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LAST EDITION IT’S YOUR DUTY You must think far and straight on war matters. That's one reason why it is your duty to go to the Arena Tuesday night to hear experts explain aero Looks Iike we'll have to get up early in the morning and water the lawn. Salisbury says nothing about rain in his report: “Fair tonight and Tuesday.” The Seattle Star { EST | SEATTLE, WASH., MONDAY, AUGUST 1917. ONE CENT RVERYWwhenn 6, IN SEATTLM Root Commission Brings Ominous Warning: America May fave to Fight Germany Alonel HE United States of America is face to face with the gr est crisis of its history. It is a crisis beside which that nificant The United States of America is fighting FOR ITS NA- TIONAL LIFE! This is the uniform opinion of the body of men, represen- tative of the best brains in our country, who were enter- tained Saturday by Seattle, en route back to Washington, D. C. from Russia, to which land they went as members of a war mission from America. They delivered a soul-stirring messa they talked at the public banquet given afternoon he eat- the Germans strike thru her broken line; if the kaiser should take Petrograd and dominate the Russian empire, then what? @ Millions of German troops would be released for work on the western front. France would be speedily crushed. England would be starved into submission. AND THE UNITED STATES WOULD BE LEFT TO FIGHT GERMANY ALONE—a Germany with nine or ten million veteran troops under arms, overrunning a con- quered_ territory 4,000 miles from our nearest coastline! And it would be awar that would cost millions of American lives and 20 billions of American dollars. That is what we are facing. That is why members of the Root mission are alarmed at the nonchalance with which America is viewing the war. That is why, people of Seattle, our young men must stop planning on how they are going to get out of service under the draft, and plan how to get in instead of how to get out. “We are face to face with destruction,” one member of the Root mission said Saturday, “and we are calling a con- scripted army of 500,000 men, How Germany must be laugh- ing at us!) Rumania had an army of 500,000 men and Ger- many crushed Rumania like an eggshell. We ought to have in training camps, right now, not an army of 500,000, but an army of FIVE MILLION.” It is life or death for this nation. Make no mistake about that. From the conservative Elihu Root, the last man in this country to be charged with alarmist views, comes the«warni that a triumphant Germany means a subject people in America to the Prussian ruling class. A triumphant Germany means the Kulturizing of the whole world, the domination of German thought and methods, i civilization set back, autocracy supreme, the great United States a colony of tribute payers to the Hohenzollern family! Shall we continue in unreckoning slumber while the gleat- est peril that has ever threatened our national existence grows more menacing each day? _ AMERICANS, AWAKE BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE! WE MUST PREPARE AND FIGHT NOW WITH EVERY OUNCE OF POWER AT OUR COMMAND. of the civil war is insig- ge, these men, when them here Saturday ing the tuation in Rus uss ubmitting Washington I they to Seattle's patriotism that our country is in plea that Ar in deadly earnest Why turn this war from the picnic into a gasping, bloody, merciless struggle for the preservation of our homes and our lives? We have talked—we of The ar—-with several members returning ot mission We have heard from their which they could not, at this time, say for publicati give one a clearer idea of just what t attle, and in the United But out impres we can with propriety they re which their sia uld ft port and did urse, dis vefore the president net at could— appeal Speaker after serious peril really 1 get d © powerfully home the fact thrilled their hearers with business, and take this war u ask, to eem to t it nd peak They wn te u a erica What has happened, y which a lot of folks k St of the lips things astonishing war may They n things th to us he quoted, of mean be h were left with State cannot urse of wh by these ty visitors ubmit this startling pos @ France has virtually reached the end of its resources as a fighting unit, both in man-power and in money. @ England is bending under the vast load which she has been compelled to bear, and is cking out a hand-to-mouth existence, with the wolf of starva- tion always just outstde the door. @ Russia ultimately will settle its internal troubles, and will resumeits place in the fighting lineofthe allies. But nobody knows how soon. It may be weeks, and