The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 27, 1919, Page 2

PAGE 3 | They're like raisins in a Bometimes far apart. ni mum. job the blue on worth $200,000 “drying floors, 5,000,000 short vast tons Paid bonuses, $1 Above 10 karats boys have and made $500 is a maximum, release working contract. ALONG CHANGE “Grow” in Blue Mud, but Big Find Seldom Made KIMBERLEY, South Africa, Dec. M—Diamonds “grow” in dlue mud A Mative boy tn September, ett. | got “dump” in the Du Toits Pan mine Pour hours after he started he found a diamond of 444\ karats, | Buperintoodent Austin Knight has! fered sufficient transportation fact the ties for troop movements connected fields | with carrying out of the treaty terms wpent 25 years walking over pounds) ef blue ground are) for disintegration purposes— “Mind he has found exactly three dia- ? i boys who find big stones a karat and | Per cent of the diamond's valu worked in bonuses, however, on i finds. The boy who found the Karat stone was given $500, & suit of clothes and im from his four fe the largest and finest qual. é ever found in the De|4 o'clock Sunday Trust's mines in the Kimber- trict. The largest was of 503 SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA 31 Artists under Reginald Dunn, playing the Tschaikowsky Overture— Le “1812” (0) | Shipping Commission PARIS, | The supr Deo, 27 ne council today decided to (United Press) take an inventory of docks at Ham-/ made to learn the habit of breakin Spectacular finds have been made | burg and Dansig But the chance of a lucky find aver | | ages down to a heartbreaking mint-| (| The council's action followed barges that Germany is withhold « part of her assets in marine ma- the conference had read to the Germans today not of owing for plebiscites. | karate, found in June, 1896, but it | was an imperfect stone. The record find was the Cullinan, January 26, 1905. It weighed 3024% karats, four inches high, 2% long and 1% wide and was presented to | King Edward VIT in 1907 |. River diggings also have produced huge gems, the largest being the Bob Gove diamond of 337 karate [Tt sold in 1908 for $10,000 and now is worth $60,000. KWAN KWEO CLUB TO MEET be the principal speaker t KEATES ON THE WURLITZER “El Capitan” Sextette ..... BY PREDERICK M. KPREY NEW If « 000 a year fully in the campaign jot Harry Levey, | of the educational department of the | Universal Film company Corns are proof capable of small “Gypsy Love Song”. Southern Melodies * AMOND HUNT 'WILLINSPECT BREAK MATCH; GERMAN DOCKS) SAVE MILLIONS {Supreme Council Will Send| Mr. Smoker, Heed Rules of} Fire Prevention! Yor terials demanded by the allies an rep: | the object of aration for the sinking of the Scapa | “bout t Flow feet mous fire le A report of & conference between | 000,000—in bh work | German and French military leaders! ‘This sturge of which, according [ire Prevention association, was p | ventable. he drive to save half of this an made sum is eutimated that the populatic States—can governors of the states, mayors and fire chiefs of cities, and offfctals and] fire fighters of the smaller towns and | villages, will cooperate with the flim under direc managing direc which is tK, Deo, 29 his matches inte two parts | Teaching people how to avc a nation.wite inched to cut the enor ws of last af { rin 1 wum total puntry to be anily rea | DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS is here now in his latest big production “WHEN™ CLOUDS ROLL BY” It shows you how crooked the course of true love can run when it rollg up its sleeves and gets down to business. This romance leads Doug through comedy nightmares and thrilling floods, and gives him a chance for 101 new situations and ideas. CONCERT—1 :30 SUNDAY eum iw t to the N send a commission to Germany to] smoker in the United Stated can be/the front trenches in fire losses can be year wohed. that nature mean things The Kwan Kweo cluo will meet at| Te Cure a Cold tn One Day fternoon at the| Take LAXATIVE HROM i +] t 1) | (Tablets) t stops the Cough ¥. W.C. A. Rev. G. T, Hunter will! tieadache and works off th W GROVES alenature on box +++. Herbert . «Donizetti $100,000, fires 4! desk jobs, of fire lows jand from mothers of returned service men, on this big topic of getting a square deal for the soldier THE SEATTLE STAR—SATURDAY, DEC, 27, 1919 JOBS FOR SOLDIERS What have you done to gi } deal? | Or are There lwho are ps men harried and hurt waiting for ¢ from 150 to 2¢ ially disabled in the and who 150 and more you And these a living They can't use a pick anc they can run eleva’ men; in a hundred places whe and married women whose jof them, What crippled soldic go hungry? »|care to read our opinion, jsecretary of the Veterans’ thru thel eng } moving picture theatres, where, It bs 5084, 55,000,000 people of the entire United The BOKN HERE, TOO ve » no donbt tn receipt of many letters from ua, but one more can only add to your satis fnotion in the knowledge that The jStar is the only paper to carry our aune to the very doot of the public is |Dravely and fearlemly | The one thovght that helped light len the burden and erificer of many be of war, w the thought that ¥ ne day, God willing, I would re } to Seattle, the town of my birth 30¢. jand to my dear ones. | But that I should be destitute in) home town while Japs, married women, slackers and “100 per cent Americans” hold down the jobs mak