The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 15, 1918, Page 8

190T Seventh Ave, Mm oF schires Nonrnwest t NPWSPArERS News Service of the United nd-Class Matter May 3, 1899 at the Postoffice at nder the Act of Congress Marek 3 ty, de per month; J months, $1.15; 6 me . $2.10 th ( Washington, Outside the atate, r year. Ry carrier, city, 30 « mm 000, exchange connecting alt d Volume 20 “Another reason for buying Thrift Stamps: “Ger- ‘many taxes each Belgian $150." Who Did It? What made Seattle the second port in all the United , Who accomplished this overshadowing development Was it the group of willful men who oppose every forward toward public control? San Francisco wanted to know Here’s the answer, as published in the Examiner, nday, after a survey of conditions here by McDonald W PP "Prior to the openir f the ama al Seattle had—and } he port commission ganized t speration of state law. Seattle PRA on that carly port commis n who had vision—Re Bridges ia still a memt and the late G H. M, Ch Commission, He is a municty hip man, a municipal oper Man, and everiastingly oppo to the of harbers and other by corporations and privat erests mething of a dream he ts likewise a fighter © nden was an army engineer, re ation of the Port of Seattle g feat than @ Hd not have men @M account of paralys to him more of a r gombination, for achi Francisco has none to compare w Aside from its port commission p' land ownership from the high water line inward P pler or other terminal is built, Seattle has to pay ‘he ie the port commission continues improving, it will pay m lf land, Whenever it seeks to build, pro me increment Sq, “Seattle has a targe, able and sporty, Seat the theory that private nd management of a utllit t is best. This ¢ makes its influence felt en municipal ip and corp enterprise ed exten power prope it riv use facilities of te public service ent sort of a Just now engaged in the task of hamstringing tb of the municipal power oper n by opposing’ the Ska t. It champions a proposal that t je port commission be sub regulation by the on, which in Washington is a body with a diffe ition from that of the r ad commission of California. Dp “This ‘private enterpr ement in tacitly admits the suc Ff the port commission and the big te system which has been but it gives no credit in particular ybedy or anything. Ap ly. in the opinion of these gentlemen, success of the port com- fe one of those things that just happened iteering Remedy We cannot permit anything to interfere with our most tant business—that of whipping the HUNS. We must do everything which will aid us in carrying business, even though there be among them some unpleasant and painful. Ve must keep on going ahead in this war—or we are ard. For no nation at war can stand still. _ We must not only fight the enemy over there, but we ist fight the foe in whatever disguise it may take here not the least of our enemies—and Germany's right here in America are the profiteers who coin the people’s life blood profits baser than any the N nan or the pirate ever took. As profiteer cares for nothing but dollars. He} 1d Psd oad and no principle. He recognizes no god/tines charge in the United States! id. Human liberty and human justice are Ye* hi of aes importance than limousines and cham- i eres can scotch the snake of profiteering at this by placing at least 80 per cent tax upon excess war this congress fails to do that, we must elect in No- aber a congress which will. ' Profiteering must stop. ° : raining Appetites ' Politics may make strange bedfellows, but, believe us, sure produces unusual appetites! Before the war our neighbor to the north didn’t grow th corn for chicken feed, and ate no corn beyond the 3 asting ears age. The Canadian appetite wouldn't adjust if to Yankee cornmeal and corn bread, they said. But : + something has happened to that appetite—WAR! as Canada is going on a corn ration. several hundred mil- 4 Canada wants to save more of her bushels of wheat crop this fall for her allies and ours ho must have wheat to eat or starve. )>) And so she is going to sit right down with the I A te (fast of cornmeal mush and corn cakes. When she a fine taste for corn, her farmers will redouble i efforts to produce corn which will grow in more y hing manner in the short