The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 7, 1918, Page 6

Bi spect of alert American army officers. THE SEATTLE STAR at Seattle Wash, Postoffice Second-Clase Matter By mail, out of city, 400 __ Year, $3.60 Published Daity by The exchange com moth; 3 nontha ¥, 806 orm $1.16: € montha #200; « month Northwest have gradu- ary espion Before our very eyes, we of the ally seen rey d the tentacles of Prussian milita age. Helmuth Ritter, a German, uable military papers. So clever was he th They made him @ nt major. He cunningly shouldered responsibilities was finally able to place his finger on the pulse of the it cantonment in the United State Helmuth Ritter has taught us a lesson that many were to learn. We must beware of the him. We must keep our eyes and ears open—and our mouths ‘shut. To peace-loving, isolated Americans, it ems strange sometimes silly, that we should suspect many of our lik- Teutonic friends. But it is not silly. It is common sense. We fail to understand the extent of the er’s espion- system because we have not spent years in plotting for The mask has been torn off. We revelation of Germany trickery. The time for simple-minded trust in Germans over here ended. We are at war with a nation that stops at nothing. Look with suspicion upon that nation’s subjects. a New Ailment Fits I. A. W. Welzmiller, physical director, and Dr. C. P. . psychology peat president, both of New ‘announce that thousands of women are breaking down “knitting nerves,” and that the spread of this new nt is becoming very serious. We are ready to believe it. Mother sits all hunched all day and all evening, and knits and knits as if there only 3 instead of 365 days in the year, and her nerves We surely want the physical directors and psy- 0 to do all they can for her. tut aren’t the experts going to give one tht to father’s knitting nerves? He's got 'em. He from a day’s hard work and finds mother fiddling ‘ with the pretty needles on a sweater. Daughter Susie \ in one corner working at a helmet. Son Willie is another corner sawing out a wash rag. The odor of 's burning potatoes fills the sitting room, as Bridget’s out to a pair of wristlets. All father has to do sit down and consume the gladsome evening time by, and of himself. Continue the situation about seven the week, and the real agonized patient for “knit- Nerves” treatment is father. Everybody knits but +,,and he just sits around lonesome and has “the Burleson Postmaster General Burleson wants to abolish the is of postal employes. Letter carriers don't need any says Burleson, because they are working for the gov- “Public opinion’ a sufficient protection for nment employes, avers Burleson. - “Public opinion,” when prodded by the demands and nents of an efficient employes’ organization, may pro- ment workers. But “public opinion” left to itself nothing. The proof of this is that “public opinion” done nothing for many years to help the government ter, who, during that time, has been giving service for game rate of pay, altho the purchasing power of a dollar — below 50 cents. Inder present conditions government employes are ng the worst exploited groups of workers in the United and Uncle Sam has unwitingly become a sweat-shop German—unless we are sure we see, almost every day, we Watch Against t Sentimentality Honest emotion is a strong and natural expression of in life—sentimentality is a thrice-cursed weakness. Wartimes are periods of intense emotional strain—and yf danger that the emotion which properly inspires or re- us may degenerate into weak sentimentality, harming it should help. Women especially should guard against uncontrolled ion. From an army officer himself comes the statement the high morale of our fighting men depends to a great nt upon the behavior of the women, the courage and tulness which they display—the moral backing which ” Ee e the men. ere is no time for hysteria of grief—for morbid ab- ion in and discussion of war horrors, for faddish fren- of patriotism that hamper production. Self-control and “cheerfulness is the best possible service to the nation. American women, like American men, are IN the war they are in to win. The first commandment of a fighter DON’T WHINE! A ALL THE electric power plants "Rah for Uncle Sam! at Niaga Falls commandeered! : MMM-M! GOVERNMENT has granted the c ‘Went of their needs of sugar. makers 80 per SOMEBODY'S W. ASTING tolls by breaking her armistice promises cabling that Germany