The Seattle star., February 16, 1922, Image 1

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SPITTING in public is not a pretty habit, and, what is more, it is one of the most prolific means known of spreading colds, influenza and kindred ilk Dr. 1
Hiram M. Read, city health officer, has declared open war on the persons who violate the laws against the practice. The penalty is a fine of from $5 to
SIOO, or not more than 30 days in jail, or both. But that should not be the chief deterrent. Spitting in public is an inexcusable anti-social practice.
WILD BOYS PROWL STREETS!
Inadequate State Law Dooms Juvenile Castaways
VOLUME 28.
Jfome
Hswdy. folk*: Ws hereby
nominal*' Pan I .tndon a« a ra»
diihtr tor T)M Star flapper rou
int.
• • •
Coroner* Jury in Seattle mam
Mends that white line* be placed on
all donprous curves In town. Old
•tuff! The stocking manufacturers,
with their fancy clocks, have been
putUng white llnea on dangerous
curve* for year*.
'• e e
"Evening gown* will feature low
'■erka." Kjri a Parle faahion note.
All you (trie who laml low
neck* pleaae report to U» gymnasi
um at on«.
a * a
BARBARA KRKITSGBIB.
KKVtSKII
"Shoot. If you must, ihia old gray
head.
Bat let me roll my ■erki," aba
said.
»e a e
What"* b»romi> of the Action hero,
tne who used to tear off a *trtp from
her skirt and bind up her lover's
wound* * If her lover got cut now
he would bleed to death.
• • *
-Tfce doughboy with a bayonet l«
•tin the baaic fighting unit In battle,"
■aye IT. 8. army expert*.
Tea. and over at Camp Lewi* they
Deed to teach u* to eat with our
knteee to overcome fear at the cold
eteeL
e e e
•BARM KIILS TOO IJSABN-
Glean Hoover, professor of ora
tory at the I'eivernlty of Wash
at Ksrt Utea. That is where
Iwlwnwl to ta& with ferae mmt
e e e
' A l«r)«r <rfce ho(V-4 freei Pirfw
Would continually erpe e shampee;
J/e talked *o of dandruff
That Ike lamMk pot rfosire/f
Aad mad< I hit poor barker ik usdoe.
• e e
The Prince of Wales waa criticised
tn the house of commons yesterday
for extravagance. England doesn't
know what extravagance mean*.
She ought to have a city council.
• • •
Beekeepers of the state wfll hold
their annual convention here today
and tomorrow. Almost everything
they dlscuas will have a sling la it.
• e *
UC\RN A nOKI) ICntRT I»\T
Today's word
It'a pronounced rug a* n
berry, with accent on th' firrt mile.
It mean* —"Take him out." "He'a
rotten." "No. we give you a
r#.»«i thu year. Mr. Jonea.*' "I'm
aorrv John. I can't marry you, but
I will alwaya a alater to you."
It come* from—Chinook "rag." r*l
lery. and "berrlea." the bo/a who pay
two-bit* to «» the ihow.
Companion worda lemon, dumb
bell, brown derby.
It'a uaed like this—"Senator Poln
' degtef la one of the outstanding fig
urea In American life today oh.
rawM-:i z 2 -» berry"'
• V •
CHAHFAIGN. HI . f«l 1» —T* V
fltrtihe. #r »n th* *f lUl
not*. wH painfully wnundH vh»i hhi
font in* companion « fr>»l broke, pivrrln*
hta h**rl.—>'rom Th* a tar
Ym. it m uat ha*» t«cn rather a p*!n
ful scratch.
a • a
Onr contemporary. Th* Star,
prinh a picture of a puM.vwillow
iiiirfl chortlfN "Spring i* here!**
Do >o«i UM- a furnace? ThAt'i
aJL Take th* wiliHM.
• • •
"Pat-in gown* our day* and mnk*a
our n:ghta more decorative," — Kaah
lon not** from Hajrper'a Bftiuir.
Th*»'a nothing Meaara. Hair A
Hai*. Johnny Drwar or any of thou*
H/'Otrh gentleman could do that if
given half a chance.
