The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 4, 1922, Page 1

Tonight and Tw tle winds, m Tomperature Maximum, 88, Today WEATHER eaday, rain; ostly easterly. Last 4 urs Minimum, 34, noon, 37. gen- Watered as Second Class Matter May 4, 1899, at the Postoffice at Beattie, W ash, under the Act of Maroh 9, The paper with a 15,000 daily circulation lead over its nearest competitor The Seattle Star 1879, Per Year, by Mall, $5 to 99 ~ VOLUME 2 2 NO. 242. ? | Howdy, folks! This is Educ: ton week. Are you educated or do you eunpert yoursel it? . You can bet your life it's good old | Dad who puts the ducat in educa- tion. . Om y to get eduentea ws to buy Ol stock. . Alumat of correspondence courses tn etiquet will observe Education week by lnying off the toothpicks. e- COUE! COUR! MTT rier can hardly wait until) 4 minutes ts up so that they run over somebody else. . are pe this para graph celseweay ts leaping for his life in front of « speeding automobile. oe ATTENTION, IOWANS! has the Ll Gee Gee has been driving for years, but has nothing to chauf- four it. eee Kolb and Dili are at the Metropolt- (ure to Page 8, Colums 1) The Fortune Teller ogg emoggd 1922, N. E. A. Service, Inc. ‘Tt was an ancient diary in a faded | leather cover. The writing was fine | and delicate and the ink sellow with age. Monsieur Jonquelle turned the Pages slowly and with care, for the paper was fragile. We had dined early and come in later to his house the Faubourg St. Germain in He wished to show mé this old @iary that had come down to him,! from a branch of his mother’s fam- | fly in Virginia—a branch that had) gone out with a king’s grant when | Virginia was a crown colony. The collateral ancestor Pendleton had been a justice of the peace in Vir- ginia, and a spinster daughter had written down some of the strange cases with which her father had been concerned. Monsieur Jonquelle be- Newved that these cases in their tragic details, and their inspirational deduc- tive handling equaled any of modern times. The great library overlooking the Faubourg St. Germain was cur- tained off from Paris. Monsieur Jon- ‘quelle read by the fire; and I listened, returned as by some recession of time to the Virginia of a vanished decade. Phe narrative of the diary follows: It was a big sunny room. The long | windows looked out on a formal gar- Gen, great beech trees and the bow of the river. Within {t was a sort| of library. There were bookcases built into the wall, to the height of a man’s head, and at intervals between | them, rising from the floor to the cornice of the shelves, were rows of Be mahogany drawers with glass knobs. There was also a flat writing table. It was the room of a traveler, a man of letters, a dreamer, On the table were an inkpot of carved jade, @ paperknife of ivory with gold but- terflies set in; three bronze storks, | with their backs together, held an ex- Qulsite Japanese crystal. The room was in disorder -the | Grawers pulled out and the contents ransacked My father stood leaning against the casement of the window, looking | out. The lawyer, Mr. Lewis, sat in a chair beside the table, his eyes on the violated room. “Pendleton,” he said, “T don't like this Englishman Gosford.” ‘The words seemed to arouse my father out of the depths of some re- flection, and he turned to the law-| yer, Mr. Lewis, “Gosford!” he echoed. “He is behind this business, Pen- dieton,” the lawyer, Mr. Lewis, went (Turn to Page 11, Column 1) | Star Man Visits State A Picture We: Cannot Print BY THE EDITOR HAVE a photograph before me that I shall not i It is of a baby—they tell me it is a girl baby—that looks like an emaciated monkey. Babies should be fat, happy and beautiful. They should have pink, shell-like ears, dim- pled, groping hands, and fat, round bellies. They should be able to stare you out of counte- nance with eyes that are wells of unthinking contentment. For fat, happy, beautiful ba- bies know neither sorrow, suffering, self-con- sciousness nor evil. When that kind of a baby wrinkles up its face, turns purple and howls, you know it wants the moon. Quick! Get the moon for the baby. Or it may be curdled milk. Ora safety pin come unfastened. Remove the cause of discontent, and placidi- ty returns. The baby whose picture I shall not print is neither fat, happy nor beautiful. It is a very small bag of bones, done up in wrinkled, yel- low skin. You would shudder and turn sick if you could look upon this icture, as I am doing now. You would see in this baby’s eyes, not a desire for the moon, or a momentary tummy pain, or a protest against a misplaced safety pin, but anguish that it is too weak to voice and ys — or quick surcease from pain—or eath By and by it will be a fat, happy, beautiful baby, with thell. like ears, dimpled, groping hands and a round, fat belly, and it will stare you out of countenance—you tough old sin- ner!