The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 15, 1918, Page 6

‘]THE SEATTLE STAR ry 1307 Seventh Ave, Nenr Unlom St. NORTHWEST LEAGUE OF NEWSPAPERS Jed Press Association ond-Class Matter $1.16 ‘a mont ain 000, Private =. Ratered at Seattle, Wash, Postoffice an See 40 per month By mali, out of city | year, $3.50. By carrier Published Daity by The Star Pub __exehane 3 months, city, 306 6 montha, $2.00 Thrift Stamps are as good as cash. You can get your money back plus interest ANY TIME, from any postoffice. Start saving today. > ity Them, Oh Lord, They Cannot See Pitiful, indeed, is the plight of Washington's state pub-| service commissioners and the attorneys for the gas} nopoly today. Pitiful because they don’t care to make wrong right. They don't understand that a new day has dawned. All man’s dreams and suffering and labors have no ining for them. | If they sensed the spirit of 1918 they would strive to} “right the wrong of 1914. | Four years ago the commissioners placed a valuation $9,500,000 on the Seattle Lighting company’s property | @ basis for fixing rates—for taxing 50,000 gas con-| ' Today it is revealed that a mistake had been made.| ey know the valuation should have been but $6,500,000, | red by a noted expert. | Items for paving never laid down and for development | ts never expended were included in the 1914 valuation.| ' “But, right or wrong, that valuation is fixed and) d not be disturbed,” shouts the attorney for the gas ‘The commissioners hear this calmly. They fail to condemn such an utterance. It is to be deplored that a high profession permits its to champion such injustice. "It is to be deplored that men chosen to protect the pub- ‘welfare are hardened against a moral issue. This is the year 1918! A new era of human justice has arrived. Yet—at its very threshold—the great state of Wash- has attorneys and public servants who cannot see. Registration for election doesn't seem nearly as ar as for the Select Service army. * ° py the Philharmonic ought to find time to enjoy the Philharmonic} tra concerts. | Because we are at war is even a good reason why we strive to keep forging ahead in our appreciation of The reaction, the rest, the peace that goes with| music will make us able to work harder to win the} | We are only able to hear Conductor Spargur's or- ition occasionally, but the city is fortunate that it has! an ambitious orchestra at all. Wednesday night Seattle is doubly fortunate, because ) Orpheus Club of Tacoma, which won flattering choral fs at San Francisco in 1914, will appear with the Phil- fic at the Metropolitan. By. the way, where did the state public service ission pick up its adolescent attorney? : } s Favorable Fea | The crux of the Russian matter, today, is that the Bol-| Wiki thought they were dealing with Germany and found emselves dealing with the German autocracy. That’s all, it was to have been expected. Prussian militarism, naturally, demanded Poland, Lithu-| Courland, etc., as “buffer” territory and, naturally, was) mined to hold and fortify Libau, Riga and other parts) ntee. Knowing itself well, German autocracy isn’t usting, without security, so simple and irresponsible an as the Bolsheviki, and the latter could not furnish Security without fatal risk of their own necks. | The Brest-Litovsk affair, in its present status, is a bod thing, in that it once again, more clearly than ever, @emonstrates the fact that the world’s business is strictly é extermination of German autocracy. Old King Winter is swooping over the Middle West his third 1918 blizzard. He sure is a joy-rider. hy a Production Blockade? | e railroads are not only our greatest industry, but eir financial ramifications are more extensive, universal penetrating than those of any other industry. Banker| Herrick was, undoubtedly, right in his recent} n that there is hardly a bank, insurance or trust pany, or established charity organization in the country does not hold railroad securities. Besides, there are thousands of individual stockholders and bondholders. | In effect, President Wilson commandeers the property d rights of all these interested concerns and people. It! a drastic proceeding but absolutely necessary as a war sure. The prime essentials of our war business are ef- it transportation management and extraordinary pro- ction, and these are correlative and wholly mutually re-| nt. either is effective without the other. | In the matter of transportation, Uncle Sam com-| indeers. How can he hesitate to do likewise in the mat- of production of coal, lumber, copper, steel and other necessaries, without the prompt and heavy production | and delivery of which his war business fails? | we | nd ‘ Judging from yesterday's air raid on Karlaruhe, England must have the ball on Germany's ten-yard line. Internal Revenue Collector Williams says alimony is not subject to the income tax. Another victory for the ladies. “Right or wrong, we