The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 14, 1917, Page 1

sritish Take More of urd Line nnn. RRR nen nnn ARR AR AA RAARAAARAAAAAAIA ARAL LSP PPP PPP PPP PAPA PPP PPP APP ALA APA AAP AAPA NIGHT EDITION j ; Don't live out of a paper sack. : e e 7a S41 Weather “Prophet “Saltebury” hae ma promised “unsettled weather—prob. = ably showers,” for tonight and to ("THE ONLY PAPER IN ONLY PAPER IN “SEATILE T THAT DARES TO PRINT THE NEWS morr WASH., SATURDAY, APRIL ONE CENT}; ", 1917, nyw av (RHE ONLY PAPER. 19 SEATTLE 4Don't Be Bunked by This Food Scare! & | | When you go to the market, or the grocery, tonight, Mrs. Housewife, don’ t toes are selling at at $40 a ton in Ireland after three years of war. The law of supply 14, spend the week’s pay for a war supply of staple foodstuffs that you won't be able and demand does not justify present prices. They’re bound to come down. The to eat up in months. Wait till you see what The Star has to say on Monday about Star will tell you, on Monday, why. The food hog—the speculator—at whom we this high price hysteria. Don’t be bunked! Nobody is going to starve to death in — = s railing, is ee eae of the ae, situation only wa ectly. this vast, rich try, wit! . . M ? . e direct cause is anxiety to pile up a great supply of foodstuffs in your rich country, with its innumerable miles of untilled acres. Don’t let this home before prices go higher. YOU are the speculator this time! Watch for Mon- food talk excite a There’s going to be plenty for all of us to eat. day’s Star. And in the meantime don’t be a sucker and load up your basement with All over the city, people are buying the grocery shelves empty. Why? Pota- provisions. | STAR MAN JOINS AVY PUT THRU -THE“BUG HOUSE” (EDITOR'S NOTE—C. C. Lyon, correspondent of The Star, * has actually enlisted in the United States navy, and, from time The Dawn of a New Day cca WINS BOAT new worto TO FALL IN * —SAYS DAMROSCH Famous Conductor of New| York Symphony Is Won- derful Hyphenate | \IS LOYAL TO AMERICA|! UW CREW sy LENS SURE | Varsity and Freshmen Eights) pOrin dae Anglo Troops Circle Coal City | Make Clean Sweep at | BY MABEL ABBOTT | From Two Sides and Ger-. | Oakland “The very idea of a kaiser is | mans is Fire It a relic of mediaevalism. Kais- | ers have no place in a modern world.” The man who said this to me RAGE ROWED IN RAIN te time, will write his experiences for this newspaper. He has “4 gone thru the United States naval training station, at Norfolk, OAKLAND, Cal., April 14.— this morning at the New Wash BY WILLIAM PHILIP % Va. and is now under assignment with the Atlantic fleet. The University of Washington ington hotel was born in Prus- | WITH THE BRITISH won the ennual three-mile tri- by | i sia, Germany—Waiter Dam ARMIES AFIELD, April 14— — angular intercollegiate crew roech, great leader of the won- By C. C. Lyon race by four lengths over the | entui New York Sympheny or. | «Another mile of the Histam (Staff Correspondent of The Star) inford crew on the Oakiand | chestra. He said it quietly but burg line was taken by the tuary thie morrtng. Califor. positively. And he said more. British onslaught today. nia was a bad third, finishing ocialists in Germany, who, Pp os ie it number six, to the north — two and a half lengths behind by the way, are not like the Amer] o¢ Givenchy, and pit number 11, the Stanford shell | . ; neialist party, very The Washington “crew won the 08 SOcialist party: are very | east of Doublecrassier, were Ox day, toward the close of the recent winter, LY dropped into. a United States navy recruiting} statiom and listened to the recruiting officer talk to 2 $ . si If they should get the up | ‘ g \¥reshmen race, finisbing twa) Ons both captured. group of prospective recruits. lengtha ahead of the Calitorai relate Ca rare vouthin a |. Thie extends by three miles In a war with Germany, the ‘crew. Stanford was a bad third, te the north, the front along would do he bull i . fully e ht ees benind | A othe iMahenzol w im bo onlay Teutons’ line is new e PF Vashington’s unofficial time was (abt, then peace! Fer. As Or! The Artas position on whitiline tin Germans swung pivotlike in the re treat to the Hindenburg line, is now ~ turned to a distance of nearly eight — | miles southeast of Arras. Lens, most important of France's coal cities, {s likely to fall at an¥ moment. British troops are pork circling it on two sides. $ {7 minates 28 seconds. This is ower than the Stanford crew tory over © ithe name as if it were written all in capitals ‘as Our