The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 1, 1917, Page 4

of the North \ t ffloe an wncond ne. 0; Ae pert oath Ratered at Beattie, Ww By mail, out of elty, = The Sword Is on Us! Even while some of our leading pacifists | Bernstorff’s parting assurances of friendship, he was trying to stick a knife into this coun- Let us fool ourselves no longer. Germany’s sword is pointed at us today _—not by mere chance as in the Lusitania ' case, not indirectly as in other instances, but deliberately, maliciously, intentionally. God knows this country does not want _ war, but nothing goes in Germany except the ' mailed fist. And the United States must be > om to crush it when it is raised to ike us. mgressmen who quibble today are playing intd the hands of aknownenemy. | Congressmen who are today seeking to, put the president “in a hole” by obstructive) tics are well nigh guilty of high treason. This, if at any time in the crisis between United States and Germany, is the time STAND BY THE PRESIDENT. EDITORIALS By Star Readers | Newspaper By NORMA WINCHELL (1232 Fourth Ave. N.) OW many people have ever really thought sertously of what the) daily newspaper means? Many “grab {t" and scurry thru it, and then exclaim with Sheridan (Richard Brinsley Sheridan, 1751-1816): Bewspapers! Sir, they are the most villainous, Heentious, abom infernal—not that a ever read them. No, I make ft a rule to look into a newspaper. | Go where you will, the world over, the thing most sought after! the daily newspaper. In cities, hamlets and mountain solitude, on and sea, almost the first question asked is for the dally news i] al Let anything of great importance happen, and watch the frenzied) for “Extra,” and no one knows better what the news means to public than the boys who call “Extra! Extra!” People who have nothing of newspaper business generally believe that {t's very for editors and reporters to get at the truth of every report. ‘There is not a reputable newspaper published but what strenuous are made to state correctly what {s published, but—{f one could know what comes to the ear of the editor, that is never told in they would be surprised at the truth which be suppresses. One time in a small town the editor of the little paper got merry isn't a dry town) and forgot to “show up.” The foreman and undertook to get out the paper. “Stuck” for news, the per (hoping the editor would show up next day) suggested @ following: | “We go to press today without any very sensational news: but there will be an article about one of our leading citizens Will startle the community.” He said, after the paper came out that night, that he didn't know; Httle town had so many “leading citizens” as “dropped in,” cas-| , to know if it meant HIM. | There are “leading citizens” all over the world, and tn these times the newspaper is no longer a luxury, It {s a neces The man now who will not subscribe for the paper because he mot read one,” and then borrows his neighbor's, is looked upon @ nuisance. By reading newspapers one is able to keep up with the proces-| = otherwise not. The “world do move” rapidly at this time, and/ fs new today, is old tomorrow. When W. M. Calhoun was a member of the real estate firm of Calhoun, Denny & Ewing, and sold the county that $113,000 “poor” farm, with all the high- d cows—not to mention some fancy bull—he didn’t much about “economy” to the taxpayers, did he? Must Go Thru By MABEL Y. LONG (3059 35th Ave. S. W.) The Seattle Star Jane matter MORE THAN 61,000 COPIES SOLD DAILY. month up to € moe Annnnnnnnnennnrnnnnnww> ' Editor’s Mail | Annan “were smacking their lips with Count Von) i) jis insiat that lotters * to the editor be writ or typewritten on one side of | the sheet only, And name and address must be given to the edi tho you may designate some other signature for publi- cation, Letters that are not more than 200 words long have the how of being pub lished. Editor e ——e SETTLERS THANKFUL FOR POINDEXTER BILL Editor The Star: After many years’ battle with the Northern Pa cific railway, Seattle and other Northwest homestead settlers on unsurveyed land within the ratlway grant have emerged victoriously in congress The bill introdaced