The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 3, 1914, Page 4

’ wise he is “fresh.” d M 'IsTAR—SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1914. PAGE 4, “DEAR MG, THERE'S A BURLY BUM ASLEEP ON A BENCH, “TLC wAKe HIM BY TICKLING HIM WITH THIF STRAW, AND THON—— To MANAGES HIM, BECAUSE THEY'VE ONLY GIVEN M6 A STUFFED ‘Screecher’ | Film _ |THESE CHOPS WERE Mi I'D UKE To THE STYLE OF A “HACKS” ORE IN ave > YOU SOMEDINGS TO BaT, FRITZIE, BUT DERE Iss NODDINGS UNLESS OSCAR BRINGS SOMEDINGS, DEAR FELLERS: THE BOY WHO HAS LEARNED HOW TO HOLD HiS TONCUE HAS MADE A GOOD BEGINNI TOWARO HOW TO HOLD Wiklawe » | “SAY, MY PRIGND, DO You PLAY CHecKkers 2° *I Do. “THEN IT'S YouR Move (” * WORDS BY SCHAEFER—MUSIC BY MACDONALD HERE'S VERE You BAT, Feirzie! IT’S A FALSE CHARGE ONGRESSMAN RICHARD BARTHOLDT UES de ecteen, on Gewese Day, im’ New York city, and roared against “the anti-German animosity of the American There are one or two conspicuous excep- tions, as is usual in such matters, but, as a whole, the American press has been just as It is true that the American press has had Germany. are, naturally, biased to a American papers an ap- Nothing would please the American press more than to be permitted to secure and send from the German side accounts of the actual happenings. This paper and its allied papers are pre- pared to spend thousands of dollars for such & purpose. But, if they cannot get the German side of the story, they must get what they can from other sources, be the same more or less satisfactory to the American publishers, the American public and the American Germans. We have no hesitation in saying, and don’t believe we tell the American reader any- thing he doesn’t know when we say it, that our reports from London, Paris and Petrograd are at the mercy of parties whose animosity to- ward Germany is red hot and that many of the actual results of the warfare are not reliably known until substantiated by subsequent operations. [THE SEATTLE STAR | | BER OF SCRIPPS NORTHWEST LEAGUE OF NEWSFArERs) Telegraph Newe Service of the United Frees Association. | 1| 1} Entered at Seattle, Wash. Postottice as Second-Ciass Matter 0; year $3.25. to six mos. ‘mail, out of city, Aya ‘hs’ Sse a month. tar Publishieg Co. Phew: Daily oy bo a any Bete nom all departmes: Things Are Different Now HE few men in each banking center who have been ac- customed to meet around a mahogany table and decide t was “good for business” (especially THEIR business) much peeved that Secretary McAdoo should ask why, h money plentiful and Uncle Sam ready to issue more,| " interest rates should be going up | : In the guarded utterances which they allow to appear in int—for what some of them are really saying would burn the mails—they hint that the secretary of the treasury is forgetting his place and undertaking to do too much, Other These gentlemen overlook that a revolution has taken in the banking business of the United States and that z has at last become a public function | Now the difference between a private and a public func-| ' tion in a democracy is that the public function requires ex- ations. : It isn’t enough for a few men sitting at a table to decide that they will “discourage speculation,” “hold a tight rein and otherwise lay down the rules upon which the business _ of the nation may proceed ; : There must be a show-down of reasons and the reasons © must be good reasons, else they won't hold. : Secretary McAdoo has shown that he iv eager to _ operate liberally with the banking fraternity for the public advantage. But it will save time and trouble if the money brokers shall realize frankly that he isn’t on his job primarily for them, but for the entire people co. “The Young Recruit of Przemysl! HE bright young man who handles our telegraph news from the war Slavic names. We hope he'll bear up under “oyitch”-es. In the meantime we offer limerick : : * A green young recruit of Przemysl Took a hop when he heard a ball