The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 19, 1917, Page 6

e Seattle Star Poatoftioe $3.60; # me $1.08; carrier, olty wortn i h North: bed Pr Published Datly League Wash Ny Ry mati, ov un ‘he Shipbuilder’s Dilemma rOL action ought to be taken at once by to the ship-building program. While it apparently is going ahead with speed its maximum ends. : Rae his difficulty relates to wood ship construction, Consequently, it is of vita lance to us here on Puget sound, and of concern to the whole allied cause vessels unt of the task of overwhelming the U-boat. ey det ae tivities will be concentrated on turning out steel bottoms with all speed. Policy, they have no selfish complaint to make ; ands their attitude aright. Private maritime concerns work ahead for all the yards for a long while to come. : it right there is where the trouble enters. The shipping board will not say ther, if contracts are made by the fof the completed vessels to their buyers. ng those vessels at the last minute. Tm the face of such uncertainty, the would-be purchasers are loath to _ They want the ships, must have ships. d ships. It is to our government’s advantage that all the allied govern d the private shipping houses of all the allied flags have bottoms ir n fleet nor say definitely that our builders may deliver their product tc men who need and must have them. an attitude is not reasonable and must be altered one way or the other as matters stand, it leaves ji H sale at a profitable price. panies can very well muster. laced a great of conditions in all likelihood has hindered it from foreseeing and reme ¥ trouble of its own accord. A joint presentation of the case by the Pacifi commercial bodies ought to result in straightening out the tangle. THE TRUTH A Today President Wilson has ic a bill before him, war. This is the Trading With the Enemy acta misleading title so far as its purpose is concerned, which is to impose a no Masks Yet Issued jcensorship upon the press of the country, the native English three hours before train 45 well as the foreign-language papers. crowd gathered in i Originally . ar aimed at the disloyal German press, One auditorium to make | provision was that for every article printed by such papers a nett eas en rhe fon. full translation should be filed with the local representative punctuated the | of the postoffice department, and a notice to the effect that with short patri-) such a translation had been so filed was required to be printed is, Attorneys W. T. Broth-jin English over the article in the paper. + aa - rend SC eiameds | The postoffice department under the Espionage act has the boys got a foretaste,;POWer to bar from the mails any paper at its discretion—a Set the poisonous gases|sort of censorship in itself, them in the trenches. However, as the act came out of conference, to be hastily OX. M.) New Mexican. | voted a law by overburdened and time-pressed senators and ie’ congressmen, it contained a new clause extending the juris- jdiction of Postmaster General Burleson et al Solicitor General Lamar and the rest of Mr. Burleson’s legal advisers—to the entire press of the country The new clause makes it unlawful to publish in the first place, or to circulate in any way, by express, by carrier or oy bond will buy af h shell, three or four and | the Bosches hell. COLO HANDS LEWIS, Wn., Oct. 17 will lose a husky fighter mn has his way. He ® exemption on the <rownd| his fingers get cold in winter he wears mittens and he heard they don't provide the army. Dan says bis all right; it’s only his bother. in EITHER a foreign language or in English, that the post- master general may declare unmailable. If this bill is signed, we have actually got a real cens« in the hands of Burleson and Lamar—a censorship that means that any paper in the country |whose tone these men don’t happen to like can be forced into shutting up shop and sacrificing its business When a democratic government attempts to hide itself from the people, to do business behind closed doors—for that's |what a censorship really means—it staves off the light of |criticism; distrust and resentment are sure to be awakened. = |The people at home, for whom the lawmakers are supposed |to be working, say: “We gave you your jobs. We have a ~ ee Postmaster General S \) right to see how you attend to them.” And they mean it. { the folk with a finger in the lawmaking pie want to win this war and win it quickly, they will see that the gov- ernment gets closer to the ¢ not farther away from jthem. That was the president's original when at the beginning of the war he established the publicity bureau under George ‘Creel. It was a PUBLICITY BUREAU, for the people, not a CENSORSHIP BUREAU, against the people These are mighty important things to think of. Mr. Wilson is a conscientious man, a level-headed and a far-seeing man | Wherefore it is safe to say he will consider them carefully lalong with that misnamed Trading With the Enemy act that awaits his signature—or veto. idea y/ vy A swer write NOW DISCLOSED that Germany tried to stir up war between Bra- zil, Argentine and Uruguay. “Everybody fight!" is sure the slogan of that bloody-minded Teuton autocracy. BUY A bond for the baby! Doctor Says Nuxated Iron Will Increase Strength of Delicate People 100% in Ten Days many instances—Persona have) Next take two five-rain tablets of | | ™ ted | | the Game at Camp Lewis) suttered untold neony for yearn ordinary nuxated iron three timer Bit Who goes there? | per day, afer 8, for two weeks or Then te ain and officer.” (Officer starts about! 