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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-05-13
They Think Germans
Would Better Sign

PARIS, May lathe opinion Is
growing among British laborites
and the French socialists that Ger.
many's wisest course is to sign the
peace treaty, according TO informa
tion from various sources today.
They believe it is only a matter OF
year or two or three until there
Is labor government in Great Bri
tain and a socialist government IN
France, when Il would be possible
to obtain revision of the treaty
along more liberal lines,
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-05-13

A statement from league head
quarters said there has never been a
time when there was so little meat
sold 10 the poor working people an
during the last year.
Meantime. today the War depart.
ment had begun It's efforts to sell
some 2e5 900. 900 pounds OF meat
thru Herbert Hoover's foreign relief
commission.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-05-13
Hunt for Man Who
Planted Explosive

CHICAGO. May 13.--Police hunt.
ed persons responsible for the ex-
plosion OF bomb on the steps OF
the home of Michael Ready. presi.
dent OF the Chicago Contracting
Team Owners association. here to.
day. The bomb was 'home made"
affair and did little damage.
Police believe there is some con.
nection between the bombing and
killing OF William Marchand a
teaming union worker, Sunday.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-05-13
Booze in Chicken
House Is Captured

Two Jo-gallon barrcs Of Grape
mash. and 10 quarts of the finished
product were seized by deputy eher-
ifs in raid on the hog ranch OF
Nick pieti. two miles east Of Me
dina, on the east short OF Lake
Washington. late Monday evening
pied In held in the county jail.
while complaint is being made out
against him. Chief Deputy Frank
Brewer and Deputies Matt Starwich
and Stewart Campbell conducted
the raid. Tho mash. they say.
was in Fieti's hen house and the
10 quarts concealed under ono OF
the logs forming the baae OF the
structure. Sam Nick. companion
OF Pietts. was left on the place.
20 feed the swine and fowls.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-05-13
Slow Court Delays
Harrison Nuptials

WASHINGTON. May ia.--0united
Press). Reports that the marriage
of Francis Burton Harrison, COVER
nor general OF the Philippines, 10
Miss Betty Wrcntmore. of Berkeley.
Cal. has been postponed, were con.
firmed today at the home OF Mrs
Burton Harrison. mother OF the pros
pective bridegroom.
Harrlson's friends here say the de
lay Is occasioned by the slowness of
California's courts in handing down
the Harrison divorce decree
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-05-13
YANKEES DIE
IN EXPLOSION
Dozen Are Injured in Quarry
BloWup Near Dijon

DIJoN. France. May is.--tUnited
Press.t-Several American quarry
men were killed and a dozen injured
in a dynamite explosion at Is-Sur-
Tile. it was reported today.
Is.sur.T Tile is ten miles north of
Dijon and and 40 miles south of
Chaumont
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-05-13
EXPECT TO
take VOTE
TOMORROW
Street Railway Union Griev-
ance Committee Calls
Meeting for Tonight
PLAN A REFERENDUM

STREET railway union officials
predict y strike vote by all ~ur
pioyes Of the Seattle Municipal
Railways "Wednesday.
Member. OF the grievance com
mittce Of The csrm~ns union
win mset Tuesday evening 20
discus. the line Of action Of the
ear workers, following the re
! fussI Of IN. city council Mon
day 10 aecede to their slsmand
for Extra pay for overtime.
The council rejected a plan. pro.
posed by Councilman Robert Hes
keith. 20 leave the question up TO
sups. Thomas y. Murphlne for so,.
tiemsns and adopted for the third
time the recommendation OF the
fsnanee and utilities committees fha,
the matter of overtime pay be laid
over until budgetmaklnw time ne1,
month.
counciimen Hesksth and Bolton
voted against the adoption " the
commissees' reports.
sstssnsoss Statement
Following the withdrawal Of shs
lsfrecs car emniosex' fspsessns4asyss
from tho council chamber. ]. A.
sssvenson business agent Of Street
Railway Employees Local ssT. said:
Apparently ". canno, expect re.
lief from the city council. We have
u.sd TO be patient. but the council
has repeatedly turned down our p..
tition. We are asking for the same
overtime provisions granted Us by
the t.aetlou company when II o9cf.
eted tbs lines Dur fpsn are no.
anxious TO work ove.iime. We pre-
fes % put In eight tours only. but
W. want some assurance that when
required TO work more than eight
and a half hours we will receive the
recognized scale OF pay for over.
time instead Of a straight pay. as
at present"
just week ago. at a mass meet.
irg OF all car workers. the men
voted their grievance committee au.
thoriiy to call a referendum strike
vote az any time 20 secure extra
pay for extra work At that time.
however. Il was decided to again
try TO secure Justice from the coun.
ell
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-05-13

