The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 19, 1917, Page 1

oted burn- nd YOU and fatter and ind de battle line hall industri an equally necessary that lie behind the these! of those who pur The Wy shall Chi end Seattle have organized It will sifted nation to do it the congress has provic but it needs cach man but in the en oes “The nation needs all men; erve not in the field that will most please him r that will best serve the cx must be By the Editor of The Star WILSON, in his the date in the NI setting apart ESIDI ’ ’ ey. RESIDI proclamation tuaay deay ymmon good wtentous word man this in which each war is a thing the part for which he fitted lo wided that the hall be and that cach man shall be cla hall best serve eriou yet realized the highest sort hare in the world’s led that the nation n and that each which it al regi whole a team call play congress has pre selection June Sa ation thrucut the nation for select military tpon Americans to approach the day in a thoughtful iation of its significance.” of univers nation service, is best of patriotism for fight for dem shall be man shall be shall be » call him So were lar nd Frar d Germany uffer deeply years ag but today their last mother faces the end thereof starvation, and the doorsteps of the world have been and we will bind our bathed in blood, and the prayer chambers of the world f debt have been washed in tears, and the end is not yet in sight. from amor FROM YOU PHI nation require spirit for war by for general good to “The a new thing in appree in the place to which it call him service a bit for war by selecti indifferent, in the “The day here named,” he says, “is the time upon which all shall present themselves for assignment to their tasks. It is for that reason destined to be remembered as one of the most conspicuous moments in our history It is nothing less than the day upon which the manhood ress of the country shall step forward in one solid rank in de duty to fense of the ideals to which this nation is consecrated. It common is important to those ideals, no less than to the pride of tion of the unwilling ; this generation in manifesting its devotion to them, that which has volunteered in mass, there be no gaps in the ranks march with the colors EXCLUSIVENESS Exciusiveness is one of the many strong points about The Star which has earned for it the largest dally circulation in the Northwest, Much of the merit and exciusiveness that make The Star the leader come thru the Newspaper Enterprise aeso- ciation. N. E. A. employe the ablest special writ. ers in America to write exctusively for its clients, of which The Star is one. tt for service ; place to significance of this cannot be overstated freneral good t and the Oar Prog All of us are goi and the weat, and we will d their children to the our history and a landmark in because of thi nora’ It is a new manner of and vitalizing our ede M give ourselves with thoughtful devotion to the will purpose of us all, It is in no sense a conscrip- nl it is, rather, selection from a nation It is no more than it is a selec accepting wisest knows not crimp whee and. sacrific ma departed should, in humiliation of spirit and with d before 1 WILI VO YEAR REREAD a choosing ich of those wh ton tanding The seattle Star THE ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT DARES TO ) PRINT THE 1 THE NEWS | SEATTLE THAT DARES TO PRINT THE NEWS | VOLUME 19 5 _NIGHT EDITION | Do your bit for the Red Cross! Any one can join by simply paying yearly dues of $1. Seattle needs 25,000 members. Weather forecast: “Tonight and Sunday, probably showers.” EATTLE, WASH., SATURDAY, MAY 19, 1917. Gen. Pershing Will Lead First Expediil tionary Force of Regulars; President Fe w Sets Date for Select Service Regis=" tration; Nation Thrills to War Call. TODAY’S WAR DEVELOPMENTS @ President Wilson signs select service army bill and names June 5 as the day for all males between 21 and 31 to register. © Gen. Pershing to lead division of 25,000 UL. S. © President declines to call on Roosevelt to raise volunteers for service in France. © Regiment of marines to go to France with Pershing’s veterans of Mexican campaign. © House and senate approve bill to increase number of men enlisted in navy to 150,000 ond thoee-in marines to 30,000: ~ First 500,000 in select service army will not be called until Sessentbie 1. War department speeds work of equipping Pe orshing’s expedition and arranging to caré | for National Guard, which will soon be in service, ; . S. airmen may reach front in France before Pershing’s men do. BY ROBERT J. BENDER ed Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, May 19.—President Wilson’s order that Gen. John J. Pershing t 25,000 United States regulars to France and his call summoning the nation to gave Washington a real war thrill today. On June 5 all men of the country from 21 to 30 inclusive will answer the call for on service. The first mobilization of the man-power of the nation will come on th ate. A regiment of marines, about 2,600 men, under command of Col. Charles A. 1 of oe Washington barracks, will accompany the first American army under Portas to France. The regiment will be composed principally of organizations which have recently seen active service in Haiti, San Domingo and Cuba, according to announcement from the navy department today. It has been announced that the first army of 500,000 that will be chosen from the rows who will answer the call for select service will not be summoned before Sep- tember. But the official announcement of intention to despatch a division commanded by Gen. Pershing to the fighting front at the earliest possible moment makes it certain th American flag will be seen on the firing line probably long before the select service army is ready for action. Col. Roosevelt’s division is now definitely declined by the government. Seasoned 4 veterans of the regular army will be with Pershing when the American flag is carried into the trenches. At the war office all hands turned today to rounding up the supplies for the ex- pedition. Congress and all departments responded to the announcement made at the White © House last night. It seemed to put new life into the war machinery “‘on the hill,” where | weeks have dragged along in preparing emergency measures for the government to | ALS The Women’s Army Against ‘ Waste was winning more volun- teers in tle Saturday And the army was also win ning the practical help of heusewives who know how much food, now wasted, can be saved in the homes. Enlistme: ment’ of the nationwide inst W. ame by mail and i. from doventowen recruiting none: regulars to France at once. third round of ammuni- the Women's Army agp appears today —« of The Star In Inspiring num. bers at the same time that a special dispatch from Washing. ton told how wives of cabinet members had enlisted. Practical suggestions for food saving received from Seattle wom. em are ammunition for our art | The more we get of them the bet ter. Send them in and The Ster will print as many of them as there is room for, and make honorable méotion of the women soldiers who send them. Don't lose sight of the fact that vA e.