The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 6, 1917, Page 4

{| | STA The Seattle Star necond-claae matter ho per month up to # y, 306 & month. Kntered at Seattle, Wash. F ut of olty, ane months wy \ —_ My carr Valuable Political Hint From Canada ANADA has enfranchised a large part of her women—to suppress political slackerism. 4 H : } P In the next Canadian elections every wife, mother or sister of a Canadian soldier overseas will cast the vote of her soldier, whether he be alive and well, in the hospital or buried “somewhere in France, ed At the same time, new laws allow the soldiers in France and elsewhere to vote. The politicians who oppose conscription in Canada and counted on the im- se slacker vote of Quebec to return them to office are up against this new Olitical expedient, born of a nation’s necessity. Canada has adopted woman suf- ge as a military measure, / ‘ . f ‘ ~ What a comment on the old-time anti-suffrage argument that it would imperil tional existence ause women would not vote for armies and navies! The Canadian legislation conveys a valuable political hint to America also, A 1 from now, when a new congress is elected, some 3,000,000 American voters, k of the nation, may be in France, The slacker vote left behind might con- lute a danger in some sections. | Governor Bilbo of Mississippi, realizing this, has just called a special session this Mississippi legislature to give every Mississippian abroad, in the regular army, tional guard, national army, navy or marine corps, a chance to cast his vote. Every American state should adopt similar legislation. Only the states can do as congress has nothing to do with _franchise rights. At the same time congress fas NO power to postpone elections until after the war and the return of the sold- S as has been done in France and England. : | Some of the Northern states which were in the Union during the civil war,| laws providing for a soldier vote. The state troops voted in the field. | In the Spanish war, soldiers from these states voted in Cuba or the Philip-| and last year many of them voted on the border. | But these troops were organized in state units and officered by state officers. | regular army and navy and new selected service army are men of all the es merged in the same units. Many of the national guard regiments from va- states are being merged. These men should vote. Uncle Sam has records ig in. The states should adopt laws under which they }\ STORY ABOUT A FOOD DICTATOR “That Hoover person is a bit chesty,” writes a Seattle baker to The Star. Oh! we don’t know. When we study food dictators of the past, Mr. Hoover appears to be one of the easy-going kind. It reminds us of the story of the first of the great food dictators mentioned in profane history, G'awhar. Never heard of G’awhar? Well— In the tenth century, Egypt, then under’ Mohammedan rule, was afflicted by a “low Nile,” and the years 967-8 saw *ithe common people of the country dying of starvation by eCa showing the state of their can vote. At times fights with wha) . " By C. A. Clay | PACIFIC COAST WHALING STATION, BAY CITY, Wash., Oct. whales le a sport for vikings. And men of the viking strain follow it as a business here. This station is 125 miles from le one of five started ( THE OTHER HAND— Missus is knitting ber tenth of Jim's buying rookies | by the box; at the door? Ah, _~ bond salesman knocks— iy Gawd, how the money rolls|the hundreds of thousands. The poor people had’ eaten ail mG o opacities Co, ~ out their cattle, dogs, rats and such, and were beginning on =. ing” wae A of i oe |their own infants, when the caliph sent G’awhar down there] jished along the Northwest Pa had ged Red agro to control food. At once, G'awhar sent back to the caliph] cific coast elx years ago. etihout gloves.” But with and got many ships laden with grain During that time hardy rovers frome off the waters of the seven, sean have gathered here to pit their ocean ¢! and skill at har pooning against the elephantine strength of thease monster water mammals Swaggering bemen fn ollskins and hip boots, fearing nothing that swims or walks, these old-time whalemen have brought a picture of the far tic down to the Staten for civilize’ to see. They are \.0 cowboys of the sea, and the sight of them would sat- isfy the most eager tenderfoot. Whaling Business Changes This close-in whale hunting is a new game for them—not as danger ous by far as the way it used to go. But the war has made the game profitable and the whalemen are. content with a little less of danger. Bay City and ite cousin village. Westport, on a point farther to sea are little clusters of houses fight ing a lonely battle with shifting sands and cutting rainstorms that sweep the bleak beach wilderness) puckiee. ee PAGE COUNT LUXBURG! | the Memphis Commercial | Appeal) Rent—Furnished room to looking both ways and Hiated. Phone H. 4619. Now, mark well what happened, for it hath a familiar | appearance. G'awhar’s grain made no impression on food prices. The 14-ounce loaf still stuck at 12 cents, or words to that effect, and the people in general went right on starving. It was up to G'awhar, and he was there. He had his soldiers seize all the millers and grain speculators and flog them in the public market places. Then he seized all the grain and established G’awhar prices and markets But, just like Mr. Hoover, Mr. G’awhar had his critics. There were bloodthirsty profiteers ‘way back there in the tenth century, just as now, and also standpatters who ob- |jected to government's interference with the common folks’ inalienable right to starve if they couldn't pay, and away down in lower Egypt a hot-headed official started a fair- sized rebellion against Food Controller G'awhar. It was some considerable rebellion, but G'awhar finally captured this fellow over in Syria. It seemed a fine chance to dem- onstrate that the food dictator dictates, so Dictator G'awhar made his prisoner drink sesame oil for a month, then skinned him alive, stuffed his pelt with straw and publicly exhibited it in various cities thruout Egypt, as a sort of earnest of the STAR—SATURDAY, OCT. 6, 1917. PAGE 4 R WRITER GOES A’WHALE TELLS HOW “SWAGGERING HE-MEN” FIGHT MAMMALS OF ‘This is the way men hunt whales off the Washington coast fn a vital spot by the explosive harpoon, and {s putting up a vicious fight with the crew on board. As the picture was snapped the whale had dived under the boat, and fs shown, bottom side up, above the deck, and the tense bodies of the men, working to keep the line from snarling. become so strenuous that the crew cuts the line to prevent capsizing the boat. towed into harbor at the Bay City station HUNTING DEEP OFF WASHINGTON COAST f The pleture shows the climax of @ thrilling struggle with a maddened finback. The monster was not hit trying vainly to make its’ escape. Note the taut harpoon line runnin The fight pictured above was won by the men, and the whale along the entrance of Grays har- | Whale. lof the sea and falls back again with bor. Quick action follows on board|a crashing splash that sends geys From these places whalemen go|when the lookout, perched in his|sers spouting skyward. Then i€ out in search of their quarry—|basket atop the mast, befiows his | dives or plunge’ ahead, struggling floating islands of blubber, oll, | call | vainly to free If from the state meat and bone. | “There she blows!” bing shaft in its back, As a business, whaling is chang) Off in the distance the black bulk! Fathom after fathom of ropa ing from the tragic, wasteful ad-|\of a whale is seen, the white vapor|screeches from the winches as the venture of the old days, when men) of its “blow” spouting above the “play” with the infuriated monster and carcasses were discarded with | water line continues. Woe betide the man piratical uneoncern, into an effi school of the mammals is sporting whose leg or arm ig caught by the clent labor that conserves all parts | qt morning exercise. whizzing line. It means the loss of of the massive catch If the whalemen are lucky, they limb and often life. i approach within firing distance If the whale is not struck In a . Ltt. Pong Game tayea | Without disturbing the hunted. If vital spot, the crew must struggle he whaling game, as it is played| 11. whale is alarmed it dives and with 50 tons of lunging flesh. Often, now, is not so fiendishly cruel as|'s9 Potters ‘rollow till it comes up| the whale tows the beat like a chip it ae to ante at that, it is NO | gain. : ‘for hours before the fight ts ov 4 Misome of the old-time romance has| An Exciting Battle Se ake ee ee been eliminated by modern meth-| Dead ahead, or either ta port or the lin ods, but the struggle with storms *tarboard, the huge sea beast rides Catch 200 During Season and battles with wounded mam: |tasily, waves breaking over its 45 tne whale weakens, the line Is moths still a portion of the sleek back like water running from arawn slowly in until the battle is whaleman’s routine the curved sides of a submarine. over The dead victim, if the boat Men of the nhc whaling” fleet The captaingunner squints his is far off shore, fs pumped full of here do not approach their quarry eye down the sights and pulls the not air and fastened tail up to the in small boats, set down from a trigger. The swivel gun clears its side of the vessel whaler, risking lives in a venture throat with @ roar, The search continues until a sate with Inshing tails and crashing,| A flash of gin Sg go roa istactory catch is made. steam-hammer jaws cable sh J b te! te ow That was the old way when #quare shot, and the whale is hit BR Seog hd ee whalemen