whrzemysl; Toward Stryj or Haliscz (He didn’t know whiscz), But he dropped on a Canada thrzemysl! is in despair over those terrible and war the “isze”’ the € following EN THE czar changed “St. Petersburg” to “Petrograd, we Wigwe (lek. But we throw our geography at his head when he makes “Modlin” over into “Tovogeorglewsk. nd Virginia At, tiake Ave. Mo% least money. ‘Transient, 60c to $1; week iy, $2.60 to #4. tthe, few —4nd FURTHERMORE; \ MR, PRESIDENT, IF THINGS Ate TO BS DONS IN THIS WAY, I'M GOING To RESON! LM _Te v=) tS th OS SAE SR, ARp : p Aye fli ORGANIZATION WOULD BE BETTER ENGLISH SENTRY |try. Receiving no reply, the sentry | fired, wounding Miss McGeown in i SHOOTS WOMAN the head. The lady waa removed |to Bangor hospital, where an oper LONDON, Oct, %—As an ation was performed. Her cond+ in-| tion is very grave.” stance of the stern seriousness of| | war, and of the unbending rigor * SURE THEY APPEAL’ . ! Ad jand W speeders imposes on people in their every-| day life, the following brief notice! in the London Morning Post is {l- luminative When motoring, Cc. Wigmo: L, . B. T. Peisprup, Brennamnam, the three last evening, | swatted with a one-day past Orlock Point Admiralty signal-| jail sentence by Police Judge Mac ing station, near Donaghadee,|Mahon Thursday, didn't go to jail | County Down, Miss MeGeown was| Hach of them took an appen, as challenged three times by the sen-usual, LORD COWDRAY'S SON KILLED BY GERMAN SENTRY. PARIS, Oct. 3.—How Lieut. Har-| old Pearson, son of Lord Cowdray, | the British off magnate, was killed while trying to escape from the Germans, who took him prisoner during the battle of the Marne, was told today by Lord Murray, bere looking for the young officers erave. The lieutenant was captured with his orderly, Sergeant Mackay, according to Lord Murray Later, thinking the German sen- try’s attention was engaged else where, the pair attempted to bolt from the prisoners’ enclosure. H The sentry fired and Pearson | fell dead, but Mackay escaped and reached the British line Lord Cowdray, the father, je one of the greatest of! | European financiers, His name |was mentioned prom‘nently re} jcently In connection with Mexican | jolt interests. The son was himselt| }& member of parliament | | THIEF MAKES AWAY WITH A DOZEN EGes Mra. Tate Sullivan, 610 Ninth av..| believes the best place to keep ex is In a safe. A thief entered her| house yesterday and stole only a} dozen eggs, although there was con- | siderable Jewelry around the house. | | G. A. Piorilla, 3105 15th av. 8.,| was stuck up by a couple of high. waymen at 16th av. and McClelland| st. He lost $42 | A burglar gained entrance to the| room of Mrs. C, J. Clark, Alix hotel, | | 1405 Third av, during the early} |morning by climbing through the | transom. Mra. Clark thinks the man chloroformed her. EMPLOYERS MEET TO DISCUSS ‘FIRST AID’ | President G, N. Skinner of the Employers’ association of Washing ton has issued a call for a confer all employers of the state in extra hazardous Indus try next Thursday morning, at 501 Central building. The ob. discuss the proposed “first ald” law, known an initiative No. 9. An open invitation 1s extended to all employ ers, O'BRIEN GOES EAST Assistant Superintendent of Pub. lie Utilities B. L. O'Brien has been | chosen to represent Seattle at the | |conference of U. 8, cities at Phila delphia, suggested recently by Mayor Blankenburg of that city to seek means of exchanging data on public utilities, that the legal de. partments of the cities may be as well informed in suits between cities and public service corpora tions, as the attorneys for the latter. PASTOR FREES GIRL SAN FRANCISCO, Oct Luke, alleged girl bandit, of holding up George Brown with Fred Riest and Peter Nelson, was released today through the efforts of her pastor, the Rev. Dr. Frank De Frees Miller “I am convinced that she was compelled to accompany her panions under threats of physical violence,” he said Nina recused ide Cathollo church