The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 8, 1918, Page 6

THE SEATTLE STAR 1307 Sevent Ave Neer Unie 8. SCRIPTS NORTUWEST LEAGUR OF NEWsrarmns “Telegraph News Service of the United Press Asscctation Bintered at Seattia Wash, Postoftice as Second-Clase Matter f montha, #200; Se — By mail, out of city, 486 per month year, 3 months, $1.18; 49:50. "hy Carrier, etty, 3 ‘a mont’ Mate 600. Private - Jewelry as Usual “Here's $200 Hille on a table where Ing tea, “I wish ye buy ES F ‘ 4 S& army captain, laying down the Th codore Roosevelt, jr. wan serv “ sister one of the best rings in Paris.” Mra. Roosevelt has forced to open a “shopping Dureau” at the Army Y. M A. Officers’ club.—Parts letter This illustrates how far some U. S. officers and Mrs. Roosevelt juniors ve got toward conception of what this is, and our duty in it. i Right around the next corner in Paris that U. S. officer Id have found the suffering, maybe starving children of renchmen who are out in the trenches, fighting and bleed- ‘ing to prevent that officer's sister from being outraged by half dozen or more beastly Huns, later on. If she has ‘any sense at all, sister will promptly pawn her $200 ring and | buy U. S. bonds, as a matter of self-protection. But how big a river of American blood has got to run before all of us size up our every dollar solely upon what it in lives and power? : How long before we'll, generally, realize that if we live _ @M cake, somebody cannot have bread? - Two hundred dollar finger rings for sister, forsooth! over your community, carefully, Mr. Reader, and you find German women and men, too, wearing two-cent rings. They sacrificed their $10, $20, or $200 gold rings the kaiser might have powder to shoot up U. S. army Y. M. C, A. clubs, shopping bureau and all. We have got to fight and overcome, before this world In sees peace, not only the organization, loyalty, sacrifice efficiency of all Germany, but also our own obsession $200 finger rings count in any way. We have got to it into us that if we have $200 or $2 surplus, we should it into the business of killing off the enemy, early and nently. Finger rings will not protect our sisters ‘inst the mad beast of Europe. Better melt them down load a gun with the bullion of them. That would be a ity it better example than Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt's in reau has set, with its fat donations of funds for rings. he Biggest of All Gambles The biggest gambling game in this country is not in il st. or the Chicago pit. arming, and it goes on night and day, the year ‘round, with pre and greater odds against the bettor than has any other said at Mrs. my he ‘Srey ” ‘The farmer bets his time, money, labor and life against insect pests, trusts and storage sharks and, if he i ree tegpes odds, he, very likely, must overcome rail- or rate pools. But, unless the farmer risks these odds, gambles with i@ cards always being shuffled and dealt by somebody else,)=* , No such im-)* stops. Government cannot go on. int governmental business as war can go on. The biggest gambling game is! DIES OF CAMP LEWIS LIFE! coer eer Ka O A | } Editor's Mail RENTAL HOLDUP Editor The Star: Dear Sir; In a recent issue of The Star, you made the statement that “Hooverising didn't mean robberising,” devoted quite a space cont of eating in Seattle nothing about the high cost of rent jing. I believe it ts time some one maid something about it lama drifier helper, employed by the Skin ner & Eddy corporation at $3.60 per day. I remide in the Laurel apartments. 203 find ave. & I have been paying $18 for two very emall rooms and a kitchenette | | benides light is Just and I came home § |cetved a notice, stating that my reat This being true, it follows that the country’s greatest} was rained to $20 per month, and n should be that the farmer win his bet. see to it that he has money on easy terms, seed in and the necessary tools, especially tractors and other for producing much at the minimum outlay of labor. the past year our whole country was stirred to producing foodstuffs. Millions of people became who had never before produced enough to chicken in good condition. The total was something a . but we've got to do better, the coming season, ‘we will. _ But, while we farmer gamblers won, in the past year, the natural odds, there was one odd that prevailed us, to a sad, discouraging, wasteful