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

KING CO. DEPUTIES EW Weather e Tonight and Saturday, rain; moderate east- erly winds, | Temperature Laat 24 Maximum, 61, Minimum, 50, Today noon, 57. Botered as Second Class Matter May 9, 1899, at the Postoffice at Seattle, Wash. under the Act of Congress March 9, 1879 Por Year, by Mall, $6 to $9 On the Issue of Americazism There Can Be No Compromise VOLUME 23 ; ap} SEATTLE, WASH., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1920. . ‘ TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE BOLSHIES : CLEVERLY _Chealaton weass| CITY CAR LINE = basis is interesting. 4 Co.; published by xpecial ar- ee It shows, for instance, 5 | Star's GAIN in circulation in dl |months from October 1, 1919, te | tober 1, 1920, was 23.4 per cent. | On the other hand, the ° Fangement with the Wheeler be aad | Paper's dicate, Inc. BY WEBB MILLER =_—_ The third paper’ ’ i i jeg | almost “holding its own.” Jap’s Wife Fights Deputies | "ttmemmer that’ thene 0 ‘A story with a moral appended; LONDON, Oct. 8—Europe was Almost ut peace today. Dispatches | Like Wild Woman; Tries | circulation figures are based om Pe wee the bill of @ mosquito. It!) 2, Warsaw sald Pollsh-Russlan | sy average for the past six to Give Alarm that The Star's growing el Dores you, and then injects 4 StM® warfare had ended and contact of ‘ing drop to irritate your conscience. | the aunties, had heen broken along lis larger at the end of the si | period than the official figure; @ S) Therefore, let us have the moral | the entire front. ) first and be done with it. All is a The Warsaw communique said When Napoleon L. Loveall, King jcounty deputy sheriff, accidentally | circulation is smaller at the | stepped into a hay-covered hole in| the Eeetenh ee One the mow of a barn belonging to} figw Tsutae Keba, a Jap farmer near But | basing the computation on: | Sunnydale, while hunting for liquor | official figure only, it is seen | Thursday, he fell 20 feet down ajreach The Star's shaft and found himself in a sub-\ second paper would have to THE STAR . that the second paper's hostilities along the Lithuanian| Second paper Hee Third paper . STAR'S GAIN ....sece000 I Second paper's loss . ‘Th Gold e (G0 2 ’ ®eld that glitters, but it ts a wise) on) nad ceased in contertaity with terranean distillery. a 21.5 per cent loss into a ae Third paper's loss «.. ; Europe Is Nearer Complete, Child that keeps the stopper in hislane terms suggested by representa. S TRIPPED OF VERBIAGE and political , refund bonds for the municipal railway bonds, just as we} 1M), undereround room. atid have tea 38 pr || STAR'S LEAD a ree Analysis of the cleculation attle newspapers on @ Copyrioht, 1929, by Doubleday, Paes! — tions End Fighting in a moungain, on the top of | bottle of tes ‘ |tives of the league of natio he refund bonds in other cases when we needed ie tool Ta be 5 Sphere Broadway skirts the corner]; Finland and Hussia were <5 innuendo, Mayor Caldwell’s address be- | h'v* {sued refund bonds : whieh iatoos Ate een, contained. £4 | 8 e Seer ae Dot te square presided over by 1) em eet on Geiser" °*| fore the Municipal league on the city railway | It will mean that in the end we will have the street car |¥** found in King county. D) Georse whe Voracious is the Lite) The only place where howtaites| presents these figures for August, 1920: system as our own without having invested a nickel in it. | yaoynn ana William TL, Sears, who | Rialto. Here stand the actors of continued was in Southern Russia, = ace ae ck as am veins, oart. that quarter, and this is their shib:|where General Baron Wrangel's| : 906.2: oat Lamune and A Poleth: | “"Nit,” says 1 to Frohman, |forces operated with other anti-Bol Actual expenditures . . . ...$474, 6.23 HESE ARE THE FACTS. The municipal railway is| discovered the shatt leading into the Ee ean’: touch me for a kopeck|“*Vix troupe against the Soviets Total revenues .......... 504,783.36 NOT going into bankruptcy. The city would never per-| £2404. ‘They. lowered themsetves According to dispatches from Riga, | Jess than two-fifty per, and out I) the Soviets agreed to Poland's claim walks. on the Lithuanian city of . Vilna jinto the hole and found their | mit it, in the first place, and in the second place, Phe, T1U-Terother ‘deputy, aahurt, -but’ badly” Boy Whose Foot Foot Was ’ : ‘ nicipal railway is not losing money except on “arbitrary gazed [Westward and southward trom the Other territory in that rexion was Earnings. ...........