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

TAR {THE SEATTLE § “107 Sevemth Ave. Ne weet acure MEMARR OF sCHUPISs NE ——— Telearaph News Entered at Seartie, ity, 40¢ per month; } months, $1.15; 6 montha, $4.00. By carrier, city, 30e a month © of the United Press Assoctation Wash, Postoffice as Second-C Matter $2.10) 000, Private Ma ry ewe « Don't hide behind that Red Cross banner in your window. Come out with your share of Seattle's quota and show it is there in good faith, ot ~* Country That Cannot Be Beaten It is now demonstrated that the United States will have Mo trouble whatever in assembling whatever size army it wishes, that plenty of men are available and willing to fight, © and can be constantly augmented whenever necessary, Be The fact that 3,000,000 men can be mustered, ; @ut exhausting even half of the Class 1 men registered » last June, before the termination of 1918, and that inflow of new registrants thereafter alone would sustain “a very considerable army, without even calling on the oth ‘Classes, should fill the heart of every American with confi- @ence and thanksgiving, as he realizes » vastness of the United States. a Ours is a country that cannot be beaten. We need not have the remotest fear on that score. Worry and friction our raising an army are mythical, where they exist. 0 shipbuilders are supreme, invincible, turning out ves- igels in record time to carry our husky troops overseas to the assistance of our allies. i » Surely the German was blind, if he ted States as a “little nation.” © That we will win, and that there is no cause for worry as to the outcome, are foregone conclusions. We shall not : without losses or sacrifices, and the end is far from r, but it will be an end swayed to the extremes of right justice, and the light of liberty upheld by the earth's representative democracy. : " Meanwhile, our manhood is registering for service, 4 filed, classified, and prepared for duty on the field— “plenty of men, with plenty back of them. G. O. P. Chairman Hays, of Indiana, will open up ent headquarters in Washington. If there is any- permanent with an Indiana politician, tts poli- Sage 1g and Tax _ The boys “over there” need the money, and McAdoo is : congress to raise part of it by increased taxation. ported from Washington that from $1,500,000,000 00,000,000 will be needed. 4 But at the same time it is reported “the proposition met with a storm of opposition in both house and te.” It is stated that congressmen and senators are d to vote for a new war tax bill before they go home I their constituents. "In other words, congress is afraid to go home and tell he people the truth. That is what it boils down to. ‘As if the people—the real people, whose main interest | life these days is winning the war—didn’t know the already! ey know that war isn’t a pink tea. They that it costs money. They know that sooner or later ar present half and half tax schedule will have to be re- sed and enlarged. And they have shown just where they land by their voluntary subscriptions to three Liberty and their voluntary contributions to the Red Cross other war activities. ' The best recomméndation a congressman can carry " with him is a record of having worked for war taxes they belong—taxes on war profits and swollen in- essme! ny ‘ If we are to cut out non-essentials during the war, “why not start on partisan politics? ee g Day Solicitors day solicitors should observe this: Our soldiers have offered their lives to the country’s service. pay is small. When they are visiting in the city, \¢ ised every cent they have. DO NOT PESTER THEM TO BUY TAGS. A few solicitors failed to observe this turday. General Pershing says that baseball and football have made all young Americans strategists. If they would draft the national army from among married men, they would find this initial strategy developed to | Where Can I Find Relief From a Itching, Terrifying Eczema? ‘This Question Is Ever on the Lips of the Afflicted. Eezema, Tetter, Erysipelas, and ‘ther terrifying conditions of the | skin, are deep-seated blood diseases, and applications of salves, lotions and washes can only afford tem porary relief, without reaching the Peal seat of the trouble. But just be eause local treatment has done you Ro good, there is no reason to @espair. You simply h not sought the proper treatment, that is within your reach. burning of the skin, §. 