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,CAN MARRIED MAN, WITH SALARY OF $100, SAVE FOR WAR THRIFT STAMPS? \J \\. Editor The Star: I am a salaried man, earning $100 per month. This, I believe, is the average salary paid in Seattle. Iam married and have three children. Living expenses are so high 60 “_* © « that we find it impossible to put away any money. What I want to know y how can a man in my position manage his affairs and keep down expenses so ax to buy Thrift Stamps for the chil dren, and at the same time maintain an American standard of living? A THRIFTY FATHER, The Star “passes the buck” to our readers. five dollars is offered for the best letter on this subject. letters to the Thrift Editor. Tuesday noon. DO YOU save money for Thrift Stamps out of a $100 salary? Can you tell this man how to manage his budget to mect the requirements? Twenty~ Five prizes, in all, will be given. For the second beat letter, $15 will be given, $10 for the next and $5 each for the other two. Address Keep them within 300 words. The Y. M.C. A. thrift committee, which will put on a special campaign next week, will judge the contest. The letters must be in by ARR nnn FREEDOM FOR A a} OREYV VA BR VOLUME 19 WS. IS IMPERIALISTIC Leon Trotsky SHAPLEN “Fepresented at the meeting. é, ———_—_ —_—— ENTS FIGHT . butcher employed int, and Albert Perry, McDonaid-Patterson shipbuilding plant. were prevented \ from fighting by Patrolman W. A. Cox, who interfered when Smith is alleged to have drawn a knife on a Mtreet car Friday. Smith is held in - Jail, while Perry is detained as @ ‘Witness. 1.-—-Repeated unsuc- enemy attacks to regain ROME, Feb. Onset) Bround lost around Sassoroaso cul-| minated yesterday In a sudden thrust Bt dawn, the official statement said . today. Bu bPASED WIRE SRRVICR NITED PRESS ASSOCIATIONS THE GREATEST DAI y Is Wrong About U.S.; but Are We Not to Blame?| EON TROTSKY’S remarkable statement to the United Press on Russia’s foreign relations, shows the Bolsheviki government, as it is, internationally at bay, struggling for its own ideals of extreme democ- racy against a world of enemies. To help Russia at this America’s reasons for bei: life against the pack. T for their own benefit. The news cannot have | side by the highest test of has been wrong about the ¢ leaders. time, it is primarily neces- sary to know the Russian government's point of view. Trotsky has now supplied it. He is wrong about in the war, but America acter of the Bolsheviki America saw the mistake first; the Bolsheviki have not yet realized theirs. Trotsky’s vehement denunciation of the western ies reveals the nervous tremors and snarl- ing offensive of a wounded animal fighting for its rotsky shows that Russia thinks it has been stabbed by its democratic allies, penetrated Russia that the Bolsheviki are winning American opinion to their all—the test of revolts. 's plea that the ger a the peace ne- as Trotsky’: gotiations at Brest-Litovsk ot. be Trotcky’s present power over the central empires is due very largely to of their sincerity, ple of the absence of allied statesmen from Brest- Litovsk. It is practically certain that if his words more carefull ic. srcng measured than he has in his there would be no in- 1D if the old western spirit of » in the east, were to become permanently an- There is work here for western statesmanship. SAMMIES WAIT CALMLY SHOCK OF BIG BATTLE WASHINGTON, Feb. 1—Troops now officially known to be defend ing a sector of the trenches in France, may face the steel of the exposed great German drive. Location of the fighting Sammien , |i withheld, but the announcement that they are actually counted on | now to “do their bit” in holding the allies’ defense works, has sent a | thrill thru the country. ‘Action on a large scale between | these forces and the Germans may | be expected, it is believed For psychological reasons it ts held the Germans would pick out the | American sector for operations in an \ effort to dismay the less experienced | troops. | No concern is felt here as to the ability of the Pershing men to hold their own, when the tent