The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 18, 1922, Page 6

The Sea Published Datly by The Star Publishing Co Paper Enterprise Assootatior ited Prese Be etty, ttle Sta yr tives, Bam Francises of Tribune bide; New York effios, Monadnock bide Tremont bide dian Pacific bide Chicago offices, Nee, Dana: Boston office We Are Learning Some Secrets Sir Basil Thomson, former head of Scotland Yard de tectives, now lecturing in America, and revealing “inside stuff” of the British secret service, says: “The German general staff had resolved upon the in- vasion of Belgium and they put their plans before the pe kaiser. He vetoed them. be “This situation continued for 48 hours and after the ha general staff had issued the orders for the army to ad- ° Vance, Von Moltke went to the kaiser’s bedroom at 2 on the morning and asked him to sign the order, He refused. "> Von Moltke then said that the safety of the fatherland had devolved upon the general staff, and, ‘if your majesty to sign, the general staff must take the re- sponsibility.” “In other words,” according to Thomson, “the kaiser Must choose between abdication and approval, and he took the latter course.” * * FF & A melodramatic picture of the death of “sacred devil of Russia,” is given by Thomson Rasputin, taken to a palace basement dining hall, was given a bottle of poisoned wine that had been tried out a dog. Rasputin, when the poison got to him, breathed heav- fly and foamed at the mouth, but showed no signs of s.. So Prince Youssapov, when Rasputin staggered gave him a shot out of a pistol, “and the monk fell backwards with a terrible cry.” A doctor called in, examined the body and pronounced it dead. Later Youssapov approached the corpse and “put : hand under the robe to feel the heart. It seemed to still, when suddenly Rasputin sat up and seized him _ by the throat.” ° Youssapov escaped. Rasputin staggered to the door, out into the snow. Three more pistol shots brought him down. But it took a bludgeon to finish the work. He died hard, You do not wonder, Youssapov decided that Rasputin was the devil himself. * * * # Sir Basil Thomson thus adds a few more pages to the “inside history” of the world war, already contributed to 0 heavily by William Hohenzollern, Lloyd George, Frank- lin K. Lane and others. _ “The inside stuff” is coming out on the very heels of the war. That is contrary to custom, for diplomats usu- leave their memoirs to be published after death. ‘e are fortunate. It is rarely that a generation that thts a war lives to learn what took place behind the Rasputin, “Puny Persons” in Politics ‘Two years ago the Harding administration went into D with a 7,000,000 majority behind it. The country, ns said, has thus gone on record against the ue of nations and “foreign entanglements.” other day there was a nation-wide referendum the administration's policies. And there was a land- in the other direction. Many administration sena- and congressmen did not come back, and those who ded did so with majorities so reduced that for days ir re-election even was in doubt. et the same old crowd came thru with the same old station: The country, they said, is against any par- ipation in international affairs. Such politicians display the wisdom of the ostrich. As matter of fact, neither in 1920 nor in 1922 did the ne of nations sway many votes. Folks were restless the great war and they wanted a change. ‘The story the recent election tells is one of dissatis- with as they are. Folks want peace— tor they are beginning to realize now that we can’t be prosperous in this country while the rest the world is either at war or preparing to go to war drag us in. “America has always stood for justice,” declared ex- President Wilson in his Armistice day speech, “and always stand for it. The puny persons who are now stand- : in the way will presently find their weakness is no _ match for the strength of a moving providence.” If any ope doubts that Americans are still red-blooded ; any one still thinks Americans wish to sidestep thair : of the job of getting back on a footing of normalcy ‘and peace, let them take in a movie now and then. The other day we saw the picture of a leading member President Harding’s cabinet flashed on the screen. It s rer “got a hand.” Then came a picture of Lloyd George, the ex-British premier, who single-handed, stop- the Turk. Loud applause. Senator Lodge, who led fight against the league of nations, was