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

*‘Pawnb Pacific Northwest lumbermen who to- ~ day still refuse to operate their mills on the ight-hour basis stand in a pitiful group— self-classified—as business slackers and ‘pawnbroker patriots.” Our government needs lumber, MUST HAVE lumber, for cantonments, for the air fleet that may decide the war, for dozens _ of other purposes. ~ For many days after the timberworkers “went on strike for the eight-hour day, the ‘stubborn lumbermen would not even meet “with representatives of the laborers nor with icial mediators to talk the matter over. Finally, hammered by public opinion, did go into a conference, but behind d doors they proved to be just as ob- inate as they had been from the first. Dol- THE SEATTLE STAR) I80T Sevemth Ave. Near Untom St. OF SCRIPPS NORTHWEST LEAGUE OF NEWsrarnns ¢ United Press Assoctation Tilcaraph News Service of #1 Entered at Seattle, Wash. i, out of city, hc per month up to 6 By carrier, city, 20¢ Postoftice Second-Clase Ma: Hishiog Co. ng all dopartmente. rman Born, He’s for U. S. lives in Rock Island, I!L, an American who was Germany, but, having been naturalized, considers him- loyal citizen of the United States. mame is M. STEPHANY, and he formerly lived np. In a letter to the Chicago Tribune he gives the as his Berlin address: “Formerly Berlin C, Breite Redaction der Vossischen Zeitung.” © being a part of Germany, many so-called German- write more or less treasonable letters to papers city. M. Stephany saw one in the Tribune by a G. F. Hummel, who sneered at America, said the Ger- Citizens of America are a part of the German people ized the crown prince. Whereupon Mr. Stephany fed the following letter to the Tribune: The letter of G. F. Hummel! cannot pass unchallenged. who were born in Germany and are now citizens of United States are not, as he says, still “part of them” And thank God for that. Neither are “there aint no such animal.” a German. Take your choice. term “German-American” is today so closely related to mn that it is well to fight shy of all those who designate Jon. He speaks of the ( admiration for the crown Again “there ain't no such thing.” I can tell him Tecent and personal observation that the people in Ger hate this fellow with the same intensity with which deify the emptror. He is, beyond question, the best hated minus his thin veneer of kultur. Concerning the German press he is also wrong. At outbreak of the war I subscribed to a German paper, Westliche Post, assuming that thus I would get some real mews. Alas, I had to stop the damnable treason sheet less than six months. No such paper can come into house where I am raising my American children, whom I it to teach love for the United States and execration for that land of barbarians in which their father is ashamed © confess that he first saw the light of day. e " here is no room here for a German paper. Hummel's ty for it is not based on sound reason, nor is it conso- ; with facts when he speaks of their truthfulness. There fs about as much truth to be found in a German newspaper, matter where published, as in a German diplomat or Ger government official. German schools, German churches, newspapers belong In Germany, not over here. If anyone has any doubt as to the real character of the German people, let him go to Berlin and study the Berliner polizei. A Berliner schutzmann {s the expose of a real Ger- ‘an minus his thin vener of kultur. f Let us hope that before long our government will stop ying with these so-called German-Americans and put themi into concentration camps until the end of the war, Which end would be matertally hastened by such action, especially if coupled with the entire suppression of the Ger rican press. M. STEPHANY, Formerly Berlin C, Breite Str. 8, Redaction der Vossischen Zeitung. o “Profit” for Soldiers inst government fixing of prices on steel and copper, which government needs all that can be produced, this nent or plea is brought: > “It would drive out of business (profit-making) many producers whose mills or mines are at a disadvantage Jocation or equipment.” It is high time that the government and the people fully that this war, temporarily at least, means autocracy socialism. The steel trust reports a profit of $146,000,000 in three ths. It’s pure blood money. What's true of steel is, degree, true of almost every business of making war ma- To say that this thing must be permitted because small cannot otherwise make profits is to say that our management must be kept at the mercy of combinations war-profit hogs generally. If small producers of steel copper can’t operate profitably under prices fixed by gov- nent, their plants should be taken over by the govern- and operated by the government. ‘The government has simply got to have all the steel it can get hold of, regardless of private profits. step may be positive autocracy and positive so- a ee Such 3 , but all minds have got to be cleared of the obsession our part in the war is going to be performed without ice by anybody. When we take a human being and put him in the at $1 per day, do we ask if it is unprofitable to him? do not. We only consider the advantage to the country. we get to considering property in the same spirit, we And we might well realize early that events are surely going to force really be in the war as we should be. ¥s into just exactly that position. ~EDITORIALETTES TEN-POUND BOY was born yesterday on Seattie-Everett train. if the interurban is anything like the Madison cable, it's a bouncing yy, all right. “CARRY YOUR Belt packages home!” Aw, leave us alone, can’t you, you fresh guys in the wet etates?