The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 27, 1917, Page 6

As to Firing THE SEATTLE STAR “ASOT Seventh Ave, Near Untom st, WHST LEAGUE OF NEWSrartns NonT or s« MBER Press Association © of the Uni Telegraph News Sery Second-Class Matter Wash, Postoffice Entered at Seattle ys's Ha Published Dally by 1 3 months, $1.15; @ montha $2.00; etty, 200 a month. Ma ‘By mail, out of city Per month: Ry carrier 600, Private 2 | \\ t U. S. Takes Over Railroads Four days after war was declared England took over} her railways. Railroad congestion was eliminated. There | were no freight rate increases—no threatened strikes. The German and French governments, by controlling their railroads, were able to meet the overwhelming de- mands of war. The United States, after suffering from inefficiency, broken promises, congestion, bungling of employment prob- lems, and a of other dangerous war delays for nearly a year, step Friday and take over control of rail lines. It was the only logical step open to President Wilson, and the benefits from government control will not only speed up war operations, but will exert lasting benefits to the American people. Tho few of us fully realize it, the control of portation arteries determines many of our daily standards. With railroad management bungled, involved and man- aged for profits first and service second, every plain citi- gen of America suffers. Government contro! of transportation operations dur- ing war times is vital to the nation’s existence. And America will no doubt learn that government con- trol of railroads is vital to the people's welfare, even in peace times. Complete ownership of our railroads forward to as a logical after-war step. Rep. London roe shouldn't congress mee Meyer London, the only member of the house treacherous enough to vote for our enemies? j STEADY READER. some political, some legal score will in trans-| living | may be looked . kick out that There are some logical. Meyer London wa to congress pinion and wishes of a certain district, which he undoubt- edly did in voting, alone, against war with Austria. _ True, a congressman is supposed to also represent the eountry at large, but it is the law of the Socialist party, a Jaw that curses it in the eyes of the vast majority of in- telligent Americans, that it is the Socialist party, first, last and all the time, regardless of all else. London voted correctly. Certain it is that if he had not 0 voted, he would be kicked out of his job; and equally certain is it that, if congress goes to firing its members who stick to the demands of their districts, pretty exclusive- ly, we'll see a lovely procession of congressmen homeward bound. But Meyer London is not wholly a calamity. Most good causes are better from having a kicker or two. It would be mighty bad if we all settled back in absolute safety and perféctly complete unanimity. London at least shows us where kaiserism is and what 's at. With the fierce little Socialistic boil on the back of a neck, we are not likely to oversleep. 0 Save and to Have Say, you've been doing big things toward winning this war, and, maybe, didn’t know it. Food « Administrator Hoover reports that your surplus crop of 1917 wheat, over and above what is normally held for your own use, has already been exported. This is fine, and, if you're honest,| you'll admit that you really didn’t miss that wheat. Now, did you? However, it is up to you to be more than normal, for there isn’t a doggoned thing about this war that isn’t ab- normal. The allies need three or four hundreds of thousands of tons of your food right along, every month. You are called upon to save this from your normal quantity. You can do it, and, at the end, you will wonder that it was so] easy. It is always so in the saving of anything. Most of us go along on a basis of plenty and then some. the to represent all « When we put ourselves on a basis where the real nee od} and common sense meet, to the old policy so long. Be Half-Soled But Not Half-Souled Secretary McAdoo, not long said this was a time when no true American need be ashamed to wear half-soled shoes and half-soled trousers. He of course, to drive} home the need of saving. : There are various ways of making your savings work | for Uncle Sam. If you have as much as $50 or. more at one time, there are the $50 Liberty Bonds. But there are many people who want to help Uncle Sam and who ruefully look at 25 cents they can spare and wonder what they will do with that small sum. The answer is: they can buy a Thrift Stamp with it and when they have 16 of them can add 12 cents and get a War Savings Stamp. | No one need be half-s-o-n-l-e-d in this war. They gale at banks, department stores and post offices. we're astonished at having stuck ago, meant, are on)" erything in Seattle gets nice FUST AB ov and quiet, up pops a Gill triel again, and the Fill Spurck exemption case once