The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 7, 1920, Page 1

$25! WEDNESDAY JAN, 7 +135 tt iret Low Tide 12:04 DR om, oT pm. VOLU ME 22. NO. 260. '/AS IT SEEMS || To ME DANA SL | DANA SLESTH Ta HE mass mind works Ina mysterious way its fool ishness to perform, F ya Individually we are sensible, for the most part; in the mob we are cruel, hasty, reckless and illogical Probably we revert back to our Jungle days, and the law of the Pack and the ethics of the fang rule us. That's probably why almost any one of us can refrain from hating his neighbor, but no nation can keep from either hating or despis- ing some other nation And while no mother would ever Pass a crying, lost child on the street without seeking to give com. fort, still ten thousand mothers fae will hunt bargains in finery, bar gains that come because sweat Shops and Southern mills capttal- iaize the agony of mothers and the pes of children. eee Just now is somewhat in- clined to think municipal ownership is a failure because a ear ran off the track. No autoist would biame his fiv- ‘ver because somebody else ran his Mivver over a bank, but the Public mind is not so enlightened. x, { ECAUSE in the mass we are frequently erratic and senseless, the town And yet, considering the num- Ber of dangerous runs in Seattle, ‘we are unusually blessed in our searcity of serious accidents. We have better service for a Nickel than the rest of the country has for 7 or 8, or even 10 cents. And we are paying good wages to the men who operate the cars. We are not building dividends by browbeating car men out of just Wages, and we are not holding up the public for an exorbitant fare; and we are getting average good nervice But we forget all thie when a 7 car runs off the track. : And thereby open a nice little a alley door for the haters of pub- Ne ownership to sneak in There are a number of things Seattle need not brag about, but the management of its car lines is Not one of these things, ee SAW a funny and an awful thing yesterday Funny because it was such a contrast to the heroiam it was supposed to reward; awful because it shows how akin to the barbaric and the Hun-minded we still are. The thing I saw was a cut of the hero medal the government will give the millions who were enlisted for war service. This medal, the great token of a great sacrif a great memento to our heroic living, and our tyred dead; this symbol of victo of a great people—what was it like? #0 much as am tant Sea ing from cheap gin battle to the camp wit w sand in her salt shaker. James Farl Frazer, professional designer of tokens and coing and statues for public purposes, in the perpet of the medal T of the cook lady is after — many leagues after—a Gree tatue that was dug up ay somewher: The 14 is Mr. Frazer's own ‘The total is ag much worse than ce the buffalo nickel—another of this x gentleman's pleasing performances as that nickel worse than thousands o' made mon ey something rather than something gotten rid of. Aa a victory medal to give he Toes, this token is my idea of noth ing 1 see cD, it would be well gould understand mst art of sculpture and nations per make them- persisting in nd statues gleam of ar n the gloom eeives ridiculous by making medallions and friezes without ing all this sad world than an artless statue If you want to mean, take what I a loo! that awful, of a thing in Times ty y. I did not know of the gentleman whom it is ly he des r than wh Unless he wan a defiant wrecker of homes hearths, he certainly did not de serve this lasting mockery that Second Miah Tide 1a th Tides in Seattle | THURSDAY | JAN, 6 n JURY OUT | ONLY 20 "MINUTES ARE DEAD Pa | sympathize With Slayer of Alleged Home Wrecker Charles E. Roselius, former po liceman, who shot and killed his superior officer, Sergeant 1. Carleton, on Novembe cause, he sald, the latter was breaking up his home, was found not guilty of murder by a jury of five women and seven men in | dudge Mitchell Giitiam’s court, Just before noon Wednesday. ¥ retired at 1 Ro» 4d announced a \ ached on thelr f jury return dict had been Jermie Roselius, listened to the ore tory of counsel this morning from the first row of xpectators’ seats “Roselius killed a man.” declared Prosecutor Fred Brown, pounding home hie final argument. “He should be convicted for the protec tion of society and as @ warning to other men. Carleton, the laughing Irishman, was a good fellow as good | fellows