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

Pride colder southwesterly Temperature Last 34 Hours Maximum, 86. Today noon, increasing Friday; mod- Mt Ree On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise eSeattle Star Entered as Second Clase Matter } || AS IT SEEMS TO ME DANA SLEETH | } UNDAY afternoon I was f] rooting around and thru & lot of old books, and I chanced on a little faded volume called “Fletch @f's Appeal,” which some of the Ministers may rememt for Fletcher was one stalwart j Orators and argufiers an N orthodoxy, and never was t! * better when it ca © the innate cussedn estate of man Tucked away in found two old r marking a pass: that grandmoth Aside and parted from Mr, Pletcher @nd his particular brand of pious Deliet ‘way back in "63. Grand Mother had a streak of feminism j inher, and I suspect that she 3 Gluded that Mr. Filetchtr w bogus as the pseudo me bly the bills were se Some of her boys, or by grandfa 4 ther, for the women folks were all that were left at home in ‘63 in our family. 4 I read what Mr. Fletcher had to i @ay in the marked passage. May- be you win « ckie out of it, tho, doubtie im soul of Fletgher wou er could. it kknow that th e excited lev ity in a later generation. herself ted but breat ot her, as He did her husband, to make him a livi goul. Therefore, when Adam saw her, be said, ‘She shall be called God breath Woman,’ because she, her whole gett, not her body only, pas taken of man, If, then, the soul of first woman sprang from Ad woul, as her body from his ly, what reason have we to be that the souls of her poster immediately infused, as ‘Adam's was, when God created him? Fletcher is here arguing for the fallen, depraved state of man, and fe “proving” that humanity, com- img from Eve, ts not grace.” but is rather cr fmiquity, and that Adam only he only until the fall, was made tn God's image and had a genuine im- Mortal soul. This was good Church of Eng: land doctrine a hundred years ago, or 50 years ago, but I think th When grandma hit on this, she ge tly closed the little brown book tucked the two pseudo-bills in nes ty, and put both faisities away for “born in science, feine, invention housing we have pro ceeded a long way since grandma closed the tds tight on Rev. Fletcher and left him wrap ped in his false ideas and false eurrency, but we have gone further 1 fm the matter of our creed, of our belief, of our religious fundamen tals, than we have in anything else. « Fletcher would not be happy in any civilized pulpit today. We have been laying stress on the love texts and less on those « damnation; and we remember that even if Adam fell, we are still cre ated in His ima and made but & “little lower than the angels.” ia Probably the most astounded, , the most grieved and the most 4 worrowful soul in the universe ; would be the sou! of the merciful } Christ, could it see, thru the dark ( ages of blind, staggering, bigoted ereed bound church-choked hu Manity, what has been preached a a Christianity ‘| DON’T know what the Rev, Fletcher did to re lax. Certainly, he at tended no marriage feasts nor mingled in the festivities of the humble. W ness what he sa about dancing “Listen to thos musical sounds, } mixed with 4 noise of stamping here you win find many profusely Sd perspiring and violently fatiguing if themselves in skipping up and down a room for a whole night, and ridiculously turning their hundred different w Would not a man of sense prefer run { ten miles upon a useful errand to thiy senseless manner of losing his ) yest, heating his blood, exhausting his spirit, unfitting himseif for t duties of the following day, and e in foundation of a putrid ©, or a consumption by breath | ing the midnight air N Here m net, and in spirit we b ver r Don't pi t don’t @ance, don't rejoice in thy youth don’t heat your blood: if you want exercise, run an err And t as ever, the grim Puritan nda that t 1 quit dancing, quit la uit @njoying the sun, and the mc And the flowers, and the romantic , Rights of June, becaus 6 glad you're alive ix sinfu 1 poor Bs Jenly worm And yet there wa marriage feast ong time that Christ blessed with Hix presence, and there is no gnention made there of any