The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 11, 1918, Page 1

The SeattleStar ate. tonight and Tue THE GREATEST DAILY CIRCULATION OF ANY PAPER IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST r : ERVICE ATTLE, WASH, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1918. PRICE ON orywhere TATIONS J cattle PEACE WITH AUSTRIA ] Income Tax on a INSISTS ON OPEN FORUM oldiers’ Food , ANG NO PATCHED-UP PEACE _Rouses Anger | : } CAMP LEWIS, Tacoma, February 11.—The very first SOME OF PR ESIDE . Ss CENTER SHOTS. general symptom of complaint has been heard among the | En La _ hational army soldiers at this cantonment. @ “The United States is willing to be shown that the settlements she has suggested They do not want to pay income tax on the food and/| J are not the best and the most enduring.” ” the clothing and pay that Uncle Sam gives them. In the, ( I Count Czernin's reply (Austria) is entered in a friendly tone. * * * Count Von ertling’s reply (Germany) is very vague. * * * It is certainly in a very different tone from that of Count Czernin and apparently of an opposite purpose.’ ‘ks and in the officers’ quarters and within the | Bhadow of the flag at headquarters they are protesting that the government has no right to reduce their earning capac- ity by enlistment or draft, pay them a pittance for hazard- @ “What we are striving for is a new international order, based on broad and universal” us ogi ee nt the itt mes Baal principles of right and justice—and no mere peace of shreds and patches.” 1 e y and the rich men have . : complaint. The cry comes from the vast majority who @ Whatever affects peace affects mankind. are neither rich nor poor, but who have incomes from separately or in corners. None of them constitutes a private or separate interest from outside sources that are just within the $1,000 limit set} which the opinion of the world may be shut out.” as the minimum taxable income for a single man. By Robert J. Bender | * With the $1,000 limit for single men and the $2,000 - pment limit for married men, it is a safe estimate that more than ; "WASHINGTON, Feb. AMERIC A’S Wilson Tells How | one-third of the officers and men will be subject to the tax, * J | Peace Terms M and that a very fair majority of these would not be sub- 11.—President Wilson to- POET JOINS ct to its terms if rations were not included as part of| ward Cannon, 12, 945 fist ave, and Howard Hardy, 10, 815 N. @0th #t—just a couple ot “kiaewho|day openly invited Austria ___Be Negotia' elili’s incorse. were taagped’ hy Giar Git: Photographer Jacth.. Do tay Eke tule “Pather and fon” movement t setltn” further discussion of|| “DLA STAFF — RAISES OPPOSITION better acquainted? Just notice Edd aquint of the eye and Howard's full-hearted grin. ith th United *— os | President Wilson, in his re Deputy tax collectors from the internal revenue department offices a a ee ee ee) 6. 8)56: @a xe peace wil ie ni markable reply to Germany and fm Tacoma have held meetings at Camp Lewis with the officers of each iaiastciatenacaat PCH a SR SMR States. ' 3 * Austria peace terms, laid — Organization assigned to assist the officers and men to make out their f , down the following principles as In a remarkable address " the basis of fatare negotiation Eyigane tet WILL YOU KEEP STEP WITH SON WHEN Ite congress in joint session, Pea tke First—That each part of the fi | | us ged to the surprise of everyone, it met with decided cova 9 sJent laid do b ™ | settlement must be based upon m AS ove man put It I] HIS LEGS ARE STRONG AND YOURS OLD? || the president laid dow. the ts tenential funtice of that. y “I have @ little income from my store. It ixn't as much an it was | jy ial ye |basis for such negotiations. ee. | Gase and upon such adjustments. 1 was there to handle the Business myvelf. but still my wife can| Austria, he | cing | are most likely to bring a peace tl ‘ d ouse. BY THE CITY EDITOR matter so Important. I vo tep with " aa - Ce will “° permanent; slong with it and keep up the payments on the how atter #0 Important, I must con step with me, He affects aman | ond conceding the essential *e " PF a es pcb Powe ¢ Father feas that I shall participate in nish stride. At : i pine grerpment Js_siving me Ye @& month and poard and dodging. | This io toa Orat.day of tre this motement ffom a purely I whorten my atop to Hie, ana | Principles involved and the ee inces are not to be bartered tax me on ¢verything my wife has and everything it} and-Son wee! verything welfish reason. he lengthens his stride to mine, |necessity of ndidly apply- iene s * from sovereignty to sovereignty a a as me. If it let me alone, she wouldn't have to pay anything Tonight there ts to be a great 6 4 t preted . “L didn’t claim exemption, because I figured she could get along.