The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 16, 1917, Page 6

SCHOOL DISCRIMINATION Jif the power of the submarine to The Star: 1, like many /cestroy sea commerce ts to be Who wish to ask favors,|/checked, it will be done by ordl to The Star, as you always|nary, commonplace methods, no to the rescue of those who/ doubt. Such as the substitution of to know the truth. Why is it/ships of a smaller butld for tho it Seattle craduates of Wash-| carrying trade to take the place of University are not elected |the great steel freight carriers of fm our public schools today. The sinking of one of these h and foreign teachers | last is a work of less time and ef Ro difficulty in being elocted. | fort on the part of the sub, it being our fathers have been pay-|a better mark than one of the some of them over 35/smaller vessels, And gives the Keeping up our schools for!sub a two or threefold advantage Denefit of the Eastern teach-/against the sea trade girls have to remain| And if the building of the small or take a position in a de-|er type of wooden ships for freight tt store. Many of the /lers is thwarted by a combination of Washington have |of the lumber trade to raise prices, teaching in Oregon, and this|the government should regulate all Eastern and Washington |such conspiracies, have been notified that Schools can employ only On teachers, California is the J. F. CASS, Mt. Vernon, Wash | FREE RHUBARB SEED © Af you canvass our city schools| Editor The Star: In regard to here, you will find very few Seat-/the rhubarb proposition I just @ teachers, The school trustees, made at your office, in order that We elect, will tell you they there may be no mistake, would like assist you in securing a po-|to add further as that part is entirely left I know from experience that most ‘the superintendent | people enjoy a few rhubarb plants, A SUBSCRIBER. } put do not know that they can be ¢ — |produced from seed at home, but _ BUILD SMALLER SHIPS think they must buy roots, when The Star: The exalted | seeds will do as well, but takes one of the ordinary intelligence | year longer. im the power of the supernatural,| When once started, the plants and of “wizards,” to do things {s/ will continue to grow and increase ing. Such seems to have each year. Not only do the plants Place in the common ideas re furnish sauce the family, but to the matter of the elim-| often may furnish a source of con of the submarine menace. | siderable revenue to poor people. 130T Seventh Ave. Near Union Ot. OF SCRIPPS NORTHWEST LEAGUE OF NEWSPAPERS ‘Telegraph News Service of the United Press Assectatton Bateret at Seattio, Wash. Postoffice as Bec Clase Matter. out of city, 2h per month up to € mos, @ moe $1.90; year 68 By carrier, city fic a month. Co. Phese Mate 600. Priv 1 partments. for he German Creed Do Americans understand Germans? The Germans say we do not. ‘\The Germans are correct. Few Americans even yet have the slightest conception 4 ideas which govern Germany. Many Americans have i} “lately come to believe the facts of German barbarism could not trust any evidence, so absolutely impossible Such things as the Germans have done seem to be in this century. )) But everything Germany has done has been done calmly, lly and with malice aforethought. Germany is not a mad foaming at the mouth. The nation is mad, but it is cool lunacy of a poisoned brain, not the red fury of To find out what is the matter with Germany it is neces- to go to the source of German ideas—to the thinkers have fashioned her ideals for the past two generations ; is the German creed as formulated by Germany's ophers: only must the state be obeyed, it must be ven- Pas a God. Success insured by might is the measure right.”—Hegel. d by powerful! nations. The essence of the state is wer. Nothing exists or can exist which is superior to the tate.” —Treitschke. “The state can dm no wrong. The observance of treaties , a matter of duty but of advantage.”—Adolphus Lassen. ' “Love God above all things and thy neighbor as thyself. law can claim no significance for the relations of one to another. There never has been and never will 5 1 rights of men.”—Bernhardi. “Morality is a symptom of decadence. War is as neces- to the state as slavery is to society. Might is the source There is no right other than that of theft, usurpa- violence.”