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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-05-04
Another Freak
Court pisode
to Live Down

ar Every normal person in Tacoma today
III will hope that speedy action will be taken
toward obtaining either a new trial of the
Haifer libel ease or an appeal to the supreme
court 1t is unthinkable that the boy defend
ant should serve Il prison sentence for writing
criticism of George Washington.
ar The whole proceeding has been silly. The
VI prosecuting attorney and the superior
court never should have tolerated the use of
our Judicial machinery for so absurd all action
m Col. .Joab is Col. Joab and cannot help IT,
VI so cannot be blamed. But Prosecutor
Remann is not Col. .joab. and Judge Card is
not Col. Joab, and they ought to have used
their own minds and not his.
M There are plenty of prccedcnts for frivol-
VI Gus litigation being thrown out Of court
No doubt Judge Card himself has declined TO
hear charges less foolish than this. No doubt
Prosecutor Remain has declined to press
charges no less vital
at The jury seems to have been carried away
VI by the warm weather ailment that was
temporarily affecting the rest of the court and
It's finding furnishes one more fine argument
for those persons who would abolish iurieS
altogether.
ar This state seems to have been peculiarly
VI afflicted within the last few years by nut
ty courts Just when we had begun to live
down the sinister memory of Judge Hanford
and the mountebank foolishness of Judge
HUMPHREYS, our whole state again is made
ridiculous in the eyes of the nation by the Haf-
fer proceeding.
m Every press association has been carry
II ing reams of news regarding Washing
tons latest court vagaly to the ends of the
earth, and the papers everywhere have been
printing columns Of it. THE CASE HAS
DONE MORE TO MAKE TACOMA A SYN
ONYM FOR FREAkISHNESS AND OUR
COURTS A LAUGHING STOCK At HOME
AND ABROAD THAN OUR WHOLE
BENCH CAN OFFSET BY JUST AND
WISE RULINGS IN THE WHOLE TERN
C| OFFICE OF IT'S INCUMBENTS.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-05-04
Benson, Socialist Candidate,
Muckraker, Not An Organizer
BY WALTER LIPPMANN.

Benson is an admirable man. He
is by temperament an opponent.
! He is twice as sure of what he
does not want as he is of what he
does.
He's Muckraker.
He was trained in the school of
the muck rakers. This means
that he will see the preparedness
agitation as sinister conspiracy
of special interest playing on the
panic and gullibility of the Amer
lean people. He will point his
finger at the munition makers,
the bankers, the exporters, the
army and navy groups, the edi-
tors, the defense leagues and the
rest who are more or less in
volved financially in an increase
of ornaments.
And to the question of whether
in the kind of world We live in,
ornaments aren't needed even
though special interests profit by
them, he will reply that he is for
socialism which would create
world in which the whole deadly
business could be eliminated.
Benson ScOrns Details.
The steps by which such a
world is to be created do not alb
sorb much of his interest. He
works on the theory that If the
people could only be made to real
ize how they are exploited, de-
ceived, and led by the nose. they
would have no particular troubles
in carrying socialism into effect.
was once on a committee with
Benson which was trying to draft
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-05-04
TO HOLD OPEN FORUM
ON WORCESTERSHIRE

A public discussion of the
merits and dement's of the
principle of non-partisan.
ship in state and county Of
fices will be held i'm the COn.-
mercial club at 8 O'Clock Fri
day evening under the ans
pieces of the clubs civic bur-
eau.
Whether you're I'm favor of
nOn-partisanship or dead
against II, you're urged by
the bureau to = attend the
meeting, which will be i'm the
nature Of an open forum. j.
The non-partisan initiative
measure which Will come before
the voters next fall will be pre-
sented from every angle by speak
ers on both sides of the fence.
! Speaking in support of N
will be Otto A. Case, o.
Seattle, executive secretary of
the State Non-partisan league
and George F. Cotterill. formel
Seattle mayor, who helped fran,
the non-partisan initiative meas
lre to be voted on next fall.
A number Of speakers will tall
. gainnt the measure.
Hov. Erneet o. BloomQuist
n4n Der q tho uaneglnH o0In
nlttoo Ok the O. <H1nl cIifJ
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-05-04
civic bureau, will preside.

