The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 19, 1915, Page 11

STAR—FRIDAY. MARCH 19, 1915, PAGE 11. 'Phil Rader, San Francisco Newspaperman, | Tells How He Fought 47 Days in Trenches' |How Does One Feel When Men Begin to Fall Dead Around Him? Rader Tell Sees Service With Foreign Legion in French Army, Westerman & Schermer’s Store No. 2, at First Avenue South, corner Yesler Way, will be positively closed out as soon as the stocks are disposed of. All Shoes, all the Clothing, all the Furnishing Goods, and all the Hats are reduced one-fourth, one-third, and in many cases, one-half, and even less. Everything is marked in plain figures and everything is sold on a “money back basis” and, despite all the oppo- sition, the sale keeps up in the most wonderful marmer. © berseerbg a big lot of fine All Wool Suits in the very newest styles. $15.00. And they were bought to sell for They’re the best suits for $15.00 that this town knows anything about. Because we're going to close the shop, we’ve marked them all $9.65. Then here’s another lot of $15.00 } Following ts the ® rifle explosions We thought thone| sounds f » the Freneh| sharpahoc rune man ex | rwo o | We piled into Con asleep, b fw Itheabit the barn and were! it in the moPning two] 4 from bullets which| crevices during | to bury} 1 that other men would take care of that part.| x. | Stane flight across the Atlantic. They Realize How | Valueless Is a Dead Body | I think tt al how Valueless CASH o* CREDIT Men’s All Wool Suits BY PHIL RADER dawned on us then} a dead body ts,| whether It fs your own or another's It wasn't long before we had all sentiment about the dead | At first, for instance we were shocked to know that, tn the trench.! It In the duty of the cook and his orderiies to bury the dead every morning after he has got bis big| kettle of noonday soup on the stove, | He has five hours free| while the soup is cooking But we became accustomed to the LONDON, March 19.—At least one American flag that | know of hae flown in the great war My comrades and |, In the French foreign legion, went to war under its folds. As we marched out of Paris about the middie of October, and started on our 150-mile tramp to the front, the French cheered the Stare and Stripes with huge ° Phil Rader about marched a miles t That have distinctive features in style, pattern and design; that are different from the ordinary fifteen dollar clothes. To see them means to like them. SEE THEM TODAY Jafternoon, and at last found our selves in a deserted little town Ou th had n strewn with French caps, French knapsacks broken French rifles, — French graves. 1 found myself wondering why we saw no German relics I began to understand that ey things could happen to us, as wel! as to the Germans, We were going jto kill the Germany but, in the | meantime, what were they going to delight Of the 1,500 men | started out with, only 385 were alive Feb- ruary 1 There are strange men in the foreign legion; men whose lives have been twisted In one way or another; men with pasts; men with dark secrets; men who want to die, but who have stopped at suicide. plan after a time, and even took pride in watching the growth « our ii tery beside the soup kiteh We er than th it grew fast This morning dead comrades. there and started away toward the front, there were days before us in which we would teries around) as we left our two son. | suits. Hold-overs from a previous sea- Quality is just as good, but the patterns are not so new. We have marked those—$4.88. A third group of still finer suits is offered at $16.35. POeCEEOMUSGGt iY Yer) Te ee eter tt tr ee ee You never ask a man in the learn how to see a friend die with These are the best, and the newest | do to un? PAY FOR THEM LATER You can have them.and wear them while paying $1 a Week and a Little Down the Suit Is Yours out knowing grief; how to look on the dead body of a mate without an emotion, how to let a man pass out) of our Hives in an Instant and never think of him again or mention his name; how to wear his clothes without remembering him | The time was to come when d even joke about the it became a part of the events. Arrive for Long | Stay in Trenches | We were to know how to keep! our heartstrings from attaching! themselves to any living thing, for fear of losing It We did not even dare to love one of the trench dogs We climbed a hill bordering the canal at the summit, where was a trench which we entered. It wound away like @ crooked street It led us into a maze of criss jeross sunken paths For two miles we ,{through this “pigs in clo zle, when suddenly we came he front trench. Men with rifles were standing ev-| erywhere Some were shooting and some were idle. Bullets bad been whis tling over our hei constantly And we had become accustomed 10 the sound without noticing it Forty-seven days were to pass before we, in the machine squad, were to leave this trench, and we were to learn that war is not glory, but only the work of beasts French foreign legion who he | I was an average man, straight | y Is. } from the sidewalks of Frisco, and I had joined the foreign legion) what was happening to my mind | because I had been told that, if I/ could have