The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 2, 1920, Page 1

Mayor Fitzgerald is confined to his bed in his home at N. W. with ‘$2nd ave. monia, it we as reported at the city hall Monday, influenza, borderimg on pne The Star’s Phone MAIN 600 Get the Habit! . 290. am I the only Se zn, who is nota bed-ridden par alytic, who observes He the laws, statu ordi Pi meee health pints and public D reguiations, but am t nly ) witer—esitors OT only ate strick feature, spec in the world ‘Sie bes not in the last nine mths even mentioned the league pe the peace treaty, who wil be our next president, the hen tost of shoes, or od wise to be leserve nm for my in these repression re While I will not be expecial when I approach St. Pe- proffer my visiting card, will be With some slight feel- Worthiness that I uy, plac- ‘Qn astral band on a swelling chest: “Howdy, Pete? Say, fe Bleeth, of Seattle and way You don't know me, but ie fellow who went without saying « about the league of nations.” ind I bet that Peter will let mo is, he may not let me in, turn his august and shin- and leave a crack in the im to can sneak thru. mbt if my Seattle fire line really get me by the eter- cops, but I think Peter merit when he sees iad probably TU be the only Person who will have that i gem shining in my be don't blow my harp—or do you (ee & harp?—often, but after Of stern repression in this thing, I thought I could 4 one small bit of exul FEW @ays ago I saw the signature of George Washington the top of the list on the origi Ral constitution of our 71 saw the original Dee- Of Independence drawn tts steel vault by Secretary » 1 saw Secretary Lane writ ‘ah earnest and touching appeal Tenewal in us of the spirit of T mw O'd Glory waving in the Winds, while the great or. played “My Country, ‘Tis of and I mw a Sis Hopkins critter fall down w' hot suds. th a bucket firet guess hint to gentlemen who so | Having seen ati this within the of 4 few minutes, along with [ hundred other movie fans, pt heard a iong-delayed. but finally burst of hand clapping : What picture in the Dae ke got this honest token of You got it t Omthe Sis Hopkins 1 Which may prov a © zalous y urge, and beseech, and Us to Stir anew the fires of mm, and let o bussums With the beating drums pro Enough is a sufficiency; Ben ted Americanism } military na and income taxes until Gave a lot of Charlie Chaplin we have national if fe : brother ‘in come dow earth; let forget They’ Pitts they're 00d Bet any fussing or « For at heart we are Ste just @ bit tired of this Patriotic circus, with ite Agents, ite wcientif its forcea enthu ‘al flag wavir for Bis Hopkins Washingtor Mt be on n pai organtz asm, and it nd tet in pence We orld!” R o M oday A WESTERN NOVEL | Organized Efforts Made to! Enrage People Against Southern Republic BY CHESTER M. WRIGHT NEW YORK, Feb. 2-—Ie there a propaganda in America for interven Uon in Mexico? What kind of propaganda ts it? Who pays the bille? These every Amert The task was assigned to me of going to the root of thiv propaganda question, finding the answer and writing the facts For a month I have done nothing | but hunt propaganda and propagan dists, I have never become entan- gied In anything More tortuous, more subtle, more ainister—except the} |German propaganda in the late! world war. | VAST AND EXPENSIVE | INTERVENTION PROPAGANDA | oThese are-the important taste de veloped: | 1—-There IS an intervention propa: | ganda, vast and expensive, working from the four corners of the coun- try. 2—The billie are paid mostly vy| | Americans who own property in | Mexico—and the bilis are big. | Intervention propaganda, for) the most part, works by indirection. | | Those who want intervention don't| |My #0; what they say is that Amerti-| can lives must be protected, and that the Carranza government ia hope are questions important to The mayor's campaign for re-election was cut short Sun-| diagnosed the case as bronchitis at that time. u-|day morning, when his family physician, Dr. BE, W. MeC {ordered the executive to bed for three days. On the I Entered os Coed’s $ Nym jess. They overlook mo chance to}, sow hatred in America for the Car-| ranza government 4—Bolsheviam is the latest bogey. | “This Bolshevism thing is the most serious feature of the Mexican men ace today,” I was solemnly assured by_a Washington representative of the propaganda 5—Olj stands at the head and front of all propaganda work / | SEEK TO GET AMERICANS MAD AT MEXICO In addition to the organized and entralized prop ganda, numerous oi! mpanies maintain their own agen cies here. } The chief aim of the organized propaganda for intervention in Mex- ico a to get the American people #0 | mad at Mexico that everybody will want intervention—to cause