The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 7, 1914, Page 1

fea- elig iste. ‘ith- ~ is RE aces.) i 84 ge ebia4 ali The Most Beautiful Telephone Girl in America? HAS SHE ANY BEAUTY SECRETS? WOULDN’T YOU LIKE TO KNOW THEM? Idah M’Glone Gibson, aiid of “Con- fessions of a Wife,” has made a study of Irene Hough’s beauty. She has investigated the personal habits of “Dorothy.” She has found some interesting, valuable things—mainly about the common- sense route to beauty. Every WomanShouldRead This Important Series of Beauty Articles Watch for the First One Tomorrow in The Star. ME 16. Voit SEATTLE, W This Ought to Silence The Knockers ERETT'S appeal, through the trade council, for & 's munich light and water service, falls like a wet blanket on the p: sionate ravings of the wild-eyed foes of municipal ownership | Everett should be a most happy city For Everett owns none of its public utilities. From a private ownership standpoint, Everett is an ideal town. Without competition, with the opportunity to bring into these util ities that wonderful “efficiency” which A. V. Bouillon converts to th exclusive use of private corporations, with the opportunity for good | | sufficient service, how has private ownership met its obligations? Ever peal for the municipal service of Seattle EVERETT HOUSEHOLDERS PAY A rae TT or’ MONTH FOR WATER A 8 DENTS, PROFITING BY A WATER €D BY PAY A MINIMUM OF 50 CENTS. EVERETT PAYS THE ELECTRIC COMPANY A RATE OF CENTS PER KILOWATT HOUR FOR ELECTRIC SERVICE. SEAT- TLE PAYS BUT 6 CENTS. EVERETT PAYS THE PRIVATE COMPANY 48 PER CENT MORE | FOR ELECTRIC SERVICE THAN SEATTLE PAY! These are the plain, unvarnished facts. ttle, with municipal ownership, enjoys ri so much lower than Everett's that the latter city pleads for an extension of Seattle's service. Municipal ownership has made good in Seattle. If Seattie’s knock- ers can take a hint from the Everett incident, they'll put a muzzle on their futile harangues. YOU CAN’T DRIVE A NAIL WITH A SPONGE, NO MATTER HOW HARD YOU HIT. RECTOR OF ST. | MARK’S TALKS H city, “It ain't life what matters; It's be you put {nto ft as counts.” This quotation from a recent ‘tt was taken by Dr. E. V | Shayler, rector of St. Mark's E |copal church, Saturday jae text of a sermon to 900 guests Jat the Hotel de Gink The men gave the rector c ous attention and thoughtf bere his remarks in( olorado. It fs within the power of every ee to rise superior to the ad verslt of circumstance, said Dr. Shayler. No man should blame his luck for his condition who has falled resist adversity with every ounce of his will irte y dl power 5 Familiar songs and a verse of DENVER, Dec. 7.—The Colorado | « ; +1 A ca were sung, and Dr. miners’ strike will be declared off ghayier was invited, by a unant SOROROY. MIPTATNE i mous vote of the men, to come Poet f Son eee Wer sae again, some night this week, and See ee ee erien John McLer, {tuk on conditions tn London and Workers of America, John McLen-| sisewhere, as he found them nan, president of Dist. No. 15, 89-| abroad at the outbreak of the war nounced at noon today that & ree |" Twelve hundred men found food Pemtoeitn (at, madeaes “wich “con and shelter at the hotel last night ned this afternoon, taking such The KAISER PROVIDES The resolution, McLennan stat ed, will set forth that th Colorado coal strikers are witline to rewwen| MEN WITH HEATERS t work under the te s of the lardest Wlaca acme tins ‘ so. BERLIN, Dec. 7—Many of it will also demand, he wald,| the German troops recently that the low mediation committee sent to the trenches are pro. enforce the terms of that plan. vided with electric heaters MeLenna said he was confident} small enough to be carried In the delegates to the convention the pocket and operated by a to return to work dry cell. DOES THE KITTY WANT Some [THe Question 1s, WOW AM | GOING TO )GET RID OF THAT CAT ON THE z__aviet £ slg If the foes of municipal ownership are correct in their theory, then, «| everybody,” AT re HOTEL night for ASH., MONDAY, DEC. 7, SAY, ARE YOU | SQUARE WITH YOURSELF? Everett's cry for freedom from the greedy grip of private corporate; Urging the plan to make De contro! of such necessities as water and light amply justifies the public) Cember a “Squareup” month, ownership of these utilities by this city Or. Sydney ‘Strong of the No amount of smooth oratory by any Judge Burke in the country,, Queen Anne Congregational or all of them, and no amount of printers’ ink, can wipe out the tell-tale b sate Peneey , Pose, 4 comparison between Seattle and Everett, two neighboring citie ean, the firgh.c8 fou. Sunday sermons on the movement. | Dr. Strong explained the idea as |a plan of “house cleaning and re. adjustment so that by January 1, 1915, we shall be square with all the world.” “If