The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 7, 1920, Page 1

%, $ {Hi Weather Eg ...¢ and Sunday, fairy» moderate northwest- erly winds, Temperature Maximum 79 Neon, 33 VOLUME °23. AS IT SEEMS TO ME " DANA SL SLEETH HAVE been that city families seek suggesting ing a way out could often find salvation by getting onto a cheap, unimproved tract at the edge of town ‘and growing their own liv ing, without interfering with much ‘ of anything but the nightly movie, ‘This isn't a theory, because I I know an office man who for years has each summer handled a garden of half a city block. Not only has he raised his own sum pend and winter food, but he has sold enough to pay his meat and grocery bills, and has year by year piled up a savings account; this man’s salary is about all net cash, yhis garden and his selected flock of layers make him his living, and when old age knocks at his door he can invite it in and loaf with It fm comfort, without yelling for some grouchy son-in-law to throw "out a life line. And I suppose that on the aver. Age thru the year he has not put in two hours 4 day on his garden @nd with his chickens. Wasn't it worth it? ERE is another case, a station agent in a small town. His salary and living 9 expenses just about bal anced unfil he managed to get an option on half an acre of land on more inviting methéd for the erage city family to achieve inde- pendence I'll be- giad to give it all the free advertising at my com- mand, but to me this combination peers the only adequate one. eee ‘T is a mistake for ninety town families in the hundred to give up the town job and tackle the farm. ‘There are ten farmers goo the business for every cify man who, is prospering in his new field. For the man who has a regular pay check the farm is a pitfall be- cause he cannot estimate his in- come, and he cannet check jis outgo; he often bankrupt before he knows it. And today it requires capital in ‘wads to operate even the smallest farm unit that will insure a fam- Uy a living. You will make twice as much money buying Liberty Bonds as sy U * you will buying a farm and trying to farm it yourself But for the city man, who has @ Job and a family, the small, close- 4% home place, say of two city lots, where he can grow half his living in his otherwise idle hours, that is salvation. No matter how high wages may 0, no matter what increases you may sgcure in your salary, you will find that the cost of living will absorb the increase; ‘the worker who doesn’t face, this un- pleasant prospect, and who imag: ines that agitation is going to in crease the margin between his facome and his expenses is a @orker who fs fooling himself, no Matter what anybody promises. Fndeed, no matter what form of government may be had; if tomor row the country turned Bol shevik as Russia, still you would find that the lot of the taverage worker, salaried man, professional man, would be no whit better than it ig today; doubtless it would be vastly worse. The sooner it is pdunded home to each of us that ourronly salva- tion, and our only independence, and the only hope our children will have for a square deal, is for us to eut our overhead expense, our living costs in half, the sooner will we be getting ahead, During the war the nation got this cost-plus idea, this easy-money idea, thi notion of one set of workers profiting from the under paid labors of another set, so that thousands of good fellows imag- ined that in some mysterious way class action was going to enable them to beat the game and get something for nothing. But the more classes that got that hunch the less margin was there for any class, until today with wages at their historic p the average family is broke and hunting for a ready market for the flivver. and the Liberty bond and the grand opera records, ‘The only dollar that’s worth a darn is the one you keep, and the only dollar you can depend keeping is the one you save by doing for yourvelf what today you are paying four prices for some. one else to do for you. When "the aver: American , family feeds itself, our Jap menace on ‘have watched other families do it, | | | crank” eee | | ristown, Minimum 63 = FAIL TO RETURN MISING CONFESSION Grilled by Police, Says He| Will Tell All if Coughlin Child Is Not Saved PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 7.