The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 5, 1918, Page 4

oo Lew DD. IK."8.". COLYUM THE SEATTLE STAR Near € MEMBER OF ScKirrs NoRTHWHsT LeAGcUE Telearaph News Service of the € Wash, or Newsrart ed Press Association Entered at Seattie, Postoffice as Second-Class Matter $1.15; @ montha, & month, 3 months, elty, 90¢ $2.00; | vivate| | per month Penne ut n lan at , lon't know what the | Maybe it was a shovel OLD TIME STUFE this « \ ' Investigate the Postoffice Under the the Country, next to the commander-in-chief of its army Mavy, is the postmaster general. The official who can Throttle or exterminate a free press is, finally, pretty near ‘the dictator of democracy and arbiter of all rights, to say ‘nothing of his influence upon ordinary business and do- Mestic affairs. It is common knowledge that ‘ment is badly “shot to piece It master Gene Burleson h leaned too much toward| f ing a profit. It may be he has become de-} ly unpopular with his underpaid employes. It may oats of his attitude toward labor and his suppre of papers with anti-administration or pro-German tees However this may be, the sum total is an factory and bad condition. For instance, The Star ‘A Special delivery letter 12 hours after it had left Tacoma. | The : It is highly important to speedily and thoroly cure Buch a condition in a time of war, when team work prime essential. Is Much Different Of course, Kaiser Wilhelm can knock Count Czernin of | |, off his peace stool and repudiate him, at any time, | fir there’s significance in the fact that Czernin was we stb nitted to present such peace terms as he has. fire oe" “No annexations and no indemnities” is a long way what the German autocrats have been demanding. morale of the German people has been largely held by assurances that the cost of the war would be paid other peoples. According to Austria's representative! Brest-Litovsk, the kaiser so longs for peace that he kills| dream and the dreams of a “Mittel Europa” and a in the sun” held by German power. From world- ination, paid for by conquered peoples, it is a far cry peace without indemnity. How strongly do the people Germany feel this? : ar Income as a Basis We do not clearly understand why, in recommending intee of the railroads’ earnings, the president took the of the years since the war began as a basis, According to the testimony of the railroad managers, ves, when asking rate increases, the railroads, dur- the years immediately preceding the war, were headed it toward the poor house. Since 1914, there has been dy rise in the net operating incomes, the bureau of economics reporting $695,931,861 for 19%5, $1,005,- 794 for 1916 and $1,054,100,790 for the past year. *To guarantee 4 to 6 per cent on the basis of the rail- war business may be sound government policy and ad not surprising that the stocks of most of the railroads} ip upward in response. But is it the precedent to be fol- should it become necessary to commandeer other in- ? Turning a pre-war pauper into a 6 per cent dividend- wer has somewhat of the appearance of permitting that | Nerves ta.’ ~ to become a war-profiteer, doesn’t it? However, of the people are interested in the securities and curity of the railroads. _Obse e the Boy With the Basket Forbes’ Magazine has got up a list of 50 of America’s smost leaders of finance and business, as selected by a} vote, which contains some interesting data. Of the 50, 24 are sons of parents who were in poor cir- nstances, nine had rich parents and 17 had parents only ely well-off. | There’s only one schoolteacher in the list of those whol, big and rich, and we hold our breath while an- uncing that 16 per cent of those who started poor began) grocery boys. There may not be a whole lot of high tion in Bro. Forbes’ list, but it surely has a warning : be kind and respectful to your grocery boy, whose po- ities probably don’t appear on his surface. THE NEW year sure has been lively #0 far law, most powerful official in ttle ya am ‘tron and meer ould I rhay without you all for ow a chew Wha Wh i All lo without you, serar didn’t bu m all for the postoffice depart- may be because Post sl or nap x che lay Chews to . . LAINS UNCE ron WILSON because ° WHICH EX KRREGARD jThen burrah for rt 1 of the Ar unsatis received wo fathe Sam. TO ar wre in two a ff. —Me is al OFF wtack In cut 1 wan kno nom . Herold-Leader company's factory Mal was destroyed by When 1 these fir panies learn to keep their water and away atutt from see War 4 in this »bably on the forced on him. Our guess you may nber or pr was force “DREAMS HAPPENS T PAVE GEER ORED3ED ane toy am OUR AN YOU } oy A ae ‘a ENGLISH 18 SUCH A FLEXIBL ) LANGUAGE “This Is the Life,” a fair crowd the Boller opera nouse, Saturday evening. The t we interfered ’ of like to went tative was shown to a un nena er Woolley & ot manufacturers of serges. oe DONT ALWAYS BRUEVE THE pocTon puine Ballad) By Heron Braley me dnt emuse me bem advion tru nti: man's song. & “NEVER BEFORE i “much free publicity s think a few cang of “auto polish an eruption? have manufacturers of auto polish received #0 onia I almost died non-explosive,” a eve tne @octor,” » toll f I stay tm m good hot “Don't always Is a tale or I've foun: is reduced printing Maybe they borrowed THE BOLSHEVIK “Money, with proclamations ing press from the kaiser. EVIDENTLY THOSE contrary “other belligerents S @uspected by the kaiser, will wait to see what sort of | hands over to the Bolsheviki ANYHOW, THE Teutonic powers @emnity for sake of peace. Some change, #0 be dropped on Germany from airplanes SOME FELLOW stole | a , hive of bees from ig, Ind., Christmas. Probably due to the su: jean have a corking merry Christmas with a hive of bees. “government” to as the basis paper A print HM auickly get well h alr may be fine for the P who han tt believe nay, nay! not named 9 doctor, @ peace Germa wrong, Thoroughness Characterizes our methods every transaction, and our eu tomers are accorded every cou teay consistent with sound bual- ness Judgment 4% Pald on Savings Accounts Accounts Subject to Check Are Cordially Invited, are willing to renounce war in that. The news of It ought Short, shortage: Jerry ar of G A fellow hing t Jehowi ENGINEERS SAY that four inches from the te ing is equivalent to extending the line 218 mil Jong enough; what's wanted ts something to extend the IN THE Shenandoah district of the Reading mines, the coal miners, nm Thanksgiving day, made a record of 116 per nt of normal output Margely as « patriotic duty. That's what we call fighting for all that's fn you. hone when talk phat! the line’ telephone ¢ Britisher who got “ His “Very good,” SIR W. TRITTON, Predominate before the war is over for his rights in the invention the war.” up the tanks, says they'll ernment offered him $200 aid he; “anything to win Peoples Savings Bank SECOND AVE. AND PIKD ST, SEVERAL CORRESPONDENTS ask us how Weymas, is pronounced. It is In one pronunciation the first “s “the second “#” is silent the pronounced is silent name of the new two ways in the DEPOSITS in this bank are GUARANTEED Washington nik Depositors’ Guaranty Fund GUARDIAN TRUST & SAVINGS BANK other, board says a B-cent soup bone, with vegetables. We think ) setting around any 5-cent soup bone, sent by Make @ good meal for a yearling chicken AND RIGHT in the midst of the ) tions,” King Ferdinand of Bulgaria ‘onto what he has won. Ferd nit that he’s out for the stuff. WE BEGIN to believe the story that our armbassador Dave Francis, once raised Missouri army mules. One being threatened with bombs and the next he is present juets, Only an ambassador with some education in mule that sort of a racket. OHIO WA good meal be made from will put,a platinum that war board, that will can kainer’s talk announces that is one king who ix Wilhelm will have about “no annexa- he's going to hold honest enough to to spank him. to Petro could | | al e| . SAM'S) Elgin, on't remem STAR—SATURDAY, JAN. 5, 1918. PAGE 4, BILL M’ADOO STARTED WITH DOG ON RAILWAY CAREER; I | * them th't don't) ‘rue PUBLIC BE PLEAQED- Piru MeADoo | Special Dispatch Front Staff Writer Jing that to this day if he hadn't WASHINGTON, D.C. dan. 5. | found a place over in Jersey —The public be pleased! | the t was cheaper thar That is William MeAdoo's | Gotharr railroad slogan, | McAdoo has no use for the | anelent Vanderbiltian slogan public be damned!” He | oir) this clear w he first stepped into the railroad world back Inthe early 90's uthful ret ir Tries for Tunnel forth Got over the wasn't pleasing gE da a lot of time | terry s cold ery i ond. M and studied rai ta afte noon § first hand But that wasn't his first raftroad He went am all en jays Mule Line aid Firnt >» cars and my Hav adn “He ear Mere Trifle alwayn ke ng this liking for M the Te Adoo boug street worn mule and McAdoo converted road into an elsetric the early days of electric street no one In Kr io knew to make it go. By the time that » been mastered McAdoo's line wan in the bankruptcy court. And the McAdoo family—W. © | having married at 22 and being the |proud dad of atx children—moved on }to larger fields. When McAd ot New York, he hunted up a law to New York, he hunted up a law relative—and went back c ng law, And he might be practic n rail old ¢ his mule an eet b eoparatic ng them fre eybage by m1 to Manha ding twe is in