The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 8, 1918, Page 6

Ea SEATTLE STAR 1907 Seventh Ave, Near Union 8t Matered at Seattin Wash. Postoffice as Second Matter mail, out ef city 40 per veer, $4 LS ¢ montha 02.10; ¢h The imperial ruler of Germany, as “patron of the arts,” authorized the issuance of a complete and expensive n of Shakespeare, whom the Germans profess to ad- The work is in the hands of a publisher and will be d shortly. Following, the German people will peruse oe? if it and Hamlet as a relief alternate to war news. and would probably buy real food plenty of money, ‘ were obtainable, but as it is, in Shakespeare. ~ They they will have mental It would be interesting to know just what motives ited Kaiser Wilhelm in his attitude toward the great h dramatist. Of course, the claim is that Wilhelm as ‘an artistic soul, recognizes Shakespeare as a universal ‘and will not deny his people an intellectual treat, even Bard of Avon did originate in England. In other : “I am not narrow-minded,” cries the kaiser. The probable attitude in Germany at this event is one wounded pride. “They do not understand us,” says the German. “Look, ten bes to th “It might even be conceded that Henry F wig Many a newsboy is a shipbuilder now. And this is) | Who, then, shall take the place of the boys? Here is war work that girls can do.! read Shakespeare; we are highly cultured; in art and ture we are famed the world over; we are liberal- d; we do not discriminate against English writers!” So the German salves his soul nor can he understand the world will insist on regarding him as a barbarian. We are willing to concede that the Germans are an in- tual people, and that, in this field of pure art, they are -in her intellectual advancement p. ? Has she not subordinated all her better im- dominion of cold intellect and mathematical tion? ut has not Germany’s very pride and arro- the cause of Kaiser Wilhelm, n” of the arts, often attempting the role of artist composer, has a leaning toward higher expressions universal truth, but, unfortunately, he chose to ex- ft thru the medium of militarism. | Intellectualism is no excuse for high-headedness, pride, or war. When the German i) has been taught this, o about his artistic pursuits with the approval of orid, if it can ever forget his stupendous crime. Until if he derives consolation from a study of Shakespeare , by all means, let him do so! ‘ord is déstributing tractors for war food insists that neither he nor distributors profit. Henry is setting a fine pace for our war profit gluttons. Carriers he draft has swept our young men into the army. men, a little too old for fighting, and boys are being n into the war industries. of Seattle quit other employment of 15, 16 and thereabouts | ‘or the shipyards and factories. |¢¢ more will go to the farms as soon as school [his demand for young men and boys threatens to serious inroads on the army of news-sellers. What of the newspapers? newspa) perform an ite and essential war work. They te public opinion in every war activity. can achieve its quota in any “drive” without a ¥ production and distribution. is: GIRLS! educational campaign in the newspapers. is a necessary link in the chain of news- The " And any girl can make good money by carrying papers It is honorable work, as well as profitable. Also health- | It teaches thrift and salesmanship. We have reports Portland and other cities where girls have newspaper that they are better solicitors, better collectors, more +a and more conscientious and more thoughtful Let us, then, have yeomanettes in newspaper service. We ask mothers of girls to call on the circulation man- of of The Star for information about opportunities for} ~making and service in newspaper-selling. Kent republicans not only want to make Miles zter vice president, but even call him a “Caesar modern politics.” with him or agin him. i tt Like Mothers In an eastern city they had just held a meeting at fee efforts were made to find the “worst” boy in that) * Miles won't know whether they're ity that he might be “transplanted” and reformed. They d the “best” boy. Finally the speaker asked each mother | ent to vote “yes” if she knew a boy she considered 90) , 1} eh d what was called the “worst” boy and here ends) story. On the next afternoon at a mothers’ club mee! ting a er told about this worst boy hunt and in the discus- which followed the talk veered around to good boys cent good. Twenty-one votes were cast and 19 voted “yes,” one “no,” and one was blank. Later questioning de- d