President has said, our quarrel is not with the German people, but with the ¢ man government. There is no ni tion now at war that would not Ifs- ten realily to peace proposals froia time made by the in last year's vic ffornia, Stanford win- ving in 16 by eight lengths. To- day's race was un unfavorable weather conditions, a steady rain falling during the race and the lows are looking ‘for action and excitement, the navy’s the place to find it right now. “We need about 50,000 red- blooded young men. The na will give you an education, will vind beating diagonally across the |‘° — aap BS og The Britisn forces were slow: sk , ke st allentan course. : 7 . “"\ ly but steadily closing in around teach you a trade, will show you The start was considerably de- |", ie 99 per cent of se | France's great mining capital layed by the wind, the California crew, in particular, having trouble a Haing up for the start Stanford rowed a fast stroke at today. The Canadians were " Mey tego ta pt aie | hurling themselves from the loyal Americans. There is a | Vimy heights on German troops : small percentage of irreconcil- ee aaa sae across = fornia led for the) ables, but so small it doesn't | Plain. e. Canadians am the world, and if you save most of your pay you'll have more money when you get thru than the start and © wo ve if you stayed 3 co. LYON you ould have you stayed first half mile, but could not hold| count.” Hit cattion yy: Big! ity att ee “pat : AE irst entering Len c ec t axLington, th a slow Won Blaine's Daughter which the Germans had hoped © from the start, pulled Damrosch himself certainly is a nd and passed Stan- remarkable hyphenate ford and ( srnia just as Stanford, He came to America when he was crowding California out of the Was 9 years old, He married the liead, The tide had just started daughter of James G, Blaine, His r lout of the estuary and was with ; brother Frank, also a famous con * * * * * * * * * * jthe crews down the three-mile | ductor, was at one time a Heutenant steady strok up from t to hold at all costs. £ When I left the Canadian sector I saw from the Vimy ridge the city of Lens ablaze, It was plain the Germans intend to sack and destroy the town, as they sacked and de | Nearly every fellow in the room joined. 1 myself enlisted. What sort of a navy has the United States? What does a boy get into when he joins? How is ( out.” | he trained 2 Is he aisha aie off | course in the National Guard of Colorado. |stroyed Bapaume and Peronne, when he comes out? By Brigadier General H weight His own opera was built on the Germans Resist Desperately I joined so 1 could find out about these things and ‘ terrible, but there are things story of “The Searlet Letter,”| German resistance was poles he thousands of boys M. Chittenden, U.S. A eye - : which | is ly considered the|more and more desperate with ently give first-hand information to t and 5 ible still oice to draw the |most American novel ever written.|hour that Field Marshal Haig sieman } j eT f It was De sch who wrote the\ed his men forward, But the nee (Retired.) os Manila Te Deum" when Dewey ce was ineffective against the |” eet ‘ ; . j ; canie sailing home in 1898 powerful Rritish blows, ts (Written for The Star) hrist made a scourge of cords and And,” contributed a reporter) Today Vimy ridge was still shelle drove the evi ers from the temple. He | who saw me consulting “Who's/ed from afar off by German guns, thruout the country who are now trying to decide whether they should enlist. TAKE HIS FINGER PRINTS AND MAKE NOTE OF MOLE THAT'S USUALLY HIDDEN | HIS is a working 4d not wait to.steue, SO LET TH! | Who" for these fa he’s as big alas well as other positions held by I was sent to the Washington navy yard for pb 1 examination en's 1 a working HUMBLE OILER F WHATEVER WATSHINGTON, April 14.— man as Teddy Roosevelt or Johnny the British, But everywhere the There the surgeon measured, weighed, sounded and thumped me, tested ; = J ILE TOILER O ’ R | ae 4:05 sufficient. votes had | McGraw of the Giants, even if he is!Teutonte artillery was shooting exe my eyesight and hearing and took my finger prints women's war DEMOCRATIC NATION DRAW THE | been secured to assure passage = 2 musician.” jcitedly rather than methodically. “You can’t beat this system,” he cautioned me. “if you ever think Vhy WORD AND NOT AGAIN RETURN | of the bond bill, And to his list of big men, the] British forces were steadily gaime of deserting, remember we catch you thru these finger prints and our | Because it is a war of IT TO ITS SCABBARD UNTIL HE. |, WASHINGTON, April 14.