The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 30, 1917, Page 4

ae ee STAR—FRIDAY, MARCH 30, 1917, PAGE 4 An American Army Under the American Flag on the Western Front \ A reader of this new: spaper writes to us as follows: “You say in a recent editorial that when the United States goes to war with Germany common cause with the entente allies and hook. Am I to understand by this that it is your idea that the United States should send an army to France?” We are very glad indeed that this question has been asked, and in answering it we hope to make | our Position pertectly clear. It not only is our idea that an American army should be sent to France, | but it also is our conviction that failure to do this at the earliest possible date will evidence a weakness On the part of the United States which, if it continues, will lead inevitably to disaster, The United States has kept out of the world war for nearly three years because peace js the > American ideal and also because our president is a man of extraordinary patience and forbearance. | Not only do we not criticize the president for these qualities, but we are proud to salute him for his great peace efforts. a But now that war has come, despite everything that could be done to avoid it, patience, ance, hesitation, and most of all, vacillation, cease to be virtues. Indeed they become vices, are bound to result disastrously to the nation. There can be but one national purpose in the war with Germany—to defeat Germany by bringing to bear against her, at the earliest possible time and in the most effective way, the full strength of our “military, economic and financial power. This does not mean ruthlessness, or frightfulness, or the rape of women, or cruelty to children, ‘or the shooting of old men, or the wanton destruction of property without a military purpose. But it certainly does mean that we should and must make common cause with the nations which for a three years have been learning by experience how best to fight the Germans. is piffle to talk about fighting a defensive war. What would be the condition of the world today if Great Britain had decided upon a defensive war? Our situation as we enter the world war is precisely the same s Great Britain’s whep she was forced into the war against Germany. If Great Britain had limited her efforts to protecting her commerce on the seas and defending her own territory, Germany would have devastated and defeated France just as she did Belgium; would have forced a peace with Russia and then GREAT BRITAIN WOULD HAVE HAD TO MEET THE MILITARY MACHINE ALONE, As we write, a dispatch is coming over the wires to the effect that Germany considers the United States and China in the — class from the standpoint of their military effectiveness against her. This is predicated upon the Germany theory that the United States will fight a defensive war Our answer to Germany must be an American army on the western front, fighting alongside of the French armies under the French commander-in-chief. The United States regular army under Gen. Pershing, now on the Mexican border, is second to no army in the world, size considered, according to the testimony of the foreign military observers who have inspected it. As much of this army as can be spared should be sent to France as soon as it can be transported, and immediately we should begin to train large bodies of additional troops to be sent to France as soon as they are fit. Even if the American troops did not fire a shot nor engage in any action, the mere sight of the American flag and the fact that the soldiers of the great sister republic were on the line would so fill the French army with enthusiasm that nothing could stop them. As to its effect on the morale of the French people, can we doubt their feelings when they realize that the United States, after 138 years, is returning the visit of Lafayette and Rochambeau? it should make itself ridiculous by trying to conduct the war on its own not make Wa forbear- for they HE SEATTLE STAR) 1207 Seventh Ave. Near Unios = se OF SCHIFPS NORTHWEST LEAGUR or NEWsrarens Telegraph News Service of the United Preee A ° gst ae 2 at Seattle, Wash. Tabloid ilistory of Russia ies Take On National Unity Under Ivan, Who Expels the Mongolian Overlords! Music Mountain | Postott! ——_— Chapter of The Star's Tab-) FPeodorovitch czar of the Out of city, BSc per month up to € mon, ¢ mow $1.00; year One| Bh) By Frank H. Spearman. Fy of Huns! house of ito! , By carrier, city fc a month. Copyright, 1916, by Chas. Scribner's Sons | Russia, under the Mongol yoke.