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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1921-07-01

tquare game. Its the chkG1 rem
son why he's now going 10 cash In
on the million dollar Dempsey Car.
penti~r fight
Millions OF people are excited
about the big fight An except Tex
Riekard. He's carrying the whole
burden himself. yet he's not only
not excited about II. but he has
found time 20 transform Madison
Square Garden into the biggest
swimming pool In the world.
Itickard II the modern BarnurS--
the worlds greatest Snowman, lie
became a Snowman by accident. aud
he has made q fortune out of It.
SEASIDE
IN CITY
Out thru q Mite door IN the back
Of his office he can step onto a
balcony high up among the rafterr
Of the great building and see the In.
door seaside resort on which he has
just spent $4,000.
Nobody has ever been able 20 make
Madison Square Garden pay because
II was a white elephant In the sum.
merun,e. Richard made a bet with
himself he could make II pay.
Richard In Just so. is medium
| sired and slightly chunky. has thin
hair. carefully brushed over a large
bald spot. wide smile that shows
even teeth. and an unhurried. un.
abrupt manner.
His M.das-like touch has turned
everything into gold since the day
In 1906 when he turned from his
gambling house In Nevada and pM
Goldficld on the map and his own
name In the newspapers by staging
the Nelson. Cans fight
Since then he has staf-vd 80 ma.
| tiond and international bouts. and
no, one has been financial failure.
He took in $3.50. 900 at the Jcffries-
johnson fight In Reno. $4,000 at
the Willard Moran fight in New
York and $4,000 at the Dempsey.
Willard fight in Toledo. Now he sees
n miiiion-dollar gate In Jersey
city.
BORN IN
i
Tho fight promoter was born m
Kansas city. january .. 1871. and
was taken to Texas as a child. His
father was an Illinois miliwright. At
IL he was left alone 20 support a
widowed mother and two brothers
and three sisters. He became a COW.
puncber and at a Was elected mar.
shal OF Henrietta. Ter.
| Tex went to Alaska IN 1894 and
was ut Circle City when the Klon-
dixie Eoid rush started He hurried
ther~. staked a claim and sold II for
$50. 900. He opened a gambling house
and went broke.
In the winter of 1898 he and Rex
Beach. the author. sawed wood at
Rampant for living. Later he went
to Nome and finally To Goidfield.
where he opened another gambling
house and fell accidentally into fight
promoting
CATTLE
KING
His first fove-<he cattle esme--
stili remains- He is q partner In a
cattle raising enterprise in South
America A syndicate he heads has
100000 ranch in Paraguay.
The man who has out. Barnumed
Barnum has another name besides
Tex His FIRST name is George.
He Is married and his wife Is his last
adv ipor
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1921-07-01
DEMPSEY IS T0PHEAVY FAV0RITE TO RETAIN TITLE
Richard Is
Master of
Promoter
Man Behind the Dempsey
Carpenter Go Is Master
Snowman of Present Era

Ew YORK. July
Tier Richard
went broke run.
ming a gambling
house during the
Klondike gold
rush He lost
everything - be-
cause he ran .
''sa uare game"
That's his rep
utation - he al
ways runs a
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1921-07-01

Given but
S1nallOdds
Five to One Odds on Jack
in New York, Writes
Joe Waterman
BY LEO. H. LASSEN

AIN DEMf-
SEY, worlds
h e avyweight
c h a m pi on,
will enter the
ring a top
heavy favor
lite to beat
Georges Car
pentier, the
idol of Franc
The New York herald., 1921-08-11

year listed 343,260 names. On the
Eli proportion basis the figures work
out TO 744,S74, or $50 fewer than the
census. The Federal census of 1920
gives Boston a population Of 74s,060.
The directory for 1920 contained 371,-
921 names. Multiplied by 2.17 this
would mean a population of only
about 800 less than 100000, showing
Boston up ahead OF Cleveland and
st. Louis. The 1921 directory lists
3S4,240 names. On the 2.17 proper
tion this would bring Boston's popu.
lation close up to $4,000.
Now il the State census OF 1915
was correct then the 2.17 proportion
is correct, and If the 2.17 proportion
is correct the Federal census Of 1890
was incorrect to the tune OF nearly
$4,000 Bostonians.
But Boston's aspirations do not
stop there. In the city proper and
in the suburbs within a radius OF
ten miles from the State House
there are at least 100000 people.
The political welding together of
these units, already in close physical
contact, has long been one of Bos-
toms dreams. 1t is an objective to-
ward which Mayor PETERS and many
other influential citizens of Boston
ere working. Intense local pride In
the municipalities which would be
merged in a Greater Boston must be
conciliated or overcome before union
can be accomplished. New York ac-
complished like task when the COM
munities which now make up the
five boroughs were politically merged.
With corresponding success in uni
flcation Boston would move up even
above Detroit and be the fourth in
stead Of the seventh city in popula-
tion rank.
The New York herald., 1921-08-11
Three Obstructionists.

