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“You tisandlae Fish,” "ll Say So,” WAR RATIONS! STAR—THURSDAY, AUG. 3, GLANDISON 'SLANG COSTLY FOR OUR USHERETTES and the Like Are Under Ban| Women Work Hard to Make|| / Wows W stow \ (TLL SAY Savings Pay Cost (e » WEEK, ANY AM So! 1 of War | __ G00 ot THEY PLAY BIG ROLE) By Mary Boyle O'Reilly (@\ NONE OF “THIS “TRICK HEAD UPHOLSTERING LONDON, Eng, Aug. 3.— England, bereft of two-thirds eater PRG > Its shipping, is consuming as f SLENCE € PEN a > i z | little as possible! 1 | \S RIGHT. FoR SMLLIN’ | AW cee! ae Sen ti- . , j The w h h of et LOOSE CHATTER 1 owe //. oom os od mace a MW’ House my weexs/ >VECT OM oat German war economics, but WA ’ KIO, wrTH A \ §,000,000 Engtishwomen ‘ NICE SEAT DOWN ) | existing on separation al- \ wimott!./ ito, * lowances bravely keep their | A TS emo own counsel. ~ - <a in — THINK Silence ie more heroic, be | | Owe NOsN gana m= \T- cause school systems long con- Cowon that) N THER ON > eo sidered unsurpassed consistent- GET Your | UKE GIvIN | W FEATHER ¢ ly ignored an all-important eub- ANIMAL ¢ ME tH’ ONCE Tt HEADEEAR |} / ject—ECONOMY! NEE A \ OVER! THAT BROS / Before the war the average Ger , ey . tas 116 KIND OF WARD FOR AN USHERETTE) , . WEAR IN 2 10 CENTS FINE EACH TIME man spent $115 Briton $200 Now Britain must come e frugal German scale if the Brit year, the average dow te ao FoR ene Pee Fish are to wear their enemies ont HASHING SHAKES sf PEARE s THE WAR HAS BRCOM _ —_ a _ OF ECONOMIC ENDURAN( j WAR OF NON-COMBATANTS | Dces American slang, like | “If she's nice looking we take her Twenty million people must 1O KEEP FROM TELLING Tne AW! CAN THAT STUFF! If she says, "Pipe the bird with the werk harder to support the ten | the World-cureed Jersey “skeet- |for trial, hoping to teach her mod ee I fine pee 3 a. million who are making armement,| ¢f" thrive better in summer /ulation of votes and purity of | oe eredite corps of girls in the {astruments of ceath. than in winter? speech. The valve of the soft an- Northwest Every penny ed “Vil say it does!” slanged ewer that sootnes the nerves is One bot day we bired a gir! jand; every penny wasted Joe Muller, manager of the impressed poo her from Denny way Sne only work lace Hip theatre. How? Easy! If a girl saysied one day At the end of the WHY HUNDREDS OF it out that kind of talk; the ‘G'wan, you big fish!’ to a flirta-|second performance she owed the OF E 7 girls might hear you!” co-slanged | tious patron she ix fined 10 cents. “houre 9 GATHER WE TO | Harold E. Bonrell, the theatre's LEARN HOW TO SAVE chaperos, who rmaidehydes the “We must pul! in!” declares [conversation of the 16 usherettes under his care. For be it known the pictur. que and expressive phrases, dear to the hearts of Amert- cans, are forbidden the girls who weher in theatres, accord: Ing to new theatre ru’ the woman economist—some. times a college professor, some- a level-headed duchess. ‘aste, always folly, is in war. treason! “Raw potato peelings thrown y cost 25 cents a week per fam-/ whose speech does on the nerves of theatre-goers. You may not know it, but some people are so sensitive | an afternoon's entertainment is spoiled for them by hearing a rt mutilate Engtien. N, Aug. 2—Both windy “This is especially true jn sam #24 French attacks on the westera| mer when everybody is hot and tr Yesterday failed, according tojritable About the time I get the self.” says the feminine econ- not grate sapell war office statement | winter usherettes properly trains Strong Engtich attacks on both / along comes summer with its call Stes of the Albert-Bapaume roat|te the beaches and resorts. The eam of Trones weod broke down,” | giris leave We advertise for f€ amertr’. “French advances|more. Along comes one with # Dear Barleaux and voice, asking Estrees were | high C | "How yu fixed for pilots? Mary blue, all wool, braided collars né@-embrotdered White regulation: blue f lare and cuffs: braided. an P bine flannel bite bleached @r Unbleached 4riil, plafn Fancy Middtes, with white coliare A White Navy y Each Midday red. black Duchess of Mariborough (The Duchess of Maribor ough, formerly Consuelo Van- derbiit, is one of England most active workers in behalf of women and children in war time. The following article on “Saving the Children” was ob ned for The Star by Mary Boyle O'Reilly —ED! TOR.) red. blue or green or 3 io $1.30 U.S ARMY BLANKETS Olive drab. pure all wool: weigh ing over 5 Ibe; large enough for an bed. unsurpassed for durab etime and prospecto best blanket + each, S600 ARMY BLANKET BARGAINS All Grades and Colors im Led Biankets — H. been thorough BY THE DUCHESS OF MARLBOROUGH LONDON, England, Aug —To save the children by saf guarding potential mothers is the paramount problem of the | present. in England, great | and grievous as have been the | war losses, they are practical- ly equaled by the yearty loss in infant Jife Out of potential births num bering 995,000, England wil! tose 320,000 before the fifth 3 For game or clothes or camp- | ore supplies $1.50 year. CHILD WASTAGE VENTABLE To prevent the chief cau of infant mortality, we must plan for the care of every po tential mother from girlhood, and her protection from igno- rance, disease and excessive fa- tigue The ideal state 1S PRE Our store ts headquarters for supplies for Outing. Fishing. Hunting, ALASKA ns. i) ourrT where no mother will be obliged to leave her chi dren during infancy and ear: childhood tn order to work, neces sita an entirely standard of wage for the breadwinner industrial employment of a highly controversial 1200 First Ave. Seattle, Week. Write for Catalogue E Mail Orders Filled new The mothers on e working woman the loss of paid work does not imply rest or ease, but rather a serious diminu- tion of the family ‘ome, with more scanty nourishment and re duced comfort A grant to the mother equal to her wage for the last two months before the birth of her child therefore appears desir * Mo early fore th be effected by mother and first weeks of The babies of the poor, who start life on a low owing to their mothers’ lack of nourishment read Two Days—Friday and Saturday FINAL CLEAN-UP SALE TURRELL’S BARGAIN BASEMENT is heaviest during the a there. greatest saving of life can concentrating on the the babe in the f months of a baby's Tennis Shoes for Boys and Girls... M Laird & Mar. ne HALF PRICE lines of dren's White Du nade by and Chi Shober It seems an anomaly for the Goodyear Ladies welt, gun children, Mary Jane Pumps; $3.00 | Shoes state ¢ schoo en $1 65 a tak while neglecting the welfare of infants ring the critical ® pa All sizes in wide ox monthe befor ir bi Sizes 8 Gunmetal and Pa sestensppicah ghd ale cghaed (oO © cote $1.45 | Pumve una Two-strap Women enn help Sage of #31 by s | with Cuban heel $1 ‘45 siicad >” Miheagie >in $1 35 | * child life, gnecund food “ia . | Ladies $4 Sport Oxfords, black milk, the need of frequent These Shoes will outwear | 2d tan, with $2 45 scavanging and street cleaning. two pairs of the ordinary kind. | Tubber soles ° L ‘ “ov | > ° i Hides, $8 White Duck Covered | Ladies’ #4 Tennis and G i sad Ol died daaienia bidet ten ow nasium Sanda der John C. Fremont in 1846 j argains. ( “eherega ~903 Pen Ave., 120 Marion St. The Home of Men’s Work Shoes me house in Bloomingt 0., wh ‘ent of schools in that city. | Abraham Lincoln was s sporintend- My—$130,000,000 a year for the na-| “Since theatre managersaeve a ° | ition '” decided girls are better qualified Duchess of Marlborough Says War mothers have learned «/than boys to care for women p 320,000 Will Die Before mny’s worth of oatmeal and milk|trona who faint when the villain They're Five worth four pence of bread and | says bloote’ to the heroine, ust ee erettes have been in demand,” said CAN PREVENT THIS “The war that teaches Eng- | Manager Muller land to save will pay for it. | But it’s hard to find girls jaaid would be t ENGLAND MUST POPE RENEWS — SAVE CHILDREN PEACE PRAYE BY JOHN H. HEARLEY United Pre | jetrike of the Big Four Brotherhoods [iitleal Staff Correspondent Mining towns, ROME, Aug. 3.—Pope Benedict's expression of hope that prayers of innocent child might bring ¢ vine Intercemion and stoppage of the war, as expressed in Cardinal Gastarris message last Saturday to the United Press, was substi tuted by the Vatican today for the! papal encyclical which {t had been! The message wi wed on this date | extensively re printed tn Italian and Frenc | ference committee of the PAGE 7 NATION FACES 1916, RR, PARALYSIS President Confers With Fed-. eral Mediator on Threatened Strike | 400,000 MEN AFFECTED BY ROBERT J. BENDER United Press Mtatt Correspondent WASHINGTON, Aug. 3.