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THE SEATTLE STAR APEns the U “Postoffice as Second-Class Matter Tintered at Seatua ho. By mail out of city, 400 per month; 3 months, $1.15; @ montha, $2.00; Year, $3.50. My carrier, city, 306 a month. iz one Main 600. Private to, Published Dally by The exe Why the Recall Is Necessary “If I wanted to neutralize the efforts of the nation in _ its work of carrying on the war to a successful conclusion, the first thing I would do would be to start out as a pacifist, for I believe that there is the greatest field for evil doing, when it comes to hindering the government, that can be found.” So declared John H. Walker, president of the State Federation of Labor of Illinois, in addressing a meeting of the Commonwealth club Monday night in Seattle. Walker speaks a truth that cannot be denied. It is for that very reason that the recall of Miss Anna Louise Strong, as a member of the school board, is an American necessity. The recallers will make a serious mistake if they attempt to charge Miss Strong with actual violations of the law, against the draft or otherwise, of which she is not ty. - it is sufficient for loyal Americans to know that she is an unyielding pacifist. With convictions of that kind, her place as a public Official is inconsistent with American aims and Sees of the present time. America is in a great, life-and-death le, in a war to the finish. Her public officials must give her all the aid and comfort possible. _ Mands and desires must go by the og when a govern- Ment need is considered. The counffy comes first in the » Present emergency. Everything else is secondary. $ With Miss Strong, her personal convictions as 4 pacifist come first. Her recaly therefore, is imperative. Qualities of Premiership Feeling all the aplomb of premiership rising in him, ine wrote out his personal check for 50 millions and went down to the Petrograd banks to get it cashed, which ‘Was natural in a gent not very familiar with millions. The banks, however, gave Premier Lenine that cast- iron, not-identified, paying-teller stare, and promptly closed doors, which was good banking business. @reat Russian premier, as Russian premiers go, save lack of bread and butter for the otherwise powerful politica] Party he’s heading. But even politicians must eat, and the Party finally on top in Russia will probably be one that ) ean feed as well as fight. BYNG! HE hit ‘em again i THE MOST evident characteristic of the impeachment proceedings fs that there is no proceeding “TODAYS MEATLESS day.- Tomorrow's wheatless day. 28 effective as bullets in winning the war. NORWAY GIVES convicted German bombers seven nonths’ tmpris- “@ament. It's simply dangerous to slap the kalser’s wrist that way. YES, MR. BANK EXAMINER, those dividends, small as they may ‘be, world be 3 whole lot more appreciated by Northern bank depositors if they got them BEFORE Christmas. EVEN THE fellow who fights and runs away can return from the war with honorable sears. will have been vaccinated against typhoid, smallpox and gangrene, anyhow. BYNG’S DRIVE knocks eight miles off the 600 miles to Rertin. ‘Tt is & sjow war. It will take Uncle Sam to quicken the pace. Save Money, save food and you'll save lives and time! UNCLE SAM is making a lot of “tanks” that are to be less un. Wieldy but bigger and stronger than the British. When it comes to “tanks,” Seattle isn't altogether dry, either. ‘ BUY A thrift stamp. You can buy ‘em at the postoffice, banks, the Bon Marche, Frederick & Nelson, The Rhodes Co., Fraser-Paterson _ Ce, MacDougall-Southwick Co., Standard Furniture Co. DURING THE war 122 ships have disappeared from the seas “with ut trace.” It is suspected that the Von Luxburg policy has been Working for some time. “Dead men tell no tales” on submarine or walder, ; 4UST TO be in style, Mexico has placed a military censorship on her hunt for Villa. Verily, the life of the war correspondent consists of one-third guesswork, with the other two-thirds devoted to sitting mua- sled altogether. A BUMPER crowd heard the great Belgian violinist, Vaaye, at the Metropolitan, last night, and possibly understood his wonderful musle Bat we'll bet a Liberty bond against a thrift stamp that they couldn't Pronounce his name. 4UST AS Tammany is considering a wide-open Great White Way, along comes the fuel dictator and says lights out at Ll p.m. They're bound to make that Way a pretty tough place for a fellow with con- scientious scruples before they get thru tinkering with it TAKE IT from us, that Alma Gluck, Geraldine Farrar, Schumann Heink and other stars will have to go some to produce something sweet- er than the musical “hellos” of the telephone operators in the next few days. Welcome, welcome, thrice welcome, girls. We are certainly glad to have you back. The Experience of These Women Prove That There is a Remedy for Your Illness. Aberdeen, Idaho.