| The Ror expalie Hahing Co. Phone Mata 98, Priv; Riemer fidataininentnend terrier |was gradually united into the] will be told in the arta 1¢ commerting al! departments, |srand principality of nS ———eneenaiiieil - — (Continued From Our Last tesve)| pine.” he whiepered. “I'll try it |with Moscow as a capital | t, anyway, before I take At the same time Lithuania be- Cannot Be Mediated With a common roar the Morgans | sanog cme powerful in Western Russia, - ni ‘ : } ‘ bounded to their feet. De Spain| ""ity threw his rifle to hia shoul | Novgorod remained an independent PECORDING to news dispatches, Germany is putting out! faced the three in an attitude of/ 4.0” Joa tired toward the pine and Sweden and the * readiness. He had reckoned on the | wing, * . Livonian knight revented Mus- Ithor instant b itatio a pights 1 mted feelers thru certain neutral nations in an attempt to bring instant of indecision which at| Witt at oa tastant’s Pa og [olte tpl cod go Mlggene E mediation of the differences between Germany and tHe | times, when coupled with appreben:| ction in which he had fired, and |land to the west, Turkey to. the ed States. Wing already murdered upward of 200 Americans— en and children—and threatened to murder as many iS she can get her hands on, it is quite “Germanesque” that the issue be mediated. [IN HEAVEN’S NAME, HOW CAN THERE BE ME- TIO BETWEEN TIONS, ONE OF WHICH iS THE RIGHT TO MURDER THE CITIZE OTHER? ‘And right after the graft trial here, Bremerton's of- ‘will demand booze-graft spotlight. It’s a great world! Shock Even Barbarians SRVE some new features of modern cultured je. The captured orders to the German rear guard destruction of all fruit trees and farm implements illing of water sources with filth, besides demolition of the poor. fare that requires starvation after peace m is something beyond the conception of ¢ barbaria and be at- ns. it the fly. Without warning. ‘Letters to the Editor ——@, and violated. to the editor, intended The judge extended no sympathy must bear the || to those of the depositors who lost ye and address of the writer. | | their money—NO. will be published || You are right . Letters should not | |“Great God!” than 200 words long. | BE. T. CULBERTSON. M. J. B, AGAIN ON GRILL Editor Star Replying to that in- sulting letter signed “M. J. 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With the agility of a cat, she Duke pointed to the hall door.| pained + sping roof, and “You hear that! Get out of MY/ scrambled to the window of her house!” ho cried. room. With scarcely any delay, “Thin isn’t your house,” retorted|/ Nan, rifle in hand, slid safely de Spain angrily. “This hone is\down to the end of the lean-to, Nan’s, not yours. When she order: me out I'l! go. Bring her down, he thundered. “We'll see whether she wants to get married. If she |doesn’t, and you've been putting this up to force her tnto marrying | youTl be carried out of this room tonight, or I will. I've fought you} both fair, too fair. Now—before I} eave—it’s my girl or both of you.” He was standing near ruel. j Without taking his eyes off the other men, he canght Druel with his left hend by the coat co’lar jand threw him half-way across the | |room, “Get upstairs, you old car-| rion, and tell Nan Morgan, Henry de Spain ta here to talk to her.” “It isn't necessary,” said « low jvoice in the hall, and with the] words Nan appeared in the door |way. Her face wan white, but there was no sign of haste or panic n it De Spain addressed her, holding his left hand out with his plea. Nan,” he said, “these men were getting ready to marry you to Gole Morgan. Was this with your con sent?” She stepped into the line of fire jhetween her cousin and de Spain| as she answered. “No. You know I shall never marry any man but | where de Spain helped her to the ground. Surprisingly little effort seemed Necessary to drive off whoever! beld the pine-tree, De Spain made | his way slowly but fely to tho! disputed point and then understood | ~the horses were gone. He had hardly rejoined Nan, aaa told her the bad news, when fresh shots came from two directions seemingly from