-$ 29,877.18 Hook kee hthaes Hires: Iecarmise wire: si sexes | gled by Car, in Bad thespian glare are one or two streets) nse Daily Chronicle printed an In- At this rate, the street railway would make Nor will the Stone-Webster interests modify the purchase! gapy AND FLEES Transfusion of blood may have Swhere a Spanish-American colony |teryiew with Premier Leygues, of . BUT in additi agreement. Why should they? In raiding the winch the deputies |be made Friday to save the Bee Weddied for & little tropical) France, saying “haa been | MOFe than $300,000 a year— , in addition | It is high time that the municipal railway be taken out of |**Pr!*ed, Mrs. Frumio Koba, the | Ralph King, fica W had to P warmth in the nipping North. The asked to show osgeysen in her ae-| to the ACTUAL expense, the state bureau of | the realm of, politics. It may or may not have been the jJap’s wife, and ber Pe ae paths iggdiney 8 is “| mands on Russ yaude said he | Koba waa in the city acted op the advice of Great Britain.| accountants charges $56,415.63 to deprecia- | wisest thing to have purchased it, But who is there in this) pgrty arrived-om-the piace about 2 ioe of life in this precinct aie 94 “ing siege ‘ene | ig ij city “to cast the first s' mise imap alone stood reso-|p. m. It was 4 o'clock before the eaters to the y ees | ALKED AND tion. or pene eaw 'o cant, the ae t stan wie: Dap. sions, stoo te Cada i es 8 Up from Chl | THEN FELL} It is this depreciation charge which seems to be | son and ex-Councilman W. D. Lane. At the first opportunity, | in,’ heruties wore atout, she the rolling republics of Cen} ppespon Nn irs ‘America and the iretul islands | Clark po or Prenchtonn Bi eors® the entire meat in the railway cocoanut! It is an Chudinicwimeasde and Erickson had to her abe defied thru the. ciber |6 0S Pradhan the Western Indies, flit the cloak-| pital here with a broken back ax| arbitrary charge. Themayor says so. The previous igictiCalawal-vas eparation cépauet during the 2 with Deputy sberiit Seare in bot |his aunt residing at 4017 é the result of sleep walking: Leavi . ‘ May s ego ar ped Mr: Gey tercas’ uve bs rid his bed, he. went Ingo the yard administration said so, and never considered it at all. tiations leading up to the purchase of the street car system. Ose oer overtook the woman on the} He is in Lakeside hospital i: Sone ene at thele, wowerai{ “lmbed Into an apple tree and fell | The Puget Sound Traction Co. never made ‘a depre- | He was aware of all the pros and cons of the sittation,|main highway, headed towards Angle | the fon of Mrs, HA. King, 263 if bapisss fi Ls roe 4 varn her hus-| mit ave, : countries. Hither they come to lay | A penigticn ‘Sunday iation charge in any such amount,” the mayor | While his successor handled the actual details of the trans yoo Mdyies nn er Motorman Howard Gees "eounterplots, to bide their time, to | youches. action, Caldwell was in a position to foresee what was com-| \it}', load of material for manufac-|@uctor KE, P, Behling were in charg EB Solicit funds, to enlist filibusterers, on November 14 ing about. He did not utter the slightest protest, either as a} turi ore saki. Mrs, Koba put/ Of the car, William Murray, to emusgie out arms dnd ammurt |). ciixGrox, oct. 4-—Preaident|, SHOUld this depreciation charge be considered in | citizen or as the city’s legal adviser. Up a desperate battle with Sears, | 56th st., and George Woody, aren to Bey he Saee Ecos | Wilson today named Sunday, No |Gudging whether the municipal railway is making | biting and scratching like a wildeat ;eMth ave. N. W., took the boy te ae Bt Reese ty find the Geer! vember 14,08 Arm ri "eo Was only when other deputies | hospital. ’ - 4 ° 5) to ° It phere in which they thrive. be observed as memorial dar te the | Money or going behind? came to his assletance that he was SCHOOL BOARD In the restaurant of El Refugio | 2° observe - hand , Eagles Sotererreps ks iil OBERT BRIDGES, the farmer-labor candidate for gov-!