of Ev. pays $10,000 for site for Cath school ere ollie Lumbago, Tired and free Dei Rhew an for 1 year. Sold to $16, Bee Arnold, 3078 Arcade Bullding, PONTO, THE PURP I WS MISTAKEN — IT'S A*Lapy*! / Inthe Editor’s Mail PRISONER'S LETTER Editor The Star: You show a lot of Christian spirit in tramping on a man when he {is down in that article of the 26th, regarding a lit tle girl who pleaded for the release of a prisoner. I just wonder what you would say if you knew that the jury ren dered {ts verdict on my prior onvictions and not on the evi Jence on hand 1 don't use tobacco or booze. have played the game square, act ed like a man since my dischar from the penitentiary on April 1912. I get it handed to me, while others who have fallen six or sev en times plead guilty to charges and get off with a minimum sen tence of one year and less I know of a man who, on second offense, embezzled $2,600, had his charge reduced to and got off with six months. Don't you think that there is something rotten about the law and the courts? L. H. SMITH STAY-AT-HOME BRITS Editor The Star: Have read the call of Lady Maxwell, “Shall Britons Skulk at Home?’ Considering the intelligence of the Christianity of today, how dis: gusting is her call, Of one flesh and one blood, God made all men to dwell on the face of the earth forever and did not He thunder from Mt, Sinai, “Thou shalt not kill,” and did not His Son say, “He that taketh the sword shall perish by the sword?” Is this not as true of a nation as of a man? “Let women’s voices call you to fight for us and our children Would suggest that a copy of “The Human Slaughter House” be pre sented to Lady Maxwell, so that she may see what depths of selfish: ness He in her heart, Love could petit larceny | 4+1n, Stee! Barre! or Door Bolt 126 Steel doesn't break like cast tron —protect yourself, 4y_in. Bernard Throat Pa Improved Open- ile! Jaw-Cutting Pliers The easiest-working cutting pll- ers made 5ig-in. same, $1.15; 7V_-In. Bin. 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Carri gan, who seeks to be elected coun- ty commissioner Carrigan owns considerable prop erty just north of Ravenna park. A few years ago he saw the need of a paved street through his proper- ty to connect the city with the | Bothell boulevard, and so he had the city and county to do the pav ing at a cost of some $4,000. More recently he discovered park at 20th ay. N. E. was very arterial highway that would be needed some 100 years hence. Just now it links his property with that of the University district, but, of course, he did not consider that factor. He had the council ordinance providing for j any } pass an th This is Carrigan Is he kind of a man Mike W. H. BASSETT. SAYS HE'S WRONG Editor The Star: There appear ed in The Star Saturday night a PINNING’S CASH STO that a nice steel bridge across the/| necessary to form a@ portion of an} wi Screws ... 1417 Ave. jletter signed by Wm. R. Anderson, |in which he questioned the motive of Congressman Johnson, who is |@eeking to have assessment work suspended on mining in the North for one year, owing to the exodus of foreigners to Europe. Mr. Anderson shows remarkable |{gnorance. The great majority of the claims not patented are owned by poor prospectors who cannot af- ford to meet the high wages de- |manded by American unskilled la- borers. That is why they have to |employ foreign labor. When I read Mr. Anderson's let- ter I said to myself: “Another of those erratic socialists who is help- |ing check the progress of the social- ist party.” JAMES CONROY. psec SENDS A BOUQUET Editor The Star: The public gives full credit to The Star for its |prompt furnishing of the latest news The Star is up to date, both tn its management and in the principles it advocates. HLL. W LONDON, Oct. 3.—From the mo- ment a vessel approaches within 30 | miles of the mouth of the Thames she ts constantly at the mercy of |the war office. 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