The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 18, 1919, Page 11

ve Section Two SEATTL EK, WASH., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1919. B| TOME DANA SLEETH OME weeks ago, when the Seattle Fine Arta soct ety exhibited that East ern collection of futur ists’ and post-futuriats’ 5 impressionistic “paintings,” I some remarks about art, h a little “ society has another exhibit view now; an exhibit where the Ater paints cows that lodk like , and women that resembie nen instead of chalk cliffs, and capes with trees instead of skies and pink grass tn Doubtless this is awful lowbrow . academic and all that, but folks will enjoy viewing ng that at least faintly re what the sign says it is about eee ND, tho I couldn't follow Artist Tanaka at all when he gave me that recent futurist lady on Union st, I can fore with him and his “Lonety ” that is shown in this lat exhibit. The “Lonely House” @ landscape, but moetly it is a are merely studies; this one ® painting. d even highbrow artists often studies for paintings and for serious work. other good thing by a local ar ig the portrait by Henry Roth would know it was a portrait man, and you would also know th the man himself the picture. ne of the pictures that pleased follow. Take an hour or so off afternoon and go over the list see what you like. You will about everything bat cubist wer there, } is realistic. Imitative painting, so well drawn lighted that It gives the tm- on of reality footka Island,” by Paul Mor Gustin gets over the epirit of Western mountain wees other pleasing (to me) lan are vomvening in the San dino,” by Marie Wachtel; js the way the San Bernardino ins look, to the very life; car Twickel,” by A ~ eee RANK W. BENSON'S “Girt With Vell” is an example of an art that Gorter: “Tatoosh Range.” by “Landscape,” by id lag li “Sunset Behind by George Innes “Moon by Robert Minor, and a ma by Alexander Harrison (No 19 of the others that will rest Sy memory as benedictions are biidren in Church,” by Elizabeth ree, and “Peter, Ambri terson by 186 the obligati should impose is wealth good taste Another share t obligation is ts of pre the public two of our to contrib- ablic to f ; gur good taste I understand that art owners refused | for the 5 sure to this exhibit cation and ple don't know who these two may t I'll guarantee that they iat the type of men who should ed to keep any treasures ishness is as fata to the col jor as it is to the artist, and man who is s0 spiritually k mean that he will hoard his res for personal gloating de r than was re ing bet! that 3 to have not me of the rubbish tly displayed here Great art, inspiring. terpieces, should even eternal mas- alway public if monopolize a y mor mai work of geniu he should hide the sun or tthe alr away from the rest ue. Great music, great pictures, mat books—the children of the 1d, should have free access to peaks of the 8; they ways dwell in the shadow y things. brought home; the the living | time into the backyard , where he may dip But pictorial, graph- art hedged off, made mys lous, pweudo-nsacred, a fad for th men or a topic for the raving half baked critics. ocietien like the Seattle Fine , that give all of us a chance perience the great things of } to every brings | _—_— Stranger | Ready for = Operation j; Transfusion Will Be Made) With Blood of Parent, It Is Decided [TESTS ALREADY MADE Somewhere in Seattle an un- known man is waiting for a chance to give his blood te save the life of Baby Bebby Sand holm, Ilmontholdson of Mr. and Mrs. C. G. Sandholm, 611 | ind ave, | Up in the city heaspital little Bobby lies, unmindful of the sacrifice that may be made any minute Thursday te counteract the deadly effects of mercury bichloride vy 4 ale of mercury tablets Fina night as fast as his The telephone at the city hospital Jangied Thurstay morning, when a |man asked to speak with the super | intendent. “I understand that blood infusion may be attempted to save the pol soned baby,” said a man. “Yea,” replied the superintendent. “T'll come any time you want me,” said the man. But he was not called, and may never be, altho he anid he would keep tn communication with hospital officials, Parents’ Blood to Be Used