The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 15, 1917, Page 6

Star th up te « The Se Entered at Seattle By mall, out of elty montha About It, Governor? o Convicted before the evidence has been submitted ° is Sentenced before any trial has been had! tH This is the fate of the Seattle gas consumer. al Today, at the Seattle Chamber of Commerce assembly room, the state public)" ce commission prepared to pull off_a farce in the way of a “hearing” as to er or not the application of the Seattle Lighting Co. for increased rates shall > granted or not. ad | When the city applied by letter for sufficient time to prepare Oposed increases, the public service commission turned it down. At the hear-| this morning, the city again applied for the necessary time, and when As-!\ sistant Corporation Counsel Meier showed them the law in the case, the commission iS finally granted them the very minimum, 10 days, when four to five weeks are ily necessary to get the necessary data and examine the books of the company, |a Kicked on every side “on account of the war,” the consumer is now getting |t) In a hurry to perform a public service? No. : | No, the “public service” commissioners are in a furious rush war’ to help out the gas monopoly of Seattle. » Chairman Blaine even gets peeved at the corporation counsel because he sug-| fests that “it is only reasonable that the public service commission, representing the! ople of the state, should grant to one of the political subdivisions of the state he city of Seattle), some opportunity to investigate and obtain evidence to sup- its protest against an increase of rates which it deems unreasonable, unjust d discriminatory. When the gas company obtained its franchise in Seattle, it was with agree-| At that 4s long as it was permitted to enjoy a monopoly, there would be no Bin rates. The gas company has made millions here. There has been no apetition. It has acted arbitrarily toward its customers again and again—and| on account The consumer is going to be soaked once more.+ Lynched without trial, as} case against the | tte. president also from his own public officials. 4 [logical and political data avatlabte} | The state public service commissioners are in a hurry “on account of the}Potand, Foiand’ and Rusaia | ” STAR—MONDAY, OCT 15, 1917. PAGE 6. “== SEATTLE MEDICAL TROOPS AT FT. RILEY PEACE TEAM :) Correspondent Gives Glimpse Into Lives of Men Training for Hospital Duty in France , BY GILSON GARDNER aft Correspondent WASHINGTON, Oct, 1 On the t cory that In time of war a na) § ion should prepare for peace, the k AY ration grooming two a intinguished Americans to sit at j MM peace (able as expert | One te Justice Loule Brandeis, of xe United States supreme court, the other is Col. E House, | n “. unofficial friend of the! ministration Such ts the report, at least, cred. in wellinformed ctreles F srding to this report, Brand ix cut short hin vacation in the dirondacks and came to ah the suggestion of the He n equipping a library in| nh apartment at Stoneleigh court » which has been transferred all} statiationl, aocto- | beg i) books, Maps, words, the Eastern sec oon we In other on of the war map has t to Justice Brandeis as a on which to make himself Western section has been " gned to Col. Houne creation of these two the ce ‘Thin pleture, posed especially by the ambulance corps training at Fort Riley for The Star, and taken by Special Photographer R. P. Dor s how a field ambulance corps takes up its position behind the battle lines. Number 1 is a signal man receiving messages from sporal of the wounded litter bearers and others waiting for the order to bring in the wounded; 2, receiving tent and perts does not Indic administration considers p: imminent. All official opin | dispensary; 4, cook tent to furnish hot cof! for the wounded; 6, tent for immediate operations; 6, ambulances waiting to “evacuate” the on the contrary, is that | wounded to the rear war must go on, possibly for | won econo tig ¥ y from Seettle,| medical and surgical science the]”There's « right way and # wrongjan bour. This country has only just war has brought sbout filets ® man. ,, And we must J shuddered as : ene ae begun to get ready to fight be nthe right wa of wounded men hurried r be ear by, men detailed to a field ot Bs! tletorn roads in similar ambu- " wever it is jous there will vital unit were setting up their), I accepted an invitation to ride|jances at 30 or 40 miles an hour. an end of the war time . in an army ambul: At the end of one brief ride my 1 that when that time comes it I timed thelr work. Muledrawn We swayed, jolt skidded| bones and muscles ached from the . : : rac will be highly impe at to have - ~ over a Kansas road, about 15 es | bums in that ambulance. away with it, because it WAS a monopoly. rosdy 4b tein ta tha oinan denier BY EDWARD A. EVANS wagons were halted on the. aite road, about tes| bumps 1 ot Im that am : C d ) consider its franchise, so far as its rates are Con-jence American delegates who will! PORT RILBY, Kan, Oot 16.— Chosen fo beopitel, ————a Now the a tad wants.#) consider | i |know what the conference !* about.