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THE SEATTLE STAR). MEMBER OF scrirrs Nontuwest LeAGUR oF N f the United Press Ass | News Service Entered at Seattle Pmail, out of city Wash. toffice as Second-Clase Matter a ‘ { Every $50 you invest in Liberty Loan Bonds will "Duy trench knives for a rifle company, or 23 hand 4 des, or 14 rifle grenade cases of surgical ments for enlisted men's belts. « the Man Who Lays Off A manufacturer of war supplies complains because his} ¢ ive labor is idle 10 per cent of the time. In other} | ds, his workers take off one day in every 10 working! . This does not include Sundays, having reference to of toi y; : A Pittsburg steel manufacturer complains because his i hitherto unheard-of wages, don't work iy average five days a week. Senator Underwood insists that the shipping shortage Jargely due to labor failing to comic to the demands | Corporations engaged in building ships. | Senator Nelton rts that the administration has| d to labor, thereby encouraging strikes and delays. Whether a laborer should lay off one-tenth of his time} " largely upon the kind of work he is doing and the] unt he does during the other nine-tenths. ; Any person who has seen the puddler sweating in the of melting ore is not inclined to make him work there ry day as long as butlers stand behind the chairs of the n millionaire and doormen waste their energy in open-| oors for persons perfectly capable of opening doors themselves. Maybe the puddler, when he sees his boss his own chair under the dining room table and his own doors, will do more puddling. " Once we were near a vat of boiling iron and we jumped the conclusion that even five minutes of it was enough.} American labor represents approximately the 90 per| [_ TAR ins “Ain't it awful; it of the total population. The 90 per cent is patriotic is taking an increased interest in the things that will the war. But it is a matter of development, and you find labor developing in output and efficiency just as the rest of us develop stronger and stronger war- spirit and force. And still we have limericks on the Hun and the hulser. Some of them are good and some bet ter, and some not se good. While we're still reading them, we can- not decide who gets that $5 for the best one. But soon wo'll be thru, and then— Five beans for somebody. Queen Mary of England, says the cable, drives a to save gasoline. We know a fellow who bought automobile to save corn and oats and hay. And know of another fellow who walks to save both gaso- and horse feed; and another fellow who rides ina car to save shoe leather. im . . . ee other Non-Essential Calling Of starting epring drives big Wille ‘ . Pa is fond; We are informed that the few remaining jockey clubs]... of sinking our ships in the pond 4 country look forward to a “prosperous racing sea- To pu ‘end ”” Which means that all the race track gamblers reap To this terrible trend, harvest fleecing what they very aptly call “suckers.”| Y* ge one ey & ~— he word has gone around at Latonia, Churchill Downs, ° u Park and Havre de Grace, and in blind-pig pool- of large cities, that “there's a lot of war profits and Z envelopes laying around.” That is just why they should not be permitted during if at all EVER! We hope he'll be sadder and wiser. profits and pay envelopes too large there are Lib- gg ee onds, and War Savings Stamps, not to mention in-}..., na bare uy ts sinner: taxes, He has himself picked as the winner. Also, there are more essential occupations for the gam- ‘The allies, you bet, jockeys, trainers, and the bunch of hangers-on of Will get his goat yet. te meets. Let em go OVER THERE and fight the Huns tay here and grow food or make munitions. Honestly, can you point out a more non-essential occu-| Bill Kaiser, the son of a gun, n than that of the race track tribe? Thought the whole blooming world he could run. Twenty-five minutes after the world record Seal eel a tha bi, hing steamer West Lianga had struck the water | ana spoiled all the plans of the Hun. day, workmen of the Skinner & Eddy plant were L. C UDDENBERG, board, starting the completion of the vessel. A spirit like that wins wars. 4831 Spencer St. m’s Our Kind of a Man Remember the “embalmed beef” scandals following in wake of the Spanish-American war? kaiser. He's God's selfappointed adviser, When the allies have won, Have beaten the Han, N. A.D. . An emperor that will stand with a bum Withered hand, And allow women and children to be shot, He ought to be hung and his damn neck wrung, COMEDIES OF CAMP LE “Me und Gott will succeed,” says the And show him he’s just a beginner. | . STAR—MONDAY, APRIL 22, 1918. PAGE 4 WIS LIF “ I've had to take four baths thin week so's I could |wear this soap down to fit this box mother sent me.” ‘SH SEES H ASD ILE INTIME'S WORTH RONEN LS , There was once a hound named Von Hindenburg, Who inflated himself | Windenburg. | Way back of hin line, He let out a whine, When the Yanks busted Bertindenbure FRED G. HITT, | 6231 37th Ave. 8. plumful of thru to | ESSAY ON FATALISM Man never had a chance. Pate has had Dim from the beginning. We may wig nr. wares An fate wae over him ot hie be- and him thre ware and sorrows. It will guide him thru mis- —Predite, ‘LEMONS DO MAKE THE SKIN WHITE | | ' = | How to make a creamy lemon | beauty lotion at home | for a few cents Your grocer has the lemons and any drug store or toilet counter will supply you with three ounces of or chard white for a few cents, Squ | the Juice of two fresh lemons into a |ave direction and program to the | American movement | tonal | clanaification jother important step leading up to | the war program was the pro |of the Red Cross Seal from a nale of }iens than 26,000,000 peals in 1910 to |more than 200,000,000 in 1917 | ization of a Field Service by means |haw been visited, and the promotion lof standardization and economy in| White Plagu To emphasize the tmports ——% le the campaign against tuberculosis in our o navy BY LIEUT, GRANVILLE A al POLLOCK anmocta American Flyer in the Lafaye just published Flying Corps, French Foreign a Record of Legion. Achievements” Copyright, 1918, by the Newspap the eampaten| Enterprise Associa