-—Preat dent Wilson today requested a con. ference with Commissioner Cham-| bers of the United States board of mediation and pre sumably to discuss the threaten conetilation, of Ratiway men, which will cause & nation-wide tleup of transporta tion. A problem, “tremendously dan gerous in both its econom! d po aspects,” faces President Wilson in the threatened strike of 400,000 railroad men, according to administration circle The matter ts now dir ly before the president in the form of a letter from Chairman Harry A. Wheeler committees of the Chamber Com The letter urges an “inquiry on behalf of the inistration” to in- vestigate the impending crisis. Scores of informal requests for action also have been recetved.| However, until the (fair strike vote is counted-—-expected Auguat the president probat will decide no course of actio From ameeonomle standpoint the strike, if called, would assume clyamic proportions. It would tie ruout the cou 2, food 5, to an ex npossible to up freight traffic th try, halting grain jand supplies of all k tent and with ree forecast The emailer towns would suffer, jmost, it ts believed, particularly |thoxe which are not self-supporting or within a territory supplying food where # few fo days are kept two or th 4 only would be in immediate dang { starvation or comr business co! lapse, as ita p ° t for othe points. Losses. according to gov ernment officials, would amount | hundreds of millions of dollars Friends of the president are hoping and praying that when th executive board of the “big four brotherhoods and the general con railroads neW*\ resume conferences in New York papers. Pope Benedict ts sald to) 4 at § they come to some be pleading with Germany not to|satisfactory « ment teeume an extensive submarine Administration officials, repre warfare sentatives of the reads and Jabor, Altho peace rumors continue|nowever, are pessimistic * over Roman political circles as-\ agreements England is reconciled to the ibility of ‘ onths more ¢ the war before a final allied vi tory (BURGLARS KILL MAN CHICAGO, Aus 2—Fri nk Ver-} bers, 65, was shot and k today by burglars, caught in the act’ of escaping from his home. Verbers wa when sleeping on the he heard « noise inside back porch He} jumped to bis feet and at the same | at As he tried to open the door the time the back door slammed robbers fired thru the panel The thieves escaped with $300 worth of | “The Suffragette and the Mere Man’ will make you roar The best act of its kind without any exception ever shown on any stage 300 pounds of mirth and the Breathing Need! THIS IS ONLY ONE OF THE ACTS that all Seattle should si of Ziegfeld’s “Follies” The greatest colored comedian on the stage with an all-black cast, “A Natural Born Gambler’ Screen Scream Blanche Sweet in “Women and Men” GRAND THEATRE Third Eugene No Advance and Cherry Mg Levy n Prices MARGIE GOES TO THE HOS PITAL AND MALCOLM STU- ART COMES HOME! (Clippings from the pages of Mar Waverly’s “Confessions of a Wite MRS. WAVERLY UNDER KNIFE Mrs. Margaret Waverly, author of Paula Newto running fr this mewspaper, went to Mercy hospital today for an operation by Dr. , famous Vienna spe cialist on diseases of the «pine. Mrs. Waverly has been confi to her bed for one year with spinal ating lished the regir fon's outeo Malcolm Stuart |Greets Friends Malcoln b for tw ears s been making c our about worl among the te to take the place of t t is finished F he will remain in the nited States Dr fan enna geon, here to oye ard Waverly friend of Mr take the do by f the of eocta Mr. St ring CALIFORNIAN WILL ASK RACING LAW wart San F Panama cana ctor te r aff: aart sta * Dr and ‘ their SAN FRANCISCO, Av next California legislatur asked to legalize horse rac’ iding for a racing commission conduct races under the Pari-M system of be £ ego, is expect ¢ 8 ack ff Ba wd t duce les there to to Tia Jtana, to conduct «a I-wint meeting, beginning in November. CAMP MEETING The a If you have a house to rent, a Star Want Ad will find you a tenant As small as your note book and tells the story better. CAMPAIGN IS ON FOR PYTHIAN PRIZE Vest Pocket utographic KODAK Here is a vest pocket camera that will really go in the vest pocket. and as simple to use. EASTMAN KODAK CO., ROCHESTER, N. Y. As accurate as a watch Price $6.00 Vest Pocket Autographic Kodak, Special—with Kodak Anastigmat Lens f7. 7.—$10.00. At your Dealers. KODAKS “fms Headquarters For onan Vacationists and Picnic Groups Archway Bookstore FRANK B. WILSON Corner Third and Pike PORTLAND, Mrs. Cal, is Aug. sidered the leading candidates. Lily Samuel of practically certain named chief of the Pythian Sisters today, replacing Mrs. Cora M. Da- vis, of Union, Ore. | SAVING SOULS ONLY Oakland, to be MINNEAPOLIS, Aug. 3.