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News Service of the United Prem Asunchethes st Ry veneering u bat wn old jee box and phe rument box Postoffiee as Second Class Matter & months, $2.00; Entered at Seattio, By mail out of city, year, Wash, 400 per ta.s0 ny yooond hay no in the toe wift quite well rigging up 4 paths, $1.18 0c am omy ation raph « of toe An old hammer pounded and shaped into a pancake turner or fly swatter makes a very nifty present . | | A very neat paperweight wift be made by taking an old safe |trimming it down ina upiqué » after some Maryptiaf® design Our Peter Jensens Peter Jensen wanted to be He was a young Scandinavian who had come to Canada |¢ MIRERTMAR GIVE OK corer me that idea in mind: But when he got over he found with plotting paper, would a miner in Cobalt has little time to study assaying. [rattling wo ae ecg 88 oad — Paden 7 It kept him too tired of evenings and he never, Ot) the stamps Ps and cating the ioe. enough money ahead to quit work and start studying. | ter Then came the war and Jensen enlisted with the 63rd He fought until July, 1916. Then he was wounded and taken back to England with a leg missing and ea relecre: his shoulder and right arm badly shattered. Jensen's mining days were over. Then the Canadian military hospitals’ commission took Jensen and Jensen's problem. | Vocational officers, seeking to find an occupation re-| An ob! ax sandpapered and fed lated to his former work, asked him what he thought of pede eo ee ae ‘assaying. Jensen lost no time telling them that he had! ; thinking about it as long as he could remember, and | yen course was started. | He works not only as long as they will let him in day- bay ee Bee ’ now, but attends night school twice a week, and inj|a puti wit de | the near future will return to Cobalt a quatified assayer. America will have her Peter Jensens before another has passed. And we mus® be ready to solve the problem, | Stay-at-homes have a debt to pay to the men who tht for democracy, and they must be helped in their quest a vocational niche. an assayer, a . 6: « could and given to a hang on his Jeasily be polished up ne friend to | ‘The sole of a rubber boot cut rubber heels for « : |ina friends, tah't a Witt to be smeeaed an a clear cutter anes for cane w s mured last ONET ke, Joe! Seattle’s new chief of police, Joe Warren, is apparently | 1 than a crook catcher. He is somewhat of a diplomat.) - And Seattle is shy on diplomats. ‘The new chief, just one week after taking the job, was to go over to Camp Lewis and get right down to busi- with the military authorities who had quarantined this He made enough of an impression to start things, and a Christ was mow comes the word that the ban may be lifted a ‘Mas present to Seattle. That Maj. Gen. Irons im in harmony.” . Several prominent Seattleites had gone to Camp Lewis failed to even get Gen. Irons to talk about a cleanup. The city owes a hand-shake to Chief Warren at this of the game. diving into the sea and staying an And incidentally Chief Warren has demonstrated that | aive cams wpant feona mie bowed he is free handed, by bringing former Chief Claude Bannick |‘ !%e! “eter water for (wo mir in‘from Ballard and making him inspector—which is virtu- " ally “assistant chief.” Bannick had been chief under Mayors Dilling and Cot terill but was promptly relegated to the suburbs when| wa neg by “Mayor Gill was re-elected. And the mayor's exultant atti-|up yeu"—rTit nits tude at the time was responsible for the general impression . ‘that Captain Bannick was persona non grata around central station or around the friends of the administration. Ban- nick has always been identified with the clean forces of the it} WINS A man who was showing off by Th at's «0! [orl bee that's | he | On here this n't come oe NUTTY NOVELETTE: NUTTY NOVELTIES By Berton Braley Continued From Last Time) ) You may ask me why worn-out toothbrush But I shall not ern lover, whowe > es I choose a} & subject. The city probably owes Chief Warren two hand-shakes. nawer Turn on the Light ' 4 Wholesale prices of many commodities have dropped |‘ 4 Since the entry of this country into the war, notably flour | out toothbrush and potatoes, and yet there has been no proportional de- e in the price charged the Seattle consumer. In many 7 cases, in fact, there