The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 28, 1918, Page 6

{UNDER THE ADMINISTRATION '§ NEW ORDER, TODA Fe ea SUITOR ITI REGY FIT OT AOR EIN YDS EEA TOE POOTTE ATE Y IS THE FIRST WHEATLESS DAY UNDER THE TWO-A-WEEK PLAN. DO YOUR BIT. STAR--MONDAY, JANUARY 28, 19158. THE SEATTLE STAR Ave. Near e ate: ft the © Telegraph News Service ttle, Wash. Postoffice as Second-Class Matter 400 $3.50. 3 months, $1.15: 6 montha, $2.00 olty, 306 a month per month By carrier yy “ ce the Facts The Real Estate association, in an elaborate statisti , is anxious to show that only a slight percentage increase in rentals has been made in Seattle recently This rosy view of the matter cannot be sustained. It true that statistically, it will be shown that only a cer- portion of rents have gone up, and that a large: number houses have not been raised at all, Statistics are likely © prove anything. , | The fact is, nevertheless, that except in the rents have gone up, not a mere 10 to 15 per cent in some cases, 25 to 60 per cent. This is true of apart- more than of houses. But the latter have not bee from extortionate incre: The Real E c instead of painting rosy views of an intolerable situa- can do the city a tremendous lot of good by facing actual facts—and exposing the profiteering. far sub- ° diers’ Insurance Write to your son, or your brother or you: sband the service and urge him to take advantage of the gov- ment’s insurance plan This is the advice of the state defense cduncil. Word has been ‘ived from Washington that 1,000,- men have failed t6 take out Uncle Sam's special war Men already in the army or navy have only until Feb- 12 to sign up for a policy. lo isions ey army pensions are to be made by the tates in this war because the insurance plan was d to take its place. A man may obtain insurance up to $10,000, and the be paid to any dependent he may designate. If comes thru the war without a scratch, this insurance be carried as a regular policy. The rates are low, and be cared for out of a service man’s pay policy. Upon getting off the Reed frying-pan, Food Admin- ito Hoover made this significant statement, amongst “One of the gratifying things about this job is the reds upon hundreds of letters we receive from the what we are trying to do, but also seek to send along word.” Te the Unites States plete nek oe eee on mn every year, instead of every sixth year, it mi a clear ption of the plain people's size-up of ington p: ings. The investigations, at Washington have thus far shown } administration errors, weaknesses and scandals, but the s that stick out of the mass of testimony and hold understanding of the plain people are these: Hoover may have arbitrarily exercised authority that was not his. But he gave us com tively cheap and flour when the stage was set for ferocious ex- n by refiners and millers. If we plain people were on allowance of sugar and flour, it was because the got our sugar and flour, and they're fighting our i Upon taking his job, Hoover said he expected to be tt hated man in America. He will be. Profiteers are haters. But the plain people understand. th Cost of Living 't & Co., second largest of American meat packers, d in a net profit of over $42,000,000 in 1917 as com- d with a little over $20,000,000 the year before. “Our large profits in 1917,” explains Edward S. Swift, president of the company, “were due in great degree e continuous rise in prices. Carried on to its logical conclusion—big profits by ga make high prices for meat consumers. President Swift didn’t admit as much, for he was ily. "He says the, largest number of beef cattle ever mar- in one omg went into the slaughtering pens of the and er butchers in 1917. That is proof positive the ly was big enough to meet the demand, but q h this he goes on to say that more beef cattle were it on American farms than in recent years. Meat packers youldn’t buy any more beef when they had purchased up ‘their biggest price-and-profit limit. Not long ago, J. Ogden Armour, head of the largest it packing plant in the world, blamed retailing meat men r high prices. Other beef barons blamed the beef “short- and consequent high prices on the failure of livestock ers to produce beef animals. Now, it is evident, neither charge was wholly right. Swift’s statement shows that there were plenty of cat- and that the increased profits went largely to Swifts ther packers. lit A Muskogee, Okla., Indian remarked, after kissing | the bride, when he was married the other day, that it | was the first time he had kissed a woman, a@ busy time for that bride. We can see President Wilson's way aims ought to please all of them, including Turkey, save Germany and Austria, eer eey is lucky in being promised any sovereignty at a Honest Old Remedy Is the Famous S. S. S, b , | 8. 8. S, is a purely vegetable rem. > Many a Gray-Haired Druggist| ay, being made trom the roots and | First Sold It When a Boy |Perb# of the forest, by a formula | handed down by the Indians, who A recent letter contained this #ig-/ knew nothing of drugs or chemicaln p Mificant paragraph: “finally I wrove| It is without question the mont thor my brother, who was in the drug| ough blood purifier known, cleansing for over twenty years, the blood of all traces of impurity, he wrote back and said that he had|at the same time adding new Ii sold thousands of dollars worth of|/and strength to the entire system. . and to try that.” You can absolutely rely upon 8. 