The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 8, 1920, Page 1

Tides in Seattle THURSDAT JAN. 8 Tite 14 ft Tide 12:58 Rom 4:02 pm. 107 5 tt Second High Tide ft ' FRIDAY « First m., 0.4 ft Righ Tide ~ 1a tt +LAKE BOATS COLLIDE IN FOG RISCO GETS DEMO CONVENTION OMAN IN MAYORALTY RACE On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Comprom The Seattle Star Botered o# Second Class Matter May 9, 1999, af the Postoffice at Seattia, Wash. under the Act of Congress March 8, 1879 FIVE ARE INJURED! CENTS Late Edition VOLUME 22. NO. 269. a AS IT SEEMS TO ME DANA SLEETH T ONCE was the plaint of women that they always did the suffering; “the woman pays” was the way town gossip had it, and even to this day the movies Would make us believe that the horrid man has all the fun in life And escapes most of the penalties But. so far as I can see, the woman hae the better chance to Bo scot free. We have had several killings in Seattle these last few months— and blew the rollicking daylights out of the fellow who was cavort- : she feels ae free to follow the dic tates of her own impulses as the man does, and if anything unpleas- ant does transpire, her partner in sin gets the load of buckshot, while she gets the alimony. Girl babies in many lands, for many centuries, have been conaid- ered excens baggage, but today the girl and the woman are ef nd, withal, she hangs on to a of her old privileges, and takes advantage of the old chivalries. eee x youths grove. Leap year ig incidental; it ie an era of sex equality, and if a wom- shouldn't she propose, waiting, like a perfect lady, or a perfect little dumb fool, anti] some slow-witted youth decides to pay his court? But these girls don’t play fair. nd say Do they come right 07 to the blushing youth: “Dearie, you look good to me; I have a three-room apartment, and a good job, and a duck of a coupe. Let's go and get married—two can live as cheaply as one”? Not much, she doesn't. She picks out some lad who gets $75 a week, marries him out of hand, and then quite her own job, or else hangs on to her job but retains her wages for her own personal adorn- ment and pleasure. A lot of you girls are figuring mefi in terms of pay checks, and in terms of how much you are go- ing to get out of marriage, not at ali In terms of what you are going to give Modern women frequently play marriage like they play poker; if they win, they want the money, and want it quick; if they lose, they think you are a horrid brute if you demand payment. cee INALLY, marriage is a partnership, and the woman will give at least as much as the man of time and effort and sac rifice. If it is a real, successful Marriage, she will give more, be cause the woman, from the dawn of time, has been the one who bore the burdens, who kept the home together, whose work was never done. Maybe it wagn't fair, but that’s the way it worked out. Maybe old day has passed; maybe home Iife has passed with it; and maybe that's what is the matter with us, But certainly the modern girl, especially the city girl, will make a big mistake if she does not dwell @ little on what she is going to bring to the bridal altar, in addi tion to her powder rag and her in silk hosiery. Our granddads and our grand Mas were not very chic biase, not very well dr y certainly did make homes and and wornanly nice taste ar stalwart sons daughters There were no high heels; the art of manicure was unknown; life was real and Mfe was earnest, (CONTINUED ON Perm TWO) ‘| OREGON AWAKENS TO MENACE OF JAP ‘| was SALEM, Ore., Jan. when the special sessi Barge E. Leonard, 0 Wilbur is acting for associates originally p “SOVIET ARK” | STRIKES SNAG: Waits ‘in English Channel| for Further Orders | LONDON, January §—The United! States transport Buford, the “soviet ark,” cafrying deported radicals from the United States to Russia, is) lying in the English channel await-) Ing orders before proceeding, accord. | ing to a wireless message picked up here last night. WASHINGTON, Jan. §—Officials| here could not understand why the “Soviet Ark” Buford should be lying in the English channel, awaiting orders, as reported in a London dis patch. Before the vessel sailed it| learned her commander was given sealed orders to proceed to a certain destination, and there unload his cargo of “reds.” } If the London report is true, it! may mean that some hitch has arisen Jand that the Buford will not be able |to land the radicals at the port orig finally decided upon, which was gen lerally understood to be Helsingfors | or Hango. More recently is was said the Buford would unload at Danzi There is no reason why the Bu-| ford should stop in the English channel, Brig. Gen. Hines, chief of the army transport service, said today. | He sald that there was no|/ lacheduled stop of the Buford before }it unloaded its cargo of 249 reds, | “somewhere in Russta.” Hines e: | pressed the belief that the Buford | was merely passing thru the Eng- lish ch@ngel. The