—Au Rusto Pasquale, alleged to be “the! in the mysterious case of the kiinaping of Blakely Coughtin, Nor Pa, baby had his first | gight’stsleep in five stays last night. The man was completely exhaust ed after constant questioning alee his arrest on Monday. When he promised to tell all he knew at 5 p. m, today unless the child was turned over to its parents by that time, au- thorities agreed to permit him to rest during the night. Jail attendants awakened him early today, “however, and he was again crossexamined. r Lato yesterday officials who had been questioning Pasquale an: | Mounced he had sent “an ulumatum+ to his alleged confederates in whieh | he declared if the child was not re | turned at 5 p. m. he would “squeal.” \Cop Tried Hard to Explain It to Chinaman! Lt Pang js a Chinaman and the | best cook that ever presided in the galley of the British biue funnel line er Tyndareus, docked at Pier 14. But there was no good reason why he should be abroad at 2:30 o'clock & m., dressed in a chauffeurs linen duster and drivers’ gauntlets, Or so it seemed to Policemen Bert Houck and EB. C. S¢ulley, who ob! served Lf Pang thus disguised scur. rying along Western ave., near Clay at that early hour today. ‘hey locked him up for further in- vestigation by federal immigration Officials. “You no sabe immigiation laws?” asked Sculley, in a pained effort to make the Chinaman understand. “Velly, velly bad you no stay abloard shlip.” “Oh, yes,” replied Li Pang, “IT am quite conversant with the statutes of your country. I was just trotting out, old chap, to call on a sick friend.” ONE DEATH IN PORTLAND FIRE |Three Injured When Flames! Sweep Hotel PORTLAND, person was killed ously injured and many others were slightly hurt and burned in a fire which badly damaged the Elton Court hotel here this morning. | Mrs, Josephine Chaney, Portland school teacher, died soon after jump- ing from the fourth floor of the burning building. She struck the sidewalk, Miss Edith Bogue, tally hurt. She also jumped from the fourth story. She hit the iron railing around the basement entrance to the hotel and then rolled dewn the stairway to the basement. Many bones in her body were broken when she hit the tron railing. John Jenny, 40, was severely burn ed about the arma and fac ¢, his con dition being very serious, Ming who jumped ftom the second floor, suffered a| fractured” skull. She may not re. cover, Mrs, Chaney was well known in educational circles here, having taught in the Sunnyside grammar school for the last 23 years. Mins Bogue and Miss ns are both clerks at the Northwestern Na. tional bank. SAA aD Ore., Aug. 7.—One three were seri may be fa 25, | will have passed along with most of our mental and physical aches and pains. And Jf potatoes at fifteen cents & pound and sugar at thirty won't pound home thi« lesson, then we'll have four-bit potatoes and fifty-cent sugar and dollar bacon and forty-cent milk; wait two years and see how good « gucsser iam, On the Issue o f Americanism There Can Be No Compromise Mntered as Second Clase Matter May 3, 18 He Was Their Pal! + O. Henry chummed with train robbers in South Amer- ica, and never broke faith with them; He knew brokers and bartenders in New York, and they unburdened their hearts to him; He knew detectives and chorus girls, pickpockets and hotel clerks, artists and cab drivers; . He wove the secrets of their lives into enchanting tales, and they loved the great heart of him. He was their Pal, and now he can be your Pal, spin- ning his yarns, whimsical, wistful and weird, to lift you clean out of the humdrum. Sit with him, of an evening, and forget the day’s fret and fuss. Learn from him to find the romange and.drama that lurk all about in your every-day living. O. Henry never was content with fame, and the for- tune his pirceless stories would have made possible meant nothing to him. Before youth died in him he passed on. The treasures of his pen are your heritage. The Star has obtained the right to help you to them. Every day The Star will give you an 0. Henry story. If you know O. Henry, renew acquaintance with him. If you know him not, be a stranger to his charm no longer! The first of the daily O. Henry stories will appear in all editions of The Seattle Star next Monday, August 9, Jf Per Year, by Mail, DENVER’S TROUBLES ARE OVER Streetcar Men and Riot- ing Thru City Stops DENVER, Aug. 7.—The tram- way strike was ended here today by a vote of striking tramway employes. The vote was 897 to 3. Cars will be put in operation this afternoon, it was xnnounced. The vote indorsed the action of the executive committee, which favored calling off the strike. However, final action of the men is dependent on the result of @ con. ference with tramway officials when the latter will be asked to take back all men who struck. The conference ts scheduled for 5 o'clock this kfternoon. Strike riots took-a toll of five dead and 45 Injured and gave Denver tw: nights of terror and suspense thal |has not been fexperienced since the bloody Chinese riots of the early | Strike | Daniel Flanigan, 19;+John 4. Coltins, 24, and Charles Hanson, 30, all of Denver. Hugh onal, 43, is in the who were hit by bullets. AMERICAN LEGION MEN * | PATROL CITY STREETS All last night