The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 14, 1920, Page 1

The Star’s Phone MAIN 600 Get the Habit! VOLUME 22. NO, 274. AS IT SEEMS TO ME DANA SLEETH RE you an American citi zen? Can you prove it? With the tightening up of federal regulations, many erstwhile citizens are finding trouble in proving their right to the franchise, and since the time is rapidly approaching when those who are not citizens of this country will not be welcomed to its opportunities, it behooves every one to look into his private status Oné Seattle that he fought citizen writes me in the civil war, took out his papers, raised a fam voted for of- of bers, who have himself has held public a and yet today to establish his citizenship or that of his child He bas lost by fire, years ago, his papers, and tho he receives a pension from the government, even this does not establish his franchise rights. Of ce se, in such a case it would be a narrow-minded court, indeed, that would not consider the case proven beyond reasonable doubt, but many other cases are not so apparent, and much injystice may be done. When we come to look tnto tt, we will probably discover that thousands of prominent folks, even public officials and legal lights—aye, even editors and other dignitaries—are without franchise rights. Tt has been so easy, in this big, Rew country, for the immigrant to Vote, to establish himself as a citt zen, that thousands have exercised the right of franchise when they were citizens of other countries, and when they had no deep affec- tion for this country “ee HE man, no matter who he may be, who lives his life here, who votes with us, who rises by using our free opportunities, and who js too lazy, too indifferent, or too foreign in thmught. to give up all other rights of citizenship and become indeed an American— that man is not feeded here. Where the heart ts, there let the bank account be also, is a fine motto. American-minded citizens, men who have their purses and their hearts under the same national rooftree, usually agree on the big public questions. But Russian immigrants, living herded together, pinching penrifes for the day of return back “home”; Asiatic aliens, with no thought for Us except for our easy money; south of Europe clans, who flock together in great cities, and live as foreign lives as they did on the Adriatic; Huns who worship fa therland and drink to Der Tag in secret—all these folks are not with us, and in times of crisis they are & peril to us. Greedy capital, that sought cheap, obsequious labor, has been to blame for much of this alien evil But greedy capital haa probably seen its mistake; even the «ugar barons of Hawaii are today dis- covering that the Jap may be as much of a bane as a blessing. And if greedy cap’ has not awakened, the rest of the country has, and immigration is going to be a than } COURSE, we are all brothers under the skin, and we can recognize that the the Chi- new the lian, the French, the Russian—each has some particular trait and accom plishment that is worthy of emu- lation, As a nation, we many of these foreign virtues, along with a few alien vices, on- to our nat stock, but, admir- ing the pluck and craft and artis tle adeptness of the Jap on his heath, several thousand way, and joving him as a and, unscrupulous com- petitor i ur own back yard, are two qui fferent mental proc- essen So, to get a deduction or two from a scant discussion of a weighty problem, this is about the way it should work out ry American-thi adult should at the earliest convenience become a citizen in spirit and in deed And those who persist in remain ing outside the family should be invited to © on to some coun try that they will think enough of to vote ir Alien races that we cannot as be barred from just as this na tion seeks no new fields to con quer, or to bows, #0 other nations and races should content them gelves in working out their own in thelr own zones; and y the most ambitious Asiat- dmit that there is territory ortunity enough for the Oriental races in Asia, if Asia be left to them If European powers crowd into the Asiatic sphere, then naturally Orientals will crowd into the New | Think They Should | Mrs. | bed. [Mined with the deep lines of sorrow lwhare | older one, | Lived,” [in California, six years ago. She |had just finished reading his last | Janie’s husband died of typhoid two} | worry.” | how? |my other hoy was killed, but last/hang. Above is Mrs. D. A. White, his mother. | don't know how I could |like I'd adied stg there.” | LEARNING, ‘ington from Oklahoma