The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 24, 1917, Page 4

THE SEATTLE _STAR —_ 1907 Seventh Ave. MEMEER oF scRYTTS NonrnwE Aaun | Telegraph News Service of (he United Press Association Near U stoffice as Second-Clase Matter months, $2.00 Botered at Se BF mail, our of attlo, Wash. I Mate @00, I'rivate Our Shipworkers Twenty thousand skilled ship builders, we are informed, | here. Where will they live? We don’t know. But we know skilled workmen well enough to under- stand that they won't live long in wholesale buildings fitted up as “dormitories.” And this was one of the solutions offered at the first conference of business men. Akron, O., has been trying to meet the sudden ex- pansion problem by building modern homes by the thou- _ sands, and selling or renting them to the rubber workers. Seattle is big enough, and modern enough to meet this latest test intelligently. Let’s not exploit these workers, help win the war. , And let’s see that they do not have to submerge any of their living st andards when they come out here who are coming to ? | At Cleveland, third city of the world as to production | of ready-made garments, the garment manufacturers of country are gathered to devise saving of cloth in wom- en's suits, and it is really a movement for conservation of highest importance. Why save wheat, meat, sugar, fuel and such, and keep Fight on blowing in money on superfluous cloth? Why put a week into knitting socks that can be bought for $1.12 and go around in an overskirt containing enough ‘@loth to make $12 worth of socks? Why pit father on an allowance of 1 egg and 1 potato per day, that he may save money for Liberty bonds, and spend 40 eggs and 40 bushels of potatoes on a serge bag whose only duty is to flop in the wind? We admit that we are weak on suggestions for those| @esigners at Cleveland. Their proposition to make ‘em shorter at the bottom or lower at the top is chock full of ‘@readful possibilities. If worse comes to worst and either ‘of those alternatives has to be adopted, cannot a whole Jot of elastic be put into them? We refer to the skirts, not i YouvE membership. AND SOME War Savings Stampa. got the Christmas spirit, you've got a Red Cros LOOKS LIKE Mr. Santa Claus ten't going raise the ban by revolution in The AND NOW Portugal “geal busy these ¢ TEN THOUSAND from a single bazear ONE HUNDRED AND fen't to be eneezed at. WHATS BECOME of the f four minutes? He's not in Seatth THE NATIONAL Bore it is. What kind “WHEN DO » Wife is afraid it wil STORE KE ber of bills, to sev CHEER all he has to rminute man who stops talking decided hash food of * meat on think UP, do is ot EVERY AMERICAN boy now France eats 35 cents’ worth food daily Your $4.12 War Savi amp w feed nearly a dow n| @oldiers in khaki for a day A BRITISH general mas, beat off a German The Germans, | § paid on the Flanders fron » fighting Maybe, took him for a new } can't SAYS BERT SWOR, Sam make you GHT th tin’ is, and let you use YOUR OW BACK IN 0 . ea t men their che a dor irkey Christmas. If he's st r his g fhe offers them $5 or a turke upy Petrograd If we re y were expecting Ing government LOW EXCURSION FARES FOR THE HOLIDAYS January 3 December 20 to 25, BETWEEN ALL POINTS IN WASHINGTON, IDAHO AND OREGON 28, Return up to And December 21 to Return Umit January 15 To California Points ers Permitted NORTHERN PACIFIC RY. Best of Local Train Service Dining Car Service Unexcelled TICKETS Fall Information A. D. CHARLTON, A. G. PLA Portiand, Or. gaan et - will soon pour into Seattle to triple the output of the yards} S STAR—MONDAY, DEC. 24, 1917. PAGE 4 Chee: Up, 1918 Is Coming, Year of Bigger Things|# S Billy Shakespeare would say, “Now is the winter of;court-martials and government troops as the final resort. A our discontent,” ete., and it has to be admitted ed Martially, we couldn’t even “get” a Villa, and even at this time, the national psychology inclines toward pessim-|now thty won't let our professional army fight before eight ism, jor 10 months’ training under mere smell of powder. Washington | COMEDIES OF CAMP <0 to LIFE | f, Almost every fellow who returns from a eS dae reports that the higher-ups of the war management are | HAT we really declared for, last April, was the CHILORER Se pessimistic. Investigations are showing wp near-scandals right-about-face, in respect of all these conditions, iN ARMS nda and sure-weaknesses, The transportation situation is bad.