WASHINGTON. May 13.-
Agreement Of the War depart
ment to unload its surplus meat
supplies abroad. thus saving
losses 10 big packers In the
United States. brought immedi-
ate and sharp dissatisfaction In
many quarters today.
Senator Kenyon, Iowa. declared
his intention Of looking into the War
deal by means OF a sen.
ate resolution.
The National Consumers' league,
Of which Secretary Of War Baker II
president. was aroused By the War
action. II IL hearing
from its membership thruout the
country.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-05-13
STRIKERS COME BACK

NEW YORK. May 1s.--(united
Press.) Striking employees OF the
American Railway Express company
here today went back to work pend
ing action on their demands by the
labor board Of the railroad adminis-
tiation al Washington
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-05-13

CHICAGO. May I3.--1United
Press. ss.p--Cousumers. retail meat
dealers and rcfrigerating experts
here today declared that the
26f 900. 900 pound meat surplus
in possession ~ the government
would make little difference in
prices II dumped on the do,nes-
tic market
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-05-13
RELEASE NAVY OFFICERS

WASHINGTON, May l5.-tUnited
Press s.l-Practically all navy Off
GERS holding temporary commissions
will be released within the next six
tary OF the Navy Roosevelt an.
nounced today.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-05-13
CARMEN AND PHONE
GIRLS PLAN STRIKE!
CITY COUNCIL TO BLAME

IF there is street car strike in Seattle, the blame
will be the city.
Let there be mistake about that.
The have been patient. But patience
to be a virtue.
The carmen asking for eighthour day, with
time and half pay for overtime work-askng the city
to place itself on the plane this regard the
Puget Sound Traction Light and Power Co. used to be-
But the city refuses Not only refuses but the council
is almost insulting in the refusal
They will take up the question in June the councilmen
declare, when the new budget is to be made up
If the question be taken June can be taken
The budget made up in June does not take effect till
January, 1920
Evidently it the purpose of the council deny the
the benefits of eighthour day till 1920 This
There are no set of employees who put in many
hours carmen, for which they get NO pay at ALL
Their. i not centnaou: I'll eishthou day. man may
qured to lay off until or o'clock in the afternoon
to catch the big rush. Thus in order put eight
hours work, he often has to utilize Is to ID hours of
time.
He does not ask to be paid for these idle hours, tho
they break up his day in fragments But he does ask
that after he has put in eight eight hours and
half Of actual work-he should be paid time and
half overtime
This is only fair This is in fact the Garments only
guaranty that the city will not be cutting his day into
fragments
The city charter provides for n eghthour day for
city employees. If the city cannot live up to this pro-
vision; if the city must have work than
eight hours from time tme pay extra for such
overtime, just the Puget Sound Traction company
did.
If it cannot be better employer than the old
ton company was, it should be at least good
ployer.
The carmen, who work days a week, rain or
shine winter and summer entitled to this much
sderaton.
Seattle walked before when the carmen present.
ing grievance against the traction company,
forced to go on strike. Seattle may walk again in
order to give the carmen genuine eighthour day-the
eight-hour day that is protected by overtime penalties
And if Seattle walks-it will remember the councilmen
who are blame.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-05-13
REPORT IL DENIED

PARIS. May 13,-tUnIted Press.l--
Official denial In made of report
published Saturday In L'lntranai-
geant that Foreign Minister Brock
dorff Rantzau had sought personal
interview with President Wilson.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-05-13
ALLIES ARE
BRUTAL, IS
FOE belief
Chancellor Rails Against
Severity" of Treaty IN
Assembly Speech
GERMANY WON'T FIGHT

BASLE. May 1.-the Berlin
correspondent Of the Naltona1
Zeitung reported today tlAat
Chancellor Scheidemznn haA -
formed journalists that the Ger
man government will order ~
delegates not 10 sign the peaco
terms in their present form.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-05-13