by Senator Poindexter, granting the home steaders patents to thetr land has passed and fs to become a law with the signature of President Wilson. According to the unantmous sto ries of the hom ders, they were originally to locate on thetr being assured by land atte nd office officials by the general that If, on survey, the’ within the Rat! and cireulars ts \ land office. alms were found to grant of the Northern Pacific way company, they would secure their patents to thelr clate pro. vided they settled thereon in good faith, Mved on thetr claims and tm proved them according to the homestead laws of the United States, and the railway company land Thru the efforts of leu © compelled to accept therefor intiring and consistent Andrew Moeyerstuen and G. A. Sehulth president and secretary, respectively, of — the Homesteaders’ Association, these settlors have realized the reward their officers’ untiring efforts Senator Miles Poindexter cham ploned the cause of the homestead) ers tn the senate, while Represen tatives Albert Jobneon, Lin i Hadley, Wm. L. La Follette, C. C Dill, John FE. Raker and Scott Fer ris champtoned the homesteaders cause in the b e of representa tives. All these settlers have was at stake. They are all hard-working pioneers of the forest, who settled thereon {n good faith, Intending to make the claims their hom HARRY J. KUE Attorney for Homesteaders. MUNY MARKET WON'T AID Editor The Star: Having read several interviews and expressions of your readers, I believe that many quite understand local conditions. At present conditions are abnor mal, as indicated by the food prob lems of New York The high pric of all commodi ties are not local, but national perhaps international (ask Lan sing). cal retailer or wholesaler. Competition today is more stren nous among merchants, large or small (who supply foodstuffs), than ever bef In Seatt we have plenty of mar. ket space, but not enough goods to sell Another municipal market, such as proposed, will not cut down prices——but will increase taxes. And in the meantime, do not for get reciprocity Have you any dear ones employ ed by the good old firms, direct! indirectly, wholesale, retail and es tablished a long time?’ CARL SCHMITZ HE state bank guaranty law must go thru. Our family has two rea- sons why. Recently three local institutions closed their doors. : “Win” and “Son” were depositors in one of these, “Win” {s 8, and ean read some. " He saw the name of his bank among the three, and began | Make inquiries. “Son” and he became an © Of two. Auntic’s life is made wretched by their never-ending ) tons as to how and why banks should act up so /: “Can't we get in the back way?” “Ain't there a side door?” “Burely two little boys could get in soma way to get those “savings.” © They alone know how many “all-day suckers,” etc. have been ) been sacrificed that another penny might b added to their pile 4 Finally, Vell go and smash the wind “We'll get ‘em some “way.” Two peaceable bank-book carrying citizens in embryo are | transformed into miniature anarchists howling for their own “Son” is as strong for the return of his 28 cents as “Win"'is for dollar. Their awakening ideas of thrift have received a set-back. Their of a “nest egg” and future “interest” are shattered. Their faith Savings banks as a road to wealth has received a knockout blow, Auntie is at her wits’ end, and is fervently praying that “their” ‘bank will open its doors and pay “cent for cent.” We are all hoping for the passage of the state bank guaranty law. to ques Dale, Calhoun and Phelps say they stand together— put they're far apart. The only thing they seem to agree on is that they want councilmanic jobs. Hungry people can at least thank God for Lent. ‘Home Treatment for Coughs, * Deafness Catarrh ‘i Public Health day—Nation-Wide Crusade @ General directions for correcting these com ills. i mon Every citizen should aid in work g \s the truth in This work should be followed by nation-wide crusade for home treat ment, with authoritative inatruc tions for the correct! f common ills Ike colds, coughs, grip, catarrh lant head nolses an ry reader of this pa ia 7 Slowly but surely the ing itself upon de of political lare and piilant ficiencles and mweak sins and immmoraiitle ind are due in is deafness. of the physical in t movement 1 iy the world is a now and Knowledge that if app formation that foblem of improving the Ith and preventing dine: energy and tre to preparing legal rd ily relleyed by four nfule a day of & aim ple home-made syrup of hot water, one-quarter pint, four ounces sugar, added to one our sure no for and prone between na euting to ms, more ti ould eventually |ble strength), which may be ob 6 waved than have acrificed |tained from y druggist all the wars of stendom.