The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 21, 1917, Page 6

| ing of the wolf, while the farm hands worked. Si ti sis alte — . _ just as the United States delighted to honor men who were sound timber pays. have NOW enough laws to give the chief all the power! hall, for the sake of merely making a s GO AHEAD AND TAKE neers who are to bring pressure to bear on shi to _ take is surely a reminder of that old school reader story platform. Wonder if Bob'll shave off his mustache? * NORTHWEST LBA ‘Telegraph News Service of the United Press Assoot tom Postoffice as Second-Clase Matter 400 per month; 3 months $1.15; ¢ months $2.00; 2.50. Ry carrier, city, 30¢ a month. vk oF Newsrarens Batored at Seattle w aah, By mail, out of city _year, THE ROMANCE OF SMUTS Nearly two decades ago, when Great Britain was fight- ing the Boer war, there was no more valiant and able leader of the South African Dutch than Jan Christian Smuts. When the combat was over and England the victor, one of the men who, like Botha, labored hard to bring about real amity between the British and the Boers, was this same Smuts. Just as Botha rose to be premier of the new British united colony, so Smuts rose to be cabinet minister, par- Hamentary leader, and one of the directors of the armed forces in South Africa, When the present war broke out, it was Smuts who took command of the British forces in} South Africa and administered stinging defeats both to) the Germans and to the few treacherous Boer bands. He! has since been called to London, where, as a member of| the king’s privy council and of the British war cabinet, he} has been one of the great directing forces of the British) empire's part in the world conflict. And now they are talking of him as the leading mechs | ey for commander-in-chief or general director of all the allied forces, if such a post is created. This constitutes one of the most romantic careers in modern history. It is a far cry from the pale-faced| “Janny” Smuts who was a young advocate in South Africa. | And by the same token it is a — of a generosity that seems especially prevalent in Anglo-Saxon countries. Great Britain has heaped honors upon its one-time foe, at one time southern leaders in our great civil war. Democ- Facies have always found that generosity to big men of A LITTLE LESS CAMOUFLAGE Chief of Police Beckingham asks the council to pass) an ordinance to limit the sale of alcohol in drug stores to ured alcohol for mechanical pu es. He declares | that drug store alcohol is the principal cause of “drunks”’| Let the chief have this new ordinance, if it is reason-| able. Let no one stand in his way. Give him all the room and all the laws he wants. It won't hurt any. But let us not be sidetracked by any camouflage. We| he needs to enforce correct conditions here. | It’s the will that counts. Closing bo a vicious dance howing, and later} failing to produce easily-obtained evidence, does not show} the right will. The arrest of a few pool hall patrons without evidence to convict them, while scores of men liv-| ing off vice earning escape without even arrest, is just camouflage. There is a chance for some mighty fine police work} in this city right now—with or without more laws | The shipping board has appointed two special engi- ge to rush work, and this is taken as occasion for Washington again announce that if the resources of the country are not put at the disposal of the government, the government will take them. The continued reiteration of government's ability to of the boy and the wolf. Little Tommy was stationed to warn against the com- Several | times when there was no wolf in sight, he yelled “Wolf! Wolf!” The workmen ran up, and Tommy had the laugh on them. At last the wolf did come. Tommy yelled all Fight, but the workmmen wouldn’t be fooled again, and so} the wolf made a rag out of Tommy. The moral in it, for the government, is that a whole! flock of scares don’t get as far as one little sample of real| BOB HESKETH says he'll run for mayor on a “no camouflage” THERE MAY be a colored gent in the coal pile, but at that there fe danger of light weight. BASIL MANLY tells us that 45 diversified American corporations | are going to average 2154 per cent profit, after paying their war taxes.) Soak ‘em again, congress! Our net promises to be 21% cents. VILLA HAS captured | Ojinaga, a small town across the border.