The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 25, 1917, Page 6

a from President Wilson down, is that a lar; Ersubecription of THE S Liberty Loan Asked te End War Quickly President Wilson Believes All Americans | Who Don’t Subscribe All They Are Able Will Never Cease to Regret It. Special Dispatch From H. N. RICKEY, : Head of The Star’s Washington Bureau, IETASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 25.—The attitude of every responsible official of the government war eription of the second Liberty Loan will do more down the resistance of the Germans and thus ten the end of the war than any military effort is ible by America or her allies this fall, rge over-subscription is meant a subscription five billion dollars, which is the maximum ‘amount asked for by the secretary of the treasury. Three billion dollars is the minimum amount that an the immediate financial necessities of the govern- 3 it require. ‘ the subscriptions fall short of this mini- % onder only would the government be greatly em- (eet in carrying out its vast military plans, but ey would be stimulated to renewed effort and ination. _ There have been signs during the last few months ing unrest not only among the German civilian ulation, but among the German fighting forces both on land and sea. 4 PEOPLE ARE BEGIN 7 D REALIZE AMERICA’S RESOURCES _ While the president and his close advisers are not optimistic as to the extent of this unrest, information from the highest European sources that the German people are beginning to realize they will be up against when the main indus- and power of America has been mo- and is to deliver its blow. There is not slightest doubt that this fear ef America and of their situation when America gets on a war footing are slowly surely undermining the morale of the Ger- people. ruling class in Germany has up to now been to overcome the effect of this fear to some ex- by making light of America’s military parations. . sr since America declared war, every avenue of licity in Germany has been used by the kaiser and fellow autocrats to picture America to the Ger- people as a nation of greedy, decadant brag- ds who were simply bluffing when they talked it really fighting Germany. er or not the kaiser and his crowd believe is entirely beside the question. are trying to make the German people believe to some extent are succeeding, for the German require a lot of evidence to convince them that staal spoken by their divine-right kaiser is but man The a [AISER HAS TO DO SOME TALL XPLAINING OF LIBERTY LOAN Little by little the evidence from America has been ifting into Germany and having the desired effect, shown by speeches by the more independent mem- of the reichstag, and guarded articles in the cowed newspapers. When a fleet of American destroyers began hunt- g@ U-boats in European waters, the German people told that the fleet consisted of a few ancient bubs that couldn’t do the U-boats any harm. When Pershing’s lars landed in France, the man people were told that they were a mere hand- of untrained men who couldn’t stand up before single German regiment, and that it would be ths, maybe a year or two, before America could even 100,000 troops to France. Then came the first Liberty Loan and the 50 per oversubscription. The kaiser and his crowd d to do some tall explaining. __ There is good reason to believe that the result of ‘the first Liberty Loan opened the eyes of millions of to the fact America, richer than any ‘other three nations in the world, with 110,000,000 and unmatched natural resources, was an _ enemy to be reckoned with. For it showed them that the people of this country willing to do what the kaiser and his crowd had them they would NOT do—back up their govern- ment with their dollars. And now America is raising her second Liberty Loan at the very time the German people are more ¢ and more restless, and unless all signs fail are nearer to the point of revolution than at ‘any time during the war. N REICHSTAG WILL MEET IORTLY AFTER CLOSE OF LOAN A few weeks after the world, including Germany, knows the result of this second loan, the German ee we meet. Can be any doubt what the effect of a five- oe to this loan witl have on hungry, war-weary, disillusioned German BY THE SAME TOKEN, CAN THERE BE UBT WHAT WOULD BE THE EFFECT MINIMUM AMOUNT OF THREE BIL- ILLARS ASKED FOR BY THE GOVERN- IS NOT SUBSCRIBED? It is literally true that the grip of the kaiser and in militarists on the German people is goin to be tightened or loosened in exact proportion the over-subscription or under-subscription to the second Liberty Loan. If this were merely my opinion I would not take the trouble to write it. If it were merely the opinion of the officials of the government it would be in- peresting. but not necessarily conclusive. But it is the terable and unanswerable logic of the situa- tion, entirely apart from any one’s opinion, That is why President Wilson and every member of his cabinet and every other official of the govern- ment, why every man of influence and vision in the country, is pleading with you, men, women and children, to buy Liberty bonds to the very limit of your financial ability. They are not asking you even to make a sacrifice, altho they would be fully justified in asking you to make the greatest possible sacrifice. They are merely asking you to invest your money in the SAFEST INVESTMENT IN THE WORLD United States government bonds, tax free, paying Le cent interest. venture the prediction that every American who does not do his full duty by buying Liberty bonds to the limit of his cash resources and his borrowing ‘ability, will regret it as long as he lives. And