0 0 0
Paulina Frederick'e mother nays
haby buggl*a are had for chlldren'a
Igbrain» Rom* f*ll*m we know must
have had a tin lizzie for a perambu
la tor.
• • •
TflK n u, HTMVS
Th* Pari fir North**-*! Milk
Dralfn' auMiriatkNi will hold
th*ir annual contention in Van
couver Thursday. In liriti**Vi I'o-
Itimhia they ran diffcnaa fl«»l
--ateiu* without f*ar of arrant.
• • •
f ifr.sr miF. %r>
n»w pri<»« ar* cm a T>«r with
Portland prt*#§, while th* Twomi whole*
»«i« bak«rl"fl art on#-half cant a loaf
for the pound and lh« prlra
for th* pound and cot baif Jcav< « -
il rr.Jnrf p.*per.
• • •
There !• a report
that there »r* »om«
n»tr dollar* In
< isolation. Who
knowftl
0 0 0
Th* kal#*r wnnta p*rmi**lon to
move to Finland, The finish, an you
v< re about to aay.
• e •
ffie man who !•;#
down on a jol# pi«k»
a ml|li t f poor
emmrk.
0 0 0
"Cify Charter la » I'•'»r to Prf«*>
rf .p,„ ". Claude If Anderaon. Ci'y
council, did you n-iy, (,'luud< ?
WEATHER
Tonight and J'rMay. rain;
itro*p Mtutketly
pain.
TVmprrml.it> L*M *4 Hour,
Maximum. 4». Minimum. it.
TmUJ noon. It.
PACIFIC WAR AVERTED
SAYS PREMIER LLOYD GEORGE
LONDON, Feb. 16.—Danger of war in the Pacific ha*
been averted thro the Washington arms conference, Uoyil
George declared today in a speech.
'The shore* of the Pacific were littered with exploidvc
material and at any moment things might have hap
pened to precipitate the world into the carnage of a great
war," he said, addressing a luncheon in honor of Arthur
J. Hal four, chief of the liritish arms delegation.
"The I nited States ha* established a great precedent.
Taking the situation in time, it cleared away the sus
picions and misunderstandings."
APPROVES
SALES TAX
FOR BOHUS
Harding Suggests Postpone
ment of Soldier Money if
Tax Plan Is Not Passed
BT CARL a GKOAY
WASHINGTON, M. Ik.—TlM
soldier hen as shewld he pee*.
time n rites* cMgrrw Is eWnf
to adopt a general sales tax.
President Harding declared In a
letter to t'hahrnsn lordney ef
•he hoaw ways and mean* com
mittee today.
The president's letter makia It
doubtful if a bonus bill will be passed,
flirong opposition to the sales tax
exists In congress.
11-inling. however, expressed ths
belief that the counts would favor
a general sales tux to pay the bonus.
The president put the bond Issue
hack to congress by emphatically
stating:
"If congrraa will not adopt aoch a
plan fnaleg t**l It would be wi«# to
tat the legislation (to over until there
la a ultuatlon which will Justify the
Urge out la* "
The prrewlent declared agalnat a
pierrmcal i*yment plan and the la
mtr of ahort-time aecuritle* or long
time bond* to meet the financial ob
ligation* th" bonua would kmpon* on
the treasury
OREGON BANK
CLOSES DOORS
PORTLAND, Or*., F'h. t« The
Htat* I'win'.: of Portland failed to open
for thla mornlnic.
The tmititutloo la mpttaW**d at
1100.000, with d*poaita of $2,700,000
and kwtna of $1 *OO,OOO.
Conrad l*. Oleon, president of the
Inatltution alnce February 1, In a
atatement today declared lhat he an
ticipated no loa» to creditor*, that
the bank'* affair* are In wound, con
dition. but that the cloelng waa ne
cexaitated by a dratre to prevent a
njn on the hank.
A considerable amount of ""low"
paper vrnit given by Olaon aa the ha
ala for the bunk * unterlaQn condi
tion.