Altho blood infusion te betng con- templated, the strategic moment has not arrived But in the meantime the parents of the poisoned child, and even little brother Buster, are ready to give thetr blood first, City experts have already extract- @4 blood from the parents, and are testing it. Within 24 hors the bac teriologists will report whether or not their blood is suited for transfu- sion. If satisfactory, the parents’ blood will be used. Drs. H. BE. Moon and G. M. Mar shall, the latter attached to the city hospital, are carefully watching the baby for changes in his condition for either better or worse. The baby’s condition is apparently unchanged Ho is said to be suffering from spor adic stomach convulsions. cus next Saturday to settle the fight for the democratic leadership in the senate was called today by Senator Hitchoock, acting leader. Hitcheock and Senator Underwood, | Alabama, are candidates in the fight. | The vote, which will probably be tak }en Saturday, is expected to be —4 ceedingly cl rae HOLD “ECONOMY SALES”) NEW YORK 18.—Two hun dred retail drygoods dealers, meeting | here yes decided to hold the economy urged by the de partment of justice for January and Dec. rday | February | this hidden world, are doing aa | reat a work for the next genera | tion as any ney we have. | | | UT why, oh, why, do they varnished pictures be , ae 63 . glosey olla | when glazed often imporaible | There is no point of w that es mirror-like reflections of | and wonderful led by pictures this barbarism | olors, pastels, etchings nd « because they all hav a reflecting but oll# are hard enough | at th best to view satiafacto framing them in glass, espe- y framing these «mall pictures deep, nk dungeon-like frames, a them impounible. ‘And if they will put a cur that window so that the uin over afternoon sun will not hit you in the eye | when viewing everything on the | went it will add to our enthu- | jasm, Rut for the kindly consideration that issues catalogues at a nickel, inwtead of inflicting a 40-page, crammed-with-ads catalogue on you at cents, thanks multiplied and sincere, A relief, indeed, to hobnob with art for once without paying petty tribute being disturbed by #0 cial climbers displaying their igno rance, or Nig kites aaa SHOW N THEM ‘THAT YOU DO DO You BELIEVE THERES “A SANTA CLAUS ? BATTLES WITH DRUGGED THIEF Tt is expected the crisis will be i i vinitnod Pecan Police Arrive ‘ s After battling frantically in the Leadership Fight | dark, Charles Hoyt, proprietor of a soft drink establishment at 90 W of Democrats Due) Connecticut et. captured a burglar WASHINGTON, Dec. 18—A cau-| looting his store y Thursday morning. | Hoyt, accompanied by his brother | Neil, opened the store about day break. They saw a shadow darting toward the rear window. Hoyt | tackled the intruder and the pair went to the floor tn a violent strug-| «le. The younger brother dashed for a telephone and called the police. Motorcycle officers R. F. Baerman and N Anderson arrived just as the exhausted Hoyt was on the verge of relinquishing his hold on the burglar. The officers had to use their flashlights to find the pair The-burglar, who gave his name at the police station as Harry Hart ley, 40, had his pockets filled with cigarets and candy, He had looted |the cash register. A small amount | | of change was also found in his pos session, it in said. Hartley was un der the influence of drugs, the police say. He was booked on an ie arge. HEADLESS BODY open UNIDENTIFIED {Police Attempting to Solve) Mystery Today enttle detectives empting Thursday to identify the t an | body found Wednesday afternoon floating in Lak jon, near the plant of the Vegetable Produce Co at the foot of Ewing st One theory offered ig that the body is that of Lawrence Arvold, a for mer emp! f the produce con cern, who, it in said, disappeared last , after he had been married thr His wife is in California nt ‘The body was without clothing and badly decomposed, making tification almost impossible. ll bits of bleached clothing were und near the body, but were of no use to the detectives for identifica tion purposes, The body is at the morgue, Struggles in Dark Until the! at| IT’S GOTTA STOP! Crippled