The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 24, 1922, Page 1

eens eens Tonight and WEATHER fresh easter Saturday, fair; ty winds. Enter “VOLUME 23 IRTUAL is what manufacturing plant amounts to. That is what one Port Angeles factory is imposing upon its men. The practice is vicious, and The Star does not hesitate to denounce it in unmeasured terms. HE additional 75c a day which the | company doled out to its employes | when it work is a moc If it had given $10 a day extra wages, the concern | would still be wrong and un-American, because 12 hours | of factory labor a day at any wage is inhuman and mediaeval. A business organization which cannot maintain itself | expedient DOES NOT DESERVE TO | except by such an ABEL NORMAND IS REPORTED DYING! | WM. TAYLOR KILCED FOR AIDING GIRL! The Star Goes Into 11,727 More Homes Rvery Day Than Any Other Seattle Newspaper | The Seattle Star Second Clans Matter May 2, 1899, at the Postoffice at Seattle, Wash, under the Act of Congress March 2, 1879. Per Year, by Mail, $5 to $9 ' THERE IS STILL TIME TO WIN SOME OF THAT $50 OFFERED FOR NORTHWEST PRODUCTS SLOGANS OPO Lee” foro (EDITORIAL) HUMAN SLAVERY! That a 12-hour day in a modern substituted 12 for 8 hours kery. en. Sane meee Rear Better Children by Using Rhythm SEATTLE, WASH., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1922. Mothers to Learn Theory From Expert LIVE IN ANY AMERICAN COMMUNITY. “Frome Brew | d leant Howdy, folks! At seven popular-priced hotels in Seattle | are planning to change their | namie to Hollywood. It pays to | advertine. | eee Dan Landon says his campaign headquarters will be wherever he hangs his hat. Dan ought-to know better than to hang his hat up when there are politicians around. . Perhaps that ts the way he lost hie | vest. eee Ten tons of cabbage were burned fn Eastern Washington week Perhaps this explains why the candi- dates are so stingy with their cigars. eee last iT SAYINGS OF LITTLE HOMER BRE an | “Take off your diamond ear- rings, mamma. The assessor is | coming’” x With thin silk stockings on her feet And nothing round her neck, Glorinda may be passing sweet, it she's a nut, by heck! or Riding In the side car of Ed Tier. ney's motorcycle the rain saver much useless en Saturday wight. But he ought to furnish soap. ‘ eee in on politicians used weert asks Hank lay Beattie now has 34 lady barbers. Se ds No candidates for mayor have filed for several days. The boys must be having a hard time borrowing the requisite $75. cee | TRIPPING THE LIGHT | FANTASTIC TOE | Sign on an Kighth ave garage: | “Tosing done day or night” | eee | Speaking of you fadiophone bugs, ou ever lis | tened to Dan Landon making a} speech? | one National Canned Food week begins March 1. The week after that, Na-} tional Bottled Goods week. The week after that, National Floral Wreath week. cee HE MUST BE A MARATHON | RUNNER | Henry D. Halil of West Seattle announces that he will run for the city council. Henry has a long run in front of him. But ¢ Hke mow dates his sive out . tr “Of the 70,000 lunatic more than 15,000 were b the use of tobacco,”—Re j Ses { Tho Rev. Sims is | There are 240,000 inmate na in the United State | over on YOU SAID A DRINKFUL Dear Homer: We notlee in The Star that some dumb-bell is go- ing to prove the world is a dif- (Lurn to Page 7, Column 1) | returned to the shipping board. 12-HOUR | DAY RULE. IN PLANT! | Port Angeles F actory Forces Men to} Work Killing Shifts at Starvation Wages in Open Shop By E. P. Chalcraft Forced to labor 12 hours a day when it was decided to! operate with two shifts instead of three, employes of the Crescent Boxboard plant at Port Angeles are unwilling vic-} tims of a corporation's tyranny. | Investigation by The Star revealed that for the last month approximately 75 men have been da@ing a 12-hour} grind, instead of 8, and taking an actual proportionate loss in pay for the extra four hours. | Company officials claim the men are not “forced to work} 12 hours.” But they admit it was that or be dropped| from the payroll! } Port Angeles is an open-shop,er, for it would mean reorganization | town. The unions lost out when) after business picked 1 tre came to a showdown, some In r word it woul seem that # ago. eigth 12-hour shifte a week were| ene more to be desired t 2 eight-hour th shifts, The reason for this was in-| of San I dicated when the question of pay was paper pulp. xboard and wallboard | raised. | The minimum seale on the | eight-hour shift basis was $3. | LOSING MONEY, FIRM EXPLAINS “Since the first of the year ore For the 12-hour shift ib ig $3.75. ders have not béen what we That is to say, aside from the would like,” Charles H. Myers, fact that 12 hours’ labor a day resident manager, explained. was long ago discarded as ate | quirement to earning one's bread | and butter, employes of the Cres | cent Boxboard plant were com- | pelled 20 increase thelr labor con “Something had to be done, for we were losing money, So, rath al four | er than close down the pl to together, we deel i, Feb. 24.