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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-02-22

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Reeves Aylmore. attorney. who
represents the conservative faction
in the local boilermakerS' union of
$4,000 members. has 1uSt returned
from Portland. and asserts that
sentiment among metal trades dele.
gates is Overwhelmingly opposed TO
mass walkput Ia all shipyap!s OF
the coast
The Coast convention i expected
70 do one Of two things recommend
the calling OF OF al Coast strikes. or
make an appeal for a vote from the
rank and file on the question Of re-
turning 20 work.
DR. l.. {. Marshall federal uiedi
stor. addressed the poy,hpd couveu
tion for several houra Friday. and
gave exhaustive figures IN support
of the governments position that
the men must return to work before
they can expect any consideration
from the federal authorities.
Anti gencrals,rike sentiment nt
Portland is said 20 have developed
thru the fact that the Macy boards
authority expires IN about six weeks.
and on the ground that it would be-
better to wait until new agencies
have been set up. with which a more
satisfactory scale may be adjusted.
Ask Mcclure Removal
VI. J. Mcclure. international metal
trades representative at san Fran
cisco. earned the condemnation OF
che coast convention Friday. when a
resolution was passed. calling for his
removal Mcclure Is alleged to be
t1ing his position as a labor man
for political purposes. II was Nc
CURE who recently authorized the
formation OF a new boilermakers'
union at Oakland.
Tacoma metal trades leaders have
refused the request Of Fleet Corpor-
alton Director Charles Pier that dele
gates be sent TO a wage conference
at washington. -. c. Mayor c. ".
RIddeiI. OF Tacoma. has left for the
capital to attend the conference.
which will be made up OF govern
vnent officials. Iabot men. and pos.
sibly business interests.
Seattle Men Mum
The proposition for the calling Of
n coast wide strike was still in the
hands Of the executive committee
when the Portland convention
opened Saturday morning. Definite
action. not later than the afternoon
session. was forecasted By delegates.
Collapse Of strikes in California
s. said to augur badly for the sue
cess Of any attempted general walk
out
seattle strike leaders decline 10
commit themselves TO any statement
az to what they viii do In the
event Of falling to secure support
from the coast convention. lndivid-
! tlal strikers. however. maintain that
with the support Of the convention
lacking. a weakening In morale here
would result In a speedy dissolution
Of the strike.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-02-22
CIVIL WAR IS
NOW RAC|NC|N IN
BAvAR|AN CITY

AMSTERDAM. Feb. es.-The
red flag was hoisted in Munich
mt noon yesterday. and a gem
eral strike WAS proclaimed tllru-
out the city. dispatches from
that city reported today.
COPENHAGEN. Feb. sa-
Civil war broke out I'm Munich ut
2 y. m. yesterday. it WAS report
ed I'm dispatches today.
AZ that hour the church helIs
we're rung, and 10000 workIncn
marched from the suburbs into
the city. Shortly afterward vio-
lent fighting broke out.
The mobs plundered shops and
residences Hundreds fled from the
city. Others were prevented after
the Spartacans seized the railway
stations. . According TO reports,
workmen relationships have been
proclaimed. and Spartacans in armed
were rushing thru the
streets. Many anarchists were said
TO have Joined them.
War Minister Rosshaupter.
during shooting in the diet
chamber. was reported to have been
arrested later by the Spartacans.
"a Zurich dispatch via Paris said
had died from his
wounds1
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-02-22
$40, 900 Is One Day
Riot Policy Cost

OLYMPIA. Feb. Z2.- seattle firms
in one day paid out $4,000 In strike
and riot insurance premiums to
Iendon Lloyds according 70 argu-
rnents made in the house last night.
when the senate bin, permitting fire
insurance companies 70 write these
policies. came up for first reading.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-02-22
ACID TEST OF ECONOMY PUT
UP TO THE LEGISLATURE

OLYMPIA, Feb 22.-Whether not the legislature
wants help the poor taxpayer will be tested out next
week by Rep Bohke, representative from Seattle.
The 1000 capitol building already passed
carries half mill levy to be met by taxpayers until such
time as the shall sell timber lands held for capitol
buildings.
Bohke introduced bill repeating this phase of the
bill "Why not sell the timber and raise the money without
shoudeIing levy on the taxpayers? says Bohlke
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-02-22
TINtLTy IN BOSTON

