The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 3, 1917, Page 6

‘ STAR—WEDNESDAY, OCT. 3, 1917. PAGE 6 Our Seattle Soldiers Committing the Loot of Louvain? This is a slander on the living heroes of everyyand doubly damning to the ruling caste in Prussia,)They teach that the German government, and its mij, Can You Imagine HAT is the real lesson of the atrocities Germany ts of eve ( has committed in the war? army except the German, Even the Turkish fighting All soldiers are very much alike, but ARMIES and|tary system, are different from all other government Do they prove that Germans are a different species) man has a better record. It is also a slander on the dead |OFFICERS are not. _ |and all other military systems. For enduring such g of human beings? of our American armies of the Revolution and the Civil Any army contains a percentage of men who will, system the German people and the German private sof This would do violence to the observations which war. if not held by rigid discipline, perpetrate outrages of the |diers must bear full blame. nearly all broad-minded men have reached, who have No such outrages as the German crimes were|blackest kind. In that sense all soldiers are not alike. come into contact with many breeds of men. recorded in any American war, by either side. Every city, every village, every countryside has We can hardly imagine the clean-minded and inde. scientists, travelers and just plain folk are pretty Even in the track of Sherman's march across |individuals of the same sort. |pendent young fellows now gathered at American lake well agreed that in his own home, in normal surround-|Georgia, today there is not a tradition of anything like But every army in the world today and for 300|committing any such acts as the loot of Louvain, eveq : ings the average man of one clime or race is very much|the hellish things which marked the German tide thru}years back, except the German army, has been con- if their officers told them to. like the man of any other breed. Certainly the war has| Belgium. In the South African war there was not one|trolled by a set of officers and a system of discipline, Military discipline in the American, French and \ proved that in the primitive qualities of courage, en-|instance of a British soldier even insulting a black or|which held such troops in check and kept them under | British armies has well defined limits, because Amey) durance and loyalty the rank and file of the combatant|white woman, |the control of the decent majority. \cans and their allies are not reared to believe that races are very much alike. The Germans in 1870 did not do such things in The fact that the German army, with its iron disci-|set of men on God's earth has any divine rights, Relying on these facts, the defenders of German|France. To match the atrocities of 1914-1917, one|pline, did not do so, proves that the German crimes were| AND THAT IS THE REAL DIFFERENCE BE crime have continued to whisper, “Oh, all soldiers are/must travel back to the massacres and rapine of the DELIBERATELY ENCOURAGED, and ORDERED by|TWEEN THE SOLDIERS OF THE FIGHTING alike. If the allies had been on German soil they would religious wars of the 16th and 17th centuries. the government thru its officer class. |ARMIES—A_ DIFPERENCE WHICH — EXPLAINS have done just as badly.” \ The answer to the whole anomaly is very simple That is the real lesson of the German atrocities. | ATROCITIES AND EVERYTHING ELSE, ‘TAR| Will End of World Come After the War? | |THE SEATTLE STAR| Will End of World Come ‘the War I -|Star’s Religious Writer Interprets Biblical Prophecies of Christ’s Second Coming MEMBER OF sCHIPrS arrns oN 1}@ War has brought the widespread belief among religious | =s || thinkers that the END OF THE WORLD i " 1 @ They see the worldwide cor he that th Telegraph News Entered at Seattle, Wash. Postoftic By mail, out of city, i ee RT at hand. " Citnite ween hoe ae ae rs ee aE NTN tre yrs Ty WT 1 flagration as the first stage 4 Ta ; “ mt i; “yg ‘ecoriahadioon ™ fab daiboabiee, , Tey ae Es ey believe will end all things : : ane vane in the final, catastroy per month up to Ie || earthly carrier, city, Published Dally by PYTTIC ae @ Recognizing this widespread feeling as a matter of news,| The Star asked its religious editor, the Rev. Charles Stelzle: JUDGE JUREY, PLEASE ANSWER @ “Is there Biblical basis for the widespread belief that the ne of the wor s th « Tom Thorsen, one of the men who went on strike at end of the world is at hand the Seattle shipyards, was the first man in Seattle to apply for Second Liberty Loan Bonds. He bought $700 worth and @ Dr. Stelzle says there is NOT—and he gives his reasons| for believing there is not paid cash. Thorsen is still an alien. He has not yet ac 1@ Read what he writes, and see whether you agree with} quired American citizenship him . We wonder if Judge Jurey, of the superior court, . would refuse naturalization papers to Thorsen on the ground By Rev. Charles Stelzle that he is “not fit to be a citizen” because he went on strike (Religious Editor of the Star) r at this time, as the very learned jurist declared recently in| | am asked: “sie there Biblical) There are three sources from » the case of Edwin Conrad Strom, who went on strike with |>#sle for the widespread bellef which we may get light upon this the ship carpenters that the end of most important subject; first, from the world is at the RBIRLE; second, from the OBSERVATIONS hand?” CHURCH, and third, from OUR 1 know that OWN REASON KAISER 1S to make Von Hindenburg a prince. Anybody In Ger. many having princely title due them had better collect now fooe there te be Naturally, the Bible hes a great They point to| 2% to say it the “ond of the certain. prophe- | “r'4.” and fortunately, it Is pos-| sible for the average man to under cles in the Bible |) stand at the Mible that Just before and what (h ible means the end there shall be ware OUR IDEA of easy money: Paying $30,000 to a Chicago lawyer to work for Germany. WE ARE al! as God made ui The secrete of God are not alw led to the “wise great deal worse. | m f and rumors of on = the iter —— = IF HERBERT HOOVER does half what the food bill is designed | H———— + lil Lc barepe Lae oe heme any for ident. larity! v ires, revolutions to do—watch out for Hoover tor President. Such popularity | OAS. STELa.g and upheavals of, Upon one occasion, Jesus public FOR ONE word a man Is often deemed to be wise, and for one every kind ly thanked God for the fact word he is often deemed to be foolish. —Confucius. There is no doubt that the It ie pro y true, as some noted sincpnchadliehitthiiti world ig facing one of the greatest Mille students have sald, that con ONE OF the hopeful signs in Germany is that the socialists are catastrophies in its history, and no risen in the minds of panning the Pan-German agitation. one dares prophesy how extensive suae men have failed to ™ it will be. h between “t end of This ls a reproduction of a picture first printed in a book called “Forty Future Wonders of Scripture Prophecy,” published In 1866. PRESIDENT WILSON fixes the price of steel, practically cutting The study of history does not and “the END OF THE|!t portrays a great earthquake, accompanied by darkening of the sun, moon and stars and awful terror thruout the world. According the existing prices in two. Immediately stee! stocks gain two points help us much im interpreting the AGE to the old book, this catastrophe is due about 1928. tn Wall ot, Even Wall et. lan't afraid of woclallatic policies im war siens of the times, for in this In-| |The history of the world may be the flood, tor example Jetudents believe Jesus may come have entered the millennium pertod,, But this would not be “the eat proms 9 gonna be, tie. oe divided “ op ae —— It Is well to remember that most TODAY On the other hand, if the [of the world”—it would be “the ory eats ites hore never or ages. Each o} © ages HAS of the prophecies about “the end If the thousand-year period of “pre-millennialistse"—those who jend of the age,” according to the BONAR LAW, chancellor of the British exchequer, frankly states yet has been an “end of the world.” ‘ended