The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 31, 1917, Page 7

ga ae | a ARE THEY ON STRIKER? Here’s the latest shortage! There's a lack of chorus girls, Where are they? Theatrical producers give this answer: Of every ten « No, 1 either became a star or got tired and quit. No, 2 found more money and opportunity In the movies Nos. 3 and 4 achieved the highest chorus rl ambition —marriage. Nos. 56 and 6 joined the Ff Cross or went abroad as nurses in some other n. This leaves Nos. 7, 8, 9 and 10. And they are not putting in an appearance to ask for places, Therefore producers fear a secret chorus girls’ union, long rumored, is at last organized, and they are awaiting the union's demands FRANCE TOTAX WAR PROFITS UP Americans aid France by ing their luxuries from French fac- tories—these industries yielding a large part of France's taxes. closely the Americ: appreciate the difficulties and the new problems before America, es- Men Who Are Careful of Their Appearance and Also Their Money Will Choose Their Clothes at This Store Now! TO 80 PER CENT BY W. S. FORREST United Presse & te PARIS, Aug. 31.—France pro- poses to put the cost of the war on those best able to bear it by taxing war profits up to 80 per cent. Minister of Finance Thierry made this announcement today In an Interview with the United Press, explaining Franc scheme of financing the war. He added a plea that purchas eapondent special “We in France are following very financial debates in .” declared M. Thierry. “We HERE tailored by the best makers satisfactory service. any dollars to you. markets today. tomorrow at Hats, Furnishings and Shoes Apparel for Women & Misses vith you is no course. 1 Everything of the very best quality. All articles guaran- teed as represented or money refunded Mr. Jos. Leudan haa been engaged in th nolesale Jewelry and Diamond business since 189 His th 1h sures purchaser all times 1222 Second Ave. | | i pecially the problem of taxation for w tl ar purposes Effective legislation regarding he latter has been dif partic ularly in France, whe was no income tax before the war establish the fixed reven as made it necessary f the war period in order to tax the exe “The war profits in France | during the first year of the war have been estimated at $550, | 000,000. The second year was about the same. But collections have been slow, owing to the difficulty in establishing the taxable sums. “To da only about $400,000,000 has been col ted taxing of more thn $1,000,000 a maxim of 80 pe ing scale bit for Uncle Sam. is a fine selection of models and fabrics tn all sizes, in America and guaranteed to give Present prices mean a saving of It ts impos- sible to equal these values in the Retter see the fine Suits we offe Boys’ School Suits Hats, Caps and Shoes Blue Serge Suits of fine quality, knickerbocker The Gately Credit will enable you to dress well and never mise the money in 30 days Open an account tomorrow; red Everything OPEN SATURDAY UNTIL 7 P. M. CATELYS 113 THIRD AVENUE Between Seneca and Spring Sts. Joseph Leudan Co. Importers of Diamonds and Manufacturing Jewelers Formerly of 87 Nassau St, New York. Brooches, Our law of July ‘ar profits nt j “We are now introducing a law! the profit makers’ revenues | m rent, according to a slid-| of 1916, taxed under $500,000 50 per James J. Rafferty, in Seattle} from Philippine islands, says the} Filipinos are ready with, trained native troops to do their| trousers, very Service You need not pay all arrange terms to suit there extra charges confidential, of We tape and no strictly Diamond Rings $10 to $1,000 Wrist Watches $13.50 to $275.00 Cameo Rings, Lavallieres, $3.00 and Up Sterling Silver Flatwares Sheffield Hollowware Established 1890 * He Was Boiled in 7 “NO EXCUSE FOR ; WAR PROFITS,” | _ SAYS GOMPERS BY SAMUEL GOMPERS President of the American Federa- tlon of Labor and Member of the National Council of Defense (Written for the United Press) WASHINGTON, Aug. 31.