The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 1, 1918, Page 6

“ED” BICKEL, FIGHTING PROVES A J “You womer task ahead. Re fighting by f the men on t ma" 1 f America have a at French » done half NORTHWEST LEAGUE OF KEWSrarnns mbor t vice of the United Press Association keoping » firing line.” kel, son of Matter This ia what w v3 Irive, writes to months of active serv mail out of city, «06 per month; 3 months $2.00 am oad year, $3.50 Boe $1.16 Ry carrier, city . c 4 montha nh. from wix © on the west driver the Fren br 1, he wan elted o fir Une, and ff {tary to study Main 690. Private rs Vote for Elevated Railway Bonds ’ Seattle will have an opportunity next Tuesday to make |, street railw ystem out of a mockery and a jo! f For years Stone & Webster have poked fun and Seattle has ughed at the dinky little right-of-way the ty maintained and operated at a loss. It hadn't a beginning and no logical ending. Then Councilman Erickson, by persistent t the line down Fourth ave. That helped. ow it’s up to the voters of Seattle to build an ele- line and link the shipyards and Ballard By voting to transfer $350,000 worth of bonds, voted 1911 for the railway, but never issued, the city will have lable this amount to extend Division A thru the lower of the city and into the shipyards district. | Three birds with one stone—adequate service for the who are building the ships of the nation; competition ch will make the traction company give more and better| and a chance to make a return on the money sunk |;, the Muny railway when it didn’t pay dividends. The bonds are already voted. All Seattle must do is permit the council to sell the ds and use the $350,000 to build its elevated line. lne m enuff fam nust vat parmip famine. |front as an wet On I braver ambulance m France This known, the f as far as Washington boy an a private opportunity to It is partic view of Gen soldier in ent mertt " Where . = at to France given thin fighting, in Pershing’s words France who ab that any se. D. IK.’s.". COLYUM ey are pretty quiet In Wash A man can sit in the United without wearing @ gus Thin States senate | mask | Now they're te A muff famine an a “How many spuds did you eat today?” is now classi- fied among the famous questions such as, “How many eggs did you eat for Easter? b Those Bonds : The consensus of opinion of economists and financiers ‘idaplasuina’ innit Gi) dln: ila to be that it is a poor time to engage in new enter} Q5eun down in Connecticut but that the fellow who saves now will have un-|what people think It ts dented opportunity to make big money, during the) that matter, neither i# hash year or two of peace; and we pause to add that the sort of saving is subscription to Liberty Bonds. ; War prosperity is ephemeral, and there is no question avery high percentage of whatever of prosperity we) joy is due to our foreign trade. The year 1913 d $2,484,311,176 exports and $1,792,183,645 imports, | a balance in foreign trade of $6 27,531. For the pst year of the war the figures were, $2,113,624,050 ex-' ‘* ies ogy ig mpfr rosee $1,787,276,000 imports, a balance of $8 48,050, | tr cghould spend taauitha, mpo were, thus, about the same but our exports), ty, working with his d back to about the figures of 1911. hands in the fields or the shop,” to at we got busy. We changed factories and methods, oe yee “ pegging Coe meet foreign demands, as never before in our industrial }{oocetetior gained all him, ben’t itt— , and the following are the figures for the year end- wearing overalls, doing manual labor December 31, 1917: |and getting real dirt on his bands, $6,226,000,000 ; imports, $: pie teres came represent, in very large degree, SNICONET Bomebody has invented a pumpkin ple without a bottom crust. They’l! be giving us flour doughnuts one of these days rye n't tor Somebody suggests that some naval be named after women, Why not? And Aer adopted we suggest that the first ne be called the Carrie Nation. John D, Rockefeller ten a magazine, say tr. has writ 2,952,000,000 ; excess bullets, bread and such. But one thing is in and that is that, when peace comes, Europe must ld herself, cities, villages, farms and all, and, in this it must be remembered that during 1917 we had bo business whatever with Germany, Austria, Turkey and } countries against which, in ordinary times, we Theld a trade balance of approximately a half-billion dollars. 