| banquet, at which fathers and sn er ae aoe and so we swing along together Jing them, can respond to the huh preegedraeBrenithn ‘am well satisfied with the treatment [ am getting. and I'm glad I have! ona will sit down to meat to at < ae Neabees Sne kieeee im shat, goed cemmraneshie purpose of peace as expressed tary pat gee Mire 6 my son as I am that he shall It must be true that boys Ike ee Of pes ’ , discredited, of the balance of p Chance to serve the country, but I'm blesed if I can see why I have| gether " n vara Puae tg a seal Kieike ih Ni eae negiect and forget me! I don't to keep step with their fathers. |by the United States with! but that home with wi a onal eee Me cunt : ai 3 o loud has the murmur risen that, at the request of the division) ed about Fatherand-Son week want that to happen. ( Se ean Bi jless embarrassment — than Psogiertensin af tarsttoe) the division judge advocate’s office has prepared an opininn| {oll me there is T am sure that, if many Seat ut shone 10 te Seer-vowa me. leould Germany . od in this wee he tow. | - | made in the interest and for the z lathers will Ser sens nbn ttgweee Vb longa i or tom L ‘ fit of the populatio! “These allowances,” says the opinion, “are not made to him (the| our sons That is what Father Will be because they are haunted will be as long as mine. or long- | on German ance! Hertling’s | efit. of the population comma | by the same fear that haunts me er. In a little while be will aiwid: ” es jnot as a part of any mere adjust: a the soldier should not be required to pay the tax on what the govern-| and-Son week in for—to impress dja: ne: Wanarenil 4 with basie-—“individual ba and con- re api ggetiech, 4 Ment gives him. upon the minds of us fathers saest ane aene Gla aay cuidh nies ae tle a ted cere [oe a | amongst rival taten: a Bey cnt és | neglect and forget them eh aest thru life a senile, . . j ongs: states; an ent, and are fecetved and accepted by the soldier, for the sole) their cninds as they develop, and — bass J do not Ba yang D his man«rown son | prorre S vite ope ey pmacy “ -, 2 accorded them without introducing: of keeping the latter ready and fit to render his country the| look into their hearts Sain at cme aya Pigs ie ae So I am in this movement, I was an o nid to Austria r J new or perpetrating old elements of service of which he ts capable. It in hoped that fathers will so pce gee tel pectic Boe orig s Apo = say, for a purel ish reason. and a powerful stroke at the Ger- és : discord and antagonism that would “Such being the case, such allowance cannot property be considered | n of Fa rat aapaccgete «fly - Boron I want to #0 make friends with m militaciote. It aimed again.te ; ; be likely in time to break the peace: ie teadie income such as are ees ger nye pol ae. bate . Rgeedlicd Hin lege were no much longer Monga Sar elapse Bs cedgecs Thry Jen the wedge between the Ger- " a al of Europe and consequently of Gtherwise would be to place the soldier in the category of a mercenary ho have sons in the army uae ane ae 4 tee ae “ Maen ‘lal . paophes cand thelr: -Seuiad . world. am off | rulers A general peace erected upon such ssed. tle fathers join the movement, it Iq a Uttle while my son's legs ace ible, he declared, fervant for hire, which would shock the conscience and cast an insult| will write to them frequently let e acai eas : ok abe re Set see ees Oe thee svmntes © eenerpency, have. patrictiaaily | ' tere filled with fatherly love and I wanted to keep step with my Be - Germany, the president sald, ts We have with us today— foundations can be discu submitted themselves for military service.” advice and comradeliness in equal pBeoe I want him to so love me for | trying to arrange a peace following EDMUND VANCE COOK! — di ‘The opinion also