O. It. Hnhertaon. Btate bank exam
Iner, la In charge.
Prealdent Oiaon declared the
bank'a reaerve* to he In good condi
tion, wllh the reopening of tho Inatl
tution <erialn within a ahort time.
T'nEBVO, Cal Tame* P. Rockv
fellow, 4<l, a h*>okke*t»er, la Inatantly
killed here when accidentally run
down In the atreet hy an automobile
driven by L. It Ttog*ra.
It DOES Pay to
Read The Ads in
The Star
TF the average house-
hold would take ad
vantaKC of the buying
opportunities that ap
pear in The Star from
day to day, it would
save a most surpris
ing sum of money in
the course of a month.
And a corresponding
ly larger amount in a
year.
The best offerings
of Seattle's l>ost stores
appear in The Star.
The Star Goes Into 11,727 More Homes Every Day Than Any Other Seattle Newspaper,
The Seattle Star
Cni«r«d H awMl CUM lUMtt MM Ik lit*. M tfea MUHIM M —Hit* Waak.. nto ikt M •( c«M'— tUrak i IITi. N> Tear, br Mall, II u II
STRYCHNINE
IS FOUND IN
MEDICINE!
Further Probe of 5 Poisoned
Tots to Follow University
Chemist's Report
CHSH.UJ* »sh ll—Ae |»
Wi Ihe death ef the (He
efcUdrea ef Mr.. «nI Mrs. K4-
«aismiths, ef Klaber. beeaase
• psaMlly today when a»
neuwrment was retdwd I hat
the chemist's analy.i* ef the
supposed rptom «aJl* adminis
tered by the mother contained
" per cent of *lr)rhfrine.
The report was received by Pi e*
•cutin* Attorney Herman Allen
from the state chenilut at the CM
versify of Washington.
"We are not taking «ny action
until ihe complete report la re
ceived." Allen said. "The content*
of the stoma* h of one of the children
has not yet lieen snalyxed. I have
Iptervlewofi the parents, but thers
is nothing to say at this time."
The poaalblllty of an inqueat waa
admitted by lieputy Coroner Otto K.
Wieainger. who ha* handled the can#
for UM coroner'* ofrtrc
"I ran not *tat* definitely joat
what win b* done." WiMln|*r mtd.
"for I have neither r*r*iv*d an offi
cial r*port on fha anal)r*t« nor ron
*nilt*«i atK>ut ft with lir. hivlnfutnM,
th* roron*r fJut if the annlyata
ahow* r>oiaon th* lojfxai thins would
b* to hold an inf|u*«t.**
The five llhod«a children died laat
Katurdav aft*r the mother had doted
th*m with what ah* b*ll*v*d to be
•p«om naltn, «h* aaya An autopay
ahowed non* of the rorroaive action
that would ludkat* atryrhnlne. The
funeral wa* h*ld Tue»«day.
2 NEAR DEATH
IN WILD STORM
Seattle Men Go Thru Ter
rible Experience
I*>*t In a blinding anow bill
iard for aeven Itoura and forced
to wndr armpit d**p against the
current of a fneiliif mountain
torrent, two yoving Hrattlc m*ti,
Robert Rronaon, *on of C. C.
ItroviHon, H*attlr InrnlM rman. and
Wallac* Carik t aon of t\ A. ( arlk.
local Northern Pacific official,
narrowly e*«-apcd death n*ar
Kcrrftaton, Waah., arrordinc to
word rrachlng fk*attl* Thursday.
Thn youn»c men, who are logging
camp employee and experienced
woodamef), were loat In the atorm
when they attempted to tak* a ahort
cut from Prnaton to K*rrl«ton tiiru
the Haglng rlv*r canyon trail.
In Ch* heavy atorm they mlaaed
the trail, which parullnilM tho river,
and atumbl*d into the canyon.
ing their hearlnga, the men atarted
to follow the river bank ui» the can
yon.
Finding th* hank Impnuaabl*. they
rjijtf (ill eurpliia clothing aaido and
plung*d Into the freezing river.