want your money.” Yes, an attorney voiced this beautiful sentiment. An attorney for the gas company. Who else would? | | The men who volunteer for Uncle Sam's new army of shipbuilders will be playing an effective and patriotic part in the great struggle for human freedom. The Wild East has nothing on our fair city. Three | masked bandits, in a stolen auto, held up the Seattle _ Oyster “parlors” yesterday, and escaped with 13 dollars! | Register. Seattle is entitled to have your advice in running city affai We have too long been made | the laughing stock of wily, unscrupulous politicians. | REGISTER AND VOTE. | The Dollar Steamship Co. is back in the United States, flying the American flag. It is well named. Now that it can make more dollars with the U.S. flag than with the British, it is even willing to forget its vindictiveness against this government for passing a ne seamen’s law, r use | stiff neck, neu COMEDIES OF CAMP LEWIS Private tobbs, jw out of the wat Communicable disease may be arranged in two groups In the first infectious agent in gener e from t throat, ¢ care and the suppurating glands. infectious in the dis charges thrown off by the body as waste The communicable longing in the first growp are Chickenpox, diphtheria, epidemic bro-mpinal meningitis or tile paralysis let fever, smallpox losis and whooping cough In the second group are typhold and para-typhoid fever, dys entery and Asiatic cholera, Tuber: culosia and infantile paralysis may fall in elther group. A victim of either of the above named diseases should be placed in & wellaired and well-lighted room, preferably one with an un- frequented approach. He sure and remove from the room the carpets, rugs, curtains, decorations red furnitur and all but a few toys of lit valuo if the patient is a young ebiid. In addition to the bed and bed. ding, place In the room two plain tables and two plain chairs, Make for an abundance of dineanea be epide sore throat, infan- measion, mumps, tuberew: uphe provision hot water, Health Questions Answered T. O. asks “What are the symptoma of ulcer of the stomach 7” Loss of appetite, pain after eat ing and sometimes internal bieed. FEEL FINE! TAKE “CASCARETS" FUR LIVER, BOWELS Spend 10 cents! Don't stay bilious, sick, headachy, constipated, Can't harm you! Best cathartic for men, women and children, Enjoy life! Your system {a fill ed with an accumulation of bile and bowel poison, which keeps you billous, headachy, dizzy, tongue coated, breath and stomach sour Why don't you get a 10-cent box of Cascarets at the drug store and feel bully? Take Cascarets night and enjoy the nicest, gentlest liver and bowel clea&sing you ever experienced. You'll wake up with a clear head, clean tongue, lively step, rosy skin and looking and feel ing fit. Mothers can give a whole Cascaret to a sick, cross, bilious, feverish child any time—they are harmiess—never gripe or sicken. WINTER. WEATHER PRODUCES PAIN Nip it in the bud by the free of Sloan’s Liniment. People who ha to be outdoors exposed to the attacks of wintry weather, use Sloan's Liniment. They know It's most effective in r ving lgic pains, rheumatic twinges, lumba They simply etrate—without . surely, It does a mussy uncertainty « of plasters, salves, p soothing, positive bottles2! 50e. and let it bing — quick way with the nd skin-staining: ultices, Clean, sized STAR—TUESDAY, JAN. 15, 1918. PAGE 6 if BY W. A, MACDY Stall Correspo SAN FRAN DNA Me bluffed his way in, and threatened suicide if taken out how thin “baby wold highly of a That's the @ non grandson of « soldier, lege of werving his country ran away to enlist in Company try, now In training ney, San Diego, Ca and expects soop to be hin way to val nt his mother from poms pt to secure hin discharge for misstatement of age, Prank left on hin pillow the following letter Dear Mo I have joined the army, 't ery for me or try to get me out, for if you do, I swear IT will kill myself. Think of what Tam doing for the Unit ed States, Don't be selfish; think of all the families that have to be protected, 1 will nave my money buy COOCCSO OOOO OS OOOOOOOOSOOOOOOOOOEOOOOOOOSOESOCCS ? Amalysis of the War Moyes 2). Sensors ain By J. W. 3 Mason °° The United Pres: : lw COCO COCO CCOEOOOOOOOO SOOO EEO OOOOOOOOOOOCS | Reports that the Kussia and the central transferred to War Minister a hait-vi er German militarivts The menacing power of the Ger man army does not hang over War mwas it peace tions betweer powers will be that has wor saw indicate is a wtrong atmonphere y within Warsaw An of Poland, it ts to be Hb the result of war, from the tyrann that formerly governed there ace negotiations at Warsaw will mean that the Runsian delegation will be emboldened to make decnands In the name of democracy that m strongly felt if uttered in a ly known an a fortress cap |tured by the er soaked trenchow: an n the peace negotia again passing Germans who the defens LETS SEE — WASNT