—Nietzsche. finally the renegade Englishman Houston Cham- in, who hates his own country and from his Berlin home for years savagely attacked Englishmen as decadent, they would not accept the German theories, says: tarism is the indispensable instrument of German cul- It builds its brightest hopes of supremacy on the ex- ination of others.” There are Americans who believe in such theories and to practice them. For them we maintain many peniten- and electric chairs. We do not honor them with dec- ons nor place them in the chairs of our universities. No prican has ever successfully published a book upholding doctrines. In Germany such books can be bought at tailway news stand. Is it any wonder the Germans say we can't understand ? eG You Can’t Betray Neighbor We don’t like to be eternally quoting George Bernard iw, the brilliant Irish dramatist and socialist, but what in world are we to do when a man says so many good ! haw seems to land right on the head of the nail every he strikes a blow. He went to the trenches and then he wrote this: | “When war overtakes you, you must fight, and fight to Win, whether you are the aggressor or the aggrieved, whether ou loathe war as the kingdom of hell on earth or regard it as the nursery of all the virtues “It is not that you must defend yourself or perish; many man would be too proud to fight on those terms. You must We think Shaw puts it well ‘dier goes for the nation. That's why we are at war. COULDN'T BETRAY HUMANITY! And what goes for the sol WE EDITORIALETTES HAVING 13 dependent children by his wife now dead and 20 by present wife, a Connecticut man claimed exemption from select ise. Thirty-three perfectly good reasons ought to be enough to him out of the fighting. But when it comes to the paying, we've got gent dead to rights by lowering the family man’s income tax ion to $2,000. It is to be presumed that this man, being able 33 children alive, has a $2,000 income. STEP UP and enlist, fellows! The laundry work has been ar- ranged for. Already 690 American-born Chinese have been recruited for army service. RUSSIA'S UTOPIA would be none the lens enjoyable and it might a whole lot more certain if she would wait with the trimmings until has taken care of the foe at her gate THE YOUNG man who has registered will now pick the daisies chanting, “He wants me, he wants me not.” _ “GERMANY TO Turkey by Zeppelin” is Berlin's dream now. p hope Germany goes there soon—and stays there. "THE KAIGER takes the hindmost! And Schools, Ships, Seed, Soil-a Few of Weak nations have no right to existence, and must be! id your neighbor or betray him; that is what gets you.”| STAR—SATURDAY, y My suggestion is that the schools) we must expect many a deal in should take the matter up, and per-| “pork.” haps the school board will furnish; Now, while we are having our | the seed. bond issues, and food armies, ete, Rut even #0, there probably are} why not get right to the roet of th |many children and widows who may | disease? |not have the 5 cents to pay for If the government will fe#ue an aved To any such who could let| other $2,000,000,000 of bonds, cc The Star know about it, I will) the ratlroads to sell to the go ar to furnish the required seed| ment the millions of acres of land | fre There are about 2,000 seeds looted from the public domain dur in a pound, and one pound costs $2,/ {ng the hysteria of the ctvil wa #o you could not be out much,| buy it at the agreed sale price My chief object {s, first, merely| not over $2.50 per acre, cut tt into to make (he suggestion, belleving 40 and 80-acre farms, erect choap it to be a most satisfactory back-| but comfortable four and five-room yard gardening proposition, consld-| how and equip with team, plow ering the expense land necessary farm tools, two or Second, a matter of small charity! three cows and a brood sow, and to the needy, being the best thing sel! the complete farm to American 1 know that | can do to help along citizens who do not already own a in these times of strenuous con: home at actual cost of land and im ae fon of food provements, payments to extend ‘ould like, if possible, to get/over a pertod of 26 years, and fur jhames and addresses for future ref. nish free d for the first year, jerence, of those asking for free with the 10,000 already provid seed. May like to know later how | ed, we will have an army of 50,000 |the plants are doing enthusiastic food producers next H. B, WELCH. | year o! |” ‘The bonds would be well protect LET U ELL ACREAGE \ea by @ Hen on all