The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 2, 1922, Page 1

ERE Fe THE STAR GOES INTO 11,727 MORE HOMES EVERY DAY THAN ANY OTHER SEATTLE NEWSPAPER NORWEG ree Editi e on IAN STEAMER IS SINKING IN MID-OCEAN! On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise e Seattle Star Watered as Second Crass Matter May 8, 1899, at the Pastoffice at Seattle, Wash., unter the Act of Congress March 8, POLLTAX VOLUME 24. NO. 5. Greetings, girts! It will soon : be warm enough for furs. } oee | | | We now have @ coal strike and a} tong war. Tent ho a? psjeneg * rere } We suggest that one of the mayor: | Public Puts Faith ed ry * a sme sete] in the Legislature| Hill. If this won't drive away the | and Attempts to Stall Assessor | SOCIABLE De. H. M. Read, health com- missioner, says an carwig is « cockroeeh that is trying to break into society. None of them is going to break into our society if we can help it. eee At that, an earwig is a friendly litue beast. He'll stick to one thru thick and thin. . earwigs, nothing will. 7 ee By Hal Armstrong At last the resourceful public | thinks it has found a way to beat | Gov. Hart and his $5 poll tax for 1923. They are pinning their faith on the next legislature. The legislature will be asked i | | | Oh, see the little carwig, | te vote on a bill to repesl the Then feed him arsenic ; | poll tax, to send it to the scrap Just fill his greedy tummy heap. And helt be awful sick? The resourceful public, hoping pti the tax will be repealed, is The moonshine whisky that ls *0/ simply going to hold onto its $3 | «powerful that it could make hair) until it sees what Jegislat grow ona billiard ball must bow be | does ™ rg | fore the grapo that couk) put alfalf™) if the tax is repealed, naturally | on Councilman A- T. Drake s dome. | there will be none to pay. i who have waited will not pte gg rg [so tn vain. ‘They will have saved) also represents & their $5 for keeps, | great Ne geting. 4 ‘This may be easy for the house | ‘wife and other persons not employed Ford makes’ ‘nitrate at Muscle! "SM S0 alee to do, ; Shoals. Hope they are cheaper a8 | SALARY EARNERS } | MUST PAY, THO | | Others will be compelied to pay {the 1922 tax, for the law as it now ” hie stands requires employers to hoid out xaehcag eee |85 of each employe’s pay to mtisty | If the Los Angeles police can find |""* Tire is widenpread beliet, es- & hophead so crazy with hop that he} pecially among the colored popu- Will confess to the murder of Taylor.! ation, that no person will be another greac mystery will be Solved.| snowed to vote in the next clee- a a Ser wee es paid his poll the Panama canal, was in Seat- Records show that those most tle today, but nobody bad suffi- cient of mind to ask lis advice about the Lake Wasb- ington sewer. * I want to write some poetry About Sylvester Hupp, A half a dozen lines or 40 Wal fit the ornery pup— I do nat know this bird at alt But it fille the colyum up. oe e “Man Drops Dead as He Talks to) Barber Jewspaper headline | Our is that he died of old} 3 =~ |GEN. COETHALS I$ OPTIMISTIC |Says He Can Vizualise Big Columbia Basin Project “The Columbia river basin ir- rigation project is a great project. ‘The opportunities are wonderful. Looking into the future, I can see the water flowing over the dam and thru the canals of the basin. I can see miles of tun- nels, of sluices and of canals. 1 can see the entire district lated. I can see the acres blooming and fertile under the touch of water.” { uch was the enthusiastic concep- |tion of the fulfillment of the Colum- | bia river basin project given by Maj. }Gen. George W. Goethals, who & {rived In Seattle Thursday on his way) | ast to compile his report on the leurvey of the project which he has | | | to pay the tax are not, | sf | their emperor. } Many Japanese, however, make a) Ipretense of misunderstanding the) poll tax asmsnor. At the Puget) Sound hotel, a 10- and 15-cert “flop | (Turn to Page 4, Column 2) | i | taxable Japanese paid their 1971 1 | BUT EVEN NAPOLEON 15 Ole Hanson's famous book, | j “Americanism Versus Bolshev- | | fem,” is now for sale at a Seattle bookstore for 25 cents. | ee At that, Ole te still profiteering. ee Glenn Hoover, debate coach, will talk at the University of W ing ton tonight