The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 6, 1917, Page 4

STAR—FRIDAY, APRIL 6, NAAR AAD DEPP PPP PPP BY THE EDITOR OF THE STAR n ONGRESS has declared war upon Germany There now can be no withdrawing. Let us all, men and women of Seattle, stand Shoulder to shoulder, as true patriots, in this, the greatest crisis of our country’s history. “a Let us gather Saturday evening at the Arena, where a patriotic mass meeting is to be held, and Tenew our allegiance, collectively and individually, to the flag which to us means justice and freedom, and all that is good in life. ; t ‘'S We of The Star have no patience with Multra-pacifisis who, today, with the nation takin this momentous step, continue to preach the craven doctrine. : At this time, any public meetings or utter- ances tending to embarrass or interfere with our ‘national policy, or encourage the enemy to believe “that this nation is seriously divided against itself, would be pretty CLOSELY RELATED TO TREA- SON, wholly unworthy of good patriots, at least. be ae ; f PS It seems to us amazing that any Americ ith eyes to read, ears to hear and a mind to think THE SEATTLE STAR 130T Seventh Ave. Near Union St. OF SCRIPTS NORTHWEST LEAGUE OF NEWSrAa Telegraph News jervice of the © Press Assectation at Seattle, W Postoffice as Second-Clase month up to arrier, city 26¢ Publishing necting ii € moa; @ mos 8 & month. Phome Main Goo eartmentin. out of city, Bh B HE cost of living has been high in time of peace will She much higher in time of war. Such is the unvarying at this time ch the duty of the individual to economize before, that the national government may have the poor, who have been pinched under peace price at least enough to save them. The duty of the.h individual and every family get on a war basis | do we waste most, in our individual and domesti in our cating, drinking and dressing and on things ard, purely luxuries and extravagances rear Wm war means sacrifice by everybody, if al arces and strength are to be at command nt, and the longer a modern war continues, the surer extravagances, the non-essentials will t taken away and it’s cheaper, better, more comforta t “yoluntarily surrendering such -thing es se More Unrest IER reports, thru sources more ly indicate that what is called “the spirit of un hotly boiling among the people of Spain. times of volcanic action by peoples, it would Surprising should the Spanish go in for revolution fe ne&r neighbors of republican France and of Portu hose king is a refugee, and they have the recent splen mple of the Russians. Again, they're awfully hungry of. Germany’s unrestricted submarine warfare and that their own autocrats side with Germany lim may not yet be fully ripe for revolution but she "country whose masses are being reduced to starva the German autocracy. Germany is actually starving Panto revolution, and if we were a Spanish autocrat, would get down off the neutral It certainly to get down while the getting’s good than to have pulled off in being brought down ur rten less reliable, or ut Vay to Enlist Dway to enlist for service with the r is to go to a recruiting station necessary to wire speeches to the pr Wwspapers, altho Dr. Matthews, Jess Willard and Her- dl set that example fen a nation goes to war for democracy, d reason for wire pulling, or vaudeville heroics i fave decided to enlist, go to a recruiting st you are a ditch digger or a prea her esident or to there isn’t all Cost of Talk BETHMANN-HOLLWEG wa wing that Germany’s autocracy doesn't desire war with States. Nobody cares what Germany’s autocrats t is what they do that counts. Unrestricted mur Scans is still the German policy and while such , talk is about the cheapest thing going ing ’Em ‘T German chancellor gE me humorist himself “shall,” he says, “follow the principle that we never med- ith the internal problems of other countries.” can almost hear old Carranza and the mi nan humor always is pretty heavy, anyhow. Relieves Serious Case _ * of Chronic Constipatio f Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin ts Condition That e Hopeless. suffering from chronic con- until she was so run down unable to do any kind of HH. A. Frees, 209 Adams Ohio, obtained a bottle r, Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin and bit with such gratifying results “ghe continued the treatment, written to Dr, Caldwell that || on is again normal, and) ie wants to recommend Syrup | jin to everyone who suffers) | constipation. r. Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin is a of simple laxative th pepsin, gentle in its ac- free from griping or other Of discomfort. It contains no in drug stores everywhere, To avold por narcotic drug, and, while! imitations and ineffective subst readily on the most stub- tutes be sure you get Dr. Caldwell's of inactive bowels, 18 ab- syrup Pepsin. See that a Ratio ado ha-t n # * gate for the tiniest babe, of Dr, Caldwell’s signature and his | iat it is the ideal family laxa-| portrait appear on the yellow car should be kept on hand in! ton jn which the bottle is packed. | uschold for use when need-| 4 trial bottle, free of charge, can ‘ be obtained by writing to Dr, W i's Syrup Pepsin costs B, Caldwell, Washington st., gents a bottle and is sold! Monticello, Illinois. | er of should still be asking the question: “Do you think there is going to be a real war between the United States and Germany?” And yet we are painfully aware that the de lusion persists among a great many people in thi country that in some miraculous way actual war to be avoided. So that there may be no mistake about thi e shall state the proposition in its simplest terms WAR BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND GERMANY WAS _ INEVITABLE AND NECESSARY! War was inevitable because Germany has chal lenged our honor, our dignity, and our self-interest uch a way that to refuse to accept the challenge ould brand every American citizen as a coward The American people are not cowards, There fore war is inevitable War with Germany is necessary because the United States cannot afford to take a chance on the ultimate victory of Germany over Great Britain nd France, however slight that chance may seem to be. 1917. PAGE 4 NEVITABLE! A German victory accomplished by the ruth- less use of submarines, in defiance of international and humane laws, would be the death knell of the freedom of the oceans. The black flag would be supreme on all the seven seas, German piracy would domizate the world. Every nation would have to take orders from the Hohenzollern divine-right autocrats. Therefore it is necessary for us to fight Ge many now and not wait until by any possibility she has defeated her European enemies. And so, today, we are face to face with realities. rhe futility of attempting to evade them « run away from them, even if we would, is obvious Let none of us make the «mistake of underesti mating the magnitude of the task which we a forced to undertake. Let us not delude ourselves that because ¢ many is 3,000 miles away and cannot get to t while the English fleet bars the path, war will not seriously affect us, grim Outbursts of Everett True READING ALOUD THe TiTLes of THE FILM SCENES A a gage “ roids SAG { tHe Biow Editor Eddie Hill got nook this morn the cobwebs and s intention of “seein rk out idie’s an ator of spring. “ee REO CROSS NURSES? ant, sergeant, I've been think is would be lady soldie a war tt f Helen thing else, MAYB® THe | ET TUA, BRUTUS? SAME THING v looking for th recruiting station, and we thought jit was wh rowd was, Oh, =] YOURS That was just the = the Third waiting for o sally forth ering around office, r of lussies al, | | the numt 5 r the | foon m Re but only skin di a skinned beauty? euty's Dp. who'd waat 4 | HOUSEHOLD HINTS r throw away old feath Have n to them clea th | start WiLe RESTORE RESTORES JONATHAN'S REASON” (Continued From Our Last Issue) to Bar friend detec nforced by two able in the rough very roug The day of the first « ries, all Pt ar and mild of hil uate, and both idle talk and mc odds closed 10 to 6 on the Phillies if rumor was right, this was por tentous. Tris Ford deserted } office shortly after hig went to the locker |heardof proceeding |he waited d impatiently, On the dot, as the clock pointed to 0, a triamphal procession rioved ceremoniously into th res. of the chief of the Giant is private noon, and an un for him. Then room At ita head was Barney Larkin, ja smile upon his boyish face and a cocky look in his eye that trought joy and comfort to the manager Close behind was Far- nest Steadm also smiling. Next came an {nconspicuons citizen, eas ly mistaken for a prosperous trav- man—the clever detective. up the rear were two fellows—either pugil or highly effictent eling Bringing «wbrowed ts in ordinary ughed. He couldn't help it Altho the team, on, Was not a party {w with one excep to the deep, yers plainly Tris Ford of Barney ar hared experienced the relic ich at ) $ } °)) i Sixth mod Chapter of The } Star's Tabloid Mistery of Russta, Nicholas I tatoes stuffed fish up a ham. Defeat in Russo-Japanese th of Russian late czar, was a building of the Ain 1898 ntung = penin ted the fortre emed likely that Russia » this part of nor China, thru which the Manchuria railway ran to Port Arthur, as a per t of the Ri fan empire fusal to withdraw caused Ja nin v4 the Russian bu ch was honeycombed intrigue that anted made the czar’s ar far from their base, Japan's sudden manent Russia the attack b Inetfi reaucracy with ¢ a Russia beaten and navy mies ictim icient attack The Russian feet was sunk, Port Arthur was captured, the Japar won the battle Mukden, and the invitation of President Roose velt Russia sued for peace. Japan . 