summers of Alberta and Ss ittchewan. That will increase Canada’s meat crop and the fertility of her field Woman Assistant U. S. Attorney United States District Attorney Saunders has ap- Ginted a young woman graduate of ‘the University of : v hington, Miss Charlotte Kolmitz, as second assistant United States attorne The appointment is a recognition h “of the merits of the young woman as a member of the bar and also of the growing importance of women in | general in professional, commercial and industrial line | { The United States senate appears to be the only insti- ion in this country that fails to recognize this. Even 3 id old England has nted woman suffrage : A new way to spell “rITALY ation 4 If only that “work or fight” order could reach mem- bers of congress! Autos may come, and autos may go, but the Yankees “over there” need tobacco co all the time. q ' Quite natural that the bird of peace should not want to flock with the vulture of kultur : Because it is summer, women are leaving war work undone to answer the call of links and courts, the Red Cross says. Summer isn't giving the armies fighting somewhere in France any cessation from fighting or dying. The law profession can spell stand the elevating in- fluence of woman—and Assistant U.S. District Attor- ney Charlotte Kolmitz will have the heartiest good wishes of all laymen. NEW SUBSCRIPTION KATES OF THE SEATYLE STAR BY MALL IN THE STATE OF WASHINGTON 1 month 6m $2.75 3 months . rer) epee ‘ 5.00 OUTSIDE THE STATE SOD obs ose cescceee $0.80 6 months ee $4.50 % months .. 1 year 9.00 ‘These rates effective from August 1, 1918 All subscriptions must be paid in advance. We accept personal checks, money orders, express orders or stamps. | Tokyo Operates Its Own L “Putting the Grin Into the Fight” a uniform pa ration of pub was born only 63, itilitics has gained thold In Japan, a ship a public a surprising fe ANSE LY Service Was Poor power cart? that characterizes this change in + centralization of | CONFESSIONS OF A WIFE Nears ighted Officer : JOAN AND LAFAYETTE EDMUND VANCE You may take off your pe mask. well up toward 1,000.0 Karned Big Profit of $13,000,000, municipal street railways earned of $90,000—2 cent on the capital and almost 20 per cent on the gross income of 900,000, x x THERE AKE YEAKS AHEAD a net profit i &- talking to me Mollie and Ch had married « France were of their bic ght understand the flood new and service, and had 'ae aus chee taken out th deeps of ecean, terest on th than escarp and parapet Has held the impiour foe that made me acce , A Le ARE oF 5 SEN y had not been at any public had married Lafayette of valor would advance nets of the foes of France! What prodigi but it seemed to me that this would be @ good time to go of every day, I could not help pking that it would be a good re arclay Sill and Jim. Barclay Sill would be and he would un deretand that I did not want to go Five sen—not 5 cents! sen, or 2'4 cents, for the sen in dapanese money is exactly equiv alent to \ cent It's a Success her goes J-cent fares one cust be remembered that wages and the standard of liv ing are lower in Tokyo than In the en car fare in | oir children should Inherit And yet what n these plain poilus Tite shall ne'er forget? If Joan of Are Hut why pursue the the country elub, mbol of the flesh? in it to Donna,” emiled as I Jim would be And him with ¢ Who in the soul of their fair France are moet United States, Tokyo i# relatively cent fare‘in Cleveland hardly as high as 6 ught I knew what e maid told him I had ¢ to the country club (Copyzighted. Tokyo lines pay I told Mollie, a in my dressing room while ens for a street and Jim heard RUS ME LA ANC cnot Y MUSE GALL STONES May Be Pre- dream of Mollie a Editor’ 8 ; Mail uit and a whit WORKMAN RABY TAILORING CO. Headquarters for Suits, Coats and One-Piece Dresses 425 Union Street who looked charm Carrying On ed around the Hatton box had seen in many Be Continued) Official reports made tional banks in the New and used by some na many chronic nk directors in that section leannot write their names, Give place of employment, why _ {THE SEATTLE STAR MUNY STREETCARS SUCCESS IN JAPAN (BL ettore,.TeCrsthin. Grov ght Plant, Too, and Breaks Grip of Private Control There Jway between » her In his home to nurse Why haven't you