The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 12, 1917, Page 1

| “] T IS NOT A QUESTION of Germany’s annihilation—far from that! The old, sincere regard of the United States for the German people, so sadly misled by its gov- ern F cad Sey bare Gen ee te ie partner i in its crimes, should continue and undoubtedly will. We appreciate the sorrow of the German-born citizen within our midst, | Swill Sto: weendinghie soot re 18 —T And personally, I may add, I yield to no one in admiration, in unfeigned admiration, of the German literature of golden days iumnen tan ae - ection o form, its gracious ideality and exaltation of humanity. ’Tis not with these, but with the materialism of a Prussianized imperial gov- eathless quarrel lies! Professor Oliver H. Richardson, of the University of Washington history department. ——_—_—_—— NIGHT EDITION rans ADIDAS Uncie Sam will build 700 wooden vessels on the Pacific Coast! it tle shipbuilders should worry about the weather. However, it's —ooOoq going to be “fair and cooler” to RAR RAR Annan PARP PAPAPIRARAR SAAR AA eee night and Friday, says Forecaster THE ONLY PAPER IN “SEATTLE THAT DARES TO PRINT THE NEWS Saliabury VOLUME 19 SEATTLE, WASH., THURSDAY, APRIL 12, 1917 ONE CENT RY"nywress 25 000 NEW JOBS FOR S Wealthy Seattle Men Discuss the Conscription of Ke RE SE smc no Close Quarters for Democracy : BOSCH SEEM DAZED|THANKFUL FOR SHIPS ma 5 BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS | BY baa t KEEN | y ; ] Withl Tite PRITISH ARMIES LONDON, April 12" can ae i AFIELD. April Canadians! see peace coming now—not a BEL. ie 15 qutle’ { t ear sd new honors to my tn a storm-| peace which is the mere begin: mene i aaa ; Dia te Eee ware the “aaleenian With plans formulated and announced today by | of a sudden pen noniing _fervart, Impetuonsty.| wnien premier Kiera Gearge [the United States shipping board for the Comma “What do you think of 7 : f German trenches running 80 Itwae part of afeeling tribute {OF 3,000 3-000-ton wooden vessels, to create virtuale the proposed war-measure ; . : from the German commandan which England's prime minister | a floating bridge across the Atlantic, Seattle, the center) Le the chaacription ol , % ’ { fT aheauaer MATIC EER eee aanareuaive of the greatest lumber district in the world, will be dee vad tae a certain ‘ . ‘ LONDON, | April 12-—Th meating today of the American pended on by the government to deliver the greatest a ount grentens batt ‘ e 4 { 2 Ger ine “kg an sete ht is aie fe Ae ooming soon || tah nobles were ther, and Amer. | UIOW of all to the German submi ine blockade. J ' jermany tas he r 3 dor Page presided The program contemplates building the first 1,060% uestion if your income 5 eady and abou hurl her a n behalf > = . q ; d ady and in at 1 “If chips in 18 months, and 70 per cent will be constrict has not already been en- | ; es against the allied n " a as one tirely conscripted by the 7 $ ! the west front, a r com n oart Lieya|on the West coast. butcher, the grocer and j , a heatiiase couraiicns th ; : This means Seattle will be called on to build 400 the shoe dealer. / ] 2 eth | n Interview tod Be ? rhe tare the Issue ,| to 500 of the vessels, each of which will cost $300,000, Mh gal Giaeuratir: Veet Meum nee the Docs rarts lene nendous rmurcn tha Zou It will require from 25,000 to 35,000 additional | ted Dy warconscription. The} T) was along this ling of Siow t nation can render to suceor| Wood workers to turn them-out at the rate-of- iF anked the question of a num-| f ' ae coe SMS cies EE ho aunew. butt Fedoice te tiem |the government contemplates of therh Sentorday jing i re P forward )ocrat that the advent of the United s é me eu? 3 ; of the Conadians cleared the top of States gives the final stamp and It will mean that every lumber mill in Seattle, and ‘fome of them faced it with unre} the Vimy ridge | 1 of proval to the character of \ : ' terved readiness. Others, who! : Germiaa Fis Debeenelle line conn. . probably in the whole Northwest, will be converted, im shied at the word “conscription, 5 § . The advance continued. Stiffen We rejoice that America has won| part at least, into a shipbui p - are quite ready to help America - "I ing resistance all along the line|the right to be at the peace confer } , hit y ilding plant, besides utilizing par the price of her Ideals, if they 3 from Lens to St. Quentin showed | ence table all the present wood shipbuilding plants now already” ¢an do it under the more familia r an |that the Teutons were desperately | t would have been a tragedy to| heavily loaded with work. f Dame of “income tax striving to stop the encroaching! mankind if America had not won This is what they said—the few) — bes the rs sedan * | the right t at the moun who cox be reached on short aperate Mg was in prog | ble wit the influence and power! |) dr ns : notice. sg 8 the others would ress toda r the eastern slopes! che has r btained.” , ho spen al days in Seattle in conference with local shipping and" have said as much ‘ . of Vimy ridge. In the face of vic The kaiser promised that Prus-| Umber men, gathering data on the Northwest's ability to turn out the | said as m « lent ] biggest fle t ever any city has been called upon to furnish.” Sey- resistance British forces |eia would be a democracy after the 1 of Se: 1 t 1 be: FREDERICK KARL STRUVE, a — swarmed over a German entrench-| war,” the premier said whimaically,|°T! Of Seattle's big lumbermen are now in Washington, getting fur President of the Seattle National lh ment between the Cojeul river andjat another § ‘ 1 think the| ther detadls of the immense undertaking bank and son-in-law of the late puville Vitaase, storming the posi-| kaiser is right Gordon C, Corbaley, secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, est Jacob Furth, asked a counter tion. The corresponding and ad-| Fight Only for Liberty jmates the cost of labor alone on each ship will be about $50,000, question joining position of trenches to the| “The United States has a noble| ot alone will this fleet effectively break up the submarine Gal “Would that refer to incomes. south of the river was today being| tradition that they have neve on | Palgn of the kaiser, but it will bea tremendous influence toward a so » ition of our marketing problem here in the Northwest with the addi- from which the present income t |cleared of its Teuton defenders engaged in war except for portation factl s las etready been subtracted? Hill 90 was firmly in British| the prime ster contir portation facilities. Car shortages will not have to beg | 7 ep ‘eich einele eomereen handa, despite bitterly desperate|‘s the greatest struggle for liberty |" ie gusation coma be inawnbes: BAN KS TO BACK FOOD GROWERS assaults from the Germans on whict have ever embarked. | 44 i dypheligs ett aa aoe can ete laden with the prod- “Well,” he said, “I believe every Men Meet Hand-to-Hand | America’s entrance means some largely wal tated.” rthwest’s marketing problem will he | man must be made to serve his Thruout yesterday the Germans|thing more then waging of an ef-| —————"| shelled Vimy ridge vigorously fective war—she will insure a ben count In whatever way he can | mir “east and according to bis | After a morning's free-for-all ag orgie ogee ho jeans. But till I know more ebout discussion, State Agricultural been seen anywhere on the west It wan a bad day for the Prue rr Commissioner Benson, who was jeorn front than that which marked|eian military autocrac when | re the details of the ‘conscription repulse by the British yesterday of|challenged the great idea, 1 would hardly think that the! shaaen shdtengn Gt te le [repulse ty the British yesterday of ; Ppt pent way to go st the matter “ IS REPORTED wide conference on food mobil IPPERS TOLD Rake Twn handestend| The road to victory se found in| WOODEN SHIPS IS WILS y oe LATIOER, president 0 zation, held at ine Chamber of fighting in part with a concentrat d ‘ships.’ America already | e »rton’ National bank ay |the we the Dexter Horton ere Commerce roome Thursday, ed artillery duel from both sides t i alizes thi ence, the 5 preferred to say that he favored - named the following committee int od he te » eet ta tose sand 3,000-t | ‘some sort of equitable income BY ARTHUR E. MANN to oft ali the plane and ene deny: U-boats are operating, o~ are a 2 ns ern vie ® u in|tion for a thousand ton 1 ; ” pited Preas Staff Corresponder " about to operate, in the Pacific, r aps. cumved Aagye ecg ibed chantmen 4 tex tions mitted and to act ed to ali | *ffort by the enemy to dislodge th | Profit by Blunders “1 see no reason,” he added, “fo COPENHAGEN, April 12-— state advisory board + nal getonge oe defend For three years the British “Bibs ‘ vane, Vessels at sea today by the na- | ese laying the burden too heavily on Apparently positive reports Harry t, North Yakima; | For tt first th practically | tried a ider thinkable and his generation, as there are MANY were received here today that W. D. Ka , Thomas, a! radio stations on the Pacific . es Le Seen ey 5 (ree “ever nkable and | ‘gy ROBERT J. BENDER [and France tince the German armies wept for-| got into every bunker,” the premier vould be glad, as an , w Ch coast. This followed the re- 2 A ‘ak ane Sade pondent Wor! people who would be glad, a5 a0| 44. German foreign office was | Wie! Aging ark, tof a warning te that effect | ward in the carly days of the war|continued, relapaing into golf] Usted rae Wort oon at ee investment, to buy bonds, distribut Wenatchee A. Hays, Tacoma from te Gey denaet lit was man-to-man fighting—with | terms But a fine niblick has WASHINGTON, April 12— | ork on ways for the ships has ‘ng the cost of the war over the| making overtures to the United (Floyd W. Rader, King county; J. 1 Washington yee ee junly temporary earthwork defenses | made our score. It willbe worth} To smash Germany's U-boat Babes begun at Jacksonville, Fla; next 25 or 50 years | States. it was torsiees the Dames, Dayton; ©. ¢ Parr Everett; This message, sent out by |fheltering the two sides—that is|whiie for America to study our! piockade, the United States |otner vont, Te, and a half-dozen THOS. BURKE: “Yes,, negotiat! ” Ankletter, Puyallup. | being enacted now |blunders so as to in where we ‘ ae OY & Ds oyoccohi be conscription of in.| tween the two nations. No fur : Superintendent of Inatruc Fe paral Gtimer, of the 18th I Swathben tthe euasasenes: Ratuasd Met esi Fo ae tone we were three | Will virtually bridge the Atlan President Gompers, of the Amer aero aoe necessary, Whatever in| ther details were available here. (tion Josephine Preston and Gordon) fYavel Gietrict. rowed Puget | oi tinue tiie elaborately con-| rears ago tic. Plans for the construction ican Feders of Labor, has necessary along that line, congress Official circles manifested the ey, secretary of the cham pene or | . “ promised all co-operation in sup 7 ortificatio h “ ' s alreac 000 small wooden boats— 4 & BigP san cles to the new menace as the tructed fortifications, —bebind I am glad America has already| of 3,000 sma hould do. Ou en end our| most intense interest in the re ere appointed ex officio MeM-| have never been roused uinee hich they have fought for more| gent naval and military experts to| the most tremendous merchant (Continued on page &) women and o > should be) port. ners of the committee on Pi the European war began than two years, the Germans ap-|confer,” the premier declared,| ship building program ever un subject, in this h ja}, tothe] It fs understood that Secret ‘Serra haeraptly i acbbrnnp “To all steamship companie: | peared dazed in the ne wopen war-jpmid cheers dertaken—have been completed call of the count Lansing has received