The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 13, 1918, Page 6

SEATTLE STAR 1907 Sevewth Ave. Near Union st OF SCRIPPS NORTUWEST LEAGUE OF NEWSPArEns Telegraph News Service of the United Press Association tor Poatoffice as Second-Class Mattor onth; 3 months, $1.15: # montha $2.00; rrier, city, 20¢ a month. Entered at Seattia Wash, Tey mail out of city, the per year, $3.50. Ry elapse atatiaens Seetilinies ——————__—___—— Uncle Sam pays interest on thrif€ stamps. It's ‘an investment that is profitable. You are not asked to give. You are merely asked to loan to your pro- tector, the U. S. government. “The Yell of the Dollar The English, whom the great Napoleon scorned as ‘Mation of trader: ntinue to warmly discuss a trade boycott of the cent , after the war, and, if they reach this decision, e Il undoubtedly be strong pressure to make the d States a party to it. Indeed, such boycott could not continue without the American nations as participants. big a market would be left open to the boycotted, to nothing of merit and prices of goods interfering with ‘ful boycott in all cases. But it is not remarkable that the British tradesmen are dup. If the truth were made known, it would, doubt- appear that the trades people’ of the central powers, rithout foreign trade for over three years, are doing some) shty hard thinking and, perhaps, contributing a great deal to the unrest manifested in those countries. While President Wilson’s utterances have all been for ide freedom and equality, the statistics of our pre-war with Germany and her allies are interesting. For the ir previous to the war, these statistics show: Imports Exports «-$ 19,192,414 $ 23.820, 96 103,749 440,537 188,963,071 831,684,212 wives Loteesseue |. SRR 2,217,078 While the total balance of trade was not against us, smaller countries, Bulgaria and Turkey, did have bal- in their favor. But balances don’t tell the whole story. total of business with these countries was $575,839,642, it was a poor trade year thruout the world. E If, as a great many theorists, especially Germans, claim, is a trade war, isn’t it logical to believe that much of the squealing and dissatisfaction reported by the cables is the ifestation of the traders? The almighty dollar, bless sensitive heart! is being biffed and buffed to the limit. Hungary The food administrators are going to cut off the | fresh fowl supply! Butchers’ prices accomplished that for some of us, months ago. Caldwell Seat for another two years. has made good. * e him corporation well has rently. He fights injustice with energy. He does not p. He sees the issues clearly. There are only two candidates for the office. Caldwell bound to be nominated. Let us make the vote as unanimous as possible, because opponent presents no claim for the office that is worthy consideration. Rates on embalming must be going up. Cold stor- age poultry has suddenly become a high-priced article. ° —— ° ° rotsky—His View If Trotsky’s purpose is honestly and reliably set forth his book, “The Bolsheviki and World Peace,”*the Ameri- n public, generally speaking, has the wrong view of the in and his aims. According to Author Trotsky, the crux of the Bolshe- doctrine is “The industries for the workingmen; the for the peasants,” and it must be admitted that there a whole lot of thought along that line in America and a little attempted, tho perhaps indirect, legislation. Ww at least, got as far as government regulation of| wages, hours, working conditions and ages of the work- ye classes. We, at least, have aeknowledged the vicious- “Ress of large land holding and the injustice of our system of taxing lands. But, if Trotsky is misunderstood by us, he is ‘equally Mistaken in us, since he proclaims that our purpose in thts war is but to supplant imperial capitalism with a capitalism | of our own. Trotsky’s American expegience was confined | to the lowest stratum of the metropolis and, naturally, he got no view of America. Capitalism all over the world is getting the screws put it. In Great Britain and France war taxation, alone, fair to eliminate capitalism as a governmental power or dominating influence. In our own country, government has taken over, bodily, the greatest industry on earth—the| American railroads. It is a death-blow to political domina-} tion of a very strong element of capitalism. Our govern-| ment holds the banks in one hand and runs them with the other. It has begun to put war cost and peace cost on| the shoulders best able to carry the burden. To complete this labor is harder in America than in other countries, for the simple reason that in America the) average of content is highest. We're slow about overturn- ing the autocracy of capitalism, but steady. Every move we've made in this war has been a blow upon the shackles that capitalism has put upon our indus- a thus showing his lack of appreciation, | voters should hire Hugh Caldwell as their at- counsel. e spirit and ability to serve the people | “ED. K's.’