The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 23, 1921, Page 1

You Never Fall Asleep Over Your Star; The Star’s 10,000 Plurality Is a Plurality of Wideawake Ones HUGE SHIP, DISABLED, LIMPS On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be, No Compromise The Seattle Star in the Bast hest 1 Tonight an modera u a x f ul UME 23 Home Brew in- every visiting Brother Bill settle in Seattle with his and mother-injaw. eee has become of girl who couldn't go out she had nothing to wear? eee Jersey City bowl, where the y-Carpenticr bout was is the largest punch bowl on Pe soe a see cap Anson, famous baseball hero ef other days, played in a golf ment near Chicago the other No use talking, Father Time ‘em all. . coger esa HERE WE ARE | are two kinds of men: 80 LONG, BILLS! ttle tomorrow will look like Me day after 7 ee ead softly on the grave of th I've had to bundle noon July 23 it was 67. the old-/ Pasté this on a posteard and mail it to your sweltering friends Tell them that @e- temperature July west was 55, At d Sunday fair; te westerly pinds, Entered as Second Class Matter May 3, 1899, at the Postoffice at Seattle, <p Wash, under the Act of Congress Marc RA h 2, 1879, Per Year, by Mall, $5 to $9 SEATTLE, WASH., SATURDAY, JULY 23, 1921. TWO CENTS IN SEA’ TO PORT! TH Ew LATE ITION TTLE | | } ' ! } Pageant’s Author:|Finnicky Trout Spurns Choice Bait; Star Man on Vacation Dives for Him at Philadelphia, to Open First Performance Here Seven thousand miles of cop- per wire will connect Philadel- phia. and the University of Washington tonight, when the Rev, Dr. dames E. Crowther, au- thor of “The Wayfarer,” touches ® button officially opening the gorgeous spectacle and dedicat ing it to Seattle and the Pacific Northwest as a permanent Insti- the cleaners—won't you, darling. me more, and powder leas ove of the common jokes these fs to hear a bald-headed man the girls who bob their #, eee - Some reformers down in Wash- on are appealing to congress to halt all mail trains on Sun-| tution. ‘They didn’t have to make that) William Smith, local manager of when Burleson was in office. the Western Union Telegraph com igttdted | pany, has promised to have two wire | Geveral United States senators say | circuits set up so that if one fails ¢ against the anti-beer bill be-'to carry the electric impulse set in it ties the doctors’ hands. Yeh. motion by Dr. Crowther's touch, the {Ul close up a Jot of mouths, | other circuit can be used, thus insur. 4 jing one of the most spectacular open- By Hal Armstrong GREENWATER, July 20— (Delayed)—Laat night we spread our blankets underneath God's star spangled blue canopy, the sky, and did vicious battle with an air raiding squadron of God's longest legged, pine-fed mos- quitos, Take it from me, these pine-fed fauna are the most savage and san |gulnary of the species. Or, if you doybt my word, ask my wife. She |left her none exposed last night and they used it for a pin cushion. Or, better still, steam up the old fliyver and run up here for a night | out. Leave Seattle about noon, drive thru Auburn and Enumclaw and | follow your nose to Greenwater. | | That's the route and it’s good going | Success to You, Wayfarer |Northwest bidding him sincere welcome. lot a heart in * Left to right—Dr. Cart” as “The Wayfarer;” Miss Julia Elmendorff, as Under- standing, and Miss Ruth Wood, as the Angel. To- night will be Elks’ night. Dre Hoffman is exalted ruler of the Seattle Elks. “subject to chill breezes from the lake. cating something. If you use the right kind of fly, or balt, or what ever it is they happen to be eating, you'll catch ‘em, if you'ro silck < enough.” At 4 o'clock this morning I crawled out, took the rod my broth: | erinjaw loaned me, and the $3.80 Assortment of flies, hooks and lead ers the optimistic young salesman selected for me at Ernst’s hardware store before I left Seattle, and hur- ried into the brush heading up een river, At 4:30 I dropped a hook baited with salmon exes over a log into a deep pool and waited breathlessly for the sharp, savage