it may be months. E Satterfield’s,sequel to the above cartoon ‘will “appear in Tuesday's Star. Vatch for-it! “LOCALDRAFT EXAMINATIONS ON; MANY ASK EXEMPTION DRAFT RIOTERS ‘POTATO BROKER KILLED BY POSSE SAYS HE’S GLAD IN OKLAHOMA HE IS NOT WED By Men MOLDES boards of eight of the 12 Se- aA sists which ‘have attle select districts Southeastern Oklahoma in a 'hegan undergoing medical ex- grip of terror for the past three Monday to deter- days, reached three early today fitness for service when J. F. Moose, of Okemah, rintibnal was shot and killed by a posse guarding the roads leading to Holdenville. ‘Two men have been seriously wounded and a number of oth- ers slightly injured. Moose was killed when he failed to heed the command of an armed to halt. He was in an automobil ind attempted to escape by speeding. Ed Blaylock was killed and two | possemen injured when a group of 30 rioters were surprised at a crossroads schoolhouse 12 miles southeast of Holdenville Sunday e pon. Jack Paige, former hal, was shot in the leg, and “Henry Johnson suffered a scalp wound. Nine of the band were captured and the others scattered The third death reported was that of Wallace Cargill, secretary of Friendship Chapter of the Work fing Class Union, who had defied @ If, before Russia can reassemble her shattered army, Germans Building Subs Faster Than | Allies Sink Them} By Cnited Press Leased Wire COPENHAGEN, Aug. 6—Be- tween February and August, an average of “slightly more” than = thr: submarines were lost ch month, an official statement from Berlin, received here today, stated. Against these war losses, many more submarines were built, the statement said. | Hazen J. Titus Will Aid Herbert Hoover} Hazen J. Titus, superintendent | While the meeting will not be a jof dining ears for the Northern Pa-| direct conference between the lum cific railway, has returned from | bermen and the strikers, both par. Washington, D. C,, where he WAS \tles will lay their views before the Called wo suoter, with, Food pit te coundil, and it is believed that some| istrator erbe: joover. definite measures toward a settle-| before his physical condition ey was asked to advise Hoover In ® ment of differences may be the re jcertified by the board. The] campaign to conse food on din-| suit of the discussion examinations were conducted|ing cars of all the nation’s railways. | ‘The full membership of the coun at the board headquarters | lel! will be present at the conference ased Wire en from various parts of the state.| Forecasts today of Mrs \apply for exemption blanks of vari-| SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 6.—The|The lumbermen’s defense commtt-| tes" trial ous kinds. These blanks must be| following Seattle students at the|tee, of which FE. S. Grammer 18) pyptic properly filled out and returned to| reserve officers’ training camp/| Chairman, will represent the lum the board within seven days from|have been commissioned and or-|employers the time the call was mailed to|dered into active service: George| Dr. Suzzallo has also Invited a them, ¢. Browning and Curtiss R, Gil-|Sroup of noutral business men, | bert, to be first Hentenants of in-| headed by A. J. Rhodes, president of and Carl Zeno Draven, to be| the Seattle Chamber of Commerce HER MONEY, NOT [A 'SUZZALLO GETS Pictures of Root Mission Shownin Star’s Movie Film The landing in Seattle Satur day of the Root war mission, re turning to America from Petro grad, is well covered in the Star- Liberty motion picture weekly which forms a part of the new bill on at the Liberty theatre until Thursday. The pietures, photographed by Frank Jacobs, show Senator Root leading his party down the gangplank; Root, Dr. Suzzallo, President Rhodes, of the Cham ber of Commerce, and Gov. Lis ter, leaving the dock in an auto; Judge Burke, greeting Root aboard the Buffalo; Echo Zahl, interviewing Maj. Gen. Scott, and Charles Edward Russell, famous attthor and economist, and special writer for the Scripps’ newspapers Other pictures in the weekly show the Rotary club’s picnic at Wildwood park, @hturday after. noon; Attorney Reynolds and members of the conference that settled the car strike; Motor man Charlie Stapp back on the job; the Seattle battalion of the const artillery embarking for Ft Worden, leaving the armory, marching into Colman dock, and sailing away aboard the steamer Flyer, and Seattle young men drawn in the draft undergoing LUMBERMEN T0 MEET STRIKERS At the invitation of Dr. Henry Suzzallo, representatives of the striking mill and timber work- sand of the Lumbermen’s Protective association will meet | in Seattle Tuesday morning with the state council for