The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 1, 1922, Page 7

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1 ONGRESSMAN MANN IS DEAD Veteran Leader Passes After Brief Illness WASHINGTON, Doo. 1.—The capt tal today mourned the passing of « Veteran congressional leader sentative James R. Mann, of Miinois. Death, which followed a short {1 ese ae <S R. MANN Tees, came at 11:15 o'clock last night Pneumonia was the cause. His death WAR & Shock to official Washington an few of his friends knew that he ‘was seriously ill. The house, on meeting today, was to pay brief tribute to Mann's mem ory and made arrangements for send Ing & delegation to his funeral, Which probably will be held in Chi- Sanne death Ye death removed not only one of the most experienced legisiators i tm the house, but one of the men of Fecognized personal force and power. Mann was chairman of the powerful committee on committees, which as house members to committee and in this position his con ever the destinies of members Probably greater than that of @ther man in the house. 25 years, having been elected to the 55th congress. He was to each succeeding con- @rems. For the past two or three Fears ii health had forced him to curtail greatly his participation in house affairs. Mann Was a native of [ilinols ELKS TO HOLD SORROW LODGE Seattle Members to Honor Departed B Brothers honor and commemorate the ad of its organization by memorial Wiese, the Seattle Elks lodge will annual lodge of sorrow at theater Sunday at 3 honor of the deceased mem- commemorating those died during the past year. = |wervice is @ nationally instituted } Of the Elks lodge. of Seattle lodge, No. 92, have died this year include W. Frank E. Thomas, E. T. H. Booth, Ralph Sartori, Moore, Meson T. Mosher, gi H. Meyer, Morton W. Stewart, AD Thomas Withers, Rob-| _ ert EB. Cari Gruenberg, W. B. Gaffney, Ar- thar w. A. Ansorge, Harry J. Albright. | Hi. Daymude, J. T. Belnap, Burt |. McCarthy, H. G. Board- . Merritt, George A. Lum- ubey, W. R. Cody, G. A. Fred A. Holmberg. Meyer! ee Corse E. Graham, E. T. Stouffer, George F. Aust, Bon K. ..... Karl M. Van Slyck, John Sheridan, Walter Wolff, T. W.| ‘McCullough, Fred 8. Sandbors, David | Witkowski, Donald Thiery, William T. White, C. E. McKelvey, W. F. . George F. James L. Commits Suicide _ CHICAGO, Dec. 1-—The man who taught Chicago to eat chop suey was buried here today. chop suey restaurant here, commit: ted suicide last Sunday, after he had | | Funeral services for the Chinaman ‘Were held with ali the pomp and ceremony of his race. The Best Modern Practice and the Practical “Common Sense of the matter both unite in Demanding the Protection of TITLE INSURANCE ite, or Lend on the | Security of Real Estate. | Title Insurance 18 ISSUED BY has been in congress for more | Benjamin, Waldo E. Holmes, | Gong Lee, 60, cook in the first) a away a fortune of nearly . re | 22 WEALTHY MAN PASSES AWAY | William Goodsell Rooketeher Is Dead j NEW YORK, Deo, 1 Willem ell =Rockefe r one of the richest men, is dead today Hoe expired at 10:20 p.m. yerterday at his mansion on Madison ave. Rockefeller, who was 62 years of} jage, was a son of the late William | Rockefeller, & nephew of John D,,| and a brotherin-law of James A} Stilrgan } He complained of a chil! Monday {and was ordered to bed. Ry Wednes day his condition had become erttt and the final relapse set in yes members of his family were at his side. His wife ts in Europe Until 1911 Rockefeller was treas urer of the Standard Ot) comp | He gradually withdrew from bust ness and at the time of his death | was a director In six companies ‘SAYS HARDING TO RUN AGAIN | Hoover Declares President | Will Be Candidate } STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Cal. Dee. 1.