more RECKON THAT George Vanderveer will make his next legal at tack without artillery preparatios WE NOTE with a shock of surprise that, to date, Gill hasn't blamed Doc Matthews for the @sbarment proceedings: ALASKA GOES dry on the first of the year. Water, water, every where. “CU. 8. TO RUN the ralironds.” ‘he war do make time move, eh? NO DOUBT before long even the section hands will have to brush up on geography, spelling. mometry and a few other things to pasa} the civil service examination y has ber by our “THEY SHALL not pas ert front. it was also made effective ‘aye. , n effective on the Italian school teachers in High school | do is to change his name. “The victim of the shooting nd- mits t he did not know he was being shot at until the bullet struck | him *——Fort Worth Record | An uncommonly innocent — by-| stander Get all the satisfaction you ean, | Kaiser Bill, out of this Russian mistice, but just remember Kipling’s lines | went to the State hospital -» D. iK.’s.". Loaic Ny Nerton Mraley Raid the pacifist, “The government ts rotten, It never showkt have ot us tn the | \¥ | a The conffet by the plunderbuny otten, | And ICs Rockefeller we are fighting for The Germans are a very noble nation, | While our native land is nothing but & joke, op free apesch of the pi the right to bellow as 1 one to, I object to any fetters on my tongue When they ask me to be careful I re fuse to While P've got & mouth to shout with and « lune tle editor whe heard htm Hflet a trator and caker elatmed ¢ red bin. he libel statute on the Job And be put For he found the free speech license he had vaunted, Wasn't pleasant himaett, when it turned To Dave all his tnjared feeting healed th pel, | waan't really free apeech he de manded, Hut the rleht to how! at evervone with vie wt for Just heavy other person howled « WORD PUZZLE Lieut, Charles Smith, who used] to work tn County Clerk Th office, wrote hie 198 fair « here to get together on his Christ AX presents, as he Wouldn't have} for 138 wrist He gn't reported his luck yet MISSING watches Who had have me tay and tomor- jin remote « If you can't hang service stars in your front window, try Red Crosses. Spiral puttees are now made for women. If you listen real attentive ly you will hear the three cheers rained by the thin girls. Perhaps He's Teething been subject to stomach and have, perhaps, an un unwillingness to take ne. Iam Sl years old. —Laetter Svans in the Chicago Tribune. see The sid-fashioned man whe ased te say, “Aw, go to Halifax!” te today send- ing fiver to that elty. cee I have troubles reasonable medic to Dr Leon Trotaky myn the reign of the! guillotine will come In Russia inside) of a month. We don't know what| use it would be there. Most of the} Russians have lost their heads al rendy see Yes! Yes! Send the Information FOUND—A mm Informa tion, 1142 White Chattanooga Times cow st bly is more exasper- | sight of a go0d-look Nothing prot ating than th ing girl, with a cold sore, standing| under a sprig of mintletoe. | an old gent called the a lot like a geyser; eamed of world power, But in lesa than an hour He awoke a lot sadder, but wiser K. K. B. OTTO-COMBINE ~Local Marriage License Column, An appropriate marriage, un| doubtedly | Why don't they call them- selves Boe first at Fishop Paul Jones, who resigned orf request be-| cause of a 1 utterances, should “When he shows as seeking qu with paws like hands in 5 THAT in the time of p of the Truce of the T. sums ap, in the Chi ribune, the vent Russian opments as follow “Bolsheveni, Bolshevidi, Bol- | sheviki.” | A Welcome Change, Undoubtedly The children of the seventh and] eighth grades and their teacher, | Mrs. Hettle Potts, went to Athans ng Thursday afternoon to use the C. Stedman packing plant. Mr kad ry courteously showed them over the plant, showir and explaining the different stages of slaughtering, cutting up, curing an packing the meat, From there th a pl wenger, ant hour Athens (0) Mes-| STAR—THURSDAY, DEC. 27, 1917. Rep orter Writer yt It Is Far From Being Bottled Up as He Sails Thru Air Over Vessels as They Maneuve BY KENNETH W. PAYNE Special Staff Dispatch Bp THE BRITISH GRAND T Dee A vast living ormanian, thrilling thew and thru ‘with energy, and wt) high toss, eager for ac ton, after three years of monot onows waiting navy today Not only tn Ger many, but even tn widely joa than anywhere erition of Inte ave been trying © paint the Brit oh Meet as an ac Hirani of unite Useless junk, up be mines and nets, rusting at anchor 4, and helpless to affect the fu ture course of the war Yet, as a matter of feet, at thin far northern spot, there came to a head the mighty forces which rul over two hundred million square miles of the oceans of the globe And the immensity of that task of | policing the world's #eas ts reflected in the central activity here. Fleet A flight in ao seaplane over the Grand Fleet anchorage reveals, = no other