Tim ahwk of th* cold water par
tlally rcatored their waning strength,
and Jua 1 before the point of complete
eihauation wn* reached a laat turn
In tlie river revealed th» lighta of
[their home camp
D'-nplle the exposure, Immedlnte
|and effective Irealmcnl at llie cjimp
Iprevented aerloua after-effectg, and
both men are reported to bo rapidly
recovering.
Mon*y for rebuilding London aftrr
thr *r«i*t fir* In 1666 wa* r*ix*<l by
a tax on coal.
SKATTLK, WASH., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY IG, VJ22. t
Gibbs Sees More Irish
But Is Glad for U. S.-British Friendship
TAYLOR MURDER
BAFFLES POLICE
No Ncdrer Solution Than at
the Start
B\ FRANK 11. BARTHOLOMEW
I/>8 ANOKL.KH, Feb. ll~"We ®re
no nearer finding the motive for the
murder of William Denmond Taylor
or of identifying hi® murd»r*r than
we were on the day of the crltnr,"
! I district Attorney Wool wine eaid to
day.
The lrn-cd» wa* re-enacted In Tay
lor's bungalow (luring the night l»y
Under sheriff Mlscallux and Deputy
Frank Dewar In an effort to aacer
tain whether the dead man'* body
had been carefully laid out on the
floor "by loving hand*" after the
shooting Bxperiment* showed, how
ever, that a limp body would be tin
ble to fall and lie Junt a* Taylor'*
did.
CIIAt KFKt'lt IS
AtiAIN t|l l/.ZKI)
Thl* explode* the theory Taylor
wa* al.iln by « woman who loved
him and who mixed tenderne*a with
murder by gently laying out 111* re
main* after having sent » bullet Into
hi* bark
Hlncailuc *nd Ocwar took Wllllnm
I>hvl*. ehauffeur for Mal>et Normand,
to the wetie of the crime again lart
night and made him go all over the
last vlalt of the movie atar to the di
rect or.
Itcporta that the district attorney'*
office had discovered a threatening
letter among Taylor'* effect*, Im
plicating a prominent motion picture
man. whom Taylor I* said to have
branded a* a *lai ker during the war.
were flatly denied.
"I have never *rcn such a letter,
and I doubt If It exlHta." Dlatrlct At
(Turn to Page 7. Column 5)
l'hoto by I*rlc« * Carter, Star Staff l'botuicraphera
Sir Philip Gibba
By Wanda von Ketiler
Ilerp. »4>rt of Kn|ll«h MHind-
In iC tnlrr nil phiHir, "Oh. I'm
dro«i»y and uindiaved —mid I'm
hungry. Make II I«:i0."
"lint I ran'l," »ld I, "I've
(•OT to NM* J IMI before thai."
"Tln-n we nay len."
"Suppose nine thirty," said I.
"Well," the reply drifted n»er
Ihe w ire. and I kmm I heard a
rhurltlelfth laugh, "well. ail
rlgltl, 9;.'10."
Ho tl that nt MO Thurs
day morninK I inet Hlr rtillllp Ulbha,
noted war correspondent and author,
with the i|(*p, KnßllHh voir*. In the
lobby of the Washington hotel. Two
hniirn previously the writer. In the
company of hia 20-year old won. An
thony (ilblw. <jn<l J. J J.ynch. of the
I,ee Keediik l-eiture had
arrived In .Seattle from Vancouver,
11. C.
ANNOTEH BY
WHISKKREII ( HIN
"You know," Hlr Philip Oibba ex
plained, an we found went" In the
lobby, "I never like to talk with tin
unahaven rhln. but now that I've
had time to fix up, whut'll we talk
about?"
"Well," mild I, "there's the !rl*h
question and America— NND JWOJI It
—-and hooka."
'"l'hat'a It." spoke Kir T'hllllp
i'.ibl>M, "I'm lntmente<l in all of them.
We'll begin nt the beginning and
talk about Ireland first."
