The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 24, 1920, Page 2

PAGE 2 100,000 SICK YANKS ARE LOSTBY U.S. American Legion Says ‘Of- = ficials Responsible for | = Lack of Helpfulness NEW YORK, Dec. 4.—The Amer Legion charges that because ‘official laxity, nobody knows has become of more than 163,.| world war voterans who were| charged from the service sutter-| M/ from tuberculosis and mental! [5 ind nervous disorders. | Of these men, 38,038 were tuber.) cases, ar! 71,237 nervous and 0 casualtios, | ‘The legion’s investigation of neg: | ef disabled Yanks shows sick crippled veterans are going into the hospitals so fist that by the end} 921 the hoapitals must accommo. | twice as many as now | Yet present hospital facilities are’ Inadequate to care for the! soldiers and sailors already | in their walls, Ineement has been dle that will be axked to appropriate ions of dollars to build hospitals st will be ready by 1925. But that t satisfy the legion, which haa a detéermined campaign to Proper provisions made for dis- Yanks immediately. 1T THE YANKS ‘VE NOT GoT A survey of the situation just com ted by the legion shows these are ehief things the disabled Yanks Yt got: ~ ONE: Suffictent hospital facilities medical treatment, cere ssa eget =nvatin eye ewan eet ae rN a i [et it AEA th mnt nm Christmas See Begi themseives by vocational committees met in Wash- recently with representatives the three bureaus handling dis soldiers’ affairs They worked on & program of bureau tion and law revision. Meanwhile the legion served that it would hold the govern- Officials involved to strict ac tity for a lheral construc. an almost eentinual round of re ligious services in celebration of Christmas will be held in Seattle's churches, lasting until late tomorrow | night. . Eve to nning of Church Festivity, Beginning before midnight tonight.| musical program is scheduled for 11} Saturday morning | Bt. James’ cathedral will open its celebration with midnight mass to- night, followed by pontifical mass at 11 a m, Saturday and solemn veo raat 4p. m. BER 24, 1928, FRIDAY, DECE! |What Are the\Poor THE SEATTLE STAR REORGANIZATION ( MY GO-LOSH! )‘*""ARL Fair Wages Police Going to Do? foree here may not be s© numerous imum wage, a petition bearing Chiet of Pollee Jon |the names of more than 80 women kins has iseued an order that all laundry employes of Benttlo war). int by policemen from under consideration by the industrial | the stocks of storckeepers must ? comrminion today, The pe | Merchants t complained that po con eating up their ye in the future. Long Time Before Govern- ment Overhauling Comes welfa tition, which wan received yesterday, | licernen have WAMTINGTON Deo, 24. = \otater that the present minimum of | stocks of exndy, fruit and nuts, and bodies move slowty That ls an ax $13.26 a week in insufficient to sup-| that if complaint was made the po % licemen arrested them. port them adequately ‘tom of science. ‘The United States government ts & big body, That in the hoast of every HT | individual eonnectéd with It, and of levery patriotic cltisen, Therefore— The public must not expect too much in the way of an early over hauling of government departmen ‘and bureaus, promised by the tncom ing administration in the toterest both of efficieney and economy FTOURES TWO YEARS BEFORE | PROGRAM'S FORMULATED | Por inetance, Congressman ©. F. | Reavia, who has before congrens the | only proposal to date which would set in motion the machinery neces | wary for reorganization, anys it will te at least two years before any proper program of reorganization can be formulated | “Duplication of activities and over, lapping functions of departments, and even of bureaun within depart ments,” Reavia nays, “le a source of waste almost tnealoulab In my | judgment, it amounts to not leas than $300,000,000 a year “Yet, enormous a the waste In, | and aa easy ag it te to pat one’s fin 8 individual points of lost mo- ffort, it would only nd waste to under he situation piece | meal. It ean only be done properly after a, comprehensive study has | been made of the whole governmen tal Iayout. | WANTS SPECIAL | REORGANIZING BODY “On the batia of such « stinty, and on it alone, will It be possible to work BEGINING TOMORROW WITH OUR NEW SHOW WE PRESENT TO YOU “THE GREAT LOVER” A Story of the Opera and Its Lite Behind the Scenes They are warm. And they are decorative—at least they ought to be, for they're h - out a unified, systematic progtam of j HOPES AMERICA reorganization such a is necessary i¢| painted. They are ca d) And the Big Program With a full dollar's worth of government|"epiral puttees.” Mise Anna) Our Orchestra joe in to be give oh dollar lagay oy 1g td ga rappers of agg D.