The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 3, 1918, Page 6

= es it allan lara eA RMS [THE SEATTLE STAR] 1307 Seventh Ave. Near Union St. t OF SCRIPTS NORTHWEST LEAGUE OF NeEWsrarEns Teloaraph News Service of the United Press Asseciation Entered at Seattia. Wash, Postoffice as Second-Clase Matter “| RBy mail out of city, #0e per month; 3 month, $1.15; Fr, $4.00, By carrier, elty, 80e a mont @ months § = = Diiiditlinaes — Datty by ‘Phe st rae! ee ae Col. Hawthorne and Leg The controversy between Col. J. M, Hawthorne, chair ‘of Local Board No, 9, and the legal advisors is of more a passing interest to the public. Tt must be borne in mind that the cause for the re- ification order of Provost Marshal Crowder lies, not in_, , but somewhere in the vicinity of New York. There, appears, the local boards failed to furnish the quotas of expected of them. In Seattle and in the state of Wash- ton, the quotas were always filled promptly. The gov- ment of the United States was never disappointed here. always got the men both in the volunteer branches and) ‘the selective service camps. In the East, this has not een always true. Charges were spread that local boards in East were influenced in various ways to exempt from those who should have been in it. Accordingly, the ral lvisory boards were named to make recommenda- | to the local boards. These legal advisors, however, were meant to recom- for service those who clearly belonged in Class 1 and in other divisions. They were not meant to de all considerations and arbitrarily place men in 1 who do not belong there. The time has not yet when the country demands such sacrifice. When that will arrive, there is no doubt but that men of families even cripples will be glad to give their services to At present, according to the provost marshal, must be considered “with justice and sympathy.” whose family is dependent upon him, if he is engaged tial industry, does not belong in Class 1. This was the A before the legal advisors were appointed, and it is . now. The reclassification should go only to correct ors of the local boards and not to make arbitrary changes. » is the view of the local boards of King county, nd those familiar with their conscientious work know st their views are prompted by a keen desire to give! ‘country the best kind of service and to build up an iy whose morale will not be impaired in any way by any lustice done to individuals. Should any other view be taken, it would place a greater upon Seattle and Washington than upon the East- stat We would be placing men in Class 1 here that not be placed in that division in the East. ‘Let us be fair to Uncle Sam and just to Seattle and Judging from the local arrest, we need food ships not any food Ferry. ° Big Fight me V. Debs, one of the best known of new world still opposes civilization’s great war against rism and still bases his opposition, according to re- of his speech to Ohio socialists, upon the fact that are autocrats and profiteers in this country and be- there is in the hearts of some Americans, British and a “desire for plunder.” | wre have been days when this newspaper has heart- nmended reforms advocated by this same Debs. We nm glad to help him turn the spotlight of publicity) Picise infested by profiteering privilege in this coun-) This country had no such titanic struggle of life and as this war upon its hands then. We had plenty of le to swat grafters and discuss progressive measures. Debs and his kind are still keeping their eyes so ly upon the profiteer, the reactionary and the captain, ' privil at home that they cannot see the horrible fire) over from the land of the world’s most rapacious) ers, the most stand-pat of reactionaries and the dy captain of privilege, Germany's autocracy. | m Debs says that the “purpose of the allies is the} as the purpose of the central powers—plunder,” Debs’ ts facts! Only a liar or a fool could believe that) resisted Austria for plunder; that Belgium resisted invaders for plunder; that Britain sacrificed the of her citizenry when Belgium was ravaged—for sr; that France has bled for nearly four years—for ww; that the United States, forced into the war by in murder and piracy upon the high seas, by German and“plots on our own soil, by German slaying of ean citizens, went into the war for plunder. Yes, there are profiteers in this country. There are who would plunder. There are men who would rob} There are men who would steal and murder. are men who prey upon the weaker. There are who wax fat upon special privilege. There are auto- ts among us. _ There are profiteers, autocrats and special privilege in the ranks of the socialist party, probably fewer than in other political parties because