left New Bedford town Ssmidships This Was a slack season along and other ports on the New Eng-| The fight is on. the Northwest Pacific coast. Only land const for long voyages on| The bomb in the point of the har. 959 whales were brought into the ‘strange wenn poon explodes, tearing a jagged hay City station, near Westport. | Fire Harpoon From Gun wound in the whale’s vitals. The |“ sore than 500 was the total catch Nowadays an explosive harpoon, |#h0t releases four “ber Prongs that! for tive stations from here north up shot from a swivel gun on the bow | fasten in quivering fles along Vancouver and Queen Char+ Whale Often Tows Ship lotte islands. of a staunch 190-ton vessel, carries The maddened whale rears out) rwith tlam,,5Semf emfwy mamaa Some Interesting Facts About Whales Scientists say the whale de- ecended from some mammal whieh lived on land In previous ages, forced by a change in en vironment to choose @ life in breathes alr and can hold Ite breath for 40 min- utes. The remote ancestors whale were the pig a recording to scientisti The sperm, right, blue, hump sulphurbottom, - of the |) horse, of different wha finback and humpback are val- ued for food meat. Sperm whales produce am- bergris, a greasy substance sometimes found floating on sur. face of water or along beache: It is worth more than its weight in gold. It is used to make perfumes because of its property of refining odors. It Is @ product of the sperm whale's digestive organs. An average of 25 barrels of oll is produced from one whale. Soap, candies and machine oll are made from this product. The immense gill bones are ueed to make brushes and cor- set stays. Whales weigh from 50 to 75 tons each. the white man’s message to Mr.| sincerity of food dictation. Of course, there’s a moral to this story for our baker friend, who acclaims against Mr. Hoover's “chestiness.” It is better to have your hbor reasonably full of bread than for yourself to be kept full of sesame oil for a month. By J. W. T. Mason A\ Sh ew You'll find this story, but not this moral, in the histor GoM of Egypt. We got up the moral ourself. And we don't know |®*® / A! nate IZA know what sesame oil is, tither Abdication of control over the] — most pressing Internal affairs has oer been made by Chancellor Michae| Garfield says ‘nore, QUR CHIEF OF POLICE |GOES A’HUNTING an advance in the “ar Stony = Yesterday, right in the midst of the woman-slugger Vast week that the price of Scare, and while city firemen and private citizens were being | | would be lower about Oct. 1.;sworn ii as special policemen to help the police department} f protect Seattle women, Chief of Police Beckingham went} to North Yakima on a hunting trip q fe the doc this time. Just as a well-meant suggestion, Chief. in favor of tho kaiser’s military) Representatives of German work- |ingmen no longer are being permit ted to state their grievances to the civil authorities at Berlin, but are! being compelled to go to the front and address their complaints to Gen. Ludendorff, the vital force behind Field Marshal Hindenburg i it only goes to show it 4f 2 man makes enough pre- he is certain to be right at why not do your hunting closer to home? This {8 the most extreme step 4 fi i c kalseriam has taken to subordinate Why not, for instance, stay right he in town and | Mier is and his co-ministers to hunt for the woman-slugger? the rank of petty clerks to the mili- ee tary. Unrest among German working men has been growing for many months, and the government at ‘ OBSERVATIONS “DON'T. BE “consistent,” but be simply true—Holmes. s reed Berlin has been unable to improve label on the bottle I bought THE FISHERMAN is now telling even taller hunting stories. |conditions, because all remedies *A dressing for white shoes have had to be submitted to the field commanders, who have re- garded the workingmen’s demands }much as they would a round robin | |from rebellious soldiers. | THE DEMOCRATIC congress must clean itself of the traitors,; in consequence of this, the Gerd or the people will clean congress of democrats. |man chancellor has placed the full ‘will not come off," writes E. Do you suppose it would be good wmine? I take ‘em off every night have no difficulty in doing so. . 