The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 20, 1917, Page 6

TAR—MONDAY, AUG, 20, 1917) PAGT The High Tide of Sentiment for Prohibition So, we hadjhalf of the American states are “dry.” To the American the votes of the American people would do. The voters of tion, we are not a republic, but an anarchy. y= fo America have never had a fair chance at nation-wide pro-|better go ahead on the basis that fundamental national law|vote have been added new millions—-women, “dry, deadly hibition as the dominant issue. There has long been a pro-/is law for everybody in the nation, and enforce that law dry.” Hundreds of thousands of young men are to be i hibition party, but, always, the leaders of the greater parties| 3.—All true. Prohibition has never won a national vic-|the camps, with almost every one of their families praying have made other issues dominant, This may be impossible,|tory, no great party has ever adopted it as its issue, no suc- that they cannot get at liquor, and the government is openly however, in the next national campaign, The old parties|cessful candidate for the presidency has ever pledged himself doing its best to grant those prayer There are thousands polls in any national election, that no great party has ever/may be out of important issues, and 25 of the states have/to it of voters who never helped vote a community “dry” but who h become “dry.” The great parties and their nominees have been able,|do see a cure in a constitutional amendment pted, to which no successful candidate for the presidency " I n & i es ever pledged in the whole history of the country.” 2.—It is a pretty serious matter, not to say a heretofore, to dodge, and dodge they have, collectively and This is the condition, and no reader, “wet” or “dry,” can © The above are excerpts from the New York World and/and fatal attack upon our theory of national democracy individually, Will they be able to continue dodging in safety, blind himself to it. With what other issue, what other broom y well express the arguments of those people of the}confess that the people of any state can and will nullify |is the question will any party, great or small, sweep back this ocean of A the constitution, and be permitted to do it by the federal | The present state of sentiment toward intoxicating drink | sentiment? 1—*“Nation-wide prohibition could never be enacted by votes of the American people themselves.” 2—“A prohibition amendment to the constitution will come a dead letter in all the states in which public opinion inst it.” —"“An amendment that has never won a victory at vicious to States who oppose the amendment just passed by the ted States senate by a vote exceeding the necessary two And that opposition, in our humble opinion, will to show up something stronger, when the test comes, as will. 1.—Of course the New York World doesn’t know what [THE SEATTLE iF mail, out of city, a5< B ‘The more you see and hear of that man John J. Pershing, | STAR 190T Seventh Ave. OF schires NonTH Bntered at Seattle, W By carrier, ¢ per month up to 6 WEST LEAGUE OF NEWSPAPERS Press Assoctation mos. $1.90; year $3.50 * ity, 30¢ @ month. Male 600, I'rive to head the American convinced that he is He has vision. armies in France, the more you the right man in the right place. has that quality which is needed in all great leaders of has been in France only a short time. He has already to the full the vast result there is unusual job this country is undertaking force to some words he spoke : , words meant for consideration and thought by the back home—3000 miles and more from the scene of war is Pershing’s verd) he righteousness of conflict. civilian peoples which ict: our cause cannot decide this It is the fibre, the stuff, the grit, the nerve) will decide it. Be sure of this. fe side which lasts the longest, the side which endures is Side which will give its character to the future of civiliza- The quality of nationa the future of the wo is is a direct call a Tt means we must st 1 fibre will decide this war and rid.” nd challenge to the security, our peace, our prosperity we have not visual- what war is. By and by the real and grim thing is to be brought home to us papers will be printing rolls of honor just as do the| 4 | h and French papers—long lists of officers and privates - & 10 have been killed in action, or who have died from There will be long lists of missing men whose fate | be unknown—whether they are wounded in some Nx s Land, or captive in some German 4 will be reverses tc Kose of other nations, will have their ups and downs. win brilliant vict They will advance. n these things rison stockade > be recorded. Jur armies, just ories. They will sustain bitter They will retreat. there will Ww hap of which Pershing "es France, England, yes, and , have gallantly stood all the shocks of the