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The Star goes into 11,727 mor e homes every day than any other Seattle newspaper (these figures taken from October 1, 1921, sworn postal statements) JAPAN MAY SPRING NEW PLAN VOLUME 23 m This is Community Chest Week. Seattle turns for six days to the task of J* providing in adequate, modern fashion for her 46 agencies which administer to the poor, the delinquent, and the needy, and which work for the upbuilding of good citizenship. Community Week comes, appropriately enough, between Armistice Day and Thanksgiving—between the day that marks the most signifi cant man-wrought victory of history and the day we express gratitude to the jQreat Giver of All. Seattle will "lend a hand." Seattle will fill the Chest And I every family which has a margin to spare should do its part 1 - J4ome grew Now it), roflu! WVtt had Bet tcr Spcech Wevk nnd Father and Ban M rHi and ( mbrrlla Wwk, no* Id's ha»e a ttn k Off. Pi.. "City Hall Politicians Arr lamlu to | fear Jitneys." For Jllnryu may iomc * UHI Jitneys ma) *o. but Cowen Park I rotfj go on forever. Ujl • • • n Gov Hart drain that M will call T ' • special session of the lejrislature l it* revise tax laws. Good stuff! A IjSqprrial tnnion would be like a sec HMd attack of smallpox. • • • RF®* THK SiBW tVKJtT 3 "Cumf prm!" he snarled. l 7 Aml rrnch+4 foe Ms *•#; Ten men fitnpied ortr Mat nfkttug for a *ip! s • •* f iM "The third anniversary of the day ■ When tha German cannon was stilled In Kranoc-The PesiKye. Thr- kaiser's artillery must have been worse off even than "*• iu«i»ct«d. UL (iKK GKP, Til- OmtS | VAMP. HKZ ! tbtm folks Hke twin beds j. | bettlfa twins. . g. = * 'A • • • Docs this "naval holiday"* proposed by tbe dlanl inn ment <oofersnre mean thai we xhall have to Hive up the wooden fleet in L«ke Union? • • • •A "tMsabU-d M-n Parade Backbone." i .»ys 4 mijity sub head In Star" But What about the poor fellows whtf had Blheir bnckbrine »hoe away? I* • • • " WHVVT'JA mu ra.l.A? I>'ya know that "Better Hpeecb" week has cam* ajirt went? « • • Be turrit iau a football «for. The coach teat plod he found him; dad when he landed in the mud. The tlam trere all around him. • • • THF HOMK BKKWKK KINGS "Twinkle, twinkle. Uttle Jar. how | wonder what you are." • • • "Days in Seattle are getting so •hart we should have eight a week." aays the lady next door. • • * If the disarmament conference tails to take up the question of load ed dtce it la a failure. • • • CITY HAM. AXIOM What does it profit a man to save the whorte world, if he doesn't get on tb' payroll? • • • Do your Christmas hinting early. • • * ft K "I used to know a girt named | A (Inline Moore." say* Tom Page, j and the kid* at school used to | all call her postscript." X « • « • DISARMAMENT NOTE In war the guh* do the talking; )n peace, the generals. • • • The dome in the »tand* tea* penrhei nnd cream, Thr. fnllbark'n dim<r tea* an old fashioned nrream ; Did he pat* her up lor thl* vnmpy young dream f Y<ru *aid it. • • • Th* U. S, at the opening of the disarmament conference, proposed that a naval holiday be declared for the next 10 years. Doggone It. these guys In the navy always get the -best Of It! e • • Dear Homer Rrew: I gotta kick against my present board ing house. The bath tub Is so small that If I chew gum UK water sloshes over. What'll I do? Yours, Kmmn |g Dear Kmmy: There Is only one remedy for this deplorable situation. Kat your gum with a fork. • • • Prohibition Chief Lyle d<-nlnff that he Is about to arrest people with bumpers on their automobile*. • • « This la Bring Up Your Own Coal Wmk. WEATHER Tonight and Tufttltty, rain; fr*xh >OMthr<t«trtly uinrft VrinprrnUirv l.**t .4 ||„„r* M.ixiiii dm, M. Minimum. 10. iMtaii, 4|. Seattle Is Aroused to Help Needy Greatest Charity Move in City's History Is launched Bj Hal Armstrong Smllle today launched tha ireatart charllahb- movement la her history, tile filling of a com munity cheat. II h It W a cheat of wl< I«M Inn which the paar, the needy and the wrrlrhed may draw their hit for •»« rnante and relief; fold for humrlew rlilldren. for abandoned mother*, lor dis heartened women and broken men, l« I trip and strengthen them. Iran ths friendlesa .eat and do* and the maltreated horse are not to be forioitra In lh» community client, for tni'ini the II charitable orffnnl cations to be financed from It la the Henttle Humane