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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-01-09
HANSON HEADS
TACOMA PEACE
PROBLEM MEET

TACOMA. Jan. s.-The franz
inx OF a broad legislative pro
gram for d~s clipping tho farm
Ing industry Of The state. for
opening up liie lands for re-
turned soldier and civilians and
for solving the problem Of labor
surplus In the large Industrial
ernters. was tho business before
the Washington state recon.
strueiion congress when u met
with 500 delegates present. here
today.
Mayor Ole Hanson Of sA,,ie. TEN
porary chairman. opened the con
gresa with an address IN which hs
appealed for quick. definite actiu-
in meeting u problem which he do
ciaFcd 10 be 'aa great aa any which
has confronted tho state while ihs
war was on"
Responding 20 Iianson'H appeal q
-cut out the talk and get action.
the congress Immediately goi dowr
Co business by selecting a Legislative
committee. which viii draw up con
struciion measures % be submitted
10 the state legislature this month
This committee IL 60 include this
representatives from each congress
sional district. Eve members ap
pointed from the 1oor OF the con
grcss and one from each % the FOL
lowing oraniEationEs State Good
Roads association. Land Scattismeni
association. Automobile assoc lation
Water Development association
State Fcdsation % Labor. confer
ence on social welfare. Marketing
association. State Grange. Stats
Chamber OF Commerce. Farmers
union. United Dairy association and
womcn'g organizations.
Just before noon short recess
was called for those organization
to caucus and select their delegates
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-01-09
BUSINESS WOMEN 10 MEET

Tho Seattlo BusIneBH Womcn'a
Civic club will hold itB first meet
ing for the year 1919 on Friday
night at the Y. w. c. \. Repre-
sentatives attending the recon-
struction congress at Tacoma are
expected TO give fun reports on
matters of vital interest 10 the
business women of Seattle
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-01-09
Mary Pickford
Is Improving

LOS ANGELES. Jan. o.-Mary
Pickford was reported as improving
today. altho still confined to her
home by influenza. Her brother.
Jack Pickford. was operated on yes
to-day for an absceaA.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-01-09
Russian Language
School Is Opened

school for Russian has been
started in Seattle BY l. smlsnoff and
r. Reedoff. at $685. Empire build.
ing. Both smirnoff and Rsc,ioff are
natives Of Russia. who arc making
Seattle their home
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-01-09
UNCLE SAM HAS BIG
LIMOUSINE FOR SALE

super'sIS limousine. forfeited
to the government by physician
arrested on smuggling charges.
will be sold by federal authorities
next week at the Seattle postoffiee.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-01-09
LOPEZ LOSES MS WATCH

Reyes A. Lopez. Aiki hotel. report
"a q gold watch and s. stolen from
hits room Wednesday night. Burg
lars went thru the residence OF Mrs
4. stellunun az 32a s5th ave. upsc.
everything. and finally left with a
gold watch.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-01-09
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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-01-09

sCh~idcmann had the gall 90 tell
tho that fl~fns;orff was not 10 be-
blamed for the work Of German
spies IN America IIa even suggest
ed ncrnHiorff as peace delegate
Personally. l believe that Bern.
storff is now the secret chief OF the
Spy and propaganda bureaus whigh
are directing German commercial
scheminR thru Holland and ssitxer
land and spain,
have spent some Time IN S~itEer
Land. and I know that Switzerland
remains hotbcd OF secret German
propaganda
believe nrfnatorff u fully aware
OF the odlum which attaches to hin
name in America and that he iH Oh.
ssaned with fear that tho allies
might demand hla cxtradition to an.
Hwcr for Gcrmnnys crimes IN Amer
lea.
Bernstorff looks 20 years older
than before he left America. lie IL
haEEard and he has loaf bis imnac.
ulats appearance. Even his handling
OF the English language IL impaired.
~ ~ AsAAtitaNfkA anu t*NA ktf' ARA
MGR kaiser whom Befn&torff com.
parcH with Napoleon. But he dc.
clared his return at the end 81 100
days AS was the CA. with Ma.
poicon il unlikely
Hcrn@torff insisted. In converse ton
with me. that German politicians. In.
Guiding himself. were eager 10 make
peace In December. 1916. but the
military leaders refused because
they thought Germany could Fri.
umph,
1 asked him why the kaiser fled
to Holland.
Ito answered. WHERE ~ HE'LL
COULD HE COZ"
Ecrnstorff 10 obviously worried.
when 1 mentioned Washington dis
closures no became silent, then hur.
rled away. Thereafter he lodged
me.
Enthusiastically he f. the same old
Bcrnstorff. siill the archspy. work
ing secretly against the allies.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-01-09
IS
SAME OLD SPY,
TH|ERRY THINKS