4m peace times, such as the year 1913, we have a trade lance of over $692,000,000 against the foreign world, can that world’s necessity to rebuild itself mean any- save opportunity to the American who has saved? Buy Liberty Bonds, sit on them, and keep your eyes “1 ordered a blackberry pie tn a restaurant the other day,” writes C. S., “and when I tried to eat it I found it was full of apple cores. This was the first inkling I had of the government asking that blackberries be con- ” served. It must be lovely to suddenly become a millionaire and th the millionaire’s swosh. There’s the case of Tadasa- 9 Yamamoto, of Tokio. He awoke, one morning, to dis- w that war profiteering had put so many millions in his ffers that they were likely to explode. Now, when you become a millionaire, you've got to do hing different,” to ow that you are the real So, first thing Mr. Yamamoto does is to hire 21 per reporters and set off into Korea on a royal here he blazed away at tigers, boars, deer, bears, pards and such till a large part of Korea was just one| \ death yell of wild beasts. But, huh! that’s some like an game of millionaires, so Millionaire Yam-etc., took his tiger and made a great banquet on it, for hi. 4 and reporters, at Tokio. ‘ Of course, tiger, fried, baked, stewed or boiled, is just intensified, undenatured cat; but every banqueter said was delicious. When you eat off a millionaire, it is that you like cat, kitten, or anything else that he for. Anyhow, Mr. Yam-etc., had done something that ished him from all other sudden millionaires, and ly who was full of his kind of cat said so. jut, he wasn’t thru sparkling yet. He desired that the whole world should know of his sudden arrival among the Malefactors of great wealth, and so he shipped the skin of ' that big tiger to our own Colonel Roosevelt. As soon as the colonel is convalescent, he’ll get a note something like for THE- TIME BEING, MAYBE !! : i- ats Dear Another plewure given up during half an hour or so in the basement every evening, to Maten to the gaa meter. Word comes from London that the Russian soldiers are trading machine quns for decks of cards Mebby they're going to challenge Fritz to & game of freezeout. Cleveland man anti-U-boat vest an so fill it with wind that it'll take a locomotive to pull you out of the water, or something like that has tnvented an and repair biggest valuen Most High, Gracious Friend: Please accept honorable token of the mightiest esteem in shape of honorable tiger skin. Wo ate the inside. Highly Honorable, YAMAMOTO, Millionaire much established. Garden primers will soon be in everybody's handa. It is well that the book is a primer, for nothing ts simpler than a garden. First you plant your seeds and then you pull your vegetables. Villainy That’s Too Cheap The most that the court could give Franz Rintelen and his fellows for placing bombs on the steamer Oswald was 18 months’ imprisonment and $2,000 fine, and it is a strong demonstration of congressional stupidity. There was no statute under which these villains could be arraigned for attempted murder; they could only be tried for not properly | marking explosives delivered to a common carrier. | But this ridiculous abortion of justice ought to be enough to stir congress to provide adequate penalties for such attempted, even if unsuccegsful, high crimes, It is not enough that an alien enemy should succeed in murder- ing a hundred or so people, in ship or factory, before he can be properly punished. We are altogether too easy with spies and would-be bombers. We don’t become properly aroused until viewing the corpses of the victims, The fel- low with a bomb, with an intent to perpetrate wholesale murder, is a murderer, tho he never gets a chance to light| his fuse with effect. “Ruthless” German autocracy can| get any number of tools who will take 18 months in prison ‘or a chance to blow up a ship, or a factory. It is cheap war work. It should be made the costliest investment! possible. “We have come into a new world,” said Frank Vanderlip, recently. He was talking about democratic control of utilities, but it sounded like Hog Island. esloren te) 50 fee oar DOUBLE VISION GLASSES The Single Lene with two Sights WEGNER OPTICAL CO. DQ. R. B. WEGNER, MGR. 227 UNION STREET ve. Between 2% a Early showing of Spring materials for Suits, Coats and One-Piece Dresses. 425 UNION STREET ” Roosevelt occupied front page space not long ago, now Bryan has come to bat. Where's Taft? STAR—FRIDAY, MARCH 1, 1918. PAGE 6 OVER IN FRANCE, WINS HIS SPURS; AN WITH “STUFF” CAN RISE FROM RANKS up the] Hing us there's to} backing up the men on the yhaa a chance to rise from the ranks. | who are the makeup of | “I think If you women in America| fighting 1 | an ordinary soldier, a lot of the nee | -— lon things that are sent would pot be,” the letter continues, “He works | hard, ban little or no pleasure, and lives for the day only." Letters Are “Heaven” Letters from home are a soldier's chief delight, according to Bickel heaven,” he write whom a soldier at I or to him for t and tribul ake from # x an he was one of the first ¢ declaration of war