} Qfischa Gluschkin, Conductor) Reavis has introduced a remotution|C WhO t# shown wearing Selection “Cavalleria Rusticana”... calling for the appointment of a spe them here, says: “Maybe they|\B- Mi heaer ance sen ete soeee+Mascagnt cial reorganization anmmission, to}don’t make for what are) And we have Other Features Bernstorff Says Europe Far) From Real Peace consist of three members from the house and three from the senate, to conduct an Investigation Into duptt eationsand overlapping activittes In the pregent government organization BERLIN, Dee, 2%4--Hope that) as the QYret necemary step toward America will lead in the fight “for! providing a reamedy. justice and equity ip order to arrive) MUST BE DONE At & sensible revision of the treaty @) QUICKLY BUT RIGHT Versailles and reforin of the league! Appointment of thix rvorgnniation of nations” was expressed today by! commission, Reavis hopes, will be formet Ambassador Bernstorff in a/ called ‘neat ankles’ but they) certainly look-better than go- loshes!”" OUR PROLOGUE Will Offer MICHELE DeCARO Operatic Baritone in His FAREWELL APPEARANCE Prior to his departure for Milan, Ttaly ‘ ORSE MENU “18 QUITE AMPLE| MILWAUKEE, Deco. 24 Poor Trinity Parish Episcopal chureh | ?* services will begin at 11:80 tonight, with midnight euchariet and Chriat- mas music. Communion will be held ipa ly hged — and preach “Immanuel Lutheran services will Commander F. W. Gal- w | held at § p. m. tomorrow, with) te. “We are not raising a cry|_ St Mark's holds communion @t) gpecial song and musical program. fel? We are not out to ‘get’ 1M15 tonight, and other services at) Appropriate worship and celebra- We have the facts.” $ & m. and 11 a. m. tomorrow. | tion will be held by practically all/ * Im a Christmas message tn the First Presbytertan church special, churches tomorrow. At 690 a. m, Christmas day the Swedish tabernacte will be the soene | of & special m.®.cal program, follow: | ed by & sermon. and effective administration of Felief laws as exist or might be at the present session of con- Christmas menage “Christmas.” he wrote, “le ap proaching for the third time since | the end of the «reat war, Europe is fs | “Quick action ts necessary.” says was two years ago. “Why is this so? “Peace means mutual understand Ing and cooperation of nations. “We hope the United States will still as 2ar from & real peace as she | inventigation and of drafting the lex made at this short soxsion, in order that it may buckle down to work im mediately. “It the job ts to be done thorely and right, as it should, the work of ivlation necesmary to straighten out present kinks will require a long tme—perhaps two yrare. “Tt is desirable, of course, that it be done quickly, but it is more im- LAST TIMES FRIDAY CHARLES RAY in“An Old Fashioned Boy” So ere =|AMERICA WINS CHINA ESTEEM makes a vigorous appeal for Famine Relief Workers Gain Good Will PEKING, China, Dec. 34—Amer- lean relief workers in famine-stricken | China are winning for America great goodwill that will be a tangible asset | in years wo come. ‘The American Red Crosa is co operating with the Chinese Hed Cross | in furnishing food to the perishing & spin the thousand and trom Red Cross, who Philippines to organise relief work, says “this is the most appalling catastrophe of its kind that the Red Cross has had to deal with.” White estimated that the American Red Cross will have to furnish $5,- 000,000. “In many of the stricken dis- tricta,” said White, “not only has | all foodstuffs recognized as such been .j exhausted, but the supply of grass, ‘weeds and tree leaves has been prac- tically eaten up. “Death for the hundreds of thousands of inhabitants is only a -}question of time--uniess American money and Afnerican food inter- ” ‘Tom Millard, publisher of Mitlard’s Review of the Past, aayn: “Hvery Afnerican doliat that ¢an be put into China this year in famine reliet work will be « tremendous as- set in the future commercial, eco nomic and financial relations of America and China.” E KILLED IN AUTO'S PLUNGE or Stage Carries The YAKIMA.—Signing himself “The Prowler,” burglar who stole $600 worth of property from home of EB. LATENT “DEM” I$ BRYAN NOW That’s How Commoner De- scribes Himself MARION, O, Dec. 23.