The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 17, 1921, Page 1

camel Wenn erly Today Maximum, 56, ia ON Weather Tonight and Thursday, rain; strong south. ost- winds. Temperature Last 24 Hours Minimum, 47, neon, 48. CON The Seattle Star a. pda * IE ren a On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise Wntered as Se # Matter May 3, Sunday Neu Their Leather Lungs. Sleepless Morning. Tenors and Bassos. | ‘This bs the third of a sertcs of articles F which the various members of The te he things that irk BY LORIN: D. ANGEVINE e M* PET PEEVE is the Sunddy iy morning newsboy : crave sleep Sunday Ebut I seldom get it. » Thru week a raucous, Obed! clock with a 5:30 a And I drag half an of the morning® the alarm explodes dally at m ha frightful crasn. ly to work, with only for the roseate hues nd Sunday morning I'm weary 7 But what's the use! For the newsboy on Sunday Is up with the dawn—and he rises leather-luhged, fizzing with pep and loaded for bear, When I say “he,” I speak collectively, for there are about four of him in my district on any other morning. really want a paper, I find him with a search Life’s a funny thing, isn’t VOICE WAFTS HIM BACK FROM SLUMBERLAND I hear him first on Sunday just | a Iittle while after my subconscious mind hey prepared my nerves for D) the shock of the crashing clock. His voice comes from far away as IT am floating down the tides Slumberland, dilssfully at peace fhe realization that the clock percjfully. muzzled. Paint as it is, it's as potent & i of a mosquito in a summer approaches swiftly, his © powerful at every yelp. hea in columns of twos, om either side of the street He—I am stil! speaking collect- ly—yelig most loudly in my block His tones renge all the way from ‘ bam te shricking tenor. lungs He one encore, Bponding to encore after And I conceived in his own mind Whe cold Noor, stagger to the win- his thick-ekinned, grinning face. EVERYBODY HEARS HIM DISTINCTLY THE FIRST TIME It does no good, of course. He Tgoes right on yelling. Why he comes back, time after time, ih be yond me. It's a cinch that every- “body in the block hears bim dis tinctly the first time, and if they wish to buy @ paper they have @ fine opportunity then. But I do Mot recall that anybody in our block ever haw bought a paper from any of him. Our peevish Aileen Claire doesn’t know what a full-blown, dyed-in-the wool peeve really is unless she has gomeé of these perpetual motion, Co nche Indian newsboys to disturb Sunday slumber it’s a churlish thing to do, of furse, to register a peeve at the fog-horn-voiced young terribles of the rival sheets. But believe it or 5 | vehement if The Star published ® Sunday paper which connected it self with a similar band of juvenile terrorists! Street car conductors who start the Sunday ing horror herein described ] P. §—My REAL pet peeve, it you ant to know, is/the poll tax! ings compared with their cars when you're only half aboard with a cargo of groceries; the beautiful, slushy snow; trousers which stay hitched half way up your shins when you stand up; large women who cache their lone token in the lower t-hand corner d of their shopping ra ware } Mh o of miscellany block the entrance while they f for it; | berry pie, and pipes with cel pid stems } BAndrew Bonar Law | Resigns Commons yam ANDO! March 17. Andrew Bo | nar Law, government leader in the commons, has resigned. d-George announced to- day in the house. Lioyd- George announced that the resignation was caused by ill health Bonar Law is a conservative, but has been a member of the coalition i] cabinet formed by Lioyd-George. For some time there have been reports | wafehouse, they say, that the conservatives felt it was time to break away from the coal ition and attempt to establish their own party in power Dining Car Prices to Be Decreased? BAN FRANCISCO, March 17.