tug at the other end of the line Fifteen minutes after (I couldn't ! e company at mighty with greater anxiety and hope than those of us who will form the vast audience. i here will make good. ‘But we want it to do more than that. We want it to excel the performances in New York and ‘Columbus. We want the attendance to break all records. The reason is, we want “The Wayfarer” to stay with us per- ‘manently. It will be a great thing for the whole Northwest if “The Wayfarer” is made an annual event. It will be a ‘lure for tourists from all over the continent and even from Europe. And besides, it will be mighty pleasant to renew acquaintance with the soul-stirring pageant every summ Ro Os we * 8 * .% UPSETS SKAGIT FIGURES Expert to Put New Set of Facts Up to City Council on Monday A set of charts on the city’s power dilemma which throws an entirely new ght on the. probe “Win, will be presented to the elty council when it meets ia | | | | | day to consider the new bond is sue of $5,500,000 ‘for continuir the Gorge creek project, | These figures show conclusively | that the city will save more than/ $2,000,000 in the next four years if it discontinues the Skagit improve- ment at the present stage, And that, | on the other hand, if it makes the/ proposed additional $7,000,000 invest | ment, it will, five years from now, | only make a saving of a mill and a} tenth per killowatt of power then consumed, FIGURES WORKED OUT BY EXPERT ‘These figures have been worked out by Benjamin Henry Petley, a consulting and hydraulic engineer of Seattle, who in 1916 did some spe- cial work for the city on the Skagit project. Mr. Petley, in working out his charts, has used the figures of Spe- celal Engineer Ubden and, where these were not available, figures | from official reports of Superintend jent Ross. The reason his conclusions differ from those of Messrs. Ross, Unden and Dimock, he | says, are that he has gone on | the theory that the city should | first utilize the Cedar river | plant to its maximum, then the | steam plant, inasmuch as the city already owns them; while the advocates of the Skagit plan in their charts have assumed that the Skagit would receive first consideration, Cedar river second and the steam plant last. | The city's load ts now 24,009 kilo When the present Cedar | watts. The curtain will be rung up tonight at the university stadium on “The Wayfarer,” with Seattle and the great of 5,000 participants that will pulsate We know that “The Wayfarer” er. And so we say again, all success to you, Wayfarer! Seattle Is Now Enjoying Coolest July on Record, Says the Weather Chief! What &o you mean—the heat? Seattle is having the coolest July on record! Back East they're sweltering. Down South they're roasting. Even in California they are having one of the hottest summers exper! in the last two decades. Fresno, 106 degrees; Sacramento, 100, While in Seattle: This has been, so far, the coolest July we have known, with an average temperature of a little less than 60 de- grees, or four degrees below normal average. The hottest day this year was July 22, when the mercury rose to 77 degrees. ‘The hottest day in the history of the weather bureau in Seattle was dune 8, | 1903, when for a brief half hour 96 ‘That was dur- Geo. N, Salisbury with the weather. 1 confine myself to immediate ca years’ observation here I know that our heat travels following the low pressure paints. Starting in Arizona, the low pres- sure area tra’ into California, up the coast thru Roseburg land, and reaches Seattle. For the last three wecks = pressure area bas been stationary on the Oregon and coasts.” cooler than Portland, even, Salisbury Seattle ts always reaching 80 here only after it has reached 88 or All World, Except Seattle, Is Sweltering in Wave o Unusually Torrid Weather BY 1. B. HUNT “Neither is there any basis for | WASHINGTON, July 23.