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most important war legislation of all now has right of way in congress other common necessaries of lifef upon it. Suppress manipulation of their necessaries. Patriotism sickens when kept at the mercy of private greed, The cer will not produce a big surplus for the profit of ay 4 are not to be a mere bonanza for the gamblers, the the house will put the food control measure through by July Ist, opposition in the senate may cause delay of a month or more. And what is the gencral condition, if the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth be told? Internally, England, France, Russia and Italy are seething with dissension because off the high cost of existence. In our own country “industrial unrest” is |THE SEATTLE STAR] 190T Seven Ave. Neer Cates m oF scnirrs NORTHWEST LBAG or NEwsrareuns Telearaph News Service of the Ualted Prees Association Bntered at Seattle, Wash. Postottice as Second-Clase Matter. ‘mall, out of city, , me rh t fr ae 91.00; year $2.60 Detty »; Aes nog m0 ine Co. ne Se Private We refer to legislation for control of food and It is the most important legislation for the reason that the success of all other war legislation depends The people will, finally, neither fight nor pay as my should, with their commander-in-chief powerless to Tt must be made clear that those coming five billions ears and the greedy. et it is generally predicted at the capital that, while jharity Versus Justice ipport of private organizations engaged in charitable work, ¢ charity is a melancholy failure. instances, for it merely continues a condition of help-| SS. “What is needed is constructive help, help of a kind tha will at least tend to develop whatever of strength or useful- Mess we may find in the person helped. Many chronic public are really capable of helping themselves, and some o' ae and put them in a position to do it. Much of the ineffective of the giver than to help the recipient “Under a comprehensive public welfare policy, with de m the nation down, sharing its part of the burden, and do-| g its part of the work, all working in a common cause an¢ © a common end, and all actuated by the simple motive o' nental human justice, work of the kind We are engaged ir So declared James Callaghan, public welfare commis of King county, in an address before the Nationa ‘Conference of Charities and Corrections at Pittsburg recently fis plea for government-directed welfare boards, instead 0 ite charities, speaks for itself \ and milking it, too,” which, naturally, may raize the deuce that they might try on congress. with big incomes! lowa’s Spasm acai: forced to hire autos a larger Hawkeye representation among the heavenly hosts, ‘the measure is to be commended, even tho it marks a legis lative usurpation of the function of the clergy ) there is no way of finding out if this is the case, and in the absence of specific information it must be confessed that the fs too much of a buzz saw to be employed even in a goo cause. | witches is now in order. } EDITORIALETTES MERCY! RED CROSS! GIVE! LOOKS LIKE the butchers have a bone to pick with their empioyers in Seattle. WRITE TO your congressmen for the conscription of wealth and food, as well as live LIGHT RATES are to be heavi announces. » the traction company s 1T 18 hard to believe that the submarine is coming out on top. No matter what view we may take of the intentions of | greet us. anxic inthropic men and women who contribute toward the We are bound to recognize the utter futility of these efforts. “Doling out a few dollars now and then to this and that d*ta!ts. person does but little good. As a fact, it is harmful in}icw, black doo t f will do it if we will only help them to the right focus} oi private charity is due to a failure to recognize the|® mts properly organized, and each political division, 1) f n assume constructive significance and prove of enduring ” 1 problem, and neither do we. It does look some like husband, and corp: ty to animals to tax the business cow while it’s making | she showed virlle fc and taxing it again when it has got the profits. But! a suggestion for that cow’s lobby friends at Washing- Instead of bellowing over the way it will hurt to both! net strike; he would only wrestle, “butcher and milk the hard-working business cow, try to horn a last he mastered her arma A marshal was taking a couple of| 4 Cannot “business interests” join with the common follks in getting the burden