The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 14, 1921, Page 1

The Star goes into 11,727 more homes every Tonight and T southea , 50, Toda: mperature Last M4 Hours wesday, rain; fresh sterly winds Minin + noon, HL On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise 99, at the Postoffice at Seattio, “VOLUME Ee) = z 4 £3 aeih nF 3 #69 j Rowdy, Fotks! We've had Bet- ter Speech Week and Father and Seon Week and Umbrella Week, now let's have a Week Off. iTeEgagsts’ 528) “City Hall Potiticiane Are Loath to | ditneys.” For jitneys may come 4 jitneys may go, but Cowen Park | “Yotes go on forever, { ‘ eee Gov. Hart denies that be will call & special session of the legislature revise tax laws. Good stuff! A “tue third anniversary of the day | the German cannon was) in Franee."--The Pea-Eye. | he kaiser’s artillery must have | Worse off even than ‘ve suspected. ! “e- | © LiL? GEE GEE, TH OFFICE ; SEZ | ie — i the disarmament : @ misty sub-head in Star.” But (t about the poor fellows who had | heir backbone shot away? eee ‘SA TELLA FELLA? know that “Better Speech” | has came and went? j ee | surely was a football star, ‘The coach was glad he fownd him; | when he landed in the mud, The stars were all around him. i oe fh " short we should have eight a weex,” _ Says the lady next door. eee | THE HOME BREWER SINGS wonder what ge If the disarmament conference | ) tilis to take up the quesyon of load- © €4 dice it fw a failure CITY HALL. AXIOM What. does it profit a man to save | the whdle world, if he doesn’t get on the payroll? Do your Christmas hinting early. } — “used to know a girt named | | laline Moore,” says Tom Page, and the kids at school used to | all cali her Postscript.” -” “-* DISARMAMENT NOTE In war the cuhs do the talking; jn Peace, the generals, oe . The dame in the stands was peaches and cream, j The {ullback’s dame was an old- fashioned scream ; Did he pass her up for this vampy | young dream? You said tt. . The U. S., at the opening of the @itarmament conference, pmoposed that a naval holiday be declared for the next 10 years. Doggone It, there | Guys in the navy always get the»best of itt eee Dear Homer Brew: I gotta Kick against my present board- ing house. The bath tub ix so small that if 1 chew gum the i water sloshes over. What'll I | do? Yours, Emma. | Dear Emmy: There is only one remedy for this deplorable | situation. Eat your gum with a | fork, | see 4 | Prohibition Chief Lyle denies that pers on thelr automobiles. “-e sprit» Being Up Your Own Coall } | existence, ito jact amount needed by | tutions to be supplied for one year. | At noon eaptains and commanders each district were | chest headquar-| | st.; ple, Harvard ave. and Broadway, and | City’s History Is Launched a is j for among the Seattle Humane society, HAPPY TASK ly filled, but overflowing. ‘was officially opened. Ness sections that the time | nates, How generously thoge visited to- “Days in Seattle are getting so \day have given will not be known the receipts | j until ltor the public. ALL TO HAVE CHANCE TO GIVE tomorrow when day That all may have an opportunity | need be missed, the entire week has been give, that none in the city set aside to it hold, comfortably iN the chest $744,810, of solicitors in called together eat | SEATTLE 98D CHEST CITY Seattle will be the 92d city in the United States to Have a community chest this year. The chests of the 92 other cities combined hold over $20,678,744, Community chest meetings by the Transportation club, the Wan Asselt Parent-Teacher association, in Com- munity hall, Beacon ave, and Myrtlé the Are lodge, Masonic tem: the Commonwealth club, in the L. C. the day and eveni “STORM WARNING Small craft warnings were or- dered displayed at §& o'clock | | Monday morning at all seaports | in Washington’ and Oregon, A | storm apparently off the Wash. {ington coast will cause strong | fresh to strong southeast winds {in Washington today and to- nigh sf The Seattle Star Entered as Second Class Matter May 3, Wash, under the Act of Congress March 4, 1879, Per Year, by Mail, $6 to $9 day than any other Seattle newspaper (these figures taken from October 1, 1921, sworn postal statements) SE ATTLE, WASIL, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1921. TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE [Home Brew |Seattle Is ‘Aroused to HelpNeedy - Greatest Charity Move in| Even the friendiess cat and dog and the maltreated horse are not to/ | be forgotten in the community chest, 6 charitable organ uy folks like twin beds | zations to be financed from it ie the! Docs ie “naval holiday” proposes | geattie went about the happy task of filling it with her usual calm as-| | surance, promising a chest not mere- o The tittle old lady who arepees | Men, Parade Backbone.” | n.