The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 7, 1918, Page 6

STAR--TUESDAY, MAY 7, 1918. PAGE 6 THE SEATTLE STAR a Postoffice as Seeond-C M 3 months, $1.15; 6 months, $2.10) elty, 30e a month Cle, Wash. ter By wail, out of city, 0c per month year, $4.00. Hy carrter Twenty-five cents a day keeps the wolf away from || door, and the Hun from your shore. Buy Thrift imps. { litchcock Should Be Beaten The United States senate, which has had so imuch to ‘gay about red tape and the lack of leadership in the conduct of the war, will, within the next few days, have the op-| unity to make its actual deeds square with its valiant ds. It will have the chance to cast into the dustbin, it belongs, the rotten senate rule of seniority, and| a man for leadership not because of his years of service because of his record and his brains. The death of Senator Stone of Missouri has created a ney in the chairmanship of the committee on foreign | If mere priority counts, Gilbert M. Hitchcock of} is as good as elected. But if sturdy American- is to be considered, if great ability is to be considered, constantly displayed friendship for our gallant allies is et be considered, then some man like Williams of Mississippi, Lodge of Massachusetts, or Borah or Knox will be The chairmanship of the committee on foreign affairs} vey to be one of tremendous importance to the people of this country, once we win the war. Numberless treaties) have to be written and considered. Every one of them have to go to this committee before the senate has a i Gotta hairpin, Sis? 1 want to clean my pipe. My, but you wireless men are helpless, aren't y THE KAISER ce to act. The kaiser is an autocrat. rd Our relations with the world for years to come, our beg ® sary eet sn yd | world, and says verboten! ie | fate thru the centuries, will depend largely upon the} in which the chairman of this committee works with| jie ig ruler of a great nation. Hin | presidents and meets the suggestions of those coun- | peopie obey him. He has big armies, es that have stood shoulder to shoulder with us in the °") SxBM not pleaned. - kes to burn churches He ta! fight for civilization and for liberty. His record | not cx mek Sn ane th | mtly demonstrates that Hitchcock is not the man, | Got. Hf mays so. He can paint and attitude toward the administration has been such that | compose end write, He can also} shoot and swim. He ia not bad at} be almost impossible for him to work in close har-| Geatru: with the present president. not only fought the president on such great do- | ists ¢ matters as reform of the tariff and finance and con- |", 1 went of a government-owned merchant marine, but he} in alleged to be responsible for mur either He is greatly honored by cartoon They draw many pictures of he ts in disrepute, He . been a bitter and, in many respects, totally unfair der. He i» condemned by the world, | ri and opponent of the administration's conduct of the)%st wi! © yyy brn — f. Moreover—and this is of vital importance, bearing | ee ee mind that our boys are today fighting side by side with} he valiant British and the gallant French—it is necessary TFemember that in the crucial first months of the war) cock introduced bills whose main effect, if adopted,| have been to deprive England and France of Ameri-| raed arms munitions. the ERUDITE. | WATCH U Grow, o, KAM! YOU'RE BILIOUS! senate is really in deadly earnest about fighting TAKE CASCARETS | war to a victorious finish, it cannot elevate to the } chairmanship a man whose proposed bills and quoted re in 1914 and 1915 so often gave unalloyed delight |Enjoy life! Liven your liver KID ARGUMENT pro-German in this country. and bowels to-night and ‘The other morning, We walked in back feel great. Of a couple of kidn Jogging to school And this*was their Line of chin ‘ Drunkenness is said to be decreasing in New York city. It may be that one reason is the rest of the coun- - # isn’t visiting New York so much as it used to. Wake up with head clear, foods stomach sweet, breath rretadlhe feeder Man Honored right, tongue clean. Wait te cata es I'll betcha million Dollara I be Older’n you some Wood, American newspaper man and corres- dent for the United Press with the French armies, has and other aris ewe yard workers n to this recognition of its representative by the French| ir command. | Look out for big things, if there any truth in the \ cablegram that Bohemian troops are joining the Italians to fight