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PEACE BY FORCE? “The worst pessimists now must see that Ger- muny is strong enough | to mm peace by force. . Stop a few moments. Close your eyes, think. Think deeply and well, “GERM/ ANY IS STRONG ENOUGH TO WIN PEACE BY FORCE.” What do you see portrayed before your eyes? A German peace? All the small nations cowed? Some of them divided, torn, bleeding and desolate? The ruthless and cowardly hand of the Hun. still casting its fearsome shadow over Belgium? A _ peace which exalts German brutish warfare and mocks at the democracy of the people and human liberty and common justice? A peace which for years fo come will darken your lives and the lives of your chil dren’s children with the blight of kaiserism and militarism? Are those your thoughts? iy ee at tak Well, this is the threat Germany hurls at the world. Germany, thrusting her blood-stained fist hurls this defy thru one wspapers, the Weser Zei- thru to the heart of of her kaiser-controllec ne ——— |THE SEATTLE STAR "a0 Seventh Ave, Near Un “scnirrs NORTHWEST LEAGUE o oF NEWSrarens onthe, $1.18; @ montha, $2.00; carrier, etty, 30 a month Daity be The Star Pus hange connec SUZZALLO’S MESSAGE TO us Dr. Henry Suzzallo, back from important war con- at the national capital, today tells the people of m that shipbuilding and airplane construction | most vital problems now facing the government. And the state of Washington is vital to both _Dro-| Our forests must furnish wood for both ships andl planes. Our workmen must build ships and mill fir and | We, of the Pacific ity. The ey winning of the war—and surely the short-| @ming of the struggle—may depend directly on us. Are we going to go full speed ahead? Or are we] to falter, and blunder and fail to do our utmost?/ e spirit of the people of Washington must meet the test. We must be purged of our shortcomings. We} must be 100 per cent Americans. A great young state must go “over the top” and| play its part in this world crisis. } : History must never turn its finger to the Northwest | and say: “You failed when the supreme test came." HOPE ON! HOPE ON! HELP ON! “Hope on! Hope ever!” reads an ancient cross-stitched Rockmart which two sisters discovered the other day in| their great-grandmother’s hair trunk. “Hope on, hope ever,” repeated the older girl. “Sounds 80 old-fashioned.” “Can't be,” said the other. “Remember ‘hope springs ETERNAL in the human breast’.” “Maybe so. But we don’t live by it. Nowadays we go after what we want, and we go hard, or the other fellow ‘Will beat us to it. Just ‘hoping’ seems like expecting things to come our way if we sit still and wait. Lots of people do that. It’s optimism plus. I'd rather be a hopeless, t—and trust to work. “Why not be a little of both?” suggested the younger girl. haya a fair compromise why not try ‘help on, help And why not? It’s easy to hope without helping, and hard to work) without hoping, but whoever cultivates a cheerful “help on-help ever” spirit starts out with about the right com-| tion of energy and courage. } THE UNDERLYING ISSUE New York state today passes on equal suffrage, and as she bars idiots and women from the franchise, a metro- politan editor asks: “Will the men of the state decide that their mothers, wives, daughters and sisters shall remain classed with idiots?” Northwest, carry a mighty re-| Of course, this isn’t the real question in the Empire} state, or any other that is considering equal political rights. ‘The real question is as to whether woman shall have a Fight to vote as she pleases in the matter of handling the} liquor traffic. Seratch any New York opponent of equal rights deep) enough and you'll find that his real objection is his dislike | to having women at all interfere with his constitutional Ze ege to fill himself with liquor. Opponents of fran- chise for women hang on to their own “personal liberty,” while denying liberty to idiots, mothers, wives, daughters and sisters For baby’s bath Protects him from chill —keeps him comfy. In- stant heat, Easily car- ried, Fuel consumed only when heat is need~ ed—no waste. No smoke or odor. STANDARD OIL COMPANY (CAuironmia) | RERFECTION OIL HEATER | cops apiece for tit |Visit to Camp Lewis Man | Camp Lewis once you feel like yc way | de stamp mill somew tung: “Germany is strong force!" enough to win peace by *-* Germany is NOT strong enough to win peace by force that way only Cermany can win peace in one way, and in along the lines laid down by the presi dent of the United States, speaking for all the nations allied in this war against Teuton military might, And the German ruling class knows full well that this is true, The kaiser not fools, tho shameful barbarians they be. ‘junkers are They and his war know that their Italian successes will not turn Eng. land from her course, nor any other Why the water in th Such a def but never in the nor liberty-loving, such a vain boast should