The three noisiest politicians out
side of MURPHY's slate are now en-
gagged in trying to hurt the fusion
ticket.
LA GUARpIA is the first of the three
by right of eminent lung power.
WILLIAM M. BENNETT is the second
by virtue of his long experience in
vocal acrobatics.
Judge HASKELL is poor third, al
though he does not lack Evolutionary
vigor
Anything to beat CURRAN." is the
cry Of the malcontents. This, of
course, means Anything to elect the
Tammany Hall ticket"
There unity ends in this triple
alliance. BENNETT and LA GUARDIA
both insist on running for Mayor.
AS BENNETT is remembered only as a
man who constantly runs for Mayor
he scarcely can be blamed for want
ing to do it again. LA GUARDIA is re-
called chiefly as the leading rival Of
HYLAN and CRAIG in the billingsgate
contests in the Board Of Estimate.
Judge HASKELL does stand for an
-prohibition-but that hap
pens to be something which has no
more place in the Mayoralty cam
paign than the tariff would have.
1t Is the duty OF the $4,000 men
and women of New York who are
enrolled as Republicans to go to the
primaries on September 13 and IL
any aids of Tammany are still show
ing their heads to whack them with
their votes.
There is just one way to beat
Murphyism and Hylanism, and that
is to rally around the genuine leaders
Of fusion-Major CURRAN and his col
leagues.
The New York herald., 1921-08-11
Bob Ingersoll's Day.

This noon, with the assistance of
committee of American citizens in
Guiding Mr.. EDISON and many other
persons of distinction in science, pol
itics, literature and the several arts.
the honest people of the little village
of Dresden, up State by Lake Seneca,
will pay the tribute of local pride to
the memory of Colonel ROBERT G.
INGERsoLL.
The occasion is dedication to his
tory Of the birthplace of INGERsoLI,
who came into this world eighty-eight
years ago to-day. The fact that
twenty-five years after his death the
recollection OF his qualities and abili-
ties is still so vivid and general, and
this in the lack Of any record OF
such positive achievement OF the first
class as is usually required to fasten
fame upon the everlasting monument,
is undoubtedly due less to his mill
tant agnosticism than to that genial
and friendly and optimistically hui
man benevolence which rendered him
beloved of multitudes. He had the
uncommon power Of forcible self-ex-
preston which rendered almost every
thing he said seem worth saying,
whether it was wise or foolish.
INGERsoLL's father was a Congre.
gational minister inclined to what
was then called heterodoxy. The son
of the clergyman raised heterodoxy,
or rather non-orthodoxy, to the nth
power in this country Through all
the years of his manhood he elo-
quently preached good will to man
and contempt for all the gods OF re
ligious faith. He constituted him
self the prosecuting attorney in the
case Of Unbelief against the Christian
religion. In the substance OF his ar
gument there was really not much
that was novel or original; not much
that had not been said or implied in
4 different language, by VoLTArRE or
PrGAuLT-LEBRUN or Tom PAINE or one
or another of the vast army of
scepticism. But Colonel INGERsoIr--
he had been a cavalry Colonel in the
civil war-conducted his personal
assault upon things sacred or sacro.
sanct with such vigor and wit and
persistence and such taking fluency
Of rhetorical phrase that he almost
appeared to be the first in the field.
He possessed both the power OF wit
and the sense of humor. A notable
illustration OF the FIRST quality was
his celebrated rejoin or to q man In
the audience dag q lecture in the
old Academy OF Music in this town
The Colonel had been doing his best
to- demolish the idea OF a benevolent
The New York herald., 1921-08-11
Army Uniforms.
An Appeal for Changes In the In.
terest of Comfort.