civic bureau, will preside.
The public is invited.
Members of the Non-partisan
league declared today that they
were by no means disappointed
by the refusal of the democratic
state convention to take a stand
for or against on-partisanship.
1--WE are just as glad that the
partisan principle is being
kept outside of party politics, was
the statement of G.. r. Muckler,
chairman of the Pierce County
league. at has been our purpose
from the first not to make it a
party. issue.
.'If the democratic party cannot
see the handwriting on the wall,
1t is not up to the Non-partisan
sleague to act as trustee for that
party. 1t is their affair entirely.
THE purpose of the Non-parti-
san league is to obtain the cleo
ton Of representatives, ignoring
party lines, who will pass the
Legislation demanded by the peo-
pie of the state"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-05-04
SOAKED
IN OIL:
TAN KED

c. j. Williams, known every
where on the waterfront as
-"Rlackie," has one of the most
unusual jobs of any man in Ia
coma.
But It didn't save him from
being locked up last night on
charge of carrying too big load
of grain alcohol, and it didn't
serve as sufficient excuse to get
him out of Jail today.
Listen to the plea that lie put
up to Police Capt. Read this
morning:
Gag Jain, wanta get out of
jail, quick. | wasn't very drunk
last night-not more than usual,
anyway. I've got one of the hard
est jobs you ever saw. | have to
drink one uart of alcohol day
to hold it. I'm partially drunk
all the time.
You see, when steamers come
into port, it's my job to dive down
into the tanks of cocoanut oil in
the hold and release the valves
so the oil will run out. They
have to heat the oil sometimes, to
make it run.
~ couldn't handle the job
IL wasn't partially drunk.
Why, Captain, when l try to
take bath, ] float right on
top of the water i'm the bath
tub, because there's so much
oil i'm my skin.
There's a ship coming in to-
night, and / have to do the div
ing act in the tank of oil. ! was
on my way to get quart of al
cohol last night, SOS to be drunk
enough to handle the job, when
the officer pinched me. Won't
you let me out so l can go to
work.
The police say that Williams
story is virtually true.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-05-04

a bill for the specialization of the
railroads. The intricate ques-
tions of law, finance and admins
tration bored and irritated him.
He would sit silent for long
stretches of time, and then burst
out with some story of graft and
swindle. He is a wonderful and
passionate hater of evil, a man
who has never grown callous or
complacent about poverty and
corruption. His hatred is so con-
Stunning that little patience is left
for the drudgery of radicalism.
Not An Organizer.
Since he is not candidate for
office this twist does not matter
much. But there is one aspect
of his job as socialist leader
where it will matter enormously.
His real business is to organize
the working class and the exploit
ed farmers for powerful economic
and political action. For that
there is needed a great organizer
and master of tactics. Benson
isn't In the least that sort of man.
Benson Is middle class maga-
zine writer, neither labor leader
not politician. He is a good
speaker and a thrilling writer.
But he is not an organizer, nego-
tiator, diplomat, he is not the mari
who can go into the labor rwofld.
unity its conflicts, destroy f{6
false leaders, and form 1t Tito j
political power. Fje3
Great Propagandist.s 'sss
He will excite and amuse.} In
radicals, he will have 'cohsideH
able effect on much the SANG Elnd
of people who follow Bryan az La
Toilette, but for the business Of
making political force out OF
the working class, Benson is not
only certain to fail, he is not even
likely to try. -
His mind does not run to CON
crete political action. 1t runs to
magazine articles. 1t runs to ex-
posture, satire, scorn. can imag-
Inc Benson writing about a strike.
but not leading one.
He is q propaganda and q
agitator, one Of the very beet g.
America. but he isn't even afl0I
lily resemblance to the a. -
which labor 20 leAp(r1<< n.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-05-04
"SMASH EN-" ORDERS
GILL in BOOZE RAIDS