go.” Hugs Her Daddy Fouryearold Viola, hearing the words, put a pudgy arm about her} foster father’s neck. He seemed not to notice her. His attention was fixed upon the prosecutor. The child nestled back into Mra. Rosellus* jarms, propping her doll up beside the accused man gnd his wife. |} John F. Dore, one of 4 CONTINUED ON PAG REGISTRATION IS TOO SLOW | Must Speed Up to Qualify Normal City Vote Register!! —-Regis- ler Harry W 4 muttering » surveyed figures The feverish w at Se in gen mn of it which ts old, male and f than half th registered Carroll attle’s 100,0 ers want to have next municipal election, but dur ing the late afternoon f¢ |rush has died away to ne | according to Comptrol ne registration books tea: every evening from jock until January except |for three days, January 16 and }17, when the books will be sent to |the precincts for registration of | voter | Deputy Coroners s W. H. Corson and Deputy © Frank Koe » a personal in vestigation Wednesday of the car fety stop signals and the 39th ave. and Woodland where more than 50 per |sona were injured, one man fatally, | Monday morning. Coroner C. fin will decide, after receiving t report, whether or not te quest to determine res ibility for the accident |nas risen to make his name a | snicker Abroad there are w artiste nd in a few in y never get our public ueg or most of our memorials. 1¢ awfulest thing in this coun try is the Congressional Hall of Fame Jead one, not the one y the Congressional I mean the represented Record ‘The latter ig the next awfulest rn The verdict was read at 139) rusaday, Hospital attaches’ endeav: | While their 4 aad prot Mg find out’ her address were} jdaughtor, Viola, rat on her She died in the Everett hosiptal at shove ‘its epee and go te alcep the de,{tured skull, and both of her lege} fendant policeman and his wife, Mra. | "| BATTLEH. GL the State Representatives Meet Inspecting Track * { For the best plan on how to celebrate a “Laugh and Live Longer Week” in Seattle, The Star offers * $25. For the best funny yarn, about some local event or person, The Star offers $10. For the best | limerick, based on a local topic, another $10 is offered. Send in your contributions this week. On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise SEATTLE, WASH., ‘AUTO HITS | POLE; TWO Man and Woman Die of In- juries in Wreck One man and gne woman are dead and two others seriously injured as the result of an auto mobile accident Tuesday night, when a Seattle motor car, Ever. ett-bound, crashed into a tele. phone pole near Silver Lake The dead are: Lucille Corbett, 19, of Seattle. D. C. Parsons, 25, a printer, who lived at the Hillcrest hotel, 404 Spring st Nothing had been learned of the ‘orbett girl's relatives up to noon were fractured | William B. Swenson, 2600 Third} ave. printer, had one leg broken tn two places, while his wife, Mre. Hel) on B. Swenson, also suffered a brok: | en leg. According to the atory told the} Sverett police, the machine wae headed bomish,, waa tray elfing Rit Ring nist olb oR Par sons, in endeavoring to take a a (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) COOK KNOCKED UNCONSCIOUS f Is Hit Over Head During a Kitchen Battle Antone Mottet, 40, a Swiss cook at the Washington Annex, is in the city with a deep |. while George sistant, is in the ith fighting Carvalas, city jail, char grabbed slag told the pol cooking bow! and hurled it nt, striking him in the in turn, d declares the attack was asistant F. Baerman knocked uncon He naid he could @ about the place und tying on a m » he seized a at his as head de ‘WOMEN WILL Here Thursday © means to combat the in creasin mt of living and to organ ize the w, n of the state in a cam paign looking to the betterment of food and ¢ “ conditions, more than 40 representatives of the moat prominent clubs in the state will meet at the Woman's University Jub, 1205 Fifth ave, Thursday morning at 10 o'¢ The morning session r to talke b claliata, will b In the which will be food and cloth held f | until 12 a, m afternoon the WASHINGTON, Jan. 7 At the Postoffice at Seattle, Wash., WEDNESDAY, JANU ARY 7, Will one of these be Seattle’s mayor some day? Or congressman? They are—the most of them—American-born children of Japanese—and there- nied he had a| fore American citizens who will be entitled to vote when they reach THREE YANKEES IN MEXICO MURDERED work of organization will be under-| the state department was advised