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VOLUME 23.
AS IT SEEMS
TOME
DANA SLEETH
BHE family went to town
on the Olorloua Fourth
to celebrate.
The kl<l<lles wanted
some firecrackers. and !
went forth to buy a few. And at
the first corner (land I was In
formed that flrecrackera, torpe
does. lady cracker*, fireworks,
bombs, cap pistols—everything
- that could make a noise was Kir
red within the city limits. The
city made a noise like a deaf mute
funeral; there was about as much
patriotic ardor aa there la any
ffloomy November afternoon In t.
■loss-covered family vault under
the weeping willows, and we load
ad ourselves Into the family hack
•nd returned to the country.
Then I loaded the shotgun and
fired both barrels out of the. front
door and yelled, "Hurrah for
Oenrge Washington!" I loaded the
gopher gun and pulled the string,
and. 'mid bombs bursting In air, I
jelled. "Three cheers for the conti
nental congress?'
By that time everybody was In a
fln« glow of martial and patriotic
ardor, so 1 planted three sticks of
dynamite under the pine stump
that has been camping in the back
yard for too long a visit, and as
the stump clove the heavens I
yelled one* more, "Three cheers
and a tiger for life, liberty and the
pursuit of happiness, and darn
England."
And there wasn't a city ordi
nance within ten ml'es of me to
check my laudable demonstration,
e e e
mHATS ths trouble with
cities laws are heaped
on laws, officers are
QKVJs herded together In dense
packs to enforce these
tawa Bvery time ths council
meets there Is some new string
tied to the public, and from walk-
In* on the grass to walking at all
after » p. m. Is "verboten."
11l bet In all Seattle there are
not a hundred families so remotely
and happily situated that they
dare to put on and pun off a por
ous plaster.
Any one who ever skinned a
man sire porous planter from the
lnflam'd back of a male cJtlien
will get my meaning.
gome excitable neighbor woman
would be calling the police before
jrou could get the first corner
pulled looae from dad.
Ton are not your own man In
town. Every time you mow the
lawn you feel the eyes of the neigh
borhood upon you Every time you
■tart to put on a set of comfort
ably greasy overalls to tinker with
the flivver. the wife will nay: "Oh.
John, don't! What will the neigh
bor's think*"
Every half hour the poor.
tru**«*d up and herded children are
warned not to get their clothes
polled: "Why. I wouldn't have
Mm Brown see yon with that dirty
face for worlds?* And how Is a kid
to mike a mud pie without getting
his face smeared?
Hardly can a baby cry without
the families for a bloc* being dl»-
turbed.
Th« piano has to stop at 10
o'clock. The neighborhood parties
must put on the noft pedal an hour
after dark. No man Is big enough.
Strong minded enough, to venture
Out on his front porch and yodel—
not in all Hemttie can you find a
raally good yodler. I bet you.
• • •
aLT. Ihls has a psycholog
ical effect. City people
are repressed, they »r»
bound down ard suffer
from Ingrowing
grouchoa: th«*y are surly and sus
picious. they have a vast re«pect fur
the blue-coated ••guardians" of the
pe.i/• a serf-like awe of a police
man that is neither deserved by the
righteousness of the average cop
nor compatible with true republic
anism.
City life, at home and in the
■chool. Is OP.e laj.-> "don't" for the
child, from Its tolling days to Its
majority.
Rules, regulations, neighborhood
opinion, fear of publicity, fear of
being thought tju«-er these bind us
down -until no wonder we get Into
ji rut and stay there. Ilk' a snap
plrg turtle In Its shell In the mud.
On my ranch I am king; my
flocks and my herds and my crop*
are my vassals; my word Is law to
the bound* of my land, and In six
years or sixteen, the farmer will
never be molested by a peace off I
cer not If the officer ha* good
■ense.
How Is a man going to he a sov
ereign clti/en, an independent vot
er, a. force for good in the com
munlty. If he never does any bo**.
Ing, never daren rxpres* hlm«e|f.
never lift* up hi* voice and howls
like a wolf If It pleases him?
Cltlea are pettl«oated, and var
Tilehed and tJed up with pi*k and
blue rlbbonu, and If they get a cln
der In their dear little eve they rail
«n ambulance and go to the hos
pital for a couple of day*.
In the country men are truly the
arbiter* of their d#-atlny. and on
their own leg* they ctand, If they
Stand at all
YACHT RACE IS CALLED OFF
SLOW WIND
STOPS STH
CONTEST
Both Yachts Drifting Limp
ly in Fifth Contest With
Resolute in Front
aboard i'. a dehtroter
OOI.DSBOROfCH. July J« <Wire
lees > The fickle wind again today
caused postponement of the decision
In the International yacht rates off
Sandy Hook.
