The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 23, 1917, Page 6

Members of the lumber adsoclation Inelst they are patriotic, that tl are not wishing to retard the gov- _ The action of the state council of defense in urging congress to establish a nation. al eight-hour day In the tum ber industry cannot fall to ernment. Let them prove it. meet with the commendation if they © sincere in their of the people of Seattle and endorsement of the eight the state. hour day principle, let them Yet the public Is not ready grant the elghthour day In Washington at once, If they are wise, they will do It In defense of thelr position they have been trying to make the public belleve that an eight-hour day, unless It were to accept the possibility of such national legislation as an excuse for the lumbermen's withholding the eight-hour day in the state of Washington, and so prolonging the disas trous tleup, made national In scope, would be disastrous to the Northwest lumber industry, They have been waging a campaign of misrepresentation to that end. Now, out of thelr own mouths, and by thelr own deeds, they have given the tle to thelr own statements. If the eight-hour day would be so financlally disastrous, why did employers meeting at Raymond offer the workers a 10 per cent increase In wages if they would go back to work on a 10-hour day basis? Would STAR—THURSDAY, AUG. 23, 1917. PAGE 6 not a 10 per cent Increase be as great a financial burden as cutting two hours from the work day? If an eight-hour day would make It Impossible to operate and would cripple the Indus try, why have two of the largest mills in Tacoma re sumed operations on the eight hournday plan? Why are they doing more business than be- fore? The lumbermen have con vineed the public that their endorsement of a remote na “GENTLEMANLY TREACHERY” TO U.S. tional eight-hour day Ie noth- Ing more than a stall Here is the truth of the mat- ter: Thelr fight not been, against the hour day as such, It Is not especially against the |, W. W. Their fight le and has been to retain autocratic control of the Industry. THEIR FIGHT 18 AGAINST COLLECTIVE BARGAINING, IT 18 AGAINST ORGANIZED LABOR AND THE RIGHT OF THE WORKER TO HAVE A and hae eight la not, SEATTLE S OF NEWSPAPERS TAR ea a BER OF SCRIPVS NORTHWEST LEAGUE Press Assoctation Poatoffioe a nth up to 6 er, city, 300 a p to America to Deliver Knockout inions about conditions in Germany are as various as i ders. z One hears Germany has plenty of men and munitions, Py but is on the verge of starvation. The next day one hears it impossible to starve Germany, but she is coming to the of her man-power. And on. Perhaps the nearest to the truth is the saying of a Swiss merchant: “Germany is on her last legs, but her feet are firmly planted on the earth.” It stands to reason that Germany must be greatly weak- Financially she has been shut in and her system of for the war has resulted in an inverted pyramid that crash some day. Commercially she is bankrupt, because her great seaborne . which had made her rich, was automatically stopped Britain’s navy. She is on short food rations, and has been. Soon things ill be worse because of our embargo to neutrals. In man-power, there must be a perceptible shrinkage. allies’ losses are large Fall fronts except the Italian. The German wastage in endous battles like those for Verdun, and in great cam- ms like those on the Somme, is bound to be very large. Also the quality as well as the number of the men has poefully depreciated fail months, the veterans of the first two years, must in pmsiderable numbers cither be dead or incapacitated. Their have been taken by older and younger men, combings those previously deemed unfit. But as the Swiss put it, Germany stands firmly on her She faces the foe as defiantly as before Many will think of her as in the same case with Japan war with Russia. The Japanese had won battle after he greatest in history. Russian power appeared defin- shattered. We know now that Japan was war-weary, depleted, on her last legs, convincing the world by an Blaborate bluff that she was invincible. ©) So it may be with Germany. All the pompous speeches be intended not only to bolster up waning courage at but to feed the enemy abroad. ’ At this stage the most important job falls to the United r We come into the conflict fresh and strong. It be- therefore, our task and our privilege to deliver the