|We decided to convert confusion and democracy of opinion Or ADruT res {Many of the newly selected soldiers are drilling with broom-|and effort into national unity and organization for one sticks and thousands of the recruits have had to be taken | Purpose. into private homes. In almost every direction there ap- It was like taking all the tongues of a Babel and making pears a decided lack of military necessaries. ‘The allies|them speak in the language of United States patriotism. are getting nowhere and are threatened with a licking while|It was giving birth to an infant who should take the job we're beginning to get ready. of an Atlas. And some of us are gloomy because the boy ° isn't on the job at eight months of age! HEN Uncle Sam declared Behold! we have made mistakes, we have shown weak- months ago, the real proposition was nesses, we are not yet ready to take the mighty burden of ful democracy into a warring autocracy. {the world upon our shoulders! But the wonder of it is sider what a democracy it was! that we've got the start that we have. Politically, we had a busted republican party, a party | Any individual can feel his body over and find corns, that had dominated, pretty regularly, for a half century;| boils, bad teeth, aches of some sort over which to make a democratic party that had slipped in by the skin of its | himself satisfactorily miserable, if he wants to. But the teeth; socialism growing; progressivism trying to find nation, or the man, worth while is the one that can smile itself; and all of us clawing at each other. when some things go wrong, take another cinch in the belt We were in conflict over such mighty issues as pro-|and go at the real job fiercer than ever. hibition and suffrage Racially, just one nations extant, Socially, we were about as caste-ridden, or another, as ever England was in her meanest days. Commercially, our railroads were headed toward the poor house, we had no merchant marine whatever and no adequate system and organization thru which to compete in the foreign markets. Industrially, we had got habitually tubances by violence and private armies of thugs, How Much Do We Pay} Editor's Mail | i | a little over eight! to turn a peace- And just con- war, ny woman's oe ee HEER up, everybody! After winter comes spring, and this coming spring is going to be the growingest spring, every way, that this good old world ever saw. Cheer up! Seattle is going to see bigger things in 1918, too. We are going to have a bigger mayor at the city hall, We are going to have bigger industrial import- ance, We are going to deal with each other in a bigger way. And we are going to do this all because the nation settling dis-|meeds us all, needs each of us to give and do our level best with Lies America’s aims and aspirations. we were beautiful cosmorama of all} the in one way ———— oe FRO “Aw, Let's Bast on ) tn, Inch; 1 Den't Think They'll Queetion Yu" to er to write to The Star, but none of us had the nerve, so we decided to draw straws, and I drew the shogt one. So I am writing. y | ma | work you ever read “COME THRU! ‘Tis but a little ¢ One dollar to the t That saves the lads who stand ue And tyranny’s red hand. “Tin but a little act to do, And yet such good ‘twill bring That not to gtve that dollar Were a monstrous wicked thing « to give twixt “ee Kinnear p cars now run in feets—one 1 very 45 minutes oe And the conductor on the Lake Burien line oversleeps, according to ‘ommie, our office boy, an@ that's what makes our office boy lat Some aiiven—-eeniale ts Ground gtass found in foot in Loe Angeles. Protably just another attempt to substitute for meat eee An ege, we are told, is a German bomb in trenchology. We suppose that an omelet is what ts left afer the egg strikes ee NUTTY NOVELETTES Canto Tw Chapter HI ng the worry abe sad about the w or wan gp ple she} coutn't: be aad wh bane | room, and wh gram. with a f nad on that Hannah wa h ° that she grew her sadder she couldn't be aad while and th ade se Chapter TV cht be expected ve with ty she met, and Melancholy the anddest As Hanr m specimen of hur it made her so miserable and tearful Jthat she had ‘to float down the church aisle in a gondola, She and her ead heart were married in ickintoshes, and the minister @ diving sult Chapter V. re trange to say, all of Melancholy Hannah's chil were such sunny. hearted creatures that Hannah jdn't t h them the aad game. of ) were drowned and she ver ther because they weren't enough, but the other three were of such a gayety and sunni nese that they dried up her tears faster than they fell, and thus spoiled Hannah's life for her. She found herself growing co happy that she couldn't play the aad game any nore, and died at 36 of a broken art because she'd forgotten how to be aad. Chapter VI. * If she had only lived long enough to know this tale was going to be written about her, she might have been saved, For I leave it to you if it lan't about the saddest piece of Facts About the Stone Age The day fett after a party where con- was thrown, was always a busy lay for the bone setting doctors Peddling one bill a day was con. “idered a day's work for @ hand bill peddier in them days, Imagine your boy a newaboy those days standing on the corner with a stone quarry under his arm, When the bills came tn to the ‘old man” on the first of the month they came in on a string of flat cars nd looked something like a circus parade Teeth and clawa were used for urrency, therefore a jellyfish waan't considered very valuable as a méney ‘actor 4. 