SEATTLE, May Smash
everything, including the fix
lures, in all so-called drug stores
which are really Saloons" are
the orders of Mayor Gill to the
police today.
Il am willing to take my chance
with any jury IL those fellows go
into court and claim damages, /"
continued the mayor.
No sensible man believes that
a drug store that carries $4,000
worth of liquor stock is conduct
Ing a legitimate business. Ny
directions to the police are to
make 1t plain to the bootleggers
that this is not a kid glove cam
paign.
Chief Rockingham acted with
my approval when he cleaned up
the Stewart street pharmacy
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-05-04

Nobody thinks Of asking
what s9r of president Allan
Benson would make.
In the real sense of the
word he is not candidate
for the presidency.
He is n candidate for two
million votes.
IL he polls that many he
will be regarded as an over
whelmingly successful nomi-
ee.
In selecting him the So
ciaIists also decided the issue
on which he is to fight.
Benson is the one consist
ent, out and out spokesman
of undergraduates. There
is no other.
Bryan hates preparedness,
but he will hedge and evade,
will talk about a million men
springing to arms between
sunrise and sunset. Benson
won't hedge. If he is against
something, he is bitterly and
definitely against II.
The socialists this year Intend
o fight a campaign of obstruc
ion. They are on the defensive
Usually it is the other wa,
lround. Usually it is the social
SITS who are for something with
he other parties opposing OF
gnoring them. But in this cam
1aign the tables are turned, ant
he chief emphasis of the social
SITS will be to prevent preparded-
ness.
For that particular lob Altar
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-05-04

BLAZE
STILL
RACES

| BERLIN, May 4.-tussian
revolutionists started n
\ great fire at Moscow, which
spread today to the adninis-
tration buildings, il was stat
ed in Stockholm dispatch.
The fire Is still raging.
| Bombs planted in several of the
largest buildings of the city ex-
| ploded almost simultaneously.
causing many deaths and start
ing uncomfortable fires in all
parts of the city.
| Troops were ordered out and
an extensive search was begun
for the revoIutionists. Several
persons who have been under sus-
| picIon by the Russian secret POI
lice were at once thrown into Jail.
| rapidly, cutting wide swathe
through the great business district
At last reports the fire was
| threatening the kremlin, dis
trict on the north bank of the
river, in which are included prac-
tically all the civil and ecclesias-
| teal buildings.
| Dynamite WAS used i'm
frantic effort To save this
district, which il priced more
for its religious relations
than for the intrinsic value
Of the structures.
| one OF the most prominent
buildings in the Kremlin. known
as the Great Palace, has been in
use since 1898.
\ reign Of terror swept over
| Moscow as troops were thrown
about the city to prevent any
criminals from escaping. The
royal soldiers at once began a
search of all households among
the lower classes, ruthlessly ar
resting persons against whom
the slightest suspicion could
arise.
No admission OF guilt among
the incendiarists could he forced.
The fire loss already has
amounted TO over 81 900 o0,
il is reported.
II is said that hundreds
were killed by the prelimi-
nary explosions, but no verb
fication of estimates of the
dead have been received.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-05-04
HE WAS ASLEEP

Why was young Edenbor-
ough, secretary of the First
Lord of the Admiralty, asleep
on the day of his wedding?
Why did every one think
he had committed suicide by
taking poison?
Furthermore, why did his
finance, a true British pa
triot, sell some plans of for
tifications to spy?
The mystery is all cleared
up by THE CRIME DOC
TOR" the novel-a-week in
The Times beginning next
Monday. You get this $3.50
popular novel by e. w. fior-
hung in The Times for six
cents.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-05-04

Tuesday night.
THE bootleggers' plan is to
take their chances with fines in
court, thinking to make big prof
its between arrests.
There is only one way to beat
this, and that is to emphasize our
views that these men are violators
by smashing up their sham drug
stores"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-05-04
DOESN'T
BOTHER
HAFFER
Bv D'Loss Sutherland

Paul Ha ffer,
the boy social
list whose tran
scendency I o
fame reached a
climax late yes
terday after
noon when a
jury found him
guilty of libel
ing the sacred
memory o I
George Wash
ington there
by setting a le-
gal precedent
smiled from his
bed this morn
ing with the
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-05-04
REGRETs INHospITALITY

WASHINGTON - Sir Cecil
Spring-Rice personally expressed
! regret today TO President VIII
son that a suitable reception had
not been paid Secretary McAdoo
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-05-04
MOOSE
FOR SIR
ROGER!