de fense, to discuss the strike situ nsational murder j ation in the lumber industry of y Bianca De Saulles, who the Northwest |shot her divorced husband, John IL De Saulles, because he would not surrender the boy, fears today the| man's relatives will poison her child's mind against her by depict ing her as a murderess Jack is at present with his fa ther's sister, Mrs. Caroline Dege ner. Mrs, De Saulles wants him |brought to her cell, for at least a daily visit o ; . - Counsel for Mrs, de Saulles sald | The mill and timber workers will be today they would attempt to bring |represented by J. G. Brown, prest-| tittle Jack from the home of his dent of the International Union of aunt, in Huntington, to visit his By Uni@l Press Leased Wire + YORK, Aug. 6.—The ques tion of who shall have custody of | little Jack De Saulles, 4, while his mothér is in jail, charged with kill ing his father, may bring the first | Jcourt battle resulting from New| called by the focal service hegan Will Use Ships and Army of 2,000,000 if America Will Consent to Closed Door to | China and Immigration Law Changes. ¢ the in Uncle army The work was done in most districts by four physicians | working in pairs. Each man is examined by two physicians mir Sam's new BY MILTON BRONNER WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 6.—When the Japanese war mission arrives in this country, the best and wiliest Nipponese diplomatic brains will be pitted against Uncle Sam in one of the greatest bargaining matches in history. Upon the outcome will largely depend, not only the future of the hitherto troubled relations between the United States and Japan, but the stablil- izing of the Russian war front, the greater participation of Italy In the war, the circumvention of the German U-boat campaign, and, possibly, the very decision of the war itself, The Japanese will have two trump cards to play. They have a merchant marine of nearly 2,500,000 tons and a mag- nificently trained army of more than 2,000,000 men. Would Shut China's’ Door men, but not enough ammunition, - | because s based on her preliminary| |The Japs have made money out aha:hes tone to apere it she cai tatement, indicate the|of the war, so much so they are get these com ditt J ber| names of several well known peo-|NOW a creditor instead of a debtor | Bry od ee ee | ce t= gl ps could carry American steel |ple, both men and women, will be|/nation, They are willing to Con-| and coal to Italy and food Sakai’ trite di; tinue making money by selling an |Atiieg pte o'ee The child may be called as aj Munition and artillery to Russia, | “ . witness. Ho saw the killing But they want something | onact ourine tin the rcs mer: In Mrs, De Saulles’ statement it; more than money for thelr | mmerioan Daren no definite estimates were obtainable, it is said by board of: ficers that a good percentage of| the men pass the physical examina- tion, but that a large part of them | py United Prens hile De Saul Would Mise Laundry Most of the claims made were on| fantry, the officers to “come and get him.” When killed he was heavily 4 ed. A special train left Holdenville Dearly today with 56 of the captured their physical examination at the city-county building rioters. They will be put in prison | Draft Won't I lurt (Continued on page 10) ADVERTISING MANAGER'S DAILY TALK Seattle merchants have a ape-| cial message for you toda tells how each one of help to cut down nus do our bit to aid in the Mational crisis, You will find this message on page 4 today It's a full page. It us can waste, and — THE FASTEST GROWING PAPER IN THE NORTHWEST Fall Harvest Work By United Press Leased Wire WASHINGTON, Aug. 6— The draft will not interfere with the fall harvesting, Pro- vost Marshal Gen Crowder an- nounced today. ¥ Farm hands of military age will not be granted temporary exemption, but will be called out in the last quotas, thus per mitting them to remain on farms until the last week in September, if necessary Gen. Crowder directed all loca! boards to make a note of men whose services will be re- quired in gathering crops. Draft deserte and anti conscriptionists are well under control, aceording to reports received by the department of Justice todays account of dependent famiiies, al tho there were a number of men| who wanted exemption because of thelr occupations. A fe didn't want to fight because they were and some of those called were in government service. Lung Sing, Chinese, 1429 Sev-| enth ave., says he is going to clatm| exemption because he “doesn't| know how to fight.” He also says he runs a lanndry that would be| missed in case he went to war, If it were not for these two things, | he eays, he would like to go to the front George Christensen filed a claim) for exemption for his son, Arthur Frederick Christensen, who is a seaman aboard the United States fish commiasion boat Roosevelt, He| lives at 2560 Gilman ave. Potato Broker to Go 28, who is his John Johnson tato broker, says “won't let him out “I'm glad I'm not married,” says Johnson, wouldn't want to hide a po behind a. petticoat, I'm going if| hour day and better working con- ia (Continued om page 10) second Heutenant of infantry. 