on the subject, “Are De- baters Mutts?” Seems to be lots of room for de- bate. Vancow rman has AS YOU WERE: La Societe des Quarante Hommes and Huit Chevaux, doughboy association, held high Jinks last night. One top ser- Seant was present, but he cs caped before he was seriously injured. Ra® 2 | just completed. ‘ | He said he is against free tolls for Seattle society woman says a girl! He said I gain: ra can 4) decently $100 a yen American ships passing thru t ace eraate ts a A Pan canal a# a violation of the| But who wants to dress decently these days? | wer treaty with Great in, which he explained in full If America would have her ship- New $760,000 apartment house at! ping pass thru the eanal without Pitth in to have radio- ay do it In only suite. Fine, fine!) one w “That is to * current and drown | cofiect th nd tarn the money reesional appropriation * your neighbor's phonograph. back by c Re ae }Thi« ia perfectly legal and is in ac ~ \cordance with the custom of the British in the Suez cancel.” | ‘The general declared he believes | LI'L GEE GEN, TH’ OFFICE / VAMP, SEZ: The human windbag never has | |the West the only eection of the | |country in which to ive, and that | | @ blowout. -#¢ | he intends to persuade Mrs. Goethals ee } {to make their home here Heé knew that winning races to | He was the guest of Judge Thomas The fairer sex appealed, |purke at the Hotel Washington at | 4nd 40 he copped the three-mise race|noon. Friday morning the general/ By cutting thru a field. will leave for Spokane “8 ) cee Wes) > ° | 0c: were ordered dis at 7:16 @ ibbe. & ot the vor. Entombed in Mine, __ tn ne erected Ga, “Paureday’ foorn ‘Cane Stators ttead n. of Mehtl |» Doctors said fear of the noo#e)} south to the mouth of Columbia a of Meht! Three Men Rescued | ..(i.c5°Churen to besin bis hunger | Fiver and on Puget sounds A GRASS VALLEY, Cal, March 2. strike 42 days ago storm of decided character is cen | ee men, imprisoned by 4 ¢ It will be impossible, phy tral near‘ Sitks 7 ving Three men, imr ’ rSitka, Alaska, moving in at the IdahoMaryland gold mi: said, to arouse Church by tomorrow. || rapidly eastward. It will cause here yerterday, were safely back Ux \the surface today. They were ree cued last evening after being im prisoned 14 hours. old wit Gucst—Umpb! You should sce SEATTLE, WASH., THURSDAY, MARCH land Carl Asmus to get | vigil over the death cell and carried to the gallows, Who Called This the Human Race? (EDITORIAL) Unconscious, strapped in an invalid’s chair, a 19-year-old boy will be taken out for an airing tomorrow. It will be his first airing for many months—and his last for an infinitely longer period, The chair will be rolled up to an ugly seaffold. The inert body will be lifted out and a business- like looking man will knot a noose around the boy’s neck. . . . There will be a few hurried words. . . . The next moment a pitifully gro- tesque bundle will be dangling limply in the air. - . « Limp. . .. Dangling. Par) Thus will Society write the last ghastly chapter in | the unfortunate history of Harvey Church. ity, murdered two men—because he wanted his “girl” | to see him driving in a new automobile. It was, unquestionably, a dreadful crime, and out- Harvey Church, a weak youth of subnormal mental- | raged Society demanded that the boy pay a dreadful | penalty, He had murdered; therefore, to wipe the slate clean, he must be murdered himself. With all the grim pomposity that generations of Society have built around their system of le- galized murder, the subnormal boy was brought up py: bone 4 earned judge and a “jury of his rs” heard all the revolting details of the cha eee with due solemnity, a verdict was returned and sentence passed. Harvey Church must “hang by the neck until he is dead.” ss s With a fine degree of cruelty that surpasses even the worst horrors of the Inquisition, the boy was con- ducted to a gloomy death , there to await the delib- erate action of Society. He could, of course, have been executed at once—but that isn’t Society’s way. Society must act with proper deliberation. So he waited . . . weeks . . e,e 8 Eventually the boy’s mind, already weak, cracked under the strain. Why should he torture himself, waiting for Society to wreak its ven- geance upon