The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 5, 1920, Page 16

CAN'T BE DONE Because the Nation Has No| Borders BY HAROLD FE. BECHTOL (Buropean Manager of N. B. A) WARSAW, Jan. 5.—Poland today “fe a nation without boundaries, That condition multiplies the new Dorn republic's problems in building the machinery of government, busl-|« ‘eas and trade. ‘On east, west, north and south the conference left border ques hanging in the alr, Still they unsettled. No one knows when | will be settled. Byvery day of delay and uncertain: ‘a German day, because the ns are in control of the most nt areas. Poles know that they wil! ‘a goodsized state extending out all directions from Warsaw, and 's about all. ; May Meet Rumania ) fo the cast Poland stretches out what was Russia—how far no knows. Russia didn't attend peace conference. For the pres Poland's army has moved out ‘a line cast of Minsk. | On the south Poland will border Crecho-Slovakia, and—perhaps Rumania. But even the Cxech} i# undetermined and will re! undetermined until a plebiscite | helt in Teschen | ward and northward, Poland out somewhere into what Germany. But there must be ites in Upper Silesia and in thern East Prussia before the are fixed. Aftairs Nebulous ‘Under these conditions Poland's af- are tn nebulous Work | @fi the new constitution drags. Par-| t finds it difficult to make 4 before it knows what the ; tion, racial divisions, products, size and general makeup of country will be. Under these conditions it ts im. to arrive at a final inteltt-| taxation policy, fiscal policy, | and customs policy, or any| lasting policy | December 30 Poland started to @ census. It will cover all ci under Polish contro! Bul ft ts completed nobody will be to tell what the population of is, because nobody will know | what Poland is. ILIFORNIA EXPENSES DTAL FIFTY MILLIONS CR (ENTO, Cal, Jan, 5—Ex- by $5,714,194.62 the expendi state government for | pungent, fon thelr § |riousminded men and women “WHO'LL BE PRESIDENT ?”- BOUND Pl POLAND?\Justice for All Is H Hays’ ‘Slog an DECREE DOOMS -NO. 3 “Take the ‘Jazz’ Out of Politics” BY H. P. BURTON NEW YORK, Jan. 5.—His name ta Will, Not Bill or William and, in manners and aspect, he fits that plain and satisfying appellation wil ut man of the republican national com mittee, is now, at 39, not infrequent ly mentioned in connection with the andidacy for the highest office thts nation haa to bestow He comes from Sullivan, Ind, a plain American, from a region richly American. He speaks, when the proper inspiration ts upon him, in the homely phrases that we have come to regard as Lincoln eaque, “Dm not a0 concerned as to whether our men and women vote the republican ticket,” he said to me. in starting to discuss the coming campaign. as | am fn getting them out into polities, Il take a chance ning our party, once they get into action “People have come to view politics as some mysterious thing way up in the clouds, where faucets are turned on and off by remote sorcerers of some sort, who have a knowledge not of this earth. NOTHING MYSTERIOUS | ABOUT POLITICS “As a matter of fact, there solutely nothing mysterto and ‘dustily academic about politios, Ite technique, is simple and grows more | simple as more brains are injected into it. No longer do we take se riously the old-style voodoo men of polities with thelr tneantations o# | they stirred the pot on the stroke of his ab | PEOPLE SHOULD HELP | TO GOVERN THEMSELVES Hays, for two years chair “We have got to take the reputation | for ‘jas’ out of politics, too; so that se the kind who, aroused by the republh recent peril, did such wonderful work | for our Liberty L ns, our Red Cross bureaus and our canteens—will just naturally accept the fact that helping govern themselves Is part of their business. “It doesn’t matter which side they | belong to: I attribute honesty of pur- pose to the opposition and all that I as an American, Maist on is that the contest between the parties shall be based on which best can serve Amer jlca, which most can give her “The only ‘clever politics’ how, as |we used to use the word, Is finding | out what is best for the country and | doing it first “During the war, the republicans) determined every act by deciding how we could contribute moat to the sum total of the war god. Now every act shall be measured absolutely by how we can contribute the most toward «| making and keeping conditions right | in this country for the welfare of the people and the glory of the nation. -| FREE POLITICAL SELF.