has been an increase. arnt eostatic (6) Sometimes I fee! with my toothbrush t it away and get bat I shall await my roy For money at I might have to buy hould paint ewinging The local food administration has these facts in mind ‘and believes that it has reached a plan which will rectify pom ae » this profiteering. The scheme is the publication of whole-|1 nave writ sale prices in conjunction with the retail prices that should | pagnietd ee coger s be charged. alty ements first - The plan sdms very feasible and, should bring about" "ve coous! | the desired result. A man does not commit robbery, as a 7) ' general rule, in the glare of a searchlight and presence 4 i: Rasy oP els nerd “ acrowd. When the glare of the food administration com-| on the nail at« my table. And the mittee’s report is turned on the overcharging retailers, and | 2Urtn® should tntmaee, fue cae ) the public impresses on their minds that they know just /nes# and the beauty of the non ' what is going on in the selling of food commodities, we "Ut Dever the usefulness of it. For oU cannot wash your teeth with a _ shall expect to see all but the utterly abandoned sellers) palistiing come to time. S Seattle’s Responsibility Eight British merchant men, protected by two de-| stroyers and five armed trawlers start out for Norway. Half a dozen daring German destroyers run out, and in 30 minutes send 14 vessels to the bottom of the sea. One fone British destroyer hobbles into a Norwegian | And so more responsibility is heaped on Seattle's shoulders—because every time an allied merchantman goes down, it means that allied shipbuilders must make up the loss. We'll win the war. But every workman and every employer, as well as soldiers, must “go over the top.” Responsibility grows daily on Seattleites. '- Thrift Stamps for Gifts q “Introduce patriotism into Christmas giving. A proper share of Christmas spending should be diverted to investment in war savings stamps instead of less useful | ” | Splendid advice, this, frdm State Director Dhniel Kelle- her of the war savings campaign. “You can buy war savings stamps from the postman, or at any bank or big department store. Don’t give money —give war savings stamps this Christmas, And instead of - tom, sending a Christmas card—send 25-cent war * i HEAD OF the Deytech Bank of Berlin says that the Germans are waving three billion dollars apereiy of what they used to spend for og Be Ant Banoes. a savings , is thg mud that deep?” . wagon.” | ercmememcmemenen | (COMEDIES OF ‘CAMP LEWIS LIFE STAR—WEDNESDAY, DEC. 19, 1917. PAGE 6 ‘ Cynthia Grey’s “ LETTERS § Li AND QUARANTINE Mian Grey Beattle letter in last Wednend regarding the Mmhabitants ar® Francisco's back yard flock ttle’s frogt yard. I mut aay arty is not well informed an to ote of the closing of the Bar- and the reason why have flocked to the Dear 1 read Star bary Coast Ne women hern cities: elaco Harbary Coast of San Fran yefore draft Into opere the Joantonments were started During the Franeiseo fair it was a well known fact that many of these women flocked from the | Northern cities to share in the har | A few months ago the gov. started to intern these wom: after betr ented, were ind dangerous to the health of the It's nateral that wom type follow the crowds. was closed | }iaw was put Mn who mmunity en of thi stile In no worse than any other city near the vart canton [ments The real reason why the quarantine was put on Seattle, and why it was staged ac tnm time, will leak out before the next probably election A FORMER SAN FRANCISCAN CAUSE OF IT ALL Mins L ‘The letter of men like a note of all this sicken Dear Gre Mra A. Le. G" ¢ ing hysteria over v | trayed in our daitiea re | All of this boeh over an Ff | land not ONE WORD ABOUT THE] CAUBE i» preposterous in these days of Intelligence and equal rights ll the different “remedies” for the outward plague-*pot, but not on remedy for Ite source! @ ur good men in the pulpite drant about VICK, totally dian lgarding the Met that it in wholly matter of individual naciousnens In) man or men. Whose work ts it, pray. | that of the ministers. consetence of these sol tw teach them the HIN an weil dulge in the the * and sailors f cleant an without; ¢ form of sin in to defile the temple! of the living God; that it le the de| wire for and the aot itself that de-| not