Sckout blow to the groggy Teuton powers As a brave people we must do our own fighting. As a hating militarism, having girded up our loins and d ourselves, we must walk in boldly and smash this military machine for good and all. ee s so ‘ i) f Nature is no copy-cat. She is the original creator of ties. But, even so, why shouldn't the lower orders follow § example when he discovers a lofty principle of conduct ly applicable? John B. Bales of Kansas City has a setting rooster, which two weeks has been taking his trick at keeping the eggs This rare bird seems to be a curiosity in the poultry , but after all he is only patterning his philosophy of upon man’s recent discovery that, new woman or no new n, suffrage or no suffrage, there is really no reason why fair sex should do all the household drudgery. i do except strut around and blow their own horns. Most the scratching and all of the household chores were per- d by the hen. . This rooster is a century ahead of his time, that’s all. salbe he is the butt of the barnyard ridicule he can console i If with the reflection that such has been the fate of all advanced prophets. MASTER BUTCHERS’ ASSOCIATION urges Food Dictator to prohibit sale of meat on two days of the week. If thi ition has a trend toward two more days of lovely hash, here’s the hellishness of war gets the deadly grip on our vitals. PRICES SOARING SKYWARD Everybody seems to have gone crazy on boosting prices along all lines. But we wish to announce that we are going to re- tain the same low prices we established three years ago. There is another fact you should not lose sight of—that is, if we were to close our doors to business today you would be compelled to pay four times the amount that you are paying to us now for the same service. We reduced the cost of Cremation from $50 to $20. 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 dictate to you what under- taker you shall employ when 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. BLEITZ-RAFFERTY UNDERTAKING & CREMATION CO. Phone North 525. 617-19-21 Kilbourne St. And German troops have battled | The magnificently trained troops of} Anyway, roosters in the past have appeared to have little IE. D. IK.’s.*. COLYUM This generation, says a Portland newspaper, does not know how to black its own shoes, Humph! This generation doesn't need to know how. It wears white shoes see | We have always wondered about the location of a ball player's brain and finally comes this information JA Cleveland sport ed says, “The ball was traveling far faster than Speaker could move and It hit him a resounding whack on the back of the head, about one inch above the j brain ad | | | NURRAHING FOR RACHEL This one from BP. H— You bet that they are white. And this frem MB. Rh — T sing tm praise of Rachel Ree, That girl te care « plum; Ne matter where you see her she | Is never chewing gum. And here's one trem FF. H. O— There's none to equal Hachel Ree, Her record brighter grews; fhe never stops her Underwood To powder up her nose cee The imperial government Jer |many has seized all the po..toos, including the new crop. This was done, no doubt, on account of pota toes being so plentiful. eee Hymen Lemontree lives in South Bend, Ind., and Mr. Bird is head of |the egs department of Swift & Co. Editor’s Mail ° | | 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. Vv will respect your confidenc 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. VALUE OF DOGS Féitor The Star: In Satumtay’s Star I noticed a letter from a Mr Shoup, in which he advocates the killing off of what he terms “worth- }less” dogs, in the interest of food leconomy. In the first place, euch a n ig absolute rot 6 not on the brink of famine and starvation by any means, and until such time all these radical and extre measures as are being ad- vocated are nothing more or less | than hysterical piffie When Mr. Shoup refers to dogs as worthless, he shows that he either knows very little about dogs or is purposely misstating the facts “The (Continued From Our Last | Copyright, She had heard late in the even Ing that Mrs, Pernau had regi» }tered again and she had endeay 1 to locate her » had suc ceeded, sticking resolutely at her self Imposed task, at the unseason able hour of one o'clock in the morning, and in answer to he urgent request, Mrs. Pernau had quite graciously consented to re ceive her in her room. “You do me quite an unexpected honor,” was the greeting of Mra. | Pernau, “It ts very {mportant,” replied Miss Cadogan. “Now what can it be that brings the exclusive Miss Cadogan to the room of a wanderer on the face of globe. as T am, at this early hour?” “It {e—about the pearls Mson pearls,” said the girl, the such the Al hur They were stolen, I be Yes—once from her neck on her rootm.” 