preact ing, exhortation melancholy sighing. I guess Fletcher would have had @ tough time had he been invited, May 2, 1899, at the Postoffice at Meattle, Wash under the Act of Congress, March OLSHEVIKI ROUT POLISH ARMY ». Per Year, by Mail, $5 to $9 LATE EDITION WA ii, ‘SE ATTL THU RSD AY, JU L) Y 8, 1920, TWO CENTS IN SEATTLB POST CARD CLUE IN SEARCH FOR S Seattle Going Wet! 10, ,000 Bathers Flock Fi igures Cc TWO STOLEN ;: RLS HERE Signed Message May Be “Blind,” Tacoma Mother Tells Reporter IF YOU SEE EM, CALL THE POLICE FLORENCE WILSON is when biwe sult and brown fon TWO FROST TRETH A MISSING, IF You police, Kaighe te ounted tor, hidnaping the little irk SEE THEM, notify the Seattle's two girl kidnaping cases deepened in mystery toda: ” a of Los Angeles, and her moron abductor, Clyde Bissell, traced | {to this city, apparently have van-| ished from the face of the earth, A new clae was obtained this morning in the other case—that of il-yearold Florence Wilson, of Ta coma, who, it is charged, was kid naped by her stepfather, Elmer C. | Kaight, last Friday, and brought to Seattle. Mrs. Bessie Wileon, mother of | | Florence, recetved a postcard, with | the message I'm leaving.” | MYSTERIOUS CARD } jerated postmark | MAILED FROM HERE Tt was signed “Florence. wag nothing else on the card, except the address, and a partially obiit which indicated it There | was mailed at the Seattle terminal station at 4 p. m, on a date that ould not be deciphered | jous t | grand | postcard Other than to confirm their previ ory that Florence and her her were in le, the clue was of no value to de on They tectives. worki the case were unable to find a further (race of the vanished pair. Interviewed by.a reporter for The Star In her Tacoma home today, Mrs | Wilson said she belleved the post card was a blind to throw searchers off the track. “Moreover,” she sald, “IT am post tive the message was dictated. If Florence had written it of ber own | Bisvell wag a | Magee hom free will, she would have said more bor not seen my little girl since she left home Friday afternoon to go to “Mr. Kn and when 1 worked and then a movie t lives next door to us, earned that he had only hour Friday afternoon had come home and changed his clothes and gone away again, I made up my mind he had stolen my, duughter one “1 waited until midnight before 1 notified tke police and asked them to |do something. The next day I swore jout a warrant cha Mr. Knight with kidnaping “I’m sure Florence didn’t intend to leave home when she want to the | movie, She didn’t act in any way to arouse my suspicions, She didn’t take any of her clothes, except what he | WIFE OF MISSING J on, not even her coat MAN IS SILENT “She had on just a little light and a yellow hat and white canvas slipper “I haven't dared to tell the other children yet that she is sost. The two little boys expect she'll be back tomorrow Knight had been working at the| Todd shipyards, Tacoma, as a ma chinist. He k only the clothes “ wearing, it is believed, but his fe refused to g r to give ve any information her opinion of what has become of her husband or whether ¢ had stolen the little girl Detectives believe, they say, that ght may have struck out for Can possibly mailing the posteard to Wilson just before leaving S¢ the case of Elizabeth Magee Bissell, they admit they completely baffled, having been pick “ap the trail her were reported headed thru la. Elizabeth was nearly three former boarder in the d after the disappe ance wrote letters to Jlizabeth's mother describing horribly the young girl's fate, tle for Ca kidnaped we | More men, women and children have flirted with Seattle's surf this week, to date, than during any other cone week #ince the Sound was wet For rine months they have kept the salt water—and now they are going at the rate of almost 10,000 a day. During the two days of July 4 and 5, 40,000 bhithers were checked at the six municipal beaches in Sen ‘There is no age limit, there is no size limit; grfy-haired grandmothers «: in with 2 ar-olds; the sizes run, says irvin Daily, one of the life guards at Alki beac m 50 pounds to 600. Dally has served as life guard there for five years during the summer season, and