The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 1, 1918, Page 5

STAR—TU DAY, JAN. 1, 1918. fdean, be found anywhere Ne extra «! gusr YouR wonp Nemefarntahing: Giving “PHONE PEACE PACT OFFICIALLY SIGNED SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 1.--The differences between the Pacific e- phone @ Telegraph Co. and its elec workers, which precipitated a Strike in the Northwest last were brought officially to a close to- day, when it was announced that Wocdhouse-Grunbaum Furniture Co., Inc. 416-424 Pike Street » WE’LL TRUST YOU o™ Creatt System has been estabiianed for your conventence— to aesiat you to furnish your home along your own tndividwal ‘Qur terms are easter and our prices are Heomefurniahings Announcing a January Clearance Sale of Tapestry Living Room Furniture With Price Concessions That Make This an Extraordinary Value lower than wilt IATEeS! me Intorrat, THAT YOULL ray 00 ~ 200 - B00 Down, 1.28 Pee Wert Event. THAS GERMANY A SOUL? By EDWIN J. BROWN. criticize my editorials ‘and more especialty am I pleased for| We may now understand and com ; etiticiem from some person whose|prehend the quality of mind pow David J, Willtamas, the collector for struggie for existence is tense and | sessed by the German Emperor when | th strict, received a telegram this whose pathway thru life is hard;|he told the American Ambassador,|™orning from the tax commissioner, for such people always speak from| Who represented 100,000,000 Amer-| stating that the floods and @ paper | the beart and put their heart into/icans at Berlin, while shaking his shortage had delayed the arrival of | thelr reason, while only too often| finger dripping with the blood of|the forms which it had been pre ethers, whe are of the well-to-do| women and children in his face, thix|ViUsly announced would be here by Glass, reason with the brain only. | monarch high tariff taker mid, “1|//suary ‘The request from my Edmonds| Will have no nonsense from the | friend ie granted, biess him and his !| United States after this war is over.” | There has been much noise made|I thank the Stars and Stripes we are IT | | tm this world about the soul. Pope| showing this soulless man that we Leo XIM said, “It is the mind, or| will have no more nonsense from him | see Sm Which is the chief thing|nelther before nor after this war is HARD AT WORK in us who are buman beings; it is|Over, and if our country does its this which makes a human being | full duty to the world, when this war human, and distinguishes him es |is over, Mr. High ‘Tariff Tak WASHINGTON, Jan. 1—Keep. sentially and completely from the|Hohenzollern and his whole litter) ing tn closest touch with the hard brute.” | will be bundled up bag and bag pressed jan armies protecting ‘This reasoning ts foolproof and/| “nd put in cold storage on the island) Venice and the motherland, the therefore may well be sanctioned.|of St. Helena. A soul cannot be re-| Italian embassy force in Washing- The one thing of which I am con-| flected from a mind that rejoices in|ton is burning a lot of midnight Yinesd ix, there are many who are| the killing of women, children and/ ofl these nights too cowardly to die for fear that| non-combatant clvillans, nor fromm Count C. M di Cellere, the thefr record will face them itn the those who kill with bludgeon and/| Italian ambasead o High @ay of reckoning. Such people need| bomb for the mere pleasure of kill-|Commissioner for With ©& goul made to order as an alibi to|ing, nor the wanton unnecessary | headquarters at the embasey—1 Protect them from their cussednens,| killing where there is no pousible|R street, of erry Bel- nd as the light of life cannot shine| military advantage. mont mansion and close to the late ‘thru thetr base and darkened men-| The bloodthirsty military, Prussian, | Rear Admiral Sampson's restdence | tality, their cowardice compels them | head-hunting public mind that now|—Count Cellere has the job of | #@ seek the conjured, false, artificial| rules Germany was hatched and de-|regulating the tmmense flow of | etl of & hypocrite. veloped in the Prussian war tncu-| munitions and food to Italy. WHAT IS A SOUL? bator. Bismarck condemned any| His right — res on eiiery ' | mercy or leniency toward ctvitians|needs ts Gen. Emilio Gugltelmotti, oy begged cae ene wit | “a culpable laginess in killing.” | who was an acttve campaigner on the window thru which the goul’s|H® bitterty condemned taking pris-|the Italian front untfl last spring. fays must shine and the light ts| ers instead of shooting and killing | Captain Lanerto hergyen en as Produced by the dynamo of human| ‘em! on the spot. naval attache, a former African ex- Feason, and as the highest quality| The bustness of the German sta HF acre is with Count Cellere, and developed by the human mind is| has been to kill and conquer. There|ha* the confidence of Marcont Consideration for others, the soul| 1s no record of Germany having ever| Wireless Inventor, in the business z we should “do unto would that they should ” He who can disprove Y well deny the existence of 1. rth da GERMANY A SOUL? A national soul never has nor can | ever be developed under an auto- eratic governing power. In the dark Age of feudal time and after what is known as the state became identi by geographical tines and boun Burope as a whole, and Ger: in particular, was overstocked Sutecratic aristocrats. On the| Ht fiver Rhine and its tributaries and| Most other rtvers, every