is already RAILROADS ARE cutting the “de luxe” trimmings from their pas. penger service, in behalf of better freight service. That's the stuff MOST SOFT coal mines produce faken away. Here's one of your tough McAdoo. KAISER WILHE Shining «words. It mus' & disposition only fast propositions: Mr their output R is Director Christrnas awful for s be thoughts 1 fellow ran to fista and with such iron to go thru life THAT BAKONESS Iona Zollerner, under arrest that she’s not proGerman by suing her German What more can Uncle m ask? at Annapolis, husband for “the kaiser has turned from fighting for Wonder if the people of Germany will ACCORDING TO himself, Merritory to fighting for peace be impressed by the difference THAT BREST-LITOV sk peace conference seems to have run Up against the hard fact that nobody is proposing peace with the Prus. wlan autocracy save the Polwheviki THE HUNS balk on transferring the peace pour parlers to Stock holm. Why not propose our own Puget sound country? Mr. Salisbury certainly has supplied us well with “pour parlors” this winter ; THE GREEKS celebrate Christmas te It sure is tough on ‘the little ones to have to be content with what Santa Claus brings them After he's visited the rest of the world SUGAR ADMINISTRATOR ROLPH “Ariven many men to ice cream sodas whortage. testifies that prohibition has and thus helped to produce sugar ‘This nation seems to be headed right at raw water. THE MANAGER of the Metropolitan Opera Company denies that Geraldine Farrar is to retire, We don't know who started the rumor that Geraldine was to retire, but it probably was due to some of _ ber costumes. has been arrested at Camp) as a spy, following the disappearance of highly val-| t he gained the confidence and re-| solitary | |COMEDIES dust fiv ae oa anthem STAR—MONDAY, JANUARY 7, 1918, PAGE 6 OF CAMP LEWIS LIFE CAR LIM. ANNO Who Is Little Wi Li Minnie—See TRENCH DICTIONARY. L Laissez Passer—A military pases Landsturm—One of the unite of the German army Lee Pafield — The rifle Bi army eA reserve uned by the radi } nam r, Nikotal Lenine —A German second leuten: | ac ooled 1 Army (in Freneh, 5 machine Lewis Lewis Gun—An sire a by n inver Cot of the United States Listening Post decoute) — A first Poste md the u itt Willie—German € | Louftingue—French slang for « fool, a “nut.” M Maceabees—Corpece. “One gets uned | Minnie — 4 | Muzhik or Majik—! e and His Trench Dictionary to living bees, an we & French o M. B. K.—Missing. believed killed. Mariolie—French slang for bluff Marmite—A kettle German shell, from it nee to the bexide corpses, or Macca. call them."—Diary of joer ke Also fro renemb Massed ‘Formatlon—The clone order | body 4n which Germann attack Maximalists—A social revolutionary party in Russia. See Loninites: Medaille Militaire—Military medal hb oration Millimeter—A unit of measure, 0.0392 kind of shell fired b Mine fer Minenwerfs Moins Cinque—P ren in Mufth—Civilian ¢ German he ume lothes tuanian peasant (Continued) “I lomt $200 in bills yesterday postcards H. S$. “The one I was most pleased to lose wag for a new tire. 1918 CROP HAS STARTED ‘Aria-—O, Rest in the Ford (From Elijah.)"~-Houston Pont It can't be done We notice a local dealer is adver: machines at 5 break all records.” eee We hear that the government in-| tends to discharge the great army of freight and passenger solicitors em ployed by the railroads. Which helps to prove an argument we ha heard for years: that the govern ment could not operate the railways 80 economically the companies could a - NANNY — ‘NABBERS: | UVE FINE Blocks AWAY SO WOULD You MIND DELIVERING THE | THE HUSKY LADY \WHO ASKS THE GROCER To DELIV AN EIGHT CENT ORDER !! Certainly if a railroad needs any thing these days it is a man to s0- licit freight that can’t be carried. RIGORS OF THE OHIO WINTER (From a Piqua (O.) Contemporary) Grandpa Bibbins’ false teeth w cracked by the frost last 1 night y the way, whatever became of the Spugs? And the Mufs? Don't you remember the Mufs? The society to Move Up Forward in the Car? oe IONS E. D. K. ANSWER Would you say that a ship and a walnut are alike because they both have a bhull?—D. B. Ie it tru that a starts a fi report?—F. J. R. If a soldi likes a treat, m't he like a retreat?—C. tell me how to remo rust from the fence.—H. W QUE CANNOT cannon never why H, ©. 