—‘‘ Last year I suffered from 8 weakness with pains in my side and back. A friend asked me to try Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vege- table Compound and Ididso. After taking one bottle I felt very much better. I have now taken three bottles and feel lik: different woman. Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound is the best medicine I have ever taken and i can recom- mend it to all suffering women.’’— Mrs. Pexcy Prestivce, Aberdeen, Idaho. Kingfisher, Okla. —‘‘ For two years I enffered with a severe female trouble, was nervous, and had backache and a pain in my side most of the time. I had dizzy spelis and was often so faint I could not walk across the floor. The doctor said I would have to have an operation. A friend asked me to Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. After taking ten bottles I am now well and strong, have no pain, backache or dizz, spells, Every one tells me how well I look and tell them Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Com- d did it.’’- Miss Nina Soutuwick, R. F. D. jo. 4, Box 23, Kingfisher, Okla. At Your Dru LYDIA E.PINKHAM MEDICINE CO. LYNN. MASS. gists Individual de-| Evidently, nothing prevents Lenine from becoming «| Food is | LYDIA E. PINKH 3 VEGETABLE COMPOUND has restored more sick women to health than any other remedy. .* & D. iK.'s.". MIRTH } By Berton Sratey We cannot forget all the sorrow rhe agony, hortor 1 The war's fetid breath nd pain And its sterner alloy must be light A Mount Vernon grocer has found An excuse to raise the price of salt He claims our allies are conserving |the bullets and are trying a new method of capturing the Germans | by sprinkling salt on thelr tails. ‘There's talk of a railroad dictator. The railroads don't need g dictator What they need is a guarflian. Why not? asks T Monday, sweeties. Tueeday, meations Wednesday, wh ‘Thursday, ea Frederick Haasenberg rk, has asked th to Wr y ht yd rather be Wright ¢ Hassenberg Maybe You've Noticed How Women Are Crowding Out the Men Jim Seott, former White the or, now an office | infielder —Cleveland, ©., Preas Keep a pis.” Man alive, aren't the American peo ple keeping enough pig» wear ple eax pigs, coal pign, shoe pigs and several hundred other kinds? eee “Picket's Charge Fails.” says newspaper headline telling of the battling suffs. Junt like Gettysbarg eee Hooveritis Never throw old coal {nto a gar bage can. Burn it An Akron min has Invented a rub ber coffee pot. A teow drops of off In the lath | prevent a razor when you are shav Place a few ho advises Hoover aque | ' sin clothing t is being put away for the season, and moths will not eat the clo Moths will always eat holes in « A plece of carborundum should a ways be hung in A canary’s cage The bird can sharpen its teeth on it DID YoU KNOW? The dentints in the stone agdé had n noval form Anesth for pa tents whe ef a tusk yanke without pain, A half ton pebble was let bounce off the patient's * Also when playing carda in the atone age a derrick was used for dealing. If they had the rete xing machines in them 4 it would come in tly for shuf ling the cards very Two touchy jobs would be to give a cactus a cold cream maarage and @ porcupine a scalp treatment If the winter this year ta Iike it was last season the natives of Ha wall will have to go sleighing again on serf boats and skating in bath suite. ing Skid chain manufacturers report rales of skid Mains for sdewh |boata are unusually low this year of disaster | and death The host of the wounded and slain But to tive thru teday and tomor row We MUST find some surcease tn ehaft | Am! that we may bear all the woe and despair Wo muntn’t forget how to laugh We MUST hold ourselves to our duty And fight the good fight to the | and We have to go thru the dark val ley, it's true, ‘Where trouble and suffering rend But still, there's some measure of beauty | In life, it's not tragic by half, ened with Joy We mustn't forget how to