little cared flinching from the endeof the world on 7, when there has been no end of the world foretold at all, A few weeks ago, in a flight of fancy, I pictured in these columns What might happen to Seattle if everybody thought that the world ‘was going to end on a certain day. My fancy appears to be becom- ing prophecy with uncanny exacti- tude. I didn’t imagine that the aver- © human animal was so shy and trembly or I would have laid off that flight of fancy; just a& Prof. Porta would probably not have made public his scientific storm predictions had be known what the delirious human nuts would do with it. 4 ee PERSONALLY would like to be on board when this 014 Good Ship Earth hits the final rock and sinks with all hands aboard. It would be an experience of the ages, and the philosophical mind whould derive great satisfaction from seeing the heavens roll up like a curtain, and the sea roll out into chaos, and the mountains and the plains unite in one gigantic shudder That would constitute a funeral worth while, but I have no hope of any such luck Suppose it was the end of the world; what are all you good folks seared of? Aren't your titles clear to mansions in the #k Isn't death always just around the corner, and didn’t the millions of Europe, and thousands of our best beloved, blithely step across the little red streak between life and eternity Death is alwa do @ nose spin, whirling in the cur fear, at the thought of 4 certain day or minute? nt to be ashamed “created a angels.” ys beside us; why rents of death on A lot oursely us ou of 1 little lower than the Come on, Poets Get your rhymes in early this week, and win free tickets to the Clem- is the line: “How Can I Increase My Trade?” For the answer, turn to Page 18. Follow thi watch your business hum! advice and Christmas PRARARAR ARR AAR RAY TURSDAY | pre, 8 First High Tide Second oF High Tide 18 ft THE HEART OF RACHAEL”; YOU'LL F On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise Wntered ie 4, 1899, at the Postoftion ai SEATTLE, WASH., MONT t Beattie, Wash, under the Act of Cong JAY, DECEMBER 8, 1919. TheSeattleStar 2 A Class Matter May reas March 4, 1879 Weather Foreez IND IT TODAY ON PAGE | CENTS Late Edition Mail t and Tuesday, fair and derate eanterly winds 0 BREAK WITH MEXICO BANK LOOTER IS GIVEN PARDO’ i] Coldest Day of Year Hits Seattle MERCURY F DOWN TO |Served Less Than Three Years of Term After Pleading Guilty DEPOSITORS GET LITTLE | After serving leas than three years of @ sentence of from 5 to 15 years at the state penitentiary for looting the Northern Bank & Trust company of $63,000, William L. Collier, former President of the Institution, has been [paroled and given permission to leave the state, it was announced by | the board of parole at Olympia Sat furday night. ‘The board's action was taken at the December meeting. Collier left for Southern California two weeks | ago, his friends said. The ex-banker| wila, on the road to Tacoma, 27 TODAY U. S. Observer Says It Will Continue Snappy and Perhaps Coider HAD BETTER BURN WOOD! Old King Boreas took a deep breath Monday morning and breathed it all over Seattle, driv- ing the mercury down to 27 de grees at $ a, m—the coldest day of the year thus far. Green Lake was frozen over at one end, the ice being thick enough to bear the weight of venturesome skaters, Two tiny ponds near Tuk Poverd| | Will make that state his future home.| Diack with kids all Sunday Collier pleaded guilty to embezaling | Ake. it was reported Monday, were $42,000 of the bank's moneys in the spring of 1917, and also admitted hav- ing falsified the bank's books in an attempt to deceive deputy bank ex- aminers, He was sentenced to the penitentiary at Walla Walla for a | term of from 5 to 15 years by. Su perior Judge Everett Smith. According to Judge Smith, friends | of the ex-banker sought his signa- ture to a parole petition several months ago. He signed the petition | Former Prosecuting Attorney A. HL Lundin, who brought criminal ceedings against Collier, » day that he forwarded a statement of the ; ago without a fer returned in East Seattle 0. case to Olympia some tim recommendation to his old home more than two weeks ago. He was seen in Seattle severe! times before he left for Southern | California. | Depositors at the Northern bank have received nly 30 per cent of their money back so far While Collier ple “i guilty to the embezzlement of the bank's losses, resulting in the closing of its doors and the subsequent fail ure of three other banks, much larger sum. Altho Collier was released two weeks ago, it was kept a secret by state officials until two days ago totalled a Iowa Ultimatum to Coal Men Withdrawn Ia., Dee timatum 8.