The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 18, 1913, Page 4

MEMBER OF THA SCRIPPS NORTHWEST LEAGUR OF NEWSPAPERS, Telegraph News Bervice of the United Prese Association, Batered at the pestoftice, Keattia, Wash., no seonnd clase matter, Published by The Star Publishing Conapany every evening except Sunday. Do You Realize Mexica ‘THE STAR—THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1913. n War Would Cost $2 PHONES “iting with ,000,000 a Day? EDITOR CANFIELD, IN HIS SECOND ARTICLE, PRESENTS PROOFS OF WHAT FIGHTING HALF-BREEDS WOULD TAKE IN TOLLS FROM UNCLE SAM when ordered and until they think they have fought enough, Then Copyright, 1913, by Newspaper Baterprise Ansootath |they retire. There must be a partial reason The MOTIVE and the back of the belief that a Mextean| KNOWLEDGE of what It le [the previous Mexican war. And tn fe a coward and will fight only| about is not there. When it |that war Gen, Grant sald that the e True, there is 18 there, tne. Sr tesrtoan,-tedinan or half-| le for rebels to beat the fed. und unorganized, FOUGHT AS breed—does not THINK the same | troope—INVARIABLY! |MRAVELY AS ANY TROOP: as his northern neighbor. The| Remember, those are the condt:| EVER DID. Wretched system of conscription tions in civil war, But, tn case of} There would be two methods of Mexico procures for the federal) an invasion, tt would be entirely |invading Mexico. Th pular idea ‘army only the WORST of the pop:|DIFFERENT. Then there would|is that a few thousand regulas ulation, of course. Criminals are|be the MOTIVE and the KNOWL, | troops may be sent, and that they “sentenced” to the army. They|EDGE and the HATRED of their will easily defeat the few roving t food only when they pillage.|would-be conquerors, ALL fac | bands of Mexican regulars and the ere ie little discipline. Fre|tions would reallze very plainly|troops of the other factions v quently they know little what they | that the enemy was a foretgn foe,| might unite and ¢ fy the invade ht about. They fight/and would UNITE | It is quite probable that a smal By B. H. Canfield paign, {f successful, as it probably would be in the long run, would be A man who saw the Anna Held show « he's tired of see Ing nothing but girls’ legs on the stage. If that’s all he can see In Editor’s when he goes to a show, he ought to quit It, *“‘The Game’”’ a Se easing’ URy ; de ne 1as blown In Defense of Woman ARTLEETT WILEY, traveling salesman, | vi | Editor The Star: When I read his brains out, at Evansville, Ind. He was just tired| M. oL. P's tirade against women a nh & recent iseu I was both amuse of the game , }ed and indignant. I cannot under He was 45 years old and a bachelor. He was a high/stand how anyone could write #o 4 fs disparagingly of the se liver. He had traveled extensively and knew people and) “pm! eae, pattie points of interest, and was — still) ctaring that “Adam al wander away by herself, and thus traveling y fall an easy victim to the serpent"? Tired of the game? Why, he wasnt in the game at/Surely not in the Bible. From it i ¢ OS eself, wandering about|*¢ co only infer that Adam was all! Living for oneself, enjoying onesell, wan ga Sedan’ duttie-tha teemadttion’ and by oneself aren't the game. Forty-five years old, and only|did not use any of his protect : x4 Te : adil i ing (7) powers, any persuasion, nor hinteelf to work for, do for, live for! No won der he Was) authority to command (as some men tired, but that is no more being in the game than buying} claim they have) to guard her 2d, bu . ss ve | from the rpent. But, Instead, ; a bag of peanuts at the tent entrance 1s seeing the circus. na Wan. oeaee waiting, know The game is doing things for others, not caring for self} that if Eve a “i the apple, y for de ve to we customs, history and : me | Would sha only. The game is having a home, not a chair in some) “ wren God accused Adam ’ t x and child n one’s heart,|ing the fruit, he, maniike, t d e game is having wife and children in I , he, ¢lubroom. The game is | g ing the fruit, he, magiixe. blamed not in having satiety of travel and of high living in one’s) with Eve because she did not “saw the alr with her fists and demand heart. , ng [the privilege of sharing the sen merely peeping over the shoulders of players at the chess-| 3 . Dossa’ ae oe wom 3 “ Ws os jan bas been doing fully her ni board of life, without knowing what a “pawn” could do to/o¢ physical labor and without be or a “castle” to a “knight,” without having a cent) !96 comma: di uy and pain the sentence given | 4 did not drive Eve out of the garden. He drove out the man. | was out of the game God started the sexes equal, but a " ot is 6 i nthrope. The ripened | man has usurped bis powers and The egoist is father of the misa Pe P [has made laws that are unjust | fruit of satiety is ennut. He whose sole care is self must be} “Women want to hold office ony | 1 fi ily Jas a means toward the enactment | aeepeess Hnall Sp eae lof better and more humane laws It is the law of the game of life. “It is not well that | They do not want laws that will ; ” take a woman's life because she Bean _shoutd live alone. ; [has rid the world of a brute tn Yea, for man to live alone, for himself, within himself,| man’s