—President Harding will be the candidate of the republican party for the presidency again in 1924, Herbert Hoover, secretary of com: | merce, declared in an interview here. Hoover, who had been traveling | thru the West, was here today spend jing Thanksgiving vacation and en; joying a few days’ rest at hie home on the Stanford campus. “The republican ndidate for 1924 obviously must be President Hard | ing,” he declared. Moreover, by that time the pud-| Ne will have a high appreciation of | the sanity and progressive character | of the policies that will have brought the country thru this reconstruction | pertod.” | The statement was considered} | uehty stemifionnt in view of the pub-| Heation on the Pacific const atnce | Hoover's arrival of reports that Hi | ram Johnson and Hoover himself; might indulge in another struggle ath lthe primaries in 1924, both seeking | “ the presidency 'VALLEY FOLKS | | ASK FARE CUT In an effort to force reduction | ot fares on the Seattle and Rainier Valley Railway company lines, petition signed by reaidente of Rat \nier valley, asking that a new tariff) be put into effect, was to be filed | Priday with the state department of public works at Olympia, so corting to Hugo Kelly, secretary to the mayor. The petition points out, fn sup port of its claim, that Seattle te paying not only expenses but is also meeting payments on « heavy debt on its munictpal lines, while the Rainier Valley lines are charging the same basic fare in order to meet only the expenses of maintenance and depreciation. Kelly explained that he ts acting a Rainier Valley resident, and that hig action has nothing to do with his position in the mayors J office Blind People Eat Turkey Together Blind men and women to the num- ber of 125 celebrated Thanksgiving | together at a dinner held at the Ma gonic club by L R. Singerman, whore father, 23 years ago, established the custom of holding a Thankagiving | dinner for the blind. Only one guest looked about her to see the flower | decorations. She was little Eva Fif- | "| fer, 14, whose father, J. H. Fiffer, | | “}one who had been in attendance at fall the dinners in the past 23 years, | ‘could not be present because of ill | ness. He sent hie little daughter to represent him, During the dinner, @ gay an boun tiful one, a 12-piece orchestra played | | jand Mrs. Betty Brown sang ‘Traffic Manager of ; Seattle Port Quits! | To take effect Decernber 15, Maj.| |W. J. Muirhead, for several years traffic manager with the Port of Seattle, has tendered his resignation | to port officials, stating that he is/ soon to engage In private qaterprins | here which will require his entire time. Well known here and abroad for his connection with traffie manage. ment on this coast, as well as for his war record, including executive quartermaster connection with the Port of Bordeaux, Major Muirhead | is prominent in commercial circles | over a wide district Kulshan Damaged by Crash by Fog! i The Puget Sound Navigation Co.'s | steamer Kulshan, on the Bellingham run, crashed into Pler 6 about 10 o'clock Thursday night, and Is tied up for a day or #0 for repairs to her steering gear, as a result, The acct- | | dent is attributed to a heavy fog that | hung low along the waterfront thru- out the night i Backing away from he Colman| dock to give way to the steamer City of Bremerton, the Kulshan drifted into the pier. Nobody was injured and the pier was only slightly dam. | aged. Christmas ‘Seal Sale Under Way) Tables in the postoffice and in stores were turned over Friday to those who sell Christmas seais for the tuberculosis work in King coun- ty during the pre-holiday season The seals also will be sold at the | Anth Tuberculosis league headquar ters, 315 Ui niversity st. The word “sack,” meaning “bag,” fs one of the few words that are the same in all languages; this be- ing caused, according to tradition, by the fact that it was the last word uttered before the confusion of tongues at Babel. | Jot the Alllanc jerally believed here that Great Brit | { AT PALACE HIP THE SEATTLE STAR Women Would Make S panking a Crime Mdmonition Be Chastisement By Jeln O'Donnell What Do You Think NEW YORK, Dec, 1—-Have par Should corporal punishment of jents an inherent right to puniah their) jdeetadh So tasenks Us abetined children | by law and made a crime? “They have,” decides Justice Bal- (Or hea @ father or mother ar mon of the court of special seasons. Inherent right to puniah hte or ‘They haven't,” retorts the Alll- her child? ance of Women's Clubs of Brooklyn, | |] Does admonition of kindly re ‘and if Justice Salmon's dectaton | proof produce better results tr gives parents a legal right to inflict | |] child training than beating or corporal punixhment, we women are |] caning? going t ce tha’ ch a me dieval | | Or are there times when a law in wiped f atute book sension with father in the wood Thus the rock |] shed t# the only remedy to Brooklyn cradiea bave decided |] make rebellious youth respect rod must be spared |] parental authority? If necesmary, the 48 associated | These very questions have