3 posse of Port Arthur, SOME STRATEGIST jsouthern Manchuria and the south “Now, Harry,” satd the mother,|ern half of Saghalien, a Russian “take these jugs and go to the | island, and J n Was recognized as grocer’s and get a quart of the best | supreme in Koi molasses,” [became a Japanese province. But why give the boy two jugs?”| While the disastrous war with| asked a neighbor Japan was raging, revolution broke Well, if he bas a jug in each|out in Russia, Von Plehve, the hand he can't be dipping his fingers |czar’s reactionary adviser, was as-| in the molasses and eating it assinated, and strikers marched In he comes hor Ladies the streets, threatening the palace |Journal | Workingmen and soldiers fought in| | ° |the streets of many citic | | . To offset the revolution, the czar | WE KNEW IT ANYWAY proclaimed the duma, a representa: | Sign in Third ave. garage: “Cars|tive body of very little power, but! left for repair at owner's risk.” —jagitation continued, and finally, in : soe October, 1905, the manifesto estab. lishin, ed psentative | erm f The people received it with great ?| In 1906 political parties assumed form. Radical pecting already to overthrow the monarchy In the first duma there were neithe monarchists nor social for the latter had boycotted the election. The duma immediately clashe with the ezar, It demanded f CHEAP SKATE jdom for all political prisoners, | Main st. second-hand store sign: |which Nicholas refused to grant, “Charles Dickens works all wee ic The populace, finding the duma lfor $4.” ineffective ried agitation anew The duma appealed to the nation Looks Mke Czar Nick has gone|'The czar disbanded the duma and quick to FIELDER MUFFEM SAYS ME IS IN THE BEST O CONDITION AND WILL GIVE THE FANS THEIR ONBy'S ; up ¢ Home o- 18 THERE SUCH AN ANIMAL? Dig you ever hear vaudeville tr®@s who could sing without ping at the end of every line like a whale taking a deep breath Will a moratorium be | That's what we want to know }be war won't be |atave off paying |few months or ye were ¢ declared? May o bad if we ed for our debt Tabloid listory : of Russia and the Dawn of Representative Government! which afterward |) gov-|° | ala of artifi | pared for the above purpose sight Larkin. % | They & an they ld have sup them, th for morning 4 one Low in } they preparin juniforms, a 4, to |} were actice tn the training season, in 1 of getting ready to fi highest honors of the nd the popularity of th town Wild tumult broke loose at sight f the Giant-kiliers, answering the ell which had gone on th f the Ph sighted fan jumped of first, and ig War Leads to Revolution, ’ te fduma met in Fin! for support. Bu not yet ly f quent d « under the co nd and appealed ma Subs as were up pearance lie An ih his ph noring the front! eaucracy aK up ‘rushed Terrori becatne rampant Official ansassinated. The repressive measures of former czars were invoked to combat uprisings against The nation went into the with German rtedly, the German influer trograd | rking © back field to wer anned the playing near second base bench h mother would lool r child, Then agonized demanded o Where's Win Shute Syes by the thousand traveled to ght was ers the gove' war] bh with » accents he space w | wee The Nichola to make efforts| | the edge of clay-base path in that unseated! ‘There an uneasy stitute ral re trying his hardest to ac oppression.|the impossible—fill the in & slow king of second to attain revolution IL wan the “ on ra.10 |shoes of the awakening nf nba men jthie ¢ emocracy | re What on the terre ‘Stomach Troubles |‘ iuviiv, 5" ssw “atten the Are Due to Acidity hour set for the game to begin, the {ficial ¢ uncer raised his meg ‘Tells Safe, Certain, Speedy Relief for Acid Indigestion nat ult after nturie rin plist repre piked working base ing batteries howled with delight rd that Barney Lar kin was to pitch for the Giant killers, altho they knew ft course, But when the announcer -|added that Pervis was to “play sec ond base in place of Shute,” the phone and sing-songed the oppos: ed stomach troubles, such as journess, stomach e and inability to retain fc of stends the stoma 8 that full, opprenaly ng sometimes kr while the acid the delica The troub! Lroval What's the matter Lurt?” they shrieked Around the vast tarting the pre thru the grandstand, leaping to the )} pavilions, reaching at last to the beachers, sped the answer He's disappeared! Gloom, impenetrable jtled down upon a maj gieat thron th who had to help the Glont-killers win, ‘Their minds were recalling what manager, John Marlin, after the Glant New York. T word of it ritat ning llew entire pment or Win Shute assemblage, box, flying in ent sourt ng of the ach, and t gloom y wet of the ove ome quick rival had given killers downed remembered every and lhexper t ball pla » games f int tants, Magnesia Bisurated lally pre comes in & to ask for Magnesia © world th Wit mild be m would Albert Hansen Jeweler and 6ilversmith CRIPPLED! Over in New York a few away from the