—Efforgy will be made by H. F. Alexander, of Seattle, president of the Admiral line, to buy the U. 8. 8 umbia, accord s to rel information here. The Columbia, formerly the Great North yesterday, when it was ordered’ ander, it is anid, desires to obtain the Pacific to r e the Northern fire off th w Jersey fleet until Ab Yolumbia for passenger service in the Pacific, which was recently destroyed by after it was purchased from the shipping BUCKET SHOPS CRASH ern, was nip of the Atlantic coast | ard. ? YORK, Feb. 24.—Iive indictments are expected today an part of ¢ district attornney's probe into bucket shop operations, ‘Twelve broker houses have toppled in the last week, bow over largely by the istrict attorney's probe. Not all of this number are bucketers, but con fidence of customers has been shaken because of the Investigation, and ccounts were withdrawn from brokers. Iundreds of clerks and sten. ographers have been thrown out of work by the failures. 80 far 20 indictr against bucketshop brokers are reported found by the grand jury. irty-four investigations are under way. Six arrests have been| made so far, Mrs. Winifred Sackville Stoner and her daughter, now the Countess Bruche, whom she made .an infant prodigy by rhythmic rearing. Mrs. Stoner below. BRAZER LOSES — POINT IN CASE Jude Austin B. Griffith Friday de- h, attorney for George M. Brazer, diamines the $1,890.26 embezaiement rges against the prominent Aimer loan Legion official. Schwellenbach declared, following the testimony of nine state witnennes, that their testimony was Ineuffi clent. | Friday marked the second day of the trial, The court room was crowd. ed with members of the American | [Legion and of the Metropolitan club, | the organization of business men fro mwhom ver is alleged to have obtained the $1,890.28 while werving in the capacity of club manager. Brazer was to take the stand Fri day afternoon. GROCERS HERE URGING UNION Declaring it ls unreasonable to ex- pect grocers’ employes to work more than eight hours a day, mem- bers of the Seattle Retail Grocers’ are considering a*plan to 1 grocery clerks. De. association unionize re | tails will be thrashed out at the next} advertising columns of The Star, Shoes, clothing, gro- ceri meats, women’s , millinery, apparel for the children,*furnish- ings—in fact, whatever you are likely to want to buy tomorrow you will find advertised in to day’s Star. And not only that, but the ad- vertised price will mean a worth-while saving to you in practically every instance. Make up your entire Saturday shop- ping list from the ads in today’s Star. ‘wv the motion of Louls Sehwellen- | ~ | aw | oe [Forums Being Organized to Offset Jazz by Music Instruction || WINIFRED SACKVILLE STONER’S COMMANDMENTS FOR MOTHERS Thou shait not administer unto thy child @hysical punishment. Thou shalt nut scold thy child but give rewards for geod behavior, Thou shalt never say “don’t” to thy child. Thou shalt never say “must” to thy child. } Thou shalt not give thy child occasion to disrespect thee. | . Thou shalt never frighten thy child. | Thou shalt not allow thy child to say “I can’t.” | Thou shalt always answer thy child’s question. | Thou shalt not tease thy child. j Thou shalt make thy house the most attractive place thy child can find. By Ruth Abeling 1, “And by that I'm not suggesting that every mother ought to sing her NEW YORK, Feb. 24.--Winifred) oniid to sleep at night. That might Sackville Stoner has just finished Or-/ be inhuman! Some mothers sing ganization of the sixty-second neigh-| their babies into-a state of coma! borhood forum,in New York eclty. At)They make them miserable by I these forums Mrs. Stoner will teach | squawking at them. i mothers her theories of raising chil-| | would suggest for the mother dren by rhythm. . | who can’t sing and has no canned It is Mra, Stoner’s belief that being | music about the house, the reading rhythmic prolongs life. of poetry to her baby at bedtime. | Countess Bruche, and during her!to eat the porridge they don't like | days a week in » ead of six, and tribution to the company by