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

Paste this ber 19 it was Tonight and Tuesday, rain, moderate southwest- ly VOLUME 23 mail It to your frie! Tell them that Seattle temperature September 18 was 58. Lowest was 53. HE bold effort of the Seattle school board to institute a tuition fee system in the high schools has been knocked galley west by Judge Smith’s clean-cut decision. This is well. The school board’s scheme was un-American and was a direct step toward the destruction of our free public school system. The Star does not say that the school board so intended it; probably the board’s ruling motive was merely to raise some more money to spend, while at the same time it made a pretense of “reducing taxes.” But the result was the same. The public will applaud Judge Smith for his prompt, just decision, and W. W. Ballantyne for his courage and public spirit in pressing the test case on behalf of all the school children of Seattle. and In the East. highest At noon Septem. 58. winds, On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise The Seattle Star Entered as Second Class Matter May 3, 1899, at the Postoffice at Seattle, Wash., under the Act of Congress March 3, 1879. Per Year, by Mail, $5 to $9 SEATTLE, WASH., MONDAY ahoney Plots to Shoot in Court? WINONA WILCOX SAYS ARBUCKLE WAS POISONED BY FREUDIAN THEORY By Winona Wilcox Agthor of “Confessions of a War | Bride," “Confessions of a Bride” and “Letters to Lovers.” Arbuckle, famous movie comedian, is lock- ed in the “felon’s row” of a San Francisco jail—be- cause a girl is dead. There had been a party in Arbuckle’s hotel suite. ‘Wealth and youth, beauty and 1 they found Roy Gardner "tn the stockyards!* shouted an ex- sited voice over the telephore to the lg i city editor. “Yeah, they did—a squealed on him. .-e makes us wonder why didn't tel! us Gardner @ mannikin can be a little man, why isn’t a napkin a little nap? cee : SEND US. ANOTHER We tried it on the - folks a couple of weeks ago. eee KISSIN’ "EM A girl's who's kissed against her will, Will tremble, start and then keep % still ; If thus no girl you've ever kissed, Wigosh, you don't know what you've é missed! —Country Gentleman. We kissed a girl like that one time, 4nd thought that we would feel sub- lime; he trembled, started, gave a cough, 4nd blame near knocked our fool head off! cee “The fall of man Sg marked by the advent of the fig leaf,” says Doc Crane. Now history is repeating elf. see FOR SOME PEOPLE Arthur says we spend too much time making money in this country and not enough time spending it, eee NOT MUCH PROGRESS Not long ago there appeared in 4 Western paper the follow- ing: “The gentleman who found a pocketbook with money in Main in The HE searchlights business are Star Classified Ads. Over seventy thoy- ‘sand people read them daily and profit by their use. They furnish what is wanted and dispose of what is nbt wanted. edy. Nobody who has laughed at “Fatty’s" stunts ever cab ed him a fool. Not education. A man who has raised his salary from $30 to $5.000 a week has acquired a \beral education in the pro cess, Then what was wanting? The pitiful heap of tattered ehiffons tells the tale. was wanting. Char- acter which means restraint; re- straint which originates in the will and controls the human urges, Whatever the evidence may prove, whatever the result of “the inquiry which connects Roscoe Arbuckle with the most fensational crime of the decade latest variety is based on the notion ‘that human beings are by the nature they inherit en- titled to selze the hour; that nature justifies man in taking his fun where he finds it. This ts a theory of which the race was once ashamed, but it has spread wide since the war, forward It to . loser, as he in which, altho courteous, had an call at his house at a convenient date.”—Harper’s Magazine, ee Olson says some of the hardest nuts to crack have the sweetest meat inside. eee WE'VE TRIED IT The time to buy @ used car is just before you move, so people in the new neighborhood will think you | were the one who used it.—Kansas City Star, eee HOME HINTS Counting sheep Will put one to sleep; , good advice we get a large amount; How does it help When bables yelp? |The kids can’t count. oes Still a lot of men who are mas- ters of their fate have to get up | and get their own breakfasts, eee Once in a while there is an old way of doing things that is better than the new ways, but don't let that be the means of tying you up to | @ whole lot of antiquated methods. cee Folks say “as cool as a cucumber.” | How coo} is a cucumber, anyway? | eee | LIFE AS I SEE IT | Sardines get their names from Sar. | dinia, Most of ours are canned on the coast of Maine. e- Some one suggests that in the fu jture the “blimps” be made right at | home, The Standard Oil buys it from the producer for 60 cents a barrel and sends it to us under another name for 25 cents a gallo Coriarncsmen Plan to Rush Tax Bill | | | WASHINGTON, Sept, 19.