The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 31, 1918, Page 6

E SEATTLE 1207 Seventh Ave, Near U OF sCrurrs NORTHWEST LBAC News Service of the United Press Assectation ond-Class Matter @ montha, $210 attic, Wash. F mail, out of city. 400 per month, $ montha, $1.15 year, $4 00. By carrier, city ay a mon Daily by The & exchan: Postoffice as Private The New Revenue Bill To get back to that tax business. The people want a new tax bill, and no mistake. They that the present one is a flivver, It has been plain the start that enormous “excess profits” taxes, so d, hitting the little stockholder and the big stockholder were bound to fliv. It has been plain that they only d efficiency and initiative in business without gain their one objective, i. e., without putting the main cost it belongs—on individuals who can best afford to it. The proper kind of a schedule—the kind the country to congress for this time—is one that will work principle of the graduated personal income tax solely exclusive! Of course, there will have to be some of a safeguard to catch the slacker who says: “I'll pile up those profits inside the corporation, in the of cash reserves or something, for the time being safeguard may again be called an “excess profits” tax. | it will have to draw the line sharply and distinctly be- the man who owns 51 per cent of those piled up fits and the man who only owns the right to two per of them. “Then there must be a provision to hit purely “war fits”’——the difference between what a given corporation this year, under war conditions, and what it made fal years ago, before the war was thought of. This of profits is mighty unpopular. All of the above are things that must be taken_into con- tion in building the new tax bill. They are things at all America—outside of Washington, perhaps—is think- g about in that connection. The congressman who can go before the people and that his thought along these lines is geared up with thought is the man who is going to have their con-| | enali: cs on 3 e ae > 5 . abasting a Nightmare ‘If there's one amusement we like better than others it up a nightmare of standing. Here, «for instance, shark-toothed U-boat nightmare, which we can now } by the ears, bite its nose, and kick its shins a-pienty our copper-toed boots. new ships of major size in June! More in July. ‘More in August. We're going to choke the seven seas American . shipping Thus proclaims Bainbridge by, United States shipping commissioner. ing back to figures, it is discovered that Germany has destroyed 50 major ships in a month, and, with ing means of putting down U-boats so that they! np, she never will be able to do it. In other words, alone is going to defeat the U-boat. Moreover, America does in ship building, during the next three will be only the beginnings, only the initial har-| in; of a year and more of preparation and organization. Fill be far from a demonstration of all she can and will She'll be able to “choke the seven seas,” before very Because she’s America! course, there will be U-boats. There are still some ces in Ohio and plenty to be found elsewhere, but! ‘don’t wake up in the night heating them hiss and into other parts, first thing in the morning. The} Menace, considered as a fatal bar to our own war a dead one, and we take pleasure in kicking that shtmare about the bedroom. s Ha) ay ent Fare | Until the war ends, American soldiers will be carried | American railroads operated by the American govern- at the rate of ONE CENT PER MILE! So Director General McAdoo has announced. ‘And this in the face of increased wages to railway On the other hand, McAdoo will cut out some of the niences” the traveling public has “enjoyed,” includ- te and several ticket offices scattered all over city, trains-de-luxe, expensive booklets of advertising , duplicating schedules on competing lines, surplus | and Pullmans, and excess baggage officials drawing | salaries. | Such efficiency and economy carried on down thru the railway system should in time spell one-cent fare for Americans—if the government keeps the roads. What's a non-essential industry? The other fel- | ~ low’s, of course. TODAY’S MARKET REPORT TL: = - Faid Wholesale Dealers for | | FLOUR Vegetables and Fruit (Prices paid wholesale) | VROWTABLES Whole