Kiddies Will Be Carried to Elk Yule Tree This i# ponitively final notice to; those few remaining Seattle folks | who have not contributed to the! Firtands hospital Christmas dinner! fund For the love of Mike dan’t send us Crf led poor children who will Any more money. Forget.it. Cut||y. unable to attend the Elk jit out. We don't want any more || Christman tree celebration be and wouldn't know what to do with || cause df inability to walk, are hk it we bea {] axked to communicate with the ? Tiks' Jodge, either by phone or When the board of directors af the |] jetter, and an automobile will be Merry Christmas company met to sent to thelr address on Christmas day at the call of Manager Joe New |] day to convey them to and from berger, the fund was found to be far!| the fontivities. over subscribed. The Kika wish it understood What are we going to do with|| nat their tree is to distribute these extra checks?" inquired Man-|] among the children of Seat ager Newberger, tearing at his hatr.|| tip et ities of life, but Too Much Money tage of fruit, nuts and | make the hearts of knew. The corps of cash. | lers, bookkeepers and aswistants who| | # ang kiddies happy roing without any participation 4 marked the grip as evidence} Dover and surrounding territory Lid ring hi antling the money as it] |" yt and note that ee gh und was about to place it in the — rire into wakefulness at mid- strike, abifting all the wi aa aad nd A at the Firmnds hospital | who vg gree world attaira| 2° epee gem is gcregiteg Pel ace oid Y give taiauiaa latte pi bes ke, shifting a ¢ work and re Pires undertaking to ve orld af seratching inside the bag. a 4 s ra Se eek 8 onto the shoulders of outect, Floyd Spencer, in| Without the voice of our mother | ag Wal Chaded, 08 Sip "an bast ook the countryside and shat- ee, ee charge of the vaudeville entertain pits tuna eee santly and leaped | Of = ate gi Pepe ee gg here, seven Au manager haa to do, outsided ent hadn't the slightest idea there broad masses of the : aesian | out made friends with ae ae i . arsenal. ee his duties as head of the Merry) wore ao many willing volunteers in| People, whom I represent, belleve| everyone from “Tim” at the switch tiene ao hours explosions con- Christmas company, i direct th! Seattle anxious to I ir homes|that if the world earnestly jhoard to the trusties, and played| inued, as Lginpres and other shells ive intes of the Seattle National]... Christmas eve to make the some.| peace, it must recognize that 7 about the booking office until the| tat of 7 fire. ine but even that takes some Of} wnat tiresome journey to Firlands,| cannot be accomplished without the] pig negro who drives the pound |, Mart saps ioned on Piccatinny nia time, and he in on the point ofa, he went to Oscar Steyn, an| Presence of new Russia agon arrived to carry her away tole rpg o suand the navy powder quitting one “ition or the other) a nusement director, and ta several] Intimation of Vochmetroff's atti dogs’ hoosgow, | anne Peta a led out to fight the piesa Pavel? Be Rea Dan | theatrical managers, and begged for|tude toward established government’ ‘Phe dog will be kept at the pound | oclock had the Greanda poset Landon Dr. U. C, Bates and Harry | giccor was seen in the following until the charges against her master | The Ft pada under control, peel ng ene . og " sal The result was that every man “it ts eddy clear Ps ohare ae are disposed of. occurre nd nF bet of the Fesearch bull Senato: andon, Dr. Bates | and 8 s tremendous internal difficulties e oF Steyn reported the next da quickly spre: . those unfortunate sporting gentle |). hag signed up a couple of dozen| forms (of government) have already | jaulckty rend to buildings in which men who bet the world would end, | c out their life. We are in re stored. The cause of the and there was some excuse far them|% the best performers, entertainers | Hv fall it Aisa {e unknown. ee te ezcuee Ml and theatrical people in the city process of alteration of all our polit shied sac cane a et ay — i his ue a heap And on top of all that nearly a| ion al forms. # > t ree Cee eee sin ee nt -< |score of letters poured into the of-| “Bolshevism cannot be checked by \eir lost wager, but there, was Ab-| (1.4 of the Merry Christmas company | blockade or by hunger, The block- solutely no reason why others should ade must be raised. It ts creating in | have done so. | Enough Is Enough Among those who pestered us| Toda with money for the fund Thursday , asking to be allowed a place on am. the very much nonplussed encer declared he didn't know were M. Barston, af the F. W.