motor trucks, forti- | fled with bags of sand and mounted | jwith machine guns, manned former machine gunners, patrolied | the streets, and successfully pre- vented any violence in the down- town district. American Legion members stationed at the principal | | street corners kept mfotorists off) the main streets so the police cars, fire trucks and ambulances could have a clear path as they rushed to the outskirts of the city in re- sponse to riot calls. Hundreds of curious people re mained downtown until long past} midnight expecting to spe more rioting. When finally it became} certain that the mob spirit had been practically subdued by the East Denver shooting earlier in the evening, the people, many of whom | were women and girls, went home. Precautions are being taken to prevent rioting tonight asshundreds | of laborers from the Denver & Rio} Grande and Union Pacifie shops | have a Saturday half holiday today | and milit orders may possibly Denver teday by order of Colonel C. C. Ballou, commanding officer at Fort Logan, who was called upon by Shoup for troops. Two hundred and result. charge this morning, and 500 addi Funston, Kan., tonight, it was stated, Cars will be put in operation today, tramway officials declared TRAMWAY UNION WILL URGE STRIKE CANCELL A meeting of all memt tramway union has b 9 o'clock this morning, when the executive committee of the union will recommend that the strike be called off! The committee voted to declare the strike off after seven hours’ deliberation Jast night, After a comparatively quiet yosterday, a crowd of strikers sympathizers gathered late in evening at the East Denver barns, where a number of strik breakers were quartered. In t crowds were scores of women and children who had waited for an hour to see what would happen. Aside from Jeers and cries of “get the scabs," there was no disturb: ance from the crowd of 300 strike sympathizers outside the cat barns until an automobile loaded with strikebreakefs arrived to relieve the men in the barns, This was thé signal for which the mob had been waiting. ‘It rushed \the car barns and strikebreakers and special police began shooting. Wo men and children, panic stricken, screamed as they struggled to escape from the malee, The first few shots were fired in the air, then, as the mob continued advancing, the guns were turned di- éotly on the crowd, ED rs of the called for day and the car y Is Called Off by! Governor | fifty troops from Fort Logan are in) The Seattle Star At the Postoffice at Beattie, Wash. under the Act of Congress March 3, 1879, SEATTLE, WASH., SATURDAY, AUGUST 7, 1920. KIDNAPED BABY y | |during the outbreak | is under martial le | agreem | | LATE Ill EDITION Oo ors CENTS IN SEATTLE HIT BY TIMBER, HE KEEPS A-WORKING; NEXT-DAY HE DIES] Hit on the head by a 6x6 tim- ber while at work in the Youngs town plant of the Pacific Coast Steel company yesterday after- noon, Frank Paris, 38, an em ploye of the Poole Construction company, got up and grinned, And said he guessed he wasn't hurt. He went to the’ plant hospital, however, and had a sealp cut closed, Then he resumed work, finishing his shift at 5:30 o'clock. At 8:30 o'clock he was found unconscious in his room in the Ship hotel, 2301 W. Spokane st. Karly this bid in Providence hospital pe @jed. SOLDIERS QUIET RACE WAR TOW /One Man Found Dead; Kill- ings Not Verified WEST FRANKFORT, M.,.Aug, 7. ‘An Italian was found dead here this afternoon with his head smash- LEADERS TO HO COUNC SUNDA ‘British and ° “French y Are Not in Favor Renew al of Hostilities BY WEBB MILLER LONDON, Aug. Whether “the great poy will engage in actual war | jturn back the Russian’ tid jin Poland depends on & jsult of the Lloyd Geo |lerand conference, to be hel at Hythe, near Folkestone, morrow. Altho the British cabinet. jaction which approximates \popular disapproval which |announcement of this attitr aused Premier Lloyd George lay putting the program bef x |Mament until he has had @ cha |to go over the whole situation ® the French’prime minister. —~ The French people are clared to be against a ed in with an ax. This x the first |?