The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 2, 1918, Page 4

THE SEATTLE STAR “Near t 7 Sevemth Ave. 1 NORTHWEST LEAGUE OF NEWSrarEns ied Drees Assecta' Toten: wh News Service of the tered a Mail, out of city, “year econd-Clasa Matter ¢ months, $260; ‘a month, Main 000. Private patofticn am & th; 8 months, $1.15 ¥, Be Seattle Wash, 400 per me $3.50. Ry | Pernicious Lobby > The biggest, most persistent railroad lobby of all times im Washington, interfering with war business, and we vould like to see President Wilson take a club and beat it rot town. This lobby is mainly concerning itself in defeating the istration measure leaving return of the railroads to Possession an open date, to be decided upon by con- ‘and in whooping it up for the largest possible govern- rantee of dividends. Then, there is a strong by within the lobby that is especially concerned in finally ing off government ownership. he solution of the genéral railroad proposition is plain one, save staff-lawyers, over-paid railroad officials ‘Teceivers, and would-be “promoters” of the Harriman That solution is centralized ownership and manage- tongue. About 70 per cent of her) inefficient management, the rings, the wreckings, people apeak German, and the bal. It all goes to indicate that the , es, b ble service of [88° French and Italian, First o kaiser no longer makes an impor ope be Lagenabhi eee bes cinoma santrell all, probably, her people are pro- tant move, civil or military, without it have plainly proved this. ie prese! zed | swine, Doubtless they would rise to ‘The kaiser knows history well, He knows that more than once al first consulting Hindenburg and agement by the governrfent is going to prove it agajn.|repe! an invasion from any quarter. | military idol of the people has developed a greater strength than his| pudendorff. The kaiser snows his y uestion is no longer whether the railroads shall or aoe an a rule, _ who prank | sovereign * © © Military idols sometimes forget the divine rights tory He knowns that more than one not returned to private and promiscuous exploita- pot geting in sympathy with Ger-| of their rulers, * * * So the kaiser Is careful not to croa# Hinden- | miiitary idol of the people has devel ve sl s many, and those who speak French | pure From Victor Morgan fourth article on “What Is Going On In| oped a greater etrength than his sov. Coal shortage, alone, is enough to teach the end in sympathy with France. Certainly rmany Today ereign. He knows that when adula the railroads are a vital part of themselves. hen,|that is true of the newspapers, | TOY _ SRE A WER TE AR fh shaming dorset Beran ar ad at all, there should be a return to private centralized | Those newspapers most pronounce: temptation is strong to use it for “a P will be put up with, is a/*@Y proGerman are, of course, Sia paseedel onde t, the only sort that wi Li P owned in Germany. Many Swine HOUSE WARM Military idols sometimes forget the to be left to the people, and congress is their con- nal representative. Such return should, and very y will, wholly depend upon success of the present plan er Director McAdoo. That lobby ought to be sent home to mind ,its own It is lobbying against solidly united public senti- The railroads are part of the people; the people not the railroads. It’s one of our biggest war lessons, ‘Again the public service commission has shown that | first two words are superfluous. Republics G. Wells, the noted English writer, has properly up the British reactionaries, especially those of the ne ilk, by a roast in the raw and presentation of it he sees as the British “Main Aims,” in the war. “Main Aims” thus: rratic, that is to say, in effect if not in form, republi- a series of national republics, Polish, Hun- mh, Serbo-Croatian Bulgarian, and the like, in Eastern wened republics it might be in some cases, but case "too much crowned—that we should join with @ thus liberalized powers and with our allies and with uti in one great League of Nations, trading freely f one another, guaranteeing each other freedom, and taining a world-wide and disarmament and a new | of law for mankin English, Mr. Wells has to look out for crowns. is doubtful if America will be interested in producing esh crop of crown heads, with their “divine rights,” heads “not too much crowned,” as Mr. Wells puts it. democrats are yoked up, in this war, with a 0 monarchs crowned by divine right of birth or selection of more or less devilish diplomacy, and the lishment of more crowns is certainly not among our cherished aims. with. We are not going to follow Mr. Wells’ free country into free trade without a free fight. ut why count chickens before the eggs are laid for m? Germany still seems to be good at anniied