of bitter war. They have sorrowed over their and then nerved themselves to carry on to the end. Frenchmen and Englishmen and the foe have done do. What they have done, we MUST do. The war [mot be won alone by the men at the front. It will be we as much by us back here at home. serve our courage and our faith, if we stead- foo th unitions, if tly supply the money and the food and the munitions, i Mt will know all is well back here. 9 not whine and comp how men fight when b folk at home. ittleGroupof Willful Men’ “If present conditions in the Northwest lumber industry ie, the situation is certain to become more grave.” Thus Governor Lister concludes his appeal to the Presi- of the United States, u to investigate and help lain and falter, the boys at the And all the world their minds are at ease about rging him to appoint a commis- settle the lumber strike. P With their country at war, “the little group of willful who control the to sit sullenly back tion and peace. hey have in turn snubbed the State Council of Defense, | tary of War Baker, an Northwest lumber industry have and make no sincere moves for d the Governor of Washington Surely, Mr. William Hohenzollern will not forget our hwest lumber barons when he distributes his next gross f Iron Crosses. EDITORIALETTES | HE THAT LET'S GIVE the kaiser credit—he Is joining the people of the nocd intrastate. regulation lives upon hopes will die fasting—Franklin. Into a closer union for democracy. | American | eel ourselves to what is to come. | also come the! government. the governed. government is a failure. If a nA eee | la» D. K.'S.'. COLYUM | It looks as tho the fron would be a heavy one to bear, eee cross| | “The newspapers say dresses are to button down the back,” postcards P. B. “But I shall button my wife's up the back, Just ae I did several years ago.” cee Possibly the reason women's dresses will have button in the back is that there won't be enough | dress in front on which to sow a button. | | | | | fo % TO WAIT IN A DOOR WAY UNTIL. THE KAIN 1S Overt “I have grown older, but I still re-| peat my query of several gears! |ago—why, oh, why, fe the where fore of the ‘hot water (sic) spig- ot, of fasset, or faucet, found in Pullman lavatories? writes Shorty Simms. “It is true, as some one brilliantly answered, that there ts always plenty of hot water tn the ‘ice’ water tanks, but why the fairy) tale in the lavatory?” | eee | We lamp in the pubile prints that the senate bill taxes the poor nd not the rich. Taxes as usual! eee | We wish the well-known U. 8. congress would find some new way to try to tax the rich. We should lat least like to see the rich put to the trouble of finding a new way o 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. Wo | | | 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. | —~ CONVENE LEGISLATURE Editor The Star: An immediate session of the legisiature ix needed | We need state food laws to supple- |ment the national food jaw. The | national food law covers only inter. |state food, feed and fuels. We Why | walt unti! October? Now, before | the harvest, is the time to regulate o WOT SATISFIED with flirting with the camel, many congress-|the gathering and distribution of also seem inclined to imitate the ostrich. BOUT EIGHT out of every ten doctors are being drafted. If takers want to let out IERMANY |S und Amerika.” One d isn’t room enough on them for the autocri of folks it would like to, and that’s a cause of much sorrow Teuton kultur. Juice of lemons clears, softens and whitens the skin. % ot their medium. Issuing more paper money stamped “Gott Strafe rawback about German bills le that y to do all the Girls! Try This on Your Hands! Make-a Lemon Beauty Cream a wonderful complexi Prepare ion lotion for a few cents! ee Oe oe ee seems that every here is making lemon i ’ says a well-known druggist, the reason 1s because at the ener and beautifi small jar of ordinary cold | can prepare a pint of a creamy queezing the three girl and that lemon juice is used to bleacn o- and remove such blemishes as |freckles, sallowness, and tan, and is the ideal skin softener, smooth- Try it, girle! Get three ounces and make up a juice of |quarter pint of this fragrant lemon | lemons {nto a bottle con-| lotion and massage It daily {nto the | nation’s chosen, and we would have| come to me for your Dental Work, ounces of orchard | face, neck, arms, and hands | the food and feed production. If we| | wait until October, the food manipn- |Jator will have buffaloed the produc- jer into selling his crops cheap, or |not harvesting them at all, and will have them housed in cold storage to keep the prices up, and it will \take a Conan Doyle's Sherlock | Holmes to dig it out We should follow the lead of New | York state, which has just passed a drastic food bill, with Teddy Roose velt to head the commission