-4 | in joining the Army Against Waste| . l you are actually enlisting in the service of your country. It may be| that the food you save and show) others how to save will go as far| toward winning the war as the gun) of the soldier whose active part you (Continued on page 8.) H. C. Henry Opens | War on Waste in Seattle Cafes hm =6When a restaurant serves H. C. Henry, Seattle capitalist, a ) larger portion of food than he { thinks he will eat, he orders the dish taken back to the kitchen ( and the size of the portion re- duced. } He was the center of interest in the dining room of Harry \ Stahi’s cafe, on Fourth ave., Fri ) day, a9 he ordered his dish of spinach divided in two, and his mest allowance also reduced one. half. Proprietor Stahl hastened in person from the kitchen to in- quire what was the matter with the food. } Jahns tane Maj. Gen. Pershing, affectionately known to his men as American expeditionary force to France. Morossin the Philippines. “Black Jack,” who will lead the first Pershing won hia fighting nickname chasing the savage Finest Body of Troops in the World Going to France With “Black Jack” Pershing MILLER Pree Staff Co dent The finest body of ” replied Millionaire ) pt that there is no ting what | shall not would make | ractice of serviing half por- | tions, and serving the other half | only if patrons really wanted it, a tremendous amount of waste ( sa would be saved.” § WASHINGTON, May 19. troops in the world.” BY WEBB day. The army dug the new style trenches and practiced “going over the tor It was severe training But the fruits should send a thrill thru the na tion when they “go over’ the front trenches the ) DVERTISING MANAGER'S DAILY TALK Helen Wi Geraldine Farrar, at the Liberty at the Coliseum Dustin Farnum, at the Rex Allee Joyce, at the Clemmer Douglas Fairbanks, t the Mission Margarita Fischer, Pe the Colonial Alice chins at we c fast A Carly Blackwell, at “the Strand Hell's G Full Partieulars About All of These in Today's Star THE FASTEST GROWING PAPER IN THE NORTHWEST | That is what a foreign military observer ex- claimed as Pershing's veterana swung across the Mexican border, four months ago. They are the men who will make up “Pershing’s 25,000" -—the first American troops ordered to France. They are the men who pushed across the “hell hike”—-23 miles without water in a withering sun—in one day, and pitched camp singing America and the allies will be prond of these They are the flower of the army In the 12,000 men who followed Pershing Into Mexico after Villa, the United States has the best-trained body of men--and trained for real fighting—that can be found in the world Pershing Gives Them Severe Training After the first rush into Chihnahua, the little army settled down on the sun-baked plains to walt, While they waited, Pershing gave them the hardest continuous round of trafning any Amert can forces have ever undergone even months they drilled, drilled, drilled war department was waking up, The les of the world war were eagerly reized upon Fvery phase of Buropean warfare was studied and the results drilled into men Modern trench fighting was practiced day by men first time in France As the little army marched across the interna tional line at Columbus, N. M., on the morning of February I stood at the side of a foreign mili tary attache Calls Them Finest Troops in the World In a thirteen-mile column, with Pershing at the head, they poured ailently down the duay slope amid sand clouds from the hot desert The little group on the border line atood fasci nated Then the attache, who had seen thousands of men train, figh id die, broke the silence. “They're the finest body of fighting men in the world,” he said They've had such training as no other army has had And in them is the spirit of you Ameri cans. I don't know what {t fs, but I can aee it in the ewing of their shoulders and the rhythm of their march These men are now waiting for the word. As an old, grizzled first sergeant said while the troops were marching out: “They'd follow ‘Black Jack’ Pershing to hell!” And “Black Jack” Pershing is the man to lead them there if need be. carry to success its struggle against Prussianism. With the army bill out of the way, the increase bill, boosting the number of enlisted men in the navy from 87,000 to 150,000 and the marine corps from 17,000 to 30,000 was approved by the house and senate and sent to the president for his signature. The bill provides for increases in salary so that enlisted men in these branches will re- ceive about $30 a month, the same as is paid to enlisted men in the army under the se- lect service bill. “Spy bills” posed of today in the senate. speed possible. should be cleaned up early next week. The war budget bill may be dis- Furthermore, congress promises to get down to bard work on the revenue and food bills before next week is over. The president last night made a personal appeal to Senators Knox, Lodge and Gal- linger, all republicans, to get behind the war program and push it to fruition with all The president apparently is counting on republicans as much as democrats, if not more, to hasten thru the program. Today activity at the war department redoubled. ts of the war machine congress finally has given the nation, brought department of- — ficials down at unheard-of early hours -for Washingtonians. (Continued on page 2.) The work of assembling the ECHO ZAHL INTERVIEWS THE MAYOR; SHE’S GOING TO. TELL YOU ABOUT IT IN MONDAY’S STAR