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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-05-24
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dleal Estate Director. Henry Brod.
crick. Incl
Picture To yourself city Of
10000 people, such as Everett,
BeiiiDghafn, or some Eastern city
with which you are familiar.
Draw up In your minds eye all
the houses, cottages. flats. apart
mentS, which furnish homes for
all the population; all the hotels.
clubs. restaurants. theatres. and
places 81 entertainment: all the
schools and public and municipal
buildings. all the banks, stores,
office buildings, factories. foun-
dries. shops and mills which fur
nish occupation and employ
meni. Combine all these enter.
prises. activities and structures,
and You can form n fair ooneep-
ton Of what Seattle must and
viii do within the next twelve
months. and perhaps within each
successive year Ia the immediate
future.
Seattle In growing At tho rate OF
$4,000 per year. is building inside the
city limits physical structures for
housing the population and caring
for the activities Of q city 81 ~ 900
each year Sounds big. you think
Let's prove H. Next year In census
year. April. 1920. Uncle sam makes
his official count. Have you not al.
ready registered your guess. or per.
haps made your wager. that Seattle
viii have 400 900 at that timer Let
us BE- conservative. and place more
modest estimate. say $4,000.
Building Statistics
Then lot US take tho building sta.
tlstica OF the past ten years hs a ba.
els for our figures Records Of buiis.
ing permits show 10000 separate res.
licences constructed since 1910. At
present rates. 1000 will be built In
1919. making "a total Of $4,000 do
tach.d homes In the decade Rec.
ords viii show for the same period
about 500 flats. apartment buildings
and hotels What population figures
ARE indicated b. this enormous build.
ing record Census OF 1910 proved
that In Seattle an average 81 five
people lived in each single residence
Average family dwelling in apart
monts IL slightly less.
The $4,000 now houses. then. viii
furnish homes for l20 900 additional
population. Allow 1900 as a con.
scFvauvo estimate OF the number
dwelling in new hotels and apart.
mcnts Consider that In 1910 many
vacancies existed. that now every
habitabie howell Il fully occupied.
Count 5000 a. modest estimate for
filling vacancies AZ the time the last
census waa taken. ana We have pro
vided homes Tor q new population
Of 1000. The census of 1910 was
slightly lcss than 10000. From all
the evidence Of growth. manifest on
all sides. and IN all the activities Of
the city. who can doubt the facts
proven by these figures
Increasing $4,000 Now
The population OF Seattle In 1900
was 10000. Increase from 1900 TO
1910 was nearly $4,000 per year &c.
cordinE 10 above calculations. aver
age Increase from 1910 to 1920 will
be $4,000 per year This period In.
Guided some vcry lean years. in
which indications pointed 10 very
slight growth
IL Il not clear. then. that II aver
age for twenty years has been $4,000
per year. in this flush period start
ing with the latter part OF 1917 and
continuing TO the present time, that
the increase is at the rate OF 10000
per Year,
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-05-24
The Strength of Nation
Lies in Home Ownership

you wear. What their credit men
want to know Is What do you OWN"
The best evidence OF your respon.
sibility lis that you have acquired ana
own a piece of Seattle real estate
ownership OF real estate makes good
law'abiding citizens. and home own.
ership Is the strength OF our wonder.
ful nation. Seattle is growing every
hour. The more II grows. the great.
or viii become the values OF Seattle
realty. Already tho business of our
city has burst from the bands that
formerly were set to mark it's limits
and the development which is forced
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-05-24

