The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 3, 1920, Page 7

. HELP GIRLS LAKE HOME Re-education Rather Than Reform Is Idea Behind New Institution BY A. KANDEL. MEDICAL LAKE, Nov, 8.—-Ex Pect of severe cleantiness, the Wom en's Industrial Home and Clinic, tstcation. “We have tried to get away as Much as possible from the atmos Phere of the usual ‘home’ for wom en. | haveri’t heard a tingle com. ; Plaint from any of the girls yet, and PR as & matter of fact, two of our latest | @rrivals ag thelr own volition asked to be committed here in urder to take sOReEGC ASE RASEES to 50 years, 11 from Seattle, five y having been committed on drug of- F fenses, and the remainder for misde- of a varying nature. The girls are instructed In sewing, 4 ng, hana and power laun- Pidry, and donetsic science, includiag | Abe preparation and service of meals For outdoor exercise and play, there) Next year they plan to raise all dairy and poultry on the grounds, as this Rot only effect a reduction in ex penses, but alxo afford a chance yor |) WEDNESPAY, NOVEMRER 2, 1m, Herbert Corey motored most of the way from Seattle to New York to cover the recent world series in Brook- lyn and Cleveland. On the way he made a thoro study of the illicit traffic in liquor, and is writing a series of articles for The Star. | Saloon Back? AT MEDICAL || People Do Not Want It. But Don’t Consider Drinking Moral Crime Dry Voters Violate Volstead Act. Supply of Moonshine Growing Worse. LONDON he asked his host the reason for the THE SEATTLE STAR My Mail)—A British merchant visited the land of Zanzi a wor ¢ har; while he chatted with the sul aN P xy tan, music seeped in from afar. Bo} eae ee ‘Zanzibar Sultan Buys Merry-Go-Ro PAGE 7 snd for Wives] VAST SUMS LOST This AT MEX RESORT -| | : [Bishop Finds Mexico Has ~||Pastor Loses Date Tomsk “Monte Carlo” Book; Has to Hide} ‘There's Only One Girl in U | World for Me.’ ” “nappY, Javey strain, and the wultan . sa " " quickly took him out to look upon BAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 3—The| 8AN DIEGO, Cul, Nov. 8-« ne same shop Aan onard, presi th Ses seeds of social chaos were sown| Bishop Adna W. Ie h Dre And we vin den,” gaye pishop of the Methodist chure nd we visited a garden,” say ondeast here by the theft of Rev,|Dishop of the Methodist church for the merchant, much amazed. | most of the Pacific Coast, visited “There, with royal pride he pointed | | William K. Guthrie's engagement ; a, the Mexican “Monte to a sight that arly dared, There |**emed to be having just the best] “And the funny thing about ft,”|book, Weddings, christenings, just across the boundary were many, painted horwes and on| time of their lives, While the merry. | said the merchant, who had seen,|luncheons, speeches and philan-| here. He didn’t like Tijuana, When This is the fourth. ach ss ste bride, As the sultan | goround circled and the horses rock-|and had also heard the musle from|thropies are all ina jumble. ‘The|he returned he sald: “I would to fazed upbn them, ‘twas a harem: | 1 “ ‘ minister has taken to hiding out to|God that we had a tenth of the ERBERT COREY pcgeang.t rat [od and #wayed, all the multan's flock |the drum and tambourine, “was the | 01" tsloph , : 4 A pe . excape angry telephone messages af| money being spent across the gam- BY H R In America he'd purchased a! of sweethearts laughed and warbied oo that it was playing——twas 48) hopeful young couples left “waiting tables. We 1 put a Bible carousel for his wives, and they all as they played. it Jin every Mexican’s hi An underground river of polsonous long as he furnished a profitable out cept for the rigid whiteness of 19) hooze is running thru this country ‘Walls and stairways, and general a%) ang it is getting deeper and wider | the distiller and more rotten every day. ‘The reason is that, whic! while the) hammered out of existence the Last h was opened September 1, at) american voter got rid of the saloon. | Chance and the Paris Club and Fin og Lake, looks more like & wells! ne nas not yet learned to regard the family hotel than @ corrective | drinking of whisky as & moral erime Therefore, the drinking man drinks 1 commented upon this condition) wien ne gets the chance. Therefore, % Miss Margaret S. Gillam, the 6¥-/tne man who knows how, makes him sven! who very courteously | tne scuff to drink. Therefore—as the me thru, and she explained: |trartio is no longer legalized and let for the true owner—the brewer or ‘Therefore, the American public Regan's Place and Schwarzpickle’s| | Rathskeller, One tangible result of the disappearance of the saloon has been an increase in savings bank de. posits and home buying and silk shirt wearing and reading and