The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 15, 1915, Page 1

OW, WHAT Do You Know About This? Interest Has Been Stirred to Such a Pitch by The Star Readers’ Discussion of the Question, “Shall a Wife Earn Wages?” Based on the Film Play, “Runaway June,” Opening at the Colonial Theatre Sunday, That Seattle Club Women Have Drafted a Bill for Introduction at Olympia Legally,Defining the Status of Husband and Wife, and Providing for a Contract Between the Two. The Star Today Is Printing a Number of Letters From Readers on the Subject, on Page 10. DEATH ROLL of atest Estimates Fix Num- The S e attle S tai IGHT ber of Injured at 100,000; EDITION The Only Paper in Seattle That Dares to Print the News VOLUME 16. SEATTLE, WASH., DRIVE 5 'MY, GIRLS! SUPPOSE YOU HAD 10 WEAR HIP BOOTS 10 GET AROUND, LIKI LIKE oxBOW MAIDS ines ae ee eal Houser In the boat. | ° ON PARIS + THE WAR TODAY FRANCE—One of the most ‘i Perate encounters in present war Progressing for positions northeast of Soissons. TURKEY AND PERSIA—Turks at Tabriz pushing on towards Julfa; object, to secure contro! of the highways and railroads leading to Russian frontier. GERMANY — Claimed French losses enormous during fighting north of Soissons. Deciared French asgault German lines north | of Verdun failed. | POLAND AND GALICIA—Situa-| tion generally unchanged BY WM. PHILIP Sims PARIS, Jan. 15.—The battle for possession of the positions ~ northeast of Soissons is de- veloping into one of the most desperate encounters of the | + present war. | The Germans concentrated at that point continue to hur! masses of troops against the French lines in an effort to | break through and open the way for what many predict will be a new drive toward Paris. The official c nique, issued is afternoon, t fighting continues in The French positions at Saint | Paul, in the region of Spur 122.| were carried b rman infantry after a savage gle. French Recapture Positions The French, howev received reinforcemer } mmediately | turned to the attack the positions after a sti gacement From the Lys to the North sea,| cannonading continues. In the vi-| cinity of Lombeertzyde and Bece laere the French are making slow Progress. The German success in driving the French across the Aisne and east of Soissons fs the most fr portant victory efther side has won in the western zone since the winter began Kaiser on the Job If the Gorerens can mainta position south of the river t have a permanent positi future (The kaiser, recovering from his #8, seems to have selecte 4 ¢ front ‘for a conval to the firt that mor may be a crossings 0 At no other mans secured | LOCAL MARKETS est ever known (n This m cents Three Feet of Water tide, there roximatel blocks, the dis ter, which hen the Ox amish river APPEALS TO PRESIDENT NEW YORK, Jan. 15.—Mre. Julian fent Wilson) Co league, ~mdged Pre todyy, urein mag, ther ad- the Du “nd comand kitchens ar mn, \ houses in the very ~ QUAKE 1914, ONE CENT. ON Titains AND ° ° An Oxbow girl picking her way In hip boots from her home to the nearest solid ground. Residence of A. Houser, 6233 Seventh ave. &., and L. Brooks, 6229 Seventh ave. S. wa 5"s5° Q¥BOW CHILDREN GO FLOURSOARSAT TO SCHOOL ON RAFTS; S205ASICKIN, WATER 3 FEET DEEP (Continued on Page 2.) <a WHEN A MAN’S MARRIED —=—j | Girl Reporter for United ae “mania _ Press Tells Thrilling Story teat of Italy’s Disaster. NEWS STANDS, Se ROME, Jan. 15.—The toll of death taken in Cen- tral Italy by the earthquake grew by leaps and bounds this afternoon. Latest estimates, based on fuller reports from outlying districts, place the total dead at at least 30,000 and the injured at nearly 100,000. No word has come from the southern sections of Italy, between Naples and Brindisi, where it is known many villages have been destroyed. Complete reports from this district are expected to swell the already apal- ling list. Latest revised figures place the total number of dead and injured in all sections at approximately 100,- |000. although it is thought the majority of the injured jare not in a serious condition. | A statement issued today says Avezzano, which felt ithe worst of the quake, “‘no longer exists.” | The deaths there are placed at 10,479. Word from | other sections was that 1,300 are dead at Capelle; 3,000 © lat Sanbendette and 4,000 at Pescina. More than 1,000 — jothers perished in scattered towns and villages in