The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 11, 1917, Page 6

THE SEATTLE STAR ‘Near Union st. (Kaitor's Note—This is the see | ond of the series of arti | “The Holy Land,” by lernatein, the famous editor ‘130T Sevemth A OF SCRIPPS NORTHWEST LEAGUE OF NEWSPAPERS Hebrew In this series, to run all | week, the strategic and historical | Importance of Palestine ts inter estingly told) ce of the United Press Association Postoffice as Second-Class Matter 3 months, $1.15; 6 months, $2.00 Entered at Seattia Wash, By mail, out of city, 40¢ per month __year, $3.60. By cagrier, city, 300 a month, Published Daily by The Star Pubtt ‘a Co. Phone Matm 600, Private __ exchange connecting all departments. : | BY HERMAN BERNSTEIN Miter of The American Hebrew yright, 1917 per Enterprise by the Newspa Am ation) Hngland and Germany are not the only powers that have moat at Palestine, Other countries entertain Near Bast ambitions, and have looked for STAR—TUESDA which Great Mritain and ite al New ding the United Staten: regard as of the utmost signifi cance, Hut for moment, it in necemmary to devote a little me ttention to clashing Interests of Germany and Eng land in this Httle gountry of be tween 16,000 and” 37,000 aq want to the break-up of the Turkish empire for the ment of thei n domi: But these ambitions have, the most part, been permitted to Me dormant until the paycholog foal moment arrived What actual interests the oth as if It Were Only a Dream! The room is only softly lighted by the ruddy glow of ~ the lowering grate fire. Across the hearth from you sits the dear, tired wife, feant, yubtedly, be safogua’ without difficulty under the rule of any strong and efficient government of age tiptoes in, in her fairy nightgown, leaves a kiss like leaf of a pansy on your cheek, and scurries back up- irs to her trundle bed. Yes, you have peace, rest, con-| mt, love, all the blessings of home happiness; and you) duamitl tae ati dak te ‘@rowsily nod over Brand Whitlock’s story of Belgium that’s “ ntimental ‘ regard for P | tine by Christians and Moharr on your knees. | ‘madens, the Jewish | lnterest, oe eee ts The door is banged open and there rushes in a gang 5 of helmeted soldiers. Their red eyes blaze with the passion Sof loot and lust. They bind you fast in your chair. They onet your baby son to the mantelpiece, A WARNING D ALL ENEMIES OF KULTURED GERMANY. They) All my the #tatement the struggling, blood-spattered infant's mothe A pro analysts WIFE, and make such a plaything of her as would) pity from the meanest fiend in hell. You see it all, ALL! The room clears, and there comes in a procession of | s and hundreds of children, to circle about you and | admit that the average man w r hat mobile or ye * Whi O God! i there For tn the truest sense, it ten’ out again, as directed by your little daughter. Their) having the devil's own time with are the faces of the aged. Their eyes have the fixed | ({7rr* An¢ even in nome canon with of the dead. Their fluttering rags disclose protrud-| 'y come with a blast of moans such as the lost, hopeless ¥ ' - | The whole business world 1 of a few leaders and a b of ls send forth while driven, ever on and on, thru the|smatier souls who imitate and assin Thett as and copying o , dark abysses of the aterm... Fit te i Ghat your| Son” scars wisety aavertion article or aes lame to cicions e daughter be leader of such a host; for, she is the per-|ttors aping tt» insignia, ite tradeamarks, (te advertixing ‘ t ” wal The average man lives according to the law--approximately, pays his 4 I site of that s ing, freezing, homeless, lost debts—-ordinarily; and doesn't steal pennies from the bilnd man, but mry of ghastly children. when you consider how you must watch and fight and toll merely to get an ordinary deal out of the gn Hosp ital Piriands coor maintained by the city for the treat-| nt of tubercular patients, is overcrowded. A_ special} i commission has recommended to the board of} ity commissioners that the county join with the city in opriating money for further extensions. | The recommendation is meritorious and timely. Con-| dation of city and county units is always timely. In) days of Hooverizing, thrift stamps, and savings of ry kind, it is the height of extravagance and waste 7 juffer separate city and county governments, functioning | identical lines. In the fight upon the white plague, there must be no steful duplication. As the war continues, returning sol-| , Stricken with pulmonary tuberculosis, will compel a} ter and greater tax upon our resources. The handling of tubercular cases will be a mightier as time goes on. The merger of city and county work} this respect is a step in the right direction. The county! joners should accept the medical advisers’ recom-| dation without delay. | nd Gill Case This Month Now that the council has launched the impeachment| trial of Mayor Gill, the city is entitled to prompt and sincere | 1 of the whole proposition. The formal charges should be prepared immediately. The council should complete the formality of preferring} them at the earliest possible date. Mayor Gill, if he is} Willing to meet the issue squarely and fairly, will not delay | action by resorting to technicalities. 