The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 20, 1920, Page 2

PROPOSED ANTIIAP LAW FLED Hot and Cold Water Baths at Steilacoom Useful, Says Writer BY RALPH J. BENJAMIN Eyer hear of the het and cold | water batha inflicted on patients at | the Ww rn State hospital at Steila som? Rerhember the stories of suf Tindall Takes Drastic Initia-|rering that have boon assiduonsly tive Measure to Olympia OLYMPIA, Nov. 20 the Movement to halt Japanese in wasion of the Pacific coast, a drast initiative Measure to proWibit leasing |[ asked Dr. ot fand by ia Washington was on Mie with Secre tery mt tate J. Grant Hinkle today +. The Dill way brought here by Coun @iman Philip Tindall, of Seattle. { Its proponent is designated as Rob- B, Green. of Seattle, Refers {t can go before the legisla. jens the state of | tendent of the ture, signatures amounting to one | nth Of the vote for governor in the | but there were no screams. t election must be obtained. The #tate constitution already pro hibits the ownership of land by Aliens. alien land leasing, the new measure | alsa prohibits land owning by corpor ations, the majority of stock of Which ts beld by altens. Tt would bar aliens from leasing |The w tural lands except under cer limited conditions, and i nonmagricultural lands More than six months. The leasing Of lands, either thru corporations or | extremely diturbed. jhad guardians for minors, also ls pro Biitea ll of Silas Munro lot to Be Reopened By a decision of Judge Everett Friday afternoon the will of late Silas Munro will stand. petitien of Mra. Jennie Munro ‘Mulloy, 9 daughter, to break the In it because of alleged undue of ber half-sister, Belle ro, also a daughter of Munro, denied “May Cure Himself of Paregoric Craving of from one to 15 years state penitentiary, with the of golug first to the coun > “ty farm for observation while he at 4 to cure himself of the pare habit, was imposed on Earl from | for | patients peddied about the state? I had been Qsnured these storits were true then adie, The hot and cold water }bath cruelty stories are as old Be jthe asylum. I wanted tg see the and Tn Hine with/ baths in gotion “How about burning the patients and shocking them with cold water? W. N. Keller, superin ylum, when I went to Investigate. TED SCREAMS OF BUT HKARD NONB “TL want you to ee the baths the there called it hydro) ln action. Let's go} now.” he said. I expected to hear screams of pain The Dig Uled room where the baths are instatied was filled with |, patients dressing after treatment. Tn addition to prohibiting | Two men were ip the tuba The tubs are very larg. A cap yas hammock supports the patient and hé is covered with @ sheet stretched across the top of the tub. or is kept running thru at about 96 degrees. The doctor spoke to one of the He bad been taken to the houpital a f8w days before He deglared he not been given a trial. He thought he wag being robbed. Te had tried to jump eff the train go ing to Tacoma. He aid other pas sengers on the train scoffed at him mimicked his actions, sneered and acowled. “They drove me crazy.” he maid “But, T don't remember about trying to commit suicide When are you going to kt me out of beret" NOT AS SEVERE AS A TURKISH BATH This hydro ayatem ls not a9 severe as @ Turkish bath. But. the hot water bath ten’t att! o¢ the hydro. There's shower bath for depressed patienta who need | stimulation This ty not painful, tho | T suspect It ty @ severe shock to some | patients, Water in any form is a) shock t© some patients when they | enter the asylum. ‘The depressed patient te placed in the shower and 9 score of «prays) when he pleaded guilty to aisheot the water at him from every of second degree burglary be Judge Boyd J. Tallman Friday.jand then yery cold. This change in} Seneorates Carmody recor | repeated time and again. olde. The water ls frat very warm, Does it etimulate? hens hospital He was} anything | THE SEATTLE STAR IPLAYFIELDS PLAN FRAMED School Board Would Run Them; Park Board Pays Playfiekds and feld houses of the city t@ be