ticker, which feet was jinto the movies at last, The lat-|ealled for election of a new body, to lest place he moved to was some|meet in 1907 kind of Prisonowich. Two hundred members of the old 010 Second Ave, Near Madiso: || Jake Stinger and his friends were aiready celebrating. put on their fans gave loud vent to their disap-| Whoa England rhe many nece of the sea for 100 year mmunity ibmarine zation with to | thing for vill pa has been tl from foreign a which have ul fron i eas must b lay they not onl Great Britain and France that ha is the po inty, how long made war with Ger- ibility that control 1 the British fleet, which 1¢ best guarantee of our ion, to the German red war against civ of men or money, these e¢ hunted down and de- threaten the existence of as independent nations, but the existence of the United States as well. WE ARE GOING TO HELP ENGLAND AND FRANCE DEFEAT GERMANY, BECAUSE WE KNOW THAT IF GERMANY DEFEATS THEM, WE SHALL HAVE TO ACCEPT GERMAN DOM- INATION, WHICH IS UNTHINKABLE, OR FIGHT HER AND WHATEVER ALLIES SHE MAY HAVE, ALONE. Copyright, 1915, Doubleday, Page & Co. CHAPTER IV At Sea nahaven, disheveled otherwise dr i turned o pened his sticky eyes, then closed 1 dug his fists into them to dix pate the heaviness of the lids He tried vainly to moisten his are Nps with his swollen jar taste in his mouth he couldn't label. To one whose lips had never “known the taste of liquor” it wag indescribably bad, useating But the smell that rose from some part of his clothing he rec ognized. It was stale liquor! A shudder of disgust passed thru [him. He now took a second in ce of the taste in his mouth esified it as “dark brown.” ot yet conld he bring his logy mentality to take up the trail from effect back to cause |. --18 bed next attracted his atten | tion jshelt with a wooden side to pre- |vent one’s falling out. The furn- \ishings of the apartment whatever it was, all tethered to something permanent, were at first onfamiMar to him It was the aperture admitting | the light that helped him to fix the| {room and its location. This round jOpening to the outside world was a bull'seye of thick glass. As he tared through the circular window jon to the nothing more | thump, in- by ai atinging pebbles had a the glass fierce Then water ran off, leaving the bull'seye flecked with drops m bridged the gap t predicament nee. in this conclusion, himself to a sitting pos- the edge of the berth, and bout the stateroom. There jitcase of real leather on under the portho He t he had never Turning it ro ayness here came a stantly followed sound, as if thrown against loud be- and expe Secure brought re he was a e bunk was seen It befo! the Inscription questioned he had heard of. in the list Mechanica ver he tried the bag to It was narrow—much like a| or cell, | lree if it was locked. It opened, displaying a complete assortment of everything necessary, with the uit he had on, to enable him to make able appearance, been carefully se- and they all new, But wasn't a scrap of writing to identify their owner (Continued Tomorrow) ' Editor’s Mail LAUDS SMITH Editor The Star: In a recent ts sue of The r you took exception the sentence imposed upon a criminal, a bank president who |plead guilty to appropriating to his |private use money intrusted to his care as a bank official As to the sentence imposed, either on this man or upon mny jother, | will not enter into a discus- sion, but You challenged any one to show where a judge had been so consid- erate of the feelings of a man of the Dusky kind, apd on this one question | wish to refer you to your own columns wherein the same Judge Everett Smith in dealing with a young man without home, friends or money, suspended sen- tence and sent the prisoner to his own home (Judge Smith's) until work could be found for him. “ | Did you ever hear of the Everett |Smith home for girls? Within the last couple of weeks Judge Smith suspended sentence of a couple of young men and sent jthem to the Y. M. C. A., at his ex- pense, until they could get a start. Judge Smith is, first of all, a humanitarian, and believes with the Great Teacher, that “love is the fulfillment of the law.” I think you owe it to Judge Smith to correct the wrong impression created by your paper when you infer that the judge is more inter- ested in the banker than he is in the down-and-outer. + Your criticism might have gone unchallenged as to other members of the bench, but I think you have done an Ynjustice to Judge Everett Smith have you not? Judge Smith does not know me, so far as I am aware, and the letter 1s written beca’ T read of the first incident in your paper. 1! lived near the Everett Smith home for years, and was told of the last Inci- dent within the last few days. to he end, in black let- | Boys’, Girls’ and Children’s KAVANAGH’S Firet and Union. 1006 First. at Madison. 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