The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 5, 1920, Page 1

MILLION CHILDRE FACING STARVATION: bx~ ¢ Weather ) TH Ey A Ul Tonight and Friday, prob- TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE FOOD! FOOD! IS FAINT CRY FROM GATES OF DEA Only Immediate Food Can Prevent Virtual Extinction of Child-Life © in Central European Cities BY HARRY B. HUNT : WASHINGTON, Feb. 5.—Five million chil- dren under 15 years of age are face to face iwith starvation in Central Europe. Three millions of these are not merely within the - starvation line but are right down at the Cotet a of death. Only food, food immediately, can prevent ie virtually the total extinction of child-life in On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise The Seattle Star Entered as Second Class Matter May 3, 1899, at the Postoffice at Seattle, Wash Per Year FLU: SCHOOLS GUARDED AS M lapbe the EPIDEMIC INCREASES Ta for It under the Act of Congress March 3, 1879. by Mail, $5 to $9 VOLUME 22. AS IT SEEMS TO ME SEATTLE, WASH., THURSDAY, } FEBRUARY 5, 1920. 1196 Cases Reported Alarm Uncalled for Homes Quarantined te FOREN MONEY TO FORCE PRICES DOWN Low Value of Exchange Rates May Result in Cost Drop in U. S. BY RALPH F. taco Aa (United Press Staff Correspondent) and the bridegroom's disap. |, WASHINGTON, Feb. 5—A big drop in prices of neces- sr 48 hours of supposed | Sities is only a few weeks away, government officials ts of a plan to boost the | agreed here teday, if the present record low levels of foreign DANA SLEETH Psy HAVE had quite a time i making up my mind re 2 garding the wisdom of freeing from the legal penalty these boy derers. Not that I favor hang: boys, or anybody else, but, hile the law is on the books, to @ exceptions is to encourage inal disregard for human life, as a nation we are callous h, without putting any in nents in the way of potential But today I received a letter oM an acquaintance of the family, at Stanwood, and, so as this boy, Isom White, is con- d, I feel it would be legalized © to hang him. Here are extracts from the letter—see you think: death. For months after his h he made the same gurgling inds in his throat that his un- made for hours before his th. Isom's mother, just before birth, was in constant at- e at the uncle's bedside, when Isom was born she knew was marked for life, should he a Anyway, Ida the Waitress Will Ask for $10,000 Per 5 Hospitals Make Room Room for Patients; Nurses Urged t to o Register FLU SITUATI Number of cases in city Number in county outside a. Deaths reported “Isom White was born marked | ! | oO. Feb. fall for this? an-time wedding of Wm. man to Miss Ida BE. Hin- | Will the NAT A. A GLANCE: “All thru Isom’s boyhood his «aw in his ‘blank spells’ strange ways evidence of the mee of her brother's death. Ruth Garrison was mentally ir- nsible, then Isom) White is 80. \ "s Mother's cousin blew his off thru melancholia, and in many ways, resembles ‘Were I a member of a jury had sentenced such a weak- inded boy to death, I would fe guilty as the criminal himself.” a HAT evidence, from one 7) who knows the family, and the mother’s his- tory, is enough for me, whether it is enough for law or not. entire question of capital pt is an open one. Once ey hanged men by the dozen to trees; hung them for every offense, but crime was not cially checked thereby. [I am prepared to admit that if ‘ rational human being knew the invariable penalty for Was speedy hanging, few al beings would commit er. But in this country hang- @re never speedy; and in where capital punishment is law, few murderers are ever and frequently those few by no means the worst of the ften they are merely weak d, penniless culprits, easy for ambitious prosecutors Who must, at any cost, build up a putation. _ $0, regardless of the justice or efficiency or the humanity of pital punishment, it is to be doubted whether in America it is fof ahy public service. _ And, certainly, hanging half-wit ted boys, who were born wrong, land who never had a chance, is as willy as the maudlin sympathy ° weak-minded “women spill bover husky degenerates,@aught in the law's meshes. INCIDENTAL reference in this column, the other day, to the melody of 4 “We Won't Go Home ’ Until Morning,” brought letter from an inquirer who / Wanted to know where this song Originated. Nobody knows. The English have different words the mel- ‘Ody, and know it “For He's a My Good Fellow.” Where the ords of either version came from (de unknown, Af for the melody, this is one of ‘the oldest of them all, and has a wtrange history. The air was first recognized in the Holy Land 4s a song of praise for a French Cru #ader, who fell in battle near Jeru- Saalem. It took hold in the Orient, and today is sung in Egypt and Arabia, where the natives consider it an old Egyptian folk melody. Under the benign smile of the French que this tune was adopted by the French people, at tached to a folk song, and was also used by Beethoven in an orchestral work. Finally it crossed the channel and became an English drinking gong, and later wa transplanted to a then moist America. Looks like it might wind up by | becoming a hymn, its usefulness a a drinking song being past in these parts, which would make the Jyric circle complete. So probably I was right when 1 pund traces of this air in the | symphonic poem. It has been on earth long enough, and widely enough, 4 about every com none ‘tg@ fine-woven * | All nurses, whether graduate or ‘no at Red Cross headquarters, 315 University | st.,or at Y. M. C. A. County appropriates .