operated by the school board until June, (921, park board to pay two thirds of the cont ee show it is @ valuable treatment. It helps cure many cases. : tt attendants are But, what I wit not ential tact, t] Nonsense be i the Cruelty may | made “eruel brutal or carele neaned was In This was the think I would have tiked to go thru . |that bath myself, [know that many |"? he ot en ee tae | ead eee |eommianiongry and schoot directors inmates me cntiy | WbIch Was accepted by the school) Aine coast ot | board Friday. healthy If the proposition t accepted by uttering |&%@ Baan of park commissioners, ’ *ifull aupervision of all activities on ayfleld property wit! be turned to the #« i authorities, SKAGIT FUND by people now have taken the batha, jthe bathe relieved Hdelirium and mad jman of @ ti | Tacoma attorney Pr. Keller took me Into the wom ans’ hydro There were two very disturbed cases in the tuba. One woman wae howling and carm | soreamed and shrieked at and the attendants. She could have given @ veteran #ea cap {tain igksona in the art of manipulat ling cusewords. She war both ve hement and Artistic, the inclined to uge words that a lady len’t supposed | to know PROMINENT WOMAN'S | CASK 18, PITIFUL ‘The other woman t# well known in ‘Tacoma and Seattle. She waa once tho wite of a prominent University of Washington man. He divorced her several years ago. &he was once a university girt and one of the most popular if school, Bhe is a meniber of a fashionable, exclusive sorority This woman has forgotten her! name. She does not know anybody thinks she t another woman \ of the most pitiful eases | in Uh wards because she wil] re over and will again be a neat, au intelligent, refined worn. she w be hernelf for months. then she may loreak down ggain. She hag seores Ot friends who follow her case “Will It bé poxalble t¢ make ber | cure plete?"e I ask “I don’t know,” the doctor replied. “This ts one of the baffling caren. Tt fs pitiful. | wish it were possible to restore her mind permanently. Fat lahe bas left here several times and |has always been brought back in 4 te months. 1 don’t know the |oause; T don't Know the cure. We are doing Qur best. That's all we jan do for anybody.” sified two fire insurance claims to ob- T found nothing to eriticlve and/tain cash, according to his alleged much to praise in the hydro work. | confession late Priday afternoon to |T am not & physician, but I believe! Deputy Prosecuting Attorney J, D |Dr. Keller ia right in using ¥ | Carmody | brdro system to ita fullest extent Adama in being held on a charse did not hear @ single complaint | of grand larceny. He ix raid to have | tales ® originated and signed two fictitious claims totaling 0 and then to have whed the checks when authority | According to jepu' rosecutor Efi by Autos |teate tet wun Seedy Ween is Fe Rart L. Ramage arrested the man at | hie office in the Halter building, Ad 4 wevere a bale, FVOUS, erratic over section Hydro-Electric Development $45,000 Short That the Skagit hydroeleetria de velopment fund shows a deficit of | $45,000 was reported to the elty coun- joll Friday by City Comptroller Harry W. Carroll In addition, there are contingent Mebiides which will materially tn crease the shortage, Carroll said birt in dinposing of Skagit | bonds i# thought to bave occasioned | the deflert. INSURANCE MAN HELD, FORGERY Did It to Satisty Demand of Blackmailer? “Come acronm, or I'll expone your’ htened by words to thin effect trom the lips of an ex-convict, @ Ay Adams. office manager of the CB. DeMille Fire Insurance company, fal recommendation | SHOWS DEFICIT) FOURTH CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST, SEATTLE ‘Three (3) Pree Lectures en Knocked down by the anto of . T. Smith. Lake Forest park. Dr. CG, F. Moore, 4714 12th ave jatne was once nentenced for forgery, } but wae living down bis past, whict | was known to pe one axonpt his em-| ‘CHRI TIAN SCIENCE TO o'Clock. Lod Deors Open tor the Fi Leet G13 to 7100; Second Lecture, Deors doen ar mies, ind "Masonic Temple, Tuesday