it is a small profit 0 iin party. They should be fought. They should be torn up by root and cast out. All right thinking persons agree that. But at this particular time the house of civilization is Flames are leaping high and higher. The whole of liberty and democracy is threatened. There is). thing in all the world so important as this fire raging rd from the Rhine. Besides that fire all petty bbles over reactionary politics, petty profiteering and Wall Street bankers pale into insignwicance. _ After we have beaten the HUN we easily enough can take care of the profiteer and the home grown variety of pair But if the HUN beats us we can do nothing— submit to the inordinate greed of the Berlin brand of _ profiteers and the savage brutality of the Potsdam autocrat. | We wish that letters from soldier sons to their mothers might all be mailed in red, blue and white en- velopes and given the right of way over other mail, How about it, Postmaster General Burleson. | Instead of forcibly feeding it to the world, Germany will have to swallow that kultur herself. And on an empty stomach at that. We can’t win the war waiting for Austria to lick herself with a revolution.. What she needs most is a thoro licking by democracy. On with the war! “Work or fight” must give an awful pain to some of the ornamental alleged he-figures at the fashionable seaside resorts. | July Fourth might truly have been a noiseless day but someone had to go and ring in speeches for the day. Reports say a 320-pound German is starving in Berlin. How can any German weigh 320 pounds in 1918? Many a slacker has this alibi: “It takes brains to | be a fighting man.” | Save or Serve is a fine slogan, but a better one is: Save AND Serve. | Have you given to the tobacco fund? Do your part. tances, ET igeet caainct amnennd | ocean going ee RRIF BA A A tk as nin ees STAR--WEDNESDAY, JULY 3, 1918. PAGE 6 eR TAKIN’ TOD TO THE SHOW As Told by His Grandpa. I *< T be fine for US to rfect faith that 1 bullets had helped took show 4 to the vaudeville) ‘Twould Havin’ pe try, from it eateh that 1 ndma a » my chum, wun, grandson, I guess you know tried hum and and true, fun, trifle rifle th the 4 give a of the bullets minsod my tee Grandma she'd = buy—a ath. (Rest little kid you ever knew!) purchase And grandma maid that she'd go, naid, Tod atuek out Like a And everythin’ those stage dt That absurd, admirin’ kid Would turn and say (behind bh hat) 4 k You a And rh sat there with eyes wre two orknobs, just about, Just then « n’ in f 6 a-pranc nike He lumbine had on } Harlequin kered skin he wore just f alwa m the store flirt » Some plug hat was something of a rt vad, had on a kick it didn't shed the ff andpa! say! ak that n om #0 t » what And Live Irfore leave “Tod's that amed When se His hero—and he's pl as smebody's got to « tr learned to and f Thinks there's nothin’ I can't ¢ he danced, wufferin Sail an airship, stow Or set a with tacks and glue So, when a boundin’ Turned ten head-aprin the mat Tod that? spin kinds there 1 pore the knew a acrobat She ul an wriggle could She wiggle! down fat, mat the hat mak heracif « nded t afterno ft r partner's head, kerapat After every talk Kept her off t n the alr Tod would say Caught the hat and HELD it there! 111, all round the place And then, loud enough, and clear rolka w » that 4 hear t there and enjoyed bintt Everytime it hit. She'd laugh You Fit to sptit her head in half Vhen the ‘Great Magician’ caught ght Jota In his teeth, Tod thou TRENCH THOUGHTS Split ‘ back ar od run a or tune Kin you do f the b out bh k waltin’ for it ra'm ha the tthe Tod irandMAK! that? say! n do eee kin vaudeville ab you ~." TrandMAt a another When it's morning 1 the sun is breaking thru And the grass begins to glisten with the good old home-town dew I look across the prospect, and it makes me kind of blue When it's morning in the trenches, love, my thoug and the air ia full of at mask, as my throat fs dry and hot I've got to see it thru my thoughts go back to you When theaun is in the heavens And it's hard to don a ga I've got to grin and bear To make the burden lighter, love When the sun has passed the trenches, and the battle goes ahead And the silver moon in shining on the ever allent dead, I'm feeling kind of lonesome-like, I know you're lonesome. te When the sun has passed the trenches, love, my thoughts go back to you When the battles all are over, and the country full of song, And the shelling has lost motion, and the kainer lost his notion T'll come nailing o'er the ocean, love, Home to you, Written by “Rex,” a regular, on duty in the trenches in France, and mailed to a friend here. ‘POINTED PARAGRAPHS | The Teuton birth-rate ts falling off so rapidly that maybe