LONDON, May Sir
Roger Easement was tried on
a charge of high treason a
few days ago, it was an
nounced today. Baron Read
ing presided.
Unless Easement escapes death
through a plea of insanity. he
will be hanged by a silken rope +,
an ancient privilege accorded to-
British noblemen found guilty Of
crime against the crown.
Carson and Redmond have
Jointly appealed for mercy for the
Irish rebels who fought in the
ranks. 1t is believed the major
ity of them will be given light
sentences and a few deported.
An Evening News dispatch re-
ported that the Dublin hospitals
are filled. The bodies of &C SOL
diers and 122 rebels and civil
ians have been counted there.
The morgues contain 300 bodies
Premier Asquith announced
only three executions. The third
was Thomas j. Clarke, tobaccon-
list
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-05-04
PIECE NOT NEAR

WASHINGTON, ID. C.-Thomas
Nelson Page, American ambassa-
dor to Italy, told Wilson today
he saw no immediate prospects for
peace in Europe.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-05-04
Talk O the Times

Greetings, have you heard
what the g. d. u. convention
OF Tennessee did yesterday?
No? Well, then, you cer-
tainly missed something im-
portant!
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-05-04
WHAT SHAW SAID

NEW YORK, May 4.-George
Bernard Shaw today cabled the
following comment on the Irish
rebellion:
Silly, ignorant, wrong-headed,
honorable, brave republicans.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-05-04

WILSON o. KS REPORT
WASHINGTON = Gen. Scott's
report of the conference with
Gen. Obregon was handed to the
president today and stamped as
satisfactory"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-05-04

II instructed it's delegates to
vote for our own Congressman
Humphrey as the G. o. p. nom
inee for vice PRESIDENT!
Personally, this strikes us
as being about the best sug-
gestion we've heard yet. BY
all means, let's take 'em up
on II before they change
their minds.
Now let's prosecute all the
preachers who have libelled The
memory Of Judas.
And all the editors who've
libelled Benedict Arnold and
MachiavelIi.
And all the lawyers wlio'y,
made mean remarks about Nero
and Bluebeard.
N redecorating yoar liv-
Ina room. NAYS The Ia1y next
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-05-04

Clearinss .....,.. 327, 631.6e
balances :, ..... 4&.e7e.71.
rrensactItns "a S:z13s7e|
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-05-04

door, use cheering colors.
But not loud.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-07-03
Bear the Fire Hazard in Mind
When Planning Johnny's Fourth

assistance and encouragement for a
safe and sane Fourth. Usually this
is busy day for fire departments
and no one knows better than the
fireman what danger turks in the
various fireworks for sale in our cities
and towns.
at is much better to plan for the
saving of life and property from de-
struction before loss occurs than
to mourn and regret it afterward.
"The real progressive cities and
towns should pass ordinances prohib-
iting the use of fireworks in our
streets. They are not only dangerous
but nuisance and annoyance to
passersby. LIS :.
parents should take an interest in
this matter and should not allow their
children to spend money on fireworks,
They should not allow children to
take matches to play with. Many a
child has been MANNED for lite OF
burned to death because indulgent
parents would not deny their children
these dangerous playthings. -,
I'VE sincerely hope Nebraska WI
have no destructive fires or no hor'
rible loss OF life because OF the care
less and dangerous use OF fireworks
on this Fourth of July.
wv. S. RlDGELL."
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-07-03
trrom . Stat, Correspondent,

