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TLE STAR ion st AaV or Newsrarens THE SEAT 1307 Seventh Ave. MEMnER or scrurts NontHw Telegraph News Service oi Near ed Prean Ansociation Entered at Seattle, Wash, Postoffice as Second-Class Matter WL Out of city, «0c per month; # months $1.15; @ montha $2.60 - deal year, $3.50. hy ¢ity, 38¢ @ month by The EDOM XoR ANAL FOREVER. FRE Today is St. Valentine's day. Is she a patriot? Why not send her a thrift stamp? " The Labor Vote At every election, we hear the monstrous slander ‘Against labor that a few labor politicians can deliver the) rank and file to this or that candidate. | It is not true. The laboring people of this city have too much independence to accept the dictatorship of so- talled “leaders” among them, who are leaders only for self- ent and political spoils. Laborers’ votes are own. No man, or set of men, can “deliver” them. There used to be one Eugene Schmitz in San Francisco ‘who made such boasts. He was shrewd enough to get cted r as a “labor” candidate. He promptly sotiht n to iver this labor strength into a ership with | tenderloin. Laboring men of that city, fooled tho they | been in Schmitz before, were qu to resent that) oly alliance. They were no longer fooled by Schmits’s/ Schmitz will never be mayor of San Francisco again.| ‘Labor has too much self-respect to permit him to use the| ‘working people of that city again as their tool for private ,__ LABOR HAS TOO MUCH SELF-RESPECT TO MAKE! ALLIANCE WITH THE TENDERLOIN, AND SO-! ED LABOR “LEADERS” IN SAN FRANCISCO AND EATTLE AND EVERYWHERE IN THE UNITED io OUGHT BY THIS TIME TO REALIZE IT. e honest labor leader, the man who is conscientiously rking for the cause of the workingman, and not seekin, itical spoils for himself, deserves the highest praise ani m of his fellow are The “ap ge Bae who stays nights working political plots, working partner- ab a 2 ren a Ceeering of from He may get away with it for a little while, but sooner organized labor later will kick him out bodily. The nt election may yet show up some of these corrupted ag " Custom Cutters have decided men’s ‘clothes this year will not have belts, pleats, cuffs, big ‘patch pockets or any other wnnecessary frills. eision was made tailors a ago, @ounting for the few we see tele fs coming back The pater array tact “York » We doubt it. It may come into use, but ee ne 7 witine coming sate etyle be A Cleveland bartender who worked $0 years for one and in that time never took a drink, has bought Bis boos’ saloon, say the newspapers. Will some 10- boy please point out what information in the 9 is superfluous? A man who placed a bomb on a ship so there would Be an explosion when the vessel was at sea, was sen- tenced to serve 18 months in prison. Needless to add that this didn’t happen in Germany. What means it that the big railroad lobby at Wash- ington demands that the rate control in the railroad control bill be left with the interstate commerce com- mission, instead of with the president? Indorsement by burglars is no honor or compli- ment to a party who is above reproach, or approach. Has that lobby the idea that it will be easier to “work” the commission? Uncle Sam has decided $960,000,000 a year is enough to pay the railroads. It's plenty when you con- sider how bad the plumbing is and how the roof leaks. Hungary's premier proclaims that she didn’t enter the war for conquest. They'll all be confessing that the kaiser made ’em do it, before long. What's ecome of the good old-fashioned idea of trying La Follette for something? Analysis of the War Moves By J. W. T. Mason -:- Ferien, for eee America’s rapidly growing hag | along the Alsace-Lorraine border is fesponsible for Germany's heavy | eoncentration of troops near the Bwiss frontier described in Wm.) Philip Simms’ dispatch of yesterday. ‘The Swiss government recently Fequested the United Staten to give Assurances that Swiss neutrality Would not be violated by Gen. Per-| shing’s forces. The United States Feplied that if Germany and Austria Fespected the neutrality of Swiss | territory, #0 would America. Thi plain intimation that the eontinuation of howtilities must Overwhelm Switzerland has since been followed by the increasing dis- patch of German troops to that re gion. It is there that the front most International Rhine, which is about 15 miles dis- tant. If Von Hindenburg orders an of- fensive near the Swiss frontier, his sole object will be to gry to force back the allies’ line before Pershing | is fully prepared to strike. Apart fron. this, there is could result from such an offensive which would be in any way com- mensurate with Germany's casuaitien. It would be a risky proceeding for Von Hindenburg to take the ini tative near the Swiss area. German troops near Switzerland are keeping the Swiss unéasy, but they are being kept far more un- easy themaelves by the which i# veiling Pershing’s coming offensive. 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Devil, dear devil, I could swoon with glee, Each time thy hoof-print sets its mark on me, Reiterating I am loved of they. - Kultur shall be the stygian style of hell, And if the earth will none of it, ah well! I shall have thee to sate me—Thee, the Uncleaned, Satan, Beelzebub, and Foulest Fiend. Each name is sweet to me, because ‘tis thine! Read the initials which shall tell you mine. Copyright, 1918, by the Newspaper Enterprise Association. HOW TO FILL OUT INCOME TAX BLANK Thin is the first} If you don't make the return be- tax/ fore March 1, the penalty is not | less than $20, and, in addition, 6 per cent of the amount of tax due The payment of your income tax is @& patriotic duty. The tmcome tax Is America’s economic draft on her individual citizens The man joesn't file his return te Sus Editor's Note of four articles on the tnco by Basil Manly, the weil authority om economic subjecta BY BASIL M. MANLY ‘The Star's Economic If you, Mr, Reader, or Miss Read- er, are unmarried and had an tn- come last year of $1,000 or more, you must file an income tax re-| turn before March 1, or stand to NT GET AWAY WITH IT. CLE SAM WILL GET You L THE SUFFER. It may be weeks or months be- fore the revenue agents catch you. but they will murely get you In the course of time, no matter how ob-|* scure you may be or how well you may think your tracks have been covered. You have Beauty From Face Watery Eyes, Red Nose, Deep Lines rey Beauty. How to Over. come Catarrh. | more chanee of beating the m of detection | the treasury department ts building | up than a rat has of escaping from & burning barn with 40 terriers! waiting outside. You may not know ft, but the | new bill requires every employer to furnish @ list of every person to whom he pald as much as $00 last year In the form of wages, sal | artes, Interest, rent, or any other | form of income. 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