3 The trial should be conducted with dispatch and with ie purpose of keeping the main issues from becoming _ clou meneame eee, ee Mae If such a program is followed, it is possible to have the SigSRoe Affair out of the way before January 1. The city is entitled to that. The people of Seattle are entitled to that. “Who goes there?” “Th' officer of th’ “Well day.” JOIN THE Red Cross—today | must learn not to. neglect their health How Women are Restored to Health Spartanburg, 8.C.—''For nine years I anf- fered trom backache, weakness, poor irregu- larities so I could hardiy do m: Pay I tried many remedies but found no perma pent reliel. After taking Lydia, E. Pink- ham’s Vogetable Compound I felt a great change for the better and am now wel and rece, T have no trouble in do! work. \ . - I hope every user of aie E. Pinkham's . | BA le Com pound wil great relie! | did from its use.” me 8.D. McAni im Dewey Ave., Spartanburg, 8. C. » II.—'"For about two years I sut- fered from a fomale trouble 80 I was unavle to walk or do any of my own work. I read about Lydia EL. Pinkham’s Vegetable Com- in the newspapers and dotormined to it. It brought almost immediate relief. fy weakness has entiroly disappeared and I mever had better health. I weigh 105 pounds and am es strongas® man. I think money is well Die h purchases Lydia E.Pink~ hham’s Vegetable Compound.” —Mra. Jos Obnrax, 1756 Newport Ave., Chicago, | for | Ss gently rocking, with your wee baby son blissfully sleeping | 2 "aches have in the Yoly wand, they are, with the exce , her bosom. Your sweet little daughter of only six years} gon o¢ those or Sranes pant | And he'll return y h, considering the status o yet Hoover wholenaler It Inn't honest to steal an Inventor's what the dickens you doin | milk miles, bounded on the west by the Mediterra on the eant by the Dewert, on the north by Syrian and on the south by Keypt A writer In the London Quar terly Review has pointed out that, recognizing the unsatintne tory strategic situation in the rex of the ¢ the Anglo Neyptian government has drawn ite boundary not at the ngtural frontier, where Asia and Africa but further east, Including 37,000 square miles of Awiatic territory, more than twice the extent of Turkish Pal extine, within the Emyptian do minions, ‘This region Eli. Arinh district, the Wilderness of Zin and the Binal Peninsula—te very sparsely inhabited, and ts generally considered desert, It included net only the region that intervenes between geo. graphical Palestine and Peypt, but also the ot the short within southernmont por former, stopping miles of Gasa. A QUESTION life I've been told that the average man is honest ‘on't steal ur money a if rahip, 1 or your, auto ur umt ou oan fF t honest to un sand retailers and are detorm kt Fr neight ideas or inventiona. ribs and hip-bones. Their fleshless shanks show the|'* scarcely one modern improvement of any Importanos that hasn't A ‘ meant costly and continuous litigauion before the ¢ © of T secured ters that the frost makes. They roll their swollen). protit and pay. And the infringer of patents or the thief of an tt ues behind their sunken cheeks, as if they would eat. | ventor’s work generally knows ox what he i» going. He inn't under any honest misapprehension. by ne to “get a with something me of life, it makes you ‘Awake, man! Awake, husband and father! It is not tention” isthe average fa 0 nome “anon BRAL dream. Your Belgian brother SAW all that, ENDURED iia ei ivichiada sarsatl a COMEDIES OF CAMP LEWIS at night?” Consumption nner Tuberculosis is acquired, not tn ere can be no tuber culosis without the germ. That in one of the important mes. wages the Red Cross Christmas eals are striving to spread acroas the land The commonest method of infec tion ts by br or nose the athing Into the mouth ‘rman contained In the sputum of consumptive, which he has expelled by coughing, spit ting or aneezing. Dust laden with germa from the a sputum of consumptives floats in the air and is t the lungs: Hence the necessity of destroying all putum, and of special precautions in spitting and sneezing Tuberculosis may also be acquired by «wallowing the germs with in ed milk and food and, more rarely, by inoculation thru cuts and wounds. wh e tul reulosia {9 not Inherited, children, expecially babtes, are par ticularly Hable to infection from con tact with consumptive persons Such childhood infection may not produce immediate disease and may remain inactive for years, until the or girl, weakened in later life. iks down before the attacks of germa which have remained nt ause of this tt ts of the utmost ance to keep the body and resistant strong New York eity Is buying much less since the price was rained to 14 cents. Nothing makes folks so economical as high prices do. ‘Tomorrow's wheatless day, Kat corn bread. And I've But I've begun to wonder if that statement will exact more than a fair yet there , DEC, * ut I'm being forced to think that the average man's honesty stopa| 1917, PAGE Striking serial planes on Beyrout, Turkish port in Palestine. Part of the town is obscured from the of the bursting bombs, camera by the wing of the airplane, Editor's Mail | WANTED—A MAN AN UNAPPRECIATED GIFT Farmer Hawbuck—I've bought a barometer, Mandy, to tell when it's goin’ ter rain, ye know Mra. Hawbuck—To tell when it's Why, 1 such extravagance! spose the good Lord the rheurmatix for “ee THE TENANT Ae the hos Mim) orion Braley Me or and for paint pew octety Are tough If kept awake t DID you KNow— Toamnters of Jaxsboolia, Wanh., have found it necemsary to stuff a team of