The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 5, 1921, Page 1

SAYS AGE Paste this on a posteard and mail it to your sweltering friends in the Bast. Tell them that Se able’s highest temperature Au- cust 4 was 72. Lowest wag 54, At noon August 5 it was 62, Tonight and Saturday, fair; moderate south- westerly winds, VOLUME 23 Entered as Second Class Matter May HE’S REFORMED; On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise The Seattle Star % at the Postoffice at Seattle, Wash, SEEKS a under the Act of Congress March 3, 1879. Per Year, by Mall, $5 to SEATTLE, WASH.,, FRI 5, 1921. DAY, AUGUS Ts IN SEATTLE# ELPLESS WOMAN RRED, MUTILATED Y KU KLUX KLAN! “The unseen eyes have seen.” _ The South in general, Texas in particular, has a modern “Ku Klux Klan” on nds these days and does not know exactly what to do about it. this moment the organization is expanding into the North. It already ‘invaded Washington. Tacoma ond tacos admittedly, and Seattle, it is ed, have klans in operation. ita ws of the klan of the old reconstruction days? dre its hiss the objects of the klan of the old days? Neg ped methods ods the methods of the klan of the old days? Part of the time. How does it differ from the original Ku Klux Klan. wet Sag klan did not molest women—the present-day The original klan rarely attacked white people—the present-day klan seems to have specialized on them. | The original klan had the best people in the South behind it—the present-day klan has a few of the best people in | it and a host of them against it. The present-day “Ku Klux; Klan” is making itself unpop- ular in Texas because any number of outrages are being committed in its name. “We didn't do lots of those things,” the kian protests as the daily toll of whipping» and tarrings and beat ings and general lawlessness in Tex as Mounts wp... “How do we know you didn't? the exponents of law and order reply. “The men operated in your name. If you weren't here they couldn't adopt that exeuse.” BOASTS IT 18 FLOURISHING Still the kian continues to operate in Texas, and it boasts that it is growing and flourishing. “The unseen eyes have seen,” it threatens verily In its comm nications, “Beware the Ka Klux Klan.” A correspondent for The Kansas City Star just has finished a 2,000. mile trip thru Texas, thru the heart of the Ku Klux Kian’s territory. This is his report: If “the unseen eyes have seen” what wae strikingly apparent to his eyes, if “the unseen ears” have heard the consensus of opinion that reached his ears, if “the unseen brains” can put two and two to gether, the “knights of the unseen” —the Kleagles and the Kilgrapps | and the Titans and the Turks—nvust KU KLUX KLAN HEAD KILLS HIS SOCIETY IN NORTH CAROLINA DURHAM, N. C., Aug. 5.—The organization of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan tn North Carolina was today ordered disbanded by |] tts head, Grand Dragon Bruce Craven. Craven issued a statement tn which he declared the Ku Klux Klan to be nothing more than “an organization engaged exclusively in collecting initiation fees under false pretenses, without any legal in the state, nd in his opinion “a failure and a fraud.” Craven communicated his action to Col. Willam J, Sim mons, of Janta, imperial wizard of the Ku Klux Klan Dentist Caimly Picked His Victim and Did Away With Him, Theory PLANS WENT ASKEW a beautiful thought, Ruby also used it in the fa coming out of their daze over the amazing metamorphosis of Dr./ Brumfield, they call Pearce’s har. ness shop the Hawkshaws’ Roost. You will hear it stated that Dr. | Brumfield lost two homes by fire and collected insurance, and that his | -| life was insured for more than $20,- Ott; Chit there. wae “n weemats in the that the doctor was the vic tim of a bleckmall plot; that the ex-| tortions had become intolerable and that there was urgent need that he| should “die.” } There are, indeed, 100 theortes, and the reader may invent as many more as he pleases. I am a chronicler of facts. ICE CREAM AND THEN CAME MURDER! ‘The facts, then, are that Dr. | Brumfield, having refreshed him | Man lost glass eye on Second ave,| sei with ice cream at the Kandy | ¥. It musta popped out when! Kitchen, drove to his office in his| saw one of these 2.75 per cent| car and from there phoned his wife : that he would not be home until| late. He equipped himself with a} (Pure to Page 7, © enimenrey ) SEA WASHES UP | MAN | NEW YORK, Aug. 5.