New York, after fight ng down the bitterest oppoxttion the Street Railway com put up. He went thru of 1893, getting money tunnel nm other industries get a cent. And he fin one of the biggert pieces Jersey termi Metropolitan pany could to prac * of 20 the 191 thfee years preceding June ? Use OF CANALS AND RIVERS TO INCREASE WASHINGT D. C., Jan Look for increased use of riv and canals for transporta tion. With railways in gover ment hands t utilized adjuncts 0 traffic petitors indi point rome radicals against to « the ore nd unnec find its the senate, and led by Cummins from Borah am Johnson. a in in BY wed to thin basis WASHIN will be no BASIL TON rious pre ° rallr M. MANLY Jan to k Jerwhip of the f to hinder him grenn ou lent's plan to the for to made war Om the democratic side the oppo- ‘COMEDIES OF CAMP LEWIS LIFE | 5 taf) t you were doin ara; 1 was swinging my arms to Ki “Not as I saw it—ten days fanity!” Pp worm.” in the guard house for wig-wagging pro: 3UILT TUBE Then he drove the tube thru from | CART LINE of truct! under | saengers’ Delight” MeAd: ts the “p: 0 ve work ever delight.” Of all mpanies in Americ for assengers and jure than rw none doen more comfort MecAdoo's He ar of the When went t them why It #t her words, McAdoo took, the bub hi nfidence. } “put something over” cople who patronized his r yeaking of McAdoo, the Outlook mafety tunnel 4 that every and careful public as * wanted ye be} empl in hi he himself to increase asnengers nnd nt m he Adoo has 4 succeed maxim. ¢ result that aed and wel been nN interest tt mpany He's Biscuit Baker, Too en being a good rallrpad man. ly secretary of the treasury rackerjack tunnel builder and ny lawyer, William bbs Mo Adoo ia one of the best cow milffern 1 washers and biscult makers in the world. head to help With the milking, and baking when I wah explal “and I never Ain’ | fore w SENATE RADICALS TO FIGHT PRES WILSON’S R. R. COMPENSATION 1¢ | | PHONES NEXT? D.C, Jan ontrol of graphs may toward n Ma unable for rate t step tzation of industry phone companies | | be have asked ines, raises rece en receive active # the Gore-Vardaman-Kirby sup from a road democrats g on the tion handles this n attempt to 1, there sition will surely port fron with possible of anti-ra ich the opp If it looks f republican ery few ponents of the president's ree-year-average plan” point out two of those years, 1916 and were the t prosperc railroad history, at nt better than the aver before the w was a very make c me ar years 1915 or poor here are two substitute propos ale First, that th av ge of the four years preceding 1917 be taken which include two bad years and two good years; second, that the three years preceding the war, 191 114 taken a basie. first seems now more lik » urged ye basis of follows proposed compare as ident Wilson's pro posal (three-y ver age 1915-17) Substitute No. year avers Substitute No. year average Congressmen ordinarily to the railroads are so overjo: having them safe ing jcontrol that they are rather |placent about whether Uncle pays lars r own 1 (four 1 768,605 vosed at t an A year more for the use of the ds than they think the are entitled to radical ex-congressman “This is a case of seizure, and in | such cases the owners of the prop: erty can always present an extreme: ly strong case for over and above what exact would seem to indicate.” BURGLAR LANDS INTO ATHLETE’S LAWN CLEVELAND, 0O., Jan. 5 Bur. glars got their numbers mixed here Jan d struck a cyclone when they In | vaded the home of Charles Rig | National league baseball umpire. The invad bell, and when Mrs. they tried to rush p met by Rigler, who smashed a healthy wallop at one of the duo. The victim picked himself up in Rig ler's front yard, Police took him to a hospital, ‘The other burglar es caped, s Said one justice Rigler answered st her, but were CONTROL TELEGRAPIE AND *| will | 044) com: | | fifty or a hundred million dol-| ailroad | compensation || s rang the front door || U.S. INVADED BY MEXICAN ARMY OF BOLL WORM; COTTON HURT BY L. HARPER Zul district 1s 200 miles south Special Staff Diep t summer & sbi ASI N, D 4 went to Texi rat with nted with the emm in b worm—each ¢6, hunc, Texan ler th needle’s eye—but com |. The tn ng po ties of millions 0 from Mexic worth of destruction. led Americ noon as this disaster was heal | defensive the Horticultural board dispatell 1 force of bug men to the seene, All the that could be traced the bing and ral road cars burnt and every ly- ng plant within hundreds of yards wan destroyed. Congress appropriated $250,000 for the fight and the state of Texas also put up mon In the pest » Texan line of this mills, It was the pin ment . battle ng ught and # an territe te campaign waged for o earn need 04 tro Ir A few originally from laid waste th ntury pest landed in annual toll of on crop A rigid quarantine kept the out of Amer port |mighted growers in the Lagu trict of Mexico imp oa Ke 4 in order to grow long years ago the and take fifth the Egyptian ot got everything, however, a start in five Texas counties near the Gulf coast, and it is in these that the fight is now on, The next step will probably be the on of a wide zone in Texas, cultivation of cotton will be n for a number of years. A POOH,” SAYS THE N.C. 0., BUT LOOK IN DICTIONARY AND SEE INSTALLMENT NO. 6 OF THE, front. About the TRENCH TIONARY | American “Over ® spite | my rt nm A “, but t pt #taple | where Vtorty at the the meaning name There Ox Cart from an N hing from A slow going shell fired a French Romailles. P The rear wall of a trenehy The top part of the fron doing.” Prob- “Na Pooh” | the French ably derived 1» English soldier's slang for mmissioned officer Nine-Point-fwo — A howitzer that fires a shell 9 diameter No Man's Land 1 ba rw {1 of men sent out inte Land at night to inves! slang for a mag without worry riscope—An instrument by which] from all sides of the horizon down a tubes ep Nuage De Oberteutnant ant Oberst—German colonel Observation Post— Point from whict i rilllery Langa observes the effe oO. ¢ 4 r commanding. Octobrists—A Pa politic of Jencles imperial n ctober 30, 1905. “On Les Aura! Les Boches French se Out of the trenche fami ph of t German first Heuten nr Used in guid peering over tri aches, Perlot—French slang, tobacco, vermissionaire-A man on leave, Pill Boxes—German machine centers. Pinard—} que D'Identite— Identification t Vip Emma—-Afternoon Pipped—Slightly wounded. Pip Squeak—A German shell gets its name from the noise al part which We hem Aw ery of tb |Over the Top A front Out There c Mere makes Poilu—-A French private soldier. Poste De Secours—A dressing station, (Continued) Eng’ An { ; | Blorse Meat | me waukee © Aug. 1 15, 1 pounds of was and orme In ™ between and N ted | 0 for m ket putposes. The | price of the meat ranged from 6 to |12 cents a pound. at contains from two to | fo imes more glycogen than | beet yeogen is a very nourish but unfortunately much of it. di isappears during the ripening of the meat. | All horses to be slaughtered are! first conducted to a central market There they are given a rigid ante- | mor inspection. Those to be must be absolutely from any contagious or infec disease or ne condb Horses that have spavins, ormal feet may & for food. that extremely or affiicted with some condi that renders them unfit’ for are rejected and the owners destroy the animals. il horse meat are not to sell any other kind of | Baker’s Chocolate} The genuine -always have food free y Horses are ema. | ciated n tood advised to | Shops that | permit | meat this trade mark on the package and are made only | Registered vite. by Walter Baker & Co. Ltd. DORCHESTER, MASS. Established 1780 taurants in which horse meat obliged to display nspicuous place with le ‘+ informing pa eat is included in | ved |sien in a o ters six inches bh |trons that horse menus. HEALTH QUESTIONS ANSWERED asks: “How can one tell is developing | e to operate and N way |¢ | Internal Jitwelf in significa ind and change of can’ often manifests symptoms, such loss of 106 ‘COLUMBIA ST. Cor. First Ave. x DR. EDWIN J. BROWN Dv. D. & New at 106 Columbia I have left the tmit sistent weight color. ‘Indians Now Using (| Wampum Instead of | Coin for Purchases EARLY BIRD, Fla, Jan. 5.—On unt of the high cost of living, Semino! Indians of this state at tors of my name tempted to follow the old Indian cus-| signs on First av | noved my Deni - : + fices to the corner Oe Serer ae ave. and Columbia just across the stree Soa my old location, trance is 106 Columbia, midw tween First and Second aves, 7 Oe hot raise ‘my prices because of tae war, but 1 do expect to increase dental practice so that the ine business will effet ‘the inen jcost of doing ‘business because | the war. - 1 t to be known as the only | man In Seattle who did not raise Bis | Prices because of the war, BROWN, D. D. & Seattle's Leading Dentist 106 Columbia. tom of paying for goods with wam- |pumn (beads), Merchants would have refused, causing a revolution, ‘haa | |not a New York firm offered to take | the wampum ot | yes for doll babies EDWIN J. —with the season's offerings of seafood. Preferred every- where with lobster, oysters, clams or fish dishes for its appetizing, zestful, healthful properties, Manufactured from the finest cereals and genuine Saazer Hops, ANHEUSER-DUSCH St. Louis, U.S. AL re)