what} sist upon. > Indefinite Chamberlain measure for a war cabinet requires PI tment of “three distinguished citizens.” We file a demurrer and ask the court to order the| made more definite and certain. For what shall this be distinguished? Shall it be for capacity to hold beer,! “hoarding dollars, or for a dozen other things that uish them from the common horde? Forsooth, we'd have a war cabinet of citizens of just ordinary hoh- and common sense than citizens that have dis- hed themselves along some of the lines that could be ified Henry Ford is building new type of submarine de- mer? Pretty hard on the fellow who is chosen to ace? : Certainly! Now comes the dove of peace and perches on our shoul- *! We open the message bound about its leg and dis- Yer peace proposals from Germany's well-known autocrat, | incellor Von Hertling. All that is necessary to peace is that England give up her tifications at Gibraltar, Malta, Aden, Hong Kong and Falkland islands. Advices en route may disclose that any gives up her fortifications of Heligoland, the Kiel and so forth. Later: On looking the dove over closely, we find that! § a buzzard that hasn’t been fed for a long time. ~ We see by our alert contemp. that a man was fined _ $5 for driving his auto with dark lights. He shouldn't be fined. He should be allowed to exhibit the dark lights ‘ at the auto show. The Gas Outrage Even the lawyer for the gas company is astounded at ruling of the state public service commission. While feels that the corporation will get less revenue than the ‘commission says it will, he is nevertheless frank enough to admit that the proposed increases fall heaviest on the _ small consumer. The little fellow has to dig up once more—the man earns less, who has less, is compelled to bear a greater ene of the higher rate than the bigger fellows. The state PUBL IC service board? Bah! Hail to Judge Bart J. Humphrey of New York! He tells women they needn’t give their exact ages to elec- tion officials. All they have to do is to say they're over 21, or had the 7-year-itch three times, or some- thing equally conclusiv Miss Leone Hope of Chicago university, announces that bow-legged girls aren’t so but only made to look so 04 Td heels. You see; Chicago girls’ reels begin so Up. the paper was being printed in. vio lation of Swine law 80 emphatic a protest, however, | was made by Swiss sympathizers, that the authorities were compelled to back down, Kven Swiss known to be unfriendly to the entente allies Joined tn the protest, maintaining that the paper was published in t Interest of the whole German peor and not in the interest of any par Ucular government or set of rulers Price on His Head } ‘The publicity thus gained by Die Freie Zeitung caused its circulation | to increase from 3,000 to 20,000 in a few weeks ‘The paper Is printed twloe He! fe should insist upon Germany becoming free and} ever, we are going to have our own reactionaries week, and wherever one runs upon « copy, he is sure to find « discussion as to the iden tity of the famous but mystert ous author of “I Accuse.” A price has been put upon his head by the German govern mont. At the office of Die Freie Zeitung they tell you they do not know who this contributor is, ner where he lives. They only know that he exists, and that German democracy is a | passion with him | Switzerland has no national/ concerns, particularly newspapers, banks, hotels and factories, are| owned in Germany. Papers Are Controlled Probably never in all history has |a government controlled the pr its land and influenced that o jacent neutral lands, as German THE MANY ALMOST GETHER WITH WAR NEWS AND WAR POLICY. THEY ARE 80 MUCH ALIKE IN POLICY| THAT ONE MIGHT IMAGINE ALL TO BE EDITED BY THE SAME INDIVIDUAL In effect they are. The in | spiration for all comes from the | same fount. Wilhetmstrasse edits Yhe newspapers of Cer. many. Now and then a new as Vorwaerts, Jumps over the tra saying something that has not had| the approval of Wilhelmstrasse. It/ is first given a chance to print a }denial. If it refuses, the paper ts |suapended by the order of the gov ernment a day, & week, or even permanently. Sing Same Song It ts curious how all sing the same {| INCOME TAX PUZZLES } The Star's “Income Taz” Editor Will Answer Your Questions. Mail Them to Him, or GER ALTO DEAL paper, such ot be | Q-—If a married man has $2,000 or $3,000 savings in the bank, not draw ing interest or loaned out, tax him for it, and if they ¢ is the taxation? A.