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

BY ©, ©, LYON SEATTLE STAR| = oe | Seattle Star With Gen - . ' OF SCHIPFS NORTHWEST LEAGUK OF NEwsrarnns AMI NT IN Telearaph News Service of the United Preas Association FR ca Aer s—* oatrete Ameri office as Becond-Class Matter trenches lke What » the men do, when do they eat and sleep n do mail, out of city, 40 per month; 3 months, $1.15; 6 months, $2.10 year, $4.00. Ky carrier, city, 30¢ a month they bathe, how do they re “4 || Well, here's chrontele of around the Ce Ph Mate G00. Private da t the as anot n a3 the first line, when there's nothing Liberty Bonds will smash the bonds of slavery ae Porch th ath me Be pete PEt ant My hotel is at the other end a % of the trench? He led Tt was right off b wot into tt ackw Shalt Not Covet ho Cawting wrda down about A Salvation Army adjutant, doing relief work in . . t ted pg — ns | Ace, writes Commander Eva Booth that it is often hard to follow the dictates of Christianity while) * daily reports of German atrocities. The partic-|| t of Hunism that called forth this despairing state nt, was—the reported cutting of the throats of three soldiers by a dozen German soldie The difficulty with such a viewpoint is that it tends Substitute the genius, or quality, of an alien race for it of one’s own. It invites us to compete with the Hun the Hun’s chosen and practiced ground,, to make his our morals, to fight him with a weapon wholly to him and to us wholly unfamiliar. In such a tition the democracies of the world would be All that we need to know about the Hun atrocities is they are, that they are an essential part of, the genius ‘the German autocracy, so essential and so characteristic part that they stand despite the protest of an entire | _ Democracy, warned as to the weapon being em-| Ic against it, must win this war with its own weapon, own genius, its own quality. And that quality does believe in forgiveness, in mercy, does believe in overcoming evil with good. | note that word “overcoming.” | We of America stake America’s future on our belief the inevitable triumph of righteousness, which is a} tive thing, and the equally inevitable downfall of the tful, which is a negative thing. We shall win this| virtue of our own soul; nor shall we covet the| the Hun, to whom the cutting of captive throats a virtue. “The allies lack strategy,” writes Andre Cher- in his recently published book on the war, en- E led, “Pon Germany, the Disease and Cure.” Which “may be true, but before the war is over, sideline com- “mentators will be given a demonstration of the differ- “ence between strategy and real fighWing ability. on Pedestrians More than 2,000 automobile accidents have ded at police station headquarters since January 1. does | been Almost every week some one is killed. Every day| listen. Herb: it say® here are maimed. tr ene When young Mr. M. C. Ruggles, aged 18, pleaded guilty | — ‘ mansiaus*ter Friday before Judge Jurey for killing a . STAR—SATURDAY, APRIL 13, 1918. PAGE A NIGHT IN FIRST LINE TRENCH WITH STAR REPORTER, A tiny candle flickered on top of ay we fe down the str of jhe answer nee, in the frat) cross between a soup and a stew, | %—> “ table made of old boxes A little Berlin without any pants on, if we! line every man ian officer must be | but it contained about everything ur EVEMING—Wight men tae | eotlron wtove displayed evil Aimpo | happened to be taken prisoner up and ‘standing by’ in.the trenches | der the sun, including meat, potatoen,| | ot eg nm. ition by emitting large puffe of) A litte later I thought I heard—or an hour before daybreak, no as to be | tomatoes; then there wan plenty of | HOTEL — 1x7 dugout; you " wmoke, The dugout was sev: | felt—a rat prowling around in the | prepared to rep ny attack if bread on the wide, and oceans) | on ° emeacpaal } on feet by never foot hie It| imenediate vicinity of my bunk, and) made, Pract Wl attacks are of coffee that went right to the spot FURNISHINGS Sentieat was papered with black, waterproof | T casua mentioned the matter to| made just at daybreak, Our wom After breakfast everybody wont) | oo” te deer | paper, Two bunks constructed | my howt doesn't propose to be caught in bed." | back to bed again, except those who ter just out | Pponite wide They're part of the outfit,” he Shivered in Trenches were to stand guard during the a There are no rooms with bath out | laughed Don't mind them at al We went out and stood around and| Not many men are needed for day | okay me here, but there's a just over | They're so tame we've made pets out | #hivered in the trenches until nearly | duty, because the infantry “works rod gpg sels oe the top, outside, wh » can take | of them. ‘The devil of it ts, the, none | 6 o'clock, when the ) began to|montly at night, leaving