The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 19, 1919, Page 1

iy FRIDAY DRO, 19 First High Tide First Low Tite Nigh Tide VOLUME 22 TO ME* DANA SLEETH ing somewhere Wing with fiv * being 10 te : Bevery morn at what I that if y de ond that wh I ing to toodle and t ‘ eveAing you will guess that I think ® going to be good From what I ¢ : garded by the members Jorchestra as their ef Ft, and in oo ™man Tschaikowsky they ing to toddle and toot plumb to the borders of } winesd winds of harme My foot hurts, I limp [board 6 degrees whenever { don’t © hold hard down on my hetm, and generally nto the | Rome drydock and have my pers flooded—if scuppers are ‘ €d in a drydock—than sai thte Leo Geas some mere. But {f all these earnest artists can devote their hov a righ! t en on I'd rather slip neup flood wild Denefit, I can | bit and attend, wear a carpet slipper, and bed the [i Rivver down in the a fdul! lonesome hour of mi: It's the first time I hav ‘Out after dark since I chaperoned Dec Matthews when he By about the police some months ago. Zand if I think it’s that good maybe Fequ all betteg chance it! ® even if 1 have to preached NE of the citizenry me that he hopes the judge will hand that y fortune teller the ‘She got $7 off of me concludes. Other simple minded ¢ } reet easier when I that the gy Wedne: Pulling up stakes at their ¢ town and t writes: ks may them assure #he mud and onto the pave This gypsy band t J m their pr | ms ’ One would kt ' t \ ittle r | repeat their message If the “future pack” turr , 7 a certain way turn « rn the for met het IN retu dy, about anything, anywhere ) HUGH CALDWELL TAKES OUT FILING PAPERS MAY RUN FOR MAYOR Tides in Seattle samara h AS IT SEEMS PRR RAR AAA RRP PPP PPP On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise e Seattle Star 2e@ $5.00 to $9.00 SATURDAY ered as Second Class Matter May 3, 1199, at the Postoffice at Beattie, Wash. under the Act of Congress March 3, 18 SEATTLE, WASH.,: FRIDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1919, Ton BSR ght and Saturday, oing, eateriye erate winds, becoming ; OUT OF JOBS, THEY SELL CHRISTMAS TREES 1 * That The s discovery of the deplorable situation returned sol- diers find themselves in in Seattle stirred the town when it was read yesterday is a mild understatement of the effect on the public. Over night the city has been aroused to the seriousness of the cri- sis that confronts two or three thousand ex-service men, and the! CALDWELL Is Is $ UNCERTAIN | Associated Industries is issuing a clear-cut statement urging all Filings for Municipal Offices” Begin Today; Five Coun- men to Be Chosen business men to make this their first duty. Chiet interest in the tases political arena Friday morning When one reads some of the stories of these men who gave Up centered in the | probability of Hugh M. Caldwell, former cor everything, who left wives behind to fight for existence, and who now return to discover there is not a job at even hard labor open to, poration counsel, filing as & candidate for mayor. Caldwell obtained a them; listening to these stories and getting a little insight into the) (fc'sretes of cana. Sa |personal and particular hells these men are going thru, one feels! ont fine ws te comptroller. that Seattle can well let every other public problem drop until this} ‘rn. tr aay when candidates f one is solved. ee the ty Coane a dee Here is part of a letter from a man who is well known to The Star, | their intention to ‘run for and to many of you. His name is not published at his request, but |i as « candidate to succeed the letter is bona fide and typical. | sutathe'tor to Friday ne ae The employer who can read this letter and who does not feel a) ssi wn tea tie a direct personal appeal to his sense of honor is deaf to his own best | ("tr corporation counael h jinterests, to put‘it on no higher ground. |Peared to oppose: Meter. * * * * ie * * * * their intention to Several for Council _ = nea 8 Incumbent city cou n | “Editor The Star: It may be of interest to the Seattle public tO| Penruy orcas, OO | Robert B. Hesketh filed his i | Friday to become a candidate ceed himself for a term of years. Carl H. Reeves, major of the United States at a civil engineer by profession: Ww. i. read of the circumstances of just one of the 2,500 jobless soldiers in town 4 | charged $3 for a night. 