The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 26, 1920, Page 1

, x § {iii ‘Temperature Last 24 Hours Maximum, 72. Today Minimum, 54. On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise Rntered as Second Clase Matter May 3, 1899, at the Postoffice at Beattie, Wash. under the Act of Congress March %, 1879. The Seattle Star Per Year, by Mail, $5 to $9 9 VOLUME HE family went to town on the Glorious Fourth to celebrate. The kiddies wanted some firecrackers, and I went forth to buy a few. And at the first corner stand I was in- formed that firecrackers, torpe @oes, lady crackers, fireworks, bombs, cap _ pistols—everything ~ that could make a noise—was bar- ‘ Fed within the city limits, The city made a noise like a deaf-mute funera); there was about as much Patriotic ardor as there is any Bloomy November afternoon tn « Moss-cdvered family yault under - the weeping willows, and we load ®@d ourselves into the family hack @nd returned to the country. Then I loaded the shotgun and fired both barrels out of the: front @oor and yelled, “Hurrah for George Washington™ I loaded the ®opher gun and pulled the string, and, ‘mid bombs bursting in air, I yelled, “Three cheers for the conti Rental congress!” By that time everybody was tn a fine glow of martial and patriotic ardor, so I planted three sticks of @ynamite under the pine stump that has been camping in the back _ yard for too long a visit, and as ) the stump clove the heavens { | yelled once more, “Three cheers | and a tiger for life, Wberty and the © pursuit of happiness, and darn _ England” | And there wasn't a city ord mance within ten miles of me to check my laudable demonstration. eee HATS the trouble with cities. Laws are heaped on laws, officers are herded together in dense Packs to enforce these laws Every time the council Meets there is some new string Yied to the public, and from walk- fing on the grass to walking at all after 9 p.m. is “verboten.” TN bet in all Seattle there are not a hundred families so remotely and happily situated that they @are to put on and pull off a por. ous plaster. Any one who ever skinned a man-size porous plaster from the inflamed back of & male citizen ‘wil get my meaning. Some excitable neighbor woman ‘would be calling the police before you could get the first corner Pulled loose from dad. You are not your own man in town, Every time you mow the lawn you feel the eyes of the neigh borhood upon you, Every time you start to put on a set of comfort ably greasy overalls to tinker with the fiivver, the wife will say: “Oh, John, don't! What will the neigh bors think?” Every half-hour the poor, trussed-up and herded children are warned not to get their clothes soiled: “Why, I wouldn't have Mrs. Brown see you with that dirty / face for worlds! And how is a kid to make a mud pie without getting his face smeared? Hardly can a baby cry without the families for a block being dis turbed. The piano has to atop at 10 @olock, The neighborhood parties must put on the soft pedal an hour after dark. No man is big enough, strong-minded enough, to venture out on his front porch and yodel not in all Seattie can you find a a Teally good yodler, I bet you . er ts | —a LI, this has a psychol feal effect. City peo are repressed; they are bound down and suffer from th ingrowing grouches 6 warly And oun pictous; the the blue-coated “guardia peace, & wert-like otay man that is neither deserved by th righteousness ¢ ner compatible anism City life, at echool, is one lngye child, from its toddling majority Rules, regulations, neighborhood opinion, fear of publicity, fear of . Deing thought queer--thene bir down until no wonder we get into et respect for of the “we republic in the for the bome and “don't days to t N us ‘a rut and stay there, like a snap: 4 ping turtle in tts shell in the mud ra On my ranch I am king; my j flocks and my herds and my crops gre my vassals; my word in law to the bounds of my land, and in six 4 years or sixteen, the farmer will 4 Hever be molested by a peace offi cer——not if the officer has good q sense How is a man going to be a nov. } ereign citizen, an independent vot \ er, » force for good in the com t munity, if he never does any bons. ing, never dares express himself, 7 never lifts up his volce and howls 4 Mke @ v { tt pleases him? i Cities are petticoated, a | nished, and tied up with pitk and blue ribbons, and if they get a cir + * der in their ¢ little eye they call fan ambulance and go to th pita} for a couple of ¢ the In the country men are truly arbiters of their destiny, and on their own legs they stand, if they stand at all SLOW WIND STOPS STH CONTEST |Both Yachts Drifting Limp- ly in Fifth Contest With Resolute in n Front 8. | ABOARD U | GOLDSBOROUGH, July 26.