merely @he danger of limeane oF Ite Consequences. ot one of the ministers who active in this campaign to| an up Seattle’ has denied the/ t or lege of these soldiers to rading #in, not a warn | agninat the sin iteeclf grades, pane. Not one person| h denires an gone to men's base ! the ort force women int yethod of making money on the} na that | other | One of our prominent ministers is jwoted as mying recently that “any minister who stood up in bis pulpit and sald the world waa any better* should have his “tongue jerked out by the roots.” ‘Then why do such ministers con tinue to draw lordly mailaries for |making the world better If they are vering goods’ We can ple be good. The Max led them to a better] ¢ heart, better de} | Why | tle go do not the ministers of Beat down to Camp Lewls and preach, goepel of Jesus Christ) | purity and change the hearts of our soldier lada from a love of indulgence to a loathing of it? Th im the mission of the followers jewus. ‘This ia what they are PAID to do We do not pay the \* impeach him for not doing what love) and | Is Christianity a failure? Or tn In the method the advo- t havg applied or taught it? " Magdalen? the money of the temple and un poertmy th all ailure whipped | masked hy due honor to the tiers and ailors there did not Inculeate ab purity into the consciousnems ae their daggh ning, if they up vuble standard of morals. s great deal of the present men. Jace to their bey’s health can be at | tributed to that “Mra A. LG.” is quite right. Men and boys DO SEEK viee and dance hall For a number of years. the writ *. route downtown lay [thru the “restricted district.” Al-| | ways there were soldiers and sailors | both before and er They of their own ve Lat their officers puniah them for be wn there as well as to arrest the women ste tere in th held the then }to be ren | “ ® | wu | jing and fine GET AT THE SOURCE TO CURE] THE BVI. L. B. F. there w 1 vice. [Of directors of the Seattle bank, president of the Rank for Say | Kelleher |They ate my President of Three Banks and Director in a Fourth, One dollar « yoar in not a very large satary, but Daniel Kelleter | Is matinfied with bie new position, and could net be indaced to | chremge. ] When KeHeker, chairman of board National ings, president of the Bank of Com merce of Everett, and president of) the Bank, of Commerce of Anacortes, was notified that President Wilson had selected him to be state direc tor of the national war savings movement, he immediately accepted 4nd there was no dinpute about the salary, either . even tho the pr Daniel Kelleher, state and Alaska director of the War Thrift Cam | palen. nomehow or other, will} Mange wo get along on that pay Leing state director is no sinecure It will demand Kelieher's Ume ex cluaively “The battle of the Marne was won by the French re ” gays Kelleher “They are responsible for that spirit of patrictiam which amazed the wortd by stopping the German advance on Paria “The war mivings securities and rift stamps, which our government | offering are the equivalent of the | And so it is plain wee ve to get 30,0 p | thy in Sy ee “= oT to 9.009 will mean to the future “Vietory Paved Defeat” The German victory of 187 the way for the Germa, 1914, acoording to Ketleller former year, guch a large indemnity wan demanded by the victors that | the French government bad to re sort to new methade of raising | money, ‘They trund rentes, or bonds, at «| price of $1 and up, and all classes | put all of theiy savings Into these. | Thin inculeated the habit in the Freneh people, and at the outbrenk | paved t of WRECKED Mra. Santa Claus—Land sakes! “Maun, you look like a wreck What's the matter—cyclone Santa Claus Worse. Germany reindeer, melted my sleigh-bells for bullets and confiseat- od my whiskers for fodder before I could get away —Life. S deep? Good night! Ol Balky an’ me's standin’ ou a supply Order of your grocer, druggist. or any dealer in soft drinks, or Bottling Dept. Phone Sidney 1, | neheme, an | hurt business R EDITORIAL IS REPRODUCED BY POPULAR MAGAZIN was printed ime lw the wab umendatory article in the January number of the Popular Mechanica’ magazine ‘The Star editorial dealt with the Killing of a child by an unknown reckless motorcyclist, who, after running into the child, proceeded on his way without so much as inquir- ing an