7 ¢ A CLEAN garbage fewer files and German autocrats. HUNGER FIGHTS all winter long, when soldiers can’t. Save food! ww and Erlanger are especial ous ogy heredoaga gga __ responsibility for a settlement of} Ns vn by 8:15 duling pres ad CLOTHING, SAYS G Van N. psychology | labor unrest upon the general staff. | see Riviera yee Tha | professor, is freedom from fear of at least ten sorts, Evidently, George) Face) by the same conditions ot! | hasn't been out of his room to take a look at the girls for ten years past. dissatisfaction among their work ingmen, the democratic nations op- posing Germany have made satis: |factory adjustments thru the exclu sive activity of civil authorities The world’s democracies have | | proved that their etvillan control is sufficient to protect the economic Mberties of workingmen in war \time, Kalseriem, York Tribune, “The opening ig said to have an important on the sense of the per-) rmance.” | | This marks an Interesting stage . the development of the drama A have always wondered why the ing scenes of Klaw & Er. BS productions were not omit-| | ted. One could get home so much DON’T AIM SO HIGH that you miss the target altogether. It’s not the crack of the rifle, nor the report of the however, is demon ‘ Mh ke teens production | |strating that, faced with similar in er ar dest | Production | gun, but the result of the shot that makes the |ternal conditions, its civil govern mg and closing | record. j ment becomes impotent and an ap-| scenes were | | peal to army autocracy is the only | Thoroughness | Set the percentage of your income that you propose to save, low enough. Many Dexter Horton Trust and Savings Bank money savers deposit regularly 10 per cent of their income; others as high as 50 per cent. But better 10 We Render an Exceptional Service in | e COLLECTIONS TRUSTS per cent regularly, than 50 per cent spasmod- every tananet nn nd our cue GENERAL BANKING icaly—that is, for final results. teay consistent with sound buss ness judgment 4% Paid on Savings Accounts Accounts Subject to Cheek Are Cordigily Invited DEXTER HORTON TRUST SAVINGS BANK SECOND AT CHERRY SEATTLE, WASH, Combined Resources of the Dexter Horton National Bank and Dexter Horton Trust and Savings Bank, $21,510,451.38 GUARDIAN TRUST AND SAVINGS BANK Cor. Fient Ave. at Columbin st. Peoples Savings Bank SECOND AVE. AND PIKE ST, ? Analysis of the War Moves chiefs. 16 2, Written for °° The United Press method it knows to keep its work shops open To renilze the humiliation Ger man workingmen are now undergo ing, {t Is only necessary to imagine cMAitions in the Uinted Stat the American Federation of I were compelled to send a delega tion to Gen. Pershing to request his consent for a raise in wages. WHOLESALE SLUGGING Editer The Star | I wish to call your attention to a matter that {* causing much dis turbance in Seattle, and which 1) believe can be remedied. The matter to which I refer ts the wholesale slugging of women, | which has been going on in Se attle for months, until women are | afraid to go to their doors in the} evening to admit guests, and are} afraid to be out alone even a few | rods from home in the early even: | ing. This condition should not exist | in a city like Seattle, With the high-salaried, large police force that we are maintaining in this city there is no reason why our women | should not be protected, and if the | present forte in not able to cope| with the situation, policemen should be secured who are | Bevo is a great favorite in the Army Canteens, where none When a call is turned in to head but pure, soft drinks may be sold. Aiter drill or march, ters that an has bee: " Ppt . one Pe gs oa — you are sure to see a long line of hot and dusty-throated kitchen, why is it that the police. soldier boys making a bee-line for Bevo. They know that men come to the scene on motor | there lies complete satisfaction, full refreshment and pure cycles, giving the slugger all the ° chance in the world to escape? Why do they not leave thelr cycles a few blocks away and come up quickly and quietly thru the alleys and side streeta? Why should they proclaim not only their coming but their continued presence in the neighborhood by riding up and down the main thoroaghfares on noisy cycles at such a rate of speed as to blind their vision to ordinary much lurking of Obviously this is not wholesomeness, At home or abroad —at work or play — between meals or with meals, you will appreciate what we have done for you in making this triumph in soft drinks. You will find Bevo at inns, restaurants, groceries, depart- ment and drug stores, picnic grounds, baseball parks, soda fountains, dining cars, in the navy, at canteens, at mobili- zation camps and other places where refreshing beverages are sold. Bevo—the all-year-'round soft drink Guard inst substitu’ Have the bottle opened in front of ou, first seeing that the seal is unbroken and that the crown top ears the Fox. Sold in bottles only, and bottled exclusively by ANHEUSER - BUSCH-—-ST. LOUIS When a woman {s not eafe in her own home or a few blocks away in the early evening, and when pro miscuous slugging has continued for so long a time, there seems to be positive proof that our city offi alt, whom we taxpayers employ ere not only incapable, but woe fully negligent tn the discharge of their duties Schwabacher Bros. Co., Inc. Dealers SEATTLE, WASH, L. L. LAN 64 W. Cremona