—"Fresh |from the people,” the senatorial yan- |guard arrived today for the recon- ing of congress on Wednesday, ldetermined to put the tax revision! {bill thru the senate without delay. | According to present plans, the |house will not settle down to work | |until October 3, and the majority of |congressmen are not-expected back until the latter part of next week. Senators and congressmen say that the universal sentiment in their states and districts is for prompt settlement of the tax question, and those who hold it are no longer ashamed of it Why? Well, the great war is not the only wickedness created by the Germans, A subtler way of manufac turing misery was devined by Freud, whose name is familiar to all who oan read. Freud has reduced conduct to a sex basis, Even our dreams ~ are prompted by the sex urge, he mays. And we can't help ourselves, he insists, and of course this idea makes a tremendous appeal to those who do not wish to help themselves. To some one who objected to his revolting theory, Freud said in @ lecture: e “The trouble ts, you believe in the illusion of psychic free dom and will not give it up. I regret that on this point I find myself in complete opposition to views.” Now, it i» astounding how quickly man can grasp a doc trine which he finds agreeable. ‘This accounts for the rapidity with which Freud's abominable , theory has seized upon the imaginations of persons of all degrees of intelligence. Now the tragedy which has trapped Arbuckle would seem to prove the worst in the Freudian theory, but fortunately certam persons, ‘neither prudes have invented two questions which rob Freudian disciples of their snug joy in thelr “natural right" to eroticism, Any justay woman can answer them. great need is that individuals shall put the questions plainly and answer honestly: “Is your soul your own—or is it not? “Does your brain rule you—-or your body?" Thanks to the eternal good which abides in man somewhere, we have all passed the point where we will admit that we are slaves to our bodies. When the most infamous and densed, nobody will own it for himeeif. , Prychic freedom—the freedom of >= soul to know to e is not an itusion’ As well deny one’s cyes as one's conscience! [FIVE BOMBERS ARE CAPTURED Wreck Shop and Are Caught Redhanded ‘ CHICAGO, Sept. 19.—¥Five men, alleged members of a bombing squad, were captured by police early today |following the wrecking of a shoe re- | pair shop. Search of the homes of the men netted 1,400 sticky of dynamite and 100 «ticks of T. N. T. | Detective Michael Hughes, acting on a tip, secreted six operatives in the shoe repair store belonging to David Kremen. An auto drew up. A bomb was |placed in the front of the store. It exploded in a few seconds, causing 2,000 damage, A battle between police and bomb- ers followed during which Richard | Burke, alleged member of the gang, | was shot and four others injured. Kremen told Hughes he was threatened recently because he re fused to join a union of shoe re- pairers, 3,000 Longshoremen on Strike in South LO8 ANGELES, Sept. 19.—Three thousan@ longshoremen at Los Angeles harbor went on etrike to | day, The walkout followed failure” of |union representatives to obtain an agreement with the Ship Owners’ association to have objected to the “open shop” plan and demanded that employers discharge non-union men. Today's strike followed a refusal by the ship operators to agree to the “closed shop” demands. |Mine Wage Cut to Be Turned Down INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Sept. 19.— Miners who arrived here today for the United Mine Workers’ convention were determined not to accept a | wage cut, according to sentiment ex- | preaued by delegates. Delegates sup- ported the stand of President John L. Lewis, who insists on the present wage and a shorter work day. ‘Says Railroads | Forcing Walkout CHICAGO, Sept. 19.—Charges that railroads were attempting to force their employes to strike were made today by B, N. Jewell, head of the allroad department of the American | Federation of Labor. Jewell gave | this aw the reason for advising the |membership of the shop crafts against a strike in spite of the fact that they have voted against accept- ance of the 12 per cent wage cut which became effective July 1. The union longshoremen are said | Mayor Names Probers. Will Meet Monday. Public Work Urged. Conference Called. To meet the unemployment situa tion facing the city this winter, May lor Hugh M. Caldwell has appointed an investigation committee of citi zens consisting of seven people, |Laurence §) Booth, Alvin H. Han king, Willlam Short, Josiah