6 the nails in our backyard A Modest Request Will some of our farmer friends remember us with a dozen grains of corn? We desire to use them in the making of @ lavaiere for our best | wan made ° } ° ( Editor’s Mail | CITY AGAINST SAMMIES? Editor The Star: A few days ag our attent waa called to a Ing made one of our city offi . Mr. Hugh M. Caldwell a counsel The on new ¢ sh corpe tion ruling, as we understand against a general order by the civil service board, set ting forth rules pertaining to service em eapecially who have been drafted, or who vol iteered their service to “Our Coun try,” that their places would be held for them until the end of the war and 90 days thereafter The civil service board, in issuing this general or followed the sents ment of many other large Many large firms are making up the difference in the wages of their employes who ore in the service of “Our Government.” civil cities, Are attle the when American citizens of Be > stand for such @ rul ar ia in w t life and autocracy may pro’ a and r Or are we, the true American citi zens of Seattle, going to say, “Go, my |boy; serve your country; if you are not numbered with the slair are welcome back to Now your old p we want to hear from every pa'triot and se Seatt this nubject a committee of five rs of jotism thru and we American tax and « ne appeal this our patr our paper. w announcement MILLER, Chairman. OUR FORE TREES Editor The Star: An editorial in |your paper of Christmas iseue dealt with the need of preserving the for exts along the highway leading to the Rainier jonal park these trees being, er of being cut, 1 time the grand in ¢ thus spotling for eur of thin highwa By all means, | these trees should |be saved, and action taken at once to preserve them. But let us | also to the Sunset highway, the only |highway connecting the east and west parts of the state, and also a |Part of m transcontinental highway, thus making it doubly important to Seattle. The Snoqualmie pass this highway, with the jabout eight miles, in in the § |mie National forest. That |nafo, for a time, at least maining timbered foot of Grouse ridge, being stripped. It neens to me that the people of Seattle will not favor the cutting of these trees. ‘This mall portion could [be added to the national forest, and thus preserve this fringe of trees. nection of exe noqual- part is but the re distance, to the is in danger of |done quickly, Will Seattle act? kK, BULL, hen.—New Waterford (O.) Magnet. oe WE CAN'T FIGURE IT OUT The Torkelson twin brothers were home Sunday visiting their re | spective parents—Plano (Ill.) News. It Is significant—or isn't it?—that Col. Lewis was regarded with sus picion in Washington when he ex pressed a desire to give something to the government. ption of| minutes to cateh a train—and the band sirikes up the! jover BY WM. G. Unite The laboring man’ maneuvered the autocratic the Brest-Litovsk peace ps It has put the kaiser carry wate Unwittingly or not, time working Presa this talk is Russia's peace that Gerr that th getting together BY €. ¢ The Star's Special the American Army in France WITH THE AMERICAN IN FRANCH Jan. 4.—The old-time regular army t aneer that he'd vate in regulara than in the onal Guard Poking fun at YON tuned a pr a general man rather be Na the state regulars. ten than not the guar quips without ably after all eam But National these days A very And more nen t the jents nerion prob: b war protest that n at the admitting inwardly he was a mutt at the France there's Guarda no tr eheering -” in the ree was re from a high general in ular army, not long ago, viewing a militia regiment Middie Western state The behind down the pike k band an and spruce, glistening—a anding, stalwart, phood troops came a or every oad up, guns side and ot up intelligent Amerie In step, cou and carriage they looked like I lads When the review waa ended the general turned and with excle mat that showed intense sati» faction, maid to those near him boys! Mark rt rerty an The tn very long wtate here is ing A degree of intelligence. willingness that «imply amazes some of the regular army officers who so-called militiaman into hin pep | rae | | those | They will be cut unless something is | | have high command over them In a good many cases, these offi core have had to revise completely their pfecorwelved notions about such troops, It's a foregone conctusion that the National Guard units are going to make good in France because a big ty of the boys have brains how t« them One regim: t* more than PIDD MAY “LIVE ON BREAD AND WATER CAMP LEWIS and water, it Jan Bread mored at ¢ lay is the probal! diet George Pidd, convicted of murderous Asmault on Lawrence Berqui Seat tle taxi driver Pidd, it is alleged, was ring leader in the jail break in Tacoma Friday morning, but failed to get away, He * considered by military authort ties as one of the mort vicious pris oners arrested here since the camp opened, He wan nentenced to life imprison ment STOP PAIN! 