The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 2, 1921, Page 1

HIE manager of “The Wayfarer” made a serious and regrettable mistake when he failed to use ordi- gary candor and honesty in his announcements to the public. He led us all to believe that the pageant, which the blic thought was still the property of its author, hers Crowther, was a permanent Seattle institution; that the corporation managing it was to produce it solely as a civic and charitable enterprise, The newspapers on this understanding gave unstint- edly of publicity and editorial indorsement. The thou- sands of people who took part in the performances gave unselfishly of their time and their money. The — paid the high prices uncomplainingly—cheer- Now it develops that Dr. Crowther’s corporation has (At “VOLUME 23 Paste this on a postcard and mail it to your swebering friewls in the Bast, Tell them that Se- attle’s highest temperature An- gust 1 was 71. Lowest was 59, At noon August 2 it was 62, Unsettled weather to- night; moderate wester- ly winds Wednesday. + State Sues to Recover Land of Jap Seattle Lawyer and Wife Made Defendants in Dear Fotks and. Ali: what as) Suit Here old-fashioned brewery ie, Santen ot ‘ACTION FIRST IN COUNTY 28s Ee | Hy 3 te Es at aH 4 holdings. In June of this ever, the new law took ef: | state asks that the lot be con- ted and turned over to the com- nwealth as state property. Seattle Capitalist Dies After Stroke H a myself and is & |civil war veteran and was prominent Signed: Miss Pearl Nein banking circles in Olympia, Shel (Wis) Republican. ton and Puyallup for many years. : Alleged Attacker ‘Professional baseball will be « ‘game when the men who play of Woman Caught MODESTO, Cal, Aug. 2.— Frank are as interested in winning as Hulbert, who is alleged to “have at tacked Mrs. Karl Konow yesterday, | was captured today by two men of a posse, who delivered him to the sheriff's office in Modesto. Hulbert admitted his identity. Congressman Flays New Tax Proposals WASHINGTON, Aug. 2.=The new tax proposals of Secretary of the ‘Treasury Mellon for levies on auto SPEED mobiles, bank checks and increased Three months have passed and| postage were denounced today by haven't finished paying the! Representative Bachacrah, New Jer bonus. And the Hoge build-| sey, leading republican on the ways ‘Was crected in 18 days! and means committee. eee by the papers that Edison, who is out on @ Henry Ford, epent some ing himself, Elect him | Weongress. , one British Steamer that touch Nquor—shail | a Complete Loss be sfowes in MY pene } SAN. FRANCISCO, Aug. 2—~The -—~——-¥§ | British steamer Canadian Exporter, which went aground at Willapa har- bor Sunday, is a total loss, accord ing to advice to the San Francisco chamber of commerce marine de partment. The crew has been taken off and TODAY'S TRAGEDY Alas for poor Honnie 8. Lee, i lighted a match to eee @ the gas pipe was leaking, his wife began shrieking, bring back my Bonnie to me!” | +n vessel abandoned, this announce. ment said. eee Statue shou ‘The hull yielded to the strain of t a of rd a “ee her perilous position and the bat- tering of the sea early today, and bastry cook, who invented |) 416 amidships. ream 105 years aco, assever- Mes Star editorial, fey tar onthe rvs ofthe |{ 1 U-HO, MATES, "TWAS oat! fist thouent of '» || A HARD SHOT BUT @anut sundae. see No etter how trifling a man chirps Cloteen, he is always! Milling to help a friend get rid of bottlo of bad Nquor. SKIPPER MADE IT ‘Thomas Fisher, 19, sailor, living at 500% Sixth ave, 8. may kndw how to tle a reef knot, but when it comes to playing kelly pool , 5 Fisher ie dut of luck, | Monday ht Fisher attempted to lay 4, YOU SHOULD HAVE SEEN Ce sik a: Oxapacitin, sel ae THEM his face in the way when he went to shoot. He was taken to city hospital suffering with a cut and distocated jaw, where the cue struck him. (The ushers were Menwrs. Green of | Merion, Pa, in white bridal satin, with the Young Men's Bible | % Union Baptist sunday | Sheol —Philadeipnia Tribune, been dissolved and another one substituted. It develops that this new company can, if it wishes, commercialize “The Wayfarer’ to the limit. It develops that the copy- right has passed out of the control of the author; that the pageant may be produced anywhere the new owners desire; that the University of Washington stadium re- ceives only $20,000 of the profits and that the rest goes into a reserve fund of the corporation, The Star frankly resents the way it was deceived in this matter and believes every member of the cast and every citizen who paid admission to the perform- ances will resent the duplicity. The Wayfarer society itself, however, has (tardily) come forward and taken action which will in a measure offset this feeling. If has pledged itself NOT to com- mercialize the pageant; it has announced an intention On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise The Seattle Star Batered as Second Class Matter May 3, 1899, at the Postoffice at Seattle, Wash. under the Act of Congress Marth 3, 1879. Per Year, by Mall, $5 to §9 “The Wayfarer’ Needs a New Pilot at the Helm! SAS TA A ST FA A A oe A A A A A eS ETE ducing “The Wayfarey”; citizens whom other ny to produce the show periodically in Seattle and has denied an intention to take it elsewhere; it has prom- ised a full public accounting, and has offered to deed over all its assets to any Seattle organization which will give assurance of carrying out the program that the people had been promised, as they believed, by the management. Thus while, under