—The fouthern Pacific announced today that it had completed an agreement with the Pullman officials by which dining car menu prices would be de creased ; TONIGHT i 7A6—University pytertan |, wife ‘adn eaurt Congo, will speak FRIDAY a mo, W. 0. A—Mrs. Charen Studd to speak on African missions 0 Presbyterian — chureh—Mrn address Kirst Presby- society. i] i hard brazen | S@ow and shout threats of death at) OF TACOMA Body | Ne; TACOMA, March 17 SUICIDE s Found in Water ar His Plant at Old Town With his |hands tied in front of him and a rope abou | Cornptius of ot t his neck D. Danaher, the body president the Danaher Lumber nompany, was found in near his morning. | police say ty believed the water at the dock plant at Old Town this Coroner Shauver and the he committed suicide. It that Danaher tied hin own hands before placing the noosr about his neck and jumping into the water | | On the pier were found the dead man's overcoat and hat In the! mr | Docket of the overcoat was found | in |® Bote signed with the initials, “C. | }D. D.” Tt read: “At the end of the rope.” Employes at the mill told the po-| Mt ® tice that Danaher had been despond. | TOR war Sleep-destroyer as the distant Tam. | ent for some time because of the | 0" streets lumber | depressed condition of the industry. ' | Danaher came to Tacoma from Detroit about 10 yearn ago. | | announced [houses w April 4 purchase this date. | Wholesale D. Stokes. | divorce, ce! definite. Justice ‘ag counsel of $19,500 Order for visions. obligated When nv |B. wheat in J the cultivated sproutiess. ter | now they | which realized if | the right Naval armament plished,” From bi Principal get out. stead. Partially | Wholesale Prices } Showing Decline! WASHINGTON, Stokes Closes His Part of Divorce NEW YORK, March 17 * | adjournment not, my peeve would be equally | ti, defense to gather Its witnennns | The date of resuming the trial is in ‘There probably will be sev eral weeks delay | A peremptory | served on the Rainier Vall@y car line | had twins | Thursday to compel it to carry city | Freed all these are pleasant tiremen and police free of charge in | cided by th Wheat Was Finicky; | 80 They Ask $3,125 | business firms it has men and wo. | Osborne Osborns instead of spring wheat out with a positive program for dix | Prohibition that the ban on with crawl from bed, plant my feet OM | Grawals of liquor from bonded ware-| i be partially lifted | relief committee Retail druswixts will be allowed to! liquor from bonded ware | houses and distiliery warehouses on wt prices have per cent since the peak of the war| Settlement house in Hoston level in May, of labor announced today February wholesale prices dropped | 0’ 5% per cent. | 1920, the department During Te WwW. FE. aged millionaire suing for lowed his case today, An wag taken to enable Finch today directed that Stokes pay his wife $7,000 additional fees, This makes a total Stokes has given her for | that purpose. See Rides Firemen, Cops) court order wan) ‘That the Rainier Valley line was! Pasco the copp to carry « und| [the firefighters free was recently de-| gon, to vote on $450,000 road bonds. | lete Hoseburg-Coos Bay | |Sees Thi supreme court. | eighbors of Harry and J.| were harvesting their| Auburn in the fall of 1918, | looked at their well acreage and found it ‘They had planted win. And Farmers’ | for $3,125 | they would have! the defendants had sent| seed | are suing the ot Auburn, Disarmament Is Placed Up to U. S.| WASHINGTON, March 17.—The| naval disarmament situation Is practically in the hands*of the United States, Senator Borah, Idaho. said today in commenting on the wpeech of Lord Lee, head of the British admiralty “Ip the United States should lead | something can be accom Borah said. ig clare wo candy bars! Luther warns Queen Anne high school kids to quit smoking or ‘They quit. Kat candy in | Patrick's 1 Day in the Morning, and the Colleens sell tags For the orphan kiddies. With “SEATTLE, WASH., THURSDAY, MARCH 17, 1921. POLL TAX GROWS VOLUNTEER WORKERS IN READINESS Write in From All Parts of | | State; Hart Continues Strong for Bill the hope of inducing Gov. [Hart ta veto the new poll tax law, all Spokane county officials are con: £99, at the Postoffice at Seattle, Wash. under the Act of Congress March 3, 1879, Per Year, by Mall, 66 to $9 The Measure “i Beacon Hill Community club elects |2"8!n& their commuunications of } officers. protest to Olympia, Bimer HH. Bart : lett, ansemor for that cdunty, In Boys’ club planned at Queen Anne 7 vs | het alee sg formed | King County — Ansemor | Frank W. Hull, Another for St. Pat. U frosh don |4. 0" Mh em Wetter There green headgsar txtay & F. Douglas, 4957 Tenth ave. 6. Stull, Dry squad. Jail Detective Hill Worsham ts ing mustache, it is alleged. Judge Ronald suggests legislative seanion to repeal laws and pass none. grow Margret Offices. of State Chamber of Com merce to be moved Seattle to Ta coma. | ‘Taxis coining much in Chinatown. Chinamen refuse to walk Collecers “strike” on anidier stuff. | Petition asks end to compulsery training. Sterling elder. James Gregoren. 