The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 26, 1922, Page 9

TUESDAY, DECEMRER 26, 1922. ‘Whites Are Crowded Out THE |atvE Mouse) BLUE MOUSE | SEATTLE STAR PAGE 9 For Five Dollars Down “THE by Japs in Little Town FINEST OF yn ‘° . Lp Al ae Gardena, Cal., Business Men “Forced to Wall by ploture whole family Jap Me rehants B 1 rm. cans came back the next year, and By b Be ann the following year found the Japa in How an entire Japanese communt | control, operating the farms on a ty has been built up in one asotion | share basis | of California tn the last few years When the Japs do this, tt tan't artvt the white people whose |*tmply that they are taking ground | a ee ane ee away from the Amertcans—but they | fathers fought and died for the land | aiso destroy the soil by their inten ~—was related Tuesday by David | sive methods. An interesting commentary on the | ee en ee | situation ts the fact that the Japa | of the city councf! Young Strader has just re turned to Seattle from Califor. | peamausiaas newspapers tn Call | nia actually claim a circulation in ex | cons of the census Jap population of | Booth Tarkington's the state. j Masterptece win, where he was geing 00 finitt's pot so bed tn Npssadnuiia| school, While he was in the | now put it will be, unless tmmedt South, he says, he was so im ate steps are taken to end the men. pressed and alarmed by the en | aoe croachments of the Japanese — | that he wants to describe the LD MAN LIVELY | conditions there for the benefit of the people of Seattle, for this | AT SON’S PARTY state will face the same situation NEW YORK.—Willlam Grace, 72, in a few brief years, unless | wouldn't stop dancing at his son's 99 Prompt and drastic steps af | Christmas party, so the youngster taken to put a stop to the spread =| o¢ 50 has threatened to have him | of the yellow peril here. | evicted. California, Shrader points out, hae | a its antialien land law—practically F: ICY PRICE IS identical to the one enacted in this PAID FOR VIEW state—but this has not interfered CHICAGO™George Btark, Nevada with the Japs tn thetr plot to gobble | ap the lands thet were wre from | ranchman, paid $170 to view the | the wilderness by white men Wrigley butlding and other simhts of “I spent most of my time,” Shra | Chicago Stark's guides were ban. ‘der said, “in the little town of Gar- | dite. dena, between Lox Angeles and San | Pedro. It is a market garden con: | ter, supplying Los Angeles with prac t— - _|tieally all ite vegetables, and ship BARN ng. Dec. 26,—C! haries| ping quantities of strawberries and P. Hill lost ‘hls life trying to save his | raspberries East. horse from the local canal. “In Gardena, in just the last few | years, the Japanese have been able to acquire an absolute monopoly of the gardening industry, But that| | ien't all they have now come into | the town itself and have built up a! complete Japanese community that is self-sufficient in itself. They have two dry goods stores, they have feed and fuel and grocery houses, a Jap doctor and a Jap dentist, and a Japa “One Exciting Night”— although Babylon, the Civil War and the French Revolution are entirely ig- nored in this film—is ac- tually one of the most en- tertaining that Mr. Grif- fith has ever produced. —Robt. B. Sherwood. | nese commission house, thru which they market their goods. “Thus they are able to live with D. W. } DON’T MISS IT! ROBIN HOOD, the derhing outlaw }hero of Bherwood's green glades, t# the brave, lithe body of Douglas Fair bankas, Im the screen version of the romance, he Is Robin Hood—no oth one realisess with deep satiatac- ton er DENVER, Col, Deo, 26, — Told that her husband could not buy her an expensive new gown, Mrs, Rich- ard Colville committed suicide, ma at | out buying from the whites at all, But the whites are forced to buy from them. By using cut-throat methods, the Japs have driven the American storekeepers out of busi- | ness and then, when they had a mo- nopoly, they have sent prices aky-/ igh - “PRISONER OF ZENDA” with ALICE TERRY STEWART HOLMES LEWIS STONE ALSO BIG AMATEUR CONTEST PAINLESS PRICES “I can cite one tnstance to show what they are doing. A prominent American Legion man, Lieut. Robert ; Williams, spoke ta favor of the anti- alien land law when the matter was coming up for a popular vote. As a result, the Japanese of the communi | ty threatened to boycott his employ ers—Spears & Boyer, a Ford agency —uniess Williams was discharged. | The plan succeeded: Williams was | fired and his place