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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1921-10-22
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Tex Richard Fooled EN- Once, but Return Bout Be
tween Willard and Dempsey Is Bound to Flvver
Concerning Tommy Gibbons List of Knockouts
BY LEO II. LASSEN

EX RICHARD, the demon promoter, got
away with dynamite and a sock full of
dough when Jack Dempsey and Georges
Carpenter put on their million-doar four
round fiasco at Jersey City July 2. He
actually kidded the public until they believed
that Carpenter really had chance. and
among the public were several hundred fight
writer's.
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Indians
Turn in
40 Win
West Siders Outplay the
Tigers and Take First
in History of League

ysIIISG over two
toucbdowns. W est
Seattle q o W n e q
Broadway on the
gridiron at Den
ny field yeatsr-
day ~ 20 0. turn.
ing In the first
football victory
the Indians have
ever registered
against the IT.
gers In, the his
tory Of tho local
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1921-10-22
GRIDIRON STARS
No. 4

Howard Rdub thu biggest member Of the RUTGERS team
and the most dangerous He eghs 2SS pounds and stands
feet inches This is has second season at tackle for
Rutgers.
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A Trip Around the Links With Alex c. Rose

successful. Brother Fry will play
Brother In the final 3e.hoie match
on the Beacon hill course tomorrow.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1921-10-22

TAKING "TIIE BIT BETWEEN
his teeth at the start OF the final
match OF sc holes last Sunday for
the handsome cup donated by Club
Captain Edgar l.. Corder. of the JEFF.
fcrnon Park Golf club. Al Sehoes.
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possessors sought to dispos-

privilege possessors sought to dispos-
sess another.
This is the abyss into which the
people cf Great Britain have been
looking over the week end. 1t is not
strange, then, that the news comes Of
rush to the national colors like that
marking the first days of the great
war. Nor is it strange that the
miners and their allies show signs of
changing their methods and have at
last conceded that the mines are not
their exclusive property and that it
is their privilege to destroy their
own if so they wish.
The permanencc of democratic in
stitutions, the product of intelligence,
of course, depends on the continuance
of intelligence. But intelligence of
an effective political kind does not
merely mean ability to read and
write, but rather a proper working
understanding Of political and social
institutions. Of this sort of intelli-
gence there is great need in all lands,
for the propagandists Of retrogres-
sion are busy and already have done
infinite harm in preventing recovery
from the shocks of the war.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-11


Ernst Won Possart who died in
Berlin last Friday, was ono of the
greatest figures in the dramatic
world of Germany before the war.
He achieved fame both as an actor
and as a manager. For thirty years
he was leader in the artistic life Of
Munich, developed to so high a pitch
by the lavishness of the royal house
of Wittelsbach. He was the intend
ant general of the royal thcatcrs
from 1898 to 1905, and before that
had been royal theatcr director for
nearly twenty years. His career
covered the golden age of the Bava-
rlan artistic renaissance. He founded
the Prinz Regent Theater and organ
lied Munich's annual summer Wag-
ner and Mozart festivals.
AS an actor Possart adhered to
the methods of classicism He had a
splendid presence and a rich. rcso-
nant voice, and in all his roles he
showed an intensity moderated by re-
straint and dignity. His preference
was for the poetic drama-Shake-
speare, Goethe, Schiller and Lessing.
But he unbent to comedies of the
type of "L'Ami Fritz and to mod
ern melodramas like Bj0rnson's s "The
Failure" or Wilbrandt's "Die Toch-
ter des Fabricius."
Possart made three tours of the
United States. His most notable
appearances in the last one were as
Shylock in "The Merchant of Ven
ice" and Nathan in "Nathan der
Weisse." In the former he gave an
Interpretation differing from the con-
ventional English and American one,
making Shylock more robust, dig
nified and prosperous in appearance
and considerably more human. In
the latter he probably came closer to
realizing Lessing's humanistic ideal
than any other actor.
Possart's enunciation was de-
light and his finish in all the de-
tails of expression was remarkable.
In style he went back scrupulously
to the grand traditions. He avoided
cccentricity and the idiosyncrasics of
personality, and his Versatility was
such that at times his voice seemed
the only thing common to the diverse
characters he portrayed. Those who
saw him on his American visits will
remember him as an actor of excep-
tlonal intellectual power and the
loftiest dramatic stature.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-11
Special Park Policemen
Endorsed by American Society of
Landscape Artists
TO the Editor of The Tribune