the © |gtricken zone. ‘ Numerous fatalities are feared at{turbances are feared by many. Ortuechio and Gioeamarsi. The for-| Several siight quakes Nave been mer has a population of 2,400 and felt in Central Italy since the ¥ the latter 3,500, and both are re) -—————————— ported practically wiped out. (Continued on Page 2) The shadow of a new horror came | to the people of Italy today. Naples | reported that volcanic craters, sup-| posediy extinct, are showing signs! ie as _of activity. Serlous volcanic dis- THe CITY OF SEATTLE is by far the largest business corporation in the Northwest. It is not always run on good business principles. If any private corporation were managed as | extravagantly as the City of Seattle is managed, the stockholders would boot the officers out of their | jobs. Every man, woman and child who lives in Seattle is a stockholder in the incorporated City of | Seattle. | WHETHER a property-owner or not, everybody pays taxes. | (ROME, Jan. 15—Mise Roraith, a No one can escape paying taxes. Every time you pay rent, a grocery bill; every time you ita wan reasons todas, San buy a pair of shoes, a cigar, a ton of coal, a dress for your wife—every time you buy anything of any- of injury, bait was Gn the Po nervous prostration. . body, you pay taxes. Sis commastons iki ia teach= | With taxes we pay the cost of government. As everybody pays taxes and as every man, woman ers,” she and child living in Seattle is a stockholder in the incorporated City of Seattle, then everybody is fi- ae nancially interested in having an efficient and economical government. And how are you going to get one? You are going to get an efficient and economical government by cutting out all DEADWOOD. You are going to get this kind of a government by applying the same sort of methods which a suc- red aragtircin: m9 cessful private corporation applies—and you are not going to get it in any other way. | room, with no way of getting out, A teacher lay dead at my feet. qt IS all very easy to sit back and say that the city is extravagantly managed. I tried to rev The Star proposes to do more than that. e We have secured the services of an efficiency expert who, beginning tomorrow and continuing from time to time thereafter, will point out in The Star, definitely and specifically, just where actual saving of id, “were at prayer ii” when the shock came, Ag? i cross was shaken from® to the floor. The entire: k, and finally the walls ive my chums, but se¥> lof them were dead. It was cold the room and | suffered greatly, ater I heard voices and © med, I coul ke myself money can be accomplished in the various city departments without diminishing in the least the effi- gic ove an ciency of those departments. d the roof ol | ‘ scued me and OF sen i Seattle. All we h be f Seattle. [na 7 Well, we are taxpayers. All we have is in Seattle. All we hope to get must ound in Seattle. Our success and the “ieaeal success of Seattle are so inseparably inch gedane web that we feel sure it |RALPH FARIEE PAYS would be impossible for us to fail so long as Seattle prospers. | THE DEATH PENALTY This being so, it is “good business” for us to help to obtain for Seattle an efficient and economical P . Jan, 15.—Ralpie government. Cal., who shot It is “good business” for you, too. Montague ont When we have obtained it, taxes will be lower. a The Star has no axe to grind. The Star is affiliated with no political party. In the forthcoming articles you will be told just how and where the City of Seattle, as a going business concern, can save esi nile await money. Pais iitention will be drawn to extravagances and waste which, if you are a good business man, will | eee astonish and annoy you. These articles will appear under the same caption: “DEADWOOD.” on here at 10 12 a. m. today th in the con e months MP oy TOM, | WANT rt t MIN Te Sewn Loow ,THE cop is TRYING TO PINCH DUFF FOR. j BORROWING. \ CHAIRS | WISH YoU WOULD Go OVER see | To mrs BLAKE'S AND he | BORROW 4 DINING ROOM A } CHAIRS Kt ene b THEM For MY LUNCHEON ~ | [] Woud On THERE, WHERE. YUH | =) WELL,NO THEY'RE NOT | | |<oms WITH THAT FURNITURE? | \, __\ MINE -Nou SEE -MY } WIFE IS GIVING A —- WHY You see WE JUST BORROWED DOES THEM GoopS BELONG = Wiar’s 7 THE Idea? [7° Youd TO-DAY. | SPOKE ee eA | TO WER ApouT q THEM FOR THE 5 on pTHen SoF DAY ~ AND~ AND - i = . my WHAT'S THE a MATTER, | = MISTER ¢ -