8 do not know of @ more #incere| §., for it is the best tonic and sys Who has sold the medicine for twenty , and has seen from actual ox the wonderful good that it done, The staunchest friends of §. 8. are thowe who know the best. of the blood, and any special advice you may need regarding your own case will be furnished free by our chief medical adviser, Address, Swift Specific Co., J 271, Swift Lab- oratory, Atlanta, Ga, people in which they not only show that they under-| to his stockholders, mostly members of the Swift} em | trade com 5 ve Wribute that could be paid to any|butlder you can find. It has been nin ite rere Hd Niularacneha’e Medicine. Certainly it is the strong |sold by drug stores for more than| ‘The machinationa of the packers :e possible proof of the merit of|fifty years, Write for full informa-| extended from propaganda flooding B. 8., because it comes from one|tion about the important functions congress to attempts at placing | . & D, IK.'s.". COLYUM CIVIC KNOC KER lke diffrent « aa any other of bby that we rid * shouting ating here fr launches unches knook F racket th inform wa ar o many there, WHAT Wr nd gentle lady | maby next Fri-| t while I go to the Temple t Char Chaplin 2 tisement in East] an, Mich., Enterprise | : ral Pershing is logking for} Fren. who can © operators who can speak | Our own hunt ts for a few understand English TODAYS CARTOONET | | | | | | QUESTIONS FE. D. K. CANNOT ANSWER What kind of a time dose a fellow have when he goes out on a meadow lark ?—R OC. When a hid pore to sleep. aping 1 —F. & I broke & dining room window yester. | to use in repairing | right to use « coun: | te that xt days ever) T | ONLY 15—-KNOW ‘EM ALL? | There are 15 candidates for the! council, and the bosoms of 15 «weil! mightily in importan: But, may fellas, can you name the whole tribe? Nothing doing. Ah! Such is| the gratitude of republics Hazen J. Titus was seen talking to! John F. Murphy the other day Hazen is the chap who has his eye on big potatoes. Draw your own conclusions On the other while Hazen bakes spuds, #'s Ole who would like to cook this Murphy eee hand, | ler in in PROMOTED | M people will remember | Martin Ryder and will be pleased to! hear that he is now a centurion | Janesville, Wis., Gazette. | What's your percentage In the jeame of trying to guess from the| | forms what kind of service a| | | All Boston ia beginning businese| Jat 9 a, m. and everything ts closing | |at 10 p. m. to save coal. We |imagine why anybody should wish | | te | > mtay up that in Boston The Dai All the News ly Bugle 1 * fun « the strings |what a led cuspidor It made. | Millers Falls yesterday afternoon. Sootal | activition are slow there, he. claims neo says Clem. & clear two monthe. We are pleased to say Dan Harri’ bay | in now able to stand tho his left hind foot ts y on all 111 badly overed him ingen off hin in well Rube Hagan came back from a flying | ' Hew Corners, He the town hasn't changed much except Old Pat | Dorn, the depot hackman, hae a new |whip. ‘The news must have imprensed jour esteemed depot hack driver, Luke ing, as he has the hack sldelights cleaned up and ofl in each one. | Packers Try to Smash Probe of Their Business | WASHINGTON, Jan. 28 jubtle | efforts of the oh trust” to smash the propo probe into their business or, failing in this, to con trol the probe itself, were revealed | in correspondence before the federal | their own counsel ax chief investi-| gator of the sion, federal trade commis: | Legislators falling to respond to their call were slated by the packeFs for “revenge,” Heney said, PAGH 6 Savings stamps will make Twenty-five cents buys a 5 Special to The Star duan and Pedro are tossing their “Geestrings” Into the dis card in the faraway Philippine islands. They've found » better garment in the khaki of the Phil- ippine National Guard, and are abandoning their nipa huts and tree homes, their farms and thelr mines They are enrolling as rap: idly as they can be examined to swell the quota of the new mil iia to the 27,000 mark—the number of Filipino troops offer. ed the United States by the gov- ernment of the Philippine Istands for active services wherever they can be used to the best advan tage by the United States. were fully 5,000 A month ago the entinted in the embr: rd organt tations; more than 0 who had been given at least one month's in tensive training in drill, military tac ties and the rudiment: trench war fare, under the tutelage of United States army officers. The Filipino wants to “do his bit™ with the Dest of the Americans. Ho's & fighting man, he says, and he means every word of it. Rven before the plan of raising a Filipino contin gent to offer for service abroad was wer considered, mountain out «tx of the Philippine constabulary. In the wilds of Northern Luzon, re ported that exconstabulary soiliere nly |and noncommissioned officers of the Igorrote country were