The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 19, 1921, Page 1

—To7 — MAN CONFESSES HE WAS| HIRED TO KILL MRS. STILLMAN | On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise Paste this on a and mail it to your sweltering friends in the Kast Tell them that Se attle’s highest tomperature Au- gust 18 was 66. Lowest was 58. At noon August 19 & was 66 Tonight and Saturday, fair and warmer; northerly winds. The fight to put common sense business methods into the shipping board—in which fight The Seattle Star can fairly claim a share—is be- This means a saving to the gov- ernment of a billion dollars. ‘The saving will be realized in re En SEATTLE, WASH., The days of real sport. Cleopatra with her gilded gondola had nothing on this happy little quartet. lowed-out log as their water chariot, and bits of driftupood for paddles, Mrs. E. Lindh The Seattle Sta FRIDAY, AUGUST 19, 1921. ‘ed as Second Class Matter May 8, 1899, at the Postoffice at Seattle, Waiih, under the Act of Congress March 3, 1879, Per Year, by Mail. $5 to $9 ture in the Star-Piper & Taft “Vacation Outing Snapshot” contest. It was taken at Sunrise Beach, Vashon Island. JAP SLUGGED BY MOTOR BANDITS Ajtacked on Highway, Rob- bed, Knocked Senseless | Confessions of | A SEATTLE MEMBER OF THE |) Ku Klux Klan before the order was that it was a band of cut of women. I belong to Klan 7 of meeting of my Klan, and one meeting of Klan 3. “ tema man, and I firet have turns from rentals of ships and the|_ cenantion of operating losses hither- lones law to place the under private ownership and Magement under conditions which vation for the 40 companies which were early purchasers of shipping board tonnage at high prices, as the bare boat rental basis equalizer com. petition between privately owned tonnage and government boats. FORCE AMERICAN LABOR FROM JOB Local Contractors Accused of Cutting Wage Rate ‘That Seattle contractors are forcing American wotkmen out of jobs by paying them star- vation wages was the charge preferred Friday before the board of public works by ©. F. Keeling, representing United States citizens working on the W. Massachusetts st. sewer project. Keeling declared that board passed its ruling home July 25, when 10 days od, suffer Bayings of Little Home dt: “Why is papa so late, 2 Do you think he has out colt” eee Congress votes to permit home Real estate dealers report @emand for houses with . cee § JHE worst 1s yer TO COME 6 Gianer one aay in Pomona i served only steaming bologna; “It looks very queer,” the maid, “And I fear HD thal have to remove its kimona.” i 9s a De since the ROW TO START A PARADE providing Get a package about 12 inches and about 4 inches in dia Meter, and wrap it in a news jan fo that one end comes wwe to» long tapering point. Then put the package under Your arm, hold it carefully, and _ Mart down the street. ‘e all! oe Be that as it may, Charles Speeder MM Annabelic Skidder of Edgerton, have been married. od ape NOt EMPHATICALLY, NO! Home Brew: As a Vox Pop be employed on local improvement contracts, contractors are forcing the men to work for wages far be low the existing scale. Charles Case, superintendent of streets, stated that the show cause order obtained Thursday by a Se attle contractor aguinst the enforce ment of the board order against em- ploying aliens prevented the board from taking any action at this time. Keeling pointed out that the city lie contract should be paid at the Trise to protest againat some of|*ame rate ag laborers working for) Meme in th Ie it fair Y per cent permanent tariff| the city k the public to} On the valorem duty on| was working, he hyphenyiencdiamine, dihydroxy. | received only $: nf, nitrophenienediamine, | same scale paid by Mthylamine. phenylgylycer-| for $5.50. carbox acid and tetra The show cause order will be Mine - odiphenylmethame?