the days for | : | a plunge if t aid my |of them understands a word of Eng: | show itself over the horizon the artillery to bang away at one an-| | POG rag nate they're he 1 " by a Heh, Their langu in Preneh nebody gave the word and we othe Pes German mortar the doy It seemed an if I hadn't been asleep went back to our dugout We were routed out again about r CALL BELL—Night watch We blew out the and wot more tb 4n hour when somebody Nothing doing this morning from 4:40 that afternoon for r, which ali A ae inte our bunks, with all our clothing | stuck hin head inside the dugoul and the German the lieutenant id. winted of tha ume kind of roup sy® . ce ae on except our bo coats and hats, yelled Let's get ready for breakfast except that we had a side help about midnight ‘Outeide, everybody Thus we killed time until nearly & f beans. m. Cook’s hey Never Undress I looked at my wateh and it was 4/ o'clock, when the company cook and 6 o'clock the night men t ate deste ted We never undress out here.” the o'clock hin gang of hashiteors « thru the | their stations in the trenches and th , a lleutenant explained. y nee, a What's up 1 denanded of the trenches with big milk cans filled day men knocked off emoke an pd 1 Huns might come over after us any | lieutenant; “Germans attacking? with brenkfast t until they felt sleepy enough to THE DAY—Back to dusect night, and we'd Took nice, wouldn't No; but they may any time now,’| It consisted of something that wax! turn into their bunks ant bal trench Gatien | | be | SUPPER — More stew and ‘f LA GRIPPE : 4 * Crippe or nfivensa ia always nfluenza — epld jon were quite] common | | OTHERS) Thin spread has} wi followe | nes of human | meree and cove widely separated Pe Vie wks | countries with uch rapidity as to] The Red and White Flag da seein [have produced the wuperstition (et) rhe Cxechs and Slovaks are fighting in the allied armies, under their| 0s!e heeward | Aehca Nene its amen "\own flag-—the red and white of the republic of Bohela. The ancient sod worms on. Tt ie hacen now that there tx no| ational song of Bohemia translates “Where Is My Home?” printed mysterious influence and that infec ‘The Czech and the Slovak have struck for their state to fits of meian- tion is due to a micro-organiam, the And their flag i# afloat on the red line of war choly of the influenza ba is, dincovered and They have chonen their stand, they ha fronted their fate described by Pfeiffer in 1892, in the And committed their cause to the thunders of Thor bronchial secretions of persons suf O, hasten the day when they come to their own | from the disease And the Hapeburg usurper is burled from his throne, ene may regarded an 4 And the joy of free peoples leaps out of their throats, mild dixease, the complications cor Where the red and white flag of Bohemia floats atituting the real danger, eapecia among elderly people and those who These men of the race of the Slovak and Czech; are physical! undown.” Hata off in salute for the heroes they are! Of the complications the most im tach wtands to bis gun with a noose on his neck portant and dangerous are the lobar More honored by that than by ribbon and-star and bronche pneumonias They have sworn by the prowens of Zixka the brave | ‘There can be no ¢ nm but that That the land of « Huss shall not harbor a slave, | there exists in all cities a certain That the people shall rule by the people's own votes, enn number of carriers of the influenza Where the red and white fing of Bohemia floats erm carrier of this dineane germ is peculiar in that although the ©, land of Rohemia, you shall arise | germs may be present, in the seere From the night of distress you have suffered too long; tons of throat, nose, mouth or bron ‘The fing of your freedom shall brighten the skies tule or no immunity the existence of the chial tubes, le extablinhed by i micro-organiams neem to await conditions of lowered vitality to produce and reproduce the disease in the mame Individual [from time to time n the body HEALTH QUESTIONS ANSWEIED BH. writer mew? i * ait + apt health which incoln. Can you f the ne cre Do not wor , ne was fined $1,000—which he does not have “during good behavior.” It apparently was his first ughter. The judge should be lenient. But on the other hand mustn’t permit manslaughter cases to go in the joke The Ruggles case is a joke—a serious one on pedes- a hilarious one for careless and irresponsible drivers. want At the close of the first week of the G 2 Mmeric and pen to the Li London's newspapers expressed confidence but advis ae wales & eth ‘Ruel ons | the public to be “cautiously cheerful,” as the danger | wins the kale. Here are a few mye is good. ‘Ea. Our ‘countr Your freedom’'s at If you can't pa To help halt the Hu is Off to Oregon A Tend nut T