—(Wire- The fickle wind again today | caused postponement of the decision }in the international yacht races off | Sandy Hook he race was called off after Sham. rock and Resolute drifted around the 15-mile course for four and a half jhours in air which ranged from a dead calm to a breeze of not more | than four knots an hour DESTROYER | less.) eee | AROARD U. 8 DESTROYER! |GOLDSBOROUGH, July 26.—{Via | Wireless )}—The fifth race for the America’s yachting cup developed in- | to @ drifting contest today. With a breeze which came first out | of the north and then switched to the |south, but never increased to more | than four knots, the two contenders | drifted down the Jersey coast, Two | hours after getting under way, Res- olute was lending, wag still 25 miles | from the finish, 10 miles from the turning buoy. Shamrocx led across the starting | line by 56 seconds after the start of | the contest had been delayed half an | hour in the hope of a stable breeze. | She immediately tuffed, with the Res olute at her heels, The yachts ran about five miles off the course when | Capt. Adama jibbed. Shamrock held fon too long and got too close to the } land, losing the breeze, | Resolute, with a fatr wind, footed | out ahead and at one time had a lead of @ quarter of a mile. ‘SOLUTE SOON CLOSES | Gar AT THE START | Poth yachts cronmed the line under ballooners and Shamrock at once headed far off the course on @ tuffing match to the westward, | Patrol beats scampered around, aring @ passage among the f9l lowing craft for the racers Shemrock paid off first and was [immediately followed by Resolute Resolute, th official time showed, }was nearly a minute behind the |challenger in crossing the line. The | defender, however, soon closed up ing almost on an even basis 10 minutes after the start. The official time was: | Shamrock, 12:30:29. | Resolute, 12:3 Shamrock led by 56 seconds. The yachts were four miles off their course at 1:10. A new wind ap- peared coming up from the south. | At 1:20 Shamrock was leading by quarter of a mile Imed. ne Shamrock began to pick up a land breeze at 1:30 and gained little jrapidly. Resolute was almost be |calmed, 400 yards astern | The wind, which had been from | the north, hauled to the east at 2 |p. m king the course a reach and possibly a beat. Resolute picked it up first and be n to move well ahead, | besides being to the windward | The yachts wer east of the H » three miles south lands light at 2:10, anding rt tack ir with | shead Resolute 50 yards Resolute was also 100 yards to the windward, The wind had died down jeesin until they Junt had steerag way. At that time they were more than 10 miles to the leeward of the mark Shamrock ran into another air ket, while the Resolute held the breeze, and at 2:20 the American boat had established a lead of 200 yards jand was traveling v fast | At 2:20 Resolute was a quarter of |a mile ahead Shamrock held on to her ballooner | to gain The yachts started on a fine-mile beat to the outer mark at 2:40, Res one-quarter of a mile the windward. t under way at 12:30 after considerable delay due to calm weather | The regatta committee boat holat |ea the flag postponing the contest] until later in the day half an hour before the scheduled starting time The wind was not even wufficlent to carry Shamrock to th rting ine. She was about two miles from | Ambrose lghtship when ohe ran| linto a calm and signalled for as |sistance to tow her to the starting | point | ‘The wind, from the northeast, had |fallen to about three miles an hour Weather sharks sald there was (Turn to Page 2, Colump ™ the gap ani both yachts were mail. | and both yachts | little west of south on the| SE ATTL E, WASH.,, MONDAY, JULY 26, 1920. YACHT RACE Peace Now! Later—What? An Open Letter to the Congressional Committee Investigating the Japanese Question Members of the Immigration Committee, House of Representatives: the nation. will our happiness be balanced. a racial, problem. } same. pening here. happening in California. What HAS happened in | | ese are checked now. agreements”; no loopholes of any kind. country. Let no sentimentalists becloud the issue. | Mother Offers to Sell Baby, Then Weakens NEW YORK, July 26.