—The interest | you receive on the bank deposits is| Their “station” was on the English taxable, providing you have enough | channel, in Fran) and for some income to make the government re ne they had been making it their} } turn. special business to head off the Ger-| Q—4a) Am buying a business. Had| man avions before they could cro no Money, #0 even borrowed the first | payment. Now I make monthly pay |ments both on the business and the | borrowed amount, plus interest on each. May I deduct these amounts/ | from income? (b) Can I deduct the amount paid for insurance in the business? (ce) Does “net income” mean the amount left over after de. ducting all expenses of running the business? Say, if my sales were 500 a year and the expenses of running it were $800, leaving $1,700, would I be supposed to turn in a re port? A No. Payments of prin cipal not deductible, (b) Yes. (c) fem; if «ingle snake return; if mar, ried, none required if net Income ts only $1,700. Q—Am visiting Seattle and would like to know if I can have my war }tax paid by my son for me under oath, I have income of $2,500. What amount will I have to pay? My home is in Nebraska, A.—The Seattle of- fice prefers that income be paid in he district in which you reside. ake your own return. Q—My gross earnings for the year 1917 were $2,647.50, 1 am married have one child and an aged mother to support. Please state what would \n he omy income tax, A—Ascertain | your net warnings first. You are ex |empt at », but should make re turn if your net income for 1917 was} }2,000. | Q—I am a fisherman, single, and took in $1,700 last year, but the oper- ating expenses of the boat and gear were over $700, and I had not a $1,000 net income, Will I have to pay tax or not? A No; not if your computations are correct Q—I am a married man and have three children. I have an in- come of $1,080 rents, Out of this I pay $270 Interest. Taxes against the same property, $13. In addition 1 earned about $800 wages on small contracts, Out of this T pay $60 taxes on the house we live in and six town lots, I also have to pay $180 life insurance for wife and myself, Do I have to make out an [income tax” statement? A.—Gross | income less than $2,000. No return | required. Life insurance not a de- | ductible item, bi of an they | °F n, what | their dinner table puffing contented ly on their cigars. can give ‘em a run for their mon |Mrs. McCann Might has increased several cent on account of the war. McCann was president of the Los STAR—SATURDAY, Kaiser Fears Hindenburg, Says Morgan on the mame day * ‘ontinued From Page One" For tnatance, when Italy was hold * | ing own in the south and Keren the most good, aky gave promine of keeping up the Die Freie Zeitung has had many | fight in the east, all the German vicinmitudes, At ¢ the pro Hewspapers talked about © with German element in the Swiss gov: |OUt Indemnities or annexations, in ernment swooped down upon the of-| the east or west, Thia was to get fice of the newspaper, setxed its | books and accounts, demanded to y know who the author of “I Acouse Y was, and undertook to show that MVKAG\AA*QHH HOW TO KEEP 1. 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RIGHT DRUG CO, sTORKS Leok fer the Vree Decter Sign. low Never let tubes become dirty Never leave cleanout door at the bottom of chimney open. cellent air defenses.” FEB. 2, 1918. PAGE 4 people ready for a pownible peace jations, ‘This was to let the outside ut any conquest, except to the|world know that the morale had h | stiffened, and that a victor’s terme However, after the armintion was) must rule any p conference declared in the east, and after the| It was the newspapers that cot | Itallan army was routed in the|the people ready for ruthless sul ing a wm anities ar pers that made the people belleve| -- ———-- that the Lusitania’s sinking was not! most wanton act in history, but y 4 triumph for ¢ Hindenburg Sh It ie Hindenburg and Lu who make the policy for the r papers, just as they make the policy for the army and the policy for civil ife We make a considerable todo in this country over a change in the foreign office or in the chancellorship in Germany. , it does not matter who Hoth are manipulated by Hindenburg and Ladendortt. The proof of this can be seen in the regular reading of any Germa\ Y newspaper that Ludendortt paper, for instance, and Hindenburg have been sum m ei to a conference with the | kaiser | Presumably military stratery is to be dincumse but about the time Hindenburg and Ludendorft leave Herlin, you will notice that a new civil policy has been adopted. ‘This man has been deposed. ‘That man has been elevated. Food reatrictions | have become more severe, or have | been relaxed. Pence overtures are | to be made Rafe conduct ts given! | a Russian exile thru Germany, back his own country, Any one of mber of things. Kalser Now in Minor Role divine rights of their rulers, and, worse still, sometimes they are able to induce large numbers of the pop- ulace