The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 17, 1918, Page 6

By the Author of SEATTLE STAR 1307 Seventh Ave. Near Union St. i OF SCRIT'S NORTUWHST LEAGUE OF NEWsrarmns ter May 8, 189%, 0 Act of Congress rem 3. PARTS Be aK city. “bbe 5 “A respectable few,” who, says Chairman Kitchin, are | for the taking, by taxation, of all excess profit) & reasonable profit, are interested in the report of the Inited States steel company, just made public. In the past three months, U. S. steel made $153,000,- av, It sets aside $91,000,000 (about 60 per cent) to meet t the new tax bil! may require, and thus has left $62,- 000 to divide. The before-the-war profits of this corporation, for a period, were about $15,000,000 (in the best years higher) and any fellow with U. steel stock felt a plutocrat. is Now, if the government takes only 80 per cent, U. S. will have $33,000,000 to divide—over twice as much 4 B Was a plenty before war gave a chance to grab off blood =" What would now be a reasonable profit for U. S. steel, 15 millions, or the 38 millions? If you say the latter, gay that war is the right opportunity for money mak- and encourage the big money-makers to prolong the Oh, yes! If you don’t let U. S. steel divide 18 millions than it ever did divide, the U. S, steel managers will like yellow dogs and you won't get steel for w Of course, Uncle Sam could commandeer U: $ and make all the steel and the profits, as he has led in the case of the mismanaged railroad, telegraph id telephone businesses. But that would be blamed radi- al and smack of socialism. The easier way is to let U. S have its bloody excess of 18 millions and take what's out of the masses. In the masses, of course, we! ude the dinner-pail men in U. S. steel employ, of U. S. steel says: efficiency has increased. The men have more and more alive to the fact that steel is the of the war.” 198 a, Himer—Naw, 1 didn't get no tif “INFANT.” | The Hun diplomatists have the eternal effrontery ‘suggest that the fate of Belgium be settled around the e table. You're late, Heinie. Belgium's fate settled when America entered the war.—Columbia es Own Medicine few weeks ago, there came from Prussian official Suggestion of an agreement by all the belligerents $ to bomb unfortified communities. There now comes m important German publications an intimation that aps warfare with aid of toxic gases isn’t just right. It impossible that, later on, the Huns may have doubts put their U-boat frightfulness, the carrying off of Bel- f girls, and other exclusive brutalities of their war t all this does not mean German reform. It means devils are becoming sick of their own medicine. it is appailing to think that women and children, even are slaughtered by bombs, in their homes, in ts or in school or church. But, very often the only fight a fire is by back-firing. To save San Francisco nihil: rae wacle streets of fine buildings were de- 1 The Star Will Gladly Publish ‘The following letter was re ceived by Miss Florence Baker, of Bremerton, Wash. from an American bey in France: Dear Flo and Chi These times are a little strenuous with me, for trying to duck, and trying to resem ble to nothing as possible to excape thone miss! all mtn and shapes, and all as capable of sending one to regions yet unknown, isn't an easy job Up to the present time there hasn't been much snow, but it ts quite frosty. In a way, it's a Little better with the water in the trenches being frozen. To my taste, I'd sooner akate than waddle. A fellow docs about 15 days of first line trenches, then is sent back for a period a lit tle in the rear, for a little rest. The first eight days or so, he is on what| you might call epenking distances of the German trenches—that is, at some places. Up to now, I haven't jumped over @ trench to go over and have a chat or a game of pinochie with them. When the oceasion artives and we do make a visit, I'll have the most vicious and blopdthirsty expression ever seen, so if [ can't touch him I'll scare him. Our business ia to watch, in case of attack, to defend or in case of an offensive on our part, to Jump over and try to occupy the place of one who is trying to put one over on you. Taik about the Fourth of July celebration, I think all of them put together wouldn't make an echo for the fireworks over here. Some of the cannons I've seen ked an big ana house, and really where one of their shells happens to