~ u " NIF V"fFfWIIufUffff
FAIRS. Jan 9.--Signifiosnt
indication Of German insinc~rity
L. the retention II the archrpy.
iI~rnstorff. la tho foreign office.
lie holds a mysterious position.
met ii.rnstorff In the dining
room Of Berlin hotel.
He told me he was working
foe the German Government. but
de- lined Ia tell me what he was
doing.
~ehriticmann denied that bern.
stnsff was there emplo, ed.
hut Inv c.tlE alton showed that
Sch~isissnanu lied.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-01-09

LAXATIVE HROMO QtfNfNE
Tablets remove the cause. There 10
only ono Promo Quininc. +, w.
GROVES signature on tho box soc.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-01-09

tered Mexico. In 1919. after the Villa
rnld. tho Plain Dealer sent her along
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-01-09
Seeley
Trusses

arc made Of the reDy
best spring steel that
cannot rust, and guar
antced 10 give you SER
rice. WI not absorb
noiafnre.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-12
France Would Keep the
Fires of War Patriotism
Alice in Peace

, whining attempts to play on French SEN
timentality and human feeling.
Quoting from a letter of prominent
manufacturer, the Senator says that the
French industrial world is not animated
by spirit of revenge, but it will abso-
lutely insist on reparation for all dam
age done. The manufacturer suggests
that part of this PREPARATION should be
made in transferring such part of the
potash output of Germany as will be
necessary to restore French agriculture
in the devastated areas.
lie Temps" comments upon an appeal
of German intellectuals to the world.
edited by Gerhart Hauptmann, the dra-
matist, and signed by men like Peter
Behrens, Ludwig Fulda, Herbert Eulen-
berg, Hermann Sudermann, etc. The
appeal, issued after the fall of the Kaiser.
lnvokes love as the guiding principle
of humanity in behalf of suffering. pros
trate Germany. "Le Temps" reminds the
reader that the same men inc]udinc
Hauptmann himself, sponsored, with
others in the fall of 1914, the detestable
manifesto Of the ninety-three German
lntellectuals which, instead of accom-
pllshlng its object, the justification of
the German attack on Belgium, has be-
come byword of hypocritical German
"Kultur."
There is not a word of repentance in
this second manifesto, not one express
sion of pity for the victims-not one adj
mission, not a bit of remorse," saws de
Temps"
Hate is sterile Herr Hauptmann and
ms trends now say. Where were they
when all Germany was applauding the
refrain OF Lissauer's Hymn of Hate?"
In view of the approaching settlement
of territorial questions, the interest of
French publicists in the Syrian prob
lem is increasing. "L'Europe Nouvclle"
publishes long article by DR.. Georges
Samme, director of the Correspondence
dOrient," urging the necessity of estab-
fishing French protectorate in Syria.
Samme points to the excellent results.
from the point Of view of the native
population, of French rule in Algiers and
North Africa in general, describes the
natural wealth of. Syria, not generally
realized in Western countries where the
legend of Syrian desert" survives, and
says that this wealth can be developed
for the benefit of natives and the world in
general only through orderly government
and with the aid of European capital.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-12