BOSTON. Fob. 22--Ioseph Tumul.
Is. secretary to President Wilson,
arrived today, He went into confer
ence with Mayor Peters to discuss
plans for welcoming President VII.
son on Monday
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-02-22
CHICAGO BOARD CLOSED

, CHICAGO. FeB 22.-The Chicago
Board Of Tfade. the stock Exchange
and produce markets here. were
closed today IN observance Of wash
ington's Birthday
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-02-22

ciothes, died here last night. She
was 81 years old.
Death was caused by a general
breakdown Recently she had been
In failing health and spent much Of
her time az her farm. Bunker Hill.
six miles from Cswegu. where she
died
Dr Walker was noted for her
habit OF wearing tnH hat. frock
coat. trousers. walstcoat and mems
shoes She advocated this drera re.
form. contending that an women
should attire themselves similarly.
Or. Walker was one Of the earliest
active campaigners Tor women suf.
fragc She was "a democrat
In the civil war she WIS an as.
sistant surgeon. with rank Of first
lieutenant and was captured and
held prisoner by the confederatcs
until exchanged
Later she received the congress
sional medal Of honor for bravery on
the field
Early in lie she married a Rome
New York. man They separated
soon Thereafter Dr. Walker stead
fastly refused 20 mention the name
of her husband
Born in OsweRo. Or Walker grad
uated from Syracuse medical col.
lege in 1855. and from the university
~ Columbus Ohio. two years later.
She practiccd medicine. lectured In
ali parts Of tho United states. and
formed the hnbit Of making annual
visits 90 Washington In behalf of
votes for women. which she advO
Gated in % conservative way
Only distant relatives survive.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-02-22

PARIS. Fcb 20 The Polish gov
crnment. headed by Premier Padc-
rcwskf. has been formally rccog
nized bv tho associated powers thru
the supreme war council IL was an
-unlInnnI
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-02-22

LONDON, Feb. 22.-Cermany is again
ablaze with revolution. The uprising has
spread to Hungary.
Reports from various sources today
showed that Spartacan outbreaks in the
Ruhr and Rhine districts are growing more
menacing, that Munich is in the hands Of
revolutionaries, and that Budapest Is en-
dangered by an incipient revolt.
Ninety localities in the Ruhr valley are held by
the SparacanS and the center is said be getting be-
yond control of the government despite the fact that
most of the soldiers councils are cooperating with
Military Governor NoSke.
Desperate fighting has broken out at several
points in different parts of the country Seven hum
ired Spaacans said TO have been killed in battles
at DorSten and Heryest They succeeded in occupyiRs'
Battnppa, however. New riots occurred in HambuI
lStettin and Gotha NJ
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-02-22
FRANCE OBSERVES BIRTHDAY

PARIS, Feb. 22.--Washington's
Birthday was celebrated thruout
France today. There were special
observances in the American zone
and in Paris
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-02-22
She Made Long
Campaign for
Women s Votes

OsW EGO. y. y. Feb. ss.-Dr.
Mary Walker. famous a. the
woman who WIS authorized by
congress to wear masculine
clothes. died here last night She
was 81 years old.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-02-22
STRIKE
DEBATED AT
| PORTLAND
Decision on Coast Wide
Walkout May Come
by Tonight
DR.. MARSHALL SPEAKS

The outcome Of scattie's ship
yard strike will he SETTLED before
niEhtfall by the action taken In
the Metal Trades Coast conven-
tion at Portland. Il Is declared In
strike circles today.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-02-22