— There never was a war that af- forded tess justification for | ‘war profits than that in which our country Is engaged The fundamental purpose of thie war is to establish inviola bility of human rights. | In my opinion, the rate of taxa | tion upon war profits should bring them down to nearly peace profits No Blood Profits For this war our republic has felt tified in enforcing compulsory ary service at the constant haz lard of health, body and life; to re quire the full man power in indus try and transportation. That cor porations, companies, and even in | dividuals, should have the opportu |nity to coin the flesh and blood o their countryme » war profits tn abborrent to justice and humanity, and in conflict with the very {deals for which our peop! nd their allies are contending Would Unify Nation No single determination would do more to unify the nation behind the wounded government's efforts in this war and establish a feeling of equity and se curity than to tax war profits so effects of the last word in ( an heavily as to virtually wipe out of frightfulness—liquid fire. The sol-| existence profits resulting from the dier was caught {n the stream of War. It has long been charged that fire shot forth from the German there are ustries and financtal ranks as a prelude to an attack, Interests which have even endeav All of bis exposed flesh, face and ored to provoke war that they might hands, was turned into a huge blis- | profit thereby | ter. The photograph shows the Pven now, despite the fact that swollen eyes and lips protruding | America has joined in this world thru the bandages. \ Teuton Liquid Fire ¢ The picture of this French soldier, just received from 4 base hospital, shows the horrible struggle for the most exalted, fun k . damental principles and ideals, the Ki >, ' r rf false charge has been leveled isses Parted Then against us that this is a war for gee ade Tir) profits Kissed and Made l P|" By preventing profits from our CLEVELAND, 0., Aug kisses are better than thinks so, and Julla ditto It was like this Joe and Julia Kiss lived in Can ton. They gave task steoring the nuptial bar Two present war n. Joe would tend so m to enroll the spirit, and activity of our people in one great homogene ous task to win the war for just! freedom and democracy the world on the sea! over, ities, nothing one. conscience of of matrimony. They got a divorce Normal Peace Profits cl Cin A ” er, y.) Pach Kise went his. or her, way;|_.In recognition of the conditions came back met. Kise "tending war production, in my opinion, the rate of taxation upor war profits should bring them down : to nearly normal peace profits Germans Mistreat Man). 't '* my Judgment that tt would : be extremely unwise for our gov Doomed to His Death ernment to raise all the revenue of AMSTERDAM Aug a1 Lag | this war for democracy and human Nouvelles of Maastricht says that|!ty thru borrowing and mortgaging a well-known athle Under the borrowing kissed Kiss and remarried named Van Renters principle, safe loans are made to ly was condemned to death the government for which full com-| pionage, was dragged at ¢ pensation is guaranteed a chain 26 meters long thru the|. Interest on loans, and often principal streets of the city to the| loans themselves, must be repaid cing grosaly|>Y taxation levied upon the f place of execution, D le, mistreated by German soldiers who|®2d which, of course, falls more were guarding h |heavily on the poot than on the wealthy ‘ Take Men, Also Monev Ry taxation and inherit try can in la V penses of the war as with that great enterprise. American labor movement haa tn. dorsed the » of taxation of war profits the justifica tion of the pri inot questioned. In defense of the prin ern: on war pr comes ances, rtm |ciples of this republic, the ¢ ment has the right to ask t ry ice of the citizens and to use for defensive purposes also the re sources of the country Watermelon Is Pulp, | DENTIST