farms sold until Editor The Star: I read of the! the last payment was made, Then, appropriation of $14,700,000 for in- during the 25 years of payments, tax | Vestigating the food situation; also the buyers the ¢ame amount that over $5,000,000 for the purchase of the railroads are paying at present free seed. It seems we have had WM. F. CHASE, je nsiderable “Investigating” = al 6511 24th Ave. N. W. ready Why not have a bit of ac) tion? | It Is too late to spend the money | intelligently for “seed” this year; LET CALVES ROAM Editor The Star; I have read great deal of interest In the with a also too late to use ft, but with the| dally pre about the calves or llarge amount of money available,| seal, the shortage, and high price | aw 1. D. K.’s.". COLYUM = BY EDWARD HOUSEHOLD HINTS Never throw away an old cheese (Continued From Our Last !seue) box. Cover the top of It with tin Sin writing this, and while and let the children it for @)considering whether or no | would {rum print it, as a warning to the young Never throw away an old drum./Nolans | and V me and Put a wooden head and bottom in| Tatnalla of today what it is to jit and use it for a Pheese box |throw away a ntry, I have re Always leave the seeds in straw-'celved from Danforth, who is on berries when canning them. They|board the Levant, a letter which add to the flavor of the berry andi gives an account of Nolan's hast [it is rare sport to get them out of/hours, It removes all my doubts |the teeth. A fine game can be ar| about telling this story jranged for children, giving prizes) To understand the first words of to the boy or girl who can remove!the letter, the nonprofesstonal the largest number from his teeth) reader should remember that after without using a toothpick. | 1817 the position of every officer | see who had Nolan {n charge was one JUNE 16, 1917. PAGE 6 the Things Our Star R of meat There are several reasons for the Migh price of beef, and these vary according to location, rules oud regulations of a community, so T will simply give the that applies to this com munity I was very much amused read ing about the butchers in Seattle wanting to pass a law forbidding the sale of a calf as veal less than & year old, and no cow calf at all Now, I would like these gentlomen }to tell us what to do with our |culves, as we have no place to lkeep them after they are thru Crinking milk, There ts no |ture that is fenced and rented, altho there are tho of acres of the very choloest of pasture all around un, But no stock is allowed to feed on this pasture, a8 some ungerupulous per eon would either shut them up and hold them for a ransom, shoot |them full of lead, or complain to the county attorney about cattle paw |running at large, bere contrary to | law, Now, In my opinion, if the coun- ty comminsionegs would raine the | ban on stock so we could turn our calves loose when they are old enough to go alone, and make good vse of thin feed that is now going |to waste, we would have both more and cheaper milk, several |fat steers in the fall that would ve a tendency to bring down the price of meat | Of cournp, a few lpoor fences, or no with all, people fences at “The Man Without | A Country” EV TT HALE = to look upon as he lay “Quaint, que old on it in large letters: ‘indiana te ritory,’ “Mississippi territory’ ar ‘Louisiana territory,’ as 1 suppose our fathers learned such things; but the old fellow had patched in names were too; he had carri his boundary all the way to fic, but on that shore he had defined nothing to Hear of Country . Danforth,’ he said, ‘l know 1 am dying. I cannot get home. Surely you will tell me something now?--Stop! stop! Do not speak Ull I say what | am sure you know, on® that there is not in America—God BUSINESS AS USUAL jof the greatest delicacy, The Gov-| bless her!—a more loyal man than I will not be responsible for any |CTPMent had failed to renew the 1 There cannot be @ man who debts contracted by my wife—M, Order of 1807 regarding him. What joves the old flag as I do, or prays Lipski. was a man to do? Should he let for it as 1 do, or hopes for it as I | This advertisement was inserted |"! so? What, then, if he were do. There are thirty-four stars in by mistake on my part. M. Lipaky.