10 the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: bill is now before tho Lccis-
iaturc OF the State of New York which
provides for the establishment of n
separate police force, termed "park
Keepers" whose duties will be those
of caring for the parks and hclpinr to
preserve their natural beauties and at
fractions. This organization will be
separate from the city Police Depart
ment, though not preventing the rem
dering of mutual assistance by the two
forces.
AT a recent meeting of the New York
Chapter, American Society of Land
scape Architects, it was voted ,.nani-
mously to indorse this measure.
That the parks are at present most
inadeeuately polccd is we'll known
but it is doubtful if most people real
lze the vast amount of damage that
has been done through this lack of
policing, and the tremendous, continu-
GUS deterioration that results. Unless
definite preventive measures arc soon
taken limit Of ruin will eventually be
reached which will be most difficult to
remedy. The New York Chapter, A. S
l.. A., urges every citizen to lend aid
toward the passage of this new bill.
RICHARD SCHERMERHORN Jr.,
Secretary.
New York, April 8, 1921
New-York tribune., 1921-04-11

vote increased from about 1S,000,000
to about 26,o00,O00, Debs, the So
cialist candidate, had only few
thousand more votes than he polled
in 1912. The enlargement of the
electorate has not increased the alb
solute strength of the Socialist
party. 1t has cut down sharply it's
relative strength. Women voters do
not take kindly to socialism or to
the theory of proetarian dictator
ship.
Wisconsin's metropolis is being
cleaned up. Mrs. Victor Berger was
elected to the school board. But Vic
tor himself could hardly be returned
to Congress again. He and his kind
arc going out of fashion in de-
socialized Milwaukee.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-11
Peace Assurance
To the Editor of The Tribune.

10 tne EdltOr OF The Tribune.
Sir: An admirable article on the
Covenant and League of Nations. by
David Jayne Hill, appeared, l remem-
Der, in The North American Review.
either in August or September, 1919.
Undoubtedly the policies of the present
Administration will be formed on the
lines laid down in this article - so
simple and so commendable that the
wonder is no one has even referred
to them
The idea is as follows: Just as our
torefathers and founders of this Re-
public declared the rights of man and
made laws to protect those rights,
giving us the greatest, freest nation
under the sun, so to-day VIC an, our
allies will declare the rights Of ma
tlons and build up international laws
to protect those rights giving US an
assurance of peace far stronger than
a covenant or uper-government
could possibly do. M. PHILLIPS.
New York, April 7, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-11
The Fluid Philosophers

Our thought stimulating contem-
porary The Villager, referring to
the vain and standardless critics
who are attempting to impress
their negative theories on the
world, calls them the fluid
philosophers.
The phrase has many elements
of true description. Those who are
devoted to moral and emotional
adventures, who disdain use of the
compass when on their journeys,
and who are sure of nothing except
that the existent is wrong and that
the past is childish old dotard
whose instruction is to be disre-
garded, of course have no patience
with anything that is solid or
integrated.
But when the phrase is further
thought on doubt arises that it is
not strong enough. Perhaps it
would be better to say gaseous
philosophers-gas being thinner
and frecr in motion than a LIQUID
which, if not stable, is at least not
actively and aggressively unstable.
In the particular case The Viii
lager brings to the bar of it's judg-
ment the new-school critic. Using
stock and somewhat shelfworn
alluslon, it says that the antagonist
he attacks, if in Athens at the
time, would have been of the COM
pany that pressed the cup of hem
lock to the lips of Socrates. The
comparison is somewhat unfor-
tunate. If Socrates is not mis-
quoted his main purpose in life was
to expose the nonsense of the new
schoolers of his day, the Protag-
dreams, who also believed in flux,
glorified mere change and were
impatient of anything deemed
settled. What a good time the old
man would have were he now priv
lleged to ask few questions of the
radicals of to-day, the object of
which would be to ascertain
whether or not they have the slight
est real idea of what they talk
about! One can imagine, when the
interrogation was completed, how
the questioned would hurry to the
nearest pharmacy and get hemlock
to pour down the throat of so pes
tlferous tory and reactionary.
The so-called new philosophy would
be more interesting if it were new
Alas, it is one of the oldest things
in the world! The dogmatism of
conservatism is unloeely, but is
beautiful compared with the dog
matism Of the pseudo liberal who
New-York tribune., 1921-04-11
Main Street Folks

