The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 3, 1920, Page 2

Brown Urges State to Spend $30,000 ‘to Capture Fugitive Wife Deserters Severe criticism of the present : : e e » lot of drunkenness in Seattle, He hte Highlights of Brown’s Report [iin 0.0" apes eoue you te Wis annual report for 1919 Is- Revision of Jury laws recommended. narrowly in the eye and tells you~ gued Saturday. The mt jury Suggests establishment of $30,000 fund to bring back deserting hus. || "just between you and me, yuh epstem works “in the interest of bands who leave families wards of the state. know''that there is more drunken: law breakers rather than tn the Knactment of blue sky law against wildcat schemes ts asked. ness in Seattle now than there was Protection of society,” says Frequent murders blamed on conditions existing at close of war, |! before we had prohibition, Brown. He recommends radical || Twenty homicide Informations filed in year, This man is always on the tna changes. | Grand larceny most popular crime, These Informations total 182 for |) of things, He knows a man “wh: | year. in in the ring,” and he can “take you Im addition to finding fault with the jury system, Brown sumgests es fadlishment of » $30,000 fund by the Tegisiature, which would be used to} return to this state fathers who had dleserted families, Ho also asks bluc Bhy legislation to check witdent} Promoters who sell worthless stock, | Many Victimized “The present tests of fitness for jury service are too loose," saya Brown, “and disquatitica tions for im plied bias are too numerous. Gea-| eral qualifications for jury service should bo settled by a vet of general qutstions propounded by the judge Inquiry with regard to the particular Justice court complaints totalled 2,889, Inercase of 791. Banner gear for default divorces, Number 1,611 in which defendant did not appear. Tot ivorces approximated at 2,900, Abandonment and non-support most frequent cause of divorce, Cruelty ranks second and then personal indignities, non-support only, habitual drunkenness, fraud, imprisonment in penitentiary and desertion from army. Husbands brought 248 actions and wives 616, for first seven montns of year, Default divorces only. Increase in population, war conditions and industrial unrest blamee for divorce increase, Criminal proscoutions filed, 567. Convictions, 291. Not guilty, 39, Dismissed, 122, elements involved in the case could then be made on motion of the at torneys, “The names placed in the jury box ing wale of stock until the assets of the corperation have been investi gated and approved by state of | tleers." Skipped Off Again Calling attention to the large num: | ber of homicides during 1919, Drown | blames them on post-war conditions “Many men had deserted their | families prior to the war,” “With the draft they returned, ing exemption on family grounds When the war closed they skipped off once again. This helped swell the diveree total “A number of divorces resulted from hasty and {!ladvised marriages | | by serviee men. should not consist of such an enormous number, selected for no other reason than atatutory eligibil- peor any kind of atock can, be sold here without supervision or control, the report says. “Ingtance after instance hag been reported to this office,” Brown says, “where poor people have paid their earnings for flamboyant but value leas shares of stock. | “The anly remedy now offered tx the statute defining grand larceny, which in most cases is not sufficient. A law ought to be enacted prohibit. S5th—-Greenwood Sunday . “The Cirl From Outside” CLARA NORTON and All-Star Cast Universal Comedy “Goon NIGHT, TURK" Now here—antil “Tuesday night only— this big Paramount @ Vv, dua 4 to a here” | “right over tha bar AN EXCEPTIONAL DRAMATIC OFFERING FOR ANY PLAYHOUSE— ORE DEADLY Is Drunkard a Novelty? He Performs Experiment BY JACK HALL I know a man who saya there in a place where not thre you blocks from an buy liquor | Itiva singular fact, however, that when [the place where the booze Is sold) my woy right over the bar for 60 cents « glans, he always haw o pressing en-| agement elsewhere. you urge him to take you to Ho Tests Mis Theory Acting, however, upon the support tion that drunkenness is rampant, is jit not a sfrange thing, dear reader, that one so seldom sees a drunken ployed at good wages during the | war, and having the means, secured | divorce from a worthless husband During the first 11 monthe of 1919, | } 181 law wero filed in Justo onses under the lary husband purt Convictions were obtained in 9% joawes, The defendants were not found In 58 cases, Alcohol importation, Hoeensen ts sued to druggists totalled 173. author taing 2,220 gallons a month. Churches were allowed 85% gallons a month, “fefore March 1 we expect to cut off surplus alcohol in granting new | | permits to the amount of 1,000 gal jons a month,” says Brown. “An “In other canes, the wife was om: | pert druggist supervises this work.” ERNEST P. RUSSELL on the WURLITZER | | self! he assured me. [him |“You're a public nutsance, a | |breaker, an example of the horribie/ maiy upon tho strééts” of our ‘tair eity? Yesterday, to test @ theory that I had been hoarding for some weeks I admitted the shameful fact. ‘ou ought to be ashamed of your T agreed with Menace to Public “You're the first really iNuminated | man I've seen on the streets of Seat | tle for two years,” he continued. | law effects of alcohol!” “There is a lot of drunkenness in| Seattle!’ I repeated solemnly. “Why. | Just between you me, you know, | there is more drunkenness in Seattle now than there was before we had ition! Pree Uy toll me." whispered my friend, cautiously, “I hear there ts a piace mot three blocks from here ae ely can buy liquor right over the ud “No trouble at all!" 1 replied, stag- gering out of hie grasp. “Thene places have a ‘pull’ with the police!” I rolled 4n my way, but my sober minded friend pursued me. “Tell met he whispered, hoarsety. | What's your recipe?” | “A good imagination!’ I whispered back at him. “What's yours?” And there, Gentie Reader, is the Truth about Prohibition. If you don't believe it, try it yourself! 18 Oil Com; ies Face Big Judgment | LO8 ANGELES, Jan, 3.--Altho it was expected today that the 18 oi! companies involved in the recent de-/ cision of Judge Robert #. Kean of | Portland, would appeal, judgments, aggregating $2.977,677.56 have been ntered im the federal court here | aguinat the companice. Judge Bean decided adversely to the ol! companies tn the suite which involved the socalled Taft with drawal order of 1909 The jud ments are for off the companies are alleged to have taken from the| property from 1914 to 1917, which. under Judge Bean's decision, be longed to the government, CANADIAN CASUALTIES IN WORLD WAR, 212,703! OTTAWA, Canada, Jan, 3.--Can ada lost 63,643 of her population as & result of her war activities, while her total casualties, including wound ed prisoners and missing, were 213, 703, or nearly 3 per cent of her tatal population of 8,000,000, Of this total, 61,116 were killed in action or died of wounds; 145,360 were wounded, 17 were accidentally killed, 4,918 died of disease, 6,102 are pre. sumed dead, 57 are posted as mins: nd 2,688 died in Canada, 441 men who had enlist. ed up to date of the armistice, 432, 266 left Canada, of whom 4,214 went to Siberia. Thus over 7 per cent of Canada's population enlisted for serv ice, of whom 5 per cent actually left her shores, BABY’S “DA DA!” SAVED 7 NAPANEE, Ont, Jan, 3.—Little , Aged 6 months, be- | came a lifesaver by preventing as.) hyxtation of seven older persons, six | }whom had been overcome tn three | 4 flooded by gas escaping from tfmactured main Da! Da!" came from Billy's crib at 3a, m. His father got up, detected a smell of gas and found that his wife and another child had been overcome, Dashing across the street for a physician, he found the doctor, his wife and their maid also unconscious, Later a woman in an- other house was found to have been overcome, All will recover, WORKMEN ERECTING HOUSE ON WRONG SITE CHICO, Jan, 3—Attorney W. FE Roche almost came into possession | of a new $5,000 home ax a New Year's present. When he strolled | out to look over a lot he owns Jn Chico Vecino, he found workmen had begun construction of the residence and had completed excavating, In vestigation disclosed that the work men had started construction activ. ities on the wrong property and that they should have been working on the adjoining lot, owned by HM. K, Scars, FINAL PEACE Call for League Meet When Business Future of the U.S. Lies in Our Ships? (Editor's Note—This had been laid for 1,622 nteel whl first of four article and all the wood, componite shipping situation in the U, 8.) | concrete onés. There had been a ABOUT JAN. 13 Treaty Is Effective tual launching of 1,826 steel «hipay I proceeded to stagger down Becond BY MILTON BRONNER it pemponie Vanna one PARIS, Jan, 3.-—The supreme} WASHINGTON, Jan. 4. — The | crete In deadweight tonn Stagger” inright! From Pike at counel} today authorized Premier | kainerists used to way that the fu-lthere had been launched 8,661, Yeuler way 1 rolled down the boule | Ciemenceau to issue a preliminary | ture of Germany upon the! tons of steel ships, 68,000 of e vard, giving the best imitation of @) cal for the first meeting of the! water, The great r found u 1,833,060 of wood and 26, man carrying @ jag of which TW) jeague of nations eounell, direteing | with hardly any transoceante ne rete apable | President Wilson to ienue a formal) fiying our flag The close of tb On thie date in December 1 started at the busy capner of | cg} ag soon as the Versailles treaty) war found us with a tremendous! vctually delivered and Pike and Second With glared | becomes effective. fleet owned by the natior service 1,152 steel ships, 18 coms joves ye oe ay Pg. eg