® death so far in the Hots which have sporadically gripped the town dur- ing the past three days. At the time the man was killed more than 600 militiamen were pa- rolling the streets. Rumors have been in circulation all this morning regarding others’ killed. Every at- | tempt to verify them failed. ore WEST FRANKFORT, IL, Aug. 7. -Militia continued ‘to arrive in West Frankfort today while the town took stock of the damage done in a day and a night of rioting. Mojor W. O. Satterfield, in charge of the militia, felt the situaijon was ticklish and asked for reinforcements yesterday to prevent any possible re- currence of the mob rule which con- trolied the town Thursday night. Stories purpotting to originate from West Frankfort were greatly overdrawn, Attempts to verify re- ports that several had been killed roved impossi- | ble. No one was kilied; there was no one fatally injured, West Frankfort is in the grip of a | telephone strike, making it impossi- bie to get messages’ out by this means. The telegraph office was | Mooded by messages of reasstrance from residents to out of town friends, Press dispatches were subjected to indefinite delay. In the meantime meager reports reached neighboring towns in a greatly exaggerated form. | These were spread as being authori- tative, VILLA VANGUARD): READY TO QUIT\* BY RALPH H. TURNER SAN PEDRO, Coahuila, Aug. 6.— (Delayed.)}=The vanguard of the Vil authorities fear dis | iista force arrived today to surrender in accordance with the terms of the nt entered into by their chief, Francisco Villa, and the fed. eral government, There were 20 men, mostly offi cers, iy the vanguard, They came by train and immediately began fratéer- nizing with the government soldiers tional troops will arrive from Camp| encamped here. The bandits were allowed to retain their arms, They planed to remain here until Villa arrives on Monday, when they will accompany him to Gomez Pal acio, eee Villa Reported in Another Rebellion SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Aug. 7.— An unconfirmed report reached mill- tary authorities here today which said Francisco Villa had resumed warfare against the Huerta govern ment ®f Mexico by attacking and capturing General Eugenio Martinez, }about 15 miles south of Cuatro Cie- negas, Coahuila. Mexican officials here story was false, believing Villa would stay by his word with the Huerta government, but former Carranza followers say the report is undoubt- edly true, SUFFRAGE VOTE IN TENNESSEE NASHVILLE, Tenn.,. Aug. 7.— Governor Roberts thig afternoon is: sued a call for a spetial session of the Tennessee legislature to meet August 9, to consider, among other things, the ratification of the woman suffrage amendment, said the| saw rémained tn grave ture. Military experts Reds would resume thetr with renewed fury after @ brought up supplies. : The attitude of France conference, it was learned will be that France and G Britain should aid Poland by ing war material and officers the front and possibly by ing in limited naval Italy cannot be counted on | according to the official x | on also learned that Italy will consent to recognize @ 1 blockade of Russia and will t continue trading with Ri spite of allied warships Russian * ports. PEOPLE'S ATTITUDE IS AGAINST NEW WAR The “verge of war’* day is different f; in that the attit themselves” is the seciding in every decision. The attitude the British people evidently # deterred the government fr ing parliament to approve its for war on Russia. Arthur Henderson and other borites ™re conducting an a sive propaganda against war, have covered the country copies of a manifesto warning labor will not support @ war Ba, If of Poland. Advices from Paris said it exceedingly doubtful - whether | a steed would considerable numberof troops despatched to Poland. ' —, wcsce ottictole Profess | inced that Moscow Berlin hase entered. as ment to try to break the Ve Ce treaty. If the people of Britain France were convinced of the ti of this they might be aroused a war fever, but not ctniecwigal it was apparent today, . TEXT OF RUSS' NOTE PUBLISHE! The text of the latest Rusaian note to Britain has been made pub. | : lic Were. Kemenoff, the soviet rep. resentative, informed Lloyd George he had communicated to Moscow _ the British decision “to side wii | Poland in the new war and renew the blockade.” Kemenoff charged the Poles were delaying armistice and peace nego- tiations, hoping to bring about for: eign intervention. He declared the Rolsheviki could not halt their ade vance until they were assured the — Poles would not take advantage of |the respite to bring up rei | ments and then renew hostilities, | Vucsia will halt, he said, when the Poles give reasonable guarantee: | that, they will partially disarm. and: cease recruiting. He pledged Rum sia to respect Poland's indepen: dence. i It wag made plain the Rol: want to sign peace with Poland on the field of battle and then submit the pact for ratification at the Lom don general peace — conferences, where they can come in as victors, — demanding world-wide Tecomalti and trade advantages. Reports that the Russians haa started an army to invade Persia ond that they were threatening British possessions in the East were. received with reserve, see PARIS, Ape. 7.—-Russia hag pro posed peace to Rumania and has gested that the conference be — at Kharkov, the foreign office advised today. Kharkov is an (portant city in Southern Russia, guste er