The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 14, 1917, Page 4

THE SEA Editor’s Mail WANTS CHURCHES TAXED Fditor The Star: As a reader of paper, let me ask you a w questions and make a few sugges TTLE STAR| Ave. | WEST LEAGUE OF NEWsrarnns || your fee of |Ittons, In “Taxation for War Pur Entered at Seattle, Wash, F Matter, || poses,” you advocate conseription |lof wealth, the taxation of incomes, 4 mow $1.90; year $2.60 & month, BY mati, out of elty, asc por month up to 6 Ry carrier, city 2 bulldogs and whisky, and nearly ev erything else under the sun, but this very war in view King county, and what preportion of The allies ask for, and we are going to send them,| it does the defense pay? These are WHE nine regiments of engineers, as soon as possible not impertinent questions: they Pe . m mean something—to the writer at} net Germany has the most « ent system of military } pean | : e Ways and railroads a nation ever possessed As she ¢ Now, to round up these poolroom @uered territory in France and in the east, she promptly loafers and others who enjoy the @xtended her splendid system of transportation and this has) vibe oe Be wy noes eovereaeey ff and pay none of its exp n given her holding power, not only upon territory, but UPON | should not every mother’s eon of contro! of her allies. them, and all males in every other |claas between the ages af 18 and 60 tb mpelled to pay a poll tax of not less than $2 a head, each and jevery year during the war, or long The allies, on the other hand, have been crippled from ‘the start by inferior transportation facilities, Russia in par ticular So, a body of the best railroaders on earth 10,000 or 12,000 strong—will go 1 from Will be taken her last point of superiority, barring her sub. Marine efficiency. It is said American engineers have @lready bodily transported a whole railroad line from Eng- Se) fand to France. Watch our new regiments do still bi things! PRESIDENT WILSON, it is now evident, Is the man who put Russ Americans, Germany ;sible for their émployes’ tax? P. J. MATTS, Maryaville, Wash. over, an that e RAISE CITY SALARIES Editor The Star: I have read with interest the number of articles in regard to the wage increase of city employes. Now, if Mr. Hanna Jand the other councilmen were pald the wages of | Into Russell. Well, so long, Charlie, and “take keer of yerself.” $75 and $100 per A month, inatead of $250 per month Fi " m you would soon hea ome argu $ > * 2 ments from them about the matter. ' The First Gray Hair Way ineas ane shone sald nk > high wages !s a mystery to me * You looked at yourself the glass this morning. And! when these «amo men think that! 4 what a jolt your mirror gave you! It was as tho your |the other employer are recetving| | such high wages. more important? | The heads of the departments are the ones who know the tndfvid ician had told you you had fallen victim to some disease Is their work any quite beyond cure. if aes x For you saw in your mirror that which is the visible sign hot ) } ; man’s lockstep with time—a gray hair. hea aed ach employe. Most i“ ns r : wraw hair lie? rely Dtsiness ho: these days } 2 Wherein the shock « irst gray hair li Surely | outen os / i = ty ave @ whitened head, not to mention se occasional streaks Of | tneir employes according to th iy that are he by bri eyes and springy gait, is a « individual wor llaa & bastaous sal know what this means. Moat winess houses go/| jover their pay rolla once or twice Year and raise their employes ac-| ‘ording to thetr individual worth, Sight. Yet s how you had never figured that a gr Tair or two was in store for you. Y in your fancy wer @xempt. Youth was yours for all ti tho for others you Fecognized it to be but a passing incident Well, let us sit down and weep over that first gray 3 + S ables <n a eatttede " and al*o promote them. They Seem yous, which as days pile on days will multiply ie 4 * | don’t keep them hanging on for sev-| hendredfold. Truly enough it signalizes not so much the end | erat yoars at the same salary and @f youth as the beginning of ag Let us sit down and weep. | giv them more and harder work » for the same pay become sane a we an And now, our weeping de in . f { * ing b sh Wages is a sound busine > we realize that maturity is the lower of life, youth being t Wt | soticy disses ee he plant's stalk. We realize that nothing grows except it/man t* a human being and will es |Work harder to make a high wage ir gives y c ’ than a low one. Every empl The first gray hair gives you a shock, but ‘tis no more | ery employe shocking ie the first tooth was to your babyhood. Yet| Reeds am Incentive to freshen