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

'Do you think right?” e SEN, LODGE FLAYS WILSON ene Ne OOOO OOO ON Tonight, nesday, fa w Temperature Last M4 Hours Maxin Noon today, 55. she ir; es On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise The Seattle Star Wee- south »wers; fresh winds, Minimum, 47 Entered as Se Matter May a, 18 ffice at Seattia, Wash, onder the Act o “VOLUME parene March 2, 1879. Por Year, by Mall, $6 to 99 7 Se EDITION SEATTLE, WASH., TUESDAY, JUNE 8, 1920 -CE i AS IT SEEMS TO ME DANA SLEETH “Tou are old, Father Wiliam,” the young man said, “And your hair has become very white ; “And yet you on your hé incessantly stand ad at your age, it is *In my youth,” Father Willi plied to his son, feared it might brain “But now that I'm perfectly sure I have none, “Why, I do it again and again.” 66 am re injure the O THIS lite worm went wi wigglety ‘cross grass, and came an awful big ocean “And he swum he sw “most a million miles, and to a dry place, and he we ty wigglety ‘cross mil and then he came another ocean, bigger than ever, and he swum and he swum and he swum, and then he came to right where he started. “And he went wigglety wiggiety ‘cross the grase and found his * Drother, little brown fuzzy worm, looking all ‘round and looking all ‘round, and he says: ‘Here I am I been and swum clear ‘round the ‘world, and. yoti lazy haven't washed your face and m. wiggle an’ miles o- ONSENS What won derful airy castles raise themselves in the child realms of nonsense! The verse above was, of course, from “Alice in Wonder land,” written by Lewis Carroll, a heavyweight scientist and scholar, Who will be remembered for his fancy free verse and prose long after every serious thing he ever did is forgotten. storyette is a typical, tncon ee imprompt by my eldest. A child can sit for hours and #pin these weird little stories and hold her juvenile audience enrap tured, but most grown-ups have lost the airy grace, just as most of us think and praise and pray by rote, after we reach our majority. Nonsense of the Carroll sort. of the seven-year-old fairy tale sort, fs literature of the highest and the truth of this is apparent, for, while almost any writer can “do” a« lead editorial, a sermon, a schglarly address, but one man in jousand can write real non not “silly stuff,” but true . UT to it, I would my that the two highest types o? literature are the epic poem and the nonsense verse. And there have been far more epics written than there have true nonsense verses. “Twas in the merry month of June, December, sizty- three; The frozen birds were caroling in every budding tree,” Only real inspiration casts Aside tradition and warbles that way. *'The time has come; the walrus aad, ‘To talk of many things: Of shoes, and ships, and sealing war, Of cabbages and kings Of why the sea is boiling hot, And whether pigs have wings!” There is something innately funny about a pig having wings, and cabbages and kings area queer combination; and because there is humor in the al twist, nobody ever thinks of writ ee that wa it wuldn't be nans but common sense, and common sense would be Nonsense, and the sane folks would be in the asylums, and the crazy folks would be outside, getting rich and farnous, and political parties probably would have to beg some body to run for the presidency. HAVE experie’ unna’ Otherwise, had recently an ce with = mad ness -~ shrill, blood-hot, bigoted madness — be coming the guiding «pir. Mt of a nation. Kuss an ex cellent example of a madman run ning riot. But we ha @ reign of pure, jo nonsense. 1 wonder !f it wouldn't be a wonderful decade if we turned the country over the children, to the fairies, to the nonsense of gods and goddesses, for ten years. I wonder, if we all quit taking our elves #0 eeriously, if Money madness, and our dignit nd our stinginess, and our inabi ity to laugh, sort of @ coun try we might have. Anyway, it @urn to Page 2, Column 3) we lost. our e | raUway fund ove [IN O POSITION | |ton pledged themselves to vote tor | time, | | | of | PREDICTS TAX TO B | 80 TO 85 MIL | next year will | city | payers are \ear | | Valley line | eliminated a T FE AR THRONGS i. “APPLAUD Aileen Sees Fair Rivals! G 6h FG. es National Convention Gets Under Way With Burst of Noise BY HUGH BAILLIE COLASEUM, Chicago, June 8 —The 1920 national republican convention is on, Will HL. Hays, chairman of the national committee, called the delegates to order shortly