The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 11, 1918, Page 6

([ Pebitaned patty THE SEATTLE STAR 907 Seventh Ave, Near Uniew St. OF SCRIPTS NORTHWEST LEAGUE OF Newsrarcns News Service of the U ited Preas Asseciation Battered at Seattin Wash, Postoffice as Seoond-Class Matter SP RBy mail out of city 0c per n th: 3 months $1.15 Yoar, $2.60. Ry carrier, ctty by The Star Publishing Co. exchange connecting Child and Woman Labor “As the labor situation created by the war develops, am more interested’ than ever in throwing all the safe guards possible around the labor of women and children Order that no intolerable or injurious burden may be Y d on them. * * 6 montha $2.00 300 a month, Phone Main 600. Private |) departments, That's President Wilson, speaking his mind in a recent to the national child labor committee. The the working both day and night shifts— resident’s statement is highly interesting, in view option of the principle enunciated by him in our state with reference to the employment of women as tors on Seattle street cars. Tt should be also of particular interest right now to of the gentlemen in the packing industry in Chicago, where it has been lately reported that women were a desperate and itiful effort to make up the difference between a slender re and the high cost of living—with only four or five for sleep out of each 24 It would be well if senators and congressmen at Wash- i and state legislators elsewhere, who have bills to get off their chests which would let down the bars on child and female drudgery, as “war-measures,” could begin lize just how sadly out of step they really are. Postmaster General Burleson, too, with his corps of un- id postal employes and his proclamations against union- and organization, might find an object lesson in the brand of liberalism. Why His Blood, Kaiser? It seems to be an established fact that the Germans er an American trooper and then cut his throat. is a butchery that makes the blood boil and fires the fire to retaliate in kind. But, we must keep ourselves fell in hand, with bloodthirsty passion under strong bit ' We must not get over into the mud of the stye to Barrel with the hogs. We must not inoculate ourselves rabies in order to handle the mad dog. We put oon brutality by descending to the level of is to be hoped that the sequel to this early story the butchery of this American soldier will show that an American in’ whose tactics there was no such| as “surrender,” one of those heroes who don’t quit ® there’s a blow left in them. There are many of such American ranks. Give us the sequel, kaiser! Did our boy because he wouldn't quit, or just because to see the blood run? or “Four Flusher” _. Either the kaiser is giving his dear friend Ferdinand of fia the tarred end of the stick, or he is telling a-whop- lie, with Ferdinand’s consent. lgaria went into the war as she did for gain. The outbid the allies. Bulgaria’s armies offset those of and Rumania and saved the Balkan situation for the Moreover Ferdinand has actually conquered and oc- d those parts of Serbia, Rumania and Greece which me pay offered him by the kaiser. So that, when the i “no annexation,” he proposes to repudiate : ind and his deal with him. Wouldn’t that jar you, if you were czar of Bulgaria? forse yet, “no annexation” means restoration to Turkey fmenia, Mesopotamia and the Holy Land and, perhaps, ition of the Dardanelles, and among the things that fians despise are Turks and control of the Dardanelles ads Like a Pink Tea _ Says the U. S. fuel administration to the operators under ract to furnish coal to the camps: take necessary steps immediately to insure coal hy to camps. We ask of you and offer co-operation to such pink-tea talk is the best that Mr. Garfield B give them, under the authority granted him, but it is z little better than nothing. Anybody ever hear of a al contractor being “pleased” into carrying out his con- 2? What Mr. Garfield should be able to say, and say, is thing like this: | “Put coal in those camps as per contract, or I comman- e mines and do it myself, at your risk!” be the contractors, not the boys in camp, who would shivering. puld Be Under One Head ” Under the present slip-shod methods, it is next to im- ible to charge to any one member or head of the dry the care of confiscated liquor. Tn the past, officers have shifted the blame from one other when liquor has disappeared. ‘There is no more reason that confiscated booze should be turned over to the care of the property clerk, who bonded and looks after all other property, than there is other properties taken by the police should be allowed cared for by any Tom, Dick or Harry. DO YOUR registering carty. AND TO think that Gill, Hoyt & Frye only got one dollar out of ten. a? +t NEXT! THE ban is lifted, the disbarment proceedings fintuhed. gwaits a new sensation. “GENTLEMEN MAY "Pence, peace,’” but we go aheall with F.war preparations just the same. 4 puhapiabeasies E88 day would be quite a novelty who have to walk half the time, anyway AND NOW they've placed the manufacture of baby carriages among essential war industries. How about the manufacture of milk bottles? PRESIDENT DECLARES making go-carta indispensable