From the Ar,ny and Nduy Journal.
In regard to the uniform OF enlisted
men of the army zone that has seen
seven years OF service In the army and
saw twelve months service In the world
war" writes:
THE uniform we now have Is very
uncomfortable. There Is no such thing
as uniformity any more. as the @lothing
is made Of so many styles and colors.
All shirts socks. &C., are too small after
the first washing. This also applies to
cotton o. d. clothing. Why can't we
have the roll collar coat and long pants ?
And why can't we have a dress uniform?
The marines have a dress uniform. Why
can't we wear shirts with black ties in
the summer time instead of hot coat
buttoned through every time we leave
camp?
do we have to wear out all the cloth
ing that was made during the war be-
fore we can get decent uniform? Is
the much talked OF morale OF the army
helped any by soldier having to go TO
town--if he goes at all--with a coat
too large and breeches too small and
each OF a different color and a hat that
comes down over his cars not to say
anything OF hobnail shoes and woollen
leggins that keep his legs at boiling
heat all the time In summer"
The New York herald., 1921-08-11
A Bigger Boston.

Boston resents the population rank
assigned to it by the United States
census. 1t is willing to trail behind
New York, Chicago, Philadelphia and
Detroit. But there yielding stops.
1t denies to Cleveland and st. Louis
In fifth and sixth places respect
lively. 1t affirms that it is and OF
right ought to be the fifth and not
the seventh In the list OF the most
populous cities in this country. The
Federal census of 1920 gives Boston
a population of 74S,060. as against
Cleveland's 796,S36 and st. Louis's
772,S97. Boston AYERS that its real
population is $4,000.
All this is on the basis OF the 3S4,-
240 names in the new city directory.
AS a groundwork for the argument
1t is asserted that Boston's city direc-
tory has established the reputation OF
being the most accurate of any In the
country. The canvassers are not
hastily assembled and as quickly
dropped each year. They are en-
ployed the year round. They know
the city. They know the districts &C.
which they are assigned and the in
habitants thereof. They take note of
changes as they occur. They keep
close track of the ebb and flow of
population.
Having thus adduced presumptive
evidence OF the superior accuracy of
its directory Boston proceeds to
demonstrate, by comparison with the
results OF State censuses, that the
multiplication of the number of
names listed with the city directory
by 2.17 gives a close approximation
to the actual population.
For instance, the State census of
1915 showed Boston population Of
745.4S9. The city directory OF that
The New York herald., 1921-08-11
BY Any Other Name.

1t must be an impulse stronger
than the tradition of the superiority
Of the French cuisine that has led to
the great number OF new restaurants
in this city which have been baptized
with French names. The reminders
Of Chateau Thlerry, Arras and st.
Mihiel were OF course inevitable.
Such noted places had to be com.
'nemorated. Yet that does not serve
TO explain the numerous eating
houses suddenly described in French
words and phrases.
Most of them are in the prevail.
ing fashion of New York restaurants,
smaller than was recently the custom.
There seems to be no Typographical
explanation of the names selected
Why, for instance, should lie Petit
Paris and La Bonbonniere be high
up In the direction of Fort George,
while Richelieu and La Refine are on
The New York herald., 1921-08-11
Give Back the Hospital!
The Polyclinic Needed to Carry on
It's Useful Worn.

To TIE NEW YORK HERALD: / read
the letter by DIR. John A. Wyeth and
your article in his support in THE NEW
YORK HERALD and would like to add
the opinion of an outsider.
You want the Government to return
the hospital to Its owners because 1t
has always been your business to advo-
cate the right. DIR. Wyeth wants the
hospital because he is anxious to 60 on
with the create good he has already
done. I want the hospital to be returned
to DIR. Wyeth, as do thousands of others
who have come In contact with the in
stitution directly either as patients or
as friends, because / know how keenly
the loss of this hospitals service Is
felt by thousands OF residents of this
city, by workers in factories, offices and
other places Of business.
In the first place the Polytechnic Hos
pital had very many outdoor patients
The dispensary was equipped with every
modern facility to aid great number
of eminent physicians and surgeons in
their work of treating the sick without
regard to race or creed"
have seen many accident cases where
a life or a limb was saved because the
Polytechnic was near at hand and the
unfortunate one did not have to await
the arrival OF an ambulance from Belle
vue Hospital.
Bellevue Is doing good work but can
not and should not be expected to handle
cases in the Polytechnic district.
DIR. Wyeth opened the hospital at
night to treat people who were occupied
during the day and who could not af-
ford to take a day off to have their
eilments attended to-
There Is grave danger that the doc
tors who were gathered together over
a period OF years to form the visiting
staff of the Polytechnic may be scattered
among other hospitals. The Govern
ment broke Up a splendid institution
we'll organized. efficiently operated and
highly regarded by all. Unless It re-
turns the hospital at once the people
dependent on the Polytechnic will suffer.
1 should like to call attention to the
fact that the trustees gave up their hos
pital gladly when the Government
needed II. Why should not the Gov
crnment return It in good shape when
the owners want it2
We all want to sec the ex-service
men well treated. do not doubt that
they would willingly move IL It were up
to them.
/ have absolutely no connection with
the New York Polytechnic Hospital nor
do / expect to have any. I write this
because of my high regard for a splen-
did institution whose work has won my
admiration. DAVID SCHWARTZ.
BROOKLYN, August 10.
The New York herald., 1921-08-11
WILSON is DISCARDED
FOR HUGHES IN ITALY
Cameo Dealer Tells Of Change
IN Sentiment.


