The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 14, 1915, Page 10

Trouble “Is the Prussian Conscript All?” Asks Charles ticle; All England Is Or to Get Recruits. BY CHAS. EOW, RUSSELL Editor, Magazine Writer and Econ omiat, Whose Special Articles From the War Zone Are Pub. lished Exclusively in The Star re Ae Talk about advertising! The government of Great Britain, In the last nine months Newspap bas become a omparably RY I. L ereatest advertis er the world has extent, variety traw 0 ingenuity, bold Hats li pens, attractive ua ity nes and cost tt has set a new and Zhe kind t ip 4 . hb. Lik truly wonderful record What has the government been plex” and “Palm Beach ) Advertising for? 82.50 to $10.00 | Chas. E. Rus Men. That's all In spite of many and grave warn ings, Great Britain was caught by the war absolutely unprepared, like Jan unconned ship struck down by a squall HERE |S THE FINAL AND UN | ANSWERABLE PROOF OMe i ee nee ie Cheasty’s Smart Clothes Never Suffer by Comparison Made by masters - Fabrics from the world’s best looms Worn by men who know FOR EVERY PURPOSE “Values Tell” $15 to $40 Always Featuring the Cheasty “Invincible” Suit $16.50, never more; never less, $16.50 SUNG NM is Wied ED ELSEWHERE, THIS COUN | TRY NEVER DESIRED, EXPECT. |ED NOR CONSIDERED SUCH A WAR. EXCEPT FOR HER TRA DITIONAL NAVY, SHE WAS AL MOST WEAPONLESS, AND | EVEN IF SHE HAD BEEN PRO | VIDED WITH TOOLS, SHE HAD |NO TRAINED MEN TO HANOLE THEM. The staggering problem was to create an army from a population unschooled in war. |England’s Problem |May Be Ours Bey fs something tn itaelf far more interesting than any battle | Reaid: WE may some day face \the SAME KIND OF PROBLEM | Now, to criticise the manner In which the British government at tempted this stupendous task is not my job. Any administration com |posed of unwarlike men slung In a |moment into such a mess would| | blunde: | Also, for my own part, I am satis {fled from independent investiga jtlon before the war that the cause jot the allies is just and true. | Therefore, I am not much moved | do, to pick needless flaws in what they but only to set down here, for actly what happened On August 4, 1914, Great Pritain had an army of 370,000 men; Ger} many had 7,000,060 under arms and | 2,000,000 in reserve; Austria had! |3,500,000 under arma and 2,000,000 }in reserve. One hundred and sev enty thousand against 14,500,000 ft didn’t amount to a patch on the landscape For years many sage counsellors bad urged Great Britain to ware} the system of compulsory military | service that Bismarck riveted upon | continental Eur In 1906 the ¢ ‘vative govern ment was all r to do this and had a bill for it drawn, but eweerind it could be introduced the libe carried the country. The pera | scription and in favor of volunteer enlistment for the nation’s defense. | How Volunteer System Was Tested VOLUNTEER ENLISTMENT as! AGAINST CONSCRIPTION WAS NOW PUT INTO THE CRUCIBLE AND FIERCELY TESTED. The moment the council declared war the recruiting offices were opened and the men of Britain) THEY DIDN'T COME! This made an alarming situation —Germany, with her vast army complete and Great Britain with next to nothing. So the government took to advertising. It bought full |pages in the London and other journals and filled them with the biggest type ever seen in a British newspaper, eloquently appealing for recruits It also resorted to other expedi ents not so wise. It COVERED THE BILL BOARDS WITH LET. TERS SIX FEET HIGH. It pasted appeals on the glass shield of every \taxicab and the side of every om |nibus. It filled store windows and dead wall space with an endless |variety of posters constantly re |newed. It held public meetings Jand engaged speakers. | It appealed thru chureh, cial, social, political and thropic organizations The newspapers most generously | gave