The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 15, 1921, Page 1

HATS OFF TO SANTMYER! Howdy, folks! Didja see where congress promises a big tax cut in 1923? Let's promise the land- lord to pay our rent two years from now—ch, what? eee MORE POWER TO HIM W. J. Santmyer, member of the Schoo! board, raps the unjust fee sys- m in the schools. You xotta hand "it to a man who joing in the fight while it is on and‘doesn’t wait until @lection time to explain that he nev- “er was in it at all. . ‘ CONTRAST The Dreamland dance hall and Tabernacle next door, eee LIFE AS WE SEE IT Opportunity knocks frequently when he has something to sell. as wise and seeing eyes, 4 has a hunch and tells the bunch Pe bores and pests long on requests For him to munch with them at Tuneh; She knows all bis goings and sowings And Is wise to his cares and litte af- fairs; She never once shows that she knows, And the man himself would pay over _ velf, 'T6 deftiy disclose just how much she knows— Just one little know Of the wise steno. . how much LY’ GeeGee, th’ Prairie Vamp, sez @n ounce of eats is worth a pound of menu. Grandmaat28; Grandpa Is 22; All Doing Well ‘TAMPA, Fila, Sept. 15—How does it feel to be a grandmother at the age of 287 Let Mrs, Ethel Poulnot, cham pion little grandmother, speak for herself: “Most certainly I am proud. When my daughter's little baby girl was born, it was the happiest moment of my life. “Race suicide? Not in my fam fly. I have always been a lover ot big families. I have three other children myself. And when our little grandchild came—well, I guess I jugt felt like any other new grandmother would feel.” Mrs. Poulnot was married the first time when she was 13. Her daughter, Mrs. Francis MeCul- lough, and mother of the grand. child, ia only 15. Rive days before the baby ar. Mrs. Voulnot was married © second husband, making grandfather, by marriage, bdma and Grandpa Poulnot that the honor they share PACKERS FG UNIONS! Four of the Biggest Firms in Nation Order Open Shop Plan in Plants ) nation’s largest packers. } Officials of the, International) | ’ Butchers’ union were notified by the packers that in the future only employes and not unios officials would be dealt with, NEW SHOP PLAN STARTED The agreement under which Fed Alschuler | packers and union employes expired | today and in its place the “Ameri-| ‘The packers announced that more than 90 per cent of their 75,000 em. | ployes in the country have voted tn favor of the plan. In all the large! Packing concerns the companies have formed their employes into or ganizations, representatives of which treat with company officials in mat- ters of the working conditions and ‘wages, The packers who have thrown their companies into open shops are Armour & Co., Swift & Co. Wilson & Co., and the Cudahy Packing com- !pany. No announcement has been made by Morris & Co., of a shop rep resentation plan. With the announcement of the open shop ca the statement that there would no immediate read- Justment of wages or working condi tions, both of which remain the (Turn to Page 5, Column 3) (MAY TAKE BACK ' VETS’ BONUSES; Star Staff Special. TACOMA, Sept. 15.—Attorney Gen- eral L. L. Thomson will ask the state supreme court to review the Max Maximillian bonus case in the hope of having the court change or ampli- | fy its decision. The court held that} ‘he was not eligible to receive a bonus | |from the state because he was in the | service when war was declared, | April 6, 1917, Hundreds of veterans whore cases are similar to Maximillian’s have al- ready been paid bonuses, and if the | supremp court adhered to its ruling. | efforts may be made to have them return the money, | Strictly construed, the decision |means that the State National Guardsmen, members of the old Sec- ond Washington infantry, Naval] Militia and Coast Artillery will not receive bonuses because they were in service when the war declaration was made, according to Deputy State Auditor Tweedie, | Tweedie said the only persons |plainly eligible to recetve bonuses jare those who enlisted or were draft ed after April 6, 1917. “If that is the interpretation,” ‘Tweedie added, “I suppose some ef. fort will be made to get back the bonus money already paid to men not eligible to reeelve it, but I don't |know how it can be done.” James D. White of Tacoma, a reg. r army man, was turned down Wednesday by Tweedie, White had been furloughed to the reserves in December, 1916, and was recalled to \service in May, 1917. He went over- |seas with the 63rd