holds that any attempt to segregate the parts of| parts the father and chum I used tobe | ihe “method of the pi The famous poet and philo Count von Hertling’ ; ‘the allowances, and to make some ‘taxable and others free from tax, There's Selfish Motive Like to Keep Step ill shorten his step to | vienna We cannot a. not| opher has Joined the staff of The | must say Ee “ is, I I lke this father-and-son idea My son is about as old now as y halting step, and link a | Si to that” he eaid Star. must say, very vague Sie am I declare myself in the move- 1 was then. Sometimes we go strong arm in a palaied arm. . sl se ee Readers will enjoy the dally | Ce mne.. tS tal ee ment lking together. And I have I want to keep step with my ma es os ye poems of the author of “How Dia | 21% and leads, it is nt as I must be honest in av seer’ 1 that he likes to keep ! son! je attacked Hertling’s recent war| Peet oe ne ee McoCow Moo | Weere. But it is certainty imam J ' wech as “vague onfusing ‘ a very different tone from that of 7 ae hea presen nd “Otto and the Auto. as reas WILL GO TO BANQUET nin, the Austrian prem | Erecting to his old friends here | 18% sorry to say, rather than Sie see the fund moves, the unfortunate impression | “ Sevendetn. tindesd chiteate doc’ the rey ea| &hd the new friends he is about | Moves. tl “ NFIT” | walbier ani ibae ‘Socecia: 60 batted H OP becurethem| {2 make—“Just Shaking Hands | Made by what he me Ce ; ner and Son banquet, to be held 1 n »bscure them, win eee” ne conferences at Brest-Litovsk, |= Tax collectors are busy in the ranks of the national | » Oxt Nef that Czer- re Pach His discussion and acceptance of | at Masonic temple at 6:20 p. m. Mon Cooke is the author of 13 ‘army! 60 Wi H DRA day ha been sold. It's going to] ORD R D HOM hort ¢ i je Senger * his! books of verse, the most famous |UF general principles lead him tq F : ti | FT 4 E Ei: y to the president's last war) Ce- which “tnineett no practi conclusions. He Te rs bi ‘ the lives of man Bk. hich mpertinent Uncle Sam is telling his soldiers: be a big affair in the lives of many | ce potas “HC hae mt 6 A ade AI onrraaea Ry ert aoe “Pay me for supporting you while you fight my war.” ars tule $0 die Gini ae the | "ave bptwoen eanp of: 20 and 20, and! , serRRDAM, Feb, 11—The Rus-| Austria's alliance with and d Little Tet stantive items which must constitusall i ‘ heir fathers. A telegram waa rent *) ency upon Germany.” i iat the body of a final settlement, Mai man man ion fr ared physically unfit for | ‘ He's known in every city and etulemt ay and ripe claimed no exemption from the = post pees teeat draft |to Governor Lister Monday, urging stan Bolshevik government has def-| In the present 5 _ d ¢ hamiet in the land, as a poet if {He is jealous of international action: draft because he thought the little store or business would T ecttnas tn vias Wh bo | to bring his gon. Men who itiitely withdrawn from the war, or. threatens no one President de-| not ax a platform speaker, read- {4nd of international council support his wife while he was absent. eligible for service under the new fe ott 4712 were given father. “ering complete demobilization of | clared; but to the end « | ing his « He accepts, he says, the principle rules for physical requirements Sos cide sin.suatehnanen forces on all fronts, it was reported | ter petneiplee for’ which she .@n- i . Jof public diplomacy, but he appears Now the government is adding to the income she re- red the war the United State: . . ‘ to insist that it be confined, at gz now in the hands of local draft A. Peters will be toastmaster, | here today. “rapidly mobilizing {ts resources America * . iving |rate in this case, to generalities and ceives the amount that it pays him a month and the amount} offictals. ts tor |The Program follows é Dispatches received from Brest-]is “sending its army to the fight- cet of the chbid.and xe hoes. |that the several particular questions it spends for his food. eg ~ Paneer “s r | Singing of national anthem. Wel-|Iitovsk declared that Leon Trotsky, |ing front and putting our whole] Cook's “handshake” with you ts on | of territory and sovereignty, the sew Fe i i ag aring, foot troubles an¢ © PET! coming address by Gov. Lister, Ad-| Bolshevik foreign minister, while ri gth