comes. | SMALL CRAFT WARNING Small craft warnings were ordered displayed at 730 a. m. for moderately gusty southwesterly gales today and tonight. WANT RENTS FIXED Dectaring that some owners and rental agents have taken advantage employed an, government jobs, to raise rents. the Workmen's Circle league held a ‘meeting Thursday night in Collins field house to pro: test the unnecessary raising of rents. James Dunean, Mark Stone, Ben August, Jacob Kaliva and Mark Litchman, chairman, addressed the meeting. They adopted a resolution ad dressed to Secretary of Labor Wil. od to fix rent prices. CAMP SOLDIERS WILL STAGE A DANCE HERE The Seattle boys are coming home Saturday night in full force. All of them at Camp Lewis are re- storing the creases in their uniforms and reviving the polish on their shoes. A benefit dance for thelr com pany funda will be held in the Ma | onic hall MADRID PROTESTS TO BERLIN ON SINKING LONDON, Feb. 1.—Dispatches to the London } anserted that the Spanish govern- ment has sent a note to Berlin pro testing against the torpedoing of the Spanish ship Giraldi, 0 fon, asking that a board be appoinigs o thin ail from Madrid today | LY CIRC SEATTIL | — Official Announcement In- cludes Statement of 207 Wounded |NIGHT ATTACK IS PARIS, Feb. Mave! | | | | In an interview published by La} | Journal, one of the three prisoners | taken when a German Gotha plane was brought down, said the escadrilie | was composed of 20 machines Fach wan xi route over the German aviation centers in tne my SEATTLE GETS i | her man mays there | tition of the blizaard ot} \* snowfall will turn to rain before | night.” ‘The temperature at noon had risen | to 30 degrees. With @ continuation of the wind in the southeast, the | mercury will continue to climb and— |goodbye snow, says the weather | man More Than Three Inches |. Snow began to fall at an carly {hour this morning. At 8 o'clock, ac |cording to the weather. observer, | there were three inches of snow on the ground in the city. The down: | fail thickened at about 9 o'clock, and | | Uncle Sam's prophet says another [inch or two may fail by afternoon, | | Then, it's due to get warmer— and rain. The storm is not local, but extend ed over Washington, Oregon and British Columbia at 6 o'clock this (Continued on page 2) | E, WASH., FRIDAY FEBRUARY 1, 1918. _DONNERWETTER! WEATHER SITUATION HERE, AT A GLANCE At 8 o'clock this morning, three inches of snow had fallen ta the city, ‘The thermometer stood at 26 degrees. Rain, either this afternoon or tonight, is predicted by the weather bureau here. Tomorrow, February Ground Hog day, Just two years ago tomorrow. Seattle was in the throes of the greatest Diixzard in its history Transportation waa at a stand still, and the snow was piled five and six feet high on sidewalks and in the streets. ‘Transportation companies to: day report that they have not yet been affected by the snow “FEED THE BIRDS” IS PLEA OF AUDUBONS _ Don't forget the birds. Mrs. H. B. Moore, vice president of the Audubon society of Seattle,| han made this request of every citi zen of the city. “Everybody should help to feed the birds,” #he says. “With snow on the ground, it becomes a difficult task for them to find food sufficient to keep them alive. But, if each one of us just places a few crumbs or weraps of meat on a window ledge or in back yards, we can help them thru.” The Seattle Star JLATION OF ANY PAPER IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWE. NIGHT EDITION Weather Forecast Saturday Rs moderate southeasterly gale. ain or snow tonight and \CROWD PA SS —_—_—_—_—_—_______-4 CKS MET _TO HEAR MITZI AND SWELL SMOKE FUND Pep, patriotism and the “Pom- Pom” comic opera company kept 4 good-natured crowd of noonday pleasure seekers in roars of laughter and netted The Star “Our Boys in France Tobacco Fund” more than $280 at the Met- ropolitan Friday. | It was a great show. company, aided by the military band from the naval training station, pre |sented a bill of inughs lasting one | hour, and they had the crowd with them from start to finish. The only thing that marred the performance was the