turn to red blood of American archpacifists! have its effect hearts of brave men and loyal. France, nor the Belgians, democratic people. upon cowards, It may spread fear among Russia's disorganized troops, among some of Italy's force and Britain fight all the cannot afford to accept a German made a, but it will make France harder and longer. They peace, Neither can the United States of America! IDE Gives Local Food for Thought Joseph Walsh Exempted men from Queen Anne district No. 4, who organ- ized a club to keep in touch with the Seattle boys of their community in training at Camp Lewis, now fing their plan being boosted by government officials as worthy of general adoption thruout the nation. | The plan, as originated by the Queen Anne hill men, includes} weekly visits by committees of club men to Camp Lewis, the distrt-| bution of reading matter, candy, to bacco, ciga and personal com forts among the soldiers from that district, and the general develop ments of good fellownhip betwoen the men in the army and those who failed to pass for a variety of rea sons. Walsh te Busy | The exempted men’s club became | popular ® over night, and in spreading Into a citywide organ ization, as well as assuming na-/ tional scope. Joseph Walsh, president and or. after seeing the success of the club after seing the success of the club operations at Camp Lewis, is today urging exempted men of other . & D. IK.’s.". haven't time for interest in municipal elec Americans had much tions since Uncle Sam was elected to whip the kaiser. * ee the your and Are | eating wheat, you kainer share fata? by ot helping more than meat, suga see Charley Brickley spent four years at Harvard learning how to kick Now, having married a New York girl, he finds his education wasted. 8. j (From a Woman's Standpoint) Dan Cupid says the postoffice de. partment is a grasping profiteer. Just when the concentra of eligibles in training camps prom ised a bumper crop of love letters the mean old government raised the price of stamps. ee WHAT THE LADY REALLY MEANS IS A “LOANLY GENTLEMAN WANTED—A vomnensing edu cated widow in need would like employment with lonely gentleman, office or home, for the loan of small amount of money. Addreas L, box 63, Times office.—Advertine ment in Los Angeles, Cal., Times And just while we're in the midst of all the view hubbub along comes an announce. ment that the vice president is going to visit Tac and Seattle! ee IT WAS A SAD STORY, FOR SALE letter press, 1 lef! 4, 1 kerone ‘ingle harness Cloud, Minn., MATES loom, 1 headlight ¢ ofl heater, 1 and bride.—st Times ee One carpet net auto It ia all right to mave your gar from the frost by bring it in t or ering It with a FG. “but that ork because it has repeated too many times, 1 put a Mason in t fall and leave tn spring. jar over mine it there see NEW STAMP ' de new . why | s-cont stamp is don't de guys who b re out a in Wash ington, D. ©. wots patriotic? An’ fret aticker That's wot I want gettin’ t'r ‘em, too. adie, ' me riled, postcards 4216 14th ave, N. B, to know dem makes WwW. A.B, ecvcccvce | tillery | rectly ‘The western battle front crosece ITH JOSEPH E. gether. ‘After you have been over want to be in on it in some said Walsh. “The exempted m ub is the best way I know of to| “Members donate autos to mace keep up connection with the Sunday trips to Camp Lewis. A troops. I regard the plan as a real, different committees makes the trip vital link between men in civil life each week. We take over with us| and those certified into the army.|all sorts of useful things for the After seeing the enthusiasm of the boys of our district, who are en men in camp on our first visit there thusiastic over the club idea. They we way satinfied that we had have appointed committees from something worth while Think They're Forgotten “Some time ago I was leavt Camp Lewis, starte the old town has forgotten about us That made me do some serious thinking, and | mentioned what sald to some of © other men our district. We POeeeeccccccvocccvscecoococcocccccsseleseeseeoole Analysis of the War Moves The German war o tion of the first raid on Amerte: hea an along the Rhine Mar indieated that American ila pow firing its shells on German territory tren the Rhine Marne canal within ow artillery range of the boundary of Lorraine ere found the American friend asked me to try table Compound and I bottle I f three bottles and feel like mend it to all sufferin; Prestipce, Aberdeen, Kingfisher, Ok! with a severe femal time. said I would have to have an asked me to try Lydia E. F spells. Every one tells m: tell them Lydia E. LYDIA E.PINKHAM MEDICINE WALSH, [draft districts in the city to get to and one of the nelect got together and By J. W. T. Masom o Tre“Unued press loca an German Ry revea} | ing the spot where Teutonic raid-| trenches Notice to Si The Experience of These Women Prove That There is a Remedy for Your Illness. Aberdeen, Idaho.