Secretary of State Charles e. Hughes
now occupies the place in the Italian
heart which formerly was held by Wood
row Wilson, according to Gennaro scog-
namiglio. a cameo dealer of 9 Maiden
Lane, who returned to this country on
the Italian steamship Guglielmo Peirce
Mr.. Scognamiglio explained that his
business kept him informed on popular
idols in Italy. There once was O. great
demand for canoes of Wilson, which his
factory at Tore del Greco. near Naples.
supplied. The Wilson cameo Is now go
ing out and the Hughes cameo is coming
in. as Italians of all classes feel that the
Secretary of State is their best friend in
official America. Mr.. Hughes formerly
was president of the Italy-America So
ciety.
Another passenger was Adenaro Ratti,
seventeen-year-old sculptor. who fell
to his knees as the ship passed the
Statue of Liberty and vowed that he
too, would do monumental statue of
liberty somewhat different from that
of Bartholdi. He is on his way to join
his father, who also Is a sculptor, in
Chicago.
The New York herald., 1921-08-11

act the revenue on tooaeco has already
reached its peak and is now and has
been declining since last year.
You will perhaps be surprised to know
that the tobacco industry Is paying in
taxes and duties as high as 10 per cent.
Of what the manufacturer receives for
the most popular type of cigarettes. and
83 per cent of the amount he gets for
his tobacco, and "a per cent. Of his SELL
Ing price for the middleman's cigar
and as high as rs per cent. of the high
priced cigars.
Assuming bu. not conceding that to-
bacco Is a luxury, there is no luxury
on our tax schedules. with the exception
of playing cards. daggers, stilettos.
brass knuckles, Sc, bearing the enor-
nous tax rates imposed on tobacco. The
highest tax rate imposed on luxuries
with the noted exceptions Is that paya-
BILE upon the sale of soda water sold
from the fountain, which is one cent
for every ten cents or fraction thereof.
Figuring even on the five cent glass of
soda. the tax would amount only to 20
per cent. as compared with the extraor-
dinarily high tax rates on tobacco.
That the trace cannot absorb any ad-
ditional taxation must be perfectly ap-
parent to those who are familiar with
the trend of prices for tobacco products
during and since the war.
TOBACCO MERCHANTS ASSOCIATION OF
THE UNITED STATES.
BY CHARLES DUsHKIND,
Secretary and Counsel.
New YORK, August 10.
The New York herald., 1921-08-11
Harding Has the Right Idea.

President HARDING is showing the
right kind Of generalship in insist.
ing that Congress shall direct its
course straight along the path Of tax
revision as originally planned. Sec,
retary MELONS suggestions for rails
ing additional revenue for the Gov
ernment we're sound enough. But
the President has adopted the atti.
tude that new taxes must not be i'm,
posed and that the present ones must
be cut down.
Congress and all the Government
departments will have to cut their
expenditure coat according to the
revenue cloth, and the cloth is going
to be sparingly allotted. If present
indications mean anything business
will be much better by next year
than it now is. 1t will be no sur.
prise therefore IL the volume of prof.
its to be taxed under the straight
corporation levy proves much larger
even than the Government computers
now expect.
The Presidents programme as
above outlined will have the approval
of all taxpayers. If he can carry 1t
through it will set the country for
ward a long way in an economic
sense.
The New York herald., 1921-08-11
The Seaboard Town.