. COLYUM WORSE LIBRE Our Cat Again Y’ know that oof Mack eat of We told you 4 Last week? Well He hiked away for A week (sob) and ‘The Mrs. was clean Up in the air About The way And whe said Wouldn't make any Mor He came it and saw we were about it paghott back Junt for that Well, now that Wasn't anything For us to laugh At. So that night We hurriedly put An ad in the paper In “Lost and Found Column for With reward i about night We had to get up, Go to the back Deor and let his Knobs tn, Next Day we read | Our ad in the | lL. & ¥. column | 1X? Tall cate eee our cat | Once again, the Weatern merchant princes sought to that chickens come high. ave prove | Am tho we needed that proof. Lay oft, fells, we're entirely capvinoed of the high price of poultry, feath ered and otherwise. eee GIVE Him TIME | This ts a nice campaign, Not « Jcandidate haa yet attacked another's |wife and family, th Jone certain fellow hasn't @ lyet | eee find = crowd to doing something started You can alway watch a man who . The man who manufactured Peru na ts dead, at the age of 84. He out | lived most of the men who took it “Why You Are Not Paying 20 Cents for Sugar” in the subject of a }twocolumn advertisenent of the [American Sugar Refthing Co. | That's a lot of space to fill when it can be told in one word Hoover. eee After reading Vie “Morgan's arti- clea, we conclude there is not much fodder left in Fodderland eee * Peeullar Horrors of War ite,” Said Lieutenant Montague Cobb, 1 find my militant suffragiat wife Intrenched in my erstwhile job!” ’ VIRGINIA. HUNS THREATEN SWISS PEOPLE — Continued From Page One | *——___———— 4 | Tod@y Switzeriand is struggling valiantly, not only to maintain ite | neutrality, but for independence for iteetf. Huns Agenis Threaten The German agents are threaten ing the staunch republic with revolu- tion, hoping it will epread into Italy and France. The Prussians boast the German people are better disci plined than the rest of the world; that If revolutionary doctrines are scattered broadeast, other nations will succumb, while Germany will remain unscathed, Switzerland is swarming with the agents of the Prusian war party Discusing the question of what the Russian Bolshevik movement could hoped to occomplish in Switzerland, France, Italy, Bhgland, and even America, the celebrated Journal de Genev dectared “A great revolutionary wave, com ing from the Orient and crossing Ger- many, is now swirling at the foot of the Alp» Concerted, methodic, in nationalist agitations are growing in These tend to provoke by revolution v h, from Switzerland, would gain neighboring countries The paper is one of the most sub stantial in Europe. The warning was prompted by sensational devel opments of the past few weeks in German Switzerland | Labor Trouble Grows | Labor troubles are increasing. ye political strikes have occur re Others are brewing. I am told |they are all inspired by “foreigners not belonging to a The latest men violence a Jed countries ¢ came fromn the} radical labort foreignied, in the shape of an ultimatum to the go ment, demanding withdrawal of tain war measures, immediate r and { on of deserter ‘ork, and complete de. n of the army by May 1 aborites declared that if, within 48 hours after the ultimatum was ratified by labor unions and no- cialists, the terns were unheeded, a general strike would be called. The best element of labor ts gen | “And suppose, on returning to civil STAR—WEDNESDAY, FEB, 13, 1918. PAGE 6 jews a or; Ses in, Analysis of the War Moves Written for By J. W. T. Masom -: F by Aus nan ideal The hollowness of the recent cen tral powers’ separate agreement with | the Ukraine republic is being quick: | lly realized by the Teutonle people.| The German are already The prentige of the German mill-| beginning to refer to the pact aa a be increased even| “bread peace.” There could be |momentarily by the Brest-Litovak | more contemptuous and tronic crits ltreaty, for there ia no territorial) ciem of the kaiser and hie pan Ger | gain to the central powers. man megalomaniacs. Austria Htungary. in fact, by rec-| After nearly four years of war ognizing the’ independence of | f4re, the German militarists return Ukraine, specifically abandons the home from a peace conference hold previous imperialistic ¢ 4 for|!se no indemnities and no terri- the annexation of that part of Rus | torial loot, and able to may only that | ela to Galicia. they have arranged to supply Ger, The people of Austria-Hungary, egg henery millions with a lt therefore, have no further Imperial = istic reason for continuing the war. a bee has magna mere —— Count Ceernin has intimated that | StLclmax to ml Starietie ambitions Austria Tlungary doesn't want Po [1 the history of Europe. The kai comes a for tria-Hungary of military aggre: | tarists will not no treaty be has provided a Little more bread land and does not desire to annex |r bs ns for Germany, but no diminution of Italian or Serbian territory blood letung The three western Thus, the Ukrainian democracies are preparing to attend mage to that. The Ukraine treaty as BEAUTY SPECIALIST “bread peace” is already contribu ing to a better understanding among the German people of the failure of TELLS S$ the Hobensollern militarism. A Reatty Specialiat Gives Stmpte| GOVERNMENT WILL. TRY Home Made to Darken i Hecige | AERIAL MAIL SERVICE | WASHINGTON, Feb. 13.