The race »x» called off after Sham
rock and lU-aolute drifted around the
15-mile course for four and a half
hours In air which ranged from a
dead calm to a breese of not mure
than four knots an hour.
e e *
ABOARD U. 8. DESTROTKR
OOIJIBBOROrr.H, July tt.—(Via
Wireless V—The fifth race for the
America's yachting cup developed in
to a drifting contest today.
With a breeze which csjne first out
of the north and then switched to !«•»
south, but never Increased to more
than four knots, the two contenders
drifted down the Jersey coast. Two
hours after getting under way. Res
olute was trading, was still 21 miles
from the finish, 10 Bliss from the
turning buoy
Bhamroc* led across ths starting
line by 5C seconds after ths start of
the contest had been delayed half an
hour In the hope of a stable breere
She Immediately luffed, with the Res
olute at her heels. The yachts ran
about five mites off the course when
Capt. Adams Jibbed. Bhamrock held
on too lon« and got too close to the
land, losing the breeae.
Resolute, with a fair wind, footed
out ahead and at one time had a lead
of a quarter of a mile.
icr xu.tTK soos ci/mES
(. \|* AT Tin; STARtT
Toth yachts crooned the line
under ballooner* and Hhamrock at
once headed far off the course on
a luffing match to the weatward.
Patrol boats acampered around,
clearing a pannage among the fol
lowing craft for the racer*.
Hhsmrork paid off first and was
Immediately followed by Resold*
Resolute. ths official time showed,
waa nearly a minute behind the
challenger In crooning the line. The
defender, however, anon closed up
'ha gap an I both yachts were nail-
Mg almost on an even basis 10
mniitea after the start.
The official time war.
Shamrock. 11 Jn 2J.
ItMciuta, :s 31.26.
Shomrock led by St seconds
The yachts were four miles off
their course at 1:10. A new wind ap
peared coming up from the south.
At 1 20 H ham rock was leading by
a quarter of a mile and both yachts
were becalmed.
The Hhamrock begun to pick up a
little land breeie at 1:10 and gained
nipldly. Resolute was almost be
calmed. 400 yards astern.
The wind, which had been from
the north, hauled to the east at 2
p m . making the course a resch and
possibly a beat. Renolute picked It up
first and began to move well ahead,
beside* being to the windward.
The yacht* were thr*<- miles south
eaat of the Highlands light at 2:10,
standing a little west of south on the
port tack, with Itesolute 50 yard*
ahead.
Renolute wa» also 100 yards to the
windward Ths wind had died down
ag?ln until they Just had steerage
way At Shut time they were more
than 10 miles to the leeward of the
mark.
Shamrock ran Into another air
pocket., while the Resolute held the
breeze, and at 2 20 the American boat
had established n lead of 200 yard.i
and whs traveling very fant.
At 2HO Itesolute was a quarter of
H mile ahead.
Hhatnrock held on to her ballooner
and hepan to gain.
The yachts started on a fllne mile
heat to the outer mark at 2:40 Res
olute was one-<]uarter of a mile
ahead and to the windward.
The race got under way at 12:30
after considerable delay due to
calm weather.
The regatta committee boat hoist
ed the fl.ig postponing the contest
until later In the day half an hour
before the scheduled starting time
The wind waa not even KufflcJent
to carry Hhnmrock to the starting
line. Hhe waa about two mile* from
Ambrow llghtffhlp when nhe ran
Into a culm ard signalled for a*-
alatanca to tow her to the atarilng
point.
The wind, from the hart
fallen to about three mile* an hour.
Weather aharka aalrt there waa
(Turn to l'a*e ?. Coluiw *»
The Seattle Star
Kntar*4 aa *•< «n«t (?lwi MatUr Maj I, lift, at tha rn*offlra m Ha*(M«, WMh , under th« Art of March t. ll?t P«r Tim, by Mali. |l to |»
Peace Now! Later—What?
An Open Letter to the Congressional Committee Investigating the Japanese Question
Members of the Immigration Committee,
House of Representatives:
Gentlevien—ln the hollow of your hands may lie
the peace and prosperity of the Pacific Coast and
the nation. In proportion to the fearlessness with
which the Japanese question is tackled and settled
will our happiness he balanced. There can be no
temporizing, no shirking:, no dodging the issues.