| fought out in superior court next 4 | phursday. : sewer job on which he sserted, the men 50 a day, while the the. elty called that only registered voters should} charter provides that men on pub-| Its headquarters, as all men know, it would seem that an order that tarring and feathering the innocent would be looked into by thi States government. Yet, no paper has yet dared insinuate that the government fs at all exercised about its nefartous activities. Proof should be easily, had, yet no one has proved that the Ku Klux Klan has ever done a single thing off color. ‘True, there have been column after cotumn tn cur newspapers in- sinuating all manner of dire deeds, but all stories have been simply insinuations, eee ‘The I. W. W. tn perhaps the mont bitter enemy of the Kian. It has stated time and time aguin in its confidential literatare that the Klan is as much its enemy as is the American Lagion. Both organizations, according to\the I. W. W., are dangerous menaces to the community. ‘This ts a fact that cannot be argued. We are told that this is no time for an order to terrorize the people of this great country. And in almont the same breath we are told that the American people are too well educated to fear a white sheet and &@ spooky mask. The Klan agrees with both of these statements. We are not going forth in clownish garb to scare folks, and we do not be- lieve folks would be scared if we did prance around before them. eee ‘The newspapers have scared lots of folks. They have convinced thousands that there is an organization in this country whore sole purpose ix to be “rough.” The thought is that the Klans are made/up of © bunch of toughs, cutthroats, bootleggers and hold-up men ‘The governor of Georgia, lees than two werks ago, enthusiastically endorved the Kian, and a minister in one of Atianta’s leading churche: before agreat congregation, made the statement that one of his proud. est claims was his affiliation with the Ku Klux Klan. Practically the entire sermon appears in the Atlanta Constitution of August 6. I have been disappointed In the Klan, As a newspaper man, I sup posed that I would pay a nominal initiation fee, and thereby get ring-«ide seat to a number of wild and woolly night-riding events. Instead, I find that I am in one of the most conservative organizationsr, in the Northwest, with a bunch of the best business men of the city, . S67 THERE ts no place for such an organtzation!” scream the news papers, yet here it is, right in our midst, taking Itself rather seriously and accomplishing more good than the public will ever ow. " fs # forum of discussion, where matters can be argued freely and fully, We all kniow each other, and we talk as friends, A menace to the munity comes up for discussion, and every man in the Klan will take a wordy shot at it. A committee is formed to investigate, reports at the next meeting and tl action is taken, The Klan as a Klan then does nothing, but « ber of men sud denly appear before the people of Seattle and suggest that this evil be remedied—and it most generally iy remedied, and that right wick. . ¥ thia kind of action could not be brought about by any publtle box Perhaps it is true that every man should stand up and bravdty fight a fight singly for right, but unfortunately human nature ts rot conwructed that way. This knowledge is the confidence that the law. r banks on in @ continuance of his law-breaking. With Klajng actively at work, the law-breaker must be susploidtw of all mankind, and his circle of activities becomes smaller and smalhur, The Klan truly has an all-seeing eye, and this the with the guilty ‘conscience soon learns community eee But why the tremendous antagonism to the Ku Klux Klan? Is (hit an altruistic fight against the order, or is it prompted by selfish n1o- tives? 1 know that there are many men who are sincere in their tbe lief that this order should be stamped out, but they are influenced! by the stories that they have read during the past three or four mon{ ha Wither *that or they have a selfish reason in wishing, the order killed. The negro is against it, because he believes it aims to hurt him. |He in unfortunate in this, but will never be convinced to the contrary, as it in a white, man’s order, In time, he will forget his fear, unless) Was be a lawbreaker. Then he will be treated exactly as justly as if Ibhe+ ekin was white. The 1, W. W. lw against the Klan for # very good reason Then there ia the religious side, The Klan is 4 Protestant ord y, (Turn to Page 7, Column ?) ” | American Legion employment com SI? King et. Thursday night on ‘Samer «. wuld he wae driving siowty falong the highway when two bandits up alongside. . One of the men leaped to the run- filing board of Hirota’s car and @lugged him on the head with a blackjack. He fell