war in-| i Probably will use them in the transportation of conacientic | t Few Drops When Corns Hurt, Pain Stops! Corns Lift Out Don’t let corns ache twice! Lift any corn or callus off with fingers—Here’s magic! No humbug! Any corn,; Put a few drops directly whether hard, soft or be-| upon any tender, aching corn tween the toes, will loosen) or callus, Instantly the sore- right up and lift out, with-| ness disappears and shortly out any pain. | the corn or callus will loosen This drug is called freez-| and can be lifted off with one and is a compound of | the fingers. ether discovered by « Cin-| Freezone doesn’t eat out cinnati chemist. | the corns or calluses but Ask at any drug store for| shrivels them without any ® «mall bottle of freezone,| irritation. which will cost but « trifle,| Women! Keep freezone but is sufficient to rid one’s! on your dresser and apply @ feet of every corn or callus.| few drops whenever a corn It is the mowt marvelous| begins aching, Pain stops, drug corn goes! Se een Except for shipyard | And it} | | | | | | | STAR—FRIDAY, JANUARY 11, 1918. PAGE 6 UNCLE SAM’S NEW TWO-MAN SUBMARINE CAN GO 200 MILES WITH- The men in the pleture are newest submarine. {it iwn't large, don’t get the idea it SOLDIERS The American may revolutionize this type of vensel, naval experts say OUT “COMING the entire crew of Uncle Sam's twoman submarine invention But because ‘* & plaything. It can stay under SLEEP BY DAY, AND H UP FOR AIR” WHAT CHANCES DO OUR SAMMIES ” TAKE? CANADIAN FIGURES TELL The nion at Q of how Canadian Military Honpitals Commins oc has kept an aecount troops fared in the war, and has compiled some in teresting based upon Aawuring statintion investigations end observations Addressing Canadian mothers and fathers, the comminsion myn If your boy goes to the front He has 2 home to one chance of being Killed He has 98 chances of recovering from a wound to two chances of dying. He has only one chance itn loning a limb He will live five years longer be cause of phywical training. He 1# freer from dixease in the army than in civil life He has better medical care at the front than at home In other wars, from 10 to 15 men Mied from disease to one from bul lets In thin war, chances of coming 500 of one man dies from Gineane to every 10 from bullets. This war is lena wasteful of life than any other in history Only 10 per cent of all Canadians @inabled for further servic their former occupationa. If your boy is one of the 10 per cont him in another ,vocation at which he can earn a living ‘Thin doesn't in that war la @ dangerfree occupation, and that Ife in the trenches in as comfortable aa in the easy chair at home, but it does make it appear leas fearsome than it has been painted over here, expecially by proGerman nocialiats, disloyal parifists and German-born traittors in America. BIRCH NEW PRESIDENT ALASKA STEAMSHIP CO. Stephen Birch, president of the Copper Viver & N. W. railway, will ameurme the presidency of the Alaska Steamship Co., as the resalt of an election held Thursday night W. BK. Bennett was elected vice prea- dent, and Kenneth Kerr, editor the Railway and Marine News, was made a director. ac divorce because her husband insleted ing her clothes! Greater love hath no man for hin wife than thin, the government will reeducate — veland woman ts suing for water 72 hours, and can travel close to three miles an hour sub- merged, In other words, it can dive and travel approximately as far as from Washington to Pittsburg, before coming up. You can seo for yourself men have little room for thelr “setting up” exer: os, It is submerged by means of pumps—in a few minutes. UNT FOR BOCHES AT NIGHT, “OVER THERE” BY K. W. PAYNE ;- Staff Correspondent WITH THE BRITISH IN THE FIELD, Dec. 31.—~Tommy's habits of life in the front line trenches—What are they? ‘To find out just what life in the front line trenches under fire ts ike, I wae given the f spending three days in us parts of the trenches and at times under fire. The trenches I visited are typical | of the ones where our soldiers may take up thelr residence. On @ quiet day in the line the| danger is greater a mile or more behind than it is in the trenches themselves. No matter how great a lull there may be at the front, Fritz is pretty certain to shell with heavy stuff the crossroads and fields | thru which our men must approach the communication trenches Kipling’s “Law of the Jungle,” is one rule of trench life. “Remember that night ts for bunting and forget not that day is for sleep.” ‘As one ploda endieesty thrn the| communication trenches, he stum-| bles over the feet of men sleeping behind curtains in thelr dugouta At night these men may go out into No Man's Land to hunt the Hoche. We pass groups of plodding men bent, sweating, but cheery, under loads of supplies for the front line. | Some bear on their backs great fron arches and girders to help tn dug-out construction. Carrying Ammunition Others are carrying boxes of am- | munition, bombs, pails of water, and kettles of stew. Peeping over the trench parapet one sees all around merely a broad, grayish-green slope which is absolutely deserted and is dusted here and there with the black clouds of