him? That was what he thought. _ And so the germs of a second crime were bred in his brain. Not content with murder, he would perpetrate another fraud upon Society. He would kill him- self by merely refusing to live, and thus cheat the hangman. months. . . . But Society is ever vigilant. The fraud was detected almost before it was under way. High officials went into conference; expensive ch ogg were summoned. And Society was protected in. Instead of dying—stmply, decently, quietly—Harvey Church was forcibly fed; the food that he didn’t want was pumped into him. . . . And his life was saved so that he could go to the gallows. = eo 7 But the hangman was cheated after all. The boy couldn’t kill his body; but he could kill his mind. And it is just an inanimate hulk that will be carried to the gallows tomorrow, a hulk that can neither see, nor hear, nor feel, nor think. That, however, makes no difference to Society. The law must take its course. Doubtless many righteous cittzens will sleep easier tomorrow night. % + t “Mental Suicide” Is Nearing the Gallows 2—The death; by two guards. The chair will drop yunty jail here today) with him when the trap is sprung keep Harvey Church! Attorneys for Church made a final et tomorrow, #0 his) fight eaode. "Teil y the state 1 before J George A ed, unconsclous,| Carpenter of the federal court and and pronounced “more dead than|asked for a writ of habeas corpus on alive” by doctors, must hang for the the ground that Church was deprived murder of two motor salesmen. Hejof his constitutional rights brutally killed Bernard J. Daugherty! The judge reserved decision until an auto in late today which he wanted to parade before «| 18 add concn Be girl. As doctors and nurses kept thelr, STORM WARNING “mental suicide” and|} gouthwest him by injection, | % was ordered tc alive until eu life may be ta Church, em r his life this af storm — warnings sionally fed He will not know he is being execut-| ed, it was said | He will be placed in # chair in the) moderate to fresh southeast shift. ing to southwost gules this after noon and tonight Per Tear, Matt, 05 to 68 TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE RECEIVE CALL FOR | j Smashed, Going) Down Rapidly as Rescuer Starts steamer Grontoft is sinking in mid-ocean, according to a radio beats smashed and that she was sinking rapidly. | The Esthonia, another steam- Tt, was reported coming to her ald, but was 36 miles away and making only six miles an hour, SEEK ACTOR IN TAYLOR PROBE: Says He Had Dealings With Six Suspects { ' | BY FRANK Hl. BARTHOLOMEW | | | Ramifications of the bootlegging industry extending into the realm of the motion picture profession were uncovered today with the institution of a search by detect- ives for a well known screen actor named by Mrs. John Rupp in connection with the murder | of William D. Taylor. j Mrs. Rupp, who has accused two} jof six men taken in a raid on her | jhome, as the slayere of the famous |director, today gave additional infor. | |mation to the police which made the! jactor an object of intensive search. | She said this man acted as a go [between for the bootleggers and nar- | cotic distributors in important deals with leading lights in the film indus-| try | The bootlegging of liquor and/ (Turn to Page 4, Column 4) | ‘REIGSTRATION HERE LAGGING == | Only 44,000 Have Qualified | to Vote So Far Negister now! With only 44,000 Seattle ctilzens out of the 100,000 who voted at the | last city election having qualified to | vote up to Thursday noon, city offi-| clals predict @ last-minute rush when |the books close, on March 28. | Friday and Saturday the registra | tion books will be taken to the home | precincts. This will save the voters from the necessity of going to the city hall held at the city days | Altho mony of the new precinct [voting places have beer changed, | they are close to their former loca tions, and registration officiats say| voters will have little difficulty in | finding them | ‘The registration office in the city} hall ig open from §:30 until 5 daily, ‘MINER KILLED | BY COAL GAR | is | \Struck From Rear and | Crushed to Death LOS ANGELES, March 2— | j No registration will be/ hall on these two SUCCOR!, Grontoft, Boats + % * ‘TREAKS of ved ran