captain of the vessel ‘has his orders as to the! destination, he said | ‘AMBASSADOR’ IS IN HIDING Ludwig Martens Not Yet Arrested by U. S. Men YORK, J Martens, Soviet is in hiding in tment of justice offic! NEW A. K Washington, | | | als here believed toda | George Lamb, superintendent of | lthe local bureau, said he was confl-| dent Martens had not returned to New York Warrant for Marten’s arrest ‘n deportation proceedings was issued in Washington Friday night, but was announced only yesterday His “embassy” here today was} a statement which Mar preparing tens hopes to make sub- committee of the senate foreign re lations committee tomorrow. LAST TROOPS OF A. E. F. | before a PARIS, Jan, 8—When Brig. Gen Connor and 110 men leave for Ant werp Friday to sail from there to the United States Sunday, the last of the A. EB. F. in France will be en route home, it was learned to- ay: <= exclusion bill will be ready for introduction islature ‘starts action next Monday. ing the American Legion, which is behind the movement, and former State Senator George Wilbur, of Hood River, are leaders in the anti-Japanese campaign. sociation of Hood River, which is waging an active campaign against Orientals holding land in the Hood River valley. islation and submit it to the people at the November election, but have been won over, it is understood, to Leonard's idea of having the legislature take immediate actio’ 8.—A Japanese land on of the Oregon leg- f Portland, represent- the Anti-Japanese as- He and his lanned to initiate leg- ROBBERS FAIL TO STEAL SAFE, Try to Tunnel Hole ia Wall of Lunch House Yeggs who made a desperate at tempt some time Wednesday night or early Thursday morning to carry away a small 150-pound safe from Mitchell's lunch, 214 James at., were either frightened and fled or volun. tarily gave up the task after tun- neling their way half thru a wall in & storeroom in the rear of the place. | On opening his doors Thursday morning, W. A. Mitchell, proprietor, | discovered the attempted robbery. The safe had been dragged from its | place near the front of the lunch| room, thru a long hallway and into| the storeroom Here the burglars had commenced | hacking into the wall in an apparent | effort to open a hole thru which | they could remove the safe into the alley. Mitchell found their aban doned tools where they had dropped them when they departed. The police were notified and! Motorcycle Patrolman W. Dench sped to the scene, but the men had evidently been gone some time Dench said he thought the work that of amateurs. There was but little money in the safe, Mitchell said. “Lone Star” Dietz Is Given 30 Days) SPOKANE, Jan. 8.—"Lone Star’ | W. H. Dietz, Indian motion picture | star and formerly coach at Wash ington state college, was sentenced to 30 days in the county jail here by Federal Judge Rudkin. It was on two Indictments charg. ing hb with falsifying his ques tionnaire when the draft ¥ in effe. The two indictments were! consolidated today after Dietz had pleaded not guilty and had told the court he had no means to fight] further and wished to give up. | Maud Powell, the Violinist, Is Dead UNIONTOWN, Pa, | Miss Maud Powell, violinist, died | here toda after an attack of acute indigestion Miss Powell was scheduled to giv a recital! here Jast night, but became ii! and| was confi to her quarters in | & local hotel, where she died stort ly before 4 noon, The last vote was u tion begins June 28. COAST CITY LANDS CONVENTION WASHINGTON, Jan. 8.—The democratic national committee WILL COME BACK SOON|| today chose San Francisco as the meeting place for the demo- cratic national convention. SEATTLE, WASH., THURSDAY, Mrs. Sanford Bertram Ricaby Mrs. Ricaby Wants to Be City’s First Woman Mayor “I want to be the first woman {that, and bigger than that, I want to r of Seattle.” | be mayor because I know I am the C. Miles Scott, recording clerk of | Only’ person in Seattle who can har- the city counell, looked up from his |Montze all the conflicting elements task in the elty comptroller’s office | that go to make up our civic life lay morning and into the eyes | There is too much working at cross purposes in Seattle among the em | ployera and employes, and it will be | my duty, if elected mayor, to smooth lout the differences between these two elements.” of Mra. Sanford Bertram Ricaby, ad ertising specialist and founder of the Jack London club. “Let me have a blank declaration candidacy,” Mrs, Ricaby request af power pili with” the re-| P. C. Merriam, proprietor of an oil quest j and gasoline station at 4615 Stone bee bw le declaration of candi- Rios ed to leave the| WY, filed his declaration o PP con be vem A began FO but Scott |4acy for the councilmanic three-year comptroller’s office, : pind ea 2% erm late Wednesday afternoon. ‘ ttl ecu tei ile | Merriam, who has been a resident of It will cost you $75 if you fi ttle for 16 years, makes the for mayor, Mrs. Ricaby,” Scott said. | Also, you