what is more, 1 KNOW THAT IS THE WAY THE PRESIDENT FEELS ABOUT IT. STAR—THURSDAY, TLE STA or Nnwsrarmns .? News Service of the United Press Association Tntered By mail, out of clty, 400 ear, $8.50. SEA The Seattle food conservation committee, with C. H. Beck, of the Bon Marche, as chairman, is engaged in a laudable work in bringing home to Seattle folk the necessity for guarding against waste in the baying and preparation of food stuffs, The committee warns—and wisely—the people of Se- lattle that conservation of food does not mean buying and storing in quantities against an imaginary coming short- age. | 7 People must buy sanely, and according to their needs. ‘Only under normal demand can the Hoover food adminis- ‘tration work out the details of its plans to keep down) prices, | Buy what you need—no more—and guard against lwaste. Thus you will be doing your mite to help our country. i 'e general staff who announce American alr fleet. And dy in the alr, THERE'S MAJ. HOFFE of th that Germany Is prepared to m [many can't half meet the f | ane IN WASHINGTON some folk: ‘¢ discussing the legality of Ger. many’s dectaring a war zone about the United Sta it « hard up Washington ls for a fuss when congress ien't in « NEW YORK CITY'S new aqueduct cost over §140,000,000, and crosses under Hudson river 1,140 feet below sea level, How we'd roar about things like thie in peace times! NO RESPONSIBLE firm would want in ite service a man whose word is no good. The state of Washington, for the same reason, must TTLE AND FOOD CONSERVATION | how} OCT. 25, 1917. PAGE 6 [DIVORCE JOB IS NOT |Pierce Lonergan Has Troubles, for Washington Is Biggest Divo Marriages may be made In | | heaven, but undoing marriages | has no connection with the as | This le clearly evi- ing In the office of Pierce Lon- ergan, divorce proctor, They come—some brazenly blase, some sullenly, and others resignedly. They tell thelr stories of de. sertion, noneupport, or any of grounds on which di- re granted in the state ington ARE MORE DIVORCES STATE OF WASHING-| FOR ITS POPULATION, | THAN IN ANY OTHER STATE IN THE UNION! And this record has been maintained for the last 20 yoars. | THEY HAVE BEEN INCREAS. ING 7 PER CENT for the past five jor six years! riage of years may be sev- hours, Not a Popular Job Women with from five to 14 |Bome |} Ana | (The | get rid of the state public service commission as at present constituted. |. DENMARK 18 not the only piace where there is something rotten, Gov. Lister, The office of the state public service commission is at Olympia, W: Written for The Star By Herbert Quick | wave of human debris; Mttle chil | dren peenng Into strange faces for lost parents; mothers weeping for Former Staff Writer, Who Is Now Serving His Country as a Mem- ber of the Federal Farm Loan Board. lont children; every human derelict so recently a citizen, with a home, © trade, a husband or a wife, a par ent or & child, a sweetheart or lover. The awfulness lay ak much fn at these people had been yester as in what they were today that quiet and peace as compared with this anguish and desolation Like Vision of Tt must have seemed to this god young German divinity student ike the reproduction of the vision of Tsalnh. Perhaps he recalled the terriblr text, “For it «hall be that as wan dering birds, as a scattered neat, no shall the daughters of Moab be at the fords of Arnon”; or this. ner- haps, stil! more awful in Its applica. tion to euch things as the German erasement of Louvain and Dinant “Every one that ts found shall be thrust thru; and every one that In taken shall fall by the word. Their Infants shall be dashed in pieces before their eyes; their homes shall he spoiled and their wives rav. inhed.” } War is not our business. Wir }HATE IT. 80 DOES FRANC | SO DORS ENG i grt | LAND. da | “The irony of | it.” sald many « French soldier as he marched to the front; “that we, ly with all our cul ture, and learning, and civilization must go into the trenches and fight ike savages!” Am how they rave fought! The British cople for months could searcely be) that they ma go down to} fs foul death; and how they went,, d how they are fighting! War is) not thelr business, either. Loan Protest Against War But war is the German's trade Thru all the years of which Ger many brags as years of pdace, th was not one single moment of real) peace, It was all a preparation for | this damnable thing they have fore jed_upon us, The Liberty foan go peoples who hate war, and to de © ones who in times are merely lying In wait like for the chance to spring. before the Gerinan war broke out, tiére came to an Ohio jtown a godly young German sti |¢ent, who wished to prepare him |seif for the ministry in an Ameri can theological school The German war broke out, and [he was forced to stay In America 1 suppose he is here yet. One day) he was taken by an American | friend to a moving picture theatre, and there was suddenly thrown on} the screen a reel of pictures of the} |fiieht of the Belgian refugees be-| fore the German | Saw War's Debris The godly young German gazed = and on it as tf fascinated. He saw all o |women and children drifting be-| 50 ye fore the German storm in a great} Souls Perverted Hie friend felt a deep embarrass ment to have thus bron the god ly young German divinity student to a place where the disgrace of his country wan thus openly displayed But he need have given himself no uneasiness. The godly young man Was not ashamed. The tears in his eyes were tears of true Ger man piety at the work of the Ger man god; for he turned to his friend with «a joyful whisper, h, my friend, war is Christlike! War ts Christ-like” Shameful perversion of poo ple’s souls! He was a good young German, tn the fashion of 1914, and therefore he had to belleve that war {8 a good thing In itself. This le the woilfishness against which we fight in this war; and we fight alongside the nations which hate war but are forced to fight wolfish- ness. The world cannot be in as it was, half democratio Mf despotic. It must be or all the other within We fight to make it to help the! Are Told How to Find Relief from Pain. Nashua, N.H.