the information that two mothers had daughters in their homes. Now isn’t that just like a mother of a boy, to hold im at least 90 per cent good? Sure it is! Kaiser Bill wants to exchange one spy for another. He’s about as reasonable as a second-hand furniture 's a Hot Place “We only want a place in the sun.” Chancellor Von ing has got around to this plaintive old gag once more. If ever a country were fully. in the sun, Germany is. a half-century she was in the shadow, secretly educat- inventing, organizing, plotting to perpetrate the foulest e upon humanity ever conceived. The full light of the is now upon her. The world sees her as the deadly y of human progress and happiness. needed to reveal her designs or her character. | ‘no longer hide and work in the dark. Not the slightest cloud! » €overs her pretensions of honor. TFegarded as spies thruout the world and there’s no nation,| No more light Her representatives are! ‘Mot even among those which she used as tools, that has any doubt as to the sincerity or value of her representations. it She’s in the sun, all right. And she’s blistering. Let’s not wait for “history to punish the boche:” Why not do it ourselves, and permit history to tell about ? Von Tirpitz, listen to this: launched in 54 days at Seattle. g the evidence seems A to S. S. West Cahos be one of the favorite She can} | Wash., 45 seconds in Florida. total eclipse was to last two minutes at Aberdeen, eclipes. The nearest approach to total eclipse, as seen from Seattle. was scheduled at 3:46 p. m. ALL AMERICA WATCHES ECLIPSE OF SUN TODAY ise DRAMA OF WAR! aT SE SPR INTO | IK ‘ontinued From Page One | " od. sor list of famous eclipses is ret oppo aite the list of famous battles Darkness of an eclipse in years past has #topped battles and turned defeat to victory—for the side tell, ing the story. ‘The Medes and Lydians called off a terrible fight, 585 B.C. In order to watch the eclipse, and the next |day they made peace, according to Herodotus. Recorded Long Ago ‘The first recorded eclipse is that Of 4,000 years ago, which is celebrat jent doggere! ¢ bodies of Ho and Hi ate tho sad was vie od because they could Ho and Hi were Ch omers who failed to peror of an z | Their unfortunate tr |mizes the sad fact tha | bee Historiar ally have prefe bloodshed quantitie The in most myt |To savages today, as to primit Nese of yore, an eclipse means either | hat his god in wroth with him, or| jelee that a dragon is eating up his| god. Savages scare off th ing beast with the and drums and hideous » so of 187 hin revolver at the sun, while he mumbled and ges tured in the greatest terror To Use Camera Even the unemotional men of sel- ence speak feelingly of the weird ef fect of an eclipse in the zone of to. tality, which extends Saturday thru a strip in Washington. Total solar ectipses have never been adequately described. Now as tronomers use a camera to eatch what the human eye cannot see. The photographs taken of today's eclipse will actually be the most marvelous moving picture ever staged in the solar system Congress has appropriated $2,500 to assist naval observers in taking motion pictures of this tremendous apectacle, The naval observatory party is working in Oregon. Charges American Represents Enemy Platinum Company WASHINGTON, June 8.—Charges that Charles L. Engelhard, platinum advisor to the war industries board is American representative of a Ger man firm that aims to control the world’s platinum supply, were made in the house today by Representative Henry T. Rainey, of Illinois, Englehard controls 80 per cent of this country’s platinum thru con trol of three firms, besides his own Rainey said The Jewelers’ vigilance committee Rainey attacked as “unpatriotic profiteers.” At Efulen, West Africa, is a na- tive drum, the sound of which can be heard 20 miles away ECLIPSES IN | | | | | | | SANITATION PASE REET 2S PAIN A BNI TTT TER | _THIS IS HOWIT HAPPENED | Some Things to Be} Watched as Hot Sea- {| son Comes { Aa the warm weather approaches 1t becomes necessary to exercine © xtraordinary | precautions for) jon of foods and to} protect them from contamina tion by dirt and > insect | Mille should be taken in as noon as delivered | It should be kept covered at all times, Do not keep it in the same compagtment with other foods Wash milk utensils as soon ae empty with scap and water ana finally scald with boiling water When washed keep utensils from | expomure to dust, dirt and in-| milk does not seem tory send « sample in a recently boiled to the board) of health a» soon as ponsible