|for about 75 cents, The absence of | dispatches eal that|a cough, clearing of ths nostrils and| tubes leading to the inner ear an well an relief fr of phlegm in the back tion on the plan to have of the throat, point to re » He ay on which the|moval of the cause; and ability t nation would give hear again a# well as ever shou S their families 2h-cent dinners from r It from following for a reason fentific menus in order to promote time these directions which ar designed to be for the constitutions udy of food values that will add the health lcorrection of the blood. the household: investigation committee | VETERAN PROTESTS Editor Star Will you kindly jallow me gpace in your valuable | paper to thank Councilman Erickson for his prompt and courageous stand against being to what looked to me like a v hour political stunt (“which is as old as the republic”) to gain votes of the unthinking voters’ I think {t was very manly for Mr. Erickson to not allow the flag for which I fought to be desecrated Mr. Editor, we are progressing as a nation, notwithstanding the apparent apathy on our part to flock to. armories every time a Jingo paper clamors for war and some multimiliionaires’ interests are jeopardized, We are a cool, calculating, thinking people. The full dinner pail and flag |stunts have been successful (from a politician's standpoint); work ed wonders In the past, but we, the | masses, have been fooled #0 often by those flag desecrators that the: have lost our votes, also our re spect How can we who love the fing propagate that idea to so-called } foreigners when we see the flag used as in industrial disputes at Lawrence, Bayonne, Ludlow, Mesebe Range, and our own Grays Harbor, where the troops would ot salute the Stars and Ssripes | because it was carried by the strik jers who were in revolt against tyr. protest from those peo- materially governed t in the flag? hear any ple who are by their Inte THOMAS P. GRAHAM, nish War Veteran, Foreign Service, 665 Weller St, | ? Tacoma | VOTING BY MAIL \@ Arrears Editor The Star: J see by the! A wedding ceremony | attached clipping +t Idaho is | One of Clara, ® accounts | | waking up and letting people vote in Clarance's wspaper of |by mail. I hope Washington will “ +o” ’, |; Clarance’s milftary speeches ] |follow suit. The roads were so bad Kondon’s” Helps to Clear Baby’s Head. pe a | that wife and I did not vote at the primaries, Two miles to walk over f Parmint (dou-|bad roads ts enough to drown any }one's patriotism LOUIS GILBERT, F. D. No. 1, Box 255, City, R | | By the time the war 1s over, say the delegates to the taflors’ nation 1 convention, we'll be wearing pur ple, lavender and blue dress sults febby. But more ‘pfobably we'll be wearing barrels, ney of Seattle's good housewives do not) It Certainly is no fault of our lo-| anny and poverty and we did not| PAGE 4 ©TAR—THURSDAY, MARCH 1, 1917. YOU DON'T NEED A BELT LINE FOLKS, WE'RE SATISFIED NOW Willing little workers in the vineyard of the railroads have a pet argument against the public belt line. It has been mouthed by Dale time and time again at the city hall. “The railroads,” they say, “will solve this problem! They'll regulate the) switching on the water front.” Only recently Dale and Thomson have roads a franchise to operate a belt line on “That district must have a railroad,” demand one.” | Of course, they do—that’s what the belt line people have been declaring | right along. But railroad promises are fragile things! Behold the situation when the franchise committee Friday pruned dow railroads to a definite answer. Judge Brown of the G. N. arose with a telegram