seven years | ways idle |ramble b J ance with him, HEADLESS SKELETON ‘Td Rather Die—Why Couldn't 1?” “I Don’t Ask Them tol Turn My Boy Lose,” Mrs. White Tells Star Report- | er, “but I Don’t Put Him to Death.” BY HAL ARMSTRONG In the living room of a tiny cottage on a side street in Stanwood, a few miles north of Everett, today a mother sits with soul bowed down and sunken eyes staring blankly at the wall—Mrs. D. A. White, mother of the first murderer to be sentenced, | under our new capital pun- ishment law, to be hanged. When she speaks at all it is of him, Isom, her boy, the baby of her family, 19 years old, waiting in a cell in the} county jail at Everett for the final day he shall pay the| penalty demanded for shooting Lee] aid-bloodedly in the back. sice has lost ite Inflection. speaks in an expressionless monotone, Yesterday, for the first/ time since her son was sentenced, White was able to leave her when Yd mrather died she cried. | couldn't I adied? | White is 56. Her face ts} | “Oh, Why Mrs She has had her fill of it, her full and more ONE SON KILLED IN RAILROAD WRECK She had two sons. Norman, the “as fine a boy as ever was killed tn @ train wreck letter, full of hope and good cheer, when a telegram came saying he} was dead Her three daughters married and} brought her five grandchildren. | years died in the Eaat.| Mary's ed. Today the/ daughters and their Uttle ones sur- round her in her home at Stanwood. They and her husband, 70, are trying | to help her to regain herself. j t's all right to tell me not to| said Mra White. al I thought I would die when Isom is given a new trial. ting there beside him. It Just seemed | HE WAS “SLOW AT AOAYS MOTHER The White family came to Wash- | Originally they are from Mis The older boy and the girls! Isom, | ago sourt, were normally quick in school. his mother says, was not. | “He was so awful slow at learn- ing,” she said. “I always thought! his mind wasn't strong. He was al It seemed like he just couldn't learn. Why, that boy couldn't talk tin} after he was 5, to do a bit of good When we sent him to school his teacher fetched him home and said he'd better to quit until he learned years ago, when we lived at Vern ©, he fell off a haystack onto & wagon tire. He hit the back of his head on the tire. And ev that he’s been a-want ing to ram He never wanted to er wt ore.” THEY SHOULD NOT PUT HIM TO D H, CRIES MOTHER The Seattle Star since the deliberations began, On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise ys ei ight and moderate Entered a# Second Clase Mattor May 3, 1899, at the Postoffice at Seattle, Wash., under the Act of Conm March 4, 1879 SEATTLE, WASH., _WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 14, 1920. Weather Foreca: Sobs Mother of Boy Condemned to Hang {rate of joc Morton, 15-Year-Old Boy, on Trial for Life, Will Be in Hands of Everett Jury To- night---Mother and Son Break Down. EVERETT, _ Jan. 14— (Special.) — Fifteen-year-old Joseph Darwin ’'s fate rested in the h of a jury of 10 men and #Wo women in Judge Ralph C. Bell’s court here late today. arn —_ find him guilty of first degree murder for ; the killing of Lee Linton, No-| A-headless skeleton, found at Seattle Heights, vember 19, or they must find|north of the King county line, within 200 yards of th him not guilty at all. |spot where another mysterious s skeleton, never iden Thepe were the instructions Judee| fied, was discovered November 23, 1919, has set S factoring rn lige Stringer and his deputies on the trail of what e this morning. 4, The.box's extreme youth. must not| believe to be a mysterious murder case. Soden added tata not tunei| ‘Phe skeleton was discovered by Oscar Strid, wi the Judge added. He is not entitied to acquitat on the grounds of mental driller, of Edmonds. Stumbling thru the woods romponaibility or temporary inean’| day, he nearly stepped on the bones before he ity, nor on the showing made that he was under dureas, that he feared| What they were. Nearly buried by undergrowth a lege bp exes aca seni cbr nto be SOil, the skeleton had evidently been there for at le is his previous good reputation to be taken into account asa reason tor|six months, aoqyittal. “I was frightened when I saw the thing,” Strid Opening his argument for the state. Deputy Sheriff Stewart Campbell, “and fled. I thenom solved to notify authorities here. After coming to Se Prosecutor Thoma Stiger recalled to| the jary that the defense showed the T loat-my nerve, but I finally |————_—_— determined to tell all I knew U $ SENDING sUs jad had gone to