wheat, bbl... ae H Granam Rye, bbi Per doz Green, per T.. al. Wax, per Tb. 1.76 Gorn meal.” ba pater, teste #09 Barley, bbL le ee "e —s | Country Hay and Grain i| (Prices paid wholesale) | % a | Alfalfa | Alfaite Tew Nfornin fi! f Re stern Wash! ington lay ° hell tee pe—Per owt CHiek Food ..... Chop. | Cort | Cracked Corn Cocoanut Mea Clam Shells... | Clipped Barley 20 | Dal ‘ oo 4.00 00 Milo Mais 400 On! 70.00@72 00 Ont Mitley 35.00 Cal. new, Garnets, per ™ On Meal 200 05 Netted Gem, Fast. Wn., ton 25.00@20.00 Tacal, No. 1, ton 20002400 Oyster Sheile 23 Rolled 72.00@74.00 00 Tarai, fieid ‘run, ton 17.00@1840| Rolled Harley : “Local, doz 2 25 | Serateh Feed—Per cwt 3.56 Local. per ™ 03% | Shorts 35.50 Soy Bean Meal... - 7 Th Eastern Wanh 15.00@38.00 ay so 6-28.00 20.00 Prices Paid Shipper for ry, Veal and Pork, f. 0. b. Seattle | Yellow, per sack . | new, per wack | | weet x Brollers—Under 1% fos, per Ib 1% Ion. and over, % Dacks live 25 Mens Lawn vo 27 Heavy, live 27 | Metgian Hare 19 Pork —Good b 2@ 21 hugs, per Veal Fancy is son aee x Light : ; 20 (4 artarians, 10-1. box. .2.0062.25| meee Country, per Te Ho 18 Me 4.00@4.25| ri * t 7 Ming Prices to Retailers tor Kennewick, 24-pt. crate ....4.00@4 La California . 4 Butter, Eggs and Cheese Grape Fruit— Cai. Beodionn, box ates sau Per case»... EE eet bai “sin sar ee’ city creamery, 1, tn . 10s y $6@ 146 Granges—Ail vires, crate ed eee , 5 creamery, cubs 1@ 48 NUTS Aelect ranch 1@ 44 Almonds—Per 1 ‘9 Bewsi—Per To ne ‘er tb. . Washington Young America. .26@ .26 —Virginia, per i Washington Cream Brick 200 (31 Chinese, per Tb. ...... LAinburger oo. + 6 falnuts, Biack— Per Oregon ‘Iripieta 26@ 27 ino. 2, per Mh. Oregon ¥. A Cal., soft shell ... Washi Washington Triplets .... STAR—FRIDAY, MAY 31, 1918. PAGE 6 4 TODAY, . ance- t itte Tom = IN T HE CHEST UPSTAIRS * of labor and days of pride Phere days to roam, there are days to ride, days for wandering far and wide days an sweet an aby's breath re da nray an the mask of death re days when the battle ree and long There are days when the soul must be firm and strong Hut once in a while f foraake my cares, And 1 ask a day in which no one shares ave the ghowts of days in the chest upstairs As I slip in the key and I tft the lid To all other hands but mine forbid 1am in the land where Romance tx There's a xr of ribbon, a whiff of ts And a ghost of perfume which salutes my face There's a card brought home from a bygone ball With one ni it nearly Ther be “. and p presned To mark the thoughts which we loved the best, And here heart in the old, old chest There's a bridal veil and a rose or two, a a wedding y's shoe, And a few little new TY ttered dot to part A roe yt Tr t print Wr d fingers made long since. ©, my is reduced to tears and prayers, Yet I turn away from the chest upstairs Feeling somehow where, somebody caren! (Copyright STAR'SH IAS CASUS BELLI “If Pa don’t start aaid the clown pr Bo daddie did. Of oid, a war lw with friends » warred kings over their mutual lady How footiah war causes blossom and go ¢ all about! Who ever started ity practice of le one is £ erty bacon and v noisy inhalation of food at the next © good all these A war over the Kt xweeping out" down hia liv w ing rithin coffee? Over table? Ever hear of international slau over hens in war gardens? | No, and never will, as long as! kings and cap have marble Ww ways have mar ried women maid Gets-It’’--2 Drops-- Then to the Dance! “Goodnight to Corn Pains—Corns Peel Off With ‘Getalt” “Say, girls, you can Inugh at tight shoes, or damp, corn-pulling weather, big, bumpy corns, callusea on the soles of your feet, corns between the toes, hard and soft corns, if you will “It's All Off With This Fierce Corn Now—'Gets-It' Is Magic” just touch the corn of callus with a few drops of ‘Getwlt' What a bless ed relief it gives to corn pains! You)! won't limp any more; you can enjoy | the dance every minute, Then to see how that corn or callus will come right off complete, like a banana peel and without the least pain, is just wonderful, ‘GetelIt’ in the biggest among corn removers in the world today, simply becau t is #0 wonderfully simple and always works. Be sure you get ‘Getslt.’” “Getelt,” the guaranteed, mon back corn-remover, the only sure way, costs but a trifle at any drug store. M’f'd by E. Lawrence & Co Chic Ill, Sold in Seattle at the Owl Drug Co 1% REDUCED RATES TO £04 Prussia: Pa ar ‘NABB CALIFORNIA Firat Thira. San Franctaco— $13.00 and $15.00 $10.00 Los Angeles Porte— | $20.00 and $23.00 $14.60 S22 BM nna S9R.00 — t1AaK0 MAY 31 JUNE 1 Good service, targe outside state- rooms and unsurpassed meals, Ey- ery convenience for passengers. Full particulars at City Ticket Office. 