also to forget fo the kaiser is careful cross Hindenburg. clean—free of soot and cleaned dally level-—not. warped, and drop thru. Unburned or in the ashes a th surface at level of the . on under—rate in mild violently, Remove clinkers, I not shake a low fire until tule fresh fuel by firing the furnace promptly trop or wind inereases, Do not hould be be coal to not to ar ith work do not use large amounts to His tame Press club speech would Indicate that Colonel Roosevelt now | prefers to eat ‘em cooked temperature, not allowing it ns an low mm consistent with on instead of 70 degrees, for the entire |} nxumption connection for a Price of bleacher seats going up! to 20 cents! This war is just one! agony after another of ame in the dogr fuel ¢ chimney in Washington churches closed for three weeks, to save fuel. Wonder chimney for ventilating purposes. damper regulator. means waste. |how hard up for fuel old Satan is. | ee You have to #mile at Chancellor |Hertling’s complaint that Lioyd George's mpecch is “badly masked ieeateeme oes of Hun Cae eh?" drawled a young chap who had confenaed to 22 years, “Guess they | won't soon forget the reception we gave ‘em the other night }__ “What time does this evening's en terfhinment start, captain?” asked another. ptain, who himself was well replied with a laugh pu'd better be getting on your| furs any time now.” One by one the aviators arone, stretched themselves, yawned and left the room. Look Like Eskimos When they returned presently they jall looked like Eskimos in their | heavy furs. It was impossible to dix tinguish one from another as they peered out from behind heavy gor LIFE SIZE” PORTRAIT OF A VERY POPULAR. gles We all walked out to the immense PARTY hangars, The machines had been ‘oe | brought out upon the field, and about S each one hovered several mechan-| /~ Rear | folans and helpers, all bury with the | final “tuning up. Ay led ' About 9:30 an orderly called the| What a lot of reform in this wag! . Even Schwab, head of the Bethle captain to the telepho: He returned on the minute. hem Steel Co, says the working run within a | class is going to rule the world | They're started, boys,” he called | tS out long before he reached us| After going off half-cocked on the “They're headed toward Dunkirk and | 80-called New York Calais, They'll probably try to drop| Papers raise their Maybe a few bombs on both places before | !t’# #0 they can hire more editors. | crossing the channel | 2 8 Without Ceremony | Anyhow, General Hoffman sounds Without any further ceremony|Uke an honest autocrat. He fur each aviator took his place in his| shes the Bolsheviki a map of the machine; helpers strapped him in uasian territory which Germany | there was a turning of propellers, | intends to have and to hold. and instantly a deafening noise from | At Pig | the engines. The administration won't reply, One after another the machines| because it Indorses about 90 per took to the alr cent of what Roosevelt charges, Within an incredibly short time/thus far. Oh! to go way on to guna began booming east of us, the| Washington and then be ignored! Crool, crool! sounds constantly becoming louder. | At the same time the allied aviators could be seen heading in that direc tion. aircraft guns are pretty observed a helper who had| sought shelter with me, Then followed a terrific machine gun battle. It seemed if thou sands of bullets were being ex changed every minute. Soon the sounds became fainter and fainter died and the away, the motors Foe Driven Back “They're headed for the sea," my companion. “Those G will never see Dunkirk or Calais to- night.” Two hours later every allied flyer had returned safely We all sat down to a midnight COR. FIRST AVE. and PIKE 8ST. 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In short, the real possibilities of fresh air have barely been recog-| nized. Following the quarantine for various communicable diseases, public health offictals are now re-| lying upon free ventilation of the sickroom as a measure of terminal can hardly get your shoes on or off? Why don't you get a 26-cent box of “Tiz" from the drug store now and gladden your tortured feet? “Tiz" makes your feet glow with comfort; takes down swellings and draws the soreness and misery right out of feet that chafe, smart disinfection in preference to the "* on .;and burn. “Tiz" instantly stops intectanta, “ “hemioal | pain in corms, callouses and ‘ |bunions. “Tiz" is glorious for Fresh air, in fact, is Nature's tired, aching, sore feet. No more shoe tightness—ne more foot trou- 106 COLUMBIA ST. Cor. First Ave. best germicide. In the treatment of tuberculosis it is the best toni known to medical science. 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