—Phe | reporter probably woul e add-| ing command of all bigh ground vik description of all your physical characteristics | ‘democracy against aristo HAS DRIVEN FROM THE TEMPLE |"ottse Will vote to loud $3,000,000,-/ed Jess Willard if he i seen |lages and other vantage points a® He let me look over the official record : B ’ RIN \ . I 000 to the allies at once and with. | what I saw they progressed astride the “Hine It contained even a notation concerning a mole that never shows racy a eis F OF CIVILIZATION PHI EVIL (out important reservation. It! For when I Damrosch |denburg line.” Today even the except when I take a bath! Victory for one side will advance the 1 RS WHO ARE SEEKING TO showed this cle, _ today when what recreation he \ from his spreading plain below Vimy ridge, “You'll do,” he said Another officer came in with a Pi and cause of labor and of women more than "ROFANI | rO THEIR EVER mendments offere y democrats work, he smiled Ww 1, 1 don't Jee whi Ae wes dine men with my left hand on it and my right hand raised I took an oath to| a century of peaceful effort LASTING UST and republicans to restrict the |reed much exercise.” he observed, |aced, was vi nape 8h @ president of the United States, obey the orders of my Sides so cack neg joaning and the time of the money | drawing the rough cloth of his coat ne nadians cont Inued irresiat: gtand by the pres + the U , or r the other side will fix tl And keep th 1 mind. Tf we are neluded in the administratic sleeve tight, to show a biceps. Hke|ibly pressing on down the Vimy Guperiors. and do my full duty pee ceomner oF the Unied States $0%7 heel of military domination upon the Shere’ will: he the joyful $7,000,000,000 bond bill were at-ja melon slopes, occupying Petit Vimy, Giv “You'll take the night boat for the Norfolk training station,” they) os of the world for generations to shee PEC gern ce new PrOS- J tacked viciously by both sides. “That's what 30 vears of orches-|¢nchy and the Bailleul railway sta told me When you arrive, report at the receiving ship Richmond ' ' g pect of a permanent peace tratobaduoting does fot.e iin.” tion “We've got Fritz where we want & Quite a bunch of us rookies” went down to Norfolk that night come 4 If we fail, there will be the certainty LOS ANGELES, April i4--Otto | ' i Olid Timer Thrills Rookies {going back to rejoin his ship after Understand the situation, We are not even more deadly wars in the future Dorrier was arrested this morning him now,” observed one Canadian = When we steamed past Mount/a 10 days’ shore leave ighting the German common people. We i} ‘ ‘ sivilizati k at Redonde beach as a spy suspect | officer grimly today ies ad ig . ye ‘- ee 4 | a oO fro s -_- ——-——--— Yernon, the home Fh sto dk un Twenty-seven years in the | are fighting FOR them—to lift from their he hope ot at PAOD ic) epee -aarieea. train. Waahiantiny | were sittin ' , ‘ ; . \ —lie Keep. re prisone 8 ed ove emo etin on . "he backs the real cross of iron, which is destiny of mankind—lie in our keep good for 27 years more Secsneesess| ower Cee Right Shoulder, SPADES! F’ward MARCH! Hep! Hep! ENLISTED MEN A novel witha SEATTLE “We respectfully urge upon | > the president and congress of | 1 Seattle back and radishes—in fact, we are DR. 8. D. COFFIN, 605 29th—- discouraged and don’t bother us south end, [think he t# put sible Dirt is ene eS never | going to fill up the back yard | We haven't started a garden | H.M, LOVE, 311 €, 50th—i'm | ting some other vegetables in, | 4. L. RUNNER, 3816 w. the United States that such | angle—that’s verde and vaca | All our neighbors are doing the yet, but [think we #hall, We digging up my back yard now too, It is quite a distance from Hinds—I would be making a oupstantial 1e0 nent oe ere bet | | home, t fter the garden | . the pay of officers and enlisted “ pS ‘ore. | same thing | had one before, but our soil is 1 haven't had a garden before. r home, but after the garden garden if IT had a place that 1 lit. To the incentive of the high 5 | not very good. I don’t know yet Some pe peti » the: is once in, he will only have to would Q . men of the naval and military D the | M, P. GOODNER, 1606 E. 65th n os n’t kn " Some people seem to have their ay wonld grow anything but | service that the same may be | cost of living has been added | Woe have had a garden for the what we will plant, but I think | pjanting done already. but the | 8° down once in a while mecda, ‘The ienll stot teatilontiy ree ta Gasigar re twmnirae ; the call of patriotism, and if | last two years, but we are mak ve | put in a little more | @pring is #0 late I don't believe | W. B. SHOEMAKER, 1159 gravel, and it would take two tion, In view of the fact that Man s 1 ee ‘ate 1 le bigger th than usual much is gained by putting the | 16th Ave. N.