one- | meeting of the association on Mareb | "> : hmle,* “ 5 “ » a people were rhythmic,” maid I used that system with my operate two Lt-hour shifts in- half, while their pay was raived /§, it was announced Friday by Frank | yeoiner stoner, “they could live to be|gaughter,” said Mrs, Stoner, “and siead of three eight-h but one-fourth, {Kannair, secretary. At the same) tig Jeary old. that is whe at Sp rnape dy “You see, there is a lot of money! “It rather looks like the o y|time a proposal to limit the number | *”, 2 ayn is Way Gt ax mibothe she. talk 1 y , looka ne company | ‘ a his is a jazz age,” she continued. | oq; at 17 months she wrote poetry: ted up in the machinery and equip-| was getting the added four hours’|of retail grocery stores, in Seattle, |.5.5, shortens life. It is worse than] at three years she published a b ent, anc 5 ather n it . an at half-pric joesn' Il be discussed ™ Tard Gatise, ean teeperate for| “Well, to outs 4 th { “Rhythm Is the very fluld of exist-| published 17 books.” ee ee ae cerns Sor Wal. by cutting down. the stam B ‘ lence. It is the foundation of aul Mrs, Stoner’s daughter ts now 19. ja da d close for.a day. And we of shifts, we figured tha’ | | natural education. “Rhythm did it,” continued Mrs. id not n shut da alte h-} 7, ' “ ” | vl aia not want to shut down al t : (Turn to Page 7, Colamn 4) | A argain ‘And that is why,” said Mr*./ stoner, “and rhythm can do that for en Stoner, “I started from the very mo any mother’s son or daughter. Feast ment my daughter was born to teach) “Cniidren do not n to be |her rhythm." \spanked. ‘They can be controlled by Awaits you today in the || Mrs. Stoner’s daughter I9 the/song suggestion. They can be mad w |childhood, as Winifred Sackville! ),, 4, r, Jr, won worldwide fame a8 | mpey ving music at their bre: can be taught their | to be graceful with ra and y |figures and a {ingle maniac; I have a} Inston | USIC. for everything, even Jingles} +, musical moralette antidotes for poisons | plat e slippe she queried. “Don’t! B® Place of the allppe ‘DELAY IS WON jingle | which tell the and why not you remember the months by ‘thirty should take days hath ptember’ and so on? | Didn’t you learn it so when you were {a child? Then why not learn every. BY LINDEBERG |thing that way from babyhood on? | “Environment is the architect of} SAN FRANCISCO, Web. 24.—Ar. | heredity. vontinued Mrs. Stoner. guments on the writ of hebeas corpus |_ “Toys aro tho architests of envi-| returned for Jafet Lindeberg, Taco- | ronment. ma banker, under arrest here | hus, if a child is surrounded | charged with bank wrecKing, will be |with rhythm and beauty in its toys| heard Saturday. from its earliest days, that child will| After Lindeberg failed to appear become practically anything its|in court yesterday his attorneys pre | mother wants It to become. {sented Superior Judge Harold Loud- | “ven a baby’s rattle should be|erback affidavits that their client | the loveliest toned one that can be| was too ill from influenza to come found, There should be music aes court and the order for continu- beguty about gverything, ance was issued, 4 COLLAPSE ‘Actress in Critical Condition After Story That Director Was Slain for Protecting Woman | LOS ANGELES, Feb. 24.—Simultaneously with the par- tial verification of the story told in Detroit by Harry N. Fields, convicted forger, of how William a Taylor had been murdered for trying to keep a celebrated film actress out of the clutches of a “dope” ring, it became known today that Mabel Normand was critically ill at her home in Altadena. The police have not given out] which occurred a few minutes after lthe name of the actress whom Tay-| she had left Taylor's home. | dco lor is said to have been protecting, | Miss Normand collapsed several j }days ago, but it became known for jand they refused to answer @NY/the first time today that her life questions on the subject. was in danger. In answer to tele | It t* known, however, that Miss| phonic inquiries, friends at her (Normand has been prostrated ever | home said, “Her condition is criti since she learned of the murder—' cal.” 3 Se * % LOS ANGELES, Feb. 24— Mabel Normand is critically i | * * DETROIT, Feb. 2 with a serious and aggravated form of influenza. “She has now reached the crtsis, We hope to save her life.” This brief statement from the mation in part of the weird story of the murder of Wiliam Des- mond Taylor by members of the dope ring, as revealed by Harry N. Fields, convicted forger here, famous actress’ physiclans was all that could be learned carly to- day of ber