looked upon in silence, while the picture of Woodrow Wilson received an ovation. Very significant. “T think,” says Wilson, “we may renew our faith in the future. * * * Those who prefer personal and a Partisan motives to the honor of their country and the peace of the world States.” In these days of frant is to modernize everything it | ‘eliet to learn a horsethief was arrested in Reading, Conn. so oe do not represent the United Business tip: An increased demand for saws is noted at the jail. Gland Fakers; ’Ware of ’Em Beware of patent medicine fakers who, cashing in on the public’s interest in monkey glands, are flooding the market with pills and liquid dopes heralded as marvelous glandular “cures.” The arrival of these parasites was to be expected. Every new discovery is trailed by a mob of unscrupu- lous fakers who fatten on public credulity, Thirty-three years ago the original gland doctor, Brown-Sequard, was ridiculed when he came forth with his theory about restoring lost youth and stimulating mentality thru the use of endocrine glands. Today legitimate scientists admit that Brown-Sequard was on the right trail. But the public should remember that tinkering with the body’s endocrine glands is in its infancy, and that the treatment is extremely dangerous unless administered by a medical man skilled in this line. A great deal is already definitely known about the thyroid gland in the neck—its partial control of intellect and its effect on the general health, particularly heart, ut thyroid treatment is dangerous except in the hands of a skilled physician. For instance, calming down an * over-active thyroid is apt to leave the heart weak, Of the other glands, much less is known. Their general functions have been defined. But there are few—even among experienced doctors—who can stimulate or calm these other glands without definite perils to the patient. : Zogpoagerld wile vi to hunt his things for him, but a bachelor knows his Since 1918 prices have dropped 10 times and gone up Li, by MELVILLE DAvisson Post © 1900 NEA Service. inc THE MAN WITH THE STEEL FINGERS HHGIN YOR TODAY * caused the © authortiion LER, greatest of French ae-1t « oe him with murder faced the man with steel! fine | GO ON WITH THE sTORY M. JONC toot! core LORD 1 CHAPTER Ut ‘ Lord Valleys got up. weeded te It was t monsieur, and of murdered that the English court ander (heme wnele eiroumsatances would try me for the a gy Pee murder of Lord Winton. 1 had both Dur beth of Lor the motive and the opportunity to ac- compliah it, and the circu were, to say the least, indicatty “To my surprise, this manservant, jonquelle that | Staley, came forward to establish the ive kao vides eek ie Val. | tact that the wine-cellar was Nttre was down In the wine cellar time | tees than a straw-rick, and this of the slaying but that ciroumetantial ! Metropolitan police officer appeared LETTERS ce EDITOR Says “Hell Ship” Story All True Editor The Star lin the Alaska salmon ships and can- As an Alaska man I have been | Berton. . haiti will say thanks to lor much interested in the story of the| |.) Tit my, Lime tt has taken in the “Holl Ship,” written by Max Stern | weitare of the many bread-earners in and published in The Star, during | Alaska, and live tn the hope that the the last two months From my | story, “On Hell Ship,” will be of great many years’ experience in Alaska and/ help in putting an end to the time two season in the same ship as Max|when Americans In America must Stern made the trip, | know that | slave under Chinese masters, the rul- every word in the story about Alaska | ere of the cannery work in Alaska. salmon ships and canneries is true,|And that time will come when only that the name “hell ship” ts| American workmen even tn Alaska somewhat too nice a name for most} can enjoy the comforts of cilivilza- of the Alaska salmon ships. Other-| tion In @ land of true 100 per cent wine the story ts throwing « true / Americans BK. light on the life of misery existing The Front Foot Plan Féitor The Star: ave, owned and operated by the one Mindful that more than a year has] man. He ts a heavy taxpayer, #0 he elapsed since CounctIman Fitzgerald's | says, Yet, if for any reason folks importation, Peter Witt, of Cleve-|refuxed to come to his hotel for an land, tried to expert us out of ourl}extended pertod of time he might street car muddle, and that It is pret-| enjoy leisure enough to ascertain ty near @ year since the nickel