laugh |So do not look askance at the } mortals | Who're doing their best to be gay | For tho the light may just | leap from thelr lips Perhaps they keep courage that | way | | So let them continue their chortles | They'll lighten our work by thetr| chaff, For without that relief we would perish of ric’ So we mustn't forget: how to laugh! BY K. W. HOBBS SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Dec. 4— Startling new evidence in the Pre | Pparedness day bomb disaster la now being put in shape for presentation to Secretary of Labor Wilson and bis commissioners here} studying labor gonditiona. | It mmy rewult in a demand by the president on the ot for the rion of Mooney an nee. now asnoctate lite t defendants It in expected to remult in the ar rest of an entire new group of de fendanta, whose names have not so far appeared in the « May Oust ats, Such action would probably re in a cle of the local dix trict attorney's office i an em tire change of prosecutors for the naw cases, Dist, Atty, Chas Viekert, who has prosecuted the . already faces a re } | wil struction# from nm is here under in the to caret eaticn | plot and the| f frameup in the Mooney prosecutions. The case of Thomas J. Mooney has been used in Russia by the anarchists and extrege rad: | icals an an illustration of "amert-| can misjustice and oppreasion of la | bor.” president make a new and tion of the bomb charges ‘The president desires to assure) [himeelf that there has been no mis |carriage of justice, or, if there has ne, to have it immediately cor Labor Position ved from the! und hin agnociate | y. An alibi 5 ano shown Moo 1 his wife on a bull » the scone-within a few min n that’ killed 10 pe Din 1918. A & ure fixed the time. the 1 n the 5 Letters to local newspapers before the parade, warning of violence nd warnings to women again marct ing the parade, given by slender dark who might have beer Mexicans or of some Latin blood clues that the prosecution ig were a These cl yen have been followed by extigators, with the result of incriminating evi- & group of noterious as been unearthed Documentary evidence of the existence and operation of such | @ gang has been secured. private that dor anarchin| A ma Gang Scatters | ‘The gang has been allowed to neat: ter, because of the refusal of the dim trict attorney's office to follow these clue me of ite members are in jails on minor charges, some are in Pu rope fighting in the war, others are meattered from const to coast But 1) most of them are under wurveiliance and if the @ to act In rvernment should decide the case, could be rounded up in short order A partial statement of this evh dence has been made to the United Rtates attorney's office here, That awaits requests from Secre Wilson before proceeding fur “We have taken no action in the matter,” said Assistant United States nta Ornbaurm. teme n made to us, which, if t might Indic Mooney’s innocence, but the proof haa not been turned | jover, and without long and careful investigation I would hesitate to | comment on there cases now. Wilkie in Charge ‘So far an I know, the office haa | no offical connection with the Jand is not likely to have, unless in structions come from Wa a reque m See son, Of « any matter that was offered us would be turned over to ecretary Wilson and his investigat ors Reports from Washington are that Chief Wilkie, head of ment secret service, will come of the investigation Witton reports to the » in ground for more ‘al investigation. the govern here » charge etar | president th leomplete fed 5 Disorderly Women Forfeit Their Bail | than face | Rather treate internment an¢ nt at the hands of city health authorities, five disorder! women arrested during the first days of the cleanup campaign, have forfeited $200 bail e nd failed to Appear for trial ch warrants have been issued by Pollee Judge |Gordon, and the police instructed |to arrest the women, They are | Helle Vernon, Vera Clairmont, Marie Lloyd, Patsy Marquis and Myrtle | g berry. STAR—TUESDAY, DEC. 4, 1917. New Evidence May Free Mooney Startling Revelations Made by Inquiry of President Wilson’s Board | death KY Joan nafel ' 3g] Pacific Exposition. PAGE 6 4 emit! Yyge ve. Left to right. top row: Warren K. Billings, under life sentence; Rena Mooney, once acquitted, and to be tried again; Toga Mooney, sentenced to Lower group, left to right: District Attorney Chas, Fickert Israel! Weinburg, now en trial, and Edward D. Nolan, soon to be tried. eading American Anthropologist Says: War May Improve, Not Hurt th newest Umbrellas, piece-dyed Taffeta coverings, suit : , case style, eight rib frames, detachable handles and detachable tips. Every Umbrella will fit into a suit- Special Dispatch from prenggrme ann’ reneree lenaly dempite!