211 Second ave. 8, paid $100 in po ee court. The countion, Thursday Rot as an maid official to get SeuttioTacoma inferuban tied wp 9) mb’ with them. ~ to 945 p.m Wednesday. Lumber Help China Prevent epidemics, typhus and cholera. China! Auto that killed Mra, A. Lendvall at Olive at. and Minor ave, Saturday not found yet by, police a h. Lick ‘em some, but not teo much. | man,” How to rains children. Joseph Char-| «et 900 land, 92, 2621 32d ave. W “Wee” Coyle, leutenant governor, stumps for College of Puget Sound Wants to raise $1,000,000 Gwendolyn Monteagte, cod, ‘on $600 fellowship to South End eure tu writen Nursery rhymes modernized in| March number Sun Dodger, college mic monthly, Out today Toot! Trucks with eolid rubber tires need no whistles, council public safety committee recommends “'Xouse me; ‘twas my birthday,” Ralph Nelson, Police court. Drunk charge. Judge Godon pondering Rev. Axel Fryxell. “The Question.” Before Women's mercial Club. Noon, Blafic’s. George Meacham, state nolon, speaks before Young Men's Repub lican club, Noon. Woif's cafeteria. Diogenes? N. J. Eilts, 2 1th ave. W., gave police a box and $70 he had found near University bridge. | After two operations, J. C. Hute Irish Com Gov son, of the Huteson-Donahey Optical | 0 tag C6., improves at Seattle General’ how | | - pital Receiver appointed for Gaston, Williams & Wigmore, exporters, New | York. Sued by W. H. Sumner & Co,, Seattle William J. Rudd's auto lightless tn front of Providence hospital. “Just | jon St $500,000 steel bridge, Kennewick to} Citizens of Douglas county, Ore |in sia Want to comp highway City-federal employment office, 317 | James st. reminds factories and | IB worta wide |Fevernor stems al he it, Manning then wit carry the fight for a referendum to the state Supreme court Duke, but Proudly ning, says he appeared city building Thursday arrived Wednesday from her uncle Ireland. The man fled and es Jomph KO Manning. man ho bas taken the lead in the men seeking Jobs lened a man who Poor rata! U home economics de-|the back door of partment to make ‘em eat what ama-|at 6612 12th ave, teur cooks cook, If it doesn’t kill | night rata, co-eds may & uate | caped Hull was also in receipt of advice from Pierce county that tur protest was being vigorously punted In apite, however of the opposition of the officials of the state's three | were that the governor intend:| ed_to sign the measure. to John Cormode, Beatth protester, | Gov, Hart declared the poll tax “will be equivalent to # danill tax levy and will take care of the entire general fond taxes of the state.” Personally,” ureday Indications Annennor th etoes the bill “Just Fred A. Grow, at Winslow, Wash., “I have always voted a republican tcket.j but if I have to pay $6 for| | the privilege of voting it, I will never be for the republican party again (wish to volurteer my services to etre. (culate referendum petitions here on Bainbridg¢ island.” Blue Sky and Poll Tax to Be Vetoed Hart's vetoew of the biue sky law and the poll tax bill have not yet been filed with the secretary of state, | it was announced Thursday at the chief executive's office at Olympia. That the governor hag already ve toed the measures was atrongly indi Hart's secretary | to announce the definite vetoes until | they have been officially filed She Wears a Real Shamrock; but One? wearing what he told traffic officers. |the only real shamrock in Seattle, Patrick's Day, Holes dug in Columbia river bank|MeDonnell, of the public welfare de- accordance with their franchise pro-|to hold federal franchise to build | partment ief; Yells; Then: No More Thief Johnson's lusty shout fright In a letter Hun “I am opposing thia poll tax as a citizen and a taxpayer, and ve very deep convictions on the matter, and I am perfectly willing ‘out on a the Seattle letter to Man & working but that he will guarantee to signatures to {dum in the town of Snohomish, A similar offer came from a Mt! | Vernon man, who says he can «wing most of the town against the poll the referen. refused she called Mra, Marton at the county The flower \ Louis F. Hart, Governor of Washington. T’S A MIGHTY BIG and courageous act for the governor of a legislature. And