—with eyes that are wells of unthinkin, pose a ogy For babies, heaven be thanked, soon forget! Because I must not shock your nice sensibil- ities or disturb the serenity of your comfort- able, well-fed being, I do not print this baby’s picture. The right kind of milk and the right kind of care cost money. Remember that when the Community Chest man calls at your door. Land Settlement Project Here’s What’s Being Done at White Bluffs- Hanford Tract by War Veterans By Ralph J. Benjamin What's the truth about the state ,ture of sandy loam that will grow |most anything. It used to be the bot | tom of the river, or where the river land settlement project in the overriowed, for it is fine and soft. A Priest Rapids valley? |few feet beneath the surface is a| Few state enterprises have been| water supply as permanent as the hammered and cussed by the ham-|Columbia river itself. There isn't | merers ard the cussers as strenuous any alkali in the soil. ly as haa been the White Bluffs-Han- ‘The whole district has a reputation ford project. for producing certain valuable crops ‘The chief reason for the ham- mering and cussing is that thou- sands of folks thought it was go- ing to be free, and that the proj- ect is so far away from the easy, beaten paths of travel that few of the kickers know anything (PROJECT MANAGER about It. The state paid $10 an acre for the ‘The very act of the legislature is | nd and divided ft into tracts of ap- proximately 20 acres aplece. It is already farms and other parts of the state. jdotted with orchards | some of the for $1,000 an acre. J. C. SCOTT MADE | | partially responsible for the trouble, for it unintentionally gave the im-| J. C. Scott, successful farmer and | pression that it was a sort of bonus |former county agent for Franklin county, was appointed project man (Turn to Page 8, Column 7) for soldiers, sallore and marines. Someone said; Farms for veter-| ans! Of course they would be abso. lutely free! Wasn't the state paying $200,0007 Well, of course, it would Whe D Y be free! at Do You But it isn’t free. It wasn’t the in- | tention of the legislature to give away $200,000 worth of land or Suppose Can Be Reason? farms. All that’s free to the veter- | ans at the White Bluffs-Hanford | project is the opportunity and lots | HANFORD, Dec. 4.—Folks of mighty valuable advice, here are wondering if the com ing of the exservice men to ROJEOT FIFTY MILES NORTH OF KENNEW When the $300,000 became avail. | take up farms under the state reclamation and settlement project has anything to do with the sudden great demand for jobs as school teachers in this part of the country, Of the 26 service men who already have been allotted tracts of land, 12 are bachelors, White Bluffs reported 126 applications for school teach- ing positions this year, and Hanford bad just as many. Tho both towns have good schools and high schools, they employ Jess than 20 teachers between them. Never before able, the department of conservation and development of the state govern ment started looking for 1,160 acres | of raw land for which It would pay $10 an acre. The land was found at | Hanford and White Bluffs, a district that 1s growing rapidly. | The project ig situated on a bend of the Columbia river, about 60 miles north of Kennewtck. There are three | ways to reach it—by stage from Ken. | newick, by stage from Yakima, or by | the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railroad, transferring at Beverly, on the Columbia. The land may some day be under the great irrigation project at Priest Rapids. The soil is aliuvial, a mix- has the demand for schoo! jobs been so keen, | from two to three weeks earlier than | apple orchards have sold SE. ATTL Ek, W ASH., MONDA Y, DEC EMBER 4 4, 1922. STATE TAX BODY IS ACCUSED! HOME) Til _Two CE ENTS ‘IN | SEATTLE SEATTLE NOT VICE-RIDDEN, i SAYS CLERGY Ministers Are Up in Arms Over Charge City Is Run Wide Open Charges that Seattle is the most pen” city in the United made from the pulpit of the ‘lymouth Congregational church Sunday night by Rev. Chauncey J. Hawkins, met with a storm of pro. test Monday from prominent clergy men of other denominations and from city officials, The charg were branded ax false on every hand, and Hawkins himself came in for no small share of condemnation, P. A. Klein, pastor of Dunlap Baptist church, went so far as to intimate