The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 19, 1917, Page 9

80 MILLION TO SWAY NEUTRALS BY WEBB MILLER United Presa Mtaft Correspondent LONDON, Oct. 19.—-Germany today le pouring amounts of money into neutral coun- tries for propaganda designed to sway public opinion. Ac: cording to authoritative Infor. mation, expenses for this work will total more than $80,000, 000, on the present scale of laviahn | Much of the money Is spent in subsidizing and influencing papers. In a number of cases Germans | bought newspapers outright and managed them from behind the |scenes, Large amounts are also |being paid agents to keep peace agitation going. It was learned today that on one orcasion the German minister to Mexico, Von Eckhardt, subsidized a Mexican newspaper by furnishing jit news print paper and securing for It tolla free, the German com- © and other “German made ON VERY SPECIAL TERMS You may own one of these beautiful Grafonolas — bring tho world’s greatest artists into your own home and keep in touch with the latest productions of the musical world. PLACES IN YOUR HOME fine Cabinet Grafono! iMustrated above, a complete set of 24 bea tiful selections, which you may select yourself; a rec- ord cleaner and a liberal supply of needles. The total cont is $88.80, and you may pay, 4 monthly amounts as ttle Af sss ccesscestesertcctess ss 8 | Pay Just $1.00 Each Week, | Fora fow weeks, is all that it requires to keep the PORTABLE GRAFONOLA shown below, twenty selections, which you may choose from our stock, @ record cleaner, record album and a large assortment of les. The total price of the whole assortment ie only 942.25, and you may pay, as an initial payment, $5.00, In return this newspaper was to feature the German communique on the first page and to bury the allied official reports tnconspte- uously on an inaide page. German-made _editortals also to be carried. In the year before China entered the ‘war, authoritative {nformation is that Germany spent $2,000,000 tn that country thru her agents, seek ing to influence Chinese against Japan and the allies. One of the mistakes made was the blundering translation into Chinese of a pam- phiet designed to promote antlally feeling. The clumsy wording of the pamphlet aroused indignation of the Chinese. Each Regiment to Have Piano Soon Staft Correspondent CAMP LEWIS, Tacoma, Oct. 19 —There will be a plano in every regiment in the cantonment, accord. |ing to Festyn Davies, musical dt rector. Leaders will be selected from each company to form glee clubs and there also will be glee clubs representing the regiments, and possibly the camp. Has Eyesight Back After Twenty Years LONG BEACH, Cal, Oct. 19.—J FE. Leohart has had his eyesight restored after blindness of 20 years by an unusual operation performed by Dr, J. H. MeKellar, An artt fictal pupil was made to take the place of the natural one. U. S. WON’T FIX MEAT PRICES Law of Supply and Demand to Govern the Situation; Says Hunt By HARRY ‘8. HUNT WHY MEAT IS UP AND WILL STAY UP INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Oct. 19.— a com Sane te Ge shout \t He has fixed the wheat price, WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 25.—These official government licensed the miller and is regulat- figures show why meat {s high and will continue high ing the baker to reduce bread 20 to ‘The slaughter of hogs in Chicago for the week ending Sept | 25 per cent. 1, was 31,500 head; for the corresponding week last year 125,500. He has taken over the buying of/] ‘This despite the fact that the average price this year was $17.30 all sugar for ourselves and allies, per hundred pounds, as against $10.80 last year establishing a price and limiting The effect of increased export demand: r Average exports for the Exports for the year three pre-war years. ending July 1, 1917. $650 CAS. 4 a 4 Lbs. Fresh pork 50,429,000 Canned pork 9898,000 266,628,000 Hams and shoulders. Bacon Lard . In addition, 31,000 hogs were exported on the hoof last year as against 15,000 for the pre-war period. profits. Our average meat shipments for He has fixed the mine prices of|/ three years preceding the war to coal and intends with strict super | talled 493,848,000 pounds annually vision to reduce the cost of fuel.