The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 4, 1920, Page 1

Weather Indications that the cost of living is on the decline were re- corded today when dealers re- ported a drop of two cents a quart in the price of milk to the consumer, Retail milk is now 13 cents a quart. The wholesale price took a corresponding slump to 10c. Dealers thruout the city were selling today at the reduced noon—46, figure, and housewives who set their empty bottles out for the milkman with the usual 15 cents therein to pay for the next quart, were surprised when they found an unexpected two cents change on top of the full bottle. Dairymen say the reduction is due to early abundance of green pasturage for cattle. On the Issue.of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise. Tonight and Friday, pre ably rains; moderate southwesterly wind. Temperature Last 2 Maximum Minim Today VOLUM B 22. NO. 317. fis IT SEEMS TO ME DANA SLEETH URELY, this prohibition nation ia doing some weird things, Not only are we not ¢ cepting the 4 ment, as we have every amendment to the cons from the foundation of the Ment, but loop holes, crannic Gen doors Gnd secret exit de appearing al! over t face of thie law, until no man can foretell the doings of the morrow Two states this week agree coholic beverages of a much Bleoholic per cent than the gressional one. Towns that have voted antilicense for 35 years vote ‘Wet. tho there is no chance of their being legally even moist But the oddest suggestion com from South Dakota, where they have a primary on March and one candidate for governor has @ new plan, whieh he advances ser! ously, and with consider support. The candidate is RO. Mich His plan is that light wines ar beers shall be sold, sball be me factured, shall be easily availa in generous quantities, but only ¢ by and for MORAL citizens THINK this ts a dis tinetly new idea on the wet and dry argument The idea ix that only mor al citizens, loyal citizens , temperate Americans, law abiding. shall be givem the right to drink Sie Weis arinks. to ont oF to buy. 4 “The onty way to insure morall ty Is to reward it.” says Candidate Richards, &nd who would not be» patriotic, loyal, Iew-abiding citizen: if he thereby could end his person al drought? I think there might be a bit of good payeholory In thin weird pro- gram. 3 Consider q bewhlekered alien agitator, athiret t great American b pet vodka, his favorite ate beloved cognac And consider this man ap proached by one of the federa Officials and s#poken to thu “Listen, you Yelpoviteh! You quit waving that red flag, you quit agt tating, you go to work, you take out your papers, you be good Amer jean, and you get chance to drink cold beer every day Think you that Ivan the Red would hesitate between his thirst and his riotous ideals? Well, he wouldn’t~-not for a min ute! Jails have no terror for allen anarchists; they delight in the no- torlety; but hang @ pail of foum garnished suds up as a reward of good behavior, and watch the red ness pale and fade, #0 that not even @ delicate pink is left within an hour » ab eee AYBE you think I am jok ing about alt this. Well, Thi somewhat touched up’ the possibil ities with more or less feady wit, but the campaign in South Dakota is no jest. And if Lam any judge, there is a rising public sentiment against the pres ent amendment, which was hurried thru without public discussion or the people having a vote in the matter, Ten yearn from now it may ap pear that the biggest blunder ever made in the cause of true reform was when the Anti-Saloon league with a politica) club, jimmied thru congress this amendment, befor haif the country was ready for It The rebound against blue laws that pry into the individual's home and habits, is likely to be serious and-much good work is likely to be overturned This country was rapidly becom ing prohibition te by state it was entering the dry column, The saloon was on its last legs. newer generation Wag a #¢ eration, and it was being oe nized that booze was bad for the individual. Reform was achieved cleanly, with the consent and Was proceeding rapidly, because the m at heart convinced. y We discover that the few weeks of thie strict statute have brought us near the local rebellion. We find wet tie nd we find the c true temperance damned by the wrong methods of professional re formers, who make a living by not only minding the other business, but also by club keared congressmen into voting for legislation that will never be enforced while this country re maing as nearly divided in ite opin jon ag it Ia toda UST as the red labor le er by radicalism will hurt labor most when he meme to be winning most for labor so the radical, political, big-stick prohibi tion crowd have already opened up thig entire question of temperance; given new