+Uncle | Sam's weather experts are stumped. The hot wave prevailing not only thruout the United States, but the North and South temperate zones is, they declare, without rhyme, rule or reason While the United States has been lin the grip of a heat wave not | equaled since 1901, England and Bu- been sweltering in temper- r than have been known for 60 years, Alpine glaciers, Wissolving under the abnormal heat, have swollen mountain streams to raging tor rents, in other sections, streams have |dried up, wells gone dry and crops Jare parched. ascribing unusual conditions of weather to earthquakes, It would be just as logical to ascribe earthquakes to unusual weather influences. There is no established proof either way.” One of the most unusual features of present world weather conditions, | Marvin said, is the similarity of conditions in America and Europe. “Usually,” he said, “they do not run parallel. When we have a hot summer in the United States, it gen- erally is cool in Europe. When it is j hot in Europe, it normally is cool |here, But the present hot weather | Seems general thruout the temper: ate zones. ‘ “What it is due to, no one can say | with any degree of assurance.” An examination of weather bureau charts covering the past few weeks, ; | 12 Days Overdue; Water Supply Gone; Board Sicken : : LOS ANGELES, July |23 —With one boiler en- \tirely disabled, the Mat- ;son Navigation Co.’s liner Hawkeye State, 22,000 tons, limped into Los An- igeles harbor today, 12 ened overdue, with |of the passengers sick, on account of ‘inking ail water. . SHUT-INS' CARS: TO BE ASSIGNE 104 Listed, With for 135 on Hand | With 104 shut-ins (persons | fined by {IIness) listed by Dr. director general of the W B night “Wayfarer” party, and trans- portation volunteered to the SI | editor of The Star for about 138 j Sons, steps were to be taken | day afternoon to begin cars, Beoause some of the eh quire attendants, the tran facilities at hand are co 5 about adequate to supply’ the de. — mand. Dr, Loope, whose telephone ber is Capitol 2267, will, ho continue to hear from persons who are disabled and wish to join os party. The Shut-In editor of Star also will continue to list teers with automobiles, The shut-ins will be parked special place near the where they may see the pe: Br without leaving their cars. Ai £ sion will be allowed for the driver the car and for the shut-ins, Bergdoll’s Brother _ Threatens Solon WASHINGTON, July 23.—A fight between Representative Johnson, of | Kentucky, and Charles A. Braun, @ | brother of Grover Cleveland Berg- doll, was narrowly averted at a ses sion of the house Bergdoll committee today. Johnson had been cross-question- ing Braun, and charged that he at- tempted to evade questions “You're a liar,” shouted Braun, Johnson started toward him, Braun, after being rushed from |the committee room, was told to leave Washington at once. | Chairman Peters and other mem verte BOILER Many on ee |ings for any event ever staged. Each’ the whole distance, You'll arrive in| 2°! my breath any longer), I pulled | river improvements are finished, it)" 'C, ie ienas are burned PRIS i A REGULAR SERVICE STATION = circuit will have 3,500 miles of wire | Felephone 1676 for intormation on fol- ewing: Upholstery and Cabinet Work. 4, Shoes Dyed. Wire Fene- Pienic. Lunches. and Hemstitching. tlie (N. €.) Citizen, eee “It took me a tong time to land| first place,” eaid Jack Johnson to the Chicago reporters. Yes, and it him quite a while to land in Jast place, but the police finally ft. Doorn dispatch says that every Bill ih were hooted for that, wouldn't ‘it be the noisy place? eee Even hush money talks. see OUR GARAGE boiler ana a kettle-lid, "A chopping block, a knuckle-bone, ‘A phonograph that doesn’t phone, ome lingerie that lingered long, ‘A mattress with the mat all gone, i A bustle out of grandma's trunk, | Arattrap and some other junk, P A demijohn of faint bouquet Gwent hundred-proot of yesterday), Tomato cans of Auld Lang Syne, hundred feet of washing line, ir of pants (demobilized), rden hone (derubberized), box in which the rabbit diad, bike that mother used to ride; many things a sundry crop— but the car—that's in the shop. ° 7 0 ‘Another fellow who has_a et fae 4 Hohenzollern