A onteilia The lawyers and politicians who| posite, 502 wooed and two cone peep ed ag pol -parag ert sit in the capit® here are to de-|a total of 1,674 vessels with the other, 1 rolled, weaved, lurched,| PARIS, Jan, 2—Bigning of the) Mt /p te capa pan a ‘ghty|@eadweight ‘tonnage of 416m swayed, stumbled and otherwise made! protocol and final exchange of TAU | reer whethe Shall remain the| Most of these vensels are still % Uke @ leaky ship with a! fications to make the treaty of peace) property of the nation whowe ed by the government and ope j heavy sea abaft the beam |with Germany effective probably! } iin it, or whether ft shall e oy orivate- concerns whe eet-tan Four years ago, in the dear, dead) wilt not take place sooner than JAN) private ownership and #0 pr ly | government and get a fixed feo } duys that are gone beyond recall, | uary 13, It was indl tod land gradually slip into “foreign | thelr service i thin would hy made no impression) Phe plan to completa the long| hands. Thin is of more interest to . — | on the hureyion crowds, peace negotiations on January 6 vir-| the ordinary workman or farmer or Pershing to Speak } Rabble Envious tually has been given up, it was) small shopkeeper who reads these) . Yesterday the widewaik trac made| #4, owing to tho illness of Kurt | |iner, than he in apt to tmagine in Tacoma, Jan. | way for me; envious glances were| Von Lerwner, the German eminsary,) Onoe the civilized. world gets? TACOMA, Jan. 3-—A special i "Toast in my direction, and a #mali/2nd the fact that Premier Clemen-| over itx sholishack, all the big na-! ing, January 21, at which Gen, J j rabble fell in at my heels, their) Cea" i# On a vacation in the departs) tions will be competing for trade. | J. Pershing will speak here, ts bel tongues hanging dryly, from their) Ment of war, Business will go to those whore arranged, together with a banquet ‘| mouths and in their ey that look| Interest in Paris had shifted some:| goods are worth-while, whose prices | the commander of the A. E. F. G |of longing that one always aasociates | What from the treaty negotiations to are right—AND WHO CAN DIE-| Pershing will inapect Camp 1 with Lazarus catching the crumbs| the attitude of Clemenceau toward | LIVER IN THEIR OWN SHIPS, | January 20, and will arrive here | that fall from the table of Dives, | accepting the presidency | If congress foozles a# it does) that night. He will remain in “How does he do itt’ shouted one| Latest advices here said he had) with so many things, If it adopt* city all day January 21, says Ma & man contwited to become an honorary|® policy that will cripple us on) Gen. John F. Morrison, commas “Capitaliat!” yelled dnother. member of the senate, but mtill we boro ed ypbind amici sla [of Camp Lewis r lg sneer 2 pr Blaha iceet re scential @ Phare o weet | hat in turn will affect the men HARRY CAREY DIVO! ment cheering my spectacular prog | be a presidential candidate, | as in tare Wi stiect the ment Pe AOmLaE Ganka e ress, The traMe cop stared at mpe —---- yaise the ctops Fern Carey was granted @ di ig, pret spect voli oe ‘Te Prevent Infiucnse ‘On the last available data Teould | late yesterday from Harry wk Gew’t Setteve Gr" These timmy ; let, the active program of the U.| film actor, after she had pres 2 “Some people are alway put-|, Colds cause Grip and Infiuenss— | get, the active progran ’ " o peo Bags LAXATIVE BROMO QUIN Tab-|#, shipping board was for 2,014| testimony that Carey spent % ae eh’ ae te Is Only | vesnels—1,606 wtoel, 18 composite,|time at his ranch near here uM Mart Verbal Bombe aKov ie,” | 588 wood and 12 concrete. Keels) another woman, 9 “He must be sick, poor chap! a/| -- little old lady with black mittens I murmured as I bumped against a telephone pole. ol “This in what makes Bolshevike" of cried & mournful looking gentleman te Flaunting his wealth im the face of ti | the proletariat!" ad: “Millionaire!” “stingy!” ~ “Where do you tive? P “How many raisins do you use’ at “Where d'yuh get that stuff?” | om These, and like phrases, were MM hurled at me. People turned around ia. ito stare, aniffed enviously and won iH | dered where I got it. . g At Cherry st a reverend gentile i |man, with whom I was slightly ac Ga quainted, stopped me. a “Aren't you Mr. Hall?” he inquired tr in duloet tones. u as MARY PICKFORD Is now here in the successor to “Daddy Long Legs” and “The Hoodlum,” the third play from her own studio— “HEART 0” THE HILLS” - It is an entirely new sort of role for her—that of a loyal Kentucky feudist and clansman— beginning with a rebellion at a “licking” with a hickory stick. SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA 31 artists under Reginald Dunn, playing “The Mikado.” KEATES on the WURLITZER “Napoleon’s Last Charge”. .... Paull “The Palms” ................Faure “The Lost Chord”..........Sullivan Medley Overture ....... CONCERT 1:30 SUNDAY ee et “ee ere: owas: ur te ihe bd iN) va SS ‘ith