omens. Broad streams of cattle undulated
past constantly, heading south and west.
My poor Parish exclaimed French lady.
IL was not of themselves any of these
people thought-of that personal interest 1
mean, which, so early in the war as that.
made the forestallers, the mongrels of profit,
the place hunters, the energetic politicians.
the expert war writers, the popular journal
lists and the preachers of war fasten in
stlnctlveiy on the hot body of sick humanity
TO lrrltate 1T for sustenance. As the tragedy
untolded and deepened we learned to respect
the more the seliess impulses of these No
bodles-that ancient house which keeps the
world turning, and thinks nothing of it:
which is of little worth while thinps ro
we'll; yet when the Importances, in the idle
lntrcacies of their ancient Cabal. at last
Juggle with the springs of life and death
ana bring on US earthquake and eclipse. it
is to the hosts of the unknown and unim-
portant we turn, the Melodies, to get the
earth back into the Sun again. These No
bodies with us in the train deplored Paris
and all humankind, and eyed with soicitude
and gratitude their uniformed friends he
low, waiting quietly for the trouble, BROUGHT
ny lhe craft or Inc Great, and perhaps their
ehd' Inc train moved with hesitancy for
hours. During one long pause we listened
TO the guns. One burst seemed remarkably
close. At once young English mother, a
girl whose face seemed too plump and salts
lied for her to know where that train was
sitting in the corner with an infant. rose
abruptly, handing the child to it's father.
She rummaged in travelling case with the
haste of lncipient panic She produced a.
spirit lamp, bowl and tin She had sud-
denly remembered it was past her baby's
feeding time
III was such people who won the war for
US, turning with hardly hesitation, with no
more than look of mingled reproach. of
1alnt wonder, of misery they could not alto
gether conceal from the accustomed order
of their day, to soldering, to the making of
shells and munitions, to the construction
and the use of the complex machinery of
war; and, while ruin fell upon them and
sorrow and agony beyond any expression
puC gesture OF despair, kept to the task
fate had thrust suddenly at Them; while
still their governors, fearful and dismayed
by the dire retribution which had fallen on
that evil state they had craftily maintained
SO long that they had thought it native and
eternal, abjured and abused those whose
efforts alone now could save us and the
world. The slackers! The cowards Little
people unable to leave their football and
drink! There was one dark winters dav
OF the November of the first year of it. in
town at the back of the User lines, when
column Of wounded Belgian soldiers filed
past US, on their way to succor which we
knew was not there. They were in rags.
They were covered in glistening mud. Their
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-12

canal zone be- established, this southeast
ern corner of Schleswig seems destined to
become part of such zone, especially as here
one finds the only part of Schleswig peopled
by men of pure German stock, as proved by
the names and place names, as we'll as by
the methods of farm building The rest of
South Schleswig may or may not desire to
return to the protection of the Danish flag.
with local home rule, its own local officials,
churches and schools, etc The entity of
Denmark would thus be preserved, and the
many ties, social and economic, which bind
both parts of Schleswig together be left
unbroken
1.-THE attitude of South Schleswig is prac
tically dependent on Angel, the populous
peninsula between Flensburg and the town
of Schleswig, where the Danish language
and Danish sympathies still linger on in
some parts. Certain signs of "auld ac-
quantance" and the quite natural wish to
escape the coming ruinous taxes of the Ger
many of tomorrow have come to the front
in Angel, and the doings Of the Soviet of
KEEL may augment such signs. Lastly, it ia
worth pointing out that the whole of Schles-
wig and the greater part of Holstein have
but one outlet to the North Sea for their
agricultural produce and other goods-Ton-
ming, whose once fourishing trade with East
Anglican ports was destroyed by Hamburg
after the war of 1864"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-12
Even the Wounded
Are Attacked

Even wounded prisoners of war were
attacked on their way to German intern
ment camps. Says the "Saalezeitung. !"
of Halle, a National Liberal newspaper:
when a transport of wounded French
men arrived at the railroad station and were
brought to hospitals in street cars the
public threatened to storm the cars and to
smash the windows. Women ran after the
cars, like furies, and threatened the
wounded"
The "Hallesche Volksblatt" saws on
the same event:
Especially styIishly dressed ladies acted
like ruffans. One of them continually spat
at wounded Frenchman, another kicked
the hereditary enemies Gas the French
were called in the German textbooks). and
hurt the wounded leg of one of the prison.
ers third heroine took the cap from
one of the Frenchmen and spat at his face. y
The list of the outrages committed in
Germany against enemy aliens, prisoners
of war and civilians is practically end
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-12