1 saw something in the papers How were they stolen the second time?” “They were returned, you know. by a mysterious woman, who ap parently came from 1026—adjoin jing the one you formerly had. It {fs Sterrett Masters’ room, and he |@ays there Was never & woman |there. It ts very eurtous.” “I don’t see why. Any woman co vo taken & position there honing for a call boy From which room did the telephone | |for the boy come?" “Apparently from room 1926, but the telephone girl, I understand, in the rush of calls, did not pay much | attention. for 1026, and the girl aan The call was for a boy call came from that room ond time?” “Me. ¢ this evening. reward for them—$25,000, formation about them to ask you—I hope you won't feel They are offering a when Mr. Winkeppner’s caught !n Miss Allison's skirt? It |was then the Jewels were stolen jthe first time. And I wanted to ask, do you remember seeing any thing unusual—you were standing very close by, I remember?” ‘I™ There was just the alight- jeat perceptible king of the cle: Jaret on {te way from her lips Then sho resumed smoothly: “Oh 1 do recall some confusion. o turned that way for a moment 1 did not approach very It was coming out of the refresh ment pavilion, was it not?" “It wos,” replied Miss Cadogan, oarerly "I thought you close enough to notice everything Your partner may have. Who was he?” Again the clearet wae halted de Hberately while the woman eyed it intently. “It may seem like a strange thing to say, {t may sound strange to you,” she replied, “but | were | | | | I don't know who my partner was |Just at that time. I was sitting Jout the dance, A gentleman jasked me and I danced with him Ysobel Cadogan had struck fire in her clumsy fashion. She re alized ft, and yet sho didn’t know how to take advantage of It. Be cause she knew, with the certain knowledge by which women un derstand women, that the other in that one statement told a lie. Sh had watched the lady in the Jullet costume because Winkep b danced with her two or three tin ‘and Mies Cadogan had not liked that 8 inquired casually who th J was and he had told her. This very important in ballroom floor and again from | med the| their “And they were stolen again you/with a clever bird say—woro they returned the seo-|Carrol and do a lot of things you|the same persons of hay: telephoned Constance! with the rat for in-/of I wanted | angrily formation Miss Cadogan had thus} far kept to herself from some blind | time, Inatinet, simply because Winkepp. |ner had kept It to himself, but now | tainty appreciated that | you? |drowning by dogs, and at the pres jent time the dog has proven himself den} Aside from the dog’s destrabiity {he euddenty a : as a friend and companion, in which | n° that ona ene talking teen respect, by the way, he excels the! ‘ a cording tatority of human betnes, he pos. | Skilled dissembler; and more than season A Kroat many uses, ontet|ever did sho believe that Mra among which {9 his use asa wateh-|pen Ya" in Some fashion linked doy. Personally, I know that we| yy po, f 7 SRL Ly. could not get along without our dogs | (541) ra eWalt asgrd weirs ber in this respect, as on many occa- |! Stata ia tala en fiona they have warned us of the hostess of the tete a tete said, “T presence of prowlers or driven them |2#¥e @ tea urn. I'll give you a cup away by their barking. | > But not only as a guardian of hislininking vere reoidiys ee master's life and p | cerry it er's ife and property has the) his little doll has just canine made himself indlapensable. Many people have been saved from) a valuable adjunct on the Huropean WwW battlefields, and the police dog has |,’ |made himself world famous; nor». | must we forget his value as a hunt-| 9, ing dog, and the many other uses that he !s put to in the country, such | as guarding stock, exterminating vermin, ete. Mr, Shoup ts evidently more con- cerned in getting rid of the dogs than he Is in any food economy which he professes to think might result, since he says that he would not urge the mere taxing of the