iFrom The Marion Star)
Sinclair Lewis, author of Main Street.
does certainly hit the little towns of
TINS country pretty hard in his book.
The folks in New York who are sun
posed to hand out the literary stand
ards for the rest of the country think
he's just awful realistic. They ought
to know, for the majority of them who
amount to much of anything came from
small towns.
1t all depends on what you see on
Main Street. Mr.. Lewis saw lot of
dullness, tedious inhabitants, vacant
minds and smugness the horrible
same OF smugness covering everything.
Now, maybe if you're old-fashioned
and remember Tom Sawyer and old Ed
howe's book, The Story of Country
Town, you have a slightly different
Impression Perhaps you have thought
some American small towns and small
cities were pretty good, anyway. What
you see depends on what you're look
ing for.
>'~AA~'.o PSOPlS, sulDlDg TASTE
less food and sitting afterward, coat
less and thoughtless, in rocking chairs.
prickly with insane decorations. listen
ing to mechanical music, saying me-
chanlcal things about the excellence of
automobiles, and viewing themselves as
the greatest race in the world" That's
what Mr.. Lewis says of the folk of
Main Street.
He's partly right, too. If you want
to hear the truth about yourself go to
critic, not a friend. But Mr. Lewis's
indictment, unhappily, isn't wide
enough. 1t should be extended to the
whole human race. We are dull. We
are stupid, We are far too self salts
fed. Let's stir our sluggish minds a
little, and thereby work blessing
from the curses put upon US.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-11
The New Feudalisn


The political history Of Great Brit
ain is a record of 1000 years of
labor to do one thing-namely, to
create a government subservient to
the will Of the people and devoted
to advancing the general welfare
through the maintenance of individ-
ual freedom and equality of oppor-
tunity.
That which makes the crisis
through which Great Britain is now
passing of absorbing interest to
Americans is the question of whether
or not the democratic system which
has spread over the world is to con-
tinue in the land of it's birth. AS to
the particulars of the dispute now
raging few Americans have fixed
opinions. We do not know whether
the miners or the mine owners are in
the right in respect to the wage issue.
But we do see, and see clearly, that
the methods the miners have seen fit
to adopt strike at the very roots of
democracy.
The miners, because their work is
in the mines, assert the right of die
tating as to whether OF not COM
modify indispensable to the nation at
large shall be produced. They pro-
claim the doctrine that it is the priv
ilege of minority, if it has the
power, to coerce the majority into
paying to it such tribute as it NAV
prescribe.
1t is unnecessary to point out that
this is feudalism in a new and men
acing form. The old land-owning
barons, in possession Of the usable
land and having practical monop-
oily of weapons and superiority in
organization, were able to keep the
majority in subjection. The British
miners would reestablish this feudal-
ism, the only difference being the
substitution Of one privileged class
for another.
What one minority may do may be
done by another. Should the miners
succeed, other elements Of the popu-
lation, in similar control of some in
dustry, will initiate them. Out of the
clash Of selfish interests, each seek
ing to grab what it can, war would,
of course, develop and an anarchy
akin to that which darkened the
world in the ages when one set of
New-York tribune., 1921-04-11
Aid or Disaster

As long as the shipping policy OF
the United States is controlled sole.
ly or chiefly by consideration Of the
problems arising out of government
ownership Of tonnage there can be
no development of the American
merchant marine as a whole. AS
long as results are left wholly te
the operation of an appropriation
designed to tide the Shipping Boarc
over an indefinite period of depres
sion, in the belief that the situation
ultimately must right ieelf, there
can be no real progress toward q
solution of the nations broader
marine problem.
With all the intensified construc-
ton for the Shipping Boards ac-
count in the last few years, the
governments documented seagoine
trade fleet now aggregates 7,724,00(
gross tons, as compared with $685..
600 tons of privately owned vessels
These latter ships, operated through
individual initiative and enterprise
must now meet world competition
and meet it under handicaps of law
and expense such as fall to the lot
of no other nation. That the game
is a losing one is manifest in the
steadily shrinking percentage of
American shipping's share of Amer.
lean seaboard trade.
If government aid is to be cx-
tended solely to the tonnage of the
Shipping Board. the government
will add to the handicaps under
which private shipping enterprise
already staggers a final burden
which can only mean the death OF
independent American marine enter
prise. With state-owned tonnage as
we'll as foreign tonnage in competi
tion the privately owned American
fleet can scarcely be expected to
flourish.
For the upbuilding of the Ameri-
can merchant marine only such
measures as will benefit American
shipping as a whole can be effective
1t is within the hands of Congress
to supply these measures. And they
must be supplied speedily or it will
be too late.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-11
Anti-Sc cialist Milwaukee