tween the towns of Flensburg on the Baltic,
and Tondern, close to the North Sea, one
finds the population not only Danish-speak-
ing, but Danish to the core in it's sentiments
and national aspirations. The North Schles-
wigers have a definite pledge of Prussia to
point to-namely, the still unfulfilled prom
Use of 1866 of referendum on their future
destiny-and have shown, in an unmstak-
able manner, at the elections of 1867 to
1914, to the Reichstag that they are Danes,
and wish to remain So
ut is in South Schleswig that the present
problem is to be found. The greater part
of the population here has become Ger
manized, or has adopted German as it's
language. One finds three nationalites-
Danes, Germans and some Frisians--be-
tween the Elder, the ancient border river
between Denmark and Germany, and the
Flensburg- Tondcrn line, and four languages
spoken thereDanish, Tristan and High and
Low German. The question now is how to
find modus vivend satisfying the national
aspirations Of the Danes and their desire
to possess strategic frontier, the desires
of the South Schlcswigcrs' and the possible
requirements of the Allies, notably with
reference to the northern approaches of the
Kicl Canal.
"The Schlcswig island of Fehmarn lies
east Of Kiel Bay, and the canal from the
bay to Bcndsburg touches Schloswig soil
at number of places. Should neutral
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-12
Lord Haldane Says They
Sa,u 1t Coming as
Early as 1906

between the two general stats of France
and Great Britain. The upshot was the
putting to the French authorities of q ques-
hon-l remember it because it fell to my
lot to formulate it-and it was this: Fer
what exact purpose will this military as
slstance be invoked" That is very i'm
portant question, and one which is gem
orally answered in slovenly way. But the
OBJECT was to see what the problem was
and to see whether it was capable of solu-
eloh' we already possessed great navy,
and our people were supposed to be indif-
1erent to the possibility of war 1t was
supposed that no preparations had been
made. do not think they understood You
do not talk about those things The policy
@as TO say nothing that could possibly pro-
yoke this appalling conflict.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-12

eyes had the vacant look of those who had
returned from burial and were unaware of
this world. The bare feet of some left
bloody trails on the road. Others clutched
their bodies, and the red drainage oozed be-
tween their fingers. One dropped dead at
my feet. With that memory l came home.
and the next sunrise, hearing unaccustomeo
sounds without, lifted the blind to a dawn
which was cold and ominous scarlet be-
hind skeleton trees, and beneath the trees
was company of my young neighbors,
already in khaki, getting used to the harsh
ness of sergeants, and to those impacabe
circumstances which would draw them to
Neuve Chapelle, to Gallipoli to Loos, to
the Somme; names then to which there was
no warning but the menace of that winter
dawn
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-12
Soldiers SeIf=Made
In a Day

That serious company Of young English
men promptly making soldiers of themselves
in day with SO unproptious an opening
light did not look like national indifference
But one could not be sure So far as it
went, those nnocents getting used to rifles
were as affecting as that single line of
BODIES we saw across mile of stubble near
Complegne where rear guard of ours had
sacrlhced itself to its. comrades. ] went to
find one who could tell me whether England
was aware of what confronted it. I remem-
bered he was quiet observer, that he knew
what allowance to make in the witness of
that patriotic British press which then
already was holding up in runous caricature
its country and its countrymen for the world
to see and to scorn. He was scholar, he
was Socialist and a pacfist he had a
sense of humor to keep him balanced. But
he had gone. He had enlisted (and he is
dead).
III was common experience From the
day the Germans entered Belgium dumb
resolution settled on our Nobodies. Thew
did not demonstrate. They made long silent
queues at the recruiting Offices. 1t is true
those offices were not ready for them, and
turned them away; and when by sheer OBJ
stlnate persistence they got into the army
they were put into concentration camps
that were almost as deadly as battle. That
did not daunt them, nor turn them from
their purpose, whatever that was, for they
never said; and the newspapers, by ira
dition had no time to find out, being de-
voted to the words and activities of the
Highly Important. We, therefore, knew
nothing of the munition factories that were
sprlnging up magically, as in a night, all
over the country; and were barely aware
that for some strange reason, the hosts of
the enemy were stopped dead on the road
to Calais. Whose work was all this? But
how should we know? Who can chronicle
what Nobody does ?"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-12
ReinfOrcinq
The French