5} al nee for you have gained. * of ner 1 : vous, ryn down were all- “Why A “hd | N. ¥.—In_a recent dis-| ing a he time and even ‘\ ie egtem Fintels $7" aid) ee bere Saueh, fBodion phosic| triple their strength and’ enduren ss lcian, who has studied widely, both | # entirely get rid of thelr symp. % tell me what to do,” said in th in great PB t dyspepsia, liyer and . “I know what to do, I| pean ons, aid S —\ in from 10 td is faye th 4 ot h actual blood| simply by taking iron in the prop. ‘Halt’ three times and then 1|¥°" b, Sctuet Poot dorm” and tain “abter Chor’ went, ” be greatly astonish-Psome, casen, been doctoring for 7 SF singly latge number months »btaining any bene « re iif ou ane about gratifying to learn that ¥. Inch +t by new Was arrested Thursday in} a) their mul of dangerous | to hard facta, there in nothing like on @ mutiny charge. Not|symptoms dix Without iron| 00d old iron to put color in’ your that we wish to see Mr. the ood at ohe ka FO | sound healthy get in wrong as it is to ¢ and stomach atrengine that the old boy is not being ar best blood builder in ne », that we are | 0 Dann he only trouble was by his name, that we are Mt pager that the ol forms of Incrocens (re rollera #o| like tincture of tron, iron acetate, se. Ve you money’ Spend {t—shoot! | @ bond and Tin the Teut! d people's teeth, up: he, and were not a ihene did with the dine ‘* Mm somewhere in F oy ante to. taken ts is pleasant to take feelin’ blue and I ain't shed a\! modiately beneficial they took my Jim and put"! khaki on him, in’ cats, how the coin has roll ed in! | his head off to produce a ovoking line, while Herr lis, with no effort at all, evoke screams of jaughter, and make long you ean work can walk without foll ¢ per or how far you) Martell Drug Co becoming UUred. all good druggiata, r Swifts Pharmacy and! ce) all commercial organizations cific Northwest looking to a better understanding with the government in That the Denman-Goethals feud is laid, there is at least one serious bar to its can be built faster than steel and for that reason must bear the | But the United States shipping board, thru Admiral Capps, has decided def- ly not to order more wooden vessels for the government's fleet. The fed- ho our wooden-ship builders might find it hard to agree with the wisdom yainst it, if The Star un- including those of other} ities, are clamoring for our wooden bottoms, so the demand is great and) ards with such concerns, it will permit de- It reserves the privilege of com- sign | boar The yards are able and eager And still the shipping board will neither order our wooden vessels one t one alternative; that the shipyards must} on speculation, trusting to luck that on completion they will find a Such a plan requires vastly more capital than the shipping board will see the danger of the dilemma in which ‘it! acific Coast industry, if the matter is clearly presented to it. nthe fact that it is engaged in a monumental task of its own under un- dy- BOUT THE CENSORSHIP awaiting |his signature, that is in principle the most drastic piece of jlegislation ground out by Congress since the declaration of — meaning news stand, to sell or to give away, ANY publication printed STAR—FRIDAY, TRIP TO C BETTIE i tT hy mart CAMP L Wis, T What is Camp Lewis like? ‘acoma, Ort, 19.— Tt fs a city—a great mushroom of a city that sprang from the dust at the call of a bugie. ole nothing beautiful, noth ing artistic about it-—-unless one *}ean find beauty in barren, bald earth and artistry in rough, un- painted boards and grimy dust So not in the mere shell of the in its our husk of monot- industry, can ita secre Neither is its message 1 | found {no part ts more interesting than |the others, and no part more won erful than the whole. The message of Camp Lewis to America is told in a single, glar- |ing headline, and there is no read: AMP LEWIS! |hidden in any one part of tt, for] OCT. 19, 1917. PAGE 6. point to show a hundred crouch. ing figures with bands outstretched to clasp a rifle stock, and when it falls on this scene ite curtain rises at another point to disclose other hundreds rushing madly with de montac