drop it makes a good foundation for another Smith building, And when you hear more cannona, bombs, gren ades, machine guns, ete., it's beyond human conception. At those mo} ments you lose all senses; you go by instinct. There is always a roar and seo before you a broken landscape, big heaps of earth and shell holes, and you hear the piff piff of rifle fire, but you can see no one. It'* worth one’s life to even peep above the mounds of dirt before the trenches, and there you are wait! wait! walt! : Each one wears a kind of helmet, made of some kind of kind of vy headgear, but one gets accus tomed to it after a while, and each has and must have—and I mean must—the gas mask. I guess that is what you called it. You probat have seen them in pictures of t war. They are to wear nce in cane of gas trom the Huns. There is no mercy, and the enemy is hard to see coming. That's the opening cha ter, And then for the remaining 15 days or #0 you go on second or third line trenches. There you make more trenches, walt to act as reserve or send reenforcement in need, always something to do, There you un der more fire from the other side, which hardly dares do much firing on first line on account of being #0 close to their own line, Well, it ft nally ends and you are sent back in the rear for two weeks or 80 to rest; that is, clean up, ete., and drill some more, #0 you won't forget it I could swim over and kiss you both for r at big generous hearts when I read that you have sent some old Bull. With each puff, I'll have your picture before on eyes. And thone holders! I'm most anxiously waiting for them. 1 got the letter, but they are keeping me waiting for them, If they don’t bring them soon I'll be tempted to stroll off and go searching, I'd pret ty near start a revolution all by my: | selt I had the opportunity to act as in terpreter to some American officers, colonels they we 1 was with them | two days. They are making a tour| of the front, taking notes and ideas ete; and, as I understand it, will go all n of i Huns started out to win regardless of decency, hu- , law or conscience. They alone are responsible if pallies are now showing the superiority in use of fright- It is even likely that the extremes of fright- and mercilessness toward the Huns have become the i, most merciful policy toward Germany and for the @ at large. A speedy death to the obsession that any can run the world for its own ends and engage in of ‘brutality is what is needed. The idea that z is a deciding factor in war is German; and, "8 people thinking that way, frightfulness may be just Kaiser Willum is beginning to feel the need of a g army. : Humanity’s Sake Uncle Sam needs nurses—skilled, brave, kindly, sym- thetic, patriotic women. A thousand must volunteer each week—dedicate their ts to the cause, consecrate their lives as harbingers , Messengers of mercy. When war was declared, the recruiting offices were d by men eager to sell their lives at the highest Possible, reckoned in dead Germans. Before the break, thousands had poured across via for humanity’s sake. bia’s women will not be outdone by Uncle Sam's you a tt For humanity's sake they will come forward under sacred insignia—The Red Cross! Of what avail is stretcher-bearer’s bravery or ambu- rer’s heroic risk if there be not ready hands, soft tender touch, deft fingers and swift, to minister staunch, bandage and soothe, comfort and caress! They are DYING over there because YOU are over sweethearts and sisters of Uncle Sam's soldiers! Come—go! Bathe, lave, cauterize, encourage, cheer, and make well the boys with gaping wounds, lost waiting, waiting in agony for the operation and , treatment and attention impossible without your Give hope back to desolate spirits, repay sacrifice in os “ga eee ggg wg ys to those lads and ob em, nurse back to them, give back to th —the’life they so willingly endangered for YOU. ices a The kaiser has the wrong idea. The war will end when he asks for peace terms; not when he them.