The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 15, 1917, Page 4

THE SEATTLE STAR MEMBEN oF scrires NonTHWwKST Leaqun vice of the United Prese Assoctation Telegraph Nowe Entered At Seattle, Wash. Postoffice ae Second Clase Matter BY mail, out of city, ae per month u Li - Conscript “Slacker” Land a Talk of peace, fears that England soon be starved] 4 ep and predictions that > present a s yean ; Pen early end to the war uld be put away on the shelf 1 08 by Uncle Sam { In spite of the recurrent flurries of talk the big atures of the war, the allies don’t want peace without a ; ctory, England cannot possibly be starved in a long time fand Germany isn’t licked until licked on her own territory. | t | Revolution in Germany might settle things suddenly, at any | ime, but Germans are not Russians be the business of un-| Speculat tached di; non these points m jomats and news correspondents, but it has n i ce oA Uncle Sam's program, and it can only have the iH at ome of confusin It must not be permitted to, in the t 4 Blightest degree, luence prosecution of Uncle Sam's war 3 dusine $ a : We should aim at nothing less than full power to win © Mo matter how large the p demanded. We have allies, tt our first policy shoul Selves alone. It may not finally prove to have been neces- Bary, but it will mean national safety These remarks are particularly applicable to the matter be to prepare to rely upon our-| promoti g increased production of faod stuffs. While the itation for cit jens and greater individual effort may yield surprising Its this year, it is not too early to begin tematic effort gger crops next season This season] | te efforts have sporadic without system ‘There should be t as much system about con- " acripting vacant lots as about conscripting backward men for ) army or navy, and, thru the tax assessors, we have easy The arable, non-producing made to produce war po may be required to get . particularly the millions of and now's the time ns of registering the lots for shox be listed and either be or war taxes. Legis yn Falacker™ property into the ran jacres held by the ra ad corporatic ns, to get busy os | __ WE PASS often from love to ambition, but we seldom return from _ ambition to love —La Rechefoucauld. ‘Yes, They Found It the You read about didn’, p federal food inquiry commission ‘oll it first tackled New York folks there being especially > % “the skinni hungry betrong and habitual. The inquirers reported that there's ne ground for the high prices of many products; that ipments have been abnormally held up for speculative $s; that gambling in food prices has been a potent Be. and that the great need is distribution more closely Pelating the producer to the consumer. We haven't been within a thousand miles of New York years, but we knew what ailed her, at long distance. Fact her trouble is a nation-wide epidemic and we've got some it right in our own midst. But those inquirers’ cure—get- producer and consumer into cahoots against the gambler leman—sounds like a nine-week-old chicken with the Both producer and consumer know what's what, but tl don't get into close relationship, and there you are, with producer getting little, consumer paying much and the com- ‘ “Mission merchant still cheerfully raking off his commish. a “And the real cure is government regulation of prices. Oh! Thow we do groan and squirm and kick and make ugly faces than take our medicine like little men! i _ MINGLED WITH the wars and rumors of wars, daily grist of revoits and rumors of revoits. “Treaty or No The New York World, which immortalized / electing Mr. Hughes president when he wasn’t, has ‘of another good thing a s to how the country goes. $0 stirs our national pride, nothing rouses our national ) enthusiasm, nothing so compliments us nationally as Mr. Bal- - four's declaration that no treaty could increase the confidence Of the allies that we are going to see the war thru Mr. Balfour is all right. He has got us right, too. We're perly stirred, roused and complimented, and we'll stick] the war till the last mad dog of Europe is hung, but a lot| fof us note that there are always at least two to al a or to an alliance without formal signature | we now have itself by got hold Nothing so parties g Will the allies make no treaty without our partic ipation?| fis a question being asked by folks who aren't personally present to be stirred, roused or flattered into a comatose con-| Pdition. At this very writing one of the gravest questions of ‘the war whether Russia will make a separate peace. It} His largely a question of diplomatic dealing, and what Ger ‘many has thus far done to the allies in the business of di plom-| “acy ‘thas been something awful. | _ DEBATE GOES merrily on over whether “The Star-Spangled Ban- “ner” is classical. More “stuff to lose sleep over.” BREAD GETS lighter and higher. Well, that’s sound physics, any- IDEALS WE do not make. We discover, not invent them.