The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 29, 1918, Page 1

warmer; Nt regs ~ PRIC “ONE ¢ (Copyri ght te Perhaps the most mis-understood custom in the army is the salute Most people not acquainted with soldier life, who have young friends or relatives in this great new army of ours, and who come to visit them, do not understand why it is necessary for their boys to salute when they meet an afficer. The American military salute a vital part of the American army discipline, and it is as necessary for a soldier to learn how to salute correctly, and when and where to give the salute, as it is for him to learn how Federal Trade cavniesion to handle his rifle ‘ Denounced Meat Packers The military salute is one of the strong, sturdy, up-standing nerican §teel Men, Flour Millers soldier, and when he can look his officer in the eye, salute smartly with a snap, he will receive in return a salute which is the COAL MEN ALSO SCORED soldier sign that both officer and man be- long to the great brotherhood of fighting) "vy ( ited Press Leaned Wire Direct men, and as such, respect and like each to The Star other. WASHINGTON, June 29.— hint Sine makes War profiteering existe—some of plain to see, and watched it due to inordinate greed, some and careless imitation of the salute that to “barefaced fraud,” cen men as the h thetr to advantages taken of war noticed that this nod or wave of tt 1 federal trade commission so re ported to the senate today, show HERE THEY ARE aie WINNERS OF Board Says" GIRLS’ VICTORY CARNIVAL CONTEST! | U.S. Publie ; Is Muleted British, French, Americans and Italians Win Success in Different Actions AUSTRIAN LOSS 270,000 igns of | Py United Preas Leased Wire "Arect | to The Star | WASHINGTON, June 29. —Austrian losses in the bat- tle of the Piave are estimated at 270,000 by the Italian su- preme command, Rome cables need for salute is very clumny « giver hats to eac er ina © mi you have the * and some toue LONDON, done French, American and Italian troops struck the Germans for successes at various sectors of A nod or a wave 79. —British, Are the three sentiments expressed by the enlisted i man's salute to the offi- cer, which comes down to us from ancient Weather Forecast: Tonight and Sunday, tatr; eee ne Shy gentle winds, montly westerly. Ou CSy a en THE GREATEST DAILY CIRCULATION OF ANY PAPER IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST first article vrit- - ten for The VOLUME UNITED PIES AssoctATIONS SEATTLE, WASH., SATURDAY, JUNE 29, 1918. Star. tke ae tipping hat toa lady. BY MAJ. GEN. HUGH L. SCOTT Former Chief of Staff of the United ates Army, Now | Commander of Camp Dix, New Jersey, Who Is Now ]} Writing for The Star and the Newspaper Enterprise Association. First National Army vision Takes Over Sector” on U. S. Battle Front: MISSOURIANS IN LIN By United Press Leased Wire D to The Btar WASHINGTON, June) —The first American tro landed in Italy yesterd Chief of Staff Mare nounced today. aa They’ are mainly sanital forces and have been on #l high seas for some time. This) outfit is distinct from doubt hand 1 « wimy salute, which only which the imitation of the real military & soldier can give. ing among other astounding fig All armies have their sy irie-tut tier G2 Ge We five posely made difficult to do. cadvice. cénghh-.0 $100,000.00 profit in the war years 1915-17, 1 salute so that and it is pur can only be The upper, lefthand, photograph, shows Miss Helen Hagenburg, most | beautiful red-head. To the right is Miss Barbara Potter, the winning blonde. Below is ve bens Sawyer, the brunette winner. the western front yesterday. Of- ficial statements from allied headquarters relate quick blows against the enemy, Gen. Pershing send. The 35th division—Missourt tional guardsmen—is one of whose training under the has finished and is now being: by Pershing. It is under the 6 mand of Maj. Gen, M. ie At the same time Gen noun t the first national division—t th, raised in York—to take over a sector on West front, had done so this under command of Gen. Bvan M Johnson . Five American divisions, been brigaded with the been turned back to Pershing. — SAYS GERMANS. AMSTERDAM, June 29. — many is about to strike anode prise blow at the allies, acco Gen. Liebert, who conamaatl Germans at Lodz, in the Rt campaign. In the same interview the Taglische Rundschau, Liebert ferred to the Austrian offensive aa “painful failure.” HUNS PREPARE RUSSIAN BLO ZURICH, June 29.—German papers declare the governm preparing for military in in Russia, “to restore order.” Russian maximalists will assist, they? claim HUNDREDS OF °— RUSS STARVING. PARIS, June 29.—A dispatch te the Matin from Helsingfors today de= clared the Russian situation as des- perate. Red Guards are patroling” Petrograd at night, firing on pedes- trians. Hundred are dying of hun- ger every day 33 HUN PLANES ARE SHOT DOWN LONDON, June 29.