his : Interest and arouse his ambition go long as teeth come in the way of nature, who would be| When the For company put ita without 'em? minimum wage up to $5 a day, it did not discharge a single Man, nor did it take men away from other shops. All increases in wages tend directly toward the decrease of por- ¥ ie TO WASTE food in your home Is folly at any time. It’s treason © ae | & erty and to the improvement in b health conditions Of course. ev.) e N W ery employe of the city is expected Purely Aggres Si to dress well, keep his family, have} =: F be a gocd and useful citi-| The Scientific American is « 1¢ Opin we make how far does $75 or $100| B® purely defensive war, we may eventu ourselves | go in this day of high cost of Itving? ‘¢ to face with the high seas fleet of Germany and the pho time you go to @ store and ‘ urchase Icle. Yyeteran armies, 10,000,000 strong, of the central powers : tee cee = it as gone xp| 3 » cco o! o We shouldn't give two thoughts to such a possibility.| war” etter raise the wares na account of the war Just another point. All the heads of the different city departments were raised $20 and $25 per month | recently, when they already were| recetving good wages, and employes | Wwerp led to understand that they! First, because, regardless of Germany, we should establish |nd perpetuate such military and naval power of our own that we would be insured against attack by any nation or “probable combination of nations. Secondly, because we're war “that the world may be made safe for democ- This means that we're on the aggressive, not the A TAXPAYER, g n would come in line t ayer ‘a line next. It js defensive. It means final elimination of Germany's high quite a different store vow, and) Wie seas fleet. and those veteran armies as a standing menace|these men are receiving lower| ig a guocrncy, Herey Why not play a square! ‘iy | dea: | ORDERING TWICE as much twice as much as you need gives © and Indigestion to you. WALLINGFORD CLUB : GERMAN HOPES of Russian downfall seem to be doing the Hin-| DISTRICT EXPANDS denburg stunt. you need ie a waste of food. Eat. id and comfort” to the enemy | Judge King Dykeman, of the au | | Pertor court, and Prof. D. D. John ston, of the state university, will} | address the Wallingford Commun ity club Monday night at Densmore police station, 45th ave. N. and Densmore ave., at 8:15 p.m. The club has expanded, and now takes | jin the district from Lake Union| Jnorth to 65th st, and from Stone-| FEWER BUTTONS are to be used om women’s clothes thie season, they say. But, doggone ‘em! they don’t say where they're are going to be fewer. Doctors Stand Amazed at Power of Bon-Opto to Make Weak Eyes ° 2 | way east to Latona ave. President Strong—According to Dr. Lewis 3"1."tevie teins Cake PELE! AB, more members. Improvements, {n-| | dustrial, educational, commercial! Guaranteed to Strengthen Eyesight 50 Per Cent in One Week’s Time in Many Instances and national problems are dixcuns.| ed by special speakers at the meet ings ches RET! A Free Prescription You Can Haveyin a reasonable time and multi 4 mays Filled and Use at Home pore anne will be able to RR N nia, Pa—Viotims ot| strengthen their eyes so as to be| ARREST AUSTRIA ean and other eye weak-|*Pared the trouble and expense of H nesses, and those who wear bed getting Slasses. Eye troubles per 8 Sc Aied ‘ard , will be glad to know | 0 many descriptions may be won- ndrew itambuck, 44, of Ta P t. according 0 Dr. Lewis, Cerfully benefited by the use|C°™M4, an Austrian citizen, was un « el is real hope and help|°f this prescription. Go to any|46r investigation by the fed ‘ for them. Many whose eyes were active drug store and get a bottle of TS! authorities Monday as a result - failing say they have had their Bon-Opto tablets. Drop one Bon-Opto |of efforts to stop Serbians who = ieee restored by this remarkadlo| ‘let in a fourth ofa glass of water|passed thru Seattle Sunday on a, oF {ption and many who once and let it dissolve. With this ‘quid, |their way to Salonika to fight for ey glasses say they have thrown | bathe the eyes two to four times |their country against Germany a < ha tele save. ater dally You should notice your eyes| Stambuck made tnauiting re Fusing St: “I was almost blind.) lear up perceptibly right from the | marks and was turned over to the © Gould not see to read at all. Now | *art ond Inflammation and red-|police and locked tp. ‘I can read everything without my paced ames ly disappear. If your| me F gisssos and my eyes do not hurt|Cve% bother you even a little it ts ny more. At aight they would |{ur duty to take ston to avo) JEWELS DISAPPEAR . ae at theo (EP gel ging | saved thetr sight if they had cared| Three platinum rings, set with Brace. .ee atmosphere” seemed |2F Helr eyes in time, emeralds, flamonds and sapphires, . fe Witheat asses, but as : valued at $1,000, were eithen lost or | days everything seems clear. I can | submitted, wala Yo, the Bon-Opto|@t 304 enth ave, 8., some Mm | read even fine print without ‘a truly @ wonderfulltime Saturday. Police found no 14 ~ glass ‘Another who used it |gredients are weil known to emi.