|C@lled to account by the depart-)it now, Danforth |—Advertisement in Wausau (Wis,)/™ent for violating the order of] "I thank God for that, tho I do Record. | 18077 Should he keep him? not know what their names are | eee ad lire if Nolan oni be) There bee never hoes, ane taken 72 |liberated some day, and should! away; I thank God for that. I know reas ae bad dood Gr eitoreks Aker bring action for false imprison-|by that that there has never been way, be can seo his mistake, ment or kidnaping against every | any successful Burr. Ob, Danforth, man who had had him in charge? I urged and pressed this upon |Southard, and I have reason to |think that other officers did the same thing. But the secretary al- ways sald, as they so often do at Washington, that there were no special orders to give, and that we must act on our own judgment ‘That means, “If you succeed, you will be sustained; if you fail will be disavowed.” Well, as Dan forth says, all that {s over now, tho I do not know but I expose myself to a criminal prosecution Jack Tar and his Sal were uplon the evidence of the very rev- jin Bb ge td the parson. On belog elation I am making ms © usual question, “Wilt * thou have this woman,” eto, Jack| 4,,00%al'e of Nolan's Death answered, “I ‘ull.” “You must say,| NT, Latitnde 2 ‘I will,’ corrected the parson, and) ninites south, b¢ repeated the question. gress we, tei,” responded “Dear Fred—I try to tind heart firmly than ever. The jan 1 i The trate clergyman threatened posed with doar old Nolan otha stop the service altogether if been with him on this voyage the response was not property| more than I ever was, and I can 'f aebaeg ipa hab too much for understand wholly now the way in |Sally, who broke in quite #a¥-l\which you used to speak of the jasely, “Look a-hore! thee ‘ull ‘ave| dear oid fellow. 1 could see that our Jack sayin’ ‘e won't in a MIN | he was not strong, but I hae no ute If ye keep on badgerin’.” Gia Gin anh: Gas Ge ene The service was resumed. “The doctor has been watching cee Poolroom keep ers say they won't let young men who can't show registration cards play on their ta ——-—-——— bles, eee He who hesitates loses th’ seat [in th’ street car, So does she, by heck! cee MADE HER ANXIOUS degrees 2 Longitude 131 de Jack, more lto him very carefully, and yesterday TWO KINDS morning came to me and tld me Mistress—Do you know how to/that Nolan was not so well, and serve compan. jhad not left his stateroom—a New Girl—Yessum; either way.|thing | never remember before. He Mistress—-Either way? had let the doctor come and see New Girl—Yessum; so's they'll {come again or so’s they won't.— him as he lay there the doctor had been the first time in his state- Judge. room-—and he said he should like see |to see me. Oh, dear! do you re | A FUTURE STATESMAN member the mysteries we boys | All the talk of hyphenated cit).|Used to invent about his room, in Jzenship has evidently had tts ef-|the old Intrepid days? Well, 1 fect upon a San Francisco young.| ent In, and there, to be sure, the ster, American born, who recently |P00F fellow lay in his berth, smil rebelled fiercely when his Italfan|/n& pleasantly as he gave me his father whipped him for some mis-|™#nd, but looking very frail. demeniot “I could not help a glance round, “But, Tomasco,” said one of the| Which showed me what a little family, “your father has a right to shrine he bad mi de of the box he Wile S00 Wink $06. are bak” was lying in. The Stars and Stripes Tomasco's eyes flashed, “I am| ere triced up above and around a citizen of the United States,” he|% picture of Washington, and he declared. “Do you think that Tam |b&4 Painted a majestic eagle, with declared, (he you think that Tam |iightnings blazing from his’ beak met’-~Ladies’ Home noaal [and his foot clasping the whole sca) slobe, which his wings overshad owe he dear ol boy saw my 2 TWO WIVES | glance and said, with a ‘sad simile, My wife ts like George Wash-| ‘Here, you see, T have a country!’ ington; I don’t believe she could| And then he pointed to the foot of tell a lie to save her soul.” | his bed, where I had not seen be- “You're lucky! Mine can tell a/fore a great map of the United He the minute I get it out of my| States, as he had drawn {t from mouth.” memory, and which he had there NEW PANTAGES MATS., 2:30 NIGHTS, 7 AND 9 BEGINNING MONDAY AFTERNOON “Hello, Japan” Merry Musical Comedy with a Big Cast of Pretty Girls, E. D. Blondell & Co. In “The Boy From Home” Other Big Features—10c and 20c you} Danforth,’ he sighed out, ‘how like a wrotched night's dream a boy's idea of personal fame or of sep- arate sovereignty seems, when one looks back on it after such a life as mine! But tell me—tell me something — tell me everything, Danforth, before I die!’ “Ingham, | swear to you that I j felt like a monster that I had not told him everything before. Dan ger or no danger, delicacy or no delicacy, who was I, that | should have been acting the tyrant all this time over this dear, sainted old man, who years ago expiated, In his whole manhood's life, the m nese of a boy's treason? ‘Mr. Ni lan,’ said 1, ‘I will tell you every- thing you ask about. Only, where shall I begin?’ “Oh, the bleased smile that cropt over his white face! and he pr da |my hand and said, ‘God bless you! | Tell me their names,’ he said, and he pointed to the atars on the flag “The last | know is Ohio. My fath. er lived in Kentucky. But I have guessed Michigan and Indiana and Minsissippi—that was where F Adama is—they make twenty where are your other You have not cut up any of the | old ones, | hope? | “Well, that was not a bad text and I told him the names in | good order as I could, and he ba me take down his beautiful map and draw them tn as I best could with my pencil. He was wild with delight about Texas, told me how [his cousin died there; he had | marked a gold cross near where he | supposed his grave was; and he |had guessed at Texas, Then he was delighted as he saw California and Oregon vat, he said, he had suspected partly, because he had never been permitted to land on shore, tho the ships were there no much. ‘And the men,’ said he, laughing, ‘brought off a good deal besides furs.’ “Then he went back — heavens, how far!—-to ask about the Chesa- peake, and what was done to Bar ron for surrendering her to the Leopard, and whether Burr ever tried again—and he ground hin |teeth with the only passion he |showed. But in a moment that was over, and he said, ‘God forgive |me, for I am sure I forgive him.’ | Then he asked about the old war told me the true story of his serving the gun, the day we took Java--asked about dear old David Porter, as he called him. Then he settled down more quietly, and very happily, to hear me tell in an hour the history of fifty years, “How | wished it had been some- | body who knew something! But I did as well as I could. I told him about Fulton and the steamboat be |kinning. I told him about old Scott and Jackson; told him all I could ui think of about the Mississippi, and | and his} New Orleans, and Texas, own old Kentucky ‘And do you think he asked who was in command of the ‘Legion of “In the Heart of Seattle's holesale and Shipping District” Commercial Savings Trusts GUARDIAN Trust & Savings BANK Cor, First Ave, at Columbia St. particular | fourteen? | would raise a ery, at thin living in » cow pasture, These people cer inly made a mistake leaving the to come into the country, un they are willing to adapt them nelves to country ways, and put up with country custome This article applies to this lo callty In partioular, but I belleve| it will also apply to a number of localities in this county. A. A. PETE SOLDIERS PROTEST Editor The BStar: A_ quoted statement in Monday's edition of The Star ts resented by enlisted men of the regular army at Fort Lawton, The statement was made to Echo Zahl that the men coming tn the army at the present time were not down and outers, and were not coming in for a meal ticket We wish to state that it goes against the grain of the regular jsoldiers who have been in the ser vice for some time to be practic ally called hoboes. The Third company, C. A. C., of Fort Flagler, now at Fort Lawton, jis composed of a good, manly | patriotic class of men, who have {enlisted during the past three years, while the country has been in a war fever, and we can not} help but resent the slam on men of the regular army as being down and out, and only joining the army | a last resort from starving to death | We wish to call your attention NEXT NOVEL | “JANE EYRE” eed CHARLOTTE BRONTE the Weat I told him it was a very gnilant officer named Grant, and that, by our last news, he was about to establish his headquarters jat Vicksburg. Then, ‘Where was | Vicksburg? 