The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 21, 1914, Page 4

Presid “Who shall tell us now what sort of a navy to build?” asks President Wilson in his message, and he adds: “When will the experts tell us just what kind we should construct—and when will they be right for ten years together, if the relative efficiency of craft of different kinds and uses continues to change as we have seen it change under our very eyes in these last few months?” A good many people, evidently our president included, have lost faith in the dreadnaught, so- called, but which is a misnomer, but it is very likely that the experts have not radically changed their views as to what constitutes a navy. Let us laymen take a look at what the present war has shown as to naval efficiency. Great Britain, with a large preponderance of THE SEATTLE STAR MEMBER OF SCRIPPS NORTHWEST LEAGUB OF NEWsrarens, ‘Telegraph News Service of the United Proce Association Clase Matter. Entered at Seattle, Wash. Postoffice as Becond- mall, out of city, 360 per month up t od Foarrier, city” 3 0 ¢ mea; § mos. & so ® month Daily by The Star Publishing Co. Phone Main 0460, Private| “4 TH TWELFTH man on the Jury which stayed out al! night with. out reaching an agreement told the Judge the ether 11 were “too stub C. Allen Dale makes the same complaint against the rest of the TS - ROBBERS WHO'LL defy locked doors can’t be scared by Gates, It “appears from the Saturday night experience of the Seattle jeweler. - 7 = NO, NO, Mary Anne! &t. Nick te not the ame party, The Old | [Nick you refer to Is busy In Europe these days. Tt WHEN A man goes out of hie way to tell you how square he is, al- “ways take his word for it, but keep your hand on your pocketbook. . “One War Tax Enough ‘ NCE more the papers are printing letters from busifless men, urging an increase in freight rates. They're of the old tenor: “Give the railtoads what they Tax yourselves ‘ : 4, -* ss | cask for and it'll make us all prosperous.” | suntil you're rich. "Sereased tax? Men who produce? 4 Not so as you can notice it! They're all of the class of middlemen, who can shove extra freight rates along. Of course, they won't mind a tax increase which they _ won't have to pay. Be It’s the man who works for wages that must carry the “burden if the railroads get their increase. His wages won't go up. His cost of living will. "Why are some business men so short-sighted as not to see that the chap whose prosperity they jas tradesmen are “most concerned in isn’t the banker, broker or speculator Sanxious for a booming stock exchange, but the wage earner i with a margin to spend? 4 We've already had one war tax. = One is enough. *They Had It Coming to Them EP EvELoraents since the unemployed raid the other night on a Second ave. lunch room, and on the Westlake market, show the men quartered at the Hotel Liberty had ; Eething to do with the trouble, which was inspired solely by ~ men who wouldn’t work if they had a chance. The trouble makers should be severely dealt with. The city has made it possible for jobless men to have something to eat and a warm place to sleep at the Hotel Lib- | erty. If the slight tasks required of the men in return drove | these rioters gway, as they declared, then they are deserving of no sympathy. 4 Beside landing in jail themselves, they made it just that much harder for other unfortunate men, who WANT work, to get along. The Right Man in the Right Place HE STAR is glad, indeed, that the organized campaign ; being waged by the kept press to discredit municipal * ownership, and the efforts of one afternoon paper to “get” City Lighting Superintendent J. D. Ross, have not warped Mlayor Gill’s judgment to the extent of co-operating with the Ross conspirators. Mayor Gill did the only possible thing by reappointing Ross. He is the right man on the right job. Scouts for the Common Good IME and again attention has been called to the need of a ; “People’s Lobby,” to sit in watch upon public officials, in the public interest, as skilled agents usually do in behalf of various special interests. It has not thus far been found a workable idea, both on account of the difficulty of finding fit agents wise enough to compass the many angles of the public interest in the myriad subjects and phases of legislation, and because of the difficulty of financing them. A new factor is appearing in our political life which may in large measure overcome both of these difficulties—the in- creasing participation of women Go to any city hall, any state capital, or to Washington nowadays and the most conspicuous thing you will see is the zeal and growing intelligence with which bright women, serv- ing for the most part as volunteers, are keeping tab on what is going on, emphasizing moral issues and making it hard for the tricky type of politician to carry water on both shoulders or to continue his traditional trading in the “double cross.” They're still sometimes fooled; but they’re learning fast No insincere or evasive man holding public office now knows when his bluffs may be called And chaps 6f that type, once so common in our legislative bodies, are disappearing, while those who yet survive, or on occasions “come back,” are learning to be very, very careful. * . * Germs or Life Term? EW York humanitarians are horrified because an Auburn prison “life termer” offers to be inoculated with cancer germs for the benefit of