The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 29, 1917, Page 4

STAR—SATURDAY, DEC. 29, 1917. PAGE 4 THE SEATTLE STAR |: INT Seventh Ave, Near Unton St . 1. D. IK.” COLYUM 8 ae stand for that. T # ‘ 7 # Tells He f But one thing the folks back home won't stand for is # ae i to ine a i re ; tae ad C # any attempt by political congressmen to use this war for # —— i the advantage of their party. And that goes for all parties, # Surprising renutts from this $f $f} home-made wyr iy 8 # prepared and ts # AND FOR £ nd forty nights it rained # Witte. # Seiiassrstsctscsccoss rsa! IF YOU aren't wearing at Red Cre utton, you had better ie ou or hurry and got it. cheat : difficult. ‘ THE ATTORNEY GENERAL sects to be a little late with his a h Chrismas greeting to Mayor Gill ‘ ar IF OUR engineer only turn tt udburst into the Hur ’ ox trenches, some of us rr rate’ the w Year in Berlin. t th AND NOW covernme officials have discovered that the Russian ¢ for real peace, but it’s a cinch they'll never get into the king row P g nd th ' NOW THAT allied planes are bon buildlr er ae ts hat tine ah of this war ' NEW YORK is an unt town price 1 1 tine Ne residents can’t afford to buy the na r 1 1 ; vit that prices are #0 low they're going to at pr tr 8 ts, 1 FIFTEEN SIXTEENTHS of the world wished the president mar ; ; ‘i happy returns of th 1 no shown + ‘ eth 4 kd 2 t brotherly greetings from tt € r x » ' r b EVA TANGUAY, securing » divor © married in fu ; found that her husband had marriec od for a meal ticket Why + courts interfere with an all ‘round joke like that? } BELGIAN ARMY REAL FIGHTERS; EVEN it French mar BY C. C. LYON Special Staff Reporter of The Star, Who Went to France With Pershing’s Army ARMY AEGNER OF SCHUPHS NORTHWEST LEAGUN OF Nmwsrarens <__ Telegraph News Service of the United Press Ansaciation ea aad ang i Entered at Seattle, Wash, Postoffice as nd-Clane Matter | Dow nye a sign at Bighth ave Bay mail, out of city, tc per month ane 61,3 mtha, 9200; //0™4 ! t And this admirable year, $8.50. By carrie a month ! ahed Dally by The Star Publishing Co. Phane Main 608, Private). WAnOG to, 16. snerety OR exchange comneetiog all departments, || Adve : w Rous - ——-—_—— Twenty Minutes For— Ww ‘ takes over ailroads, dining carn \ ays a dispatch ' it's back : f rmilh PB Row WUE A ing anxt ly to \ am will decide . Russia’s Headache Is Coming tt One of the easiest things man does is to stand on a soap-box and build out of hot-air a state. He can take), it aul Gitnkan teas genie money from the rich and give it to the poor. He can New Year nging to their abolish capitalism with a few ringing sentences, and lift °) eee See pore nl poor humanity from the street and dump it right into peace, Cid Green I . comfort and luxury. He can yank the mighty from their| 4) us, cbc al ar me thrones and hurl them headlong into oblivion r , 1 everything Such is the wonderful pov of nation and ora . Di ae ne ceppins tory. The only trouble is that whe eloquent orator) ¥ wait New Year's to] gets a chance to perform he has a dickens of a time of it *** ore Koqt tpselutiona? making his dr $s come true. ' wr Patrick Old human nature is so perverse and stupid t fe i we A ae tas oe : won't move any faster than it can move en ma can’t evolute as fast as its dreamers can dream. et eer ee ee The Lenines and Trotskys were loaded to the muzzl rt polace didn't stop with dreams, and very pretty dreams at that. They Pe ks ' dreamed a farm to every Russian peasant. They dreamed And the b. of, how democracy to all the world, and all any nation needed was , § » tella what ehe a few Lenines and Trotskys to boss the job and bump the!” : 13 pos head of every blamed son-of-a-gun who wouldn't be just) We piped ¢ Mowing in our as democratic as he was ordered to be. oe wiediens 2 js hes « They wanted to free poor Russia from aut ty, even A man wearing a dark sult and