experience can, the great stir nnd'bustle theu which the fleet gues. daily aa It prepares ltvelf more” strenuously each week to meet the Germans if the latter dare. As one of the only two American respondents who have ever made a flight. I have just had an [extraordinary opportunity to picture for The Star a typical birdseye view of the Grand Fleet base As I chambered aboard this par Ucular seaplane, ite wings were folded back along ite side. In a moment the wings had been spread, deftly locked in place, and we had been hoisted easily into the sea. In another moment the awkward mothership was wallowing below us and we were soaring high over the nat body of water where the Grand Fleet tay Halt a mile inte the air and still from this vantage int the further fringes of the fleet ners of the anchorage ™ vast an extent of were invia water does the British navy gathered | here occupy eee In one spot & supertreadnaurht was cruising about at target prac tice, A nquadron of battleshipa at another were experimenting | evel blue floor of the anchorage and Ht loome with her guns on a f « target Our mother «hip wan describing foamy the water far below un At one spot & vessel was coaling Alongside another veasnl “the frozen meat ship" was ted up. The latter De & balloon, on tte that is the Pritieh | England, and more | in Amer | circles over | PAGE 6 Flies in Plane Over British Grand Flee | | | AS ‘This shows @ British seaplane being launched from the deck of 4 British naval vessel. Kenneth Payne, reporter for The Star, writes on the back: “Here's the way I went over the side at the start of the first seaplane trip taken by an American correspondent at the Grand Fleet ~ anchorage.” in and week out the Grand Fleet drilling itself into ever more fit con- dition for THE DAY. keep. It has tightened as the years of war run on So it Is every day and night. Week dintribates supplies during the day, but at night one of her huge cabins | le filled with an enthusiastic ence of seamen, and on th at one end amateur theatrt ie are |held. Onty the hot stuff on the! jstage naves the audience from front out to sea, « long line of small black dots, each with its white crest of foam, appeared. It was | a destroyer screen for a squad. | ron of battleships, which itself | was soon revealed beyond, as larger dots strung out along audi: | stage | UNIVERSAL TRAINING FAitor The I beg to address {league will call upon all its branches: Star: and members to unite on that day reset ge resolutions bite, on that strange refrigerator| wakes of white. you on the subject of universal mil- wéaine peered by congress and these ahip | What ts the Piritish navy doing?” tary training, which the league 18 resolutions will be sent to senators An our seaplane circled about, a| “Why does it hide in a prison be | convinced is the most important/and representatives. line of battle cruisers which had | hind tron neta?” matter before the American people| only Just sped in from sea, dropped Why doesn't it ever put to mea? today, with the single exception of | in training with beautiful preciaton.| These questions, so often heard the efficient and aggressive prose-|the permanent basis of the nation’s | destroyers were unobtrusively |at hore, came to my mind then as ovtion of the war, and to sincerely|defense is a matter of immediate | slipping © the mame time Near | I saw these ponderous battleships urge upon you support of its enact-| necessity and a very large number the t which they bed left. a row | returning from a cruise ment into law in your editorial of people now support this conten- 7 f ner on we « tr The Hritith navy DOES put to cotimna thon. A poll conducted by the groomed and f sea. And it in doing lots of things Senator Chamberlain of Oregon. » shows that 44 senators and ack dots swarming er their Only ft can't tell about them, Per») universal itary training |1 representatives are pledged to, fi ° haps it oan be said, however, that pill is on the senate calendar, and | ve universal military trainingy Are English Steeping? before our seaplane was holsted in| Representative Kahn of California, We have recorded only four op It was growing dusk, and the again aboard her mother ship that|who is leading the fight in the) ponents im the senate and but 1s flashing of the searchlights, | night, these battleships were coaling house, will assist the league in|in the house . | which had been winking signals jand preparing to put out to sea launching a new campaign to ob- E L. HARVEY, > | back and forth thru the fleet | again tain this legislation by speaking | Publicity Director of the 4 all day long, became more brit i The shipa keep fit at home. | under our auspices in this city on| Security League, 31 Nant tn the dusk. And then, far ‘There is po letup in the pace they Saturday, January 19, 1918 The’ New York ESTABLISHED 1875. 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