shouts In a simulated bat- tle charge And when night comes the cloud follows the footsteps of thousands roads . The highwaya become involved in a swirling dust storm and thra the thick atmosphere the brilliant. ly lighted barracks loom up like oasion in & miniature Sahara. There are no lights on the roads save automobile lamps -and the | fashiights of the hurrying men. Mostly the nights are foggy and ing matter beneath it “Tam vast. I am complex, | jstand for a nation at war!" There, in a line, is the motive of Amer ica's largest cantonment. ee Camp Lewis is bullt in two great fan-shaped arme th#t reach across | the low and rolling prairie miles, As far as the eye can see! there are buildings-—two-storied buildings, each Mke {ts neighbor, with a tarred paper roof and clap 1 nides, innocent of paint jor decoration, and with odd multi Ipaned windows. At one end of the right arm are quartermaster corps store es, and the bake shops and es. At the other end | remount depot, which is a t ing camp for 56,000 horses 1,800 mules, In between, in ranks of four abreast, are the barracks Les | 7] lof the engineers and the artillery and of a few infantry companies. The other arm has the base how C jpital and the Y. M A. head- quarters at ita base, and termin- ed in two long fingers that are | the trenches of the shooting range, | Along its length are infantry com: panies and heavy artillery and ma chine gun battalions, The two arms tnclose a mon- j*ter parade ground as flat as a ~|billiard table, where 50,000 men may stand abreast with hands touching. Over the parade ground all day long hangs a yellow, sullen haze lof dust that «wings and sways back and forth in motion of a wet wind that blows tn from the sound It lifts for an instant at | one ‘ACHILD DOESN'T LAUGH AND PLAY IF CONSTIPATED Look, Mother! Is tongue coat- | ed, breath feverish and stomach sour? | | \“California Syrup of Figs can't harm tender stomach, liver, bowels. *) | today saves a sick Children simply | time from play to} which become | liver gets} A laxative [child tomorrow will not take th empty their bo clogged up with waste, sluggish; stomach sour. Look at the tongue, mother! If! coated, or your child is Ietless, | cross, feverish, breath bad, rest leas, doesn't eat heartily, full of cold or has sore throat or any oth-| er children's ment, give a tea spoonful of “California Syrup of Figs,” then don't worry, because {t is perfectly harmless, and in a few hours all this constipation poison, sour bile and fermenting waste will |xently move out of the bowels, and you have a well, playful child again, A thorough “inside cleansing” 1s oftimes all that is necessary It {should be the first treatment given lin any sickness, Beware of counterfeit fig syrups, Ask your druggist for a bottle of }"California Syrup of Figs,” which | }has full directions for babies, chil. | |dren of all ages and for grown-ups | |Diainly printed on the bottle. Look | | carefully and see that it Is made by the “Oulifornia Fig Syrup Com. pany. _ FREE TO ASTHMA SUFFERER A New Home ‘That A Use Wi o We have a New Method that cures Asthma, and we want you to try it Jat our expense, No matter whether | jyour ense Is of 1c anding or! recent development, whether it I#| present Hay Fever or chronic ne should send for a free trial of our method. No matter in |what clfmate you live, no ma |what your ago or occupation, If ro troubled with asthma, ae | | our jethod should relleve you promptly. We expecially want to send {ft to|aret consump’ " P thaws noparentiy hortoten ett? | aret consumption that he was as seca, all torus of thitiecn mon signed to the command of the cur. plum prep rations Fumes “Da tain-fire squad. Jamokes,” ete, have failed oy " : vant to show everyone at car own! This high rank was conferred se, that this mew method te|"POn our hero solely thru his au ned to end all difficult breath. |perlority at the pills. It was con. nN a AB J sidered a soft Job. 0 # "| Its chief duty was this: On Sat freo offer Is too Imnortant to/urday bath-nights Ichabod was a single day. Write now n begin the method at ones. | oR ASTHMA CO, na and Hudaon Send free trial of your method Room Sta, BATS, Huffa € to for} | jurday night | developed such proficiency in cig y money, Simply mall coupon of tone of Do It Today. | clgareta As he smoked, the curtain of ASTHMA COUPON white vapor from his lungs would | from if | & that's brown and one tha | A mhirt with | tw Am lie \1 ¢ | | At br I 6 pli soft-botlled eews upon And squirt the orange in my eye And whens I step on « THE STAR’S COR LIFE’S LIKE AT ARMY’S NEW MUSHROOM CITY OF 40,000, AMERICAN LAKE ] from the drill field to the graveled | form a soft Hquid mud that chills! the bones and grimes the skin. | But before now Sammy, even If he came from a warmer clime, is accustomed to the chill nights of American Lake, and he laughs as