—“For Sale Young widow will part with lovely 2%year-old girl; Irish parentage; mother is in poor health.” That is the whole story, Katherine ‘SHERIFF SLAIN BY PRISONERS Umatilla Desperadoes Make} Escape After Crime PENDLESON, Ore, July 5 —With the aid of bloodhounds, & posse today captured Albert | McNulty, @ ‘pretty, dark-haired, 29. Lindgren, one of the six men | year-old mother, said today, when | who escaped from the Umatilla |asked about the advertisement in- county jail here Sunday. serted in papers here. Many bids Lindgren was taken near |had been received for the curly Cayuse, 14 miles east of Pendle ton. The other five fugitives have | been traced to Meacham, in the haired Margaret, who played about the tiny, clean room. Brave at first, the little mother was loath to give up her child when the time for part | Bine tains, 48 miles south- |ing came, and so far has refused all east of ndleton, offers, | Weed The mothet’s story was one of a PENDLETON, July 26.—A posse numibering hundreds of men is losing struggle against poverty and illness. Her husband died three years ago. She struggled bravely to care for her two children, Martin and Margaret, and ggemed to be succeed | Ore., for from searching today six prisoners | |who escaped the Umatilla | county jail yesterday afternoon after |ing until last spring, when she was | nurdering Sheriff T. D. Taylor. hese odie’ sata Bloodhounds from the Washington cer tate penitentiary at Walla Walla] Physicians Deny were rushed to the seene of the kill ing and wets sant dut on til trail Clemenceau Is III) | 41 Hart, an Indian 2, in said PATUIS, July 26. Physicians who to oh ave shot Sheriff Taylor, wholhave been attending former Pre Ww fu struggling with another pris |mier Clemenceau today issued a joner. denial that “the Tiger” was ill and | ‘The mix prisoners overpowered | stated he would return to Paris Deputy Sheriff Jake Martin nd hadjion Frid from Vichy, where he left the jail office when they were|lad been taking treatment. met by Sheriff T: r and another — deputy The officers immediately |Bela Kun Interned |closed in on the men and the mur-| der of the sheriff occurred during in Germany Camp ex e- aie does then sclzed guns| LONDON, July 26.—Bela Kun, ind ammunition from the eheriff's|former Hungarian dictator, has loffice and boarded a freight train. | been interned in a camp at Passau, |they rode four miles east of Pendle.| Germany, according ts dispatches ney a fled Into the wooded soun,|here today. ‘The Berlin govern fey where jt Is beloved they neparat. | ment hax not replied to Hungary's led to make search more difficult demand for his extradition |Sinn Feiners Kill | Coast Guard Men} DUBLIN, July 26. | guard officers were killed in on the coast guard station by Veiners here early today Sei OF HUMOR CAUSE OF TROUBLE WALLA WALLA, July 26.—Joe Buchino had @ sense of humor, any. way. ‘Tho sheriff found him setting up @ stil] on Dry creek Two coast | a rald| Sinn Gentlemen—In the hollow of your hands may lie the peace and prosperity of the Pacific Coast and In proportion to the fearlessness with which the Japanese question is tackled and settled There can be no temporizing, no shirking, no dodging the issues. We are face to face with a great economic, if not In Washington, Japanese pene- tration has not yet reached the depth it has in Cali- fornia, but the earmarks of the menace are the What HAS happened in California is hap- What HAS happened in Washington is happening in Idaho and in Colorado and points farther east. What IS happening in the Rocky Mountain states will soon enough happen in the middle west and in the