eit isa gen- I have WASHINGTON, Aug. 31,—Stroll ing thru a Washington restaurant Senator Stone of Missouri! saw Sen ator Hitchcock almost concealed *|behind a luscious piece of water-| melon. | Dent! an I practic he £ it! exclaimed Senator h accompany | gtone. | % iat (ais aA ado: Stop what?” replied Senator! w ain or bad ter | Hitcheock. | “Stop swallowing that pulp,” said| t delay; make an appoint-|the Missourian, “Pure wood "1 ne |kill yourself. That's what w gereene 85.00/ melon is, just wood pulp. I'd as Bridgework, per tooth 85.00 | 800n eat a plank,” | Plates that fit 815.00 | - Four Men Mistreat | PAINLESS AUSTIN] Two Girl Swimmers | DETROIT, Aug. 31 are holding four men on complaint of Bernadette Fobart, 13, and Lorette Sullivan, 14, who allege that the pn stole their clothes while they} were ewimming, and held them prisoners in a bathhouse for several hours, Police REDUCED RATES TO CALIFORNIA Firat Clans. Third |¢« ei ‘om Mics pecuiibus LIE: Cetus one ELouse OF Bron ‘on Angeles. .-$20.00 $2 $14.50 ” ee 1 on Bien Fez00 $2150 $1660 Door” Closed Up Good service, large outside state NEW YORK Aug. The rooms and unsurpassed meals, Every| tiouse of the Bronze Door,” on Coe tculare at City’ Ticket Office 3rd at,, once a notorious gambling |house, where millionaire kids drop |ped their wad, has given way to THE McCORMICK LINE |e Paranncs and will soon Ha eee {verted into a 109 Cherry St. Phene Kiote a4a0 bullding. STAR—FRIDAY, AUG. 31, 1917. Says Senator Stone’ PAGE 7 New Silk Blouses $3.75 Of Messaline, Crepe de Chine andGeorgetteCrepe iks, Roman-stripe with t in fashioned | low collars, long tail | sleeves and button tr | ming | —in flesh-pink and white, designed with lace ¢ ing, embroidered de signs and hemstitching appropriate for wear | | with Autumn. street suits; sizes 36 to 44; price $3.7 Basement Salesroom le a, Pp) ney lops, bound with f | Extra | ane TLY-STYLED gray mixtures, belt and patch pockets knickerbockers Sizes 6 to 18 years the office filled by ¢ © pass thea t brought the this realization, to y of the Hritish gove gle with ite modesty—and Buchan is fitted for the view at the fr but of huthor of “The Battle of the Niison's History of the War,” ete BY LIEUT, COL. JOHN BUCHAN LONDON, Aug. 10.—(By Mall.)—Every specialist is, at first, wary of publicity, Sooner or later his opinion on the sub- Ject changes. He learns that he ‘cannot do what he wants to un- less the public understands, This Is true of specialists whose work may be termed only semi-public, such as men in medical or other sciences; it is doubly true of the specialists in the science of warfare, the heads of our armies and navies. In the British army and navy the distrusts of publicity has al but in. recent ways existed, years this distrust has been broken down. Now, perhaps, the relations between the men who fight and their day-to-day historians probably are more cordial In the British army and navy than in any other. At the opening of the war Great Mritain was without wa press censor ship organization, or, certain! anything approaching that of Ger many peech and free that pre w expected should handle the matter awkwardly tation was realized ning the matter was handled me chanically; rules had to be made and applied, and sometimes With our traditions of free 8, it Was to be the strict application of rules led to|are within half a mile of military , she piping fines the fullness of the jacket at back ’ Boys Knickerbocker and in pinch-back Each Suit has an extra pair of Price $4.50. Rasement Salesroom. | -FREDERICK&NELSON Store Will Remain Closed All Day Monday, LABOR DAY The Basement Salesroom Presents Extensive Assortments of AUTUMN COATS For Women and Misses $9.75, $12.50, $15.00, $17.50, to $23.50 in Ker- sey ic, Melton Cloth and Plush ‘ black, navy-blue, brown, taur green, plum = and Burgundy ippropriately hioned for treet a utility wear many of dressier mod els enric with fur or plush trimming sizes for Misses; 14, 16 18 and 20 years. Sizes for Women; 36 to 44 bust also “stout” sizes up to 52 bust Janement Balesroom. Women’s Khaki Garments For Hiking and Camping Plain Walking Skirts of good cot khaki; front- fastening style with ample flare and two pockets; sizes 24 to 34; $2.00. Khaki Bloomers, cut amply full and finished with buckle below knee; sizes 24 to 36 waist meas ure ; $1.50. Khaki Middies in coat style, with peptum, circu lar collar, short sleeves with turnback cuffs; sizes 36 to 44. Price $1.75 Basement Salesroom. 