science. What's there to be horrified about? Give us cancer germs, cholera germs, bubonic germs or any other old germs rather than a life term at any peni- tentiary. BERLIN REPORTS there was talk of peace a couple of weeks ago. We bet it was talk of pleces. Kitchen Privileges and Righth Av., Seattle. tas Modern, slegantiy furnished rooms, with the best in ¢leaniiness, comfort courtesy for ‘Transient, 660 te $1; ‘The Vigus Hotel Who are the business men who are asking for this in;| ent Wil STAR—MONDAY, DEC, 21, 1914 PAGE 4 dreadnaughts, has taken no direct action with them, because the dreadnaught dreads German mines and submarines, and the German navy lies behind mines and submarines. Very good. Then a nation on the defense should be well supplied with mines and submarines, shouldn't it? But to say that Great Britain’s dreadnaughts have been useless is to overlook their keeping the German navy and German commerce bottled up, while thesBritish navy and commerce are practically free and unmolested. It is the opinion of all sorts of distinguished experts that a long war means victory for the side which can longest secure the resources of war, which are food, oil, metals, money, horses and in- gredients of explosives, as well as men to handle them. Unless Germany’s home resources are so un- limited that can she live and fight on them in- definitely, it is clear that her enemy, with the world to draw upon, has a decided advantage. And Germany's bottled-up condition must be accredited to the dreadnaughts of her enemy. Germany, the weaker in dreadnaughts, cruis- ers, destroyers and other warships, has been able to stand off the navies of Great Britain, France and Russia. Why? Because her coast line is small and her navy sufficient to protect what there is of it. A hound is bigger and stronger than a badger, but, put the badger in a hollow log, and your dog doesn’t have things his own way. Uncle Sam has thousands and thousands of miles of sea coast, including Alaska, Hawaii, the son Has His Doubts About the Dreadnaught Philippines and the Panama territory, and along this sea coast scores of cities, 98 per cent of them unprotected. Will the experts advise that all these points of invasion be supplied with mines and submarines only against battleships that can lie off 15 miles and demolish a city? It must be remembered that the first step tn invasion is from the sea and that the army cannot be relied upon to ward it off for obvious reasons. When we study Uncle Sam’s blessed Mon- roe doctrine, and look at his possessions in Asiatic and Arctic regions, his coast cities and his canal, we still must believe him wise in having a navy that can sail as fast and shoot as far as the best of them. Fes, DANA, MY BoAR DING HouSS VENTURE I3 TURNING ovr Success, 1 H4VE THE ROOMS ULED WTH COLLEGE STUDENT; One OF THEM iS THE FAMOUS QUARTEREACK, *Punt’ M*Goosia? “HERE'S ‘PUNT’ NEGOoGLe's Room. IT'S A FAIR SAMPLE, - Wel TAKE 4 QUICK LooK Cerore HE RETURNS: \ ‘ nw ae Z~ How . _ ee THRILLING! whatever name you will,” Mor- schauser sald, Iaconically, “I be- | eve the jury was swayed by sym- CLEARY FREED; q 5 pathy | Cleary 1 town clerk of Haver- straw and democratic leader in | Rockland. - pate ls He killed Newman when the Iat- POUGHKEEPSIE, N. ¥, Deo, 21,|%6r came to his office to inform him -Displeasure at the acquittal of that he had married Cleary's daugh- William V. Cleary here Saturday | ter. night of the murder of Eugene M Woman and child carried fr Newman, his son-in-law, is voiced ome by Gapreme Court Justices Mon blazing Everett lodging house. schauser, who sat at the trial Stee! plant at Leavenworth will “Murder is murder, call it by! continue operation. OUTBURSTS OF EVERETT TRUE — You x66, Tt ST. DIDN'T WANT 4 TO LEND HIM OVER SIX THOUSAND BE- CAUSE T HAD OTHER INVESTMENTS, avd — ABOUT THEIR BUSINGSS IN PUBLIC LIKE YOU Do are PIPE DREAMERS, NOW CAN THAT STUFF OR 1KC POKe You THROUGH THAT WINDOW? You NEVER SVEN S4w A TWENTY. BILL IN YOUR WHOUS LIFE ip Fun. AN Emergency The man in the automobile duster }and goggles confronted an artist painting a picture by the roadside. | “Say,” said the motorist, “I'll give | you $5.00 for that pleture, just as ft is. Don't put another stroke to it.” “I am really very flattered by | your offer,” replied the artist, “but | why not wait until the picture is fin t OOD "t. I need the canvas to | mend a busted tire with.” eee Continental Method Daughter—What is the baron do- |ing, father? Millionaire Parent—I've just told him what your dowry ts to be, and he’s figuring out whether he loves Puck, you. | | Is That Alt “How long did it take you to learn to run a motor car?” “Oh, three or four.” “Three or four weeks?” “No; motor cars.” eee A Hard Test Sandy MoPherson and wife were discussing his drinking habits, when she said to him “Sandy, you know I never mind much when you get gentlemanly drunk, but only when you get so beastly drunk. Sandy, when you nee you e all you want, why lemonade or » “when I get all I want I can't say sarsaparilia” eee Gertie—I wish you to know that I don’t stand on trifles. Helen (glancing at her feet)- No, dear; I see you don't. eee Those Cozy Apartments Chumley—Jenkins, my man, these apartments seem less roomy than when I moved into them in the spring. Jenkine—Yes, sir. Quite so, sir, But you are now wearing your win- ter underclothing, . . 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