me wish, air, that I waa sleep ing peacefully beside my comrades n the © 4 fields of France. The Injustice is slowly arousing to wrath those Hight for justice. From one who wonders where his ext meal ts coming from A VOLUNTEER Twenty-olght months mervice, n in pomseesion of The Btar held at writer's request MOTHER ARGUES Dear Editor: T have just been reading what Mrs. Shakespeare mith has to say about our re turned soldiere—the men who Joba to fleht at $20 when these mer have been nany @ slacker who ack when he sees, them 40 good while they ja battles for him. Tam the mother of an ex.soldier, who went and his country well I am proud of him, and these boys who did their duty, and I think they should be used right and should be allowed to go hungry © without proper work. Only for theese hoye there would have been no fine Jobe at $10 and $15 a day for the ay at home men and womet. ‘The Star is @ true friend to the ex service men. THE $5-n-day Now thru. will! turn his for he has were fighting nerved SATLORS FRIEND. POINTS OUT UNFATRNESS Editor The § Your stand tr fonse of the unemployed ex soldiers A is ly commended. Who would have believed that Seattle, the Queen City, would send her boys away by the thousands with shouts |and band music and then would let these boys become almost objects of charity on Weir return’? ‘These mon want work, not char | ity The Seattle employers must have become heartless during the war. | Maybe they had no sons In the serv fee. Of course they find that women aro cheaper. | 1 know of one man who draws a $70 a month pension from the city; | be bas @ federal job at $165 a month, and bis wife works in a grocery | store; they also have a grown daugh- ter, living at home, who works. ther man is manager for a meat company; bis wife and daugh ter work in a grocery. | Take a canvass among the working | women of the city and you will find that the majority of them have bus | bands | My own boy, who gave up a $6.80 lm day job at the shipyards to go to | France, had to leave town to get | work when he returned ‘ | MOTHER OF A VOLUNTEER. | j } i LEFT WE ERED Editor The Star | You are to be commended for the ft you are making for tho returned service men More than five million men were called to the color men had to sacrifice ot these fin reial status to do their bit these men made t riflee; thousands more gave their health, or were crippled, an: no adequate rpensation thousands of veterans a job, In Seattle w seas uniform beg« make a living, w jay the benefits of the men's ac rifioe are selfish, apathetic and the we-don’t-need-you attitude has re |placed the flag-waving, over-the-top speeches we handed out when the boys went away I remember when we left Seat tle, August 2%, 1918, for Camp Lew We were given a big dinner at the Hippodrome and a few of Seattle's “best” gave farewell speeches to in spire us to get the kaiser at any At that time my personal pride und patriotiem knew no bounds, and despite the se of military train ing, my disappointment was beyond words to express when the war end ed without affording me a chance to seta shot at a Hun People who were the most prom Inent in ladling out patriotic oratory are now the most gent in giving to the overseas mon a square deal As for us who were drafted, but did not get vverseas, we do not ex pect to be given much consideration despite the fact that some of us had ta sacrifice good Jobs when we went But for those men who mado the sacrifice and have survived the ba tlefield, the least the nation can do start in life The square deal for these men in not to be made a political platform for some party's benefit, It it de porable that the government is so negligent as to give slackers and married women employment at do you think about a town that will let 150 Don't ask The Star what it thinks, because you wouldn't | : | Here are some more letters from returned service men,| If you can place one of these men, get in touch with the} who went over there to) 1 to wee that they are given a new] {the educational department of the icans. ‘The service Impressed him | 02," © today, after he had failed to appear | board of home missions of the Pres-| very caaiy Pak for his wedding in Monson, Mass., byterian church, who has returned| fefore seeing the Mexicans with Christmas day, is there to undergo to New York from an extensive trip| his own eyes, said Mr. Bastman, he| It takes a pretty sharp man to cut | a minor operation, it was learned to- to Texas, New Mexico and Southern ght, with many others, that they'a slow man to the quick. | day Califorr | ie MEE se Mi anh “gga a ve, fp we Bs 7 Tr eau tenant ouabarlbicphaicaaaisannoe ance eee na studying people and conditions in| ™ ‘és ie © r nelghbe ne states for two! | [these and netghboring states for two Another Municipal Grafter Exposed } from Ki Paso, Lox Angeles and cltion | i-—————— ~—- oO eee of the border states, « ally mints | ter and other r With out exception, he rey these men » opposed to American interven: | | tion in Mex DEAD MEXICANS } AREN'T COUNTED h man frank] stat it as their | cenviction that ae | s many | Mexicans are Killed on this side of | the border ag there are Americans | on the other side; but that when al Mexican i# killed on this side of the border, the newspaper little or othing about it, whe every mur der or holdup on the Mexican side ts} | magnified in the American pr “It