like the seaboard cities where the
streets
Frame river endings that delight our
eyes;
Some tall ship etched where land the
water meets,
vista maritime TO fall and rise.
The saline airs that drift across the
town.
Fresh from the misty rim where white
sails CLEAN,
or smoking steamers surging swiftly
down,
Bound for some tropic isles OF which
we dream.
Blue water tossing where the eye may
reach.
The scagulls circling DER the chan
nel's flow;
The slow surf pounding on distant
beach,
These food my senses with golden
glow.
And when the wild nor'eastors fllng the
rain
on some black midnight. far my
spirit fares
To stormy reaches past the pelted pane,
out wherc the sea born sailor swings
and darcs.
THOMAS J. MURRAY.
The New York herald., 1921-08-11
Another Entente Bridge Crossed.

France and England were not as
far apart on the Upper Silesian Ques-
tion as European dispatches have In
ilcated. The ready settlement OF the
boundary at the second session Of the
Supreme Council in Paris clears the
way for consideration of the Turkish
problem.
The attitude OF LLOYD GEORGE in
admitting the right Of France to full
protection against possible aggression
by Germany and the ready with.
drawal of Premier BRIASD's proposal
for more French soldiers In Silesia
were both surprises in view OF the
unyielding attitude both Premiers
were alleged to have taken and
which appeared to be confirmed by
the diplomatic exchanges OF the last
few weeks on the Upper Silesian
question.
The Turkish question Is not more
difficult to solve than that concern
ing Upper Silesia. Political and finan.
cial issues are bound up In both.
The amicable adjustment of the one
ought to make smooth the way for
the settlement Of the other. At this
Juncture It looks as IL the rumors of
a rift in the entente cordiale between
France and England had been grossly
exaggerated.
The New York herald., 1921-08-11
Tittoni Opposes National Ownership
President of Italian Senate Says That State Operation
Has Been Demonstrated to Be an Economic Folly.

WILLIAMsrowN, Mass, Aug. 10.-Con
demning Government ownership and OPP
Grafton as an economic folly, though
sometimes justifiable for special reasons
of public safety or utility. Tomasso Tit
toni, President of the Italian Senate,
speaking from intimate knowledge which
his high official position has given him
of the general course OF more than 5000
Italian experiments In State and munich
pal ownership, delivered lecture on
Economic Doctrines" before the 1nsti-
tute of Politics at its morning meeting
to-day.
Municipal. and especially State, own
ership." said the Senator, "can never
have for its object simply economic adj
vantage. People generally expect from
Government run industries the latest i'm
proyements and the best commodities,
little caring whether the concern Is In
financial position to pay for them or
whether 1t means going into debt. Thus
every public concern must in order to
content the people tend toward the free
distribution of its commodities"
He also called attention to the ruin
which Russia has brought upon herself.
to tbs drying up rather than building
up OF her economic resources which has
come about as a result Of the Bolshevist
operations. and declared that "the
school of pure socialism in its form of
collectiyism or communism and also In
its anarchistic derivations will either
have to nsvise its platform notably or
else be content to dwell in the barren
regions of Utopia"
After reviewing extensively the adj
vantages and disadvantages Of compsti-
tion and monopoly in economic life SEN
ator Tittoni In closing counselled gol-
den mean between the two principles.
quoting the words of the famous econo-
mist. Marshall: Every year it becomes
more obviously necessary to avoid on
the one hand the cruelty and waste of
irresponsible competition and the abuse
of wealth and on the other tyranny and
influences of the iron fetters Of So
cialism."
Dollar diplomacy" although 'inde-
fensihle when 1t implies dishonest reIa-
tionships between business men and poll
ucians," is often necessary and even
nequisite In the development of nations,
Prof. Achille Viallate of Paris said to-
night in lecture
Now. / am aware that dollar diplo-
macy stands In bad repute," he said
THE very mention of its name seems to
suggest to people in general an idea of
dishonest relationships between politi-
cians and business men and a feeling
that often business men ask for the
help of their own Government to en-
force upon a foreign country the ac-
complishment of contracts obtained by
fraudulent means. In this case dollar
diplomacy Is indefensible
but is 1t not natural for a Govern
ment to help its citizens in their efforts
to open new avenues for the trade and
industry of their country? Is it nor
natural for country to endeavor to
make an Ill governed foreign State re-
spect its bona fide contracts? In this
case dollar diplomacy is open only to
such criticism as may be made against
It when 1t unjustifiably mixes economic
and political interests"