—(United of lowa operators vising the returned to work by mines would be labor, has beer This an 1 to the miners strikers that unless t December 8 opened to w the volunteer nounceme Pres a ¢ Cushing said the |be considered recall louteome of the ence. |All Boy Scouts to Read Michael will be Michael London's fa nade her Indianapolis con other of Jerry 1s dog club of this ci rand Ricab dd Mo} The club hax obtained ¢ book which will be members of the troops here Didja Ever Go Hunting ato: noun ples of the cireulated among numerous for Ivory? ¥en Ever go tvory hunting? we're not foolish right in these don't it can be do If turn to the read the The Hunter,” by Charles whose fables will ap tu Mon on sport page. What Be,” is Charles United 8 you believe wi today, just and Ivory Dryden, rasa fea The Star's yarn Mutts These the monicker that Sir has labeled his line of fables, and read for yourself to see how close he comes to being eight. Mortals | little ot frozen. enough thick {ce to Insure good sport for all, The coldest weather ever recorded in Seattle was three degrees above zero, Demand for fuel, according Monks @ Miller, one of the largest firms in the city, i# normal as com- pared with other years despite the cold snap and the coal shortage. While th is still some domestic coal on the market, the use of wood uraged. of we b rd wood f Monks & Mi 5 to $7.50 a cord yard, the price $2 more. Deli at from the yard cont sumer is about $12 a cord lying districts $1 more Stove length wood ts they reported, and $1 Altho is being er wever b. in Seattle report Deliv is about residences to the con 5 a cord. more in dis theat are it tage or wood. adminis a frozen radiator sold barrels of x with water to in automo » receive re high wan in Many an tered first aid Drugegist automobilist eozing biles tinue had b tors ports of « n from a hoods, where the en draped as emerge pre ! } Kaiser’s Monument Is Now Compliment to Yankee Troops TARNOPOL, POLAND, (By Mail.)—The German monument erected in honor of the kaiser’s vinit to Tarnopol in 1917 has been turned Into an allied memorial. Instead of destroying the monu mont, as the Germans did with all allied memorials, the Polish people have simply added thelr Inscrip tion to that of the Germans and turned the monument into one of wo for the allied forces. During the occupation by the German troops the huge monu ment was erected, bearing the in scription, “William IL, Emperor of Germany and King of Prusa, stopped here on July 28, It was a division of Polish Americans, members of the French army, that took the town for the Poles, and they «imply added this inscription, “and on July 4, 1919, the Sixth Division of Argerican Chasseurs entered the town, They stayed.” “NOT BU NEWB ty "8&2 Y PLEA "| Thirteen Other Defendants | Decline to Enter Pleas GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., Dec. &- (United Pres.)—A plea of not guilty was entered for United States Sena- tor Truman H. Newberry when he was arraigned in federai court here day on election fraud charges Thirteen others, prominent in the 1918 campaigns when Newberry was 4 to the senate r Henry were arraigned with the ser Th in eo. Ford, ator Fall 000. WEST SIDE HOME AND JAP’S STORE ROBBED broke Into the store of 86 W. Main st., early Monday morning and escaped with several flash lights, 24 knives, two mackinawa, a sult case and five watches, Entrance was gained by forcing an alley window Mra. O. Roglund, 1762 reportell her home ur watches and $81. Bureglars K. Kawaguchi, Walnut st w robbed of f ‘BREWSTER | SUED FOR DIVORCE Seattle Baseball and Cigar Magnate Cool, Says Wife, After 16 Years’ Bliss SHE ASKS FOR $75,000 dames R. Brewster, wealthy cigar merchant and former presi. dent of the Seattio Baseball club, is defendant in a suit for divorcee + begun in superior court Monday by Mrs. Pearl B. Brewster, who alleges he has treated her with utter indifference for the last two years. | = Brewster asks for a decree property, including shares tn 12 retail tobacco stores thie city, one in Everett, nine ‘oes! | have, farm in Oregon, two autemo- | Biles, & restaurant at £10 First ave. 155 shares of stock in the Morgan | Cigar company of Tampa, Fla. — | extensive holdings in Texas fields, The Brewnters live at 2731 Boy! |ston ave. N, They were married in | Tacoma December 24, 1898, and for 16 years were supremely