snow. With a fairer day, the management of the turned them away. ‘They would fave, too, for those who came cer tainly enjoyed it and kept the thea- tre ringing with applause. Refore the curtain went up on the jband and the rest of “the bunch,” Mitzi had her picture taken in front of the theatre with the sailer musi clans, Photographer Jacobs “filmed” her shaking handy with Director Thornton, of the band, and giving the “Boys in Blue” a regular Mitzi smile, It'll all be in the 8 aberty Weekly. Shortly before noon, Band Master Thornton and 40 musicians from the {Fate Deals Harshest With Those Who Started War-Morgan ose Who Are Responsible for the “Superman Ego” of Teutons Suffer More Hunger Than Rest of Population Now We Know Von Papen’s Scheme Extract from a famous letter of Capt. Von Papen, former Ger- ™man naval attache in America, to his wife apropos of the stealing of one of his portfolios: “I always tell these IDIOTIC YANKEES that they had better tongues.” hold their 5 Extract quoted by Victor “Groudeutschland”: “ENTHUSIASM FOR HUM. Morgan from Von Tannenberg’s ANITY 18 IDIOCY. Right and Wrong are notions needed in civil life only. The German people is always richt, because it IS the German people, and because it numbers $7,000,000.” - The boastful prophets of the Teuton superman have come today the worst sufferers in Germany! The very men who helped the kaiser most to bring sbout the German war of aggression are now suffering the ge direct result of that war! 's Morgan, editor of the Cleveland Press, in to- of his great series of sooagones 1“WHAT IS GOING ON IN |stern but almost ludicrous punishment already meted out | by blind justice to these accomplices in the kaiser’s crime. They called themselves |to exploit all the riches of |ruling the world, they have |poverty. “Shabby-genteel sa | them. Read this Copyright, 1918, measure of responsibility for The school teachers. The college professors. The office holders. The newspaper writers, ripping article today, the third of the great | Series he is writing exclusively in BY VICTOR MORGAN Editor of the Cleveland Press by the Newspaper Enterprise Ansociation No group in civil Germany must bear a greater GERMANY,” points out the invincible supermen destined the world. And, instead of now been reduced to abject permen” is what Morgan calls ttle for The Star. the world war than: Mark now the moving of the hand of justice—retribu- tive justice, the kind the poet sings about. For—the groups in civil Germany who are suffering most today are: the school teachers. The college professors. The office holders. The newspaper writers. It is they who put the drugged the German people it easy for the kaiser and will with them. poison in the fact-wells and into a condition that made the militarists to work their Teachers, professors,, newspaper writers and office- holders are wage earners, just as mechinists and black- smiths are, But there is this difference—the machinists and black- smiths have unions to bring them recognition in the mass. Because they have unions and because they are essen- tial to the production of munitions and the carrying on of the war, machinists and blacksmiths—in fact, all skilled! manual labor—have had. pay increases to help make living se Mitzi Hajos and her real-Aznerican | theatre declares that they'd have| naval training station at the unt versity, started an outburst of pa- | trietic music, with the rol! of drums jand clash of cymbals, out in front of the Met. Overflow Theatre The crowd began to flock from all | directions, and fairly overflowed the directions, The band was then placed on the stage. The crowd applauded and |cheered as the musicians continued their red-blooded music. Then the crash died down and the | strains of the “Pom Pom” orchestra. |conducted by George Martonfalvy, |composer from Budapest, lulled the crowd to quiet Crowd on Feet The curtain suddenly lifted—and there on the stage stood the entire “Pom Pom" company. Martonfalvy started up “The Star-Spangled Ban ner’—and you should have heard your nation’s hymn! It swept the crowd to its feet Then the fun began. Tom