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TTLE FO 7 j aser ave. J | OF SCRIPTS NORTHWEST LEAGUE OF NEW “Belegraph News Service of | at Seattle, Wash, © United Prese Association Second-Class Matter, ’ @ mos. $1.90; ye 30e a month. | Daily by The Vubltehing Ce. Uhone Main ooo, Wet lexebamar ranmeet hu re rmente. Tadic ECHO OF THE PAST | : tees of the Chamber of Gommerce want to start a} “ae | enjoin the city from extending the, city carline to} | by employing the labor of the city street department Phe old, old stuff of seeking some means to prevent the ‘ giving the carline a chance for existence Sounds like an echo of the old clamber, the moss mm, decadent chamber that we had thought was never to here. Seattle was happy in the belief that a new spirit the chamber, the spirit to accomplish things, the} it of constructiveness, the progressive hy " r spirit that looks} Instead of in the past | mow, when the city officials are seeking to accom thing with the city carline, instead of letting it mowhere and end nowhere,” the chamber steps forth} it. Is this the fair, broad spirit of the new chamber? city has invested several hundred thousand dollars Bcarline. Now for a paltry few thousand dollars, about Tet us say, iffcan extend the line to Ballard, where Source of revenue is assured, and where the line} ‘made profitable it sound business policy to prevent this? Yet the F apparently is willing to go out of its way for some} ven to begin court action, to stop the city line from Ballard. One would have rather expected from a five, broad-minded, progressive, enterprising chamber © Support for such a constructive project. Instead, it - itsel only to hindering tactics. Gill and the council majority believe they can extension to Ballard on $20,000 of street railway ily voted and legally employed by them, if they do themselves thru the city street department, instead | out the work to a contractor | Additional $12,000 would have been necessary to cover} "s profit. A loan would then have beer f present, no loan is necessary, for Mayor Gill and the by planning to have the work done directly by city gmstead of thru a contractor, are trying to save the exactly $12,000. d still the chamber kicks! ZSSIPPI AND VARDAMAN yal, as| png those senators Washington classes as dis! ing with the war, is James K. Vardaman of Miss- Most pro-German senators love the kaiser because of Yoting populations in their districts who are of German ty and who, these senators believe, are German in sym _ So in a small way the pro-German senator may be! to represent a smal! anti-American or pacifist section of} tituents. there appears to be no such excuse for Vardaman issippi’s population is so largely black that a heavier than most states bear has been placed on its white! Nevertheless, in many Mississippi communities} se Service act is inoperative, BECAUSE THE EN } QUOTA HAS BEEN FILLED BY VOLUNTEERS.| over, the brand of loyalty in Mississippi generally, to be of the siperior kind. Everywhere in the state pple are aroused *to the necessity of doing their bit | they are doing it. J ly may be small but she’s wise and honest. Her| Hhaven’t been sunk. So far as discovered, German dip-| haven't accepted her hospitality and then sought to ne her interests at home and abroad. She is a victm! of the habitual villainies of the German autocracy enters the war in order to align herself with the cause | and justice. She is a shining example for all other} Mations not yet so aligned ly but surely all peoples of the earth having any on of human welfare are coming forward to help put “the mad dog of Europe.” Honor to little Uruguay, B takes her stand as a matter of conscientiousness, purely! f ISTAG 1S going to discuss conquest peaci @ reichstag you can discuss any old thing you like. HAIL to that new Ede opin Any assoc This shows ern association that’ jon with that mi: ion will get some! YY SUBSCRIPTIONS to the Liberty loan show that the rich corporations are coming to the front. Get ye up to the front, otherwise! a KILLING or maiming innocents, American automobiles have | the kaiser’s Zeppelins beate n to a standstill. | - Exceptional Values in Dresses at $21.50 For Street and Afternoon Wear These Dresses are the latest models in Serges, smart Serge and Satin combina- tions and Taffetas. Styles embrace normal and high-waist lines; bouffant pocket effects; trimmings include braiding and embroidery in shades of gray, bisque, gold and Oriental effects, and other distinctive touches characteristic of high-grade Dresses, All the newest shades of Burgundy, African Brown, Russian Green, with the ever popular Navy Blue leading. NEW COATS ARRIVE New arrivals in Smart Coats for dress and utility wear include the beautiful Silvertone, Crystal Cloths, Velours and Pompons, in all wanted colors. Some es pecially attractive models are shown in the new Pirate Red and Pekin Blue. a Avail yourself of our CREDIT PLAN Make your selection while stocks are | complete and pay to suit your con- venience. Westberg & Childs “The Credit Store” 1312 Second Avenue BUT. GREAT Is. GARIGONET | the STAR—WEDNESDAY. OCT. 17, 1917. | | | PAGE 6. OTBALL STAR LIKES CANTONMENT LIFE "] | Be a Better Man When I’m Thru With It,” Private John Johnson, Ex-Broadway Star, Tells Star Writer | STAR) Btatt Special CAMP LEWIS, Oct. 15.