The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 6, 1921, Page 13

Section Two The Seattle Star [=.= BRITAIN, All Sorts of Rumors Rife in Orient; Needs Clear Steering to End i Sources of Friction | BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMM! \ SHANGHAI, May 6.—The heavy fog of doubt, suspicion and hatred Which, prior to 1914, hung over the kans, has shifted to the Far East / and unless it can be cleared away by gome definite moves on the part of ‘the three governments principally in. fyolved—acts which will admit of no ‘two interpretations—another conflict geems inevitable. Guft of a highly dangerous sort is being spilled out here in the Drient, adding to the confusion. The ‘wildest rumors are always in the air, truth in them; but each adds its mite to the general tension and thus does its little bit of harm. SHREWDEST OBSERVER: LOSING PERSPECTIVE + Some of the shrewdest observers— American, British and Japanese—are Tosing their perspective, living as ‘they are in this turbid atmosphere, ‘riving home on newcomers the need tion. And America is always the goat, tever the combination of direful nts predicted or feared. Some have the United States and id tobogganing at terrific ol towards war on the theory that Germany is down and out alone stands in the way of ns commercial donfina- tion of the world. t _ Others are convinced the United eg Btates and Japan are headed in the jon of an inevitable clash—on ground that their ambitions can- t be reconciled in Asia. PLOTTIN WAR? third category of sidewalk diplo- see Great Britain conniving to h America and Japan into a war h each other for the double pur- of removing Japan as a dan- ous commercial rival in the and from the high seas as a growing menace to Britain's marine. d- * ot LA And nt then there’s the group who to believe England wants the ed States and Japan to fight so England, will not have to fight rica, while a fifth school. of preach that Great Britain uld like a Japanese-American war that both Japan and America receive such a set-back that would remain undisputedly in sion of the field. } | These are some of the things folks here are talking about, But it no means all they are saying. MEPyone is guessing and the wild. m. guesser wins. AGREE THAT ii, DWDOWN IS NECESSARY / On one thing, however, all think- men in the Orient, whatever their Rationality, are agreed upon and is the necessity for a show- u Great Britain, Japan and the d States—these three nations e—are the nations which must cide what is to be in the Far East, as matters stand nobody knows any one of them intends to do. President Harding, many contend, the key to the situation. These anxious for him to take the in- itive in clearing up the whole bad ess out here. Four moves, consider, would do the job. First, to announce to the world do-unto-others-as-we-would-be-done- thoroly American, non-grab-for- " @ign policy with particular reference to the Far East. Second, free the Philippines as Proof that America means what she @ys and for the psychological ef- fect on the world. Third, press armament reduction every way possible on England Japan, and, irth, propose an international it high commigsion to consider fhina’s problems in a China-for-the- ; hinese way and prevent a virtual, if not a literal, dismernberment of it unhappy land. HESE MOVES WOULD FORCE DS ON TABLE ‘Ihese four moves would have the mediate effect of forcing every | power interested in the Far East to put their cards face up on the in National poker table. The refusal of “any nation to come out in the open “Would be tantamount to an admission _ that it had something to conceal, in Itself a complete declaration of Policy, while the United States, by taking the lead, would strengthen | the hands of those fighting for a bet- | ter understanding and confound the “trouble-makers who are daily build if Up a case against Uncle Sam as ¥ ie greediest villain of the lot. “) Such is the argument, and among ssral b hose who support it most vigorously gome our our army and navy detailed for service in this of the world, ‘We don't want war,” one keen- thinking American officer in Yoko- una told nd it makes me sore Ii the whe thru for some of our nelitical friends to be forever preach- ) x 4 Ped | #2 AND US. PIN BIG REPUBLIC ¢ generally without even a shred of | immediate steps to clarify the sit-| R PERIL IN CHINA? TO TOUR WORLD |Porter on Pullmans for 50 Years Gives Us Tips on Tippers PAN LASH ing the contrary. We are charged with the mission of keeping our |country safe and are enthusiastical jfor anything helping towards t end, | | “Take the question of a reduction of armame: he explained, “I think this: The United