—“I am nineteen years old and every month for two years I had such pains that I would often faint and have to leave school. I had such pain I did not know what to do with myself and tried so many remedies that were of no uso. I read about Lydia E. Pinkham’s .Vegetable Compound in the newspapers and decided to try it, and that ishowI found relief from pain and feel so much better than I used to, When I hear of any girl suffering as I did I tell them how Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound helped me.” —Detina Manriy, 29 Bowers Street, Nashua, N. H. Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound, 9 ome tim The guide book commend | beauty | bore, | Dut somehow or other the prospect ap: re | a0 odae such a tot to my tabore the thought seems on down cellar . Fl clean op my donk And take back my borrowed umbretier |t plan ef) these stunts, bet a2 seasons | oy Tim stopped by one thing oF another And so, ere 1 de them Ill probably dis, 1 | tome time or other | | ee 1 HOW JA FIGURE, AL? | Pverybody planted spuds tn Be | attle this year, the dear things jcost balf a cent @ pound less in London than here, eee While tea Jumped to six bits tn Lunnon, It ean be purchased in Se | attle, where there are no English: ) men, for 60 cents, Consistent, wot? ore j | Plannela are probably to be had) at the North Pole for 16 cents a| palr, with a couple of Palm Beach | sults thrown tn. j eee all this talk about the! om coal cars? If the rail © as short as they say », why don’t they borrow a| ifew that the Seattle Electric Co. }runs to Ballard? . “A 62yearcld woman on our! street is practicing camoufiage,” writes T.M. EB. “She disguises ber self as an 18-yearold girl and the effort is startling, You'd think she waan't over that age {f you'd see ber from the back, a block away.” eee SIGNS OF THE TIMES Ina Battle Creek laundry: “We wash your flannels without shrink ing” In a Kansas hotel beds and bedding” On Market st, Tacoma apricots, full of Ife.” In & Missourt hotel: cape at rear of hall out your light when leavihg room.” In Toronto you are unable to read menu, walter will cheerfully instruct you,” In a Peoria transfer barn: “Our slogan, tWo men on a trunk; tching of walls.” a Chicago saloon door n, beware of the step.” | n @ Seattlo apartment house |“Fiveroom suite with indoor bath | Making bathing an indoor sport, | we opine. wee If “Hattiing” Hesketh intends to challenge “Kid” Moore to a return bout, the editor of this colyum sug- gests that they pull it off under the auspices of The Star, the proceeds to go to the tobacco fund for our boys in France “New tron “Choice “Fire ee Please turn wl made from native roots and herbs, contains uo Peon narcotic or harmful drugs, and is, therefore, THE PERFECTLY SAFE REMEDY LYDIA E. PINKH VEGETABLE COMPOUND LYDIA E.PINKHAM MEDICINE CO. LYNN. MASS. S q "| week—Mary Rusnak, 16, of Black «|Home time or other Til make alt the | Diamond, alle the | “It for any reason Easiest Way to Avoid Divorce { Don’t get married until you realize the seriousness and sacredness of the union, Know each other before marriage and you will know each other afterward, | Tighten up on the divorce laws, Awaken a moral responsibility in the community. Investigate grounds and rout out illicit cases, ee RAPA AA AAA marriages are on the pages of Mr. “A most unpopular job,” Mr. Lon Lonergan’s experience as divoree ergan calle his duties. proctor, Perhaps the youngest di- From both angles he ts the target divorcee is on the calendar of last) of reproach, A woman or man who wants a divorce for little or no rea won except that they are “tired” does not want questioning after the details of the case, And attorneys who may want to ignore a few tech nicalities of the law for their de fendant's sake are equally as an noyed as the “proetor.” From the flotaam of the divorce court, the juventle court waxes pros- perous, Delinquent children are 20 per cent from divorced homes, In £0 per cant of the divorce cases children are involved “If divoreas would keep on at their present increase, and the population remain stationary, ev ery man, woman and child in the United States would be divorced fn 30 years,” said Mr. Lonergan, showing the stupendousness of the scourge. Trial Marriages Now riage, A man and woman enter 'into the contract with no respon- sibility, and after @ year or two agree to part, The man or wom- an does not appear when the pa- | pers are served, and the separ |tion is extremely simple | five to 70 per cent of the husbands 4 wives quit for no reason what- ever, except that they are tired and want to shirk responsibility.” There are lese than a dozen di- Pierce Lornegan i] POPULAR | rce State in United States —~——" vores investigators in the country, A tired-looking woman, with two ~ {| children, entered tho office, “A \wundry worker,” whispered Mr, Lonergan. “Another problem. How to help these poor women rid |themselves of brute husbands |when they are making but $9 @ week.” The woman sat down and looked at the proctor with the same hunt ed eyes of other creatures of fate. | Xnd che mill of the gods started up again. SOO44E4419404004444440O4 GIRLS! 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