We are face to face with a great economic, if not
a racial, problem. In Washington, Japanese pene
tration has not yet reached the depth it has in Cali
fornia, but the earmarks of the menace are the
same. What HAS happened in California is hap
pening here. What HAS happened in Hawaii is
happening in California. What HAS happened in
Washington is happening in Idaho and in Colorado
and points farther east. What IS happening in the
Rocky Mountain states will soon enough happen in
the middle west and in the east —unless the Japan
ese are checked now. .
They can be checked NOW by peaceable means.
Later it may be too late. Rigid exclusion is the guar
antee of peace. No picture brides; no "gentlemen's
agreements"; no loopholes of any kind. We have
the same right to exclude Japanese when they men
ace our economic happiness as the Japanese have to
exclude Chinese and Koreans from their own
country.
Let no sentimentalists becloud the issue. The Jap-
CAPTURE ONE FUGITIVE
SHERIFF SLAIN
BY PRISONERS
Umatilla Desperadoes Make
Escape After Crime
rKVUI I.WN. Ore.. July ?«.
—Willi the aiil of bloodhound*,
a pj»**e today raptured Albert
l.lndgren, one of Ihe six men
who otcaped from the I mat ilia
county Jail here Sunday.
l.lndgren »a* fallen near
Payuse, It mile* na»i of Pendle
ton.
The other five fugitives have
been traced to Mew ham, 111 Ihe
■ title mountain*. IK miles south
east ol Pendleton.
• • a
PENDLETON. Or*.. July 2« A
pom*#* numbering hundred* of men la
*e«rehlng today for *lx prlaoner*
who eacaped from the t'matllla
county Jail yewterday afternoon after
murdering Sheriff T. D. Taylor.
Hloodhounda from the Washington
*tat« penitentiary At Walla Walla
wer* ruahed to the *r#»ne of the kill-
In* and were jient out on the traJl.
Nell ITj«rt. an Indian. 22, In
to have *hot Sheriff Taylor, who
wa* atnjggllng with another prl*
oner.
Thf *lx prlaoneri overpowered
Deputy Sheriff Jake Martin and had
left the Jail office when they were
met. by Sheriff Taylor and another
deputy. The officer* Immediately
rloaed In on the men and the mur
der of the Hherlff occurred during
the fight.
The daaperadoe* then seined gun*
nnd ammunition from the nherlff'e
office and hoarded a freight train
They rod#* four mile* en*t of pendle.
ton and fled Into the wooded noun
try. where It Ik be||*yed they aeparat*
>4 to make *ear<h more difficult.
Sinn Feiners Kill
Coast Guard Men
DUHI/IH, July 2<l. Two i-oiiM
(tunrd Offlepra were killed in a mlrt
on the eoaat guard atatlon by Klnn
Felnera here early todv
On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise
Mother Offers
to Sell Baby,
Then Weakens
N'KW TOIIK. July 21 —"For Rale
—Young widow will part with lovely
2% year old girl; Irish parentage;
mother Is In poor health."
That I* the whole story. Katherine
McNulty, a pretty, dark haired. 2*
year old mother, said today, when
asked about the advertisement In
serted In paper* here. Many bids
had been received for the curly*
haired Margaret, who played about
the tiny, clean room. Rrave at first,
the little mother was loath to glvo
up her child when the time for port
ing came, and so far has refused all
offers.
Ths mother's story was on* of a
losing struggle against poverty and
illness Iter husband died three years
ago. Hhe struggled bravely to care
for her two children, Martin and
Margaret, and a*em>-d to be succeed
Ing until last spring, when she waa
taken 111.
Physicians Deny
.Clemenceau Is 111
PARIH, July 2* Physicians who
have l>een attending former Pre
mier Clemenceau today Isaued a
denial that "the Tiger" was 111 and
stated he would return to Paris
on Friday from Vichy, where he
had liecn taking treatment.
Bela Kun Interned
in Germany Camp
I/*)NIX)N, July 2« HHa Kun,
former Hungarian dictator, haa
bean Interned in a ramp at I'ujiwui,
Germany, according t> dtaftatchea
here today. Thf Berlin jrovern
ment ha* not replied to llunffary'a
demand for )iln exfradltlon.
CENSE OF HUMOR
° CAUSE OF TROUBLE
WAU,A WALLA, July 2(1 Jo"
Riir.hlno had a aenae of humor, any
way. The eherlff founrl him arUlnK
up a atlti on Dry creek.
SEATTLE, WASH., MONDAY, JULY 26, 1920.
Coni/rrmvnai probers of Japanese colonization swapped is fir it hearing Monday,
tjrlt to right—Oov. lam it F. Hart, fir it wit net* ; Rep Wtf/iam JT. Faile, Colorado;
Hep. Itaac HUrgrl, Sew York; Rep Albert John*on, V» athington; Rep. John O.