But we set to work to do what had to
nc oohe' III was not for home defence We
were perfectly defended at home by tho
fleet and the territorial forces.
The answer to the question put to the
french authorities was that the purpose of
any British army that could be nut into
the held must be to supplement the great
FRENCH army with force strong enough to
hold the Germans if they tried to break
through Belgium. The French thoupht At,
That time that if we could contribute 100. goo
men within fifteen days from the outbreak
OF war that would be enough to enable
Them, with their great Notifications and
win our reorganized army on their left. to
holo the position. But when we came to-
LOOK INTO things we found that all we could
concentrate was $4,000 men, and then not
nnoer two months and half The French
SAID: we should be dead before Chat This
country, therefore, set itself out to cfect,
a revolution. That revolution was nodo
under Sir Douglas Haig and number 20
other officers who have since distircr;sbo,,
themselves in the war, and some others who
nave passed away, all of whom worked night
anu oay Tor the purpose of putting our
~'1 AOA eHc iISC Time IN Its history on a.
war footing in peace time so that it might
De moblized with the utmost rapiditv.
In the end we were able to increase the
French estimate by giving them not 100
ooo men but 100000, not in fifteen DAYS
but twelve days. l do not think the nub-
nc knew when we modified our army, but
VIII tell you now: We modified at II
O'Clock on the morning of Monday. August
8, thlrty-six hours before we declared war
Mobilization is not declaration of war.
Il desired, you can mobilize in time OF
peace IN order to be prepared for war.
Within a few hours after the declaration
OF war the expeditionary force. with tho
ala OF the navy, was across the Channel be-
lore anybody know it. Indeed the first de-
tachment was over within nine DAVIS in
stead of twelve. That was one of ~. -,
suits of putting definite question a, IN
what purpose the British army was needed
for and working out the answer
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-12
The Story of One Briton Who Was Slave

And he dared to act in self defence.
That was his capital crime
Regarding the trial of John Bramble,
an English prisoner of war, interned at
Zossen, German newspapers printed the
following official report:
"On November 80 1914, John Bramble.
who does not understand German, did not
receive any food. Therefore, he waited
after breakfast had been distributed, and
showed his empty dinner pail to Corporal
Enskat. Enskat hit the prisoner first with
stick over the back and then with the butt
Of rifle, SO that Bramble stumbled over
a pail of water and fell, hurting himself
on the leg. At the same moment the report
of rifle shot was heard. Brambe heard
also the command, Haiti but continued to
run away because he did not understand the
command. Then he fell again and was
arrested"
Bramble was sentenced to twenty
years in state prison at hard labor. The
abusers of Lonsdale and Bramble were
in no wise punished, not even censured.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-12
Denmark Comes to Paris, Hat in Hand

~ ENMARK has seized upon the
prospective redistribution of
~ the territory of Europe as an
opportunity to regain the
province of Schleswig, seized from her
by Germany in 1864. This is what is
commonly known as the problem of
Schleswig- Holstein, but as a correspond
ent of "The London Times" explains,
there is no such problem, and Schleswig-
Holstein is only hyphenated fiction of
the Germans, who sought by it to bind
the Danish province of Schleswig more
firmly to the German Empire, or rather
to the Kingdom of Prussia, as it was
Prussia that committed the theft before
the German Empire was born. The
Times" correspondent continues:
"The different position each country occu-
pies is shown the moment the iniquitous
Peace of Vienna, 1864, is cancelled, as an
amende honorable due to Denmark Hol-
stein rcvcrts to her former status as Ger
man duchy, while Schleswig becomes part
OK Denmark. as guaranteed by the Western
powers in the treaty Of Fredericksburg, 1890.
ending the rule Of the Holstein- Gottorp
branch OF the Danish royal house over
South Schlcswig.
Taking tho northern parts OF Schleswig,
especially those just north of line be-