1 worked that out on the map; it was about a hundred mil more or less, above his old Fort Adams; and [ thought Fort | | Adams must be a ruin now. ‘It! must be at old Vick’s plantation, wt Walnut Hills,” said he; ‘well, that is a change! “lL tell you, Ingham, it was a hard thing to condense the history of half a century into that talk with a sick man, And I do not now know what I told htm — of emigration, and the means of it of steamboats and railroads and exraphs--of inventions and of nooks and literature —of the col-| Re and West Point and the Naval school—but with the queer-| lest interruptions that ever you |hoard. You see it was Robinson Crusoe asking all the accumulated questions of fifty-six years! | “I remember he asked, all of a |eudden, who was President now; }and when I told him, he asked if | Ola Abe was Benjamin Lincoln's }son. He said he met old General | | Lincoln, when he was quite a boy | | himself, at some Indian treaty. I) said no, that Old Abe was a Ken-| tuckian like himself, but I could} not tell him of what family; he had | worked up from the ranks. ‘Good | for him!’ cried Nolan; ‘I am glad of that. As I have brooded and wondered, I have thought our dan-| ger was in keeping up those regu-| lar successions in the first fam- | tlie." | “Then I got talking about my | visit to Washington. 1| told him of meeting the Oregon Congressman, |Harding; 1 told him about the | Smithsonian and the exploring ox |pedition; I told him about the capitol, and the statues for the pediment, and Crawford's Library, and Greenough's Washington; Ing- ham, I told him everything I could think of that would show the grandeur of his country and its prosperity; but I could not make up my mouth to tell him a word about this infernal rebellion ‘And he drank it in, and en joyed it as I cannot tell you. He | grew more and more silent, yet I never thought he was tired or faint. I gave him a glase of water, but he just wet his ps and told me Lot to fo AW: Then he asked me to bring the Presbyterian ‘Book of Public Prayer,’ which lay there, and said with a smile that it would open at the right place—and so it | did “There was his double red mark down the page; and I knelt down jand read, and he repeated with me, | ‘Por ourselves and our country, O | gracious God, we thank Thee, that notwithstanding our manifold transgressions of Thy holy laws, Thou hast continued to us Thy marvelous kindness’--and #0 to the end of that thanksgiving “Then he turned to the end of the same book, and I read the | words more familiar to me: ‘Most heartily we beseech Thee with Thy | favor to behold and bless Thy serv- nt, the President of the United tes and all others in authority’ and the rest of the Episcopal collect, ‘Danforth,’ said he, ‘I have | | repeated these prayers ni! morning, it is now fifty-five years.’ And then he said he would go to sleep. He bent me down over him and kissed me; and he said, ‘Look in my Bible, Danforth, when I am gone.’ And I went away. “But [ had no thought it was the end, I thought he was tired and would sleep. I knew he was happy, and 1 wanted him to be alone. “But in an hour, when the doctor went in gently, he found Nolan had | breathed his life away with a smile, | |He had something pressed close to | his lips. It was his father's badge | of the Order of the Cincinnati | 8 | “We looked in his Bible and| there was a slip of paper at the! | place where he had marked the text “They desire a country, even a heavenly; wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God; for He bath prepared for them a | city.’ “On this slip of paper he had written: “Bury me in the sea; it has been my home, and I love it. But will not some one set up a stone for my memory at Fort Adams or {at Orleans, that my disgrace may not be more than I ought to bear? Say on it “In Memory of “Philip Nolan, “‘Tjeutenant in the Army of the United States. “‘He loved his country as no other man has loved her, but no man deserves less at her hands.’” (THE END.) to the fact that if no men had en-ja thing? Germany has sunk about listed in the army during peaceful|600 ships for Norway, and over 4,000 sallora were drowned, Would not that be @ terrible thing, to turn out submarines for Germany, so as |to have her own ships sunk and her own marines or sailors drowned? In regard to Norway and the pub. marines, she does not bulld subma times, what would the fighting re sources of the nation be in this national crisis, if there were no ex perlenced men to lead and drill the new army that conseription will bring into the servies? Conserlp tion would not have been enforced today if more men had enlisted|rines, as #be has no rolling mill for and answered the nation’s call|that purpose, but takes all her sooner. It seems