The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 20, 1918, Page 6

TLE STAR jews Bervies of the United Preas Association ash, Postoffice as Becond-Class Matter per month; 2 months $3.1 Ty ‘carrier, elty, #8c a Mor hing Co. Pheae change connecting all departme: Have you bought a thrift stamp for your child? | Itis the best method to cultivate thrift in youth, And | thrift is a hail whose praises cannot be oversung. ‘| ” » “A Child Can Understand It Senator Jimmie Wadsworth of New York, who is one those who want to repeal the Constitution of the United ites and set aside t by placing the p.cs tial powers in the hands of a nmittee of “three di. ti ished citizens”—satisfactory to osevelt and the Steel Tru: i—has revealed the real purpose the war cabinet bil! so that oven a child can understand it. Wadsworth placed im the Congressional Record a series strange and wonderfu! diayrams to demonstrate his idea of how the war department is at present organized. The lraftsman who designed (hese puzzles perpetrated a sreo- fetrical nightmare intended to denote hopeless confusion. Roosevelt and Gary propose to do about it. mplicity itself: [THE PRESIDENT | [_WAR CABINET] [tw ("ime | (Some | (Seat Proposed Organization of War-Making @achinery An examination of the diagram will show that the inguished citizens,” like the “three well known men” who are the hosts of the Mardi Gras balls at lew Orleans, are to be the whole works. Everybody else be their office boys, reporting to them alone. > Pershing, Daniels, Baker, Hoover, Garfield and all the t would have to wait until they pushed the bell buttons n ee pabowany desks. 3 ing and nobody could get to the president except these “three distinguished citizens.” They would be hole show in the big tent, and the president would be He would be immured in the White House like the late folks while the “mayors of the palace” ran the ‘ident would be a mummy, not aman. Payment lary, would be entirely unjustified, as he would do to earn it. It would be better to fire him altogether, im back to a college class room, and turn the whole over to the “three distinguished citizens.” True, the did not elect the distinguished three. But if they suit and the Steel Trust why should the people worry? at least, so says Senator Jimmic. | The superintendent of the railway that moved a car 268 miles in 23 days last fall, is to be sent to ce as the superi t of the American railways there. We hope he doesn’t start for France in one of his coal cars. an! . . peches in Speakers lately have been going to Seattle shipyards it out the vital need of speeding up America’s shipbuild- of the world may depend upon their energies. They should realize that waste, inefficiency, even put democracy under the heel of conscienceless War speeches in the shipyards should be made often! And labor men should be making them. Leadership is demanded in this world crisis. Labor is big enough to solve labor problems. And labor should be ¥ first to send s ers to the shipyards to drive home the vital need of unstinted service. The gloomy side of our war news is going to be turned toward us, for some time. We'll be told how _ many of our boys were lost but not what they did to the enemy before they went under. “German measles” has been wiped off the sanita: of Camp Dix and “Liberty measles” substituted. if we can grasp the psychology of it. if the measles were not ruthless, if there were a single ‘Opposite is the fact. Such a low-down, contrary, ferocious ly as the measles is properly named German. 5 ey, Poliute the term “Liberty” by such association? Gee! | if the Old Boy were called “German Devil,” we wouldn't “named him “Liberty Devil,” in order to take a crack at the kaiser, would we? Bertrand Russell, noted British pacifist, gets siz months in a London prison for saying things deroga- tory to America. Bertrand ought to have alone his spouting in the U. S. senate. An American non-sinkable ship is going out to dare the U-boats as a test. To make the test perfect, mark the ship with a Red Cross. Germany makes her big scores on such a target. Railway brotherhood heads charge that railway ents are deliberately messing up the lines. We doubt it. We don’t believe the railway presidents are efficient enough to do such a perfect job. France failed to get a vote in 55 precincts. Evi- dently some of his precinct workers failed to register or are saving their vote till election day. Austria has never recognized our declaration of war. Peace with no bloodshed on either side would make a bright spot in history. Sending out a cry for workmen, the B. & O. of- fers $2 per day (8 hours) for common laborers. The ‘ at $2 per day is almighty uncommon. sults of the last presidential elec-| Then Senator Jimmie introduced a diagram to show! 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POWOER om TABLETS ¥ ” A ee cates on seal Mie ra { ‘MME, SCHUMANN-HEINK, BORN IN GERMANY, _ || SETS EXAMPLE OF SPLENDID AMERICANISM made every effort to be of com: fort and cheer to the boys in olive drab who will fight under the Stars and Stripes, She sings for then id has written to The Star, ¢ ring her intention, nome a to come here and ¢ in a great benefit perform. ance for Our Boys in France Tobacco Fund (Left), About to Keceive Regimental Colors Guard, and is now in federal nervice Madame Schumann Heink is an American first Here she makes her home. Here she has found a public that has always loved her she was prompt to set @ aplen ample for all German-born citizens. | The above picture shows her } presenting regimental colors to her son's regiment, at San Diego. | It waa sent by her to Seattle friends, Mr. and Mra, Harry Staht Madame Schumann-Heink haa COMMENDS UNION Editor The Star: The Machiniste’ fon is to be commended for the taken In reference to having married women, with hus- bands working, to stay home and |leave those jobs for single girls and widows, who are in need of these po- Also the superintendent of schools could fill up his vacancies | | with graduates from the U. of W. in- Lama of Thibet or the old “do-nothing kings” of | "*4 of mending Bast. If they are who remained in their palaces knitting with the! not qualified to teach here after a teacher's course, it is the to change the system. J. W. HUNT, ist 8. and McClelland. 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AmI be definitely anc clary whether, under the state laws. the terms of a will or by decree of court, the commissions in question are deductible from the corpus of the estate or from the income accruing to the beneficiaries of the estate, and guided entirely by the facts then a» t Only a short time after the bo “Over There,” cigars made with me 2 Femme ig smoked—and used their udgment. Again—again—again cam added orders for more Tom | Kenuie r All France does not produce a cigar which meets the tastes of the American men who are helping to “make the world safe for democracy.” They to an exempt of $1,000. You should make a statement Q—In"the Equitable Savings and Loan association taxable, thin year 19187 I have ten shares in same. 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