$1,000 | pair to celluloid fame? The deserted bride has dry eyes, | She says they never were wet with \tears squéezed from a pain-racked urgently asked to emergency fund to fight quarantined; emergency hospital opened at Soldiers’ and Sailors’ club; school teachers ordered to dismiss students with first symptoms. Flu, in lighter form ak ‘ae year, became epidemic in| city and county Thursday, with a total At the recorded, and six deaths. ; Wednesday 190 new cases augmented by 72 more reported up to noon Thursday. The county health bureau recorded 26 new cases,, outside | February 1. the city, up to ie bringing up to 286, deaths 2 Bodies of four other victims are in the county morgue, *~ SYMPTOMS | OF FLU \ * General pains in head, back o: eyes, in limbs and joints. Weakness. Chilliness and fever. Coughing and sneezing and red- ness of eyes. Hoarseness and bronchial cough Diarrhea or constipation—usually latter. Vomiting in some cases. Pulse not increased in proportion to fever. Onset of disease hours after exposure. WHAT TO DO Go home. Go to bed. Call a physician Drink plenty of water, hot water. Sleep in well-ventilated room. Keep away from others. Keep away from work. Don't worry. GENERAL RULES Don't remain in rooms poorly ven- tilated or overcrowded. Don't kiss anyone. is usually 24 preferably Keep nose and mouth masked with | handkerchief, coughing or sneezing. Use individual knives, forks, tow- els, handkerchiefs, ete Travel on street cars and railroad |trains as ttle as possible. Street cars should be adequately ventilated. Keep feet warm and dry Keep good hours. Don't dissipate. Don't expectorate on sidewalks, or on floors of public buildings or ve- ricles. Eat plain, nourishing foods HOTELS WASHED: AWnY BY TIDE Bungalows ‘and Pavilions| Swept Out at Coney NEW YORK, Feb. 6.—Four hotels, a section of the board walk and seve to #ea at Rockaway Beach today by an unusually high tide, driven by a strong northeast wind. Other summer bathhouses and pi beach at Coney I were seriously dama waves, Is, bungalows, vilions along the d and Rockaway d by cloth or gauze when | al bungalows were washed | N the heavy | | Lwervice, says she. “I You know how much movie actresses get, I shall ask for $10,000 a week.” Consider the subtitles of 1,196 cases| nicke city health bureau | ° were reported. These were already al life.” Hoffman, gay young steamfitter jin a railway shop, will inherit $76,000 He writes a newspaper popular waitress, sees the ad, ‘Free heart * *.¢ Jloving disposition and * * * _» {among them that of Mrs.|money! she read. ‘I'm for him't” “4 Alice ‘Adams, 65, of Smyrna | “Love in a lobby. The couple meet Wash., who ‘died in the city at 6 a, m. at Hoffman's hotel and h., 2 city|+ + © are wed at 9 a. m.” hospital from flu after bring-| “Two days 1ater—vamoosed! ing her aged husband, W. S.| where. oh, where hath the Adams, to this city for treat-| "0m Mea’ ment at Providence hospital.| SHE SHOULD BEAT HER His condition is reported pre- or pic heal im Peon bape Now, Canton's movie fans insist, Mrs. Hoffman is passing up a good Other bodies at the chance for some fine emotional work. those of Mike Petrick, he should weep. She should beat Jat 402 Ninth ave., bosom and tear her hair. Her | Smith, 34, and Ma should register drawn and hag both from the city was no way of checking deaths that might have red, they are required be reported for | An urgent nurses the total cases for the county | “4yertsime mat Ida, Canton's Oh, bride. morgue are 16, who die f Charles ¢ face other » should smile Theda smiles of | revenge to come, with 4 , pay the cine Tish tears of a “ d heart | Hoffman tried to ch Jper men for tak day after the we then that he a moving picture company Now some of the 150 ether Canton girls who wrote to Hoffman and were neglected by him for Miss Hin | ton, are saying that the {think the whole thing was a frame up for the movies.” MAYBE H MAYBE oceur to volunteer of an ge newspa a he said was g” with ja statement by Dr. H. M | feity health officer warning the] | public to use every precaution but |not to be alarmed, and ordering |the quarantine of homes A special flu ward was opened by the city hospital staff on the second floor of the public safety building following admisison of 20 there Wednesday The old isolation ward on the sec Jona floor of the public safety building sand parently will win, “win, |has been fumigated and turned into |“ | Hoffman will come Jan influenza ward. “Flu” patients | een: haa received the city hospital witl|*" Of Bol or see probably be sent to this ward Thurs.