extent—trans- ortation blockade. We had the food but could not deliver t where it would do the most good. | Get your seed! Polish up the plow, the hoe and the 1 Uncle Sam has the railroads. What you grow will not go to rot. The odds against you have been cut n in great shape! Dne Way of Getting Car Service _ Government work, especially shipbuilding, has been ously hampered in New York and Brooklyn, just as it been in Seattle, by slipshod, one-lung transportation. ‘The trolley service there has failed utterly to handle workers in a decent manner, and the ferryboat éwners been playing Berlin's game by charging exorbitant So what was done? The United States senate commerce committee, acting the best New York advice obtainable, Thursday night, ded that the shipping board commandeer all the transportation facilities needed to solve New York's Today, according to Washington dispatches, the ship- officials announce that they will take over the ke { and ferries unless the situation clears itself at _ once. DON'T FAIL to register. WHILE THE East is having its industries crippled by blizzards, Beattie makes hay. HAVING WOMEN conductors would not have relieved the conges ion on the rear platform. i LOOKS JUST as if the kaiser tan't going to get any Rolsheviki Miles into his peace net after all | _RAISING APARTMENT house renta every two or three months Won't solve Seattle's scarcity of homes problem. GERMANY’S HOLDINGS in Africa, before the war, were over five times the area of Germany, and she’s lost practically all of them. | IT MIGHT be sativtactory to some street car patrons if fares are | Fedueed for strap hangers and increased for the customers who remain seated, A MITCHELL, § D., woman has turned over to a bank 20,000 © pennies she has saved since babyhood. What a kind, consctentious papa that child must have had! A PROPOSED aerial route would carry messages from Gen. Pershing 40 President Wilson in 4% hours, covering a distance of 3,700 miles. At that rate a shipyard wotker could get to work from his home at Green Lake in about five minutes. the Union Dentists lass work than any other Dentist: Absolut DoYouKnow That P lene, for Stret—c Be- Their work uaranteed for 15 year Ae. e Ed, pain- those wh. e’elock ev. LADY ATTENDANTS. UNION DENTIST. PIKE STREET. OVER OWL DRUG STORE, Government} = told that all rents in Seatte were raised January |. Now if you, or any one else in Seattle, can tell me how a man with and properly you. The government intends to send about 20,000 men here next spring to work in the shipyards. They had better send single men with no de pendents, for men with families can't property provide for them and pay the rents they are charging I came here one month ago to work in the shipyards, but will have to leave, unless I can find cheaper apartments. I am not trying to knock Seattle or any of the residents, excepting the owners of rentable property. 1 think {if there are any robbers in| | Seattle it In they | The Star is always the friend of |the working man, and I think an leditorial on this would look pretty | good. | A WORKER ( Thorouginess |] characterizes our methods tn t fon, and our cus- corded every cor with sound bui 2 Accounts t to Cheek Are Invited. | | | | SAVE YOUR EYES || RESTORED BY OUR SYSTEM It In the Somet! 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STUFF™ LOSE The shortage ts only pay according to Doc Gar ToRTUsSesS FEED ExcCLUSIVELY ON VEGETAGLES ANSWERS TO OUR READERS Please tell me how to make light bread.—-Mra. M. G. ©. The only light bread of which we have ever heard is the current roll What member of an orchestra doen the least work?—M. U. The drummer. He beats it when- ever there is any work to be done. Why ts it that so few horses ever try to bite?—J, M. 0 Because they know biting will not hurt a bit. What kind of a plant never has any leaves?-—L. W. 8. A steel plant On what kind of people does a tel ograph company depend the most?