happy, Mra, Brewster's complaint tates About four years ago, she Brewster began to grow cold toward} her and to neglect her, His neglect grew, she aays, to total Indifferences Lincoln High School Girls Tie Tin- ware to Lot of Raiment, Fish- hooks, Silk Hose, j and Such After years contro versy, during which much language was spilled by young things who favored ball room gowns for and young things battled against the same, girls of Lincoln high school balloted last week to tie the tinware to a lot of raiment By a vote of 665 to 80, the iris have agreed, beginning January 1, to tin can high heels, the georgette crepe waist and its allies, thin camisoles, ditto low camisoles, silk hose, low- necked waists, short skirts, tight skirts and ‘@verything that smacks of the weird in “hair. } do,” the latter to include the | fish-hook curl, bobbed hair, and SEARCH FO of by school dress, who the the i if | IN PUGET SOUND atiegex.| ON€ ‘Woman Drowned, 60/7 Submerged, as Float Sinks at Manette about two yeara ago. Twice, she al-/ legen, he left her, back after much pleading. Mra Brewstersays she has now lost all | ein his promises. Brewster will contest the case, | says. Detroit des Is Being Closed | DETROIT, Mich., Dec. &—(United Press.)—Detroit's automobile indus tries were either shut down or drast ically curtailed today by the coal| strike, according to information given out by the Manufacturers’ associa tion Fully 60,000 men were idle today and the jobs of at least 200,000 m depended on early settlement of the strike, it was said Well! Well! The Old Firm of Winkler, Santa, Newberger & Co.Is Still on the Job We'll Let You Give $1 Each. --Not More--for Firlands Hospital Christmas mistake. The Merr firm of Winkler, Santa wherger & Co, is still 1919 annual Yuletide go the kiddies at Fir Iready assured success, For It was our Christm Claus, in gs out ands ho whopping, pital te an glorious lister Jake Winkler, father of the firm years gone by, has gone to Port But his brother, Cliff, is here, jovial traveling in land. Th And “The old Cliff is go hia brother's place in the the Goings and knows t was ever for the kid. exclaimed firm till the ma ing to take ompany and help run On, Cliff is a pianist of music he pla ery plece will You bet en Li said Titus kernaker firm, as part of the Co.” And you think? die big what do “Tell the I I'm a great tell them I'll either bake big cake—the biggest th in their lives—or bake cake, 600 of them Five hundred litte mountain, which? 0 Goings-On will be in all the n “that And them one y ever saw them each a cakes, or a ? Oh, the the golngest Just 1 goings-on listen Lioyd Spencer, manager Seattle Hingineering school, than whom there is no more genial gen. tleman in all Christendom, will be years of the Brother Bills to Play Santa for City Poor Santa Claus is reserving his biggest Christmas tree this year to be put in the Elks’ elub gym: nasium, to be brilliantly lighted and hung with thousands of gifts, nuts and candy for Seattle's poor children iis the announcement Monday of Glenn Hupp who, with Walter Wilkins, of the Pacific Bindery Co., is making ready for the big annual event of the Brother Bills, Crippled children, unable to come to the tree without assist unee, are alkked to telephone the Christmas tree committee, Elliott 92, or write a letter to the com mittee in care of the Elks’ club. They will be furnished with autos for thelr convey Santa Claus will be at the tree from 10:30 a, m, to 6 p, m, Christ mas day or impresario of the vaudeville show. He will arrange the program of song», dancing and Yuletide fun and stories, And perhaps the best part of all is this, When The Star announced that 100 Star readers would have an opportunity to give $1 apiece towards furnishing a Christmas din- ner, no returns were expected until Tuesday at the earliest. But, Neten In the very next mall came letters for the Firlands Christmas fund. One read: “Just read your article on the kid- dios’ Christmas dinner at Firlands Cliff Winkler Takes Over Brother’s Job; Spencer to Be Vaudeville Man and am glad I am able to help, closed find check for one dollar, Mary Elizabeth Jermaine, 604 Had- don Hall." And another letter, from a goodly soul who violated rules by sending $2 instead of $1, said. Kindly let these two eagles roost on a Christmas tree, Wishing The Star a Merry Christmas, I remain, ‘Just-a-Mite,’ Folks like that make the world & good old place to live in, And here's just a word to the actor folk, Listen, We know Christmas eve Is a busy time for