—8p: man-Review, Spokane. ver, 178 REPORTED Carranza has Carranza? Uncle Sam. Oh, yes, he’s the chap that used to make cri VON HOLLWEG retires to write history. when he confessed about that treaty with Belgium! THE KAISER goes right on congratulating his autocrats over “victories.” But i" Bill can stand such victories, we can. ad William whistle, Phone Mate 600. Private!) postponed the Mexican eleo- What a lot of it he STAR—THURSDAY, lars were their only thought. And so, reluctantly, the officials trying to bring about a resumption of work in the industry were obliged to give up the effort. Then, on Saturday, Newton D. Baker, secretary of war and chairman of the coun- cil of national defense, officially called upon these millmen to run their plants, as a patriotic duty in this time of grave national crisis; to run them on the eight-hour basis, with time and a half pay for overtime. The millmen’s reply has ignored this request of the national government. millmen announce instead that an effort will be made to run the plants on a 10-hour basis, with all the old-time special-deputy, strike- breaking methods in evidence. The The effort will fail, just as it deserves to if Letters to the editor will not | be published unless they are | signed and address of writer | given, If you do not want your name published, say so. We will respect your confidence, but the editor must know your name. Letters should not be more than 200 words long, and should be written on one side | of the sheet. Use pen or type writer, | ° AS TO GERMAN-AMERICANS | Editor The Star: Our brothers, our husbands, our sons are about to go to France to fight, and, per haps, die that “Iberty of the ind! vidual” may be the predominating idea of all peoples. We, as a nw tion, have inculcated this principle into our civilization and have) practiced it. | A German apy system has united most of the German-Amoricans into a strong secret organization, which has, fn part, destroyed our power to t as individuals, We must, therefore, unite to preserve our democracy tn our own home environments, We want food control and we | want {t now, We want prices such that the workman can liv We want the German-American cap- {talists who supply the LW. W |funds to be punished as traitors and their wealth given to the im- poverished Belgians and F We want our pro ators to elther do promptly and in acc American {deals or we want to| compel them to immediately re- |sign. We want our German and German-American educators to be put out of our schools and univers- ities, our German-American civil service men out of thelr positions, our German-American stenogra- phers and telephone girls in subor. dinate places where they cannot spy We believe that our German. American educational higher-ups are closely connected with the lead- ers in this secret German move ment which has plunged us into this war, We want President Suz zallo to be compelled to pay atten tion to the Americans who demand ed the resignation of Dr. Meisnest. We want all business firms to em- ploy labor whose relatives either | are serving or are going to serve in the armies and navies of Amer fea or her allies, or close up thetr shops and be interned to walt for transportation back to Geramny after the war. Within a fortnight clent advertisement triots could be formed in every city, village, and neighborhood, |from coast to coast, from border to border, which could exert a mighty influence for order and jus jtiee and back President Wilson in such a way that he could deal with any emergency | with = sufft- bands of pa Come, one and all, America, let us join in mighty bands of pa-| triots; do away with this German \spy system. L. W. GILMER, | 1188 17th St. | Editor’s Note—The writer of the above refuses to credit men and women of German pareptage who are truly devoted to American ideals. There are any number of |German-Americans who are as pa |triotic as any other Americans, ready to fight for this country even against thelr own kin. We |have no sympathy for the German | Spy system or kaiserism in any re- \spect, but let us not become fanat- jtes and intolerant beyond all rea- son. prices along all lines. tain the same low prices we There is another fact you would be compelled to $50 to $20. o> Ee D. IK.'s .