—Poverty-| ' eee |stricken, Nick Medt jumped off a} Tt ts better to have loved and lost | boat in mid-Atiantic. A floating plank to have loved promiscuously, |bumped him. He climbed astride and fcheo lees work for the courts. |#urf-boarded into Long Beach. Now see |he’s willing to live. An extra rib has been found in aga. 2 eB RATA: ® Pennsylvania woman. One |PARSON TRUSSED UP ons Whe owes nothing to FOND DU LAC, Wis, Aug. 5 man. Rev. P. C. Forseth was held up by two bandits, robbed of $300 and left tied to a tree, with a gag in his | mouth bimbo that tries to pass every ‘on the Tacoma-Seattle highway | finds himself all speeded with no <r bud 5°. THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH: 1921 EDITION He wears s khaki union suit nd makes a lotta jack tinkering with motor cars When they get outa whack ove know they are making of themselves @ gnawing thorn in Texas’ side Tenaha, Tex., is 177 miles north east of Houston, It has 600-odd in habitants The United States knows Ten- aha as “the place where the Ku Klux Klan stripped and tarred a woman.” A few years ago it knew Shady Bend, Kan., for a similar incident—without any Ku Kiux, Tenaha has three hotels, the Shel- by, the Tenaha and the Berry house, and it was at the Berry house that Mrs, Beulah Johnson, old of medium height, weight 175 pounds and the possessor of a wealth of | dark brown, beautiful hair, lived. WOMAN 18 VICTIM OF THE GOSSIPS Tenaha gossipped about Mrs Johnson, as small towng will gossip about any one who gives them the opportunity "She's b 1d she never got her second husband,” the Tenaha critics said. “She's a bad influence for the community and for our boy She oughtn’t to be around her If Mrs, Johnson, livitg at the Ber house, a comfortable, white abled, rambling-looking sort. of place, hidden in the shade of a group of syeamore heard way |‘Tenaha way talking about her, she 28, died Thursday at the home of| paid no attention to the remark her » Mrs. G. N. Angell, 2329) Which may have been one re d The body is at Bonney-| why they increased in volume and Watson's undertaking parlors, 7, Column 5) eee One of the saddest sights in the ptry is a promoter trying to kid| American city into the belief that hhungers for grand opera.—Musko- | Phoenix. :/ An adiet in an upstate paper, de Pecribing a Ford car in fine condition, _b concluded: “Ask for Mr. Fibber.” : ° ’ MTs isan esoene: ot the oldtash 'HOW 'S OLD BEAN, EH? ned man who used to part his hair| . Let the old bean funttion. Figure the back of his head? lout a plan to reduce taxes. Present we oe it to Gov t's committee on taxa Some men do what their wives tell|tion, It meets here at 10:30 a. m. hem to do and some men are not|August 9 at 512 Hinckley building, BEAR ATTACKS MAN) ASHEVILLE, N. ©. Aug. & n, | Walter Poster, a cattleman, attach © one ed near here by a mother bear with | three cubs, ki her with a pocket | knife. nm married three a divorce from times Knows all his goings and comings, Bhe's wise from her head to her toes be's wine to hie cares and his little} affairs, But never telis him how MUCH she known 4 the great man, much wordid pe Fo find ovt just how MU trees the MISS MARTHA W. BURBANK, | on himself, would give Ho ahe knows. (Turn to Page 7, * Disaster If | Disarming Meet Fails —SAYS NORTHCLIFFE British People Worried, Noted Publisher Says at Vancouver BUT HE’S HOPEFUL VANCOUVER, B. C., Aug. 5. —"Its failure would be « catas- Northeliffe armament conference at Wash- ington. He was addressing an enthusiastic audience of the Canadian club, his only public address in Canada and the only one he intends giving on his wortd tour, “It this conference falls, bad old days of competitive armaments would come again and, with them, | the old rancors and old fears of war,” he said. PRAISES PRESIDENT AND SEC. HUGHES Speaking of his conference at Washington last week with Presl. dent Harding and Secretary Hughes, Lord