today by the American taken by District the women representatives R. C. Saunders will preside at the morning session Attorney Motor Car Sinsvaee |consul at Tampico. “The consul has been directed by ‘telegraph, ” the state department announced, \if warranted by the circumstances, to urge the legal authori- “to report further information, and, Brings Cop Squad lties in the Tampico district to arrest and punish the guilty “Somebody is shooting somebody out. here! call wan morning at from a frigh win and Ser and Patrolman ¥. low responded. | Upon arriving at the scene of tie persons.” The state department so far has not received a complete received | report on the det ey ployes of the International Petroleum Co., at Port Lobos. v The killings reported yesterday, and that of Porter, re- ve.| ported today, may bring a new strain on Mexican relations, ‘oll | if it is shown that Carranza soldiers are responsible, it was Pie. | believed here. | The state de not been advised who murdered th ls of the murder of two American em- urgent representations to the Mexi- artment, so far, has | can government for the punishment | supposed shooting they discovered| Americans, P. J. Rolle and Barle | of the murderers. |an irritated automobilist backfir Fowles, but the American consul at| According to the state depart- |his motor in hopes that he could| ‘Tampico hag been instructed to make |ment's advices, the Americans were | get it started ja The disgusted officers left without | lobtaining his mame, The louy also has been directed to make | tine of thelr murtar ort of th details of the crime. | believed to have had pay funds of American embassy at Mexico|the company in their possession at Act of Congress March 8, 1879 —Gabriele Porter, an American} citizen in the employ of the Penn Mex Co., was shot and ™m 10 \illed by a Mexican army officer at Tuxpam, December 21, The Seattle Star 1 920. =| JAPANESE INVADE U. S. CODFISH INDUSTR It’s comparatively recently that the Japanese have entered into the - codfish trade. threatening to wipe Americans out of business on the Pacific coat. cortes Fisheries company now, altho its president, J. E. Chilberg, claims they own no stock in it but have merely contracted for the delivery and handling of the fish. For further details read the article on page 8, reprinted, in part, from the Pacific Fisherman for December. the p proper a ¢ tributed by S. Aiko, local Japanese photographer. Evidently Aiko fi igt that a group picture of the Japanese babies he has photographed mak a splendid advertisement. CENTS Late Edition Mai! 9.00 Per Year, b; 95.00 to night and Thursday, fair: 4 cold; gentle northerly We: ather F orecast:: a This picture is iba from a calendar that is But already they are They practically control the Ana- 'PLAN HOCKEY FOR PERSHING Change Date for Reception| | of Commander . John J. Pershing will be t of Seattle on Tuesday, on Wednesday, id of on Janu- 19 and 21, as originally planned. ‘This was the tentative program adopted by the Pershing execu- tive committee appointed by Mayor Fitzgerald at a meeting held Wednesday morning after Major Hood, representative of Brig. Gen, Morrison of Camp a telegram from Gen, dicating that the gen- rather inspect Camp Lewis and the Sound forts on M y, danuary 19, thus leav- ‘uesday Wednesday, entertainmen if the tentative Seattle, program as re- by Chairman J, W. Spangler Wednesday morning is followed by Pershing at his party, the entertainment will be as follows: Tuesday, January 20 11:30 a, m.—Reception at train (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) > ported to the executive committee | si U.S. JUDGE OPENS DOOR 10 JAPANESE SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 7.—Fear that the . ruling’ Federal Judge Rudkin in refusing to order the deport of Hitoshi Watanbe, Japanese sailor, has opened a loo to Japanese labor to gain admittance into this co was today expressed by Assistant United States Attoi Benjamin F. Geis. Geis announced he will appeal from Judge Rudkin’s 4 cision, which allows Watanbe to remain in this country long as he is able to support himself. Watanbe came to this country on a Japanese vessel, from which he desert Watanbe has resided in the United States since } had entered the country unlawfully. Judge Rudkin ordered Watanbe released immediately. Geis contended Watanbe did not intend to remain a s and merely used that subterfuge td obtain entry to country, rm