form who was debasing "js fatal. Such a one has had no mission worth while. Such | ¥omanhood. L. C. FLEMING a one is ead before he uses the pistol. Such a one has not | SRANIGAN HEADS MERCHANTS a “king,” or a heart throb of his own at stake Tired? Of course he was tired. He was tired because | dure got into the game | ‘The Seattle Retail Merchants’ This man Wiley’s accounts were straight. He had ready association bas honored J. F. Brant money. He lived as he pleased. He had years before him |i? Sha crcdatat te the 7 in a good position. He was not lacking in good health. tion. During the oroation of of. s H r c ession Tuesday eve Yet, he had failed, was tired to the point of ending tire . Hisgies, prota ‘ood Inepee-| all. H had come to foolishly and mistakenly believe that |tor, addressed the meeting | the game consisted of his life. AND HE FELT THAT IT WAS NOT WORTH) WHILE. IT WASN'T. | . * THEY DIDN'T jail Charlie Decker in New York any too early. He Ig 30 and good looking, and says he started out to marry women until he found a wife who suited. He had alrelldy collected enough wives to weep a duet. | | DO YOUR Christmas shopping early, for father’s present! | | It Is for Unselfishness a hs Ww is Christmas, anyway? Is it a season for Christ mas special numbers of magazines and newspapers in which the splendid stories of Dickens and Bret Harte are dressed up in new and mode clothes, and eagerly read by folks who hope to experience that real, old-time Christ massy spirit? Is it a time for merry-making and giving and taking; a season when boys and girls become unnaturally |I\ good little children? Or is it a time when everybody goes! stark raving mad and makes a big noise about what a good time he is having and writes Merry Xmas to everybody he ever met? When stories of overworked shopgirls are written without end, although the same girls have been overworked throughout the year “unnoticed? It may be all of those things to many. But there are thousands among us, regardless of our condition or position in life, with the true love and brotherhood of mankind in BOYS’ SUITS our hearts, in the spirit of Him in honor of whose birth AND the day is celebrated After many centuries, here we are preparing for another OVERCOATS Christmas. Many homes will be filled with the odor of green boughs, trees will shine with candles and into. the $3.50 to $15 —_—————_____ heart of each one who has a true conception of the day will steal the joyousness and peace born of a desire to do FREE some good for somebody else. Hearts at other times cold Our Chelitaias Gift b r " L to Boys A Real Watch given away with every Boys’ Suit or Overcoat and unresponsive are warmed and softened on this high festive day, rich with romance and happiness and, as since the advent of the first Christmas, many lives will be bright-| ened and sweetened on this Christmas day. HA! WE see what's eatin’ Willie Hearst, H. Gray Otis and other P Incubators of intervention. The Mexican federals are putting a war tax Christmas Specials ‘on foreign holdings. Boys’ Blanket Bath SEAMSTRESSES PARADED up to Huerta’s door, demanding some. J Robes, regular $4.00, spe- thing they wanted. Did he smile and side-step? He did not. He went cial $2.95. right down into the coal bin in the ce cellar, Boys’ “Ruff Neck” ‘ | Sweaters, all colors; reg Fun for the Chancellor Se hae ae, HOSE socialists of the reichstag are becoming up-|f feeular Price 7%c, special to-date, or thereabouts. They are now after a constitu ‘ Complete assortment of tional amendment under which the chancellor of Germany toys’ Hats, Caps and would be responsible to the reichstag for the emperor's acts Furnishings Visit our Women's and Men's Departments for suggestions for sensible and fired if those acts didn’t suit that body | Under such an amendment, William. would surely have] the laugh on his chancellor 3ut what wouldn't the mailed srifts, fist of old Bismarck do to such a proposition H TARIFF REFORM, currency reform, woman suffrage and national I, Rede'sheimer & (o. prohibition—well, Woodrow Wilson will not have much trouble about First and Columbia. , beeping busy. z 40,000 men could suc maintaln communication to the campaign | defeat all Mex Under those conditions the cam-jarmy of say 4 repetition, on a larger scale, of | border in they would nt againat them, we eee how easy It | Mexicans, although poorly equipped | that ten't the followed by OCCUPATION in {tial campatgn will produce NO RE and will merely drawn-out serles of The military be a long all conflicts, war experts of the that about 600, 000 men will have to be employed campalen wary not only to CONQUER, but to OC field SHRINKS ox perts Want an ov are to be sure of at one, THAT) BE| THE! MONTHS! 2,000,000 a day to maintain this army during the first @x or of the campaign of conquest. That would be a SHORT cam paign, but probably It could be accomplished, at least, that por: tion of the Mexican population FIRST SIX OR BIGHT eight months undoubtedly would be completely defeated got sooner than six months and not later than eight months will be difficulties tn than half mobilized not nt of an army! detertor ands with blood. i, a MOST ANYTHING. Cambridge, 0., barks unusual that bark them. ° a dog that © Which we deem no has men}; Editor Most Anything: 7 Hetch-Hetchy I've |!