the—as it were—espectable Germans at home are ashamed to face posterity —New York Morning Telegraph. If King George cries out to “kill the umpire” at the Fourth of duly baseball game in London, the Americanization of England may be said to have assumed the proportions of a drive-—New York World. Creel has denied he is a socialist, but that isn’t what was worrying the police —Pittsburg Gazette Times. First Gen. Foch took over the French army, then the British, then the American, then the Italia Now he's getting ready to annex the German. —New York Pvening Post I'd hate to be a Russian And with the Russians stand A Prussian pistol at my head, And a treaty in my hand. —Brooklyn Eagle /UNIQUE DEVICE STOPS | | HOLE IN SINKING SHIP; | | extras \ ON DEC \- — COS HOLE MADE. . ee BY TORPEDO = y, 7 OVER HOU) BY CURRED ENTERING HULL. The “Sinking Ship Saver" CHATTANOOGA, Tenn July C. Stewart Henaslee of this city invented and patented a “sink ing ship saver” which w make yessels practically un sinkafile if it does what he claims for! and How it Works, This pull on the which notifies the opening haa then lower causes A chain sailors that the located. The 2 chain of the buckets to the last of which in attached the has been ch bucket is forced and the last one, the dixe, stops in the hole and the effectually seals the opening The pressure of the water against the hull keeps the dise in place and permits the vessel to reach port. Dise Protects Ship The inner, or contact side of the ateel disc is ered with a thick layer of compressible material which is preswed into and over any uneven spots on the hull, The other aide immensely | is red with a rubberized canvas but flexible size th al flexible clamps it to the self to the surface, Hach vexsel 4 All sizes of the use thru Tests made with models have pro. attached: 45 ed good results, and Mr. Henslee ived the endorsement of Al BE. Glascock, an expert on specifications and claims of mechan ical marine devices, of Washington for his invention ‘The device consists of a series of cone-shaped buckets made of rubber ized canvas, placed along the deck of the vessel, At the end of each string of buckets is a disc made of super imposed steel plates, strong in the center, of large around the edges poy Bucket Locates Hole in When a ship is torpedoed lower one of the bucket the hole in the It pulled thru the water alongside the ship until It reaches a point opposite th opening, when the force of the eur rent flowing into the ship's pulls the bucket thru the hole. hole. dise the circumference in and when sailors hull it adjusts it to find wide is upponed to « disex on. ¢ zed hole over various two or more and lines can be applied in hull| closing oblong or long, narrow open jing. the| The edge of this cover. | [moet tne IRISHMAN REPLIES Editor The Star: In ‘American Citizen answer to dated June 1 Johnny Hull). haw will aay that (Mra she proves herself to be certain limit Unele Irish whould do, It doesn't uit her to see the Trish liv in tuxur whe #tates it, but (poor Britisher), when he lives in gone the telling what the sam ing the luxury Sho mays the Irish a Nat heart with that her rutch to lean on, aa she thinks there at will be Jeant about «and nasty wed a place it is all right Germany—well in in a number of people t lieve hy and, » may th her, I think r insultt etter whould not be n your paper An Il myself have four sons now in France, and { an proud of it, and I doubt if she has any of her kith kin over there here, doing much. She in worrted becaw husband in going to be called on, and that itself shown her patric AN IRISHMAN AND AN CAN CITIZEN alll or oa her “mo AMIRI t TO LANDLOKD Lam replying to one who nigns t June ANSW Faditor The Star statements made by himself "R. J 6 regarding nt in your insue the landlords es a br Nords in whieh he out an to what 4 with in the way of operating « have to expenne He ex lowering of r tends that I suggested the ata to the 1914 basis, whieh that would have to go out of business ‘There was no suggestion made, but to the effect that a » pasmed in Great Britain, re 1914 bem sald would mean he a wate law had rente to the being in effect today n letter of June 14 Undoubtedly, landlords, like the are entitied to a fair re but the their investments, Agitation against them is ceutrulized on those who have failed to stop a fair profit and have gone beyond the lines of reason. Ana single item, many of us have good reason to know that rent In the nd if "KE. J.