grounds. room 10 romp. and sx.
panse TO play in without the ON
nipresent danger OF the city. the
speeding auto. To live at Alder
wood Manor is an education for a
child.
On the other hand. the book.
learning side OF the chiid's educa.
ton has not been neglected, and
in order that the children may
have their proper schooling. the
company has erected the Alderwood
Manor model school.
Have Model School
Surrounded by excellent play
grounds. the model school Is an
ideal place for the child to obtain
his schooling. and competent
teacher Is In charge. The school
has been growing steadily. and with
the beginning OF the fail term. It
Is expected that at least 100 chill.
dren viii be In attendance. This
shows that the children never need
grow lonesome. and will never want
for suitable playmates.
Meanwhile, with the children at
school. the adults are not being
neglected. Not being satisfied with
providing expert advisors in every
line. a model farm has been estab.
munity. IT Is in constant opera
ton, and conducted strictly along
scientific lines, and In the largest
model farm and poultry college of
its kind in the United States.
Crews Clear Lands
Scores OF busy little farms are al.
ready in operation at Alderwood
Manor. and new ones are starting
every day. Putting donkey engines
seven OF them--are going all day
with their crews, removing stumps
and otherwise clearing and prepar.
ing the land for the coming Of
more city dweliers who are welcom.
ing the chance TO get to where there
In broad expanse Of sky and a
chance TO get next to the earth
again and work In the open air.
Try as they may. these seven
crews. with their engines, are un.
able to clear the land fast enough
TO meet the ever increasing demand
for farms, but there Is always the
expedient OF putting on more crews
so that the 10000 acres OF virgin
soil may be prepared for the com
ing OF the acre-culturist. with all
the speed possible. Leave that to
the Puget Mil company.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-05-24
ALLIES CLEANING UP -
OLD TURKISH PRISONS

y. T.. A. Special 10 The Star
CoNSTANTINoPLE. May ss.-1
Allied commissions find Turkish
prisons, which they are cleaning up.
filled with unfortunates suffering
from every imaginable disease.
Many OF them are nearly starved.
for n loaf OF bread and a pint OF hot
water n day is their food unless they
nave money TO provide better. YER
mininfested floors are the beds. In
contrast with these. the members OF
the Committee of Union and Prog
ress. who are held by the new
Turkish government. live in COM
Portable quarters with thick Turkish
rugs, loll in pajamas on sunny ter
races. play cards and receive friends
as tho their lives we're not at.
stake. !
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-05-24
BY VICTOR J. GREEN


tSales Manager. Goodwin Real Es.
tate Coz
If you own a piece OF Seattle real
estate your credit is good every
where. The ownership OF real estate
Is a foundation on which credit can
be built. 1t is the visible evidence of
thrift and the tangible proof Of re.
sponsibility. 1t has been and IL the
basis OF many of the largest and most
substantial fortunes In America. Sc
attic merchants care not how big
your salary or how fine the clothes
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-05-24
Conservative Growth

to be built. will cut down the run{
ming time from the industrial cenI
ter TO Rainier Valley and intermedi4
ate points from an average OF one]
hour to rs minutes
Aside from shortening the hay
which is always desirable from N
transportation cost standpoint. ID
will also solve the easily accessible
problems. as this new line win place
the residence property located on
jefferson Heights within a few mini
utes' ride of the industrial center.
Already buying activities are de-
veloping. The III. s. Turner Real
Estate company finds the prospec,
tive home owner eager for details
concerning Maynard addition.
large advance sale in this addiy
ton forecasts n rapid development
in all the Jefferson Heights prop.
erty.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-05-24
Seattle;s Population Increasing 10000 a Year
ACRE IDEA" SOLVING HOME PROBLEM
ENOUGH PEOPLE TO FILL
EVERETT COME ANNUALLY

Our greatest building operations
prior 90 present period was 1903 10
1919. During those years Seattle was
overbuilt supply Of houses exceed
ed the demand.
During the first influx Of new pop
ulation the slack period was taken
up, old houses were made habitable.
vacancies were filled up. space In all
kinds Of commercial buildings preyi.
ously unoccupied found tenants. un.
III now there IL an urgent and press.
ing demand for all kinds OF living
quarters; stores. warehouses, lofts
and Easements are all rented and
demands OF growing business are not
nearly met. Rental values are en-
HANGING.
Supply and Demand.
Notwithstanding increased taxa
ton and growing cost Of construc.
ton. the law Of supply and demand
will operate and the new building
must be done. Seattle cannot take
care OF her new annual growth Of
1000 without building all the neces-
Eary structures for caring for their
requirements. What. then. is the sig.
nificance OF these facts? what bear.
ing viii they have upon real estate
values. real estate operations. and
upon the general prosperity Of the
community
In tho opinion OF the writer. in.
creased rents viii absorb TO some ex-
tent burdens OF excessive taxation
and high cost Of labor and materials.
40 that inducements will not be lack
ing for owners Of vacant lots 10 i'm
prove their holdings. do not be-
lieve. however. that conditions are
present or In prospect that Will at.
tract many spectators or investors
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-05-24
Council to Ponder
Airplane Landing