60 BUTCHERS QUIT FRYE & CO. PLAN Despite a strike called by the T W. on the Frye & Co. packing the plant at South Seattle Ww houses, | was in full operation Monday morn- ing, according to Manager H. M. Scaritt. “About 60 of men walked out this morning,” "he sald Monday, “and I understand that they went to the I. W. W. headquarters. The plant is running as usual, and so far as I know there has been no trouble of any kind.” The plant employs between 200 and 400 butchers According to Business Agent Joe Hoffman, of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters’ and Butchers’ union, about occupation | 200 men have walked out at the failed Frye plant, 160 of whom have al- ready joined his organization. ‘They are striking for the eight- ditions, and Commercial Club, to be present at the conference “While we have not been able to | bring about conferences on the eco Inomic ground,” said Dr. Suzzallo Monday, “both parties responded to |the patriotic plea and consented to | present their cases before the coun cll. I hope we can come to some | agreement.” “HELL WITH % DRAFT,” MONTANA LADS SAY) By United Press Leased Wire BUTTE, Aug. 6.—Open oppost tion to the select draft today added |complications to Butte's labor trou bles | Examination of men | Sil drafted in ver Bow county, outside the city limits of Hutte, began today. Twen ty per cent of the men summoned to appear. Practically all claimed exemption “To hell with the draft” was an expression frequently heard, even the corridors of the courthouse is declared De Saulles borrowed the | money to vo to Paris and marry | her, belleving her immensely | wealthy. When he discovered her| fortune was not more than $190,-| 000, he cooled, and after sending her to his parents’ home in South Bethlehem, started paying atten tion to other women. It is alleged he boasted he could win any woman in 24 hours He is charged with squandering half his bride's wealth. On tho pretense that he needed the money to get a consular appointment to Uruguay, it took $37,000, she de- | clared. took little Jack with his women hibited him in knew bartenders names, automobile riding | friends and ex aloons until he} by their first WANT MARINE FIREMEN Uncle Sam wants marine fire men to fill vacancies as they occur, }and will conduct examinations for applicants, Apply room 303 postof- fice building. troops. They would like to have a settlement with this country over the land and im- migration questions in the Pa- cifle Coast states. And even more important from their viewpoint, they would like to have Uncle Sam agree to their having a free hand with China. The American policy In China has been the open door. If Japan is given her way, the door will be shut with a rever- berating bang. Every impulse of ean statesmen will upon the open be to door, men, representing our allies, point out what the cause, She can send sever hundred thousand men into Russia by the trained Siberian line and perfectly Austrians. Can Shorten War But even more vital are Japan's large Italy has over 4,000,000| istry, destroyers would be in a ships, the Ameri- insist But just Mrs. De Saulles said her husband {about that time Buropean. states-| will Japan can do for thes equipped troops Would help stiffen the Rus- sian troops facing the Germans and} nal, load it at American ports, and send it across the ocean convoyed by American, Japanese and allied measure to defeat German U-boat plans until the American shipping: board could construct its tremen= dous number of ships The only question at issue is whether Uncle Sam will pay the price in money, in immigration laws and in a closed China, ZIMMERMAN STEPS OUT OF HIS POST By United Press Leased Wire LONDON, Aug. 6.— Dr. Von Kuehlmann was installed as for minister today, succeeding Alfred Zimmerman, Berlin reports stated, confirming U. 8. dispatehes of Saturday night announcing the resignation of Zimmerman and the other cabinet ministers. A new post of minister of munitions was also established, with Dr. Gess at | eign made in the Prussian state mine ee the head, and four changes were

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