0. MeMULLEN, Clty Pass. Agt. eee Smith Building, 504 Second Ave, The United States shipping board i in Uke the Russian government, a A. TINLING, A. G. ¥. 8 P. A. S {sort of an off-again-on-again-home SEATTLE, WASH. fain affoir Fe a good scout and buy your Christmas presents at the Girls’ War Relief bazaar her | * | easily | VITALITY | nent Hurried breakfast or none at all on the part of employes means lene output from these people in the tac tory This is one of the conclusions to be drawn from « report of Prof. Kent of the Unt versity of Bristol, comminsioned by the British government to study fa Ugue. Hie obeervations 2,400 men and women. He f ;and 37 per c mined had made on were In several cases, worke luced far below the average, were found to be coming to work without breakfant , A change of hours more favorable] 2 to a proper allowance for breakfant |inereaned the output 124 per ¢ | Women workers, Prof Kent found are prone to underfeed themacives beothuse they choose delicacies to the | exclusion of substantial food. | Prot. Kent observ that many workers also have their efficiency Impaired by ereating. He points out That m the only animal that w fat when he Is not hung nd drink when he im not thirs He wii! also eat and drink things that he knows w Overeating * pu coal in the fire box ° mot be attained a tead of bein ve—-pertect combuat dimeanen are the tree HEALTH QUESTIONS Mre J.B. k, even at the price ya Net for | growing taken up by never responsible sickness, save in the r which an unclean product is used TAXI DRIVER LIKES BEATTY the t These men look alike—and that's natural, as Admiral Sir David Beat ty, hero of Jutland, and (below) Dave Pigott are first cousins Dave is Shaw taxi starter at Kan- sas City, He and the admiral grew up together in Ireland and Dave has many memories of the “big, some lad" who used to ah 0’ the mornin’, Dave! #o heartily, “He's Just a regular fellow,” says Dave, Dave tz must have paralyzed hin « n't sent a story to the sport eds for almost a month, tmking a total of $44.40, whieh they Our Soldiers? WASHING "TON, Dec. 24.—Ank| the first ten people you meet what | Uncle Sam pays his soldiers. It wil iit} be safe to bet they won't know Half of them may have nome hazy {dea about a “dollar a day,” and you! will find low of people who think Unele Kam still pays the old scale of | $13 « month The whole pay aystem of the Unit od States army has been revolution |°* xed fince the war started Private Gets $33 A private in Uncle Sam's armies, regu sard or National | © arty long an he 4 month med tonal G eoeives in ein the United n addition to food, clothing and foal attendance When ho in sent to Europe he gets the minimum cash pay a month, or $1.20 a day j The revotutionary part of the pay eyrtem, however, about which mont people are ignorant, is the fonle of allowances made by the government to the soldiers’ dependents " * 5 No distinction @ made between a Under the nn ttnente if “there’a [Private and the highest officer | SMOKES FOR SOLDIERS s wee wifle waiting” she receives tien, every man may take FAitor The Star: While some of each month direct from Uncle Bam a © wp to $10.000 at the of were in Beattie we heard a happy ; onth, which is virtually an|® t of furnishing such insur: little group in a hotel lobby may that eee. the. fighting man'e ance In peace times—the entire na- if they knew the address of some Se- 4 brings hin t br If there is one child wit wife the allowance is $26 a month; tw hildren, $22.50, and #0 on t point where with a wife x hildren, Une ar " O« a month No mawkish pr the drafting of thes acknowledging hin ile n soldier may secure for governmental allo proviaion being that if er December 21, 1% born In the Unit Same for Com tt the it is born on Law Wite Bo in the case of a wife need to be no legal marriage if the is proof that they have ) gether as man and wife for years prior to eni Uncle Sam woidiers do r t “ th of caring for ’ shouldera, by m for each man child behind to pay over to th thru the treasury, at least $1 a mOnth, and as much more as w equal the allowances which Ur Sam makes, up to half a mar Thus, for the man in abroad who has left a wife and behind, the man will have t to thom at least $19.80 a month which the government will add You hear the call Have you answered? 