shows him: | he is hooted beeause he dodges | faxes. If everybody in this coun: | Bome plates that Maggie broke and | hid swell at little or no expense, is th has acauired the mutt jin ft. {DONE ONLY ON EXCEPTIONAL OCCASIONS Only on such important occasions as a rush mesenge for the president lof the United States has such an ar rangement by wire ever been made, according to Smith. This shows, he said today, how important the heads of the Western Union company in |the Bast consider the presentation |of “The Wayta dust before 11 o'clock, Eastern standard time, Dr. Crowther, for- mer Seattle pastor and now preaching for the Arch Street Methodist church of Philadet- phia, will step into a specially arranged booth and on the stroke of the clock will touch the button’ that will set a gong ringing on the stage of the sta- dium and turn on the great flood lights, officially giving the or- ders to start the show, Proceeds from “The Wayfarer” will go toward wiping out the debt (Turn to Las’ Written Down by AILEEN CLAIRE IMINY CRICKETS! I guess every kid in the world was out to the picnick at Woodlund park yesterday! I went out with my gang in the mornin’ and pretty soon I ‘lost the bunch of kids and I didn’t see Slivers nog Fat sor Page, Column 4) time to set up camp and do a little | fishing. You won't, of course, catch any fish, | | There's a big, friendly chap here | |who looks after the free camping | ground, “Sure,” he said, “there's plenty of fish In any of these streama, Green | river, White river or the creeks, But I'm not saying you'll catch any.| Every Sunday there's 40,999 people | \drive up here, and they all bring | | fishing tackle. They've tried every | | kind of hook, bait and line there is, but I've never seen a fish caught around here, and I've been here @ month. “No, sir, these fish are wise ones: |'They know what to eat, and they | won't touch anything that's got a | hook on it. They might bite a choco- Jate ice cream sundae; that’s the jonly thing's never been tried, but you can't get ‘em with anything else.” I said to my wife, after he'd gone, “well, if there's fish here, they're out my salmon eggs and dropped back down stream a few yards, I threw out @ black gnat, a royal coachman, ‘There was nothing do: ing. I tried half a dozen other flies. that sort of lure, 1 walked oat on the end of an overbanging log and dropped in » worm. No bite—no noth- ing. Below me in the pool I saw a trout, a beauty, fully 12 inches long. I dangled the worm close beside him, He paid it no heed. Nervously, I drew out the worm, attached a live salmon fly and tried that. The trout ignor- ed it, and moved slowly up into shallower water. I edged back along the log, fol- lowing him, and dropped in some salmon eggs. He tui and made for my hook. I jerked. My hook came up light. With a swish of his tail, the trout daried up close to the bank aid lay there motion: less. There was but one thing (Turn to Last Page, Column 3) Toughey Michaels for more’n three houra, I guess nobody but the Elke coulda put on a swell stunt like that for us kids. Jiminy Crick- ets! But they’re swell guys. Did'ya see the candy-and pea- nuts and cake that passed out? Jiminy, eriekets! It was good! I bet I ate a ton, Well, anyway, | Yuh see they stamped every kid on the back of the hand with a porple mark aster’n he got his grub, but I used my other hand oncet, and then I rubbed off the purple mark down at th’ beach, They was plenty to go around and all the kids got all they wanted, Jiminy crickets! I was hungry. gt was a lota little kids at The trout weren't rising to | plant will have a ity of 60,000 kilo and the »# | combined cap: watts. SHOW COST, USING | EXISTING PLANTS Mr. Petley’s charts show the cast of producing 25,000, 30,000 and so forth up to 60,000 kilowatts by a combined use of these two, running | the Cedar river to its capacity and | (Turn to Last Page, Column 4) |Harding, ‘Coatless, Chops Camp Wood PECKTINVILLE, Md., July 23.