exploding shells. But here | underground the whole hillside is alive with subterranean activity. It is as tho one had penetrated into a Utanie ant hill On the way to the front trench wo pass a certain headquarters. dugout. | hru a door in the trench & group of officers are dining There is a clean white tablecioth ead, and a variety of good food | fered the guests. One officer | the way to a much deeper dug down many steps, where he eps. It has white cellings and | walls, the latter covered half-way up | with burlap. ARMIES }than a dugout. A bed and a Morris chair, a phono- graph and records on gno tadie, books and papers on another, a type writer, telephone, mapa, and a rough carpet on the fleor make it seem more lke a comfortable bungalow And all outside is a waste of mud and rambling ditches where these officers and their men are hourly on the verge of sudden death The trenches «a named after some best Known streets One sign points the way sniper’s post and another stretcher bearers. -. E D. K.'s.’. oorantonally the world's to a to the WHY NoT? A Washington dispatch mys Unele Sam is planning to prevent farm labor famine. We know of two splendid ways to do thin. o, by moving the farms to the city: the other, by moving the cities to the country. eee Counterfeit food cards are being circulated in Germany. Quite ap- propriate, About half the food is counterfeit. eee A follow back East has got up a piece of muste to go with knitting. We don't care a continental, so long &s meals continue to go with the knitting. But, oh! maybe they won't, maybe they won't! eee Bonar Law denied In the house of commons that the government had invited Billy Sunday to England. We're sorry. In these days of con: servation we know of nothing we could got along without so easily as Billy eee Dr. Bishop, Cleveland's health comminaio: warna little boys not to spit on their hands when playing ball, in 1918. And the first little boy who muffs a ball thru taking Bishop's warning to heart will need the doctor's personal attendance. Hats Off to Mr. Miller Attorney A. J. Miller received COMEDIES OF CAMP LEWIS LIFE = and avenues.| At the entrance to the front line|are writing letters or reading. A trench « «ign reads, “Keep your|few of them have pet birds and head down and your heart up.” |many a dog wanders about. All about us in the trenches were |,, “The police chase the dogs out of the villages,” suid our officer-cuide, kroups of men engaged in various |} ‘so they wander out here to us and duties. Some were bathing. Others | 1! up firm friendshipa” oie oh buttons or cleaning |""Worx’ takes most of the men's waking hours. Guna and equipment An upended box square in the | must be cleaned. New trenches are middle of one trench was #erving 88 | being dug, old ones repaired. Duck barber's chair, and 4 facetious €rOUD | Boards are being laid and drainage was watching the victim under the | systems dug amateur barber's hands. On our way out thru the maze of Amusementa are scarce and time | trenches we suddenly turn a corner for them scarcer, liere, however,|and come on the postman making & game of cards ix poing on, and| his rounds, with his hands full of | near it, in their dugout doors, men | letters for delivery. from Chicago a service and unu attractive which now hangs jn the front ber been physically unable to enga, THE CORE OF THE ALIEN LABOR SITUATION ‘The government is preparing to make a nation-wide survey of facta relating to the need and supply of labor Senator Gallinger of New Hampshire has introduced a bill providing for importation of Chinese during the period of the war. Japan, keeping her tollers out of America under the “gentle men's agreement,” would undoubtedly regard it as a breach of faith if Chinese were permitted to come into the United States. Labor conditions in the West have been reported to President Wilson by hin mpecial industrial mediation commission. Labor and capital both accused of making extravagant state ments based on considerations other than fact. Lack of shipping would practically prevent importation of large bodies of coolies, even if exclusion laws were amended California ranchers who cried loudest of labor shortage now boast of harvesting largest crops on record in shortest time. New immigration law already suspended in one instance to permit 2,000 Mexicans to enter California for agricultural purposes, GOOD TEETH Mean Better Health, Better Appearance, and Add Years to Life Backache | Backache as a sign of “Bright's (11) disease” ca@not always be trusted. In serious cases ot the dow of his residence, It bears 18 stars, one for each Of the student reomers from his home who has en tered the service. —Urbana Courter. eee j A Westerner has got up a new soft drink from alfalfa. You boll the alfalfa injwater, pound the water with a club, drink what's left and then don't care whether your town is ary or moist. . IT SEEMS PROBABLE WALLAC | ter Cottle, be Often @ person is not aware that he has kidney trouble until a thoro medica! examination réveals .the tact. f this one should not neglect the eys until such time as pain or « physician reveals the pints presence of disease. 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