|In the year ending June 30, 1916, Is he going to follow the same our meat exports reached 1,512. course with meats, at unprecedent-| 000 pounds—more than tre our ed and prohibitive prices? If not,/ normal exports—-and the year end why not? jing June 30, 1917, far exceeded The answer to the first question | this, exports of pork alone totalling is short. He is not. 1,441,105,000 pounds! License Packers The two things that can reHeve the meat situation are eee Te oe eoiean farmer or| The reduction of domestic con stock raiser for his hogs, steers or |#umption, by substitution of fish sheep. There will be licensing of |#94 poultry and vegetable dishes. Sackors, and supervision of middie-|, 1¢reased production of livestock men’s profits, but the price of live | fF meat purposes stock is to be left absolutely to supply and demand. Which means, in the opinion of PIRGT AVE. and PIKE ST. Phone Main 4965. “IF | HURT YOU, DON’T PAY ME.” ‘This is my message of deliver- ‘ance to you from the fear that ac- companies Dental operations. 1 EXTRACT, FILL, CROWN and TREAT Teeth absolutely without pain in all cases but acute ab by the food administration the latter is being urged by it and the Department of Agriculture scessed conditions. government experts, that 20-cent ham and 25-cent porterhouse steaks | The official opinion here, have gone, probably never to re-| however, is that any attempt turn again. to fix live stock pric: it the STERLING DENTISTRY! The most beautiful, lasting and natural of all Dental work correctly fitted to the exact measurements of your mouth. Sa@sfaction guar. pnteed under a cast-iron tweive- guarantee, Only the finest of rials used. Consultation and ice FREE. owest prices in your city for high-class guaranteed work. [WOMEN ONLY What every woman wants is — a safe and sure cure, not an ex- | periment. A reliable remedy | for all Female Troubles and | Irregularites — a friend in | need. farm would kil! all chances of increased herds. The farmer and stockman must feel he has a free market. So far as possible the con- sumer will be protected by the elimination of speculative prof. Ite, of excessive middiemen’s charg: nd by better distri. bution, But that’s all. problem today Is not price, but production. For the remainder and probably for fter, the big fight will be the production of SUF. FICIENT MEAT AT ANY PRICE. Figures gathered here show the world’s supply of meat-producing live stock has decreased 115,005,000 from pre-war numbers, There are 28,080,000 fewer cattle, | For the world’s big meat daughter and Instant relief from nerve tor- ture and misery with “St. Jacobs Oil.” Rub this soothing, penetrating 22,425,000 fewer hogs and 54,400,000 States, but the unprecedented ex-| PAGLEY, N. Y., Oct. 19.—Every |the home of his | | pullet which follows him about like ite dog. This afternoon the bantam disturbance by members of the went to the kitchen and found the Bantam Lays Egg on fewer sheep. Hogs and cattle have port has more than offset this. afternoon Sigel Justus seats him- | sleeps for two hours entered the kitchen, jumped upon family. pullet had laid an egg on the top : 5 increased slightly in the United) Sleeping Man’s Head — FAD DAINI ————|self behind the kitchen stove at | “Gramp” has a tame bantam | the back of his chair and resented An hour later his granddaughter of grandfather's head. oil right into the sore, inflamed! mo SANDERSON’S |itretett® Msemeicconeeemet P) disappears. “St. Jacobs Oil” Towa Has a Woman Jconquers pain, It i# a harmless! : é a ’ PII I S “neuralgia reitet” which doesn't) Slugger Working, Too | burn or discolor the skin Don't suffer! It's so needless Get a small trial bottle from any drug store and gently rub the COUNCIL BLUFFS, 19.—Two girls were |18 hours, bound, gagged and | Iowa, Oct Are all this and more, as thon- sands have testified. Try San- | derson’s Pills and you will not un S disappointed. Take no ||“aching nerves,” and tn Just @ mo-|conscious in basements in this her. Nothing else is just as |jment you will be absolutely free/ city. Police say they had been as | good. Circulay free. By mail ||ffom pain and suffering, saulted, Miss Josephine Schrock $2 box, or 3 boxes $5, very ||| No difference whether your pain ie ee Ee ae or neuralgia is in the face, head| 4S found tied and unconsctous in lor any part of the body, you get|the home of Charles Snyder. Misa RAYMOND REMEDY Co. instant relief with this old-time,|Marcell Solomon was found in a Fourth & Union || honest pain destroyer—it cannot| similar condition in the basement linjure, of the J. C. Mulqueen home, “|rection and control found within | But She Has Just Seen Her Hubby