—John Johnaon, one time football star of Broadway high school, & attic, and known on Western a “Jack, the spud buyer,” now Ie just plain Private Johnson, Co, A, 346th light artillery, in training at Camp Lewis. Johnson likes the army, He hae corns on his feet and a hard spot in the center of each paim, The corns came from marching and the hard spots came from working He doesn't buy potatoes any more, but sometimes he peels ‘em. The life he is leading i exactly like the life of some 40,000 other men who are doing things here that they never did before Lat Johnson tell about it On Kitehen Police “T was on ‘'K, P yesterday,” said John, “which means kitchen police and has nothing whatever to do with maintaining law and order, It does mean, howev that the rest of the boys get up at 6:45 you have to get up at 4:30 a. m or thereabouts. “There isn't angthing thrilling about this K.P. job. First I peeled a few spuds and later, after break fast, I helped ont with the pots Above, The Star's staff photographer has snapped a sergeant in the national army, himeelf a drafted first essentials of the soldi .. & D. K.’s.". HANDICAPPED By Berton Braley They wouldn't let him play with the rough little boys Who lived in the netghhorhood, They told him to beware of the tough little boys And they made {t unJterstood ‘That a good little boy mustn't grub around With the “common” lIttle boys at all, But must stay right close to his owh home ground And be safe from a fight or brawl. in the cook ten’. He was assigned | and pans and mens kite and tried to stabbing warts off dill pickles ° re ; When your spond; Take your roll and buy a bond. country calls . . After reading ed world championship doings, we came to the conclusion that the al @ ing while somebody turday’s so-call-| my best to get a shine on the enameled iron plates from which moet of ws eat Start With Calisthenics That was Johneon's first K. P sbift. The day befure he was drill else did the dirty work “There are 47 varieties of drilld he declared. “The first one in the morning goes by the name of ‘calis-| leged Giants are also among those|thenics’ and is something like the having war forced upon them. CRISIS OF — WOMAN’S LIFE | normal man—even a football player | They said he could mingle with'Change Safely Passed by! Taking Lydia E. Pinkham’s; enough little bors Who came from the class,” dn't have to frolic with the tough little boys To make his playtime pass; And thus he was coddled to his man's estate In a perfectly proper way, And they sent him forward combat his fate With the world’s grim play “better to game to and the there he struggled with rough little boys Who had also aged and grown, But these tough little boys And he could not hold his own, For he didn’t understand ‘em the things they did And his faflare came to pa or organized to/ Since he hadn't learned to battio,|! am now well and do all my hous when a right young kid. With the tough Iittle boys And the rough little boys Who came from the “lower; class.” TODAYS KANNING THE KAISER Ichabod’s time was entirely taken up the next few days an swering perfumed correspondence from an American girls’ finishing school and returning social calls |from society belles who had en- listed in the ambulance service, | He had no time to interfere with | the enemy, who had returned from Berlin beer-bust and were opening up a pinochle joint in No Man's Land | Four ermans, however, were killed and several wounded in a} wild battle over a dachshund wien. | erwuret the night the joint was completed and the proprietor gave! a house warming party, Next day our hero was given orders to report for dangerous duty he hadn't ever traveled with fj Vegetable Compound 1 never get Lydia E. Pink ham's Vegetable Wagoner, Okla tired of praising ound = be muse during Change of Li 1 was in be two years and had two opera tions, but all the doctors and operations did me no good, and I would have been in my — grave today had tt been for Lydia E. Pink ham's Vegetable Compound, which brought me out of {t all right, so work, besides working in my gar. den. Several of my neighbors have got well by taking Lydia FE. Pink ham’'s Vegetable Compound,”—Mrn. VIOLA FINICAL, Wagoner, Okla Such warning s¥mptoma as #6 of suffocation, hot flashes, head aches, backachen, dread of impend ing evil, timidity, sounds in the ears, palpitation of the heart sparks before the eyes, irregulari ties, constipation, variable appe tite, weakness and dizziness rhould be heeded by middle-aged women Lydia EB. Pinkbam's Vegetable Compound has carried many wom en safely through the crisis —THE— BANK OF CALIFORNIA NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO In your safe deposit box wil! bring you 4 per cent interest an nually. That meane Uncle Sam will pay you $4.00 interest a year if you will lend him $100. $2.00 interest if he borrows $50 from you ‘Today im the day to invest in YOUR LIBERTY BOND. SEATTLE BRANCH #01 Second Ave, an Exceptional Service In COLLECTIONS TRUSTS GENERAL BANKING GUARDIAN TRUST AND SAVINGS BANK Cor, First Ave. at Columbia A Liberty Bond| « ‘take - a - deep - breath and-raine-the —v——ee | artneniowly’ that we used to hear in school, only more so. “About an hour of this {fs all a can stand. It makes every bone and muscle ac! but it really ia great stuff for hardening a man up. Every One Goes Swimming “Once In awhile they take us down to American Lake for anoth er kind of