The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 25, 1915, Page 4

DAY, AUG, 25, 1915. PAGE 4. Member of the Sertpps Northwest League of Newspapers Published Datly by The Siar Publishing Co, r v400 WHAT WOULD THE KAISER GAIN? By R. F. Paine EDITORIAL PAGE money. No nation on earth is better fixed finan- cially, today, than our nation, ILSON GARDNER, in close touch with all A declaration of war by the United States Washington matters, declares that President would be warning that Germany has rabies and Wilson’s last note to Germany is an ultimatum should be put down by all men, as mad dogs are. son’s last e t ermany IS 3 a ; and believes that Germany wants war with Uncle Sam, “having nothing to fear from the American army and navy.” It is almost impossible to conceive of Uncle Sam landing armies in Europe to fight Germany or anybody else. Suppose that we count out our army, then. In strength, Uncle Sam's navy was third at the beginning of August, 1914. It may still be third. It is first in ability to get about, the Ger- man, British and French navies being tied down, as it were. The German navy is bottled and the allies’ navies have to be almost. exclusively devoted to the business of corking the bottle. The American navy might do much to curtail operations of Germany in her war zone about Great Britain, but let that pass, and suppose that the American navy, as well as the American army, would be innocuous in respect of Germany. There are still America’s financial ability to help the allies.and the moral effect of her entrance into the war upon the neutral world to be con- sidered. The greatest warrior who ever lived declared that war was a matter of money, money and How long would Holland, Sweden, Norway, Den- mark, Switzerland, the Balkans and all other neu- trals, all now losing heavily and anxious for peace, remain neutral, with the knowledge that, with the allies and the United States licked by Germany, they themselves would be next at the mercy of Germany? What has saved the European neutrals and all of Southeastern Europe from being quartered and divided among the great powers, as Poland and Africa were, save that no one power of Europe had the ability to do it? To me, one of the most surprising things is that the neutrals of Europe haven't long since joined the allies as a matter of self-preservation, and that Japan doesn’t insist on taking an active part with all her army and navy forces, for tri- umph by Germany surely means that Japan must settle for what she did to rmany in China, THE SUCCESS af quack doctors is one of the proofs that money has wings THE GREATEST believer in mer hotel proprietor. ations is the sum. A GOOD appetite and digestion are not everything Who wants to be the goat? GROWING CROPS FROM GLACIERS ] ID you ever hear that ice produced good crops? No? Well, that’s what Uncle Sam’ logical survey is telling us now. Seems as if the geological survey has been digging into ancient? history—just a few millions of years back, of course—into the Glacial Period, and they have reached the conclusion that the farmers in the northern part of our country wouldn’t be near so well off, nor would the country have near so good a food supply right now if it hadn't been for the fact that all the northern part of the continent was at one time completely covered with a vast sheet of ice hundreds or even thousands of feet in thickness. The study and mapping of the moraines and other deposits of the ancient glaciers has for a long time been one of the lines of scientific activity carried on by the geological survey. It has been found that besides being matters of geologic and geographic interest, the various glacial deposits are of great importance to agriculture. The pulverized and mixed rock material, pulverized by the ponder- ous, moving glaciers, spread over the uneven sur- faces of the older rock formations in the northern part of the country, afford the deep, rich and en- during soils whose yield in farm products con- stitutes so great a part of the nation’s wealth. Other industries have benefited from the visit of the GREAT ICE SHEET. The vast quantities of clay available for the manufacture of brick and geo- Outbursts of Everett True A Married Man’s Troubles 3 : ‘ . . ‘ A LITTLE BIT OF MOST ANYTHING "WAY OUT O’ SIGHT Private Doherty was six fect LIGHT-FINGERED At a