The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 26, 1917, Page 10

THE SEATTLE STAR GUARD SUPPORT [AQUATIC MEET BON MARCHE BABY SHOP ECONOMIES A special or two from the Baby Shop, just to show place it is for Baby things Infants’ Shirts a“ " At 19c Wool Shirts, enough cotton or prevent shrinking down the front. Rubberized Pants 12'/2c Baby's Rubberized or Waterproof Pants or Dia- | vg " te 18 | Rrade, In red, gray, pers; the three-button styles; worth regularly 1c; | FP" s° on Tuesday spectal at 12sec. | : Nurse Hubbard of Chicago Leg Infants’ and Children Is here, Vanta | with and without feet tonless baby in small sizes THE BON MARCHE mixed with silk to button in Infants demonstrating clothes. pintess and but SECOND FLOOR New Sport Suits at $19.50 New Street Suits at $19.50 In spite of soaring prices, in spite of higher costs of every- thing, we have been able to secure excellent values at this popu- lar price. The new Sport Suits are smart, modish possess the correct silhouette and embody the true sj the coats are cut in various lengths; one attractive Norfolk pleated coat The Street Suits est suitings and in the newest shades bright embroidered designs New Sateen Petticoats $1.25 IN PLAIN AND FLOWERED PATTERNS Sateen Petticoats are so very practical, and the new line just arrived shows many pleasing styles; many with prettily trimmed flounces; also neat tailored effects; with clastic fitted waist bands; all sizes. New Gingham Dresses at $1.95 THE POPULAR BILLIE BURKE STYLI Quite the neatest looking Gingham House Dresses, pleated both front and back; the large sailor collars and stitch down cuffs are of contrasting material; gingham and in checks, stripes and a few plain shades Women’s Spring Top Coats at $16.50 The day of Separate Coats is here, and ai can get splendid looking ones for 16.50. Street, Sport and Motor styles, of | plain coatings and mixtures, in high and Staple colors. that idea; styles, models style has a are clever and attractive, made of the new- belted effects; many with made that chambray Billie Burke, style Dresses Spring ter plaits; the m« with be some SECOND FLOOR Ginghams 7 1- 2c Yard | | Dress Gingham, 27 inches wide; plaid and stripe patterns yards —Lower Main Floor. neat check, 15 Good quality mill soft finish Cambric lengths to mothers Block pink inches, with 35c¢ Knit Hoods at 25c Wool Knit Caps and Hoods navy and a few white ings at 45c Pair white, sixes to 8 years, x, knife, with mings and various style collars and cuffs. THE BON MARCHE White Cambric 10c White © suitable for 10¢ a yard —Lower Main Floor, what a satisfactory Blankets at A5c Each Blankets 30x40 pairs, pattern and blue, or white, in borders regular 25¢ spectal Legging Drawers red and black, » Knit gray ME Newest Style Fine Serge Dresses $16.50 Betty Dorothy dels for clus trim Wales and st popular me inverted embroidered ambric, 36 inches wide; underwear Women’s Kid or Patent Leather Shoes $2 65 | At the Factory Sale of Shoes in the “Self-Service on the Lower Main Floor Women’s Vici Kid and Patent cloth tops; lace or button styles; and we've all Satin Slippers at 95c Pair Women's Satin Slippers in assorted evening shades: these are soiled, but are easily cleaned good line of sizes. Children’s Shoes at $1.10 Pair Children’s Vici Kid Button Shoes with heavy extension soles and spring heels; comfortable shapes; sizes 6 to &. Little Gents’ Shoes at $1.35 Pair Easy fitting and good wearing Shoes, made of tan or black leather with elk soles; sizes 9 to 13%. sizes to show Women's Kid Shoes lasts. Boys boys’ sizes. metal calf with low, of sizes. * Shoe Shop, Leather Shoes with light or heavy soles; you wide toe shapes with heavy kid or pair. at $2.65 a Women’s Shoes at $1.95 Pair with warm fleece lining turned soles; all wide Boys’ Calf Shoes at $1.95 Pair heavy School Shoes. leather with durable soles made of good solid ; lace and button styles; Women’s Shoes at $2.65 Pair Women's English Walking Shoes, made of gun comfortable heels; good line 1 Pound Linen Paper and 2 Packages Envelopes 25c_ Amsterdam Linen of it 1 2 packages for 25c on Tuesday to “catch up” on y ence Box Stationery; paper Marchion good Initial Lingerie Blouses Sheer and Fine—$1.59 Prettily Designed and Daintily Trimmed Just what one would expect to find in the nicest sort of $1.59 Waists—-Lingerie, Voile and Organdy —some of them finding a touch of embroidery add | to their attractiveness; others choose lace, tucked or ruffied fronts for trimming and, of course, they have large collars. SECOND FLOOR—THE BON MARCHE quality p Dennison ad Mleur de Lis some, a hit ft will make, 7 Pounds Pure Cane Sugar For Bargain Tuesday in the Grocery Section Glad to deliver it if you purchase other gro New italian Prunes; bag for 63¢. Seeded Raisins; Sun-Maid brand; ages; each 11¢, Bon Special Coffee; equal to most 40¢ grades of coffee; special, 