| he was at ing to Ve pion : | Woolworth Co.; “A Friend”; Mrs, B.| “We can't use one-tenth of the|operative buying institution in the) SAN F CISCO, Dec. 18.—| obstacle to the deportation of Emma |, Obrien, W. A. Parkison, 1309 Sev-| acts offered,” he said, “because the | world. While he slept, Leslie Keller, steward} Goldman and Alexander Berkman, enth ave.; Will A, Morris, Miss Ann-| program Is to be only five acts with at the San Francisco relief home,| anarchist leaders, was removed to- ette Reynolds and Paul 8. Dubuar, of | moving pictures, But I don't want} WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 on if} was attacked early today with an/day, when the supreme court grant: the law firm of Morris & Shipley,|to insult anybody by refusing their] Vladimir Vochmetoff succeeds in|axe by his wife and hacked more|ed a request for withdrawal of Em- and T, B. Jones, of Frederick & Nel-|act, #0 there you are, Newb reaching Washington, his “diplo-| than a dozen times on the head, neck | ma Goldman's appeal against the de » son plight Js a# nothing at all compared| matic misison" probably will be a{and shoulders | portation order. If the n truth must be spoken,|ta my kettle of fish.” failure. Keller is in a serious condition in| A similar appeal by Berkman was we are getting mad about it. Enough| It appears, therefore, that the| Officials of the state department |the central emergency hospital, His | denied by the court several days ago, ia enough, as the gentleman said| Merry Christmas company must in-| said today that the representative of | wife is locked up |and at the same time the court decid- when the cow kismes him. |aist that no more entertainers | soviet Russia would not bereceived,| Mrs. h is to have|ed on further consideration of the And it begins to appear that the! proffer their services and request at/The state department has no infor- | been men unbs The hus-|Goldman case, but a request for the same time that those who so|mation regarding Vochmetoff, offi-|band said she has been under the| withdrawal wae made by the attor Merry Christmas company is about to be swamped with offers of theat-| kindly offered to assist do not feel rica! folks and @ntertainers to help! «lighted if they are not called upon fill out the vaspdeville program to’ to fulfill the engagement (a DON’T SEND MONEY from other entertainers thruout the | )FFERS BLOOD TO SAVE BABY The Seattle Sta STREET CARS COLLIDE SOVIET ENVOY IS UNDER AR ———] Russian Is Being Held 000,000 Persons in Bol- sheviki Land SAN FRANCISCO, Dee, 18— (United Press.) — Viadimir K. Vochmetroff, claiming to repre- went 20,000,000 people of Soviet Rassia and to be on an important diplomatic mission to Washing- ton, is beld at Angel Island im- migration station for investiga thon, it was learned today by the United Preas. ship China He wan taken Angel island at 9 p. m. vache, Immigration authorities will inter rogate him today. wumert Societies, Washington he will urge the follow. ing program: own immediate destiny. 3—Give Russia Uberal financtal as nistance. Vochmetref? immed an optimistic statement: “Rawia Wil Live” “We ore in Russia the great role the world’s states,” he said. “We are quite convinced that Russia will live thru the present hard times, and, be- cause of her extraordinary natural resources and the great abilities for work of the Russian people, she will the European war and ctvil strife.” The constituent assembly, he de- clared, will decide whether Russia | shall be established on the model of the United States, as a | repubite lomy will be given her border lands, jor whether new principles will be jestablished along the lines of the | “progressing social reconstruction.” “But for me, as a Russian cttizen, there does not exist any division be- |tween ‘Siberia’ and ‘Russia,’ he