horses Into one harness be- caune of the leather shortness on ac count of the war If a fly wore ginanns he'd have to own some 4,000 noses to hang them raffe trips and falls, he i" ann the shoulders down t the time his ead lands A Seattle efficiency expert fleures that patrons of bleacher stands Ing a baseball dur seanon carry away enough slivers tn thelr trousers to net In 10 years }one blow it | thra a bean blower so far it would | make a new Prince of Gerr ent block for the crown in case hin pres oft aA ie bb A we wind blown thru a cor ehber's brats | known scientist has figured that if the [Germany Has Been Plotting for Years to Win Controlling Voice in Palestine picture of » bombing raid by Editor me | | dened | up. | grow and yield a good crop of beana | | before it fell | Bricel | weather grows « | toned man who used to say: It wouldn't a an: rubber heels. make nour ne ATTA BOY Att Howard, « Paul at the J. L. Ander b © (Minn Mr Pia. are a mafoty tres’ nays a theatr manager, Hence the thea afoty Firet.” oe ve slogan One @f the officials of the fuel ad ministration has appealnd to street to provide leas pubt the appeal s soon an the r . relway companies heat in car Will be followed . They tell us that Christmas trees are going to be higher. And lower, too, we'll ele wager. What han become of the olé-fnah “Every: thing t# lovely and the goose bangs high"? . Re that as tt may, Mra. F. stein of New York reported to the police that $4,000 worth of her dia been monds Rhine: | thetr walking | or if panthers wore there, pond ble m, Seattle, with 400,000 inhabitants, unblushingty telin poor, overburdened Uncle Sam, We baven't a man among us. Give at God, Seattle, wake up mpend a cent advertising Se to rine t Let it never be said when the war * over crisis to stand by the Ship of State. Stand by! saying to ow our atr - and What can we do’ what test for a Quarter of a Century. ao? Won't ‘ou tell * set Guach. pon heap wat you please give us 4 man?” There is among us a man who, a Liner number of German residents Palestine doen not exesed 1900, Apart from the Jewish colonies, th Templist colonies are the jon has been held by 4 buffermtate; but aa an enetny of Thin ree pt a defense any strengtit it has proved tn efficacic only elem of progress in the coun n6 time of Me Germany, with tts umal thoro- untry » the time ¢ : " M. Hywmson, a dintinguished Aggressive campaign for winning Turkey to its #ide, always with the underlying purpose of ob- taining a free hand in Walestine. As far back an 1881 her influ authority on the near east, The French interest in the Holy Land has been stripped of political influence for about 3% ence at Constantinople wan pow *. But, in the industrial erful enough to prevail upon the aphere, French subjects hold @ Sublime Porte to cede to her number of valuable concessions, the ruins of Caésaria, ontenalitly In Palestine they constructed the for are 1 renearch. This railroad from Jaffa to Jerus wan follow y lem, now playing such an tim of the Hagdad r portant part in the British op visited Palestine in 1898 erations for the capture of the roads were built so as to In Holy Land. In the Encyclo crease the comfort of the im pedia Brittanica, it is noted that the traditional claim of France to protect Roman Catholics in and a breach was walls of Jerusalem perial party made in the for the dramatic entry of the the Ottoman empire has been Holy City by the kaiser greatly impaired by the nom | In waging this campaign, Ger. religious character of the re | many ft ed its wellknown | public.” | methods, The principal shops Vrance has seen the justice of | are German, The majority of the conter by other powers | hotel keepers are German. Every that an anti-Catholic power can no claims to protect their it hae | town has at least one German ha physician. own Catholic subjects. | But the only real ground for no desire to involve itxelf in re ide ft ny in de ligious troubles, of mo concern | ciding th alestine is to ita own welfare. | furnished by Templist colo There remains one other con , are three— sideration purely commer- one at Haifa cla In 1913, British imports thru Jaffa came to $2,030,000, These date originally were character. The Germany's pawns half as much as the imports of countries comb od. with $1 | from 1868, and of a religious settlers, unlik all other Next was Turkey be British alr. seinen 000; Austria Hungary third, with Note the smoke — ne oul “vomge Poe dandy $716,000; Russia fourth, with terial nor political motives, $600,000. France led Germany ‘Theirs was a» religious motive, that year, with §678,000, 48 ence |S and simple against $510,000 Other German settiers, not 96 ig members of the sect, have fol Read tomorrow's Star for more by Dr. Bernstein about the war in the Holy Land. lowed them and opened « the three towns, but the sin total The Star: “We are ever: \'When you feel a Cold comin "iio as Ste “ining » Oly think of Laxative Bromo Quinine Cures a Cold in One Day acts as a tonic-laxative and removes the cause. colds and grip, quickly “relieves the feverish co ditions and headache which are usually associated wit f ‘ colds.” Itis used by every Civilized Nation and he _ a larger sale in the United States than the combine sales of all other cold and grip tablets. It has stood ug government to the leaders tue We are Keeping The Quality Up. 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