society. HKVTTIJ* STARTS HAITI TASK K"«ttle wont about Ihr happy task of filling It with her untnl calm «*- •vrtnn*. promising * chest not iwrf- Ijr filled, but overflowing The little oM Lady who dropped hot dim* Into the rhwt last week, the unknown who followed her with a check for 12.V000 and the receipt* from The Hur** mutt dog show. the first contribution*. were eagerly given in ndvanc* before the cheat wan officially opened. Officially It WM not opened untJl today when 4.004 people carried the . tiding* Into the residence ntid hu«l i new aectlona that the lime had come wh«n every man. every worn 1 an and every child might do their bit towardn making the struggle for existence, the fight for life, a Utile easier for the city'* aad unfortu nates. Mow generously those visited to day have given will not be known until tomorrow when the receipt* for th<. day are counted and made public. AIJ. TO HA \ K ( II \M V. TO Ol\ K That all may have an opiiortunlty j to give, that none in the city need be missed, the entire week ha* been \ net aside to fill the cheat. It will ; hold, '-omfortablv, $744 *lO. the rx act umount needed by the 46 Insti tution* to l>e supplied for one year. At noon captain* and rommiuid«-r* of solicitor* in each district «>re called together tat cheat headquar ter*. r.o# Third aye., to report what progress they have made W. I, Rhode*, general chairman of the chest cam palgn, gave out a *tate ment thanking The Star and all those who participated in the mutt dog shriw for their part In helping fill the chest. "tt is a fine thing," he aald. "to be | able to know that we have each done something to help our needy friend.;. Ther<- Is no greater satisfaction." 1 SKATTI.K #3D C'HKHT CITY Seattle will be the SSd city In the Cnited States to have a community chest thin year. The cheats of the !)2 other cities combined hold over $20,678,744 Community cheat meeting* by the Tran*i»ortatlon club, the Van Asselt Parent-Teacher n—nnlatlon. In Com-1 munity hall, I lea con ave. and Myrtle st.; the Arcana lodge, Masonic tcm- j pie. Harvard ave. and Broadway, and the Commonwealth club, In the C. ! Smith building, were scheduled for - the day and evening. STORM WARNINO Small craft warning* were or dered displayed at 8 o'clock Monilay morning at all seaport* In Washington and Oregon A storm apparently off the Wash ington coast will cause strong southwest winds In Oregon «nd fresh to strong southeast wind* In WaKliington today and to night. The Seattle Star Km.red u B.cond Clu> Matter May I. !»»», at th« Poitofric* at Hrattla. \Va*h , undrr th« Ai tof Conirni March 2. 1171. I'tr Taar. by Mall. |6 to to Bag M@w§ Is Bffeakmg! Tk@ OH Thrill Agaiira! r PHE old thrill has come back! We 1 are handling BIG NEWS again. • mm E editors who held the desk jobs ** on newspapers during the war instead of going, tp Joining camps, were spoiled. We lived thru the halcyon news era of all time. Day after day we found our selves with more 810 NKWS stories than we had pages to put them on! Almost any item the leaned wires carried was worthy of banner-line display. Here were stories that combined every element of news appeal—world-shaking importance; dramatic suspense and in tensity; th»"«urprise element; the play of primitive passions, hatred and loyalty and fear and deathless valor—and which came home to our own firesides l*ecnuse OUR BOYS were there in the shock troops and behind the deatroyers' smoke screens. What editor will ever forget handling copy on Lusitania, the Mexican-Oerman- Jap plot expose, the other submarimngs. the terse notes between the White House and Wilhelmstrasse, the kaiser's dozen, the declaration of war, the president's ad dress, our destroyers at Southampton, Pershing in Paris, Seicheprey. Haig's back against the wall, the Great Spring Drive of Hindenburg, Foch, Chateau Thierry (that day we news editors made the U. S, marines forever famous, to the doughboys' disgust), the stunned halt of the Hun, the retreat, St. Mihiel. Argonnt? Forest—and Armistice! Our two Armis tice Days, to be exact! And the day the British navy went into Zeebrugge! Our own destroyer actions! The mine barrage! Russia! Turkey! The smashing of Bulgaria! The Italian front! Rheim,s! Marne! Wipers! Verdun! How the names throng back, every one a crashing, ripping, front-page story! Camp liowis blossoming overnight! The reporters in uniform! Red Cross and