An airplane landing site VIII be
considered at a meeting OF the coun-
Gil committee on harbors and public
grounds Tuesday. Mai. John y. Car
roll. chairman Of the committee, an.
nounced. As none OF the city parks
IL available for the site. city and
park officials are ondeavoring 10 To-
cate some other suitable landing
place.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-05-24
MAY VOTE ON
LABOR TEMPLE
Central Council to Talk Over
S1,500,00O Project

Proposals for Labor temple 10
cost 81 10000 will be considered
by the Central Labor council at It's
next meeting.
The building committee has re-
ferrod the proposal to the council.
after considering the project Wed
nesday night Several sites. in
Guiding the Bailey site. on Second
ave. between Virginia and Lenora,
and the Prefontalne building site
at Fourth and Yeslcr. have been
suggested.
A referendum vote on the ques-
ton is expected.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-05-24
MAY IMPROVE PARK

Plans to improve Parkway park.
a hcavily-wooded tract lying parallel
to Magnolia boulevard on the south,
were discussed by the park board
Friday. Tentative plans include the
elimination OF deadwood and brush
and system OF landscape improve.
uSsvt
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-05-24

into real estate operations. The
amount Of development above out
lined will absorb sufficient number
OF vacant properties for needed inn
provements 20 furnish active employ
mcnt 10 many brokers in making
sales. leases and in financial opera
tons incidental 20 building promo
tons.
Conservative Growth
Abundant opportunity VIII be O.
fered 10 owners OF vacant lots. who
are satisfied with enoderate net re-
turns. 20 build for waiting tenants.
Real estate transactions viii be made
upon careful calculations. Services
OF conservative and expert brokers
viii be most in demand. Little OPP
portunlty will exist for the boom
town" methods or wildcat" real es-
tate operators. Already suggestions
are being made Of a willingness to
exchange Liberty Bonds for Inn
proved real estate. Doubtless this
tendency viii grow and perhaps
reach large proportions II somewhat
more satisfactory net returns are
shown and public sentiment toward
real estate investment grows.
Building operations viii be con-
fined TO meeting Immediate demands.
and each structure win be limited 10
smallest requirements. However, the
aggregate amount of new construc-
ton viii be great enough to contri-
butte much 10 the general trade and
prosperity OF the city. Employment
OF labor and sale Of materials will
keep much money In circulation. As
rental values enhance. home owner
ship becomes more popular. and
home ownership makes for stability
. and character in our population.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-05-24
ATTEND MILK MEETING

Members of the Milk Leaders,
ISOLATION of the retail trade burea
of the Seattle Chamber OF Commer
are attending the convention of 4
Pacific Northwest Association Il
Dairy and MIX Inspectors. now :
ing held In Portland.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-05-24

hall two 4o.centimeter guns dosni
nate, and next TO them are two lone
reach cannon, one OF which was T.
have been employed against Pad
and the other against venice.~
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-05-24
CLEAR HOME OF DEBT

The $4,000 Lebanon home, ITO
w. 6sth st.. was officially cleared of
debt Friday night. with the burning
Of q mortgage OF y2,5nn
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-17
Graphic Recital or
 The Amazing Escape ofAuroraM Mardiganiar,

Miss Mardiganian is the sole survivor of half million Christians girls who were driven from their homes and forced into slavery at the outbreak of the world conflict in 1915. Auction of Souls" is truthful picturization of the ravish- ing of nation after it had been be- trayed into Turkish hands
 Every incident, every statement and every situation in Auction of Souls" is certified and corroborated by Viscount Brice, the British ambassador to Amer ica who made an exhaustive investiga- tion, and by Henry Morgenthau. the American ambassador to Turkey, who was in Constantinople in 1915 and who tried desperately to prevent by diplom- acy, the barbarous ambitions of the Turks to massacre until not a Chris tians heart was found to beat"
 Out of the quiet and peace of her home nestling in the ominous shadow of Mount Ararat. Aurora Mardganian, with her parents, brother and az sister, were driven forth by Turkish bayonets and started with thousands of others on the long, tortorosIs march across Mesopo- tana and into the desert The days were filled with cries for food and water; the nights echoed the screams of he terror stricken girls who fell victims to the Jus; of theil uniformed guards.
 Enver Pasha, Turkish minister of war. Taiat. Pey minister of the interior, and Count von Wagenheim,e German ambas- sador to Turkey exulted over the re- ports from the body-wracked caravan of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-17
JAPANESE WOMAN TO
 STUDY JOURNALISM