Now Sir Philip Olbbn I* a man of
medium height and slender, with
dark hair turning gray, and very
frank blue eye*. This morning he
leaned forward In hi* chair with
mi» h carneatm *h In lit* eye*.
"I'm particularly Intereated In Ire
land." he raid "You scc," # he ex
plained, "I think there'* guine lo be
more fighting between ITlater .mjjt
the rent of the country. Thank gooil
neaa# however, we've gollen rid i?f
the 700 year-old trouble between Ire
land and Kngland.
"Now, in my opinion. Ireland
fj'uru lo Page 7,VoluMin l|
ROB CAFE SAFE,
GET S6OO LOOT
Eighth Cracksmen's Job in
Six Weeks Here
Seattle witnessed it* eighth cafe
cracking Job in six week® when ex
port yejcKinrn entered a brunch of
the fthanghal Keatiiuralit company,
711 Pike ft., dynamited the naff and
em-aped with nearly sfiOO in ca®h anil
r|i«-r-kN enrly Thursday.
Over $. r i(X>, in currency, s** In ®ll>
Ver and S2O in check® were taken.*
The thieve® h\il enteral l»>% break
ing a rear window. Home of the
®afe-crack era wore can van glove®, but
two excellent n«»t« of fingerprint*
were found on Uie pnfo.
Starving
Pleading
Escape Noose
CHipAaO, l'eb. I#.—"l,et me
atarvc," pleaded the emaciated
llarvey Church today n* carpen
ter* hammered together the acaf
fold on which he Is to die tomor
row.
Church ntnrted a hunger strike
to cheat the gallows 27 day* ago.
For the last week he ha* been
forcibly fed, following order* of
Jailor Molaterhelm that lit* llfo bo
Spared for the noose.
Church. 21, killed llernard
Daugherty and Carl Au*mu*. mo
)or car salesmen. The murder
wa* one of the moat brutal on rec.
ord. lie beat both men to death
with a hall hat and later hacked
(lie body of olio.
HOME
EDITION
YOUTHS BEYOND
COURTS; FACING
HOPELESS LIFE!
Uhsheltered Urchins Prowl Into Gar
bage Cans for Sustenance;
Often Arrested
, By Robert Bastien Bermann
Juvenile castaway*.
Human flotsam and jetsam, tossed about by the relentless
current of life, left to stagnate and befoul the clean sea.
Boy-jackals, prowling thru by-streets and alley-ways,
scavenging from garbage cans, stealing pennies from the
blind man's cur-
It's an uarly picture, isn't it?
KI T ITS MOKJ-; THAN A
rirrißK.
It's an iHnit rendition, lorwd
npfn hftltk and upon e»ery
oUmt illy In Washington by a
strange inadrquary of the lava
Mln( n " Juvenile drlinqumU
Under existing irtatutea, feeble
minded boys— (hat U, youngsters
who ars unable to ma** a grade of
40 In the Binet-Ktanford teat- may
he aH»t to a state Instttotlon at Med
ical l.nke. Boys who make TO or
more In the test may be sent to (he
parental srbool at Mercer Island.
NO PROVISION
MADE M>K TIIKM
llut no provision l« made for the
boys who oome between then* Iwo
rradea- low grade morons, social miF
fits. la what Juvenile courts terra
them.
Not exactly feeble-minded, their
mentality la Mill *o rub-normal that
they are unable to distinguish be
tween light and wrong, and they con
flltuir. therefore, an uctive menace
I to so«-'ety.
YET NOTHING CAN BE IK) NT:
f*>l; THEM.
They can be hnllM Into court,
lectured by the juvenile judge—and
turned bark Into the street*, to roam
and «tcal and scavenge ag*in—until
a merciful providence remove* them
to a land where, one hopes at leart.
they will cease to be castaway*.
There Is no use to punish them.
They are not immoral. They are
unmoral, unable to grasp the differ
ence between what Is right and what
Is wrong. And a reform school term
would be a« cruelly useless as It
would be to beat a month-old baby.
And m> they Just run wild—pitiful
nomads, with nothing but death to
look forward to.
"Wo do the best we can." 11. K.