Liberty Loan drives; evcryliody working together! Riveting records! SUBSCRIBER MAY SAY WHAT ORGANIZATION MAY GET HIS MONEY Money subscribed to the Com munity Cheat wIU. unlee* other wine designated, he dltlded he tw.ien the 4fi charitable organiza tion* Included In the cheet. The giver. If he wlshe*. may order nil of hl« subiu-rlptlon. or any part of It, Riven to any one or more of the 46 ortfanlaallont. For example, he may desire that hie entire subscription so to the Salvation Army or the lle<l Crone or the Humane Boelety. If so or If he wishes to throw his rapport exclusively to any other organisation or organUatlons. he should a«k the solicitor to whom he gives hie subscription for a "•pedal designation blank." Grand Jury Starts Narcotic Inquiry Convening Monday, the King coun ty grsrnl Jury wim ejected during Ihe week to ronduet n thoro Investl gallon Into the activities of narcotic (Kddlere In Seattle. It wan also con Hklcred possible that the grand Jurors would look Into the locul status of the Ku Klux Klau. On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Comproviise SEATTLE, WASH., MONDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1921. BY THE EDITOR Receiver for Nabatame to Be Demanded Today Motion for IKo appointment ol (irartr H. Kahin an receiver for the World Calilr Directory («. wan to be fllr<l at i Monday af ternoon In superior court by Kenneth Durham, manager of tint credit bureau of the Male di*- partnient of labor and Industries, who Is acting a» attorney for llrimb Commissioner 11. I' Hvrrest in a suit filed against the company simultaneously on behalf of seven unpaid employes. Agents for Thomas V. Nabatan», president of the company, mode an 11th hour effort to forestall the suit by reHewlng promises to meet the unpaid payroll, which Ih estimated at upward* of 110,000. hut Durham and Merchant Charged in Fraud Complaint Alleged to have falsely claimed that his concern had made large sales to three of Heat tie's leading de partment stores, thereby inducing stockholders to Invest. J. E. Kaut to, president of the North Pacific Trading Co., Ktd., was churged In su perior court witli .'rauU. The enthusiasm! The intensity! The altruism! The joy and the ecstacy of service! A year and a half of BIG NEWS stories—immortal stories! Storiea that will be told in detail dozens of centuries hence as Homer's tales are told today! And then—the ARMISTICE! v • • « '"PHE tang of life departed News A Suddenly Ix-came as near-beer, where for many months it had been sublimated champagne. The Golden Age of News was over. We had to turn to the old grist—high pr. s, crime wave, baseball. True, there was the Versailles meeting. The Old Men triumphed, the old ideas prevailed. The results did not thrill us— thev merely made us cynical. It was not BI<; NEWS. And then there were the German up risings and su>>sidings; the Hungarian fusses; a presidential election; Arbuckle. Olionchain and Boy Gardner. • * • "DUT, on Saturday like a crash in the sky, the Big News broke once more. v President Harding and Secretary Hughes (there's an American!) seized the steering wheel of civilization from the grasp of the Old Men and started us back on the highroad 1 we took the day we went into the war! At a blow they smashed the age-old in iquity of whispered, inner-closet intrigu ing diplomacy. They launched the world on a new course where it may really hope to see an end put to warfare. They made it possible for us to hope that the galling yoke of the gunmakers shall be thrown off our necks forever. They put American ideals and American altruism back into the saddle. BIG NEWS. I say! And the old thrill from handling it has returned. And the big thrill of rending it has returned. America may yet win the war. We shall see. we should see. More Big News is to break. Civilization. after three years of floundering, is moving ahead again! Everest refused to be Influenced by anything except the money Itself." Everest's suit I* based on wage claims aggregating 15911 08. only a fractional part of the money actual ly due the 100 odd employes of the i company. Kahin. who is counsel for the iter Business Bureau, has consented to act ax receiver largely because of the activities of his bureau to check Nabatame's operations. Launch With Eight Aboard I» Misting HBW YORK, Nov. 14—The ga-xo llne launch Klsie K , with eight fish ermen aboard, was missing today and was believed to have been loHt at sea off Sheepshead bay fishing grounds. I'NQI'AIJFIKD APPROVAL of the program of the United mates laid down at the opening of Ihe dis armament conference In Washing ton, D. C., was expressed by Rev. B. O. Clauson In an address before the Young People's society of tho Bethany Lutheran church Sunday. End Anglo- Japan Pact to Be Asked America's Stand Against Alliance Will Be Stated Before Conference THC ARM* PABI.KT TODAY A hlah Mrlilah afflrlal i.