ammunition to the pro. fessional wets, cast derision on the (Turn to Page 2, Column ” 4 section today and tonight, the fore ed by last nights many towns thruout the Middle |and are making go wer turn to snow, acgording to the fore | phing Cant. Abraham Lincoln Beckman in the Kansas mi Other wheat states | boy He was born on Lincoln's bleth | rp blanketed. day, and in not yet a full montis om. + The storm developed in the Rooky When The Star's photographer mountain region, eweeping cast and} viited the Béckman home to Has Anybody Seen Misty» £ aM aby oe Spokane Starts es Hired Him to Clean [im More Rain on Tap, |that rain Thursday night and day, according to an official uka: “tat me aseure you this is not GRIP OF Yes, ‘Tis Indeed a Blessing to Live by the Side Mother Dead, Three Tots! of Puget Sound | Left Without Care CHICAG nards, whic from the Gulf te Minnesota, late tT yesterday and carly today, will | fost parents continue with “increased inten We like to think of them as sity,” the weather bureau fore [The Star's family. We cast today, jan int Storms will be felt thruout the and th because, somehow, they AS waid, Reports eart todka; Showed the siete letting up in aee-}t0 De Our wards. fons. Storm signals have been or Some of them fo to schoo! tered displ 4 along the gulf are tn the university A teow of Traffic haa been se usly hamper |have taken their youthful places‘in 4 of business or maards and ithe wo nun at were cut off from TWo LITTLE GIRLS von, Many trains thru ne Fe " fi » were trapped in snowdritts gn- | AND A BABY BOY to move. Snowshoe runnern | from Durango, Colo., left early code | Chet © take food to a west bound passen n more little gir her knock for Snowstides in the mo up sections of oad k and|large brood Lid other serious damage trains |them as they have entered Silverton, Colo. for 13|h asked to fir days and Durango has had one train| where they will rece in ten days. and Christian tre Chicago and Northern Illinois es-| ht and Josephine Beckmar caped with driving rai This will girls, Rachel ta. 4 north. High winds piled snow | thelr pictures, Rachel was far down | 5 huge drifts o strest with nelithbor children, | playing te bene “Adightfel Mebbe That’s Way |", soumoering Ins He Got ’Em First posing bashfully before the « oott STRAWBERRY JAM ON quet prev oman C. Pol Harvey fr ing his suspici He left bis gloves in Ray's ca Washingt to mnapahot he was found m the be She bh wen there daubed stuck ack after them | old him they had another cor hubby fingers the photos «mile, hid b arm and ¢ 4 pitifully Colored Girl Is “Il WANT MY MAMMA” Heiress Rated Parone gh pe om na as Millionaire || ‘ov ‘1 » ate Dh MUSKOGEE, Okla, March Sarah Reetor Oklahoma's and = snag mI all her wealth gating Aw served as her nist affa the deed ru ‘ quash a t 4 y the girl's mother t LINCOLN SDEEPS MOST ed Incompetent « | OF THE TIME NOW fine boy,” She brought and yawned Jake Lean’s Gate? Se it , nt that re photographer failed to Induce him ; to amile Ife wer mirt 3 : | closed | hi brah soc S| “4 1 hin m tofa the. p sage hisebey h, and ried him Boom for Hoover |, Avram Lincoln eats out SPOKANE, March 4.—Headed t oe of all political faiths, a Hoove ay Jo SnD ane here noor ; omer r than I the Out Closet; He Did! | *atuets Lerren ELLS OF TROUD When Mr Aud TRLA HOU BLES he also five girls and two t and cleaned a clothe of a suit|a wtruggle of sey aay of clothes and Mr. and's humt-| parting with them 1 have finally dor of its cigars, she reported! made up my mind tts Thursda “I want to place the two young ot prin doption, As my wife was lvout ¢ Says Weather Mani iiines ot fame faith; Seattle fs in for some more of |homes where there are no children. without many heartaches, isgued by Weather Observer N. Salisbury, ‘There will be some “J. B. BECKMAN, wind from the southwest likewise “6036 30th ave. N, EB.” atered as Second Clase Matter May 8, 1899, at (he Pomtoffice at Beattie, Wash. under the Act of Congress March 3, 179, Per Year, by Mail, $6 to SEATTLE, WASH., THURSDAY, MARCH 4 1920. Wanted—Homes for These Three Babies! March 4.—tle N MANY HOMES thruout swept the midwest Seattle there are children from Colorado to Indiana, and for whom The Star, in years by, has found willing srest in their welfare vir correct upbringing, | ore of ‘The Star's fam n stalled near Cumbres pass ily. Their mother, dead from the fu ne tore! thelr father working to support a| unable to care The Star has| ng care} a fell-tale straw. | her, misunderstood his + face behind a dimpled stepped | he was abott raham Lincoln we ne some dim n sunshine, Lincoln url hir a The lette of J. Bo Beckman he tola| ® nw “ sie lean her Editor The Star: The terrible at 903| scourge, the flu, has visited yoke st. Be-|home and taken my beloved an industrious | and left me with seven children. nd the baby boy tholic, 1 desire them to joi wuchei, Josephine Und Abraham Lancotn Beckman, who are looking jor a home, . Abraham Lincoln was born February 9. (Cress-Dale Photo.) | tied with the city Thursday for in juries alleged to have been suffered Department, and give dull informa. by Mra, J. S. Stout, 613 8th ave. N, » Preferably a Catholic home, as requested | in @ street car accident at Third ave, Do not come in person, Write, Every letter will be given consideration. 