anger to | unseat reason } The ott i their work “Look how bad the murder and property being confiseated; look how Americans are suffering. unpro-| tected; look how bad Carranza | That's what the propagand And they ask Ien't the American government going to give, protection to its citizens in Mexico? For one solid year, under the mo: skillful direction, “publicity” been going out of Washington New York, calculated to get the American people boiling mad—mad to the point of intervention—and the end is not EXAGGERATE EVERY BRAWL INTO “ATROCITY” An deseribed by the man whose genius directa the work, the plan is to bring to ght everything in Mex ico that is unfavor jexieo, to get hold of every every brawl, every murder, bandit instance der of terests put brains into! Mexico is; look at order; look how | and hie to 3 ey hase, every of diw kind. Uncon the department of state pl the intervention propaganda, You read in your paper a story ginning like thie The state department formed today * *” following which there is related the account of some fresh “atrocity” in Mexico. ‘True enough, the state department nformed-—by the oll propagan That's how the state department de to appear to play a support: | : part in the whole mesh of inter. ention propaganda THREE MAIN SOURCES OF MEXICAN PROPAGANDA j There are today three main| sources of propaganda having to do | with American policy toward Mexico, | and these are | 1—The National Association for the Protection of American Rights in Mexico. | 2—Varions oil companies and oil | producers’ associtaions, such as the Association of Amerigan Oil (Turn to Page Two) an United States ys ® big role jously. be was in Margaret Coffin, v. Groundhog Hoax - theory Weather bu Ridiculou: f the o superntitio foreca of silly groundhog ness me?” Weat Groundhog Monday morning shadow, Jt wasn't there an early sprit From time Groundhog has appeared nually before Obser bury on Candle ond of and weather it shadow continue te ive about came out immemor even time February predic his 1 the What can out bury Br'er of W. seriou sclence nd looked for hi Again Exposed! It will be er or Salis made |Sam’s Specialist the on “Mexican Jazz” Afro-Americ detect stolen ¢ Jones, school Sam spondence wearing his twice Monday “found Mexi a Jap. Mexican to Mr. ened out the case stands Mexican jazz.” thi who éaid he bo said & I m’ cont an ive, oat time ght it from} corre was | took raight because u in Mr Jer: | Mins a | be Julty | | Pandora | man; Dr. McClain in,| mayor was said to be “holding hi The mayor's illness was cont Monday, the own acted probably, it is said, while hurrying between campaign meeting place: speaking date night. During his illness his friends, MATOR ORDERED 10 BED; FLU turday will be filled by sue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise at the Postott , WASH., MONDAY, FEBRUARY co-ed, whose version of “The © at Beattie, Wash, wo ot ¢ Paradise o scan in open air on the campus this spring. f Children’ will be linterpret Greek Mythology | “Doug” Fairbanks’ With Nimble Feet Spring Mias Ma t the University ret Coffin, pre co-ed Wa pr of it by { Hawthorne of Ch feature the the hingtor an ome ducing s dramatic for story " " TT The nual May Beautiful Venu thou: mire. The w luction, from tinkest ting of the play ts and teacher Miss Coffin is of Liberal chosen as the | of offerin members Hawthorne Children and box jren will ar fete on co-ed) be the of people of the campus rms will and. l« will of the senior Her among @ num student and f best s of based “The FP on the Greek t Epimetheus and mysteriou which contained the dreaded ev that Pandora ped curiosity let loose aradine le of the of on this old More in the pi parts will Miss Gross of th | partment in charge. The central | committee in charge of the fete sists of Miss Vivian Clement Mins Mary 1 Fisken, ret Johnstone, Mi Mi Irma Be Helen Dunn, Miss Catherine Miss Artie Hart, Miss Weythman, Miss Herndon Mildred Jackson and Catherine Foley, ls will tak Tryouts for under way, with gymnasium de th geant part noing soon be con chair Miss Mary Mir Miller Ruth mith, Miss Marg Harris, 4 banks, fire thousand Home Fire-Swept : Keb The 2 we of Douglas ie actor, Was dam “Heh by today to the extent of sev dollars, It has not be fire started ANGELES Hills home ‘air rmined how the QUENTIN DAILY eman in MRS, M. A. SPRAGL I've neve MES. 1017 you A. at ever and I saw one MRS, A, B, WIL | ave the too, QUIDNUNC HE ASKS A QUES TION OF FIVE PERSONS PICKED AT RANDOM THE QUESTION »w long since you've our bloek? ANSWER 564 Lee at but I've lived her a long time r seen one CLARENCE W, PORTER, | Armour et ih, it's na time, IT can't tell you how live Queen Anne hill, Ww long We know WENSON, 1712 PF. y golly, I don’t -believ ve