was taken by a Jap. “In Gardena, one out of every nine | ehildren in high school te a Jap, and; the ratio is one to three [n the grade schools. The grade schools are ex- tremely crowded on account of the vast number of Japa, and thus we are confronted by the spectacle of * seen children going without ed- jon im their own land because of the! Inroads of « foreien ome “The Japanese children, altho they attend the public schools, are not permitted to become Americanized. After school hours they are driven to another school, where they study the Japanese language, and sore of the children, after graduating from the American schools, are always sent back to Japan to ‘complete’ their education, and then, as full- fledged Japanese, come back to exer- cise their suffrage as American citt- zene. “The census figures do not show the real situation in Caloforniia. Senator Burns estimates that the Japanese population of Calffornia ta at least 60,000 in excess of the con- sus. “They evaded the censustakers, you see—whole boatloads of Japs go ing down the Sacramento river when the census-takers arrived in town. and not returning until the officials had left. “In the same way, the Jape find it easy to beat the anti-alien land law They go tn with white farmers on a | ‘share’ basia and thus are the actual owners of the land in everything ex Cottin Sanitarium Dr. L. 1. Cottin =r, A. T. Cottin 512 18th Ave. Phone East 0071 When suffering from any chronic ailment do not despair, and resort to the knife unwarranted, but consult us first, as we can help you. We have the lat- est up-to-date equipment at our Sanitarium to han- dle all cases successfully. All modern drugless meth- ods used. No mental or contagious cases taken. case — the Turlock | | melon district, in the San Joaquin | ag has been absolutely conquered | by the Jape in the inet three seasons. In 1019 there were practically no| Japs there, but about 600 to 800 Pickers came in and underbid the | white men, #0 that they got work jand took the bread out of the mouths of Americans. Asa yout, no Amer OW-—Until Wednesday— alot HALFBREED” MEELER OAKMAN ané wanv ANDERSON eauipment lower prices for ginuses at ¥ Optometriat ai 227 Union S¢., bet incarnate after centuries of legend tn | | Carol Dempster, in D. W. |Griffith’s great myste ry play, \“One Exciting Night,” which \is showing at the Blue Mouse | theater thie week. COLISEUM Freckies” Wesley Barry, featured in Warner Brothers’ latest produc tion, “Rags to Riches," which ts playing at the Coliseum theater, can jnot do the og»-step, nor the camel's |waik, nor the colwglate and ritzy, In fact he can't do modern dances at all. But he ts an adept at the Virginia reel, known only to the backwoods folks and mountaineers of | Virginia, Wes learned it during the |filming of “Rags to Riches” from some Virginians who had been brought specially to California for some scenes calling for that dance. Wes soon became quite proficient in ° BLUE MOUSE There is @ thrill and a chili anda good laugh at the Blue Mouse thea r, where D. W. Griffith's new cine ma, “One Exciting Night.” opened last Saturday to big capacity aut ences, tn spite of the stormy weath- er. “One Exciting Night” {9 a mye tery drama, with Just enough comedy to relieve a tense situation when the plot begins to thicken. While Mr. Griffith has departed from the heavy and espectacular, he has produced a ploture that will live among the tm- mortals of the «liver screen. It te one of the best photoplays ever shown and a well-balanced cast of characters, which is headed by Carol Dempeter, who shares the honors with Henry Hull. The producer has left nothing undone to make the plo- ture a real thriller. Spooky hands, secret panels, rhadows and darting figures all have their play, while Porter Strong and Miss Harrison, playing the colored servants, are hu- morous thfuout. Just before the identity of the mysterious villain be- comes known there is a storin scene which is about the mont realistic screen. The picture grips the audt- wpecial musical accompaniment by th splendid, eee WINTER GARDEN Oliver Morosce, the flustrious theatrical producer who haa lately! turned motion picture magnate, re calls that when ho first produced “The Half Breed” for the stage he worked the play around a/ character from real life, The piay| | was written primarily to provide! lentertainment, but it had a sec. londary purpose of almost equal |performance. That was to present |piight of half breeds In the West | who were barred by the involuntary! ‘stigma of birth from rights of ordt- nary social Intercourse with other “The Halt So Aatributed A by | AT COLISEUM } —SAVE MOoNnty= Trave/ by sfeamer TAC fe] MA SAFTY - SI on >= COMFORT DANCES At De Honey's New Aci Pike at 13th Ave. Mohday Evening Dec. 25 VICTORIA. BC PORT ANGELES - STRAIT POINTS DAILY, 1300 Mid: (Dees Not Go Through to Vieteria on Saturday Nicht 'Trip> Friday, JUAN ISLAND POINTS Bel and Sunday Eve. 