- The Milwaukee municipal e]ec.
~ atlon shows a further swing away
from socialism. In city which
sent Victor Berger back to Washing.
ssT ton after the House of Representa-.
,.l9. t1yes had refused to seat him and
At after he was convicted under the
* sediton act, only one local Socialist
- candidate was successful-and that
One, strangely enough, was Mr.,
4eSr I2erger's wife. Emil Seidel, former
",aa<SSaclalist Mayor, ran far behind his
b. s% mn partisan opponent for Alder
r ,7rran-at-Large. Judge Cordes, who
4as1eSigned from the Socialist organiza-
% aaoA as protest against the OBJ
pa ot{5&ious st. Louis platform, was re-
|"n "nos seletted without difficulty.
Il 81 ssf Milwaukee is getting it's bearings.
sTgs ~ sLepine and his Moscow Interna-
honalc have made international So
.sGialism !. too heavy load to carry in
|nss5this country Milwaukee was long
fed up on European Marxism. It's
~ local Socialist organization was an
e alien outpost, an instrument of Con-
90 tinental propaganda. In the Ameri-
lib can Socialist party it constituted an
Ill extreme, affirmative element. The
w war and the Russian tragedy have
IS- opened the eyes of most Americans,
heretofore contemptuously tolerant
k,.spf the exotic and parlor brands of
socialism.
--onc of the most significant things
r. shout the last Presidential election
was the fact that though the total
New-York tribune., 1921-04-11

the rebel is to obtain passports for 2
the slightest inclination on the hope
that some day or other through a sud
den change Of wind he may be struck
with yearning
Train journeys arc almost as bad as
sea voyages. Go into any railroad sta
tion in town and ask the man at the
window for ticket and he will in
variably inquire where do you want
to go" No provision is made for the
casual traveller without a destination
fThc query "What trains have you got ."
meets with scant courtesy. Our own
system is to shop for trains. 1t is
possible to walk up and down in front
of the gates and look over the samples
before making a selection, but our
practice is to take the first one. To be
sure this has let US into going to a
good many places to which we didn't
want to go, but it has also saved us
from visiting any number of others to
which we ought to go. Moreover, con-
tldentially, we have one trick by which
we slash through the red tape Of rail
road precision. Only last Thursday we
told the man with a great show of de-
termination that we wanted to so to
Poughkeepsie and bought ticket for
that place. Then, when the conductor
wasn't looking we slipped off at Tar
rytown.
Going to the theater, getting mar
ried or divorced are all carried on
under the same Objectionable cond-
tions. Seats eight weeks in advance"
say the advertisements of some of the
popular shows and others. How can
anybody possibly want to do something
eight weeks in advance? 1t makes
taking in a matinee a matter as digni-
fed to all intents and purposes as
writing will or doing some other
service for posterity.
There are in this country statesmen
who worry from time to time that peo-
pie do not marry as young as they used
to, if at all. How can it be expected
that they will? The life force is pow
erful and may prevail, but nature
never had within it's intent a license.
witnesses, bridesmaids, plain gold
ring, contract with the caterer. a
bargain with the printer and an en-
gagement with the minister.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-11
Justice in Fiji
Natives and Coolies as Well as
Colonists Get d Square Deal