hillxide with its burgs and castles harbored its feudal lord, and what would now be falled road agents, highway robbers 4nd burglars as his henchman In that day trading and transport ation of merchandise was carried on Means of wagons on the high- Ways, and the castles of the robber is were always located at the Most advantageous points overtook- | ing the wagon road and country fide where these knighted robbers ould swoop down on the traveling Merchants whose approach was her- aided by guards or sentries stationed in lookout towers, and demand tribute. Should the merchants re- fuse to pay his goods, horses and Wagon were taken and he was held | trial tree of the present Kaiser Ban @it of Germany to {ts origin from highway robbers as oroven by his|office, according to the collector, of | enzoliern, which when! people who wanted to get the mat-| translated into our language means|ter off thetr minds, but the office! mame Ho! high tariff taker. extended any consideration to any other nation, In other words, ¢ many has not developed a soul, and the only way in which Germany can one shot into it, because in the prew ent war Germany has proven that as now constituted the nation is in capable of developing a soul. \JHE UNITED STATES HAS A | SOUL When the United States liberated Cuba it demonstrated by tts unselfish acts a deep consideration. In the Philippines we are now demonstrat ing our consideration and spending millions for the people of those islands. Again we, as Americans, enter war without expecting to profit thereby, but purely because of a deep, un- selfish consideration for the freedom and democracy of the world, and it is in the soll of this world democ- racy that a soul can be grown and with it the world fe ted under industrial peace and plenty. Before this can come to pass, however, the nations of the world must develop and manifest a soul-—a deep consid eration for each other. A commandment I repeat for the nations of the world, “that they con- sider one another,” but to have said this to the robber baron descendant | | I ransom, and the high tariff taker would have MEA ° been offering pearls to swine.’ He yo ee Mae wanted tariff; he wanted war; he a ve said God was his ally, but God knows “Hoh” means high and “zoll*|,not them without a soul, Uncle | Means tariff in the German lan-| Samuel's great soul has spoken. Let ®uage, and as the names of men| those who have ears hear his voic | Were first taken from. their trades | | &F vocation and were then handed from father to son, it in not a it matter to truce the ances- ft it comes from the soul of t American people; it's thelr consid. eration for others that proves they are possessed of @ soul. become ponseased of a soul ts to have | THIS YEAR TO SEE 1,000,000 YANKS IN FIGHT By CARL D, GROAT, United Press Staff Correspondent, WASHINGTON, Jan, 1—Por- haps 1,000,000 men; scores of destroyers; and several hun- dred aeroplanes—plus a will to do and die—will mark America’s share in ¢ war this year. Military men today epitom ized the U.S. contribution thus, Those who were willing to ven ture into the risky realm of prophecy however, doubted that even these things could ¢o away the balance to make for an Entente-American mili tary victory in 1918, Looking facts squarely in the they admitted that the task 1 is one of severe text—one in which America must not alone do ite bit, but ite all Their predic tions were not steeped in pessim tw but In distinet frankness, th held that th nation must not be misguided as to an early end of the struggle. Th had »*ked for an overturn of Te of 1918 Must Shake Morale on horribleness by the close But, as the old year died and the new was born, they confessed they saw no chance of such a v y ye perchance psychological th ake the Teuton morale the much-desired revo- lution within the kalser’s domain Russian fiasco; the Teuton on of Italy; and the swaying eau inva: — ~ — tunes at Cambrai had left th the new scale agreed upon would |*tuation i such shape that ex- take effect today, Under this, elec | Perts gathered small consolation trical workers will re ive a mini rom year as a whole. mum of $4.75 a day, while the wages | May Close in 1919 of telephone operators will graduate} Their chief optimistic thought] from $8.80 a week to 0 |was that Amertca ts getting into full wwing; that the British have fall,| Alaskan salmon catch for 1917 was| ~ sedan | worth $40,000,000. We probably paid | (N° Teuton resource, Germany, on caine c the other hand, has hit the erps wt ’ and & slowly going down the de- cline, even tho she still has a vast punch left, Taking everything into considera- tion, the experts held that probably the eartlest can end t# the close of 1919, admitted, however, that the politi- cal aspect is not reckoned much in such catculationa, and that this! phase may have @ tremendous part to play in the turn of the wheel of fate. INCOME TAXES NEEDN'T WORRY YOU JUST NOW All you people who have been rushing down to pay your in come taxes can rest easy for few days, as there will be noth- ing doing until further word is given oat by the local internal revenue office. ‘There has been @ big rush on the has been forced to turn them away, an no forms are on hand. jof devising anti-submarine atus, The embassy sa luxurious struc- ture. Gold encrusted antique armor marvelously wrought lamps of | bronze, and bits of Italian art, dec- orate the Inter’ appar- She Had Never Used Powder in Her Life; But There’s a Reason PARIS, Dee. (Py Malil.)