after 11 a, m. today, and the work of selecting the G. 0. P. standard bearers began At the opening of the great con clave, it was generally admitted that the fight «tilt free-for a that none of the candidat eded in capturing a command ing lead. nator Lodge in hin fore the convention bitterly Wilson's aring him to be un-American and excoriat ing hin policies toward Europe and Fares for school children will be en eee ee advanced from 2% to 3 cents, ac must be thrust aside, | cording to the plans formulated Mon ‘ | CHAIRMAN HAYS day. Two children will be carried | OPENS CONVENTION | for By © purchase of Hays opened the convention with | tokens, patrons of the line may se & brief mpecch. | cure 15 rides for a dollar and will be * waid save the inconvenience of making lembers of the Convention: The change in pennies, {republioan party has met in thie tree | MANY ATTEND MEETING | and open convention to accept from | AT MAYOR'S OFFICE jthe American people a manda Te Ean from the government ‘of the Unit States council, the street railway fond will ” d j not be placed on a warrant basis on As) elewss of your national ? 7 * | committee, 1 report progress, Four tet gin 4 degree Ed. Terry! Wiss Hazel Elaine Miller, 108 Roanoke st., a saleslady im years ago the normal republican ma ‘The counett's decision fottowed a| the sheet music and small goods department of the Martius jority was 600.000 minus, Two years conference between Mayor Caldwell,| music house, is another of the Seattle entrants in The Star-\**° %t ¥®s 1.200.000 plus. Today I honestly pelleve ft Is double that members of the advisory board, city | Ziegfeld contest to decide the winner of the $100-a-week po-| nummer, and im November it should councilmen and repysentatives of | 4:4 the Seattle Clearing House associa: | with a famous beauty show, and the Mayflower exceed 3,000,000 ree associ! Miriam Cooper photoplay. This photo is by Bushnell. To-| “tn apirit, 1 repo The elty councft adjourned Ita reg-| day's entry coupon is on page 2. fen = gr 1 report fu : ‘ great party of the Union has become mecting into a nsession of the | BY AILEEN CLAIRE ! scien tok aie, seals axade denaloe a unit, It shall xo continue, There pA vad ; ab iogg “what do you think of these?’ will be no bolt from this convention the r asked me “By direction of national handed the | committee, I present the name of the eed Honorable Henry Cabot Lodge to act I'd hate to say,” the best half dozen of the’ photos| ®# your temporary chairman.” For on the first submitted to The Star by salengirin| The work of “pepping up” the were printed the pictures of Seattle crowd started before the convention Denver entrants in the Z Of course you can’t depend on the| W« called to order with a crash of onal salesgiris’ beauty judgment of mere men, but I'm cer-|Yigorous martial music from the If Ziegfeld thinks Der elle that Neynn MoMetn will agree| band. From that point onward € nee he may as well award his the, and after all she's quite the tension steadily intensified. beauty prize to Seattle right away to determine the verdict of the SUFFRAGE PICKETS It was Denver started this, you national committee that picks the| LOOKING STERN will recall. Ziegfeld made some re-|$100.a-week Ziegfeld beauty and| Delegates and spectators mark to the effect that Los Angeles | Mayflower movie star they entered the building, were protably had the most beautiful, So, Seattle girts, send in your! forced to run a gauntlet of stern women in the country, and the Den-| photos. I'll say your chances are | faced women, suffrage pickets, who ver editor up and contradicted it better than those of your sister-city | stood in a long, silent line along the All I got to say ts, the coritradic. | sisters of regions West What cities | front, with the words, “You Are to tion should have come from Seattle | cast of the Missouri are doing in the| fame for the Defeat of Suffrag contest I have yet to learn and “Remember, We have Seventeen | Million Votes.” Hoover pickets also faced throngs. These women silently played signa calling for votes Hoover. Hundreds of delegates had diffi fe in finding their seats, The} were jammed Ushers were | swamped. As the crowd increased, CALDWELL ONS Knows Seattle Will Win Says Car Patrons Should Bear Burden; Erickson Only Dissenter Street car fares in Seattle will be advanced to 7 cents early next week. There will be no addition al charge for transfers. This was the determination reached