fare) who were the real taxpayers. promises of Mesdames Miracle and| ‘That the present high rate of Landes were matching the five-cent| treet car fare is the worst handl- oratory of M. Brown, we, the riders] cap geattle has is generally admit and purchasers, if possible, of thée/ted) and it is now apparent that system, are still paying $1-3 cents! those instrumental in imyposing that per whirl for transportation. handicap are the bitterest opponents So, as @ measure of relief for the | of any measure of relief for the vic- Browns, Witts, Miracles, as well as | time of Ole Hanson's acquiattion. the prospective purchasers, such @8/ fy imposing a tax of one cent per you and I, let me suggest the front-| front foot on all the property in foot plan Seattle the street car system will For pure, steer anarch, socialism, | pay for itnelf and its necessary ex or any other old “ism” which le Out-| tensions in leas time that the con side the pale, it has the Erickson | tract calls for, and beside, the tax plan made conservative will be painless, but the speculators, Recent figures discovered by 41 80-| particularly those with unplatted complished accountant, and dragged | acreage, maybe they won't be alto. forth from their seclusion in the} gether taken by the plot. Of course report of the street railroad activi | that one cent of itself will not do tt ties, might seem to indicate that the | ail; that ts the minimum, intended to system will, under present condl-lapply to acreage chaps mostly, for tions, pay for itself 40 years from | hardly any home owner te 10 blocks now. from a car line. For those whose The Henderson plan of liquidation | property is on the same street ax —converting twomen to one-man} the car line, there would have to be be expected. tithe bie leye only hete, * tole M. a bed to Aer 1601 Western Ave. THE SEATTL THE BUSY MAN’S NEWSPAPER STAR to nay that he had seen the hansom leaving Lord Winton’s door shortly before the fire was discovered. These facts indicated the truth of my state ment “A further fact brought out by my Joma) adviners established with mathe- matical acouracy the fact that I had dealt Lord Winton the blow that ted him out of life which had caused bis death made with the amall blade of « knite “The police found in my pocket knife with a small blade, a blade of t the width of the wound nee of blood was found on knife, but the police professed to be- eve that it had been carefully washed. They thought traces of motature remained on tt, The case 1 myself realized been N seemed convincing cents per front foot—and ran along that thorourh: fare he # cont rating per front foot; and so on lunti) we finally arrive at Second lave, where ten or more lines oper ate, and we might come possibly to the tremendous tax of $2 per front foot, oF $100 annually on & 60-foot | tot Should the property owners there object too vigorously, there | could be provision made tn rerout ing some, or al), the lines along an other avenue. The man living around the corner from a caf street would pay 9 cents per front foot; man in the next block § cents, and so on down to the one cent ‘tax which we started with And if it were around the corner from a two-car street the tax would be 18 cents, and so on down. Very simple and almost any old statiat! cian, with acoem: to the figures in the engineer's office aa to the pre > ol street mileage, and in the rail way office as to trackage, could tell to a penny what this tax should pro duce annually. Roughly, we will say $1,500,000, Sounds good, but ft tant done that way. But, that ts just the way that paving and other improvements are paid for except, of course, for the hidden aces. Figures in thie case would all be tn the open, and every man could check his axsensor. During the last street car fight over the Erickson plan, some of the loudest objectors were those advo: caten of private ownership of public property who have converted every east and west street in the business section of Seattle into garages. ‘Whether there ts another city of the size of Seattle which permits such « use of ite streets or not is beside the question. The fact is that there ts no other city that needs the fares of the rides in those automobiles so badly, and tf they were compelled to either ride or garage their machines, one of two things would result, but the city as a whole would benefit, Street car fares would increase, or the vacant downtown lots would be improved