libraries and whole stocking® on small kids «| great part. a rotting, corrosive poison. somewhat controlied—the budge is getting worse. SWAPPED SALOON FOR LAWBREAKING AND LYING Therefore, it appears that, ax mat ters stand today, we have swapped the saloon system, with all its ad mitted and glaring evils, for a sy tem of clandestine manufacture and surreptitious drinking, with its ac companiments of lawbreaking and | tying. I will venture to say that no stat: | lute ever on the books has been as persistently and blandly and fia grantly Violated as is the Volstead act. That ti bad enough. We have all beon made into lawbreakers, or into accessories before or after the fact, but what ts quite as bad ts that | the stuff for which we are perjuring | ourselves and defying the law ix in ‘This system wil! be put an end to} when the American people learn to regard whisky drinking as a crime) instead of the mere and commonplace | violation of a statute, But when will | that change tn moral sentiment come? And if it does not come, can | healthful work and training. The girls live in single rooms which are the ultimats in tidiness. @nd for recreation during evenings read books borrowed from the Ubraries or gather about no in the auditorium and sing There ts no dearth of tal- of the girls was a cabaret ig Work and play, however, rely as a background to the task of the institution, whieh uch reform as reeduca- BePE Fat esa ShtF 2 “How do you tmplant tn them the will safeguard them at LH Fs @ great many of the expect their wives to work ay marriage. This divides the in- of the wife, brings her in con- with outside influences, and fre- home. “Another cause is that many are lured from rural and small unities by the glitter of the cities. Their native craving for romance helps lead them astray.” “Would you say then,” I asked, “*that one of the purposes of the fl is to disillusion girls and women, and to prove to them the ‘ hery of the adventure call of Fe “Yeu, I believe I would,” was the * : GEROUS DISEASES URED, IF POSSIBLE “Without entering into the ques tion of the permanent effectiveness of any institution to reeducate de- lnquent girls and women, one point femains clear. That many of them i afflicted with diseases which would undoubtedly spread with costly results-to society at large, and these are cured and returned to the world as healthy physically as is Possible, Also they leave with a be ter sense of fitness and self-conft- ence to undertake the wage strug- “So that if only 25 per cent of our girls eventually become good and _ wseful women, the results justify ayy expenditures and efforts by the state }) in their behalf.” Advises Teachers to Be Less Prim BACRAMENTO, Nov. 3.— vill C. struction, in an open letter, advised school teachers to be less prim. “Dig. Mity ie ‘an exsential thing,” said he, “but even good things can be carried ‘400 far. Hermits don’t get along with gpociable people.” ustralian Harvest to Be Half Billion MELBOURNE, Nov. 4.—A Victori- gn wheat expert estimates that the value of the forthcoming Australian ij wheat harvest wil be $600,000,000, tly results in @ breaking up "a , (says, Smith was in Alaska. Smith had Wood, superintendent of public in-| the situation be ended by purely physical means? Will a people! which, in great measure, regards around the corner making and drink: | ing with a smile, grant effective sup | port to those charged with the om forcement of the law? And if the people do not, where does that leave the people? ONE CITY THAT WANTS SALOON BACK We got rid of the saloon. So far and 80 good. 1 have not found one} single state or county or city that| wants to see the auioon come back. The saloonkeeper had not been play ing fair with his public, and behind | him the distiller and the brewer were forcing him to make drunkards out of his customers. The infamous Brit- ish system of “tied houses” had been saddied on us, In effect, the pro- prietor of a “tied house” remained jas the nominal proprietor just so Bureau of Missing Relatives } Relatives of William G. Freeman of Dorchester, Mass., a veteran of the Canadian expeditionary forces, have appealed to The Star to help them find him. He disappeared from his home in that city on May 19 last, with the intention of first going to Boston and then to Atlantic City, where his brother was employed. He | has not been seen since, and his sister, Mrs. J. A. McAllister, aska that he return. Information may be sent to her at 6 Corwin st., Dorches. }ter, Mass., or to H. Lawless, care ‘The Star. eee Sander Anderson, 518 Seventh st Raymond, Wash, is seeking his brother, Andrew J. Anderson, from whom he has not heard since 1915. He used to be around Seattle, says Anderson, who wants the brother to aid in settling an estate. eee Anthony O. Nelson, BR. F. D. 1, Box 7, Shelton, Wash., is trying to find an old friend, John G. Smith, a Norwegian. The last Nelson heard }of him was in 1896 or 1897, when, he two brothers, Gunder and Theodore, also in Alaska at that time. They’re Shakin’ ’Em Now by Machinery TOLEDO, ©., Nov. 3.