* would come and show us proof whereby a n allowing in cherging apartment with h that was § be greats present chenette and ba many of us would n lightened aa to the enormous over head and the amount of “coal and mine” that many of our char r must also be considered by J.” that there are many peop not benefited in w rate with the have m inerea which makes bear and are entirely out of a even considering the up arder to proportion ward trend of operation He also suggenty that the com modities of life be forced down conjunction with rents, That also in & task for the government and a | huge one, but the sooner action in | taken to tax all profiteers in a way | befitting the occasion, Just that soon | will we feel that they alxo are doing their bit towards the lightening of the enormous financial burden which has.to be carried to see this war to a finish At present, the main caune of agi tation Is focused on high rents, and when that is remedied and Justice done to all concerned, it will be great relief to those who sweltered in the heat given off last winter by 26 coal If the cost of coal is one of the main reasons for added overhead, why is it that rents have had a tendency ‘to go up with the war sea won instead of decreasing when very ute Your correspondent also seeras to the role of a martyr during ”) years preceding 1917, But who, in countioss num let alone oal in used? assume the lean ( what of tho bers, had not erm plus 3 per cent A he and food are both neces and related to each other in way consistent with modern life Shelter and food are th? basic elements that go to the making of the morale of any Ax for prices, and a today, our profiteers « y high conjun ust profit yment, sary every conditions are an send prices Weir own discretion and n with others reay while working nerally not in a position to ¢ mand wages to counterbalance the led cost of i is hardly lik inlate people out of yere are no grounds The “square anted from the viewpoint but when it is too one xided and beyond of reason it most assuredly is time for the gov ernment to take @ hand in the mat ustments towards kyrocket prices may law of gravita a little bit closer to WM. SHEARER people ar deal” is all that & of the rente ter the be made to obey th tion and come Mother Fart SELL, SHORT WEIC Editor The 8 y the 5 per that the Commercial Club is ¢ ing to put on a campaign to induce people to shop earl that, if you want the women to shop early at the pro vision stores, meat markets, and the produce stands, it will be to fix the selling price. For it is well known that most women wait until late in the afternoon, or eve ing, as the price is often cut down ax much er ,cent. Even priced in the m@ning at 35 cents h old later in the day for 30 cents, and many other things Why can't th ach morning and hold the MI day? light-weight the meat, and butcher will say, "90 cents, mad and instead of five pounds (at 18 ents), it will weigh only four and a iT I want to say meat me prices be rhey half pounds or four and three fourths | pounds when you take it home. | I claim the salesman who fails to |tell the lady the correct weight open to suspicion, Every gives short weight should Ic cense I am sure early shopping would a great saving to many people in but it would not save money woman who buys for the AN OBSERVER time to the kitchen PRODUCT Kiditor T four decis of the United LIVES five to supreme in the ve of the court vehild Dagen reported), like the fails to State, (Hammer yet officially in that, decision, it on hard, regrettable, Scott no’ | Dred ents, Profiteers, y that Uncle Sam | necessary | higher conscience of the] prise, cd “Putting the Grin Into the Fight” ree ar metas I pone TON, ior ur ween. An Employe of Navy Department, Upon Arising—Shux, 1 Might as Well Left ‘Em On. Th’ Only Difference Is th’ Collar something. and when interstate commerce is the matter to be reg- ulated, I can not doubt that the regulation may prohibit any part of much commerce that congress ¢ noes fit to forbid” The dissent shipment of @ lottery | 114, observes that if interstate transportation of liquor is forbid- den it ought also to be admiasible ng liquor t smething prosecution that ruined pub T the opinion should American citizen The public polley of the United States ts shaped with a view to the benefit of the nation as a whole If, as bas been the case within the memory of men still living, & state should take a different view of the propriety of sustaing ing @ lottery from that which gen- erally prevails, that the fact would require a dif ferent decision from that reached in Champion va Ames (the lottery case). Yet im that case, it could be said, with quite as much force as in thin, that congress was at- tempting to intermeddie with the state's domestic affairs The na- tional welfare, as understood by congress, may require a different ttitude within its sphere from hat of some king state” CLAYPOOL. mmenting on the de- of the old Cen