east—unless thé Japan- They can be checked NOW by peaceable means, Later it may be too late. Rigid exclusion is thé guar- antee of peace. No picture brides; no “gentlemen’s the same right to exclude Japanese when they men- ace our economic happiness as the Japanese have to exclude Chinese and Koreans from their own Hawaii is arty We have The Jap- Left to right-—Gov. Rep. laaac Siegel, New York; Rep. Albert Johnson, Washington; Raker, California, and Rep..John C. Box, Tezas. anese problem presents practical questions of im- You must view them as practical men. You must view them with courage—and you must act with courage—even tho your acts must be drastic THE SEATTLE STAR. portance, to be thorough. Louis F. Hart, first witne CAPTURE ONE FUGITIVE TWO CE NTS IN SEATTLE IN SEATTLE Rep. William N. V fo John 0. —Cress-Dale Photo. JAPS CONTROL PRICE OF FOOD Health Commissioner Re- ports to Mayor ‘That the municipal market Is | controlled and dominated by Japa- nese interests was the assertion made by Dr. H. M. Read, commis. sioner of health, in a report ren: dered to Mayor Caldwell morning. Pointing out that situation here is analogous to that in California, Dr. Read declared “The public market at the pres. ent time is controlled in the priced demanded tor produce by the Jap- anese themselves and they are the worst offenders in the matter of subleases, Dr. Rend's communication was in reply to criticisms made by the Rev. U. G. Murphy, Jap sympathiy. er and agent, that a majority of the stalls in the market are run |by salesmen and not by real pro- |ducers. The Rev. Murphy admit |ted that one group of Japanese merchants control 75 per cent .of the business of the city market. Dr, Read cited the opinion ren- dered by Corporation Counsel Wal- ter F. Meler to the effect that hold ers of subleases could not be de. nied the privileges of stalls in the market. That Japs and “whites” confer torether on the problem of keeping the market for actual producers, was declared impossible by Dr. Rend. “It would be Impossible so do as Mr. Murphy suggests and accom plish anything.” he stated. “The reason is entirely obvious—-the Japs and the ‘whites’ would not amal gamate in business matters any more n they do in other things.” Yes, Rafalo, the married man who repents at lelsure is lucky to have the leisure, MY nday/ the produce | Girl Who Made Bogus Money PORTLAND, July 26.—Dorothy Riley, 22, expert counterfeiter, is to- |day en route to Oakland, Cal., where she Intends to start life anew. The young woman just completed serving a ninemonth jail sentence |here for making bogus money with her husband, John Riley. The latter, who was sent to MeNeil’s island for a term of years, made his escape a few months ago, and is now a fugi tive “It's a losing game. You may win for a time, but in the end your luck can't hold, and you can't expect to jcash in anything except sorrow, grief and tears,” said the pretty Mrs Riley, before starting for California. “I'm still young and have a long life before me, and hereafter I'm g0- ing straight, You can bank on that.’ § MASKED MEN STEAL $11,000 CENTRAL FALLS, R. 1, July 26. ve masked men held wp the jer at the Union Credic Fran caise bank, on Fales street, at the point of revolvers today and es caped in an automobile with a strong box containing $11,000. Poindexter Murder Theory Abandoned CHICAGO, July 26.—Police have abandoned the murder theory in the investigution of the death of Max Poindexter, cousin of Senator Miles | Poindexter. Officials today say they }are certain his death was the result | Of suicide, Investigators reported that Poin- dexter suffered heavy financial losses, A letter writtepn a few days before his death showed he was not in good health Is Penitent! POSSES SEEK GIRL’S SLAYER Scour Woods for Mercer Island Pitchfork Murderer Sheriff's posses engaged in a man hunt for Jim Sphyridis, wanted for the murder on Mercer island, Satur- day, of 11-year-old Mary Jane Pap- pas, whom he speared with a pitch- fork when she rebuked him for curs- ing, centered their attention today on the vicinity of North Bend, Prac. tically certain he escaped the island before it had been thoroly searched, and reasoning that