States ought to press in every honorable way it will permit the big powers to live to gether in this world without arming themselves to the teeth. Then, if/ the other nations refuse to enter in-| |to some such agreement, we ought | to make ‘our navy powerful enough for any possible emergency or com | bination of circumstances, Our con. selences would then be clear, Hav- ing exhausted all means open to us to get other powers to join us in a disarmament, it would ill become those powers refusing to join to crit icise us for building any navy deemed by us necessary for our protection. “In short, we ought to force a showdown among the big powers. Then, with our eyes open, we can either stop building OR BUILD BIG." It was a fighting man-who made this statement—a fighting man who hates war, His repeatedly expressed conviction was that America should at once, while the need is urgent and all the world is looking for a lead, go to the mat on the whole question. She could at least come clean her- self. ASIA’S ANSWER TO ARMAMENT PROBLEM The answer, tho, to the Anglo American-Japanese armament prob- Jem ts not so much in London, Wash: ington or Tokyo as it is here in Asia. ‘The great Chinese question, to be more specific—and to a lesser degree the Siberian, Mongolian and Man- churian questions—must be solved by the United States, England and Japan before they can get very far with the other proposition. Japan's future is bound up tight with the future of China, and by ric- ochet, off Japan, both England and the United States are directly affect- ed. It is freely predicted here that England will never agree to a re-| duced British navy until the Orient | ig more stabilized, and certainly Ja- pan will make no such bargain un- til the status of Asia is definitely | fixed. Between the world, then, and an/ approximately assured peace, lies the | restless, teeming East. He who finds| a way to settle the difficulties there should be well within the running | when it come time to award the most coveted Nobel prize. (Copyright, 1921, by N. E. A) | can for some sensible solution which | | she Marriesby Proxy ‘I Do! to Empty Air NEWTON, Mass you feel very much married if you had to say your “I do!” to the empty air and your father stood at your side? That ts what Mra. Alvaro T. Bothelho did. She became the bride, by proxy, of Lieutenant Alvaro T. Bothelho while she stood in the im-| performed there. migration station at Boston with her father beside her. ‘The lieutenant, a Portuguese naval | he officer, was at sea on his cruiser, Mrs. Alvaro T. Botelho May 3.—Would | Sao Gabriel, while the ceremony was SEATTLE, WASH., FRIDAY, MAY 6, 1921. FOR LONG TIME British Commander Will Be Gorle Seven Years | DEVOTES LIFE TO THE LEPERS vod - CHICAGO, May 6.—S00n James ried millionaires and multi-million. | NEW YORK, May 6.—Commander| p, Newsome will receive his tenth | aires and most of them tip a quarter Van Storm-Roux Weston of the| silver sleeve stripe which will indi-|or less, One multi-millionaire not British naval mission to Greece and | te 50 years of continuous active! long so tipped me) st 18 o* service ag a Pullman porter. is | dime, a nickel and three pennies. Girector of the technical and equlP| 16 oidest porter in active service| “Just to illustrate, one time I car- ment section, R, H. N. A. 8. bas) with the Pullman company. 1 26 bank presidents on a run. sailed for England on the first lap| When Newsome first went into the | collected from those men exactly of his seven. tour of the world, | Pullrnan service as a young man, he | $5.50. die c pts ged rot als itor ear, /Bad the Burlington's Omaha-Chicage A few days later I carried a car. | Colony behecenap dh i hacorg ete: “"lrun. The trip was a 24-hour one;|load of American Legion boys who| In England the commander will) now jt takes 14 hours. were getting only $30 a month and | Will be sent to Join bis wife and three children, two In those train carried only | they made up g pot of 50 for the girls of 12 and 7, and a boy of §./one sleeping coach. Now the fast | porter.” world. They will accompany him n his| Night trains carry sleeping coaches| Newsome has carried many distin- Dining and diners only guished passengers, including Ulys- : - Newsome has ridden approximately | ses §. Grant, William McKinley, D0 872 ie myiet tle of traee poll Fe ni. | 19,000,000 miles, His run now is on| William Jennings Bryan, Admirals | other half. Tee now called “Nkandhia,”” Zulu.