to be a very| heavy machinery from Kogland and | Germany Hoping The Star will correct the error, #0 the public can see the truth about the condition, or else there would be a wrong side of the case, C, CHRISTIANSEN, 226 Taylor Ave. common thing of Inte to hear of ficers of the regular army throw fng slams like these to enlisted men, as tho they were a lot of tramps, picked up from the back al ley. We hope that patriotic people of the country Interested in tol diers will overlook such statements by officers®who are less patriotic than the men they have the honor to command PATRIOTIC SOLDIER SOF THIRD CO. C, A. C, Editor The Star: When will the American editors cnt out the cant and hyprocrisy about not bi the Germans and not fighting the German people? If we are going to fight at afl, we've got to fight the German peo ple. For German soldiers are Gen man men, aren't they? And they were rained by German mothers, weren't they? And some mothers they must have been to have raised such devils, too, My boy t* only 12, but I KNow be will never be such & man as The Star charges Norway with|the “Boches” are, placing contracts for her merchant| It isn't the kaiser that {s com- shipping in America, #0 that her|mitting the atrocities at the front, own shipyards can turn out subma-|and ft len't militariem, {t's men— rinos for many, with which the|German men. If I were running latter can dest our shipping this war, I'd fight them with their NORWAY NO AID TO KAISER Editor The Star: A# I am one of the readers of your paper, please permit me to make an answer to your article of May 23, in which you way, “Let Them Off the Fence.” 1 will try to show the truth in the controversy Did ever anybody hear such an|own weapons, polson gas and all, argument? Would Norway do such, And the people who are runni lit had better quit trying to run it aad be neutral, too, | For you can't love your enemy E |and fight him at the same time, |Whea you quit telling the Ameri can people that we are not fight |ing the people, but an abstract theory, that we don’t hate the Gen mans, but just hate their ways, and trying to make out that we are a whole lot better and have more Christian feeling than the folks |that are suffering and dying at | the front, then, and not until then, Americans will wake up and take an interest in the war. Wait till | our soldiers find one of their com- rades crucified on a barn door, Then see if they won't hate Ger mans. MRS. J. J. CHISHOLM, FALL CITY. EDITOR'S NOTH.—If it is part of the kaiser’s program of ruthlessness to sink without warning passenger vessels aboard which are innocent women and children, then it is not WORLDS POPULATION FAT THREE MEALS 4 DAY N THEe:p nENS his campaign of terrorism to have instilled in his soldiers the same kind of inbuman warfare. If the kaiser was not the man behind the atrocities of Individual soldiers, they would never happen. | Suppose the war ended today— would we, in America, be less in- |clined to tolerate the kaiser and Germany autocracy? No. That is what we are fighting. But with | the war at an end, our quarrel with |the German people ts at an end. Freed of the kaiser and the kalser’s war methods, the German people are, like the rest of us, members of the human family. We do not go into thts war, as others may have done, because of race hatred or coveting new terri- tory. We are at war to fight for an ideal, the crushing of autocratic ‘rule and the making of a world democracy. That ideal does mot permit race hatred. accorded every cour- iruat- ere @ tesy consistent with Accounts Subject to Check Are Cordially Invited. Peoples Savings Bank SECOND AVE. AND PIKE sT. HOGE BUILDING Second and Cherry Owned and occu- pied by this bank. Take a Dollar Out of Your Pay Envelope As you hold the dollar in your hand, think of the various things you could do with it. { There are thousands of ways in which you could spend it—some of the ways will bring you back a dollar's worth in value, some will bring you less, some may bring you nothing, and some may cost you money. That same dollar, deposited with us in our in- terest department, will open your savings ac- count. You will find that it is just as easy to save a dollar out of your pay envelope as it is to spend it. And as dollar by dollar your savings grow, you will gain financial independence. What are you going to do with that dollar? 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