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Dye want Weil Rundle in Comic pag On a@ atree neve a a tip? f wrap a & newspaper eo and ride t car, You'll give everybody In your vi Car the fi Trying to Funny dor They h Heady The car te Bo On the bu: When you Hold on it. cinity on the digo tn read the nave thelr give a 3 ou'll fall back, And lose your he a indie, then, take a new . you' Turned the bundie to The part See. they want to You feel lke You are carrying a Monkey, ©} Goodtytike Our tip, de r something So, take on't do it! Wrap it up with the Stock mar ket page. Hecause the guys who Read the Are riding In their i {> ™ stock markets to work mousines, eee A WorRD FROM J06H WISE Nothin’ wears out faster than an excuse, eee Editor's Mail A RED CROSS LiKe itor The Star: About two weeks arty from Meattle was viniting ny nelghborh nd while here they told something that I 6, and they can not believ where to go with my report, if I may call it so, L will write 1, and hope J you will call the right party's atten | to it if you think Jt worth while Well, the party told that he knew about a woman in Seattle who ts working for the Hed Cross She is | wetting $175 per month, besides all jahe can grab other ways, and she wan getting 25 per cent of all the Liberty bonds she could sell | Do you, Mr, Editor, believe there! is an ounce of truth in it? 1 don't but some of my neighbors do. In law which can compel that n to prove it? I believe he should there ™ p ¢ it, of shut up. I did not hear him tell that story myself, but my bretherindaw and his family did. 1 don't know that nan's address, but I may be able to find out ives in th «! 1 know his name, and he aliard, If the proper want his name, 1 will d to give it As lam in the draft age and may have to ¢ 1 would like to lick th emies who live witht borders |and have the protection of “the Stara |and Stripes” before I leave home. I }don't like the idea of fighting the | Germans and getting stabbed in the back by those who atay behind and |have the full pro’ | who are fighting battlefields today nities be tion of the boys a dyin the Yours trul on | L. LANGLAND, Fart Stanwood, Wash. RD. Rox 19 (Editor's Note—-Communicate at once with Capt Mass, Intelligence Division, U. 8. A., Beattie) TO HEL” FARMERS | Editor The Star There are quite |a number of salesmen traveling from | house to house, selling teas, mpices, ADA, REWinKg machines, et | Would tt not be a good idea for | these snen to get together and make Jarrangementa to go east the mountains and help in the wheat harvest when needed? No hardship worth mentioning would be endured, und these men Jeould miss a trip or so without any apparent | Let's all get together on the sub | Ject and all go for a month or two. Joms Union tea men, Watkins men | Rawleigh men, sewing machine men jand others, rally W. A. HODGINS. Port Townsend, Wash. THE LIARS’ WORLD! Editor The Star of Prince Lichnownky’s ments, clearing England teresting t Jote recall the follow ce Prince Von Biamar nd i Prumsian write a few words in a book of blood a on wan a autographs, He wrote, In French | “Le monde appartient sux men- tours.” (The world belongs to the Mare) Quite Hunnish, ten't {t? L. LELIEVRE, 1512 Ninth Ave. HOW RENT 1S RAISED March of last year a family seek Jing residence in Weat Seattle leased &@ residence near the “Junction” for one year at $18 per month. The property was placed in the | hands of several real estate firms for |aale, ainong them being the Camp: bell Thompson Co, In December the tenant was notified the property had been sold and was requested to va cate. The tenant demurred and | cited his lease for a year. The real |estate firm maid the lease was void |as the conditions had not been lived had not been paid However, the owner came forward jand naid he would give the tenant | $25 to defray the expense of moving trary