The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 3, 1923, Page 1

Tonight and Sum Maximum, 39. WEATHER day, moderate easter ‘Temperature Last 24 Hours Today noon, Entered as Second ¢ Matter generally yt Minimum, 30. May 1, at the Postoffice at Beattie, W ash _VOuu IME 24. NO. 295. under the Act of Congress March 8, 1. Per Year, by Mall, $6 to 99 The Seattle Star SEATIL SAT We ASH, l DAY Hazeltine Urges Aboliskment of National Prohibition Department Howdy, folks! The groundhog saw his shadow yesterday and we are in for six more weeks of cold weather, Bet Mr, Salisbury hasn't heard of it yes. Undoubtedly we are going to have & warm spring next summer. eee However, it is not too early to predict that ft will rain on the Fourth of July. cee OUR DAILY MAIL Dear Homer:. What kind of a tax would you call the proposed tax on men who refuse to marry? ‘Louise. A luxury tax.—Homer. eee Little Homer Brew, Jr, says ee the reason our language is ca’ the mother tongue is because fiker never gets a chance to use it, eee “From all reports,” writes Brick Stilwell, “I fudge that the legislators are having @ snoozing good time at Olympia.” | . A state income tax will probably be passed at this session of the leg- islature. The difference between an income tax and a poll tax {s simply that the income tax will be larger. eee make a lot of trouble. see Last Minute News: Georgette Eyelash, telephone operator, breaks trilling record, taking two and one- half minutes to say “three.” see ! | Bergdoll is reported to have left Germany. It must be true that Ger- many is getting ready to go to war ain. eee WHAT D'¥YA MEAN “BRAY™? twister by L. G. Myking. eae At any rate, we pity the tongue- twister editor when 15,000 trate tongue-twisterites call him up Mon- day to bawl him out for his cholco specimen of tongue-twistery. o- . i The best tongue-twister that we can think of is “No.” Few people can say it For the benefit of our Scandinavian readers, who may feel slighted by the tongue-twister editor, we offer the following: Sjer sjosjuk sjomann} sjunk { sjon. { eee ——— | LI'L GEE GEE, TH’ OFFICE VAMP, SEZ: | Housework is announced as | cure for neurasthenia, ‘The lower house of the legislature has passed a bill providing that school children under 14 years of age shall be supplied daily with a half pint of milk. Bet the kids trade in their half- | pints at the nearest grocery store for a bag of Jelly beans. eee Newsboy in New York swallowed a half-dollar yesterday, and his frlends are noticing the change in him already, eee « Back East they're kicking because they can't get hard coal and have to use bituminous. Out West we find t bituminous soots us very well. REMINISCENCE The camper, huddled in his tent, Was gloomy as could be: He sang this song of discontent: “It's raining in on me —Detrolt Free Press, The camper shed x bitter tear, And heaved a heavy sigh { | YOUR LEGISLATOR’S NOSE |Carping closes at noon today, folks. ner of the $25 prize for the best T. T. Hundreds of tongue-twisters were en- tered. sssstesssttsssstitesisrstississssssiisctsssestssssseciih SHAKE YOUR FIST UNDER sisssestsssssstesssstssssssssstssstistissetississstssssssii (EDITORIAL) NLESS the people of this state shake an angry fist under the nose of the present legislature RIGHT AWAY, we are going to witness again the disgrace of extravagance, waste, high taxes and disregard of the people’s wishes that has characterized al! the other ses- sions of recent years. That may sound unbelievable in view of the fervent campaign promises of individual mem- bers, the declarations of party platforms, the speeches of party orators and the pledges of legislative leaders at the time the session began a month ago. Nevertheless, it is the plain mean- ing of all the news that comes out of what is, to date, a do-nothing assembly. * & * (and only two) to remedy Wash- ington’s taxation troubles. One is to cut down expendi- tures. The other is to spread the load over property that is not now burdened, so that real estate (especial- ly the farms) shall not be so grievously handicapped. This legislature, like its predecessors, is beginning to show unmistakable symptoms of the pork-barrel itch. Those who are holding the reins have not impressed the membership with a feeling that they are sincere when they talk economy. The true figures as to the operation of the Hart