—‘‘ Last year I suffered from a weakness with pains in my side and back. A — E. Pinkham's Vege- dso, After taking one t very mach better, Lydia E. Pinkham’'s Vegetable Com; best medicine I have ever taken and women. For two years I suffered trouble, was nervous, and had backache and a pain in my side most of the I had dizzy spelis and was often #0 faint I could not walk across the floor. Compound. After taking ten bottle: well and strong, have no pain, backache or dizz: YES, BUT NOT A GERMAN-MADE PEACE What if Germany does frighten her weaker enemies? What of that? It gives us more to do and probably it will take us longer to do it. BUT IT WILL BE DONE, The cause of democracy and the very existence of the great democratic nations, Great Britain, France, Russia and America, demand that the war go on and on until right and justice and not German force win peace This will mean other Liberty Loans, many of them, It means more millions of American soldiers training and going to Europe. It means food con servation and self-sacrifice attempted in this country. and energy and wealth—AI We must do that or Bequeath to our sons and their sons a war with a blood drunk Germany wh conflict seem puny in com It is because the Germa we will now fight to the las of blood to avoid a German-made place as little credence as w vermany is strong e force.” OF QUEEN jorganized. There are 200 exempted men in our distriet and 100 cert fied men in the army, That means three mon in the city to look after one in camp. Donate Autos to different troop sections to meet our committee, In that way the needs of every man are made known and taken care of We visit all the service men from Seattle said to boys in the various branches of the me: ‘Well, | quesn now that we service, and if one happens to be | boys are er here, everybody in in the hospital, we make a special effort to cheer him up. “The men in our club are getting a lot of satinfaction out of the work Other exempted men can do the same by organizing, and they will mies something if they do not.” he in Written for American artillery gaged in action made October 27, while of the German raid @i-| trenches was November 3 For least A week, therefore before the Germans rent a patro’ investigate the fen activity op. posite the Lorraine border, Ameri can guns must have had German ground under actual or potential bombardment The Germans must be fearful of had been France, was the date Americ en in ne on an the kaiser haa been compelled to permit the German people to| *Mting raiding parties against the know that America’s first bom. American trenches without ° artil bardment on the battlefields must |!*FY protection, because of the ex have caused demolition ot post treme thinness of the German Lor Uons upon the German empire's | ™ne front own noil. ie eh hig sedge ag the greatest ' ne intensity is occuring, the ee _fre announcement Brac Germans have four men per yard. along the Lorraine border it has recently been sem ffictall on TODAYS timated, they have one man for j every two yards. | German raiding parties, there fore, can depend little on infantry | euppert In returning from the ABowLEm / | American trenches, and the raiders must have artillery help, as if they were miniature offensives: |Member of French Mission Finds a Bride in America | Marquis de Polignac came to the | United States as a member of | French high commission to get war ald for his country While here, he put in a few good licks for him |self on the side. The Marquine de | Polignac was Mrs. James B. Eustis, | of New York “It waa highly appropriate that | Mra. M. H. Kell waa made the «pon sor of the steamship War Flame jlaunching at kinner & Eddy's | plant Thursday,” postcards E. lL. B The annual garbage can waste in thin country is enough to buy mill fons of dollars’ worth of Liberty bonds. Think of that when you of. der more food than you can eat I have now taken a different woman. and is the can recom- "— Mrs. PERcy The doctor operation. A friend Pinkham’s Vegetable m now iow well I look and 's Vegetable Com- ind did it.’ Miss Nina Souruwick, R. F. D. jo. 4, Box 33, Kingfisher, Okla. LYDIA E. PINKH VEGETABLE COMPOUND has restored more sick women to health than any other remedy. At Your itd ggists far beyond anything yet It means giving of life A, THAT IS NEEDED! ich will make this world parison, n ruling class knows that t ditch and the last drop peace t they e do in their threat: nough to win peace by Exempted Men’s Clubs Spread Over U. S. TARTED W ANNE_ DISTRIC1 | }War Department Offi- cial Approves Walsh Plan Highly Albert FE. Carter, member of the war department commission on training camps, is one of the of ficialn who has given the exempted club idea his hearty approval Worthy of Emulation “1am familiar with the exempted |men’s club formed in District No. 14 of Seattle,” said Carter In fact, |} app 4 before their organiza tion and congratulated them on the Itine apirit