or unreasonable, agreed to Folks who want to talk to their) Move, providing they would find a gin studying | daughters-in-law after the boya come | }home from France might as well be French now ore ours for him Within a week the Campbell Thompson Co. reported they had the house, which had Just been vacated. Ry the way, what's become of the| ANd for which they had been receiy old-fashioned ¢ imported Limburger cheese and wash | it down with Among the Cherman dustry On bis retu Kaiser Bill, yo ably ate hin pleee for a few days; or sat on a soft! ow From now have to beha (OF COURSE T THINK A band citizen who used to eat imported pilsener? little in ing: Dot Non-onsential mi rn from that visit sung Kaiser Carl prob meals off tne mantic see on all Austrians will ¢ themselves and be “2 LOT, OF YOU MARVIN- BUT Xr York City aldermen have de d to fight high rents, If they need any help no doubt they can get it from Seattle Chamber of Com mer You remember how the The sultan o toasted at a dinner palace. We only tol to sponded was, em Dispatches Henry Ford Emperor Char! . of Turkey, ee #0 We read, of Austria in the Constantinople always supposed the which the sultan re-| The ladies. God bless y Schwab hugged Fortunately for Henr: ing $18 per month The tenant prepared to move and found the rent of his new home had }t raised $4.50 per month—to $22.60. Last week he was notified the rent would be again boosted—to $25. He notified Mr. Thompson he j would not pay the Increase. Then and there he was notified to get out, and was asked when the property would be vacated “I do not know,” said the tenant, ‘when I can find a house to suit me, |but you will not get the increase if 1 cannot find a house—unlexs you go to court, and, if you do, I do not be |i any judge in Seattle will give you the decision.” “1 will now ra « the rent to $30. said Mr, Thompson. “The rent $30 per month Now a few words about the t | He is a shipyard employe a nkilled n celves is ant He ta not echanic and, naturally, re but @ modest salary. For nearly three months--January, Feb. jruary, and all but seven days in March—he had no work. But with his first seven days’ pay he subserib- ed for a Liberty Bond. In addition, jhe has pledged a portion of his sal ary, which In deducted every day, to the Red Cross, the Soldiers jand Sailors’ Relief Fund, and the |Star Smoke Fund. He is also one | of a amall number in the department Jin which he works, who buys three |Thrift Stamps every day. He also says as soon as this bond is paid for, which will be in June | will subscribe for another, | another, and another, as lon, works and the war continue: JON A. SHIMP, 42nd 8, W. he nd then as he 47 | | SHOP EARLY Editor The Star: If there is any | thing a detriment to the carrying out |of our war plans to the extent of a | big, well-attended funeral for the Kal ser, it is the practice of shoppliw at such hours and till such time as the street cars are needed by those of us who are compelled to ride to and from our daily work. It is a common mber reduced the rents, don't) thing to find half of the occupants of a crowded car are women carry Ing bundles and bags, and often ac- | companied by from one to three kids. I would suggest placing a fine of $1 upon each and every woman shopper r woman with ehild, or children, or any women other than those who are jemployed downtown, for riding upon A street car before 9 a.m. or after 3 p.m. the tnoney’ derived therefrom to be gi to the Red Cross. The conductor could place the fine and Schwab is not @ Russian and did not| take the money, tag system. kiss him, A SUBSCRIBER, «1 don't know up to in that the last month's rent) The tenant not wishing to be arbi. | | Another “Free” Russian Republic HH —s Is “Permitted” by the Germans | } use of Infantile Still 4 Paralysis Since epidemics of infantile parnly ain always appear during warm or summer weather they have been thought of as por wibly being nected with or de pendent upon in- wect life. The blood muck- ing insects have empecially come un- have | con — GREAT | BUSSIA der suspicion, Experiments been made with biting flies, beg-buge, nd with lice, Nether monquitoes nor lice seem able to take infective poison from x mosquitoes the virus or the blood of infected members or to retain it for a time