conceivable help. I believe there never was a press 0 pa triotic. Ciergymen preached men argued. Young women pa trolled the streets and PINNED WHITE FEATHERS on every able bodied young man who had not en list | To Parents and Children: We are giving away, absolutely a series of attractive Poster Stamps, in color, illustrating. in verse and picture the life of that interesting young man, THRIFTY ALEXANDER. An album is given with each set of stamps. commer There are 52 stamps in the serles; one is philan given away each week until the series is com- plete. Parents or children may obtain them by calling at the windows of our Savings Tellers, while the supply lasts. and states. Parents will find these stamps a splendid and unique method of teaching their children THRIFT and INDUSTRY. Children will find Wait until the ome battle, nae them a never-ending delight, and will soon be si nek seks eet waiting with expectancy the issuance of the Zee: Steet ‘Dare peenes be at ‘ , it until the firat death lists next week’s stamps. doa printed,” ‘vail the! wiee mien that will stir them up The first death lists passed Even Lower Physical Standard The physical standards were low: jered and sometimes conveniently overlooked, In some parta of the country it wea posted that men 5 feet 1 inch in height would be ac cepted; the chest measure limit was reduced to 24 inches everywhe Under these provisions, a view of some of the detachments strongly SUGGESTED CRADLE ROBBING The government declared allowances wives volunteered, Many that the trouble was these allow ances were too small; no poor man | would be eager to enlist so long as this wife would receive in his ab sence only $1.87 a week with 4 cents a day for each child, Come or send the children for them. Northern Bank & Trust Company and Pike St. sey to the and dependents of men that Hor to be paid perso sald 4th Ave. Volunteer Army Edward THAT | WHATEVER MAY BE PRETEND the benefit of my countrymen ex-/ policy has always been against con- | |called upon to come in and enlist. | STAR—FRIDAY, MAY 14, 1915. England Is Having Getting a ion System the Mest, After Russell, in Third Ar- 1¢@ Huge Billboard tn Effort 1 So the government Increased the allowance to the basis of $3.1 week for wife and $1.25 a week for nil | Advertisements Appeal ‘to Women, Too The weeks and months went by, the government redoubled tts efforts. Nine months have passed since the beginning’ of the recrult ing campatgn TODAY. LONDON 18 ONE HUGE] ADVERTISING GALLERY, the like of which has never been seen There is hardly a square foot where | a poster could be stuck that does t seream the appeal to enliet. On one bill board T counted 36 differ ent vari f posters. A “whirl wind sp ¢ campaign” for en listments covers ever region of the great city with more thad 70 meetings a day Here, from my note book, are a fow specimens of the billboard atyle of appeal one sees everywhere “To Arma for the King and Em |piret Join Today!” Line Up, Boys! Enlist Today! Men, to Delay Is Dangerous Your Country Needs Yor ist Now! Rally Round the Flag! We Must Have More Men!” ‘ | “Think! Are You Content for Him to Fight for You?” (Him be ling the picture of a gallant young warrior) Remember Scarborough! Enlist Now!" (With a picture of the | Scarborough ruins and the figure of a fat Britannia rising to ven geance ) if You Can't Join the Army, Get a Recruit “You Are Proud of Your Pals tn the Army, of Course, But What Will Your Pals Think of Yout We Are Fighting to Protect Our | women and Children! England Expects Every Man to} | Do His Duty | ‘The Empire Needs Mon—Can ada, Australia, India, New Zealand, All _Anawer to the Call-—Helped by Young Lions the Old Lion Resists the Foe—Men, Enlist Now To the Women of Britain! Some Jot Your Men Are Holding Back on |Your Account. Won't You Prove |Your Love for Your Country by Persuading Them to Got \Only Two Million in Nine Months in nine months the government spent $125,000,000 in securing recruits and has collected, Inciud- ing the responses from Canada, Australia and New Zealand, what joptimists dectared to be @ little more than 2,000,000 men—some trained, some untrained and some! as raw @ March day! TWO MILLIONS. ON DECEM.