| ‘The name was taken from the words of a Mex. drunk, who was run over by a cow on the eighth day of his souse. ANYHOW, YOU can sleep better on no news from Russia than on the criss-cross stuff that’s been coming out from her. | UNITED, WE stand; divided, we crawl @emnity for Germany. around and earn an in- Save for the next bond issue! BY THE way Russia‘’s leading patriots ue proclamations, we judge! that there's still some vodka on tap over there. PASS THE bine ribbon for war correspondence camouflage to — Swede correspondent who got up the story about Siberia declaring her independence and making the exczar her ruler. You have to be plum full of Swede drinks and cheese to even dream beauties like that.| CHICAGOANS REFU: SE to buy corn bread. Try rye on ‘em! more Germanlike. It's} VILLA, WHO is proud to be referred to as the “Napoleon of Mex- feo,” Is appearing in battle wearing a full beard and mounted on a white) mule. But he'll have to add a linen duster before we can recognize the) Napoleonic “tone” of his present sppearance. CONDITIONS IN Italy and Russia have « checked peace talk in Berlin, Of course! Berlin talks peace only when feeling the gaff. | ANYHOW, THE British in Palestine are keeping the Turks on the Jump. NORTHCLIFFE 18 proposed as British alr minister. If the British want hot air, a London editor is the party to whom to apply; and, If any editor turns on the sizzling blasts in this war, Northeliffe sure does. seniieihieeeinilininnes | CLEVELAND BANDITS held up a suburban restaurant and took $300 from « waiter. Child's play! In a Seattle eat-house they would have taken $300 and a deed for four or five ay lots. | QUEEN LILIUOKALANI will have added something to literature | ff she left a diary telling how it feels to be a crowned head living in re-| tirement. CALIFORNIA NOW produces one-third of the petroleum of the country. Strangely enough, it also produces about four-thirds of the! fellows who want to sell oil wells that haven't any oil in them. GERMANY 18 using 7,000 substitutes for ordinary f somewhat ahead of Seattle Festaurants. ordinary food, thus | being | RTING WEDNESDAY ALICE BRADY “The Divorce Game” o g THEATRE 3RD NEAR PIKE CLASS‘ | Y'know *| “looking over” | of bre! » E. D, IX.'s.". COLYUM VERDUN By Berton Braley “They #hall not pass! In and tn eh The phrase was muttered as the qPotlus fought The earth and sky shambles, fraught With gas and bureting shells and| with the drench Of shrapnel. Yet, in all the battle atonch, ‘Mid horror heaped on horror pant [ all thought ‘The thin line stood, Am wrought; dugout) were but a was They could not break the Will that/| held the French. Rach human soul must face ite own Verdun, ‘That crisis when the armies of te| | epair Attack the fortress tn a serried mass Not by brute strength may this great fight be won, Put only by the Will that can de clare, In face of all Hell's hosts shall not pans!” “They cee “Wateh the teacups win the war shoute an Eastern man. If that doesn't win, twirl your thumbs TODAYS \CARTOONET — Pacrhtd wit HS cl What's iu. Conde We made an awful muddle tn Inst tanue, In announcing the arrt in town of Mra. ¢ ar her steter, Mise Rob Mra Whitby’ name tn wand Mine Hobb's as Mins We apot ogize for tite error, and will leave our readers to form thelr own con clusion as to what was wrong with us.—Moroe, Sask, News. . Bertin residents are allowed an ounce of butter a week. That's hard ly enough for a waiter to make a thumbprint tn. William Waldorf Astor reports that his taxes eed his ft come. The chair will recognize ar member who wishes to present a res olution of sympathy for Mr oe @ Maybe He Owns Eleven For Sale—On aceour 10 first-class cemetery now Astor ful Arlington cemetery.