*. COLYUM Manne THE SCENIC ROUTE Hy Herton Draley But 1 didn’t se And so I can't tell, In nice, up-to-date care Ry constantly hiding The scenes from my eye son & siding? The old-fashioned man who sald a woman Wasn't entitled to a voto because she didn't fight has moved out of Russia, . After reading bis letters to Den- man and Goethals, we've come to the conclusion that nobody wears so soft a pair of boots as Woodrow Wilson, WHATS THE FAKE TO EVANSVE You can get the largest sandwich | uses onion, pickle, white crepe napkins, which, combined with Mavered tooth picks and quick service, make the com- bination an ideal ene—Braneville (Ind.) Joarual News. . . Russia is quiet, reports Elfhu Root. W it’s making @ lot of nolse for a quiet place. to us like one of those quiet farm houses where summer boarders are taken, Lift Off Corns Doesn't Hurt! Few drope stop soreness, then corn or callus iifte off with fingers. The world owes thanks to the genius in Cincinnat! who discov- ered freezone Tiny bottles of the magic fluid can now be had at any drug store for a few cents, You simply apply a few drops of freezone upon a tender, aching corn ora hardened callus. Instantly the soreness disappears and shortly you will find the corn or callus #0 loose and shriveled that you Itft it off with the fingers, Not a bit of patn or soreness ts felt when applying freezone or afterwards. It doesn't even irritate the skin or flesh For a few cents one can now get rid of ev- ery hard corn, soft corn, or corn between the toes, as well as painful calluses on bottom of feet. Every one who tries freez one becomes an enthustast be cause it really doesn't hurt or pain one particle, Ladies! Keep a tiny bottle on the dresser and never let a corn or heanaee ache twice. PRICES SOARING SKYWARD Everybody seems to have gone crazy on boosting But we wish to announce that we are going to re- established three years ago, you should not lose sight of—that is, if we were to close our doors to business today pay four times the amount that you are paying to us now for the same service, We reduced the cost of Cremation from We reduced all grades of Caskets from 100 per cent to 400 per cent. We give a complete funeral, including casket, attendance, calling for body, cre- mation and urn for ashes, for... ..$47.50 We maintain our own casket factory, crematory and a modern parlor for funeral services. Do not allow anyone to taker you shall employ when dictate to you what under- death comes to your home, but call the one who will give you the best service and the best goods for the money, and stop the graft. | Phone North 525, BLEITZ-RAFFERTY UNDERTAKING & CREMATION C0. 617-19-21 Kilbourne St, Tt Hatens | AUG. 16, 1917. rAGE 6 roker Patriots”--Will Lumberme fail. This is the yea 000 jackpot can halt t rule a nation. Newton D. Baker is If they continue piece of No Man’s I ———! Copyrigtt The room telephone rang. Allison answered It. ‘Yes, Mins Allison, Leslie? up. What fs it? Developments? Very well, I shall be most anxious to see you.” She had scarcely stepped back to the group again when another telo- phone call was heard, but more faintly, It was the telephone in the adjoining room of the apartment. “Ryidently someone wanted me wh this line was bury, as they have called the other room,” said | Mins Allison. “Jeanne will call me.” “1 am very glad you are here, Mr. Lanagan,” Allison said. “I agree with Younger now when he fay you are the greatest detective in the West.” “That's very good of Colonel Younger,” replied Lanagan. “I have had a little good luck, that’s all” “Humph,” snorted Allison, “Re covering $500 in stolen bonds for me merely good luck? Young Who? Chief tective agency. I'll give you one ac count, my own bank, that will be worth several thousand a year as 4 tarter.” Lanagan laughed; the world to him, cynical nomad, mental vaga bond, was a huge joke anyhow “Strange.” It was Miss Allison's |voice. “I wonder if that call was for me?” Bhe stepped to the connecting door and opened It “Was there a call, Jeanne? she asked “Oh, no; for me,” came the maid's reply. “A friend called me—that ie all.” fon, graciously, and closed the door “Joanne is quite popular,” she vol unteered. "She has quite a num- ber of admirers already about the hotel and she has been with me but two weeks.” “Was she recommended to you?” asked Lanagan, casually. “She came thru Miss Spencer’ agency: Mies Spencer's girls are al- ways very reliable.” “1 pee,” said Lanagan. no consequence.” There came a rap on the door Masters opened it. Chief Leslie and stood outalde and behind bell-boy. Leslie held in his hand a package, wrapped in a news: paper. “Please unwrap this,” he aad, to Mise Allison, without formality. | Lanagan knew Leslie tn all of his |moods. There was a suppressed eagerness about the veteran Chief that was an old sign to Lanagan “It Is addressed to you, you see,” added Leslie Miss Allison took the package. She tore it across and the next in stant with a cry of quick rapture she had thrown around her neck the string of Allison pearls! “Sterrett! Sterrett!" she