into this war of er page nine. ‘al questions upon whose settle If it totals more than $2,000 for married men and | mission for drafting men suffering | Gren, William H “What aj fusing to sign a formal peace p: ation.” manaimtape nt must depend the acceptance of $1,000 for single men, he must pay, his income tax and the with hernias which can be Tamovtd| Father Expects of a Son.” Response, /asserted that “the war with the cen-|' “And all the time she is quite war » by the 23 states now engaged wn . », |b¥ operation © responsible for | Tee Baker, Broadway high school, | tral powers is ended.” ready,” dded, “to be shown ‘ 1 the ‘war, must be discussed and tax will go back to the government to pay him next month’s | making the greater part of this num | What a pouts Prem 0 FF he ; © president's speech follows ar, 1 ha pee that the tlements she he ’O aa: © . not in eral council, but ber subject to the draft |ther.” Vocal solo. Dr. Henry Suz rman Sunday newspapers re of the Congress n pay and allowances. Svs P gested are not the b Hernias and foot troubles will be|zailo, “Relation of Father to Son."| ceived in Zurich from Stuttgart to-| enduring. They are only her pro iately concerned by interest of It’s a great system—BUT, the soldiers do not like it | emedied by operations pertormed by | “America,” led by orchestra y . ‘imminent rupture of | Visional sketches of principle ole r a | BelRDOrhood : and they feel it an injustice unworthy of the government ey gf ors ee ghag oar aad M. C. A Dts wwo-Clerman peace negotiations.” | the way they should be aps Sais jhe people) “He agrees that the seas should be f ich the drafted men are ser |- ——- is may indicate th c America’s force, he concluded, “is 8 bir of Great] free, but looks askanc ny limt+ they serve. Flat feet, club feet, hammer toe,| boards of men who are away from Russia from the threatened) q menace to no nation or people, minster of Great tation to the freedom by international bunions and hallux valgus, when | 4, b ‘These boards now | German invasion, and in fa " poken in similar terms) | 146 he int t of the cor t | t they do not prevent the wearing of|. Me ay way age oes OW | what evidently amounted to an ul It will never be gs We aggression | on ) of January, To th <n n a e in wh : se corner unless he recovers, the story of the ‘ bye Fl can examine the men, sending . r or ag ement. It springs out] ogares a; en chahsation (ore fe would, without reserve, fight cannot be told . 0 ding ama 1 ¢ anc are not nufficient to disqualify @ MAN | hoards in the lidates’ home | dered complete withdrawal of ; m," sage 'nt | moved between nation and nation, for | The enemy, it is known, suffered |)’ o néw gules. When severe, |.” po . | count om the wa . Czern for Austria, on the same CLASH WITH FOES some losses, as there are indications | UNder the new Riles. When etion, | ust The lo ds will wor ante y: OR. Tan: WOR & wis Hear Speech e that could in no way impede the il remecine . by ‘operetion nt’s decision to s ‘ mbitions of the military party, with ON NO MAN’S LAND the patrol fought fiercely before it tisay wil not disqualify in conjunction with the ‘general sd py _a s ratifying to have our de BY J. W. PEGLER [Re wines ont Lower Standards fig Pee crak area aaRge Ah | UNSINKABLE TRANSPORT today » terms was made, It] sire go promptly realized that all ba rood ms constrained to keep ae 7 nis The artillery also laid down a sabinis ds tn Cie chek, hae 00 | ed, a | exobhinwen at ‘Wiew. nis on United Press Correspondent ee Set alee te swan |, Hearing, which, in the past, had to] up tor reexamination the men ex| 1S NOW POSSIBILITY | week with Col, Houne, culminating] xcnansee of view on this great Return of Cotontes THE AMERICAN AR “ > empted—in Class 1 thru which the to pass in re- NEW YORK, Feb, 11.