that, if Haw- kins’ charges are true, Hawkins was himself responsible for a large p commenting Klein hearkened back to the sermon, academic controversy he had some months ago with Hawkins ne of the blood “I don't believe that Seattle is the most ‘wide open’ city in the country,” said Klein, “but if it is, it has become so recently, and the fact that certain ministers have recently come to town to proclaim that the atonement of Christ was just @ heathen super: stitution would account to @ large degree for such a change. “It ie natural for men who are ied to believe that the blood atonement of Christ t# not @ reality to see them- selves forever hopeless and they try to get all out of ain they can. This drives them to the very life which Mr. Hawkins now pretends to ls ment.” Mayor 1. 3, Brown @lemtwued Haw. kins’ charges with the comment: “He talke Itke an infant—TI think he haw high blood = preawur and added: 'm an expert on ertining— and it looks to me an if the reverend gentleman was simply trying to ad vertise himself.” “Mr. Hawkins makes three sugges tions,” Dr. Brown said. “He wants to close all the cabarets and public dance halls; he urges the reopening women’s hospital at and he thinks the wages should be I agree with him on two of these pointe—-the reopening of Medi cal Lake and a« raise for the work: ing girte. I'd lke to know how he’s going to raise the girlx’ pay, a point which he neglected In his sermon, but we'll let that pass, “But let's look into his first propo- sition—the closing of all dance halls and cabarets. “Remember, if we did that we'd have to close the De Honeys’, the Hippodrome and all the rest of the dance halls—be- cause the ones above Yesler way are just as bad as those below. The other night Mrs, Brown and I went to the Varsity ball—and, well, if the girls in the dance halls below the line dressed like some of the girls at the Varsity ball, there'd be some cause for complaint from the clergy. “In the dance halle which Mr. Hawkins denounces 0 fervently there are 15 women who support thelr children with the money that |they make in these ‘dens of iniquity.’ iMr. Hawkins doesn't offer any sub- | stitute for the dance halie—he just says ‘Close ‘em up.’ happen to these women if we follow ed his advice? Does Mr. Hawkins expect them to go to work for $13 a week, instead of the $30 or $85 |which they now make and which per mits them to live decently? he want to drive them to the streets? “My conception of Christianity has always been something to lift people Jup instead of crushing them down. ere to » Page 8, Column 4) WANT TO KEEP LITTLE LAD? Does somebody want to borrow a |little son for Christmas? | Vincent is 4 years old and ia in need of a temporsry home. His dad, la machinists’ helper, has been out of | work for five weeks, and the time | has come when a little help ts need- ed. The boy's mother Is not with them, and the father finds it impoa- silble to look after his «mall son and at the same time search for work He wonders if someone will take the little bey for perhaps a month, giving him time, he says, “to get on | his feet again.” | ‘Those interested are asked to write |to Mr. D. D., at 323 Seventh ave, or |to call at that address. John Wanamaker “About the Same” PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 4-—-The condition of John Wanamaker its “about the same today as last night,” when his physicians announced that the well-known merchant had gained strength, At 7:30 this morning the following bulletin was issued; “After a somewhat restless night, Mr, Wanamaker's condition is about the same as last evening.” What would | Or does | | | | | enacted, Here are Seattle kiddies making the most of the first snowfall that visited the city Satur- day night and Sunday morning. Everywhere in the residence districts similar scenes were | —Phote by ‘Taxpayers Win Word was received in Seattle ; & the noes railway system, The lege! battle began when 14 taxpayers brought action in the state courts to prevent the city from using | money out of the general fund for maintenance and operation of the car lines, They won. The traction company kept out of the state court, but soon after start FUND DRIVE T0 START TUESDAY Workers to “Assemble tor Final Instructions Seattle's volunteers—the un- paid solicitors who, after giving of thelr own funds, go on the firing line to help the city make good its obligation towards the unfortunate—are to meet 600 strong tonight at 3302 White building to get instructions and make plans for the Community Fund follow-up which gets un- der way tomorrow morning. The fund needs $250,000 to bring it