Austria! , Fai Says we can’t look or feel right Greetings! with the system full of poisons. them down next syrup for canning? Then hadn't yo * simewatienn Millions of folks bathe inter ly | now instead of loading their sys re co few who have . tom with drug What's an in to their mor o many years the Frying Pan tae path?” you aay, Wells tt yt ood the aratt| a e o perte niracle fi age + The entente and Germany are in a battie of diplomacy [Fou cout believe iste HOt eatar ™ ve or Holland, and, if recent history is worth a cent as a cri-|enthnalasta | in nive the old tow file Gua, wor ail © terion, Holland is going to do pretty much as Germany de-| ‘There are vast numbers of men | pacifists are as black as they're tar Sires. Since the beginning of the war German diplomacy; yiand women who, immediately | painted morning, drink water with ay upon arising in the save in IM-|a glass # has won the victories, one instance, a very. of real hot ‘portant one—the forcing of America into the war. teaspoonful of limestone phos-| Holland is crammed with Teuton propagandists, much|Phate in it. This is a very excel-| Jent health ure, It is intend-} her press has been bought up by Germans, she is almost wholly dependent upon Germany for fuel and it is likely hip dees Me tekicer feet" ot | that she would have materially favored Germany long ago, of the previous day’ kid ‘OCK? WHY OIL, thad it not been that breach of neutrality would mean her im-|#our bile and indigestible materiai| Bditor The Star nd sdiate loss of all her colonies. [left over in the body which, if not|bet! Why any sane 1 : ; : eliminated every day, become food| hia money in “wildcat Holland could give to Germany 400,000 or 500,000 pfor the millions of bacteria which | LAberty bonds are within. the trained soldiers almost right on the spot of the big conflict infest the bowels, the quick result | how raging. She could also give Germany some new and ‘#8 poisons and toxins which are} , ant advantages in the U-boat warfare. then absorb into the blood, | " |causing headache, bilious attacks, Holland is one of the nations that might be decidedly in-| foul breath, bad taste, colds; stom- ond my comp sume schemes quence sioner Callaghan seems to have token too literally the precept that charity beginneth at home. one a real crank on the subject of internal sanitation. ROBERT G, DUNCA f early morn n decorated as chevalier of the Legion of Honor by order| Hp past iggy f the French army command. | | ae ae san an’ ex The bestowal of this high honor upon Wood should | Jon’ weven an’ you're of particular interest to readers of The Star, who have| Right, haw! Aah! Aat n following his brilliant stories of the war since the! ahah remap it struggle began. It was because of his valuable ser-| I'll beteha you'll at the front that the decoration was granted. Re only ten or ‘leven This means that The Star’s representative abroad is See! See! ‘cane I'm oughly in the confidence of the high army officials| nine tae tae that the real news and the best news of the ever-chang-| Aw, yer crazy! I activities in France will continue to reach The Star as| Got a birthday comin’ fickly as cables can be operated. er An’ ‘nother, an’ ‘nother, - Besides Wood, The Star is being served by Vie ae ror anions ce hilip tag "bata correspondent with the \t- 1 armies; yon, of the Newspaper Enterprise assotias| r father, an’ tion, with ores arm Da a pc staff of Get the Habit of | kin be jo darlin ag ters with the Yankee forces in Lorraine and on the| sabi | ag iv 7 Hach Ami * front, and elsewhere at the varying scenes of the Drinking Hot Water | | ‘The war is changing lots of things { The Capitol hill cars MTs Star feels some justifiable pride in calling attend Before Breakfast | Ine St SamneDes NOW;EAEYS WitW eup tocrats. Have you planted some sugar beets, so as to boil summer for better do it? . You an will sini tocks when AN, hension nt for it in no way but that promoters of “wild possess superior elo- With mate no time Sam can use in re What Wash the credulous Mluenced by threat of a trade boycott. She has big sources!ach trouble, kidney misery, slee Buy bonds. You bet! wealth in Java, Sumatra, Dutch Guinea and the West, Jessness, impure blood and all| nd labor high, this is ndies and an export trade in certain commodities that she] forts oF eilactrs 1 1 hay | he ee ens eae eae ' . ‘eople who feel good one day| the rivk is great. Uncle njoys alm Tus' i . s/and badly. the next, but who # the apiey ie ot aa untage Watch Holland! 