—Transports | With a lc session Saturday, at] i> 5 x , ing of sil the world 1 limitation of armaments. That FRANCE, Feb, 10 (De ee turning to thelr tre 4 said, w nit man ean now be made unsinkable by sub. Which Se ry of State Lansing] ¢ ane - ‘ An American sergeant, with | it 4, will admit many now Ripe tie taial ns Hie Bhnaagy Sour yt Caernin’s reply, which 1s [emia ote oe tte ae bullet in his chest today, pos-| + Hernias have kept about 10 per M AN’S ARTICLE marine cording eee tenet a er it became known, that the| Urected chiefly to my own address) thinks, by the conditions which must | MONTGON , Ala., Feb, 11—|cent of the men exempted for phys by Willlam L. Saunders, vice chair ; Jon the eighth of January ut- | ronow the war. But the German cob feased the only intimate knowledge , 5 f } ets out of service, while man of the naval consulting board, | president was to address congress, : . tt of the service, whit — ; tered in a very friendly to He | onies, he demands, must be returned @ how a U. S. patrol was ambushed! The base hosp! camp Sheridan defe . a ti Ys He declared that a ship recently the galleries wer n filled to! finds in my statement a sufficient | without debate. a paragraph which |f page six of The Star, toda shape that she cannot.be sunk by] one of the most important speeches be nishes a basis for @ more detailed “alitor’s = Note: William thru the best possible sources of ZURICH, Switzerland, Feb. 11 If the allies stand pat on the ‘But it does mean the p are dent Wilson is sincere in his Pee. heraretand Aad ey | D.Wee Le of four dis- res: ed no mation of w 6 “ ctor: the battle fronts in Europe since pear fn. The, Bigs in * Austria must This sums up the situation, as They are angry over the priva- are beginning to see the light Ived no intimation of what he | that “a German victory must first be Of affairs in the central empires, Copyright, 1918, by the United Press, mani It, is on the brink of a rev . same time they believe Presi (Continued on page 3) Sch apite content tb’ becone, of hls|tn.mseriewaage ta’ the Sennen _ would lead only to fruitless argument. January I had the|Se¥erally, by the nations most im: jdressing you on the ow only has to be better than 10-20. (Continued on page 5) * b 7 u "7 1 Ve Victor Morgan's article on con commandeered by the government is overflowing by an eager throng de- With the lows of f killed and four|/noon. First reports said all build-| Another important ruling in th j > Miasing. The plats is the only|ings will be sstroyed. Patients |new regulatio: according to the|} ditions in Germany appears on | {now in an Atlantic port im such! siring to hear what proved to bel views of his own governm mire justify him in believing that it fur- | le # in a critical condition, and|ty as rapidly as Lie! Lat : a . med es GER TAO cbr 2 — east Ss 66 governments || “German Victory He is represented to have in- ND OF WAR IN SIGHT IF HUN SPRING DRIVE FAILS _ fushcrsvhtiss.s | Most Comittee Tcaeaeing hast beak \Gbeiuntaated:00. Peace,” Wilhelm uttering them; but in this I am|wilheim, in commenting on. the urich, will daily thruout the central em- stone wall of the Western front, pan rman pohey conquest. There is no doubt that the +e s " 0 id . 3 correspondent, who has been on port, cabled from Zuricl the end of the war is in sight Believe Wilson Sincere masses of the German people he was misunderstood, T had) peace pact with Ukraine, declared wigned to make a personal in have peace or go under, The seen from here, at this time u Ciiliie,: 06. teaver Meno tia stowld in frlendanih its binaicie » of both countries de does e at Gh en folk at the t. At the _ the allies have kept them bound |in friendship with other countries, vestigation of the actual state BY WILLAAM F wily SIMMS people of both unter iT it 4 t mean that men folk at the fron Pp noe Rowe communicate privately with 1 1| The kaiser’s statement was made fp No Man's Land Friday evening,|was reported in flames this after-| foot trouble has kept as many more uraging approach to the| ye will discuss with no one but ‘or of the patro emoved to places of safe: | draft officials, ts Fer of the patrol os ph gant d reg , for the examination by local J an exploding torpedo. ‘the chief executive has made dur- z 2 aoe a a discussion of purposes by the two Philp Simms, United Press staff accurate information, His re- An ominous unrest is growing Wilson program, and make @ tired of war and opposed to the statement of aims. aware of them at the time he was}, AMSTERDAM, Feb. 11K i Germany and od to ‘There was, the war began, was recently as patches, This is the first: tions at home and the losses of | Only the diplomatic blunders of intended tos There was, of | recognized” before Germany can IME public audience, Hanburg.