In a great ¢ rophe—like | of the world” are based upon the the millennium ts to be taken liter. believe Jesus will come BE. |“pre-millennialists.” that without United States help the jes would now be in desp . straits. Bonar is referring to our fighting jars. Wait till our fighting boys cut loose, old man! SPCSHSESSSSSESOHESESESELOESOE weeeOTTEN, BEER, ter cur bore tne spanish war eae tet ot ? A\alvsis of the War Moves 5 - second coming of Jesus, and the ally, then the opinion of the “post FORE ¢ millennium—are to | IN ANY CASE, WHETHER THE eoeveccccccccoos prophecies concerning his second millennialista”—those who believe! be believed, it looks very much | “PRE-MILLENNI LIBTS” ARB coming are just as literal as those that Jesus will come AFTER the as if Jesus might come AT |RIGHT OR THE “POST-MILLEX that had to do with his firet com. millennium—-compels us to say| ANY MOMENT to establish |NIALISTS,” THE END OF THE that Jesus cannot come for at least his Kingdom upon earth. | WORLD, WITH THE JUDGMENT ing. re omet? 200 pref. One thousand years. For no one For they believe that just the| THAT IS FINALLY TO COME Pershing’s men got those faulty primers because our notorious old & ¢ . w. There are something like 300 ref. | one. : . lwo i ritten for rencer " Testament, Would egree, in view of the terrt-| kind of things now happening will| MUST BE AT LEAST 1,00 ordnance board wae still sticking to defective formulas that privat Wy $0) % erences in ¢ Now Testam $ Sieceisers Wad dieearded tong age. Hove long will Secretary Baker By J. W. T. Ma °° The United sione, to the second coming of |ble war now prevailing, that precede his coming to earth. YEARS DISTA SOOSOSOSSSHSSHSSSSSSOSSESOHHSOSHEOOOSESS Christ put up with that old moss-covered ordnance bo: ? . All Bible students agree that Germany's submarine menace {s)the south coast of Ireland, was sent! Jeeus is coming again, but there is now being concentrated against \to the French coast to atop the ar-| 4 great difference of opinion among ; a Y | When Will the American military supply ships rival of urgent necessities from! them as to when he {s coming 1; A submarine base has probably|America for your daily growing) gome jnais t the world will | War End? A Man | bern estabtisned of the | French army | vecoaea stores ahd: woven, and that +H coast, in the American transport “Remember that the army Tse will appear to usher in the } Figures It Out | iine ? that is principally menaced by | thousand years of the millenniur be —————-—-@ | There is no real decrease in total) the German policy of operating | during which co and righ | When will the war end? We all ally submarine sinkings. America’ off the © of France is the | ness shall prevail | want to know, and wish we did|can only fulfill her gigantic re American army. Others believe that the church know. But Mr. A. J. E. Fish does! quirements tn France by depend will become responsible for set Are you getting the six million | . know, and here is how he works it)ing on her own shipping mak : t or 6 » th lennium, and A Berlin newspaper reports that | ou; # ing the with Germany per | tons ot ships & year that your con-/tiag up the millennium, und at the ths paper clothes worn in Germasy ‘ cd troller of shipping states to be the SE of this thousand-year 5 ‘ | Th. word kaiser bas six letters, sonal jminimum necessity to make suc-|"! Jesus will come to call the give great satisfaction, being just| Regin with the letter “k”; it is the, This is the Interpretation of the) oe.) what he truly describ world to judgment as good as cotton or wool, except /tith in the alphabet; put the 11) #ubma situation today, 8 eee ee ane neaiiitasy eff res” "| Par the largest number of Bible coe & rains. Why dont they | petore 6, and it Squals 116; so with| pressed in an interview with the yoThe troblem is almost entirety | students have the latter opinion wear clothes made of blotting pa-|the other letters, thus—KAISER: | United Press by Lord Northeliffe, |. 