with garage bufldings. Beattle alone, of the cities of the Northwest, permits unlimited garage use of ite atreeta, Puyallup, even, will not permit that. By adopting some form of the front-foot plan and charging a nickel fare if necessary, the street car ays tem would soon be paid for, outside the courts. Then again, this plan does not wait interminably to learn what this and that judge has to say about this, that and the other thing. Folks who cannot guess what the judge te going to say are tremend- ously in need of Americantzation, FRANK P. MURPHY. care—while involving no apparent | ———— te Aifficulties other than traffic conges. tion, appears to be the sole result of , Mr. Witt’s visit. Folks sald they did not want the Erickson plan, by & three-to-one vote. Maybe it was be- cause of the three-cent fare involved. Bonide, it would necessitate a change in the plans and specifications of all the money changers we ever saw. One man, a year ago, told me that if the three-cent fare was put over it would be but a.short time till each of the carmen would have an aud- itor along, just as they used to have on the steam roads until the auto- mobile stages laid them off. The front-foot plan is quite sim- ple. Anyone can understand tt who knows the difference between a tax payer and a collector. For the pur- pose of the front-foot plan we are going to call the street car riders taxpayers, and the fellows who own all that downtown business property, collectors. Of course, the assessors rate them as the taxpayers, and the | majority of them belleve they are taxpayers; but here and there among them you will find an odd one who knows he is only « collector, if he owns the property, and a sub-collec: tor, if he rents There ls @ certain hotel on Second Dear Folks: I see the California court is Nor does tt bring me mental life; in fact, mankind, Perhaps I do not read ft right, church, LETTER \V RIDGE MANN schools must quit, the courts declaro, the daily Bible read ~-they claim it has @ bad effect because it teathes thous of teat Perhaps i‘ does, I only know it never seemed to atrike me #0, It never made me think of creeds to read of patriarchal deeds, the faith of Job, the love of Ruth, or Solomon's array of truth. I've always understood He spent His Ufe in doi good, and tried to teach the human mind to learn a love tor all with all the folks that fail to see the way its or go and leave them in the lurch and start Yor when I stop to take a look at how read Book, I nee that out of Bible lore has soring & thon por Fae more, to stand on theologic rocks, proclaiming, “I am orthodox!” So If it's sect for which you care, no doubt your eyes can eee ft there. But as for me, I like to read of lofty thoughts or loving deed, and only see, in all its span, @ great, eternal love for man FRO cutting Bible reading short; the strife to read about the Master's » Derhaps I ought to want to fight words appeal to me, en “Avridge-Mannist” its gravity, and but for one fact al Lord Winton on that night have followed. Pye I have made a silent word | Dreaming here today. Spoken Flutter to the ground; I have made a word that sings Half the world around, But the singing wonder lies I HAVE MADE A SILENT WORD BY HELEN FRAZEE BOWER SCIENCE Monel Metal. Fills Valuable Need. Platinum Substitute. Used in Dye-Making. | One of the features at the cher exponition at the Gras New York, was the new metal for ot jtaking the place the expenalve | platinum. In developing the dye and ch oft the imp emical Jindustry one mont Not an ear has ever heard owe aye? bog es porting 8 What I mean to say. | Siemdinl eenstions. | lin the newest. It can words, like fledgling wings, heaply enough for the nd does the work. For en wooden vats were t could only be uned ing absorbed by the discovery means millions |naved for American dye manufac- © autopny Captive in my heart. When he looks into my eyes It will wake and start. | howed that turers —_— | wa» of this astonishment no visible element, either in his appearance or in « hin ve it is on behalf of thin per Mons he said, “this is a deed ne to you today,” |drawn by an English solicitor, con- put|¥eving all of Lord Winton’s estates And ronaieur non that I have wound which had caused the death! ord Valleys wax astonished, of Lord Winton was seven inches! ne did not move, and hix expression|!