|te Chicago and Alton's fast mail| Schley and Samson and Woodrow | Mrs. aaa South ae et en train from Chicago to St. Louis. It| Wilson. He has carried generations | her husband. Ho plane to continue the neat | Hae been his experience that: of the Alvin Saunders, J. Sterling i ares og te Women tip more liberally than|Morton, Edward Rosewater, and seven years of his life treking over] 0) Henry ‘W. Yates tathitien, bate on alt debian i aaae The richest men are the worst! He is known to thousands of trav- J tippers, elers and he knows by name several A perfect home on wheels, com-| ‘ane unaccustomed traveler pays | thousands, plete in every detail, from potq to! wnat his neighbor tips. | Roerich, @ plano, has been designed by the! ie best tippers are the salesmen, JAZZIN’ OUT OF IT commander for Inv —— will be | WBO8e tip# go on an expense account.| The New York girls who were ac- Motion and still pic are cne *| “I had rather have, #0 far as tip. | quitted of a charge of improper danc- taken as the family goes we ping goes, four women on my car | ing after they had demonstrated their The commander is a civil, me | than a trainload of bank presidents,” | dance before a magistrate— chanical and aeronuatical engineer;|5avy Newsome, Took the geapee- wees 0. due and holds pilot certificates for spher "The richest men. sometimes do | themselves.—Philadelphia Public Led- |'cal balloon, airship and airplane, seem the stingiest men. I have car-' get. tion for Louisiana, | In the war he saw 46 months’ Ses tive service in South Africa, Ger- man 8. W. Africa, France, Egypt, and the Aegean Sea She Could Spend All That and Stay Home YORK, 8. C, May 6.—“Judge” Fred Black couldn't do a thing for Alex Stewart when Alex came with @ complaint about Martha, his wife, “Judge,” Alex told the magistrate, “dere ain't no way to git erlong wid |dat ‘oman. She's ‘stravagant. She puts three sticks ob wood under de wash pot when one stick would keep performed. He took the vow at the | same time aboard ship. Mrs, Bothelho will sail May 14, with her mother, to meet her hus band in Lisbon. Another ceremony will have to be She was Esther Diana Klein of this place and met her husband when represented Portugal in the aine centennial celebration, Girl Dope Addict Asks .to Be Jailed “I can't stand it. I’ve taken the cure, but I'm not cured. For God's sake, gimme some dope.” Inspector Hans Damm looked up, startled, from his routine work. He recognized Gladys Allen, white wife of an Oriental. Married to a Chinaman, she had Jearned the “habit.” She had resolv ed to get “off the dope,” and had RABBIT INSISTS HE HAS NO ANCESTORS TACOMA, May 6-—"Rabbit,” 14, negro shine boy {n a local bar- ber shop, is as black as the ace of spades and is as good-natured as he is black. He is content to think that what he doesn’t know doesn't hurt him. “Rabbit, I belleve you've got ancestors,” remarked a citizen who dropped in for a shine. “Ain't got ‘em, boss,” returned Rabbit,” gravely. “Ah clar ter goodness ez how ah washed mah haid jist yistidy.” Kick Is Punishment Enough; Judge Lets ‘Kickee’ Go His Way Can a seven-year-old Ford speed 35 miles an hour? Will two drinks and a smell of gasoline produce a piledriver at- tack on the head? Is 20 miles an hour justified in rushing to a mother, afflicted with heart failure? Is a punchboard raffle the same kind of game that is played at church bazaars? Is Deputy Prosecutor John D. Carmody @ card shark? Can a man be charged with “driving while drunk” when he is so drunk he couldn't drive? Can a man be frightened by a near collision into acting like he 1g drunk? Is George Regas really George Regas or someone else? eee Anyone who can answer the above questions would have gone to_the head of the class had he been in po lice court: Te-—*sy afternoon. H. Longfellow, 2119 Second ave. W., introduced his seven-year-old Ford as his best alibl in answer to| a %-mile an hour speeding earge. Judge John B. Gordon considered that the Lizzie’s speed could be de veloped to a speed atonable by a $10 fine. KICK PUNISHMENT ENOUGH; H RELEASED John O'Leary was passing an opin fon on a gad tank, when a friend | invited him to “down a couple O'Leary did. Five minutes later he felt just like he had been knocked on the back of the head with a pile | driver. Judge Gordon considered the kick sufficient punishment. A speeder, captured by Motor Cop} 0. K. Holschumaker claimed that he {was rushing to the side of his moth- er, stricken with heart failure. He a8 given another chance. Attorney Frye declared that “a punchboard was no worse than, the of his tea rafiles at church bazaars,” in de fending A. A. Wismolek, cigar mer chant, charged with operating one. The case was taken under advise ment. Paul Erz declared that two decks ot cards found in his pockets were all right. Deputy @armody looked at one card and then called each card by looking at its back. Erz was