tlats off to Sees: first state to go over the top in th e| he West ie years has been regarded as _ rough, . ; _ was not entirely over. “Cautiously cheerful” it reminds us of that time when dad held the ten-penny mail and we missed it and hit his thumb instead. k a gun w our endeavor h and generous. jail tame the wild Huns _ Oregon has, indeed, proven itself a leader in the nation. | Democracy for all, forever. | every call, whether for men or dollars, Oregon has been ue Ba Be roe first to respond. It was Oregon, you will recall, that ee 80 many volunteers to Uncle Sam that she did not} Kaiser Bil had a fit of mideuessing, muccessful A succenai ve, Half a mi Of bis Huns in Or covered with mayon H.W succemsing to draft men for the first call. We, in Washington, while finding much justification in our own patriotic showing, nevertheless have n short of the Oregon standard. We are proud, how- , that the distinction of being the first state in the gore. sine dreasing. Bremerton to be a minor thing, in the future, as compared with the consent of the soldier’s superior officer CARTCONET. Buy a Bond, buy Thrift Stamps, because the hu- man race has fought and struggled and sacrificed too much for LIBERTY since the beginning of time for us to give up the struggle now. Cold Sores and Fever Blisters are only outward manifestations of the inflammation oughly eS OPROVEDS 4 by the Council of the A DECORATION Yer ov KAISER Bur, > tion, which is stagnation of the blood, rightfully called acute catarrh. If you suffer from such conditions don't let them become chronic, don’t run the risk of systemic catarrh. Clear r it it Up With PERUNA a system {a cleared of all its poizona, the membranes (| ote ib oald gone and your digestion soncred pee will enor tse teal Mriviesicaatand be ut sone ei seat Let Peruna do for you it did for this sufferer: Mrs. L. A. 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The racks that Dear Artie: It is Sunday, Febru-| bold the wires on top of the houses ary 24, and has been a beautiful day./4re made of steel and set into the ou AGE A CRIME! The insu with he sky hax been overcast ore are cemented Jouds, but no sign of rain. The air iron pins and bolted to the |7 ix warm and feels like spring. racks. Telephones are not so com. ‘ tn one mon bere ax they are in the United I got up at 6 this morning and States Shae ate ae went and got the captain of the ane ‘ about as many truck company, then got my break-| Phones in a town of 40,000 inhabi before I went to bring the colo-| * are there in the Fall City ex sf hange nel to the office, After I brought the K We have be ha colonel I washed and polished the car “at and then rested until dinner time i Was mason Bin are until today After dinner I took the colonel and |, | tat the almost ail the time for the French commanding officer of wast three days, but has melted the town to a school where they O* fast as it came. The first night it were erecting a memorial to the ke down all of the wires. It even cher of the town whoy Pulled the racks off the tops of the on After houses French Getting along fine, have plenty to tte another | eat 8nd a good place to sleep, and do town some m not have to work very hard, only it's long hours I am trying to learn French don't have much time to practice. but when I do I get a French boy | who is studying English, and trade | They have them, running 1 direction. A of the cultivated land ix more care-; fully attended than the choice f gardens in America, and the for English for French. are just like parks. All of the under | “Write and tell all the news. |brush is cut down and tied up in “3. BE. KELLEY bundles, and used for wood 1, A. Penaetties oho, igre nsdn There are small villag “Prov. Truck No. 1.” few miles on the roads ages have very narrow st the houses sit right up to the #treet with no sidev or front yard. Ir st of having garbage cans, they dump all their refuse into the street in front of their houses, so when I ko down the streets in the corning I have some time dodging piles of not very particu: | «of stuff, garbage, The lar about co) #0 sometimes they Don't Use Poles “The weait! houses, most gardens, fenced in with so that cant them. lly don't see the reason for the uniebs they are afraid some one 1 the flowers. are ting the p' are 5 SAYS HE large n fine are set high stone wall will ate i Yankee Flyer Falls Behind | Hun n Lines —* Remarkable, ment made known carpenter, living 3903 ad street, while in the Bartell ¢ Company's store recently. Mr ares that he bas received more real genuine benefit from two bottles of Taniac than from other treatment and medicines that have cost him nearly three hundred dol indeed, Arthur was the Albro, state} by a well at lars. 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