—Park- “UNDER TWO FLAGS” YY LOUISE DE LA REME (OUIDA) “Oh, my darling, my beauty Now!" One touch of the spur—the first vnd Forest King rose at the leap all the Ife and power there were in him gathered for on effort; a Mash of tim over! And as he galloped up straight run-in, he was alone, ay Regent had refused the leap. rowning ad he was the And afar off, white with rage, and with his gase straining onto the course thra bs race-glass, Ben Davis, “the welshe muttered, with savage growl He wins, does he? Curse him! The dd swell—he shan't long.” CHAPTER II Love a La Mode It is well-nigh Impossible to be | slightly again, and let him go. Neve yourself a beg never want sovere g Beauty was neve reminded that he was not a millionaire Life petted him, pampered him, and never recalled to him by a ingle privation that he was not a ich a man as his brothertn. the Seraph, future Duke of r while you for whist | Lyonnesse far enough to cause any He was smoking a | before retiring, one some weeks after the Forest King’s vic tory, and thinking that !t was about time to cut bia “friendship” with Lady Guenevere a bit fe guardsman had made a remark, nocent enough in itself, th set him thinking-—wh showed Berkeley into It was the same in: t had Rake room. and the old story, the lad blurted {t out The worst is soon told,” ho pad huskily 1 lost two hundred to. 1 must pay {t, or be dis forever; and-—I borrowed three ponies cf Granville Lee yee terday. I .old him I would pay them touorrow; I made sure I shoul? have won tonight.” Bertie started from his chatr, his Sleepy languor dissipated. “3 will bring some disgrace on ux before you de, Berkeley,” he ald you no common knowledge of The lad flushed under the words, but [t was a flush of anger rather of shame. You are severe enough,” he sald, Insolently. “Are you such a mirror of honor yourself? I suppose my debts, at the worst, are about one fifth of yours.” For a moment even the sweet ness of Cecil's temper almost gave way. Be his debts what they would, there was not one among them to his friends, or one for which the law could not selze him. “Tres cher, you are not courte ous,” he sald, wearly; “but it may be that you are right. That {sn't the potnt, tho; you say you want near £200 by tomorrow—today, | rather. I can suggest nothing ex- cept to ark Royal straight out; never refuses you.” 1 tell you I will shoot myself} thru the brain rather than ask him.” It hopes, Bertie moved restleesly. no use giving you false STAR BEAMS . 1 believe I have succeeded in| heading off all efforts to have me run for mayor am not a cand! How do you get down?” asked date. I gm not |the jokesmith for the fourth time considering {t at “You climb down.” all. I am not look-| “Wron | ing for any pub. You grease hia sides and slide lic office—Former Congressman | down Will Humphrey Wrong!!" be Te “You take a ladder and get Diamond Jim Brady's will fs be- | down.” | ing contested by relatives who| “Wrong!!!” | maintain that he was of unsound| “Well, you take the trunk Hnel/ mind, It's strange how sound a|down.” | man is mentally when he's mak No, not quite. You don't get ing millions and how unsound when /down off an elephant—you get it disposing of them. Billy Sunday says he would like to go to France. And if he doesn't |go, We hope he stays home and makes a garden eee On & NOR IT orr M and shave it off?—Puck oe And another reason Superintend ent Kempster plans to put women jon as str car conductors ts that it'll help receipts. Male riders won't try to beat the fair, or NEWSPAPERS ip nerorsresy badipet dk ap An he (Continued From Our Last Issue) y young one,” win | that I asked anything #0 dreadful; | It mayn't come to that,” he! as he threw himself beside her you s#’pose Uncle Sam could draft thought; “something may happen.| “My love—my love, you are Lita Big dy Wg Tat Of tho wbiniie mallet” If | should win some heavy pots | saved!” PHYSICAL DISABILITY, HE Not any, I bet. Their lungs are on the Prix de Dames, things would The beautiful eyes looked up. | 13 UNABLE TO BE affected more or less. Many have swim on again. I must win; the| “Saved-lost! All the world HERE aT THS TIME, the cedar asthma, and half of He was the recogn'zed darling | and permitted property of the }young married beauties. Lady |Guenevere was the last of these, |his titled and wedded captors, He had fallen tn love with her as much as he ever fell in love, which was/ ever enough to disturb him; and they had the most enchanting friendahtp. But Bert'e was alway € ful that those “friendships” did not go }trivet after it.” | woeks, he sald gently, “Ican| what he noted now, that Instead) | gyGGESTIONS WHICH L SHALC | do, noth ng! e ; of one of his earriagogeays, who] |Sugmit