in his hand from his Eastern | worked tooth and nail to hand the rail- East Marginal w: they shouted. “The industries there | n the| |bosses, who Aaid they were sorry but could not promise to build down there (meaning to the East Marginal way industrial area). ; Then F. M. Dudly, representing the Milwaukee, said his officials had sent) word that they wouldn’t promise to go thru with any belt line, either. The railroads don’t want to solve the port belt line problem. They make more money without one. The consumers pay. : False Beard Gets STAR BEAMS | Better Film Wag BY E. D. K. | Author of “If You Can't Smile, Giggle.” Black bandit whiskers are hot worth $5 a day aa scenery, ruled a Hollywood motion pie- ture director. The whiskers were grown by Horace O. Perline, a pieture actor, who thought natural whis- kers would lift him out of the $3 a day class actor, who glues on his whiskers at sunrise and takes them off at night. When Perline was turned down by the Hollywood director he struck. Since he carries his whiskers with him all the time and don't have to take time to make up > whether he ever gets there. Also, how will we ever find our barber shops, with the poles on the go all the time? . o— INVENTORS Inventors are men with some- thing to do and no way to do it who do it. We say inventors are men. They are men, You don't find any inventors among the lower animals. No, sir. You never heard of a lightning bug trying to put more candlepower fn his tail, did you? Or a hen trying to lay sidewalks instead WAYS TO LOSE YOUR MIND Get married to a poetess. cee WHAT HAS BECOME | | 1 | every morning like the rest of of exes? No, Nor a toad with os ‘em do, | think he ought ot a patent cure for warts, edther / AFFAIRE less than he did before,” said Inventors are not only men 1 a GRANDS the director, “Perline can lie but they are the type of men ) BON Fo! in, bed an hour later than the who prove absolutely that men / ’ sf rest of the company does, for it never were monkeys, or tad AY Sone takes that long to glue on the tuna fish or anything Precthge pind whiskers right.” but men | {coup DeTAT 5 ‘2.8 CANADA TO FOLLOW ESCALATORS | The escalator is a stairway that | LOCAL PORT SYSTEM <2 1p tme miaaic of its own | back and lets people ride on it | nos samp The last of its kind was at the Lieut. Col. William P, Anderson, | Redelsheimer store C. M. G., for 35 years chief en- You get on the bottom step and } gineer of the marine and fishery Jepartment of Canada, was frank ly surprised yesterday when he vis. atand there, letting your feet feel useless till you get to the top. Escalators probably are the first ited the port of Seattle terminals | « toward wandering sidewalks and learned that they were not al-| That's what we're afraid of, With ready connected by a belt line. them in operation, a man won't be Col. Anderson is in Seattle tohable to stand in front of his owr study Puget sound shipping no that house without traveling all over | THE MENU THAT was | his government can supply Van-|town, And when he starts home at [PRINTED in ENGLISH couver, B. C., wiht @ terminal and/night it will all depend on which belt line syatem. direction the sidewalk i¢ going Reflections of a Tired Reporter | Seeing a Vampire Vamp at | the Coliseum The gloom within her wicked eyes Has filled at least a score of! j hearses; |Her mildest moans, her softest sighs | Are horrid curses. Tho luckless males who cross her| path Soon or late are sure to perish Frightful is her awful wrath. So Theda-Barish, She pets her poodle for a spell When neither love nor crime excites her, Some day when he's not feeling well We hope he bites her, eee “Will you please advise me what » |I can do to overcome that tired jfeeling in the morning?” writes “Reply.” Simple—don't work so hard stop working altogether, ore or} e UNPLEASANT THINGS TO TO GET INTO | Modern mothers don’t let their children aniffie. They know that a tube of genuine Kondon's Catarrhal Jelly will make the child breathe more comfowibly. Since 1889, 20 million intell- igent American mothers have used Kondon's for cold -in- head | | | As a means of obtaining a seat on a crowded car these patriotic days, we suggest that you simply carry) ea Staerigs tae Meee tiees in enseceiaog ps menses ant py Toe Sin | that Ifthe fret tube does not do you a dollar's worth of [SOARES Sanne” She tee aulrenle | ro can get in quarter back from Kondon's Catarrhal Jelly, ae inneapolia, Minn. ANOTHER NUDE | The stork visited the home of} Mr, and Mrs. Nude Gilspie, on Jan uary 15 and brought them a fine boy.