—The Mrs. M, D, Gillespie, a well-known | government will soon try out aerial | beauty spectalint of Kansas City, re) maf) service cently gave out the following state | To relieve congestion in traffic ment regarding gray hair: along the eastern seaboard, Post “Any one can prepare a simple | master General Burleson today ad mixture at home, at very little cost. | vertined for bide on five aeroplanes hair, and | to deliver mail between Washington, ot bay — = “Barwo Com-| FORCE RUSSIANS INTO can be tought st| PEACE, SAYS HUN PAPER _ Sock ten oe BERNE, Feb. 13—“The central Ir twice a week until powers must try to force Trotsky the desired shade is obtained. This] ic. Gefinite peace | treaty.” the = aes unires i ankfurter Zeitung declares in dis- wih make © grey: pergpn look |cussing Rusela’s withdrawal trom the war “It cannot be foreseen what at- titude the central powers will adopt,” the newspaper said. TO RELIEVE CATARRHAL DEAF- NESS AND HEAD NOISES Quiekly Fased By Penetrating Hamiin’s Wizard Oi A anfe and harmless preparation to relieve the pains of Rheumatiam, Sciatica, Lame Back and Lumbago Probe of Packers Shows Up Industrial Autocracy in U WASHINGTON, Feb, 13 — The far-reaching plans of the five big packers— Swift, Ar- | mour, Morris, Cudahy and Wil- son-=—-who constitute what is called the food trust, for the control of industrial and agri- cultural America, strangely re somble the plans of Germany for the contro! of the world. cars has for the Just as Germany for been persistently working biishment of a Pan iropa, so the packers have nning for & Pan-Packers’ An util of as for industrial conquest investiga tod by the inwion under the direction of Francis J. Heney. Just as German imperial controt! is handed down from father to son, | America's monarchs of meat pack- ling hand down dynastic control thru the original families, Consolidated States | Germany became an empire by) the consolidation of feudal states) under the head of the strongest in the o way, the feudal of Packingdom are welded together into a rapidly growing in- trial emp The “Big Five” packers, tncom- plete figures of the Federal Trade Commission show, control approx! mately 90 per cent of the entire meat industry, and the other 10 per cent occupies the same post tion as the pocket kingdc f Luxemburg did to the German em- pire—it can be swallowed at will tarting with this completely dated empire in the} have rapidly and aggress-| | packs ively pushed their industrial bound- | jaries in every direction j Proves Ownership ‘These new trial territory have almost without Jexception been kept entirely secret For example, while it has for years | been charged that the packers owned the Chicago stockyards, this | was successfully denied until Heney seized from the vaults of a Boston banker the proof of their direct | rehip, | It was obvious that the packers should extend thetr boundartos into | he industries which consume their y-products—tannesies, soap fac| orion, leather companies and fer- Ullzer milla which they now domi- nate, Thru ownership of the refriger- ator cars, it wae inevitable that the packers should secure a tight «rip on frult and berry markets, | and thru thetr control of cold stor- | age plants dominate the markets for butter and ees, potatoes and many other food products It was natural also that the packers, controlling egg» and but- (ee, and having branch houses all over the country, should go into| the general provision business and take on side lined of rice, coffee and other staples, Another natural extension of ac- tivities was the establishment of | canneries to consume fruit and vegetables which they came to/ control. Now they are rapidly estabtish- | ing milk condenseries, accessions of indus- which are and which will inevitably lnad them into control of the raw milk| supply. Long ago they came into a dom!- pant position in the cottonseed oil however, know of the position which the packers have come to occupy in the control of the grain markets, not only as epeculatora, but as the owners of grain elevators. Seized Strategic Points is Hamiin'’s Wizard Ol It pene | trates quickly, drives out sorenens, and limbers up stiff aching joints and muscles. You will find almost daily uses for it in cases of sudden mishaps, or ac cidents euch as sprains, bruiser, cuts, ‘This will often bring quick burns, bites and stings. Just as re f coat iy. Sar eoerene Mable, too, for earache, toothache, croup and colic Get it from druggints for 20 cents. If not satintied return the bottle and get your money back. Ever constipated or have sick headache? Just try Wizard Liver | | Whips, pleasant little pink pilla, 36 | conta, Guaranteed.