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VOL. XV, NO. 6 FEBRUARY 7, 1920 Price 10 Gents ^Seattle USA MERRY MITZI, THE MADCAP Prima Donna of Henry W. Savage's musical comedy, "Heads Over Heels", at the Metropolitan Theatre next week, with matinees Wednesday and Saturday Announcing a Ladies9 Rest Room UR new and enlarged downtown sales rooms, at O 824 Union Street are now open. In order to afford every facility for the comfort of our zvonten customers, we have opened a comfortably furnished rest room. Free telephone and correspondence facilities at your service. JOHN S. BAISDEN, Inc. TECHNICAL TIRE ENGINEERS 824 Union Street Elliott 2441 A Taximeter That Prints Your Bill The Seattle Taxicab Company's Green Cabs, Yellow Gabs, BlacK '\ and White Cabs are now equipped with a bill printing taximeter which gives you the exact mileage traveled, time consumed, driver's ; name and total fare to be paid. We pay five thousand dollars a year for these meters for pro-; tection to the public and our drivers. 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McLEAN Who will appear on February 9th at the Cornish Little Theatre in a dramatic reading of "Les Miserables." Mrs. McLean will be an instructor of diction at the Cornish School, a position for which she is well qualified, 67 having taught at Leland Powers i'nr four years. THE TOWN CRIER PAGE FOUR struct such removal, or hide or damage or war vigorously when they have to. It is no THE TOWN CRIER impair the immediate efficiency of any such less a person than Lord Fisher who says that Official publication of the Seattle Fine Arts Society. tang or lighes, will be summarily dealt with the "essential of war is violence. Moderation Member of Washington State Press Association under martial law." in war is imbecility," a-\i if we recollect right, Published every Saturday by WOOD & REBER, Inc. Was this a German order? Dear no! It was it was Swinburne who spoke of the Boerg) a Suite 228 Post-Intelligencer Building, Seattle. an order issued by an English officer in the small pastoral people desirng their own free- Telephone Main 6302 dom, as "whelps and dams of murderous foes." Entered as second-class matter at the United Punjab not many months ago. States post-office at Seattle. The honest people ol* England are much mor The deporation of women and children in the EASTERN OFFICE: No. 209 Eagle Bldg., Brooklyn, tified at something else that has been hap Transvaal was publicly urged by the St. New York. James Gazette in "uigust, 1900, and by the CHICAGO OFFICE: 58 East Washington Street. pening over there, and which has been kept SUBSCRIPTION: One year, in advance, $3.00; six from the public news colums too long It Morning Post of the same month, which lat months, $1.50; three months, 75 cents; single cop ies, 10 cents. Foreign subscriptions (countries in seems that last April disorders of some kind ter Journal expressed it sweetly as follows: Postal Union) $4.00 a year. For sale by all News were expected, and as the English have to rule "So let us wage war nobly and austerely- dealers. Payments should be made by Check, Draft, Pos that country with a handful of Europeans as the barbarians of the past, and not -with tal Order, payable to THE TOWN CRIER, or by Registered Letter. (there being but one white person to each the blighting pusillanimity of a too civilized For advertising Rates address Suite 228 Post-In thousand natives), they deal with the people nation." telligencer Building, Seattle. Inquiries within city limits of Seattle, made by mail or by telephone to in an extremely simple and effective manner. Thank God not all English people are like Main 6302, will be personally responded to by a representative of THE TOWN CRIER when request A proclamation was issued forbidding gather this, and there have always been in that is ed. J ings, but a gali-ling was reported at a place land courageous and merciful spirits who do called Amritsar. A certain General Dyer re not believe in these practices; but when we Unofficial paired there with some machine guns and a are talking about leagues of nations with Of all the piffling defenses that may be urged couple of huiuiied troops. Arriving on the countries whose dominions are so widespread by a public official, of -ill the silly excuses for scene he found five thousand unarmed people as to involve them continually in war (and doing something that he shouldn't do, there is listening to an orator, and according to his England is generally at war in some degree none less impressive than that he did it in own testimony before a civil commission, he in some part of the world), it is well to re an "unofficial capacity." Mr. Lane, we are ex certainly made quick work of them. He open member that Englishmen do not mince mat pected to believe, is a member of the City Coun ed fire immediately. ters when they Propose to preserve their au cil twenty-four hours a day, 365 days a year, "I had thought about the matter and do thority. except for a brief hour or two when he is moved not imagine it took me more than thirty sec » * * « to attend a banquet in honor of a convicted onds to make up my mind as to what my seditionist, who is about to depart from our duty was. There was a man in the center The Heart Unbroken midst to serve his sentence in the penitentiary. of the space on something raised. He was If we may accept the opinion of Lord Grey As he dons his hat and coat to start for the evidently addressing. He ran away to the as at all indicative of the opinion of European banquet hall, he duffs his official dignity. He right and there were a good many others who statesmanship—and Lord Grey has some little is no longer an officer of the City of Seattle. ran away and cl'mbet1 over the wall." reputation for world political prescience—the He is merely W. D. La^e, private citizen, about Asked whether it was not proper for him to reservations which the best thought of Americ& to pay honor to Convict Wells. Unofficially, ask the crowd to disperse before firing, he would attach to the peace treaty will by no you understand. Beside?, he really didn't attend answered "no," that his orders had not means have the tragic effect that we have been the banquet. He got there too late for any been obeyed, martial law had been flouted. assured in high quarters they would have. I* thing but the speecn making. He was then asked whether, before he dis fact, if we understand Lord Grey aright, he Isn't it twaddle? And if it were not, may not persed the crowd, they had taken any action, does not believe that the practical working of the suggestion be advanced that one who in his to which he replied: "No sir. They ran the League of Nations and the complete pro private and unofficial person delights to pay awajy, a few of them." He was then asked tection of American int' rests and independent honor to those convicted of crimes against our if they had ail started tu run away. He said: are at all incompatible. In fact, it would seei» American government is hardly one to be en "Yes, when I began to fire the big mass in that the only possibility of conflict in his mind trusted with our American city's welfare? the center began ro run almost towards the would lie in the question of votes allotted i° right." Finally, under pressure he admitted: Britain's self-governing colonies and even there "Yes, I think it quite possible I could have the difficulty would be more apparent than real Worthy of Note dispersed them perhaps even without firing." The one thought that struck probably ninety A military officer in command with the civil He preferred, however, to do a bit of shoot per cent, of Americans after reading the Grey law suspended has purely a simple and drastic ing, sent an ample succession of volleys into letter was if that is the British, and probably way of regulating things, as we saw in Belgium them, left by his own admission several hun the all-European view, what is there to stand $ during the German invasion. One of the things dred dead and wounded and then walked off. the way of immediate ratification of the treaty : that outraged us during that period was the When the question was put to this brute except political obstinacy? Well, what is there habit of punishing all the inhabitants of a dis whether he did not.

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