—Detroit News. ore nleeve The new “Optimistic League” hopes to win this war by waves of hate onto Germany. This is the plan: ice a day the league's optimists shall, at a desig- Rated hour, concentrate intellectually, grit their teeth, p their feet and simultaneously wish dire things for ermans.” ¥ The league proposes to “mentally electrocute” the FALL STYLES and materials for Suits, Coats and One-piece Dresses. RABY TAILORING CO.,Inc. 425 UNION ST. enemy. By We wish this could be done. It would be ever so much pity in men and money. ‘ jut wishes are not horses and waves of hate can’t com- “pete with waves of poison gas and Krupp cannon. If the “Optimistic League” really wants to help win _ war it can do more by hoeing corn, digging potatoes, i Thrift Stamps, and building ships than by gritting ‘teeth and stamping feet. Instead of using up perfectly oe time in concocting waves of hate, it were better to those minutes to work. We can’t win this war with “waves of hate” Ditdling what we aves of hate’ only 7. v i nor by ‘d do to the kaiser if we caught him. The things which will win this war are— WORK, SAVE, FIGHT! THE SEATTLE STAR—SATURDAY, A Crossing the Pond With the Yanks’ “Camp Comedies.” ae | oe | \ | land I wasn't so particular as to ap SS UTR TO Betiur Via ATLANTIC OCUAM m Je preserver yet Herb—Well, ask for it—it's printed right on ‘em for “ADULT” or LETTERS FROM SOLDIERS Interesting Communications From Sammies back to the okt | to inatruct the new army being formed over there One of them took my name. I told im about my request to become an interpreter, and having received no Answer He told me he waa ® great friend of General Pershing, and told me he would help if possible, I've just made a request, #0 live in hopes, but things of that kind move slowly over here Well, dear old Pais, my best wards to all, and tell Ed that not forgotten him, and that I'm ng for re welcome news, and long, long letters With love and sincere wishes, 1 am, as always, yours 8 re I've ways wal 1, ever STEVE. WANTS WAR MOTHER Editor The Star: ‘There is a rol ier here in this fort whose name in Private Earl Johnson, 13th Co. C A. C. Fort Flagler, Wash. And he in looking for a war mother. And he loves to write So if you will pi the paper, or fix that people will write to him, I thank you very much in advance LOOKING FOR A WAR MOTHER ad in *0 an some w SEATTLE BOYS WRITE COUSIN from France by Miss Ruth Wienand, of 1829 Noren ave., from her cousins Albert and Arthur Kruschke, who went to France with Pershing, in the first American Expeditionary force. Albert Kruschke is now In A base hospital with a bullet in his arm, received in action “Am at present in the hospital at Limoges It's a pretty good sized place, but that doesn't do us any good, for we can't get out to enjoy it. I suppose you want to know what I am in here for Well, I got a nice little bullet thru my upper right arm. It laid me up for awhile, but now I use it quite well Relieve me, some good all over t Cross stayed there “Please excuse all those mistakes for it's my nore arm I have to write with, and I am a little nervous from those big ‘G. L Cons’ that Frits sends over, (That's what we call them) can the Red Cross work around here as for that. I was in pital which was run by the R and I wish I could have Maybe you have heard of ‘sh shock,’ haven't you? It's caused by big shells bursting and shaking the daylighta’ out of you. Sometimes it caum to go crazy, belleve me. “ALBERT. one The letter from Arthur Kruschke, who A corporal in Pershing's forces, follows “Well, I didn’t Fourth. There spend much of a probably was just as much noise as I ever helped to make brating, but I am so used to hearing big muna and that stuff that I did not notice tt “I can hear the antiaircraft guns shooting a ne right now “It was worse than that, tho, when I was further up to the front. We come back at certain times for a rest, but the ‘rest’ mm * pretty s dy work There ie #0 much to be done in the rear that everybody works. Roads must pair and hid lota of oth stuff, “T've seen some and some aeroplane Oh, it's great life, one is up at the deep, dark dugoute company, mostly r “Yes, we occasionally have mov’ in the French ‘Y's. French pictures. ‘Oh. I see quite French girls, but that far as we go ‘This sure is a pretty country with lots of fruit and about every thing one could care for, provided he 1 used to the ways and customs | of the people here. “In French, { can say ‘good-day,’ ‘g00d-morning,’ ‘thanks’ and a few | other word However, it doesn't take a soldier long to learn how to spend his money, so we menage to| get along. | “ARTHUR.” Among other trifles, Count Von | Koon, & member of the Prussian up- | per house, demands that “Great | Britain shall surrender her entire | fleet to Germany.” be kept in re n by camoufinge, and aeroplane battles