ia also the opinion of thone | men,” said Mr. Kastman that Inter vention would disrupt the social sol idarity of our country tn the yuth west They state that there ein every ten is a Mexican, and that necessarily trouble might arise in this country it if were there war.” The rm bytertan edueational director expressed it ns his opinion that the great majority of the Mexi- | cans were decent and law-abiding cit Inens, { This quite ordinary cat has none of the earmarks generally attributed by the public to JOIN AMERICANS Soadhan, “Riptgniaiian, ie. :ahacce it Whe Gand ae SeEeDE He toe wel ne ve a returned soldier a square jeorge to do it? | 1) overseas men in this town Wounded men, gassed men,| » war machir men who saw f did their bit against the Hun. FOURTH NEAR PIKE F men want a chance to make! ; i ° Cee Se ea Now here, is the actor who never disappoints you— shovel, u ney can handle . ie: they ss Os on ateh-| the man who never fakes any of his marvelous screen : re today are Japs and slackers] “stunts’’— } husbands can well take care Welfare Commission, Elliott} seeking a job: | in a play in which a dauntless Westerner starts in search of adventure and in a play in which he stops a runaway, wins a terrific auto race and downs an enemy in the squared circle— ernment Itself is going to lenore the Jeconomic needa of these veterans truly nF urs very WILSON, | SOOREKS CRITICS | Editor The Star: Just a word for efit of the wine bird who atgna: . “A Yank who served four | years with Canad fights with gun, He says A Iman gets out and fists and quick kets a Job, and there's no exeuse for a white man r & & job.” brain— | In part I agree with him, but 1 myself, am man, and I am not able to b I think « nd in a Nttle nar row, I probably have gotten more} jobs in a year than he has in his! whole life; being ar boomer” my fferent know h and have three & for work trades, but atiil 1 can’t find « jot Probably, tho, 90 per cent of these | jobless exeoldiers are regulara and n ly ever gave An ex regular any thing, ANOTHER YANK Who served more than years under his own fla HELP MARRIED MEN Editor The Star: I do not believe Ok ver * men should be given pri ority over others on the work ques| tion, I believe the volur re should be given first eheles ene exer |vice men who hollered abayt going at nd who went on the draft; w are holler | in. a goed ' suse they are A high- axeervice men. Where do they get] powered that stuff ive the volunteer the first chance. tale of the |then give the poor old warrior, fight West, ing the battle of life for kiddies and : wife, and mother, maybe, meeting hitting on all over-rining expenses; give these mar twelve— ried mep second chance at the jobs. | The ex#ervice man, husky, healthy. singio, let him few bumps without raising a holler Help the married man, he's tn the front trench all the time | | take a | COMMON SENSE. | EX.SOLDIERS FIRST Paliter The & You have taken / up one of the ! tal Amertoar mt ay, namely, our 1am a shipyard worker. A short something like 600 men. I waa at a the gate when they were lined up for| their pay checks. A young man, act ing as checker, called my attention | to the fact that every other man In liine had on some part of our U. B.| |untform. Ho maid it made his heart! jmick to see thore boys let out, some! jof them only working three days. He| |anid he knew some of the worst wob- | biles and foreign loafers had been re- tained in their places Mr. mployer, is this your duty, or |!* tt the dute of your foreman, to| | choone the ones to stay and the ones| |to go? Whoever ho may be, T can! Jtruthfully say that his Americanism |is madly punctu We had banners of stars flying! over every industry Mm the city al short time ago. | Mr. Méitor, keep up your noble | work till you force them to replace that banner with a new banner— namely, “Ex-Soldiers Firat.” A SHIPYARD WORKER. There’s wonderful heart interest in the way Mix BORDER AGAINST WAR ON MEXICO Atrocity Reports Exaggerat-| ed, Says Church Man serves as the champion for a poor little lame boy arid In fact, this is just the picture to bring the whole family to see. cares for some motherless children. ERNEST P. RUSSELL ON THE WURLITZER BY FREDERICK M. KERBY - — NEW YORK, Dec. 2 Wa th attended an Americanization service, | were hopeless and incurably dishon- MISSING D! , not wa 1 which hundreds of both Mexicans |ogt, But thelr sincerity in religion]. yyy > DOCTOR FOUND “ 1 Americans | Bi. the testimony of Christian . : 7—(nited states are op ymne were sung partly in Spanish cn ba th tha ie dee s8)—Dr, William Grey Vermilye, rvention in that country de-land partly in English, one line by |Pim that the Mexican ie frequently mer naval surgeon, who was dis. es i. Fred Eastman, dir of |the Mexicans, the next by the Amer-|\") ° ° jeovered in Brooklyn hospital early as straight and honest as his Ameri: At least such seems to be the opinian of Mayor | Bremerton while service men need Jobs. All the propaganda agotnat the reds will prove ineffecti' ive if the gow-| Southwestern states, Mr, Eastmanjing him to investigate and report what the cat was doing for a living. IN CHURCH SERVICES Hylan of New York, When he discovered an item of $6.50 for the maintenance of the cat in the department While studying conditions in the|of education fer the months of July, August and September, he wrote to the commissioner of accounts, @aks »