| BER 15, 1914, GERMANY HAD UN DER ARMS 9,542,000 TRAINED MEN. At the outbreak of the war Ger many had a | © population of about 65, Wanted! 10,000 SCHOOL! CHILDREN TO) ATTEND THE HIPPO- DROME’S THIRD ANNUAL CARNIVAL AND JOYFEST FREE! I SATURDAY AFTERNOON 1TO5 The occasion will } | jmany had put into the field in 48 PAGE 10. TWO SHOE STORES GOING OUT OF BUSINESS 2,000 The Large-Footed and CINDERELLAS sees Sopa Here can wear Nos. Pump 5 5 Nos. 10 here or 6 or 11, 12 now. me two th Please cc carry away ‘ ‘ Panister tg she i $5.00 Crossett Shoes 85c and $1.00 || $3.85 A PAIR Some Other Bargains $4.00 Tan Work Shoes $2.85 $5.00 Tan Work Shoes 3.75 $7.50 Ball Band Long Rubber Boots Russell Pacs, a pick-up, at Bergman Loggers, a snap at : Chippewa (the original) Loggers $5.25 Men's House Slippers at Manufacturers’ Cost. $2.50 School Shoes $1.65 $5.00 English-last Street Shoes $3.65 BROWN BROS. For 25 Years at FIRST AND COLUMBIA f nob they M4 lippers, and that derella, can wear They're small, and, oh dainty, They are regular to f them merchandise, but we have get rid « Goi ory Make Foster's and Wichert’s fine Shoes for Women all greatly reduced in price all all $4.00 Shoes, $5.00 Shoes, $6.00 Shoes, high or low, all sizes 7.00 Shoes, high or low, all sizes Canvas Oxfords and Pumps, in all colors, small sizes, per pair 35e¢ $4.00 and $5.00 White ails iad for a graduates, $1.85 V. & H. Shoe Co. BROWN, Prop ‘ins SECOND AVE. low, low, high or high or sizes sizes “FROM SOAP BOX MRS, ROBINSON, ORATOR TO STAR STATE SENATOR, INFAMOUS PLAY ROUGH ON HUBBY i. || 000,000; Great Britain a population » of 45,000,000. Taking the outside figures, Great Pritain in nine months had secured one-fourth ae many men Ger person who challengef her right to the floor, and without waiting for the ghairman to recognize her, she pushed Mr. Robinson back in his seat and proceeded to deliver a few remarks, $10,000 PLUG HAT Postmaster Tom Hance of Niles, Mich., has a $10,000 jJug hat. This is why be can afford ft hours APPARENTLY OF VOLUNTEER ENLISTMENT | HAVING BEEN PUT TO THE] TEST HAD CRUMPLED UP | There were, however, other rea sons, most profoundly significant to us, for the apparent fatlure of the volunteer rystem, and these | THE SYSTEM DENVER, Colo, May 14. If you want to know what hap- am going to relate in my next ar | pens in a woman suffrage state All mutilated and torn bills are | ticle j when a man and wife—both [returned to the United States —_ ii voters—want to talk at a pub- | treasury, where they are ground into pulp. The residue is modeled PITTSFIELD, Mans, May 14 Hic political meeting at the |in0 te articles by govern ment employes. The postmaster’s plug hat fs made from this pulp. In its Composition are Hills which rep- resented $10,000 in currency Miss Martha Kleiner, 22 years old, is dead tn Adams from blood pol resulted from the * y. While changing the clothing, she Idaned dow eply on the nc | same time, read the following "| true story Mrs. Helen Ring Robinson is | @ state senator from Denver. | Her husband is known as Mr. | BEGIN Helen Ring Robinson. At 4 meeting in the Woman's club both Mr. and Mrs. Robinson arose at the same time to ad- pom Hd — of the | SAVING TODAY, TO- MONEY | cic Gaatrmans” mer bot MORROW NEVER | stood side by side, Mr. Robin- son much the taller and bigger. Mrs. Robinson looked at the COMES. One dollar is enough if you have no more. Interest M4 Per Cent UNION SAVINGS & TRUST CO. 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