Rtiki-r, California, and Rep. John C. Box. Ttx<u. —Creu-Dale Photo.
anese problem presents practical questions of im
portance. You must view them as practical men.
You must view them with courage—and you must
act with courage—even tho your acts must be drastic
to be thorough. THE SEATTLE STAR.
MPS CONTROL
PRICE OF FOOD
Health Commissioner Re
ports to Mayor
That the municipal market Is
controlled and dominated by Japa
nese interests waa the assertion
mad* by I»r. H. M. Head, commis
sioner of health. In a report ren
dered to Mayor tf nday
morning.
Pointing out that the produce
situation here Is analogous to that
In California, J>r. Read declared:
"The public market at the pres
ent time Is controlled In the pricerf
demanded for produce by Ihe Jap
anese themselves and they are the
worst offenders In the matter of
subleases "
!>r. Head's communication was
In reply to criticisms made by the
Rev. I'. fl. Murphy, Jap sympathiz
er and agent, thnt a majority of
the stalls In the market are run
by salesmen and not by real pro
ducers The Rev. Murphy admit
ted that ons group of Japanese
merchants control 7B per cent of
the business of the city market.
Dr. Head cited the opinion ren
dered by Corporation Counsel Wal
ter F Meier to the effect that hold
era of sublessee could not tie de
nled ths privileges of stalls In the
market.
That Japs and "whites" confer
together on the prohlem or keening
the market for actual producers,
was declared Impossible by Dr.
Rend.
"It would lie fmpoNnlhlo Jo do ns
Mr Murphy augireata and accom
pllwh an yt hid jr." he wtated "The
rf«ion 1* entirely ohvloua the Jap*
and the 'whiten' would not amnl
ramnte In hualnena mattera any
more than they do In other
thlnn."
Ten, Rafalo. the married man who
repent* at leisure la lucky to have
the leisure.
Girl Who Made
Bogus Money
Is Penitent
POHTT.ANT>. July --Dorothy
Riley, 12, expert counterfeiter, is to
day en route to Oakland, Cal., where
she Intends to start life anew.
The young woman Just completed
serving a nlnetnonth Jail sentence
here for making bogus money with
her husband, John Itlley. The latter,
who was sent to McNeil's Island for
a term of yearn, made his escape a
few months ago, and la now a fug!
live.
"It's n losing gams. You may win
for a time, but In the end your luck
can't hold, and you can't expect to
niah In anything except sorrow, grief
and tears," said the pretty Mrs.
Kiley, before starting for California
"I'm still young and have a long
life t>efore me, and hereafter I'm go
Ing straight. You can bank on that."
5 MASKED MEN
STEAL $ll,OOO
CENTRAI* FA 1.1.3, R. 1.. July 2«
—Five masked men held tp the
cashier at ths Union Credic Fran
calse bank, on Fales street, at the
point of revolvers today and es
caped In an automobile with a
strong box containing 111,000.
Poindexter Murder
Theory Abandoned
CHICAGO. July 2fi police have
abandoned the murder theory In the
invcMttgatiou of the death of Ma*
Polndexter, couMln of Senator Mllea
Polndexter. Officlaln today nay they
are certain hta death wim the reeult
of suicide.
lnvi'KtiKHtom reported that Poln
derter Buffered heavy flnam-ial
lt>n*ea. A lettrr wrlttepn a few day*
before hla death iihowcd he »aa not
In good health
7&JT
POSSES SEEK
GIRL'S SLAYER
Scour Woods for Mercer
Island Pitchfork Murderer
Sheriff* pown engaged In a man
hunt for Jim Sphyrldla. wanted for
the murder on Mercar Inland, Satur
day. of 11 y«uir-old Mary Jane Pap-
IMUi. whom he speared with a pitch
fork when she rebuked him for cure-
Inn. centered their attention today
on the vicinity of North Bend. Prac
tically certain he eacaped the Inland
before It had been thoroly searched,
and renitonlng that he would strike
out for a ranch where he hnd been
working recently near North Itend, a
posnc headed by Matt Starwlch and
Including "Big Bill" Barr and Wil
liam Swim, lay In hiding In the woods
near the ranch oil night.
Hphyrldls, no far a* has been learn
ed. has not yet disclosed himself to
ask for food. If he has eaten since
the killing of the little girl, he has
forajjed hi* meals from farmyards
without knowledge of the Inhabi
tants.