brought down. pecially when front, living in with lots of ta, are yeu 1 few pretty | is about as |me the compliment of a UGUST 17, 1918, Letters to Cymthia Grey thateyou are judging mill In by the few known, It's policy to « n virtues, and to your out however he or she redeeming world jonn of hui hundred an awfully large upon en tho the an we you have b ' ow long ningle R 6 Just to hoo q or ur be many faults instead, to for Ve publ € Wit remaine C Aw on married | | | | ath died Ww ' iault M enumerate te of friends, ‘Tr their good bad a person may points Wath 18, 191 ember always = has trait In my position Lm of people who t atrength of et to get safely 0 the hard of life. ‘They to nomeone else to amooth out the bumps and then depart without much as a “thank you.” You see or hear no more of them until they arrive at another bump and then back they come, d wtill, they have not made me my faith in humanity; be I have met another class le who are true blue, As you grow older, and your view point of life broadens, you, too, meet the other clase. You ving the ow, by jing « firm foundatic upon pelf-rempect and integrity, and you are nearing only imaginary brink, which existe in your own mind et a clans ven't the ror stamina Erroneous Comparison Of the Many With a Feu Dear M 1 prined at the great nun you get from girls, confiding their little troubles to you, for we all want and sympath umes, perhaps some of them feel as 1 do that they haven't a friend in the world to whom they might take their troubles. Why are people so ly celtful nowadays? Wh to Kain just one friend? all my life to find « could love and trust n Grey nm net sur er of letters! bumps and de « in it no hard I have tried » whom I | in vain we 1 in my or even as to nex one to conti without fail false and le 1 did most for ight, were my friends. the worst, till now, when all the world fair, 1 walk , and hating pearance, either just wanted some but Ume fr after time an untrue nde 1 me of the F abt ay ergs Another Woman Writes On Double Standard Mine ¢ 1 ha n der of your bits of ad troubled for nome unull ad your aru Man Forgive?” and Men A.” y an Certain! if he isa her best to'do what is right t from the majority of men vias ee tion and is t level best to regain her In nine cases out of s because of misplaced con in the male se and in this how man are there of who morally to queation the in na of girlie’ or women's past?! The question brings into my mind a ular, “It been but what mee oul rowy and a bitter and eyn mankind ‘The on! ne r interested re consolation I have ts that | vice to the quite Were an act of read it der myself above at least retain ean conscience and have ublish every y life not blush t not that mach 1 repr but I have ed my selfreapect And now I want Shall wer in been. too, be our advice 1 hav shall I ) humanity hip for th « men on to augh when they fall at my oung and good look think 1 ting mer ae man ntinue living as as the rest of r tem: y pretending f secretly hate and feet? Tam still ing, and don't much trot x he me moral plane ten fiden day wou ¥ t and age opponit rfect ber ore street who t Any for Lam I need no h uned to be You have been trying a 4 and you have spondent over the wh ral remponsitbilition your nb become de huge task, rm to asnume Tried and True Recipe For Dill Pickles Dear Cynthia: Please give un a tried and true recipe for dill pickles, as none of the cook book contains wan not ye You can't get fact that takes all people to make a world ou think moun place to away from the it kinds of a it wo aft ated in ONE rin bers about long. nal or quart YouR READERS. with cue four or five inches putting dill broken into pieces in with them, about ata of dill to @ jar. Pack jars clomely Make a brine of one gallon of water, one tea cup common salt, one teacup good cider vinegar and pour over the cucumbers boiling hot and weal Pace them where the Might and a little sunshine will wtrike them. Shake occasional. | ly, After a couple of weeks re | move to the fruit closet. If they ferment and the brine looks white, it will not injure them Add a few green grapes if you Uke. Get dill from your grocers the each Interesting. worth while My girl, if you were or four times 22, and would write me such a ietter, I would feel that the world had dealt harshly wi ‘The chances are that in those 22 years you have not strayed very far from the place of your birth, that you