|, Hoffman will come ea el ate ory Si the gold, The couple will be given 5, stars’ contracts by some movie pro Nurses were instructed to wear | {ly “OU gg covering the nose, mouth and Hoffman may not come back at all and Mrs. Hoffman enter a silver In private homes, nurses screan career at $10,000 6 week der instructions from the city Fh the department to allow no children to). leave the house or yard, or mingle! ine counter and coffee urn in. the poe pines soulen lunch room she left when she mar- No other members of the family,|iinu yru Hoftman drops no tears except the one in attendance, may He left a hotel bill,” she says, enter the quarantined quarters | of course T mush pay thet All cases must be quarantined at A my 946 watohiWae,brok ya » would take it to be With an appropri *t found it yet.” fight the epidemic ide the coun ty, Dr. G. H. T parling, county | FOR LOVE; health officer, warned teachers to| NOT FOR 5,000 permit no children to attend school| “, married him for lov |from quarantined homes, and to dis not for his mon miss all suspected c the first » back I'll sign of sneezing or ¥ jes and selling my | Altho registered and ¢ 5 » him stay jnurses have enrolled at the King} away for two years as punishment if |County Association of aduate | he does come back.” M. C, A., and at the ‘And so the que ’ association of the| appointed leap y Red Cross, at 315 University st., not|ton, will the movies fall for this hough ar ilable to ¢ for all IF CONVICTED of theft of 75 ses, it was reported. Other nurses, whether gre or not, with some | cents, William McLin will serve five years in prison, He is charged | experience, urgently requested | te to register at either headquarters for|with robbery, James Fahlback,@819 28th ave, S, is the alleged yietim, as she journeys between ion of $1,000 to} * sily make | | Visiting Nu | | | | 1 by on this fast-moving “reel | junder his mother's will if wed by | icture the | always did | Mrs. Hoffman, they point out, ap- or back with a way things are going now, exchange rates continue. England, redicted, to curtail their is means ‘a reduction in t volume of American exports and the dumping of goods into the American markets. Breadstuffs, meats and dairy products now are being shipped | abroad at the rate of nearly $4,000, |000 a day by American growers, packers and exporters, government reports show. Dumped suddenly into the domestic markets, such a vast foad would quickly force down prices, officials said. MIGHT BE HARMFUL TO U. 8. CONSUMER Official opinion is divided, however, curtailment of exports will be bene: |ficlal to the United States. Altho |there is no tendency to hold that is not to be urgently desired, many officials and economists declare that the present foreign exchange situa tion holds possible peril for the American consumer. iden decrease of Europeans purchasing in American markets would have a tende to close fac- tories and throw workmen out of employment, some officials America, they say, must be able to | slope off gradually from the present | ord volume of exportations. Is are about evenly divided | estion of possible perman efits that may the situation Fined for Liauor in Former Church Fine of $150 for unlawful Hquor | Possession was imposed on C e rts, proprietor of 9 Seneca st., formerly Little | Brown chureh, by Justice Otis W | Brinker ‘Thursday QUENTIN QUIDNUNC DAILY HE ASKS TION OF A Qu! ES- TODAY’S QUESTION Should civilians be allowed to tote ANSWERS PAUL R, CHANEY, Arctic bldg. |No; except in times of stress when sary for self protection: ELLIOTT, Seat “|a gun? {1 liv 7 you, it's pretty nearly necessar: tote a gun. My house was robbed the other day, and I feel as if I'd like to tot even if I shouldn't OSCAR NELSON, 2617 California Under the circumstances, the I think ve everybody ought to. H. A. MeVEETY, L. C. Smith bldg.—Not as a rule; circumstances should govern the case, A bad-tem pered man with a gun may kill somebody when, otherwise, he'd hit ‘em on t ‘ i, 1416 10th ave. Depends on the man, The right | kind of man is pretty hard to find. You don't know anybody these days; jthe fellow you think ts all right is just the other way. quantity of | as to whether in the long run this) a reduction of the present high prices | result: from France and Italy will be forced quickly, it was OO ieeewar in American ‘markets. Pedestrians Hit by Autos He Am 1A Mrs, H. Conter, 3211 Belvedere st., reported to police Wednesday that at 7:45 a. m. a male pedes- trian bumped into her auto on Third ave. near Spring st., and when she asked his name he replied: “Go to the devil.” Hit by Autos This Year Louise B. Dorman, 6325 ve. 8. W., is in the city Mrs 36th hosp with a leg and an arm broken and a deep cut over one eye. John M. Lindmark, a jit ney driver, 