|evidence that the house had been P says: “I was bothered with eye|nent ye anecialinis and widely pre-jentered forcibly © strain caused by overworked, tired | *crived by the have used ft ¥ eyes which induced flerco’hend-|pationts whore ayes abs ect! aches. I have worn glasses for pads Pes aa hase or Tbe wa PASSPORT STOLEN several years, both for distance and |! can highly recommend tt in cane & work, and without them I could not | {ng burning’ even eon the ei tele A t ; , = read my own name on an envelope| vision, or for from ex- f j passport isaued by the Ca- © or the typewriting on the machine | pomuré to sino t or wind, |nadian government, together with & have discarded iny long distanco| for regular use in almoat every fain. | Were Stolen from Milton W. Har- = glasses altogetter. 1 can count the|!!¥,” Hon -Opto, referred to above, 1a|!ow at the Y. M. C, A,, Saturday | © fluttering leaves on the trees across | remedy it is an ethical Crete rmaret | night. | © the street now, which for several the formula heing’ printed. on. the | | & years have looked like a dim green |Prekage, The manufacturers guar-| purglars who raided the rofrig-| Em) blur to me. 1 cannot express my | ont in one weeks tint? Th eriae Re |erator of Henry Nelson, 114 Wert | a) Joy at what it has done for me.” It is believed that thousands who Wear glasses can now discard them stances or refund the money. It can be obtained from any good druggint, and is sold in this eity by the 1 druggists.—Advertisement, 75th st. made away with a roast, of beef, a ham and several boxes of strawberries. Private | New York state goes you one better . and advocates a tax on cate, Why) _ + - —————=not go after the churches? Why e {should they go free? Are they any D t |better than we who own pet bull Engineers to the Fron Foye i Ing taxes? Again they're going to try to match Germany, and go Now, let me call your attention to her one better, and they're going to employ Americans /another class of persons who claim in doing it. Already the allies hold the upper hand in navy, |and recetve the bythe of gion ‘ Of |Ment protection and pay no taxes Man power, money, artillery and aeroplane service One of Ftc the enioox acebaeeannen the great muscles in German's mighty arm is her mag-|ep and the poolroom loafer. Who Rificent transportation system, built thruout the years with | pays the expense of that long drawn-out trial just concluded tn er, and make the employers reapon | | 1 ALL CREA) 4UST BErore Mmey: WENT DOWN A LITTLE OF THIS ANO THAT A Cleveland recrult went under the dentist's drill for 18 hours so he could get in the army. Now he's kolng to war to recuperate And again Sherman wasn't just right with his well-known phrase Since Turkey has put the kibosh on us, it may mean the lid for us on Turkish cigarets eee FATHER GOOSE UP TO DATE Simple kaiser mot his fight men Hotfooting back from the war. Said simple kalser to his fight men, What are you back here for?” aid the fight » to simple kaiser, Because we're ehy on lunch. Said simple kaiser to his figh What men ast y u munch And smiling, he bayoneted his imperial chauffeur and spake, “Rush it up, kid, back to der palace, supper might be getting chilled.” eee Alton B. Parker says the Rus asians do not know Root. Judging A GRADUATE —_ NURSE Why She Recommends Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound Chicago, l—"l was in poor health for two years, caused by a | dtaplacement, and during atx months of this time was under & doctor's care without getting any help. I de cided to try Lydia FE. Pink ham's Vegetable Compound and made me feel like a new wom- an T am on trely relieved of the displacement and periodic pains, and am now the mother of a beautiful, healthy baby. I am a graduate nurse and |will be glad to recommend Lydia Pinkham's le Compound to other wome Mr RL OW. SLOAN, 6026 80. Park Avenue, Chi- cago, Til. There are many women who auf. fer ns Mra. Sloan did and who are & benefited by this great medi cine every day It has helped thousands of women who have been troubled with displacements, inflammation, ulceration, trregular itles, periodic paina, backache, that bearing down