The Star recognizes. the magnitude of the thing which is being asked of Governor Louis F. Hart with ref- erence to the poll tax. : The governor may be said to be the father of the proposal. He |\recommended it in his message to the lawmakers. It is a good deal to ask him to kill his own offspring, as it were. But in another sense, it is not asking too much. The greatest among us may err—and while it is humiliating to small men to acknowledge error, it is but part of the bigness of bigger men. Nothing can so vividly establish Louis F. Hart as a great gov- ernor than to admit error when occasion warrants it. We hope the governor is big enough to recognize the fallacy of the poll tax. |We hope he can see that the roving individual who escapes other taxation will be the very one who will not be reached by the poll tax, either; that the attempt to reach this roving in- dividual will cost the greater part if not all of the tax. “We hope the governor is big enough to see that any tax which imposes a greater proportionate burden upon the poor than on thé rich is fundamentally wrong; that taxation which imposes twice the burden upon a married man as upon a bachelor is unjust; that any |system which adds taxation to the resident home owner and which is inflicted upon wage earners ‘who pay taxes with every month’s rent, while absentee landlords escape, is a vicious system ® It will take bigness and courage to acknowledge ah honest was prowiine «t/ change of opinion. N. B, Wednee| But we hope the governor of this great state is just that big and The Rise and Fall of a Gin Mill; or, The Devil’s Demise at Concrete just that courageous. BY AILEEN CLAIRE lof the bubbly brew only cost a Jit, in thone days even the elect doubled. Then it trebled. Prohibition | dividends into brick and mortar. Y kzea is the story of a reformed | some of the leading minds gave out| were wont to congregate in a back |arrived for a prolonged visit. The! 1+ took the malt merchants several brewery. ‘ore their stomachs. | voces and wring the neck off an Old old brewery shut down. The jovial). 6 ‘tedtinég It han to do with the rise and falt| At the name time that the malt| od : ‘ members of the Wee Hours’ club as. |¥C4F8 t© realize that prohibition was manutactory was running night and|Crew or wander in their dreams | tonjxned their wives by getting home | ot @ joke, and the old brewery con- of a gin mill day, a little church was around the |down the Old Green River. And/pefore the milkman, A drunk be: | tinued to stand close to the little rent: "Way back in the prehistoric days, when hip pockets were unknown and | the national coat of atms consiated of the Demon Tum rampant and a large number of citizens couchant, Mr. led meeting place of the godly. Then |a crowd of workers wandered along, gazed at the quondam jag factory, at on their hands and commenced Carrie Nation was a joke and Volstead was unknown. | ‘Then along came a gentleman in a black frock coat, « soft smile and @ the Seattle Brewing and Malting | prayer boc He called himself by | to tear down the ruins. company operated a jazz joint at \the strange title of church invigor Members of the little church Concrete, Wash. | ator. This was a new one on the! around the cornef grinned, and even ‘The Hilarious Hynsop house cover: | midnight boys, who thought they the saloon slickers smiled—those that ed the entire quarter of a block in knew all about invigorators. were not wearing wooden kimonos, the heart of the business section and | corner trying to make saints out of| ‘The Rev, Earle D, Sinm—for that | came a curiosity and a drink became | All the rest of the town was stand was kept busy turning out amber and | soaks. It had 12 members and a|was the name of the sky pilot—pald | uno. than rubies. ing in front of the former ferment- kickful brew. jchureh debt, and wh n the Saturday little attention to the jorums of joy ery, reading a large sign which read: In those benihted days best {night sinners staggered past the | that were diapensed almost next door| But still the church debt hung on} “his plant being torn down to minds of the nations believed that | edifice of worship they chortled glee-|to his church. He rolled up his| grimly and the little group of the! make place for the new home of the the best way to destroy the liquor | fully at the efforts of these here pro- | slee took