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SMITH BUILDING Phone Eltlott 1002 bie wynt er, but if be kc feet, becomes totally blind or heip Now, | ask, why, when I am a nat « t heth in tre Pee en unohon which brings |iensly bedridden, he gets $100 a uraiborn citizen of this country, ing or in renee ee to sa860 Month ae long an he may Ive, done a forelgner, who has for 13 pie recetved in ruma ranging from $20 month, according to size of family. | ALIEN — Editor The Star: I winh to state a little incident which came to my knowledge, and ask you how the 4 working people of this country can | be expected to show patriotism and national enthusiasm when such con ditions ex!= as the following: I, who »».. born and raised in this country, an who gave a day's wage from | to Red Crons last summer, and It | ca contribute more because I Are sure to recetve The old pension systen in wipe ut by the new and far more equita compensation for death and dinab Family Is Unit differs other law | compensation } vided in any am | the family as the unit that is ow work, tried to get work at the} ing the nation, not the individ plant of J, F, Duthie & Co val man. It bases the compensation’ While in the office, an Italian nm the atze of the family from time to came in and applied for the eame Wh ly dinabled bach kind of work, for which I was ask-| $30 a month. the ing When asked how long he had and four children been in this country, he said:| os Twent ars is added “Twelve years.” and when asked if| f a nurse in required, $10 more if he had his papers, he said: “No.” dent widowed oth For some reason he got « jeb and I es both hands or both didn’t here a deper hether he is married or not. years, been enjoying the benefits of If he dies from injuries or disease | this grand, free country of ours, and line of duty, the widow, who hagn't had decency enough to children and widowed mother recetve| take ont his papers, get work in to $75 a) preference to me? A WORKINGMAN. thru the treasury, bears the war This insurance in winely safe Jed to protect it from creditors loan sharks attle boys at Camp Lewis, they would send them a nice little lunch {and some smokes for Thanksgiving. So we boys tried to get one anoth | along. Anything sent to me will be divid- ed among the boys. I am proud to may that I have lived in dear old Seattle all my life ALFRED WEIMER, Co, 7, 2nd Bat, 166th Depot Brigade, Camp Lewis, Wash, CAR SERVICE Editor The Star: Our car service is miserable, and our merchants need not wonder that many citizens stay at home and keep their cash, instead of standing in the rain and | waiting until the car lords deem it time to send thelr creeping cars Why do we stand this in- stead of fighting against this greedy outtie? E. SMITH. |NUX, IRON, PEPSIN AND SARSAPARILLA ‘The combination of two great medicines, Hood's Sarsaparilia and Peptiron, by taking them in conjunc tion. one before eating and the other after, brings into cooperation ti above-named substances, best for fi blood, nerves and digestive ‘This combination is omamended in cases that are lous, or rheumatic, anemic and ous, or where the biood is both tm- pure and pale, deficient in iron—one of the most common Gisease condi- tions of the present day. In cases where a laxative is needed, Hood's Pills should be taken. They work in perfect harmony with Hood's Sarsaparilia and Peptiron. and are mild and efficient. Are the two Important Features for the Saver to consider. Our Divi- dends for the past two years have been as high the city. as any association in October 20, 1917, C. W. Karner, state inspector of Savings and Loan Associations, completed a thorough examination into the af- fairs of this association. A copy of his report to the State Auditor is on file in our office, and we will gladly show it to any one inter- ested. Regarding the safety of our funds, Mr. Karner makes the fol- lowing statement in his report: made on property within the limits of the dences a compliance with the provisions of value of the loan.’ ” 316 Pike St. Your Savings Are Absolutely Safe Regarding our plan, Mr. Karner reports the following: “No fees, fines or forfeitures of any kind used.” The increased cost of living makes it necessary that you receive profitable returns on your savings. “WATCH OUR WINDOW” Universal Savings and Loan Association “A personal inspection of the greater portion of the loans city of Seattle evi- Section 8, Chapter 110, Laws of 1913, which requires that the property mort- gaged to secure the loans ‘shall be worth at least twice the “Loans are all made in accordance with your definition of improved property, viz., property improved by buildings.”