feeling, Indigestion, and nervous prostration. If you need spectal advice write Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co. (confidential), Lynn, Mass. flash signal lights STAR—MONDAY, MAY 14, 1917. AN CAN'T ENC ENT IN OTHER WA DON'T WORRY A MINUTES ABOUT OUR WAR UATH GERMANY, ISN'T A COUNTRY IN THE | WORLD THAT CAN WHIP THOS UNITED sTaTe OF AMERICA, R CONFIDENCE IS A BAD THING, A BUMP WILL WAKE You UR. NATIONS HAVE THOUGHT back and fight, the} THOUSANDS TICK IN UNISON Every hour, 65,000 clocks are set by Western Union Telegraph. Clocks that ring bells in schools; clocks that blow factory whistles; clocks that every where—all owe their accuracy to -WESTERN UNION THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH CO. PAGE 4 IST, HE SHOULD Hecp Ys, i's very THeR® | lian NAT NOTHING BUT THAT'S THE way | . By E. D.K. from the protests raised by Rus sians against Root's appointment, our guess is that they know him better than some people in this! leountry do. | eee } With the an nounced Increase! of 1 cent an hour. or 6 to 10 cents per day, street car men now eanily mest the increased cost of living. eee HELP US CATCH A 8UB. || ! MARINE | Have you a plan to catch sub. marines? If you ha to E. D. K. at once. not promise that the govern- ment will use your plan, but if it 18 a good one, we'll print ft. + ° ROBBERS USE CRANK arding what he belleved to be Mtney bus carrying four pas. xengers beside himself, Robert H Thompson, Ballard blacksmith, fel! into the hands of a gang of thieves | who attacked him at 32nd ave. N.| W. and West 57th st. early Sunday | and robbed him of $87.75, a gold watch and a pocketbook. Thomp | son, 8002 3ist ave. N. 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Full particulars at CITY TICKET OFFICE 109 Cherry 6t.—Phone Elliott 3436. ; important clocks |drewmed, was the Hon | Willon up?” uircoww sve | “UNDER TWO FLAGS” ) By Edgar Allan Poe BY LOUISE DE LA REME (OUIDA) (ERE TR TRO: SUR es NOONE ICANT PRE SOBRIRE 66 CHAPTER L amount, waved aside all thanks,|mob, forced their way up quickly r ot t 7 ym the could “Beauty of the Brigade and ran down stairs into the street 1 "don't f “uaa 4 Aste fe as his charger was waiting Turf must be cleared of these sige tts 2 kab sead cng The Koyall'eu Peerage, one of | scamps, you nee,” Cecil said, “Law pald | cult to please with his tops,” the most ancient and almost the| can't do anything. Fellow was try. lly = tied ee poy 1 ey diGt | most impoverished in the kingdom, |ing to ‘get on’ with the young one, ‘Hut he's a'trie gentleman; never | CUld Ill afford to maintain its sons too, Don't bet with thone rift-ratt, lin the expensive career on which it! Ber grudge a fiver to you; never out) i+ jeunched them, and the chief} Rake at that instant darted out of temper, either, and I'll be d—-d | fia launched them. and t be-| of the throng. “Mr, Cecil, air, wilf caro what 1 do for him. oom, |tween the eldest son, a Secretary | you please come to the welghte With which to the #tud-groom, | 1? i#gaton in Vienna, and the|the saddling bell’s going to ring Rake ran up the back stairs of : ey Phar Pin! master's lodgings th Mocacitiy, | TORE Cpe Retk@er, Sort Che Clk | ae wwatahene " On the softest of sofan, halt) Viscount’s partiality. ret: tnby edie ee All Bertie had was his pay and| with passion at h's exile from the lawless gleam with Bertie him. | hi |the few hundreds a year from his|barvest-field of his self, second son of Viscount Royal ings, went bis way Me known generally in the| mother's settlements. Neverthe " a savage as “Beauty,” The appel-| less, he managed to live | Yow of vengeance. lative, gained at Eton, was de-| other men in his set, and maintain Twenty minutes later the thoro served. Ho wan the handsomest|4 stable which included Forest breds were scattered over the first man in all the Household Regi-| King, the great steeplechaser, on | field, Forest King, Wild Geranium ments—not even excepting his old-| Whom the Guards had laid all| and Bay Regent leading for two | lengths, when Montacute, with his |habitual “fast burst,” sent Pas de | Charge past them like lightning. The five favorites bad it all | themselves Over the turf they flew, taking fences and ditches like birds, “Oh, my beaut half aloud, th cleared the thirty-sixth fence, “Kill me if you like, but don't fail me!” Forest King answered with all [his hero's heart. The splendid |form launched faster out, and Reseat | passed Bay Regent by a quarter. Whatever the King might prove, | length A roar broke from the however, the Guards must stand |‘#ronged course as the crowd hung | breathless on as superb a sight as or fall by him; they had not an-| : $ other horse entered, so complete | the Shirees ever saw; while the | ber. was the trust that, like the Seraph, | ‘WO fan toget } they put in “Beauty” and his gray.