unconactous on the floor of Moving car. Several hours later Hirota regain- consciousness. He had been robbed of $45. He was unable to report the rob bery until late Friday morning to the police. JOBLESS VETS IN BAD PLIGHT Unemployment conditions for ex-service men are worse in Se attle today than they were last Fifteen hundred men are applying for joba—any kind—daily at the American Legion employment office, in the basement of the Stuart build. ing. Fifty new faces show up in the line every week, Each digit of these figures repre sents nome man in distress, often times a wholevfamily, as the result of bis war experience, This was the report Friday by George Salzman, chairman of the mittee of ‘the whole. “Por weeks,” said Salzman, “we have been paying the expenses of on- erating our employment bureau with the money The Star raised for us by | the Homely Man contest. “When Saturday comes and we have paid our secretary his salary tor the week, we'll be broke. “That's why we're giving a dance t the Armory Saturday night, the American Legion employment dance, to raise more money. “Understand, out of our so-called employment fund comes the money we extend to ex-service men for tem: porary relief, furnishing some man with a bed for a night or buying him a square meal, and that\sort of thing. The expense of running our employment office is small. We have placed men in 800 permanent and temporary jobs since June 15, at a cost of 39 cents a job, That figure includes office rent, pay of secretary, money spent giving femporary relief and other incidental expenses,” Salzman denied the statement of Philip Tworoger, who, Thursday, speaking for the Veterans of Foreign Wars, announced that the names of individuals and firms employing Japa were to be made public. “We don’t care to do that,” said) “We think we can educate | peopl inderstand t A n jex-soldiers should be given prefer. ence over Japs.” Seattle Is First in Postal Savings Segttle led the country in postal savings gains for July, according to reports from Washington city, The Jincrease in deposits was $1 000, the report states, ‘Tt isn’t too late to- day to begin read- ing “Winds of the World.” It’s on page 13. STEILACOOM, The Hell-Hole AS CHARGED BY A RESCUED VICTIM “It is a hell-hole—a disgrace to civilization.” | «,."Exery ward is telephoned before. the visitor pos ane and he sees just.what he is to see, and nothing more. “The doctors are no better than the attendants —a set of bullies.” “I can find ords to the torture I Pm ie no words to express “The Western state hospital should be cleaned Be the people of the state.”—MRS. T, W. For the first time today The Star is able to explain “the visitors’ alarm system” at the Western State Hos- pital for the Insane at Steilacoom. By this system, it is charged, inquisitive citizens and probing committees are kept from learning the truth. It is bared by a former patient, a trained nurse, Mrs. T. W, Brown, 6544 E. Green Lake boulevard, who writes the following letter to The Star: “With all due respect to the committee that white- washed the Western State hospital in a report recently, Fb to deny their findings, or rather contradict em, “T will ygrify the charges that were printed in The Seattle Star on July 1 and July 16. Every word is the truth, absolutely. Only—not half has been told. “That institution (1 will not call it.a hospital) is a hell-hole for suffering humanity, and a disgrace to civilization. There is no committee or official inspector who can find out the true conditions, for they are received as visitors, not as patients. SAYS WARDS ARE WARNED OF VISITORS BY TELEPHONE “Every ward is telephoned betore the visitor goes thru, and he sees just what he is to see and nothing more. The doctors are no better than the attendants. “The institution is not run on sane and humane principles. ‘They tse no. discretion, nor is any courtesy or benevolence shown the pa- ent, none whatever. “It is an outraged, unctvilized barbarism to have such a place to run sick, suffering people into, and call: it ‘treatment. “In February, 1920, I was stricken very suddenly with paralysis. The muscles of my back cramped and 1 was stricken blind and deaf, then speechless, “I was run into this hell-hole they call a ‘hospital,’ which nearly cost me my life, as insane, I was not insane at all, but stunned and con- fused “Providence saved my life by giving me the power of endurance and perseverance, “I came out of the shock in a few hours and tried to locate myself. When I asked the attendants a question Iwas snubbed, I then asked the head ‘attendant for my husband and she told me she did not ‘know anything about him or care anything about him.’ WEAK AND TREMBLING, BUT FORCED TO RUN FLOOR POLISHER “L was very weak and trembling with both fear and weakness, T was forced to run those floor polishers and do other work under threats of punishment “1 can find no words to express the inhumane torture and suffering I went thru. am a graduate nurse, and I will tell the world what I suffered and what I saw others suffer, and will toll the true conditions in that able institution if called to do so. are run into that hell-hole and held there and driven insane, ‘OME IDIOTS, OR DIE OF A BROKEN HEART, It is a farce, it is a show and hot air, and. should be cleaned out by the people of th Washington. It should be run as a hospital with kind nurse 1d NOT AS A WORKHOUSE OPER- ATED BY A SET OF BUL e patients are not going to complain to a committee or anyone else while they are back of the bars at the mercy of these bullies. They are afraid, If found out, they would suffer punishment. It is a crime to put people in.such places, WAS RAILROADED TO JAIL LIKE A CRIMINAL, SHE SAYS “When [was stricken, one of our nerve specialists in this city was called and, while I was half paralyzed and hovering between life and death, instead of getting busy and trying to do something for me, he had me railroaded to jail like a criminal, thrown in a cell on the floor like a dog—oh, the horror!—can you imagine such treatment? And for nerves! Then, half unconscious and perfectly helpless, I was run down to the Western State hospital, where I suffered tortures in both mind and body “My recovery was delayed, my nerves weakened and overtaxed by such brutality, THIS BUSINESS OF DOCTORS RUNNING PEOPLE (Turn to Page 7, Column 2) LATE EDITION They are using an old hol- erg, of 5203 Wallingford, entered this pic- ) x ¢ | TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE UTHOR OF PLOT SECRET | Hired Assassin. Says His Pals Double - Crossed’ Him; Money Paid KANSAS CITY, Mo., Ang. 19.—Samuel R. Harris, 20, of New York, in a sensational copyrighted statement pub- lished by the Kansas City Post, declared he had been hired to assassinate Mrs. Fifi Potter Stillman. He said he did know: not who was back of the j iy T3aay notified and efforts were being by the Kansas City police to down “Henry, the Pole,” “Tony, Wop.” and John Burke, supposed 383 MURDERSGIRL; WOUNDS FAMILY Ex-Convict Found Dead Is Blamed PETALUMA, Cal Aug. 19-< Evelyn Grant, age 14, was mur dered, and her younger sister, her grandmother and her father wound- ed early today by a man who broke into the Grant home here during the night. Later the body of Charies Hoffer, an ex<pnvict, believed to have been the assailant, was found. He bad killed Pimseif. ‘The girl's body had been brutally mutilated, Feeling was running high this morning and threats to burn Hof- fer's body were made. According to the account of the murder pieced together by author- ities, a man believed to have been Hoffer broke into the Grant home last night and first choked and then cut the throat of ' Evelyn Grant, after which he mutilated her body. \ He then went to an adjoining room, where Mrs. J. Grant, Evelyn's grandmother, aged 70 and Evelyn's younger sister, Leona, were sleep- ing. He struck them on the head with a hatchet, Next he entered the room where the father, John Grant was sleeping and struck him with the same weapon, Mrs. Grant and John Grant are not expected to live. Grant, shortly after daylight, re gained consciousness and was able to call help. Police followed a trail of blood for four miles, At the end of it they found Hoffer'’s dead body, throat and wrists cut. Hoffer is a convict on parole from Folsom state penitentiary, He was sentented five years ago from Sonoma county for a statutory crime. A few months ago he was par oled and came to Petaltuma, where he recently was arrested on a charge of having attempted to as- sault Evelyn Grant, the girl he killed last night. He was to have been arraigned on the charge of attempted agemult today. ¥