placed more equably on abnormal in- > Towa is still struggling in a spasm of what some people | doubtless regard as virtue. Some hapless newspaper men who worked 30 minutes after the hour of midnight last Sat-| were led to the calaboose at Waterloo as violators of; nday blue law. On a former Sunday all the train crews ' of trains entering the town of Indianola were arrested for | similar alleged offenses and travelers who had to leave were g If these and other activities under this blue law result in Unfortunately “benefits of the legislation are somewhat foggy. Intolerance 1 An Iowa law providing for the torture and execution of | more widespread than at any o! STAR—SATURDAY, JUNE 23, 1917, PAGE 6 ther period during the last decade, because of the high cost of existence Rising prices of vital necessaries are, daily, clipping nickels and dimes from the value of the workingmen’s and workingwomen’s wages Industrial warfare in this country, at this time, means certain defeat for our allies « broad and certain payment, by us, of all that Germany demands, later on, HEAVEN HELP, NOT ONLY ENGLAND, FRANCE, RUSSIA, BELGIUM, BUT US, IF THE WORLD GOES INTO THE WINTER OF 1917-18 WITH THE GREED OF AMERICAN PROFIT- HUNTERS AS TO FUEL, AS WELL AS FOOD, UNCONTROLLED! Yet, in the senate—the American House of Lords, largely second rate—there is a cabal of dignified creatures, partly incorrigible egoists, partly would-be traitors, who secretly desire and design to defeat all our war plans For weeks the equity of war taxation has been banged about by a senate committee whose majority is composed of Smoots and Gallingers ‘ It is a sorry exhibition to put before people whose plates are daily becoming barer and barer, before wage- earners whose wages are daily becoming more and more powerless to feed, clothe and house their families. But the senate must debate, f (Continued From Our Last Issue) | preven Stull holding me fast, he left the wae chureb; the three gentlemen came |)! after, At the front door of the} | reach hall we found the carriage. } natn |house, John,” sald Mr. Rochester, | main Jeoolly; “it will not be wanted to- |rurthe | day.” | He At our entrance, Mra, Fa | Adele, Sophie, Mary, advanced to| “No, soul” cried the master; “away ma with your congratulations! They | “ersy jare fifteen years too late!” j. Lhe | He passed on and ascended the half-op stilt holding my hand, We/! bad proceeded to the third story; the | Cleared ypened by Mr. }the be Rochester's maste Jus to a room without a window. mourn, "here burnt a fire, guarded by a] bat- bigh and strong fender, and 2 | wed lamp was suspended from the cefl. | stuff ing by a chain. Grace Poole bent |! thou key, admitted [and procee or days and days BY CHARLOTTE BRONTE ao nt the false marriage. He re him to me for assistance 1 not morally certain that uncle will be dead ere you Madetra, I would advise you 1 | ompany Mr. Mason back, but | | “Take it back to the coach /as it is, I think you had better re in England till you can hear r either from or of Mr, Fyre. we anything else to stay for?” fax,|he tnquired of Mr. Mason no-—let us be gone,” was the us reply; and without waiting, “To the right about—every | 10 take leave of Mr, Rochester, thoy their exit at th hal door, The man, too, departed ard him go as I stood at the » pen door of my room, to which withdrawn. The house I shut myself in, fastened nit that none might intrude, d-——not to weep, not to yet too calm for that, lly to take off the and replace it by the wn Thad worn yesterday, as wight, for the last time. coe ahe fire, apparently cooking | T then aat down: I felt weak and something in a saucepan. In the | tred deep shade, at the further end of | and m) |the room, a figure ran backwards nd forwards. What it was, wheth- er beast or human being, one could| Som tal fallacy of the notion that givmg is helping |hot, at first sight, tell; it gfoveled, |¢4 my really needy and deserving persons are never reached |seemingly, on all fours; tt snateh- | to do? they are too proud to accept offerings of this char-|ed and growled like some strange | Many of them feel that they are fairly entitled to/ wild ® hing more substantial than the crumbs from the rich table. Private charity can never hope to escape the/hid its head and face. suspicion that whatever aid is given thru these} is given more to satisfy the vanity or salve the con-} Put with clothing; and a quantity of otha ears. 1 ro at th ark, grizzied hair, wild as a