8. 8. wil promptly reach the seat of the trou Es ot i you have. has been used for more than fifty health Our chief medical adviser is an au thority on blood and skin disorders, and he will ta you such advice as your individua 434 Swift Blood and skin diseases, No matter how terrifying the irritatic Specific Co., no mat-| Atlanta, Ga. 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Write today, describing your |°4"net ask forgiveness, when I tell guide you to a prompt riddance of| case to medical department, Swift|¥OU that probably that night on that ror wel LE INTIME Several persons interested in our} aericultural efforts write ud that pomuibly our famous Kobinoor radinh in a horse radish, We think not but we do not wish to be ponitive bout it hall submit the Koht noor ¢ Ne of experts A furntahed rooms for gen army officers, 1384 Ver Advertisement in Wash Pont ee Two we non oF nt ave ington, D, C., The tax on luxuries has #o injured business that a bill has been intro duced to repeal it, Did you ever hear of a tax on business that didn't injure it? oe | | German drugstores are advertixing & preparation that prevents hunger We often wonder why the Hunn by turning the clock and going without mupper eee And as for four busiest one we know Relgians, party Lines, the ia in France British, and is held by the French and Yanks | ee | | ‘The government has ordered that soldiers write no more books without special permission. We kne who has bragged that he san fast an trying to read war t they come out, and in only two books shind, The new order will enable | him to o Ake the publishers. | “Bat potato and save wheat,” advise newspapers and The reason for the charge for is, we understand it, that po- | tatoes are plentifal and cheap, while wheat in searce Thus you see how the able law of supply and dema works out. THAT'S RIGHT, YOU SAID IT, WE MAY NOT UNDER: STAND IT, } eee | “INATION Batty Bil ts WILHELL Reports come that a victim of hallucination, and that The a first cousin to plain daffy BONFESSIONS | OE AWE HAPPINESS INVOLVES | HOPE | “that remember that ride we took In the email! hours of the morning the night before we were married. j “I had been out with the boys ata farewell supper, and I had drunk al together too much, but I was sud. denly sobered as your voice came| over the wire, You remember Dr. | Atwater had been talking to you on the duties of marriage, “Neither of us, Margie, at that time, had any idea that marriage | meant anything more than a giort fied courtship, and I remember | ‘was madder than a hornet at the old| doctor for filling you up with that} old-fashioned ‘bunk,’ as I called it] myself. “Waan't that ride glorious, dear heart? As I write with Death look ing over my shoulder, I can turn a smiling face to his grim visage when I think of that ride. For I have lived. No one can take that away / from me. | “You were so dear that night You were so dependent and yielding. | You wanted to believe all that I said | when I told you that our marriage was going to be like no other since | the world began “Will you always love me, Dick as you do now? you said, as your clinging lips left mine. It is the unt versal question, I expect, but I was almost indignant that you would ask | it Of course, I would, only | | mor and I swore under my| breath at the old doctor for putting | any thoughts of duty or responsibil. | ity into your pretty head. | “I did not want a wife to have| any responnibility,’ I said to myself. | I only wanted a wife to love and be! loved | “Margie, I did not think, at the |time, that such thoughts as thene, which probably fill the heads of all| | young lovers, are the beginning of | [the whole trouble and mistakes of/ |marringe. About a week after, al |man begins to wake up to the fact |that love is only a part of the lite | that must be lived together But that night, my wife! You wilt | 1] drive I was happiest of my whole life, It was the apex. I knew that the next day you would belong to me, and I was passionately, delir-| }iously in love with you. You were looking to me to calm your fears and jecomfort you. | “No poet has pictured heaven as 1 knew it that night, and since I have | thought about it I have come to the| conclusion that even in your great eat happiness you hopes of gr must still have r happiness