artillery. j /10 Are Saved From | Power Ship on Fire | SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 15, Capt. Christensen and his crew of nine were rescued last night off Point Hueneme, south of Santa Bar bara, from their power schooner botus, which burned at sea The steamer Humboldt made the rescue. The Lotus had left San Francisco for San Diego Tuedilay, No details of the fire were received, AS SCHOOL DIRECTOR HE MADE A MIS- TAKE AND FRANKLY ADMITS IT! | Hats off to W. J. Santmyer, a public official big enough to admit making an error! As a member of the board of education, Mr. Sant- myer voted for the imposition of tuition fees in the Seattle high schools. He did it, he says, thru a mis- understanding of the questions involved. He is man enough to say publicly now that he was mistaken and will do what he can to remedy the blunder. His atti- tude is refreshingly different from the insistence of the typical office-holder that he can do no wrong. The levying of tuition fees in the high schools is dangerously false public policy. The Star strongly suspects it is illegal as well; that issue is to be de- termined in the conrts. At least, it is un-American and unjust. If the courts do not knock it out, the school board must reverse itself, or else the public at the first opportunity will find a new school board. On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise The Seattle Star/72: Watered as Second Class Matter May 3, 1199, at the Pestoffice at Seattle, Wash. ander the Act of Congtesy March 3, 1979. EDITION Per Year, by Mail, $5 te $9 “VOLUME 23. LAST OF ‘DALTON GANG, THRU THE STAR, ADVISES GARDNER TO SURRENDER “You Can't Get Away With It,” Says Ex-Outlaw in Open Letter Roy Gardner, train robber, who escaped from McNeil island penitentiary @ week ago, ia still at large. He faces a term that amounts to life imprixon- ment. Today Emmett Dalton, last of the notorious Dalton bandit gang, who is at the Savoy hotel, wrote the following article in which he declared Gardner should surrender. Dalton served 14 years of a life sen- tence and was pardoned. Bince then he has re-established himacif and is now president of the Standard Pictures, Inc, Dalton's article, written espe- etally for The Star, follows: BY EMMET DALTON, and are at Iberty for one, two, five Famous outlaw and last of the Dal- | or ten years, what's the use of it? ton Bandit gang. |When they get you then they're go- Roy Gardner, you're a fool if you | ing to see that you land in the peni don’t surrender right now. |tentiary and stay there. I'm not trying to trap you when I| Besides, you're an outlaw. Every say that. I know what I'm talking |hand is against you, The only way about and I think you know it, you can earn your living is by crime. Let me tell you something straight And, what's going to happen? In —you can't get away with it, |some robbery you'll kill someone. You've been caught twice and|That's murder and ft means death you've escaped both times. The Dal |for you. ton boys thought they could get| Now, you haven't away with it. The end came at Cof. | y You haven't even wounded any feyville, when we attempted @ dou-lone, As I've told you, there's a feel- bie bank robbery, My two brothers;ing among people that ydu're were shot and killed. I was wound-|reaily a bad one, It won't be there ed and captured. for you after you've shot someone. Now, understand, I'm writing this} This bravado business can't last. only to help you, because I know | Surrender today and there is a good what you're up against better than | chanc t you can win a pardon in few men alive today do. Let me|# few years, Doesn't that sound like show you why you should surrender. | *traight stuff to you? In the first place, there's a streak | Another thing—you have a wife, a of something in every American that | good, true wife. She thinks it would makes him for the man that's down.