- E. W. E ‘The Poles . “Dear madam,” begins a reply from Sears, Robuck’s, “we were sor. ry to learn from your letter that we had forwarded the improper hose to you.” o- WHY DIDN'T H (From Bloomington, Wis., Record) Mies Olive Hope, teacher at Sa lem, is home for the holidays. Miss Hope saw the jackknife which a Kenosha man swallowed and knows all the = circumstances The knife was found in his stomach and he didn't know how it got there. cee ASK OLIVE? If the kaiser was quite sure of his mailed fist and shining sword, would he be sending up hot air balloons? Jokes about the slow railroads should hereafter be addressed to Mr. McAdoo, see SHOW THIS TO YOUR PLUMBER. IT MAY AMUSE HIM (From the Decatur Herald.) Frozen Water Heaters, Repairing & specialty. Not a plumber, there: fore prices. reasonable, c WwW. Brewer, of the case, | JAN. 8, 1918. PAGE 6' Public peace negotiations are now in progress between the allies and the being made by the vario The negotiations are of and the suffering. Piping In the night. This ix the ceremony that im- presses Frenchmen more than any other in the British lines | in France. | When Scotch kilties blow out their checks and tune up to Ereet the ending of the day, in | the streets of little shell-gutted | French villages, the pollus stand | around and marvel. So relates Henry Ruffin, a French war correspondent, in a little book lof dispatches from the French front It in one of the numerous war pamph that fill the tables at the British recruiting office, Becond ave. | and James #t | uffin's «tory: “It wan just before sunset—the | most impressive moment of the day | lin these British lnes | Hear the Pipes re returning from the about 4 ‘clock The «ky “We trencher PUTS “LIKKER” IN FALSE LEG TO AGE CHARLESTON, W. Va, Jan. §.— “The eye of the law be pene trating and all that, but when it gets to be like an Xray and can detect likker! in my wooden leg, it'® time) for all Southern entiomen who | tke the ni tion oF not, toy | ait aration of Cecil began serving a Such wa jStamper when he sentence of two months in |violating the prohibition laws. He bored a hole in his wooden leg and | secreted there in whisky. He anid he thought the liquor would be better if| it aged a while in wood | Stamper's mistake was made when | frequently. The cOurt is now con- sidering confiscating the leg if he up. YOU'RE BILIOUS, HEADACHY, SICK Don't stay constipated with) | breath bad, stomach sour or a cold. Enjoy life! Liven your liver and bowels tonight and feel fine. ORK WHILE YOU SLEEP) Tonight sure! Remove the liver and bowel poiron which is keeping your head dizzy, your tongue coat ed, breath offensive and stomach eou Don't stay bilious, sick, headachy, constipated and full of | jeold, Why don’t you get a box of | Cascarets from the drug store now? | Eat one or two tonight and enj | the nicest, gentlest liver and bowel | cleafising you ever experienced You will wake up feeling fit and fine. Cascarets never gripe o bother you all the next day, Ii salts and pills, They act gently but thoroughly, Mothers should give sick, bilious or lfeverieh child hole Cascaret any time. They harmless and children love them | COR. FIRST AVE. and PIKE ST. | Phone Matin 4965 “IF | HURT YOU, DON’T PAY ME.” This is my message of deliverance to you from the fear that accom. panies Dental operations, I EXTRACT, FILL, CROWN and |TREAT Teeth absolutely without pain in all cases but acute abscessed conditions, Lowest prices tn your city for high-class guaranteed STERLING DENTISTRY ‘ Central powers. This is the inevitable conclusion from the open declarations us belligerent statesmen. not following the time- worn custom of handing over the fates of nations to a few secret representatives who have settled the outcome of previous wars behind closed doors. Instead of duplicating these proceedings of the past, the people of the warring nations are now being publicly informed of every move the negotiations take. The negotiations themselves are simply the announcements of the hostile statesmen spoken not principally to one another but to the millions eople of all nations who are doing the fighting The kaiser has demanded from the start that wan cloudy, the ground heavy the night fell, a cold, penetrating ride Suddenly, as we were entering the village, the sound of music reached our ears. It was the bag pipes In front is the of the village, with double row on. At the din ndred yards the That in the mer than the principal street of whitewashed tow middie of the In front, 12 bugles and side them, the big drum. “The Song of the pipes swells out louder, and now the bugles and drums give it thelr support. Refore their drums. drum, mers, with the precision of automata, bring their heels tog their chests, and then, raising elbows face high, croms the ftickn behipd their necks ‘Only then may they drums; between