for—or ut 1 hin trials Bick perier to enlist at th He vol Univers: | corps, t Pa | |town he anh { Washington ambulance with It for Allen on May 15. At Al 4 for, and was er the Harvard a | contingent to mail France before the Washington bo: France Aug. 21, and front later as # attached to t town, « transfer to scheduled for He landed tn reached the battle ar ambulance ver French art Prom that date until February 1, he served constantly, with the exce customary 10-day fur f the under ton che Plenty of Smokes + his sister what a sol Need » ure. m home” and “plenty are underscored. Be. ding to the letter, to reoetve warm clothing, and a ttere f theme, acc wants fortable odien fare is sufficient but aj teered as a private in the | | from here in deplorable—alr bad, you vet from “1 . letter I suppone to ua” the hear that you haven't had for tw Its the ntory fr er ry people haven't | two M rom me for months months, alt written twice a week regularly, They are wiring my any nmander,’ letter ineldent tela in tt relates an an intimate wa the HW experience intrating ns BY , the Big Chief is a hero, And the trench-lad is no zero, ruthleswnesn Tells of Ruthlessness Yes “1 wa Into @ ruined yemterda i ancient affn! 16th century Bomethir brush the snc and beneath I of the t Nero, from found from an “ax thought mor work with r " guess the vand of his nt art had further “To y wo far away from if of these mer of how fr been bayonsted ing by their siden y how human twinted > most anytht the f tt the hammer! left mage this m 4 y sound unumual eo struggle, but e fikhting fi und heard their ta aden t you had seen A : : locker, And whose song of life muscles, in the way of All of he ts me and anything cine “1 must reiterate that ate that 50 to you, O, Lads of Labor, ut hia father than about re worrted ab worrying saber! no news The Hand Which Holds the Hoasnte DMUND VANC ‘No, I do not mean the knocker, Or the mucker or the mocker, Whose hammer and whose self should be in Davy Jones’ a COOKE As he bangs and bayonets his way to smash the Modern 3ut right here I grab some grammar And a word or two I stammer For the loyal boy in denim, with the hand which holds But I mean the man who hustles And who rustles and who tussles is written to the music of his Loyal to your land and neighbor, Yours, the hand which holds the hammer, is as vital as the “\® Continued From Page One | a miniater | * that we have tone wh Leot le spending “I In 45 seconds you | w (EE. | ways the same,” Bickel writes is good ne he states in several | “Phe mail service to the Btates| of his letters, What Does One Do When Zeps Raid City? Chesters Are Puzzled of the lighted cabs, with their “Ed” Bickel trcles; gaunt, dim hed into formiens, plodding », silent and motion huddled early risers while we should be gone. reaned completely and rang for the the time it came, iden you take us up on the roof? | t any more, sir.” mmiled thejon a ator man. It's forbidden by the | and now ice. Put I can take you up where |and there, faces ut you can get a good view.” | Nothing to see. Goes Up, Not Down _. Ble Zeps Were Specks place of going down, we hips * i and out of darkened wir ked into the where soarchlights crossed tc became more intermittent ly ceased. The alr ra: taps and no great damage went Into elevator we had ahapelons lump, carts and wag Joonsidered that delicate question © on Our part, tho out side the mighty that is, atlen ° nilent wed by expe ~ nding bomb near b was a cur in a snug Ukely to pe a8 geneation, bed In the dark p in on one Jwent u 1 was going back to sleep,” came | dows aky a © out of the darknens waa that it might 1 woulda't be We're so used to subway you know.” got o powerful and recroseed right against the brilliant moonlight “There's one of the beggars right above us," remarked the elevator man, lowering his volee to a half whisper, almost as if there might be some danger that ic I'm eu . the “beeear could Be er our heads, the 2 done! ° eee asta at home, The siren sounded aguin in the |atreets of Paris, only a few seconds that first warning, and the 4 wlowly down pur Lam don memory the lights were Jecorous Fren: I laughed as dim 1 restau ters came away from the shrugging their 4 waiter lower: " nd young women bes over their night attire, b »ng the corridor and tn som THERE CAME A STREAK FLARE STRAIGHT DOWN THI THE SKY An incendiary bomb, and ft biaged where it hit, mot over oa blocks away. An if angered, the big guns on Bridge, and the huge} He const extravagantly for the reassurance of hin guests, agd @id #0, tho it was entirely unnecessary French Take It Fasy ‘The French officer who was enter- be along the Thames, in teg | taining his family exchanged a emile teased their booming with redoubled | sith Chem, Sad Tenceid pouring the the boche at)!" tury. No chance to get won ‘ height, but they could keep him |, 7h" Yo able yaa mand nod dryer enced on enough to make!» her silvery laugh where ahe had What trace of apprehension there | eft it off. with @ curious effect of ad been in us had disappeared, the — echo. we were closer to the danger by be |°7% ng out from under the piles of sand: |W.) he 0” |bage which protected the main roof.