The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 23, 1915, Page 4

STAR—SATURDAY, OCT, 23, 1915. Member of the Serippe Nerthweet League ef Newepepers Published Dally by The Star Pubitehing On, Theme Mate 9400 UNLOADING “WAR-BABIES” ERHAPS no one stock has been more spectacu- lar than Bethlehem Steel, in the war stock gamble of the past six months. It is presumed to be the bellwether of the “war 4 babies” and the “war-brides,” as the stock exchange fi obrokers call them. 4 The war stocks are given one more bounce upward by the circulation of the story that Presi- 4 dent Schwab of Bethlehem has subscribed, for his company, for no less than $25,000,000 of the | Anglo-French war bonds. On the very day that the story was being 4 heralded by the New York newspapers, tickers told of two stockholders’ lists of Bethlehem Steel 3 which are on file and are of interest. " One list, of date April 10, showed that Mr. Se Schwab then owned 48,151 shares of Bethlehem preferred stock and 100! of common, The other F list, of date September 27th, showed that while the lambs of Wall st. were frantically bidding up FE war stocks the president of the company was un- a loading—for the September list shows that he then owned of record only 38,451 preferred and no common at all. Similarly Mr. Untermeyer, deep in the coun- cils of the insiders, is shown by the stockholders’ lists to have reduced the 15,500 shares of Beth- lehem preferred which he owned on April 10 to a 8,800 shares on September 27th. ; This is only one example of how, after years of waiting,. the public has been coaxed back into Wall st. and is exchanging its perfectly good cash for—well, for something that the insiders are quite willing to exchange for said cash. GREECE'S QUEEN is the kaiser’s sister. Bulgaria's king is the kaiser’s nephew. Rumania’s king is another Hohenzollern. The trouble with King George of Eng- land is that his grandparents didn’t scatter their relatives around among the kingships enough, and they were fairly good scatterers at that [Outbursts of Everett True — WHERS'S THE HIS OFFICE MANAGER OF THIS 1S ON THE SECOND ) FLOOR, six. 7 NOw COME ALONC WITH ME AND SHOW ME WHCRE 2 CAN FIND WHAT Tm AFTER W ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS “It a young man steals a kiss from a girl in the presence of her fiance, shoud she not resent Certainly. Fiane ntended before thetr kisser very plainly around when you are all by ¥ gconnn do next week with n lenge like he did the past tw weeks? MIKE CARRIGAN Nope, we can't predict the weather, either. “What's the difference betwen a baldhead aod a bonehead? CURIOUS LIZ A bonehead Is bald on the inside of the skull “What's the difference between a fort and « fortress? “FRANK HAMMOND.” take it. Repairs on U. be completed b nesday. Gunbo into dry dock after the Su willy ® or Wed-| and will be — «converted into fio tender for|| Joinea Charles Alaska wireless t was over killed, ntion of her asso Second annual conv Lewis County Parent-Tea ciation will be held in Chehalis on | Tuesda: was coming towards the engine and } ut causes wh rhyste culty Tues ay pice Aoiyionangy. 1 RUS co rh t what p! leal_cultur- lof Harold Fishbein, also a student os idle danavitrabtelt bt 4 Calvin 8. Hatt] 7 7 @ ims a lifted chest.” This in-foe the University of Chigag 7 y uge at No (n a, | - —-/ ts ub at noe ren > and fi re r and! hive go, county poorhouse ; North Yakima, | ots 1 tr | OF SEATTLE ace at ee and/entered a year ago at the age of 15 has tendered his resignation | The first of four community usick pardoned by Pres-| 1 perfect cireulation TrY/and has continued bis remarkable Power sehooner King and Winge,| meetings was held at Broadway) ide om from county Jail in| our pe cn and Bee ay reeord recently engaged in dol high Friday night. Principal T. ®.| Tacoma. August crossed — tus t will stand out, and tm - survey work in Southeastern Alaska,|Cole, Klizabeth Rowell, girl ivis-| Canadian line in June under falne Capital and Surplus $800,000 vearing returned to Seattle Frid or aan W. EK. Hendricksom preke eat result take KILL MILK PLAN Sewing Mme. | adviser, spoke Carmichael c vat the first 1 Coates recently he iar! U. A. Kikenberry, doing nes 1, [LOM EE i NEB reatnent ing of a Co Tatas Classes 1s Aca Bi 5 eolldwaceliad ants | N. B. SOLNER, The franchise committee of the ity Women who & for $4,300 F Sint if Hor Vice President and Trust Officer, !f you wait till you begin to}couneil Fridey gnorning killed the tures joir ton, ©. ¥ nd H. A. Peters, | ) BUT—Ww _— cough and sn@eze, it may take|appieagion for milk monopoly W. B. Lan general freight | petitionir in involuntary | Mose, living near Chehalis, says he doad av x OREO central plan. Ben Shields, agent of Canadian Pacific railway |; edings filed against Hikenber-| burbanked somewhat #o that now} PUILOING: and $1. all druggiste or |2M & ate of the proposed fran P iat W Fepives, with party of thre » oth {i jaat january he raised spuds in the shape of a’ Im the Heart of the Financial |""!! H 4 Ui an BLTaabal ih oe fon S| er rajlroad men, here in Seattle, Jelegate James Wickersham lef u e! c Medicine c®, | me ened > a8 { a Ka am rsham left’ human being. District hie 3 York heated debate WD ELSEWHERE. } he has been shot to death as a spy | « noon at 5 s Write to Uncle Jack and tell him S\in India. Fred ie such a awful fib-| Qing shee whether ye )| ber, we can’t believe what he says. |.) ‘ should bu eships and forts, H ] Sjeral en t week with no jail breakers on any of the | Jail breakers on any of the ( A fortress ia feminine—so called because no one usually knows how to | $} ister itd gn erent Saturday night? — | Jaci “hard. put to '¢ 1 ‘wow! ZOWIE! AND THEN ae | best of them, but he finally ¢ SOME! | Leave