church and Sunday | school, that he had Giscarfed the Strid was visibly agitated, Camp- | bell mays, He wae permitted to re- | Extends Sympathy. for ping Red Armies habit stx months ago, along with the teachings of hig father and mother. and turned to a life af crime that led turn to his home. to robbery and at last to murder. Early Wednesday morning, Camp- her at this bell and Sheriff John Stringer went skeleton —_— office. “We WASHINGTON, Jan. Pr evst searched for the ull but could!to the Japanese government, not, find ft. Hat and shoes were!stood to announce that all Ui broke downto tho locality where the was found to search for clues, that might link up the two skeletons in }minsing, and all labels that might | States troopa will be withdrawn # show where the dark textured sult|from Siberia, but that the 63 him to go away from home and who|had been purchased were evidently | of the United States will be gave him cigarets by the pack. It/ripped out. There was nothing in|to Japan in stopping any was not until the time came when he | the pockets.” of the Bolshevik armies Was to shoot Linton, that the young-| The first skeletan, discovered by | was expected to be made public @ er boy came to his senses.” Fred A. Hill, 5728 First ave. N. E.,/the state department today. By The jury, if they find Morton| while tramping thra the woods a en, erutity, must also fix the penalty. | November. 21, was never identified. |2Q, 000, 000 Raised to F; ight Movie T: ATLANTIC CITY, Jan. 1 ad his return to his “He wan the tool of the older boy, | White,” Keller said of the young 4e- fendant. “Me was under’ White's power, It was White who Induced my Parents and sisters of Thom White, the boy murderer, condemned to parle Below are Mra. Whit*) week was the hardest IT ever put in.| and her husband, father of the boy, and (left) the youngest sister, Mrs. | ond ‘meeting bere today, yoeeaial stand it {f| Nora Kirkland, and (right) Mary White. Another sister, Mrs, Janie Staton, creaie, thes organise I couldn't | | Was not present when the picture was taken at the home of the White stock from $6,400,000 to $20, stand it another week like that, a-sit-| family at Stanwood. Mrs. Staton lives at Cedar Home, some miles distant. The fund, it was said, will be jas a “war chest” to fight four motion picture corporations, to be backed by Wall st. inter and to plan a monopoly of the picture business. The new tion will control productions ie ing Charles and Mrs. Chaplin, Talmadge girls, Anita Charles Ray, Catherine Mi and King Vidor. Army Service F; Slayers of Yar 6 SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Jan, == Charges that Mexicans sentenced death for outrages against Amerie cans in Mexico were freed upon em listment in the Carranza army were made today before the Fall commit- tee in its investigations here into conditions in Mexico. George EB. Blalock, first witness, told of the killing of five members of the “Chamal colony," of which he the organizer, Scores Shot Down in Berlin Rio’ ‘My Boy Ought to Pay Penalty, But They Should Not t Hang Him’ This is the comment of D. A. White, 70-year-old father of Isom White, the lad condemned to die for the murder of Lee Linton: “The boy ought to pay some penalty. We expect him to pay it. What they give us we will take. But it looks to me that nobody in their right mind could kill a man like he did. I don’t think they should hang our boy. He was not like other children after he was big enough to notice anything. It looks like they would have some place to put people with minds like his, + where they could be treated and, perhaps, cured up.” Mrs. White: “I’m not asking them to turn my, boy loose. If he’s that weak, they shouldn’t. But I don’t think they ought to put him to death. He never was Mis. White stared 1 d silent : ry : cma. bright. He was awful slow at learning.” BERLIN, Jan. 13.—A state “'y don’t ask them to turn my boy a vr dng aa thre loome. If he's @that weak they tion Lge baie, ie excep. | shouldn't. Trouble, trouble, nothing | rtemburg, Saxony and _ but trouble. But this is the hardest ——— peat pl Oi result of P It has left the home #0 black . wren Sed. No, Gey ouguta't to turn hits U. S. Steel Offers )|Good-bye Oil Stock! | | ‘The proctamation was mgs Burglars Take It! Stores nave teen tiled in tet loose. I don’t ask that But I don't J think they should put him to death.” BY NEW wry BY U. S. BOARD, Stock to Employes sa jurg! . p.sgoree have been Killed tn rate mre, yore. Birkiand, (he oon NEW YORK, Jan, 14.—Judge El ar amment Me First ave.