|°" pi vo Jare served compounds delightful to| A™er! who gave their ives in} “In my opinion,” says the mayor, “we must adopt ernor, approved the car-line purchase. Shipyard work:|"“Yor hres howra Sears held ge sapri.| the world wa : A 4 Sages ee lee eee fon et a policy of operation and bookkeeping that is either | ers and shipyard owners demanded it, the business people|woman and her child prisoner in ‘corn or Cancer. Altruism must halt rool MONT EV : Per Tim story thus long. On, diner, |( ‘ATCH. MONKEY |the same as that followed by privately owned utility | wanted it; radicals, aye, even the reds who are now yelping|M2ch | house, while | the "others ON JAP | ‘ ee G07 untae to ar mere ON FLY PAPER | companies, or one that is adapted to the unusual and | about it, were the first to urge the purchase; conservatives |r onenine product. Then she and jallic chef, hie thee to El Refu| 1a GRanpE. Ore., Oct. &—~After "extraordinary thing that we are attempting to do, | Were equally for it, aps the babe were taken to the county| The Seattle schoot board © gio! There only will you find a fish - es sh | citizens tried unsuccessfully for we . > jail by Sears and Vaughn, - while ra KI ti weet, jihad og, pompaie. from two weeks to catch a monkey whieh Namely, the retiring of our capital investment at the | e by 4 “a 9 ie tiled Meacwicts 228 Leveall reshaee ab amines weakly seating late Fra method. Tomatoen give it color, in.| 284 escaped from a carnival com-| and of 18 years.” j a mistake was made in the purchase o' e street cari the ranch. wattting Japa, and other allan Mividuality and soul: chili colorado] 28"%: the monk caught himself in is ee | L-system, it was a mistake of the city as a whole. The facts/1s cow the schoas. bestows upon it zest, originality and| 1% Pener which had been placed in i . | the city knows today, it knew then. The price, the condition | SURRE ‘A number of parents fervor; unknown herbs furnish piq SN. HE MAYOR is to be congratulated upon his | —everything—received public notice, and the people voted| Koba drove up out of the wands} dren, because of the crowded @aney and mystery, and—but ‘Fi A f he iti four t . with his Ford car laden with rice/ dition of the high schools frowning wore desecves a new wn (Files Information frankness. In the municipal election last spring | for the proposition four to one. About 8p. m., and as he stopped the | larly, have been compelled to team tence. Around it, abpve it, beneath * > > The city WANTED the railway system. That's the simple|car near the house, Starwich com-| jong distances to schools Mt, in its vicinity—but never in it— Charging Burglary! he was not quite so frank. He led people to believe truth. The people were GLAD. to ke the system—and un-|manded him to get out and surren-|their district, are waging a & hovers an ethereal aura, an effiu.| An information charging burglary | that’ the former administration was to be severely Gc the same conditions, they would be glad to buy it today. |" ave alien children barred. Cal, Oct. 8 Ghito, the waiter, brings you a plate | ., BURLINGAM circumstances. other propositions ; finally, it offered $15,000,000 for the sys-| \rrs, Koba as part of the evidence. || BY starting an advertisement Mem spl ager Sam lin the second degree was filed Fri-| * 4 . Koba 1 id to have come out of nag the modes" for’ Prychicat Be day by Prosecutor Fred ¢. Trown |condemned because it did NOT charge this arbitrary | Why should we deceive ourselves about the matter? The drivers Umi sett. Sian Search could note its origin. Do not |autinst Merwin Ferguson, charged | depreciation figure. Today he, too, is inclined to the | "For ten years the private company had failed to lay alcurreney which he offer starwich || Now Is the Retugio, Wc aoe usrtiat thas mi hotel, Seventh ave. and Lane st,, he |Opinion that it is an extravagant charge. single mile of new track in the city, had made no extensions, be e eppoou™ oy tna. eae when ‘many tamil Gf the spirit of Garlic, fitting past.