Battle Is
Spreading

nv United Leased Wire. to slarJ
New-York tribune., 1919-03-04
Applied Bolshevism

The Bolshevist food dictator in Petro-
grad is accused of cmbczzling 5O,000,-
600 rubes. He simply carried the
ratloning doctrines Of the Soviets to
their logical conclusion.
The Bolshevist scheme is one of un-
diluted privilege. To deserve the
means of existence one must be a vocif-
erous Red. The more vociferation
the more comprehensive the food card.
Only the elect are entitled to the fruits
of the earth
This is not new idea. 1t is as old
AS human nature. 1t is an inevitable
accompaniment of warfare of classes
crystallized into dogma. 1t hourishes in
the midst of that regeneration of the So
cial and economic order which is the
chief preoccupation of Bolshevism.
Lenine and his associates deny equal
ity Of right or opportunity. That is
the paramount tenet Of their creed.
The proletariat comes first, others no.
where. And within the proletariat a
super -proletariat has already been
erected. This super -proletariat strange
ly resembles Prussian junkerdom in its
characteristics. Only it's rapacity is un-
restrained by the conviction of the
Prussian absolutists that the superman
was charged with the duty of trying to
keep the outer fringe classes moderately
we'll nourished
How can a Bolshevist dictator en-
bezzle anything? All there is in sight
exists for the benefit Of himself and his
following. Private ownership is only
one Of the many abhorrent forms of
capitalism. The true Bolshcvist helps
others to get rid Of their accumula-
tions. Fifty million rubles in any other
hands than those of high servant of
the proletariat is peril to Red ideals
Of civilization.
Strijevski is said to have been ar
rested for his forchandedness. This is
fatal concession to bourgeois preju-
dices. He ought to have been sum
moned to Moscow and appointed Le-
mines Secretary of the Treasury.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-04
Books for Soldiers

No one seems to have called attention
TO the opportunity for propaganda Of
fered by the books for -the-soldicrs cam
paign, which has not been and is not
now socialist propaganda, or anti social
'st propaganda, or suffrage or anti
sunrage propaganda, but simply book
propaganda. There are our soldiers
thousands of them, in foreign country
whose language hardly any of trem
know, with empty time on their hands.
and all we do is to search shclyes for
books that we've forgotten to throw
away lit is absurd.
Colonel Roosevelt had the right idea.
When the overseas library campaign
was started he sent in his check for
New-York tribune., 1919-03-04
Bad Hospital Manag -nent

To the Editor Of The Tribune
Sir: IN one Of the nearby governnent Of
hospitals student nurses have daily eight
hours Of exacting physical labor IN the
wards, during which they are eonstantl7 on
their feet. Four additional hours are re-
quired for lectures and recitations. and
further time must be given TO study " hen
II is remembered that they are subject 70
the depression caused by constant assccia-
ton with severely wounded and suffering
soldiers that the food is monotonous in
character and unattractively served, that
these girls of refinement and education are
often subjected 70 petty, exacting and IN
quisitorial discipline on the part Of the
head nurses. it is scarcely to be wondered
at that practically all Of the entering class
have been Ill, that half have already gi7e1
up the work and that the merest fraction
Of them have felt able to sign for the full
period of three years. Cannot some remedy
be suggested for such q state Of things?
To whom should appeal be made for relief?
OBSERVER.
New York, Feb. %, 1919
New-York tribune., 1919-03-04

$loo, with instructions to purchase
copies of "Guy Mannering," "The A ati-
quarry and "Our Mutual Friend" 1t
was not very surprising thing to do,
but how many have had the good sense
to do anything of the kind?
But, you say, the soldiers won't read
selected books. Well, Roosevelt was not
unacquainted with soldiers, and he
thought they would However, there is
abundant good fiction too new to be
branded as classic. What about Gals
worthy's "The Man of Property or The
Country House." BENEFITS "The Old
Wives Tale" or "Buried Alive" Conrads
"Victory," Wells's Joan and Peter"
Mrs. Wharton's ETHAN Frome"? What
about the stories of Kipling and O.
Henry? And, while fiction is the chief
demand, a little poetry would surely not
come amiss-say, "The Oxford Book of
English Verse;" and Masefeld's poems.
and kipling's, and Rupert Brooke's; and
is there boy who could resist the charm
of "a Shropshire Lad? To think that
we might be sending the soldiers thi~ gs
like these-and instead we have been
dumping unstable best-sellers upon
them
New-York tribune., 1919-03-04
A League Of the Five