up to the total of $798,000, In the fund campaign in Sep- | tember $550,000 was subscribed, | but because of the shortage of solicitors 27,000 who gave last Year were not called on and so these volunteers are going to appeal to those 27,000, or as many of them as they can find time to reach, and to hundreds of others who are prospects for the fund, Chairman Otto Kegei will preside when the meeting opens at 7:20 to- night and Henry R. King will speak, | Representatives of labor, which bas indorsed the project and is putting its own unpaid solicitors in the field, will be present, as will the repre (Turn to Page 6 Column 2) SAFETY OF 4 | SHIPS FEARED Fear was expressed in maritime circles Monday over the fate of four Seattle fishing schooners, carrying 26 Seattle men, which have disappeared in recent weeks while cruising North Pacific waters. All are long over- | due and, because of the severe storms | which have been lashing the coast of late, It is feared that some, if not all of them may have foundered. | 1 The ships are the Washington, commanded by Capt. O, Olsen and jearrying « .» Which sailed |from Seattle in October and has not been sighted since; the Pelican, with a crew of five, which has not been seen since it left Ketchikan Novem- ber 1; the Morengen, commanded by Captain Walderhagh, with a crew of five, which salled from Sitka October 19, and the Convention, commanded by Capt, Anton Ulla, with a crew of five, which was last sighted in Hee ate strait about November 1. HELENA, Mont.—Fire, believed to have been of incendiary origin, de- stroys Helena Country club, doing damage estimated at more than $10,000, Carfare Case [i STATE AID €d suit in the federal court at Seattle to force a specific performance of the contract, under which moneys would be taken from the general fand for these purposes. Judge Cushman ruled the traction company and gntéred a de cree in effect giving it a preferred Yen on all edrnings of the system. The case was at once appealed and |Judge Cushman and dismissed the bill The decision was received today by Chadwick, MeMicken, Rupp, one of the three firms which fought the case for the 14 taxpayers. COMMISSIONERS’ CASES DROPPED All but One Fraud Charge Dismissed by Court Freeing King “County Com- missioners Claude C, Ramsay, Thomas Dobson and L. ©. Smith of all but one of the four grand jury indictments against them, Superior Ju Everett Smith dis- missed the “Dr. Martin” grand larceny case against them Mon- day morning, on the motion of Prosecuting Attorney Malcolm Douglas, The grand jury charged that the county commissioners, on the recommendation of J. L. An- derson, superintendent of trans- portation, pald $2,306.21 to the Price Construction Co. for paint- ing the launch Dr. Martin, in the ferry service of the county, when the launch had not been painted at all. Prosecutor Douglas moved for the dismissal, he states, after calling a special meeting of 18 of the wit- | nesses for the state in his offices on November 23, the witnesses includ: | ing three members of the grand jury | that returned the indictment. | “The state can prove that the money was paid, and that it was paid on a bille for the asserted repairs and by the officials indicted,” Doug las stated in the motion for dismiss- jal, “Three of the state's witnesses even declare the whole boat was re- painted, while no sufficient proof has been produced as yet on which to justify the expenditure of the state's money in trying to convict the commissioners of the alleged mis- Appropriation and larceny.” The one remaining indictment against the commissioners is the State against J, L. Anderson, Adolph Anderson, the three county commis- stoners, and H. EB. Tomkins, for grand larceny in connection with the pur- chase with state funds of $738.02 in fuel ofl, the commissioners and the others named being charged with the | misappropriation of public funds in connection therewith, Tacoma Society Girl Is Married PORTLAND, Dec. 4.