Van n, chief Juvenile officer, ex
plained today, rather wearily, "and
sometimes we are able tfi find a
place for them Hut It's hard. They
are too low-grade to be put In schools
—they are not only nuisances, they
are disturbing factors, nnd it would
not l>e fair to tlie parents of normal
children.
OOOMKD IK TIIFY
ST.\> IN CITY
"If they stay In the city, with Its
countless temptation*. Its unwhole
some Hfe, they are doomed.
"They have H chance Just * bir<>.
flghtlnjc chance If wt> ran ««>nd them
Big Heart of City Goes
Out to Mother and Babe
By Aileen Claire
•*l was a hungered and ye fed
me not
That reproach ran never be
< administered to Seattle.
On the surface it may seem to
be a cold, liMirllms city, bent
only on the never ending search
for gold. Hut underneath that
forbidding exterior a great heart
beats, a heart warm with human
kindness,
I The city does not often disclose its
heart, hut now and then it happens
In unusual rases.
The widow who called on The Star
ithis week to any that she wanted to
gU*« away her montlvold baby boy.
because ahe would never bo able to
'support him, furnished an unusual
case -
And today the great heart of the
city is pulsating so that all can see.
Within an hour after the story had
hern printed The Star office was lit
jerally swamped with calls, telephone
and personal, from people who were
eager to give not only the baby, but
'the mother, too, a comfortable home.
TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE
to the country. Of ooaraa. they TO :
always be subnormal, but yearn of 1
healthy living might bnfld them op
to that they would ceaae to ba public
menacea.
"But, under eilrtng ataiota* «t
cannot aend thsee boya to the ootrn
try un!em wa can find private ln
\ dividual* to take them In—and. nsed
! l«aa to «ir. K'» not eaay to Bad pea
pie who want them in their familica.
COLONY IS
ONLY SOLUTION
"The only solution T can MO '
is the e-nablUhment of a atata col
ony for these types. There they
' could lead a clean. wholeMMße life,
i under careful observation, and, after
la given period, we could determine
whether it »u safe to turn them
loose on society, or whether they
i would have to be committed to a
Mute InsUtuUon for the' feeble
minded."
"Local Juvenile delinquency is OB
the lnpre4»," said P. R. M&yberg,
! Juvenile policeman, "and It will con
(Turn to Pace 7, Column 5)
TEX RICKARD '
IS INDICTED
NEW YORK. Feb. ll.—Ceorire U
(Texl lUckard. famous boxing pro
moter, was Indicted by the grand
Jui.v today on charges made by
young girls.
Two Indictments were voted
against ltlckard. Each contains
thr«e counts. They were based on
the testimony of Alloc liuck and
Sarah Schoenfeld. IJ-yeai -old girls.
Tl\cs* girls say ltlckard lured
them to his office In the tower of
Madison Square Harden. which vu
formerly the studio of Stanford
White, in which parties, described
In the famous Thaw trial, occurred.
They also allege he took them to
an apartment house on West 40th
street.
Itickard's attorneys were notified
to have him appear in the supreme
court at once to plead to the
charges. He is already out ou $lO.-
000 bail which ho when
first arrested.
Kickard pleaded not guilty.
"I've got a pretty nice home," on©
elderly man explained, "and I'll be
glad to take Vm both in. I'm a
widower, you see, and T huven't irot
anybody to look after my boy, and
I'd like to get the mother as a
hou.se kef per. No; no matrimony;
jiLst a ttraight proposition. Hut
the mother would get a good home,
and she wouldn't have to give up
the youngster."
"Why, she can come and stay
with me a* long as she wants to,**
a kindly old lady phoned. "I've got
a nice home, but I'm lonely—and
I'd like to have her just for a com
panion. And the baby would cheer
up the house, and forget things.**
An Kverett man motored to Se
attle as soon as he had read the
(taper, with instructions from hU
wife to bring both mother and baby
back with him.
The mother hasn't yet decided
which of the downs of offers t?no
will accept but one thing is sure:
The great heart of Seattle will look
after both her and her boby.