1% pounds 5O¢. White Tuna Fish; Armour's Veribest brand; No. 1 cans, each 25¢, California Ripe Olives; Del Monte brand; cans, dozen 9O¢; a can S¢, California Lima Beans; latest beans; a pound 12'2¢, large size fruit; 5-pound | Canned Tomato large size pack- | Macaronl; a package 7¢, a can 10¢, Yellow Corn Meal; 10 sacks, each 38¢, 5-07. ages; each Fe, De! Monte Apricots; each 20¢. THE BON MARCHE DELICATESSEN SPECIALS IN LENTEN F Provided Kippered Saimon, received pip. Ing hot every morning; Ib. f4¢, crop, re-cleaned FOURTH FLOOR you carry your parcel home Boneless Codfish Middies; one. | pound packages, each 22'2¢,| lal | quality and 24 envelope Stationery; blue and gold initials; 10¢ Tablets in letter, note and packet sizes per; special Sets, for making Paper special, UPPER MAIN FLOOR HE new Candy Kitchen on the Fourth Floor, where delicious “Sweets” plain sight—they couldn't be other than whole. Take a pound home with you and see what standard quality; (not over 12 cans to each); special, each 41¢ Columbus brand; guaranteed fresh crop: Baking Soda; Arm & Hammer brand regular 25¢ Washington Cream Chee Paper; a whole pound envelopes to match, Surely a good time our back correspond- Paper; 24 sheets 8: special for 9¢, | die stamped in a box for 19¢, good each B lowers, re. BON MARCHE Roses a set THE are made, right in for 55c erie No. $16 eane Washington made; Canned Tomato Soup; Snider's high grade Soup; No, ; large pack cans, special, | “OODS spe a pound 25¢, —Fourth Fi OLYMPIA, Feb, 26.—The Joint appropriation committee has “passed the buck” in the National Guard maintenance matter, Whether or not the state troops will receive funds to car ry out Gen, Thompson's pro- gram for new armories and in- creased units will be threshed out on the floors of the house and sena' The appropriations eur-by | near-by committed | has stricken tteme for military pur |poxes from the budget, and left it up to the legislature to carry the |fight for military funds on | The adjutant general hax asked that a law be passed increasing the maximum military tax levy from. the! floors. | 20-100 of a mill to 80-100 of a mill | which would net $915,773.64 for Na |tional Guard maintenance and ex pansion during the ing the military levy until the mat |ter of universal training has been ldefinitely settled. He favors keep ing the maximum level for military purposes at 20-100 of a mill. His program would ma’ Jable for National Guard purpe even, which interfere j with their objects } “That policy was into practice. It has active | weeks. | American Ships Timid | “Its practical results are not yet ot ix suffering perhape very than it already suff fore the Ist of February, when the new policy ¢ the imperial government was linto operatic We hay listed the co tion of other neutrals to prevent | these depredations, but #o far nc jof them has thought it wise to join us in any common course of action. | “Our own commerce has suffered |i« suffering, rather in apprehension | than fact; rather because so many | of our #hips are timidly keeping to] thelr he ports than because | American ships have t sunk Ac of Ruthiessness Two jean voxsela hav been sunk Housatonic and the Lyman M. Law cane of the He nic, which was foodstuffs consig firm, wan essential of the Prye, In which called, the German government ad {x mitted its lability for damages, jand the lives of the crew as in the | case of the Frye, were safeguarded | with reasonable care “The case of the Lay, which was carrying lemon box staves to Pa Hermo, disclosed a ruthlessness of method which deserves grave con demnat but was accompanied by no circumstances which might not have been expected at any time In connection with the use of the submarine against merchant t as the German government bas used it Commerce Is Congested “In sum, therefore, the situation we find ourselves in with regard to the actual conduct of the Ger-| man submarine warfare against commerce and its effects upon our own ships and people is substan-| tially the same that it was when I addressed you on the third of Feb ruary, except for the tying up of/ our shipping in our own porta be cause of the unwillingness of our ship owners to risk their vessels at sea without insurance ar adequate protection and the very serious pation of our commerce which has resulted, a congestion which is |growing rapidly more and more | serious every day. Thin in itself accomplish, in effect, rman submarine orders | sant to accomplish, so far concerned. We can only re, that the overt act, I have ventured to hope the} commant din occurred imprudent | ppily, is true,| it must be admitted there are cer tain indications of expressions of| purpose on the part of the German| press and the German authorities! }which have increased, rather than lessened, the {tmpression that, if| our ships and our people are spar-| ed, it was beeause of fortunate! circumstances or because the com manders of the submarines which |they may happen to encounter may exercise an unexpected discretion and restraint, rather than because | of the instructions under which those commanders are acting. It would be foolish to deny that jthe situation ts fraught with the | gravest possibilities and dangers. 