must have a residence in Seattle of four years as a taxpayer e you ean qualify.” Wants to Be First hth candidate for the three-year |term. ‘Three councilmen will be elected from the list thus far filed. Miss Kittinger Is be “Thank you, Mr, Scott,” Mrs. Ricaby replied. “I will be back Improved Today 1 a arr out in due) stiss Katherine Kittinger, serfously me.” | who |!nJured Monday afternoon tn an auto- And with that, cok gg Beh mobile accident, was reported slightly aspires to be Seattle's first Wgeott|!mproved Thursday morning by mayor, bowed er fully ee or Providence hospital authorities, and left the city comptroller’s of clans now entertain hopes for sr Ove! Soon thereafter Mra. Rlcaby, who pln Se ene. liven at 1410 neca at., informed | A newspaper men of her intention to| Street Cars Clash; r make the race for mayor against | &. ne te actutcn kat anyaner| Nobody Is Injure Alki and Kinnear park street cars collided @ Riverside car considerably The accident is said to have due to heavy fog man who wants the job. She's a Harmonizer “Tam years old and will be 60 on the 26th day of next March,” Mra. Ricaby said, “IT want to be the first woman mayor of Seattle, but beyond ly Thursday morning near tation, damaging the Alki No one was hurt. been nanimous for San Francisco. The conven- JANUARY 8, 1920. ‘Old H.C. of | L. Is Called | on Carpet | Uncle Sam Calls Women of State for a-Campaign | Against High Prices | BEN MOORE PRESIDES| Old High Cost of Living was | called on the carpet in Seattle to- day by more than 49 women from all parts of the state, who assembled a¢ the Women's Uni- versity club at 1205 Fifth ave. The women represent prom inent organizations and were called into conference by the | government, to form a state-wide | seclety to operate along educa- | tlonal tines in fighting extrava- gant buying and in reducing the cost of living. Ben L. Moore, arsistant district at torney, presided at the morning ses |eion of the conference, taking the place of District Attorney R. C. | Saunders, who was incapacitated from attending the meeting by a fall on the ice Wednesday evening. At the morning sension, which was evoted to discussion of food and clothing values and economical buy- ing, the lion and the Iamb lay down together. Distributors and ultimate | consumers met and discussed means looking to the reduction of living ex- penses and methods of efficient buy- | ing. | Mra, A. Oden, head of the Rhodes |Bros.' millinery department, de lelared that people today were not leontent with simple things and that, | las a consequence, the demand for high-priced goods was greater than | the supply. | “Shortly after the termination of the war a wave of extravagant buy- ing set in,” declared Mra. Oden. "Women refused to purchase the ing, the price of goods would go/ |down. For the factories which are| now busy manufacturing luxuries | would turn to producing necessities | and the supply would catch up with the demand.” Mrs, Oden declared that women are partly responsible for the present high cost of merchandise, because they insist upon buying fancy and high-priced articles “Do I understand you to say, terjected an interested auditor, when a woman buys a hat today for $20, it Will be as good as a $20 hat she bought 10 years age | “No, I wouldn't go as far as that,” returned Mrs, Oden, with a smile. | Almost everything has advanced a | Mttle bit.” | Blames It to War | | B. C. Beck, manager of the Bon! Marche, and member of the King county fair price committee, declared that the war was responsible for the | great increase in pric 1 that women, who form nt of the buying public, be | ive in buying, He declared |that it was better for business for | jevery one to practice economy; that | business did not care for or encour: | age extravagance. They Urge Economy Thomas Kinsey, secretary of the| Retail Grocers’ association, explained | the position of the grocers thruout the state, O. C. Graves, president of Cheasty's, gave a short talk on the business of buying clothes, Both | speakers emphasized the need of | economy and conservative buying if| the price of articles was to be re-| jduced, Under-production was as signed as one of the main reasons for the present high cost of merchan. | dise | The afternoon session was to be| devoted to the organization of the | soclety which should enlist the wom: Jen of the state in a fight for con: | | servative buying and to combat prof. | |iteering of all kinds, | The conference will ¢nd ‘Thursday afternoon, | Mrs, C. P. Balabanoff of Tacoma, | president of the State Federation of | Women's clubs; Miss Agnes Craig, | ntative of the Home Econom: department of the State cob Mrs, Overton Gentry Elis, of the Woman's Liberty Loan Drive, of Tacoma; Mra, J, & McKee, of Vancouver, president of the Washington State Minute Wo men; Miss Elmina White, demonstra- tion agent of the State College Home of Tacoma; Mrs. F, K, Struve, Ameri can Red Cross; Mrs. B.C. Beck, coun. | cil of Catholic Women; Mra, C. B Bogardus and Mrs. ®, VF, Brande. barry, Mothers’ Congress; Mrs. Ar. thur Varney, of Yakima, president of the State Parent-Teacher association, and Mrs, George Dyer, of Spokane, president of the Federated Women's club. lege; chairman SCHOOL CHILD ARE ALL RESCUED) Ferry Launch ‘Runs Into Snag Youngsters Yell for Help as Ve Begins to Sink |_ The lives of 20 men, women and girls were imperiled Lake Washington at 7:35 o'clock Thursday morning when ‘the government dredge Swinomish was rammed by the \ferry launch Arrow during a heavy fog midway betweer | Kennydale and the south end of Mercer island. Five of t passengers were injured but none fatally. 