Evening, November 23, at 8:00 o’Clock Pathe News “Tea for Two” Vanity Comedy “Adam and Eve in the Andes” Chester Scenic LOVE DAVIS on the WURLITZER vi “Missouri Waltz”. ...Logan Prelude in € Sharp minor -Rachmaninof: Hawalian Medicy “Arranged by Ming Davis Concert 1230 Sunday | ployer. |Sues to Collect $1,400 Back Wages Apartments and practical nurse to the Inte George Brunse, who owned }the apartments, were reasonably Worth $1,750 and that only $250 tea been paid, Mm. B. M. Rigden filed suit Vriday against Harry J. Single ton, administrator of the emate, She wants the tometaing $1,400. N. E, regeived a goalp wound and occurred onear = Dr Moore'w heme. Hit by Autos HA] This Year ave., wae bruised when struck by the auto of Harry Hall, 6666 40th der Vriday. The Mra. A. C Craig, 3314 Harbor ave. & W. bear her home, Pri places the mark of his brand on the white flesh of his fair young wife and, like the brand of his love on her heart, it is there to stay. A seene that will brand itself on your mem- ory after the picture is forgot! every Lay a Geoa Pho, months as menager of the: Eims) BATURDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1920. |More ‘Ghost’ Stories by Star Readers Miner in the Drift | In the fall of 189% seven men were working night shift in the drift, | between the great Anaconda and St Lawrence mines, at Butte, Mout It wan midnight, and after eating |tunch, one of them went abead inte hin tunnel, the roaring copper {fire that permeates the vein of ores Jon the §00-foot level The and fumes broke out and wutte the miner A little later the form thru the drift who rang up * after allowing him n route ot the to one miner went the cage tender, man on for top. jon. The cage did not stop When it reached the top was aboatd; whereupon the top man signaled bee No man aboard.” On receiving thia signal the cage man an the eighth level rushed back into the little group of minera who joined him and now all were startled at the aight of the dead form of Jee Puckett no one MAREL MAGRATH, 417 Harvard N. The Child and the Pitcher In relating the following litle ex perience, which happened to me sev. eral years ago, it might help some sorrowing relatives who mourn for their loved ones after their depart | ure from thin plane, | ‘J Bad & Little slater whe had passed | en and mother had been I) several) days otying constantly for her little} WL Que night, ehortly after ale |e death, 1 wis aroused from & | sound sleep, hearing my name called | repamtedly 1 at first thought) mother must be Ml and wae callin, mo But when thorply aroused saw my little inter clowe fo my bed linge in her little arms ghe was carry ing a large white pitcher almost as | larne an herself. | T forgot ‘for the time she bad! | paced out and sald, “Why, Bath. what bre you doing With that large | pitcher?” @he began to ory. and sald, | “Oh, elater, T am fo tlred and want to rest, but mars cries se much for) me T must carry this burden “end cannot Fest or play.” Then. when I realize war dead, I fumped out of nd) ran to mother's room and told her what T had ween and heard. fhe at) first thought 1 b= 4 but ae we were talking Ruth appear ed agait, so that mama mw ber ae well ae 1, but this time the way emiling and carry! ho pitcher From that thne T don't think 1 ever pw mother ery for Ruth | Sean. i RETTY BEAGL 207 Rast 6ith Bt About Lard ponte ago, white | Siimawt my mother a! ‘were occupy: furolshes bpartment Re. Peis Ve t whe Claiming that her services for 70! moth Sy Robert WU | whether ? ANNOUNCEMENT | | Winners of the “Ghost” story | | contest will be announced in | The Star Monday. There are 14 prizes I had forgotten that ghe had men Uoned & couple of times ‘that she never could rest on that couch be ca f the fact that there seemed to ething under the spring hem up with « kind of mo omeone was underneath trying turb her and make her eet up. I had laughed at the idea, but I got the shook of my life th night while all alone, for » T had been lying quietly there, my tind entirely off anything pertain ing to the wuddent