ca- nine, as many people would deny themselves certain necessities in order to keep thelr dog, which would lead one to remark that such a denial in order to avoid sacrific: ing their best friend would indeed be trivial. ate pe the an | sti re fel on op wi | eriminating Pernau and the young lady |"Queen of Diamonds,” were hunch that I'm to the. bad to get that ed little a shi 1 suspicion out of her cranium, — Now. come in, anyhow inkeppner? Sure. IT remember w. It's supposed to be his little 1 Well, I've got to take little 1 into camp.” From which, of course, the dis reader® may and, if he has not alread cted as much, that Mrs. H mately called by Dickie the d the sartiie person, There came a rap. ffened covered to rigid attention, then herself quickly, for she t those curiously frank eyes up- her, and said “Oh, will you en the door? Say I've retired, ll you, whoever it ts?” Miss Cadogan opened the door “Good evening, Miss Cadogan,"| flare heads to the arrest of Alice We can't and won't do without |*, discover Jack Lanagan | ’ JOHN P. WILSO! the dog, _ JOHN P. WILSON. ‘no said, cheerfully, “Ie Mrs, Per nau within You'll like “Persuasive Peggy.” AL Bk Ma NR Per. | sourcefulness, but scarcely suspect: | arose, | entertaining the famous Alice.” the | clety friend will be worrying about was | Winkeppner tn got a} he will find my offices a good place under-|¢r girl's heart as you have all but sug-| broken an one | of least resistance that, so far as The woman] the prowling activities. of other Allison Pearls” BY EOWARD H, HURLBUT Paget Newspaper Service tired, will you please, gan? Close the door because | would ke to see you a moment or two.” “Oh, very well, Then I will ask you to step into the hall, Miss Cadogan. I have some important matters.” He had lifted his voice | Nehtly. The voice came floating t from within These impertinent reporters! At such houts! I suppose, tho, I may as well see him “1 Judged you would, my lady,” thought Lanagan. “And for some reason you do not want me to tackle Miss Cadogan just now. Sho can wait “I'll see you the first thing tn/ Cado-| the morning, will I, Mire gan?” | Yeu,” replied the girl, and hur-) ried from the room. | “Well?” said Mra, Pernau | “You're a cool one,” was Lana-| gan's disinterested comment. “You know how many people are closing | fn on you?" She drew her lips tightly to-| gether. | "I do not understand you—what| do you mean?” “I mean myself, Chief Lenile and Maggart of the Adams agency.| And you know these things—you knew you were shadowed tonight | your sad-faced youth told you and you come back. I simply hand| it to you.” . / Sho nat down, her hand dropping | {to her aide; but in a swift step |Lanagan'’s knee was pressing her! elbow and he reached down before r hand could leave the slit in her Miss Cado-|of Justice. jthe gang as eon as PART IN THE CONFER. ENCE ON WAGES. It Is a purely selfish fight It Is unpatriotic and con- temptible. It in “gentlemanty” treach- ery to Uncle Sam. if the lumbermen sincerely wish to prevent a REAL dis aster, let them estaniish the eight-hour day here right now IF THEY SINCERELY FA. VOR A NATIONAL EIGHT HOUR LAW, LET THEM MAKE IT LESS REMOTE BY LEADING THE WAY. Next Novel “Persuasive Peggy’ By MAVARENE THOMPSON been apprised in time for publication of the fact that Raymond Winkeppner was being “detained” in the office of Chief of Police Leslie. The early afternoon papers had added to the unpleasantness of Winkeppner’s position by unearth: ing the facts of his rendezvous the previous evening with “Mrs. man Pernau”—a revelation clontly painful to send that gentle man to the strict neclusion of bis apartments at the Bachelors’ Club where, closeted with hin attorn he had remained during the entir day He had been released from sur wuff) veillance by Lelie. That Winkeppner was heavily entangled on the street was pub Mehed. But the most astonishing fact developed was that Winkepp. ner had personally procured the invitation upof which the Lamont woman and her escort had been adm 1 to the masked ball It wan, of course, accepted that her escort had been Carrol. The question arose in many minds, why, {f the Pernau woman er to give her her police name, Al {ce Lamont, had originally the gems, did she return them and then steal them the second time? In answer to this, Loriie advanc ed the very the arrest of Carrol was known to It occurred and that keppner had carried the word of