Prrtty lucky for the front up
lDumxeucss way.
Here Jack CarrnlI---brg par.
don. Nal John r. Carroll. eoun.
Gilman. n.eIeet--eonsrs back home
after ~ months overseas. and.
after n happy reunion with his
superior 50 per cent and their
charming daughters. Virginia
and Charlotte. finds that
his election 70 tho city council
has smashed well. planned fish
Ing trip into smithereens.
It's tough. but also It's lucky for
the trout near the forks OF the Dun.
gencss. for the piseatorial specimens
which abound thereabonts would
have been In for a merry raRging II
Jack-beg pardon. Maj. carroll--oh.
let's call him Jack As we were say.
ing. Jack would have given the trout
a run for their bait II. after less than
20 hours after his arrival home. the
city dads did not tag him as Roland
Cotterilis successor.
Jack Carroll ~ Il years old, but
he doesn't look the part Neverthe.
less. he is the general ovcrseer Of a
son. Chester. who is is years old.
and In addition. ls one OF the sorest
doughboys south OF the North pole
Chester got ns far as New York city.
all dolied up in his A. r. +. duds.
when the Huns decided that an ar.
mistice was the best way out Ches.
ter wanted TO be over there with his
dad. but chilled pedals on the part Of
w. Hohenzollcrn and his underlings
put the rollers under Chesters am
bition.
Camp Commander
Jack Carroll was staggering under
the weight OF three years when his
parents trekked west from New or.
leans. his birthplace. and settled In
Olympia. lie throve In the present
state capital until 1856 and then
moved TO Seattle where he has resid.
ed ever since. During the % years
Jack has been n citizen of Seattle he
always has been interested in his
home town. After practising law
for a few years prior TO 1906 he was
elected a justice OF the peace, taking
office In 1907. He was reelected for
five successive terms and was on tho
bench in March. 1917, when he re-
aligned and was commissioned a ma.
ior in the National Guard of Wash
ington. During the early days of
the war. Major Carroll was stationed
at Everett. where he was In charge
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-05-13
UNION HEAD
ON 1HEWAY
TO SEATTLE
Julia O'Connor to Advise
Local Operators on Walk
out Next Week
WANT WAGE INCREASE

OAKLAND, May I3.-tUnited
Press. .p-Teiephon and electrical
service thruout Washington. Or
egon. California and Nevada will
be interrupted Monday by u
strike Of II. go electrical work.
ers unless demands Of the teic-
phone girls for wage increases
are granted. IL the ultimatum
issued today BY electrical work
ers following big meeting here.
Julia O'Connor. who directed the
strike In New England. Ii rc-
ported en- route 10 the coast.
The girls demands were submit
ted several weeks ago. but have re
ceived no consideration. according TO
union officials.
Detailed arrangements for Seat
tlc'e telephone operators strike win
not be made until the arrival IN this
city OF Julia O'Connor. international
president OF the hello girls. early
next week. according to an an
nounccmcnt made Wednesday by
May A. Duffy. business agent Of the
local union.
Miss O'connor II the woman who
managed the recent strike of teie-
phone girls in the Eastern states.
When she arrives In Seattle she will
he made acquainted with local con-
diuons and will at once take charge
OF the coming coastwide strike. say
local union leaders.
The demands Of the girls on the
Pacific coast constitute "a beginners 9
wage OF $l2 a week with gradual
increases in wages 50 that at
the end OF two years the girls would
receive ses per week. They say
that they are now getting sll "A
week TO begin with and that they
receive sss a week at the end Of six
years service.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-05-13
Tides in Seattle

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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-05-13
WEDNESDAY,
May ~

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The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-08-02
OUR EXAMPLE WORTH MOST OF ALL

We must all realize by this time that America stands in
an attitude toward the league of nations, differing from that
OF any other nation. Our conditions are of their own kind.
We live apart as a nation. They live jumbled together. Their
problems are frightfuly interlaced, while ours are not. NO
reasoning that applies to them applies to us in the same way.
We have the same condition in our relation toward nmml~
grafton. We are the receivers; they are the remitters. They
come to us. 1t is for us to decide whom we shall receive, and
not for them to decide whom they shall send to us. We have
no desire to get into their tribal differences or to decide their
disputes. We may be willing to help, when our own con
science approves, but not willing to be bound.
And the help that we mean is not necessarily extended
or exerted in mingling in all their quarrels and disputes, but
through the example of a still higher and more complete devel-
opment of our own national spirit. If we have been a power
as an exemplar in the world, has it not been by what we have
been, what we have stood for at home, rather than through
mere participation in their disputes? Among nations we have
been like the statue of liberty enlightening the world.
We shall not enhance this influence by throwing our
selves bodily into their jackpot, but by the individuality that
we shall continue to give to ourselves and by the evidences of
e government "of the people by the people for the people"-a
government that leaves to others what we claim for ourselves,
a government of law and order and liberty and opportunity.
We have already seen this great moral influence shattered
in Italy, in China, and also in Japan. We will see it shattered
in every instance. in which we may be called upon to take
Sides with one nation against another; just as surely as does
The man who butts in" on the quarrels of his %neighbors.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-08-02