2B | Had it not been for quick work on the part of the cap + |tain and crew of the Swinomish, 20 lives might have b The impact of the collision was sufficient to ecru The smaller boat was water alarmingly when the crew of the Swinomish h the sinking launch to the government tug and beached h lost. the bow of the launch. at Rainier Beach. Launch, With Human Cargo, Lists; Screams of Children Bring Aid Those who incurred injuries were Elmer Rudé, ¢ ‘of the Seattle Flour Mills; W. Plymouth Shoe Co.; Mrs. F. EB. Morgan; Weather Forecast :? old; moderate 5 ————$ $$ re Hoare, clerk at seamstress county hospital; L. Fox of Kennydale, and A. Bi Kennydale. The injured were taken aboard the Swinomigh for i aid and later taken ashore. According to passengers, confusion of signals in the heavy fog which bi Lake Washington. the collision was caused By H. J. M. Baker, assistant government engineer, stat an investigation of the collision Thursday morning. F eral officers would make no comment on the accident ui after Baker had completed his work, other than to say # Swinomish was anchored when it was struck. The launch was headed for Rainier beach with p n from Mercer island and Kennydale when the larger lower priced articles. If women to-|loomed suddenly and the launch crashed into it, day would practice conservative buy-| off the bow and injuring one woman and four men who sitting in the bow. |Injured Taken Aboard U. S. Dredge and Launch Towed to Rainier Beach The launch was headed for Rainier Beach with p Screams of school girls and passengers and the hoarse shouts of men aboard the law brought the entire crew of the Swinomish to the rescue. The |injured passengers were quickly transferred to the govern- jment tug and the Swinomish began to tow the d among the passengers. launch shoreward. The towing had proceeded for only a short time when cries from the launch, “We are sinking!” moved Captain: Damon Peterson of the launch to quickly adjust hawsers in - ch fashion that the smaller vessel was kept afloat. launch passengers were safely landed at Rainier Beach 4 the Swinomish proceeded toward Seattle with the five dn- jured persons. The Swinomish is a stern wheel “snag boat” used by the government to clear waterways, and equipped with heavy | tackle. Here’s Chap With the Right | Idea; Wants to Give ’Em All The Laugh Editor: Your suggestion that Seattle have a “laugh and live longer strikes me as being a t idea, What ts so rare as a good, long, hearty, genuine “guffaw” in these days of uncertainty. ‘There are men and women in Se- attle who have been thinking vbout the scarcity of sugar and the high cost of shoes so long that a laugh from them would slmost cause heart failure—I mean heart failure for those up- on whose ears the laugh would fall My suggestion is that you in- duce all the local theatres to supectalize on comedy programs. | Feature Douglas Fairbanks Charlie Chaplin, Fatty Arbuckle, Harold Lioyd and all the rest of the picture comedians. er For one week eliminate, as nearly as possible, all heart breaking dramas, If there are going to be tears, let's make them come from laurhing. Obli gate everybody to tell some other body a funny story or inci- dent. Banish gloom. Bury the grouch in an avalanche of fun. Make the clowns and jesters the heroes, Smile at everybody and every- thing. Smile until it hurts, Laugh until you break a ham+ string, Tell those with the long faces what my friend Kennedy, at the New Method Tire Shop, tells me when I bring in a new tire with a blowout a foot long— “It don't amount to nuthen’," Change the usual salutation te Ha! Ha! Ixstead of saying Good Morning, to the boss, say: Hal, Ha! When kissing the wife good: bye, say Ha! Ha! If you meet a friend on the street, smile your broadest and greet him with a Ha! Ha! instead of howdy, or hello. In fact, give ‘em all the merry Ha! Ha! This action may result In the loss of dignity, but will do some of us a lot of good. Laughingly giving you the merry Ha! Hi Yours ery truly, L, 0, LUKAN, Mgr. Pathe Exchange, The Star offers $25 for the best plan to celebrate “Laugh and Live Longer Week,” $10 for the best funny story, and $10 for the best limerick based on some. local toplc. Send in your ideas by the end of the week, Branch