|, Sent along at a pace that Epsom The clock of the course pointed | Mat never eclipsed, they ran side to half-past one; the saddling bell|t® side one moment more. The would ring at a quarter to two blackthorn was in front behing Carriages were standing in long|{¥@ bare of solid oak; the water lines along the course: the stands | yawning on its farther side, black were filled with bevy of feahion,| and deep and fenced, 12 feet wide, | ble loveliness | with the same thorn wall beyond One man, ” ‘ossy” all over, turned “a! be i no horse should have so that his back was toward Bertie, | been Biven. as the latter was enterng a bat| Cecil pressed his knees Prey with the Seraph, and be himself | 94 worked the gallant hero for the Forest King had done so | their money for the Grand Military |—the Soldiers’ Blue Ribbon ext friend and closest comrade, the Marquis of Rockingham, known as the Seraph.” Ho looked at the new tops that Rake swung in bis hand, and shook his head “Better, Rake; but not right yet The course was near the old fam- Royallieuw 1 House. half the e for the fly place of the Here Bertie congregat Guardsmen in the Servi great event, and in its spacious stables Forest King was housed with all the luxury of a woman. It was known that the Guards had backed their horse tremend ously, and the county lald most of ite money on him. Yes, despite this, the “Fancy” took most to Bay Cecil cried, “You, sir. Come in this minute for orders.” ‘Tell him I'll look in at the stable after duty. Send that bou- quet to Mrs. Delamaine, Write ut the stud fox-terrter, and buy t bl Dandy Dinmont; Lady Guinevere wants him. I'll take hm down with me, But first put me Into harness, Rake; it’s getting la Murmuring which multiplicity of directions, for Rake to catch as he could, Bertie Cecil surrendered himself to the martyrdom of culrass and gorget f young one, how In the day very bad? as the door opened Women said that Ceci! cared for nothing longer than a fortn’ght, unless it were his horse, Forest King. This was.not true, for, be sides Forest King, he loved his ® you? ask a young brother, Berkeley. was taking long odds with little | test “Beastly!” replied that young| Berk Cecil. mach, could he have stay gentleman, in reference to the| Glancing around at this moment | *trength for this? weather, “I say, Bertie--are you|as Re stood in the ring, Ceci! saw| (Continued in Our Next Issue) in a burry?” the betting man with Berkeley and Steno The very deuce of a hurry, little his face darkened, | Because | am in a hole and I welshing after the Ebor St. Leger, j thought you'd help me,” murmured Seraph?” he said. The Marquis READY FOR SERVICE the be nodded assent | What's up, Berk? There's the fellow,” said Cecil, | The boy bung his head. “I want |laconicaily, and strode toward him. Washington's quota of National some more money; a@ couple of| “Leave the ring.” Guard cavalry has expanded from ponies,” sald the boy a little The rasca! rallied from the/one troop to a squadron of four huskily, | startled fear into which his first|troops, and Capt, Hartwell W. Cecil gave a low whistle recognition by the Guardsman had | Palmer of Tacoma placed tn com- shall I get the daren't ask the mor i no nd be. sides 1 told Pouiteney he should have it this morning. What do you think {f I sold the mare? But then I couldn't sell her ina minute—" | Cecll laughed a little, but his! eyes Wore grave. “Sell the mare! Nonsen: I can pull you thru, I dare say He gave bis Bert “You're always wanting money. | thrown him mand. Spokane, Wenatchee and 80 am I, Two ponies. Wh it “I've as much right here as you|Tacoma are the home stations. tor?” swells,” he said, with a hoarse —— I lost it at chicken-hazard last laugh. “Put me out of the r night, Poulteney lent it me. How if you can, Mr, Dainty Li SEIZE BOOZE PLANT The words were hard his mouth before Cecil's hand was on his collar, lifted him off the ground, and thrust him thru the throng. The Seraph, Lord Constantia, Wentworth, and many others of his set, catching sight of “Beauty” with the great square-set figure of Ben Davis, as the welsher was r the required | named, pressed before him thru the | | Members of the dry squad raided} the room of W. A. Knapp at 1419 First ave. Sunday and seized 26' tubes of essence used for flavoring” and coloring alcohol and water to make it look like whisky, @ bottle, — of alcohol and a quart of the ished product. 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