he makes his way thru the dark ness to the crowded roadway near the shacks of the concesstonartes |down by the gate, or to the Y. M. C. A. reading and class rooms, the morrow. He inqures solicttous . He chatters like a magpie, The roads are his great meeting places | He talks of the day's work and of the morrow, He inquires solicitous lly of the condition of his comrade’s | arm and describes in picturesque profanity the soreness of his own o- | | In social life there's not a break You cannot count on me to make, If at @ party or « ball You see ® couple trip and fall, Just jock around and you will’ see ‘The male half of the pair is Me | Depend on me in any throm tho I'm | At every sort of | I'm not swelled up abou! And all the eredit I disctaim My dubbieh et my drift Are not acquired; Just « gift! House Should Aid Occupant to Keep Health The house in which you If should aseist you to maintain good health. Professor Irving Fisher has re marked that “It is a sad com mentary on ovr low ‘deals that keeping well with most persons means merely to keep out of the sick bed.” To make a ucoeaaful fight against disease one must be more than merely not sick, One must have surplus health and enersy. To have that, every room in the house you live in should have a window to the outdoor alr. Rooms without independent ven- tiation are handteaps to health.; Such a room never geta enough fresh alr. The old-fashioned alcove room is a device of the heedless for the use of the thoughtless. The house not only must make good health possible, but {t must also bear its share fn bringing into existence great improvements in the living habits in the home. A house must have an adequate supply Bf sanitary equipment } The absence of a sink in the/ house {# too great a hindrance to| cleanly habite. The house must mentary means necessary to pro- tect children, help the sick to get well and the well to gain surplus} health, and ald in the improve| ment of personal habits that will| be increasingly urged and ft alty| réalized have the ele HEALTH QUESTIONS ANSWERED L. S. aske: “What is agar, and what ie it used for?” Agar is a gelatin derived from seaweed and has the natural prop erty of absorbing water readily and of retaining it, Is f# used often in the treatment of chronic constipa- tion. KANNING THE KAISER Chapter 3 Our hero was slipped aboard a cattle car one night and shipped somewhere to Jurup. Dull days followed for our hero! in the first line trench, One Sat the Teuts deserted their positions on Hill 41,144 and assembled in Berlin to attend the kaiser’s annual beerfest One of the leading brewerles was reopened for the occasion, and the boys attained considerable motive | power during the libations. Toasts were given for a number of Amert-| can congressmen and other absent members of the kaiser’s official) | family. With nobody to fight, Ichabod! and his company had nothing to do but await the return of the enemy Rut the period of waiting was well spent | Forty-five thousand cartons ,of clgareta were consumed for the American tobacco trust Ichabod ‘olled out over the top in a wheel hair with a couple afford concealment, behind which could tub in seclusion prying eyes of the en he men the pmy (To Be Continued.) Pre | ——e jouse? Use Star Want Editor's Mail | POOR GERVICE Editor The Star T took a, ‘ a ts * “Really does” put upset stomachs | comes in contact with the stomach tion to offer, thri Lawrence Col-t yy order—“really does” overcome |all such distress vamunes. man and his Y. M. C. A. my home| indigestion, dyspepsia, gas, heart-'truly astonishing—almost marvel- and good will to a homesick sol-| burn and sourness due to acid fer- ous, and the joy is its harmless- jier at Camp Lewis. | mentation in five minutes—that— | ness. This morning and carly after-| noon I called Mr. Colman on the| yhone four times, and finally was! recommended to a Mr. Allen, of he ¥. MC. A. After six phone calls, I learned! dizzy that Mr. Allen had left for home. Ten phone calls ts enough to ex- baust the patience of most any the moment man, and I wonder how many altru- intentions have been knocked iu the head by such ineffictency? } D. D. WHEDON, 421 Green Butlding. atic j DOESN'T KNOW OWN FOOT MIO, Mich., Oct. 12.—Mise Lottle in a cold what #he thought Pertres woke at 2 a. m. nav sweat and was a man’s hand on the foot of YU are in the right place. Bring this ad with you. her bed. She reached under her pillow for a pistol and shot off two} of her own toes. The Best in —ideal Coat for Seattle c “tailored; Union made... . Famous Oregon City Coats in weages; Raglans, Balmacaans «ni regular styles; wonderful values We save you mone RESP | attempt to catch the Russian army! |thin time would be of immense ad- acid and regulator in the world. If sour, you belch ¢£ tongue coated; your insides filled REAL PAINLESS DENTISTS “WE CATER TO THE MAN Largest Union Store in Seattle SCHERMER’S Also a magnificent line, embracing all the newest styles, at . .