¢ gime into the chest last week, the unknown who followed ber with a check for $25,000, and the receipta from The Star’s mutt dog show, the }tirst contributions, were eagerly | given in advance before the chest Officially it was not opened until ‘today when 4,004 people carried the tidings. into the residence and busi-| had | come when every man, every wom. | an and every child might do their! bit towards making the struggle for the fight for life, a littie 2Hwinkle, twinkle, Uttle Jar, how \easier for the city’s sad unfortu are counted and made will | the ex: the 46 imati. ters, 509 Third ave., to report what | | progress they have made. W. L. Rhodes, general chairman of the chest campaign, gave out a state. ment thanking The Star and all those who participated in the mutt dog show for their part in helping fill the chest ‘It is a fine thing,” he said, “to be le to know that we have each done | something to help our needy friend, There is no greater satisfaction.” Smith building, were scheduled for | | Aye is about to arrest people with | | southwest winds in Oregon and | of good citizenship. Community BY THE EDITOR ‘THE old thrill has come back! We The enthusiasm! The intensity! The are handling BIG NEWS sitrulsm! The joy and the ecstacy of again. WE editors who held the desk jobs on newspapers during the war ) to.depining camps, And ved thru the halcyon news era of Day after day we found our- selves with more BIG NEWS stories than instead of were We all time. we had pages to put them any | tensity; theesurprise elemen primitive passions, hatred and fear and deathless valor—and which came home to our own firesides because in the shock troops and behind the destroyers’ smoke OUR BOYS were there screens. What editor will eyer fo copy on Lusitania, the Mexican-German- Jap plot expose, the other the terse notes between the Thierry (that day we news Forest—and Armistice! tice Days, to be exact! | And the day the British n. ° ripping, front-page story! Samp Lewis The reporters in uniform! together! Riveting records! item the leased wires carried was worthy of banner-line display. Here were stories that combined every element of news appeal—world-shaking importance; dramatic suspense and in- the U. S. marines forever famous, to the doughboys’ disgust), the stunned halt of the Hun, the retreat, St. Mihiel, Argonne Our two Armis- names throng back, every one a crashing, blossoming Red Cross and Liberty Loan drives; everybody working A year and a half of BIG NEWS Stories—immortal stories! Stories that will be told in detail dozens of centuries hence as Homer's tales are told today! ARMISTICE! ~~ kK em © THE tang of life departed. News guddenly became as_near-beer, where for many months it had been sublimated champagne. The Golden Age of News was over. Ve had to turn to the old grist—high pr: -s, crime wave, baseball. True, there was the Versailles meeting. The Old Men triumphed, the old ideas prevailed. The results did not thrill us— they merely made us cynical. It was not BIG NEWS. And then there were the German up- risings and subsidings; the Hungarian fusses; a presidential election; Arbuckle, Obenchain and Roy Gardner. *“* © But: on Saturday like a crash in the sky, the Big News broke on! Almost it; the play of and loyalty get handling submarinings, White House and Wilhelmstrasse, the kaiser’s dozen, once more. \ the declaration of war, the president’s ad- President Harding and _ Secretary dress, our destroyers at Southampton, Hughes (there’s an American!) seized Pershing in Paris, Seicheprey, Haig’s the steering wheel of civilization from the | back against the wall, the Great Spring grasp of the Old Men and started us back Drive of Hindenburg, Foch, Chateau on the highroad’ we took the day we went into the war! At a blow they smashed the age-old in- iquity of whispered, inner-closet intrigu- ing diplomacy. They launched the world on a new course where it may really hope to see an end put to warfare. They made it possible for us to hope that the editors made avy went into Zeebrugge! Our own destroyer actions! galling yoke of the gunmakers shall be | The mine barrage! thrown off our necks forever. They put Russia! Turkey! The smashing of American ideals and American altruism Bulgaria! The Italian front! Rheims! back into the saddle. | Marne! Wipers! Verdun! How the BIG NEWS, I say! And the old thrill from handling it has returned. And the big thrill of reading it has returned. America may yet win the war. We shall see, we should see. More Big News is to break. Civilization, after three years of floundering, is moving ahead again! overnight! SUBSCRIBER MAY SAY WHAT ORGANIZATION MAY GET HIS MONEY Money subscribed to the Com- munity Chest will, unless other. wise designated, be divided be- tween the 46 charitable organiza: tiong included in the chest The giver, if he wishes, may order all of his subscription, or any part of it, given to any one or more of the 46 orirantzations. For example, he may desire that his entire subscription go to the Salvation Army or th Red Cross or the Humane Society. If so, or if he wishes to throw his support exclusively to any other organization or organizations, he should ask the solicitor to whom he gives his subscription for a “special designation blank.” T\Grand | Jury Starts | Narcotic Inquiry) Convening Monday, the King coun: | ‘ty grand jury was expected during | the week to conduct a thoro investi: | gation into the activities of narcotic | peddlers in Seattle, It was also con sidered possible that the grand jurors would look into the local status of | the Ku Klux Klan, | | | | president of the company, made an |11th-hour effort to forestall the suit | ‘Receiver for Nabatame t B D | building Program, considered a o Be Demanded Today isi! i" nis" Motion for the appointment of Everest refused to be influenced by | ATT TANCE ge sng, 75 George 8. Kahin as receiver for Jan hing except the money itself’ THOUC iT M ACE the World Cable Directory vo. Everest's suit is based on wage!” priory. the position ‘ was to be filed at 2 Monday af- |claims aggregating $599.08, only al, Briefly, the position of this coun- ternoon in superior court by [fractional part of the money actual. | TY 0M the Anglo-Japanese alliance is Kenneth Durham, manager of the [ly due the 100.odd employes of the | %* fellows, It is learned on highest credit bureau of the state de- | company PROPNEN DY She Datel Pree partment of labor and industries, Kahin, who is counsel for the Bety|..); Th Sovernment of the United ic Wetlhk as. Stiorasy for -\ter Seusiness Bureau, honsentell | States is unalterably opposed to this | ee. lee ‘an reonlvel lake} Mobiees 66 military pact between the two great against t tivities of his bureau to check {°™PIres on opposite sides of the | the company simultaneously on enarer operations. |world and considers this alliance a behalf of sev Agents for 1 unpaid employes. nomas Y, Nabatame, [Launch With Eight Aboard Is Missing NEW YORK, Nov. 14.—The gaso- line launch Bisie K., with eight fish: ermen aboard, was missing today and wag believed to have been lost Jat sea off Sheepshead bay by rerlewing promises to meet the unpaid payroll, which is estimated at upwards of $10,000, but Durham and |Merchant Charged in Fraud Cdmplaint |?" cto ini Alleged to have falsely claimed) UNQU ALIFIED APPROVAL of | that hig concern had m |the program of the United States sales to three of Seattle's laid down at the opening of the dis partment stores, thereby armament conference in Washing. | stockholders to invest. Kaut:|ton, D, C., was expressed by Rev. Pacific |B. O. Clauson in an address before jthe Young People’s society of the Bethany Lutheran church Sunday, to, president of the North ‘Trading Co., LAd., was charged in su- perlor court with raud, fishing | | i] } lretary of State spokesman of the American delega- | {limit on naval |ducing the present naval establish- {On the question of naval End Anglo- WANTS TO REDUCE U.S, BRITISH SHI ‘Japan Pact toBe Asked | America’s ‘Stand Against | | Alliance Will Be Stated | Before Conference THE ARMS PARLEY TODAY The session of the conference will be held at 11 o'clock tomerrow. cee BY A. L. BRADFORD (Copyright, 1921, by the United Press.) WASHINGTON, Nov. 14— This, it wak learned on high authority today, will be the stand of the United Sthhes government when the Patific and the Far East are taken up by the conference on limitation of armament. WILL BE STATED IN FRANK TERMS ‘The position of the United States on the alliance between Great Britain | and Japan will be stated some time ‘during the conferente in just as un- equivocal and frank terms by Sec- Hughes as the! tion put forward the bold and sweeping program of America for of the world, it was confidently ex- | pected here today. This may be done tomorrow. The question of the AngloJapan- jese alliance, however, is a greatly Jdifferent one than that of fixing a armament and re- | ments. ‘The alliance is, delicate question with both Great Britain and Japan, | altho both of these countries are be- lieved to realize that something must} be done about this pact in the pres- ent conference to meet the opposition of the United States, Officials here point out that the United States has nothing in direct relation to offer as a sacrifice in re- | turn for abandonment by Great Britain and Japan of their alliance. rmament, offered to however, America has serap the great ships of the*1916 menace to this country. 2. Despite the repeated as- surances of the British and Jap- anese statesmen, this govern: ment can see no country other than the United States against which the alliance probably would be directed in an im- portant emergency. 3. The alliance has a close bearing on, and might even prevent, ments, as the naval arm: pact po- \tentially joins the navies of Great | Britain and Japan, resulting in a su-| to the American navy. perior force LEWISTON, Idaho.—James Witt, Oregon pioneer of 1859, dead at age of 84, | } | (Counter Proposals May Ask That L War Vessels Be World’s Leading Navies justment of than 22 an today was that SKEPTICAL OVER DETAILS cable. } The Ashi, Mutsul, formal statement and reiterating will not be chan, | His statement, lcomment or | “The policles of ernment will not my premiership,” “Mr, had been received ft r peous, will | Hughes. Japanese United row, accepting, tions thereto, TOKYO, Nov. 14.