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(Lfsasefor cosy iy can, or buy guberat dragaivta Te will beneht you four men maze than it costor we pty Bawet ee For tial can free write to Editor's Note—Wm. G, Shepherd, 8 spondent, recently returned from Russia, and by reason of his service particularly situation, today writes the following story for The Star: vernment n autocracy is decreasing. » kaiser is not on the square. Trotsky and Lenine had the ambitious idea beyond Wilson's idea of the plain Reporter With) ARMY the militias wan one form of amusement for the }} in r staff corre- qualified to analyze the SHEPHERD Correspondent of mment of sia has out wove Germany in rleys. in the position of trying to on both shoulders. Trotsky and Lenine are just exactly President Wilson's plans to encourage the G ple to throw off the yoke of their autocratic master at America in rman peo- in line with poisoning Germany. It is a poison gas that the Germans first used, after the Rus sian revolution, that is now being blown back on them. The Russians are showing to the German democracy They have shown going people of all nations and demanding an end of war. out of a total me 0, and son s in the outfit hi more in high neh the « ip 4 0 of the had one year about be © ot In a football : n two f th ° play game ita oF fe two mer oc of th ‘The particular star of the | th contest made the all-American a few years back. He's a serg now The an a ¢ entirely m nt * no much thi or reg tim Ko here nent mpar ‘The quick expe can army from busted the old arm and every regular aptitude and was put to instruct cruite, Hundreds of minsions The a lot of instar have been men in the How take to officer name habit | regulars. of the Ameri 0 to 2,000,000 to mmithereens man who showed moral the new re m won com: 100.0 ng National Guard regiments, in ontain men who ing much longer than alled regulars National Guard Most of the from th in the] the war dincipli nd m towns ne? ume record | Russia’s Peace Talk Is Poisoning Germany, Says Wm. G. Shephere The German armistice was part of this plan, The Russian council of workmen and soldiers, representing, as far it wa ible, the plain people of Russia, thru its towards the democracy of Gere many. Only a few days having grasped the horny t and of shaken a hand bearing the ¢ itiet of militarism. handclasp is broken today. The dream reaching thru and beyond militarism aiserism, the German common people, has bee hattered, If there is a German democracy such as the Ruse sians hoped to encounter it lies behind the stone wall of the kaiser’s militarism. Proof that it exists is in the fact that the autocrats are preventing Russians from dropping pamphlets behind the German lines, and that Foreign Minister Kuhlmann will not permit German socialists to go to Stockholm to confer officially with Russian liberals If Lenine and Trotsky cannot reach the German people now, they must try to batter down the wall be- tween them and their German fellows In other words, they must again join and help to fight the way to the German people. a out po: hand of negotiations showed, instead of democracy, they had That of to the allies common LEPROSY there It 500 extimated that 500 lepers out States At there thr in to the Uni first names This is a comment often heard But this tion pre | limited degree now of regiments has made de for new offi f the militia uni “home” colonels, hundreds of officers’ traini ansigned to them with wh I am we hi elght such from tui ails only The doub nize mill necessary ers. Whi tx etill bh m: 1 in ia to this which ained solely the unfortunates afflicted with Cinease At the hearing held by the mittee n public health and natior quarar of the United Stat year, for thepurpose ring a bill to provide for th care and treatment of lepers, exp were unanimous in stating that dixease has been present in the Unit led States for a considerable nun lof years, and that it is on the crease. The and trebling ot go out le Il have jors and utenants | captatr ‘ from th : Ihave been ° schools One juainted new offi