I've been here a year and don’t recall having ale wen one. a halt STEEVES, 4515 Greenwood Well, I've lived here 10 years. onee AA 21 17th Oh, he ie ing by here all time, He goes by the hospital, He lives right next door bere, to by McBride seen a po-| The Seattle Star 2 neres® March 3, 1920, phs to Cavort on n Campus WINS POINT Leap and Dance to Welcome Spring FOR “() WOMAN” } Mrs. Spiker Gains Tempo- | rary Admittance for Miss | Knowles and Baby } NEW YORK, Feb, 2 | Spiker has won the her etrange battle other woman in the Miss Emily Knowles, the girl, “whose friendship ri something more thar with Perley Spiker, while the } was in ation camp in land, will allowed into the United States three months. Together with her 2-month-old! baby, Spiker’s child, she will make her home for the present with Wil-| |iam and Kate Butterfly, of Fat!! | River, Mass. | FIGHTS TO MAKE ‘ADMISSION PERMANENT Mra coag who > aud: t the travel: {iapiand ay who y tad a ee ladopt the baby and give a home to | the girl, will fight to make her admis sion into the United States perma | nent Mrs, Spiker and her law, Guy Spiker, who |marry Miss Knowles, tho he had never seen her, arrived in New York today to put the $1,000 bonds required for her temporary entrance. Mins Knowles is being held at El} lis Island. She has recovered from | a heavy cold whieh had threatened! jto develop into pneumonia | |NO REASON TO BRING DISGRACE UPON GIRL While in Baltimore, Mre further explaining her attitude. id | “I believe in justice, and my ac } tion bears out my view of it. There ls no reason why I should permit a [petty narrowness of mind to bring disgrace upon a girl whose fife | might otherwise be happy j { “The wrong has been done. The | wrongdoers were largely the victims jot destiny They sin i under ex tenuating circumetanc “My refusal to forgive would not relieve the situation On the j trary it would bring element of tragedy into the care. “We are taught jteaching t# not merely book reading. We m | practice {HELPING ND | FOLLOWS FORG “I have forgiv Having forgiven, I ¢ the forgiveness by lend hand Sy Mre. Per first round in behalf of the in English ed friendsh p an 1 be on brother-in- | offered to Spiker an forgive. This} meant for st put it Into VENESS that on'y 5 a and is Dw helping true for girl has my road to hap know she will her happiness will must go with that poe There is a and I And in happy, and pathy give sympathy | pipess for find now shall be d WOMAN LAWYER : OBJECTS TO PRECEDENT CHICAGO, Feb, 2 high admiration s stand in the Knowles, Mi cago woman her 80 my husba While ex for Mrs of Miss Florence King attorney to girl i State Emily promir tod ting ent ecedent” If th United uld be establishing ¢ ecedent declar strike of the Ameri und other husbands, Spiker ‘got away with encouraged to do the “new 5 we most dangerous pr | Miss King the very can family, | seeing. that |1t' would by ame thing.” | \Plan Air Race From | | New York to Nome | NEW YORK, Feb. 2.—Tentative plans have n made for a trar continental air from New York to Nome, 4,870 miles, 196 “Flu” Cases | Reported Monday| influenza he foundations Alaska | were department This in developed Sun daily report, | cording to officials, is ning about which are tically all diagnosed as “m six to the forenoon. which Ninety cases | reported th | Monday cluded cases day, The number AVOrARe health 75 cas xc run-| prac \dent, \trowns | Hesketh said, Weather Forecast: /,’." What do you think of the Spiker-Knowles Spiker right in her endeavor, “other woman as Miss Florence King, f declares? The following is a letter Star: * Dear Migs Grey Passeth Une ng ead I read the war romanc ir Knowles, English Perley Spiker, American aviator we of Saturday indeed der this of Mine girl, and in retand your is Such truths as the stran than fiction But there ts a strong moral issu involved that should forbid us to jet romance and our imaginations run y with our better judgm cannot get away from the that Lieut. Perley B. Spiker. left a jawful wife in Baltimore when he went awa war. We cannot deny that his © 3monthold id. mother is Miss Knowles, ts i mate, and that convent upon unwed mothers America, instead of making heroines out of them. I have only praise for Mrs. Tuttey nt fact What do you gay, Readers? Per Year. "and her child? . CENTS Late Edition by Mail $5.00 to $9.00 and Tuesday, easterly winds. ght gentle ase? Is Mrs. —in opening her home to the Or is it setting a bad prece- amous Chicago woman lawyer, received by Cynthia Grey, of The [ Spiker, who her husband's The avera onsider that “the other woman” wrecked her home and ruined her life Mrs. Spiker believes such petty rowness,” and the other woman and broad minded; but should her theory be taken as an example? Could