if they had to out-czar the czar to do it. They wanted Matas na * 2h every Russian to do as he darned pleased, but jailed him Millionaires Only if he didn’t please as Lenine and Trotsky ple wn aay tan On Seay “e Poor Russia is drunk on dreams, and : as an awful " we # « headache coming. But the world will profit by her ex- (ok youters ant. ee perience. The one thing that is certain in the near future din dhehe is the awful failure of the Be wiki Utopia. Thén thel occu o¢ semeate tan et world will think several times before, elsewhere, it turns) We aren't jea toda fay “over the building of a democratic state to lun : nacht an wind-jammers who never bt anything more substantial thes " m than a bad dream or a burst of tor ae ee ee Ue After all, experience counts for s« hing. Democ- * ¢ 6 racies can be built only by laying one brick at a time ae. ee eal Dreamers may point the way; they may dream the plan tt f —but even the plodders must do tl part of the work : ; before the dream comes true. for a ca a : The Shilka Joke—Who Is It On? A Be Done $ We, of course, don’t like the way thir are going in|, —F 7 ge * Russia. the We would sa ‘ We, of course, are discouraged to see Bolsheviki Longe dnn gore ly. Haraeog + leaders, in the name of peace, delay the democratic world’s & r + program for getting peace—for the world as well as Russis A Sisiees Night ‘ But there is still hope that from the 180,000,000 of " t ie de 1 as Russians will come a sane Counter movement that will sweep ne ly. - aside the kaiser’s dupes. And unless we are honest enough, and — in enough to realize this, and counteract poisonous Germatr * propaganda with American sympathy and help in Russia, . this movement is delayed. ah : This advice ig not new. Every American who has been Growsly Exaggerated «in Russia has forwarded this message. John F. Stever ‘chief American railway commissioner to ia, is the . ire. 4 latest to emphasize this. t r So when a Russian ship like the Shilka comes to port)! ety” eis gr next time, Seattle must not again make a fool of herself. t wan . ; Lurid-minded reporters contrived to make us beli ee oe + that the Shilka was loaded with dangerous explosives, go! b ‘ t t and munitions and about to release frothy-mouthed Bols! Past viki te rend asunder our republic. 1 tot texie for br Federal offic got unusually excited and after a week , eee ea i of worried fuming finally discovered that t Shilka t all right. The Star refused to grow unduly alarmed over “YD. 8 mikes inn bs wd nothing at all. The Star did not publish any imaginary ac- COLD counts of a “dangerous” cargo of rifles, etc. a ke We can be efficient in stamping out sedition without Rec ears ignorantly thinking of every working Russian as a red-|' " handed anarchist. And if Russia is going to be saved for| eS democracy we can't afford to let her ships’ crew » back t r t and tell such accounts as the Shilka seamen will be justified |; A ¥ : in telling of American treatment. ‘ Light, But Cut Out Politics Sai iamied 3 There is no objection to congress going as far as it ! an likes in investigating army and navy expenditures and/or ; te a policy, so long as there is no disposition to go farther than ‘hey ar : Je rat get the truth for the pubic and speed up preparations. If < par : a there has been unnecessary delay, or official delinquency, n "i ing repu ns or m or graft, or favoritism, or anything that makes for inef- sie eee ficiency—by all means get at the facts. The public sseaseasensenssnssascasesansgseasezte? WITH THE BELGIAN IN WESTERN PELGIUM, I Bolsias a 3 )F reyplane must have 8 enapped WAKE TRE Ee t gian shows Be wo peaked capa are I to have erer America 1 y I saw the poln Any able-b has not tr t ! ° p “We make many of our night a Belgian officer raids in boat ww aes ry hut tan soldiers. n the diers fraternizing Both Fren see ee pee France with e the fellows w bh and Belgians wear the steel cian border, French troops. ft “ have bee t night BY PROF. JOHN KR. COMMONS of the American Eeonomle and Professor of Polith Vresiden Assoclat cal Economy in the Universtiy of W ive re e tas 4 f ann 1 t abe alin peaceful penetra re This kind of “peaceful pene- the means the destruction sian manufactures and for Russian workr told me mount oor ma chine guns in the prows and many’s the time we've taken the | Roche completely by surprise It's one very different way of , going over the top.’ ” Glass Eyes Switched of Drunks PS ek ae in Eyes oe brought good news, Elmer. Mie SDy 7 as & ) ¢za> \ Lookit ra It mean CAMP LEWIS LIFE bh / eon Ls PROF JOHN R COMMONS have the industries or the skilled labor that can make munitions of war. It means cheap food for Ger. man workmen at the expense of Kussian peasants and farmers. IF THE KAISER OFFERS SUCH TERMS AS THESE TO THE 80. CIALISTS SIA, IN O ER TOG 1A TO DESE! HE ALI VI L HE x 1 i WORK MAN Ok ICA t t st nd orkingmer the world to fall int Tr n by what they tried to Tr invited the socialists and work ' the world to meet ea Then they fixed uy entation so that the Ke ‘ would not be repre « t the Bolsheviki would Keren lalists knew what Germa to Russia to the of ¢ In th w ' rman so: | lists fixed uy ntati | delegates and tt ) ) trade un jonists only four delegates | ine good-looking nd he hao promised ¢ if going to cone down here and shake hande if he @ promieo, 1 am coming after him-----;;3;; | Because we surely ha | to get JT HOUSB NUT. THAT YELLOW DRUG STORR, and I don't think there te anyone in Seattle that | objects to mo selling 5¢ | worth every day and raising | | that $6,400,000.00. | | be, 4 fox "NUTS OP Ske Ce ‘ QuaLiry® fe Freneh northern lin ith the helmets mpc in the trenches. Wh I the on m ian w Keep part Dexter Horton accdunt at await The Dexter interest. your savings here. = meets that sector * on thelr caps are * swvery 9% Cheap Food for Germany With ge Russian Peasants Footing Up " Bill, Meaning of Teuton P eace : ' The Menace of Money lies not so much in its use as in its abuse. ciously employed for production or profit, it sel- dom breeds harm. of your earnings working in a Trust DEXTER HORTON Trust SAVINGS BANK SEATTLE, Second at Cherry Combined Resources of The Dexter Horton National Bank and Horto >> © 23 n Both production and profit NCH RAIDS IN ROW BOATS | en ze t in the t wer,t oy necang t they prow t There ts @ wer e, but in cason. In n neigh calling for three of i 8T GO, b TRAIT. AIDED, vices to not less the world, experts tell guns and there e that all clr pro ¥ pur. es in an to build to raise n 1 impose hall acerue the state ghall and bs my own son to accept hi a tion of living in full for my services during ¢ believe it unpatriotic to ask more, I agree to work for the same pay and under the same condition as to doth ing and housing, food and insurance as my boys are compelled to accept, 1 only a to the —!that not ou Ww achinery for employment Uh elf who really de ce to the there are readily. If ential to the ould be tm 4 service stm T volunteer, . and Andy have made s n the homes of Elkhart (Ind) Judi- and Savings Bank savings WASH. Trust and Savings Bank $7,868.50 PALACE Continuous Daily 1 to 11 THEATRE “THE PROPLE’S suoW sHOP* Another Big, New Holiday Show Tomorrow! ADED BY JEAN DAWN, THE WIRELESS GIRL AND JACK ALLEN, THE OPERATOR 5 Other Hippodrome Acts FRATL 7 rotor World Brady Made Week Day M Hats., EXTRA SPECIAL KITTY GORDON i “DIAMONDS AND PEARLS” 10c; Evenings, Sundays and Holidays, 20¢ New Year’s Eve DEC. 31 usual prices MIDNIGHT MATINEE m: cat tai STAR WANT in the f cereals and imported Saarer hops. ea good thing —is the new cold oy with the inl ts nips ik in the est sense, -but the ies: appe- b! le — rich lavor of nutritive e even Al BEVO 3 to better— and it’s healthful, ANHEUSER-BUSCH St. Louis, U. ne )§ BRING RESULTS