women's clubs with thelr 10,000/ . , j| aroused @ stormy wrangle be members who have already taken | Mrs. R. C. T. Perkins \} tween a Brooklyn fudge and th of a action on atioe 0! } nee of ‘om » Clubs of be fal_nction on Justice Salmon's! sign of perversion in the individual | ere naar unekarn to. io the State tion of Wor come a camp , Jen's clube snd make corporal reed | SEX: Because it te contrary to all|| Meanwhile, what do you, think ent a campaign tase |the true instincts of parenthood. || about it? Tell the editor of The on are the reasons why corporal| Even animals do not punish thetr{| Star In o letter punishment must go, according to} young by physical brutality, Mra. R. C. Talbot Perkina, president | of Women's Clubs of | « pansod taking !t away,” declares Mra. The issue has developed from the Perkina ane of an 11-year-old child found] A to @ wash-tub by padiocked|, “W# are going to make it a crime Brooktyn one F une corpeent punish | ishment. ages, entirely out of harmony with|™0By, had been beaten by ite par- Years ago, husbands had a legal ent ith the buckle enda of | pring mas ends of delta | right to beat thelr wives with a stick provided the stick wns thicker | than the thumb H humanitarian principles Because tt makes children not better, The child was rescued by agents @ children’s soctety, who hailed | jot THREE: Because tt injures a|the parents Into pourt. The parents! nis right was not inherent and | femua morally by developing deceit.| were discharged by Justice Salmon | »,,, have been deprived of it es of whippings will destroy | & decision in whieh the “inherent | yy law. Bo will parents be deprived frankness and lead children to Ne of their right to punish children, | right of parents to punish their chil. 4. FOUR: Because beating Involves | dren” was announ “The child of today will not stand | danger of injuring @ child's health “If the law gives this inherent|ooercion. it must be ruled by me FIVE: -Becneee whipping (is alright we shall see that laws will be’ and reason. British Planning Biggest 'FUND WORKERS Dreadnaughts in History| MEET MONDAY WASHINGTON, Dec. 1.—~ cost of each, according to the spect- | Britain's navy will have the pier floations, ta to be $40,000,000, This, oe / and most powerful warships afloat |of course, gives British contractors! “Let’s Get This Thing Done” |} when the two new battieships which| much more leeway than the same , Wn are to be laid down in January are| figure would here, both labor and Is Kegel’s Plea | completed. material being much cheaper there. dation Not even the two new superdread| Except for the battle cruiser Hood,| Right hundred workers will meet Raughts soon to be added to the| headliner of the royal navy, with her|at the headquarters of the Commu American navy can equal them in| 41,200 tons, the two new fighting ; size, speed and armament, in the| craft will be in a class by themselves, |%Y Fund Monday evening, Decem-|[) opinion of naval experts here, based! Next to them come the Nogute and|%¢r 4, for « final meeting before the on press descriptions of the new! Mutsu, of the Japanese Meet, having | start of the followup drive of the ships. & tonnage of 33,800 tons each, with| rund. Tuesday, December 6, every These experts also believe the ad-| our Colorado and Weat Virginia close | vitisen of BéAttie will have an | dition of thoae two ships to the Brit-|up with their 22,600 tons each tunity ip enateteete 40 the BA cane. ish navy will give it m considerable! With a length of 680 feet, the Brit-| oes which com ate “edge” over the United States, even|ish monsters will be but slightly | rung — “asia in capital ship tonnage, the basis on| shorter than the 43,000-ton Indiana| “ which the 5-8-3 ratio of naval strength |type of battleships under construc | eccdeibehes Seana? "teal ain toe a for England, the United States and|tion for the American navy, but|thoro canvass of all city districts are Japan was figured in the naval|scrapped by the treaty. This was! virtually complete. treaty held to be the maximum mize, in view| Phere je still need of workers, The original agreement would have| Of the limitations of the Panama) however, in every section of the ||! [Prevented our keeping the Colorado | canal city,” said Mr. Kegel. “Let's got {I} land the West Virginia, the two new! ‘They will have nine 16Inch guns|this thing done, and then get ready battleships soon to be completed and| in triple turrets, with a total broad-| for Christmas with the knowledge || commissioned, but Japan's insistence | side salvo of about 20,000 pounds, | that our charities and philanthropies | | on retaining the Mutwu, pride of her) and a «reat array of antiaircraft|are going to have enough funds to| navy, foreed a compromixe. An a re-| guns. Our new superdreadnaughts | oarry them thru the year. There is/ sult, England was permitted to build | carry eight 16-inch guns, with a total|no better time of year to remember | |two battleships not to exceed 25,000 | broadside salvo of 16,800 pounds.