code system have been sup- pressed. Unless the people speak out in determined tones, hun- dreds of thousands of dollars will again be squandered. * S Nor is there apparent any real desire to reform the antiquated taxation machinery of Washington. Instead, there is a haphazard scramble of schemes to foist new taxes on top of the old ones. Occupation taxes, which will eventually hit every man who works or who has a trade or profession; higher gasoline taxes, an income tax, and licenses and fees of all kinds are under consideration. There may even be special head taxes for bachelors and spinster Heavy gross revenue taxes may be slapped on city- owned power plants if permission is given such plants to sell power outside the city limits. A smart legisla- tor has conceived the idea of making cities, counties and even the state pay regular automobile license fees. Some of these new taxes may be justified and wise (certainly the income tax is) IF they are imposed as a SUBSTITUTE for a corresponding part of the load now borne by real estate. But if they are merely passed to raise more money for ‘the state officials to spend, as seems to be the growing idea at Olympia, THEN THEY ARE DASTARDLY. + # It is time for an outburst of popular indigna- tion. It is time for taxpayers and sane citizens all over the state to express themselves forcibly to their respective representatives and senators in a demand for reduced expenditures and real tax reform. As things are riding, it is certain there will be a sharp outburst AFTER THE SESSION IS OVER AND IT IS TOO LATE. Better to have it now and force some desirable results. There are two ways | | SAYS FORCES ~ UNNECESSARY 'Police Should Do | Work, Dry Chief ; Asserts; Leaving By John W. Nelson | rmined to work towards polition of the federal pro- | hibition depar A, Hazel | tine, divin! the fly- ing dry squadrons, leaves Seattle Saturday to take up new duties as divisional chief of a sf district comprising half of F sylvania and the state of New Jersey. "I've been told it is the wettest, | toughest part of the entire country,” | Hazoltine said Saturday, “But I am taking a new thought to the work |there. I want to abolish the proht (Turn to Page 5, Column 3) | HUGE LOSS IN NAVAL THEFTS Charge Staggering Amount Stolen by Steward | | Partial checks made by acpartment nt of alleged thefts by | Japanese dealers and navy officials jot Bremerton, discloned a stupendous total, according to the department of |Justice Saturday. Investigation of | the alleged. - | Pearson, commissary wteward on the | recelving ship Philadelphia, Japs and’ jother commission concerns, which | }was revealed tn The Star Friday, in continuing and sensational develop- |ments involving wealthy Japanese |commisston men are expected. | | Investigation of the fresh vege- |tables ordered for ships revealed that | between August 7 and August 30 last | | Year between 20,000 and 30,000 pounds | of produce were paid for and not re-| jeelved by the navy | agents declare. During the same period between | (Turn to Page 4, Column 5) : ‘SOLDIER FACES MURDER CHARGE | | by U. S. Attorney Douglas Cauley, 24, private in the |Ft. Lawton Killer Acoused | FEBRUARY 8, 1923, PAA AAPL PPP APS tata _ TWO CENTS IN SEATS Their First Glimpse ot Daylight the big, wide world these day. CLUB CONDEMNS: PARK MONOPOLY |Concessionaires Control Preserves, Say Hikers By Seaburn Brown After nearly three hours of heat- [United States | killed Frank vate, January army, who shot and Peterson, alap a pri-| at Lawton, | “9s Fort degreo in & comptaint filed by the | jdistrict attorney's office in Commin. | ‘sioner A. C, Bowman's court Satur. | day. No motive for the killing Is jknown, It ts expected that Cauley,- |now in the custody of the United] | States marshal, will be examined for | his sanity Tough Tongue-Twisters MOVE FOR AIR Thrill Ted’s Timidity MAIL TO EAST ritic Carefully Choosin BY TONGUE-TWISTER TED Tongue-Twister Contest No. 1 ‘The win- a tough time deciding But decide it he must. Next week the new tongue-twiste: contest will have a slightly differen! T.'s, but here are a few The editor is going to have |sentative ones: Vor he had made a sad mistake And sat down on the pi < “Hastings (Neb.) ‘Tribune, ‘The camper seratehed and seratched— He scratched till he was sick; Yor yesterday at half-past two ‘He was bitten by a tick. i Warren (Ohio) Tribune. ‘The camper spat and spat and spat, And made « loud to-do; That morning he had cleaned his teeth With a tube of louid gine, —Houston Chronicle. ‘The camper muaned and moaned and mouned, bord wae w tragic bloke; he'd made a sad mistake— Don't ivy look ike Dolson onk? . | “Tacoma City Hariays Confesses Robberies.”