cried, as she seized his face in both her hands and kissed him. “See! Here it is again! My necklace! Oh, I am so happy! I am so happy!” Lanagan flashed a swift look at Leslie; and he saw that the P of the Chief were fixed on Masters and that his bearded lips were set in a hard line. Dougla: leyeing Masters narrowly. too, was CHAPTER III, “Where did you get that pack- age?” Leslie asked sharply of the bell-boy. “From a lady? “Where?” “In the south corridor of the tenth floor.” “Where did the call come from “Room 1026.” Masters started violently. “Why, that’s my room!” he cried in pro: test. “I had not been near it since early evening! There is no other occupant to my apartment!” Lesiie continued his question. ing, unheeding the outburst. “The call came from room 10267” “That was the call I received from the office. I met the lady just outside the door to that room. I thought she had just come out She asked me to take this package Allison's suite.” and you did what? : , She acted rather funny, I thought; asked me to give it to no one but Miss Allison personally; repeated that twice; seemed to be very nervous or in a hurry, I knew of the robbery, of course, but I wasn’t thinking of the necklace par- tloularly, I was just curious, I guess, when I squeezed the pack- age and I thought it was little marbles. Then all of a sudden the thought that it might be the pearls flashed into my mind so I didn’t go to Miss Allison's room, but brought the package to the office and was turned over to Mr. Doug. las. That is all I know.” | “After you received the package did you notice which way the lady went?” asked Lanagan, The timber men must taken up their station, “The Allison Pearls” BY EDWARD H, HURLBUT Paget (Continued From Our Last Veoue) | Mies | the room. Why, certainly, come right) you ought to get out of the) aper business and start a de-| “Oh, pardon me.” said Miss All!-| “It is of} on which you went to that floor?” | r 1917, not 1913; the world has moved an eon away from even the year 1916, We are speeding along toward a more complete democracy in government and toward social and economic justice 50 times faster than we ever traveled before. The 10-hour day in heavy manual labor industries is vanishing forever. No $500,- he evolution one iota. No blind group of timber barons can over- realize that secretary of war, that he is speaking for the government, AND THAT THIS IS WAR TIME. to stand on the little and where they have they can only expect Newspaper Hervice was turning again for the door to That's the last I saw.” Miss Allison sank into a chatr. Masters, his face very white, stepped before her. “Constan Do not believe this! It is wrong—something is wrong here!” But her voice was steady and her eyen were clear as she said quietly, “I believe you, Sterrett.” “Bomething’s wrong all right,” leame Leslie's saturnine comment “All the world seems to be out to do you, eh, Mr. Masters? Every Tom, Dick and Harry and his lady pal is out i one grand conspiracy against you, eh? Even the little pearls have legs and they help out the grand scheme to do you by walking into your shirt, eh? I | guess you got scared and had the stuff sent back. So, laddy hoo, I think you will come along with me to the city reserves for your kind of peo ple. The jig is up with you. Come along. “One moment, Chief.” It was Lanagan again. “Describe this | woman,” he said to the bell-boy. | “She wore a long fur coat, with \® bi ¥ automobile veil pulled over j ber hat and face. I could not see her face.” “Was | costume?” | “I didn’t think #0,” replied the |boy. “Guests were beginning to | go to their machines from the hotel. I thought she was preparing to go | to hers.” Leslie held a whispered confer ence with Douglas, who left the room hurriedly. The Chief turned to Masters. “I'm sorry,” he said, “but Ill have | to ask you to come with me. When that rather a peculiar | we get this mysterious lady we'll about have this case cleaned up, I think. I'll go to your rooms with |you while you change into your regular clothes.” Masters stood as tho petrified. “You will, will yout” he finally managed to explode. “We've had about enough of this! Leave this room! Get out of here before you are thrown out!” He advanced a step, but, #0 swiftly that the eye could searce follow the motion, Leslie had twisted both of Masters’ wrists dexterously and there came |a soft “click click” and Masters | stood manacied. | Into the electric atmosphere Alll- son's voice came. “Here, Lenli here! “We'll take care of this |thing ourselves! We don't want |any notoriety for anybody! The | necklace te back, ien’t it? Well, we | won't prosecute; that’s all there is to it. Take off those handcuffs.” But Lesiie deigned no answer. “Well—" the bell-boy seemed loath to proceed. “Well—just as Tturned away it seamed to mg abo » n Remain 2 See coe little accommodations the! that treatment which comes to men who desert their country in the hour of crisis. Today, Gov. Lis ter places before the lumbermen the