—Wiliam Jennings Bryan ie not nearly so dead. | politically, as some democrats think. President-Elect Harding doem't consider him dead Of ali the “best minds” who have come to Marion, none, apparently, left a better tm- pression than the Commoner. Harding got 4 great deal of inspira tion from the Bryan visit, and will consult him frequently on non partiaan questions during the next four years, ‘The subject nearest Bryan's heart) | is the entrance of the United States | Into the league and this he discussed a¢ Jength with the next president. Linked with thin t» his pian to pre vent wars thru international agree fyents that nations shall take @ refer. }endum of their citizens before going to War. ‘Thia plan Harding has character feed an a “big iden” Bryan will exert his Influence tn the next United States senate to se- cure ratification of the league coven- ant. Bryan also wil seek ratification of the proposed conetitutional amend- ment to permit a bare majority of the aewate, rather than the twe thirds now needed to ratify a peace treaty. “A bare majority of congress ¢an declare war,” he points out. “I now refer to myself an @ Tatent democrat,’ says democrat who's more active some- times than other times.” PURVIS, Mies.—Negrots believed responsible for hanging of Coleman 8. Lueth, Sunday, returns some trin- kets thru mall to police, and wishes * “ to Death in River Brown, aged negro preacher, out on bonds in connection with killing of young colored girl. HOQUIAM, Dec. 24—John Martin, , and an unidentified man are) today, and John L. Cosgrove, |’ F. Donohue and Walter Blue| injured badly as a result of an fle stage plunging into the river from a bridge 20 north of here. The accident oo- yesterday, AN the injured recover, it is predicted. Cos- driver, sald the stage skidded the bridge rail. LAST TIMES FRIDAY RAR SWEET “THE GIRL IN THE WEB” SPOKANE.—S. J. Warren, rancher Lewiston, Idaho, arrested at El , Kan., on charge of having forged check on Spokane Starting Saturday— ITS FIRST RUN, TOO! TOM MIX “THE TEXAN” CLYDE COOK Special Comedy “All Wrong” WINELAND’S ORCHESTRA 4 . To Ca Grove'’s tablets, of B. W. old im One Day ATIVE BROMO QUT. Renuine bears the ste . Grove, 80c.—Advertise f 12214 Third Ave NIVERSIE TY SOA Nat OEE 4 Ko DECREE OTE WISHES YOU A MERRY CHRISTMAS Bryan. “That's a} take the moral twad in the fight for Justice and équity in orfer to ar Five at a sensible revision of the treaty of Versailles and at « reform of the league of nations. Otherwise dolsheyiam will triumph in the ond” Roe portant that It be done right.” One Bad Turn Deserves Another VENICE, Cal., Dec. 14.--A woman carrying « bairiees Mexican dog Doarded a Venice street ear. She took & seat beside & man smoking and BER SOLVES HIS PROBLEM |réins Gravtiine eneey- od her and she said #0 aloud, But PORTLAND, Ore, Deo, 4--A® line smoker only puffed harder drew Newman Inherited $600 and couldn't decide how to invest it, so he buried it until he could make up hie mind. A robber solved the Problem by taking the money for a Chrietmas prevent Montana Cashier Is Under Arrest), PLENTYWOOD, Mont. Dec %4.— Shortages in the Sreridan County Finally, she reached over, grabbed the cigar and threw It out of the ear He snatched up her lapdog and threw je off the car. Excitement ran high This Turk Is Safe From Christmas Ax PARIS, Ky., Dee. 24.-—-Henry Whi ermon Owns & turkey gobtler that will eoonpe the Christmas ax. One ate Hank, here, choending $106,608, 76 ne Pearse side the tind are being investigated today, ‘ana | eee every morning. The gobbier ye ; a tenbiad, x es = to huge proportions and arrest. He is charged with making false reports to the state banking de- re) gon Cc ent Men partment. Filipinos to Hold _| Ae, Declared Guilty Mass M ti Here Charged with viotation of the anti trust lawa, RR Butehart and Commemorating the death of Dr.|Clark Moore, president ahd former Jose Rimi, Filipino national hero, | sales Manager, fexpectively, of the Filipnos of Seattle wil hold a pudtia| Portland Cement Co, were found mass meeting at Broadway hich| guilty on two counts of the tndict- sehoot Thursday, December 30. Jygjce| ment here Thursday. They were al- NR A. Ballinger will address t lowed 30 days in which to move for a new trial STARTING SATURDAY Fatty Arbuckl Ina Paramount Picture et ORE ENSE BNE RECTION JENSEN-VON H AFTER TONIGHT IT’S GONE, G-O-N-E! THE CLASSICAL PARAMOUNT PICTURE “TO PLEASE ONE WOMAN” 80 COME TONIGHT AND GET INSPIRATION FOR XMAS JOY LISTEN TO ‘THE SWEET STRAINS OF OUR ORCHESTRA (MISCHA GLUSCHKIN, CONDUCTOR) AND THE CULTURED VOICES IN THE PROLOGUE CAST “The Life of the Party” A fast and festive fun frolic by Irvin Cobb that nearly leaves Fatty in the clutches of the vampiest vamp you ever saw—but he comes out all fussed up with joy and funny antics! NEWS TOPICS WHICH INCLUDES MAX SHIFRIN, TEN CATHERINE .PIELOW, Contralto WALTER BEATON, Baritone LOVE DAVIS on the WURLITZER