—ieadline, Now if only our city officiais will follow suit! see Lie in bed as long as you can, Theodore, Expenses xtart ax soon As you gat up + a+ Get off my territory; I'm working this side of the street, the winner. | g Champ Postmaster Battle Applies ' for Service Appli betwe tT | Portland will be forwarded from Seat- t tle to Washington, D, C., within the tion for an air mail service submitted this week will be an-|twist, It will~but walt for the an. |Next Week, according to Postmaster nounced in Monday's Star, Watch |nouncement. Monday, when all de Meer A. Battle Saturda for the announcement. You may |tails will be printed here, | According, to the agreement made have won the prize. | It is difficult to selec, ont of tbWaue counts: coomirasionee Sl : The Tongw-Twister vontest has|hundreds of snappy twisters that|t> the Sand. Point aviation f proven one of the most popular |have poured into the office the past |toytmantar Pattie declares he hag competitions ever held in Seattle. 36 hours, the best and tricklest neon given to understand, mall planes may be provided hangar sj Jat the Sand Point field. A hat —= “Couv's Cute Comic Cure Cures jcapable of caring for four mall Sigil Cranks,""—Olive A. Deitch, ) planes will be completed at the field 804 Pine st. H ‘ae |within the next 80 days, is the re Today's Want Ad|j ‘susan soakem sipped Suany port Offer Y [Silas Slocum Silly."——Milton Pitcher, | ———-- er You||s12 8. 16th ave, Yakima, Columns “This ‘Tongue Twisting ‘thoroly| Let Contract for H ti |Thwarts Thinking Theosophists.— | - ‘ Bargains in |Mra. W. §. Shepherd, box 402, Alki Ave. Paving ‘Chariestht | Contract for the paving of Alki Homes Charley Caught Clarence Clay | #¥é, between Luna park and the mu i Cuddling Cousin Claire—-Harry ‘| niclpal bathing beach and along Automobiles Hewell, 209 a6th ave. 9. |Hoach drive wax awarded to the Trucks Curr Can't Convince Copx Cann | SW¥snsson, Construction company, by ruc! Can't Cayort.— Miss Marguerite | the board nee oe ‘ Titibden, BOR Krigelea, Tho bid wan $114,762, And Many Other “Leniont Lagislatives Lobbyists ay Be i Languldly Learning Little Lawa."t Daylight Robber Opportunities Mra, J. H, Brooks, Beaver, Clallam Ss lls he ‘Want aa||cnt Gets Small Sum Turn to the an ‘Brown's Busy Blustery Battle} At the point of a gun, M, G Brings Brew's Bre 6645 Sixth ave, page NOW—and pick out your bargains, Ww “Kord Mactory Furnishes Mlivyer for Wirting Flappera.”’—J, V, Mary. ott, 707 26th st, Anacortes, 1. G, Myleingy Molwos wos held up and robbed of $6 } workors. Jy m lone bandit who entered hin #On4 In trvuble, and requirig mens} "ye workers exnoot 10 penetrate | 1\vlothing store at 127 Becond ave, §,{ ttl wakefulness, | physical condition) ie. inner chambers of. the tomb, at TAT A, Mm. Saturday, A squad of NA Morality, will uid any boy Or! whore the body of the king is sup: police failed to locate the bandit, i) jation at the hands of the 1 New York and Seattle via | Jed debate, the Mountain s' club adopted @ resolution Friday evening indorsing a report of the club's board of trustees condemning the system under which national parks charged with murder in the first |are now developed and operated by | private concessionaires, “The monopoly of control grant ed private companies is a uirect Abridgement of the rights of ¢ zens,” Irving M. Clark, secreta the club, said in support of the trustees’ report. “It is a fact indi viduals do not receive the conside: Rainier ational Park Co, that large parties heavy spenders do. “One cdnnot enter the park and take his own automobile, gulde, n cook, into the park—he must hire these thru the park company. “The system is graft thruout. Monopolies always are “It is claimed that no profits have been realized by stockholders in the company, A stock dividend has been declared, altho company officials (Turn to Page 4, Column 3) SCOUT COUNCIL | iNew Regime Urges Charter Change on Official Oath swinging ‘ent at Losing no ti into action upon ¢ 11 o'clock —Saturda morning, the city council