Tokio, July Miss Miyorko Ko- bashi, proprietor and editor of the Fujin Shuho, the womans weekly will go to the United States in August for a three-year stay for the purpose of Investigating the courses in journalism in the leading American universities.
 Miss Kobashi goes at the instigation of the founders of the new Tokio Women's University, of which rInazo Nitobe is president Upon her return she will ta in charge-of the course of Journalism in that school
 Miss Kobashi is quoted as saying that Japanese women should awaken to their opportunities in vacations which are adaptable to them, especially jour- nalism.
 She expects to be present at the in ternational labor conference in Wash ington next October, and the interna- tional women's council which will hold a meeting in Berne, Switzerland. next spring.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-17
Imagination

From Forbes Magazine.
 Imagination is the fount from which springs all progress,
 " Before great structure can be erect ed, it must first take the form in some ones imagination.
 Without imagination we would not be sailing in steamships. travelling in trains, riding in automobiles or flying in airplanes.
 Without imagination we would have no electric lights, no photographs, no moving pictures or other inventions identified WithkEdison, the worlds mas ter mind in the realm of both imagina- tion and invention.
 Imagination without knowledge, without training, without experience. without common sense, is as useless as uncontrolled electricity.
 magina ton comes usually from mas tery of some subject The application of painstaking study to ones complete Knowledge of subject sets the imagi- native forces of the mind into activity and To, what appears to be brand new idea is nvoVed--although this idea, when analysed. is but the product, the e-arrangement the application of knowledge already possessed.
 To cultivate imagination. acquire more and more Knowledge of your work
 And you cannot give form and sub stance to something of which you know nothing X
 To acquire imagination, first acquire Knowledge. then mix your fA,wledge with diligent thought; exercise all the foresight you can command and you then stand good chance of developing that species of imagination which Is essential to all pre-eminent success.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-17
REGIMENT
 HONORED BY FRENCH

With the American Forces in Ger many. July 2S.-acorespondence of the Associated Press.-Decorations be-
 slowed upon the Twenty eighth in
 fantry, First division, by Marshal
 Petain included the second regimental award of the croix de guerre with palm, which, in the French army. en- title the officers and men of the regi- ment to wear the fouragere. Am erican officers say they believe it quite prob
 able that authority for the unit to wear the shoulder cord will be forth coming from Washington in the near future. ..a All infantry regiments of the First division have now received the croix rde guerre with palm, the Sixteenth and Twenty sixth infantry being decorated this week at ceremonies in Coblenz. The Eighteenth infantry received the award sometime ago.
 The Tenth Eighteenth and Seventy sixth field artillery regiments of the Third division also received from Mar shal Petain collective citations amount ing to the decoration of the colors of
 those regiments with the croix de
 guerre with gold star. The regimental colors were not available for the occa sion, as they had not been brought back from Paris, where they were used in the victory parade of July IA.
 At the ceremonies in Coblenz the highest award of commander of the legion of honor was received from Mar shal Petain by Maj. Gen. Edward T. McLachlin, formerly acting command CT of the American forces in Ger many, and Brig. Gen. Frank k. Bam- ford, of the First division. The title of officer of the legion of honor was
 bestowed upon Maj. Gen. Robert l..
 Howze. Brig. Gen. Fred w. Sladen, Col. Halstead Dorey and Col Frank J. Morrow, all of the Third division.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-17