touching the their drum. begin to |fox enveloped the whole country-|big drum hit }a windmill SECRET DIPLOMACY A THING OF THE ; PAST; PEACE ADDRESSED TO PEOPLE NO a peace exchanges be conducted at a private cone ference, but it is a highly significant indication of the democratization going on in Germany that even the German statesmen are being forced into making open statements of their terms. A democratic peace parley is gradually taking form. It is now showing such an accumulation of energy that the reactionary kind of bickerings which the kaiser loves has been made impossible. Lloyd George’s new was a democré declaration of war aims ic announcement to the Teutonic people. It is now up to German public opinion to demand that the kaiser’s statesmen reply. There is every likelihood that this will be done quickly, The kaiser is being driven, for the first time in the history of Hohenzollernism, to democ- ratize his war and peace powers. Democracy is winning the war. Scotch Kilties Pipimg at Night Amaze Their Poilu Comrades ~~ An plo “The song of the pipes ewella out it first on one side time whirls his free drumatick lke He is not, perhaps, a | musioa! virtuoso, but there can be her, throw out | no question Juggler “Meanwhile, the village street has become filled with soldiers. achments, just back in along the The men, their steel pets and leath their breasts exposed to the look lke the legionaries of about bis ability as « wind, 7 “The short, sharp words of com- mand and the clink of weapons mingle with the wailing of pipes, while at their cottage doors, the lonely wives of French soldiers look calmly on all this bustle in their street. A little fair- haired girl beats time to the muste with her left hand. “The night has been saluted by the armies of Britain. “The night has been saluted by INSTALLMENT NUMBER FI T & trench Tank—A new type of British arm. ored car Taube—German for dove, A type of German airplane used early in the war Officeholder under the old regime in Hunsia. Tear Shellk—A German chemical shell that temporarily affects the evyenieht corresponds te an American mi- man. Ts YOUR | WER! | Territorial—An English soldier that 6 |r Jats—Steel helmets Also name for staff officers T. N. T—Trinitrototuol. One of the mont powerful of high explosives. Mads m toluol treated with jail for | Taking Over—Relieving the force in| HE GOT HIT WITH SOMET.N.T. SO? IT’S SO IN THE DICTIONARY iT} OF THE TRENCH DICTIONARY | Tommy nitric and sulphuric acida English common soldier Tommy's Cooker—A special kind of alcohol stove for the trenches: | Tovarish (Plural Tovarishi}—Russian word for comrade. “Citoyen”™ tion Train Sanitaire—Hospital train. Traverse—A detail of trench con- struction to prevent enfilading fire by the enemy, Used like the of the French revolu Trench Candle—Also calied icles | heater, A short length of news paper rolled tight, pasted to gether and soaked in melted paraf. fine Trench Feet—A dinease of the feet brought on by cold and wet Turtles—German hand grenades. Typewriter—Machine gun (Continued) Athins—Popular name for Little Girl Travels 10,000 Miles to Papa ‘and then on the other, and each | | Here's a tip to some little Ameri lean boy to go into training for mat irimony. The “prettiest little girl ip w Zealand,” Frances Symington, %, has just come to these shores. A little Miss who will travel 10,000 miles—from Wellington, New Zew land, to Philadelphia—to join her fa ther is the stuff of which faithful wives are made. And she’s going te become an American citizen. | GREEK CHRISTMAS LATE Greek residents of Seattle celebrat — ed Christmas yesterday, This is be | cause the Greek caiendar places the | dates of all events 13 days later than |that used by Americans and Europe — jan nations. Members of the Seattle | Greek society say that more than J 000 of the Greeks who have the United States as their © are now serving in Uncle army and navy. “Saving Thru the +Universal—It's the Way to be Successful.” W E have never paid less than at the rate of ...... | DON’T FORGET} Per Aanum 8% A full six months’ dividend will be paid July 1st on all savings left with us on or before January 15th. WE are under State Supervision. A full six months’ dividend will be paid July 1st on all savings left with us on or before January 15th. E loan our funds only on U. S. 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