The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 25, 1914, Page 1

54U. S. HEALTH SURGEON WARNS OF BUBONIC RATS § BY KARL H. VON WIEGAND Staff whic ft haa of Toul, to r Most of their singing WING Th ARMY flea, 19, pointe has been cabled of the n organized by the “It was the Day of the the eyes disappears before a softer deepest A French woman and kne Then the masteal director raised his baton welled out tn rich, musical tones, It was sung with the or choral soclety trenches north Gesangverein Germans in one of the tony of the hours and days. 8 dc black trench in the dense fog, the gray, ghost-like figures of the ready for instant use, rest across the protecting ridge d toward the enemy's line, only 600 yards away * is broken only by the booming of artillery in the di song wells forth from the men whose voices may soon Lord two litt aisle feeling An the anthem swelled forth, a religious fervor shone in the faces of the soldiers, Among those In the pews and standing In the aisles hands were clasped, heads bowed—lips moved in silent prayer. leading ‘ont of the d Correspondent , comes up the United Press WITH THE LEFT OF THE GERMAN TIACOURT, (By Courter to Rotterdam.) of the eve the mor 6 in fr altar in the deep A soldier at the end of the hair of the little girl with bis Hy Two great tears roll dowr he is struggling with some great stretched as if reaching to cia expression of the most intense |c home and loved ones The wong of home is ended. The culldren still kneel before the altar bench leans over and touches the soldiers of earth, f ear the dier near by. partly out- is the longing for bearded cheeks of a #0 His In hin @ man may know France, Oct There ts a moment of impressive silence “Dear Fatherland, My Heloved Father. The anthem is ended, and the soldier voices ring out in Jand emotion. nome ging arms are yea there the tillnes and then atilled for Hut acourt The par the trer singing tan one. This is a story of the men be Heads aro raised, shoulders squared, Patriotic exaltation comes into the faces—the love of country, for which they are sacrificing their lives, who form one of the great hu man slaughter machines of T Europe, It is a story of how } human b whose chief occupation now is to kill, showed through thet eyes as they sang of home and loved ones today the “Gesangverein in the old French church of sang French woman and her litle n for a rest, after several days and dim Nght tn the old chureh soldiers stood in the choir loft, Other and officers sat hard, bench-like pews of soldiers stood in the aisles was intense silence had just come Th relety arts of men nigh Again the muste ceases, and once more the lender raines his baton the next song. It 1s “Meine Heim Ist am dem Schonen Rhein ngverein” is over. Home Is on the Beautiful Rhine) Within a few days these men will be It eweeps softly through the church. There is a movement among a war machine the soldiers. Chins drop on breasts, faces soften, the patriotic fire In But today # song laid their hearts bare AST EDITION WEATHER FORECAST—Cloudy and unsettied tonight and Thurs. day; fresh southwesterly winds. te it was a soft flently the soldiers begin to leave the church. The concert of the The soldiers Ger of on for (My pack in the trenches, a part of Kart JOSH WISE SAYS: Judd Ho! Von Wiegand There The Seattle Star The Only Paper in Seattle That Dares to Print the News wn never hangs up his stockin’s at Christmas. His wife's hold more.” - ON TRAINS AND NEWS RTANDA, fe VOL UME 16. NO. 235 SEATTLE, ONE CENT Oil Isn’t an Investment, Just a Risky Speculation BUALT TELLS OF BUSY LIT ; PROMOTER LAYING WIS TRAPS FOR UNWARY DOLLAR: The Star will not, as one other Seattle paper has gone, condemn the The Star is glad that the existence of oi! posits under Western ganized Labor—all have been having their say on this WI for drilli ind when they're begin oper have enough money ir oe 'y're g You to YOU! States army and navy. e@ Shall U.S. Have Bigg t Peon pares @ e OIL FAKER! diy velop the new oll field. It will unhesitatingly condemn, in any In- entire undertaking—call it all a Neither will The Star go to the extreme adopted by another