-DETERMINATION PR nce Bay ln a Hc Paty of possible successful political man- agement, and that is to make it ab- solutely certain that the rights of the individual membership within the party to participate in the party's af. WILL H. |faire shall remain equally sacred and sacred equal.” HAYS’ AS WILL SOON BEAR FRUIT | The concrete result of this under-| standing of the rine in political emo-| tien on the part of Will Haya will soon show in the formation of the republican platform for the presiden tal election. Sixty representative men and wo- men have been drafted to meet and} |draw this up, carefully and with ex |pert precision. Every group in the country—buainens, labor, the farmers | and the publico—will be represented, | and six months will be given over to the evolution of the document. “Our party feels that labor has not been auffictently recognized in the councils of the nation. In the crises thru which we have passed, labor was our salvation. The labor of thie |country is entitled to, and will re selve fair representation In all the) councils of the nation. We will have just remedial legislation for the bet- terment of this great group of our population at all times, not only be Ba Many Enticing Economies in Sample Spring Skirts at $5.95 to $19.75 Plaids, Stripes and Plain Colors In a Variety of Smart Fabrics Silk Poplins Serges Cheviots Venetian Suiting NOW IS THE TIME!! THE BON MARCHE RGAIN BASEMENT Satins Coverts Jersey Rajah Liberty Satin Taffetas Chadda Baronette Satins | thie industrial unrest, HAYS cause it is their due, but because by Justice we can always prevent the tn-|2 aidious Influence of the criminai ele ment of the 1. W. W hold in the ranks of real labor “The business men of this country were supremely loyal and ar n Utled to every consideration, includ ing the right to run their own bust Tew “It ie simply a matter of Roose | velt's ‘nquare dea exact justice for labor, exact justice for capital, and exact.justioe for the public, the third) aide of the triangle.” REMOVE CAUSE, SHE DECLARES [And Industrial Unrest Will Then Disappear Here NEW YORK, Jan, §.—The only . |remedy for industrial unrest ts to re-| move its causes, “Statutes” instead ot “strikes” to secure industrial Justice in the remedy This is the opinion of Mra. Kelley President of the National Consumers’ league, which has for yearg been working for the production of goods | |under proper working conditions for girls and wornen. “Statutes inatead of strikes as means of allaying industrial unrest and of raixtng the letel of women’s | wages has been adopted by the league among its main plainks in a |10 years’ program which we adopt 4,” said Mra, Kelley “The best sort of antiatrike Inet lation we maintain ts that which re moves the underlying causes of in dustrial disorder. Fourteen states and the District of Columbia ar busy cutting the ground from under *o for as women’s wages are concerned, by | means of minimum wage commis sions which attempt to adjust rates | of pay to living costa.” The resolution adopted at the annual meeting of the Consumers’ league is as follows: “Whereas, we recognize the permanent causes of industrial unrest, wages Insufficient to meet the cost of living; therefore, be it resolved, that we continue ar ef. forts for the establishment of mint mum wage com in the states of the t no experier among all of states having minimum wage commiasions,” said Mra, Kelley, “shows that neither has the minimum wage become the maxi mum, nor has any industry been driven from any stato because of such legislation “Minimum wage legislation te al most universal in English-speaking countries outside the Australia, Tasmania, New at Britain, British Columbia, anitoba, Saskatchewan and Quebec | all have ft,” said Mrs, Kelley The states where tt ts in force | e: Arizona, Arkansas, California, c ylorado, Kansas, Maasachunett Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oregon, Texas, Utah, Washington, Wisconsin and the District of Colum. bia. Zealand |Nominations Are Sent to Senate 6.