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: We have been asking for the bread
of practical accomplishment, with firm, i'm
movable terms of retriburon and reparation
for the devils of Europe, and the President
has thrown US pretty stone, sparkling with
bright colors Il perfect jewel of words,
words, words We get nothing more than
has already been said hundreds of times, and
no better scheme than has failed before-to
include the whole world OF nations, big and
little wise and foolish pcace-loving and
boodthrsty strong and weak gentle and
cruel, the highly trained, refined and stabil-
ized by centuries Of grand achievement, and
the newly made or semi-civilized, immature,
anarchy -debauched and inefficient-a hetero-
geneous mass, to be held together by hiph-
strung, passionate, wrong -headedly, OBJ
stnate devotion to dream theory of quickly
attained human perfection.
What does he bring US after three wasted
months of strenuous and futile effort? Not
the faintest idea of treaty of peace. with
"open covenants, openly arrived at" that
ners and procure the eternal discontinue
Of the enemies of mankind He brings US
an elaborate document, verbose vague and
visionary. filled with the strange doctrine
of the remuneration Of sovereignty by each
nation for the good Of all and decreeing
that mere majority Of their dele
gates shall bind even the strongest
power to q course its citizens might
justly oppose. What is his argument in de-
fence of this impudent proposition, as Colonel
Harvey calls it? Moonshne! An appeal to
gushing altruism. The false assumption that
America will egregiously fail in her duty to
the world if she does not take his loudly
vaunted specific. That's the method of
quack.
This is the beautiful stone that has been
magnanimously and magnioquently delivered
to us, instead OF good, plain, nourishing
bread.
There should be not an unwieldy, top
heavy league Of nations" or united states
of the world, with our amiable President
at its head, but an oldfashioned firm alliance
or covenant Of peace, by and between the
nations most interested the victors in the
world 1t should be strong, yet fex-
lble, based on reason and good faith No
surrender of sovereignty by any, but all
pledged to whatever common action may be
necessary to maintain the peace of the
world
CHARLES A. HAMMOND
Mount Vernon, n. Y, Feb 81, 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-04
Some Things Forgotten
, Editor of The Tribune.

10 the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: smooth tongue, utterng we'll
phrased generalities is able to obscure the
vision and impair the memories Of many
people of education and apparent intelli-
gence.
"A great many people have forgotten
That President Wilson exhorted US in
l9la to be neutral in thought and deed
That President Wilson said in 1915 that
there was no danger of our becoming in
volved in the war and there was no need
Of preparation
That President Wilson ordered the in
vasion OF Mexico and the occupation Of
Tampico and Vera Cruz without accom-
plishing any result except the loss of a
number Of American lives
That President Wilson was elected in
1916 under the banner upon which were
subscribed the words, ''He kept us out of
war; when he knew, or should have known
New-York tribune., 1919-03-04
The Three RS as an Asset

Complacent Americans who have been
wont to look upon their country as the
best educated and most enlightened ma
ton of the world have been sadly shaken
by some of the revelations that have
been made as a result of the war. One
bit Of information that has caused
Americans to open their eyes was the
announcement that 24.9 per cent of our
draft army was illiterate Such revela-
tlons have given great impetus to such
causes as the Americanization move
ment and should be great aid to the
most recently launched of remedial en-
terprses, the stay-in- school campaign
ment Of Labor and the Council of Ma
tlonal Defence.
The purpose Of this drive is to per
suade to return to school many of those
children who dropped out to engage in
war work and to convince others to re-
main at their books as long as possible.
The Chlldren's Bureau declares that. as
result of an investigation carried on
by experts, it is in a position to an
nounce that the children of America are
not getting the education that they
should have and that is in reach of them.
In the Central Northwestern states
three of every four children between the
ages of six and eighteen go to school.
but that is the very best record attained
IN any part of the United States. 1t
scales down from that till in the South
Atlantic states only one child in three
goes to school. Only one-fifth of the
boys and girls of the country are still in
school at the age of eighteen
The dollars and cents argument is
being stressed with both parents and
children in the stay-in-school CAMPAIGN.
The United States Bureau of Education
has prepared figures extending over a
period of years and using two groups of
children for purposes of illustration.
The children of the first group quit
school at the age Of fourteen and went
to work at S4 a week. These children
were gradually increased in wages until
at the age Of twenty-five they received
rA-''O - "SSN CdSl, CIcSc DcInR Dro-War
figures.
he children Of the other group re-
malned in school until they were eigh
teen, when they went to work at $40 p
week. At twenty-five they were receiv-
ing S3l week each. This meant that
from the time he went to work till he
was twenty-five he had been paid
S7,337.5O in wages. The child of the
other group, although he had gone to
work four years earlier, had received at
twenty-five only $5,112.5O in wages.
The climax of the argument of the
stay-in-school campaign is that the
child who leaves school at fourteen must
as rule go through life on dav labor
wage basis, while the child with mora
complete education will continue to in
crease its wage earning power through
out its life.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-04
The People and the League
Public Sentiment Portrayed Letters to The Tribune