married? One| H bs girl didn’t take the fatal step because | him » he and happiness the fler “the night before he has never found a man that was | m » old. * ubnolutely honest with . hed hs hile one man bas remained win har © of mind for any of becaune he belleven t marriag one new od husbands. That's in the “butt of nature ke.” Odd why I'm wingle BETH for not marying any more common? | Says Single Men Are Happier Than Married Ones While He Saved Money Dear Mins Grey: The reason I am Girl Married. Another a “back ‘ae inatend ot “aed whl le Agee nid se veto y is the butt of nature's ountr i eenct 1 ends with an iron ¢ ; ‘ find | single 4 one month I'm « worker, : > next nth, an idler. I have @ hn Tam not mar. | Chance to think and rest. The mar I try ried man has neither. His ia Mr, t hatch sr to ek Mr. fails short in a the “a ne eas ob war In the hard times who is hit the t ha In the good times who doen i ‘5 taaile the mons ai the and at the end of tolled and nave wis ¢ 1 did | all Uren, wh t the fullest pocket it for her. Circumstances separated | 44 the bent A BACH wilderne Bhe could ow me. Does Not Know the 1 loved her too much to ask that Meaning of True Love and I lost her. She ma nother! Dear Miss Grey: My reasons for e abe realized 1 did not:| not being married are somewhat dif- A man can marry the woman| ferent than those that have been choice most any Ume in life;| writing to you. Even at the present mn most fre) 1 do not know the meaning of love; © mar but several years ago 1 met a very gets the whe 1 wt pretty wornan who trusted me, and ' how much not that 1 more about than any tut I pr fe n . dua th. enable r tho u ie to ’ € 1 for me as or I thought There re bh, if nét mer but would not f And wit of ider marria, il I would con- to go to dance and other places t women with questionable putations use, as she ex- ed it, if I would go out and meet veral of these, so as to consider clasves of people, without that gnified acquiescence which makes slike and even despise ordinary an haunts | people, if I should come back more 4 but also satisfied than when I started out, 1 I ex- would most probably settle down in tented married life Mins Grey, I have met many of mirthi und untold har wan forgotten of my own by God himself. B little wealth I nought After returr am not 1 © called neif the “class” since that time and t «x of the cannot go back to her and truthfully wervir earn mon- say that I feel the same towards her ‘ 1 nave it f at when ax I did before I experimented. ahe * the great I cannot help but believe that men cat ec marry because possession is not pow pert we sible without marriage. ym 0 BBM Old-Fashioned Girls and Money Came Between This New-Fa ol d Husbands Girl and Her Beloved Dear M s Grey: Why am I not married? Not because I have never been asked. Three men had tears in their eyes, and one got on his knees to me, not that I'm bragging. To finish this good, I'll admit like an honest person should—I met THE The reason I er married is because an unselfish en ply a In other | nan. 1 worshipped him—he looked wor he has one cod ‘or himself te be u ood h 14 bl nd another for the girl. This may | ‘© be all 4 good man should be—big, dark, handsome, the complete ideal of my girl-dreams. He pretended to me but hesitated. I found out t he was not sure whether I wi rich, or had an income. I asked him about it and he said: “It isn’t a question of love, honey; it’s money.” So-—after all, that’s why I'm not married, My veil still les unfinished, s “patterned after his grand. | With the rest EVE mother,” how does he repay her for |’ 4 THRIFT STAMP a day? her love and trust in him? Nine) | will _keep the Hun away. | times out of ten, by Hes and deceit. | x * seo Sw “i ilies re oh il eh SMarine “Nine enemy planes shot down today.” be demonstrated very ni view of the le by a re rs you have printed from men who have never married. Most all of them want “old-fash joned » for wives, and yet they among the girls of the amart the man who I8 wise marry one of the sweet So run the dispatches from the Western Front. Some one has been at the most exciting “wing shooting” in the his- tory of the world; none less thrilling because in grim and deadly defense of outraged Humanity. 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