— President Harding arrived here for his week-end camping trip at 12 Five minutes after he arrived, Har- ding had doffed his coat, rolled up his sleeves and was chopping wood for the luncheon fire, When the presidential party |reached Funkstown, Md., several | men rushed into the middle of the | road and waved the White House automopile to a halt, The men were Henry H. 8. Firestone and Thom | | | | | |stock raisers, without forage and with little water for jheir animals, are desperate, Fires have caused large damage in |many European forests. Inhabitants of villages scattered thru the famous |forest of Fontainbleau, near Paris, refuse to go to bed for fear fires, |many of which have been put out by |desperate efforts, will sweep the great wood, “We have not been able to iden tify any exact cause for the condi- tions,” says Dr. Charles F. ebief of the gbvermment bureau ere is no provable relation be: tween thp weather and sun spots, altho sun spots are blamed by some Sun spots occur and recur at inter- vals, but it never has been possible to identify them as exerting a defin- ite influence on weather. he most exact measurements of solar radiation reveal little, if any, |change in temperature due to them | As a matter of fact, however, we are jnow passing thru a,period when sun spots are at the minimum. =" weather |shows a temperature averaging 10)bers of the committee forcibly re Marvin, | [to 12 degrees above normal in the [Great Lakes region, the Dakotas |and Minnesota, and from 5 to 8 de-| grees above for the remainder of the Central states and the Atlantic and South Pacific coasts. One section, comprising Texas, | Oklahoma and New Mexico, has been below normal. Rainfall, however, has been well distributed and none of the drought conditions reported in Europe are present locally Compared to the summer of 1901, when the mercury stuck above 100 degrees in ississippi valley states for over 30 days, the present sum jmer has been a balmy, pleasant and exhilarating one. |We Want a Home for a Little Baby Girl | ‘The Star knows of a good home that is anxious to adopt a baby girl The husband and wife want a youngster of seven months to a year the spicnick. But you bet they hung on to their mother’s hand, Gee, there was a lot of us tough guys there, but Jiminy crickets we wouldn't beat any Uttle kid out a his grub. ° Some of the IRtle kids got lost and the lady Elks took care of them, They put ‘em intd kinda dog-pound and waited till their mothers showed up. And the Boy Scouts was all there, too, Jiminy crickets, I wisht I was a Boy Scout! Be lieve me, they're swell kids—not sissies or anything, just regular fellers, And there was a ambulance, too, J guess it was there for any bi gotta are. from eat- » ing too much tce cream. A bunch of Elks was dressed up like clowns, They was as funny as anything, And they was bicycle races and base- ball games and a jotta funny contests for us kids, I nearly won a potato race only another (Turn to Las} Frage, Column 4) hoe all | strained Johnson, who kept shouting | that he wanted to get at Braun, The room was crowded with spec \tators, including many women, who ;made a wild rush for the door, \A7HOOEE! ’TWAS REAL WRECK | VE Cal, July 23.—Train wreck | The Venice toy line, with 48 kid- dies aboard, featured in a bump with |a light truck at a “grade crossing” NICE, here, ’ The truck did a handspring, and the 48 diminutive patrons of the equally diminutive coaches whooped with joy at the thrill of being in @ “real wreck,” Total casualies con- sisted of a bent axle sustained by the flivver and a jolt sustained by ite driver, |Seattle Fireman Dies of Burns FRANCISCO, July 23. SAN — | Clarence Riggs, ‘ef Seattle, fi of the steamer Admiral Farragut) who was badly scalded when the steam pipe broke Thursday disabling |the vessel, died today from his ins |Juries at the, United States marine hospital. ; WAPATO — While his were making beet sugar at home, Ver! Mendel Baker, 18 months, splashed with boiling beet juice and. killed. et JOHN MAUZY, 50, was slightly in- jJured Saturday when his auto over- turned in Madrona park, hurliy - to the ground, F x Bs