after) ing | there is a baby in the house and files have gained entrance keep child's erib covered with net n the | ting #0 the flies cannot get to its oor eyen | Do not let files get on the nip ples of sing bottles any | other utensile used in preparing the food for baby Don't buy your fooda at at mouth, ne or |that keep goods uncovered and | low files to collect Don't buy from baker's wagons! that do not keep their stock cov-| ered at al! times SOUR MILK CURE Mre. W. TK writes: “I have been! | told that drinking soured milk will Is help to cure colon infection. this true” The souring germs in milk are not very strong but will help you) some and will not cause harm. A woman named Minna Herford was charged at Bielefeld with tortur-| ling her Syearcld stepdaughter | ‘The child's body was literally one mass of livid bruises and open! | wounds, caused, according to the |two doctors who examined her, by | blows from a stick and lacerations | ‘The moon was scheduled to go between the sun and earth today, casting a black shadow at the rate of |Made by @ rasp half a mile a second acron# the United States from Washington to Florida. The shadow's width varied from | miles on the Pacific to 40 miles on the Atlantic coast While the path of total eclipse was narrow, all North America saw it as & partial ‘On one occasion the woman, after stripping the child naked and apply ling the file to her back and shoulders till all the skin was torn off, bound her hands and feet afl compelled her to remain in a kneeling position on the kitehen floor for five hours | until the police, who were called in| by neighbors, rescued her from the woman's clutches. BENEFIT DANCE The Choral society of the Bemis Broa’ Rag Co, will give a concert, | followed by dancing, Saturday, at the |Oda Fellows’ hall, Broadway and Rattlc between Modes and Lydians stopped by eclipse of May 28, || Pine, at £15 p.m 585 B.C. Eclipse of Aug. 3, 431 B. C., marked first year of Peloponnesian war. of 310 B.C. Alaric, the Visigeth, appeared probably eclipse of June 14, 410 A. D. j Eelipse occurred Feb. 24, 453 A. D., when Atilla, the Hun, was ravaging aly, In 733 A. D, “Acthelbald captured Somerton, and the sun was eclipsed, and all the sun's disc was like a black shield,” reports the (| AngioSaxon chronicle Olav, king of Norway, was killed at the battle of Stiklastad during the eelipse of Aug. 30, 1030, 5 And the famous batde of Crary was NOT fought during an eclipse, | Lads einen as Ay AR' TAR'SH ILE IN TIME'S WORTH | mous Kohinoor We radivh A WORD FROM JOSH WISE have There's many ® good carpenter an’ machinist suckin’ ¢' th’ last. mpt to raise shail WAR GARDENS? couldn't help pur ear bent is chatter by A coup of fellas about Their “war Home on the Other night “Well, it looks 1 Have a lot of Ught tonight To work on my war garden’ “You got a war So have I. I'v A vacant lot across from The house, and work on it All my spare time!” “How's your's coming “Great! I'm having a lot Of success with it so fart “Anything come up yet?" “Just beginning to sprout, And it looks like fine Results already.” “What have you got in Your war garden?” “Oh, some pansies, sweet Peas, nasturtiums, poppies, Tuberoses, asters, holly- Hocks, tiger lilies, ete., I think I'l) have the Prettiest war garden in The neighborhood when it's Out in full bloom!” eee . War dinpatches always seem fairly clear to us until we read the ex perts’ explanations of them, After which we make an observation and c le 38 degrees or In on in other word As to novelties C. J. B. saya he knows a stenog rapher who doesn't chew gum and powder her nose all day. He in the second man who has told us that. Either there are two much stenog raphers in Seattle or the two men know the ame one, We're inclined to believe the latter H. B. H. knows a man who bought “chance” on an automobile and d, “I might win it.” . n said Editor Starshells: I know a young lady, quite pretty, too, who had four invitations from soldiers to attend the circus Did she go? You. But not with the soldiers She gathered up six children whose parents can’t afford to spend money for amusement, and tog them. How's that for originality? Tommy 8. ee An Advertisement That Will Never Be Answered Wanted—A good, plain woman for general housework. Phone Main 6676.