The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 16, 1917, Page 1

"ee how to grow things. The first will appear in The Star Wednesday. lem may be relieved ison to | | Shape War Course WASHINGTON, Apri! ‘The first formal step in one of the most important internation- ‘BI conferences of the great war will be taken Wednesday when President Wilson will receive Arthur J. Balfour, foreign min- lester of Engiand, and members @f the French commission now ‘@n route to this country. Balfour and his party, together with the French commission, eluding former Premier Vivian! and . Joffre, until recently com- Manderin-chief of the French ar- Mies, will be tendered a reception at the White House. To Shape Nation's Destini This formality disposed of, ques- | tions which may control the des tinies of nations will be taken up| 6— | ‘s part in the world war of democracy against antocracy will be definitely determined. Not only the question of cooper ation on the fighting field, but prob lems of feeding and furnishing the | European nations with provisions and money. Foreign Minister Balfour will! reach New York at 5:30 p.m. He {s expected to continue on to Wash. | ington after a brief stay in New York. The exact time the French commissioners are expected to ar- rive is not known, but {t is expected they will be here Wednesday. One of the first’ questions will be arrangements to subject British Tesidents in the U. 8. to conscrip-| tion in the American army or the The Star will help you. to that extent. THE ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT DARE VOLUME 19 Another “Scrap of Paper” option of volunteering in the Brit- ish army it became known today on unquestionable authority. it Arrangements also will be dis-/| cussed whereby Great Britain may | be allowed to recruit British sub- fects in this country for her | — J00M OF LENS _ BEING SEALED BY WM. PHILIPS SIMMS } United Prem Staff Correspondent WITH THE BRITISH ARMIES AFIELD, April 16.— British troops fought their way | forward in the outskirts of St. Quentin and Lens today. Just north of St. Quentin they took the village of Troissauva: Around three sides of Lens they were fiercely fighting against German defenders and slowly encircling the coal city. Again early today the Germans threw two more strong attacks at British positions at Mounchy-Le. Preux. Both failed The British artillery concentrat- | 4 artillery fire at the massed at ks. “We progressed to the northwest @ Iens,” was the Pritish com : (Continued on page 5) ADVERTISING MANAGER'S DAILY TALK HARD CASH You can save it—and good, Substantial sums, too, by feading the ads daily in The Star. And the best part ot it is that the bargain prices| &re very often on necessi ties—things you actually have to buy. Any day you} don’t read the ads you are Overlooking good oppor- tunities. The best offerings of Se- itle’s best stores appear regularly in The Star. os = IN THE NORTHWEST |to show that fheen in favor of a meeting, McGill land exceptions SEATTLE, WASH President Wilson, in a statement today to the nation, has ] asked YOU to cultivate a garden in order that the food prob- Will you do it? It has asked Floyd Rader, King | ounty agriculturist, an expert in farming, to prepare a series of articles to tell you | These articles will save you time, PREACHER ADVISED i. W. W. TO HOLD EVERETT MEETING Rev. O. H. McGill, method- lat, industrial evangelist, testi- fled Monday in the trial of Thomas Tracy, |. W. W. charg- ed with shooting Deputy Sher- iff Jefferson Beard November 5, in the battie with deputies on the Everett city dock, that he counseled Secretary Her bert Mahler, of the Seattle lo. cal |. W. W., to hold a mass meeting at Everett to teil citi- zens “the truth of the Beverly park incident.” The minister's testimony came as a surprise to the state. In cross examination, the state strove while he might have | was not fully Informed of the Bev lerly park affair and that he knew nothing of the call which had been issued by the I. W. W. to its mem bers in the eastern part of the state for a mass meeting, which | vould make “the Everett mayor and chief of police shiver when they heard the word ‘I. W. W. Attorneys Bicker The examination of the Rev. Mc Gill and the Rev. Herbert Flint and Joseph P. Marlatt, of Everett, who preceded Lim on the witness stand, was conducted with much bicker. ling between the attorneys on both rides and with frequent objections Attorney Vanderveer, for the de fense, interposed a series of objec tions to the line of examination used by the state to show that Mahler had tricked and duped the |minister. The objections were riled, and Marlatt testified that in company with President} Marsh, of the State Federa-| | Flint | the \E. P. Man’s eS A novel of mys- tery concerning the strange powers of a sightless attorney to