he would strike out for a ranch where he had been working recently near North Bend, a posse headed by Matt Starwich and including “Big Bill” Barr and Wil liam Sears, lay in hiding in the woods near the ranch all night Sphyridis, so far as has been learn. ed, has not yet disclosed himself to ask for food, If he has eaten since the killing of the little girl, he has foraged his meals from farmyards without knowledge of the inhabi- tants, The only have seen a man of Sphyridis’ scription is C. B. land, on the east side of Mercer island. Dewry informed deputy | sheriffs he believed it was the fugt tive, who obtained a rowboat from him about 9:30 Saturday night. He said the man pushed off with the boat towards Beaux Arts vil- lage, and at midnight a posse with bloodhounds were searching locality but the dogs failed to find Sphyridis’ scent. Two theories developed out of the incident, One that Sphyridis, if*the man in the boat was he, headed for Beaux Arts and then doubled back in the opposite direction to throw. his pursuers off, and another that he threw himself out of the boat and drowned himself in fear of the consequences of his capture, person who claims to de Dewry, of Fruit: It isn't always safe to judge the quality of men or cigars by their price, ™ EW A ie EDITION tBat | PRAISED AS GOOD CITIZENS | FORUS.A. “Shall We Encourage Our 3 Girls to Marry Them?” Is the Question Asked Dr. Crowther Judge John E. Raker, Calff congressman, leaned forward a table in a federal court today and asked Rev. Dr. Crowther, pastor of the First odist church, a question. ‘That question brought to murous close the first session the Seattle hearings of the © sional committee investigating Japanese problem on the coast. The question, voiced in a respectful and somewhat tone, was not answered. “Why, Dr. Crowther, don't invite the Japanese into your home and encourage them to your daughters?” “I decli Zz Thomas Burke, following Miller men, president of the Anti-J: league, who outlined the cont! of those opposed to Japanese tration in the United States. Judge Burke, in response to tions from’ committeemen, said he had been decorated by the = peror of Japan with the order of Rising Sun and considers this a “lee tinguished honor.” He said he been for about 15 years counsel the great Japanese trading © Nippon Yusen Kaisha, and has sented the Great Northern for a similar length of time. Great Northern, Judge Burke mitted in response to questions from the committee, was the first to port Japanese labor. JUDGE LAUDS JAP CHARACTER Judge Burke's testimony dealt at all with statistics, but was com” fined to laudation of Japanese char acter. Judge Burke said that the Japan 5 ese and whites could not am physically. . “Japan does not desire any such thing,” he said. “In Japan a native: who marries a white woman is looked ~ down upon.” The judge was placed on record ag opposing unrestricted immigration, but said that “the small number of — Japanese here now constitute no problem.” . Referring to protests against Jap- anese aggression, Judge Buri said: — “Every day that this propaganda ia ~ carried on we are wounding the pride and sensibilities of a proud nation.” He insisted that the gentleman's agreement was being scrupulously upheld. “PERFECT GE IN MY CHURCH" Dr. Crowther told the comniittes” that he had come to America 19 years ago in steerage; that in Eng- land he had been a cotton worker and that his education position he owed entirely to United States. He praised the Gulick bill, which would place the Asiatic immigrant on an even footing with others, but admitted that physical assim ilation of the Japanese was “im- possible,” “How in the world,” asked Judge — we Raker, “do you expect @ COM 5 — munity of divided races to be happy (Turn to Page 2. Column ® CANT BE LOS Nothing can be lost these days on account of the Want Ads, for the department of the Want columns, known as the Lost and Found column, is a certain way of finding and returning lost property. When you are a loser, or @ finder, don't fail to give the Lost and Found ads a chance, either to find your lost goeds } for you, or to be honest and | return the goods you have found to their rightful owner,