six differen wa ail t states Ax far as my felle home go,” said one 1, “I can't we my continuing my familiarities b come from the woods back home guard te 1 operate ders if 1 members of th Dick and Bob after is res without having much th w officers from National Guard any harm in former civilian the We all name neck of the about have been in the | asylum. and years | leprosy r to co-|many out my hem and call them 4 Harry. What I'm 4 if I can get them ramrod up my better, m The yearn is very and carry a8 | development of the symptoms. quate care and treatment. WAID ADVERTISEMENT 'LAWLESSNESS or PATRIOTISM? BY EDWIN J. BROWN Were the men wearing the sailors uniform of the United States, and led by two lawlemd coward civilians lawless or patriotic, when they entered the print shop of the Pigott Printing Co., and dingraced the uni form of the nation by lawlessly and criminally destroying the property of the Red Cross and many others? Were these men ied by German epies, hired thugs, lunation, or just plain cowards? SEATTLE DISGRACED AGAIN These men were not acting in the capacity of U. 8. xallors or soldiers when this shameful outrage against Inw and decency was comm They were just plain |dingracing the uniforms American navy, which | They led by | probably criminals if ot those who would they were were be Last week I rmany cours made m dizcunsed the question) having and, nly through the acts of its ernment, and govern ments usually controlled by the governing minority, it would be silly| to assume that the German people have no soul (consideration for oth: ers) when everyone knows that the of Germany have been working for over fifty years to cul tivate a soul naideration for other nations) in the Prussian military utocracy that has subjugated the German states, and now seeks to rule the world THE GERMAN SOCIALISTS ROTEST tember of oy as ar Socialists On Sunday Treptow Park, at Berlin, over 100,- 000 German people attended a So | clalist meeting to protést against the Prussian government taking any tep that lead to war with France, because war was unneces- | sary (they manifested a soul), but if this meeting had been called and at tended by Prussian militarists, the minority ‘ruling power of Germany | would have demanded war, bees it has no soul, and consequently | knows no better way than brute! force. 3, 1911, in} might use | PUBLIC OWNERSHIP In 1896 the idea gf Collective Own: | ership of public utilities was gain: ing headway. In 1899, at the Anti-| ‘Trust Convention in Chicago, it was proven from every angle that secret rebates and special favors by public carriers. was primarily responsible for every trust and stolen fortune | the United States, In 1900 the) Democrat Party wanted to deel for public ownership in its platform, but did not because it was too pro:| gressive | In ttle, in 1906, William Hick man Moore was elected mayor on a public ownership platform, but fail ed to attend the first meeting in the| old tle Theatre after his elec tion Our street service was so bad| that everybody in town was ready to fight a snake and it first bite A splendid plan had been worked out whereby Seattle could construct and| own its badly needed street car lines: with an expenditure of about $1,500,000, Capable engineers had prepared plans for the city to build what are now the Wallingford, the Meridian, the Woodlawn ave, and | | tie jana | sugar, | con not whi cow ards un © methods this nation o In this p will gainst the common triot iam or Mr Mr len, ¥ enem enens? f of Police Warren and District Attorney Clay r u gentlemen now have a chance to make good in office. You have all the power and legal ma-| chinery for apprehending these men and putting them in prison, where they belong, and wu “s you do it you should both resig It’s up to you gentlemen to remove this ugly stain from our navy, and from Se attle, if you would © our navy respected and the citizens’ private rights protected in this city, under a government of law v. B hav Uniess you silence will g lawlessness wh supp! tlemen ent to the very ch it is your duty to act, your on Public Ownership, Capital © and Labor in Time of War Next Week I Will Write on Patriotism and Lawlessness in Seattle By EDWIN J. BROWN r badly a needed lines on 7 i on Mr. | transportation r om | tion, and production is no ‘city engineer, with | U8. and production is not completed cunning gentlemen, pre-| Until consumption begins. All p pared plans for a city owned