haven't brushed against the rea make life ai the end, three you. up | gar Mother and Lola have been trying to persun me that they need a man about I would not think that would oc: cur to Lola,” interrupted Mollie, “I never see her except she has two or three young men tagging after her. “Well, 1 suppose she thinks moth er needs me; anyway, she has re | cently paid me the compliment of asking me to «tick around.” Mollie came over and held out her hands to Richard Waverly IIT, who was still| in my arms. As whe did so she} iooked questioningly into my face “What have you been doing to yourrelf, Margie?” she asked. “You i lke you did the first few weeks I knew you.” "Thank you, my dear, that ts al great comfort to me. I had thought I was getting somewhat flabby, both physically and mentally—I had been thinking lately that I would have to *buck-up.’ " (To Be Continued KPRISE FROM BARCLAY SILL * book, I am not 30 1 am under 25, and once 1 the splendid unrest, the the fine intensities and enthusiasms of youth, and it was kins that awakened im And as Dick would say, “It wasn't much of a kiss at that.” I wonder, little book, if that Is the tragedy that to all widows The real kisses weem i] they serve to make the kinnes forever kindle the t of lost-forever long for It was Parclay Sill who me nd I am sure, little book you will understand, when I tell you it happened, th ny more of a shock than anything el He came in this afternoon s habit that he has made his own of late, and found with Richard Waverly IL. in my arms. My bo learning all the little tricks that no dear to babyhood He was trying to find my mouth to his tiny hands side of my face, and 1 was playfully te ing him by turning aside, when clay Sill strode across the room anid: “Oh, I say, Dicky men must stand together!” and he turned my mouth in reach of my baby's lit tle rosebud, moist lips Then without warning he turned it the other way and bent down and kissed me lightly. It a very boyish action, and Barclay Sill xtood there like a boy who had been steal ing Jam and expected to be tly punished for the act With that expression still on his face, he started to speak Don't!” I said He seemed surprised, very surprised, that I not ed—either angry or glad Don't apologize, plea Can you not see that either an apology or a declaration would spoil everything? 1 must confess that to be kissed just as I was beginning to think I had re that awful time of when no one would want was as exhilarating as it as surprising.” Again he started to only emotion I felt w that moment I could not te for I knew h over years ob again I f Inspiration, comes usions ve the shock how t it was at tea time, me ure kina, with we They're Cross cant everywhere, these Red ens, with their volunteer workers who are adding this duty to | their household work and other war | winning efforts. Probably no place | in this country was are these can ns and their cheery workers more uly appreciated than in the rail. road depots where our boys go from | train to train on their way to Berlin. Here it is that the lads in khaki pile out of coaches hot and stuffy to get a refreshing drink and a bite to | eat, free to them. Maybe you think they don’t like that! Why, it does one's heart good to watch them file past the counter, take his drink and eat his sandwich and make the train shed ring with cheers for the can. , teen! | After @ long, hot trip, they need that But the eating and drin’ 4 ak, and the /isn't all. It's the showing Gre hoe that ati boys from other sections of the} bear him | country, that every mortal American would pay jis his friend, his woll wisher, and nventional | his helper in war, They may forget —at least he/for a moment or so that feeling of me so much | homesickness which comes to young with my boy | fellows leaving home and mother he could not help kissing me, And | And they come to know that wher. did not want Barclay Sill to say lever there are other Americans they this, I wanted him to go away solare with frends; that this that Red that I could think. 