they are displaying. “The idea of helping out their comrades who are in the service is & most commendadle and worthy of emulation by every other not alone in Seattle, but the country doubt but that the exem of other cities and states will take this and even tho they may be from training ca a, will do what they can to add to the cheer and comfort of their ‘comrades in camp. Doing a “Bit” nderstood that I in- ovement most heartily, as it is directly in line with the work of war department and |navy department commissions on training camp activities. “In keeping in touch with select service soldiers of their districts, exempted men are doing a part of their ‘bit’ to help win the war, and they should gain an immense satis faction from the effort.” HOLLAND IS ‘NOW BOARDING HOUSE OF WAR NATIONS dorse this n th he Switzerland, with her thousands ot nlets, may be the hol n just now loading house of the world ts Holl: The thrift teh have taken In halt a more and enough British and A soldiers and officers to bring the total clone to the 7 mark | Just a few days the little kingdom cdntracted to care fdr Ammar Double Inducements Wednesday WOMEN’S AND CHILDREN’S HOSE The Hosiery Department is now well supplied with everything in Women’s, Children’s and Men’s Hose and Half Hose at most reasonable prices. Wool Hose B0¢, 4h¢, 75¢, She These come in black with gray heel and toe and plain black and dark Oxford gray, in Cashe mere, medium and hea weights and heavy-wel in mizen 8% to 10%) Children’s and Misses’ Wool Hose 25c, 35c, 50c and Misses’ Hose joods ordered from the mill ni ago, no you are now going to benefit, as alwayn is our policy when goods are bought eh: than market price to divide up with our custom: ‘These come in black Cashmere, silk heel and black Cashmere wool and Merino wool, ailk heal and toe. All nizes. WOMEN’S and MISSES’ COTTON HOSE Our stocks are well supplied with anything you need tn Women's, Children's, Infants’ Cotton, Lisle or Silk Hose at very Special Prices. wool Sever: Just rec shipments of Children's A. a year Children's Fine Cotton Hose, | Women's Cotton Hose, 19¢ 3 pair for S0e, in black only. | Several cases of this Hose Made from good strong yarn just received, bought over @ . | year ago. If we had to pur with double heel and tor, in | chase it today it would cost you sizes 5 to 8%, 9, 9%, 10. Special | at least 26c. In black only, 20¢ pair All sizes 8% to 10. Misses’ and Boys’ Iron Clad | Women’s Hose 25¢ nnd Hose, t5e @ pair. A standard In black and white and cok ore. Shaped legs and feet with wide garter tops; in cotton and make of Home which han stood the test for more than a quar | ter century for good wear. In| lisle, with high spliced heels white and blgek. Sizes 6 to 10 | and toes, All sizes from 8% Pair 25¢. | to 10. Men's Natural Wool Underwear, $1.50 Garment and Drawers in sizes from 20 to 60. Get your winter before prices advance. Shirts supply now 16,000 convalescent British soldiers. Enjoying the confidence of both German and allied leaders, Queen | Withelmina’s little ‘That n is At the beginning of th Holland probably was pro’ Along her French borders, f was different, however. As — principality has & prosperous if somewhat “ Pretty'— Yes, but so impossible to keep pretty! “Impossible” —that is, with ordinary soap—cake soap that you have to rub roughly on the fragile material. Such soap was méant only for plain laundering—it cannot help injuring fine silks and laces for which it was ®ever meant. Why laundering spoils your silk blouse Alkali and rubbing are what spoil your prettiest blouse, The alkali makes the silk grow yellower and yellowet each time it is laundered. Rubbing coarsens the and lace—takes away all the daintiness. How you can keep your blouse lovely Lux, the new product for all fine laundering, has abso- lutely no free alkali, and no rubbing is necessary, because in the transparent Lux flakes is concentrated more real cleansing value than is possible in any other form of soap. It dissolves the dirt—so that without the slightest frice tion the dirt drops out into the foamy Lux suds. Your filmiest blouse comes from its Lux tubbing white and sheer as when it was new. Use Lux on anything that pure water alone will not harm, Try it at once. Your grocer, druggist and depart- ment stores have it. Lever Bros. Co., Cambridge, Mass. ally for the poor, ts not plentiful. ervous existence thruout the war.) war progreased, It became plain . is, there has been much] all that neutrality or destruction ey In circulation. Food, especi-' were the kingdom's alternatives, a How to wash silk waists Whisk « handful of Lux into a thick lather In very hot water, Add cold water till lukewarm. Dip your waist through the foamy lather many times—work it Rinse in three wi as the water in w! the water out—do ot wring When nearly dry, ver a hot one. Georgette should be gently pulled into shape they dry, and also abould be shaped as you iron.