some of it with us| 6 99 on thi “The School Girl.” — | ) Did she leave with another} d | | Many ¥ creditable drawings|get the {}man?” asked Ju McGinn {1 jan get a return for your |were received by Uncle Jack = }| Portland jhours of _ toil. Wasted R I guess «0. said Dr. Glenn M ry Wambold wanted a divorce | money does you no good. | Humphreys’ Seventy-seven! . Leta d # don't go Here,” snapped For Grip, Influenza CHICAGO, Oct Benjamin| £ ow") Interest Me Per Cent | , ' Perk, 18, is the youngest atudent to | University of Chica | 1 graduated | | | EDITORIAL PAGE OF THE SEATTLE STAR PORK OR PATRIOTISM? Patriotism or pork? That's what President Wilson will be up against when he takes his program of ‘preparedness’ to congress. . The “pork-barrel” system is the answer to the question why the United States and gets so little in the way of a regular army. Instead of paying soldiers, the government is paying rent. It is buying real estate, building houses, roads, sewers and waterworks in order that the army posts may be maintained in the districts of influ- ential senators and representatives THERE ARE 176 ARMY POSTS AND STATIONS to house an army whose mobile strength is bare- ly 35,000 men, and which should be housed in half that number of stations. Every superfluous station is an added charge for upkeep and travel, not to mention interest on the money invested. Fifty millions a year of the money appropriated by congress supposedly tor the army is spent for what appears in the estimates under the head of “public works’’—that is, posts—while a little over $100,- 000,000 is spent on the “military establishment.” One-third of the annual appropriation thus goes for “forts.’ All army authorities agree that 90 posts would be better in every way than 176, and some claim that a very few large posts would be more economical and efficient. Under our present system an officer who in war time would be expected to command an army corps, never sees together at one time the units he would be expected to command. Our army is divided into squads, companies and batallions, instead of brigades and army corps, as it should be. At some posts there are scarcely 20 men, yet such a post must have all that an a¥my post is supposed to have. POLITICAL INFLUENCE—the same political influence which has wasted millions of the public money in useless river and harbor expenditures—is responsible for the multiplied army posts. A man’s influence in the senate may be gauged by the number of his “forts.” For instance, Sen. Lodge of Massachusetts has always been an influential man and he has to his credit Fort Revert, Fort Heath and Fort Standish. Sen. Warren of Wyoming was for years at the head of the senate military affairs committee, so he has in his state Fort D. A. Russell, WHICH HAS COST MORE THAN FIVE MILLION DOLLARS! From a military point of view Fort D. A. Russell is practically useless. Former Sen. Aldrich has in Rhode Island Fort Greble, Fort Mansfield and Fort Wetherill. are scores of these forts which exist to the memory of statesmen now dead. Explaining why these posts are not abandoned by the war department, Maj. Gen, Leonard Wood told congress: “The difficulty is to obtain the consent of local interests. In the abandonment of these small po! there is always a tremendous opposition when we withdraw the garrison. We could cut the number of our army stations almost in two, but the embarrassment arises from the fact that in recent years there has been such extensive and expensive construction at many places that it is really hard work to justify abandoning them.” spends so much There A Married Man’s Troubles n ‘ : jz ° [weil, micDreD.|) HELEN~ HAVE You \Par Dorr — |{ SEEN AMT THING | | ANY THING TO hd MY RAZORE PLEASE THE : IN A SECOND— JUST WAIT UNTIL | FINISH FAMOUS DOUBLES @ Wm. F. Barton, of Or See Oriana) |Ruth Nichols Gets Military Questions and ts conte a dollar w etter on thi n girl, and fo written by a boy will give ONE YEAR'S OTTO OUGHT-TO BE FRANKER Otto Bi. 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TWO BIG POINTS REMENDOUS increase of our navy may be necessary, as the president and his cabinet will recommend, but the country will not- be sat- isfied unless the administration takes decided po sition as to two other important features of the matter of preparedness. Is there going to be radical reform a of money on the navy? Is the government to do limit of the possibilities? ol The putting down of scandalous conditions is involved in both of these question Increase of the navy should mean retrenchment and not increase of waste. The jingoism and gougery of the private contractor should be squelched. The president, will make a mistake if he fails to make these two points conspicuous in his rec- ommendations to congress. THE FINE SPIRIT ILLIAM M. JOHNSTON, new national ten- nis champion, upon being interviewed, says: to waste the work, to the “! found the weather to my liking and all condi- tions combined in my favor. This made it pos- sible for me to obtain the best form | have ever reached since | took up tennis. * * * Jn justice to Maurice McLoughlin, whom | defeated, I must say that he was slightly off his game.” This modest and magnanimous statement marks the new boy champion as good a sportsman as he is a tennis player. Keep it up thru life, son, and it will bring you more real satisfaction than all the victories you may win. And besides it's the spirit that helps win victories. WHEN A Chinese merchant goes out, he leaves his store open and customers help themselves, leaving the money. Such uncivilized people, the Chinese! REV. MR. HILLIS, New York pastor, denies the charge of his creditors that he's a plunger. 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