deported souls. Turkey was content. At | last they could ravish Armenia without fear of consequence.
 | Miss Graham, teacher in an English
 mission at Harpout, joined the Mardi- gahlan family, hoping that her status as British subject would command pro- lection. She was ridiculed and ultimately
 was sold into slavery with Aurora for ST cents. At the deserts edge the men were separated from the girls and women. ! They were never seen again. A shoulder ing ruin where in the morning had stood a barn, was their grave
 Two days of hot, scorching sanls and parched lips, two nights buried alive as the only protection against the torturcs of the sports of the Turks, and Aurora, her sister ,Sand Miss Graham were cap tured by Kurds,, rowing desert ban li;s. They were taken to the camp of Musa Bey, Kurdish chieftan, cruel beyond be- lief He sold them to Kehmel Effendi,
 a Turkish chief,
 This was the beginning of to.tures and terrors greater than any that had gone be1ore. For two years Aurola Mardi- ganian was barteredgand sold; she passed from harem to harem cringinS, beaten. tarnted by frenzy, while pouuli her by
 the thousands died girls whose minds
 snapped under the lash of Turkish cruelty.
 At last, shadow of her former self,
 and the sole survivor of 500000 girls who
 had entered the desert stretches with he-, she made a miraculous escape and reached an American consulate. From
 her lips came the worlds first real Knowledge of the desert atrocities
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-17

Ing 1aCeful day Tn 1915.
 Never did Christian people, tried by ghastly ordeal of fire thirst hunger, fatigue and worse horrors. conceived in the devilish brain of the infamous Turk, go more unflinchingly to meet it's Maker. The bloody arena of Nero. the painful wanderings of the Pilgrims, the terrors of the Spanish nquisition-historys most poignant examples of staunch martyr dom for the cause of the cross-sink to irsignificance beside this persecution of Christianity, as set forth in Auction of Souls
 Here was half million people, within the shadow of Mt. Ararat, laboring peacefully, following fervently and with devoute reverence the teachings of the Bible. They were the oldest Christian nation, situated not many miles from the ancient village in which the Savior was born. They were contented, indus trious, thrifty and devout The church was their shrine, and all the acts of their life were done in the grace of God.
 Then into this heaven upon earth crept the sinister, fanatlcally pagan finger of the Turk. Afire with the hatred of Chris tianity which had been burning for cen turies, inspired by mad religion based on cruelty and lust. Never in the middle ages did the Mohammedan sweep down upon the Christian with more abandon. Never did the pagans of western Europe descend upon the followers of the cross more fiercely.
 Girls were torn from their mothers. The defiling Turkish fingers upon their trembling flesh they were asked: Will you renounce Christianity? Will you ac- cept Mohammed?
 Eyes turned to heaven they answered, "No" and were dashed to tho ground, sentenced to infamies which cannot be
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-17

spoken, to the outrages of the harem, to the burning shame of the slave market Babies, baptised in Jesus, too young to comprehend the fanatical, There is no God but Allah. and Mohammed is his prophet!' were hurled against trees or walls, killed before the eyes of their fanting mothers
 Wives united by the writ of God to Christian men were dragged away, of- fered the Mohammedan faith and given to the lust of the conquerer or to his sword as they answered "Nov
 Ordained ministers of Jesus Christ were stood up in public places Repeat: There is no God but Allah" they were told
 There is one God, and His Son is Jesus Christ, my Savior." came the steadfast answers. Their finger nails were torn from their hands,
 And so it continued Ever the Turkish | demand that Allah be accepted in the place of God, that Mohammed super cede Christ. And. as often, the Armen- ian refusal to yield a Christian soul. Girls were ravished, branded, whipped, sold as slaves, even crucified. Mothers were torn from their children, their blood spilled upon the burning desert. Fathers were brntally bereft of their families, burned, dismembered. And all for the sake of Christianity.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-17
Need of a United States Army

From the Review.
 Under whatever world conditions, we shall have to have an army. Msni- hership in the league of nations will involve contingent military obliga- :iops of a serious sort. to which our prS slsectiv- force Is quite inadequats, Simply as matter of sound political Xactics. the friends of tthe covenant should seek to bring this nation in.n the league with normal military e. tablishirent. It will hardly please even the more enthusiastic champions of the league to be asked to increase the arlny greatly as result of league II tmtership. But precisely that is likely to happen as conseg'nnce of the failure of the administrat-sn to de- fend he business irierests { the ns- tion that are invor :2d h the reGu.ar arm. VI .Itl .@r<