1e may become another Rumania.! ply cannot get feeling right are| pelling the foe of humanity. atever she does will be most important. urged to obtain a pound] Buy bonds. You bet! J At 9 a jof limestone phosp at the|ington needs is a blue sky law According to the jury, former Charity Commia- | 4rvs store. ‘This will cost very lil-| law that will protect tle, but is sufficient to make any| from wildcatters. You bet! 1260 Empire Building, 1307 Seventh Ave. Near Union st. avis [é Tontinued From Page One| MEMBER or “scnures NORTHWEST LEAGUN OF NB /Srarnns 5 to night, the si lors stopped their je Service of ti ed Prem Asse wig-wagaing and took up their fast dropped down on us signals, a fog and put the lehte and when we left to go forward ur rkness. they the r ri w | buay putting out their teleph 1 aignaler d runners don't have lan easy time | Behind |ammunition dump. a roar; then the tion started going ff like a bunch of fire f., and « tongues of fame up the #h | Sleeps Under Fire shell landed in and it went rifle } with amm } It is reported that the German ines broken thru our line and we were to counter attack in the me We got into positions without « opened an aid and settled You | ing |single canualty, 1 | port in an old dugout | down to sleep until morning |may think it funny that one could sleep under such ditions, but I | had been up since 6:40, had tramped labout #ix or seven miles, had had a rather trying day and was dog tired fo I nettiod down on the rough plank floor and was soon asleep, f must have been asleep a couple of hours when a runner came from | headquarters and told us we were to move off immediately, I looked at my watch, and it was 1:30 4 sm. on the weoond day We went back to the railroad, fol lowed it around to @ position some fix miles to the north of us, landing there about 4 in the morning, and fees down on the floor of some abandoned huts to await further or | ders. Our orders cacne along about % lo'clock. We marched up across the open prat the wun shining, and was rea Hociies hegey Battery | Janet ¢ of the warm days | we t of March at hom |In going forward, it was necessary for us to march 75 of three batteries There are six gune to ¢ field guns a battery They | yards in front) Machine gun bullets were nipping the shelifire was getting | ‘il t nt lo he ka ok threat in the nt strength in the bulk of his none of r, his how and hin why bulge of his eye his lips in repose Hut to seek out his woul (and the judgment’s not rash) bul lyin the arrog And the petula You must stud Not an honest hair in wh guile Of an In tus effort to wile the the ntyle of the kaiser’s mustache j In its factitioun fiercenens It ive a It would tempt one to laugh That this throne-thing is human & peacock’s a peacock neither so kaisers hin Why But hypoerit camouflaged poseur's on put each shows the thought che is NOT mn buffoon poltreon erfeit caah, mustache a mux of a ws behold th it ie dishonest were it not for the shame or such ts his claim. an ape is an ape, ace to & shape Of travestied valor, anointed and twirled To fool his own soul and to coten the world, Yor And ju Aw ty | His ew Come, come rep | — FS just as the at t Lite into the Ko into battle, schreck Uc Father Time » the kaiser's mustache! empt in ight places our men withstood 15 success jive attacks, and | went town in thousands man told me that for 75 |around me that the One Welsh gun accounted in three minutes during one} hotter, and even tho it was a wonder 1 Germans Indian smears up bis jowls as the Chinese makp hideous howls this weak-witling grows it under his 1 you gather earth's trash, 918, N. BE. AD colonel when I was with the bat talion, ‘stumbled into the shack where | was pitting. He looked lke a ghost. He had lost his hat, his face was covered with » four-day beard, the sweat had traced tracks in the dust from his forehead to bis chin. Hin sleeve was torn and bloody and he had a gash in his shoot an ispound shell, and while | fu) sight to wateh, | decided “discre | arm where he had been struck by a | we were there each gun was hoot | tion was the bet part of valor,” or piece of fying shell ease. Jing twice to the minute, You ¢4o/ something like that, and got down| “My God, doc, are you here? he limagine the racket when I tell you /into my dugout said. You got out just in time. The that the dincharge of one gun can be heard about four miles, In addition lthe boche was trying to