by the city council, sit ting as a committes of the whole Monday afternoon. in become an oF egul © will me and Mayor « have it was ra will wing of Monday's at t ar auce addresn be acked President dged to the measure, a nickel more Spokane they remarkable has In, Portland and have found some beauties! Even Tacoma attractive girts But none of them have equaled the m where quite advise snsisting of Mayor Caldwell, City Treasurer Ed I ry, Comp troller H W. Carroll, Corpor Counsel Walter F. Meler and L. B Youngs, superintendent of the water system. y Treasurer Terry reported the Araw $325,000, and reiterated his intention of pla the fund on a warrant basis June 10. | ERICKSON’S ONLY VOTE } y and some your Denver were jolnec man board, c me a Express the first i na contest ver tain with tk before As a means of immediately tn | creasing the street car revenues: Councilman R. H. Thomson's ordi nance increasing the fare to 7 centa/ and charging 1 cent for transfers was brought up. ‘The extra charge for transfers was | — SHIP UNLOADING RATE IS OFFERED BY UNION #222 0'2ccc.ie rt _ pelea ng berate wvra| filling up rapidly during the last 15 Sane oo re Miah the asnociation | minutes before Hays was to launch will, be. older in the associa:| tne formal proceedings. Hon, ‘The organization has tasued |e eee eee eee on at 10:40, 50,0 0 of toc 25 4 $50,000 worth of stock, at $25 &/ paring thru the bunting that hung| share | from the steel girders, There was The radical cut tf prices asked) some applause at this point, but ap by private contractors for stevedore | parentiy the throng was in no mood work was decided upon at a meet! oo norseplay. When the hour of 11 ing of the association held in Long: | oiock had nearly arrived, the gal shoremen's hall last night. |leries were about two-thirds filled. Robert Bridges, former president| while the floor was congested with of the port commission, is general gates, bineking the'aldide, etend-| manager of the association jing around and talking, with their | ‘The union scale will be paid, and| hats on profits on contracts will be divided| ‘The movie men were on the job, as dividends among members of the | yetting up, their cameras | association | ator Lodge strolled thru the | center aisle, shaking hande. } Just before 11 o'cloek the official stenographers and other officials the convention appeared on the plat | form. At 11:05 first the dis. for the measure in reguiar counctl meet ing. Councilman O. Bi the only opp against a That the plan to raise the to 6 cents and pay off the bon indebtedness by levying taxes was not feasible at the present was the declaration of Mayor ‘aldwell Monday. ‘The mayor advocated this method of meeting the increasing deficit in the railway fund. “Regardless of what we ought to! do in theory, the present high rate taxes makes it inadvisable transfer any of the financial burdens | of the railway system to the tax jana of Frank Vanderlip and other sv ga Cadena |* Contracts offered by tion contain no exemption clause lating the association in solidly reedom from la guaranteed son bl Shipping interests were today of- | at reductions of 2 for the | fered contracts, | per cent on present rates, unloading of veasels in this port. The offer comes from the Co-oper ative Stevedoring association, an or anivation of 1,700 members of the Longshoremen's Union, nay their plan ha ndorsement of the United si Shipping Board who thi the associa. re. Ss ed that the tax mite we 80 The 70 mills to strikes Caldwell dec union to $5 mill bor troubles i this " Congress Will Probe Jap Invasion in United States WASHINGTON, D. € Warnings and protests Western states have at | aroused ‘the interest of congress | in the question of Japanese “pen |" | year | nder these ¢ not seem 1 the burden of taxation b ating money from the to aid the street rallway explained “The argument that h system benefi whole nd as such should be paid for by the taxpayers is not entirely sound. AS the ta ‘curmstances to add appropri enefal fund | system,” he does able to there was an indication of }A quick start, and the band obliged | with sofhe jazz——“Dardanella.” Nicholas Murray Butler appeared on the floor and was warmly greeted by the New York delegation. THEODORE ROOSEVELT REACHES PLATFORM Theodore Roosevelt, jr, of New| | York, appeared on the platform, and laughingly talked over the situation | with @ party that had gathered | there | Chauncey M, Depew | the New York dele convention opened, promptu reception The confusion on the floor ap-| peared fo be increasing at 11:15, The «pace immediately in front of the platform was jammed. Many stood on chairs? the the atreet ne 8.