proposition of an eight- went for nine hours Again the lumbermen besides greedily coini selves. Next Novel “Persuasive Peggy” By MAVARENE THOMPSON | | Miss Alli feet. “Reles had jumped to her him!” she cried im- | periously hat have you to ar- rest him on? The necklace in here! Evidently some one was playing a joke on me! It is all here! What earthly reason have you--what case can you make in court, by arresting Mr. Masters? The law requires some sort of evi- against a prisoner, doesn’t it? |And what in the world have you got against bim?” “This,” Leslie answered, taking one of the two pearls from his pocket Miss Allison stepped forward for the recond time that night and ex amined {t critically. “tT have already told you it is not) ”" she said. . “No? But how about this?” Leslie held up the two dangling |ends of the necklace where they hung about her neck. It was quite evident that a pearl or two was missing, for nearly a half inch of the gold thread was exposed. “It was broken,” replied Mise | Alls simply etre’ She lifted the Jewels from her ne id began to count them. Twice she made the count before she spoke. Then she announced triumphantly “They are all here! I don't know where those pearls came from! They are all here—108 of them, the entire string!” “Is that number correct?” asked Leslie, turning to the father. There was a second’s hesitation. | “To the best of my knowledge and)| belief, yes,” replied Allison, s0- berly. “How many did you say?” asked Lanagan. “I sald 108,” replied Miss Allison. Leslie’s eyes were fairly glaring He stepped to Masters and slipped a tiny key into the handcuffs, re- moving them. “For tonight, my laddy buck, you're safe,” he said, grimly. “But watch your step, son; beca I'm right after you.” He turned angrily and stalked from the room; ob viously taking the only course open to him where the parties to the theft refused deliberately to iden- tify the one piece of evidence in- criminating Masters. And possibly the entire affair was a hoax. But then—there was the pearl on Chap pie Carrol. Thus brooding, Leslie went about his methodical task He would hang to that case like a hound on a trail. He did not give back the two pearls he had. “I want you to do me one favor, | Mr. Allison,” said Lanagan, after! the departure of Leslie. “Telephone your house manager that I am to/ be given all the privileges I want | in the hotel for the next day or SEATTLE Will Go to Press hour day with but the pay that formerly instead of ten hours. have an opportunity to toss overboard their “pawnbroker pa- triotism” and do something for their coun- try and for human beings (their workmen) ng dollars for them- Again they have an opportunity to prove that they are a little bit more patriotic than some of the I. W. W. BE EQUAL TO T TY OR WILL THEY REMAIN THE SAME OLD SHABBY “P. P. WILL THEY HE OPPORTUNI- bs two. I believe we have not nearly gotten to the bottom of this thing yet.” “It will be done—tmmediately,” replied the magnate, and stepped to the telephone to give his instrue tions. He was president of Allison Hotel Company. “You certainly do not belevs with the police?” asked Masters, eagerly. “I know you do not @ you would not be taking your pre® ent attitude.” “I have not as yet fully made ap my mind,” replied Lanagan, crisp ly. The next moment the door closed behind him. In the Allison suite Masters was taking his departure. “Constance,” he said, earnestly, “the very taint of such accusation so crushes me that I give the ap pearance of guilt! I am conscious, that I do not seem to have stood up and fought back as I should have. But if I did then they would say all the more quickly I was defiant and hardened! I can think of things to eny now that I couldn't think of this evening—the pearl, for instance; it must have been placed in my pocket by some one anxious to smut me in your eyes, And then this string of pearis, coming apparently thru the agency of a mysterious woman from my apartment! Cannot you see that it must be some terrible cun- piracy?” “Yes,” she replied “T think must be. I am very tired, Sterrett, and I wish you would leave me now. Everything will come out all right.” He made his farewells and left, the picture of dejection and misery. The three seated themselves, Nothing was sald for many mo ments. Miss Allison’s head grad- ually drooped into her hands and she suddenly gave way to unre strained weeping. Her aunt minis- tered to her and her maid came running in. Soon the heiress of the Allisons was pouring her bitter thoughts into tears on her pillow. (Continued in Our Next iseuel® TODAY’S BEAUTY TALK You can enjoy a delightful sham- poo with very little effort and for & very trifling cost, if you get from your druggist a package of can- throx and dissolve a teaspoonful in a cup of hot water. This makes @ full- cup of shampoo liquid, enough so it is easy to apply it to all the hair instead of just the top of the head. Your shampoo is now ready. 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