mane, “Good morrow, Mra. Poole!" | and how is your charge today? | We're tolerable, sir, 1 thank you,” replied Grace, “rather snap- * pish, but not ‘rageous.” A fierce ery seemed to give the ag le t nimal; but it was covered | “Leave Thornfield at once” eid Mr. Rochester. “How are yout,’ judge ha 1 leaned my arms on a table, y head drap ppd on them. CHAPTER VI e time in the afternoon I rats- bead and asked, “What am I words, not outwardly; only at my | light box of sufficient size. It is 6 ” oe oe iaciaamgemarr we ove s contr I “Oh, Please, Mr. Detective the answer my mind gave—| “You know I am a scoundrel, | mattress 9 ° as 80) t, eo dreail, that I stopped my up suddenly, terror-atruck solitude which so ruthless od. My head swam tood erect; I percetved that sickening from ex¢itement nition; neither meat nor 4 my lips that day, | tbs tae el wt|STAR BEAMS tall on its hind f “ah, sir, she sees you'” ez-/ Billy Sunday declares he could! claimed Grace; “you'd better not|“¢™pty hell in 15 minutes.” Just to | Prove ‘Only a few moments, Grace; | ing to jyou must allow me a few mo-| ments.” | ‘e@ «then, «sir! —take | AM care | | The maniac bellowed: she | man Sx parted her shaggy locks from her)|zen of our little community, who and gazed wildly at ber) enot ar had better leave her, pered Mason | last | “Go to the devil'” was his | charge “"Ware!” orled Grace. The three | Bardo! that he means It, Billy ts go-! Milwaukee next | o-6"8 Appreciation ssourl newspaper says: Old mith, a highly respected citi 4 killed a pair of ukulele | »|players from his bedroom window Friday night, has been dis d from custody and granted a “ee : = i . | brother-in-law’s recommendation. | pension for meritorious service.— ‘Business interests” are sending up a great bellow at} hington. The business lobbyists declare that taxing busi-| penttoees retreated simultaneous. | and also taxing business profits is “butchering the cow |} 4 Mr. Rochester flung me be-| It's useless to expect kindness ph, Ill, News. see him; the lunatic sprang and/round a ball park. When Owner |grappled his throat viciously, and | tmgdal We’ ve a good deal of sympathy for the “business inter-|lafd her teeth to his cheek; they | dihly r ” just now. They don’t know where they're at, in the|#truesied. She was a big woman, | puient in stature almost equaling her! sugge it besides; | in the con: test—more than ce she almost jthrottied him, athletic as he was. He could have settled her with a/ | well-planted” blow; but he would Gen But putter, race Poole gave him a cord, an with more rope, which was at |hand, he ‘bound her to a chair. The| operation was performed amidst the fiercest yells, and the most| convulsive plunges. Mr. Roches- ter then turned to the spectators: he looked at them with a smile both aerid and desolate “That is my wife,” said he. “And this Is what I wished to have” (lay- ing bis hand on my shoulder); “this young girl, who stands so grave and quiet, looking collectedly at the! |gambola of a demon, Wood and |Priges, look at the difference! Then judge me, priest of the gospel and man of the law, and remember, | with what judgment ye judge ye! shall be judged! Off with you now! | I must shut up my prize." | We all withdrew, Mr. Rochester| stayed a moment behind us, to Bive| ‘ome further order to Grace Poole.| The solicitor addressed me as he de-| scended the statr. “You, madam,” said he, “ar cleared from all blame; your un will be glad to hear it—if, ind he should be still Hving—when Mr. Mason returns to Madetra,” | “My uncle! What of him? Do| |you know him?" “Mr. Mason does. Mr, Eyre bas| [bean the Funchal correspondent of |his house for some years. When| |mating the contemplated union be-| tween yourself and Mr, Rochester, |Mr. Mason happened to be with him, Mr. Byre mentioned the intel ligence; for he knew that my client here was acquainted with a gentle ; man of the name of Rochester, Mr,| | Mason, astonished and distressed aa you may suppose, led the re [state of matters, Your uncle, sorry to say, is now on a sick hed iH E F | from which it is unlikely he. rea IMS L | ever rise. He could not then hasten| heatiies to England himself, to extricate you Gee from the snare into which you had 5 fallen, but he implored Mr, Mason tor ah to lose no time in taking steps to guude bis driv KEEP Ir oH HAND cle receive pe | i ministration. ‘A dose of two ls time your uncle received your letter, inti-| a prevents slong tHinees ©, of the Seattie ball club, au exretted that