|have been better if you had gone I've talked with scores of lawabid-|on to the penitentiary. Sho mys ing citizens who have a degree of ad |she’ll walt for you. miration for your bravado and dar. Smarter men than you and I have ing, Of course they don’t approve |tried to lead a life of crime and ot crime, but they have a sort of | failed, feeling you're not such a bad sort! after all. ‘Think it over, Roy Gardner, and remember what Emmett Dalton tells Suppose you make your “getaway” you—you can't get away with it! Girl Risks Life to Save Baby Brother Perhaps the most popular passen- from Nome, with her father and killed anyone} not | |ger on the steamship Victoria, which »mother, two brothérs and a sister larrived in Seattle Wednesday from Nome, was little Mary Buck, a 14 year-old crippled Indian girl. She, at any rate, is the only one for whom a collection was taken on the southward trip. Mary, whove Indian name is Iggt- lyuk, was one of a party of five na- |tive children on thelr way to the In jdian school at Chemawa, Ore. Her story ie told by Dr. James H, Condit superintendent of the Presbyterian board of home missions for Alaska, “Mary's troubles began in the fall of 1919,” eaid Dr, Condit, “She was living at Rocky point, nine miles Shortly after the last trip of .the steamship Victoria, the flu broke out in Nome and the surreunding coun- |try, More than: one-half of the Es- kimo population died, There were left 75 flu orphans, among them Mary. “When a relief party entered Mary's home they found the parents dead and the four children huddled |together in one bed. .'The weather was very cold, It wad in the dead of winter. “Mary, then 12, and an older. brother had taken off most of thelr own clothes and wrapped them about the two smaller chil- (Turn to Page 8, Column 5) SEATTLE, WASH., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1921. BLOOD SPOTS i\Gardner Believed Wounded; Third Degree for His Accomplice TACOMA, Sept, 15—A M ? z i i Heute i ; 3 : : i Hs i | f i E ‘23 ehh i i [ : : H if [ 5 3 E Hi a sE dit i # rif iy sombreros aside and started crawl ing thru the brush on the biood trail. Warden Thomas Maloney said to- day he discredited stories that Gard- ner has been seen on the mainland. ‘These stories, he said, may be the | work of some confederate or friend of Gardner's, who is attemtping to misiead the man hunters and cause them to relax their vigilance, R, L. Griffin, a released prisoner, | eaid today he believed the escape was j framed far in advance, Griffin re- called that Gardner was seen to wave his hand to a passing launch just be- fore the break, that the launch had returned, passed the penitentiary an hour later and had made for the mainland, ‘The hunting season opened today. ‘The islands are covered with hunters and shooting can be heard in all di- rections. Autumn weather has set in, The leaves are turning vermilion, yellow and ruset, adding a touch of color to the man hunt eee McNEIL ISLAND, Sept. 15.— Nettled by failure of his continued efforts recapture Roy Gardner, escaped ebnvict mail bandit, Warden Thomas Maloney, of the U. 8. prison here, today planned to adopt new tactics in the manhunt. Lawardus Bogart, wounded tn his attempt to get away with Gardner, is now past convalercence and “up and around.” He has not been told that Gardner escaped nor that the third convict in the Labor day “break,"' Everett Impyn, was killed by the same rifle fire that wounded himself. Maloney now plans to put Bogart thru the “third degree” to “sweat (Turn to Last Page, Column 3) KIDNAPED, SHE ISN'T WANTED TACOMA, Sept. 15.—Kidnaped by an armed bandit in daylight in the residential section, forced automobile at the point of a revolver. and driven 16 blocks, only to be re- leased with the remark ‘that he “had made a mistake,” was the experience of Mrs.'R. J, Biehn and baby, last evening. WEATHER Tonight and Thursday, fair; moderate west- erly winds, Highest, September 14 . Lowest, September 14 . Noon, September 15 . - FOUND Bad News for Those With Relatives at the Insane Asylum At last the people of this state have something tangible upon which to proceed in determining the cause of the neglect, brutality and mismanagement. at the state’s insane asylums. In the remarkably candid and forceful letter which appears on this page today, K. C. Peiffert, an at- tendant in the Sedro-Woolley asylum, paints a terrible picture of conditions there. : / Judging by his letter, Peiffert is a conscientious, |] overworked, underpaid, honest employe. The letter was written not to attack but to defend the institution || and for that reason it is all the more powerful. It was written, not by a disgruntled ex-patient with & grudge—possibly somewhat distorted—against the afylum, but by an apparently clear-headed man who strives to make his statements as as pos- sible in the hope that the institution may be set in the right light. ¢ Read Peiffert’s letter and judge for yourself if ditiona are as they should be at Sedro-Woolley. ONE )ATTENDANT, HE SAYS, IS REQUIRED TO LOOK’ AFTER 80° TO 100 PATIENTS" This, ob- viously, is an impossible task. THE ATTENDANTS ARE WARM-HEARTED AND NS. THEY TRY, SAYS