|!onging to K, Nomura, @ Jap, on| And why? no. improvements. The service was getting poorer and poor-|j(0" "ne wo. 1 give you. plenty fot toe — hay'wattéd one Kiss that lingers in| September 16 Because the city railway department is spending every | er. The outlook was hopeless.. There was absolutely no| money.” samredivess the parsiey crowned dish as haunt T 9 Sept »| 1 = rospect of decent service for many years to come. Under Starwich accepted the handful of hy ze | month approximately $100,000 for the maintenance and up- | prospec 3 yy ‘ ARTME! ony Aaa araee a a } 4 hye SURE TOU GH keep of aks cars, and equipment—and the depreciation of | these circumstances, it would be remarkable if the people did tere rosa ott Bese = han yes Bia ph Ber others.” And then, when Con-| FOR LOUIS | the railw ‘ay system actevalty can only be nominal under these | not seek a change. The city tried to lease the lines; it made] renee a eta taken from ot brown fy ples and a carate ot edule) pn ae ilese, Bur } * tem. Fully two months passed between the time the offer] gooze FLOWS The Bear NOW yes a | wine that has never stood still be a we | Q " 5s ani te . pita hs ‘ouch Wi reds 4 tween Oporto and MY Tefusio~ah claimed his pay for mi HE WHOLE THING, ial becomes a matter of book- | Was made and the vote of approval by the people. There | Two FEET DEEP . hel| Prospective tenants who | 1 ne on . keeping. If we are going to say arbitrarily that we | was plenty of time to back out. But the city did not want to 4 he 4 Bes ag es oc your suites, ae ate and « 4 for 4 — Qe : | bae » city wa " > avate! sheriffs car and took the husl nied ope Pine ee eens | ere sagen The town| MUST charge $56,000 a month for depreciation, whether pace out. The city wanted the system. i , |to join the wife and baby in the Phone Main 600° « lin Ximenes Vi d of wustees compromised by! there is depreciation or not, whether we spend twice that | Possibly a better bargain might have been driven. Possi-! county 4 one & passenger from C The | kranting Now Louis bas! amount to prevent depreciation or not, then the municipal | bly not. That is all in the past. But this is true: Some of} ‘The deputies this mneting - General was between a claybank |'0 strumgie along on $515 a month. | nailway will show a loss. If we are not going to place this | those yelping most about a “white elephant” were among| wrecked the _ still, leaving | Brit id a bay in complexion, and a 42 . se st re: ible | “Same 1 underground room flooded with two fnch waist and mood 5 fort 4 with|GA.R. Commander |@"bitrary burden upon the railway, then there won't be any a pk rho pedal ‘ad a purchas¢ ‘: Some have ari feet of liquor. The stuft destroyed, | his Du Barry heels. He had the loss. There will be a gain, instead, a profit of more than | Polltica’ capital by knocking it, some are trying to.. But this}ii” was satimated, was rorth close Tstache of « shovting-galiery pro.| tO Be Guest of Post! | $300,000 a year, according to the m mayor's figures, political pettifogging is unjust to the street railway—and it|to $4,000 at bootlegge : MacSwiney St LONDON, Oct. 8.—Interest in hunger strike of Lord. Mayor | | : Bi lla tony gi ta! Department commander of the G.| To figure it otherwise borders upon the ludicrous. The | 18 Unjust to the city. Starwich said he bad ee reasneiy Wan an iBexes soca reetan A R i and Alaska, O.' mayor very aptly has shown that in the next 18 years the iL easy ‘ ; id * F K top bed besa toning about $4,000] Sut Britain on this, the 67th Y Simi No. 2 f grgnicevt arbitrary depreciation charge would amount to more than Ik THE NOVEMBER ELECTION, we are asked to vote eda te Me te Pap ony yo me: . No. ueat | 8 2 | ‘ > ; os y last Gen. Falcon had enough English | of Ste at! $12,000,000, while at the same time there will have been | Thee tee BDU tee the 4 Ry hie road system. GHOP EARLY, SAY Prison physicians said he looked ix hat to enable him to t » pre: » ne 29 : 's twice as “h as we pa r the street car syste ite r. rou aa ee ee Pigg lian spent, at the present rate, nearly $22,000,000 for the main- | t’s twice as much as we paid for the street car system, BOOTLEGGERS | ter today. _ Relatives he street in wh weaker and apparently exhay a 7 tenance and upkeep of “a completely equipped and rehabil- | Every reason that can be urged for good roads can be urged} Do your Christmas shopping eaxty | Pda sow painpedad in fi 5 par \itated street car system.’ for a good car system. When we put money into paved roads,| seattle bootleggers declare Diet ic’ ab eae bee s NS Imagine the 18 years have passed! The $22,000,000 spent,; we do not expect any of it back in the public treasury. When) never will the better brahds of |he is a “xreat scientific tack ie W2 T SHIMMY for upkeep of tracks, cars, and equipment il give us then | we put money into a street railway, we expect it all back, If| whisky be cheaper. A sharp rise) juiy Express said. > etl th ys ae FOR AWHIL E} | as good a car system, if not better, than we have today. | the Carlyon bill pas it will cost Seattle citizens, for their | Boe progeny ag aes: . COUR AC no Miles sure of a congenial) KANSAS CITY. Oct. 8-—-Whee 4| And the books of the municipal railway will show that the | share, approximately $10,000,000. The Star has no hesitancy] "°}).oninition officers may® bull: th IS. COURAGE port. pretty girl on the stage sang “Come! city has been charged $12,000,000 for depreciation that never | 1n saying that they will not get as much for that $10,000,000) market at any time,’ it is pointe Is REWARDE In the cozy office was Mrs. shimmy With Me,” William Frum|gceurred. This enormous and purely arbitrary “depreciation | as they will get out of the street railway fae a ’ ge pe pte oe ro - api es ‘he | charge” would be almost enough, at the end of the 18 years, | costs them nothing. akg fase bg y biond | gallery into space C nded in the ? t hair. For the rest she was amiabil: | hospital with a broken nose and leg to pee pt ne cost of the att eet ois ies setae: tveenie id ; Eastern Railroad apa har am a ty, and ran large' en, any cause for pessimism n the contrary, rg ’ ors 5 tel ui REGISTER! # ns b My AIC 4 pirates, traction profiteers, and Office Opens Here |," 20°25 felons sin | Gen, Falcon brushed the floor with ] the outlook is optimistic, if the mayor’s figures are corr | be a regular deteckativ was ia Ne a ic baer aa tary to the mayor, assisted in system—and ey out by the liquor merchants. Last week Herb Owen, boy * 2 «© rest of Miles D. Johnson, chief inches around hats and amieted ; enemies of popular control thruout the nation are] pistrict headquarters for the New| He was appointed @ special" sf id pointing to Seattle’s experience as an example of the | York Central railroad lines have bepn | man by Mayor Caldwel of Spanish, the syllables a que sourding | worackers gently WPT AT CO ’ ate F . vin ta' m4 Sona ww tablished in Seatiie, —eermery rine aaa deter this aneta joing up! MITTING the depreciation charge, which IS arbitrary, | FAILURE of municipal ownershi - * oat die ae ee eaieatiod ); for: 2687} the figures presented by the mayor give reasonable as- “4 pa a The local pals of Milk Inves of @ bin vanish or Dago?” asked Mrs election is steadily Officials expect to least 117,000 by Saturday /amount over $300,000 per year, are doing all in their power to prevent its further W. D. Whitcomb, of the | This will not be enough, it is true, to pay off the bonds, apse hi Whitfield, Whitcomb & Co, ¢ which fall due in an amount of $833,000 per year. We will The truth is: ° ay public accountants, and approxi sly 4 u F »sn’ rede ‘0 the Portla: ike be short approximately $500,000 a year. | But that doesn’t | | Municipal ownership of street cars is NOT a failure || 7 Predict New | Dep Wy of, || met niet <b nadrese O10 antl mean we are losing $500,000 a year. It merely means we are in Seattle. n sugar ee vention of the foterostional i not making as big a profit s big a net profit—as we would With sugar retailing at from 13] Distributors’ associa like to. It means that instead of making enough profit to | Our city car line i Js NOT losing money. to 16 cents a pound, jobbers pg om copunt! Y | pay for the entire railway system in 20 years, it will take us The “bankru raed ObR Tc is insincere. '30 years or 40 years. It will mean that we will have to issue| And IT HURTS OUR TOWN) ge . » 5 f | surance that the railway will produce net earnings in an these gentry, unable to block public owne rship he re, | Good News Leaves n, madam Thursday evening showed more than 114,228 registered, $21 hay, ng signed up during the day, ~ The registration ce will be kept open 'Saturda the ain't you aid the madam. “I'm gure 1 can't At the Hotel Espanol Genero! g (Turn to Page 10, Column sent