The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 14, 1918, Page 6

Entered at Seattio, Wash, office am Seoond-Claas Ma sits month, By mail, out of city, 4 per month: 3 mont year, $3.50. Ry carrier, city, 3¢ Star Dishing Ce, fag all dew epee Peblished Daily by © he United Press Association # montha, $2.00 tter Of the kaiser make short shrift, By acquiring the habit of thrift. tart savin Unele Sam will pay you intere s with him from 25 cents up. hg i . ‘Along the Right Line It is reported from Washington that a senate co been appointed to inquire into the practicaliti -to-the-land movement. A bill has alre: been this line soldiers and their depandents. This sort of agitation is along the right line. ‘hat question of cold cash. There is considerable unused land in the U: “but fo r the most part it unimproved. Every even with savings at a maximum, the returne hardly be fitted for a flying start at the Most liberal in the world ir past years of unpreparedn the chances that the same man who goes into th d have in ordinary industrial life. The government, in seeking recruits or drafti in many ways a on these men’s war-inspired patriotism. I rially efficient man or ambitious youth. his war will teach us many things. ight most of us one thing: That this count democracy, can never again afford to be d for any and all eventualities. It has "Fou nd of the world. There are a dozen ways of dealing with this si d it is done comprehen Do your registering early. Avoid the rush. lars and Venus in 1918 It really seems as if there were a whole lot of f the astrologers’ faith in planetary influence upon 3 “4 In the horoscope the planet Mars will domina We call Mars “the god of war.” But the: ill follow such construction, or re-construction, never before saw. will be Venus, goddess of love. There will be remarkable advancement in wom they predict. We believe it. The women are already busy only question is as to how far they advance. informed, is to approach her cycle with some here’s hoping that they marry and settle d if possible. Calls to Seattle Uncle Sam will need 100,000 men and 12,000 _ larger with the launching of new hulls. ‘or s will be encircling the globe. The age-old romance of the seas is again open iIntry’s young manhood. Seattle is in the very center of this activity. may well investigate a future in the United it marine. It will have its peace, as well rewards for service. ea 16. Night navigation classes will be held sity extension rooms, 1061 Henry building. Young men interested in the merchant marine tigate its possibilities, by talking to the men in 869, Stuart building. bar rooms instead of “tanking up a bit’ is one f result of prohibition. We ony @riving, inhuman employer. sideration. Italy bans importation of American baseba Huh! She never had a team that was deuce hi anyhow. German peace diplomats swallow N. Trotsky’s scription of them as “unconscionable liars.” Seema to us that the allies could afford to f nish bread and boots, if it would keep two or th million Russian soldiers fighting Germans. , Chicago women propose to stoke their own f: naces to save coal. The report of the organizat of a Husband League of Protest is doubtless true. chancellor, ia “indisposed.” That's the way they Gee! but it was a close shave! and he took it back right away. Cablegrams state that the kaiser objected and other diplomats are “buzzing about there.” to lift his boycott of our war, 0, is expected to exert her tender, soothing, penetrating i to soften the warlike disposition of Mars, who, we Reported from Berlin that Von Hertli est for | mmittee es of a offered How- farmer soldier farming The army pay schedule, as it now stands, while still relic of It does not match up ne army ng men the service, is at present placed in the position of n peace aimed at the problem particularly as it af we predict that one of the first “practicalities” that! senate committee is going to run up against will be | ted States, | "knows that in the improvement of land a prime requisite is, | not a great deal, then a certain amount of working capi- From what we understand of the present army pay) the government has nothing to offer to the indus- | already unpre- tuation. back-to-the-land people have suggested one way, pro-| ivel grounds human} te, this re’s an- side or attribute of Mars that we don’t often con- he’s also the god of mechanical and other construc- ive enterprises. Certain it is that, should peace come, there as the ‘The astrologers kindly inform us that, next to Mars, p he warrior or brickmason ‘in 1918, the dominating in- en’s in- all over the earth and Venus, coyness a desire to join in the more gentle affairs of life. We're not educated in the astral