Comer BACK vw annexatio tien” a basis for a general peace, it will |well-nigh impossible for the Germans to come to an agreement with the There * much ree but you tutu know it thats a rot He tackles than an insurance busted shoe He like a in Here's a Goean't Russians alone and Trotsky will not Lenine Tranny more agree to a Ger but they w agent or a lace | tickles you the shade boiled potato caught tn |the windpipe. You may talking ated by the Russian people | with him or mobody © and the interrupts « few minutes on getting “vitally impertant” things just right, as per "Wait a minute. wasn't that 1904 instead of 1905 7 or, “Let's nee, didn't that company| 1, would be possible for the Ger go out of business some Ume Af.) mans to agree to non-annexation of bankrupt or something ? or, “That) Russian territory in exchange for firm isn't making that article any/some of their colonies held by the more, can't get any of that special |aliien; but none of this colonial ter- steel they use, from South Africa,|ritory 4x in Russian porseasion. let's nee, what kind of steel was it! Russia cannot, therefore, make an now ?" ete ete, Bay you. Holy exchange, while if the Germans re |mackerel! Dry up! What differ-|store Russian territory without get ence does it make anyhow ? It} ting back an of Germany's beet Jooan't matter with what were talk-|innd, German militariam must con ling about!” Best way to do ix, learn|foms iteelf badly defeated |to carry on a tien in Bh situation, the Germans | mese or Seandinavian so he won't know what you're chirping about. You hit the bell, take a cigar. eee 4aU8ST KE THAT Minnesota's food administrator ad. vines people to eat more potatoes. If your grocer hasn't any, or charges much for them, take a basket and go over to the rallroad tracks and pick fr imperialistic peace also did we. dhe {ter terms acceptable to the German delegates ambition for an and under any form what of Russian territory May Influence Geemany wians, the t abandon an nexation er too ‘em up Headlines from the Miami, Ne M'ADOO GIVES FIRST TRAIN ORDER § Killed in Train Wreck In Indiana. WE'LL TRY IT SOME DAY Knobnoster may sound harsh to but we have one consola- | mail addre: to Knobnoste from anywhere earth comes here.-Knobnoster (Mo.) Gem Okla ome earn The next object of national charity will no doubt the Pullman Co We are searching our house for an old hat which we shall pass for it when the Associated Charities makes the appeal for h The Univ of Sheffield has co Tred a aree upon Ambassador Pag This m « five he has re ceived in England. The poor man must feel like a thermometer What Is Daughter's Weight ? Mrs. Julia Skinner of at Jeffer ave her daughter, Mra. Chas. of Wilmington, Del lcome walking in on her,—Blooming {ton, In Pantagraph Daughter Properly © M yolitan Opera House night ‘The Daughter of the ment Papi will conduct lyn Fagle The Slogan By rrton Bra! | “Now ta the time for To come to the aid of t write it down ain and again | When testing your skill at typing j And it meant a lot in the days agone When political times were piping Brook single bottle od men party,” *coctions. “Now is the time for all good men To come to the aid of ¢ It once went great when nothing in it to The partisan trend was hearty But now, in the days when we fight the Hun Because of his hate besotten, That sort of a phrase is thru and done, Its potency Is forgotten “Now's the time for all good men—" We need 4 new line to finish, For strong as the hold of the old} has been, Its power and strength diminish ; 80 we cheerfully tap on the keys| again And write, in our exaltation, “Now is the time for all good men To come to the ald of the Nation!” MFETHREAT OF SUICIDE Yoo\ SOLDIER, 15, PLACE IN U. S. ARM} negotia- | Interests does over Hrest-Litovak, | ; Would stand for it In this] stated that a 10-cent per thousand | pigh.class guaranteed nnot come’ feet was an ample increase and one to decision favorable to all Teuton that the public Would ngt have o> STERLING DENTISTRY Ask for RAINIER SPECIAL, 10c Bottles RAINIER PRODUCTS COMPANY, Seattle, U.S. A. Manufacturer of New Rainier, Malt Rainier, Rainier Spec a nice little home for you, And T'll come and see you whenever I get a chance, 1 joined the army because 1 was longing to be like my father, i write to you and tell you | 1 am ping. Good-bye. i ing w FRANK BENSON —I will leave my wateh FRANK BENSON’S BRAND OF PATRIOTISM Any fellow's old enough to fight for America who's old enough to shoulder a gun. A slacker’s shame is worse than death Am I going to stick? You bet —till the last gu fired! Mothers needn't worry about thelr boys in the army ir months here have made a man of me. I don't want the fellows to think I'm a hero. It doesn't take heroism to fight for the U, S— just love of the flag. | | | | | to, but the 1$-cent Increase ent service charge are uajuat Wrttten for company would show its patriotism by being willing to accept a «lightly smalier profit on its investment even tho it " Tanted a small increase in wages. The irreconcilable attitudes of -nft- | ™ itariam and democracy may, ir In fact, thousands of people lay be so strongly developed at Wa the blame for the increased cost of as to exert a profound influe everything on to Iabor unions be-| upon the internal situation in Ger-|caune of the alight increase demand: | many od in wages by organized labor when - Jail the time it is the god of big profit that is at the bottom of it all. | jo 9 of {| According to the report in The! editor 3 Maiill | Star of the state public service com- {| minsion’» work in the present gas| ARAL rate investigation, it Is anything but | DON’T BLAME LABOR a service to the public when their| FOK HIGH GAS RATE attorney is so obviously working for | Editor The Star: It is amazing, in| ‘* #4 company Instead of for the the face of the report and findings | PUblic | of Dr. Bemis in the matter of the| A WORKER AND GAS USER. | gan company’s unreasonable de mands on the gas consumers, both in their unfair rate of increase in gun rates and in the “service | charge,” that the city or the people| And is still more | amazing that any member of the| tral 1 Council, as a rept should uphold this exorbitant in crease, and say that the “public is| willing to pay this increase” be-| cause the gas company would pay a higher wage xc The writer is Cer sor is ale | a mont loyal advo-| cate of organized labor and union wages, but of what advantage is a minal in wages if, every telephone. telegr: ° or man Increase time a gus railroad or coal company facturer of necessities grant an in crease in wages they are permitted! cog. FIRST AVE. and PIKE ST. to increase the price of their com . sj "7 Phone Mat 4965 modity to more than absorb the} small increase in wages ? | The answer is that these com-|“IF | HURT YOU, DON’T panies must be willing to cut down ” their big profits enough to pay their PAY ME. workmen ® Uving wage. For just) aie ts my message of deliverance ax long as the employers can im/¢, you from the fear that accom- nies Dental operations. crease thelr prices to meet every small increase of wages, the problem |" sxcrRact, FILL, CROWN and Sedo thee loc oseit: Aha gem | oe Teeth absolutely without unsolved. Reasonable profits 18 the | pain in all cases but acute absceased remnety, conditions. Dr. Bemis has justly Lowest prices tn your city for and fairly “1 like RAINIER SPECIAL best of all’’ . The mellow, unequaled flavor of RAINIER SPECIAL makes it the choice of youngsters as well as those who always will be young. It’s seldom that anyone is satisfied with a its goodness is so captivating. There should be a case in every home all the time—and the children should be urged to drink it in preference to miscellaneous con- It's as good for one as its flavor is pleasing — harm the tiniest tot. Be sure, however, to get the genuine—for there are many imitations, Case—24 bottles—delivered to any address $2.20 in Seattle, 80c a dozen allowed for empty dot- tles. Order of your grocer, druggist or any dealer in soft drinks, or phone Sidney 1, Bottling Department Land Syro, a table syrup, WINS YOUNGEST under the pin cushion. Young Benson is the only child of Mrn, Be of San Francisco. His grandfather was Gen. Harat Rob inson, provost marshal of New Or- leans during Union eecupancy in the civil. war; and hin father died of contracted during the Spai » Henson cane war Mrn of & It was not lack of patriotiom which boy mother of the “baby was also the daughter Benson. prompted her to dissuade the from eniisting He is #0 ‘He has ne bust oung,” she explained. been strong and ro I fear he will never even see the battlefield. It m d to =ne at first such a uaeloss sacrifice. But now it in all right. His heart ts afire with love of country and his sense of duty, and 1 would not quench it.” Frank believes in universal mill- tary vervice. Slacking to him is the unpardo able sin and shame. Your months of training have give en him a hardened physique and ag impatience to be “over there. “All I want,” said Uncle Sam's youngest recruit, “is a crack at the Huns. Onl Americans can beat them, and the sooner the better.” Frank i# the hero of his neighbor- hood, as well a# his army comrades, many of whom know the secret of his age and the quality of his patri- ptiem. He's worshiped by every youngster in the district. Out ef the High Rent District. mm, We duplicate your broken Lenses re tardies of where your glasses were made. Save HOONMAKER, pr Eyesight Specialist Notwithstanding hich war prices we are making Reading or Dis- tance Glasses in gold filled frames, complete 2.50 ° tion free, without the se of drugs. about our double yviston glasses for reading and distance. 20 years’ experience in and fitting Gam SCHOONMAKER OPTICAL CO. Cordially’ Invited AP® Peoples Savings Bank SECOND AVE. AND PIKE ST. Bsee 3 s so Pes. copes mp se Im MSM a. —< o |