Lincoln, July l,--(SpeciaL)--Fi
Commissioner Ridgell is using every
effort to prevent fires during the cele-
bration of the coming week and has
issued the following instructions
which he hopes will tend to keep
down much of the trouble. He
says;
growing in favor of safe and sane
Fourth of July. Every citizen should
try and encourage this.
Wherever Fourth of July celebra-
tions have been tried without the
dangerous use OF fireworks it has been
found most satisfactory. Speeches,
picnics, parades, public park enter
tainments can all be enjoyed without
any explosive and death-dealing fire
works
Don't, under any circumstances
permit children to have fireworks to
fire off themselves. This necessitates
them having matches and matches are
always dangerous fire hazard, both
to life and property when in the
hands OF children.
City officials and members OF reg
ular and volunteer fire departments
should be interested and lend every
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-07-03

of him. She had to acquit him OF
worse than murder before the court of
her own heart as much as to avenge
him. If he was the victim of some
conspiracy, she was the victim Of his.
The riddle maddened her with its ut-
certainties.
That visit of Lois to Mulry's office
seemed to involve her in Freneau's
duplicity. Lois had confessed to steal
ing the photograph of Freneau. She
had said that she planned to have a
miniature made for Gloria. But this
seemed now to be only hasty ex-
cuse, a desperate lie to- hide dis
covered theft. She decided to ques-
ton Lois further. But Lois was 60
ing to her country home. Gloria had
decided not to go. Now she decided
that she would. She went to LOIS
house to tell her so.
To her amazement DR.. Royce was
there. He was saying to Lois that
Gloria was on the hunt and warning
her to be both better wife than she
had been and more discreet woman,
just such a warning as he had given
Mulry. ~
Mulry had already taken the doc.
tors advice. He had invited himself
to the country home OF friend of his,
a home not far from David Staffords.
In eluding Gloria he had set out for
the very region which she was about
to visit in her investigation of Lois.
Gloria did not hear what DR.. Royce
was saying to Lois when she was
shown into the living room. But she
saw that they were talking excitedly
and that her appearance disconnected
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-07-03
Tangled Threads
= Kene
r
Copyright by Adelaide NJ Hughes

You don't care. You only want ST.
lence. But | want the TRUTH I'm
going to find It'll I'm going to hunt
down that man whether you help me
or not"
Rovce studied her with uneasy adj
miration; her father tossed his hands
in despair. 49,,
Poyce thought moment, then
becxoned to Gloria and said: lone
with me-"
Gloria followed him out wonder
ingly. 81,
ing, Royce pressed the elevator but
ton, marked: up" He guided Gloria
into a car that stopped for them. 1t
was an express and shot them up
to the fortieth floor Alighting,
Royce led her out to the root. 1t
was surrounded by high WALL but
carpenters ladder CHANGED to be
there, and Royce set it UP that Gloria
might mount and see across the para
pet
Wonderingly, Gloria allowed Royce
to help her up. She shuddered as
she looked down into the depths OF
the vast canyons. Then, in great Sc
robustness, Royce spoke. He stood
on the ladder with her and pointed
in circle, beginning at the east and
turning south, then west, then north,
as he spoke:
You say you saw a man kill Ere
neau! l say it was delirium. If it
were true, you don't know his name,
his country, or his motive; you would
hardly know his face if you saw him
again. No one knows who he is. He
may have taken ship across the
ocean yonder. If he is in the city,
among those millions, how can you
hope to find him? Lookp
The marvellous expanse of the har-
Dor, the rivers and bridges, and final.
ly the enormous city, terrified
Gloria, but she pounded her little fist
on the parapet and shook it at the
infinite sky above her in registration
of her vow.
"I'll find him somehow! Some
wherel Sometimer
4 Royce stared at her and loved her
more than ever, hopelessly. She
leaned on the parapet and gazed off
into space.
TO Be Continued.)
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-07-03
Whittier Fashion Breezes Blow

they make easy the fashionlng OF a
dainty summer frock.
People who do not wish their Jew
clry to go out Of fashion should buy
the heavy decorative kind. /,
A wide sailor hat may be trimmed
with two large quilts fastened IN the
back and sweeping forward
When high collars are worn they
are often open at the throat and higi,
in the back only.
Wedding clothes are picturesque,
with very full skirts, pointed bodices
and pulled sleeves. ~
Fichus OF lace and shaped, collars
Of muslin are worn over the PLAN SIX
corsapes OF taffeta gowns.
To make the black--and-wh,i,te
checked sports suit chic, add a collar
ana cuff set of red leather.
The Victorian gowns influence me
coiffureA-there is suspicion that the
coming couture will be fully.
Light facings and buttons charae'
terize many gowns, preferably wh'te
however dark the fabric may BE-