1 spent 12 nights, wet and mud soaked, with danger as a side, | soeniin al issue, for that sum in France. firm por rag Pt enna Private A. Farne is selling Christmas trees today on a va cant lot at Ninth and Pine It is a mild and modest oceupa- tion for a menber of the Gunous “lost battalion.” But Private Parne is broke—dead broke— exeept for a fivefranc piece he brought back from France had about changers in Ne | English money “IT had been employed in a Seattle hotel! as Miss Virginia Leékley of Vashon island, visiting today in Seattle, was the first to buy a Christmas tree {leaving my crippled wife to fight the so- from unemployed world war veterans, whose sales agency is toe on a vacant lot at Ninth ave and Pine st. jealled fight for democracy. I did not go for “T noticed that places which employed men} Frank &, Kannair, secretary of making $7 to $8 a di nd my “salary” in | women, and 80 per cent of them married ones|é"T*e-verr terms as elty cou He Fought With the Lost Battalion: the British army wa: cents a day, and I | at that; or else they employ men of any color| A" of them filed their 4 . y peculiar coincidence Hesketh, lGoteasa that we had a few hundred in the “I took up canvassing because it was all] and Tomlinson live within a b B t N Thi Hero of War Is Jobless'':"i for she was not able to work. I won't | that could be had. I sold a windshield de-| eal " J atriotis at actu- | . a % ‘ Councilman A. T. Drake also u ow S dwell on the siprit of patriotism that actu- | vice, and had more than $150 coming to me} hie declaration of canaisaaeaan |moved by that sort of emotion. ‘Let George | vice flew by night, with my money. Councilmen Oliver T. Ericl Do It," will be my motto next time. | ‘ation, one day, I sought a permit] D. Lane and John EF. Carroll, | “When I got back to Seattle, with my two terms expire this year, had net y t are there ‘ up to noon today. All, left, r the money was told it could not be granted, and| nave oneal that they will run York got thru changing my | that the two already there were granted on/|for office again. All la iter, when I joined the British army, . \the remuneration involved, ‘oF I was then | when I was here before are now employing] Mutual Business club, will ‘ of didacy Frida Jalloted half of this to my wife. It was a| but white. And they call this patriotism. omer jaan each other in the north end. lated me then, for never again will I be | in commissions, when tRe agent for the de- ceed himself for a term of two TRY T0 MURDER to erect a little stand on Union sts like the TRAIN SMASHUP ars and eight months savings in the army, as candidates to succeed them compassionate grounds. I said, ‘Have a little|'™*t file their deciarationg of hte od =e a sf oth he wach 4 | by January 17. Withdrawal : ec a Ra ill- | We soldiers understood that our wives! pity on me, my health has been broken in the ti t. ands Assassins Fire on Lord at gee i Fast Mail Plunged Into Pu | would be cared for by the hundred-and-one | struggle,’ but I was shown the door. ‘Too| the gers fire by Pobre + French; One Is Slain i told it w man; Two Are Dying lbureaus and benevolent societies, but my many returned soldiers,’ was the excuse. ‘Three Groups ; ents. So hucke d e |wife must have been one they all missed. “But for my ,wife, I would regret that I| candidates for the city council are. DUBLIN, Dec. 19—(By United ae ; aA She had five relapses with flu and pneu-| was spared to* taste the gratitude of my| confined to three groups. The voters Press.)}—The — cal eoharmgtn Aceal bs y - mon and laid it out in a solitary,.unheated | country “ | will be ealled upon to vote for on€ Ireland reached a climax this d , : ope: “ Beat” FE A eile Pa <4 »s| counellman for a one-year terms, one en ee on ieiemiek des hat I Farne wer ‘ ‘k room last, winter si “Lahoul ord rly officer, any complaints?’ councilman form term of two Yeanes made to assassinate Field Mar : She is now a chronic invalid, Should say so. and three councilmen for terms of shal Viscount French, lord licu A r “T got back last July; I refused rooms in rry on, you profiteers, you'll come to] three years each. Councilman Car tenant of Ireland. Several shots a “ I the hotels run by Japs, but when I went to} your end some day.” roll is finishing the one-year term, ceca’ teed ai dna aaa, ae _ Sp . é ales hake oe “ "ec & >» [Councilman Drake the twoyear he was motoring frum the Ast mt Lone s6t RUE ti aun pny noes tween A JOBLESS SOLDIER.” term and. Counciimen Lane, Ire town station to the vice regal : | oe te age eo ate en son and Hecketh the three-year todee, A s number of the - bend | r ‘ terms, bullcta struck the automobiie, he : ° “| It doesn’t seem that anything need be added to that. There ia no contest for the offieds | We ey ok daeiditia vedas "| The best advice of The Star is for the institutions, the businesses, | this ror ne euch incumbent Hea aaa PR gL MT x cg jand the men who have the opportunities of Seattle to WAKE UP, _ {ors sears to serve before his term) nch’s escor his man was a “ | ave ende nald to have hada bomb in each Pam mine 70 acre | Nations, thru history, have been notoriously ungrateful to their : das he was shot down fine aC ine tetas vasirt wan Wouilbed _fPOK - Armour 4] saviors returning from the battlefield, but this is a bit too thick; a| 15,000 Pounds of : ; i 4 ' f t of the pack: | | bit too thick. U. S. Candy on Sale 1 “ -- — inihi 1, yum! Seattle small boys with visions : : A " a, 3 of Christmas sweets floating before” : : WAR PRISONERS Poisoned Baby F ights for = [tars a f ssal Wi rme quire For, beginning Friday, at 9 a my Repor f Plot 1 FREED, Li f Wi h M me BI d' more than 15,000 pounds of mixed se | candy was placed.on sale at the had r extroyer McKee. 4 WIL BE ‘ 1 e it ot er’ Ss oo Army Retail store, Stacy st, and By : é peat | s The lite of Ba jfound impossible to make the trans.| Marginal way. ‘The candy fs being W And He's Out of a Job Firat . rey polm he |fusion there, ‘The xd was finally }sold at 25 cents a pound, each pu : 1 ae 1 i kept vig- [injected into a vein in the infant's | chaser being limited to five pounda 4 n't find m " : | egat n ey the effect | a : as ti var “ u haa informed them f his ‘ollowing the ope ure e ‘ in Fran returned tmmedt und was reported normal this morn: | Green Men w t wi iting the signing }ing she suffered no weaknéss from poison was the epesetion, one has remarked that . n Germar 1 j} a G N man can learn to L sf ward te sell goods, but a BLUE man Occasional Showers Are on Tap Friday} easional showers will visit Seat-| effective (What D’ Y’u Know | "7,20" About This! Roll, Wate porma Jordon, Roll On! of the SACRAMENTO, Le © was treating cannot Inexperience need not worry you as long as you are en- ¥ thusiastic and willing to learn, orts from the hospital shortly baby’s tem: | nd respirato It is said the a transfusion will uppearance, It will be ome time, the physicians declare, be fore the effects can be determined. » noon sho the principal qual desires is WHITE, After all, a sales-manager is men be thru and thru, Friday morning The minimum 316th engineer t tell my If you wish a position as name degrees above had \ in the meantime, it is believed | iin salesman with a reliable ” ; pec bea u will be no more transfusions | e house, avemdG Spat pee: Dali aialata made at present * A ‘ ices thru the WANT AD ' ho t —— ibe In all it an ounce of blood was | Wisconsin Voting columns of The Star. Em- taken Mrs. Sandholm's arm! , ployers eagerly scan the Thursday evening and transterred to OM Berger’s Termi|| — Gassitied advertising pages little Bobbie, The operation was per-| MILWAUKEE, Wis., Dec. 19.—A] for men. who» have. the formed by Dr, H. L, Moon and Dr,|record vote was in prospect in the | knack of selling, They i : 6k AGO EEN Coe, following tests of blood | Fifth Wisconsin congressional dis: | do not want “blue” men, bah : gle aatnel a "A Washington cannot ob. [{cultures taken from the mother {trict today, when electors cast their nor “yellow,” either: but ; ee oe =e heipt ange tg : sla tatu daeeh 20. 4iff An incision was Made on the in-| ballots to determine whether Victor they gladly try out “green” n for A \ half with Co Shrerornie. jet ab t wns, je fant’s neck, but because of the | Berger, socialist, will be returned to] men who are also “white t G, 16 {iat division, | " esa i ismaliness of the vein there, it hs | pees jer a veritable reign ¢ \ oD. W. Hair ntly of the tor-| sale.