to ad- minister it We should have etate cold storage and municipal cold storage facill- ties, so that the state and city could! buy and sell the necessities, if for no other purpose than as a deter- rent upon the food gamblers, This requires logisiative action first. Now ts the time to do it I understand the governor intends to call the legislature in October— that he {s now getting pledges of some sort from its members as to the kind of legistation they will work upon. I think we can leave that question to our representatives when they get there. | There should be no further delays |—for pledges or anything else. By October food legislation will be ben-| eficial for next year only. And #o far as state guard or police legisia- full |of orchard white at any pharmacy | tion 1s concerned, we are right now | lemon |or toilet counter and two lemons softener and complexion beau-|from the grocer itier, by yo fresh I without such and in need of such an organization. We have soldiers| a-plenty among us, but they are the! It|to ask the national government for} Care whould be taken to|should naturally help to whiten,|their assistance, Perhaps a few| B the juice thru fine cloth | soften, freshen and bring out the | public meetings might arouse the| © lemon pulp gets in, then this|roses and beauty of any skin, It | wovernor to the realization of the don will keep fresh for months. |is marvelous to smoothen rough, | necessity of present and immediate ry woman has kyown for years |red hands, ewislation. M. FARMER, | RVR FLT! GANG ELEN TIS Ie WE and in accord with the will of the governed, our form of | stuffing out of him state can nullify the constitu ween e Allison Pearls” “ower BY EOWARD H, HURLBUT Copyright, (Continued From Our Last Issue) | “I was looking in your paper this morning—you're the ‘Enquirer,’ aren't you?—but I saw no refer. ence to the scene last night. Of course you are not going to men tion that?” ' “Enquirer men are not expect ed to discuss what thelr paper ts or is not going to do,” replied Lanagan, indifferently. Winkeppner frowned. “That means, I suppose, that you are go- ing to use it tomorrow?” “You may take it any way you Uke, “I only want to say,” Winkepp- ner went on, evidently laboring for self control, “that what little wine I had last night seemed to have gone to my head. I tasist on cor recting the impression I made. It Was unreasonable and {nexplicable in me to speak to and of Masters asi did. You will understand from this, will you, that my insinuations were absolutely groundless—1n-! spired by a minor personal differ-| ence we may have had?” | “I will understand something of | that sort, yes,” answered Lanagan, with the same exasperating inso-| lence, “I wish,” he continued, hold. ing up one hand, warningly, as Winkeppner’s eyes Mashed omin ously, “to ask you a question. Why | did you so dance inst night that) you kept close to Mies Allison and/ Masters after the episode of the boot buckle?” Winkeppner stared down at Lan-!| agan for an instant without speak-| ing. It never occurred to me until this moment that I had done so,” he replied slowly. “Possibly 1 did,” he added, reluctantly. “If so, it was merely some desire to watch her, I suppose; there is something about her that {s always—charm. ing to me.” “T see,” said Lanagan. “If you will pardon the familiarity, I might | suggest that {t isn’t quite #o easy! for you to substitute Miss Cadogan for Miss Allison? Isn't that about ir" “I suppose I ought to resent that remark,” said Winkeppner, tenta- tively. “But I won't; my temper got mo into enough of a situations | last night without ylelding to it again. However, it is one you can-/ not expegt me to answer.” “No,” replied Lanagan, “hardly You might tell me, tho, what your | theory is regarding Masters’ dis appearance?” Winkeppner started, In spite of) himself. “Why should I know any- thing about that?” he said violent- ly. “Why do you all ask mo that question? We are not friends it is hardly Iikely he would have taken me into his confidence if he had decided to skip out.” i “Who else has asked you the! question?’ Lanagan was imperturb- able. “Who else? Why, I have just gotten thru with a half an hour's sweat box down at police head- |quarters with that accursed Leslie doing everything but charging me with murdering the man! I'll have a defamation of character suit on him when this thing is over!” If Lanagan was surprised at this information as to Leslie's line of activity, he did not show it. “Ot course, he didn't go quite| that far,” Winkeppner corrected. “He thought I might have known something about his habits or where he might go to spend a few days while things qui down a bit.” ut you didn’t?” “I certainly did not,” responded the broker, warmly. “You danced near Miss Allison for several dances,” continued Lanagan, watching Winkeppner | from half-closed lida. “When did you first notice the necklace had disappeared?” PYORRHEA SPECIALISTS Receding or bleeding gums, teeth slightly sore or loose, and a bad breath are indications of Pyorrhea This disease is a menace to good health, and if allowed to remain unchecked, your teeth will loosen and eventually fall out. 