condition. Verification has been obtained @f Her breakdown in health necessi- | rretas’ statement that a $1,000 3 }tated her removal seVeral days ago jwas changed at a bank the day bg to a secluded home at Altadena, |lowing the murder by members of Since then, three and sometimes |the murder gang, according to ad- four physicians have been in con- | vices Sheriff Irving J. Coffin said stant attendance upon the noted he received from Los Angeles au- comedienne. A trained nurse has |thorities. been at her side night and day since | DESCRIBES GUN “erwo of the physic in | USED IN KILLING of the physicians were in con- sultation at s late hour last aight, | og te oe Tine Wanted beds Facts concerning her condition were | {1 rs oo ee | meager, jing to keep a famous film actress Her friends are frankly worried. | tomes Pode ait eee ees | White the report that she was par-| Win which a Beech je revolve j tially paralyzed for 12 hours yester-| Tittea was buried mone the Teeme day was unverified by her physicians, | hie. “Findine of thin = tw jolts frienda have made known the | serinitety confirm Fields’ story, | They stated that she had lost to a The weapon was an old-fash- great extent the use of her muscles| foned one, Fields said, with » and had been unable to speak for a| Pearl handle and was selected by \ considerable period. Wong (Sammie) Lee, who was . eee named by Fields as the actual : slayer. |Los Angeles Police Lee expressed a preference for the | Hunting Chinaman !*" when tie slaying was plotted | IOS ANGELES, Feb. 24.—In tho |‘ % dope den in Los Angeles, Fields |half light of early morning county |%°c!ared. |detectiver today threaded their way| “I overheard them saying they thru the crooked passages of Fergu-| Wanted a man to drive them to the json alley, Chinatown, interviewing | Taylor home and TI volunteered,” |sleepy Orientals in search of a clue | Fields said. to the dope ring chief named in the “I drove the Chinaman and two murder of Willam PD. Taylor in ajotfier members of the party, Jennis ACCUSED, ENDS LIFE | . Feb, 24.—Ben F, Chambers, railroad brakeman, indicted by | the grand jury on a statutory charge, shot himself thru the head with a jtevolver at his home this morning and died instantly. The suicide was | committed in the bathroom. Chambers was indicted by the grand jury last | Monday, arrested in Corvallis and brought back here for trial. The arrest pete on a bench warrant issued by Judge G. F. Skipworth of the circuit court. He was released Tuesday on $2,000 bail and his case would have j been heard in the coming term of court. The crime he was accused of was aguingt an 11-year-old girl Whose father lives in western Lane county. The girl has been living with the Chambers family for several years. Mrs. | Chambers is hysterical and prostrate. GIRL OF {5 KILLS MAN WACO, Tex., Feb. 24.—J. S. Crosslin, real estate man, on trial in district court for criminal assault, was shot and killed in the courtroom today by Miss Marcie Matthews, 15, the complaining witness. With a smoking revolver in her hands, the 15-year-old girl stood over the body of her alleged betrayer after the shooting and explained: “I thought I ought to.” Crosslin was on trial on a charge of the criminal assault of Miss Matthews, The jury had been selected. The girl was called as the first witness. As she took the stand she turned and fired at the defendant, who sat across a table from her. Three bullets took effect, one in the stomach, one in |the back and one in the left arm. He crumpled to the floor and died | almost instantly, ‘JAPAN NEAR REVOLT? HONOLULU, Feb. 24.—Dispatches from Tokyo to Honolulu Japanese papers, déscribed riotous scenes following defeat of the universal man. hood suffrage bill by the Japanese diet. The bill, the dispatchs said, was beat § to 159. The Jiji Tokyo correspondent described a mob of 30,000 people clashing with police Wednesday night around -the diet building. | Four thousand persons were arrested, the dispatch said, and were hand- cuffed and roped together and hauled to jail in police patrols. Kenzo Adachi, prominent anti-government leader, expressed fear that an effort to foment a revolution was under way. SHOOTS 2 AND SELF FRAMINGHAM, Mass. Feb. 24.—After shooting and killing Percy C. Russell, prominent business man in a crowded commuter train last night, and wounding Russell's pretty 19-year-old daughter, Kingston W. Jeffers was dying at the Framingham hospital today from self-inflicted wounds, J otters’ attentions had been discouraged by Grace Russell and her father, | - ¥ é