}—A pub- Ho-spirited mnch woman has writ. ten to one of the colonial papers ap- Pealing to French women, and es pecially Parislennes, to abandon the use of face powder. estimates | which the “poudre de riz ed, would be economtzed. The writer asserts that never in her life she used powder on her face, veracity is extract has The |teed by the fact (unfeelingly di |vulged by a newspaper man) that |the Indy in question ix a French negress, whowe husband recently was beaten in the local ele Kaiser Gets Lumber With Bayonet Point PORTLAND, Jan. 1.—That Ger. many is obtaining her airplane ma- terial with forced labor in invaded Russian forests, the prisoners being driven from dawn until dark at the bayonet's point, is the assertion of Col. B. P. Disque, commanding the spruce production division of the army signal corps, in a letter to the Loyal Legion of Loggers and Lum bermen, urging them to lend their whole support to production spruce for aeroplane stock. of | date at which the war| They} from | of her assertion is guaran- ia | LMT E 1 Scene from Rex Beach's “The | EATTLE’S movie houses S wound up the old year in a blaze of glory, despite the weather man's attempt to put the damper on ® merry old time New Year's eve, There was hardly a motion picture house that closed Its doors before the weesmall hours of the morning, and there will undoubtedly be a merry line of exhibitors who will fatten their checking accounts at the various banks, Wednesday morning. ‘The only house that did not give a midnight matinee theatre, and that was due to t th Jensen and Von Hert donating their Coliseum theatre to the Red Cro for a midnight frolic The Strand had an extra showing of Libert 6 fact « were was 1 The Auction Block,” while Philip and his “Peppy” orcheatr: pulled @ number of jazs numbers. The audience threw serpentines fur Rished by the house. The Clommer stayed open all night with a number of specialty numbers and music by their orchestra. The all offered extra shows for the clam- oring public. eee LETTERS BREW TROUBLE the dimples, is scoring another big ing to the sflent drama, “Love Let- tern.” fore Dorothy gets out of her pie tortal diffi she wishes she had never written a bunch ters to a certain party, who makes it too hot for her HE'S HANDSOME HERO Nan of Mountain” will be ween for the last time tonight at the Coliseurn with Wallace Ke atar. ring role. Wallace is & handsome chap to be a blustering hero of the alkali Weat-—but he is a real live hero just the safne, and makes things merry for a bunch of sities of Musio AINLESS DENTIST: DR. P. L. AUSTIN, Pres. Open for Business If your gums are sloughing, sore and bleeding, you have PYORRHEA Come to me for advice for this disease free of charge. 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COLONIAL — Charlie Chaplin in “The Ad aren.” HEN i Mart in “The Nerrew | ‘Trail i}} CLEMMER—Annetio Kellerman in | “The Daughter of the Gods.” | CLASS A-—tharlotte Walker in | “Whe Trail of the Lonesome Pine.” | “My | MISSION—Carmel Unmarried Wits” Meyers in ° bandits before he in thru with | cHAkACTERS ARE HUMAN | Despite the rain, crowd packed outside of t day night, to see Offering to the scree Biock.”: The play has to do t fo drama of millions of girls in the «mall towns and Ar large cities of tors that ” ara you nee ev-| ery day all play Important parts in| hia wonderful drama. ANNETTE MAKES SPLASH Annette Kellermanh, America's most perfectly formed woman, do’ and mwam in the briny deep to pack: | ed houses at the Clemmer Monday night, in “The Daughter of ¢ Gods.” Beautiful scenery, as well as} women, are shown in this master piece, while the theme of the play ta carried out with rapid action. | CHARLIE STILL. COMICAL Crowds laughed continuousty at | Charlie’ Chaplin, in his latest co: |edy, “The Adventurer,” at the Colo- nial, Monday night A Big Russell picture, in which the famous star is seen at his best, is also CARMEL MEYERS CLOS'! Carmel Meyers will be seen for the] DINWIDDY, Va., Jan. 1—A cur-| On every occasion the dogs have last time Tuesday evening at the|ious friendship has grown up be-ljost the trail n big rocky Minwion in “My Unmarried Wife tween a big red fox, which for #ev-| 1015 Touches of hum ad many deep|eral years has made its home in the | “™V!n¢ human interest situations mark the|foothills of the Blue Ridge, near| ©ld members of the club, who production. here, and a family of skunks, accord foxes for years, were Sims ing to members of the Maryland | puzzled and started an investigation. BILL SHOOTS ‘EM UP County Hunt club, who report that| ‘They found that at a certain point “Eig Bil" Hart was busy a | it is impousible for their fox hounds| 0. the ravine the fox's tracks | Year's eve at the Rex a ar ‘to follow the animal for any dis: | -— i " 3 “ riding hia lit i »- t break nee were crossed and recrossed by a neck speed in one of his best offer veral times recently the club| umber of smaller tracks which led ings, “The Narrow Trail.” Billlpae taken the trail of the fox, it|ff at right angles to the direction wrote the play himself. having been possible to recognise | the fox had taken. edd s tracks by their great s T cks had been made by sev hi ALICE JOYCE TODAY p Pretty Alice Joyce comes to the Class A Tuesd The Que one of her latest offerings to t sereen, and a real Joyce pic ture thru and thru. 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