tanh qe MRS JAMES O.TAYLOR Mrs, James 0. Taylor has been married to Lieut. Taylor more, than three weeks, but she met him yesterday for the first time-—that) is, for the first time in three years.) Military orders have always shunted Lieut. Taylor, of the 167th infantry, onto a sidetrack when he was about ready for the wedding ceremony. Finally, fearing war separation, Lieut, Taylor, in New York, called his fiancee by distance phone at her home Bain. bridge, Ga. With the Heutenant at one end and the bride and minister at the other, Dan Cupid was given 4 lesson in wartime weddings. Then Mra. Taylor got her trousseau ready and joined her husband | IN FRONT RANK BY HARRY B. HUNT WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 19.—-Uncie Sam stepped into the front rank of master mar- | Iners Monday, Oct. when | the government took o: by order of the shipping board, ab- solute contro! of every Amer!- | can vessel of more than 2,500 tons, He began operations with a fleet of 575 vessels, with an aggregate tonnage of 3,571,644, to which he will add, within the next year, 636 vessels now building or under con- tract for the Fleet Corporation. These new vessels will have a ton nage of 6,92 before the close of 1918—loases by submarines not considered—a fleet lof 1,211 vessels, with a tonnage of 19,494,644, Second Only to England to the British government as a shipping power, if, indeed, it does not put him into firet place. Britain had, at the beginning of the war, approximately 14,000,000 tons of shipping, including liners| and tramps. Her losses to date have been close to 56,000,000 tons,/| of which, it is estimated, some} 2,000,000 tons have been replaced by new construction. With this new step in shi control, Uncle Sam becomes a lute dictator of all American ship-| ping. For the remainder of the| war every American vessel will op} erate under his orders, will be in-| sured by his own war risk bureau, | jand all new construction will be on his order. Private owners, contin-| juing to operate their vesnels, will] do so solely under government di- ing Harmony Helps Program Despite the disputes that ham- pered progress during the first few) months of the war, a great Amert-| can merchant marine is rapidly | taking shape. Officials who are| following the progress of construc-| Ition of new ve 8 are most op |timistic, and the better relations |now existing between the shipping |board and the fleet corporation has | resulted in a harmonious speeding joperating schedules. | The first of the new vessels con tracted for by the Fleet Corpora tion will be ready for delivery be- fore Jan. 1, be made in February and March. With the coming of April, how ever, the new units of the shipping | fleet will begin to come tn quan: tities sufficient to make their pres. Jence felt. More than 40 vessels are under contract for delivery in April, an eqnal number in Ma and the number increases rapidiy | each month from May till Novem- ber, 1918 To Overcome Los As losses by submarines during the last few weeks have been only lfrom 12 to 15 vessels per week, It will be seen that, at the present rate of sinkings, our new construc- \tion will, by early spring, virtually joffset losses | In addition to these deliveries, however, which are of new vessels contracted for by the Fleet Cor-| poration, there will, in the mean- time, be moving into service some 400 vessels under contract and| building in this country for private | lindividuals and foreign corpora-| |tions, you | You hear and rend of Liherty| | ho it in the sermons; ret in thin with You h || mut you We're mingling mann. ar pre ||wharves at the port of arri ty bond in not a gift, loan, and well secureds Worth more than face and Interest own, (hough not mature | BOND before too! ow more COAT, DRESS PAIRS || Ile STAR—FRIDAY, OCT. 19, 1917. Wed Three Weeks, || long # UNCLE SAM IS ASA MARINER | 3,000, giving Uncle Sam, | This will place him second only! || blossoming PAGE 9. Bu didly tail at. “BOY SCOUT” Hose for Durability. $4.85 ly ored. Havana brown— —Forest green—Gray—Black. im s_eene Munsing Underwear for Men, Women and Children, Extraordinary Offering of Two Jdlumdred Specially Purchased On Sale Saturday HROUGH the powers of our organization, we were able to secure two hundred new Winter Coats, to sell at Twenty-five Dollars. price they represent the utmost of value and style obtainable at this price. values—they are the correct styles—they are splen- —This