the ma- jority of wives be brought to solve the triangle” she has? I dare say not. I KNOW IF MY HUSBAND WERE PERLEY SPIKER, | COULD NEVER FOR- Give HIM What Go think, Miss Grey? Also, I am curious to know what view your readers take? Should Miss Knowles and her child be permitted jto remain in this country? AMERICAN WIFE. wishes to mother eternal as 2 Do you think the foundations of the home would be weak- lened by admitting Emily Knowles and her child to this coun- try, as Mra. Spiker suggests, or are we entering upon a new era, and to build new. conventions and foundations? Would more cases of this nature be the result, should the immigration officers admit Miss Knowles? The Star will be glad to print the opinions of readers. The Pedestrians Hit by Autos eb John M. Houts, 2011 18th ave. &., was knocked down by an auto- mobile driven by H. Seimens, 536 23rd ave. S, on Union st, near Fourth ave, Sunday. Houts sus- tained a bruised ankle. Pedestrians | 40 Hit by Autos This Year 2 24rd ave., c. H. Allen, reported to the police unidentified Japanese boy, playing street, Was knocked down by his automobile on Sixth s near Jackson st. He declared the boy was uninjured, and scampered away before his name could be obtained. The boy was playing in the street Pedestrians Hit by Autos This Year Struck by an knocked him down on out the Des Me without stopping L. EB. Grand, ported to the F he was slightly in the which and then sped injured. Pedestrians Hit by Autos This Year Hit t ent Fourth ave very vel H, Beaman, a4 for the Hanson Bread Co., W. E, Hoffman, who lives ond ave. N. and Roy was taken to the city hospi Monday with jaw and nose broken, his face cut and covered blood. Beaman was arrest- nceldent happened Republican m. an auto de Ww at Se st, tal with ed Fifth shortly The ave, near fter 6 a "HE WANTS NEW TRAFFIC PLAN Councilman Robert Hesketh, member of the public safety com mittee of the city council, said Monday he intended getting to- gether at once with T. H. Bolton and 0, 'T. other members of the c and Police Chief Joel to propose sweeping changes in administration of traffic reg tions to make the streets safe f\ mmittee, Warren, pedestrians, I am not a general rule, favor of Al details’ of police but T belli the re ulation of traffic should be a spe detail and am going to see what can be done about it.” in letters should be brief and concise. MASSACRE JURY COMING SLOWLY ‘Peremptory Challenges Used | _ by State and Defense BY CLEM J. RANDAU GRAYS HARBOR COURT- HOUSE, MONTESANO, Feb. 2. —The tedious work of selecting a jury to try the Centralia mur- der case was resumed here te- day. With the opening of the second week of the trial the jury box held 11 tentative jurors subject te removal only by per- emptory challenge. Attorneys hope to secure a full quota of 12 regular and two alternate jurors before the end of this week, tho it is generally believed that most of the week will be required in doing so. Thomas €. Connor, lumber mill owner and former liquor dealer, was | the first temporary juror to be elimi- ated by peremptory challenge of he defense. Connor was excused jafter the selection of Walter Quen- nel, cigar dealer of Hoquiam, filled |the jury box today. The prosecution used its first per- emptory challenge on Saturday, ex- jeusing W. F. Ferguson, so-called | “red” socialist, | That Attorney George F. Vander- veer would require the dismissal of Connor was considered a certainty last week when the defense counsel spent several hours in attempting to draw admission of prejudice from the talesman Only one member of the American Legion remained in the hospital « from iliness today, Seven former soldiers were discharg- ed this morning The examination of Walter Quen- nell today brought forth the infor+ mation that he had closed his busi- ness and worked as a ship builder during the war, tho over 60 years old “Did you do that for the wages offeped?” Vanderveer uske “Because business men were asked to help in the shipyards if possible,” Quennel! replied, The talesman was passed over the challenge of the defense, Vanderveer entering an exception, as usual. unsel for the accused T. W. has entered seve hundred exeep- tions to the rulings of Judge Wilson during the progress of the jury lection criminal syndicalism case be- Judge Ben Sheeks was cc tinued until Wednesday owing to the illmess of Prosecutor J. E. Stewart Attorney Ralph Pierce, who fending the 13 accused industria will return to Tacoma today to enter a motion for a new trial for the I. W. W. convicted there last night. Montesano was very quiet yester- most of the attorneys and wit having returned to their after adjourment Saturday. morning trains from Seattle jand Tacoma brought few new spec tators today,