—Advertiae- | ment in Chicago, IIL, Tribune cee ‘The rubber-tired wheels of an auto, says a member of the state highway board, make @ road mmoother. It would be a fine idea to have an auto parade over the roa wouldn't it? oe CANDIDATES FOR LAND” The “Swell Car” Turkey We don't lke to remind ees. hangnalls, and things, but will it be a this once? A com tri ourself) v we art. He stands, overcoat hn, one hand in pocket, other one busy crocheting hin teeth with a toothpick He looks things over while his friend ta re << a tack Now the monologue “There's a bus, Joe, I hear they lost a lot of kale on. They went wrong on the engine on this tput. friend of mi a telling they m r be Anyhow, I wouldn't own air! Not me! Take that ‘F Rolls,’ that’s the boat f couldn't own @ regular car, ¢ a it I'd get along without one and let the others r me chug along. I don't know much about these small time carts, I 4 want to waste time looking ‘em 0 Me for the class chariot,” ote or ote After work we see this bird with the cloud ideas hanging out the window on the back platform of the car, the boats as they am ble past. And he also has a tight hold on his transfer Japan and Uncle Sam have agreed on the open door for China, One can go out as well ax enter when |the door is open. . Does It Make Any Difference If He Has Red Rair? To correspond with a ma- chiniat-o tor who in also a good printer, a bachelor and p: rably a Mason and sportaman; must be a Southerner, a democrat and a man of good morals and refinement—Ad vertisement in American Press, eee They're talking of naming a street in Paria after Prosident Wilson, Evi |dently Paris hasn't the b-cent cigar system of nomenclature oe Wanted . ‘The railroads are going to ask the |interstate commerce commission for permission to raise rates, claiming an increase i# necessary on account 9 of everything. The @ will cause wtill high er prices, and then the r. r.’« can nak for another increase, which wi Just keep tt going until you run out J.T. wend tt And here's a simp! paradox ough is a tough News from Arizona says William J. Bryan was chased by a bull. No, it wasn't ours, ASAI. BEATTY kL IRI near Heattle, | “NO MAN'S) UNION LABOR IS LOYAL|"~ \Workers Sacrifice to Help Win Victory “The sixhour workday in hot an insue now, Lord Leverhulme prob ably is not predicting it for England without © idea of what the working people of England are going to want and of what they will be entitled to. Extend Elght-Hour Day “In America we are trying to ex tend the principle that eight hours work shall constitute a day, This principle has been greatly extended | | during the war “At the outset there wan an ef | United Press Correspondent | NEW YORK, Nov, 21—A six. | hour workday! | It sounds attractive—and it ia predicted for England after the war. What about the six-hour day IN AMERICA after the wart The other day there came | the largest soap manufacturing concern in England, hae de- clared he favore a eix-hour day after the war.” | : fort in England to lengthen the |_ if Rngland has a abchour day, ort near ne ee oan proved | Cm Sees, Semeeeee, |wrong. America had England's Concern Now Is Victory 1 asked Samuel Gompers, presi dent of the Amertean Federation of Labor, He raid this “We are not concerning ourselves mistake to go by, and the mistake was not made here “But in America, at this juneture the #ixhour workday ts not up for are’ concentrating. ‘every, effort | (here Are before Us now so many ; live, throbbing issues—iasues we on winning. Labor realises when! ust mest and settie—that pleas peace is restored there will be many new probleme to face. Just|*Mt speculation is too much of a) luxury for us to indulge in.” | To Save Democracy | “First of all, we must unite all of | jas war conditions were a violent re versal of what we had known, so peace conditions will be another vio- |lent reversal | our resources, all of our talents, all | “We shall not shut our eyes to|of our labors, to win the war after the war problema; we do not) Democracy in at stake. If democ lintend to let them come upon un un-| racy goon down we will not have, awares; but our concern now ts to! the privilege of debating about the win thin war and make certain a|length of our workday. An auto lasting peace in which to work out) cratic fiat will fix that for us the new problems “We must save and extend to the Labor Seeks Advancement whole world the spirit of our inst “I can no more tell you whether] tutions so we may settle democrat we shall have a six-hour workday | {cally whatever issues may arise after the war than I can tell you if] We must make the world the natur we shall have a five-hour workday. | al abiding place for democracy. We “But I can tell you the labor) must remove the sinister Teutonic |movement continually strives for|militarist and