comprehend the sub- tle strategy of crimi- ]} nals, begins in The Star today, pag e 4, | i tion of Labor, and others, vis ited Heverly park several days after the alleged gauntlet running }@nd later held a conference as to | what should be done. It was dis. cussed at that time the advisability of permitting the lL. W) W.'s to hold a mass m ing in the tabernacle of Evangelists Hart and McGaan who were holding meetings in Ky erett. No decision was made, but} it was a result of this confer ence that McGill says he advocat ed a meeting in Everett November |6 to Mahler, |Navy Suspends All Nireless Licenses WASHINGTON, April 16,— In keeping with President Wil- son's recent proclamation, turn. ing wireless stations over to the navy, Secretary Daniels today announced all licenses for shore radio otations are eus- pended during the war. BRAZILIAN LABOR trouble and expense. They will make that back lot of yours produce a consider- able portion of the vegetables you will need. They will be just what the Parent- Teachers’ association needs to stimulate garden growing among school children. Watch for The Star Wednesday—and every day after that. In the meantime, get that lot to cultivate. If you haven’t one of your own, call up James Callaghan, public welfare commissioner, at the courthouse, Main 9500. If you have a lot you will be unable to cultivate yourself, let some one else do it, MONDAY APRIL 16, 1917. the can, wanted to buy al case ward the end of the seasor nd new potatoes may be expected, are | quant ies, were demanded by the sac | Sugar and flour were s« the astonished] grocers were in danger of being pted of these staples This sudden buying of food was—and is, if it is. still | continuing at the prese nt high retail prices, they took measures to protect their stocks by refusing td sell speculation absolutely effect |mum of one ] | | | WORKS FOR PEACE RIO DE JANEIRO. The Brazilian Federation of Labor met today and adopted resolutions urging peace April 16 Do not fail to start reading Blind Man's Byes” today |to any one | large their customers were sud¢ y S$ TO PRINT. THE NEWS Who is responsible for $90 potatoe And for several other threatened food-t mena You'll never guess—unless y¢ tart out, as The Star has done within the last two or three days, to trace the guilty party to his lai then you'll find it hard to believe |what you ‘discover Because, from all indications, the trail leads right around circle to the people who are indignantly asking the tion—the housewives and the bill-payers | It's a pretty plain trail, right here in Se It began | with the come it of retail grocers, a week or more ago, that buying their shelves ‘bare Housewives Buy by the Case Housewives who had The Seattle Star RES TO PRINT. THE NEWS "| ONE CENTSY "2 rene ORT PLANS TO SELL FOOD AY EMPTY HUGE STOREHOUSES TO CONSUMER LAST EDITION IPI rns Start that back yard garden this week. If you don't know how— watch for County Agriculturist Ra- der’s articles, in The Star. Weath- er Dopester Salisbury has promised “showers tonight and Tuesday.” Drastic Course Proposed toBring Down Prices; Dealers Blame Housewifely Hysteria for Unprecedented Buying. — To eliminate the middleman’s profits and to reduce to @ mi wii n of i Seattle will utilize its immense facilities in ware= houses and storage plants in a plan which will actually bring — the producer and consumer together. Details of this powerful campaign against food specula- tion have not yet been worked out, but in general, President bert Bridges, of the port commission, has mapped out the following program: The ae commision, thru the traffic department, to act in the same manner as Western ave. commission houses to |receive food products AND TO SELL THEM DIRECT ~ TO GROCERS, BUTCHERS, FISH MARKETS, DEAL-« — |ERS OF ALL KINDS, AND TO INDIVIDUALS. To place a time limit for holding any commodities in) storage and compelling their sale after the expiration of © ium the possibility of food speculation, the port com= So om such limit, thereby preventing the holding of food for spec- — ulation prices. These are the t main divisions of the port commission Inasmuch as the. publicly owned port plants have mo 44 capacity than one-third the total area of cold stora As soon as the situation became clear to the grocers, | tle, the port commission is in a position to make its war re than a certain amount t of some who had been extendi Augustine & Kyer’s First ave. store, for instance, and at that they have been times as much ording to H. A Heppen person selling about sugar as us Heppenstall, - mana stall instructed his clerks to ex plain to customers that they do |not know whether prices are going }to go up or down, and to discoar age reckless buying Fred Anderson, of the Royal | Annex grocery, hth and Pine,| set a maximum of one cask of flour, one of