the letter of the incorporation, a commercialized exploiting of the religious pageant 1S POSSIBLE, the society nevertheless is living up to the spirit of the manager’s pledges. The membership of the society discloses a list of names of citizens of the highest standing; citizens whose word will be ae og readily by the public at its face value; citizens who are entitled to the highest praise for their patriotic spirit in financing and pro- tleites will regret seeing made the victims of misunder- standing and distrust which naturally is heaped upon them by the manager’s mistaken course. The whole episode is deplorable. It was entirely | unnecessary. It turns what was a wonderfully pleasant taste in the public’s mouth to a rancid flavor. The best way out will be for the society to eliminate the present management, which has entirely lst the public's confidence; amend its articles of incorporation tn accordance with its public representations, AND HEREAFTER TO EXERCISE THAT FULL CANDOR IN ITS PUBLIC DEALINGS WHICH THE PUBLIC HAS A RIGHT TO EXPECT FROM AN ORGANIZA- TION OF ITS TYPE. a nr om SEATTLE, WASH., TUESDAY, AUGUST 2, 1921. DELAWARE DOUBLE-XES WASHINGTON Special Dispatch to The Star WASHINGTON, Aug. 2.—Josiah O. Wolcott, of Dover, Del., has treated the Longe and es- pecially the politicians, of the United States to a new sensation. He has resigned his seat in the United States senate to take a stock job back home! The job he’s taking is a cosy enough berth, to be sure, but it is not one to greatly impress the ave member of the senate or congress. It’s the kind of a job that governors hand out; in this case, the state chancellorship. It was Wolcott’s second jolt for national politicians. The first was his election, as a democrat, to the senate in 1916, the year when Hughes carried everything east of the Alleghanies. He was then less than 40 years old and utterly unknown outside of Delaware, where he had been attorney general for four years. What was there about this democrat who could win where Wilson couldn’t; who could reach the United States senate over the prostrate form of Senator Henry A. duPont, for 12 years the incumbent? : * Nothing Very “Heavy” About Him The politicians watched Wolcott when he reached Washington. They found him a lean, lantern-jawed chap with a pale face and a very black mop of hair. That’s about all he revealed, for his performance did not live up to his sensational arrival. He fitted into place presently just as an average member. Then recently he handed the politicians his big jolt. He resigned. He announced he had been ap- pointed chancellor of Delaware. - Senators almost choked in their amazement. A sen- ator resign? To accept a cabinet place—sometimes, but not always. To go onto the supreme bench—yes. But for any other reason—no! What is a chancellor, anyway? Delaware and New Jersey seem to be the only states that have them. The chancellor is a sort of judge who tries equity cases. The job pays $7,500 and the term is 12 y i But the situation had in it another puzzle for the senate. This democrat had been appointed by a repub- lican governor, and would have to be confirmed by a republican state senate. Governor Wanted G. O. P. Senator Might not the republican governor find in Delaware a competent republican lawyer who would like this chan- cellorship? But, you see, the thing the governor was really after was to create a vacancy in the senate of the United States to which he could appoint a republican, and it leaked out that the senatorship for the unexpired term had been tendered to Thomas Coleman duPont, a mil- lionaire manufacturer of péwders and several thou- sand other things, republican national committeeman, the big boss of the republican organization in the state, and a cousin of Henry A. duPont, whom Wolcott had defeated five years before. A lot of politicians at once branded it as a deal by which a chancellorship for 12 years was to be traded to a democrat in return for a United States senatorship for 20 months. The result was a sensational chapter of political his- tory even in a state where political skulduggery and corruption have been common. The unconsulted state senators took up the fight. Two republicans, I. Dotphus Short of Milford, and J. (Turn to Page 2, Column 6) Little Italy Mourns Its Songbird Seattle Italian C Colony Hears News of Death of Great Caruso MANY EYES DIMMED [ i i iy inft um i ™" | g is 5 : & § to poorest: came expressions of grief death of their coun- tryman. Caruso was universally be- loved, not only for his golden voice but for his generosity and his warm heart, He was the great, popular idol of the Italians in America. “Caruso dead? No, eet cannot be!” —and then a long silence, ag the dark-eyed son of Italy realized that the famous Neapolitan had really — on to the greatest stage of all. inelli turned from his dish i 55 ; e e e ° e e e e e Ruth Agnes Abeling $ 4] HAVE known that 1 $ never loved you und I @ have always planned, anyhow, $ on having my fling, married @ or single.” e e e e e e e Imagine getting that in a letter from the girl you had planned to marry within the month, That's the dramatic situation that opens the amaz. ing and bewildering — seria! story, “When a Woman Tells,” written for The Star by a spe. clali#t in women's hearts— Ruth Agnes Abeling You will want to read every & word of this great story of $ e e ° love denied, love cheated, love triumphant? Don't miss the tirst chapter in The Star Next Friday eeoccccce rrr irri Here to the {sit Beers NRICO CARUSO IS DEAD! FORD TELLS