autocratic menace to nd more for the workers and/ democrac y and less for those who do not| “We shall not permit any of our| democracy to be lost in winning the war. “Decades ago men worked 10, 12, 14 hours a day. We have convinced the world that such workdays are not in the best interests of society Now, in the midst of the greatest | war history has known, no one clamors for more than an eight hour day. What peace, will bring may be left to peac abor’s position has been etrengthened immeasurably since America went to war, This ls because American labor showed its determination to ™ every wise sacrifice to win the war. or showed it. self truly American. 1 do not imagine labor's position will be weakened after the war Soe ee | Editor’s Mail | s Mail THE VICK QUEST! ~ tan You Look at Her and Have Idle Hands? ‘or The Star: I read with tn teres ur editorial on the two jetandarde in human nature in The tar, You make the claim that there should be « one standard wht yd women, | t that the > ata taed even | the ties when the ques |tion of vige naldered j have several articles wh t all women . 4 wili be examined f o diseases, and when | th diseases are found that the women will be placed in quarantine | until cured. I do not note that mon criminals will be treated like wine, yet chances are even, If euch a rule against both sexes that often be} was enforced men would |found spreading these same dis asen | Despite all the hue and cry| |againet the ible standard, we| ndition, and have IFARMER IS A LAWYER AND WANTS TO BE ON POR \Grey-Haired at 43—Never Ran for Office Before—Declares Port Property Should Be a Good-Paying Propositiot "COMEDIES OF CAMP L EWIS re “Ahoy, mate, where's K-23?" (street corner). “Don't ask meo—t ain't the submarines.” harbormaster, and I haven't seen no City Should Supply Milk Just Like Water, Says New York Healther BY THE REV. CHARLES STELZLE Dr. Haven Emerson, New York health commissioner, wants the municipality to supply milk to the city’s inhabitants just as water is supplied to them. Dr. Emerson believes the city should own its own pasteur ization plant, buy direct from the producers, Go away with the overlapping of milk wagons now supported by scores of companies and Individuals, and thus greatly reduce the price. New York city alone requires nearly half a million dollars’ worth of milk per year for it» public institutions, mo the city would at once become its own best customer Milk is one of the most staple articles of food for people of all clannes, If Health Commissioner Emerson's plan goes thru. it, will be beginning of a revolution in the methods of furnishing the city’s population with food products, There is no good reason why this may not be done. The only “reasons” are the big milk corporations, and they will fight the health comminsioner to a finish. But some day the silly overlapping fn retailing food to a city’s population will be done away with. GEN. PERSHING officially says that “American troops and supplies are arriving in France tn increasing numbers.” If an American news- paper had so announced, it might have been corkecrewed with the es- THE PEKIN TIGER and the Pekin Morning Bell are roaring and ringing against that Japo-American agreement. What perfectly lovely titles they put on Chinese newspapers! INCENDIARY FIRES destroyed $9,500,000 worth of food in October. Flies? Thunderation! What we need is a device that'll swat fire-bugs! T ?T BOARD (EDITOR'S NoTE— —This itt article of a series of three 0 candidates for port commission) “L have no hobbies, and t nothing startling or sensational tiry my life. I'm Farmer—Jjust Yarmer.” i. M. Farmer, candidate for the office of port commiasioner, 1 this staternent in his offices in the - Burke building Monday But if I must have @ hobby,” te continued, the smile fading from lips, “it ie this: I believe that ti American people should be given all of the facts before arMelection. They © are the mont intelligent in the wortd, 7 and if they are told the truth, Til bet anything that I've got, thé they'll vote right.” He brought Bis fiat down on the arm of his chair with an emphatic bang. He's a Lawyer Mr. Farmer, a gray-haired man of 43, has been practicing law « since he graduated from Fed versity of Minnesota in 18 7. in Spring Valley, Minn, he @ entered upon