Walsh, | veteran comedian, with a deep voice, sandwiched each act with an an- nouncement. In quick succession, the audience heard George Brigger, baratone watched the team of Livingston and Birne nce; listened to Vic Le Roy sing (and believe us, he sang); laughed at Lillian Morton and her songs. Ditmar Poppin, comedian |songster, followed; Della Fox, fa- mous soubrette, was next. Ben Hastings, comedian, stirred up a riot of laughs. Then came Mme. Mar. garet Jarmon, famous grand opera. star. and Revives Famous Comedy Larrgon and Jackson, Australian tornado dances, were next, and were followed by Boyd Mavshall, at the plano, Charlie. McNaughton then took the stage. And he did his world-famous “three trees” stunt from “The Spring Maid.” The crowd remem bers and could not get enough. It's ody. And then came Mitzt Hajos, Exuberant Mitzi! She sang “In the Dark"—the big number of “Pom Pom.” If you haven't heard it, there is no need of trying to de scribe all the wonderful melody she brings out of “In the Dark." Men The crowd went wild They had seen a great perform: ance, headed by a world-famous light opera star, and at the same time done a bit toward swelling “Our Boys in France Tobacco Fund." PRICE ONE considered a classic in his class com- | of the company appeared with her, | | bi STRIKERS. ORDERED SHOT German Leaders in Fear of Revolt of Soldiers MEN DRIVEN BY HU AMSTERDAM, Feb. Germany is ready to “sl to kill” as a final despers means of putting down general strike. “No distinction will ised La rabe s strikers and ers,” it was officially nounced in Berlin (emaye ‘The announcement supp the proclamation of the | | HUN LEADERS FEAR REVOLT. AMONG TROOPS WASHINGTON, Feb. Following reports received that military authorities have called upon to stop the strikes, ficial communications received show that relentless precautions being taken with the troops. Evidences of unrest in the tion to the allies of some Al in the Fifty-fourth reserve infante regiment of the Eightieth reserve db vision within the last few days Te sulted in the division commander dering all Alsace-Lorraines | labor and stripped of aii privileges, That Germany has resorted to the 7) mailed fist in putting an end to dis turbances is regarded by here with tremendous interest. Teal test of strength of the uw) will soon be known, it is believed. HUNGER 1S BERLIN'S WEAPON IN STRIKE COPENHAGEN, Feb. 1.—Hunget |is the latest weapon turned a, |the German strikers to force into submission, it is believed Trades union leaders in that try, bowing to the will of the 3 tarists, are sald to have he against the strikers, withh strike benefits in the hope of ing the protesting workers into @& knowledgment of defeat. This information was contained in dispatches received today It was further stated that while there are no riots in Berlin, many disturbances continue in the suburbs, GERMAN PAPERS BLAME BOLSHEVIK! FOR STRIKE ROTTERDAM, Feb, 1.—“The Bok sheviki agitation in Germany is ren- dering our army defenseless and pro ducing anarchy according to the Rag: sian pattern, with its accompanying | symptoms of terrorism,” declared the. newspaper Nachrichten, of Dusgeh dorf, copies of which were ‘received here today. . ‘Agitators and wire pullers are preparing the strike. We know it will increase the obstinacy of the Rolsheviki peace delegates.” ‘The Cologne Volks Zeitung saya? “The social democratic party be Heves the time has come to translate jinto action a program concluding 8 peace and satisfying its political de mands. If these folk wish to gain the title of ‘organizers of Germany's 7 defeat,’ let them continue,” y |GERMANY BANS RIGHT OF PUBLIC TO MEET © AMSTERDAM, Feb, 1.—All public meetings in Germany were banned. today by order of the superior ie mand, in an effort to suppress. é: general strike, according to patches from Berlin. ‘The official proclamation read: “Having introduced more | state of siege regulations, we Intend to suppress every attempt to disturh the peace or order by all means 4 jour disposal, We, therefore, warn every orderly citizen not to partiok pate in any public mestingz” = | a |