—-Stamford, Tex., Leader, RAE DAEHN TODD, TRUSTE (Continued From Our Last lesue) “Mother,” sald she, “why diddunt you wake me?" “Because you were ping #0 nicely, Pussy!” Julla Jaughed with both arms about the little figure Give me a thousand kisses and say ‘I love my mother “1 love my mother!” said Anna “Can 1 have breakfast with Re s, let her, Julla!’ Regina urged, “Come on, darling!” “This ie the way to enjoy break fast; not twenty feet from the stove!” Julia said, pouring the cream into her coffe Was Ger aldine stirring when you got up, Regina?” “Not a etir!” Regina sald. “She and Morgan were talking last night until two. What they have to talk about gets me!” “Oh, my dear, engaged people could talk forever,” Julia sald len- lently. “They were house hunting yesterday. There's always so much to talk about!” Anna had gone Regina was finishing when Chester came followed by the still sleepy yet shining-eyed Geraldine. Geraldine wan to be married in a few weeks | now, and had given up ber position in an o} to devote all her time to house-furnishing and sewing “I'm awfully sorry to be #0 late,” upstairs, and r breakfast downstairs, smiled Geraldine, “but we talked} nntil dcn't know when last/ night!” She poured herself a cup} of coffee; the meal went cheerfully on, Presently the bedroom door opened, and a stout, handsome, mid dleaged woman came into the kitehen Julia was used, by now, to the transformation that had come to house and garden, that had affected | every member of her mother’s fax fly in the past four y But to the change in her aunt Tor: | ney, she never became quite accus tomed, It had been slow in com-| ing; it had come all at once There had been weeks when Julia felt that nothing would ever silence the whining voice, or make useful the idle hands. And then suddenly, there was a new woman in the family in Aunt May's place. | Julia always dated the change from « certain Thanksgiving Day, when Mrs. Torney, who was an ex- ent cook, had prepared a really fine dinner. During the whole evening Mrs. Torney’s daughters Julia, Chester and Mrs. Page and and little old Mrs, Cox united to praise the dinner and the cook It was as if poor Aunt May tmd come into her own, had been giver at last the role to which she had always been suited. From that day bers the happy part of the bustling housewife. Mrs. Torney’s heavy tread on the kitchen floor was usually the first thing Julia hear€ in the morning, and late at night the infatuated housekeeper would slip out to the warm, fra- grant place for a last peep at ris- ing dough or simmering soup. Regina and Chester presently went off to their work, Mrs. Torney and Geraldine fell upon the break- fast dishes, and Julia went up-| irs. She found the little Anna} dreaming by a sunny window, one stocking on, one leg still bare, and) ber little petticoat hanging unbut- toned. . “Come, Infant, this won't do!”| Juli practiced hands made quick | work of the small girl's dressing. | By Kathleen Norris (Copyright, 1915, by Kathleen Norris) The etman rong “A letter for” you, J ald Geraldine It's from Dr, Toland,” Julia am nounced a moment later. “He sayg Sausalito in too beautiful for wordg just now, How'd you like to go over and see grandfather tomorrow, @ Anna? “I'd love it,” said Anna, unhest tating! A few weeks later Parbara came home from England for a vinit, ringing two splendid little boys, with whom Anna fell instantly im love, and a tiny baby in the care ™ of a nurs Julia spent a good le of her time in Sausalito during the visit ive years of marriage had some what changed Barbara; she wag thinner, and freckled rather than rosy. But she was a most devoted | wife, calmly assuming that the bronzed and silent “Francis” could do no wrong had and Julia thought she er seen a more charming mother, left even the cap asping. Barbara was ery