—The |following nominations wore sent to | the senate today ‘To be ansistant attorney general: Francis P, Garvan of New York. To be States Fhinehart ¥ trict of Alas be United marshal Thomas J. Flynn of Omaha, district of Nebraska To surveyor general of zona: Frank P. ‘Trott of Arizona To be surveyor general of Mon tana; Gilman Bullard of Helena, The hump of a camel serves it as an emergency ration. If de- prived of food for several days the anirnal falls back on the fat of ts own hump, which then gradual- ly disappears before the limbs are perceptibly reduced, . ‘) from taking | United States, | Art. | WET CAMPAIGN ‘Ruling Supports Contention for Bone Dry Nation WASHINGTON, (United Pressj—t dan. today declared that 2.75 per cent beer and that other near beers cannot be sold under the war. time prohibition, | ‘The important feature of the de. lelsion {» that the court upheld the Jaection of congress In declaring in | toxicating, and preventing the nale of, All beverages containing one-half of one per cent or more of a by volume, with the exception of home. made ¢ and wine. of the court may be liquor that will stand u | tutional prohibition also, because of the definite statement that congrenn, | lin providing for the enforcement of prohibition, can preseribe just what maken a beverage intoxicating. The case decided today wan an ap. peal from the New York federal courta brought by Jacob Ruppert, a brewery corporation Bone Dry Nation Supporting in every way the con tentions of the government and congress, Just as the opinion of the court did when wartime prohibition wan declared constitutional by unant mous vote, the decree of the supreme tribunal apparently means a real bone dry nation Likewine it dispels the hope of the liquor interests for any tilting of the Md elther at present or under con stitutianal prohibition, it in belleved | there. The financial interests involved in the decision today are estimated at $100,000,000 by the liquor attor neys, including the amount of near | | beer on hand and the property con: | cerned therein, which will be render: | ed practically uselens. | Hope of the liquor interests was to convert many old-time brewertes into plants for the making of the 2.75 product | The New York federal court up held’ the Volstead law in ite defin. | ition of inte ting Uquor under) wartime prohibition in a sult brought by Ruppert. The appeal was then taken to the supreme court and the case argued by Elihu Root on November 71! The Ruppert brewery contended that congress exceeded its powers In enacting the Volstead law enforcing | war-time prohibition beeause by tte | definition of intaxicating Nauor it! | prohibited the sale of beverages which {t ts claimed are not intoxt-| | cating. The attorney sought to | prove that 2.75 per cent beer was not | intoxicating and pointed out that the | original war-time prodibitios law af. | fected only “beer, wine or other in- toxicating malt or vinous lquor.” Technicality Falls | A long argument was made by) Root to show that the word “other” | appearing In the phrase of the law/ | should be carried back to the words | | "beer" and “wine” thua prohibiting | the male only of intoxicating beer and wine. The action of the government in| | prohibiting the sale of 2.75 beer both | |before and after the Volstead jaw | +] was passed on October 28, 1919, was upheld. | | The decision of the court was & to} |4, Justices Day, Vandeventer and | McReynolds dissenting. After the reading of the minority | opinion, McReynolds announced that | Justice Clark alno desired to dissent, thus making the court vote five to| tour. Justice Prandies read the opinion Jof the court. an he did at the time| | wartime prohibition was declared | | constitutional, | Wire Briefs CHICAGO—More girl graduates of | | Chicago high schools go on the stage or become movie actresses than | become teachers, according to fix-| ures gathered by a committees of teachers seeking higher pay for in instructors. os | PAUL—R. H. Jones today named his horse “Wood Alcohol.” It's got “some kick The h took one look at a water trough and | raised a kick that sent Jones to the | ST. | hompital, | PPTROIT—Two lulls only marked | the 12 years of stormy married life of Mr. and Mra, Frank L. Lal, Mra. | Lull said he kicked her unconscious twice. | REDWOOD CITY, Cal man Logan, of San M | advertised a pet tiger kitten for tion. He got 500 phone calla it | oodles be letters. ned kitten died. |1,277, 872 People Checked at Depot Clockers checking the influx and egress of people at the King st. | depot for the last 12 months report | that 12,638 more people entered Seat tel at that point than left the city there. A total of 1,277,872 persons were counted, coming and going, an javerage of 122 every hour | JUDGE WINSOR TO BE | SCHOOL PRESIDENT} After 16 days ation aver the | holidays, eity day and night schools rec ned Monday, The schoo! board was to undergo reorganization at a meeting convened at 1 p. m. when