Collins, |Frank Kinnear, Rev. Ambrore Bailey and Mrs. Henry Landes. Each member of the committee on act. The committee will meet in the mayor's office Wednestay at 3 p. m. to discuss plans and ideas to relieve the present and future unemploy. ment problem, Not until their ini- |tlal meeting Wednesday will the members of the committee make any investigation toward the relief of un employed. NO DE ‘ITE PLANS MADE AS YET “L haven't made any definite plans |nor formed any ideas on the sub Ject,” declared Laurence Booth Mon |day. “However, a careful survey of the situation ought to be made and then immediate action taken.” Mrs, Henry Landes, 4611 18th ave. N. E., was out of the city Monday. “I believe that action should be taken immediately to relieve the present and coming unemployment situation in the elty,” William Short, president of the State Federation of Laver, said Monday. “Relief caf be jaccomplished by beginning work on public improvements, Funds have been provided for this purpose and now is the time to start. I cannot say ag to the plans of the committee and will make more suggestions after {he committee's first meet ing.” The | 13th ave, N. | statement as | Bat declared Rev. Ambrose Bailey, 2226 declined to make any to any plans, Dr. that he hall not had had no time to look into the | matter as yet. URGES PLOYMENT AGENCIES TO COOPERATE The mayor's letter urged various employment agencies tb co-operate with the committee and that the committee secure figures from the agencies, The letter pointed out lthat altho funds were provided to | meet the situation last winter, no study of the conditions was mado to relieve distress and poverty. The mayor suggested that steps should, be taken to provide work for those willing to work, rather than that charity, be resorted to. He ex: tended the use of an office to the committee. In Une with President's Harding's |receiving the mayor's letter of ap-| pointment declared his willingness to | | formed any definite proposals and) SEPTEMBER 19. | HOPES TO ESCAPE AT “HIS TRIAL? veal Alleged Scheme to Possesss Gun i : ; i a : i i T irigt i: —s Fst Es | Another woman at the ¥. W. C. A. | exeltedly telephoned Lee Johnston, attorney for James EB. Mahoney, the | bridegroom charged with the mur | MYSTERIOUS WOMAN | SUDDENLY DISAPPEARS | “Mrs. Mahoney is here. T've seen |her,” said the woman, in substance. “She's right here now.” Johnston is said to have hurried |to the ¥. W. C, A. to get a close | view of the mysterious “Mrs. Ma- 'honey,” but when he arrived there, |she had just left the building. Hr- |forts to trace her are said to have | failed. This incident, it is said, will likely | be used by the defense as the founda- tion for a mass of other eviderne to absolve Mahoney, on t the body found in the trunk wad not his wife's. Mahoney goes to trial tomorrow, | His life hangs in the balance. If | convicted and ordered hanged, hp will |be the second, since capital punish. |ment was reinstated in this state, to suffer the death penalty. | Defense witnesses are expected to testify that articles of Mrs. Ma- |honey's clothing found in the trunk with the body had been taken fem her apartment at 409 Denny way days after the prosecution alleges |she' was murdered and gunk in the lake by her ex-convict husband. | LOOKING FOR BROTHER OF |MAHONEY'S ATTORNEY | An interesting sidelight -on the Jcase was the assertion by, Deputy Prosecutor T. H. Patterson today that the police are looking for Lee Johnston's brother, not in connection | with the murder, but to clear up the (Turn to Page 7, Column 4) TILEITE IN LEAVENWORTH, Kan., Sept, 19. —A jail delivery plot was nipped here late today, when a quantity of | explosives and a dozen hand gren ades were discovered by authorities in the federal prison William ‘Tilligham, Seattle, was charged with being the ringleader of the plot. Names of seven others alleged to have been involved in the plot were not announced, “back to normalcy” 8. Gibson, Northwest representative of the president on the unemploy- ment situation of the entire country, met with 25 representatives from the | Northwest at a luncheon Monday |noon at the Rainier club, to discuss policy, Capt. J. and a method of relief. Capt. Gibson is to return to Washington, D. C., within ten days to confer with the ‘president and other representatives thruout the codntry. ‘County Jail Prisoners Re- ground that) DELIVERY PLOT; the unemployment of the Northweat | TH LAT EDITION ‘WO CENTS IN SEATTLE « ul Nicaea Insure Ag * * * Is Approved | | Erich von Strohcim is the “master mind” in’ the production of Univer- aal's two-million dollar film. He wrote the scenario, directed the pic- |twre and enacted the star role, He selected Miss Du Pont, his co-star, |from the extras who appeared on lo- |cation’ to take part in the making of the picture, . . OS ANGELES, Sept. 19.