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The lweroine is a modern girl—brave, re ‘sourceful and quick-witted—a regu: | lar fighting flapper. Miss Elaine |Hammerstein, star of “One Week ot | |Love,” says that the role of Beth | Wynn is one of the most interesting and certainly the most exciting she ever has played. As for the hero, he ta not 100 per cont perfect American manhood. Women movie fans don't like the model hero any more, And so the leading man, played by Conway Tearle in “One Week of Love” ts a bad man. | Naturally, w In fact, he is a cave man in the final fade-out, he tna the girl Of course “One Week of Love” plenty of action, becaum it de plets a clash of two strong wills, eee [conmta ‘The Universal production of Booth |The Unive famous novel, “The Fit," which fs the photoplay attrac: tion at the Columbia theater this week, is drawing large audiences. Rileen Perey plays the title role. Miss Perey has the part of Cora Madison, whore charms snare all the | men in the little Midwestern town, | and are the beginning of all her| troubles. LIBERTY Jackie Coogan in hie firet super | production for First National, “Oliver Twist,” is more than holding his own at the Liberty this week. Ever since the opening performance long lines of patrons have watted admittance to the Liberty, all anxious to nee this wonder boy in this wonder picture. “Oliver Twist” Is by far the great. est offering Jackie has made, and with the notable cast of pla rounding him, achieves his biggest success, Chief in Jackie's support ts Lon Chaney, enacting the role of Fagin, Next comes Gladys Brockwell, [adorable youth lof Zenda,” which had tts first show: in earlier labeled = “all wtar”’—shows Stegmann, Lionel Belmore, Carl Stockdale, Edouard Trebaol, Taylor Grave Florence Hale, Joan Standing and a host of others equally tmportant. The “Twist” offering, with Jackle Coogan, i# by far the most important of the seavon. “Oliver Twint” with the vision of an} in mind. Jackie | Coogan realizes Dickens’ version. | The production ts perfect with re- spect to direction, Frank Lloyd be- ing responsible for this part of the offering. COLONIAL Once in @ great while there comes & motion picture which can be hatled as almost perfect. Such a picture is the Rex Ingram production for Metr. of the famous story, “The Prison ing yesterday at the Colonial theater. Thia photoplay, which is based on Anthony Hope's novel, has been skili fully adapted by Mary O'Hara, gor- geously mounted by the Metro com- pany and tho excellent cast—which days would have been the in spired direction of that young wizard of the screen, Nex Ingram, eee PRINCESS In a spacious hotel lobby in Ban Francisco sat a girl and a youth in earnest, whispered conference. They were an odd pair—a beauti- ful young woman, refined and cul-/ tured, and a man who had just) deen released from the penitentlary. | The young woman was pleading with the young man to join her in the robbery of the bank in which she was employed. The adventures which befell the pair after they had left the hotel form the story of “Fools First," a Marshall Netflan production, now at the Princes Claire Windsor, Rich ard Dix and Claude Giilingwater have the leading roles in this photoplay, which is based on the story by Hugh MoNair Kahler, eee PALACE HIP A tale of romance in the South elevators. Elliott 4217. FOR RENT Space 18x40 in Pacific Block Exceptionally well lighted; both passenger and freight 404 42-Story L. C. Smith Building Seas is the Pathe production, Isle of Doubt,” which ts the film at- traction at the F Wyndham Standing is the star, OLYMPIC Alice Calhoun has two distinct ad-|to meet the facial requisites @ vantages which make her sult Charles Dickens wrote | “ute? for the role of Lady Babble| girt, in James M. Barrie's famous “The Little Minister, showing at the Olymple They are splendid parts that scarcely can be improved “The Jace Hip this week. Bhi: ideally | splendid acting ability of the a Big Reductions on Discontinued Lines of Men’s, Women’s and Children’: Footwear 750 PAIRS WOMEN’S PUMPS AND 0.