is a Saving Opportunity for every woman who Baise to get a new Winter Coat for Twenty - five jars. Materials--- Plain Plushes — Striped Plushes—Wool Velours— Wool Burellas—Broadcloths—Kerseys—Whipcords. Colors--- Navy blue—Midnight blue—Pekin blue—Taupe— seal brown—Burgundy—Mahogany —Large muffling collars of Raccoon and Opossum Furs— of Kerami, of Plush and of self material. —The best chance of the —Fr A Great ‘Sale of Trimmed Hats---Smart Styles $6.50 to $10.00 Qualities Wide Variety New Coats And at this They are very unusual season to buy smart new Coats er-Paterson Co, Third Fl for Women in One Big Lot at $25.00 oor. $4.85 REMARKABLE dee a season. ored shades. best values for a price less than Five Dollars. four hundred Hats, including —Two hundred specially purchased; —One hundred from regular stocks, reduced from higher prices; —One hundred made up in our own workrooms, in styles and qual- ities that are usually priced much higher. —In the collection will be abundantly shown every correct style of the —There are Hats for every taste. of black, and many in the season's fav- —Altogether it is a most attractive collection of correct styles and unusual values, Saturday at .. Saturday offering that will offer the season’s Altogether about ‘ Many —There are Hats for dress, Hats for street wear, and Hats for general—also many smart tailored effects. U.S. Engineers Have Mighty Work to Do United gineers, now in States army en- France, a tackling a monumental job. They are biazi 1,000,000 men to ing the way for come, and much of the work will be done by Seattle and men who are the * und J. B, Cavanaugh. He's the man who built the Lake | piles Washington canal Every step of from French port gated the highwi front an intricate must be built. other Pacific already “over command of Col. the barren way to French front The former has been undertaken |p of both shipbuilding and ship-|must be modernized Into an elon-/tem of communication American city. First off, they must macadamize | emy y, every foot of it over an area of several miles in the | highways A few deliveries will|yicinity of the port and behind the|color to blend with the landscape And system of per Fashion Rallway System Winding in around both miners picked from the star dig- gers of every state in the uni |are in charge of the American |tem of trenches, saps, transverses |and approaches. | Expert companies of electricians are putting in an Intricate system of battlefield illumination, includ |ing searchlights, trench lights, glare-light apparatus and great of star bombs and rifle grenades, Tracks Must Be Dull But none‘ef this complicated sys- and ap proach must be visible to the en- It must all be dug in, buried or concealed by camouflage. The must be neutralized in The railroad tracks must not lfectly paved streets and avenues | glisten All buildings must be half buried in the ground, and the above sround ortion disguised with these terminals, the engineers are | bushes and shrubs and neutral col- allroads, both narrow and stand- ord gauge, for switching, trans- ferring and caring for troops and | supplies, Connecting thes: ribbon of track miles of paved branches and spv Every tle, every system of railroad from this countr material, not a st ing supplied by Camp Citi Great wooden rising at both Power gang camps, hov nance of way offic houses, permanent e two webs is a paralleling the roads, with irs shooting off |here and there on both sides. rail, every spike, Jovery engine and every car for this 8, is being taken Not one bit of gle man, is be- Trance. es Arise camp cities are ends of this line, repair uses for mainte- jals, water reser- voirs will be strung out along the The lumber for is being hewn fro’ France by regime’ ‘oresters, Other rebuilding and enl dredging and o gray transports, |Mne and at the terminals, these structures m the forests of nts of American regiments are jarging docks and and ap pening 1 ||proaches in the bay for the big Electric Plants Blossom Sawmills carried ests, | machines dot the Electri forth trenches, dugouts, cantonments with Miles and mi ter pipe are b Special cation 1 from America llare springing up in the French for- American-made well digging line of communt- Hight plants are to supply the storehouses and illumination and miles of wa- e laid regiments of Americay. ‘ashioning a complicated system of |orings until they are invisible. | E. 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