«U r <rtal«4 I Hal final RrtUW «kI4 - "an»pl la prlirlH*" <>»• NteUa walla far af tteimt ropiiaa *eaaa final HHlata anl •*■>■« Ml la ll* pragram far a !•- na» aaral hall da r mm* • iaapla» IfMllalkaa af aniaalal. Sa«al «fM> af l.real nrflala Bad Japan fcara na4i tin Aaaerteaa pro pooato. Th* 100 main MNnmlltfM of Ik# fnfWfßf# si I c'rlori. •w «•« program and praredvrf for rmrhiog *» •irfrmmt for limit at lon of armameat nail pmirain and pro. **hira for dtarooolog lor >.*at#rn | Alfalra. Tl»# M>tt ploiarf oooinii of tfeio emmOiimem will b« lied 4 at 11 o'rlm k tomorrow. 0 o • nv A. I. IIK\I>KOKI> (Copyright. I til, by the Inlted 1 Venn.| WASHINGTON, NOT 14 The Ancln Japanese illlucf mual be .rrappt'd. Thl*. It wan learned on hljh BUfhnril> today, will be Ihr aland of Iho I niliil StVle* government when problem-. of Iho Pacific and Iho Far K.ant «ro taken up by Iho conference on limitation of j armament. wnj. BE STATU!) IN HUNK TKItMK The po-ition of the rnlted Stat**! on the alliance between Great Britain ; and Japan will bo stated nome tlmo ■ 'during the conference In Juat a* un- j i equivocal and frank term* by See- 1 I rotary of Stat* Hughe* an the ! spokesman of tho Amorlcan delegu tion put forward the bold and ' sweeping program of America for | cutting the great naval armament* of the world. It win confidently ex pected here today. Thl* m»v lie done tomorrow. The question of the Anglo -Japan eiae alliance, however. I* a greatly different one than that of fixing a limit on naval armament nnd re ducing the present naval eatubllnh- I menta. The alliance in,* delicate question I wit.h both Great Brttain and Japan, \ nltho lioth of these countries arc be-] lleved to realize that something must lw> done iilmut thin pact In the pre*- ent conference to tneet tho op|K)siUon of the I'nlted State*. Official* here (mint out that the I'nlted Stilt en has nothing In direct relation to offer a* a luicriftce In re. i turn for abandonment by Great ; Britain and Japan of their alliance. On the question of naval armament, however. America ha.* offered to ncriip the irreat ship* of the *1916 building program, considered a greater sacrifice than the other powers were asked to make AM.IAMK IS TIIIH GHT MENACE llrlefly, the position of this coun try on the Anglo-Japanese alliance Is as follows. It is learned on highest authority !>y the United Press: 1. The government of the t'nlted States Is unalterably opposed to this military |>aet between the two great empires on opposite sides of the world and considers this alliance a menace to this country. !. Despite the repeated as surances of the llritisli and Jap anese statesmen, this govern ment cjui see no country other than the I nltcd Slates against which the alliance probably would be directed In an Im portant emergency. a. The alliance has n close bearing on. and might even prevent, an ef fective agreement for limitation of navnl armaments, as the pact po tentially Joins the navies of tlreat Hrltain and Japan, resulting In a su perior force to the American navy. tiEWISTON. Idaho -James Witt, Oregon pioneer of 18&8, dead at age Of 84. HOME EDITION WANTS TO REDUCE ? U. S. BRITISH SHIPS Counter Proposals May Ask That Less War Vessels Be Assigned to the World's Leading Navies BY CLARENCE DUBOSE (Copyright, HU, By United Prett) • . TOKYO, Nov. 14. —It became practically certain; today that Japan would submit counter proposal* cat limitation of armament as its answer to the Hughes program offered by the' United States at Washing ton Saturday. The counter proposals probably will accept Japan's limitation of 10 capital ships, but will ask a read justment of the proportionate strength of the naval powers, suggesting that England be reduced to lesi than 22 and the United States to less than 18 capital ships, as Hughes proposed. M The general attitude of the press today was that Hughes' program constituted a