2-piece Breakfast Sets $1.50 and $1.65 T HE pretty Set shown at the right of the is of delft- blue or pink — percafe, banded with plain white illustration material. A drawstring finishes the top of the plain skirt; the sleeves are kimono style. Price $1.50. The Set Pictured at Left also of light-blue or pink percale, is attractively designed with large scal- \ wide half-belt con- Price $1.65. room. Basement Sa Suits, $4.50 tailored serviceable Suits, from good-weight tweed suitings in dark brown and models with three-piece Women’s Hosiery, 25c Pair Knitting Yarn 90c Skein Four-fold Knitting Yarn Women's Cotton Hos (%4-pound skeins)in Delft iery in black or white; blue, old-rose, purple also plated fiber Stock green, gray, scarlet, black ings in gray, ivory and and white, 90c skein king’s-blue, sizes 8% to 10, Basement Salesroom 25c pi + asement Salesroom, Stamped Pillow Cases 60c Pair Pillow ( stamped for embroidery, in a good Women’s Gloves ' $1.25 Pair White Lamb- one clasp, Women’s skin with three rows of stitch- , to 7%. Price ases Gloves assortment de 5 pret sizes 5 signs, 42-inch size, Oc 5 pair pair Kanement Balesroom. Basement Salesroom. Bead Necklaces 25c An attractive a $1.50 Yard In Relgium-blue, wis- na sortment ce maize, of Bead Necklaces in the taria, sky-blue, old-rose, following colors: crystal, | green, black and white, amber, green, coral and Forty inches wide, $1.50 | | Georgette Crepe | | Basement Salesroom. An Exceptional Offering: 150 New Trimmed Hats yard -Basement Salesroom. NUSUALLY good val- ues. Many good styles (one pictured), all of fine velvet, with plain or shirred brims and soft crowns, in the favored colors for street and dress wear. In a featured offering for Saturday, at $7.00. -~Basement Salesroom. BASKETS At Exceptionally. | Low Prices FAVORABLE _ pur- chase permits this of- | fering of useful baskets in various styles at prices be- | low regular values, as fol- 32-Piece Dinner lows: * PICNIC BASKETS at Set, $4.95 Le 25c, 50c, 75c and $1.00 WO patterns in these 7 each decorated Semi - por- 3 FLOWER OR. FRUIT celain Dinner Sets; one as ff - BASKETS at 25c, 35¢ pictured, decorated with two thin blue lines, the other. decorated with pink, rose and green foliage de- sign. The following items | included: 6 Dinner Plates 6 Bread and Butter Plates 6 Sauce Dishes 6 Cups \ 6 Saucers PURSES, | 1 Platter children’s | 1 Open Vegetable Dish 10c Thirty-two piece $4.95. Basement Salesroom, and 50c each WORK BASKE lined) at 50c, 75c, and $1.50 each ‘ABLE MATS in assort- ed styles; set of three, graduated sizes, 15c; set of 6, 25c TELESCOPE suitable for luncheon _ baskets, set, each Basement Salesroom GATHERING NEWS British Now Aid Correspondents in Field| «|harmful to the government Write Almost Anything The correspondents may write practically anything that is not of value to the enemy. The result of the changed attitude toward news is that the fighting fronts have the following channels of publicity First—Gen. Halg’s dispatches, surpassing those of any other com mander for detail of information contained Second — Two dafly commu niques T The British newspaper correspondents, all distinguished men in their profession and repre sentatives of the United Press and the Associated Press, stationed at the Press Chateau. Representa tives of the allied and neutral press also have a chateau Fourth—Special articles by well | known writers, such