anya in support majority decision pe In ¢ cision, the editor tral Law Journal. of the “It is easy to wee that the pur- pose of the tleket. or of decayed food, or of a woman for eon of purp jon, Intox prevent shipment but a step tn the “product cent ther pure policy. It te hard shipment of go manufactured nh a way not violative of local law and not forbidden to be sold in any state to which they are Gentined, could be supposed to have any ultimate evil effect, even were local law, either at the place manufacture or the piace of di tination, to attempt regulation. This regulation might, at least in the latter place, run counter to lawful rights of shippers under the commerce clause, It would be deemed a direct burden on in teratate commerce.” dangerously near “rights of property” be superior to the “rights of man.” The principle is out of date. Justice Holmes, writing the dissent for himself and McKenna, Brandeis and Clarke, says: “Reg- ulation means the prohibition of an neanitar mmora ” trary t © conclusion of the be rehd dissenting » ae how by every of holding the MOVIE MUFFS Wonderful things happen In the movies, We can't Figure out what kind terial they use their then, what chen = put when ‘ou do very well for a beginner, my dear,” said Mr. Newlywed. “But I wish you could make biscuits like mother used to make.” I'd be ashamed to,” retorted Mrs. a. Your mother made bis- out of white wheat flour, but biscuits you get around this house will be made of corn meal or of m movie cl Newly a In In water, The actors fa And crawl out Clothes are al A nd, and neatly Pressed up again And tt Qn The actor « And thinks ab For half that, thinking vie THE FEET Some Homely Hints That May Prove of Help to Those Who En- joy Hiking >ne vie visions. ts there meone and ut #¢ nd, a nec like reon he's Stands rights be n, him smiling and to and gots ; ‘ ( 4 { : } In a vis Reckoning When he it in h him, orgs A shoe that is good to the feet s a shoe that is large enough in all directions but not too large If the — foot moves or. slips in the shoe it is Hable to chafe and blister, A more common de- feet however, that they are too tight over the instep and too loose across the ball of the foot Corns and pressure and toes t arms, and he mops zing Gr It vanishes Off his brow, It y If we saw Real life An easy real was only a vision vite often ns in as and as they do in it's Tecause a be hopheads. And when a movie actor Pr paper looking For something, } It is the first thi He sets his eyes The part he we in shoes, is cka up a w funny ne callouses friction When are soft; are dry are from betw. due to unhy- pn the the other hard. perspiration of the leads to foot soreness, and corns and Mild cases may dusting into the following powder: Acid 3 parts; pulverized parts; talci, 87 parts. have a cases of sore foot will be always |Pelieved by soaking the feet, after }a preliminary serub with soap and wate in a solution of perman- - . sana of potassi The New York tenants have organized, | roid t : hegre hari fe ‘ Bhs and are going to asx the govern:| * iB (s : Iment to appoint a rent dictator. | ben “4 Be th i treatment is to | What's the matter with the landlora? | SPrinkle & drops of formalin into th each morning |Isn’t he a rent dictator? | cee | | is wanted. parts they Excessive feet often blisters, on A New Jersey man found $1,800 in| ae a mattress. That must have been a most comfortable mattress In hot weather. Think of steeping on cold | cash. fissures be offensive. ia has on hand | P besides Ana | Shee the | salicylic, 10 jmay The only thing Aus in the way of food is her goose. that's cooked . by We hear that the Indians |fine pitcher in June, ‘They have good ones in February few with tallow or noeat’s foot ofl if Jone intends going on a long tramp into the countr: or the inside of the king should be covered with stiff lather of common soap well rubbed in, foot powder may Should the when on a “American airplanes will cross the Atlantic in) three months,” says New York paper. We'll bet a hat they're not half that slow Turning Knight Into Day Jar P. Day, a well-known far mer, and Margaret Knight were mar ried last Tuesday at the home of the bride. Rev, O. T. Caine performed the ceremony.