is as brown as an In dian 6604 BATHERS CHECKED THIS YEAR 50 and kiddies by the hun in the surf and bake on nd they appear to be equally pleased with the results, The total number of bathers for the week ending Jul: wae 45,391, and the to. tal for the season checked up last night wa 66,604 Five rescues a day were made by the guards.during the month of June and §1. to date beach season lasts from June until Labor day each year, and all bathhouses are 11 am until 7 p At hour, suits cannot be taken ‘The stx bathing beaches are: Mount Baker park beach, Woodland park at the south end of Green lake, which is particularly a children's beach, and has the largest attend unee of any of the beaches, listing 1,000 on Jv Woodland park, on the northwest side of Green lake Madrona beac eward park beach and Alki beach At Alki beach only towels be rented, scents 18 made to cover that ex pense. All other municipal beaches are free. Two life guards are can euits aca stationed at each beach, except Alki, where there | degrees cooler than at the same hour |are three. Extra guards are put on| Wednesday. Increasingfy cloudy for busy days, Instructors have not| Weather and cooler is promised for been stationed at the beaches, but an| tonight and Friday, with moderate | lo made by the city southwesterly winds. | eee out classes under in tructor 20 Pretty Girls Wanted to Pilot Capital Scribes Twenty pretty Seattle girls who can drive automobiles, now out of commission of the gas shortage, are as volun teers ‘Thursd: Friday to take hewspaper pondents from Washin for a trip over the ards, A sup ply of gasoline has been reserve thru courtesy of District Manager John MeLean of the Standard Oil company, Volunteers telephorie the publicity bureau of the Chamber of Commerce, Main 6060, giving the license number of cars for reg istration at the service station, because wan nd corre ton, D. ©. city bouley to e requeste and a charge of4 to Beaches Every Dey. hecked U Up 1 | Here are three of the 10,000 bathers who are flocking daily to Seattle’s municipal beaches —figures approved by the park department. Above isa fair estimate of the proper ap- parel for young women who take to the water. Below shows a young Green Lake | bather who has heard of Wai- ki She found some bull rushes and managed to divert attention from her older sis- tide ~ Cres -Dale _Photos. It’s a Bit Cooler, | Says Thermometer fox. de nine thermpmeter reached * At 11 o'clock Thursd: Seattle Getting Ice Habit Toda Almost 300 tons of ice, or about 30 tons than the usual amount were delivered in Seattle during the |lawt 24 lealers report that they will have plenty of ice to supply all demands. more Louisiana ( Rejects Suffrage Bill ROUGE, La., July 8.—The for Louisiana's ratification federal suffrage amendment glimmering today, when the house rejected, 62 to 46, Represent itive Cox's attempt to introduce the | ratification measures. To bring up the bill again now re. jquires a two-thirds consent in either |house. The legislature is scheduled to adjourn tonight. BATON last hop of the went KIDNAPING MYSTERY 6 PERSONS VICTIMS OF DROWNING Seattle Woman Discovers! Body of Man in Lake Near Madison Park Mins Josephine Dunlap, of 1810 Laurels dincovered the body of Hen Opsahl, a neighbor, sub merged In four feet of water near bia houseboat on the Lake Washing beach at Madison park, about 7 ant night by city hospi doc that the man's life been extinct before he hit the water. It was likely, doctors waid, that Opmah| suffered from sun stroke, then toppled into the lake ton tors disclosed ight hav ’ | Miss Dunlap helped other persons Ton the beach get the body from the water, thon summoned. the police. Opsah!’s watch, found in hin rousers pocket, was stopped with ithe hands at 3 o'clock, presumably ithe time he fell into the lake, ac tors. City Couneciiman Harry Bolten took charge of the body and had it removed to Butterworth's was a member of Bakers’ union No. 9, of which Bolton ts alxo a member | Bolton said he was making an effort to find trace of the dead man's rela | tives, believed to live in one of the Dakotas, had been Il. the lake or heard the splash. The ogee were found to be free of water. ‘seed ave. No one saw him fall into Lake Being Dragged for Body of Youth Lake Samish was being dragged | Thursday for the body of Lindor Larsen, 17, son of Peter Larsen, 2117 N, Sard st, who was drowned while swimming Tuesday night The Larsensx were bound for Seat tle from Vancouver in an auto. They stopped to carp all night on shores of the lake, Lindor got a {boat and rgwed out to the middie of the lake was diving from the boat. He 4s thought to have been stricken with cramps, as his father says he was good swimmer, His clothes w found in the boat ee Father Drowns as Wife, Son Watch)! ABERDEEN, July 8.