—Thirty.thiee — German and 16 British planes were lost in air fighting Thursday and Friday, the British air ministry ane nounced today. More than’ 24 tons of bombs were dropped on we. a positions. “Allied airmen bombed railway HAMILTON RUN centers and troop concentrations and brought down three enemy planea,”|. Three candidates are out for coum ra a |ty commissioner in the south @ige the repart om |trict. All of them have been in the |running before. They are the pres [ipacen Jent county commissioner, Lou G : \ Fire Scenes at Smith; the former commissioner, ML. But has all this helped Uncle Sam? |) Cle Elum Will | an Isn’t it awful to think that all this ’ Be in Weekly } "7." past’ contests, losing ain sacrifice only made the pockets of [[} tre surtiverty Weekly, com: { ton and. Hamilton, made antounees Armour & Co., and Swift & Co., the {mencing Sunday at the Liberty } steel trust, and the coal hogs bulge | \ { surprising him for gains in ground and the capture of prisoners. As a resu 500 prisoners and sent The | learned by constant practice When, therefore, a soldier bas learned the of which $121,000,000 represented an excess over prewar profits. salute correctly, and executes it smartly, any military man can tell from what army he © whether he ts of the French army, or The packers particularly came in tuadA Briss, or the Weiglan,. or the American for heavy scoring, but other It is the mark of bis country's army danc'tanaelitneriiing da baske industries were shown to be realizing ast sums above mistaken for er peace time profits. “However delicate a» definition is framed for ‘profiteering,’ said the report, “these packers have preyed upon the people uncon. scionably.” The report, intended as an exhibit) whereon the senate could base new! legislation, showed among other net, Chaat couegl i, fixation of Sn eae cekiries tad bud an evil tendency Mow They Soaked Us Armour, Swift, Morris ahh Sot © etehy were designated as the leaders meat. profits; the Wilson pe che * profits were large, but not compar * & @& & BEAUTIES PICKED | BY BLUEJACKETS Several girle from the MacDouga Southwick store were entered in the contest, but it remained for Helen Hagenburg to capture the honors in| the redhead division. She will play Venus” in the pageant Gertrude Sawyer, of 1207 West Boston at. is the winner of the bru-| /Nette-eetion,~ She will take the party Cleopatr The wa also ladies in waiting “queens Ruth Miller and Margaret Clericus | were ‘chosen among the auburn-hair ed beauties; Martha Dahlstrom and Constance Hewitt among the biondes and Frances Gotterdam and Dolly Bergen among the brunettes. They will accompany the three! “queens” wherever they go ani will be the guests of the Chamber of Commerce at a luncheon on Friday July 42 of the operations, some been counted » the rear Germans from positions southwest of Rheims The Americans made a successful raid northwest of Montdidier, captur ing 40 prisoners Attempts of the Germans to re gain lost territory failed completely The British and French forces, as A result, today held more advan: tageous positions in Flanders and | the Champagne region The British attacked east of Nieppe forest, and advanced their lines an average depth of a mile on @ front of three and a half miles. They attained all their objectives, in cluding the villages of L’Epinette. Verterue and La Reeque They also cut up two German di visions. Field Marshal Haig, in his |night report, said more than 300 prisoners and 22 machine guns were captured. Australians Attack Simultaneously, Australian troops attacked west of Merry, a mile north of Vieux Berquin, capturing several enemy posts and taking 46 prisoners and six machine guns While these operations were under way, the French advanced on a front f riy four and a half miles west of Soissons, between Ambleny and NEAR BELGIUM 2-022: sus war office an. nounced, and advanced a maximum depth of a mile and a quarter. British and Hun Warships Stage Harmless Clash threw The soldier can never be passing a friend, servant ployer Now, like many salute comes to us from the past how many years old one cannot say, but dates from the time when our ancestors held slaves, and the difference between ‘ was sharply drawn could not own property, he could » and he could testify in a court of WF take an oath. He was frequently branded &@ hot iron, in the palm. of his right hand, hiv mark or sign, and any person so branded Of those who could not take an oath time, it became the custom for every man J AM oath, to raive the right hand, and “clean palm of the free man, who, because was — man, and not branded, could be a “one ie San. <= srs oman sideband “Eh banry nd those of the remainder of the “the salute, and there are several others, all of them /; ce, Op Of meaning. One of the most striking of these cde ts of lg o tor| is drawn from the days when knights were casita nic Sof taxa! when life was more warlike, and all men wore ital and jus) and 26 swords and daggers. The dagger was worn in the pany aepral and garpiusl hanging from the right hip. and was used as in close fighting. When « knight or sol met his friends, he held up his bare right hand show there was no dagger in it. that he loved and tusted his friends, and needed no weapon when he was with