'No thoughtful man can fall to see |that the necessity for definite ac- tion may come at any time, if we} lare, in fact, and not in word, mere lly to defend our elementary rights as a neutral nation. It would be |most imprudent to be unprepared | Was Special Power | “TS eannot, in such circumstances, be unmindful of the fact that the expiration of the term of the pres ent congress is immediately at hand by constitutional limitation and that it would in all likelihood require an unusual length of time| to assemble and organize the con- gress which is to succeed it “L feel that I ought, in view of that fact, to obtain from you full land Immediate assurance of the au |thority which I may need at any moment to exercise. No doubt I already possess that authority {without special warrant of law by the plain impMication of my consti tutional duties and powers, but 1} prefer in the present cireum stances not to act upon general im plications Wants United Backing “I wish to feel that the authority and the jhind me in whatever it may hecome| necessary for me to do, We are| jointly the servants of the people and must act together and in their spirit, so far as we can divine and might forthwith put now b in other ne | severe! much mor pera like it will be re presently | what the might But while AAAS LAT AN at next two years. | Lister is opposed to increas: | $494,000 avall-| execution for nearly es wan | againat put] b jt recourse junderstand and not mist | straint, power of congress are be-| g UP T0 SOLONS STARTS JULY 5 NH. Latimer, chairman of the water carnival committee, has an nounced the firet plans for the #e ries of entertainments planned for the coming summer in connection | with the big Alaskan cruise ‘The program, which will start on July G, calls for yacht races, short crulses about the Sound, hydro veroplane races, submarine mane vers, aquatic sports, clambakes on beaches, launching of two vensels in harvor, and a series of! dances | The immense water program ts planned to celebrate the opening of the Lake Washington canal 60th anniversary of the pureha Alaska, and to complete a plan started some time back by the Be attle Yacht club to hold a cruise to; Alaska It ts will take estimated 25,000 visitors part in the festivities. Released Again! Feb. vs Am Willard at Madrid today department that | WASHINGTON, baseador cabled the state the foreign office has notified him 72 American Yarrowdale pris: | were released F interpret it No one doubts w it ix our duty to do. We must defend onr commerce and the lives of our peo ple in the midst of the present try ng circumstances’ with df{seretion, but with clear and steadfast pur pore, Only the method and the ox tent remain to be chosen, upon the occasion f occasion should, in deed, arive. Since it has unhappily proved impossible to safeguard our neutral rights by diplomatic means the unwarranted infringe they are suffering at the ndw of Germany, there may be no but to armed neutrality, ch we shall know how to main tain, and for which there is abun dant American precedent Hopes Hostilities Unnecessary It in devoutly to t ped that it will not be w to put armed forces {nto ac tion, The American ple do not desire it, and our desire is not dif. rent from theirs. | am sure that will retand the spirit in which I am now acting, the purpose hold nearest my heart and would wish to exh in everything 1 do. ments wh nations at war also should satus, I need give no further surances than | have ady given thruout nearly thre ars of anxious patie am the friend of peace to preserve it for America a as | am able. Doesn't Seek War “Tl am not now proposing or con templating war or any steps that lead to it. 1 merely request that / ‘ou will accord me, by your own vote and definite bestowal, the Means and the authority to safe guard in practice the right of a great le who are at peace and who are desirous of exercising none but the rights of peace to fol low the pursuits of peace in quiet ness and good will—rights recog nized time out of mind by all the! civilized nations of the world. No course of my choosing or of theirs will lead to war War can come jonly by the wilful acts and aggres | ston of others You will understa make no definite pr casts of action now and for your supporting a the most general terme in which action may become neces- sary cannot ® foreseen. eve People Trust Him I believe that the people will be willing to trust me to act with re with prudence and in the true spirit of amity and good faith that they have themselves dis played