— Edward J. | Schmiedell, Jr, son of wealthy and| well known San Francisco parents, | Sunday wedded Miss Frances Field | Burrill, prominent Tacoma soctety girl, Schmiedel had been sent here by his parents, it 1s anid, to go to work, | | Miss Burrill was a house guest of | Mra. Henry Goode, of thir city. The details of the ceromeny werr unobtainable this morning When asked the name of the officiating clergyman, Mrs, Schmiedell replied, “We did not have a minicter* |now the higher court has overruled | Ramsay &| |Dope Smuggler Gets | } | Price & Carter, Btar Staff Photographers ‘ASK $8,000,000 Harding Plans _ $1,357,000 for Washington Projects WASHINGTON, Dec. 4—Ap- for reclamation in Pa cific slope states recom: mended to today by President #1: Presenting the budget for the next fiscal year. These appropriations were divided by states as follows: Idaho, $2,090,000; Oregon, $1,400, 000; Washington, $1,357,000; Arizona, | $430,000; California, $549,000; Ne- vada, $735,000; Utah, $45,000; Oregon and California jointly, $700,000; Ne- braska and Wyoming jointly, $1,420,000. In addition, a $100,000 appropria- tion for continuing the work on the so-called “Colorado river project” was recommended. over $200,000 in the state of Washington were recommended. Three-quarters of a million for de- velopment at the Mare island navy yard and an appropriation for a marine corps supply depot at San Francisco were approved by the president. Pacific coast and Far Western ap- propriations for the fiscal year of 1924 asked by President Harding in- cluded: Indian school, Riverside, Cal., $175,000, an increase of $11,000 as compared with the current year, Indian school, Fort Bidwell, $30,000; increase, $2,000, BB construction, Hopi ae tion, Humboldt county, Call ool, Salern, Ore., $200,000; decrease, $10,000, crease, $60,000, Satus irrigation project, Yaki- ma, Wash., $125,000, Public works at ‘Mare Island, Call- |fornia, navy yard, including rebuild ing dykes, wharves, ete., $750,000; |same as current year, Public works at Puget Sound navy yard, $75,000, compared with $590,- |000 for current year, | Public works at Pearl Harbor, T. H., $438,000; compared with $228,000 for the current year. Naval ammunition depot, Puget Sound, $5,000, Marine barracks, San Diego, cluding purchase of land, $7,500. Initial appropriation of $20,000 to- ward purchase of land for construe: tion of marine corps supply depot at San Francisoo with a limit of cost of $835,000, For maintenance of naval train- ing station at San Diego, Cal., $125, 000, same as current year, For reclamation projects—Yuma, Ariz., $430,000; Orland, Cal., $50,000; Boise, Ida, $1,390,000; King Hin, Idaho, & Mindoka, Idaho, | $665,000; North Platte, Nebraska- | Wyoming, — $1,480,000; Newlands, D 000; Baker, Ore., $500,000; | | Umatilla, Ore,, $900,000; “Kiamagh, | Oregon-California project, $700,000; ' Strawberry , Utah, $45,000;) Okanogan, Wash., $65,000; Yakima, | Wash,,. $1,810,000; for continued in- | vestigation of feasibility of water! storage, irrigation and related prob: lems of the Colorado river, $100,00 for continuing flood control work, Sacramento, Cal., $499,900. in- Term of Two Years| Arthur Mahler, 41, found guilty on a charge of smuggling 847 packages of morphine into the United States by @ jury in Judge Jercm ah Neter- er’s court last week, was given a! wo-year sentence at MoNeil island | and fined $25, Monday morning, |ber of Commerce and then left | room. |accepted the secretary and | pretty well over the state. I |that a number of the ’|near Bakersfield, Saturday nij SECRETARY, IN FIERY LETTER, | QUITS OFFICE ) Says Railroads Control Federa- tion Designed to Help Citizens Charging that the railroads have secured control of the State Federation of Taxpayers’ associations, and that the mem- ber organizations are being used interests, as tools by the special resigned his office morning. He read a fiery letter, his reasons for resigning, at a ing of the federation at the C 0," he said, “About a year ership of this organization. then I have had occasion 6 practically all, are honest, tious societies, working for th interests of their own rt community and the estate at | with no selfish interesta. that this organization is by the railroads thru Murray and J. Thomas, | the so-called ‘Lower Cost of ment league'—a purely ‘bunk’ ization, i “At the Inst meeting the C the ventilator and for some near panic guests. With the arrival fire department, however, was soon put under control wi nominal 'cas, Investigation of the acting Fire Marshal Laing revealed the mot thi pile of rubbish had been ai mto the alrshaft and set Three other blazes 7 past week are under f1 and Laing has asked aid police department in firebug, who is known to large in Seattle. Greek Premier Venizelos was guarded today at the Near conference following Macedonian plotters had arr Switzerland and would make a tempt upon his life. ‘ Venizelos also received a of threatening letters. Train Is Wrecked, Vandals Are § SAN FRANCISCO, Deo. ward of $5,000 was offered Santa Fe railroad for arrest viction of vandals wrecking a Santa Fe passenger : ‘Two persons were killed and se » Which THE STAR’S “GREATER CLASSIFIED — COLUM! Bring active returns, . a Star Want Ad pat then call Main 0600, — a ist