the overtur ore the body as one o arvestt The following meas ro. |fare. They were battling desper “America’s enormous help is il and approved by the president GUARDSMEN BLOCK JOHN DAVIS, real estate, insur-|thru unofficial mediaries The (Continuea on page 2) ceived from the navy de part ately along the whole line today—|justrated in the guns used in Mon And 70 per cent of the firs ence and investment manager, (Continued on page 5) ment, is herewith quoted for | but their fighting lacked co-ordina-| day's victory 1,000 ships to be built in the PLAN TO BLOW UP said he thought that « poll tas| your information tion. It failed to stop the British.| Ambass Page proposed a] next 18 months are to be built Yar 5 va > . res Jong ¢ ad > 2 re: fic coast. me way of raising the ‘AUSTR A ESS Seattle Icemen to | tin touch at the earliest |Haig’s forces long drilled in open|toast to the king and to President] on the Paci es 0 mer ot reese 1A PRESSIN pencigt tm touch at tho castiont |Haige forces Vong Gree meee to tat ithe Pacific coast, , transport food and supplies to . irciie | | Garden Circus Lot|| ina masters. ot trench fighting, despite thetr long | president c 4 ers of all merchant ) i i peceiea BAMES D. HOGE, president of NEW PEACE MOVE | i ar dix. {vigil there, were plainly superior | p> manne entente ports EL PASO, April fhe Union Savings & Trust Co | vessels operating in your dis Flag Famine on , ' todudes : 4 | To have a circus lot turned trict, especially off the coast |i this style of fighting y This is America’s answer to Lloyd |io dynamite Elephant Butte dam, { don't think the time is agg ; “ . Pct mi rhe. climates oa nly ROME, April 12—Austria is| | into a vegetable garden by a|| and at sea, and urge upon them Moreover they were backed by Phruout Country George's appeal Th imate) New Mexico's million-dollar irrigne e he measure yet, > ) the allied cause depends, feportun esd ws prey ato Ing [pressing Pope Benedict to move for! &roup of icemen is, indeed the necessity of keeping a very perfect) organized transport serv- success ey he allied cau Sener tion structure, by man and Ade . 4 sani 01 Puropean bellige onl wartime bright lookout for G Bu ice and supply trains. 12 in my judgment, on our solving the js flong the right yeace among th ‘opean Ker kout for German sub CHIGAGO, April 12.—The tonnage difficulties with which we/|trian plotters, was frustrated today ents. according to an authentic re That's exactly w » Se marines, and of reporting | | . ' romarket : M Star-Spangled Banne et jare confronted. by troops guarding the structure, ac J. €. CHILBERG, banker and Pegi AP ve dl nig ARE ove: wrt Papitalixt PT vache luated ort today A t 5 2 men resolved to °o same immediately by radio Yo CENTRAL STATES is booming. Flag stocks of many The government ship board ha eeesiat: | <t tavor duate ‘The Corriere Della Sera, in men rxday morning when they the nearest radio station, Urge big wholesale houses are clean 8 nment shin, board has cording to telephone advices recel¥s Pireme tex, which shoul ba gcay « move today, declared at their headquarters at pon them the necessity of giv od aut nan abd “Wood workahe @ begin ee ens es es atest oo a ere eta cd aa at wena tn'ies: | SPEED UP BIG FOOD es ta" yan worse) the hey yg net 0 ; ~ CFI ps ah gus The manufacturers are over. {the task at once The reports said the dynamiters intres. enormous’. ‘3 Gre They ha ecured the bloch | tion of locality where subma € “il now , - “ * | whelmed with orders, and, with | ‘ 5 . comes co upward coe hited wy. ite | : PRODUCTION DRIVE Congress has authorized $50,000,| were arrested by the guard v . ded by rrivon and Re rines are seen and y othe guards and are oe Bey her | the patriotic spirit increasing, | q90 to start the program and Will be! peing held, ‘conscription’ idea would de ca 4d Fo aad N tv Ne 4 | Seeing PEGE MOVE, 0 For soo || a a at Pan Be fetctie ey,|ie ep ue a pur ps €b ‘ Mil for cultivation Ne own 1¢ naval forces in searching . 