de- clared. | *Russlans hold the deep and full | belief,” sald his statement, the treatios signed (at Versailles) will be again discussed, and that the map of the world, which has been redrawn without the consent of the Russian people, will be again decided upon at a new world congress.” His People Sorrow “with “We Russia he declared, deep sorrow and sometimes with In dignation, see the league of nations, Ver nd other « the uilles masses a distrust of humanity Centrosoiuz, according t during 1918 did a bil It is, accord | the The Vochmetroff, lion rubles business, Jochmetroff, the greatest co. cials said, and the department did not order his detention at Angel is land, as far as could be learned, for Probe Declares He Represents 20,- WOULD MAKE TRIP EAST Vochmetroff arrived on the ape The Russian ts acting president of the Centrosotuz, an economic organt- ation with a membernhip af 20,000,- 000. The English name for the Cen- tronotus is Central Union of the Con- If Vochmetrofe ts allowed to reach peat wae the Blockade against} FM. Hamilton, who oper-|| Sheppard, New Haven, Conn, tes- sane Russia of afl foreign tn-| 2ted the Madrona car, re- a eat We cee ‘fermee terference in the working out of her| Ported that he had just'| tary policeman of San which she will play in the concert of | soon recover from the misfortunes of | “federative “ whether only broad auton- | “that all Pages 11 to 20 ‘Collision Occurs at Broadway and Pine; Both Care Are Slightly Dam- | aged by Impact Three persons were treated at the city hos- |pital for injuries sustained in a collision be- itween two street cars at Broadway and Pike © ist. at 8:30 a. m. Thursday. The injured are: Isadore Klein, 33, tailor, lliving at 1128 23rd ave., bruised leg and cut lhand; P. A. Stavick, 70, carpenter, 516 22nd lave. N., nose cut by flying glass, and Mrs. Cecelia B. Kehoe, 25, 3246 42nd ave. S. W., |bruised legs. A number of other passengers lreceived slight body bruises, but were not taken to the hospital. All of the injured people were passengers aboard car) No. 361 of the 23rd ave. line, | which crashed into a Madrona one-man car at the intersec-| tion of Broadway and Pike. | PN hae, Thought It Was Custom to Beat ‘ Yank Soldiers NEW YORK, Dec. 18-—Victor Francisco, told the court martial he thought American officers had the right to beat privates. “I saw so much of ft tn France | that I thought it was the cus f tom,” Sheppard said. TWO DEAD IN ARSENAL FIRE Shrapnel Blast Shakes Wide — Area; Three Hurt DOVER, N. J. Dee. Bm (United Press)—Two men are dead, and three perhaps fatally injured as the result of the ex- plosion of shrapnel shells in @ blaze which destroyed four build ings of the Piccatinny arsenal y today. Damage was esth ated at $1,000,000. The dead are: Private Oliver McCormack, Malden, keeping Thurs-| Mass, a marine, whose thigh was ay at the city |shattered by shrapnel, and who died “Tip's” jin = Dover hospital A soldier named Wi! Jail is unique in the annals of thelo¢ shrapnel wrounil prormeyice | as police force mare One aid could be secured. er master artley, 19, @n| Private Paul Green, Boston, and | actor, who was arrested early Thurs-| Privates Butler and Luce, addresses in connection with the alleged) as yet umknown, were seriously in of a pocketbook, brought a] jured, Town Is Shaken |crossed the intersection of the street when he noticed! the fast approaching 23rd ave. car coming down Pike st. | He said the collision occurred \before he could apply his brakes. Both cars were slightly damaged. A Bonney-Watson ambu- lance was called and carried |the injured away. Passen- gers aboard both street cars declared the accident oc- curred so suddenly they were junable to furnish any de- tails. Master in Jail, | So ‘Tip’ Frolics | | at City Pound | “Tip,” was booked for safe a black and white terrier, | dog pond. manner in breaking into day | theft small black handbag to the station | with him. Booking Clerk Homer |Hacks Man Over Head and| Shoulders With Ax “SOON TO LEAVE WASHINGTON, Dec, 18.—The last and to delusion that she is about to d that after her death he pi [marry another woman, neys for Miss Goldman, who decided she would return to Russia with Berkman,