PEIFFERT, TO KEEP E INSANE PEOPLE FROM ATTACKING ONE ANOTHER, BUT HE ADMITS THAT SOMETIMES THEY FAIL. This will be bad news for those who have relatives there. Far be it from The Star to blame the attendants, if Peiffert’s statements are true, as they seem to No, the indictment must fall on the shoulders others, higher up, either on those who have held oafann duperh BF oH sdly in for a niggardly ef economy in order to make a recerd. ee PATIENTS NEGLECT . ATTENDANT ADMITS! (One Guard Expected to Look After 100 Patients, Impossible Task realize what it means for three or four men to take care of about 110 insane patients? The con- stant watching and untiring ef- fort it requires to keep peace in the family and prevent them from hurting each other and themselves? Perhaps some of yuur readers have had experience of a single case in their own homes, when one of their family became in- sane and when it took very often the united efforts of all other members of the family to care for this ono case, Let them consider just what it means for one man to take care of about 25 patients and then give credit where credit is due. The night attendants have to take care and look out for from & to 110 patients per man, and how many of {those who read this are there who | would like to be alone in a building with a hundred insane men? None of the patients is locked up in rooms with the exception of the re- (Turn to Page 8, Coluyan 3) Editor The Star: I have always admired the spirit of fairness of your paper and be- cause of this T wish you would print what an employe of the Northern State hospital has to say about the |real conditions, feed and treatment of patients, ‘ The hospital and its employes have been of late severely criticized and we have been painted in the biackest colors and as a consequence @ good many people are inclined to think of us as the most heartless and abysmal brutes. If your policy is “fairness and jus- tice to all,” then give us a chance to tell the public our side. I am night attendant on Ward 1, the male medical wari, where all the sick patients are transferred whenever their condition demands special medical care and treatment. Before I came to this ward, I was on other words and have had all the opportunity in the world to see what is going on. I wonder If any of those men and women who “wrote us up” | oI g i Hl ‘ FE | li itt; (ivi i ity g & t] 5 A i Hs a ry [ it | i i bail or bonds. Acceptance guarantee for Artvuckle’s appearal however, could not be made by court until District Attorney indicates that disposition he make of the first degree charge still standing against comedi any Be Brady indicated that he would announce his decision ‘until buc is brought into the police court morrow morning in connection the first degree murder charge. Brady strongly intimated that he might decide to press the murder case and drop the manslaughter charges which would mean that Arbuckle could not be admitted to bail. : Arbuckle was not in court when ~ the indictment was returned, 4 Names of many well-known movie — actors and actresses are likely-to be (Turn to Last Page, Column 2) — HOMER RECORD NEW YORK, Sept. 15.—Babe Ruth broke his home run record to- | day. i The Yankee slugger knocked the } ball out of the park with one man on base for his 55th homer of the sea, son, Ruth’s long wallop today estab- shed a world's record for modern baseball. Bayne was pitching for St, Louis. 3 ESCAPES AMID ' BULLET SHOWER Leaping from a patrol wagon ag he | was belng taken from the county jatl They Loved the Same Woman UT after Dr. Myers won her, Fergerson’s friend- ship for his doctor friend remained unchanged. into an| to the stockade, shortly before noon Thursday, Henry McKinney, 27, dope addict, ascaped in a shower of bul lets. He was pursuad by several of- | ficers, who failed to capture him. McKinney was with ten other prison- ers in the patrol wagon, Hoe leaped from the car and grappled Lee Down- y, deputy sheriff, who fired at him RS. BACHTELL, please communicate with Miss Grey at The Star at once, Important news for you. Meanwhile the physician kept the secret of his early life. It remained for Rosalie, the little circus girl, to bring back visions of the past. The story of how fate toyed with these strangely different characters is told in “PAPER ROSES” It is another novel by Ruby M. Ayres.’ Read the synopsis of the first chapter on Page 11 today. Then go on with the story. 3 3 s - NEIL GUARD SHOOTS MAN! BABE SMASHES Pee ccccccccesocccceocoveceooooooocs