Northcliffe said “I am betraying no secreta when I say that I believe those two emin: ent men have very clear under standing of the momentous char. acter of the gathering at Washing ton, to which the chief powers of the world have been invited, and whieh, in my opinion, may well prove to be the greatest ‘and most Pregnant gathering of the kind that has even been held. I can conceive of no work fraught with greater Poenibilitinn of weal or of woe, to civilized humanity at large. “In Bhetand we ‘are @isurming. The Britieh army is reduced to a figure below ita peace strength be fore the war, while the navy te weaker both asx regurds big ships and pervonnel than it was in 19 The statements made tn the hy of commons on Wednesday as to the replacing of four obsolete cruisers by new vennels of the post Jutland type do not essentially alter thi fact. These new ships, which are necessary, cannot be completed in jens than five years. PEOPLE BEGINNING TO FEEL DISHEARTENED “There reaction from the high iMealiem that animated the allies and associates during the war. People are feeling a little disheartened. They are wondering whether human affairs will ever be settled by any- thing except force and whether good will, reason and common sense will ever regulate the intercourse of na-| tions, At such a moment comes | President Harding's call to a con- ference on disarmament with spe- | cial reference to the Pacific “If the delegutes to the Washing. ton conference truly and constantly | represent the desire of their respec }tive nations, I am convinced that {an agreement will be reached di an era of peace and prosperity will be opened in the Pacific. Content ment will extend from the Pacific to Europe and throughout the | world.” | Call for Dicerming Session in Few Days) WASHINGTON, Aug. The for | mal call for the Washington disarm ament and Pacific conference will be }iseued an soon as replies have been | received from all the powers to the | | American proposal that the confer. | |ence open on November 11, it was| announced authoritatively today ‘This is provided that none of the re. | plies raises any objection to that jdate. G Britain has agreed to jany date sired by the United st and Secretary Hughes is now ing replies from France, Italy, Japan and China | ORPHAN BOY BEATEN WHEATON, Il, Aug. Charged with cruelly beating Joseph Maars 10-year-old orphan, because of his in: ability to rn German, the Rev Mysch of the Evangelical home will face trial here assault and Batte ory av Orphans’ for |SLEEPS 3,000 MILES | E08 ANGELES, Cal, Aug. 5 A sleeping man awoke on a bench Pershing sqw here and 1 was Ben L. Cumbus, postmaster of Hahira, The last thing he re members was applying for a vaca jtion Mareh 1 WHAT MEANS THIS?! ST, LOUIS, Mo, Aug In a aid a barn said to bh e¢ been ) Sheriff John Willmann, @& seized two stills and a quan tity of whisky Ga | | | ficers | ARMY OF 100,000 PROPOSED BY BORAH WASHINGTON, Aug. Re duction of the arty of 100,000 men is provided in a resolution introduced today by Senator Bo: || ran, Idaho is | Mister. |war tax on ice cream sodees and | Melion jin the vicinity Whee! Cut Tax on Sodas? Thelma, Champeen Pop Girl, Is Strong for Sec. Mellon} * * & * * * ” * Seattle Kids All Happy!) Thelma, Digging In | their appropriations, | Dawes probably will appear before ithe committee within the next few | days. | “Gee! I'm glad to hear you say it, They aren't going to charge pop!" So emiled little Thelma Thorpe, 10 years” old, of 723 Marion st., Thursday, when she was informed that Secretary of the Treasury recommends the repeal of war tax on ice cream and soda wa ter. All us kids will be glad to hear that. Sure I'll pose for a pic- 000,000 providing | Upon Mellon's ‘ou buy me ‘an ice cream | penditures, 4 $266,000,000 it is claimed by “fellers” ig the “champeen” and pop girl in her Republican leaders of the house, as the result of the dark pleture of the government financial situation, kiven the committee yesterday by Secretary Mellon, realize it will be most difficult make good their promise of reducing taxes by $500, about gi estimates taxes must be Ja. ima. oe ice cream soda neighborhood ater