coming in daily from far up in the hills to of fer their servi in the great war upon which they had heard the “\nite Father” at Washington waa about to embark. And it was ony after many explanations that they could not be enlixted for the war, that of disappointed mountain dwellers tarted back over the narrow traila to retrace their these scores |ateps for hundreds of miles to their homes. Adopted United States Standards Spurred on by na of willingness, or, better, eager | nese of the Fillptnos, private citizens and officials alike, to ald the United CHILD'S TONGUE BECOMES COATED IF CONSTIPATED feverish and sic! When cross, give “California Syrup of Figs.” Children love this it lax ative. and nothing ele cleanser the tender stomach, liver and bow: | Jels 20 nicely A child simply will not stop play ing to empty the bowels, and the result is, they become tightly clog ged with waste, liver gets sluccish, stomach sours, then your little one becomes cross, half-sick, feverish, don't eat, sleep or act naturally breath is bad, system full of cold, has sore throat, stomach-ache or diarrhoea, Listen, Mother! See if |tongue is coated, then give a ten spoonful of “California Syrup of | Figs,” and in a few hours all the constipated waste, sour bile and undigested food passes out of the system, and you have a well, play ful child again Millions of mothers give “Cali fornia Syrup of Figs” because tt I» perfectly harmless: children love it, and it never fails to act on the stomach, liver and bowels. Ask your druggist for a bot tle of “California Syrup of Fign,” which has full directions — for babies, children of all ages and for grown-ups plainly printed on the bottle, Beware of counterfeits sold here, Get the genuine, made by “California Fig Syrup Company.” Refuse any other kind with con- tempt All This Week FOR MEN | RABY TAILORING 4% UNION STREET Start your kiddies right. Teach them thrift. War least you can do for a child is to cultivate thrift. these and other) it easy to acquire the habit. War Saving Stamp. The [States in her war, the Philippine! well under way, which will have field] months, Gen. Thomas L. |movernment aa early as last May be gan work on plans for the National a A of the Phils pe inlands | The United States army lent its Its standards of physical re Culrements were adopted for both en sied men and officers, Work was begun on the farfamed Manila Lu peta, on the erection of barracks and | training Quarters for the officers um |men. The work was rushed Hefore |June was half gone, the camp was |ccnpleted and 1,000 men were in training, and they made their firet Appearance in the Fourth of ade with contingents h the start the object of the ff f the militia in the Philippines was foreign service. They had their syon net on Mesopotamia, rather than France, arguing that the Filipino might not be constitutionally able |to withstand the rigors of a winter jon the West front. But they declare that the men are ready and willing, |and those who come in the future will be ready and willing to serve wherever the war department do creen Filipino Is Sincere “The Filipino is sincere,” « high of ficial in the Philippine government | haw declared. “He is not looking fo- | a place in the wun, He has it Go out there yourself and try drilling for two hours under the sun that |ahines on the Philippines.” with the object of having an inde | Pendent unit, @ signal corps is rapid 000 Filipinos Leave Nipa Huts to Train l for Service Under Stars and Stripes | and base hoepital divisions, On De | cember § the first aviation schoo! of the Philippine National Guard open od on Corregidor, the trland fortress in the entrance to Manila bay Here more than 30 young Filipinos, ath letes of the University of the Philip pines and students in other parts of thé imiand are attending ground | wchool | | At the end of two months, it in| | hoped some provision will have been | made for them to come to the United | | States and enter one of the large fly: | ing schools on the Pacific coast | Mort United States Tests | went thru the same test as tho given in the United | States for candidates for the aviation |mection of the signal corps, The ex jaminations were given by officers ot) [the United States army medical | corps at the department hospital in | Manila, and, according to the physt- | Clana giving the teats, the Filipines | passed in higher percentage than endidates in the United States. Naturally, there has been much soulfing on the part of Americans in the islands, who declare they do not believe the Filipinos will ever see service. This has not deterred Gov |Gen. Francix Burton Harrison and others in the government from giv. | ing the guard their undivided «up | | port. | The first offer of the Philippine | | militia was made in August, when) | Manuel Quezon, president of the | There | Infantry was first organieed, bot | Philippine senate, made a special trip|hand Kaiser Pill has been boosting to Washington to offer the service: of 25,000 troops to the United States | want Uncle Sam to foot the bills. -—% 4 an “Freedom for all, forever’ can only be attained by gcoteaeh a decisive victory for America and her allies. Uncle