the Jewel being found on him. The woman had then swiftly determin- ed on returning the string to di ber and withdraw the same auto-| vert suspicion from Carrol or te prevent the evidence being found Mean business, don't you?” helon . and hod then either person remarked. it tell me just one|ally, or by some member of the thing, and if Leslie or Maggart|®®0g, resecured {t when a way had don’t grab you, I'll put nothing in way. I think you're one of |those fool women who get tangled! ike Chappie | | wouldn't do {f you weren't In love Isn't that sot’ “I am not aware that it's any your bnriness!” she cried| “Give me back that gun! I don’t know you' I started to offended—bdut you recall, of course, | pull the gun because I thought you] the scene on the ballroom floor!were going to stick me up! buckle | that Iun't reasonable?’ She snayhed | been cleared for slipping it from the hotel; the supposition being that neither the police nor the owners of the Jewel would suspect ing taken it the second time, A cablegram to Paris had brought @ full description of Alice Lamont, and when Leslie walked into her room at the Allison he oo recognized her. ® statement; the Lamont woman Her-| stolen | plausible theory that | Masters or Win. | keppner bad refused to make | hed preserved silence; Jeanne was | for the gun with a furious gesture, | Still hysterical, but st! denying her le the narrow fingers|C@rrol was as insouciant and in. fully jabbing rigidly | #" & a8 before. The arrest of forked for his eyes. | th mont woman had served the| He caught her wrists aod whirled | ber back to her chair There car a rapping on the; loud, sinister, threatening, | and, after a second’s duration, It came again, twice repeated. The exile, aflent bot hard, for the} san was lithe and muscular, conned “Cut this out,” in a whisper snapped Lanagan, Tell me one thing and I'll keep the gun—otherwise they'll book you for having It and hold you Tell me one thing— whe did Winkeppner figure?™, looked at him with hate nd led defiance aa the knocking) again at's for me to know and you out,” she flung at him, as ed back, and she arose, sl ntly alk to tha door, and her head back and swift- her tumbled hatr, It wae Leslie who In, and behind him were and Murphy wing stalked Brady “Get into your clothes, Alice La- mont to and take a little ride with me the city prison,” Leslie was curt and hard as flint was almost moved to ex urprise. Allee Lamont was 1 thief who had some fow nonths before been under suspt ction for one of Paris’ most senen. tional necklace thefts and wae sup- nosed to have fled to Egypt or to In dia I guess | showed you a trick this Mr. Jack Lanagan?” Leslie had turned to Lanagan. “You cer- hadn't flashed her, had 0, “T hadnt woman of replied Tanagan, «lowly. I knew she was a young some daring and re- ed, to be perfectly frank, that I was “Come along Alice, Your high so- you,” “Her high society friend?” quer- fed Lanagan, “You haven't thrown “Not exactly thrown him tn; but to stay for a Iittle while, at least,” replied Lesile. Winkeppner was therefore under what 1s called “sur-| Veillance Lanagan gazed at the veteran chief for a few seconds, and then spoke, almost with bitterness | “Chief, you're wrong, You're blun dering again; trying to break anoth-| Miss »Allison's,” CHAPTER VIL Maggart was moving along a line he could see, wan entirely free from operators. If there thing as accident in encountering successes where a given line of thought and activity is occupying the mind and the time, then Mag gart had been a recipient of a lucky accident. The morning papers had given is any such Lamont. They had also, this fact being ascertained by the routine “Tell the gentleman I have re- police reporters detailed at the Hall police with materia! to defeat his habeas corpus petition, and he was readin: BETTER THAN THE BRITISH WAR PICTURES OUR PRICES “ss: STRAND _ Fraser-Paterson Co. Phone—Main 7100 | Becond Ave. at University St. All Remaining Summer Frocks Im # Final Clearance Sale Two Lots— Extremely Low At $4.95 At $9.95 Formerly $8.50 Formerly $18.75 to $12.50 to $27.50 At $4.95 Correct Summer linens, cotton voiles. many plaids and stripes All go at $4.95. At $9.95--- —Beautiful, fine quality Dresses; voiles, lin- ens and combinations, in rose, blue, tan and stripes and floral effects. All go at $9.95. ~——Fraser-Paterson Co. 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