N. C. Riley N. C., according without a doubt the business into this story to Thelma champion soda dispenser in the “He makes the biggest down at the Bartell Drug store at Fifth ave. and Pike st,” she was quick to sug gest “she's custom a Star a two best when one of my Riley admitted found her sucking straw vanila soda. “I'm glad to hear of any reduction in war tax, but member, Bartell’s have always been ies same tics TAX CUT UP TO ‘HELEN MARIA’ BY HERBERT W. WALKER United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Aug The hopes of the house ways and means committee that taxes can be reduced this year are now pinned on “Hell and Mariah" Dawes of the budget the future Determined to cut this year's gov-| in selfishness IT have consider. ernmental éxpenditures $1,000,000,000 |ed you as a dollars and cents propo- lbelow the $4,550,000,000 estimate of | sition, I had no desire to be your etary of the Treasury Mellon,| wife or pal in the big sense. To me committee probably will you were & means of safety to a program by which |fort—nothing more economy can be effected. I have not one thought for your The secret hope of the com- | happiness—you must know that mittee is that Dawes will let fly {and would not have had, had 1 mar. some of his choicest’ “cuss” | ried you words at those responsible for | Love had no place in my scheme government extravagance and (of existence | My mother taught me then “use the ax” in cutting off | that love and marriage were a game reporter Teer Tam | Today, 1, Helga Sorenson, changed from bride-elect to a woman of unsettled status—the first honest thing F have in my life. have re ; done | You expected, of course, that you [were going to marry me next month 1 have weren't known just 1 fou aren't that you jhave not known that I never loved you |have always plannm anyhow having my fling, married or I am going to be honest with you just this once—TI have looked 6n you rely as some one on whom to un- load the’responsibility of support and known all along if perhaps that, I have 1 on single, ask and com Daw eek tht » ; CHAPTE Control of Birth May —SAYS SCIENTIST Would Solve Jap Problem in Pacific; Only Way to As- sure Lasting Peace URGES CONFERENCE BY ROBERT A, DONALDSON United Press Staff Correspondent BERKELEY, Cal. Aug. 5.— “The solution of the Japanese problem in the Pacific lies in limitation of Japan's population thru birth control.” This was the declaration made today in an interview with the United Press by Dr. William E. Ritter, president of the Pacific division of the American Asso- elation for the Advancement of Science, now in session here. Dr. Ritter ix head of the Univer nity of California faculty at the Scripp& Institution of Biological | Research at La Jolla, Cal, Dr. Ritter declared that an inter. national congress of the leading scientists of the world, including thoxe of Japan and China, should be called to meet in Washington at the same time as President Hard ings’ conference, The scientific conference, as out lined by Dr. Ritter, would discuss, jamong many other scientific sub jects affecting world conditions, the limiting of populauon thru interna tional agreements. Altho. the proposed birth control discussion would particularly deal 4 CHILDREN T0.A FAMILY SHOULD BE LIMIT, HE ASSERTS BERKELEY, Cal, Aug. 5.— Four children should be the limit of the American family, according to Dr, Wiliam E. Ritter. “Four children are enough for any woman to raise if she is go- ing to raise them well,” Dr. Ritter said. “What the human race needs is more quailty and less quantity in the production of children. “If more American women will try to raise four children and less of them try to raise eight, both the children and the country will be better off. “If every American woman will raise four children, the American population will be adequately per- ‘petuated, and the men and women who perpetuate it will be much more fitted for the job." with the present conditions in Japan and China, Dr. Ritter believes that all nations, and especially the United States, of limiting thelr populations, eliminating economic wars and pay ing the way for disarmament. If something is not