Sam needs your money to win the war. Buy Bhaglt Thrift stamps. it probit that abs DIPHTHERIA | An epidemic of diphtheria broke out ina certain city. One of the | victims was a 6 year-old gir. a |i] Hartigan. playmate an@ at present a general in t Philip neighbor who pine militia, a prominent Manila at ales teen aut torney and a major in the volun G4 not ‘. teers, who has seen service in the bx tis & oo | ands against Aguinaldo’s army in tramgeo pene the days of th insurrection, has one of those fortunate ones possess ing natural immunity. For those people who want te know whether their children are sus- ceptible or not to diphtheria a teat may be made, known as the Shick lee ton working for the acceptance of the troops It is argued that, whether the Fils pinos get to France or not, they can be brought to the United States to do guard duty thruout the country, and n Washin can release for foreign service in| st q Furope 27,000 American troops now| This test consists of the injeo occupied with guarding railways,|tion into the skin—not under the ;fkin—of a drop of very dilute | diphtheria toxin If the child ts susceritible to the disease, a red mark, about the size of bridges, munitions works, docks and shipyards, It has even been suggest ed that they be sent to the Mexican do patrol duty, releasing border the men garrisoned there, as they | a five-cent piece will appear upon the practically all have a working know!-|skin where the injection has besa @ige of Spanish. made. Shert of Guns Thus far the Philippine govern: | ment has stood all expense of outfit Ung the guard. They have a khaki | uniform practically the same as that of the United States army. They wear a campaign hat, but at the pres- ent time they have only wooden guns. The Philippine government expects to stand the expense of main taining the guard until such time as the American govermnent sees fit to tike the troops over. Then they ‘The skin will b=come a little raise and in three er four days the re@ ” mnard will become brownish, and @ few fine, branny scales will come upon the skin over the mark only. ‘This will happen culy in those whe are susceptibie. ‘This test may be made by your jfamily physician from which is furnished free by state de | municipal health authorities. | In certain communities where [schools have school physicians afd nurses, the Shick test will be made under their direction. years. “BAD SPRAINS OR Yea, Juan and Pedro are anxious to get Into the game. They are will ing to pay to see what kind of a the pot on for the past four You guemed it—they want to cal bluff ly_being enrolled, a medical corps is government t twol INCOME TAX PUZZLES Is there something you would like to know about the income tax? “Income Taz” editor, A The Star. M I required to render a per 1917 under the new law? When must it be filed and where? What income, if any, is exempt? Where can I get a blank form on which to make my return? What is meant by gross income and net income? How shall | go about ft, anyway? These are but a few of the ques tions that are being asked us about jthe new income tax requirements imposed in the act of Oct. 3. | If you have a question, mai! it to The Star's | mg tax editor, Watch j the paper for the answer a 1 am a boy of 16 with an in- come of $1,248 per year. Must I pay jan income tax? It says single MION with ove $1000 pay, Would I be | considered a MAN In this case? A Yeu, make a return. If you are sup- porting your mother or father you | will be entitled to a deduction of | $2,000 and will have no tax to pay. Q—If my employer gives me a | bonus at the end of a year, do I fig ure that on my year’s income? I am Matl your question to The Star's nswers will b@ printed in paid by the hour and sometimes work on Sundays. Do I figure on six working days or do I have to in clude the seventh if | work on that day. A-—You include the income for year 1917 from all sources, your bonus as well, Yes, you figure in Sundays. { | QI beg you to kindly advise me about the income tax, I am mar- ried. My wages are $135 a month, got a house rented out for $3 a month. A few years ago bought a farm for $1,000, but I have not start ed anything there yet. I have no income from it, just my wages, Do 1 have to report? A.—No return re- quired because net income is less than $2,000. Q.—Does every man, married or single, have to fill out his income | slip, regardiess of whether he has over the required amount or not? Or| does it mean only those who think that thelr income was above that? A.