in a living state Cer id indleate that the biting stable fly could both withdraw the virus from the blood lot infected and reconvey it to th thy monkeys, which be- ain experiments blood of he ame paralyzed. More recent studies, - however, have failed to confirm the earlier ones. The ordinary or domestic fly may nated with the infee- tion of the disease contained in the retions of the body and serve as agent of its transportation to persons and to food with which they come in contact. Domestic flies ex perimentally contaminated with the virus remain infective for 48 hours or longer. ome cont nconsent” another republic has been added to the lst of It in to. be White Russia,” as distin which in the Bolshevik nation “With Germany free” Hunsian states guished from White Runsia includes the province of Lithuania, and takes In the ter known as Titory north of the Ukraine, with Poland and the Baltie provinces on the Peds been femee Cae weet, Great Russia on the north and Siberia on the east, Its chief city | Mente Shima ene eee ee animals eve 2nd negotiations ar proceeding regarding the part Lithuania will sumpician ae poulley eis are poub neteceanelercn dogs and cats. In certain sheep, cattle and try, pigs ed instances, “NO ROOM FOR PRO-GERMAN” Miller Calls for Straight-Americanism ™ r = even horses have been suspected. All these kinds» of animals are sub- Ject to diseases in which paralysis of 1e legs and other parts of the body where the limbs hang low. Make a| *ometimes appear HAY FEVER ‘ Congressman John ¥ Seattle, was recen rallied to Haver good American citizen out of him or o make a patriotic ad-| Put him under the ground. I have Mee eine oe vomamerc: | €Ot tome in my own district. I talk| J, FB. aske; “What causes the ao dregs at a maer to them just fame as here. 1 called spring form of hay fever?” j banquet Haverhill Gazette ed pretty plain to them Certain grasses which grow in 4 him in part as follow y understand where I am and I/ rank profusion thruout the country. am will Various weeds cause the autumnal rm of the disease My countrymen, I tell you right to pull a string any now there is no room in America for | mome If a man of Germ: = sam i Best Treatment for Catarrh _ S.S.S. Removes the Cause By Purifying the Blood. It has proven its value ses. It will do proGermar 20d cannot American feet American soi! ho learna it the better off he wil | be and the beter off we will be. My own son is over there, and I am in no mood, neither are to have some man of German blood with his/ on you, j drug store thousands of ¢ Get 8. 8. S. at ones in feet under flag, trying te undo| Once you get your blood free from so in your case. what we are fighting for over there. impurities—cleansed of the catarrh and egin treatment. If yours in a ¥qu we not * 4 it ither, and al which in to long standing case, be sure to write thé sooner the proGerman her use of ite unk ’ then for free expert medical advice. We learns it, the better, He nat least) you will be relieved of Catarrh—the will tell you how this purely vege keep his mouth shut, or we car ing in the throat, hawking and Je blood tonic cleanses the impur- a underneall x feet of Ameri nH) spitting, raw sores in the nostrils, ities from the blood by literally soil re he ought to be. Th disagreeable bad b ". It} washing it clean. We will prove to in no use of tolerating a proGerms caused, in the first place, be-| you that thousands of sufferers from | one-half of one minute | cause your impoverished blood was Catarrh, after consistent treatment slight| with S. S. S., have been freed from "If there in a proGerman who| easily infected. Possibly a does not buy a bond or doen not give cold or contact with someone who| the trouble and all its disagreeable to the Red Cross, or the Y. M. C. A.| had a cold. But the point is—don't| features and restored to perfeet fund, or to the Knights of Columbus) suffer with Catarrh—it is not neces-| health and vigor. Don't delay fund, watch him and talk to him/ sary, The remedy 8. 8. 8. discov-|treatment. Addreas Medical Direc and then if he does not buy take ered over fifty years ago, tested./tor, 439 Swift Laboratory, Atlanta, him up under the trees and take him| true and tried, is obtainable at any! 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