Claim husband, chil- and conecient Her efficier able eq dren, farm and friends coul, make "You're so busy—and necessary and unselfconsciou#, Barbara,” Julia said, “you make other women seem euch fools! “Not necessarily,” sald Barbara, smiling. “But, Julie, I want to talk to you. Julie, don't be angry—it's about Jim Julia's eyes immediately widened, she grew a little pale. read,” she said steadily. ow, dearest girl,” Barbare pleade “please don't get excited, |Jim'’s been in London nearly « He's in fact, settled there. lated with one of the bi iting surgeons we h. Sir Peverill McCann. They met in Berlin. I didn’t know it until this spring. Somebody spoke of this Doctor Studdiford, and I said at once that it must be my foster brother 1 explained that since Francis and I had been traveling so much, Jim and I had fallen out of touch, and so on.” “Who told you about him?” Julta asked. “A Mrs. Chancellor. She's quite a character,” Barbara said. “Some people like her; some don't. I don’t—much. She's rich, and a@ widow; she studies art, and she loves to get hold of interesting people.” Julia winced at the vision p, forty-yearold siren sending ettish side glances at an a g Jim “Pretty? “Tuy really she asked. Chancellor? No — she's plain,” Barbara said, ble little chatterbox, she is! She's Lady what Violet Dray’s daughter; Lady Viow let's quite lovely, How much Jim admires Ivy I can't say; she took him about with her everywhere; he was always at the house.” This was too much. A very hur- ricane of resentment shook Julia's heart. “Oh, Barbara, do you see how he can?” she asked, », 1 don’t!” Barbara answered. Well as I know him, I can't be- lieve it's the same Jim!” “I wish you had seen him,” Julia said after an interval of thought. “I did see him, Julie.” “You did? Oh, Bab, and you never told me all this time!” “I wish I hed never mentioned Yo u When it was left to Anna merely to/ Jim,” Barbara said heartily. “It's lace her shoes, Julia began to go|none of my business a yway, only ybout the room, humming as she /-—only—it makes me so unhappy I vosied herself with bureau and bed. | just can't bear it! I love Jim. And She presently paused at the mir- | you're just as dear to me. And I ror to pin on a wide hat, and her/can't bear to have you and that eye fell upon the oval-framed pic-|darling baby here alone, and Jim ture of Jim that she had carried | off in England trailing around after pete d Sire: her from the Pacific) a little fool like Ivy Chancello: venue house. | You're—you're wonderful, of cow e Jim had been taken in tennis! Julie, but you can't make me thisilt clothes; his racket was still in his| you're happy! And Jim is wretched: hand, bis thin shirt opened to|He can bluff about his work as show the splendid line of throat/jong as he pleases! But he can't and chin His thick bair was! fool me; I know he's utterly miser | rumpled, the sunlight struck across | able.” his smiling face. “Tell me about it.” “Come, Mouse!” Julia sald, rous-| “Francis would strangle me,” ing herself from a reverie & mo-| Barbara murmured. “And the! ment later. “Get on your hat! |isn't very much to it, anyway. T and I have to go to market!” “cam wrote Jim'a line, and he came to” our house, and we had a little tall. | He's fatter Julie’s mother was tn the kitchen when she and Anna got home, her dark hair still damp from brushing, her thin wrists no whiter than her Poe: re ee ee snowy ruffles. Presently they all) M Julia asked flatly. moved into the dining room, where| (Continued in Our Next Issue) Geraldine’s sewing machine was| — —_—_—_—_ 4 temporarily established. The in-| They seem to be short of coal, valid, between intervals of knitting,|/and flour, and meat and many watched them all with sympathetic | other thin but not of explana. smile. 34 tions, back East SAFEGUARD YOUR HEALTH TAKE NO CHANCES—BE SURE Sickness soon overtakes those who have become indifferent to © the condition of the stomach, liver and bowels and have al- lowed Indigestion, Constipation, Biliousness and Malaria to de- velop. NO WONDER YOU FEEL SO POORLY - Waken up—give yourself a fair chance—try and improve your general health, with the as- sistance of » HOSTETTER’S Stomach Bitters