— William Spuler, of Uniontown, Whitman }eounty, stepped into a hole while | wading in the Chehalis river yegber, day and was drowned while his wife land small soh ‘stood on the bank | watching him, The Spuler family had been picnicking . The body was recovered. ‘ |Body of Woman Is Found in N. Y. Lake NEW YORK, July 8.-Is the body of the carefuilygroomed woman, found yesterday in the lake of Cen tral park, that of Mrs. Daniel M Redell, wife of the millionaire club: man? A vanity case found on the dead woman contained a note asserting that she was the wife of the sports | man. Friends Think Man Was Not Drowned WENATCHEE, July 8.—Friends of | Carl Ogden, expert rider and stock man, do not believe he was drowned jin the Columbia ri , and have of. fered $100 reward for information concerning him, Ogden was on his | way to cross the river for cattle, His |horse returned home, A search has | been on since lant month. Girl Is Drowned; Man Fatally ‘Hurt | here yesterday, Kistler was a dele gate to the democratic national con- vention. H. J. Pink, of Los Angeles, was killed in attempting to rescue the girl, His head struck @ reck, frac- turing his skull, foortifig to Policeman K. L, Web». | | who reached the scene with the doc | Opmnht | For some weeks, it Is anid, Opmhi | spending most of his/ time in his houseboat, at 1812 Laurel: | the | the last seen of him he} Policeman “Shoots Square” Pup May. Sais Life of 6-Year-Old Invalid Finds Pal rate Invalid ‘Boy | | i | There's a little sick boy lying in & hammock todayton a shady porch at |580% 24th ave. W.. looking up [into the blue heavens with hope and ja mighty resolye in his heart | Lioyd Hayen is 6) One week ago a grave-faged doctor said Lioyd had a | chance to recover, if everything went | j exceedingly Well At Lloyd's bedside, suffering with |him at every: twitch of his twisting | muscles, were his father and mother, Mr. and “Mrs. A. E. Hagen; his brother, Garland, 9, and their collie dog, Teddy. For. a week previous, father and! mother’ had- slept, sometimes, be. tween the long watches of the night, but Teddy never. Day in, day out; hight in, njght out, the dog had with his long, soft nose close to Lioyd's cramping fingers, leaving | him. long enough only to warn away | |passersby and troublesome motorists. | ig Autos were Teddy's enemies, Four of the principal actors Seattle's newest boy-dog- policeman romance. (Above ;—Garland Hagen and Teddy, Jr., the collie pup who played a part in saving the life of | (center) Lloyd Hagen, the lit- | tle sick boy, who is recuperat-} ing in the hope that some day} undisturbed. Much depended on| he may become a big. kind po-| soothing conditions at the bedside,| ligeman like (below) Lieut. E. and as much on the lad’s own desire! ( Collier, benefactor. to live. If he had in his mind some great —Cress-Dale Photo. objective, some impelling reason why | ——+——2—_________ he must not die, perhaps Lioyd might) pull thru, the doctor said, | That was the situation when Police | Rleutenant K&. C, Collier sped down) 24th ave, in his automobile, hurrying | jto headquarters, and when Teddy, | hated their groaning brakes and their | impatient horns. It was last Friday when Lloyd |reached the crisis of his tliness, | ‘The doctor emphasized that his little patient must be kept quiet and were. He learned the facts. He has seven children of his own, and he| knows all about what is in the hearts of little boys. He looked at Lloyd |thru a window, and turned away. the collie, | rged into the street and| AND NOW Ke was fatally injured beneath the| WANTS TO BE A COP wheels of Collier's