'xmerica problem, ‘The stop-|Altho many evangelists and ible page of supplies from this ” aa aa has Pro country to Great Britain would be| 66 Dr ” per when it rains? the most constructive war critic . é | 116 « 16 6 ee | “The Long and Short of it” | He waa far out of the win- crossed the Atlantic since 1 ar-| “It is vital that, hand in hand| low | bed lrived in this country. at the be-| With the equipment of the splendid | As the train pulled “for the | 186 Kinning of Jane” Leed Northeliffe|Young men now flocking to your| Gives Quick Relief to j front,” a said, “is the official’ atatement of nts, must rise an army of . ? ‘ So he got the kisses and other | 666 Sir ‘Joseph Maclay, the British | At , Ship builders, The men } sweets ! ‘ controller of shipping, to the effect | ¥ho build the ships in Great Brit-| | Aimed at the little runt Mow, then, seve Mr. Fish, read! 1s.: ‘unless the United State n regard themselves, and rightly,| faces | the shipping problem and con-| rforming equal service with |atructs millions of tons of shipping;t®@ men who face death in the! annually, the military efforts will | trenches | ———_.____.._..._______¢4 the 13th chapter of Revelations, i eee the 4th, 5th and 18th verses, and WHY Nor Use a TURNeTILE? | ¥°U Will be startled to find the ex- deeghter Belle, now Mrs. A. w. act date of the ending of the war fet f Whene Frost, increased the population of Ta. —Ladies’ Home Journal be er’ 1 from the start Whenever you set eyes on one t rma { Fe eee te ee 8; | ——_—— —— Ie the solemn warning |! Your fine young soldiers, send a always hed trouble to count our children | ts hard | of Sir Joseph himself. It has nin tho} ght Ing thru your the second generation keeps com- | i brain his nacrifice will b stricken | with a ah Crm creer ont | Bat what kind of an excuse aia} Paeee’ the sensor and le the | ail ie vos cannot 1 be in ch ‘paralyzed my a s ‘and ran them thra the chate to|h 5 first real note of alarm of the annot give him food, I purchased a bottle t ee tee ee ee On) mete | BO make for being out all night eorlousn of the submarine |t%¢ arms and the housing he will 5 Dropr’ and used it t ° e | eee sinking |Tequire in France, every ounce of |p eccording ,to directions, and be i Heard In a Street Car | The kaiser promises to evacuate! “The writing on the wall Pho has to be transported across | [1 was entirely relieved and could bi “What's this camelfiajj that the | Belgium if | should arouse every thinking |‘ submarine zone use my arm the same aa ever. I 4 French have sprung on the Ger.| The Chicago packers promise to| American to the greatest prob- | “Let me urge and urge you again |Ppraine it an 1 would like. f wish one ft mans?” cut the price of meat if— | fem the world has ever faced {that the Increased sinkings of the |BOvery sufferer would give it a | Mo ilizin or t e ar Hy “I don't quite get it myself.” | The coal operators will send us| —the transport across 3,000 |French ships are significant, and SEU atriees, watet Chesretl fi 5 “The British certainly are givin’ | Plenty of coal if— | miles of water of the new | What in aimed at by the Germans | IN. C. writes: "I had rheumatiam Your Uncle Sam is getting ready to fight ‘em “ pounding around Ipers.” | We'll vote for Anna Louise| American army, which already is the ruin of your effort to supply |/te_bad that T could not raise my ; ‘of 4 A f + b ith war “They sure are, They'll be|Stfong for mayor if. amounts to more than a million | Your own men with everything they |Baatn har and Gault nos sleep for All over the country, hundreds of t nousands of artisans are busy wit! dj marching into Lily pretty soon.” | No, On second thought, we won't! men; its need in France. Pe ieta tatters ea i tkiae dion preparations. Great warships are sliding off the ways; navy yards and arsenals i se. ire vote for her if motives, —_ - ~ for putting your wonderful medj- are working night and day; great mobilization camps are springing up as if by ‘ tine within the reach. o i ; ; : : i Every now and then you meet a cee tion plants, aeroplanes, observ. ing humanity ata price that all magic; everywhere the vast resources of the Nation are being gathered together P § - § ation