eugar and one case of milk, person. He also had a canned goods of all will «ell for cash only who owns a chain of stores in the public market turned down hundreds of would bo buyers, he says, because he felt that to sell in such lar quanth ties would demoralize the mar. ket. Most of those who wanted to buy offered cash. Sales Show Record Increase Love 1620 Boren per cent more flour and sugar the early part of last week than usual. Many of his Ait customers paid cash for the arplus their usual ir chases Mre refused his He Cc. Long. run kinds on James G. of ave., sold 50 over Cook, 700 70th W.,} amounts ex last Monday 15 times as db. W to sell large cept for cash, On and Tuesday she sold much sugar as usual A Pike Place market man has a big sign out: “Not more than three} cans of milk to one person.” | We have hard work to get it from the wholesalers,” he explained Why are people buying in such now?” demanded “This spring and bring many | price—especially | quantities anothor Saturday summer will surely things down in vegetables, Moat hucksters were too busy fill ing “war” orders to talk about them The testimony of all retailers was to the effect that Seattle housewives have been spending their husbands’ salaries and straining their credit to lay In a stock of food, at unprecedent- | edly high prices, evidently be- | lieving that it is going to be scarcér and higher soon, And on the other hand there is ust as much proof, and just as easily obtainable, that there is no| danger of a shortage; AND THAT, WHILE THERE 1S ER OF HIGHER PRICES, IT 18) THE ‘The HOUSEWIVES THEMSELVES, | ANYBODY, WHO WILL CAUSE fixed a maxi-| sack of sugar to a| > any ng credit, | THEM person, Supply Is Plentiful “There is no possibility of a time coming when we can't supply the grocers with all their customers want.” declared E. secretary of Schwabacher Bros, | wholesalers. “We haven't even felt any unusual demand from them yet, except some activity in sugar and can milk. It is foolish of house. | wives to buy recklessly, Perishables.” The National clared supplies to be ample. In the Bell st. warehouse of the port commission, where commission men and some growers keep their vegetables in cold storage, the amount on hand ts normal for this time of year. Carrots and ruta bagas are naturally almost gone, be- use it will soon be time for Jones. One great cold room which | will hold 6,000 sacks of potatoes has been about o hird emptied, and others have been drawn on in pro |portion. There is more barreled fish in the warehouse than usual at this season THERE IS NO FOOD AT PRE Paulhamus Why, then, are food so frantically This is what W, H president of the Puyallup and Sum ner Fruit Growers’ association. thinks about ft. The association is composed of growers, who are themselves consumers. It puts up Its own products and sells them. It maintains a general store, especially ery Co. also de- HORTAGE OF T Explains people |at which its members can buy sup- plies of every kind. Consequently, he can view the subject from nearly all its many 6 “I think,” he says, “the trouble is that housewives have got scared thinking t e is to be a shortage, and are cau the high prices and the shortage, if there is any, them. selves Predicts Big Production “There certainly can be no sert ous food shortage. The state of Washington, if planted intensively, could produce 20 times what ft can consume. In the valleys between Seattle and Tacoma, every avail able acre is being cultivated. There is surely going to be such a produc. tion of staples this year as will keep prices down As to canned goods, I see no likelihood of a shortage. We are contracting for our cans now, It is true, it is hard to cans, because IF | they are made of steel washed with | (Continued on page 10) MAY SHACKLETON’S EPIC END LIKE THAT OF GREEK HERO, BY THE EDITOR At home I have a book which, if I couldn't replace it, I would) grieve to lose it is Homer's Odyssey, translat ed not Into stilted Engilsh poetry, but into musical Anglo-Saxon prose: It tells in language like that of a raga the story the Greek poet made immortal When I weary temporarily of the | THE FASTEST GROWING PAPER |artificialities of this age of movies, | newspapers, law courts and organ- izations, I like to go back into the |golden days when the world was young Dawn, the rosy-fingered, ushers | in that day. A fresh wind sings | over the wine-dark sea. Swift black hips cleave their way, accomplish- ing their path | it is a world of heroic men ee Last night | had the fortune to be one of 4,000 Seattle peo- ple transported, thru an en- tirely different medium, into this game werd of primitive times. We sat in the Arena, and a stocky man, “90 ready at need, who wandered far and wide, and many the woes he suffered in his heart upon: the deep, striving to win his own life and the