Lord Northclffe in his various British publications, has
called a halt on the criticisms of America that have been rife
in the press of that country. Much of the criticism has, no
d, ubt, grown out of the American attitude toward the Irish
question, which is always one to arouse the British mind.
From his viewpoint, we have been Quitting in" and he is right
in asking how we would like it if they took the same interest
in our Mexican question. But Northclife discounts this view
point by conceding that the Americans are in part right. He
is in favor of dominion home rule for Ireland, as well as for
other parts of the empire. He at least comedies that something
must be done in the matter, something more than saying 1T is
none of Americas business, which in some senses is true
enough.
But Lord Northcliffe shows that much of the victory in the
war will be lost if there is now a decrease instead OF an IN
crease of the good relations between England and America.
He sees that these two nations at least must stand banded to-
eether if the victory over Germany is to mean anything. In
America we are quite of the same opinion. We believe as
Northcliffe does, that we must continue to stand together as
the two great Anglo-Saxon countries of the world.
All such manifestations of ill-wil or at least of lack of
sympathy between and among the nations that fought in the
war ought to be encouragement to Germany. And Germany
will not be slow to try to take advantage of such splits. They
are still ready with their numerous prOpagandas and poisohs
and they will apply them whenever misunderstanding arise
They must believe that in Italy they have already won much
OF the victory. The new Italian cabinet is said to contain four
men who before the war were prO-German and who were
opposed to their country going into the war at all. In Germany
they are hoping to have Italy back into the old alliance and the
attack that was made the. other day at Fiume on the British
and French. especially the latter, may have had a German
inspiration back of it.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-08-02
THE COMFORT BEFORE US

When peace settles down over the world, as it Will before
long, there will come a different feeling. OF this we can nave
no reasonable doubt. 1t will affect all nations and all peoples.
The world has been upset, badly upset and millions oil per-
sons in it have been living on their nerves, or at least WIN
their nerves exposed. They are tonchy and excltaDie ana
have been almost without hope. But all such things Will be
changed. We will be surprised how rapidly they may settle
down to the ordinary pursuits of life and they may find III
these consultations that they had not dreamed OF before.
So far as wars are concerned, we are in no fear OF repe-
tilions of what has happened. There will be no world wars
for a generation. for many generations to come. There is no
nation that is prepared to undertake such a war as Germany
started and the rest of the world will probably see to i. that no
other nation ever makes such preparations again. The rest
of the nations have found that they are vitality interested IN the
nreparatiOns for war that one or a few nations may make. III
will not longer be conceded that any nation has the right to
prepare itself for wholesale, murder, no more than any man
among us will be permitted to run at large while ne is suher-
ing from some violent form of insanity. and no more than a
deg afflicted with hydrophobia will be permitted to run al
large. Such things belong to the past and we may as we'll
settle down i'm the comfortable belief that for us and for those
who follow us there will be no more world wars or catastr0-
phes. The last war has made such things impossible.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-08-02
WHY NOT EXPOSE THE THIEVES

The sleuth of the old Providence Journal, the man who
exposed the duplicity of Bernstorf while we were still treat
ing him as an honored guest, has laid before the congress some
other startling facts, including the one that the government
paid as high as $3.50 a thousand feet for spruce lumber to be
Used in airplanes, while private parties bought their spruce
at market prices which were high, as high as $50 a thousand.
Paying $3.50 a thousand for lumber was some stunt for a gov
eminent in even the excitement of a war. In such cases there
was a hod-up and a hold-up implies a holder of the up.
Sh-h, they cry, don't talk about it now. 1t was the war.
1t was all patriotism, though some men got richer than others
and twentythree thousand of them were made over into mil
lionaires. But why keep still? Why not expose them to public
contempt SO that their very dollars may scar and damn their
souls? Why all this desire to let by-gones be by-gones? Are
they the guilty ones who are saying, let us forget about it and
keep still? But why do that when the men who may be in
jured by not keeping still are not worth as much public
respect as so many dogs. For men who made lumber cost
the government $500 a thousand feet ought to be in jails now
instead of in mi1ionaires lodges. In fact they ought to have
been hanged during the WARRIOR that is what such men de-
served then, while better men, with red blood i'm their hearts.
were standing in the trenches in France for $50 a month and
keep, such as it was.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-08-02
A SUFFRAGE

In marking the progress of the Nineteenth amendment to
the constitution of the United States, it is an impressive con-
sideration that the eleven states which have already ratified,
while not quite one-fourth of the states in the union, or one
third of the number required to confirm the amendment, con-
tain more than half the population of the whole country.
Here is a striking reminder of the changed attitude of the
American people toward this vital question that has taken
Ilace within a few years-within' a few months, it might
almost be said. 1t seems only the other day that suffrage
began to win victories east of the Mississippi. The revolution
in public sentiment has been so swift that many have hardly
got over the notion that only small states, those of sparse popu-
lation, or with a large excess of males, are favorable ia woman
suffrage. It is not strange, perhaps, if that opinion is hard to
get rid of since it represents a fact that could not be ,chal-
lenged during the difficult progress of the suffrage cause for
two generations.
The amendment already has a clear majority OF the
American people in its favor, as attested by the ratifying votes
OF their representative bodies. Opponents may persist i'll their
stand to the end, but from now on they must drop the charge
that a small majority is seeking to impose its will on q large
majority of the people.