you, but we know your hearts are big and good and so we don't hesitate toask you toloan us a little of your talent for the Firlands kiddies, These kiddies, and the | grown-ups, too, are tuberculosia suf- ferers, with few things to brighten the long, weary hours. It has be: come a sort of annual custom for actor folk who are in Seattle at Christmas time to run out to Fir: lands sometime thru the day and do a “turn” for the patients. Just drop a note to the Merry Christmas Co., in care of The Star, We'll see that you get an auto, And now, listen: Don't forget the fund of $100 for the Christmas din- ner. Just write a check or enclose a $1 bill in a letter addressed to the Merry Christmas Co,, The Star. One dollar, remember, and only one, be- cause, You see, we want as many as can to participate in this annual GoingsOn at Firlands, En- but was taken! he | One woman pry possibly sev- eral other persons are dead to- day at Bremerton, and more than a score suffering from chill | and exposure due to the tilting | of a landing float at Manette, | which, laden with steamboat | passengers, collapsed at 6:10 p. m. Sunday. Mrs, Margaret of Bremerton, M. Armstrong, 60, formerly of Spokane. was drowned. Search was still being made today for other bodies Mra. Elizabeth Chase, 54, is report | ed in a critical condition from expo- sure. Many other persons are being cared for in Bremerton hospitals, ho- tels and homes. None of these are likely to die. Use Searchlight | Awalting the approach of the fer- |ryboat Urania, about 25 people crowded onto the float. These were shifted to one end of the float while | Passengers unloaded from the ferry. As the last passenger left the ferry and landed on the float, the weight of perhaps 60 persons sent one side of the float down. Screams of wom en and children mingled with the shouts of mien as all were plunged into the jey water Up to a later hour Sunday night |Coroner F. R. Lewis directed a | search for more bodies after that of | Mrs. Armstrong was recovered. |Search lights were used to light the depths, but no more bodies were brought to the surface. It was 2 a. m. before the coroner gave up dragging operations and re- Ured. Ata later hour the work was renewed There was no telling, Coro. | ner Lewis said, how many might |have been drowned. Whistle Calls Help Summoned by the shriek of the |factory whistle, physicians and resi- | dents of Bremerton hurried to the | dock. Within 10 minutes a crew of | MOTORISTS WILL BE TOLD REGULATIONS A free lecture to motorists will be |given Tuesday night in Chickering hall, at the corner of Third ave. and | University st., by Lieut. C. G, Carr, n| head of the traffic squad, on “Prat. | fic Regulations. Prof. Geo. W. Muench will speak on the “Storage Battery.” All in jterested in the subjects are invited |to attend by the Automobile Club of | Western Washington, under whose auspices the lectures are being given, | KALAMAZOO FACTORIES CLOSE KALAMAZOO, Mich, Dee, 8.— Every factory in Kalamazoo was to- day ordered to close down at mid night tonight on account of the coal shortage, About 12,500 men and women will be thrown out of employ- ment. other a species of highly conversa- tonal coiffeur While strongly in favor of modest raiment, the girls frown- ed on uniform by a vote of five to one. It was proposed to in stall the middy blouse and the “Peter Thompson” as the uni- form dress. Explanation: A middy blouse, be it known, is a dress cut sailor fashion, while a “Peter Thompson” is a middy blouse with the “ends tucked in.” Altho not favoring a uniform dress, 278 Lincoln girls already have adopted the middy or the “Peter Thompson.” The only opposition to sane duds was voiced by a few seniors. They said they would be graduated before January 1, anyway, Ostraciam will be the punish- ment ladied out by the girls to those who defy the majority, it was said. Guess That Will Detain Scoffer for Brief Time The Radiator League convened Monday morning to escape the nippy ozone at the city-county building. The boys were cuddled up to the nice, warm radiators when in breezed Councilman William Hickman Moore. “You fellows act like a flock of ancient maids,” scoffed Council man Moore. “Why don't you get out into the bracing atmos phere; why, it gives you new lifer" New life, nothing,” sniffed Council Clerk Lenhart O. Shrad- er, “you mean pneumonia.” Whereupon members of the league arose as one man and opined that THAT ought to de. tain the scoffer temporarily, at least. volunteers, braving the frigid water, was busy rescuing