to make | our heaven complet You know, Margie, that a man in my position cannot help speculating on the world beyond wure there is great J after death. The heaven we have | been told about will not be th heaven of our dreams unless the comes the consciousness of gre to com and I am quite | and happiness | Fiverlasting peace may mean ev-| rlasting sleep, everlasting Inertia but everlasting happiness and ever ssting Joy must-—-to the finite mind | t least n everlasting hope. I lon't know, Margie dear, what in| coming to me on the other side of | the great “It m ® everlasting joy or it ma awting. oblivion; but | whatever it is, I'll take my chance. | With all my faults, all my «ins of commission and omission, I am but} human, and for mortals to reach im: mortality has always seemed to me 4 task too great for human mind to conceive or human power to achieve. “1 wish T had more faith, Margie; but you see I have only hope.” (To Be Continued) ns ( potatoes and no charge for bread | carry four times the number of pas j “Lam quite sure, Margie dear | | | STAR—MONDAY, MAY 20, sv18. FOLKS AT The waaew they pay their men is all [6¢ right for little boys, nowadays. T. C. COLLIN 8. H OUTRAGE Tam writing to mon the MEAT Editor The Star my opin A | “at p (4 you, expressing i letter signed “John Boyle,” defending S WORTH |W. F. Priebe and the packers, He leaye the article casts muapicion on news hasn't startled any of un, In| our Ke went and maken the peo yey are getting milked. en't they? can't plek out two pounds of meat for $1 now What will it Kverybody ex.| ple believe know} Well, « used for al Y fact, it ain't news. cept thome in der Matheadland, Ha belfry ck and a moth roost, and] Mo thosh moths are pretty lean now|be later? They say meations days from the diet jin it helps the food-saving If Wilhell had 47 times as much| cause—meat Im getting out of reach aray matter as he has now, he'd! of poor people and I'm sure it isn't wtill lack 92 portions to being ¢ y.| for the government's benefit, but for His think tank cylinders are so jazz | the “paytric dollarwyear pack ed up, & Chinese pusele works as|ers, If we had one man out of every dimple as the mechanism of a sun| three in public offices, ke Heney Mal in comparison It would be a| then it would be for every one's bene pretty doggone hungry, flooie squir | fit rel who'd give Batty Bill the sec ond look as a prospective banquet In other words, we think there|o in something wrong with Mad Bill's coop. 36 wan only for instance, beef round Two months ago it was 25 Then it went on the increase, % to 6 cents a week. It's a hing the producer don’t get it There inn't a new war tax put on ev ery week. Employes don't get a raise In wages every week A STEADY READER. sure eee Harry Whetstine's military career haw been in cycles of seven since Itt inception, When serial numbers were «lipped to every man between Hand 31, Marry drew 731, and right! 66 | ” top of that his Jer numnber | a with a SORE, TIRED FEET worked out 777 On May 7 party of seven select draft men, he} went to Camp Lewis, On May 14,/ after seven days in camp, his heart! thumped too hard and back he came to Seattle. Use “Tiz” for Aching, Burn- ; all been lucky, too." he mys! ing Puffed-up Feet and 1 gave up a good position to go} sway, but when I came back I drop Corns or Callouses ped into « better one.” ' Editor's Mail | “Sure! | use TIZ’ every time for any foot trouble.” THE CAR SERVICE more care than| | are operating any Who Recently Returned From | France, Where She Went on a Mission for the Red Cross and The Star } “Of the million sweaters furnished by the Red Cros to American sol by the knitting says & recent they did two years ago, But they nengers, Many @ time I have waited ever an hour for a car, Shipyard workers wait 30 minutes for a car| out in the rain, and then have it pass them up with a “full car” sign ut They say they can't get men Good-bye, sore feet, burning feet, wollen feet, tender feet, tired feet Good-bye, corns, callouses, bun na and raw spe No more shoe diers, half were mad ightoess, no more Hmping with) women of America,” vain or drawing up your face in| Ked Cross report “lagony. “Tix” is magical, acts right; I had just read thin report on a | wo oft. “Tix draws out all the polson.