| cman wounted, —— mned boy's youngest and favorite lr ‘ waited tal lost $400 in motion picture stock, pit sister, is hopeful that her brother bert H. Gary of the United States nine Gi tianapiontation abd “eat d Hu he t f ‘ will ese ne death pe aity A w |Groundless Rumors of Ver- Packing Firm Charged With | Stee! corporation has decided to of- “leadies es Gpscaeh bee: te ola adie whee ste ghes > ee ‘end trial, or the granting of an appeal . ifer employes of the corporation 60, i i So she feels confident, will result ait.) Gict Fly Thru Court Room Unfair Competition 1000 shares of United States Steel Diplomatic Communication sage try Ree renee meen NEW eS lferently and more favorably day night. ¥ , Jan, 14.—Folle Tote anteater wowltn't: 4k OME Uemath a. A aber sae : common stock at 106, it was an Will Be Resumed caine an all-night sesston of the Ney i Oy ether, eavyway.” she said,| 208 ANGELES, Jan. 14—Up to) W ASHINGTON, Jan. 14.—(t sec RRR edie are! nll RE Siig. 8 Bar association, Charles 5. ang my brother, anyway,” #he sai¢ Rha crenis ren i . ced ‘4 ¥ . Mis, Kirkland is herself the mother |11 ®. m. today the fate of Harry 8 PS age Foy ie a al beng tt yg vy ; sats at hahaa PARIS, Jan, 14—W. Loren Dresel, Where, O Where Is _ {ana tour other members were 3 Range ; sion today announcec had cited , to Teprenent, that ocpanleationgal of a boy, a manly little chap of 8 New, accused of the murder of ri agg Srey og! es A | American commissioner to Germany, * . © her husband died, Mrs, Kirk-| Frieda Lenser, still wax undecided, ern, on c batden of boreiy Conipition 6c will leave for Berlin tonight, When the Little Dime Gone? P ais a; tr Ee me bivn- land has been compelled by circum - hed ‘Saun' Qimtidedabenn teen ce X ; pended socialist assemblymen. ccekg 4h glen her'own tiving, Gh altho the jury had been deliberating |and of acquiring competing firms, nt au an he arrives in Berlin diplomatic com In addition to Hughes, the siesta! : since 4 p. m. yesterday violation of the Clayton anti-trust munication will be’ resumed” with jcommittee will include Morgan (Turn to Page Two) | Rumors were constantly being oir-| MW: ; Pa ° 991! Germany, simultaneously with Eng O'Brien, Joseph M. Proskauer, — —TJouiated that m verdict. had been|. f2¢ Company was given 40 days ive Longer lind, Frahoe and Italy. Marshall and Ogden L. Mills, aaa ea, but they proved groundless {to Aaswer the citation, after which| ‘Allon Dales , will: dastenanie “tee — Bete World, into India, into the South |Teached, but they p an he Cake will bevest ftir: istet | jen \Be Ww nd the pleasant spaces ev: Early this morning a crowd, which je |] Announcement of the winners || set tter eather on ; prsecdnrs" included Miss Edna Clancy, New's . |] of the “Laugh and Live Longer” dicot: ere: sy international court |half sister, was on hand awaiting «| Gasoline Burglars |] contest will be found on page 2 St ls 3S it d Way, Says Observer fixes the back yards of the world, |Verdict. As each rumor passed thru rer’ |] today. There were many splendid eals Suit an In the face of a drizzling rain ‘nd makes every nation, big or |the court and corridors, the crowd| Visit Fox Garage| plins suggested; some were fan- a Pressi in Iron Wednesday morning, Weather Ob«_ small, play behind its own fence, |Wotld gather in expectation, only to) Thieves who broke Into the face | tastic, some were not feasible to 4 server George N, Salisbury unlime | See ey eet Coun’ wilt be. | be Geamppelntaa | cory and-garnge .ot-.J carry out, If the contest did noth- |] A thoughtful thief stole a sult of| NEW YORK, Jan, 14.—Dimeg are] bered the prognostication that the Nia | Many rumors as to how the jury|Co, 446 Fifth ave ing more than to turn people's ||clothes from K. Takel, Welcome/as scarce on Broadway today as|climate would be all to the bougat \J Love everybody—that's all right; | stood were passed yund, but all| Wednesday morning, escaped with | minds, to some extent, to the || hotel, Tuesday night, pennies used to be in Seattle. Very| Wednesday evening and also on but you can love your neighbor |seemed without any basis. No w rd/10 gallons of gasoline value of laughing, we consider it He was thoughtful in that he also | little sells for less than 25 cents,| Thursday. And that means nte without sharing your bank bal- had been sent from t The garage was entered by fore-|} has served a worth-while purpose, || stole an electric iron with which to/and. New York is learning to say] balmy ozone without a moist obli- jury aia ing a lock. press the suit, “two bite” gato, the weather man saya,