the living. | Women and children were carried out first, the men for the most part looking out for themselves. Ralph Hogue, Verne Painter, J. L. Fryette, Ed Austin and Tom Wright all did effective rescue work. They were joined by J. W. Burt, a me- |chanic from the navy yard, who, summoned by the ferry siren, came running towards the scene of the disaster, shedding his coat as he ran. Does Herole Work Taking in the situation at a glance, without dimishing his speed, Burt dived headlong into the water. He swam back with an unconscious woman in his arms. Then he dived in again— three times more—rescuing in all three women and a boy. He was nearly exhausted when friends seized him and dragged him away, The rescued were hastily bundled |in overcoats, blankets and quilts that had been brough® by the towns- | people, and loaded into automobiles which sped to hotels and hospitals and to homes, Every physician in Bremerton was kept busy until a late hour, Mrs, Armstrong is survived by a son, Fred Armstrong, and a married daughter, both living in Spokane, More than an hour after the ac. cident her body was recovered, Battles for Life Owing to the swift tidal current it was considered likely Monday that other bodies, if there were any, might be swept out {nto the sound in which case it might be weeks, perhaps longer, before they could be recovered, Thomas Cashill of Manette had a narrow escape, He was plunged deep into the water when the float tilted’ Coming to the surface un- derneath the float, his coat caught on a spike. Battling to free himself, he was nearly exhausted when rescuers pulled him out and carried him to @ hospital, | ‘Wilson Writes That He Opposed to Plan for Sev= ering Relations HIS WISHES WIN BY L. C. MARTIN | (United Press Staff © WASHINGTON, Dec, 8. ident Wilson declared he be “gravely concerned” to any resolution like & F providing severance relations with Mexico, yo cee ; by Senator ra ot said the Fall resolution Gead and that the foreign ri tiona committee would not it up again. Wilson a a constitute a stitutional practice which to very grave confusion In to the guidance of our fairs The president's adviceson the olution was submitted in the ee @ personal letter to Senator Fi The text of Wilson's | rant folio “Thank you very much for | kind promptness in complying |my request that you send copy of the memorandum the sub-committee on Mexican fairs of the committee on affairs, I shall examine it tl greatest interest and care, you told me of the inve: Friday last prepares me to fing it matter of the greatest ance. Is Frank Reply “You ask an indication of my @ sire with regard to the pending olution to which you and Hitchcock called my attention J Friday and I am glad to reply the utmost frankness that I be gravely concerned to see such resolution pass the “It would constitute a : our constitutional practice might lead to very grave co in regard to the guidance of. of foreign affairs. I am co I am supported by every | constitutional authority inf the | ment that the initiative in di | the relations of our governmént | foreign governments is assi |the constitution to the and the executive only. “Only one of the two houses congress is associated with | president by the constitution in advisory capacity and the advice the senate is provided for only sought by the executive in to explicit agreements with f governments and the appoints of the diplomatic represent who are to speak for this ment at foreign capitals, “The only safe course, T am : fident, is to adhere to the pres scribed method of the constiti We might go very far afield it departed from it. “I am very much obliged to for having given me the op ity to express this opinion, “Very truly yours, “WOODROW WI Lodge Is Offended After receipt of the letter, Pall ferred with Senator Lodge, ¢ man of the foreign relations co tee. Lodge then said: “Of course, we shall do no now. The whole responsibility the Mexican situation now the president. We are not lowed to suggest anything to The committee will not again sider the resolution. “The resolution recognized the president's constitutional ity to deal with the question merely tendered our support to. along with the suggestion our opinion the situation req some such action as the lu recommended, “But the president does not us even to express our support, right, the responsibility is on let him bear it.” Flashlights, which Dr. Frank Pratt, 132 30th ave,, says he a house across the street, detail of police to the place night, The house was ¥ ¢ - bat at we