— from last are the closing of all Japanese im | migration, the withholding of citizen Japar rm | ship to se born in this coun matter of fact Iready contribut proximately $500,000 a try, and other laws to prevent the ap year to the treawury 4 1 by the digging in’ of races which can not eration” of America. be ashimilated as Americans The house immigration com. mittee will make searching in- vestigation this summer of the various aspects of the Japanese invasion—indystrial, commercial Ha and agricultural—of the United | States. | tions demanding rellef from the com. | Representative Johnson of Wash-! petition of Japanese landholders. chairman of the committee, The Colorado legislature has been nee with Senator | asked to pass anti-alien land law Phelan of California, and it is prom-| Hearings of the congressional ine » survey will pl before mittee will be held in the the national government full infor | Coast states and the evid © will be | mation as to the extent of Japanese| gathered to prove the imperativ A cornet soloist, standing tn front gression necessity of legislation checking the} in the balcony, got the first real ap Among the remedies to be urged| spread of Oricutal power, (Turn to Page 2, Column Q system because ng the taxes hitherto pa traction company and because ous expenses are being defra from the city’s general fund Caldwell declared that another ob fection to the plan is the inj that would be worked to patrons of | the Rainier Valley “They would be on that line in paying taxe the municipal lines the patrons of would not onl. n fare, but also ‘That the Japanese encroachment is steadily presajng eastward is demon ited by mers’ st appeals from the Colorado | | seated among | tes before the held an im.) union and other orga line. | paying a 7-cent t the ington and a has been in confere , helr re ame om. various ng to sup the ¥ time, port word, ne her inier thelr others,” ov 4 part of |nomina’ |gates who | decided BABY BO SEEKS A HOME! Deserted Mother F ‘nds Herself Unable to Support 2. Week-Old Youngster and Wishes to Part With Him — Before She Grows Too Fond to Bear the Separation. "THERE'S QNE husky boy-baby in Seattle, of clean, American stock, 2 7 weeks old, who is ready to take tight hold of the hearts of some man and woman and give them a lifetime of love— He has black hair and always knows how to grin. His black hair he inherits from his father, and it is, according to all © laws of eugenics, a safe bet that his brave spirit and wholesome character © are the heritage given him by his mother. s as s HE CALLED at The Star office this morning. She is 21 years old. She isn’t “pretty.” But she is good-looking, ” clear-eyed, neat, trim and full of health and courage, despite a flock of troubles, There were tears in her eyes when she told her story, which is an old story, with no shame in it, for any one save the wandering youth to whom ~ the ties of marriage mean less than the impulse to be on the move. “We were married five years ago,” she explained, “and we have a boy of 3. I can work and support him, but I can’t bring up two children t what I want them to have. “T must give the baby away before I grow to love him too much. ; “My husband is in the navy. He can’t stay in one place. He isn’t bad —but I hope never to see him again. “Lwant to-give baby to some one who will take good care of him. see that he is well educated. They don’t have to be rich. And I don’t want © to know who has him or ever to see his foster-parents.” “He need never know that he had any other father and mother.” s s ‘THE STAR promised not to divulge the name of the mother. But we 4 did promise to do all in our power to find the best possible home for her baby a The child is immediately to be given expert care by -the child welfare ” bureau o fthe city health department, and Dr. H. M. Read, health offi- cer, will give his prospective foster-parents a certificate attesting to the | little fellow’s physical and mental condition. Of course, all applications to adopt this child will be treated as sa- eredly confidential. ‘ Write to the “Baby Editor” of The Star, giving your qualifications for rearing this home-hungry baby as your own. WRITE! No attention will be paid to telephone calls. Lowden’s Stock Is