happened to the mind got into the French flying corps,| of any man I know t which | wished to do, | must first) We could hear become a member of the legion. | tant rumbling I did not ingend to go to the| strung ¢ . | trenches, but th hing | knew) We are to cross | we were under yur Amert the little bridge a Jean flag flying over ad for | he said an « | the front croas the by |Had Planned to : |Join Aviation Corps My arrangements for entering the flying corps had gone glimmer ing, and here I was, only an ordinary private, carrying a rifle and a pack weighing 9% pounds We marched for six days, ten jhours # day, for 40 minutes at 8) marked by a wooden cross, It war stretch, with five-minute reste prscorrrp ott~ Magy * at an’ ae At last we reached a Iittle town! crogs had which. us, Was three miles f “i beer « hting. be held $25.00 suits in the shop. And let me say this: Here’s a store that marked its merchandise very close to the cost mark. It didn’t aim at long profits, but rather a big volume of business. Probably paid more for suits to sell at $25.00 than any other store in this city. Don’t get the idea that there’s only little handfuls of merchandise in this sale. The stock will probably invoice $60,000.00; and _ this store is the largest, and by long odds the finest, in the south part of town. ; dis were shooting now Our nerves farm Hut you ata nd ip to the day's rty Age draw PEEP OPE CE ee emeee tee am one man fire. vt was the third to cre bridge. | As 1 ran, I could hardly believe} that I, from orderly San Francisco, was running from bullets; was run-| ing from being killed; that I was this mao who was entering war. In the farmyard we found a grave my we th ul oh) ere berenane cotter 1119-1121 Third Ave. Between Seneca and Spring. EN THERE’S about $25,000.00 worth of shoes, including W. L. Douglas and other famous makes. These are all reduced. The $4.00 Douglas Shoes, $3.35. The $3.50 and $4.00 Dress Shoes, and Patent Leather Shoes, $2.65. $5.00 heavy, solid leather Shoes, $3.65. And High-top Boots that were $7.00, we have marked $4.85. Raincoats and Slipons and Overcoats are way Jess than one-half price. All the shirts and all the underwear is reduced about one-third. $1.50 Flannel shirts are 85c. $3.50 Flannel shirts are $2.65. $5.00 Logger’s shirts are $4.15. Cooper’s $1.50 Union Suits $1.10. $5.00 All-Wool Union Suits are $3.65. Most all the merchandise in this store bears the Union Label, and it has received the approval of the Seattle Labor Council, which has en- dorsed the sale unanimously; they the trenches. ciow to get into tll be just our t | in reserve in atenant who | As we stood there we heard a We won't get to the trenches fc whistling {n the air; a huge for a long time.” shell hit the earth bebind us. i “* eo they get us into the fight’) Run for Shelter oe away ‘we had. made these remarke|AS Shell Bursts hundreds of times during our long) , Suddenly all fortitude departed pepiae On the march no one of us would An orderly came up to the posi-| Nave admitted to another that we tion where we were standing and| oe tae. ch bin came, We vaid: “We are to go directly to) Joo. ait willing and anxious to run the trenches. P somewhere. It was like m douche of cold wa-| "NS i tg ter. Wasn't this just a little bit), 18 me. too sudden? We started for it, when we heard We thougnt it was ; | another whistling, and the old barn Then a chattering broke ou was broken into huge splinters be ery married man was trying | tore our eves | rove how ready be was : Where do you fellows want to Men always do that in a pinch, 1), too The words came from a found little sergeant who came up behind Jokes were made a | tones. Loud laughs hig pitched. Men slapped others on the| back bolsterously. I did not know that all these things were unfailing | signa that fear was tugging at our] for the barn hearts |. “You're right | of chances in the| never, strike and! pl eriods of danger.) OLYMPIA, March 19.— the governor's action on ‘he bi i ar| lowing $12,000 extra for legislative! expenses, clerks of the senate and) house engaged in getting out the house and senate journal are prac.) tleally on a vacation. Unable to get) paid for their services, they are| which marking time for the present market to Western are, early Friday, B. Williama, U }was so badly injured he died be- “Sunset” Brand fore medical aid arrived. The ident occurred at 6:45. PAINT and VARNISH He was dying when passersby reached his side The coroner was able to WELL MADE LOCAL MADE RETAIL STORE identify him from letters he car 1622 Fourth Ave. ried. These indicate that he for. FACTORY AT FREMONT “OLD MAN TRIPS ON STEPS; DIES Plunging down a flight of steps lead from the Pike st ‘OUCH! PAIN, PAIN RUB RHEUMATIC, ACHING JOINTS Rheum one case in fifty atment. Stop drugking thing, penetrating “St git into your nore, stiff, ach nts and muscles, and relief instantly. “St. Jacobs Oil harmless rheumatism cure which never disappoints and can not b the skin Limber up! Quit complaining! Get a trial bottle of old honest "St. Jacobs O41" at any drug store, and in just a moment you'll be free from rheumatic pain, sore ness, stiffness and swelling. Don't suffer! Relief awaits you. “St.