everybody squared wp with he said, “Seattie weuld be the most noted and pros “Square Up” RES! serous city in the world. ‘The man who ¢@nters the New Year square | with the world will be ready to meet life's duties with adequate in and strength.” At this point, verse by Fred I Dr. Strong read a Boalt of The Star on “Square Up,” and announced that Bull Brothers, printers, are ready to distribute several thou sand window cards M{lustrating the Square Up” idea and containing Roalt's verse. “To square up,” said Dr. Strong, “means to readjust the inner life, to bring the parts into tune with Jeach other; so that there may be harmony and unity. It means re adjustment for peace and effi ciency, It means putting con body in thelr proper places and doing their proper work. “Has the body, for example,” he asked part all these years? roads in life led to the flesh Have time and energy all been spent on problems of eating and dressing? Has life become one matertalistic problem? If so, tt is time to square up with your Intel lect and your coactence. “Have you spent all your energy over consctentious scruples none of it In application? “been playing the leading | all Hav You must think what you ought to do Is not character; but to do.” Next Sunday Dr. Strong's ser. mon will be: “Square Up With Neighbor.” THE WAR TODAY RUSSIA—Germans, in occupation of Lodz, operating for control of railroads leading to Warsaw; Slavs’ Czenstochowo and Cracow cam paigns also threatened. GERMANY—Kaiser issues call for last line of regular reserves: country wild with joy at news of Lodz victory; denied Germans are retreating along Yser. FRANCE AND BELGIUM—Allies taking offensive along whole line; Germans evacuate Vernelies. AUSTRIA—Progress claimed by | Austrian troops against both Rus | sians and Servians. | TURKEY—United Press repre | sentative reports conditions critical, | with foreigners threatened; cruiser | Hamidieh badly damaged by mine; | victory claimed over British het] tween Tigris and Suvaya science and will and intellect and/ and | remember that to| Vit BvDY THAT Mouse A POUND OF THE FINEST CHEESE THATS MADE! x7 The Se attleStar CENT &% NEW 1914, ONE er QUARE UP! By FRED L. BOALT Say, are you in debt to your groceryman? Is your tailor’s bill long over. due? | Have you paid that five you got from a friend? We think that you ought. Don't you? | SQUARE UP! Have you unsaid the word in hot ang Have you said, friends once more”? Have you buried the hatchet? | Ended the quarrel? | My friend, have you settled the score? | SQUARE UP! | Have you harbored a grouch so long that It seems The foating wlil one day be Wet tried Mw Uy rye when | My yeu'l| i Wilt hes | hearten your heart like || a tonic SQUARE UP! } ~ = | | Speaking of Old John D, Look at This John D. Rockefeller, Jr., announce ed that the Rockefeller Foundation | |has already given $1,000,000 to} starving Belgium and is prepared }to give “millions more. Good for Jobn! But we would lke to call your attention to some philanthropists nearer home. This letter came to} The Star today “Editor The Star: Enclosed | please find 50 cents with the | best wisheg of my six children and myself in the interest of the poor children of the city. We wish you success in this wor- thy undertaking and trust the very needy ones may receive | the gifts that will best supply | their present needs. We pray | that many will be moved to a n this work “Sincerely yours, “MRS. E. E. REESE AND CHIL. DREN, Kirkland, Wn., Dec. 5, 1914." While Rockefeller {s giving of his| millions, if other just folks who read The Star would but follow the example of this mother and her ebildren, the | chimney kids Seattle would have such a Ch mas as never was e e WATER SHUT-OFF NOTICE Water will be shut off in all of West Seattle uth of West Alaska st., and in the district rth of West Alaska st., ast lifornia south of | | Charleston st also on | Alki ave. and the Alki Point | | district Tuesday, Dec. 8 from | | 9 a. m,. to 5 p. m. | ment when their on and Ammunition Made in U. S. Sent to Russia via Seattle NIGHT EDITION THAIN ANY s STANDS, Re Falls in Love With Her a Seattle Girl Warns Sisters DONTLET’EM ADMIRE YOU, SHE ADVISES By Cynthia ia Grey Note—Here is a human docu- ment that is more tragic than any you can read in fiction or see upon the stage. it came to me this morning among many other letters on the subject of girls receiving attentions from their employers. { think it shows conclusively thet ex in business cannot be ignored. What shall—or, rather, what can a girl In these circum- stances do? Dear. Miss Grey: I have read with interest your articles in The Star, and the appeal of that little girl who wrote you for advi touched my heart. She has my deepest sympathy. Tell her to leave that man's em- ploy AT ONCE, and do anything rather than keep on working for him under existing conditions, She will bave the heartache for a while, but time will cure that, whereas, if she stays on there, eve day will be torture. He must have known she was learning to love him—but what did he care? She was a nice ttle thing to (Continued on Page 4.) 