Booming as Republicans Start Conventior RICKEY yr dare to do it and thus put the/and places arranged with a CHICAGO, I, June &— stamp of party approval Lowden drive has not exhaust | den’s boodie methods itself. The Illinois governo | Upon the answer to that questioh stock is a few pdints higher th: |the entire character of the conven: it was yesterday. tion hinges. It is & good many points high- | rr jt is decided in the affirmative | er than at any time since its big | the ticket is pretty apt to be Lowden | stump, which followed the find | 4nq Coolidge, and the show will be} ing of Lowden money 4 the over about Friday night — of certain Missouri del If it Is decided in the negative it! Ls oks ea o If compelled to select |100ks like a g number of bal- one were compell lots, with the convention ‘one name from the 20 odd whieh fate nent tee compose the a ore Excepting Lowden, there does not potential cae tne safest to se, (seem to be a candidate who has| name woul much of a chance of being nomi- nated in the early ballcting tho n reaches the Tho above is set down not from | jority of deuipetan te ‘inane! any desire to pose as a prophet, but agree on one of the wn hago as the most logical analysis I have jitical candidates, it is not outee first five ballots See een tan openg. Ue |of the possibilities that it will da Ne powerful » group of |thing that some of the wisest : | On the assumption that the pro- political leaders here, ee as decide not te do| me" here would like to see | com vary largely of members | fesstonal politicia |that is nominate Hoover. sroweatlonal committee, are pre.| What they would like to do for Low- cap Tei tow. their support. to |e", because of the fear that they JACK DEMPSEY . might not be able to elect him, we Lowden and with their support such | ™8™ delegates an they can control or can | Shall see the most interesting nation- Will Appear in Frisco Court on Low-|getting his best attention and sideration, The committee which is di the Hoover campaign is pi on the theory that a majority delegates are patriotic who will vote for the ablest date, after they have d their political obligations. In the language of business, H er is being “sold” to the on his merits. Incidentally Hoo running | great popularity with the voters ¢ }all parties and classes is sized There is no doubt that many gates are impressed. If the cont odds-on-fa- | field, but he is! best position to get the on if the prize is to be won is by no meas an against within ti The host professiona wed fluence. al convention of recent years, with influenc’ 4 the result likely to be uncertain up} bg aetna taba tne dele to the very minute that the lucky vay candidate has garnered the 409 | Hone, ‘would ‘put hire in aight, of | (hSt sts necessary to ‘inoue he no 01 a | ‘The possibilities in such re rene The big question which ele ti tion open up a field for speculation | , ““!so vast that to analyze it in detail would require columns of newspa per space. There is one thing, how-| ss ‘ ever, which much be said. and not SAN FRANCISCO, June &.—Jack jonly be or bere ut Bie te | Dempsey, heavyweight champion, cause it is tremendously interesting. | win be brought to trial today in the — REAL ESTATE This is it: There is a strong under-| United States district court, ad P: Turn to Classified Page || current of sentiment developing for | with evading the draft. today and see the attrac- || Hoover | eS et - There is not much Hoover talk econd- charge against the tive, “buys” in Seattle poral |S. ch Hoover talk in| pug is whethehr these a, list and his manager, Jack Kearns, the street or the hotel lobbies, but 2 | nal estate, Seattle is |! there is a lot of it among the dele. | that of conspiring to evade the dratty Ass scabetan |gates when they are tafxing among | “il! be tried later. growing and property ||fhemscives and when they are ex: ggclene “OY, Speman, See teeiat Htane Best nited States district attorney, will values are a good invest- | changing connacnoes With NewsPa:| direct the prosecution, while Attors ment in any growing || ‘The hundreds of men and women| pees Gavin Badate Pi: ier. ™ city. Many homes can re rare onk tor Hoover, Rave, ac| The case. will be heabdby be bought and paid for ||veloped an organization which is|/¥48* Dooling. hd sawiier senit, functioning smoothly and efficiently. like paying The Hoover arguments are being| How <mealiee is te J presented to every delegate at times our midnight