sparking of this pair| jown in officers > Man the great American merchant marine which each years to come, merchant ships flying the Stars and to the Seattle States as war |. A free engineering school is located at the University if Washington, and a navigation school will be opened there in the should charge, Tired but happy Sammics sleeping in vacant ine Seattle can’t afford to hire underpaid school teachers. Discontented instructors will prove a poor investment. want happy, satisfied, enthusiastic men and women in of the job of making citizens of our children. e don’t want this city to have the reputation of a ‘ Seattle school teachers petitioned the school board for ‘Balary increases. Their case should have unprejudiced con- Ns, igh, It will be a pretty tough war necessity, if those de- ur- ree ur- ‘ion un- ng, all get, when the kaiser swings his foot for a swift kick. Boston’s food dictator declared a porkless day, when somebody told him it meant paralysis of Boston baked beans, to negotiating peace at Stockholm because American If Bill has to admit that we can buzz, he must be ready represent; | We have got to be) ong always—for our own sake, and for the sake of the | | | | |war sharks are using? | | |Are Constipated | action of the bowels. As people \flexercise, and indulge a natural New Movie Pest Since the Came in Went huge, a Now lint of Posta were To the p The out plot explainer » getting up In-the middle Ofa-picture-one In front of you, ete. . re old members. The latent apectes Ia the giltedge Edition in movie Peats. Th Pound in thy Toxes that In the back Of the bleser are Movie houses Ever ait in Front of one? ‘The seat conte A few ashokels More than the Seats you an Mo ait in. And they think That they're Us low brows Well, they low brows Infented the word Pour-fush “DREAMS HAPPENS | | | | | WE'LL TAKE BOB'S WORD Bob W. encloses us a clipping from a local contemporary, which states an follows ote. There were 3.000 fans whe eat thre the 4 minutes of play, ond mest of the time were on their feet yelling madly. H Bob comments: “If you don’t think | that sitting on one's feet for 60 min. utes will make one yell madly, try it." Can you think of a more awkward word than this “artillerying’ the | Speaking of war finance, how! about the substantial check on the bank of the Piave received by the Austro-Germans? o. More About Condition of the Sunday school hour, our superintendent-elect, | Brother Wm. Baker, led the school in giving Brother and Sister BE’ J./ Ellis the Chautauqua salute as they | leave this week for their new loca tions in the West. Sister Elia re-| sponded briefly, but brother Ellis! was too full for utterance.—Farley (a) Advertiser . And we guess that Woodrow Wii son's latest prose poem on the sub-| ject of pence terms will also give Wilhelm food for thought | S80 much that perhaps he will have to appoint a food-for-thought dictator. Tel Us Brother's At the clone Report has it that McAdoo intends/ to order ail the fast trains taken off.! If only the fast ones—if you under. stand what we are trying to may are dropped there won't be many changes in the schedules | MORE IRON CROSSES | “Teutons Pombard Italy's Hos-| pitals; Kill 18 Patients.” | Forward with God! | “Another British Hospital Ship| Torpedoed"” Gott mit uns. vie “Sixteen Ft. Lauderdale School Teachers Going to Daytona Conven tion.”"—Mlam! Metropolis. They must grow tall in the glo rious climate of Florida. Most Old People The wear of years impairs the grow older they restrict th activity, neglect to take sufficient disposition to take things easy. The digestive organs ome more sensitive to the demands j) aucky. ‘ lal 't is of special importan: the health of elderly people that the be kept normally active. A mild, yet effectiv: remedy for constipation, ene that is prvesiany suited to the needs of old folks, women and children, is the combination of simple laxative herbs with §) pepsin sold in drug stores under oe vps ed Dr walévets ip Pepsin. It costs only Bley cents a bottle, and should be in every family medicine chest. A trial bottle, free of charge, can be obtained by writing to Dr. W. B. Caldwell, 456 Wash- ington St, Monticello, Illinois. |to Awitzerland and reports the fol | dependent | againet mutiny | investigation. jere | male | bakers (berculosis STAR—MONDAY, JANUARY 144, 1918, PAGE 6 ‘Are They Beginning The German people who have 13 - - — ———L ——F | daily quotes the Berlin Vorwaerts \ follows none of the Prussians’ world do: 4 AT ‘ - H Against Imperialiom minion alms are becoming bold: ROLL AWAY THE STONE | “The German government som er and bolder, according to the | 9¢ a %! will seo that it cannot achieve re Zurich —Volkarecht — (People's - ouito » enlens tt works tor 8 pease wultable to the on of the Gere me. Hl man people, The German people) Articles in this Swine daily will not fight five minutes for the may throw some light on recent developments within the German “iron ring.” ‘They are partien- larly Interesting In view of Pres: Ident Wilson's statement of war and peace alms. Pvents within Germany are stated to have been a principal factor tn the determination of the preaident to imake his momentous declaration of | 14 Amertean peace terme. ndreds Revolt The Volkerech priate an inter. view with Carl Radek, a Swiss so elaliet and delegate to the Htock holm conference, who after an ox tended sojourn in Germany returns lowing | "Hundreds of young men of mili tary age revolted against conserip tion In order to serve the revolu- tionary movernent. They organize clubs and publish socialist period jcaln In apite of the vigilance of the police and the persecution they submitted to are “The diaatisfaction grows from day to day In Kiel the military au thorities had to employ machine guns and artillery against the reb In Hamburg the garrison re fused to fight the people, and cav alry had summoned from Mecklenburg. In Hanover the sol diers openly fraterntzed with the tn Jaliats. The govern ix compelled to act severety | and open revolution “Among the rebels are many wom en. In Thuringia, several women | were court-martialed.” In another article the same Zurich to be ment ~~ Food Handlers To determine the health of food) handlers, a ®pectal examination has | just been made in York elty thru the coopera tien of the health | department and the American Mu seum of Safety Out of 44,042 in dividuals examined at the occupa tional clinic 23,000 by private physicians, 1,748 food handlers, con sidered typical of the entire number, were taken for a special intensive to “Get” W BOMBS LONDO These included wait waltronnes, cooks, male and fe qther kitchen employes and In the entire group there were 10 caren of active tuberculosis, 12 of suspected and three of arrested tu-| Forty-one persons gave | evidence of active or suspected blood | poisoning, of which ¥ were among waiters. This group also furnished | 46 persons with flat feet and an equal number with varicose veins. Among the 211 waitresses exam ined, 65.8 per cent showed anaemia, 62 per cent had varicose veins The predominating defect among cooks was organic heart disease, there being 32 who showed heart trouble of some sort. Of the cooks, 161 had marked disturbance of the digestive function. Among the bakers no tu bercolonis or active blood poisoning wae found, but there were 28 cases of chronie bronchial conditions; 30 had organic heart disease and 33 anaemia BLAMES |. W. W. FIGHT SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 14—C. 8. Fick, arrested as a slacker, declared at the federal building today that Uncle Sam was reaponsible for his failure to have @ registration card. Fick said 1 wan one of the sailors on the 1 & & New Orleans. We went ashore at Seattle in June and got in a fight with a bunch of 1 W. W's We were all discharged and we were not allowed to register afterward. | i'm not a slacker.” WILL EXPLAIN TAXES Income tax, federal problema and problems pertaining to auditing will be presented in lecture form for bua: ness me interested by Jamen Cc. PL A. ander the di the University of Washington extension division. The first meeting will take place Monday evening, at 7:30, in room 1044 Henry building, University extension divis Wipes Mihi I, Shp " N AND NOT PARIS By BASIL M. MANLY WASHINGTON, Jan. 14.—London and all England are at the mercy of periodic visitations of frightfulness from German air raiders. Paris and France are practically immune. wHy? Im {t because British airmen are inferior and French airmen super for to the Germans ? Im the kaiser venting his spleen on the “arch enemy.” England, and showing mercy to France ? Or bas the kaiser some great strategic plan ? wo! Geography and geography alone! Look at the map the German airplane bares ine and Ontend on the Bel t to London ts 130 miles, a little more than an hour's flight. From the German front to Paris ts only 75 miles. } BUT in the flight to London the firet 90 m is over the water, with little danger of attack and no dan ger of detection except wireless mes- rages from patrol boats and sea planes Even if the German air-raiders are M ED PIN) Ene AST y IES OF CAMP LEWIS LIF E > FURN Fe SY Lege (fi ISTUINGS — A.B LW AD Siw LL . wighted the second they cross the coast line, there are only 20 minutes to mobilize British airplanes to repel jthe attack. This would be enough | if it were certain London would be | the point of attack; but there are lacores of other