—Our place is all or three years to fit it to raise - fing wp the soll will help ing toe We : | pla : their labor is entitled to as ; soetthe war, Seattle is going to | this year, I believe. Mrs. G GEORGE McK. McCLELLAN, seed in the wet, cold ground in lawn, and there are only two anything | mueh consideration in the open ” | do her part | ner rune the garden, and I don't 317 Harvard Ave. N—-No, We Juat now the thing is to get the of us in the family; but, at MRS. B. L. SLOAN, 2827 W. | market as supplies and muni- E es Homes in all sections of the know much about it | are not making a garden, but if ground dug up, so the air can | that, I'm not sure but 1 may Dakota—I always raise vege- aha et | city bave been telephoned to by MRS. BIZ NAZARENUS, 702 a Ao dy ra: cl get at itand warm it tear up a little place for some tables, and my garden is partly that any incre ‘ The Star, in order to establish Lakeview—No, I can't have a nae 8. Py : i aM MRS, HULDA PETERS, 1824 V ables. 1 think it's @ fine planted, but the apring is late viding for this addition to pay It deals with the how general the response to the garden. I wish I could have | Do, 8 pi AB et area 13th Ave.—My peas and beans The exercise is benefit and it isn’t all in yet be met by the nation at large.” mysterious. DaWaenaa country's call to raise food is in | one. My back yard is hardpan, | T@ Putting In about two aches and onions and radishes are up cial, and, anyway, we all live MRS. ELEANOR R. Mow. The above telegram was sent last | ysterious power this city. Almost every person | and I planted onions in it once, fn’ vegeta bles * good “pei it |) already. They were planted too much out of paper sack®, | RY, 762 N. 73rd—I'm afraid I'm [night to President Wilson by the | an attorney whose telephoned to te either making | and we pretty near had to take | 1" potatos sa néual thing. | shout three weeks ago, [am | If we'd raise more of what we going to be cheated out of my [Seattle Chamber of Commerce, thru} sightless eves d t a garden or about to make one trowel to dig them out. They | there is a good deal of rod | Tinnting potatoes today. | eat, it would be a good thing. | ganien this year, just when [ {its president, A, J. Rhodes sightless eyes do no! Following are some of their cidn't seem to develop at all } idle in our nefghborhood, Pat plante! half a sack of potatoes MRS. J. S. VAN COTT, 4746 want it most. My yard is all Rhodes also appealed to the Unit prevent him from un- comments MRS, W. H. VINCENT, 1416 | {2!S sear every bit of it Is til last year and got enough to | University Blvd.—We alway torn up, and won't be in shape ed States shipping board to investi aveling the crime that MRS, ALICE ROLLIT COE, 31et Ave. $.—My boy takes care ed, and there has been some one last our rather small family une | have a garden, and ours is again in time to plant, Prac gate the strike at the Washington raveling the ¢ e Ua ‘A507 12th Ave. N. E.—Indeed of our garden. 1 don't know around every few days asking til now, with a few left for partly planted this spring, 1 tically every vacant lot in this |lron Work where government flourishes unseen to we are putting in a garden, and that it will be any bigger than for vacant ground to plant The | need this year : | notice @ great many people in | neighborhood that is in condi. work will be ne ded aby! and those about him.’ it’s going to have vegetables in neual: he raises lettuce and the soil here is very good, We have MRS, FRANCES SHAFER, this neighboritood are raising tion to plant 1s being used, A | where the owner, Gerald Frink, and : s ‘ it this year. 1 think we may lighter vegetablen every year. a few moles, but by catching | 7414 Bagley—\ly husband is | vegetables. 1 am greatly in neighbor who never has had a some 200 union men are charging | Begin reading it in specialize on potatoes, but we I think thia gardening idea is | two or three of them early, | making a potato pateh out of favor of the idea of raising as | garden! before haw filled his other with lack of “patriot Monday’s Sti $ @ball have onions, and carrots, | a fine thing. | when they begin work, they get some Vacant lots he has in the | much of our own food as pos. | own yard and four vacant lots, onday s otar