|the less fortunate than ourselves ltons each | This, in connection with the fact | than right now. The Fund ts « co In view of the national demand for| that the higher elqvation of the Brit-| munity undertaking, cares for the| economy in England and the fact that|ish guns gives them also a slightly | needs of the community, and ix an with her excess of powerful eruisers| longer range, makes a considerable | Obligation of the community. As| and other auxiliary craft, it was gen- | difference. such, it merits the unqualified sup- | In apeed the new ships will out. | Port of everyone.” ain would not take advantage at this|claan American dreadnaughts. To| There will be a final meeting of | time of her right under the treaty to| keep pace with the Queen Elizabeth | *!! commanders, captains and work- build the new capital ships. | and Royal Sovereign types, they must | &® Monday evening at headquarters, Press reporta, therefore, that con-| approximate 26 knots, as against the | 2%? White building, to go over the tracts had been let for the two ves |22 knots those of the United States |plan of the campaign. Tuesday | | | | | every section of Seattle will be asked |f| | sels, and they would be laid down in| are expected to make to help complete the Community | January, caused considerable wur- oe - lr | prise. - |Statue in Mesnaty of Noted Epicure | Construction experts here point out | that with no limit of cost, so that the| COFFINS NS STIR finest steel and other material, as | well as workmanship, can be used, | STRASBURG, Dee. 1 A statue! all |25,000-ton limit will impose little! will be erected here to M. Close, who ARGENTINIANS | handicap on the constructors The invented pate de fole gras, in 1765, | a8, BUENOS AIR Dec. 1.—The | | mystery of a carload of second-hand | coffins, discovered and seized by gov- ernment sanitary inspector In a local railway terminal, has baffled the Ar- jgentina health department, — the | | Buenos Atres police foroe, and all of |f} legitimate undertakerdom, The shipper had made an attempt | |to dinguise the fact that the coffins | | had been used, decayed portions hav ing been planed away, but health of ficials readily established that the! |boxes had contained cadavors. | | ‘The coffins, were transported to a }local cemetery and destroyed In a jerematorium, The consignee proved |he had ordered new coffins, The name of the shipper remained a mys- tery For some time the officials worked | jupon the theory that there had been | jan extensive graveyard robbery, but | no violated cemetery could be located. | Burelar Pohs Home Where Victims Are HATFIELD, Enaland, Dec. 1 While leading residents were gath ered here to dixcuss means of captur ing a burglar who had robbed many homes, he entered the house where | the meeting was held and stole $6,000 |f| worthsof jewelry. POSITIVE PROOF Jimmy~-Maw, these new are too tight Mother-—-Oo, no. ther Jimmy—They are, tighter than my skin Mother—That can't be, Jimmy—Well, T can sit down in my skin, and 1 can't sit down in these pants.--Exchange trousers | They aren't, el. | wae too, They're DeMaris Gobbert is one of the principals in the vaudeville ffering at the Palace Hip this week. BRAZIL BEHIND) Rare Butterflies I N SOUTHAMPTON, Hngiand, De GENOA, De Working patient: KIO DE JANEIRO, Dee. 1.—Altho! 1 butterflies, which dinar for ae months with darning Hrasil is the tenth largest country tn | P during the war, have reap: | sien smuggied to them by a ae wists accede Sent tion; | Peared in south coast towns this au ct arlene pdrre Mauls. pudponnprad fern an, three murderere under life sen largest in South America and the econd largest in the new world, it _ tence in Genoa prison escaped and far from leading in the matter of | classes of the population t safe France. 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