—It became p ! today that ‘Japan would submit counter} prop limitation of armament as its answer to th program offered by the’ United States at Was ton Saturday. The counter proposals probably will accept Jap limitation of 10 capital ships, but will ask a | powers, suggesting that England be reduced ships, as Hughes proposed. ‘The general attitude of the press! limitation of armaments. Hew en a splendid idea, but the details would be difficult to work out. The first flush of approval was somewhat modified by skepticiam over details as more complete reports on the Hughes’ program arrived by The Tokyo Nichi Nichi, a leading paper, quoted annonymous naval of- ficers as characterizing the proposals as grossly unfair towards Japan and |declaring approval imposisble, anbther strong paper, |said Japan should demand the right jto retain 12 capital ships. we les! cutting the great naval armaments |(cTapoins the siant ‘new Oattieship Premi¢r Takahashi poses of the Washington conference | closely the details of the pro who was installed Saturday new premier of Japan, The new premier indicated there | would be no changes in the cabinet or in the personnel of the delegation |to the Washington conference on ‘BRITAIN WILL OKEH PROGRAM: Tis was the information obtained here today from high official sources | of the British delegation, Balfour, as head of the Brit- ish delegation, will make a very im. portant speech tomorrow, accepting in principle the American program,” an official declared, He clearly indicated that official word as to the American program 8 speech, altho to be extempo- » a complete and com- an ef-| prehensive reply to the proposals fective agreement for limitation of | enunciated to the world by Secretary | iting |Britain and Japan. will aecept A source in close contact with the delegation Press that Kato also probably will speak tomor- “in perhaps outlining Japanese objec: This is , Community Chest Week. Seattle turns for six days to the task of providing in adequate, modern fashion for her 46 agencies which administer to the poor, the delinquent, and the needy, and which work for the upbuildin Week comes, appropriately enough, betwell Armistice Day and Thanksgiving —between the day that marks the most signifi- cant man-wrought victory of history and the day we express gratitude to the Great Giver of All. Seattle will “lend a hand.” Seattle will fill the Chest. An ‘every family which has a margin to spare should do its part. Big News Is Breaking! The Old Thrill Again! to the. BY CLARENCE DUBOSE (Copyright, 1921, By United Press) the proportionate strength of the the United States to less than 18 ¢ tain the finance portfolio, PRESS COMMENTS SEEMS FAVORABLE Comment of the Japanese the Hughes disarmament p was distinctly favorable today. tieally all newspapers con length. © general tone of the Hughes’ program posed meant tremendous fit savings to Japan, but that the must be carefully and worked out. Some papers counter proposals might be in Such suggestions had being, perhaps, semi-official. The Kokumin, the leading government organ, insisted at least 12 capital ships. Popular approval of the idea expressed by Hughes’ p gave out a| Was clear, praising the pur-| Naval experts today were stt It opposes | at Japan's’ policy| Numerous conferences were od. held, however, did not|movement in Japan were imention the Hughes proposals and) but in some quarters there was & |when the correspondent questioned | position to insist on naval equa the premier, Takahashi declined to! give any whatever of his attitude. The proposals seemed to intimation | startled the country with their the Japanese gov- be changed under aron Takahashi, as the declared. “brass tacks” immediately. It was considered certain the gram would eventually meet favor from Premier phage for years has been a d advocate. Business and commercial ae * + * NEXT STEP S DUE TOMORR BY CARL D. GROAT BY LAW! RENCE MARTIN WASHINGTON, Nov. 14,—Great] WASHINGTON, Nov. 14, | Britain tomorrow will “accept in} American government, as Its principle” America’s sweeping pro oe ee for 3 cut in gram for a limitation of armaments, iz received spon' | country, take program of armament and settlement of Far Eastern tions. This step is expected to be was the conference tomorrow n consist of: 1.—Receipt of formal nations the British and Japanese d to the American proposals fot naval armaments. from London, Bal- principle, but probably will st informed Admiral Baron| %--Reference to commit the various modifications amendments suggested. 3.—Introduction before: principle,” and !denness and tendency to get down | [seemed favorable to the Hughes and unqualified support thruout tht preparing today | its sebond major step im limitati at the second plenary session In a general way, it is expected: ey was that the program Hughes Japan should be permitted to hai Leaders in‘ the disarmar 8 the jcertain modifications as to detail, (Turn te Page 7, Column 9)