—-If a single person has a net in. come of $1,000 or a married person $2,000, return should be made. Oth erwise, no return, || THE HOTBED 1] ‘or 40 years Germany has been |the hotbed of race prejudice. Teach ing of racial superiorities and infer lorities was of the Prussian game, It was necessary in order to the German mind with the that they were a chosen peo. «1 for world domination Germany invented the Yellow Peril, It was volced the idea that Western Europe might again suffer a Tartar inva sion While breeding a nation of white Huns, German statesmen sought to conjure up another menace of yel low Huns, probably to blind Ameri cans and Englishmen to their own linterests and real peril eible seizure of Chi- nese and her coercion of | Japan after the Chino-Japanese war jin the '908, were justifjed on the ground of thwarting the “Yellow Peril" her statsmen had manufao- tured. Germany was the — stamping ground of anti-Semitiam. Jews were discriminated againat financially and socially up to the very beginning of the war, and it was practically im possible for a Jew to obtain a com mission in the Prussian army It was the BalticGerman clique in the caar's court that invented Bismarck who first | uDIcE | tiem and the Russian anti-Sem{ pogroms. Likewise it was in Germany that the doctrine of the de, the Latin or Mediterran was first started “on its Journey around the world It in shameful to remember, but |this Germanimplanted idea widespread in the United after the Spanish war, students from German helped make it popular, The doc: trine is dead now, It vanished in the battlesmoke of the Marne, never to lift its head again, At the outbreak of the war Ger. man agents in the United States did all they could to arouse race udice in the United States the allies by harping on the alliance and the use of In- dian and African troops by France and Britain—while they themselves were arming the lovely Turk for his onslaught on Christianity, And now the mask has been stripped off the German propaganda of race prejudice, Disappointed by the entrance of America into the war, and the end of the dream of world domination, the big German newspapers, dom. inated by the Krupps, are demand- . ing for the future an alliance of vielous was States Retugning universities ance and Belgium, had not politi-|" When your kidneys feel lik cians interfered and had Nivelle re-/jumps of lead; your back hurts or | moved, has been given the post of the urine is cloudy, full of sedk rmany, Russia, Japan, Turkey and China to establish a world do minion and to down the hated Anglo-Saxon” alliance. In passing it should be remem. bered that the myth of “Anglo Saxon" racial solidarity was also | MUSCLE STRAIN |Rub pain, ache, soreness and swelling right out with “St. Jacobs Liniment” “made in Germany,” and the word Rub it on a sprained ankle, | itself was minted there. Historical-| wrist, shoulder, back or a sprain | ly it has no justification or strain anywhere, that's when you realize the magic in old, hon- est “St. Jacobs Liniment,” because | the moment it is applied, out comes the pain, ache, soreness and sweil- ing. It penetrates right into the injured muscles, nerves, ligaments, tendons and bones, and relief comes instantly. It not merely kills pain, but soothes and heals the injury so a quick recovery is effected. Get a small trial bottle of “St. | Jacobs Liniment” rignt now at drug store and stop suffering. Noth- ling else sets things straight so quick- |ly—so thoroughly. It is the only | application to rub on a bad sprain, |strain, bruise or swelling. f General Nivelle | | in New Position | A oe EATERS ET ” AONE THUBLE | ) | Take a glass of Salts before break: fast if your Back hurts or Bladder bothers you. The American men and women | Must guard constahtly against Kid- plop - ney trouble, because we eat too Soo ak eS much and all our food is rich. Our | GEN. — | blood is filled with uric acid which EN, ROBT. G NIVELLE jthe kidneys strive to filter out, they weaken from overwork, become Gen. Nivelle, who conducted the) sluggish; the eliminative tissues French offensive of April, 1917,/clog and the result is kidney trou which some writers insist would ble, bladder weakness and a gen- e driven the Germans out of|eral decline in health 42 6 commander of the Fi * Taek are obliged to seek relief two or three times during the night; if you suffer with sick head- THE OLD RELIABLE ache or dizzy, nervous spells, acid BLOOD BUILDER stomach, or you have rheumatism when the weather is bad, get from your pharmacist about four ounces f Jad Salts, take a tablespoonful Still retains its supremacy. People |°! ° i still take Hood's Sarsapartiia be ish —— vr coon te cause it is an old family friend, has See tae ee proved its merit to th in purified blood, expel! restored appetite, relieved neys will then act fine. This fa {mous salts is made from the acid tistn, banished tired feelings. It long ago became recognized as ‘lof grapes and lemon juice, coms |bined with lithia, and has been the standard blood purifier and general tonic. It originated in. a |used for generations to flush and |stimulate clogged kidneys; to neu: tralize the acids in the urine so Boston physician's successful pre-|2O longer is @ source of irritation! scription, and comprises medicinal |thus ending bladder disorders. roots, herbs, barks and berries such| Jad Salts is inexpensive; cannot as are often prescribed for ailments | injure, makes a delightful efferves- of the blood, stomach, liver and kid-|cent lithia-water beverage, and be- neys. Buy it in the same style pack. |longs in every home, because no age your mother bought it in—same fine appearance, same pleasant taste, game certainty of good results. rench forces In} ment or you a | rheuma: Se Fis = body can make a mistake by hav- ing a good kidney flushing any time, , tf