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Phone Main 5769. : juntit I retire.” At any rate, it is not good argument against|has never before been approached in all the history of man amendment of our plan of national government at behest of/All over the world, Mars has got John Barleycorn down and If we are not government with consent -of|is conscientiously punching the hypocrisy, brut y and other War has poured’ a flood of objection Over upon the traffic that sweeps clear around the world Next Novel “Persuasive Peggy” By MAVARENE THOMPSON Paget Newspaper Bervice “Not unt!l the unmasking, and{!matie, The pallid youth had quick- we walked over to where she and/ly slipped from his pocket a der Masters were talking,” he replied,|ringer. One, having read the vague bromptly newspaper rumors of a band of “May I ask what time you left “high class Eastern crooks” out tn your office this afternoon?’ Lana San Francisco to make a cleanup gan asked jat the Allison ball, might suspect Winkeppner glanced at him with that these two were in some fash- & momentary suspicion and un-|fon connected with such rumors. certainty. The Meeting expression As, indeed, they were. of unrest was not lost upon Lana-| The woman stepped to the door, gan. as the rapping came again. She “About % o'clock,” he anid. “T/opened tt with her left hand, Her had some business matters to at-\right hand was by her side, t tend to. My office closes at four/ ugly little revolver held without a and I telephoned at four and/tremor. For all his quaking the lad learned the police wanted to see|was not without quickness, for he me. I went to Leslie's office, re-}swung his chair around so that the mained there for half an hour, at-|revolver, held tn his right hand, tended some more business for a was under bis left elbow, but cov- couple of hours, bad a drink or tw® ering the door, She glanced at at the Yellowstone and came here.” | him, anaw that he was ready, and “Where are you going from/then, as the rapping third here? If there are any develop-|time, she suddenly swung the door ments I may wish to get you on/ wide open. the wire.” Then she laughed and so did the am going to my club—the| pallid youth, a trifle nervously. A Bachelors’—-for dinner. I have no;iittle girl stood without. engagement for the evening and “My mamma wants to know if will probably remain at the club|she can borrow your carpet sweep- jer,” Haped the little girl They ordered a drink and after) The woman leaned swiftly down greeting friends for a few moments jand kissed her. Winkeppner left. No sooner was; “Bless your little heart, dearie,” he out of aight than Lanagan, mak-/she laughed, “we haven't a carpet ing his way to the street, hurried sweeper to our names.” around the corner to Stevenson st “Oh, thank you,” sald the little where the faithful Tommy was doz-| miss, and turned and walked pre ing on the seat of his taxt. cisely back to a half opened door “Bush st. office of the telephone | some distance down the corridor. company,” said Lanagan. “Make! “You think it cinch the dicks time. jhave the string They were there tn a few mo “What is it now? think ments. “Wait for me up at Grant box of yours is the best thing you a and Sutter,” sald Lanagan, have, because your nerve is nil crisply, “If you walt all night.” What is it now?” It was shortly after eight o'clock. “Because, if it was the dicks that The mai r had gone for the day.|/had taken that string of pearls Lanagan found the chief operator. from the grip,” replied the pallid To her he handed a letter, She glanced at ft and walked with Lan agan to another part of the build- ing, where a woman sat at a single switchboard “This is Mr. Smith,” chief operator, to the woman. “Ho has inspector authority for the night. Give him whatever prtv- fleges he wants at the listening board.” “What number or numbers fs it you with to lsten to?” asked the operator at the desk “Franklin 2026,” replied Lanagan. It was the telephone number of the Bachelors’ Club. eald the CHAPTER V. During the same evening that Lanagan sat at the listening board | of the telephone company, there; were ral other Incidents occur- ring ng persons concerned | in one way or another with the/ Allison pearls. For instance, the, man with the alligator skin suit-( case had some hours since reached his destination, and now, in a bay window, behind heavy lace cur-/ tains, in an apartment fn the Pan- handle district, was anxtously peer- ing up and down the street. A woman, heavily velled, and