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The letter on Indian Coolies
in Fiji" by Stephen Hawcis replyin /,
to charges of ill-treatment quoted in
Vierecks American Monthly interests
me, as ] am somewhat familiar with
tie Fiji group, having spent nearly
two years there in the first period Of
its annexation by the British govern
mcnt
The Indian coolies had not then be-
gun to arrive, but we're shortly cx-
pectcd. -hc labor prior to the coolic
was South Sea Island-from the csnri-
bal Solomons, Ambrym, Mallicolla, and
some from the Marshall or Line
Islands.
Any one illtreating or abusin. this
labor, which was indcntured. was
severely dealt with by the British in
sular government. Any vessels engaged
IN the labor trade and bringing labor to
Fiji, or to Queensland, Australia, car
ried British government labor in
spector or agent, who supervised the
recruiting. All this labor had to De
returned fully paid up, at the end Of
the term of indenture, to the original
point of embarkation. The same rule
applied to the coolies, who were either
from Bengal or Madras.
am not an Englishman, but l con
fess that, in spite of their faults, nd
tho :~l, rn~ =
of justice. We never hear OF anv
lynching in British colonies. The law
is too powerful and respected. The
native, wherever l have been under the
British flag, has the same justice dealt
to him as to white man. and | have
seen 1T dispensed in the highest and
lowest courts of India, Fiji and else
wherein fact, got soaked $50 myself
for beating up a Fiji man. l also say
the captain of a British brig arrested
in New Caledonia by the British Con
sui there and sent under guard in his
own vessel to the British authorities
at Levuka, Fiji. This was a case Of
kidnapping some natives of Lord
1AOWc > lSidNO. lNeIe were Soi.c Nt
mans in Fiji when I was there, and
they, like other people, were amenable
to British law-and needed to be.
never saw any one "shockingsy
housed" in Fiji. The natives have fine,
clean villages, and labor housing on the
plantations is all under government IN
spection. There is an abundance OF
all kinds of food in these most beau.
tiful and fertile islands.
The Indian coolie is no fool. Rama
Swamy or Mootulingan knows thor
oughly the terms and conditions Of the
indenturcs he signs before he leavea
India for Trinidad, Mauritius. Fiji o'
anywhere else under the British flag
If there is anything wrong or he gets
raw deal he puts up a holler, ard II
there is merit in it he gets justice
muy pronto So does the Fiji man. Per
haps Mr. Viereck will now favor the
public with an article on Germsny's
late East African colonies, its pater-
nal e. Areatment of the natives, ETC.
GEORGE HARPER.
New York, April 8, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-11
The New Spirit at Albany

1t is a striking evidence of the new
orientation at Albany that Governor
Miller has been able to approve
promptly and in it's entirety the gen
eral appropriation bill. Such thing
hasn't happened since Colonel Roose-
Welt was Governor. The state con-
stitution gives the Executive the
power to veto particular items in ap-
preparation measures. 1t has been
the custom in recent years for the
Legislature to abuse this latitude by
making reckless and questionable ap-
preparations and throwing on the
Governor the responsibility Of reduc-
ing or eliminating them. Tie two
branches of the states government
have thus beep put in the unnatural
position of working at odds, each op-
posing its judgment to the others on
the question of keeping state ex-
penditure within income.
This vicious antagonism has had
much to do with recent enormous in
creases in expenditures. 1t fostered
log-rolling and the exploitation of
the public service for personal and
partisan ends. Governor Miller in
sisted on return to a system of
joint responsibility. He decided to
work with the Legislature in cutting
out waste and to share with it the
credit as we'll as the burden of pro-
tecting the public against unreason-
able demands on the Treasury.
The present administration at AL
bany has applied from the start the
principle of cooperation-of common
party accountability for competent
handling of state affairs. The re-
suits have been remarkable. The
Legislature was faced in January
with estimates from the departments
and bureaus aggregating $205 ,000,-
000-an increase Of about $6O,0OO,-
900 over the appropriation for the
current year. The Governor told the
Assembly and Senate Appropria-
tions committees that he was deter
mined not to let next years appro-
priations exceed this years. With
their loyal support the budget for
next year has been kept down to
$136, 900, ,00O-about 100000 below
the 1919-'20 figure.
This reduction has been supple
mented by legislation reorganizing
the archaic governmental machine
which will make further decreases in
appropriations possible in 1922 and
1923. A propensity to waste has
given way to will to save. A revo-
luton which the friends Of efficiency
and frugality in government almost
despaired Of has been accomplished
within four months by Governor
Miller's confident and aggressive
leadership.