upward, and in answer the great " ‘i » gray eye of the wilderness lifted its mist-fringed lid. Huge Fees Disclosed by Re From the green depths came the fluting of a lone wood: port of Daily; $100 thrush. Thru them an owl flew on velvety wings for his Apiece for Some pone in sorrosar rf a ners. rg Up epee —— ep in the depths a boy with a bow and arrow and naked, Marqui except for scalp lock and breechclout, sprang from sleep and Bn. Bier Ce alii again took flight along a buffalo trail. Not far behind him,|win be inciudea in the total bill tnree grunting savages were taking up the print of his|ssainet University of Washington moccasizied feet. students for fees this year, Thiss ‘An hour before a red flare rose within the staked enclosure fr or questionnaires iavued by thet {hat was reared in the center of a little clearing. Before the | University Daily business office. first glimmer of day the gates yawned a little and three dim| The average for each quarter is} shapes moved leisureiy for the woods—each man with a long {$277 if fees for each man ant flint-lock rifle in the hollow of his arm, a hunting knife in his Pros fio abeyy nen Miran 3 belt and a coon-skin cap on his head. quarter, thin would-total $153,247 ad ‘At either end of the stockade a} “Honor!” eried the old woman, |duatter. During the three quarters! Watchtower. of oak became. visivie| “stop. wastin’ yo’ time with that/of the regular school year the sum wid in sleepy. sentinel | Weavin’ in thar an‘ come out here would swell to $459,741, and with the a * he’ Yndditional fees of 1,800 ‘awned a tf the welcome |*n’ he'p these two gals to git Dave . iesan 8e pr gc wr below him.|his breakfast.” Dave Yandel! school students the total would be laughea loudly. {$513,747. , A girt climbing the rude ladder to | '*UBD6e NG an to clang at the SOME PAID fae the tower stopped midway. | |$100 A MONTH “Mornin, Dave:” | cried Polty.| High fees discovered among the “Mornin’, Polly" \“Come on, Lydd |225 studente reached by the question- y The two girls picked up piggins /naires amounted to nearly $100 4 and squeezed thru the opening be jmonth in some cases. The lower ‘The young |average wes accounted for by the and within /fact that a large number of students: bed are exempt from certain charges. A (sir majoring in music has fees to “1 wos comin’ to wake you up,"| she smiled. “I Just waked up,” be yawned, hu. | tween the heavy gates. moring the jest [hunter entered a door “Lyddy!” — cried “pring | threw himself across a rude Dave breakfast!” | face down. ‘At the fire a tall girl rose, pushed} “Honor! cried one of the old |taling $112 a quarter. @ mass of sunburned hair from her | Women, “you go an’ git @ bucket o’| ‘The total expenditure of the uni- heated forehead, and a flush not | water.” j wanetty, students is $4, 69.45 for from the fire fused with her smile.| A few minutes later she was at|each school year of nine months. “] reckon Dave can walk this far, the spring and ladling water into | The average amount spent each year —he don't look very puny.” her pail with a gourd. |for all expenses is $958.31. Sixty-one A voice vibrant with sarcasm rose| Honor dipped lazily. }Per cent of the student body was from une of the women about the| “Boo!” cried Polly, startling her, | found to be men. Sixty-one per cent In & doorway near, a third girl| The girl reddened |marry the college woman was illus: was framed—deep-cyed, deep-breast-| AS Honor turned abruptly for the | trated by the expenditure lsted by ee { |for the men. The men are found to rs é€ nh r a nh é€ Si self-supporting in more than twice e | @s many cases as the women. Eighty | students was 12. | BOOKS COST of the Federation of Women's Clubs,' them to endorse her | fil th le 0 i in| “ ” _ |year. The total amount is. $62,350, Sete aeatreen ts tae eae Even if they would,” she ex- | Board and room costs on the average clared M andes, immediately convinced that the women of Se Fifty = . | Y per cent of the men were sworn in” by Coun- | attle individually are behind me.” | +s to ne free from expense for | ately,” she said, “with my campaign leaders to lay definite, plans.” ‘reached $18 each 30 days. \ The highest railroad fare paid by | first women to serve on the’ Seattle | naire, was $350. It