hardening. Everybody marches down with his towel over his arm and while the officers look on with encouraging remarks, we splash around in water that woul make a polar bear four-flush “Right after breakfast the regu lar drills begin. I'm in Ught artit lery, but outside of a blueprint on the wall that shows the Internal arrangement of a six-inch field plece we might just as well be an Infantry company “All around the mulberry bush we go for the next three four hours. Double quick, squads right and squads left, and company front and a dozen other formations that! are as nimple and basily grasped as the Pythagorian proposition set forth In Sankerit are fired at us in rapid succession All Hungry at Dinnertime “Then,” said John with a grin. dinner. It’s a pretty good dinner, at least we think so after working all morning. Lota of things at which’a man would turn up his nose in the city taste mighty gooa here “After mess we trot back to the! parade ground to a pup cers’ n how to # nt or to listen to the offi ure on military etiquet “When it is considered that di gestion ix well under way, they re- peat the morning’® performance until retreat at night, when the pany stands its last drill of the day and hears the bands and the bugles play the Star Spangled Ban ner.” “Some of the boys are wor. trying for fear the war will be over before they are thru train. ing, | am a bit afrald of it myself, but just the same, whether we get into the big fight or not, I'm glad | am here and I'll be a better man when 1! am thru with it.” EAT WHAT YOU WAN1 their appetite so! euler nent suffering, can, without foar of di WHEN YOU WANT IT jis appealing 9s ecially to thelr statome: ences, indulge th People who consistently deny uigence has al- Fo! ® fact, however, that m: ason if the how- | ae appetite within ro a mild com bin: wel yrup ation of sim- ve herbs . en in action an positive in effect, it regulates the owels in nn easy, natural way, without griping or other discom- | nd is the ideal family lax- | get a Rottle of, Dr. Cala- we yw ‘epsin from your gaseies and x te i cep it in the h Use ft occnstonall you wi 10. and you will | ‘find yon can eat at qoyuting | | | Have you something to | swap? Use Star Want Ade. while) | |terned as an allen enemy until the ALUES f of the are in fact are wool rect word materials quality wool iots. some of fur, as well styles. —Hunter's seal brown, Oxford, taupe, green, —A hundred 400 New U: GREAT | | || —The season's smart, ing wings, burnt goc pompoms and smart many kinds, well | NO UNMARKED | GRAVE TO GET | SOLDIER DEAD By L. HARPER LEECH Malt Bpecta WASHINGTON, Oct. 18.—There will be no unknown American dead lin wayside graves “Somewhere in lrrance,” if Uncle Sam is as suc cessful as he has been tn all former wars in collecting the bodies of his dead heroes and bringing them back for interment in national cem oteries A corps of skilled men to iden tify and embalm the bodies of the slain will be sent over with each division of the American army, and after the war the remains will be brought back Many of the soldiers will be bur ied in Arlington cemetery, which contains the graves of soldiers and sailors who fell in the far-flung lit \tle wars of tne United States from | Peking to Tripoli, at Vera Cruz, |Havana, Santiago, Hayt!, and doz- Jens of other remote spots | One unit of this foree, which will collect the dead, has already been | formed and is on its way to France. Thr more are being recruited. |The companies will be called “reg istration companies” and will con sist of a captain, Heutenant and 50 men. There will be one company | to each division. They will iden tify the dead, bury them, mark the} ‘graves and embalm the bodies Chaplain Charles C. Pierce, re tired, has been called back into the service to organize these com-| panies In the Philippines he had charge \of this work, and as a result there were no unidentified dead in the| | Philippine campaigns, and all bod-| jes were returned to the relatives jof the slain, or buried in national cemeteries in marked graves. ‘SPY.CAUGHT ABOARD U. S. SUB CHASER! [hy United Press Leased Wire | WASHINGTON, Oct. 17.—Wm. ih Dunbar, alleged German spy ar- |rested in New ork, will be in end of the war, it was learned at| the department of justice today Officials refused to divulge any of the circumstances that led to Dun bar's arrest. They would. neither confirm nor deny a report that he} served as an ensign on an Amerti-| can submarine chaser while spying on naval and military preparations, navy blue and blac ‘Fraser-PatersonCo, +———_____———-* Remarkable Thursday Special A Hlumdred Women's Smart, New Coats Offered at $17.50 ach ar ordinary— styles are smart—the cor- splendid velours, burellas and che —The tailoring is of a much higher order than the price would indicate. —All have large collars, others kerami cloth and plush, self materials. —Belted and semi-belted gold, Burgundy brown, ., splendid garments offered for Phursday, each. ..$17.50 Extraordinary Thursday Sale of trimmed Hats, Each special purchase sale that will offer the season’s best Untrimmed Hat opportunity on Thursday. HAT TRIMMINGS—HALF PRICE new Trir se, ostrich as flowers and novelty ribbons (CLEARING WEATHER | MEANS NEW ATTACK Hy United Press Leased Wire 7100 out The of $1.75 Four hundred smart, Untrimmed Hats. 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