of the Boy Scout city government opened uo campaign against tobacco glealers who sell to minors. by unanbnously voting a petition to Scout Chief of Police John Demoss to run down all such offenders with every means in his power. This action, Logether with a motion to instruct the corporation counsel to draw up an amendment to the city charter that would compel all city officials to twke the scout oath upon assuming office, was taken by unanimous adoption of a resolution "The scout outh, calling for duty to God and country, ald to all per: ‘Turn to Page 4, Column 5) _ RAPS TOBACCO, is in Seattle hatcheries. The upper view—well the uv Photo bj Thousands Are Hatched Here BY WANDA VON KETTLER Nothing to eat. Nothing to drink. Nothing to wear. But, oh my! Some place to go! Six thousand yellow chicks, not one day old, left Seattle Saturday en route to Vancouver, B, C., where poultrymen will raise them as their own, ‘The 6,000 are but the advance guard of nearly a million that this e will be sent out to all parts of West from one Seattle hatche jand of the travel out of the state from the more than 200 hatcheries in Wash- | ington. | The 6,000 happen to have departed |from the Queen hatchery in Seattle, tho lafgest of its kind on the Coast According to Jay Todd, manager of the concern, more than 800,000 chicks will crackle out of their shells in Queen hatchery incubators in 1923 These, with others representative of the state, will travel as far south as Panama and the Hawailan islands, and as far north as Ketchikan, Those sailing Saturday have gone with nothing to eat, nothing to drink, nothing to wear, ‘They tell us we jdo not miss in this world that which | we have never known, "Tis the same | with chicks. | For three days after first breaking linto the world they need no food or drink, At the end of that time, how jever, if no nourishment is given | them, without so much as eyen knowing the reason, they just kick their little feet into the air and die, Which explains why another bateh of several, thousand chicks, hatched three or four days ago are stil! in the city, They are destined for Honolulu, a place not within three days’ reach, ‘They needs must re- jmain in Seattle, or rather at a farm (Turn to Page 4, Connnin 6) ‘PHARAOH TOMB STORM SWEPT LUXOR, Egypt, Feb. 3.— High winds and sand storms that swept over the ruins of the ancient burial places of the Pharaohs diminishe crowds of tourists witnessing exca vation of King Putankhamun's tomb today Only a few articles were brought out of the echoing chambers yester day. They included pieces of Jowel- ry, a wooden gold inlaid model of Tutankhamun and parts of a chars fot. Excavation oontinued today de. spite the storm that pelted grains of sand Into the faces of tourists and posed to repose, shortly, several milliot that will) | | | | | | Thousands of fuzzy, pop-eyed baby chicks are picking their way out of their shells into Nearly a million will be shipped to jall points of the world this season from one hatchery alone. | they are prepared for shipment. department, | little fellows who don't like the weather out he re. Tiny Chicks by the Bottom view shows chicks as ipper view is just that of three Price & Carter, Star Staff Photographers COST OF GUARD IS CUT $90,282 Clam Militia Efficiency Wil Be Unimpaired OLYMPIA, .Feb. 3—The National Guard of Washington will be cut $90,282 for the coming biennum by the house Appropriations committee, it was learned Friday. The guard asked $433,812 ond the |amount allowed by the committee s | $343,580, Total salaries of officers and men will be cut $9,360. | The salary of Adj. Gen. Maurice {Thompson will remain at $8,400, but salartes of clerks totaling $48,360 |were reduced to an even $87.00, Other changes are Assistant engineer of Seattle jarmory done away with; salaries of Seattle, Spokane and Yakima atmory engineers unchanged. Assistant me- chante at the Murray arsenal and state reserve to be discharged, re- ducing the shop expense from $6.000 jto $3,600, Murray arsenal truck driver relieved from duty. Subsistence and lodging expendi- jtures reduced from $7,070 to $6,000 jand armory rentals cut $10,000. | Armory operating expenses reduced, 1$5,000, Maintenance expense cut | $8,000, being formerly $19,600, | It is believed by many members of |the committee that these reductions re so placed that they