Judge Richard Winsor, it was expect od, would be elected president It} \is his 10th year on the board, Night schools, which showed a gain at the | beginning of last semester of mor than 500 students, were forming new | classes Monday to accommodate even greater numbers of applicants, Police. The work done by the human heart In one day is enough to lift a ton welght to tho height of 82 f¥et ABLISHED 1890 anuary Sale of White For the home-maker the Janu- ary Sale of White holds many happy savings in such every-day necessities as Damask, Pattern Cloths, Napkins and Towels, well as Sheets and Pillow Cases. The excellent values and the low prices offered are of more than usual interest this year, with prices showing a tendency to swoop upward at almost any time. January Sale-of White Bedding EXTRA HEAVY: PILLOW CASES AT 35c¢ 42236 inches—hemmed and ready for use. HEAVY SEAMLESS SHEETS $2.00 EACH Bleached—free from dressing, 72790 inches January White Sale News From the Linen Section LINEN DAMASK $2.00 YARD Trish Union Damak—70 inches wide. NEN QAMASK $2.00 YARD Pure Linen—68 ins. wide, satin finish. ODD LOTS OF LINEN NAPKINS . Good patterns, $6.00 to $12.00 a dozen. LINEN PATTERN CLOTHS $6.75 Pure Linen, 70x70 ins.; eee ALL LINEN CLOTHS $9.50 Nice quality, size 72x72 inches. BLEACHED HUCK TOWELS 1214c EACH Huck Remnants—neatly hemmed. HUCK TOWELS AT 20c EACH Size 16x34 inches—$2.25 a dozen. HEMMED HUCK TOWELS 25c Size 17x34 inches—$2.75 a dozen. HEAVY SEAMLESS SHEETS AT $2.25 Bleached—size 81290 inches. ¢ BLANKETS AT INTERESTING | PRICES Cozy and warm for cold nights. FABRIC FLOOR (THIRD) January Sale of White Cotton Goods LONG CLOTH $2.00 BOLT 10 Yds. to bolt—not over 1 bolt to cach. | PAJAMA NAINSOOK 20c YD. . $2 inches wide, in neat checks. WHITE VOILES 35¢ A YARD 40 inches wide—lengths to 10 yards. 36-IN. WHITE PIQUES 50c YD. 2,000 yards—lengths to 10 yards. BIRD’S-EYE DIAPER CLOTH $2.50 BOLT Odd lots—22 and 27 ins. wide— 10-yard bolts, a WHITE ORGANDIES 50c YARD | 36 inches wide—lengths to 10 yards, MERCERIZED BATISTE 50c 40 inches wide, in good lengths. VOILE WAISTING 45¢ A YARD 36 ins. wide, striped, fine and sheer. FABRIC FLOOR-(THIRD) anuary Clearance Sale of Silks and Satins PRICES ARE REDUCED ON MANY LINES FOR THIS EVENT A Clearance Sale of 33-Inch Imported Pongee at 75c Yard Pongee is one of the most desirable of all silks—when you can get it at such an | extremely low price—for it wears exceptionally well and can be put to any number of uses, such as window drapés, underwear, children’s clothes, dresses, waists, 36-Inch Silk Poplins—Very Lustrous and Inexpensively Priced—$1.35 Yard It’s easy enough to have a silk dress with Silk Poplins selling at $1.35 a yard—but they're worth more—36 inches wide, in street and evening shades, 40- and 42-Inch Good- Looking Silk Voiles and Georgette Crepes at $1.75 Popular for both street and evening wear are these Silk Voiles and Georgettes—and they're ever so moderately priced for clearance. Nice to use alone or to combine with other materials. Black Chiffon Taffeta— A Triumph in Value-Giving at $1.95 If you want a black taffeta dress, skirt or blouse—here’s the material at an economical price—finely woven and only $1.95 a yard. Mill-Ends of Crepe de Chine in any Length—40 Inches Wide, at $2.25 Yard What's nicer for blouses, dresses and linings than Crepe de Chine? And with the price reduced to $2.25 it will be easy enough to get; 40 inches wide in street, evening shades and black. ‘ men’s pajamas. 36-Inch Charmeuse Satins— A Good Investment at $2.25 a Yard Especially beautiful and wonderful for wear is this Charmeuse Satin at 7 $2.25 a yard. Soft and lustrous— in colors that may be worn for street or evening. Black Chiffon Taffeta Silks Reduced to $2.25 a Yard Yard-wide Chiffon Taffeta, a jet — black, and especially nice at $2.25 a - yard. You'll like the quality when you see it—nice for all dress pur- poses, Yard-Wide Black Dress Satin—a Dependable Quality at $2.50 Rich and beautiful is this Dress Satin; very popular for dresses and skirts—a full yard wide, and “For ‘cially priced at $2.50 a yard clearance, Beautiful Black Suiting Taffetas at a Temptingly Low Price—$2.75 Soft, non-crushing quality of Taffeta in a weight most desirable; 36 ins. wide, and crisp and lustrous. Lovely Charmeuse Satins— 40 Inches Wide, $3.75 Yard Splendid values, these Charmeuse Satins—at $3.75 a yard. So soft and heavy, and full 40 inches wide. You'll want some for that new dress of yours. FABRIC FLOOR—(THIRD)