shaking metion ef the couch began and the springs seemed to rive up under ine as if trying to throw m off, and belie: ine, | got off, loo. A few nights later we put pushing tlon as if ne ruperagtural \ | aitting gome dintar | to “fer much more of the Uke happened to | us. al | couple of frlénda on the opened out | couch to sleep, * Next morning we overheard them talking. “Did you sleep any last night?” asked one of the other. “ reptied ‘the other, “this thing seema like it ought to be rtable, but for some reason I | didn’t rent a bit.” “Neither did 1," sald the firrt one. We learned before we moved from this place that the husband of the Present owner die? in those rooms 4 few years ago, but we did not tearn he was occupying the couch or not at the time. Without & doubt, though, 1€ wae a favorite foxting place of bis. Th are nO Street care tn this nd at the time of my ex © there Were no trucks or heavy autos paging, or eine 1 would have tried to @xplaln to my-| elf, ae T had on oorasions when my mojher told the experiences she had to me, of the vibrations of parsing adtomoviles jarring the thus causing the “phenomena” J am #4 Unimaginative girl when tt comes to “skeery” things, no I didn't im ine thle Bs M A Mother's Solicitation And yet we are very riot mater allt, thly brottier and Noll, I believe she t# trying to wuido us.” Then we fell to dreaming again, | when, ob, so clearly, to both, Cute that deloy ine “Nelly Nelly Gir Only mother ever said tt just that way. Altho we had been art, I tound| mynelt in broth army, and seem: | ingly without my own yolition. Both felt w benediction. A peculiar float ing light wag Observed by both, but that in part of the history of our Many have seen that. | you wonder, after that, that after more than 10 years diavship, a| ‘Little fan even now that brother feels a gu walohtul care, over hie And yet, ag T mid, we are both “unbelievers.” Why? I wonder! For MRS. E.I.G The | * Captain’s Warning In the early spring of 1884, I was one of a crew of 25 men leaving Gloucester on the staupch fishing schooner David J. Adams, bound for the Newfoundland Banka About 200 miles éast of Halifax we “spoke” the fishing schooner Maud Snow, Boxton bound from the “banks,” and were warned to keep a sharp lookout for loebergn, ax they had sighted some soon after leaving the “fishing grounds.” At that Ume it was moderately clear and we were geudding alopg| untler full sail, with a MUL southerly | reese directly abatt us | | boyhood, 1 An plight fell upon um the wind quickly veered to woutheast, and to the experienced eye there was every | indication that We would soon en. counter “naaty” weather, | The fying jib and topsafla were ‘wken to” aad with siigle reefed | maingail and double reefed forepa!l | We met the onslaught of the gal houne and! that had now Increaned to 40 miles an hour ‘To add to the discomfort and make even denser the impenetrable black- Hess, Know began falling—large, sot | flakes that Just stuck and clung to| everything they totiched. Once or twice we caught the faint siren of some transatlantic liner, then the ewirling, Rissing waves and | | roar of the storm that seemed ever > Whom | the hepeeniry of my “Gl a sary | occurred, fOr we believe that if God Meant un to pleroe the "Vell" of the plain in Bis book Our mother, pecause f at the! lone of Wer Wate won, & eplrituaiiam, but ed came to be- | feve What ~eyen t Yikes Yet. ater ths at thle te the L erg, people core tn trom @ were seated fire. re ig, we Cham. A pretty girl adopted by a mil- lionaire plunges headlong into New, York’s gay society life, smashing conventions and fever- ishly seeking excitement at any cost. of tomorrow? Is she the typical woman See the answer in this flaming story of youth and the tempestuous road that finally leads to heart’s desire—a picture that delights the eye! | to shriek @ funeral dirge, shut out ali other sounds. Bhortly after eight bela, gs 1 was doing my turn at the wheel » hand een dreaming, | future. 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