will in no y cripple the guard. ‘They believe I that they have eliminated only the jexpenditures which are unnecessary and that thelr elimination will leave lthe guard as efficient as it has been horetofore. |“Scotch h” Distillery Raided by Officials Seattle’ ch distillery” was discovered F night when a joint dry squad, comprising two fe agents and Deputies Asa Li Tom Morgan of the sheriff's. for ded the home of Dennis Connell, at Factorla, near Bellevue, Wash, | Connell is being held by the federal men for selling improvised Scotch |whisky to a dry squad agent ‘Thurs day night. The distillery consisted of a 40salion still, a quantity of concentrated almond extract, a quan- tity of creosote, 200 gallons of mash and eight gallons of “Scotch” ready to bottle, A charge of manufactur: ing Hauor will be filed against Con- nell. CHICAGO, Feb, nouncement of the pu ris & Co,, will be made end of this month, it on good authority tode The Armeur. concern was hus until ~\TEUTONS WIN | lives, |lieved train dispatchers assisted tm || discovering a way out over soma side lines the French had over |looked in drawing thelr cordom” | voluntary ‘ROCKEFELLER IMPROVED COAL SUPPLY FROM FRENCH Fuel Trains Are Rushed Outside Thru Barriers of Invaders BERL { Feb, 3. several —Risking thelr Jocomotive engineers today ran the French blockade of the Ruhr valley and hauled train loads of coal thru the Jines and into unoccupied territory. The coal commissioner admitted that the quantity smuggled thea rier was small, is of the blockade running? refully guarded, but it is bee GERMANS ASK NEW PARLEY PARIS, Feb. 3—Germany fa try ing to reopen negotiations with France over payment of reparations, it was reported today, The Echo de Paris sald Germany had protested the action of the rep arations commission declaring her im default of payments, | Premier Poincare, supported hy the entire cabinet, hag determined refrain from participating In a negotiations and to avoid talking with any representative of Chances jor Cuno until the Ruhr movement has progressed to such a point th Germany payment is assured. A “high personage,” interviews: f by the Echo De Parts, said: : “I. believe we will be so suco that we will be able to resume | ing coal to France from the Ru the next five or six days, we will increase the ship Newspapers at Mayence nave lished appeals to the French that fines imposed on Fritz Thyssen other industrial magnates for refusal to obey orders be forthwith. see RHINE CHIEF _ IS ARRESTED COBLENZ, Feb. 3.—Herr German president of the Rhine p ince, was arrested today, immed ly after visiting M. Tierard, high commissioner in the Rhinel Fuchs was taken into custody (urn to Page 4, Column 2) BREAKS COLD .SNAI SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 3,—Risi temperature today gave promise a break of the cold spell which h held northern California in its for a week, the weather bureau nounced. : see ROB WHILE COPS DANC PORTLAND, Feb. 3.—Portland j lice overlooked the issuance of a f@y Invitations to their annual benef ball at the auditorium Friday n with the result that six bu and at least one holdup were ed to headquarters today, eee WELCOME HOME YANK: SAVANNAH, Ga. Feb. 3. arations for the celebration will welcome back to the Ui States the eighth United States — fantry—last of the “American Wi on the Rhine"”—were being here today. The troops are sehe uled to arrive Wednesday on b the army transport St. Mihiel. |German wives of 66 soldiers also on the transport. . * | HOLD RUSS REFUGEES WASHINGTON, Feb, 3.—Disposi. tion of the cases of 800 Russia tefugees who have arrived at { Phitinpine isiands ts in the hands | Gov. Gen, Leonard Wood, it was clared at the war department toda The insular. governor will deck whether to admit the refugees, as th matter is not one involving intern tional complications, it was stated, vee \MAY ACCEPT FORD OFFER WASHINGTON, Feb, &—Inm diate acceptance by the government. of Henry Vort's offer to develo Muscle Shoals was vigorously urged | ine as a “wise business proposition the house today by Representatives Madden of Dinois, republican, ehaite 4 man of the house appropriation§ committee. ORMOND BBACH, Pla, Feb, te “Much improved” was the xepai y on the condition of Jom Rovkefelier, Awho has been sutton March 1 (o vomplote the $30,000,000 dea) ap from a slight cold at hid home here.