them. So the raising of his bare right hand showed FRIENDSHIP And there ia yet a third ,old-world custom that Gomes down to us from the past. and which has meaning in the present. It ix drawn from the dayn When the knight wore a steel helmet, which he raised when in the presence of ladies, or his elders, or | superiors, to show that he needed no protection. and id that he came bareheaded in token of bis regard and 4 pempect for them. So the raising of hand to his to remove it, signified COURTESY Here, then, are three about the military salute, which give three very good reasons for such } @custom. The first story tel that the } signifies dignity and freedom, the second tells o friendship and trust, and the third of the and respect that are shown in the sal Now, these three things—dignity. fr ship and courtesy—teally underiie any honest. true life, and are most necessary rules to have in the army—for if sever there were a calling that was dignified and ) free, it is the calling of a soldier. And if that is “rue of dignity, it is true of friendship, and of No civilian salutes a» ‘There is dignity in the soldier or a Ris Palm the old other customs of the army, Tt is @ very Here are the girls who w “Cleopatra” in the big pageant at the From several hundred entries these girls were chosen by a committee of mall ora at the Naval Training camp as mort-venutituly por tray Venus,” and Peace Seattle Girls’ Victory carnival not bearing, face and figure were tak into consideration Rarbara Potter, selected ow the prettiest blonde, won third place in the Universal Film beauty contest several years ago when first prize was captured by Gloria Fonda, also | a Seattle girl, Miss Potter liven at 1202 Ninth ave. W., and is employed at the B. F. Goodrich Rubber com pany office. Surrounded by and marines, she will be one of the central figures, portraying “Peace In the big pageant Introduces a Bill to Curb the Rent Hog (Special to The Star) WASHINGTON, June 29.—A na tional law to take illegitimate rent profits by taxation in any part of the country where they are found, has been introduced in congress by Rep. resentative Kobert M. Crosser of Ohio. The bill as drawn assumes that the landlord should be satisfied with an increase of 10 per cent over rents re ceived by him during the prewar period, to cover increased cost of maintenance, and anything above this to be taken over as a tax to help win the war. Portland News Man to Train for War PORTLAND, June 29.—Ernest W Jorgenson, managing editor of The Portland News, received notice to day to report for service in the na tional army July 22. He will en. train for Camp Lewis Altho Jorgenson has two depend ents, a wife and child, he did not ask deferred classification selected two for each of the ors EX-CZAR GZAR DIES FROM BAYONET per cent on the $3,000,000 capital Stabbed by Red Guard as soldiers, wiilore stock outstanding. In the cases of the other four companies the earned rate te from 27 to 47 per cent No lees astonishing are the reveta fning some steel mills in those which start with furnaces—and who recently com-|} plained that government prices!) were too low for them. It was found that in one fnatanoe, 219.67 | ge_ per cent profit had been made, while many others averaged over 100 per cent. In the period prior to! the government's price normal profit was made Corpor - He Protests Seizure tions cor Class “Dispatch From Jos. Shaplen By United Presa Leased Wire Direct to The Star - om HUNS FAIL TO REGAIN GROUND 29 STOCKHOLM, Jane 29.—The me German embassy at Moscow con- firms the murder of Nicholas Romanoff, former czar, asecord- ing to a dispatch received here The Nasse-Slovo declares that per r in Moscow from Ekat that when the Czoc Jon the la » the form! mansion and ordered family to prepare to leave on train route tedly on r cent The for LONDON Four Br German de June tish stories arrivin lentroye yration stroyer PARIS, June German at federal taxe tempts positions taken the to recapture French south of the me and $244,478 one-tenth ‘ ong range battle Re ’ em the 1 Guards wer miralty announced today by Aisne dividend ed with $46 copper industry doubled its = average Twenty-one companies made in 1917 which ranged from 1 cent on their investment e Without profit was “4 Dagger « ared with 11.7 pe were repulsed after a stubbora bat tie the war office announced today. Southwest of Rheims, there was also sharp fighting. Italians hurled the Germans from advanced post- tions temporarily occupied, it was reported Northwest of Montdidier, an Amer jean raid, in which 40 prisoners, in cluding ne officer, were taken, was announced South of the Aisne, attempted to eject the French from positions taken yesterday," the com munique said, “Several battalions attacked between the Fosses-En-Das and Cutry ravine. They were re pulsed and the French front was in- tegrally maintained ARTILLERY FIGHTING BRISK ON ITALY LINE ROME, June 29.