* painful—Ricevilie (ia) Recorder ular song or a new dance? Lynch,” says mann, one of th known game of bi ent Tener's name give he Bother the Expense! frienda Chicago al will cure tuberculosis P| truth fn that ought to cure anything riic Keep on CHRISTMAS SHOPPING NOW) IT HELPS THE TIRED CLERKS. EVERYBODY OUGHT TO THINK ABOUT THaT. roon farting ose | What has become of the old- fashioned man who had a music Garry Herr box that played “The Blue Dan lovers of the well | ube,” “The Turkish Patro ball, “ia an hon-|Bluo Alsatfan Mountains" and no favorites, |The Carnival of Venice”? Gov. | eee We) A restaurant, according to Mayor what! Harrison of Chicago, is a place to| ee ent, not to dance. We always sup posed a restaurant was a place to take a man whose conversation nis] you didn't wish to hear, eee And some of them will wear Im- modest clothes as long as man ufacturers make them, or as short er A great-to-do is being made over the fact that Father Rleard has discovered a su ot having an area of 409, 09,169 square miles. We don't see why there The Nobel peace prize for 1912) should be any fuss over a discovery Root.|iike that, How could he miss It? the prize States of. Johnson to A Seattle man says now he is go- ing to have another turkey at his house, and see if he cannot get a silee of it where he wants it. On Thankegivieg day he had to deal all toa. {the trump cards to the invited Malen’s bountiful 6 o'clock dinner was «| @uesta “The dismal horror of the battle can best over. Corpses covered with blood lie flat in the grass and between the stones. When] ‘Pat thin would entall, \hrough sabe we saw the dead at Nanshan we could not help covering our eyes in horror and disgust. | ty, But|| Some were crushed in, head photographs of their wives and children in the bosoms, and these pictures were spattered | power, d This is a Photograph Taken by) DISAPPEARS | Staff Photographer Durborough ithe of a the Morning After the Recent Mex ican Battle of La Mesa, in Which Gen. Villa Decisively Whipped the SE! Huerta Forces. | OUTBURSTS OF EVERETT TRUE fis. Ten You. Yes, Tve'BO a as [Os JEW You. Yes, I've Done THEY'R . ALC MY CHRISTMAS SHOPPING, me caine I DID IT TO HELP THE TIRED EVERYBODY OUGHT ~ UT THAT. teers, It is impossible to estimate be observed when the actual struggle is] [he cost on the great body of peoplg and face, their brains mixed with dust and earth, Some had] and th reby love their earning partial dina can be estir greater part Japanese soldier, in “Human Bullets.” rt which ne jsults in after years—cannot even be estimated. it far exces the millions the expe ture of s which ca be seen a8 necesnary at ek the TH about 100,000 mer for recruiting the full stre militia, there would be an tm to fill th volunteers WHO AE NOT EV LY TRAINED oldie cent of the volun ILL BR AFTER THE FIRST MONTH—by *\one cause or another The downfall of Huerta will no or not to t cates of non-inter theory that the end of the dictatorship means the end of the difficult THiS 18 NOT THE CABE. The fall of Huerta will, for time the atmosphere es oon will be less some unu regime. This man is not yet been tried out in a wider Huerta, Mexico will « and unscrupulous politicians. Therefore, the problem of Intervention is not one of the moment, hinging upon the acts of Huerta, but one that will have to be settled, one way or the other, for a long time to TAKES A GREATER TOLL THAN) first period of the campaign about| ft remains to be seen whether, WOUNDS OR DEATHS IN BAT-|250,000 men out of our originallunder conditions admittedly as se. TLE. army of 500,000. The “deterioration” is greater And wh is this army of 5 during the first few months of a|men to come from? They mu mpaign than later, for the men|/ VOLUNTEERS. The war depart (Tomorrow Editor Canfield row “seasoned” and the percent-|ment has only about 00 men will tell you how the Mexicans of loss grows less. But allow-| available for active service, A few would treat an intervening + the minimum of 50 per cent thouaand more could be brought in| army, and what the sequential decrease due to deterioration, we|from scattered points, but the bulk “occupation” of our sister re- will bave left at the end of the would have to come from the volun-| public would mean.) be justifiable. Give it by the box. for Christmas! Nearly every dealer can now sell you a twenty package box of clean, pure, healthful CAUTION! ‘The great popularity of ehe WRIGLEY'S for 85 cents You can send this sure- | ! offered to-be-welcome delicacy to | *r2,t===" | WN all you want to “remember.” Eaves cons pao Aa It’s a big gift in long enjoy- Sie 1 ‘sot sy A ment—it’s little in cost to [a= ie you. Get it for yourself! Be SURE it’s Wrigley’s 1 le (ye Chew it after eve {ive semuier help, t wind IN PARTIAL Twenty per STRICKEN FROM THE ROLLA settle the problem of “to intervene’ fronted by the same difficulty, un- ble man arises in Mexico and begins a new sight. He may be one of the rebel leaders now in the field, but this cannot be determined until he has Id. In dications are that, with the fall of ntinue to be the prey of adventurous generals rious as these, intervention would