thruout these trying months, and it is in that belief that I re. quest that you will authorize me to upply our merchant ships with de fensive arms, if that becomes neces sary, and with the means of them, and to employ strumentalities or [hope that 1 proofs and and why I can ls or fore must ask jority in The form using all other in methods that may be necessary and adequate to protect our ships and our people in their legitimate and peaceful pur suits on the high seas, | “TL request also that you will grant me, at the same time, along with the powers I ask, a sufficient credit to enable me to provide ade quate means of protection where they a king, including ade. quate insurance against the pres ent war risks Thinks of Fundamental Rights I have spoken of ou and commerce of the legitimate errands of our people on the seas, but you will not be misled as to my main thought, the thought that lies be | neath these phrases and gives them | dignity and weight. It is not of| material interests merely that we} are thinking. It is rather of funda- | mental human rights, chief of | which is the right of life itself, 1 am thinking not only of the rights of Americans to go and come about their proper business by way of the sea, but also of something much deeper, much more fundamental than that, [am thinking of those rights of humanity without which there is no civilization. Things All Americans Defend “My theme is of the great princi ples of compassion and protection, | which mankind has sought to throw about human lives, the lives of non- | combatants, the lives of men who | are peacefully at work keeping the | industrial processes of the world quick and vital; the lives of women and children and of those who sup: ply the labor which ministers. to their sustenance. “We are speaking of no selfish rights, but rights which our hearts support and whose foundation is that righteous passion for justice upon which all law, all structures like of family, of mankind, must t asx upon the ultimate base of our existence and our liberty, 1 cannot imagine any man with Amer. | can principles at his heart h tating to defend these things.” Heralding a Season of Unusual Brilliancy for Fashion’s Devotees Ofe Mew FABRICS are introduced this week in window exhibits which open up special A Delightful Vista of Fowibi lities for “Achieving Individuality and Charm in arel Fashions for Iown and Country sire. A few of these possibilities esp from the new materials shown, model garments, are exampled i designed and made which form an ecially interesting feature of these displays Leather-Seat Fumed Oak Rocker | $11.00 ROCKER of comfortable design, as pictured, in fumed oak, with deep spring seat cov- ered in brown leather. Attractive value at $11.00. Mail P pes. Shopping Service t come to ington, Alaska, Oregon, a especially equipped department serves efficiently those who the store in person to make their selections. Orders receive the individual attention of an expert shopper. We pay the postage on dry goods to points in Wash- \ Idaho and Montana. Basement Salesroom Single Lace Curtains 29c Each HESE are a mill’s samples, comprising Cable Net, Filet and Nottingham weaves as well as the finer nets in madras effect. The Curtains are in white, ivory and beige, 2 and 3 yards k 30 to 50 inches wide With th ndow ng, Curtains it is possible to at curtain the 29¢ ese gle v very effectively little cost Bordered Scrims Special 9c Yard of cream-color, interesting offering serviceable An Curtain floral border in shades of blue, rose, tan and yellow. special O@ yard Basement Salesroom P. N. Lace-Front Corset $1.00 to unusually Scrims, in white and with Thirty-six inches wide the which so unusual find 1’ is front lacing, many women favor, in such a moderately-priced Corset. It is of firm quality coutil (pink bust fitted with medium skirt, or white) and long and is with two sets of hose support- Price $1.00. —Basement Salesroom, ers. Union Suits 35c with Vy OMEN 8 Fine-ribbed Cot match, in $ 1 ton Union Suits in knee length less, New Laces 5c Yd. EW Wash Insertions to and two-thread round Filet widths up to 1% Inches one styles, low-neck with and sleeve and mesh and ae tight or lace-trim. med Bde; knee, sizes 36° and % for $1.00, Basement Salesroom. Women’s | Walking Boots $4.00 CORRECT last and heel for walking are incor- porated in the Boot pictured. It is of black calf, with light-weight and may also had black glazed kid, with plain toe. Sizes 2!4 to 7. Price $4.00 pair. velour sole, be in —Basement Salesroom. Fiber-Plated Stockings, 25c N these Stockings, ot which have a fiber silk, Sky-blue, Champagne, blue, Gold, and White, sizes 814 the pair, 25¢. § —Basement Salesroom, Rubber Gloves 39c Pair H OUSEHOLD 9 plating there is choice of Pink, Cadet- Navy, Tan to 10, Gray, GLOVES of red rubber sizes 7 to values at 39¢ Basement Salesroom. unusual | pair.