1 wanted to get | Cross does for them here at home is back my perspective before he asked | but the beginning of what Red Cross me. |docs for them “over there.” At that moment the maid brought! ‘The Red Cross canteen helps a| in tea and Mollie and Jim came in| wonderful lot toward keeping the with her, Mollie looked surprised to | smile on Sammy's face. Rarclay Sill, and Jim aske Some day while you're waiting in ruptly, “When are you leavin »'s a Red Cross can: one of your long jaunts again, Sill?" | teen there, and you're a civilian, you “I cannot tell,” he answered. “1|may walk right uss to the counter. much was more almost ched proposal of marri | would say that he love that seeing me playing see | swered | pered today without permission? War Earnings BY Mareella pulled the shoulders, She hom “Easy Come and Easy Go” WINONA WILCOX from her colle and shook her curls about her downtown job, and she liked to loolg heroine evenings on the front poreh, high «irl doing vacation te Having finished hew night, she produced her pocket a her & week for was f em real movie Marcella work in iffure nok and pre What mm her was & “hook real ¢ on a Saturday diy exhibl trove ‘en do) of «x Kot only 16-year-old girl, erienve med the Cros $10 a week when I went to ¢ college training!* Nice Auntie, a mite exe hy, I 4, and I had an expenm money, Marcella,” remarked t an the Thrifty Person of the family, Kasy come and easy go! bout all the wisdom which war-time and “Van who was known “Remember, tle girl, Wherein is ined can be accumul concerning earnings z | Kasy money! young women are MRS WILCOK|! some occupations “pulling down” made of their extra n $200 gown now Boe buyer of dresses for a big Mastern houre of the $100 varieties Women doing w “Women who have alw m woman's ed and quite irresponsible paid $10 merely to jearn In every land where women are wages, a Ke eritie ance . ty functions are off,” says @ But I well dozens and dozens r work buy them,” ys Had money to pend are shopping carefufly, as usual,” says a shoe salesman, “but those to whom high wages are @ novelty are doing some mighty reckless spending. It's no trouble at all to sell three pairs of shoes to some girls!” Woman has always been known as the disburser, the spender, but now the war which crams her pocketbook provides her with the best of reasons for saving her wager With so many of the most of all this fancy and expensive when Jack comes home again etter why not buy Liberty Sammy and Jack end the war quickly? ‘The government itself plead with women to give this assistance. The os an well is twice @ patriot Half educ a week war-time ere ble men gone overseas, what's the use sing? Why not save up to buy clothes bonds, and thrift stamps, to help yet woman who works and x A FEW BEAMS By W. 8. 8. } A few practical hints that are well worth remembering Never place vinegar in a hot place it will turn sour. To keep a stove from going out, tle it to the wa Be kind to animals. When you find a frog in your yard, pick it up and rush it to the nearest creck be fore it croaks A frog can easily be trained to sing a card player can then invite his friends to a frog solo. Treat your neighbors’ chickens as yow would your own—you will profit by ft. When you get tired of your old neighbors, get new ones. To keep your children from get ting poor, always nee that they have plenty of money on hand. Never speak ill of yourself, Tell all your troubles to your grocer. | When you are sick, tell the under. taker—he needs a little encourage ment the towns and villages to see that |the inhabitants had no weapons of war in their ponsession On one of these tours an officer called at the house of a worthy and put the question to the old man “AN: house?” After scratching his head, Sandy looked at his better half and said: “Deed, aye. Pit oot yer tongue, guidwife.” couple weapons of war in this COULDN'T UNDERSTAND IT “When I was a lad I was never naughty like you.” “What was the matter with you, pa? Delicate or somethin'?” eee Diner—Look here! Isn't that hair in the butter? Waiter— Ye sir; a cow's hair. We always serve one with the butter to rhow REV W. J. Johnson D. D., LL. D. —of— Chicago, Illinois will occupy the pulpit at the Sunday morn- ing and evening serv- ices. You are cordially invited to attend the inspiring song service, which begins prompt- ly at 7:45 o'clock. A Welcome for All First ass | Church LOADED | Seventh and Spring In olden times in Scotland it was | customary for an officer to go round eee UNDECIDED “So.” he said, beginning the con versation, “you are from Indiana.” “You're mighty right,” she an “Hoosier girl.” He stuttered and stammered “Why—er—realty—" he said, “that I don't know—I mean I haven't decided yet who.” . 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