points besides Lon | don mun ee plants, army and |navy barracks, and industrial towns |—within easy striking distance. Jenerally “ve German bombs have their deadly work before the th planes can locate and engage them, and then it in a running fight with all the odds against the pur suers Now look at the French map. It is only 40 minutes’ flight to Paris, but see how the conditions differ The second a squadron of German planes take the air, they are spotted by the French or British fliers, who can mobilize at any point on the front an airplane squadron of equal strength in less time than it takes to tell it Then the German planes must Jerome the Franco. British trenches jand run the gauntlet of antiaircraft j|guns, Then for 75 miles they must fly over French sofl with the alarm epread by telegraph and hundreds of French planes taking the air from the reserve airdromes and flying schools all the way to Paris. A fine chance they have of reach ing Paris in sufficient numbers to do |eny damage! And a great chance he return to tell the tale! Real Estate Escrows We offer the vices of a perfect tem of handling estate escrows closing __ real transactions. ser- sys- real and estate | Our office facilities permit us to guarantee the safeguarding of the interest of all parties to a transaction affecting real estate. Washington Title Insurance Company ‘ Under State Supervision, GERMAN PEOPLE GROWING BOLDER AND BOLDER ilson’s Idea? Reichstag Told That “P TAKE A TIP FROM FATHER, HEE! | DEFENSE COUNCIL To MOVE AGAINST SPIES! 14.—An important TACOMA, Jan announcement of policy toward alien enemies and restriction of their ac This map helps explain why London, farther distant, suffers more | tivities in Tacoma and the state was |than Paris from Gowan ay raids, [expected to come Inte today from the jetate council of defénse, meeting here With Chairman Suxzalio presiding, |the council met in executive session shortly before noon. The seasion, it |im understood, was to be devoted al | most entirely to consideration of | methods of co-operation with govern: | | eplen. ower of Prussia Must Be Crushed ment officials in dealing with the en-| Amy one can see it is a losin emy question and to protection from” investment. Conserve Wheat Save Sugar We can do all these things and live better by eating more Graham Crackers the most_nu- tritious of all staple foods. The use of Graham Flour con- Serves wheat because it utilizes much that is wasted in milling white flour. And the honey, or syrup, Graham Crackers con- tain 3 ‘ Swastika Graham Crackers con- tain twice the nutriment of choice sirloin steak. All grocers sell them in package or bulk. Pacific Coast Biscuit to make Poland urland and Lithuania un Austrian Prus- courage, Herr Hirsch, however, sent hin epecch to the Solingen Arbelterstimme, the organ of the miners of that district, and the substance of it ix reproduced an follows: “Destroy Prussianiem” “Refore we can arrive at any une derstanding with our ene in likely to lead to a , this horrible butche PRUSSIA MUST BE DESTROYED, What i# this old Prussia? It in ® ntate in which the classes who have unjustly assumed power over the masses have ever most ruthlessly ex ploited this power to oppress the | other classes of the pop n | “It is this old Prussia which ts |) In the first place responsible for the circumstances that we have | no few friends in the world, and | it ls the Prussian junkers whe are to bis for the prolonga tion of the war. This War Will End “We shall continue the struggle until this old Prussia [les in ruins and a new Prussia, in which there will no longer be lords and slaves, nor exploiters xploited, but free men, rises in its p IN THAT DAY THE WAR WILL CoM TO AN ND AUTO. FOR THE DY MATICAL OF THAT DAY, THERE MUST STRIVE AND .E, AND, IF IT MUST {iT AS OUR SOLDIERS HTING AT THE FRONT, ‘TRUMENTS OF DEATH CTION AND AMID THE SHEDDING OF BLOOD.” DEFENDS RENT RAISE FAitor The Star: As a long-time reader of your paper, I wish to answer the “Worker” in Tuesday's ‘ar, complaining of high rent in | Seattle. He is evidently not well in- | formed. It is a well known fact that for the past eight years it has been much cheaper to rent than to own the home. I have a sevenroom, modern house in the paved district that has been rented for years for $26 a month, The place cost me $4,500, the taxes every year $70, every two years painting inside and outside, about ‘5; besides insurance. JOHN DOE, Artington, Wa . REMEMBER THE wis" «wa All Savings left with us on or before January 15th will share in the earnings from January Ist. We will be open on Tuesday, the 15th, until 8 p. m. No fees or charges of any description. Universal Savings and Loan Association 316 Pike St.