3 4 ? eee Bry of $50,000 or $76,000 and kuew | 1 Oxon, April 12.—An exchange . Frederick K. Struve, the for these vessels CHICAGO, April 12.—The great-| famine. Gen. Goethals, who directed the that all of it but $25,000 would be! ee dispatch today from| | Thomas estate, and British | | For your information 1 [est “food drive” in the history of U S$ construction of the Paname canal, } MAY NOT INSIST ON . S. OPPOSES IDEA taken away from him if he recety- |)" Meine rtx it was stated on| | Consul Polley, have donated it || would state that information [ihe country is on over the Middle will superintend the construction of | West today. Conservation of pres: the “jitney fleet,” it was stated to ed it, ‘he might just sa As ell, 1) etofficial authority that Bul-| | cheerful has this day been received that : ; la UNIVERSAL SERVICE Won't get it anyway, and resign dele p n Switz And th are w#ix more German submarines ar erat. |ent supplies and “speeding up" of | OF SEPARATE PEACE ‘ ay | delegates were | itzer r n ‘eoperat- | 1,000 Ships in 18 Months that part of it ee el avoring to reach a basi blocks adjoining this one,” the | ing in the Pac#ic, Please no production is the slogan of soversy seat Hs ©. C. McGILVRA, son of the late | ¢, rate peace with represen-| icemef®announced | tify all ships under your con. | ors of a dozen states “ ‘The fret thousand abips are to} WASHINGTON, April 12.— pioneer, J. J. MeGilvra, answered |;orivee of the entente They suggest that others o trol, and ask that they spread With the decision of the admin-| WASHINGTON, April 12.—The! be completed within 18 months, and; The house military committee thout hesitation aidera slong the same lines the news tration that feeding the allie tate department declared today it|immediately thereafter 2,000 more will renort the general staff . theta a : sine flag, 10x18 : : 4 ‘ Just how definite is the informa-( "#8 America’s first duty in the|had réceived no peace overtures—| will be ordere Each vessel will army bill early next week, ‘on On whichy the ne dana ahi war the energies of Central States |tormally or otherwise—and had no|be of 3,000 tons, with a of probably with an amendment n baits F AER prepa pe O aegg ll J gepartinent) “the bread basket of the nation— | reason to believe any were en ronte, | ten knots | to give the volunteer system a Sine san de Gear taiaienia ere directed from recruiting to added that this government 1 li is the purpose to run them in, trial before drafting the 500, pe hee ek PP eae omar a tracting from the soil one of the|pot ready for any such overtures, such fashion they will consti, 000 men necessary—it wae enday at regu:| to be on a : ar rating Babe or Of thé renorten |ereatest crops Of Gil Cine and the department left the infer-jtute a veritable pontoon bridge| said, following a meeting of The only time that| Garden ee dat Thruout the north central yfates|ence that the United States is| cross th one boat every three! the committee today. 4 soa Michigan, Wisconsin and ‘parts |against a separate peace miles. The tremendous number is a ould be left to congress, |on holidays and state occasions. On| | came from there of lowa end Ulnois, greatest at - expected to exhaust the most val-| ‘ | Mystery! ntion was being paid te the po} Botanical gardens of Rio dejiant efforts of U-boat commanders | f READ STAR WANT PADS T She 2 but I think the measure would be (all other occasions the old fiag will | & proper one.” \be unfurled to the breeze. le @ day's Star. ato situation [Janeiro cover 2,000 acres, to cut off supplies from England’ g——— This whole program was practically forecasted here last week by Theodore Brent, vice chairman of the United States shipping board, om militar Bamford Robb made its it ar drill hour Th 1 nt and the the new fag will be n will be entire Seattle