® case, ot pllygenaoihic pall The targe majority of t Pi dyed Taffeta covers, in black only. Haydles will be curable, Blinded in a wide variety of white ivory, some with, rings, L: WASHINGTON, Bec. 4-— | men do not transmit the others in combination with black. “Just let us win, ‘The race is their progeny. This class of men " ; te” will not diminish the standards of § —The covers are of splendid qualities, and the han- This in the anawer of one of the, ° next genera j@ dies are similar to those mounted on our $7.50 to Those actually killed will not be world’s greatest authorities On MAM i141 oes in many casen. psc At lg a nati non the ba elds will leave A sale that is a remarkable Christmas gift oppor- breve uthe on 0 ttle representatives in the next|$ tunity. On salé Wednesday...... PORE a aled eneaa® tes ration of the eeneration. The attraction of wom cea Aun Pe 7 en to the soldier, and “war wed = ia tiviaion of physical anthropology of don't die out is a poetical statement | Exceptional Wednesday Sale of ped nal Museur pst cae of @ scientific law | 1 have #0 many compen fe much for the adaptations and the restitutions are 80 many that the war may prove a Dieesing in disguise {f full advant age ts taken of them. “The war has given the greatest impetus to the struggle against alco- hollam, man's greatest enemy. Could we determine the full biological value of this accomplishment alone, it would possibly be found to equal the total war loss in human material,” says Dr. Hrdlicka. mations in the way ment that the losses, the shattered constitutions, exposure, wounds, strains and diseases contracted by the soldiers will not leave any dias trous mark on the next generation Four great vital laws working to protect from the conse are elimination, restitution and compen of race better laws have taken care of war-ridden mankind in the ant, and be expected, gent a. ance Lens attention ts paid to shoe re the future strings than what is due to them nays Putting the left-footed shoestring The elimination of the unfit and into the right shoe, and the right footed string vice versa, is figured by shoestring experts to cause stum thelr progeny will tensified “by the war. ot Thin of courne, be to the benefit law the in always { } e Race! the compenmations $ —Yarns for Army and Navy Knitting are here. The best brands. Second Floor. Fre daily instruction. aser Paterson Co, Phone Becond An Extraordinary Christmas Sale of Two lundred New “lull” Umalbrellas A Special Purchase of Fine Qualities on Sale Begining Tomorrow at 93.99 ach ECAUSE we are large distributors of “Huf]” Ume brellas, the makers have favored us this with a great special offering. Two hundred of th $10.00 Umbrellas. Women's Beautiful Street a d Afternoon F rocks COCO CCCOO SESE TOO CO ETESSEOCLE SOL ECOSOSOOOEOEES | le ry ; at $18.50 Each \s is ORMERLY priced at $25.00, is $2760, $28.75 and $29.50. Ev- ° ery correct style tendency of the Season is represented in this splen- did group of beautiful Dresses. —There are fine Messalines, Taf- & Ready at the touch of a match—out just as quickly. Fuel con- sumed only when heat is needed—no waste. No smoke or odor. Portable. Standard Oil Company (California) PERFECTION OIL HEATER / Highest Class Talking Machine in the World The imsTeuMENT oF QUALITY Onor, coman a er THoucuts now turn to holiday gifts. Nothing will be more appreciated than a beautiful Sonora, the instrument which won highest score for tone quality at the Panama- $50 $55 $60 $80 $105 $110 $140 $155 $175 $200 $250 $375 $500 $1000 Sold by Bush & Lane Piano Co. 1519 Third Ave, fetas and Georgettes in navy blue, taupe, marine, Copenhagen, rich brown, plum and black. 1s —There are also fine Serges in navy blue, brown, green, Char- treuse, bisque and Burgundy. —An unusual variety of correct styles, ‘including models for strgg general, lafternoon and informal occasions. —All in’one choice lot. ..$19.50 Lodge Cafe lourth—Westlake—Pinoe Cabaret—Dancing World's Largest Dry Cabaret. GLASSES | More than 25 yra_p flee examining EY titting DR. 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