$18, $20, $22.50 and $25 See Schermer’s Extra Special Black Cravenette Raincoat Big line Mackinaws—all prices—with an extra leader, at ....$7.50 103-105 FIRST AVENUE SO. them even reinforced the roofs #0 that passengers might ride there He tells of his hopes, his ambi-|4# Well ax on the running boards. »|But now the military authorities tions and his fears and from early |! dusk until the bugle blows “lights | have taken a hand and the military out,” there is deep, continuous roar | Dollce permit no car to carry more ; i men than ite seats will accommo. physicians tn ted antityphold serums. of conversation, punctuated by shrill laughs and deeper chuckles, | date. «ow tier hs But, white each of these things If Sammy can, at night he goe*/and a thousand others at Camp to Tacoma, and for those few hours! Lewis are interesting, different of Mberty in “civilization’ he must! trom things America has been ac- stand in line perhaps a half 4M | customed too, and unique in their hour, waiting for an automobile to| way, not one of them can be com- take him from the cantonment, and | pared with their cumulative effect. at loant a half an hour to obtain a)” 11 i» the bulk of the place that seat to ride home again when the) goreams ite message. Ite very lack evening's fun If over. lof beauty, It» lack of comforts and, Time was when the bus drivers | above all eise, ite vastness carries carried as many soldiers as could |its secret home—“I stand for # hang to the machines. Some of nat t wart” Analysis of the War Moves By J. W. T. Mason o7 Yiris7. fF °° The United Press $ SOOOSSOHSOSSOSSSSSOHOSSHSOOSEEOSOES citizen soldiers in their (ford to risk the heavy casualties home training camps bave begun 4d loss of reserves of ammunition creating their first strategic di- that such operations would entail while hondreds of thousands of version and are saving the Ruseian | Americans are in training for next northern army from flanking oper |spring’s offensive. ations about Riga bay. | “If the German general steft were If it were not for fear of the new | compelled to authorize such a dis American troops, Marshal Von Hin- | astroug adventure because of anti- denburg unquestionably would now | German conditions in Bulgaria and be landing troops on the mainland | Turkey, the result would be of di- near the Riga bay Islands, in an/rect advantage to the U. 8. army. There would be less German troops and German ammunition to oppose next year’s hammer blows of Gen. Pershing’s forces. America, therefore, is now the dominant factor in a condition of major strategy, 5,000 miles away. America is winning victories for the allies without firing a shot, and solely because of the alacrity with which the citizen army has gon into training. | in & vine victory. A success of this importance at and win a new Sedan vantage to Germany. It could be made to furnish a military argument to the sorely be- et kaiser, now touring the Balkans and Turkey, trying to keep his al-_ lies loyal to him. But Von Hindenburg cannét af- Five Minutes! No Indigestion, Gas, Sour Stomach—Pape’s Diapepsin Neutralizes acids in stomach, instantlyrelieving dys- pepsia, heartburn, belching, distress. It’s fine! just that—makes Pape’s Diapepsin A large 50-cent case of Pape's the largest selling stomach ant- Diapepsin is worth its weight in gold to men and women who can’t get their stomachs regulated. It belongs in your home—should al- ways be kept handy in case of | sick, sour, stomach | the day or at night. It’s the quick- with indigestible waste, remember | est, surest antacid for the stomach “Pape's Diapepsin”|in the world. what you eat ferments and turns and erecta undigested food or water; head is and aches; breath foul, In order to introduce our new (whalebdon: 0 and strongest plate known. covers very litt ae late, which ts th chest the root of the ws le of mouth; ‘. you can bite corn off the Fusranteed fifteen yearn) °F Gold Crown $15 Set of Teeth (whalebooe oe $10 Set of Teeth... gs Bridgework, per tooth, Mi White Crowns hss ry Up -50¢ Gold Fillings $4, 75¢ Silver Fillings Platina Fillings fi it dion and advice treats (2 the All work guaranteed for morning and get teeth € fifteen years. day. FE: ridge Work. We Stand the 4 recommended by our early customera, wh iving good satisfaction. A, ir cus. tomers who have tested our wor When coming to our office, be sure Open Sundays from ® to 12 for Working OHIO CUT-RATE DENTISTS Opposite Fraser-Patersen Ca. WHO WORKS” UNMATCHABLE VALUES = : UNION -MADE uits and QO coats Seattle—Make Me Prove It limate—rich and dressy; beautifully “20 fects, box back models, ® beautiful Coat $18 bright, colorful | Rough Astrachan fancy full of real “pep” $15 | oni ous y on all lines—Shoes, Underwear, Hats, Gloves, d