the house and the jstable. A moment later they heard ifiring down the Gap, ‘This was their sole avenue of escape The rain now ceased, but from every fissure in the mountains came the rowr of rushing “Yet,” said do Spain finally before morning we must be a long | way from this partic spot, Nan. | Lefever is down there “It would be insane for u to get over the trail with s00n {holding tt against Lefever—we | might easily be hit by our friends | {natead of our enemies. Retreat tn the thing for us, Nan, Let's make for Music Mountain and crawl into our cave before morning. Lefeve will get In here some time tomor. row. Then we can cor with him.” They discussed the move a little They never could have drag-| further, but there seemed no es |ged me to ft alive. And they've!cape from the necensity of it, de kept me locked for three days in/epite the hardship involved in a room upstairs, hoping to break| reaching the refuge me down,’ “Stand back, Nan.” If de Spain's words of warning \struck her with terror of a situa-| |tion she could not control, she did not reveal it. “No,” she sald reso- lutely. “If anybody here is to be shot, I'll be the first. Uncle Duke, you have always protected ine from Gale Morgan; now you join hands with him. You drive me from this roof because I don’t/*wept by a mad know how I can protect myself] Water, which cut under it.” refuge. Her uncle's face whitened. ‘Don't| “No use, leave this house tonight, Nan,” he| There sen't said menacingly there?” “You've forced me She told him there was no other Duke.” . “What about trying to get out by “Don't leave this house—most of |! Capitan? all, with that man!” He pointed at|,, She started in spite of herself de Spain with a frenzy of hatred,|“! mean,” he added, “just to have Without answering, the two were |* look over there, Nan,” retreating into the semi-darkness How could you even have a of the dining-room. “Nan,” came| lok a night like th she asked |her uncle's voice, hoarse with feel-| "Jt would be certain death, Henry.” ling, ‘re saying good-by to me}. “! don’t mean at the worst to | forever. try to cross it till we get a glimy | A rush of wind from an opening |°f “aylight. But it's quite a |door was the only answer, The | Ver there to try you. Sometimes de n led, times Nan picked their trail for her perfect familiarity every foot of the ground could not tain at all | Even | reaching the {warned them obstacle ahead Spi some Bat with the fore they succeeded tn foot of it thbir ear of a more serious Their way rush of fa them .off t was de § trail, is said other Nan,” any to, Unele ay I remember some good jtwo Morgans started forward to-|"!ding places along the trail wether. The sudden gust sucked I know two or three,” she an: the flame of the living-room lamp|*Wered, “if they are ‘only not up into the chimney and extin-| {looded guished {t. When the lamp was}, Nan, d by de Spain when », led the ascent, Tha point at which the two climbed al most 500 feet that night up Music a Mountain js still pointed out in the CHAPTER X. Gap. Torn, bruised and exhausted, Flight Nan, handed up by her lover, catching Nan's arm,|threw herself at last prostrate on seh towaed ihe kitebee, the ledgo at the real beginning of » must get away quick,” he|thelr trail, and from that vantage said as he buttoned her coat, “1,|}oint they made their way along had to come, Nan, I'll take’ you|the eastern side of Music Mountain straight to Mrs. Jeffries, When|. A thunder squall, rolling wildi you are ready, you'll marry ye; [down the eastern slope, burst over we'll maka our peace with your|the Gap. Their trail lay along Uncle Duke togethe What a|S8rauite levels of comparatively Pumit ute wage fearie. }good going and they had covered Poe tarthe ” ataelas half the distance to the cliff, when whale sous hesiar™ a second thunder storm, seeming “Under the pine, and yours, too,{t@ Tush in from the desert, burst I found the pony, but I couldn't] “bove their head Havok uaahn hen? (Continued in Our Next Issue.) “I know where it's hidden - — ret the horton Albert Hansen | Just a minute, I stuck my rifle dowe! jrelighted the Morgans ran into the | dining room Bot the room was empty | De Spain, hast Henry! Let's | junder this porch.” With =the weapon on his arm, the two hurried | toward the pine-tree. They had al most reached this when a sound made de Spain halt bis companion, “There is somgbody in that and Bilversmith 010 Second Ave, Near Madinor have gotten to the moun-| WELL, HO RE'S HIS CARD, joo MR, SWwAS 1 KNOW WO HE pLanwdninnsh SS yee 3 <a | “iT _ NEVER THOUGHT Hi eomae ‘THAT MISTER +—TRUS HAD THAT CVERETT_TRYE MAD DONATED 20,000. ro AtSOCIATeD , pS Go Fishing! 