splendid idea, but the details would be difficult to work out. SKEPTICAL , OYKK lIKTAIIH The first flush of approval was somewhat modified by skepticism over details as more complete reports on the Hughes' program arrived by cable. The Tokyo Nlchi Nlchl, a leading 1 paper, quoted annonymous naval of ficers as characterizing the proposals as grossly unfair towards Japan and declaring approval imposlsble. The Ashl, anbther strong paper, said Japan should demand the light to retain 12 capital ships. It opposes ■scrapping the giant new battleship Mutsui. Premier Takahashl gave out a [formal statement praising the pur poses of the Washington conference and reiterating that Japan's policy will not he changed His stutr*nent. however, did not mention the Hughes proposals and when the correspondent questioned the premier, Takahashl declined to comment or give any Intimation whatever of his attitude. 'The policies of the Japanese gov ernment will not he changed tinder my premiership," Baron Takahashl, who was installed Saturday as the new premier of Japan, declared. The new premier Indicated there would he no changes in the cabinet or In the personnel of the delegation to the Washington conference on BRITAIN WILL OKEH PROGRAM IIY CARL D. GROAT WABH>ON. Nov. 14.—Great Britain tomorrow will "accept In principle" America's sweeping pro gram for a limitation of armaments. Tlvis "us the Information obtained here today from high official sources of the British delegation. "Mr. Balfour, as head of the Brit ish delegation, will make a very im portant speech tomorrow, accepting in principle the American program," an official declared. He clearly indicated that official word as to the American program had been received from London. Bal four's speech, altho to lie extempo raneous, will he n complete and com prehensive reply to the proposals enunciated to the world by Secretary Hughes. A source In close contact with the Japanese delegation informed the United Press that Admiral Baron Kato also probably will speak tomor row, accepting, "In principle," and perhaps outlining Japanese objec tions thereto. TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE limitation of armaments. He wflf I■%>> tain the finance portfolio. PRKSS COMMENTS KKKMN KAVOKABI.K Comment of the Japanese press M the Hughe* disarmament propocala was distinctly favorable today. , ileal I y all newspa|>ers commented at length. The general tone of the comment was that the program Hughes pro- j posed meant tremendous financial savings to Japan, but that the details must be carefully and ciutieaaty worked out. Some papers suggests* counter proposals might be in ordar. Such suggestions had indication* aC being, J>erhap9, semi-official. The Kokumin. the leading antl government organ, insisted ttpt Japan should be permitted to hats |at least 12 capital ships. Popular approval of the general (idea expressed by Hughes' proposals was clear. Naval expert.* today were studying closely the details of the proposals. Numerous conferences were being held, leaders In 1 the disarmament movement In Japan were hopeful, but In some quarters there was a dis position to insist on naval equality. The proposals seemed to havo startled the country with their sud denness and tendency to get down t« "brass tacks" immediately. It was considered certain the pro gram would eventually meet with favor from Premier Takahashl, wha for years has been a disarmament advocate. Business and commercial circles seemed favorable to the Hughes prs gram. NEXT STEP IS DUE TOMORROW | I»Y I AWKF.NCF, MARTIN WASHINGTON. Nov. 14.—The American government, as Its sweep ing program for a big: cut In »*• force* having received .spontaneous and unqualified support thruout the country, wan preparing today to tako its second major step In tta program of urmament limitations and settlement of Far Kaatern ques tions. ThLs step Is expected to be taken at the second plenary session of the conference tomorrow morninf. In a general way, It is expected to consist of: I.—Receipt of formal replies from the British mid Japanese delegations to the American proposals lim iting naval armaments. Both Britain and Japan will accept in principle, but probably will suggest certain modifications us to detail. I.— Reference to committees of the various modifications and amendments suggested. 3.—lntroduction before the full (Turn to Pa<e 7. Column |)