duction is now carried on for profit syatem which would cost about |to the minority owning class, and i€ 5,000,000, and submitted the gigan s 0 sary fo nonsensical scheme to the voters | acini for Oe for the purpose of killing the | exploit the majority producing class; municipal ownership idea in this The producing class (the workers) city, and the voters, feeling keenly | receive wages, but what wealth they (the product of labor) goes cessities of life. For this reasom is a part of produce n Moc n ¢ owned system. who wa other very their betrayal, voted the bonds down. whereupon the franchises ¥ : owner. to the Seattle pctric Company, pot nt ° owner receives over and above the and upon this new franchise @ re-| ages he pays is surplus value, out Orenneion ‘i neW| of which he gets his profit. bonds and stocks were issued many Ww 1 1th t of millions in excess of the cost of| ngs 00% 50 a ee improvements, upon which Seattle | ving op eee: Wore = oom has paid interest and dividends ever |!iving regulates wages, here liv since, and today, when there is a/in& is high, wages are high; where chance to unload the institution onto living seg poe! low. bis the people, with a good prospect of | !* Oe Se ee Ser sesh dale tar’ vateauaa wer continues to ine <i stock, this institution comes | ay bepdepgesin io. forward and admits that it is a fail j which + a ~ ae ee ure private owned institution, Fh tlhe giclee: ge. spy “7 and asks the government to take it] ™@nds of capital, and further ime and run it. (They probably have| tensification conflicts with natural found more fertile fields of green.)|!*W and the public good. The cap ap snaked ote uytoremypn | italist increases prices and the works ia uecicie tet: licht, power |€F demands more pay; the capitalist Sal Satan teneoete as to ria/eannot pay more wages and more this city of their infldence and ex peters he now.aams £0 a aiaiiane pened | to raise his prices on gas, telephon railroad rates and all things! notwithstanding or the selling was is ap, W al disintegrates tive p ns and AL way entire coal This is a time to unite and h all public utilit factures, and us to eliminate be ready produce for use over, so that th or all progressives in the acquiring of | pate: a other manu: | ry west - which labor them organiz Tahar te — — cada |contract because labor's wages are © manufacture and) cut every time the price of the ne after this war is] cessities of life are ratsed. Thus this profit system willl conflict becom: st bring on another war. Collec ‘ot bring on another war. Collec-| the general welfare tive ownership wi essitate the! ownership (public standardization of railroads, of stee! | jemocratic management with produc: plants, of coal mines, of the meat. | tion for use is the only remedy that flour and other industries that | win) avert social pathology or viol now operate under an between the classes which grows out waste owing “to operation |of class interests in production for competition and for profit profit 1 disregards all law Gararat. LAROR and all franchise contracts in its struggle for profit, Labor is com. n industrial development be-|petled to violate its contract (a inefficient under capitalism sometimes the law) to live. capital has fulfilled its of The remedy is to abolish capital and labor organizing the industrial institutions}and all work together and produce fe operation, and the social rev lution i ummated Litthge aay sive the mice olution ix consummatec lah, lite paerodiry ob What ig true of street and steam bs \ being slave re today, under ailways is also true of coal mines,}a system that makes a class war ine st industries, shipbuikling, meat evitable as well as the social pathok packing, flour mills, oll production patho} oxy of nations, (WAR A MISER- and all other manufacture of the| ABLE BUSINESS UNAVOID else, ip E price under contracts were made, now compelled to break ite 1 so and collective ne ownership) and enormous | under vi AND Wh mission son, as w scattered thrue the present: are only’ institutions’ country are maine absence of leprosaria had sed many of these lepers to wane | the country, seeking an incubation period of long, sometimes as as 20 years elapsing between |the exposure to the disease and the There is a crying need for institu: tions which will control the sperad of this disease and provide a place in which its victims may receive ade therefore what the ] ~ sq his franchise 4 incompatible with j