walking rapidly, enme around the corner of Lyon st. and he appeared re leved. In a few moments she was with- in the room, “Tam giad you are here,” he said, anxiously. “I was followed.” “No! Here?” “1 think not. There were two taxia. I lost them turning tnto Devisadero st. from Golden Gate. IT cannot exactly undérstand that. It_is not lMkely they both broke down on the grade.” She had been removing her veil and heavy coat and stood revealed as a brillianteyed, keen looking woman of beauty, and about 30 years of age. ‘Didn't you have any sense? Why didn’t you lose the grip? Do you realize you have left a trafl every place you went carrying that aul Lm “Il was careful,” he said, abashed, “And I did not have a key.” “You could have cut {t open with a pocket knife and burted ft ont there in the sand, couldn't you? We must make a quick move— that’s all.” “Leave the grip here?” “Certainly not, You can take na ride to the beach again, We'll wrap it up in newspapers. Then bury it." She opened It with a key. She pulled out two costumes, tn fact: a Juliet gown and cap and bodice and a domino. There was nothing else in the suitcase. Sho stared for a moment. The young man turned paler than the habitual sal- low of his face, “Where are those pearls?” she asked. She was subtly suggestive in her words and bearing of a hiss- ing snake, ready to strike, But all the pallid young man could say was, muttered with tiresome repeti tion “My God digestion better. sweetens my God! After all our chances! They're gone!” “Yes,” she said. “They're evi- dently gone. And you stole them, You are double crossing us. I've a notion to slit your windpipe for you before you leave this room!” She examined the lock. “Forced,” she said to herself, “I guess maybe the kid Is in the clear at that. He looks it. Sit down,” she said per- | You are right!” she cried eagerly |“Some of those bellhops or baggage | room birds | You're right, Dickie! | to | "Playing # |called out weakly. |a regular guest of the hotel. No, unless there be mighty and wonderful changes, John Barleycorn is going into the de stripped of his malefactor rather excusable, rather profitab ly picks a pocket here and there. ' r youth, wisely, “they would have pinched me the minute I called| for it. That's why.” She sprang to her feet. “Right! dug into that grip! Even if it following you, maybe they were simply looking over all the transients and will drop us.| Dickie,” she sat down beside him. “Dickie, it's up to you. You think that girl 1s really copped on you?"| “Sure,” sald Dickie, indifferently. | “You think she suspects any- thing?” “Nixie; not; nothing.” “Very well, then, Dickie boy, you'll have to find ont if those pearls have been secretly returned —but I don’t think so. We'll send) this grip back to the hotel by mes- senger, but minus the regalia, which you can take out to the beach and bury.” It was about the same time of the evening that Masters climbed {nto bed tn a room in a downtown | bachelor hotel. Before doing so he tied a bandage around his jaws. Beside the bed was a drop push button, which he pressed. “Fine situation for Mr. Sterrett Masters be in,” he grumbled again. ck in a hotel within five/ minutes’ walk of Constance and every paper in town and every de-| tective scouting around to try and) locate me.” | A rap came. Masters huddled under the covers, “Come in,” he A bellboy en- was dicks tered, “Yes, sir, Mr. Flanders, what can I do for you?” “Crab salad, consomme, porter- house, potatoes gratin, quart Bud -" he stopped suddenly. He di Was supposed to be a sick man, oc cupying the apartment of a friend, | “Oh, | cut that order out,” he said peevish. ly, “I'm ordering what I'd like to! eat, but of course it don't go. Bring | me some milk toast and a pot of In the Private when big business needs study WRIGLEYS Teeth, breath, appetite, and spirits are the better for it. Wrigley’s makes the next pipe or cigar taste It pleasantly and soothes mouth and throat. emptorily, | There came a rap at the door. |The woman stiffened. Then her hand slipped down to a concealed pocket in her skirt and she drew forth @ small but businesslike auto » etna ck as the greatest of national se as a rather sociable, fellow who at worst mere- ‘ 77, Navy Takes Him Wopbini il 1 Yi Myy tote Lowe !s 77 years of age, but be has passed the physical test and has been accepted as carpenters mate in the navy. He lives in Kansas City, Mo, and {s a civil war veteran. tea.” The boy withdrew and Masters threw off the covers and the band age. Another knock came and he han riediy put on his bandage an climbed back into bed. “Come in,” he said. The boy brought fn his milk toast, received a liberal tip and retired. Masters jumped out of bed and sat down before the meal. Theat ended, he began to smoke, moodily. (Continued in Our Next Issue) eetepeote> ¥RMew