—-Oakland, Me,, Enter: | sto a yellow be freely used. stockings cause pain hike, the pressure is relibved by shifting them to the other foot or by turn- ing them inside out, sometimes I can not believe! | Tho feet should be well greased or the War and Other Topics Ar | Discussed in Letters From The Star Readers REPLY TO “LANDLORD.” Editor The Star; “Landlord” im hin article to The Star, has thrown the table, and has If the rankest kind of He states in his artl in the shipyards are iving four and five times their ner wages, or the going wage of few years past, and that they 4 « raise of $10 per month on their rent 1 wonder does Mr. Hog realize the fact that many men now employed? in the shipyards are not recetving one-half the wage of former normal mex when he takes into considera- von Uf he has any consideration) that the cost of living has far mur- passed the increase in wages. For natance, ther e thousands of men) working in the yards for from $3 to $4.35 per Only the skill mechanics receive anything like living wage. Does he realize thal bacon now conts 60 cents per pound It used to cont 23 cents to 26 centa, Shoes now cost the working man! from four to five times the normal price, and Mr. Rent Hog takes the rent Now in reference to the men af the front and in the yard, the mi at the front has his clear, while th man in the yard donates his to proGerman rent hog. I cannot w derstand why he should have audacity to mention a sh worker, For the shipyard worker doing bis part which js just as as the man’s at the front. Now. Mr, Rent Hog (or so-called what are you doing for your coun- try? The chances are not @ thing but profiting out of some worker. But if you are trying to put forth a | poor apology, the chances are your tenant will get the $10 raine, A SHIPYARD WORKER. SCORES SALESMAN SCHEME | \Editor The Star: salesmen ‘there is much waste and d1 due to competition for profits. ‘This is illustrated by my friend the: hosiery buyer. He say: “There are about 50 hosiery salesmen whocall on me every year, some twice and many of them — from ix to 12 times. F “In order tg keep posted on styles, colors and Prices, | must waste my time looking over their samples, tening to their prices and chatter. “I could do the buying by compar ing samples and prices received by mail, but each of the 50 firms to get more of the orders by hat their salesman call, so the must include in the price cost of production, salary of sales man, his railroad and taxi fares, ex- cess baggage charges on samples, sleeping car and hotel bilis, inelud- ing Ups, telephone and telegraph charges, While I only buy from sit to nine of them, I could buy all I | need from THREE factories by mail.” | The same applies to all the indus- | tries. Thus have our captains of | dustry failed to function in the iJ | terest of society. Let us have go | of the conservation of energy in all | industries. F. H. BROWN. | TAX PRIVATE PROPERTY. Editor Star: The natural sequence of warfare is an increase in |New sources are created and still hin cards on proven hime a rent how. ® that men “4 ating taxes is that tably distributed and that they not tarry or dry up the very sources from which taxes are to be A source, which so far been mentioned, altho the tional and at the same | cial to the community at large, is tax on the real value of has not most ra+ | to the community. per cent would be only just. If it is a crime for an able-bodied man remain idle at the present time, certainly is criminal for land ho to perpetuate the non-productiveness — |of their real estate holdings. Another sensible tax would be on the rental income of the individuals. All property for rent or rented should be registered, and all rent | collected in excess of 10 per cent on the assessed value of each respec: tive property should be levied by | the government as war tax, These two resources alone would fill our war chest and at the same | time settle, at least in part, the rent question. JOHN J. HEINEN. 178 Galer St. FROM A LANDLADY Editor The Star: Why shouldnt the landlord get more rent now than a few years ago? Everything else has gone up, also including a man’s wages. The landjord has to pay more for his foodstuffs also, and has to pay taxes, insurance, assessments and repairs, while the tenant has | none of these to pay. We are asking $30 a month for our $4,000 home. Last year we were getting $25. We jare trying to pay off a mo from the rent. Some, I know, are going money-mad. But I don't think landlords should be classed as “rent hogs.” And I don't think a law should be passed to have the rents made what they were before the war. Some ought to be sent to investigate the real “rent hog.” A LANDLADY, | NOTE.—The problem is to prevent rent profiteering—unreasonable ad@- — vances, Some landlords have nearly doubled rents and assumed an atti- tude that tends to break down mor- ale, The Star is anxious to see rent profiteers curbed and rentals kept at — | 1917 figures—not prewar figures, { RABY TAILORING CO. Headquarters for Suits, Coats and || One-Piece Dresses || 425 Union Street FREE DOCTOR Mx-Geverament Physician 1111 FIRST AVE. of 169 WASHINGTON ST. RIGHT DRUG Co. sTORES Leek fer the Free Dester Sign. 4