The only person who claims to
have xeen a man of Kphyrldls' de
scription In C. E Dewry, of Fruit
land, on the cast aide of Mercer
Island. Dewry Informed deputy
sheriffs he believed it wua the fugi
tive, who obtained a rowboat from
him about 9:30 Saturday night.
lie said the man pushed off with
the boat toward* Iteaux Arts vil
lage, and at midnight a posse with
bloodhounds were searching ttnt
locality but the dogs failed to find
Sphyrldls' scent.
Two theories developed out of the
Incident. One that Sphyrldls, i* the
man In the boat was he, headed for
Hraux Arts and then doubled back
111 the opposite direction to throw
his pursuers off, and another that
he threw himself out of the boat
and drowned himself In fear of the
consequences of his capture.
It isn't always safe to judge Ihe
quality of wen or cigars by their
prloa.
TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE
PRAISED
AS GOOD
CITIZENS
FOR U.S.A.
"Shall We Encourage Our
Girls to Marry Them?"
Is the Question Asked
Dr. Crowther
J
Judge John K. Raker, California "*
conijrmtnan, leaned forward tew
a table In a federal court room
today and asked I lev. Dr. J. B.
Crowther. pajitor of the First litU
odlst church, a question.
That question brought to a mw>
muroua close the first sfaslon at
the Seattle hearings of the i mm** ,
ntonal committee Investigating 'M
Japanese problem on ths Padfltt ,
coast.
The question, voiced In a patient. ?
respectful and somewhat weary ,
tone, was not answered.
"Why, Dr. Crowther, don't TM
Invite the Japanese Into your owa
home and encourage them to uail|
your daughters?"
"I decline to answer that," ad
Dr. Crowther. who had cendgM
an eloquent plea that the Japa
nese be admitted to the full prtrV .
leges of citizenship.
WTTNKRSKB PRAISE
JAPH TO PROBCBB
Jade* Raker thaakri Dr. Cw»
thee tor tm U*ttmmy. thm kMclMpr,
'was adjourned and from Um ■Mil
ton la the court ma tolM cm>
ment arose.
The first meeting l of the j
mlttee assigned was linn over laigo ,
ly to high praise of the Japans** '
from Dr. Crowther and from Judga
Thomas Burke, following Miller F*rea
men, president of the Anti-Japans**
league, who ontltned the contention*
of those opposed to Japanese pen*-
tratlon In the United States.
Judge Burke, in response to ques
tion* from committeemen, said that
he had been decorated by the em
peror of Japan with the order of the
Rising Run and considers this a ~dla
languished honor." He said he had
been for about 15 years counsel for
the great Japanese trading company,
Nippon Tusen Kaisha. and has rsp*a
sented the Great Northern railroad
for a similar length of ttma. Tha
Great Northern, Judge Burks ad
mitted In response to questions front
the committee, was the first to la
port Japanese labor.
JUDGE I.AIDS
J At* CHARACTER
Judge Burke's testimony dealt not
at all with statistics, but was con
fined to laudation of Japanese char
acter.
Judge Burke said that the Japan
ese and whites could not amalgamate
phyxically.
"Japan does not desire any such
thing," he said. "In Japan a native
who marries a white woman Is looked
down upon."
The Judge was placed on record as
opposing unrestricted Immigration,
but said that "the small number of
Japanese here now constitute no
problem." •
Referring to protests against Jap
anese aggression. Judge Rurife said:
"Every day that this propaganda 1s
carried on we are wounding the pride
and sensibilities of a proud nation."
He insisted that the gentleman's
agreement was being scrupulously
upheld.
"PERFECT GENTLEMEN
IN MY CHURCH"
Dr. Crowther told the committee
thut he had come to America It
years ago in steerage; that in Eng
land he had t>een a cotton mill
worker and that his education and
l>osltlon he owed entirely to th*
United States.
He praised the Gullck bill, which '
would place the Asiatic Immigrant j
on an even footing with other*, j
but admitted that physical assim
ilation of the Jaiwnese was "im
possible."
"How In the world." asked Judgs
Raker, "do you expect a com
munity of divided races to be happy
(Turn to Pa|« 2* Column A
CAN'T BE LOST
Nothing ran ba lost them dajre
on a<vnnnt of the Want Ada.
for the department of the Want
columns, known aa the Loat
and Found rolumn, la a certain
way of finding and returning
lost property.
Wh<*n you are a Inner, or a
finder, don't fall to giva the
Ijoat and Pound ada a chance,
either to find your loat pwdi
for you. or to be honeat and
return the goods you have found
to their rightful ownar.
PHONIC MAIN Ml.