done along birth control lines, now that there lare no more continents to discover and the era of indiscriminate terri torial expansion of the human race is about over, all nations, and par |ticularty the United States, will find themselves in a few decades in the same position as Japan and China are today, Dr. Ritter de an's population is allowed to continue increasing at the pres ent rate of 700,000 a year in a group| , Column ad (Turn to Page 7. End Wars! should consider the subject | thus! DONE WITH. Ex - Policeman Model in -P Move to Get Is Opposed Ex-Patrolman Ed Hagen, hero of Seatile, small idol and regarded as one of most courageous men in police department, later one the hardest-boiled bootleggers the Northwest, now a convict, today is seeking a role. He has reformed, he Having served four months two-year sentence on McNeil for breaking inte @ go liquor storehouse, Hagen has ten appealing letters to | States Attorney Saunders | Saunders to belp him gain a lease. “Lam a changed, man” Hagen, “and a moddl prisoner. see everything now in a 4 Ught. I want to go straight’ This was the pithy ot Sheriff Matt Starwich, whose | had several brushes with | the bootlegger, before he was |ly captured. | Prosecutor Malcolm Douglas | Clared he was not inclined to jen @ man when he is down ‘considered a parole for would be a mistake, “We had a case against him !fore the government sent | prison,” said Douglas. “We \him instead of giving him a | term on the understanding that 4 | Was going up for two years on tJ | federal charge.” | SEARING LAUDS RIS FORMER PATROLMAN “The mere fact that Hagen policeman should not interfere his pardon any more than any man’s. Personalities should not- [considered in a matter of simple tice,” said Police Chief va Searing. “I would like to see Haged out, but I'm not going to give any opinion on the case, further: | than to say that a better police. man never lived than Ed Hagen, | If he had not gotten into bad company, he would have been the best man on the force. He was absolutely fearless, “Hagen was wild. He got into bad company and now he's pgying for it. I'm sorry, because Hagen was @ (Turn to Page 7, Column 6) (Copyright 1921 by Seattle Star) R I—I WRITE A FA jof finance ed thy An TEFUL in which the winner pick nk roll , Shabby as tt sounds to say it, yeen picking my” hand over, tablin the smaller numbers, jclutching wildly for the larger ones and playing carefully so that once in my grasp they stayed there. That is why you, of all the rest, re mained You thought you were winning when really you were being trapped. Why my mother she did IT do not know! Perhaps she played everything on love and lost talked of the father have never seen, a belief born of disappointment believed as he rarely You never knew my mother- final memory of her is like that of a diamond, cold, beautiful, with a sug ested brillianey even in death, but vustere I've this morning looked at een true to her belief until when I awakened and intimate bits of silk and lace were to have been part of my trousseau. ‘I knew then I couldn't do it, Somehow have found the soul my lost I'm the which answering the It may have been | my | T must | mother | urge of that) WHEN A WOMAN TELLS By RUTH AGNES ABELING LETTER jwhen I tell you that because T do not love you I cannot marry you, I'm giving you your freedom, Tom, and it will be precious to you since you know what a black future you I'm not the woman for you. You were meant for big things, I would ruin you. T would be making a ma- terial trade. Some woman worthy of |you will find her life’s happiness in |developing your possibilities—whfle I play about awhile as the moth which just escapes the flame. HELGA, My bridges are burned. 1 have turned from the wortd of pretense and idleness to the world of reality, A new page in the book of destiny has been turned. At the top of it is written my neme. And mw. lone with the fw ture before me. Shall 1 wield it aw I will? Or tomorrow, as 1 launch on @ yet uncompassed career, will I be. come the pawn of my own folly? a | m Tomorrow Helga Sorenson launches her ship of Iife into an | charted seas. Follow her in The Seattle Star, *