he was too cor to enlist, some heartless crab ted that he go as a tank s <€ 8 Haig shows great form with ing ee i he doesn't seem there as al eee | d 7 ess into throwing the tax over upon the stall-fed crit-| He + 8nd | negro prisoners to the federal prison | Seong g p he pintoned them behind ‘her; | 4s stoxeile island the burden of the housekeeper by keep- ing away the danger of illness resulting from coltis, coughs, and indigestion due to catarrhal condi- tion. It speedily re- lieves and overcomes these, Its tonic properties build up strength of the physically k and run con and its use The wine housekeeper has Peruna ase oven Ions Thal Liquid or tablet form, fi b 71S Wient Av Denlistii sn Block $55.00 wot of tor {Spot the Senators Who Are Throttling Our War on the Kaiser}: ASHINGTON dispatches are to the effect that the Thousands must die, tens of millions of dollars must English sources, be wasted, we must risk internal disaster, that the senate may verbally maul and munch, perhaps try to filibuster Salvation lies in the autocracy of our over, 2 proposition that’s as plain as that a soldier must commander-in-chief, and our U. S§, have powder in his gun in order to shoot senate would make him “too late,” in. When Uncle Sam declared war, a declaration to deed which the kaiser has not eve ceived and contents noted c Germany said “Too late.” They had faith in our democracy rs . They did not believe that our democracy could Patriots are patriots. The hyphen- promptly concede the necessary war time autocracy ated are no bigger than their umbilical They knew the U. S. senate, with its near-sighted connection. La Follette, loyal to democracy even if it means det racy a corpse, its Stone, stone blind to everything ‘ p the Missouri hyphenated vote, its Smoots, Gallinger There ought to be genuine patriots Reeds, Penroses, sleepless guardians of every damnable h in th : private interest that opposes demoer institutions or enoug in the senate to gag, and hog-tie, processe if necessary, the mutineers who would They knew that democracies, as well as armies hold the country to stump-speaking while travel on their stomachs. Germany quit her offensives everywhere, and made it a food war, distinctively and its throat was being cut. particularly She only has to win with her submarines, and she is so winning, notwithstanding all our boasted inventive genius and the censored report By Daniel _DeFoe ( of | for I had taken no breakfast, And, with a strange pang, | now re flected that, long as I had be ehut up here, not even little Adele had tapped at the door; not even Mre. Fairfax had sought me. “Friends always forget thore whom fortune forsakes,” 1 mur roured, as I undrew the bolt and th passed « i I stu: {1 over an obstacle; m head was still dizzy; I fell, but at not on the ground; an out |atretched arm caught me; I looked | ca was supported by Mr. | th my chamber threshold her housework and what is more * | You have come out at laat,”|important allows the baby to have ude og: My Blin dish egy Just Printers he said. “Well, I have been wait: better care es 5 ing for you and Hstening; five t 7 proper dope to such fools, 1013 THIRD MAIN 1043 If started right the baby will MRS. E.G. M intnutes more of that death-like | ¢q) bush, and Lghould have forced the | x¢ lock Mke Fan glar, Well, Jane; | 4), pot a word of reproach? Will you ever forgive me Reader! —I him at the | teament, ahd st. Phere |t@F part of the afternoon, baby will was such deer in his eye, U& Ured and will sleep soundly at ’ I night. The baby should go to bed such true pit tone, ® A pee in manner: and, ,"0t later than 6 o'clock each night wae NIGHTS, 7 AND 9 besides, there was such unchanged, The baby should sleep alone in = ss love in his whole look and mien—|® crib, not in a cradle. A good 1 forgave him all; yet not Jane?" he ) tnauired wistfully “Yor, 8 Be ally ee roundly and sharply—don't spare me." jea “| cannot. I am tired and sick./feeding time or if t 1 want some v sort of shud me tn his arm stairs (Continued in Monday Issue) er.” He heaved a fli ; sigh, and taking | ba’ me down By E. D. K.': jorib, The unfortunates were from dif ferent towns and were strangers fo each other until they had been rounded up by the minion of the law. As they began their journey to|® their new home, t engaged in the following colloquy How long did the judge send) jj you down for? j Three years. How long you go-| in’ down for? | From now on.” / eee A Syllable to the Sapient Certain gossiping females of | this community are going to | have an opportunity to prove | some of their stories oF sign } a libel if they don’t bridie thetr | tongues. —Raritan, IIL, Reporter June, the Month of — Roses rides Graduate Gnats June bugs Dandelions And young John D. Rockefeller has beaten Billy Sunday in a game of pfolf.