a drink of watér and | faithful never succeeded in buying a| First) Baptist church. Dedicatory evil was to consume all that was| hibition people to make the country | proceeded to lambart the devil meeting house of their own, It was | ceremonies will be held here, Sunday, available in the vicinity. As 4 flagon ! dry. In @ few years his little flock hada tough job trying to convert divine March 20th, 1921.” ‘AS GIRU’S BETR TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE | Defense Attorney Scores | Millionaire’s Record in state to veto a measure he himself had recommended to the) sr toox CLARA'S - CASE IS NEARING — FINISH! Closing Arguments BY CARL VICTOR LITTLE | COURTHOUS#H. ARDMORE, Okia., March 17.—Clara Smith Hammon to |day was pictured as a country girl on whose breast had been branded the scarlet letter of shame by a rich and powerful man. ar The case was expected to reach the jury about 4 p. m. today. DRAMATIC PLEAS FOR DEFENDANT > Jimmy Mathers and J. B. Cham pion, twin brother of Judge Cham- pion, made stirring and dramatic pleas to the jury for Clara's release when arguments for the defense were made, 4 Both men charged that rich amd powerful interests were trying to wend the defendant to jail so they could get their clutches on Hamon millions, fi Witnesses who testified for te state against the defendant, who és charged with the murder of Jake Hamon, were attacked by the neys as tools of rich interests, mony of friengs of Hamon, who out statements after Hamon wounded, that it was the result of am” ‘accident, was impeached and ed as untrue, because, the at charged, these men “had Hed Hamon's death and would as swear to lies.” Mathers took up the entire 7 session and court was recessed a lpm : Clara wept and twitched nervous ly as court opened today. The girl, charged with sla $ Jake L. Hamon, broke down on day she expected to learn her fate. She slipped into court with her — mother, Mrs. J. L. Smith, and Jim- my, her brother and pal. * Tears roiled down her cheeks 4s ber seat. hi The defense was overruled Judge Champion in its efforts wend the case to the jury without making an argument. JUDGE'S TWIN BEGINS DEF SE ARGUMENT BY J. B. Champion, twin brother of the judge and defense counsel, opened the argument. In opening, he charged the prose _ cution with lengthening the case by postponement, and attacked H. H. Brown, prosecutor, for his speech of yesterday, be “This girl is charged with sedue- ing a 40-year-old millionaire; it's ” ridtculgus,” Champion yelled, ‘ Mr# Hamon was in court and heard her husband arraigned as a roue and stealer of virtue. She did not wince; she was unemotional, “When Jake Hamon sent this git 7 to college, she was brown-eyed countryy girl in her ‘teens. He wooed, coaxed and won, He wouldn't have taken a crooked girl into “his” life and sent her to college, to be- © come an office associate, ‘ “She was a chaste, pure, sweet girl He knew her in the town where she lived. He took her be cause of her clean life, “4 “Hamon snatched this girl from the cradle to debauch her.” é Clara wept intermittently during: Champion's tirade against Jako Hamon. 4 SAYS KETCH GRIPS HAMON’S FORTUNE . A sensation was sprung when Champion charged that “Frail Ketch has his clutches safely fast: ened onto the millions of the dead man,” L. V. Mullen, brother of J. 8 Mullen, one of the friends of Ha+ mon, whom Champion branded as countenancing adultery, lurched te ward Champion, Sheriff “Buck” Garrett grabbed Mullen and forced him in his chair, “The nation isn't interésted in this case because of Clara's popularity— she isn't known out of town—but be- cause of Jake L. Hamon,” Champion continued. “The throbbing heart of this na- tion is anxious to know why the powerful Hamon snatched a girl from high sehgol. Jake Hamon con- lfessed to the world this girl was pure and chaste. Hamon was the only man in her life, It was not a bullet that stole Hamon from hi wife—he stole himeelf, 10 years ago. Carpentier Says He Is to Fight July 2 NDERLAND, Eng., March 17, —Georges Carpentier will fight Jack Dempsey for the world's heavyweight championship in New York state on July 2, he announced in a speech here today Carpentier entered the ring just be- fore a boxing contest was staged here, and in an address to the crowd, ‘declared he had signed a contract to fight Dempsey on that date amd im the state named