his profession in @ state at a little town named Detroit He came to Seattle in 1901, an@ opened law offices: here. He has never held any public o& fice, but has interested himself 1s quiet ways in thi public. For example, during the recent Liberty, Loan campaigns, Mr. Farmer, while) not on the committee, did his bit bringing buyers to Uncle counter Likes Bill Hart and hunting are Farmer's only incursions into realms of sport, being willing leave all other sports to his se brothers. In dramatic art bis runs to Bilis; towit, Bill Shal and Bill Hart I like his cool way of getting sults,” says he of the latter. Mr. Famer smiled when asked there was any basis for the report that probably he would resign favor of one of the other for the port office. “The first only intimation that I had of thing along those lines saw in the paper that I mi Fishing Such a report is absolutely wietlys foundation,” he maid. \ Port Now Badly “The reason why I am running for the office of port commissioner this: “I think that those properties) should be taken off the taxpa: bamk.” stated Mr. Parmer. "This port property made to pay, not only the op ‘f expenses, but enotigh to pay the terest and to reduce the There ts no reason,” his fist came |down again on the arm of his chair, | to emphasize the “no,” “that the p facilities (the best in the bayh?| shouldnt pay operating expenses. If private docks do, why shouldn't |these? There's only one answer— poor management.” Farmer has a wife and four chib dren. should | | | 18.00 tan Anal gia. o0 and $16, 20,00 and $23, én s $23.00 $1460 $22.50 and $25.00 s1860 “Ss. 8. KLAMATH™ Sailing on Wednesday, Nov, 21 Good service, large ee rooms and unsurpass: icket Office ery convenience for THE McCORMICK LINE particulars at City 109 Cherry St. Phone Elliott 3438 Excellent Laxative For Elderly People As we of Mfe the seue Pase,cae ms LEM sendoney 10 weaken, om le ge gf RK | * function is health that rola te ‘folks sions after he, drowsi- nese ai dele Nast vies, ote, end ‘ould be corrected. tinmediately } ft in the direct cause of much ee. rious disease. ‘The most effective remedy for wim, p inauive Rerbe with pepsin iy ood in stores under the | | name of wr. Caldwell Syrup It costs ty conte @ Sortie, te miit in Tee action, | Rot gripe or strain, brings re- || i | ia | of tres of charee b; to Dr. W. B. Caldwell, 4! ington St., Monticello, Tlinots. Da vl INE! HENKEL « *auline Henkel, 00 worth of rd amount of in many other patriotic activities. So they pinned a medal on her in a ceremony on the U. 8. Recruit, and the photographer caught her before her happy smile wore off. a girl of 12, confident to call, w } > representative will call at your residence. ers & Company 1003-4 P- os) 4 BUILDING 4ne2 Color Treatment to Save Soldiers Shocked by Shells By United Preas Leased Wire LONDON, Nov, 1 (By matl)--A experiment of treating eol- suffering from shell-shock and over-w by color DEPOSITS in this bank are GUARANTEED novel dlers, ought nerves, vibrations in being made in Mo- Caul's hospital. The test is the BY |idea of H. Kemp Prosser, a fat mous color expert li-shock Is a dixease of the GUARDIAN tissues of the brain,” he said The correct vibrations of color TRUST & SAVIN | will bulid them up. I plan to do away with the sense of confine BANK Corner First Ave, and Colum- ment which affects the nerves, by introducing the color vibrations of out-of-doors. I paint the cetling the color of the sky, the walls lemon-yellow, the color of #un- light, and use a few touches of THE green, the color of bursting buds. As the patient ex stronger, BANK OF CALIFORNIA |) th intotics vibrations, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION and orange.” OF SAN FRANCISCO A NATIONAL BANK Member Federal Reserve Hank and Surplus $16, 900,000.00 j such as violet Seattle, First Ship of Emergency Fleet, to Be Launched Here By United Press Leased Wire WASHINGTON, Nov. 21— The Seattle, first ship launched by the emergency fleet corpora- tion, will be put into the water Victrola VIII. Ten 10-inch 75¢ double-faced Victor Records(20 selections) find a splendid assortment here. Come in today and see about this Sherman, Third Avenue at Pine Seattle Tacoma Spokane Portland SEATTLE BRANCH November 4, at Settle. 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