--Horrors! Viola Dana, movie star, stood out in front of a film house (in picture form) | and see to be shaking the shim my. Mrs. Rood, welfare direct- or, objected, “The shoulders of the figure shook by machinery,” said Mrs. Rood. Viola's photo has gone eluow hore | vocal effort# of small giris in white |U. S. Warships Aid in Fight- | and a pest of flivvers on country roads, and a falling off in neighbor hood battle, murder and sudden death. 1 have recently visited 20 states, and have talked with men in touch with public sentiment in many | localities in each state. The verdict is practically a unanimous one “We are glad we are rid of the sa loon, We would not have it back at any price.” But, while the voter was cheerfully putting the Schwarrpickies out of bus ineas, being incited thereton by the singing “Oh, Father, Dear Father, Come Home With Me Now,” and be ing moved by the frequent reappear ance of a “Face on the Barroom Floor.” he was not consciously vot ing away boose, Or that te the way it seems to me, He subconsciously took it for granted that when Schwarspickle went out of business, all distilleries, brewertes, mountain stilts and tickling appetites would mashay along with Schwarze, But they did not. Further, having done his duty by his fellow man in a most muperd and selfmacrificing fashion, he feels that he is entitied to a little shot of hootch when he geta the chance. And he sees to it that he gets the chance, Tuke it from me, oh, my brothers! Therefore—and here ts the some- what belated punch tn this story moonehining is increasing every. where in the United States, White mule, raisin jack, jig-a-Jig, hootet: every little city has a boozelet all its own—is being produced tn constantly growing quantities. And in progres sively more dangerous qualities. Only the Hoboken astrologer can tell what the end will be or when it will come. Meanwhile the gentlemen who like rk bottles in order to uncork taking chances on the sight right eyes every Ume they take a swallow In the next article I shall tef some. thing of the growth of the moonshine industry In the last six montha. FEVER SPREADS AT VERA CRUZ ing Epidemic VERA CRUZ, Mexico, Nov. 3 ,| Despite the efforts of Miss Mary Turner, Ptesbyterian missionary. and her associates at Instituto Mo relos, a school here, yellow fever is «preading. There have been four deaths at the mission, One teacher, who had been given permission to leave, but who stood by her post, died. The school holds every day in spite of the epidemic. Because the yelltw fever moeqn! to lives in the low, fine grass which abounds here, the women of the school burned the grass with the ald of the Vera Cruz fire depart ment. American destroyers in the har. bor aided in fighting the plague by making special trips to bring anti- plague serums here. Flashlight Traps This Chicken Thief PARIS, Ky,, Nov. 3.—There's the lad that «tole my chickens! deciared F. E. Doty to the cope here. “Up to you to eatch him.” Doty finshed a photograph of a frightened young: ster crawling under a henhouse. “Easy,” explained he. “I rigged up a camera and flashlight on a trigger. He pulled the trigger when he start ed to crawl.” Burgles, Convicts and Sentences Self SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 3.—Piver- ett Smith, colored, asked permiasion to plead gullty on a charge of burg- lary. Th judge suggested he sen. tence himse “Well, when ah was in jail befoh, mid Smith, “ah gained weight. I sentence mahself to ix months, yoh honah. He's serving. . Tries Installment Plan to Kill Self PORTLAND, Ore. Nov. 3.-—-Lack ing the nerve, he says, to take one big dose, a youth who says his name is John Smith, took frequent doses of a slowacting but deadly poison here. He is dying in the city hospital. Smith is anid to be the first man here to attempt an “installment plan sui- cide. Kitten Disappears When Bed Goes Up SAN DINGO, Nov. 3.—A Janitor of | an apartr house spent consider: able time searching for a kitten re. ported lost by one of the tenants. Then said tenant halted his hunt by | explaining that the kitten had crawl: | ed under « pillow and had been made | up in a folding bed. Big Feet Figure in Big Feat By Police SAN DIEGO, Nov. 3.—After this, | one would say San Diego police are | efficient. They arrested Harold G.! 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