charged with buncoing George Besel. off. He was released. HE WASN’T DRUNK; HE WAS JUST FRIGHTENED “He was so drunk he couldn't drive,” Patrolman A. H. Ellis testi fied regarding Nick Angelo, charged with driving while drunk. In rebuttal, Attorney Jerry Finch swore that Angelo had been fright ened by a near collision until he acted like he was drunk. George Regas had two guns, a bandana and a searchlight in a grip. Another George Regas appeared in court and claimed that the jailed Regas was using his name. Prisoner George Regas maintained that was his name and the other George Regas s forced to share it. Gee! Bet She Was Born on the 13th BEACONSFIELD, Eng. May 6. Mrs. Bagley found a fourJeaved clover. Then she found 10 shillings. Then one of her hens lalé a large double-yolked egg for 10 consecutive days. Love Preof Teacher: Wanted in Illinois! WINNETKA, Ill, May 6. Wanted—Five teachers who are love: proof. Thus advertised C. W. Wash burn, head of the schools here. He has to do all the teaching since five chers skipped to the altar. de fire het and de pot bilin’. “Furdermo’, she am always bod- derin’ mahself fur money. Ebery day, an’ sometimes two or free times in de day, she come a-pesterin’ me "bout money. Ah is mos’ crazy, Ah fa, euh.” “What does Martha do with all this money, Alex?” inquired the judge, following the telling of the tale of spent five weeks tn a hospital. The “cure” for her was a failure. That's why she appealed to the in | woe, spector of police for aid. She was} “Ah duno, gah,” replied Alex; “Ah “broke.” She wanted “dope.” hain’t nebber! ib her none.” Inspector Damm sent her “up wT eee stairs,” where she was Thursday, starting to take the “cure” again. She is 22 years old. A chemical weatherproof preacrva- tive protects Plymouth Rock from | the elements. We're Said to Be “Straight Shooters” Then Get This Straight—90 Per Cent Is Absolutely Rebated on Every Lot The Most Wonderful Chance to Abolish the'| Rent Curse Ever Offered ‘The editor of The Seattle Argus ts, we believe, the dean of the journalistic profession in Seattle, Apropos of Crawford & Conover's retirement he said editorially some very kind things about the old firm in the latest number, from which we quote the following: They were formerly the big guns in the real estate| business in this city. ‘heir advertising invariably carried the slogan, “References, Every Bank and Bus. ness Man in Seattle,” and I do not believe there was | one of their references who would not only give them a good character | but be enthusiastic about it, because Crawford & Conover were always | “straight shooters” and never misrepresented anything. We prize this sort of thing after 33 years of business activity more than anything else we possess, Mr. Crawford has died. Mr. Conover ts determined to retire. The assets of the firm are large. There are mighty few heirs, Rellef from business cares is the big outstanding thing—money—bah! what can money get one after one is dead? Therefore every lot and tract in Exposition Heights, Untversjty Gardens and University Home Tracts 1s to go for one-tenth cash and no more principal ever. The ninetenths ts an absolute and unqualified bonus or rebate spread over a, period of years. You pay 7 per cent in- terest and every year a constantly increasing proportion of this interest 1s credited on principal. In less than 29 years the lot will pay for itself from the few cents a day you pay, say 8 cents on a $500 lot. gagp~You take immediate possession. Except for one restricted por tion you can put up a tent or a little home, however humble. You will stop rent ang/ be on the road to independence. This opportunity is abso- lutely unprecedented in the history of the world as a rentstopper, Can you vision what this means while there is time to act? If not, we're mighty sorry for you—YOU'RE HOPELESS.<gggp ‘This is view property in the University District—perfectly beautiful view property—some with improvements in and paid for, some rich garden tracte—all kinds for all sorts of needs and tastes. guap~lf you are a slave to the pernicious habit of collecting rent recetpts get out from under now—this is the only time such an oppor- tunity has been offered in the history of the world—it will never be repented. -aagp ‘Take the Roosevelt (Ravenna) Park csr to the end of the line and get Into our automobile or drive throu ie University grounds acros: the Montlake boulevard trestle and follow the arrow—but do it NOW. Sale daily 9 a. m. to 7 p. m. — re ath) . 645 New York Building. rant Coreen bem conerer Subdivision Phone, Kenwood 3649, $9.85 and $13.75 There are actually ities. 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