ATA MEETING Of THE - hy oo! here. you e much | bad falle plight ine, they had chuma with Tone Rcéktngbam, and | put tr v4 re on Na pene hunter | [RED CROSS ORGANIZATION. -— he's rich—what could there be in| who, tho he had been broken to| | (HOY Meer THIS MORNING | it If you just ask him to lend you| shafts, was not the hore with| | AT 's8e c = & monkey for me? He'd do tt in a| minute--and he'd never miss It However, Beauty was a perfect | | Now, Bertle—will you?” whip, and thought no more of the} “What you ask is dmpossible,”| change, As they went, the moon = Cecil said, briefly, “If I did such | light was shed about their path, & thing as that, I should deserve to be hounded out of the Guards tomorrow,” “Then you will not do it?" | “I have replied already “You are a brute to me!" went on the lad, “I cannot understand on his but | suppose you have too many needs of your own to have any re: | sources left for mine. ecll shrugged his he wo shoulders His debts pr heavier day; ho could have no power to avert the crash that must, in a fow or at most, a few months, fall upon him every King will bo as fit as in the Shires. Things mayn’t come to the worst, after all.” me wit eee That evening, in the loose-bor), “Hush—be at rest! There is no | down at Royallieu, Forest King|!2Jury but what I can repair. No! stood in the height of haughty | 0" shall ever know of this. You | wrath, Ho lashed out his heele| **&ll reach town safely and alone.” with a force that made his compan-| A®d, while he promised he for- | Tt wan | Kt that ho thus pledged his honor | fons start and edge away fs these companions that the hero of | ° the Soldiers’ Blue Ribbon abhorred. ed, he couk ’ it's a'most « plty—he's in such| Be cou d never account for perfect condition,” said Willon, Continued | N meditatively . nd eli psaeretad Prut—tush—tish!” sald his com Next Novel, “ ” panion. “It'll only knock him over Mo for the race; he'll be right as a “What's yer figure, you relented Willon, meditatively Two thousand to nothin'--come! can't no handsomer.” For the race in Germany?’ pura Mr. Willon Two thousand to nothin’— come!” reiterated the other Willon chewed @ bit of straw “It's w dargain,” he said, finally. Meantime life wenton as wi for Bertie Cecil. A few days ‘ater he drove down to Richmond to} keep an appointment with Lady) Guenevere. | This day she went down to see | | | ual | a dowager Haroness aunt, out at Hampton Court—really went, she was never pprudent as to falsify her r and with the Dowager, who was very deaf and purblind, dined at Richmond. It was nothing to anyone that Ceci! | joined her there. The Dowager went home in her brougham; the Countess drove in Cectl's mall-phaston. She obviated danger by bidding him set her down at a@ little villa across the | park, where dwelt a confidential | protege of hers; a former French | governoss, married tolerably weil, | who had the Countess’ confidences, | and kept them religiously for sake he! get quietly bi fe | branches of the foliage, Cecil start 1 |about getting down off an elephant of Spanish point and rings, of which her lavish ladyship had got ured From here she would take her ox-governess Je brougham, and k to her own house in Eaton Square It was a lovely night park, with the gleam o ever and again shint Thru the { the water x thru the He ad not notic ed . By E. D. K. ANY WAY were discussing that joke ted bis his hor They off a goose.” R “Soures East Con Ye ae FIRST & PIKE Dentists G | ALL WORK PLATES $5:2° si.te, CROWNS $5:°° eves $1°° § 1 -60 FREE EXAMINATION NO CHARGE FOR EXTRACTION SYNTHETIC FILLINGS Ay? | WHERE OTHER GOLD 00 WORK 18 TO BE FILLINGS $1 axp | DONE Electro Painless Dentists 105) Pike St, S. E. Corner First and Pike | thing about We have seen some of the men who, {t 1s announced, have enlist ed with Roosevelt and we're pretty certain that if they are to go Into ja trench it will have to be wider than any of those already built in France WHAT PA SAID Willie—Pa is going to let you marry sister Mr. Spooner—How do you know? Willie—He said, after all, it wa better than nothing. rae sea Joseph Sandmann makes mat tresses in Cincinnat! Henry Polite, station agent in Chicago, has been commended by the company for courtesy . A railroad lost a 41-ton steel girder that was being shipped to New York and couldn't find It for a week, When a railroad can lose a thing like that, it claims also the . is it any wonder loss of money? . Anybody can excite a whole lot of curiosity by pretending to know something that nobody knows any- eee A DISCOURAGEMENT “Your automobile balka like a mule.” Yes,” replied Mr. Chugging ‘only when a mule balks he has too and wait to get run over,” an elevated railway | |much sense to select a car track! RETAIL, BY FATH wan a boy,” ald the @ray siola tw to be @ wol-| my parents pernuaded