— 2 Cy . egy erie t zg tin When the time comgs for instal-| Seving vous © only O88 ae jing for he ice of © Grand jstion of new officer® John J. 3. things that Rev. R. A. Saunder- hancellor, K. of P., opened with @ Brown, Vandalia, IL, becomes su-| son, “constable-preacher,” of ang toda whe the Supreme preme chancellor. Richfield, does. Aside from his — a , t fee a ys re wages official duties in starting his 10 elect officers and choose the J. COLLVER of Cleveland is t convent it in Seattle for his 20th time, bring. bretioen, on the straight and Ladew of New York and ing with bim a party of Cleveland| ®&frow road, he is an all-around Davis of Denver are con- bankers and business men. | public servant ee Since the present e; thro pres able from sgho: 8 Protect the Children Against Infantile Paralysis t the coufitry well-meaning physicians. {emic of Infantile Paralysis much has been written and many suggestions have appeared in the public protection against this disease by reput- They have advocated keeping children in the house and away cir playmates or crowded places, keeping Use the powerful, safe and dependable Benetol which was originated by Prof. H. C. Carel while head of the department of medical chemistry and toxicology at the University of Minnesota, and tested out by the U. S Government and great numbers of other scientific men. This product cannot fall Protect the throat by gargling and the nose with a al douche as per the directions tn the the children's noses clean (especially babies), and hookiet which goes with every package. Keep children wash t faces and hands the feet germ free by the use of the Benetol foot bath and Benegtol Powder for the Skin. These “ dbliched as emanating pap productgAiIl Insure safety {f used according Medical Director Infant rigs 28 Infantile How to Combat Dread Disease SYMPTOMS. eapolis, Minn, Paralysis Symptoms Sore throat. Irritation of mouth and nostrils. ally sually hard to tell until paralysis actu- sets in. May affect any part of body. PREVENTATIVES. Antiseptic mouth wash before eating Antiseptic solution applied to footwear. Keep General exercise cannot be take: tain tell til f Dust. dust laid precautions regarding diet and with any ce: ty, as there is no definite way to actual symptoms of the dis it attacks. DANGERS. Footwear not fumigated. more ris The Benetol Company Minneapolis, Minn. Benetol Bldg., the boric acid eroxide Don't lean carbolic acid. These are dangerous— y than the disease Benetol products are sold by all druggists. If you experience any difficulty in procuring your Benetol wants, simply enclose the price and write direct to regarded HOW TO PREVENT YOUR CHILDREN CATCHING THE VIRULENT GERM DISEASE FROM COMPANIONS. Tf all parents would teach their children how to (ight off the attacks of deadly germs, it would Rot be necessary to restrict children from playing with their every-day companions. The mouth and throat are the breeding places of germs we catch in infectious diseases. If these germs are de etroyed before they form huge colonies we are ® om disease. The greatest danger of spread lies in @ fancied security given by peroxide and other useless gargies which only irritate the membrane, making the attack of the germ more certain and deadly Benetol used as a gargle is practically post- tive safety. Do not make a mistake in the choice of your germicides. This {s a vital matter. Ben- etol is a powerful and efficient germ destroyer and the only one of equal power that can be safely used as a throat gargle. BE SAFE. GAR- GLE WITH BENETOL, Fifteen to twenty drops of Benetol in a glass of hot water makes a most effective mouth wash and throat gargie. Two teaspoonfuls of Benetol to a quart of hot water makes an effective anti- FROM septic foot bath, and it is advisable to spon, », the entire body of the child with ths same solu- tion, The Benetol Powder for the Skin should be #ifted into the stockings and shoes. Beneto! Preparations Soid by Ali Druggists as Follows BENETOL l-ounce bottles in red cartons -ounce bottles in red carton $%-ounce bottles in red carton 16-ounce bottles tn red cartons Beneto! Olntment in red cartons See and SL0e Benetoi Tooth Cream in red cartons.... Benetol Catarrh Jelly in red cartons Benetol Powder, ¢ skin, tons Full fo in red car- Be THON PART OF HIS WORK