knock out this battery, and he was dropping his sixineh hella a little too close | for comfort | ‘Then I made a lovely mistake. I wae to evtabliah an aid post near bat talion headquarters, and went biithe- ly on, when I met a company com mander and asked him where to go. “Rack there about a quarter of a mile.” he replied. “This is the front center company. If you keep on in the direction you are going, you are going over thy ridge, and Fria w |be waiting for you with a machine lgun.” j Escapes From Trap | So my sergeant and orderly imyself didnt waste any tUme clearing. On the way back I found & gallon can full of water, got into 4 corrugated iron shelter 4 had « wash and shave. It certainly felt and in ler and see our support lines digging thenaelves in several hundred yards away, The cannon fire ceased, the machine guna nettied down to an o Jcamional fitful burst and it was mid day of a beautiful spring day i © of partridgen flew over me. What did they know or care about al! this noise and ra and men getting up in line and killing each « ? Along about 3 o'clock things began to ven up again. In the mean time, headquarters had been estab lished in a sunken road, with banks about 15 feet high on either #ide (ater this cut was half filled with dead). My ald post waa in a dugout near by, and gradually things got hotter and hotter mn had @ug themacives tn popping away with their ne field batteries behind us rifles, T were putting up a barrage, airplan were circling overhead, both ours and the Germans’, The Germans put up a counter barrage machine guna going like mad with the colonel on a ground above the sunken road when the Germans broke thru about a mile the jto the north of ug, They could be jplainly seon pouring over the ridge in close formation | Tanks Drive Huns Then the tanks came up, and you |should he en them run! Just \like rabbits! The tanks retired; the boches fe land came at it again y tell the that at certain i N. FURMAN WI Tench You ¢ jo » Good Northwestern Shorthand Reporting School Shorthand Civil Service Bookkeeping Advanced Grammar NIGHT SCHOOL Monday, Wednesdi Arcade Bldg. Elliott 1581 ‘Order Your SUIT NOW Before Woolens Advance Again RABY | 425 UNION ST. good. I don't believe I had washed for 26 hours, It was warm and | bright. I could look out of my shel: | I was standing | little rise of | 1 was witting aret when my go back with the was captured jabead of my stor jover my head. we had. About the third of our post, burt. We stuck 1 another post jof the fourth m fol What every at needa is tr jous "aay latrength, p endurance, % of stool liron. T this reault nothing in | perience wr found re is ne than organic 1 Nuxated Iron—f ricling the blood to him in good me that old buoyanc nor that_ fille veins in 1847 made } entry w linto th Jand bh Idi the fro! Nuxated 1 Another nse is that of David Stuart G noted Indian Jand hero of the | Getty abr Ww dly run is yeor, I f Ieelf © totally physical power t back’ as J had de and with feel strong | durance Jagain 5 inthe U an of the elvil wa t army activ any 1 find in one and ever-re months after surgeon of New York City, si before given orderly loved and was to Fifteen | hours later the man who relieved me am getting said I was being re But 1 o'clock but luck gun and rifie fire, Jack to another village and opened | hing better came ambulan: y Shell Hits Post to } e, amoking a cle down and Lord Thyme I went back to the advanced dress | Ing station thru the hottest shellfire | 1 ever experienced cot the morning of day a rhell blew in the side no one wnaa| until about 4/ my jin the afternoon, when we saw our| hundred yards in nothing flat and men retiring over 4 ridge in front of then settled down to a walk because us, keeping up a continuous machine | I was so out of breath I couldn't run and we beat it| any more. battalion is all gone. The sunken road is filled with dead—mostly Huns, damn ‘em. The line broke on the right; we were surrounded, and at the last we were fighting back and back. Only 20 of us got away.” Germans Break Line Bo we knew t boche had broken thru to our right and our left, and it More than once | was a question of how long it would I went down on my face when ashell| be before we, burst and the pieces went whiszing | but we wanted to stick it out as long I spent the night in a mined village, where the ad Grewsing station was located, and al! a medical officer rushed in from one night they shelled it to blazes was