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D, vies of Muscovy in 1470. jthe fou tion of the sian empire was laid. | Principality after |evbmitted to Muscovy, Thus Inner dissension | empire founded by Genghis | |Khan to be split into smaller jLarts. In European Russia appea jed the Khanates of Kazan, As-| trakhan and Crimea, and the} Horde of the Nogals. Kazan was established on the) ruins of the ancient Bulgaria, on the Volga. Ivan the Great used the petty | |Jealousies among the Tartars to jald his cause, and in 1478, having | made himself a despot over the Russian principalities, he rebelled eesinst the Mongolian overlords. Ivan trampled under foot the ‘mage of the khan, which the lat ter's envoys brought in their jour- ney to receive Russia's tribute Then he slew ail the envoys but) permitted to carry | the news to the Mongolian horde. | lone, who was The Muscovites and the Morfgols faced each other finally across a fiver, over which {nsults were hurled. Winter came; ics formed |between the two inactive armies. ; Sti was no battle, Sud- jdenly unexplained panic seized |both armies; the Muscovites re- treated toward Moscow and the returned into Asia, never ngain to reconquer their Russian empire. Thus ingloriously was Russia's victory over her Asiatic verlords won, aided by the col lvsion of Crimea, one of the inde- pendent colonies left in Russia by the Tartar overfiow. Ivan the Great next fought in- conclusive wars with the Lithuan. fens, and invited Greeks jd Ttal- ions into the court of Russia, which now, the Mongol influence gone, began again to assume the character of a European state. Ivan tho Great's grandson, Ivan the Terrible, assumed the throne in, 1547, and elgvalized his reign by conquering and annexing Kazan nd Astenkhan, holding the Cri- neans in check, and driving the Teutonte sors from Livonia nd Esthonia, Poland took Livonia | rom Ru sia, but Ivan sent the | Cossacks across the Urals and took possession of Western Siberia. | Swede n and Poland prevented him |}from getting a port on the Baltic, | The later years of Ivan's life |were marked by great cruelties, Ho invented the pastime of boiling in ol, At the same time he form- ed an alliance with England, mark- ing Russia's permanent entry into affairs of Western Europe. A succession of minor czars was followed by a period of strife be- tween pretenders to the throne, which ended in the revolution of | 1605-1613, The entire land was bathed in blood, and order was re- stored only when a national as- sembly of representatives declared |the line of Rurik extinct and con- | ferred tho throne upon Michael Apparently authentic reports from San Francisco that the Pacific Steamship Co. had purchased the 8. S. Northern Pacifico and Great Northern were denied today at the ltocal officés of the company The acquisition of these vessels would give the Pacific Steamship Co, practical control of coastwise | passenger service, Thetr only com- petitor would then be the Portland jand San Francisco ) Steamship Co. Tartars NEW CAR IS HERE A new style of car was being | operated today on the Seattle & Rai inier Valley line. The new car has a seating capacity of 80, with stand. |ing room for an additional 20, They {contain all modern electric equip- |ment, with a smoking compartment | and center entrance, submitted to the grand / rn Rus: | | princtpality | whose ruler | tecame known as Ivan the Great.} | mong the Mon-| an overlords of Russia caused | | ia Those of you do not buy your Clothes here, we invite yon- to trade with us. We ask you to try us—our hope is that we'll serve you so well you'll keep on coming. Easter Clothing of Good Quality of course. Owe goods are new and of good quality, and we're not running a cut - rate store — still we can save you some money,’ This Is a “Quality” Store and no merchant can sell strictly quality clothes at cut - rate prices—Quality Clothes cost too much, Our Price Range $15 to $30 Furnishings and Hats, JOHN LINDH CO. 1201-1203-1205 Third Ave, Corner Seneca St. Robert J. Johnson A. E. Wilmot