'and Union st., February ~ | the eldest, is 4. Josephine is 2. ¢ of these babies? If you do, write to The oll gf Baby tion concerning your ability to give these children a good home, by the father. Do not telephone. LATE EDITION TWO CENTS IN SEA’ COURT DECISION OPENS FIGHT TC Corporation Counsel Ready to Legal Contest for Reduction — As a result of a pe of the state ‘supreme elaring null and void an order of the public service sion which fixed the present rate for telephone Corporation Counsel W. | to commence proceedings in behalf of the city to telephone rate 50 cents per month, if the city MASSACRE DEFENSE E ‘Elmer Smith in Tels of to 1. W. W. BY CLEM 4. GRAYS HARBOR HOUSE, Montesano, Eimer Smith, F. Meier was pi instructs him. Telephone subscribers who had a contract with the com- pany for service at a fixed rate prior to the commission’s | order of March 1, 1919, are entitied to a rebate from the com- pany amounting to about 50 cents per month since August under the supreme court's ruling. To collect this rebate, Meier says. | it will be necesmary for the individ- wal subscriber to go to court. asmuch as the amount, in individ ual cases, ix small, unlikely that the rebate will be de- it is considered pany will be allowed to retain the) immense aggregate sum be ys cal. proved General Burleson, granting the telephone campany a) rate increase. ‘The commission went farther, ana] The defense will o contracts | by the end of the week, 4 sub- | Attorney Smith said his sole e compelled to pay court decided noon of the parade without authority to do, and the com ree gol mission’s act was | sponse to the appeal of the cities of | | Seattle and Tacoma. Corporation Counsel Meier said he Ihe entered would place the boys, aré you was his first matter before p council desires, | eight other men to | Smith said, THAT MAN COULD USE WEAPON Asked regarding the he will start cut the phone rate to the level where it was before Burleson « mission boosted th SAYS GAS SERVICE IS INADEQUATE Complaint was filed Wedne: sday at! |Olympia by the public mission against the alleging that the present gas company tnem to use | their hall, the “T certainly thought tl {had a right to use a gum | |his life and bandoned his attle Lighting to regarding an alleged is|the part of various the American | Outlining the balance of mony he will offer, the ‘torney said he would step would be| some for service | paraders were carrying ropes, i ob- duce further proof of the . tion that some of the soldiera the ed the Industrialist hall before t ity of the plant is not, were fired on and some sti rmit it to meet rea-| regarding the wounds ree sonable future demands of the terri-| the four roldiers killed and j owe jequipment of the the commission preliminary to filing a decision in| tralia, of the com- | pany for an increase in the gas rate If the present equipment to allow it a higher |servers point out. The complaint Present capa sufficient to 7 pacity is inadequate to care for great | seasonal demands, and the gas hold- jer is not large enough to protect it gainst plant breakdowns, the com- |plaint asserts Meier Is Ready to File New Complaint} prosecution will for its rebuttal to break down ‘Now | What’ll He With O Meier, on learning of the latest move of the public service commission in case of Seattle |pany, announced Thursday |would ask the city | structions to file a complaint against gas company » equipment for emergencies and future demands and |to prevent the company from further | | increasing dante a ‘Weather Prevents Maj. Smith’s Hopoff TACOMA, March unfavorable weather conditions, Ma, . army aviator, did not attempt Thursday to make the longest one-day jump ever tried ouncil for in- to its owner, The owner had wae 5 land and committed sui US, CONSULA IN BOMB BLO Trouble Reported Frot rich, Switzerland, WASHINGTON, | American consulate at Zurich, jerland, was partly destroyed bomb explosion last. night, hie at department learned today. ‘The police blamed the jor Albert D. Lewis to San Diego, Cal, ing clouds and head-on winds caused the decision to postpone the start. Major Smith expects to attempt the flight Friday morning, weather conditions favoring, leaving Camp Lewis at hd a.m, sachel,| CLAIM FOR $5,000 damages was No one was injured and t no loss of government p