| The little valley was strewn thick) Wakous were jerked the great rolls 7 of canvas, Tent étakes were driv led, as a “mere scrap of paper.” es z Few Americans know anything| with wounded men ee eee And the state PUBLIC SERVICE commission falls all over itself in the mad]apout the highly complicated race| This was not in France but on rn noc POO ry problems involved in the B this Kansas military reservation, h to accomplish that. |maititary political "and religions where medical officers are being start, six big tents, each large ro se United States army. enough for 50 patients, were ready. Inside them the rub First and Only ; ere. Any discusston of termes of final o “wounds” were not serious. ~ipte i f, q y settlement will require an exhaus In fact, they were ima; But, ber Lie which ery the suf How about it, Governor Lister? You have appointed these men. You are/tive knowledge of European bis-|they served well for the prado dg bagee! ‘Sodding ore i S ; 4 P is \ see la’ | tor: " on ol oe office o © 1 ponsible for them. Seattle demands a square deal. It is up to you to see thatjtory tis com ot the officers who later will) [S104 City gets it, even if you have té remove every one of these*“war gas’ COM-|,age of French and German. He| A bandage about the arm of] 1 wetcned a group of medical Sioners. These are, indeed, war days. # noted also as one of the most|one soldier indicates he had been), Citi OMe OY the hills " ee | SCCORRTUL HeKOtiators In the coun | wounded” in the arm. Another's sad laters atomek th onan, Pia . Ze | . od ht r i alle bou he ¢ y aaaam sb Sinubik ne ‘alse ndlived | oe? ta cisctinm a haa been cnet /eENOE ©. nner Oenuneticen Sor sci ISINESS SHOWS IT IS AMERICAN {~~ : 1 calonet House has alao acquired | tag Tndteatng qeanet = Gen semenams 3 f i x4 hen the Gea he Uaiteal. Pia ary to prevent mistakes like that In the name of American business the representatives at)} 5 4 EE. D. IK. Bo ot wren the time comes the United Dorman and 1 Ng de ord ere pede fecent war convention held under the auspices of the }] States oe o i 1 ave (wo me mbers of an cous pr imber of Commerce of the United States assured Uncle,} COLYUM | heer pen a9oy RP a: ree Plat nga hae e sr ordered a field he could have them, their industric » their wil ee: : = = me : il He the rest of their possessions tion BY BERTON BRALEY in SEATTLE posed to HAIR COMING OUT? ® “\) pored to be ‘i " , } etn f 2 : @)| most dangerously hurt—were at “eg B They went a step further and declared th s in favor lit you toy with cards, buy a brand) Hanarutt cauaen a feverish frrita [tended “right where they” had 'course—-aad his en , ixi by the government not only for its own needs, new dec Ition of the ae the halr roots! fallen On f ut aan tae ‘ f nent control of dis-} And send the old one thru abrink, loose “the bair| Ae each was brought to th ee e price, one set of terms also for the public, and for government cc To the bunch nm France, so they’ll te fol r- 1 observed a number of oblong . ° MEMES Gn accoriance with whatever need may develop. _| 7° the buneh Ya Fran comes out fast. To stop falling fed bes Relea te te esse to all. No deceptive phrases in Se They gave a pledge that there would be no unsettlement) 79 guutte the pastedoards, too: | ery particle of dandruff, get a cae wee Gan Trenches?” I inquired Par . Tabor conditions on their part for the duration of the war.| For the deck that was planned bY | cent bottle of Dancerine at any dr * pep socal Graves,” an officer told me. our a vertising to misiea e and and &@ poor mad king Por a spur to his x May serve, in the stenc trench, a soldier sane that the neces and for arbitra disputes might} at Feturn, they asked for a truce by labor, so war work could be speedily accomplished by the government in any cases where sddied brain of @ ratty This is progress » Also patriotism Pit is practical. It can be achieved Or and your time go » In times past it has often been said, and often with justice : e . . selfish ly callo © the national |!! Joy you get from a cigaret business is utterly selfish, utterly callous t ena Poongheceed gear rgfist rang) ted only occupied with the chase of the immediate dollar. | 1), ® n think of the boys in a muddy Over night business has very largely gone democratic me ‘The business man realizes, as the laboring dba 2 PU aay ka a me farmer does, as all of us do, that unless we put our| fo : ns a iders to the wheel and do all we can to win this war nd eave your dimes and your J business, our labor, our farms won't be worth ve much Tot cag Seay ataee Mia Wwe lose this war the kaiser will have a war mortgage on business, every pay envelope, every fa in the land | And you who Our hard-headed business men are ne for this to], onsider ot pen. They promise to do their part. Tt American ge They will be imitated by all other r car | tn the dirt, and the nolee, and Do you think a smoke as the long WE MISSED seeing It, but did the sultan of Turkey unite with his “Christian dog” brothers of Germany and Austria in that reply| _ te the pope’s appeal for peace? hour hours ag Coub er alled — _ _ | Wh t's just pure joy to a soldie POCCOOCO SCOT EOOOOE SOOO SOOO OOO OOOOEEE Come on, old top, k in eee Analysis of the War Moves Maso Written for By J. W. T. M °° The United coco ‘The German reichstag has gained |from new domestic a Wes first democratic victory of the three events—the by forcing the resignation of Von Capeile’s resis Gisister ot Marine Von Capelle. long adjournment of the reichatag Von Capelle attempted to place |~—are progressive parts of the same Fesponsibility for the naval mu. °risis 2 vst 1 fPoe list members of| It must bring despair to the Ger the reichstag. his own retire-|Man autocrats that the katser's Ment from office is the result it bas never happened before that ‘one of the kaiser’s militarists has thus been dropped overboard for making a false accusation against Press 6969696 966696 999696 990900660969 nd the firat visit to Sofia coincides with cling fast to the war. Yet the Bulgarian statesmen must know the the socialists seriousness of the situation facing The incident indicates that the!the kaiser at home Kaiser is beginning to show fear of| fate apparently {s beginning to the reichstag, which so quickly ral-| stack the catds against the kaiser Wied to the support of its accused) Hitherto the big slices of the ‘members. war's luck h: gone to him but Simultaneously with Von (Ca-|fortune’s fickleness has sent the 4 pelle’s resignation, the kaiser has kaiser for hiv first war visit Into |THE 'C@ MAN wHo Comes Vadjourned the reichstag until De-|the Palkans at the most unfor [STRINGING ACROSS ember to give himself time to try|tunate moment that could have | LYOUR CLEAN FLOOR. to save the Hohenzollern autocracy ‘been cho | More Camouflage | It's well that that traveling bar. ber who cut the hair of 20 people! 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