—Advertisement druggist and get 1 ounce of (double t spoonful four times a day In fact, It may be said that in arrying out the Pan-Packer plan for industrial dominion, the pack ers have seized the strategic points { control in qvery Important food [line in America and the other great | Chicago packers ax America does German | our putting creameries out of business, || ° food producin ye a potent weapon for and Ar ducing 0 rkets under mintries, Australia) packers hy » reat meat pro-| crushing ¢ find their| ing or t sition quite as| The pac vestments also ome of the| tend to hotels, railways, street ralle | ways, coal mines, and huge tracts of land, Last, but not least, the empire of haa now grown into the FOOD! Packingdom has extended it# ine TRUST fluences into the federal governs But ment itself and is so potent that very departments and bureaus In recent years| which are supposed to control the 1 ed | f are bt 4 with ntrien, su almont, now if not contro) Thus the which was considered a dire menace ten years meat trust, the packers have not been content with securing control over | the food mupplien they have enort ackers ney their Interests into nen wh their b « Vederal The investigation of the packers complet by the Federal Trade Commisatom of the y| ia something more than @ probe of found r control in| the packers’ iniquities, It ts ia banks thruout the country, ranging | realit yntest between the fed- from great Inatitutions like the| eral roament and all the great Continental and Commercial and| financial powers represented by and the Firet National bank of Chicago| affiliated with the packers to see to small country banks in outlying | whict | control It is a wae autocracy. Metricts, Thru their banks ' INCOME TAX PUZZLES Is there something you would like to know about the income tax? Mail your question to The Star's “Income Taz” editor. Answers will be printed in The Star. ude 41) You, the tax is correct. @ Lona not deductible unless you have gains from other sources outside your regular trade or business, and then only to the amount of such gains. (@) Report only the part of the cash payment representing the pro rata gain. No loss if reported as above. (4) Legal sale for income tax purposes. | PAINLESS Q—)) Am «ingle; gross income! $2,328; deductible expenses, $2,085; rent, labor, material, phone, taxes. Net balance, $1,253; $1,000 exemp- tion leaves $253, Two per cent in come tax makes $5.06, Is this my correct income tax? (2) Property whore value in 1912 was $6,000, con servative valuation, sold in 1917 for $3,960, incurring lone of $2,050. Is this amount deductiblé from income? @) Property sold on contract with small payment down. Should full amount be reported or only cash payment? Should there be a de fault in contract, it is no male. What then? (4) Is @ contract with «mall payment down a legal sal only a sale our old customers, as ones, to call and i: Ritent with high class sistent w igh ¢ For 22 years I hi bee! of that dread disease RHEA, or Riggs’ Disease bled with sore and shrinkl call today and see me Consul and examination free United Painless Dentists 08 Third Ave., Cor. James Hours: §:30 a m to $:00 p, m Sundays, 9 to 1. Etlte Phone tt 3633. Be_cure to get to the right place, The gectnal always have) this trade. eococcece: WarTimeand Railway Service Only Non-Essentials Curtailed a are war times and war means the givi up of luxuries. nonessentials of railway travel are Therefore the luxuries an curtailed. “Flapjacks for Breakfast’’ In giving government business a clear right of way from coast to coast it may also be found necessary to readjust some passenger train schedules.. But what- ever is done to help win the war, this company feels certain that the traveling public will patriotically approve, and the Chicag:, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Company gives assurance that it will at all times serve its patrons with the courtesy and regard for their comfart and convenience which have always characterized this road. President Wilson has said: “It is necessary that the tion of troops and of war materials, of food and of fuel andof every- thing that is necessary for the full mobilization of the energies and resources of the country should be first considered, but it is clearly in the publicinterest also that the ordinary activities and the normal in- dustrial and commercial life of the country should be interfered with and dislocated as little as possible.” This company will mak: every effort to help carry out this idea of service. With its “Olympian” and “Columbian” trains it will continue to serve all points of importance between the Pacific Northwest and the far East. Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Ry. 3. F. BAHL erally against the ulti um, but German agitators, aiming at a revo: lution, are busy day and night. Meantime, German troops are gathering near the Swiss border. | All true Swiss are crying a warn-| ing, demanding: “What is the connection between | the menace of a Swiss revolution and | Hindenburg'’s offensive?” trial, economic and political life. | Let this be your breakfast call. .Watch the smiles appear when the family learns they are to have another meal of these light, enticing hot cakes, made from that famous, “look for the miner” Flapjack Fleur. Albers flapjack flour is a superior hot-cake flour that requires no butter, baking powder, salt or yeast. By simply adding water you have the batter ready for a de- Mghtful breakfast dish, that helps you save as well as conserve. 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