car. “Tell him,” said Collier, “IN get POLICEMAN DID |NoT SPEED AWAY | ‘The dog, whining pitifully, jback and died on the steps in Mrs. him another dog, And it will. be a} better dog than Teddy.” crawled| And so the policeman implanted in |the sick lad’s mind the impelling de. iBritish War Office C jing of Polish resistance |the entire front from | patches reaching here | many sources today. | tion today upon receipt of ‘indicated that a great battle was ‘veloping along: the entire ed Over Success of Soviet Troops LONDON, July 8. |German to the Austrian b |ders was indicated in Bolshevik _ forces out a_ well-planned milit | maneuver by moying in cers formation from Rovno, and have now co |trated their forces for | straight drive toward saw. 5 Latest advices here showed th after having captured Mohilev, Red troops at Baranovitch and Lutsk had closed in, allowing | rear guard to come up with forces, Loss of Rovno was admitted Warsaw message, which | Polish volunteers were pouring jarmy headquarters for Polish southern flank, lapsed under strong Bol (tacks, resulting in capture by Reds of Staro-Konstantinov, chev and Podolsk on the Dn Rumanian forces were being hurried to the assistance | the Poles. The British war office took simistic view of the Polish that Red troops were contii their advance, after having « . in Volhynia. Advices from Sofia today general Rumanian mobilization under way and the Rumanian eral staff had announced its ini of erecting a strong defense the Bolshevik along the entire sarabian front. Anti-Bolshevik fo in the Ukraine were reported to be a precarious position. Warsaw dispatches said fight was continuing from Polodst to odechno and all along the running into Vilna, Polish forces have begun & | grouping in Vothynia preliminary tf t a counter attack, Dispatches fi Moscow, Warsaw and other o wht eal front. a A wireless dispatch from Moscow today said: “A battle is In progress north of Staro and Konstantinot, where Soviet _ troops flung back the Poles and oo cupied Lititcheff. We have also oc cupied Mogileff and Pedolsk. Fierce fighting continues thruout the whole of Crimea. ee BERLIN, July 8.—Indisputable te ports have been received from Poland showing that the entire Polish from the Pripet to the Carpathi has completely broken dow: dispatch to the Berlin wireless pe today. White Russians were reported have revolted against the Poles many sections. Traffic on railroads) running into Minst, Baranevichi and Bjelos®k was declared to be pletely paralyzed as a result of red advance. Many bridges rivers in that section were dest eee British Warship Fires on T: STANTINOPLE, July See co |Turkish forces at Beicos today fired jupon the British dreadnaught I Duke, lying in the harbor. The tleship returned, the fire, shelling the © Turkish positions. a They Carry Pure © ° ° Brandy in Vanit; Cases These CAMP CURRY, Yosemite, Cal.) Hagen's arms. Garland, witnessing | sire to live July 8—-Authorities today were drag-|thé accident and the death of hig) The crisis passed. Today, Lloyd is ging the Merced river for the body | beloved pet, cried out lable to He in the hammock and hold jof Gertrude Kistler, -12-year-old| “Teddy's dead! Teddy's killed!" @ little soft, brown collie puppie, | jdaughter of Sedgwick Kistler, of} And Lloyd, hearing his brother’s/named Teddy, jr., in his arms, and/ |Lockhavén, Pa, who was drowned! cry, was dealt the blow that the doc-| the hope and the mighty resolve in| |the heart of th boy, as he looks up lad, | into the blue heavens, is that, some day, when he gets well and strong, { and grows up, and gets fat, is that he may be a policeman who fetches puppies to little sick boys and saves their lives, had most feared "Teddy dead! echoed twisting in bis pain He might have died, but Collier,| stopping his car, ran across the) street and up onto the porch where Teddy and Mrs, Hagen and Garland tor the The latest thing in smart set is the prohibition van- | ity case, Employes of the municipal rath way lost and found department openéd a purse that was pi up on a Capitol Hill street Thursday Looking for marke | of identification, Inside the case rested a vial—sufficient for one and in the vial_ drink- F