Seattie w ington has been proved. If it is there in commercial quantities, s is claimed, it should help the state ay Seattie mightily, But pro-| burning issue. But, Mr. Man and Mrs. Woman, this is just as much | ation, AND, LASTLY, OOM*T TAKE/A CHANCE CANT ARe! FORD TO. What do YOU want to do with YOUR army and navy? The The Star already has printed the opinions of many prominent American citizens on this question, which is WASH., WEDNESDAY, 1914, nces such as exist le are victimized, DOGS OF WAR) | | 2 | stance where it can obtain the facts, attempts to mulct the people | | paper, which preaches oll to its readers, and accepts the advertisements moters who take Investors’ money MUST USE THAT MONEY TO DE- your business, perhaps more, as it is the business of Dick Croker Plague Rats A coast-to-coast referendum starts today. of Seattie through “wildcat” stock-jobbing methods. The Star requests any persons who suffer at the hands of the “wildeat” olf promoters, and who believe their money has been taken D2 YOU want a bigger United States army and navy? What do YOU want con. | of legitimate company and “wildcat” promoter alike. gress to do next session? This is strictly YOUR business. In deaths séaay te be so then See onus pages The high-cockalorums of the nation —the statesmen, the generals and admirals, | VELOP THE FIELD, AND NOT TO LINE THEIR POCKET! Make sure, Mr. Investor, before you give up a nickel, that the ven- ture Is legitimate. Mak eure of the men with whom you are doing Admiral Dewey, or Congressman Gardner, or Samuel It is YOUR navy and YOUR army, to do with as YOU please. You can keep them as they are, or double Be Boon to Star is one of the 85 newspapers in 85 cities in the Will Marry Ar e Caught United States which have set themselves the task of ® finding out what the men and women of America think In di Girl D " to IS a e 25.—Un- By Fred L. Boalt NEW YORK, Nov. Scores of bubonic plague rats t of vital importance to ALL Americans, of today, to- morrow, and all time to come. The important personages quoted cannot agree. Admiral Dewey wants a much bigger army and navy. Vice-President Marshall wants a navy big enough to fight the whole world if necessary. Senator Chamberlain of Oregon wants more sol- « diers and more battleships. less the publicity given the af fair causes a postponement, Richard Croker, 71, former lead. er of Tammany Hall, and a widower of three month wed Keetaw Kaluntchy, a Cherokee Indian princess, here tomorrow. The American name of Princess aw {8 Misa Beulah Edmondson » met Croker at democratic eral years nal convention 6 frisk and scamper through the district. Within the past week several of them have been found in retail markets. The city council public safe. ty committee jumped when this statement was made, Wed- nesday, by Dr. B. J. Lioyd, sur- geon in charge of the U. 8. pub- lic health service in Seattle. A long time ago, when “you were a tadpole and I was a fish,” the sea swarmed with a_ spiral- of oil The mountains rushed down upon the sea, and the fish were crushed into the sand. In some places the oil | shaped fish which was full | | seeped away and was lost forever. In other places the oil was held prisoner, waiting through the cen- to which her father was sent George Von L. Meyer, a former secretary of the ax navy, wants a bigger navy. Benjamin Tracy, another ex-secretary of the navy, says the navy is big enough. The labor leaders are against a bigger army and uentls the most navy. United Stat Mrs. Elmer Black, chairman of the American Peace type society, says a big army and navy budget retards a na- tion’s progress. Andrew B. Humphries, director of the American Peace and Arbitration society, maintains that our army and navy should be big enough to preserve peace. Jenkin Lloyd Jones, eminent Chicago preacher, op- poses an increase. ida M. Tarbell says to increase the army and navy would be to strike a blow at the principles of Christian civilization And 80 they go, for and against. Which side are YOU on? You may elther mail your ballot to “The Referendum Editor,” The | —— a ji Star office, or drop it In one of the ballot boxes which will be