6705 Holly place §. W., told the police he had run over Mrs. Dorman at Rainier ave. and Brandon st. at 5:15 a m. She had stepped into the street to catch a street car, he said, but the car passed on with- out stopping. He was behind the car and started his machine ahead, thinking she would turn back to the sidewalk. She did not. His machine struck her down. He got out and found the wheels resting on her body, climbed back into the machine and drove on over her Pedestrians Hit by Autos This sine’ Richards, | or living art st., sustained roken when an auto collided on Westlake ave. with a machine in which she was riding en route to work Thursday morning. She was taken to the city hospital SEATTLE BANK CLERK INDICTED an employe of nk, was arrest: Jed at noon y on @ secret in- diétment charging him with the em- bezzlement of $3,500, Waterhouse lives at drive. He was bookkeeper and em- ploye in charge of incoming clear- |ings and remittances from other | banks. He was indicted by the fed. eral grand jury late Wednesday, A bench warrant was served on him by Deputy U. 8. Marshal Frank Colligan Wednesday noon Shipyard Prober Claimed by Cupid Leap year has claimed Walter C. Fos artment of justice in. vestigator directing the shipyard probe, Miss Minnie M. Andrews came all the way from Baltimore to take hi mas her own, He sented. Foster gave his age as 36 and his home as Alexandris Va,, when he secured a marriage license Wednesday. 7018 Beach the larger cities of the hunger-swept dis' This is the startling situation present cabled reports received here by the Red:€ : and the American Relief administration from itheir representatives abroad. eae Conditions which have been terrible thruout the | whole of the past year, and which grew rapidly w |with the coming of winter, have reached a climax horor and suffering wholly beyond the power of |horror and suffering whelly beyond the power of d scription. 90 PER CENT OF CHILDREN OF VIENNA DEPENDENT UPON CHARITY In Vienna, which today shelters probably more concentrated misery than ever was seen before in one city, 90 per cent of the 337,000 children 14 years of age are virtually without food ex such inadequate rations as can be supplied thru erating charities, according to Alert Halstead |the American mission. | In Budapest, a cablegram from the Hungarian |Red Cross states underfed mothers and children are dying by the thousands. In one month the death jrate at the state’s babies dispensary, which has @ jcapacity of 18,000 babies, WAS 966 PER 1,000! | In Poland, however, ‘star ving children are not [numbered in thousands but hundreds of thousands. |Estimates made by Captain C. T. Ekelund of St | Paul, Minn., Red Cross representative in Poland, ~ jand Palmer Fuller of the American Relief adminis- |tration, agree that not less than 2,000,000 Polish |\children will die during the next three months unless \they are kept alive by food from outside sources. | In Poland hunger is not confined principally to the cities, jas is the case in Austria and Hungary, but extends into the |towns and villages and even the country districts, where the ebb and flow of war has prevented al 1 production for the past five years. Thousands of children are trying to exist on a coarse bread made of oats and the bark of certain trees, on grass soup and on wild roots and weed seed! | CHILDREN OF POLAND “PALLID OF FACE AND LISTLESS” | “These children,” says Ekelund, in a dispatch to the Red | Cross, “are pallid of face and listless. Many of them have the \false, pasty plumpness of famine edema, others the wrinkled, old faces and bowed legs of inanition and rickets. With many of them physiology has been tampered with for so long that it is impossible to re-establish a normal food bal- ance and they die in spite of all efforts to save them.” Under-nourished, hungry children in Czecho-Slovakia approach in numbers those of Poland. Estimates by officials — of the American Relief administration of the number in im- ~ mediate need of relief place the figure at 1,500,000. This is” about 40 per cent of the child population. Two out of every three babies born in Czecho-Slovakia — in recent months have died as the direct result of under- feeding. Milk cannot be obtained anywhere. Men and women alike have barely existed on a starvation diet. Few mothers themselves are sufficiently nourished to be able to nurse their babies, and in hundreds and hundreds of cases the babies die in their mothers’ arms. On the basis of a food census taken by Red Cross work- ers in Jugo-Slavia, the seriously under-fed children of that new nation number about a quarter of a million. In the schools at Sarajevo, it was established that scores of children came to school without any breakfast whatever; that more than one-third, or 36 per cent, to be exact, had only a small quantity of bread; that 39 per cent had bread and black imitation coffee, 3. 6 per cent had bread and coffee with milk, Turn to Page 2, Columns 4 and 5