dinner given by the prime Cc :. ManD 1F | SHOULD —— PER HELEN, What WORD You Think Ger MARRIED? RIDE FRIGHT MARRIED ? NoT To THAT PooR MuTT OF A WecToR. Or MARRIAGE 1S AVERY SERIOUS | Hearts 7 the Jungle! (Or, Poon the Note Book of an Intrepid Hunter)—A Movie rm dene MAJORS \LOUS WHEN A GIRL MARRIES SHE MusT FOR HERSELF BUT REMEMBER By mall, out of elty, one your, #8 months, $1.00) months, By Entered at second -cines drain tile and the widely distributed deposits of sand and gravel available for road material and concrete and other works—all the ilts of the great glaciers—are resources of great value. And in the swamps of the glaciated area lie stored great quantities of peat awaiting the time when condi- tions may require their use as fuel or fertilizer. All these facts and many the history of the Great La which were under the glaciers have been put into a pamphlet by the geologic sharps and the farmer who wants to find out how he i ing crops aided by the ice sheet has only to write to the geo. logical survey for a copy of “Monograph 53.’ WHAT A WHOPPER! AN ARIZONA legend runs that he who drinks of the waters of the Hassayampa river can never tell the truth again. The following, clipped from the Indianapolis News, leads us to ask if there happens to be a Has- sayampan on its staff: “Headed by a big rooster, a flock of hens in Pittsburg marches every evening from its yard to the railroad station to meet the owner, J. L. Arm- strong. The flock then escorts Armstrong to his home, the rooster leading all the way.” others concerning and other regions BANKS ARE reducing loan rates, but the trouble for most of us still remains—they continue to demand security By Allman | YES HELEN, | KNow Is A SERIOUS MATTER BUT MAY Be LL HAVE peTTER. LUCK “THAN 1 You Did, Parts—Part III. Youre’ Just MY STYLE! THe WAY SHE) AN SHE'S &!) AL ways LIT INTO MRs\ Va cant FTING wi BROWN ger fA’ WELL, THATS BECAUSE. SHES TRAINING TO IND GROUND: For Divorce! four in his socks; the minister of a little kingdom in was much shorter. | Rurftania, a diplomat compl ined | geant looked along the fine. (to his host that the minis’ of “Head up, there, Doherty!” he | justice, who bad been sitting on A CORRECTION Thin Folks Who Would cried. Doherty raised his head. (his left, had stolen his watch “ “Up higher!” said the little ser- | “Ah, he shouldn't have done| (From the Cairo, Ill, Baptist lo W 2 nt. “There, that’s better! that!” said the prime minister, in Truth) crease n't let me see your head down ae a annoyance. “I will get It) Correction—The truth stated ain.” jback for you.” SIMPLE DIRECTIONS BASY TO aicar \to be always like thie!” | Sure enough, toward the end of| at Aynome owned and driven by RECTION! asked Doherty, staring away |the evening, the watch was return-| streets. Mr. Sample corrects the|, Thin men and women—that die ed to its owner. earty, filling dinner you ate last ittle sergeant’s head. “And what did he say?” the diplomat. } ask “Then I'll say goodbye to ye, | statement that the horse was not) his, though it fell it arose again) jand he was driving It daily. night. | What b ducing ar UY of all the fat ed con tn sergeant, for I'll never see yez “Sh-h!” cautioned the host, glane : on coed again.” ing anxiously about him. “He! through an open gra 4 doesn't know that I have got it THE THOUGHT OF rial wae there but yo | cone neites | BEING DEPENDENT : OUT OF ALL REASON Guest: I thought this was a te you have toxicants. Clerk ness me, pect? Y a bar for the sale of (in astonishment) man! a dt n't think to find t Ah, perhaps you have of the instruments? “Seen one? I married one.” AMPLE GROUNDS y wife made me what I am c fou could get a divorce | that.” cee YESTERDAY AND TODAY | ON HER When grandmother was young it “Woman,” growled the villain, ‘was a sin to dance. “The crime is on your pate.” ‘The way some people dance these | “Oh, do tell me, William,” said she, days is a crime. it really on straight SPINNING’S QUITTING SALE IS ON IN FULL BLAST All Kinds of Safety Itnzor Hindes Sharpened, 15e doz, 1415 FOURTH AVENUE perance hotel, and yet I find that in one of the underground rooms to work is unwelcome to all Good- Age to find YOU with What do you ex- “| UNION | UPON OTHERS When we are no longer able)! m- organ | | of us. If you don’t want Old 5) an), empty purse begin TODAY| he never) you ote he wit ber anywi Ine