— Forty thousand dollars fo: censorship insurance! 5 This is the investment made by the Universal Film Co., largely to assure its two-milliondollar production, “Foolish Wives,” against being slashed by state censors, 4 Director Erich von Stroheim at present is engaged in whipping the film into final form as ag? reel feature. It had been cut down from 529,000 feet of film to 24 reels when Universal exhibited it to 14 censors from the United States and Canada, whom it invited to California for the purpose, and whose expenses it paid. Representatives of Universal report the censors made few sug? gestions for cuts and praised the production. It is expected other censors will be influenced: by their approval, The censors were royally en- tertained, conferred with Univer: sal officials on censorship, and left behind them the impression that they were quite satisfied to pass the film when it should come before them for official re view. Carl Laemmle insists he played host to the censors merely so censors and producers could ar- rive at a better general under- standing. ‘The censors made clear they, too, regarded this as his purpose, Nevertheless censors who ac- cepted his hospitality have ‘laid themselves open to the criticism that they have, in a manner, obligated themselves to their host. “Consider the plot of ‘Foolish Wives’ and you'll understand why Laemmie and Von Stroheim might have had some*doubts as to what would happen when it reached the censors,” says these critics. It's a story of a Russian count, a low-down libertine and scoun- drel, who sets up an establish. | ment with two women at Monte Carlo, The count regards every A ainst Censors * %& # $40,000 to Safeguard © $2,000,000 “Foolish * *# * #8 %&% * 8% Wives” * 8 # Despite Plot woman as his prey. Meeting the young wife of an American senator, he decides to make her his conquest and his’ whirlwind courtship turns her head. Time after time he has her trapped, but some occurrence saves her, Finally the count assaults the imbecile daughter of an Italian with whom he has been counter- feiting money. The Italian finds this out. The count is cast into & sewer, and after him--a dead cat. Fade out. This highly elevating spectacle, on which already $1,200,000 in cash and 18 months of labor by an army of people have been lavished, was reeled off before the censors in a seven-hour show- ing. The picture will be rel simultaneously in 35 cities the United States. Laemmle expects to net a mil- lion dollars proft from the pro- duction, Infantile Paralysis Kills Boy, Is Report John Morton Bagley, 7 years old, the son of Otto Bagley, 842 W. 63rd st., died Saturday night presumably from infantile paralysis, According to the family physician, Charles A. Warhanik, Cobb building, the boy displayed every symptom of the dis- ease, This diagnosis has been disputed by Dr. P. C. Davis of the city health department. A section of the boy's brain has been ordered removed and sent to the Mayo Bros.’ institute at Roches- ter, Minn., for examination, The boy is about ‘the tenth person to die of the same disease in the last month, declare health depart: ment officials, | night. Ss [eunarea. TO ARRES I know, and his friends all know, tha he is innocent, “I know that wherf the truth heard in this matter—when the tire story has been unfolded—tl my husband will be completely e3 erated and his good name will (Turn to Page 7, Column 2) BUSINESS MAN HERE IS KILLE CYfirles D. Huffine, 1218 ave. W., managpr of the Paper Box Co., who was fatally jured in a fall down an ‘ shaft in the Saxony Knitting Co,' building, 2005 Fifth ave., at 10 a, Monday, died two hours later in the Seattle general hospital, Huffine was manager of the eral hospital, unconscious, Huffine is manager of ‘the ard Paper Box Co. 613 building. He delivered a con: signment.of boxés on the fifth Moor to the Eclipse Neckwear Co. Huffine descended to the fléor, where he was engaged in ness with the Graceline Co, He aenly stepped to the elevator, opened the door and dropped into the ope! shaft. He was picked up by em” ployes and taken to the hospital, SHOOTS ALLE HOME DESPOILER In defense of his wife's Augusto Schisca shot and w Narschaso Guntoli in Schisea’s house at Lakota about 9:30 Sati Schisca fs in county jail in. ttle but probably will be released” without prosecution, Matt Starwich Monday, He was arrested by Starwich and Deputy Sheriff William, Sears at By a, m. Sunday. Schisca had made no ~ attemtp to get away and mbade @ clean breast of the whole affair, ac: cording to tSarwich, Guntoli is in a Tacoma shot thru the right leg. Sears ported from Tacoma Monday Guntoli would not prosecute, Gun. toli has a wife in Italy, ‘Schisca’ 39 years old and the father of tae <3 eal *