HOW TOSAVE i H Special Dispatch to The Star IN CAMP, va OARLAND, Md., Ai p Se + ee at i ie my railroa mi ic.” That is the fie pai answer Henry Ford ave when I asked him to tell his “magic formu- ” for curing America’s railroad ills, Giving two hours out of his vacation in the West Virginia mountains with H. S. Fifestone and Thomas A. Edison, he told me how after purchase he rehabilitated the D., T. I. railroad. And he declared that application of the same ba 37 eyo cn = ‘sick” railroads pe “We cut freight and passenger rates 20 per cent and we boosted wages,” said Ford. “And it won’t take long to reduce the rates 50 per cent. All Could Cut Rates in Half “All railroads could cut their rates in half. We have shown them how. But I’m afraid they won't do it. “Under Wall Street management the only way they know to make money is higher railroad rates—which is the poorest way in the world to get business.” Ford said he “wasn’t a magician” and “didn’t wield a magic wand.” This is his recipe: “Keep the railroad busy and the equipment busy and all the men on it busy. “On the D., T. & I. we are getting along fine— making money where the road never made money before, making it because the men are busy and their hearts are in their work. | “We eliminated waste and dead wood. All rail- roads can—and should—do the same thing.” Ford declared he found enough scrap along the D., T. & I. to pay for its purchase. “What is the first thing you would do if you were given all the railroads to run?” I asked him “Slash rates, boost wages, let a lot of the men go,” he replied. “I'd let some of the men go back to the farm—temporarily. They’d be of more use there. Thinkers Needed for Railroads “There are too many men running the railroads who let somebody else do their thinking for them. We want men who can think for themselves. naire 5 thing is that too many men let titles spoil em.” One of Ford’s “reforms” on the D., T. & I. was to take able men out of his motor car industry and let them run the railroad, “A lot of railroads would be better off if they adopted a policy along that line,” he said. “There is too much tradition in the railroads—doing things in old-fashioned ways. “What did we ever know about railroads—except to 2 Yet we've. got our road organized so that ear it is making money. Any railroad could + feet in that time. TH LATE EDITION TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE , x ¢ li Victim of Operation e Naples World’s Greatest Tenor Fails to Rally From Relapse; End Is Sudden STRICKEN SATURDAY ARUSO is dead! and Great Neapolitan to the humblest cottage. Caruso, more $5 operas masterpieces around the world; he carried their beauty and glory into log cabins on the Yukon, into ‘dobe huts on the Mexican border, into the lum- ber camps of the Northwest and. ne fetid tenements of the it. And it is one of the miracies oft are science that he will continue to act as the supreme missionary of song. * Caruso, the golden-throated, is dead, but hig volce goes singing BY CAMILLO CIANFARRA (United Press Staff Correspondent) NAPLES, Aug. 2.—Enrico Ca- ruso, the world’s grea‘est tenor, died here at 4 a. m. today, His golden voice wag stilled Se ree ee a i ae Caruso's <a was expected for several hours before the end came. He never had completely recovered from the effects of an operation for pleurisy, which he underwent in New York last winter. As a result of this operation, phys!- clans state, he suffered from a dia- phragmic abscess, Another operation was performed in an effort to remove the accumu lated pus, but it left Caruso badly weakened and he rapidly sank. Last Thursday the famous tenor and his wife, the former Dorothy Benjamin, went to a sanctuary in the Pompeii valley, where he offered prayers of thanks to the Virgin for the recovery of his voice, heard a mass and gave 20,000 francs as a thanks offering. Afterward Caruso visited the exca- vations at Pompeil, On Saturday hé felt pains in his abdomen. Those were the first warnings that the final illness was at hand. He called a physician, who advised him to go to Naples and con- sult specialists, Arriving in Naples on Sunday night, Caruso called Pro- fessors Sergi, Carozanzasodo and Moscati. After a long consultation these specialists diagnosed his case as, acute peritonitis, wtih a tendency to” spread, They decided to operate. Caruso, whose fortitude when suf- fering great pain was considered re- “The ,ashioned method in running railroads— | markable, continue to keep up his and in bs yf other businesses—is to do as little as | 800d spirits. you an elzet the most money as fast as possible. con ae nat wee ‘gw era dawning, with this creed: Do as | waned. tjections of camphor were « muck 48 YOU, can, get small returns, and serve the mot people—and the money will come in so fast you won't know Where it's coming from—it will inundate PT asked Fo American rail “Too much } stockholder,” he replied’ promptly. “I mean too M¥ich Wall street manipulation—and too much weight Jin the rolling stock. I don’t Welieve in government ownership, because } = (Turn to Back Page, Column 2) vig he thought was the matter with ads. required every two hours to stimu+ late his fluttering heart, Hig breathing was difficult and be came increasingly labored, His wife, who also maintained her courage, remained at his bedside for hours, She saw her husband steadily drawing nearer to the gates of death, but, remembering the successful fight he made against what were considered overwhelming ofds dur- ing his previous illness in New (Turn to Page 2, Columa @ apne