33 CARS OF ARMS ‘SHIPPED United States District Ate torney Clay Allen Monday made inquiries regarding ithe sailing today, from Vancouver, B. C., of the Russian steamship Nove |gorod, of the Russian Vole unteer fleet, for Viadivo= 9 |stok, Siberia, It was reported to Allen that she carried a cargo of arms and ammunition, including many heavy cannon, which probably had beem manufactured in the United Stat and which, it was declared, jbeen shipped to Vancouver via | Seattle, billed as mining machifie ery The shipment railroad carloads. A Seattle man, whose name was not given out, reported he watched the stuff transferred from the rail — road cars into the hold of the Nov- gorod, at the dock in Vancouver, — The Novgorod was in this, port |) several days ago. She di her cargo, then steamed to Vane couver, where she has been for a wi alting, p “for the “arms.” The manufacture of arms ammunition in this country for of a warring nation, if proved, wo be a serious violation of the Ui ed States’ neutrality SOLDIERS DOCTOR THEIR OWN WOUNDS | PARIS, Dec. 7.—A small glass tube, no larger than a pencil, filled with fodine and containing a tiny brush, is being supplied to F soldiers to render wounds aseptle ~ and to minimize risk of blood pok soning. | | | consisted of 33 BERLIN JOY-MAD AS LODZ FALLS; W NEXT? WARSA BERLIN, Dec. 7.—Berlin was In transports of joy today over the official announcement of the Germans’ occupation Sunday of Lodz, Poland. Not only was the capture taken as marking a victory by the kaiser’s troops in the mightiest battle ever fought in the world's history, but the possession of Lo¢ itself is strategically of immense advantage to the Germans, since it gives them control of the main railroad to Warsaw and promises the early investment of that city Lodz has a population of 350,000 Manufacturing Center It is important not only as railroad point, but is Russian Po Jland’s chief manufacturing center. The Germans,” said the offi |clal statement posted today, “occu pled Lodz yesterday ne Rus: sians retreated after suffering | b loss Touching on conditions in the| theatre of war, the report personally tomorrow his message Fig ng wa eported to be to a joint sessi 3 in progress at How, north of L¢ Leaders in both branches _plams and in the vicinity of Petrokow ned to rush through such appros City Partially Destroyed ebel-a t are usually unope Lodz was said to have been par-| Posed, before holiday recess. tlally destroyed by the German| 4 bitter deoute was practically | bomt ardment | oon en a the et ee and riv- German accounts said it w as |°' 8 and harbors bills, however, finally taken by. & bivanet' , Call for Two Battleships j It was admitted that the k Secretary McAdoo submitted to 9 troops encountered despe congress today his estimates for sistance, even after they government expenses for the fiscal ried the Russian — trenches, jyear, beginning July 1. ‘The @aam that they were repulsed repeatedly | Mates total $1,090,775,134, or about before they ultimately won. | $4,000,000 less than the expendi The fighting for Lodz lasted | ‘res for the present year, { about a Week and was of the blood The naval program calls for two iDRY LAW ADDED To OLYMPIA, Dee, 7.—In order that the anti-prohibitionists may be given fair and impartial treat uit to defeat the law is heard in the courts, Govern or Lister has officially added a number of qualifying paragraphs to the prohibition law 14.0 ft 118 my fest character Petrograd declared the woods Ia the region of the city is filled with | ™ iT unb 1 bodies of dead soldiers, © | The roads, too, were covered {with German and Russian corpses, dead animals, wrecked batteries and fragments of equipment 4 | Asa result of the fighting the a German line had straightened from © {the Vistula to Last, south of Lodg, | WILSON WILL READ MESSAGE TO CONGRESS Congress day convened at noon to- with more vacant seats in evie dence than on any opening day in battleships in addition pedo boat destroyers to six tor one gunboat and one oiler. The destroyers, gunboat and oiler, it was estimated, will cost $7,575,000. In addition, eight or more subs jmarines, one of seagoing type and the others for coast defense, will be constructed at a cost of $2,250. 000. The navy's $147, 675.1 total estimates are 86 and the army $186. 73. In this year's estimates, army engineers asked for 000,000 for river and harbor tmprovements, .|, More than $18,000,000 was asked for the Panama canal,