that he could not by any possibility keep
us out of war
That, when we were finally kicked into
the war. after three wears of insults and
humlllation; after three years of actual
warfare waged against US by Germany and
German agents, during which time our
shlps were sunk, our people killed. our
factories and grain elevators as we'll as
our munitlon plants blown up by German
agents, President Wilson Informed us that
we were not at war with the German peo
pie-people who were violating everv law
OF civilization and humanity; people who
were rejoicing in the slaughter If tho inno-
cents
That, in 1917, President Wilson declared
for peace without victory" which. in the
llght of subsequent events as we'll as what
was known by most we'll informed people
when the declaration was made was un-
thinkable
That President Wilson's fourteen points
which were so eagerly accepted by Ger
many when she realized that her armies
were beaten, were made respectable onlv
by the armstice terms made on the field
by General Foch
' '"e ulCceh points nave since been
so changed and mutiated as to be hardly
recognizable, one of which President Will
son himself has declared as being good
joke on its author
The most amazing of his world league eff
forts IS his request that they should not be
discussed nor criticised. We are unable TO
understand the viewpoint of man who
after years Of error, in most cases proved
and IN some acknowledged, requests that
ne be permitted to provide a panacea that
Will bring peace to the whole world: that
he be permitted to solve the problems Of
the universe without criticism or question
c. e. DALRYMPLE.
New Brunswick, N. j., Feb. %, 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-04
The Guardian on Guardianship

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: Many of us recolect voting for
President Wilson in 1912 largely because of
his insistence that he regarded himself a.
one of the people, of his repeated state
ments regarding the value of common
counsel" In one of his campaign speeches
IN that year he said:
Il am one of those who absolutely reject
the trustee theory, the guardianship theory.
| have never found man who knew how to
take care of me, and, reasoning from that
point out, I conjecture that there isn't any
man who knows how to take care of all
the people of the United States ! suspect
that the people of the United States under
stand their own interests better than any
group of men in the confines of the coun-
try understand them"
JAMES WESTERVELT
Santa Monica, Cal, Feb. 18, 1919
New-York tribune., 1919-03-04
He Shall Not Passl'
tor OF The Tribune.

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: All Americans want safeguards and
Will accept responsibilities to prevent wars.
but not at the sacrifice Of one whit of the
sovereignty of the United States. desnite
the assertions of any person that the Mon
roe Doctrine, control of the Panama Canal
or the sovereignty of the United States is
not violated, but that the league of nations
Is a universal Monroe Doctrine. We in
sist, If that is so, that it will be iudicous
Tor US to demand 1T be specifically and en-
phatlcally set forth.
1t is not narrow TO have a horizon that
IS American, as compared with an obscura-
tlon or obSession. The President has been
taken, or purposely went, into camp No
one with an ounce of common sense i'm
agnes that the vote of the United
States will be of any avail against its in
terests or their safeguards.
We follow the precepts of Washington.
rather than those of Wilson RI. s.
New York City, Feb %, 1919
New-York tribune., 1919-03-04
Flattery as an Anrsthctic

TO the Editor of The Tribune
Sir; Mr. Wilson's words "America tn.
hope OF the world are meant to hatter II,
into agreeing with his project of leagu.
of nations. If in n whirlwind campaign o,
II few days he can succeed in winning II,
by painting picture of ourselves as ben,.
factors Of mankind it will be person.l
triumph for himself. He does not wish %
go back to Paris and have TO confess tha,
he has failed in this. ] trust that the peo.
pie are not going TO be carried away hv
his rhetoric into forgetting that they know
nothing about his scheme but it's name
The primary object of the conference
was the settling of the dictated peace terms
to Germany and Fastening the restoration
Of suffering Belgium and France 1t would
seem the first impulse of every generous
soul to aid in its accomplishment But
Mr.. Wilson has chosen instead to eompel
attention TO his plan. No wonder tha.
France is dissatisfied NJ LII
Morristown, \. j., Feb. &c, 1919.