balloons, hospitals, am- bulance convoys, doctors, We Render » Machine guns, butch- ers, bakers, shoemak can pay. You are at liberty to rich man's son who needs the f use my name for the benefit of fresh heir cure. j eee | for war. All over the Bell telephone system, thousands of employes are busily en- activity, to keep pace with the extraordinary And if the war were to end right | now, who'd wear all the sweaters | the girls are knitting? an Exceptional Bervice In gaged in all branches of telephor It’s against the law to show al “T men he girls who are knitting . Toot : movie in Tokyo that makes fun of |them,” answers the fello tg of every trade, clothing, hor \ ‘s telephone needs of the Nation. Everywhere poles are being set and wires strung, a policeman. Evidently they never!my desk. “They'te goine te tec.| Mules, fodder, bookkeepers, COLLECTIONS Retninnge pelos | 2 @ nent cased, new long-distance lines constructed between Raa any trouble with women sve. | irene poor re going to wear| complete telephone and ‘tele. TRUSTS ponine | pepe central office equipment increased, new long-distance lines constructec gers in Tokyo eee graph equipments, with oper- GENERAL BANKING mat evidence of Its remarkable important points and telephone facilities increased a “ar ators running into thousands. Recah aia aae Aa Ras Tele he greater and more varied the Government's war activities become, the A Cleveland bigamist had to eat eal a Joseph Maclay, as lengine Grumeints in every part greater will be the demands upon the Bell system for service. With the in- six meals a day to fool his two|..! | oeee Sr lPRINS . Goneesiter, — | creased Government requirements, there will be greater demands for commer- wives, The way of the tranugressor i World looks ax he goes hy—| Plainly says that unless six A Sample Nottie I! 1 “ic bene Paalthes Mlat Bia: Madara ae Datcntdcdnebcsdhes minor Maroons million of tons of shipping Is N FRE Trill be malled tre, cial THe an f 1 so lnboea tefinite limi t at ore P built in the United States TR y pee abe n are, he scarcity of material and labor have set definite limits to the amott UST AND SAVINGS THE SWANSON MPANY, ? Pi A S. FE, GENTLE RE EDY yearly, you will not be able to | Newark, 0 | of new construction, and the needs of the individual must be subordinated to CLEANSES YOUR KIDNEYS, "0 tote essen ot pant BANK th hue ee | “The whole system of publishing roing 7 r 5 : sior C s and is Reuven Ge aches taken Cor, Pisst Ave. at Columbia at. wei It is going to be harder to supply new telephones, extension telephones an For centuries GOLD MEDAL |years they have b ‘ by the allies js misleading, and 1| ag to put up wire to new telephone stations, because of the vast amount of tele- 1 Hlaariom Oil hay been a standard | h ld” remedy. They “car’*! | have protested against It ever since BANK OF CALIFORNIA phone equipment devoted to the service of the Government, and because the jousehold remedy fo ney, Mver, iginal imported . va a seston ewes canis ‘ f f ‘ i Bladder and stomach trouble. and all eliaretanteeone n On it was adopted REDUCED RA | NATIONAL ASSOCIATION Bell organization has contributed heavily to the draft, and many of our tech- weanes connected with the urinary |are perfectiy hartions ‘ty nd! “tT do not belleve that any prog ED TES TO || ‘OF SAN FRAN fo) nically t 1 have voluntarily joined the col eenas hidneye end. beddcy| tee -Sernctly harmless, The ‘heal. b t | CISC nically trained men have voluntarily joined the colors. a f 4 are the most Important | ot land fining oF the Kidneya and. thru | cee eh Mapvadation in stopping | pais When you use the telephone, we ask you to remember the patriotic service ne bod ey are il the the bladder, driving out the 4 ymarine depredations Aah = ¢ ae 7 4 purifiers’ of your bioo if" the |ous bladder, driving Out the poison: |""erast week we were told official ( ALIFORNIA| A NATIONAL BANK we are rendering the Government, the extraordinary conditions we are facing, through the blood and stomach are|tinue the treatment. 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