—Lively artillery fighting in the mountain region, and considerable aerial activity were re. ported by the Italian war office to: day rial damage resulted to either force. “Four of our destroyers, while pa trolling the Belgian coast Thursday de for and surplus as ¥* 0,407 In 1914 more thar to the station, protested against unknown place, Red Guard escort holas f o an the rnings evening, sighted eight enemy stroyers, "We engaged them at long range. After an action lasting a quarter of an hour, three additional ae str rs joined in the fight “Ww fell back to our ® forces. The enemy did not and the action was broken off ships were not damaged GERMANS BOMBARDING NEW BRITISH FRONT WITH THE BRITISH ARMIES IN FRANCE, June The German army put down a barrage on the new Rritish positions east of Nieppe for Jorgenson worked up from office ext 10:20 last night un boy of The News to his present po til ing, but up to 7 sition in els ears a was no infantry attack profits ‘rar whereupor the statement raid baye Hand Up per and over ser mpress her the soldier straight salutes not f r ce nem, rm pose me revitch was taken to a place. Countess Duke M Buti pen eparate were | chae nknown upporting follow Our officer r he meets, from leutenant to the general in command ght and privilege to be saluted himself of his own rights and ste deal of human nature salute. Some men salute officers in a snappier way than they salute others. That means that they feel more friendship for the officer whom they smartly. That is onl bec is the sign of friendshir It he tries to salute not rank he ks in the authority of commander in mi calute, in saluting his : wife of Grand the ¢ or inferior This dignity demands ® return of his salute by ever: the last joined It is t in return, and he rot Privileges when he f. Now, there is a ¢ superior rmans imprisoned in ual lumber profite r y Moncow THREE BURN TO DEATH IN SIOUX CITY FIRE SIOUX CITY, Ia At least three persons were burned to death and nine injured a fire which broke out in the business sec tion of Sioux City Re and a entombed basement of (Continued on page 4) Armour Pooh-Poohs Profiteer Charges CHICAGO. 29 “These charges, like nes from thin ed to impress J. Ogden Ar » soldier's r in the June 29 some June salute Commission, a the Aline r ' aid today erring to accusa of profiteering in the federal to be report. . ie this afternoon on the natural suse the salute lasting from 30 th tween are belev is mor should not #0, and sign of friendship and as the rep president of the [ lef of the army, receives power at the ds of the American people, 80 the soldier in iting an. officer, SALUTES the great American nation, @ pert Military courtesy is no different courtesy. What meet What the cer rites omen insion drug m. there all entative of the ted States, the who his holds, as a arm, between REALLY of which he is from civilian The same rules govern both. would you think of a who would lady, and would not take off hat? would you think a young who would k his seat, when an old stood before him? The practice men have ing their seats in street cars trains to women, old people, and children, is nothing more than the kindly feeling and respect that men show to those who are older, or weaker, or specially entitled courtesy d the sa- lute is the military form of this same courtesy and respect. | The man who can render the military ute, and remember what it really the highest man gentlemar YTS AeKT MAJOR GENERAL, U. 8. ARMY (Other articles by General Scott will be pub- lished at frequent intervals.) The U. S. federal trade commission today lays bare the outrageous conduct of the Hun profiteers of America—the unscrupulous meat packers, the mill- ers, the coal barons, and others. These are the breed that do far more injury to the United States than whole regiments of German soldier: The American public is a patient one. It has stinted itself in food. It has stinted itself in clothes. It has saved. It has eaten smaller portions and paid enormously larger and larger prices. a his man man oc of giv 1,100 Washington Boys Reach Italy Eleven hundred boys of J tions 70 and 71 of the U. 8. ameg. }|) bulance corps, most of them from” the University of Washington, are trudging thru Ttaly on { their way to the Italian front, They will march thru seven cities on their way with a full band at their head Announcement of their landing: was cabled Saturday to the Wash- ington Parents’ association in Se attle from the front. son and Hamilton made announce. theat shows fire-swept Cle El fatter and fatter? Mihi’ tote um. Men at the noncom training el as camp at the University in drills, bayonet practice and trench war “Inordinate greed,” is the charge peatil Gite’ Viewory, carctvel against them. Fake accounting to martin feat: tor tte ete swindle the government, is another. Capel nap ES OVEN THIS IS WAR TIME! These profiteers, sucking at the life blood of this nation, are its enemies. PRISON IS TOO GOOD FOR THEM. m as he in ADVANCE CROWDER TO LIEUTENANT GENERAL } WASHINGTON, Jun The senate today voted to confer the title of lieutenant general on Provost Mar- | shal General Crowder tn recognition of “distinguished service in connec on with the draft act” type o' he world American nay