| There are a lot of thin you can| say about Billy, but you can't say he's a fool. REGISTERED His step is light, Hip eye is bright His face proclatr He does not as To shirk his tash His name Js on the Honor Ro Thoroughness | Charactertzen our methods tn every transaction, and our cus- tomere are accorded every eour- t consistent with sound jul. Judgment re-free soul Accounts Subject to Check Are Cordially Invited. Peoples Savings Bank SECOND AVE. AND PIKE “In the Heart of Seattle's Wholesale and Shipping District” Commercial Savings Trusts GUARDIAN Trust & Savings BANK Cor. First Ave. at Columbia &8t. ter, who sat in a chair /allows the mat unother nap in the early afternoon. wants It to be awake by playing With a Company of Eight ——______—_-+¢ BEST FOR RESULTS | y n yet replied “Yours re a yme of the wisest men in Years of debate on this food control legislation will not change a senate vote. Delay is deadly. Action, not talk! Let the country spot the senators who $s we get exclusively from | want the United States to be “too late”! SLEEP J Health babies sleep nearly all the time during the first month COMPLIMENTS US CORBALEY COMPLIMENTS or #0 of life Editor The Star: In your paper of | sao The Star: Seattle did She baby . oR capac al.| make good on the Liberty Loan, sleeps lees as it |e, or Vente jest because ft Al-| ang @ world of the credit tor that grows older, | ¥#78 makes a good fight for 48! making good belongs to you and After a few|piain people,” and I want to say|The Star. This is said without de- weeks it learns 'to you that your editorial in Fri- pg from te anyone else to sleep longer 8 Star ("Soaking the Plain|4!4i but it certainly does a fellow Se Might andleccue s food to see the whole-hearted way lens in daytime, People") t# great and to the point.|j, which you and the crowd ge Until the ex I'm also sending in my enlist-|after things when you start © firet year the baby ment to you, not because | have Perhaps it particu peals to 1 16 hours out of the ever “wasted it because I am | me ause of my love for the man ould not be disturbed exc with your grand ide 1 never! who does things nursing time could afford to waste—wouldn't if G. ©. CORBALEY, 1 was able.) Eiecutive Secretary, Chamba wit oF saintne the bab é 4 i n va a taakn ¢ grind ir By wad And please tell thia Grey| Commerce. : ‘ D raining |that she der jold Medal” | — Seeree eee © same time en hb day. Training r more time for for answering “Zachariah T. Smith” in the manner she did. It was a ke a long sleep in the morning ay awake several hours during e middie of the day and take Hy staying awake during the lat BEGINNING MONDAY MATINEE betitute for a crib is a basket or without piicwa bales (sleep Bl With Bobby Woolsey, Betty Evans, Hudson Freeborn Do not take up the baby just be and many pretty girls. One of the biggest and use {it cries at night, u merriest acts of the season. Paul Armstrong’s Beautiful Satire “WOMAN PROPOSES” ould be changed Sometimes the by h just become uncomfort the time she th it or taking it w from it a . . : : ie A Vivid and Amusing Interpretation o/ - iceainapersi Present-day Problem Other Big Features—10c and 20c STAR WANT ADS - oo) Warning We are informed that at some cafes, restaurants and gardens beer and strong drinks have been sold under the guise of the popular soft drink Bevo. These reports have been.confirmed sufficiently to compel us to take action. The beverage Bevo enjoys the protection of both federal and state authority. In preparing it for sale and in marketing it, we adopt every possible precaution to protect the public against imposi- tion and to prevent evasion of the law. Bevo is sold in bottles only, we bottle all of it ourselves, and we have adopted a kind of bottle, crown and seals designed to prevent imitation. We shall omit no measure within our power to defend the authority under which Bevo is manufactured and sold, to protest the public from imposition, and to safeguard the good name of this Association, We therefore give fair warning that we shal! refuse to sell our products to those v~ho are found guilty of the above offense. ANHEUSER-BUSCH BREWING ASSOCIATION <a