return of his company,” told us his Odyssey. eer Sir Ernest Shackleton's wander- ings, in strong wooden ships, across untracked mountain ranges, . jin tiny nymph Calypso boats on the storm-tossed back of the angry sei duplicate | Odyssey's y ra of adventure. i} The mishaps that befell his he rofe band are quit varied and marvelous a8 the ek warrior’s encounters with the Cyclopes, the Lotus-Haters, the Cleones, the and Aeolus. The only difference was that an unknown Aegean sea was the back ground for Homer's story, and un known Antarctic seas and conti- nent for Shackleton’s, Tell your amusement pur veyor who says that no attrac tion will please an American audience unless the sex ele- ment predominates, about the Shackleton lecture Not a woman on the stage. Not a womén in any of the pictures. Not a woman men tioned in the story, or referred to in the most distant way, Just a recital, poetic in its sim- plicity and directness, of virile buying Paulhamus, | | and, in the case} by demanding cash,|the port, commission men have been buying up large a | Morganstern, | reasonable prices as there should be a large food supply.” | | e. Because of the nomi storage rates made possible b |ties of food stuff to Bridges. “Tt should be nd holding them for speculation, according The new plan will absolutely prevent this, quite important,” Bridges said, proper distribution of food to the consumer is as a ‘WILSON ASKS NATION TO FEED ITSELF AND ALLIES IN WAR 16— | problems of national life and action which call for immediate consideration and settlement that | hope you will permit me to address to you a few words of earnest counsel and appeal with regard to them. We are rapidly putting our nmavy upon an effective war footing and are about to cre- ate and equip a great army, but these are the simplest Parts of the great task to which we have addressed our- selves, No Selfishness in Cause There is not a single selfish ¢lement, so far as | can see, in the cause we are fighting for. We are fighting for what we believe and wish to be the rights of mankind and for the (Continued on page 3) WASHINGTON, April One of the mose eventful weeks in American history lay before the United States today. With President Wilson's appeal call- ing for the co-operation of every man and woman of the nation in waging a successful war, | bringing the conflict home to | every farm, factory and house- | hold, events of the next few | days will move America rapidly | forward to participation in the struggle with Germany. The president's appeal to the | nation follows: My fellow countrymen: The entrance of our beloved country Into the grim and ter- rible war for democracy and human rights which has shaken the world, creates so many | Says Dr. Matthews Advanced That $500 detectives needed expense money, and I could not get it from the county at that time, so Dr. Matthews borrowed $500 for Burns Sleuths] trom a bank and turned it over to them.” Prosecuting Attorney Lun- ee din and the county commission A ps ers still were in a deadlock 0. K Ww R BON Monday over the $506 bill | phason which Lundin has asked the | WASHINGTON, April 16.—With commissioners to pay the j little discussion and no apposition. Burns detective agency, and |the senate finance committee to- iss day reported favorably the $7,000,- 000,000 bend bill. The bill will be rushed thru the senate tomorrow to make qvailable the flood of gold, Senator Simmons j said. [RESERVE BANK HERE WASHINGTON, pr Lou Smith unless tt is which Comn refuses to itemized. Smith declared Monday Lun din had told him the money was needed to repay Dr. M Matthews, who had advanced it to the Burns operatives for expenses during their work for the county The detectives: ni prove under the dt April 16.—The rection of the p tor, were | federal reserve board is informally trying to get evidence of graft. | considering establishment of banks ing by policmen. at Portland, Ore., kane, and See “Yes,” Lundin admitted to |attle as branches of the federal re- The Star, “the money was ad- |serve bank of San Francisco, it vanced by Dr. Matthe The was learned today. man life. And the 4,000 men {stress, to his lofty house, his nad water: set Poe) ceualetes | Penelope and his own people. ck Ww an 7 applause such as musical com. i, Pindarty, I hope, will be the end. edy never in this world receiv- |im& of Sir Ernest's epic. He and ed, and never will, |his comrades (those who have not already joined the colors) are hur ites, rying to their posts to fight for the Odyssey for its| england and “us,” as the lecturer ending s for the dramatic | said in conclusion chapters of the wanderings and ad-| May they survive,the new dan+ venture gers, as they have the old, and For Odysseus finally arrives|come again to their high-roofed back, after all the fighting and the/lomes. % “that thera uy