—-8t. Joseph (Mo.) News-Press. eee Married Ever busy Dan Cupid with his bow dart. This time he pierced the A. J. Fawcett manages the soda water section of a Cleveland depart ment store. A. Sinshack owns a saloon in Kulp mont, Pa And 8, Dauber is a dealer in color prints in New York, o- Bast Catherine st, and carried his bleeding arrow in triumph to Ser- geant Adélph G. Weyand, “Wa down south in the land of cotton.” Somerset (Pa.) Herald eee If the war board commandeers all the butter for the army, will it get We regret to report that our fa-your Nanny? } it Persians defeated near Cnidus immediately after eclipse of 394 B.C. ‘| Haynes Tyrant of Syracuse aided in war against Carthaginians by cclipse §} before Rome “in a great gloom,” |) Our Guess Is That They Are to Bo! and arrows ‘again struck true his| heart of Miss Emily Cook, daughter } of Mr. and Mrs, Charles Cook, ot | form a mnoke or There.” | The proceeds wit! |fund for the boys If you value repair it. Next theatre — Advertisement Great Bible Conference First Presbyterian Church Seventh and Spring your watch, let Liberty Rev. R. A. Torrey Rev. James. M. D., Rev. A. C. D. D., and Rev. W. Leon Tucker, D. D., are here, speaking afternoon and evening. Two great ad- dresses in the afternoon and two in the evening. Great Sermons Tomorrow by These Noted Men. COME TAILORING CO. Meadquarters for Suits, Coats and One-Piece Dresses 425 Union Street -—— —THR— BANK OF CALIFORNIA A NATIONAL BANK Member Federal Reserve Dank tal and Surplus $16,900,000.00 SEATTLE BRANGH Cor, 2nd Ave. and jn Bt. . Wore M Geo, T. 8. White, G. L. Wakeman, Asst. Manag: | = | | North 28047 UNCLE SAMMY SAMSO wt down the ptket Here comer old man Samnon, just tin Uned to call him Uncte fam, t him what you I He's got a punch in either fist that's fit to drive a mplke. Yea, it’s true he patronized a lady barber shop Where Delilah tried to scalp him, taking too much off the top. But after all, it happ what she really did to him Was to give him what you might call just a first class fighting trim, Fer hair ain't #tren'th never was, and ‘Lilah put bim wise, Fer since he's lost his wool it can’t be pulled across his eyes, you know they #aid that he was blind, ration proved him nothing of the kind, Temple of Autocracy next door, pillars are just rotten at the core, bears the n of Military Might rs label is Divine Imperial Fught, umy Samson pulls the pillars down, by thundert #o's he won't get ketched in under. Bpeakin’ of hin But this haircut Bo now he ees th And its two fmpow One of them pi And the other pi And when Uncle 8a He'll step a little Ub eyes ‘That's why Sammp Samson's trained and gettin’ set to strike; You used to call him Uncle fam, but call him what you Ika, He looks ike old man Bameon just 1918, 2 whittin’ down the pike, (Copyright, B.A) He Is in Charge of Pychiatry Section “Can I stand the gaff of the trenches or the strain of aviation?” That is the ques tion coming most often to Colonel Pearce Bailey of the Medical Corpa, U. 8S. Army from recruits, If the colon anawers “No* the would-be sob dier or @ goes back } civilian Ufe andy the army is saved the time and trow ble experimenting with a misfit, This makes for increased eff Editor's Mail SOLDIERS CAN'T BENEFIT Editor The Star: If the letter written by “A Brother” is true, and after my own investigation of one boat's schedules and rates, it would seem to b seems that it is time some re taken by the gov-| ernment or some organization to see) |f that these boats, supposed to fur-| nish free transportation to soldiers at sound forts, arrange their schedules #0 the soldiers can benefit by it. } It does not take much of a mathe clan to figure how much a soldier has to entertain himself or friend after he ha» paid a boat fare of $3.25) hotel bills and meals. We all know about what @ private re ceives after his insurance and allot mitt om Saistiives ta regard to tate| S0ne?: saves Eves, and Burrieiae | nation along to final victory. poe be glad to be correctly In| “Colonel Bailey is in charge of the raed | psychiatry section of the Medleal | Corps | i Peish, eee ers Soha MUNY CLEARANCE a Clearance for the municipal raik frage debate in the Pressian lower | eye aay ee op ene house, Count Spee declared “The| yriday session of the board of damned peace resolution is dead.”| works. Assistant Corporation The president of the body censur-| ye Moler advised againat ed his language a “an insult to) clearances that might cause & part of the reichstag.” | suits. & “A Brother” please phone MRS. M. R. GERNAEY. AMSTED HE owner of a 200-year-old house in New Jersey found under the hearth of the fireplace a box of gold and silver coins valued at $15,000. But 99,999,999 persons in this country never will have, nor find, any such amount. 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