to the neriousnems of the se cident. A photograph of the child's coffin beaded ‘The Star editorial. A photograptilc reproguetion of the editorial ang picture appear in the magazine The editorial is praised not only for it» cogency, but also for ita dar ing departure the mtyle WANTED—People to Patronize the Mechanics Drug Store 904 Third Avenue PURE DRUGS and DRUGGIST \ SUNDRIES = Prescriptions carefully com- pounded. Doctor always in at tendance who wil give FREB advice in connection. No Liquors sold or prescribed. Kelleher Works for $1 of the present war, 6,000,000 out of , course 000,000 oltizens held govern will apply their lear tn Thle feeling of being an in al part of their government couned the wonderful spirit: which won the Marne battle, says Kelleher When Kagtend uated beer ea viniy Wend im 1916, bmmbieeam dened eo ric nes ‘terents were oppened the they feared it ver bel and bank deponite And, with & single exception, the newspapers criticised the bond idea Hut, within 60 days, the feeling had changed completely, and the plan wan conceded, practically universally thruout England, to be most mer torious, “At the end of the ly qualified in experience 1,000,000 ban been invested in the Washington's quota of $31,000,000 iritien, and Aaving# accounts in Juwting from Harvard in 1646, he banks were shown to have gained red «a law office Syracuse, | twice ax much in that year as in) > | any previous year He came to Beattie in "60 Americans Poor Savers un the practice of la The American people are the poor | was later associated with eet mavers in the world, Kelieher Frederick Bausman, former have savings ac. | court judge nly 10 per cent of He became a director of the tle National bank 20 AKO, was placed om the execu 1910. In 1914 he urth as chairmar directors or's two sone are in aniform jeutenant of in Va Year| Nine « of edueatior n gditorial which The Beattle Star recently Baby Bonds Good as Cash The & ninent is going to raise with which cule democracy Kel t that a safer invest an they are of the | the vot ” to pro her points « mont wan never offered hacked by all of the federal government only bond ever in go below par, for the government will repurchame the ur par 0,000 therm, them at any for their value plus accrued interent Mtate Director Kelleher in eminent to handle from orthodox in and | Judge uptere Beat populat In Switzerland it is Beandinavian countries, 40 per cent and in France Over 30 per cent. Be xidea getting « third of the people to buy government securities, Kelleher believes that the campaign will | Hugh caune the number of savings account | fantr deponttors to increasd 10 per cent, | ment 50 per t wuc ot tee ir Jucob ue ' of being at the Camp Lee a Campbell ng regiment canto the in in From the Smallest to the Largest and Finest Your Christmas Columbia Grafonola Is Here—Awaiting Your Selection Our complete stock includes all the fine woods and fin- shes, and you can hawe ane in your heme for Christmas. Genuine Columbia Grafonolas are Priced From $18 to $250 And you can take Our Special Christmas Terms Cal in this evening eA taten to favorite 1 t us a the Special Chri Columbia Outfits that we are offering with Records of your own choosing. You can have yours delivered right away or on Christmas Day if you wish—-but do pot delay. OPEN EVERY EVENING UNTIL CHRISTMAS Gift Certificates Made out tn any amount and good for face valve in all de partments advantage of tomorrow ye or show Me mas ON GE ESN Fi ON ON Oi RN SDS in handsome holiday wrappings, make fine Holiday ‘Gifts. Sa ‘ es re Is He Coming to Your House? Good old “St sands Nick” will leave cases of Rainier Special at thou of homes this year. He'll stop at yours—won't he? Rainier Special is the new-—-the mellow, soft beverage that has taken the Northwest by storm. The minute it crosses your lips, you know you've got bold of something good. To understand how good it really is, you must enjoy a glass. Invigorating, nippy, from home. Order your Xmas case today. 10c Bottles Everywhere Case—-24 botties——delivered to any address in Seattle full-o’4ife, and as satisfying ase letter $2.20 30c a dozen allowed for the empty bottles, RAINIER PRODUCTS COM. Y, Seattle, manufacturer of Rainier, Malt Rainier, Rab nier Special and Syro, @ Syrup. 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