| Jacobs Oil” has cured millions of| the barn,” sev George 60 By to in unnatural we seem the least excited | He was accustomed to shell fire. We told him we were heading He didn't merly resided in Portland and during his active days was a sailor Rub Jacobs it Shelia same! he said WILL DENY 'EM BURIAL twice in the i t last they got us Into another that fear always| barn, in a nearby town, and told us | we could sleep there Every now and then, in the town we thought were Pa. March 19 local Ministerial associatior has adopted a resolution denying {Christian burial to members of lodges maintaining liquor side boards | other men in the and I've learned comes The brave man isn’t the man who has no fear. He {fs the man who| we heard what has it and conquers who} SUNK; REPORT |rheumatism sufferers in the last }half century, and is just as good IS CONFIRMED sciatica, neuralgia, Jumb: backache, sprains VALPARAISO, ~ March 19.— Officers of the British auxiliary cruiser Oroma today confirmed the report previously published in England that the Oroma on Nov. 11 sank the armed Ger man liner Navarra off the Ar. genine coast. SECOND AVENUE DEPARTMENT STORE ‘ToBeClosedOut GF eu a tribute that has never been won before by any other store in this city. Sale Continues Until the Stock Is Closed Out WESTERMAN & SCHERMER rue ora Wes Wi soe Sunen : : Seve No. 2. 103-107 First Ave. South. Near Yesler Way Kent and Glasgow when| OMPANY ee Soca Bee PES RUSSIA AND GERMANY | wmseite wel) WILL USE TORCH IN = SAVAGE. CAMPAIGN Sunday. The Orama took to Val Speaks for Itself: PETROGRAD, March’ 19.— cruisers they sank t den, siste’ Nit Y Jerease in ie Hill @ ser rates. tion of thé! en more are af parairo a number of Germans wounded in that engagement HE WOULD USE BREWERIES AS ed the ces: bring about ent ¢ ons than CHICAGO WOMEN SMOKE CHICAGO, March 19,—Statisties two policewomen e woman in every te smoker, PAN TON been a 1 be made to the kaiser through some rstood strong representations will Corr ae eWLPT StD és ARs an SAL NI | 218 Wednesday Panton | Panton, p out of the which are Mer- | caw dollar retail he for In | taken by John | ing next at re Department transferred Row® & Co Company Store wa to George chandisers stitutions. Francis mopany, and Financier Thi Susine ¢ action wa ident wreck valued BANKRUPT. STOCK FRUIT PLANTS: sd 7 care » mers TACOMA for diam the prohibitic proposed by New use nts when law take ffect is " wulhaniu president of Puyallup & 8 ner Fruit Growers’ association head of the Northwest apple grow ers’ organization Paulhamus has returned from Bellingham, where a meeting of the fruit canners of Western Wash ington was held to discuss plan »perative handling of their product Mm othe W r co-operati Paulhamus pr all canneries within 20 miles of Bellingham their plant iing one big canner building at plan could be munitie ve meas and unite in in the Bellingham, followed out he also said order to sa or the creditor it in omething | @ Phe stocks, | "tye. hundred thou-| py other cao N wholesale and ale will open on Monday morn- 10 o'clock over be closed out, om you} Ads. You will find the roc want in Star “For Rent” AMUBL Hami Vancouver, B. ©. Our prices for high-class Pain less Dentfstry are the lowest the city BOSTON DENTISTS 1420-22 Second Ave. Hon Mar he, Semi In present location 14 years. |lowed today highest officiais of the Warfare of the bitterest charac ter is impending along the 300 mile stretch on the frontier of Prussia and Poland, where the mighty armies of the czar and kaiser are about to grapple The official Berlin announce ment that Germany proposes to burn Russian estates and vil lages, and to leave a trail of devastation, today aroused highest indignation among Petrograd officials, Asa result a campaign of savagery by both sides unparalleled in recent his tory is feared If the kaiser's forces carry out Berlin's threat, it 1s certain Slavs will adopt tactics as drastic Fire and the sword will be carried inte with greater de termination than ever, and the en ire land will be laid waste Russian new rs today urge to instruct hi » retaliate the official, an Berlin was’ fol a conference tb Germany from by nouncement tween the war and foreign offices. It is un the neutral country Officials say Berlin made the new charge to cover its chagrin over the defeat of the German forces north of Tilsit Instead of being repulsed ried, the Russiar ¢ is now declared to have ched inside th ussia An offensive 1 undertaker Way to Have Fine, Beautiful Sure Heir as tier Me has bee RAILROADS CANNOT COMPETE ANY MORE, SAYS JAMES J. HILL » PAUL, The railroads of he last ditch able to compete again eautifur the new undation Harfina, risher, @ 50-cant ne in See air fascinate It >, new, tifically supplies life-giving props when ting, Minn, Mareh Ameri They no lot with each ott was made T Hill, the rail sT 19. statement day by James J king, while addressing the railr committ of the Minnesota house and senate, Hill appeare ponent of a bill before the | + ture providing for S fy gn y lls, re om: mends and guarantees Harfina, re« gisle-| finding full price to any dissatisfied a half-cent in- purchaser. . nd " once. Harfina Tonte for » your drugm@ist