found, be-| Cardinal Aristides ¥ ginning today, at the following places: satriarth of Varios, } Bartell Drug Store, First ave. and Pike et nol to de Quaker Drug Store, 1013 First ave. dead in Paris Brewster Cigar Store, Third ave. and Union st Brown & Hulen’s Billiard Hall, Rathskeller buliding Battersby & Smith, cigar store, 906 First ave. Gerrish Bros., grocers, 7206 Woodlawn ave., Green Lake. P.H. Mullen, stationery, 5409 Ballard ave., Ballard Fletcher M. Bird, grocer, 3403 Fremont ave. Ajax Pharmacy, 85th and Greenwood. - - ~ E. C. Busse, elt Queen Anne and Mercer. | HELEN IVE oT $80 Were, {war's esno Collins & Normile, cigars, 1435 Broadway. | GUESS WE'LL JusT LAY IT | DEA. | MusT Georgetown Mercantile Co., 6007 Duwamish ave. \ ASIDE. To BUY CHRISTMAS | | IDEA. | Mus Bivin's Drug Store, James and Broadway. ) oneseucrs ; TART TO DO The polls will close at 6 o'clock next Tuesday night ———— i n l S VOTE NOW! HERE'S YOUR BALLOT: Dr. Lloyd was present to urge the passage of the ordinance requir. ing concrete floors and wails sur Studio club her and fs an ardent rounding chicken coops in the down. has been studying town district, to guard against rats 2 » for a year, and It will be better for the people, tuties for man to come has been mentioned @% to spend a little money now, and along and release and use beautiful woman in the! drive out the rats, than to spend al it. of pure American) jot later, trying to stamp out plague,” he declared San Francisco and New Orleans take autions BAD AGAIN :. WASHINGTON, Nov. 25.— Sweeping investigation of charges that Turkey was inter. fering with code messages ad dressed by American Ambassa dor Morganthau to the Amer ican government was promised today by Secretary Bryan. If the reports are true, vigorous representations will be made, Bryan said fdmondson lives at the So now, when you come upon oil seepage and out- croppings of sandstone, you have a right to suspect that somewhere, far be- neath your feet, there is a reservoir. This, at least, is tne geologists’ dope. For years the geologists have been saying there ought to be oll In Western Washington, for the seepage and the outcroppings are to be seen all the way from the Oregon line to north of Belling- Above—A View of the Crowd Taken From the Derrick. 30 in Mrs. Bishop, standing at the gate of the old Sarver place and watch- ing the crowd at the uncapping of the Crescent well. Practically all the land within a radius of ten miles:is under lease, and many of the farm ers hereabouts have Invested in oil up to the limit of their means. Below—Col. Christopher, who 13 years ago sank $25,000 In a hole on the yery spot where the Crescent Co. found oll. Col. “Chris” wae present at the uncapping yesterday. RUSH MARINES TO SAN DOMINGO WASHINGTON, Nov. 25.—The United States transport Hancock, with 800 to 900 marines on board, has left Guantanamo for San Do- We have been for months guard ing against rats coming ashore from they keep on multiply nevertheless The big danger with bubonic rats around chicken coops is the infected fleas, which leave the rats for the chickens. ‘There 1s no cause for alarm in ham. the situation as it now exists—no more than for the past several Yesterday Tenino proved the geologists were right. months, Iam going to keep right Shine thiskes P night| “It was the first time that The committee recommended the) |hen-coop ordinance for passage. ships. Put ing Belgium's army was more than four times the size of the American army at the start. that Cavallari who denied ab otees of the tango, is mingo, to protect American lives and property endangered by a new revolution, according to announce ment todi on live’ (Continued on Page 4.) 1 THOUGHT 1 | | MR, FF I Come To HEARD THE COLLECT FOR YOUR INSURANCE WHICH \S DUE To DAY. la $75.26 PLEASE : aaa THERES SOMEBODY AT THE Door — Shall we have a bigger army and navy? Take part in national referendum. Your vote will be officially presented to congre (Mark “X" in “Yes” or “No” column of both questions, Yes. SHALL U. 8. NAVY BE INCREASED? RS U. 8. ARMY BE INCREASED?. ADDRESS VOTE, SIGN AND SEND BALLOT TO THE STAR OR DROP IN ONE OF THE STAR'S BALLOT BOXES.