is expected that \clty council, should they be elected, | others from Oriental countries paid lthe University of Washington col-|amounts to an average of $17.50 & | lege of scienc’ month, According to the lists 3 per |month for both men and women. steaming kettle and then teasingly jalso have their permanent homes in “Honor! she cried, “Honor San-| “Are you in love with Dave, too, | King county. ders!” Honor?” | Qne reason men are afraid to : | te co-eds for clothes. The women . ‘ e a umn | 5 bse (Turn to Page 13, Column 1) | average $452.20 each school year for clothing of all kinds, against $180.65 e e e |per cent of the men are totally or partially self-supporting. The per iles for City Council er cirer sr wie Mrs. Landes said that altho she! gy» 47 - By Wanda von Kettler cr nasca by the clube to ran for| ioe et the stents back $12.47 ° ul Pega go 3 teh joffice, she has mot asked any Of! ..0) g quarter during the school the city comptrolier’s office Thurs- “ 4 : bred pay, eoenahweRer'g. thins si geal oes fee | $49.86 @ month. The grocery bil. and " vs room rent for the entire student “The women of the city,” de- organization support. And Tam |b oay thus reaches nearly $200,000. Mrs. Landes said she has not . y yet laid out a definite platform. eciopeere a average is ae Pr Id 8 ting immedi: | Was #9) a : f 1 shall hold a meeting immed: |the bill for cigarets and pipe tobacco Mrs. Landes and Mrs. Kathryn | Miracle, who filed for the same of. |®ny student to reach the university, \fice early in the week, willbe the | *ccording to the limited question- | "Thursday's candidate has been a|more to reach the university. | resident of Seattle 26 years and is| For the students that run automo- lthe wife of Dean Henry Landes of |biles while in college the expense | = jcent of the students have cars at | school. Amusements and miscel- | ; jlaneous expenses, run about $20 @ | Th Aft | They're After j | Your Business TACOMA, March 2—Three pers Mrs. Henry Landes See ane wan ds walk ee ee DVERTISERS —i2 || cons were killed in accidents in or peortel tte iol lon ieee | The Star are mak- ||near this city yesterday. Mrs. and taxpayers it is not only the |} ing strong bids for your [Bebo iriokae. es ee ae pel peagh ined inthe a patronage these “ days. Steilacoom, was run down and ministration of public affairs.” Just look over the ads || Killed by @ train while walking on |the railroad tracks. | Horace M. Wood, 49, a miner em: | ployed by the Pacific Coast Coal Co. | in the mines at Newoastle with | ja terrible death Thursday morning | when he wheels of a coal car while beneath \the surface of the earth Wood was evidently walking along | February 22 and is said to have been j*s trikebreaker. was crushed beneath the}run upon business lines,” the track when the car struck him jfrom the rear Wood's body was brought to the morgue in Seat tle by Deputy Coroner Prank | | Koepfii | Wood was married and his wife jlives in t nilippine islands He {had been working in the mines since Mrs. Landes declared Seattle to her is a great big family—made up of homes and business. ‘A city and a home must both be! declared Mrs. Landes, “but a home, run only as a business institution, would be a pretty poor excuse for a home. The woman's band is necessary i it necessary for the many details municipal housekeeping.” Mrs. Landes decided last Monday she explained, to run for office today, for instance, and note the lists of special- |} ly priced merchandise. From today’s Star alone you can save a handsome sum on your shopping. T. B. Sontag, 21, oven charger at a Wilkeson mine, was suffocated in a coal chute, Frank Youngblood, 59-year-old vet- eran of Western Indian wars, was killed at Orting when he was strue< jby a logging train. Ireland Elections : Ordered Postponed DUBLIN, March 2.—Dale Eireann today ratified the agreement reached of It’s a profitable habit —read the ads in The wes de pe ageeh ast tall bi a Wen bac || Star today and every |) in the Ard Pheis, Sinn Fein’s nation I did ndt decide untit Monday when|| day. Jal convention, to postpone elections to the offices created by the Irish nennmeannmme j Free State for three months, members of the women’s clubs per: | suaded me to file.”* in the university. For 4.804) ©