| gor | And there seemed to be no fear in| [the eleva It wae . unbelievable! Out there was the beautiful clear with the moon shining brightly and the stare beginning to pale in) y the firet faint gray of the dawn. Like » Show The search hts, centering over us find the “beggar just above,” wemed Uke a show of some sort It was monstrously past compre this beautiful yvered mact gu malevolence, whi death and destr and all about t to kill d the {ted out and betweer 80 we wer They were gigeting’ bang, bang, boom, the big guns. Whine! went the bombs. I came |inside and turned on the lights Jand was met with the natural ques tion: What do we do about it? thing?” Bang, bang boom! went Lendon French Any Clerk Rored “I don’t know,” I pussied, ng to the echoes of « was louder a Maten “an contractor observed, se alarm,” and and put a bridge open curtains or » #© much as a crack 1 ask the clerk about I decided, and took up the phone sir,” came a bored over the wire. one do in the case of I inquired. “We're net arroxs it The French banker, his eye twink ling with amusement at the exce hilarity of the head walter, tasted his wert and found it good, a: © put non our flat, round oysters. ere reemed nothing else tn par ticular to do. Nowhere in particular to go, one place is as mafe an another if anything o happen | 4, and No singh finished. or 9 door | strangers here.” “Ow yen, air,” he drawled, b was totally disinterested. you, for and it was © |top £ |down, if you | | We looked at each other thou fully, and in the minds of s there was ag edge th thru our room. » feel © of not, not diner left until he had no one went to a wind 1b were False Alarm course it had been a ot alarm. One of the alert French gen darmes of the alr, far to border, had heard a strange way overhead, and too line, gave the a chase, and a mistake in false tm rashing #tr t 4 Ir ar It was that treme an unseen danger, and dings, eng inside the for the nals had not may that there waa no such thing as fear in either ¢ I do know, however, that there w an ins of the spirit t moet > that It hame us ir per our al And it did not. I am trying | go to be accurate about this, trying to set down as correctly as ponnible the workings of a normal mind under unusual conditions. Wife Is Calm | “We'll dress, | suppose,” observed the quiet and the possessor | I of it wan already lacing her shoes. “It think #0,” I I raking sure of passports and their cones of tern of credit ar ney and vague, shadowy anything should happen to the room! figures fitting silently Into and out | 80 he few prople, and those most m the top floor, were in the dim lobby The bugle short time after the vigilant airmer to circle above their precious Paris, flashed their mfort Mghts they whirred and dipped and tobog ganed tn th mpid moonlit air BUT TH THRILL HAD NO DEPTH. The world, with such t things ke, has long sin ed to care a uch trifles. The incident only served to bring up the everlasting puzzle of: Why |does the boche do it? Costs Hun Money ; His tremendously expensive raids have no military or strategic value. the ‘ould not, on account of the possible who n langer of flying debrie; but there | was nothing, really, to prevent us. | went. yaderfu str So we mysterious, — those at night; weirdly the ahaded street lampe dimin downward replied wan tangled. ing perspectives ioe | : ; Jet: | casting In case | luminous mist that such peo the French, who have proved their staunchness by a which will be epic in future history, could be frightened by a in—a scare crow in a field! We have not been among the Brit isn so much, but we were with them in the one visitation, and know that is nothing but bravery in them; and as for the French, whom |we know much better, “it is to laugh." Fear, as a basis of action, seems to have gone out of the universe. At least {t is not to be found in France, for fear is individual, and the Frenchman dear as life, may be to him, no longer lives for himself. | He fe but a part of a great, daunt- less nation which is proceeding | sternly toward the accomplishment of one clear and fixed idea; for that |iden, France is willing to endure again all the deprivation and the ag- lony which he has endured in the | past, to fight bra and to bravely suffer, to pour out her treasure and her blood in an unending stream, without complaint and without one tering