® England to his granddaughter, deep. The adie the knife with | aia not change Barbara Westridge. Why, monsteur, jwhich it had been aecorplixhed had 7 oe a ae should I convey these estates to this not entered the wound. The wound oS eee ee. oe, One Don | American girl? They have descendeq was no longer than the width of the | whet mission from this mysterious to me by inheritance. One does not qmail knife-blede at its exterior | 50700 could you come to me aliengte his lands without a cause” polnt Upon the same mission.” replied) “1 will suggest a reason.” replied Lard Valleys suddenly extended|the Prefect of eer, 2 ‘with which| Monsieur Jonquelle. “This ts in ace his hand, like one who pute down| ‘that person went on the fatal night| cordance with Lord Winton’s prom. something t is finished |to Lord Winton’s house in Covent/ise. You stand now in Lord Wintons “And | was therefore acquitted | Garden. Lord Winton promised to do| stead, and as I have said, you have You know, monsieur, what the|® certain thing for this, as you call | received his benefits, and you shoule English law-courts say: ‘A man may |!t, ‘mysterious person.’ He died be- | assume his obligations.” lie, but circumstances cannot.’ I may | fore it could be carried out, and 1 Lord Valleys smiled—that vague have lied, and Lord Winton’s man-| ave now come to you to fulfill tt.| smile which seemed not to disturn servant and the Metropolitan police|! trust, monsteur, that you will not|the features of hin face. He folded who saw the hansom drive away on | deny me.” | the deed together in his hand that night: but the science of mathe-| Monsieur Jonquelle rose. He took| “You must permit me to decline, mation could not Me. A wound seven|a folded, legal paper out of hin| monsteur,” he said inches deep could not be made with and presented it to Lord| He paused a moment, and the a knife-binde four inches long. Ana \ background of his face hardened. the case ended “Monsieur,” he said, “Lord Winton| “And you must overlook it, mon- He went over to « table, got a| promised to execute this indenture. | sleur,” he said, “If I feel that your tortoine-shell box delicately inlaid| He died before his signature could | Whole suggestion with respect to this with silver, opened tt and presented| be attached to ft. I must ask you| matter Is not convincing. This girt tt to Monsteur Jonquelle |to execute it In his stead.” |could not have ansassinated Lord the et The citing at fact, air n muddenty memory changed. “A moment ago. mentioned the ar “You will have deur? "he ald Monsteur Jonquelle took the aret, and Lord Valleys went back to Lard Winton's house doubt of the English court of that you enald ft was true. you know that It was true, if T may| be permitted to Inquire? The Prefect of Police balanced the a moment in tie fingers be- n clgaret mon- cig- as out of some in the man's monaeur. votce when ¢/ val of the visitor and the How do ould not object to a 20-]1 know who It was that came to! shaken with astonishment, but there Suddenly, as once before on this| Winton.” morning, Lord Valleys, who had been| “Bhe could not.” replied Monsteur seated the {natant before, was now, |Jonauelle. “Lord Winton was killed | with no motion that seemed vistbie|by some powerful assassin to the eye, standing on his feet. He seized him. compressed the body and leame forward, took the paper which |4rove in the knife.” Monsteur Jonquelle held in hia| He turned now toward Lord Val- hand, and gotng over to the table, | leys, his face firm. unfolded tt and stooped over it. He| “Monsteur,” he said, “will you |was some time in the inspection of | Carry out the obligation of Lord Win- the document, and in the meantime | ton and leave the matter of his as- |Monsteur Jonquelle had made om a mystery, or will you refuse | gesture, as one of flicking the ashes | !t and have that mystery solved?” from a cigaret thru the open win-| The man at the table looked | dow into the Bois de Boulogne, The | *trangely at Monsieur Jonquelle. He |two young men in their animated | bad the ascept of a creature of great dincunston instantly cromsed the street | strength, concerned always and entered the houne concealing it. He was purzied a ment about the] Presently Lord Valleys rose from| disturbed, but bis voice did not hansom is true neleur, because| bis stooped posture, He was) Change. (Turn to Page 9, Column 1) You ‘don’t have to waste time getting started these cold mornings. You don’t have to wait for the starter to warm up your engine. 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