Jn a temperance) to save—tomorrow | digestive ‘*°|pared for war if it comes, but'we| All three agreed that war would d yout—| | comes. sugara and hope {t won't come. We don't want|be a calamity, The business men pa egal ie | \ |“militarism.”” We don't want @ big| rookies are under no filusions about | MORE Which alte Oem standing army. nt [war They do not talk of war as nel ore a, war comes, there w be no} “glorious.” really something which can invari Interest 4 Per Ceai ‘\tack of raw material, There never! + Hopes to Reduce Weight ably tell when a man is lying? is any lack of raw material. Nor| “If every man in America,” said I know it Will there be lack of generals, Private Stith, “could have this ex \SAVINGS & ‘TRUST CO. OF SEATTLE ding r Mit boxes—fe on a gun » or money for ht back BISURATFT MAGNO Capital and Surplus $815,000 JAMES D. HOGE, President N, B, SOLNER, Vice President and Trust Officer) HOGE BUILDING 'n the Heart of the Financial District (ee |! \ STAR WANT ADS WILL FIND| KEIIEF owd tablet fo t 6 THE LOST ARTICLES, Cents per bottle. ao oe omach), A tei th of a glnss gives INSTA f » | business. af x/are getting a bird's-eye glimpse of Sold by all druggists in| | arms, drill, camp making, camp |sanitation, the value of a ration, signaling, and the thousand and one other bits of information which make up the stock in trade of an army officer. Regular Officers Amazed They are working hard, these rookies. The regular army officers who are their instructors are de-| lightedly amazed. In a single day's work they skipped lightly from the| ‘Hay-foot! Straw-foot!” stage to| company formation. Already the| rookies are “smart.” | But the khaki has made them| Soon we shall be “prepared.” And |eomrades, and they talked frankly,|then what? } as comrades talk The idea will grow,” said Private They have come Next year's camps will be hundreds of others, than this year's. Personally | Lake, at Plattsbur t San/|i enjoy the exercise, the hard work, isco, have n the|the changed conditions, And if of soldiering | war should come—” | The idea is big. As T understand) “Which heaven forbid!” it, it is this; We want to be pre-| vate McCullough. CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 ‘PRIVATE TREAT | DISCUSSES WAR WITH NEW PALS | paths socially, professionally or in | | | Tr as to camp. at Ame N.Y ome, to said Pri Officers Will Be Needed But a neral cannot waste his |time teaching the rookie the man-| ual of arms and how to right. and |left- and about-face. The need is |for lieutenants and captains, |. And so the “business and profes-| sional” men, who prefumably have| the movement ja little more intelligence and execu-| “The psychology of the nation,” he |tive ability than the average run] said, “is the composite psychology Jof men, are attending these three] of the individuals in ét. If a man perience once a year, It would tm- prove the race.” | Private Stith has high hopes | that drill will reduce his weight Other rookies entered the tent d joined in the talk. Some one ked if there was not danger in weeks camps of instruction thinks fight, isn't he likely to want They will be t to fight?” captains of our arr Another objected utenants and if war comes “IL know how They are trying to cram a r's|to box, but my knowledge of boxing instruction into three weeks, They|does not make me quarrelsome, I are hitting the high spots, They/am glad I can box. Before now it has stood me in good stead. But yet another put in:, “But/ all men are not like you, I know | soldiering, or such part of it as a leaptain or a Lieutenant must under | stand men who are naturally bullies and | That is, before they are thru,| who, knowing how to box, delight | Ithey must know the manual of|to beat up men smaller and less| skillful than themselves.” | ous about war. But some ne Then they all fell to arguing at| tions, like some men, are once, bullies. What They Think of It We must be prepared to Out of the clamor of contention, fight them if they attack us. an orderly consensus of opinion at On the other hand, we must length arose, It was thts, which, it} guard against hot-heads and seems to me, is more important home, even than the movement itself: not strike first and There may be dange it Is afterward. true that some men, when they talk fight, want to fight. 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