in her sublime courage, IL THR FOUL AND HIDE MO’ OF PRUSSIAN ITARIE SHALL — HAVE N DRIVEN FOREVER FROM THE WORLD! British and ag Dr. Caldwell’s = H : Syrup Pepsin The Pe heroism Sect Laxative there is an ideal remedy for consti- pation. It is a combination of simple laxative herbs with pepsin that acts in an easy, natural manner, and is as safe for children as it is positively effective on the strongest constitution. Sold in Drug Stores Everywhere 50 cts. (a) $1.00 two sizes A trial bottle can be obtained, free of charge, by writing to Dr. W. B. Caldwell, 457 Washington St., Monticello, Illinois (More Tomorrow) “ of making sure that the child “would ered it hin duty to langh | again with the inaudible! Some of us can chat and chin it, Some can jab and javelin it, But a modern war is Labor and it’s up to you to win it! Copyright, 1918, by the Newspaper Pnterpriss Assoctation _— Editor’s Mail TELAS ob oh wy Along with your other troubles, a} low me to add one more to your al- ready generous allowance of same Altho over the “draft ag imme diately following the opening of this war, I enlisted in the navy, While the government paid me my pay— jnltho it was not large—I wan able to keep the board bill of a minor child paid, but with the placing in effect of the pulsory allotment,” the sum of $15 per month bas been de ducted from my pay for the purpose ‘The baseball moguls don’t tke to {| nandie pennies, #0 they toot the 10 || per cent war tax on bleacher seats jto per cent Buck, buck! Who | gets the buck? You've guessed it. Yesterday —Today Physically the warrior o old would stand a poor chance with the soldier of today, because today sound teeth are imperative. When the nation insists on good teeth for its fight- ers, can you be less thoughtful of your own? We Are Bridge, Crown and Plate Specialists Your entire satisfaction ts desire. in need of dental Ww ces, it will pay you to eall on us. NATIONAL DENTISTS be provided for.” Since this deduo ) bas been made, the govern- ment’s agents have not remitted. It lean readily be seen that after $15 has been deducted from a man's pay together with $7.60 per month for insur it does not allow a man to pay a board bill twice in the same month. Of course we have no doubt but that the government's wi in time, forward the allotr: l» but while these allotments are not forthcoming, the question arises as to |who is to hold the sack. There are several cases exactly similar to/ |mine, but while the men are located |o that they can keep in close touch with their dependents they are able to know exactly what moves are be- ing made, but when a man is at fea jand giving his all, what is to become| of his dependents PUAN ENLISTED MAN. | LTHIRD & PIKE GIRLS IN MEN’S JOBS Editor The Star: Was reading in your paper about the Kilbourne |& Clark Mfg. Co. having girls do boys’ and men’s work. That is nice that girls can do the work to please the bows, and I bet he is | pleased to get girls to do men's | work for $14 per week I work at Black Mfg. Co, and am paid from $18 to $20 per week, and I do a girl's work, not a man's. |GARMENT WORKER OF L. U. 11, Geod Dentistry Always at Rea Open Day and Night. Net Open Sundays. NEED MAN CONTROL Editor Star: A letter recently appeared in your columns from a certain physieian of Seattle urging birth control It is only a year or two ago that such a movement was n New York, I believe, but roper authori- is not birth started populatic t, and where is nnot bear three if she lives ac fn re? need is man in the minds | leads a clean life ot of wasted ener- Ith, and there- rand healthier depends upon mith for the health race, besides all the ain, and suffering it brings to Will Teach You the Shortest te = Good Position Northwestern Shorthand Reporting School Shorthand Civil Service Bookkeeping Advanced Grammar NIGHT SCHOOL Monday, Wednesday, Friday Arcade Bldg. Elliott 1581 PROSPERITY ¢ man of the en Therefore let us control our own human nature instead of birth con by surgery, which is against aws of God and man AN OLD SUBSCRIBER. Develc Norw thar PREPARE FOR sment of water power in lectricity cheaper ste today faces the most serious problem SEA TTLE in its history. THE GOVERNMENT (re, "*sefirtin” dan build ships, but SEATTLE CANNOT house the skilled mechanics and people of all professions that are pour- ing into its gates by the thousands, Seattle is on the verge of a period of prosperity never before witnessed in any city in America. But she is not prepared to care for those who are coming. BUILD BUILD BUILD We will furnish the money, design and erect a build- ing on any vacant property in this city Lowest Interest Rates on Building Loans NO CHARGE FOR PLANS The Finance Construction Co. 824 Seaboard Bidg., Fourth at Pike—Phone Ell. 686