as H. G. Wells and Arnold Bennett, and by repre | breasts sentatives of individual newspape permitted periodically to visit the front There is extremely little informa tion withheld from the public. if tt can stand the acid test Will ft benefit the enemy The breaking down of old p dices and old traditions in re to publicity was not accomplished without heart-burnings in the of many officials, but the }fact that they have learned as fast as they have would seem to prove they've come to like it, This means that Great Britain will see the daylight turned game thru with ‘\on and her cards on the table. Saloons Turn Into Soft Drink Places ST, LOUIS, Aug. 31.—Porty-four 1 St. Louis saloons have stop ped selling everythin but soft drinks and cigars, because the incidents Irritating to thé press and camps | Confessions of a Wife \does not love me. | really q cient | “Send for me at any time,’ T ag sured her, ‘and I will come’ a ‘Sure enough, Margie, in a few minutes she did send for me, 1 went down to her luxurious suite and was greeted with, ‘My TRUE LOVE MUST BE MUTUAL ——— “T never could really understand, Margie,” said Paula, “why any one kept on loving another after that | Miss Newton, I sent for yoy to person stopped loving jyou my son Jack is absolutely dé “There is something inside of me| pendent upon his father, and if that balks at loving any one who/should marry without his pals The very min-|he will be penniless.’ : ute I found Karnest Lawton did not| “‘I do not see where that piece care for me T began to get/of news, which you seem to com _ over loving him |sider so important, might Interest “T tell you i never cared in the | ™e the least.’ ‘el least for one of those men whom, “ ‘But I heard him say to you Rey the French deserit having a | hoped some time you would be tor gether always heart like an artichoke, with a leaf | seth for every woman who wishes to} Is your son, my dear Mrs, Van pluck one Renssalaer, one of those fortunate — “Rut Jack Van Renssalaer seem-|Persons who gets everything he: | hopes for” “What do you mean by that?’ « your son, who is & sponsible boy, thinks he love with me, and, thinking he asked me to marry him, That is just that to which T ed to take gre: Joy in thinking he was in love with me, even after he knew I did not and never would eare for him “But Paula, you don’t care for iny one else, do you?’ he asked “Yes, dear Jack, I love myself | at present better than any one 1)2™ referring,’ she answered, , " IT ma as well te’! wher know,’ I answered. I am a very . selfish sort of a person, you gee,’ |#re the wife of John Van Renssa lis in thi vou “Well, I shall love you always, pee you agi! not jhave a penny nd shall hope the time will come | ©, bless yourself with, ae ena witli he toxether always’ |. “I would not be the wittaa™ “Margie, Ja mother over-| John Van Renssalaer, jr., if he had |the millions of Morgan and Rocke |feller combined, and I had just res 7) , ih {fused him for the third time and Jack,’ she said, i you take - ag tacky she sald pt You take | told him to go and marry his Chae “I knew from her tone she had ac one be happy, : oe overheard, but poor Jack was so| nd here, Margie, is almost Say i . funniest thing that ever happened: earnest in his pleading with me he 3 5 ort et to me, While Mrs, Van Renssalaer § did not realize what had happened, | ind he said rather impatiently, ‘In |“! not want me to marry hep agag : she was very much insulted be- heard that last sentence and there was a storm brewing immediately 8 ome other, be 7 5 eee Rea ther, Pl be with cause 1 did not want to marry the” “Jack, 1 am ill, and Tam sure |8*!0n of the Van Renssalaer familyicg rat rear ate a In fact, she could not conceive 4 ase tues lpg Se van any girl in my position not wanthyg Renssalaer; can I do anything t (Te be caeiadiaas : help you” “Perhaps you can after a while answered uncompromisingly. ‘If you can I will let you know.’ | READ STAR WANT ADS