| train coming from Indianapolig east; ous exudations which puff up the | the other day when I heard a voice feet. Use “Tir” and wear smaller behind me, saying: “Just look at the, It shoes, Use “Tix” and forget your| inefficiency of the Red Crons. It has foot misery. Ah! how comfortable all the women in the United States your feet feel | knitting socks and sweaters, and ev Get a 2Scent box of “Tiz” now/ery business man knows that you nooks [NATIONAL | DENTISTS) en who hand-knit | J THIRD & PIKE lat any druggist or department can knit 100 pairs of socks on a ma- crete =i aes store. Don't suffer. Have good | chine while a woman can knit one —_ = | feet, glad feet, feet that never/pair by hand.” 1 turned about and asked: “Do! you know how long 4 pair of hand | knit socks lasts over there?” swell, never burt, never get tired A year's foot comfort guaranteed or money refunded. Expert Plate Makers at Reasonable Prices thing that 0,” he answered. “They jast nine days. know how long « pair of machine socks lasts over there?” 'No,” he answered. “They last three days,” I told him. It in imponsible to tell why a pair of hand knit socks lasts three times an long as a pair of machine-knit but I have found it pleasant to think that it ts because the good these socks knit their knit that socks he HOME WITH) #2230" "8 GIVEN KNITTED SOX | posters. The average restau Editor The Star: 1 notice in’ the rant charges for potatoes supplies the bread free, and t te Mrs. D. J. Peterson of Toledo, 0., observes “the five-minute rule”: If everybody is encours, og he |e sympathy, since the cost of op} you know your hands will be idle five minutes, pick up your knitting. | jatocs. No? All right, then, [eration and materials have ad BY IDAH McGLONE G1 N jf about it. vanced. No can GLONE GIBSO! Bre your own way my 1. Now, I can’t see that they Aomur of “Conlustens of 0 Wits” | into them their good wishes, hopes, their prayers. is @ fact whenever an American soldier puta on a pair of | realizes that some dear woman in America has been thinking of him—it is a con gives him confi- dence that the people at home are behind him and “for” him. “This,” a colonel in the American army over there told me, “we recog: | nize as one of the basic stones with Ot course the ke them fast enough to every boy with trench feet or feet or uncomfortable feet, a and better pair of socks and they al ive the boy who | menxnge from home as clearly tho it were spoken.” « low tn hin Only the men over there what 4 menage from home nd we must send them one at @ Jend of the Red Crons drive, maj |that we are with them @ hui | million dollars strong FORMER CZAR’S SON I$ STRICKEN WITH ILLNES MOSCOW, May 20-—Grand D Alexis, former czarevich, in ne ill, according to @ report from bolnk. SILVER CITY, N May wy Only one of Thomaa Pinnon's a dren survived a fire which de the family home on a ranch here Saturday night. The fire caused by an exploding lamp. “L00 ND A Combination That Makes Better Health This Spring Every man and woman who enjoy good health this Spring, would have such life and strength not to be a slacker, but equal @ anything, must have an abund of iron in the blood. The new iron tonic, Peptiron, a bines this valuable metal in cinal form wo that it is easily a ed and readily assimilated. Peptiron also includes pepsin, celery, gentian and other ’ nerve belps, digestives and carmine tives, a health-giving medicine the form of chocolate-coated convenient and pleasant to take’ has given entire satisfaction 7 of anemia or thin blood, nerve debility, brainfag. One org Peptiron after each meal will q ly tell a story of marvelous Peptiron is prepared by its nators, C. I. 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Exclusive styles at moderate prices. _ Our advice is, make early selec- tions. Suitable for street, dress or din- ner wear, Clever Gingham Dresses In New Effects Fresh, crisp Gingham Dress- es in checks, plaids and novelty effects. Gingham dresses are being worn for afternoon and calling and they're very smart looking. 8.95—12.95 to 15.00 —MacDougall-Southwick, Second Floor, Fine COATS and Capes All exclusive models, formerly 85.00 to 135.00, reduced for this special reduction sale to— | 65.00—Sixty-Five Dollars —65.00 A Special Purchase of New Spring Suits | The smartest styles of the season, of Roshanara Silk, ‘ ret Twills and Wool Jersey, in navy, gray, tan and beige. 39.75 = Aj ry Se aaanal atfeta Silk, Serges, Poi-