remarkable how few casualties | too, were surrounded, as we could sj But not more than an hour later of the battalions and between gasps for breath told us the Germans were on the edge of the village, [him thre! the sleeve with a machine gun bullet Guckily that was all), and rus to beat it Let me tell you we did. I threw knapsack and made the first ‘The incessant scream and crash | and bang of the shells kept up and About 10 o'clock on the morning| the rat-tattat of the machine guns my i never ceased. The village immoedin' had shot | ething mane me and bur told on ow nd us was wmoke, +) ty betl Jing whellx, We re back that tand was to be made behind this village, #0 we eit sround It 1 touk up & pone n about balf mile behind it at a crommroade Unfortunately for a six-inch t came into i So us, and, anide from the ffect of the terrific notes, are alwayr unpleasant neighbors, as they invite shell fire, We stopped here until about 1 o'clock at night, when we were ore dered to retire Carry Wounded Back | There was no way of getting out the wounded that we had collected, | eo the stretcher bearers carried them on their stretchers for six or seven miles, In fact, we afl helped, and when we arrived at our destination at 4 o'clock in the morning | fifth day we were all in I could hardly move, but after big bowls of hot tea and some har! tack I turned in on the floor and | alept like @ log for four hours, when i we moved to another place and opens ed a dressing station On the way « German airplane came down and crashed near the road, but neither the pilot nor ob= server was hurt. They were a couple of rather neat looking lads about 19, years old. And so it went for three days more, open a dreesing station, re~ tire (sometimes on the run), long marches, very little to eat except what we foraged from abandoned, camps and dumps, dog tired, sleep- ing when and where we could, and finally the division was relieved. We now saw our firet civilians, and last night I slept in a bed. It wasn't | mueh of a bed, and the mattress wam | full of humps, but to get my boow off my sore and aching feet, to stretch out, and know I wouldn't be, routed out in 15 minutes—we' couldn't have bought that |me for $100. ‘Transferred to A. E. F. Did you ever read Robert W. Service's description of the retreat | from Mons? Well, that’s the way I felt |Tramp, tramp, the grim road road from Mons to Wipe ‘ammered out this ditt me bruised and bleedin Tramp, tramp, the dim road— We didn’t ‘ave no pipers— All bellies that were ‘oller was the drums we ‘ad to beat. ‘The ninth day, sitting around the fire in our mess after the best din ner we had had in days, the com< manding officer handed me some pa- pers and said, “Here is something: that will interest you, Pettit. I want to my we shall be sorry to lase you.” And this is what it was: “Liew tenant Roswell T. Pettit, M. R. C., is relieved from duty with the British: |army and will proceed to the AE F., where he will report tor duty.” I leave for Paris in the morning. This has been a long tale, but the; half of it hasn't been totd. I hope Ti haven't strung it ont too the with feet; I've it falling into emy. I shall send me some will see what I Your son, ‘General Gibson Says He Feels That Every Soldier WHO GOES TO THE FRONT many men ron— r en- 4 and ease nd and Gen ordon, ghter n. hen [ dawn thout Alled never and the ar to ren 6 lat xated liable t aid: “I any Jaques Elizabeth's’ hi We Gen. hosp! son, who front ated worn-out bodies ted taking Nuxated Iron 1a month it had roused my weakened vital forces and made again, giving me Horatio Getes Gih- A catered “the Cit Mexico in the war Winflett shout Iron.” As en well known Indian fighter, ated Iron has made me fit for another cam- and if my country needs me, XN mys) paign, UU ready to go." 1 4 not to mention it me hoped to la main « a tre onic the medical formation or advice for publication, Tw treat visiting pital, vue hospital partment), the Westchester oF and civilian filled and take did’ Gens. Gibson, and Clem and Jadge (retired), The above tion for enri the blood and keen, Americans — and women dare and do. U. 8. AL (retired conduct in the battle of Gen, “Despite my own advanced age, Indge a tates t 1 stand as I ordinarily do mot believe in it Hut in the case of Nuxated tron [ feel L would be remiss in my I have tah myself and given it to my patie with most surprising and sati tory results. 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