me to phyeician 6 drummtat, “euch with wholesale t himeelf with A Yale professor says Americans speak French as tho it hurt. Well, it does hurt—the French. cterizes our methods tn and our cua- ed every sour- y con intent with sound ivusi- en ness jud, 4% Paid on Savings Accounts Accounts Subject to Check Are Cordially Invited. Peoples Savings Bank SECOND AVE. AND PIKB ST, STAR—TUESDAY, MAY 15, which to risk driving a lady and at the end of a vista of boughs tom forme In an instant the hunter pricked sweeping gallop, glade. under his breath ways ridden with the buck-hound Race the deer he did The but the high courage of the Peer. eas bore her unharmed, even she was flung out onto the turf She had never looked fairer than must know now, He soothed ber tenderly buried that however much be need. Edgar Allen Poe. PAGE 4 1917, NEXT NOVEL | “THE GOLD BUG” By Edgar Allan Poe SWELL, THIS 1S GOING To BE A BUSY DAY TOR Me. TI HAVE WRITTEN OUT SOME IMPURTANT on @ grassy knoll were some phan a dozen deer. launching into a rushed down the ears, and Sit #till,” Ceetl said, calmly, but “He has been al race the deer as sure ax will live! carriage was overthrown; HAVE HERE IN wi that you are with this evening,” she murmured, h a shudder. leave four hours of his Ife ac Only 4 Days More 903 FIRST AVE-——TWO STORES———1524 THIRD AVE. Only four days more and this | extraordinary price-cutting sale will pass into history. If you hurry you can still join the great list of the happy, lucky purchasers at this marvelous cut price sale— but you must act quick or you will miss a great money-saving advantage that in all likelihood will not occur again for many, many years—for the cost of all materials which go into talking ma- chines and pianos is steadily advanc- ing. And remember, this immense stock was ordered and purchased under last year’s low factory cost. Call at either of our two stores—903 First Avenue or 1524 Third Avenue. Both stores are open evenings. Highest Quality Talking Machines To say the price-cutting in this department is sensa- tional is to put it mildly. There are here now $49.50 prices marked down on fine Talking Machines equal to any you have ever heard at $100, and the $62.50, $74.50, $99.50 and $123.90 ones are positively superior in beauty of design than you have ever been offered at less than $250. Besides, they have the living quality of sound. You have heard Talking Machines priced at $350 and $450. Just come in and see our price now, at only $174.50, a little down and a little each month at that. It’s homes, homes, homes, we must find for this vast Talking Machine stock. Some Staggering Prices and $296! purchasers—pay a want to and a little each month. regardless of all other considerations. RAMAKER BROS. CO. 1524 THIRD AVE. 903 FIRST AVE. TWO STORES OPEN EVENINGS UNTIL END OF SALE I AM MRS, TRUG, AND I Ritten FORM, A Pw SUGGESTIONS WHICH MY HUSBAND MAD | HOPED TO Givé You IN ois, think of Pianos for $45, $65, 85, $95, $115, $123, $165, and smd Pianos down to $196, $265 There are magnificent Grand Pianos here now at a reduction of $415 from actual New York prices. The most elegant Art styles for as little as $246, $296 and $316, and the terms of payment are made to suit the little down as you It's homes, homes, homes for these fine in- struments we want now and must have, WORK FOR &HOUR DAY Editor The Star: You have tn- | vited a discussion from the public ~~ Jon the merits of moving the clock | ahead one hour t ¢ daylight. In opinion, it may be of some ben efit to you in workers, and all ioe Who work eight hours a lday and do not feel too tired to work in their back yard at night, but lack ambition enough to get ap at 5 o'clock in the morning instead jof 6. But to us 10-hours-a-day wage slaves who are employed in the lumber and shingle industry, it would absolutely be of no advan- tage Why, bless your soul, we are go |tired at night that the best we can jdo is to grab a bite to eat, glance over the newspaper and craw! into jbed, while wifey has to drag as out of bed at half past 6 or 6 tn | the morning Driven at top speed by machi ery for 10 hours, working in front of and sometimes between, two saws, jit is the most nerve-wreckt muscle-tearing and lung-destroying occupation on earth Especially is it the case In the shingle mills. How many men do their fingers cut off. The Star has struck many good | licks for this community, and alded the working cla in many ways. | And I think, Mr, Editor, that if you |had devoted the space occupied by |the ahead-clock movement to a dis- jeussion of the eight-hour day, you | would has ir everlasting grati- tude, for, if it's any body of men that need and ought to have a shorter work day, it's those em. ployed in the lumber and shingle industry. A MILLWORER, a *READ § STAR WANT ADS [anen aaa Oe Easy Monthly Payments