against thin dixease since the foum@ | The nearest thing te 1lr cavalry is a concerted ing of the association in 1904, The sm hail a row of Germ the 14] », that | na usage r When weekn hind the 1 aft on, wi » fo When your infan goes forward In 1906 was publinhed the firet na standards of diagnosis and of perculosia, An f tuberculosis. AD! siott to direct an accurate artille barrage upon the advancing men. Tells of Foray Shooting sausages is a maneuy jon Other steps have been the organ brains. The balloons must be broug: of which every state in the Union moment. To pick off one would alan the rest, down at a the construction and administration | 20-mile clip, of tuberculosia hompitals, thereby | Let me describe one of these aert saving to communities thruout the | forays country hundreds of thousands of| ‘The major commanding the grou of combat squadron into “confere The is @ pow-wow over maps. The ca) dollars. Mins A. 8 aske: “What will real ly remove a corn? Corns are ordinarily removed by the chasse pio! and calls for volu DO nreeoee OS if ° 9 oF {| balloon to destroy. | Ediitor®s Mla "Sie ernie sire , The volunteer has changed the Raced PAY-TRIOTIC CAFETERIAS Editor Star: While the cafeteria managers and other food dispensers are talking themeeives blue, urging the patrons of their places to help them move food, is it In order to ask, incidentally what they are doing with the money they are saving on sugar alone, not to mention other things? ‘The other day a woman was insult an alien and unpatriotic, simply be ed and bullied outrageously, called cause she asked for a third lump — this by the manager of a cafeteria— same woman last July took n & Very amall savings ac! 1 paid for two bonds. she | for a drive or to have d upon her. SURSCRIBER. thickness of a finger. The chasse pilots are ready to provide the protection front Ger- man air patrols. Confirm Schedule Army headquarters telephon that the schedule stands—whi means that it has been a fine nigh be very dry and inflammable. the night been different there wou have been a few doomed German aeronauts a chan to dry out. sausage. Watches are corrected by wireless |dot the squadrons dash off for t NO BRITISH FLAG Having attended two meetings where distinguished Britishers spoke, I have been surprised to see that no British flag was on display. This was probably an overnight. However, I think this courteay | th should not be neglected. The visitor from Great Rritain will feel proud and pleased to see his country’s flag in a foreign city. SEATTLE BRITISHER. incendiary bullets flying more on That would be a dead gi away. We fly in between and behi antiaircraft ground batteries own lines (and safety) at the mome! of attack. Anchored to Greand a s Invest tn the THIRD LIB | | the whole game. The sausages a: i BRTY LOAN. m be down in flames at precisely the sume and they would be hauled unharmed the captain of the some preparation containing sall-| teers for the actual task of tackling cylic seid. After removal, however, | the sausages, ‘This is volunteer work kreat care must be observed to avoid | It's a 60-50 chance that you will pressure in that region, else the corn|ever get back will return. Then more poring over maps. |{} cane Fach patrol—there may be eight or [| ten to a 10-mile front—te given one with no dew or rain, and that the | fabric of the boche sausages must | Had} hours’ postpone ment to give the gas bags of the| You can't fire a damp | |from the Eiffel Tower, and on the German lines—the fellows with the) loan independently of their protectors. We never approach our prey head & couple of balloons. This confuses | both sausages and also enables the) “incendiary” to be diving towards his | The «mallest misplay would wreck anchored from 800 to 1,400 meters; from the ground. The chasse pilots IAVIATOR’S MOST PERILOUS JOB IS SHO . Will for the first tl werial 5 rapha | ch tuberculonis of all the ener n, the v1 net for push The firnt atop in the one lant against the white plague was t rtant thing t0 |; ganization of an International Con. put out the kress on Tuberculosis Washing “even” of the oo }ton in 1908 Thin gathering firnt i n ry er requiring the finest calculations and the perfect synchronization of many im; 2 ™m t ¥ al | al attentions of PS in T re p- tain returns to the squadron, picks n ch id | he or | ve) nd of | nt re | | The Yokohama Specie Bank, Ltd. And his carcass left to rot. bottle, then put in the orchard white| Well, there’ll be no stich thing during or after this BILLY, |and shake well. This makes a quar-| aiiibe tiled ter pint of the very best lemon skin| IF Sam MacGowan has anything to say about it! It's quite a long jump from Seattle | whitener and complexion beautifier| ‘Sam is a regular fellow. Besides which he is pay- to Paris, known. Massage this fragrant, creamy lotion daily into the face. And some folks we know are terribly | Head Office, Yokohama Established 1880 rw general and chief of the bureau of supplies and ac-| of the United States navy. Sam wouldn't let a big o meat packer feed five carloads of moldy hams to sailors, and no amount of political pressure or private could budge Sam one inch. There are more like Sam working for Uncle Sam, and| almighty glad of it, for the Sammies OVER THERE d honest Sams in the buying end of this war busine: embarransed When asked to join in On our trip to Berlin, But we'll be there with bells if the good Lord will spare us. iW.B “Now to simplify spelling’s no sin,” A Sammy remarked with a grin, “So slip me a brick, Or a gun or a stick, And I'll knock the ‘ell out of Berlin.” MAUDE L. HERREN, Lebam, Wash. . “Sargent’s portrait of John D. Rockefeller is at the Cleveland art museum,” writes E. V. C., “and I urge every Clevelander to take a good look at it, as it shows the only time John D. ever was done in oil.” 7: 3 iM me . There was an old German named Bill, Who took an “own everything” pill, He sits now and cries, For to his surprise, The pill made Bil dreadfulty in. . We can now turn our complete attention to win- ning the war. Roosevelt has announced that he is not interested in the presidency. 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