The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 24, 1918, Page 6

{THE SEATTLE STAR 1307 Seventh Ave, Near Union St. OF SCRIPPS NORTHWEST LEAGUB 01 Telearaph News Service of the United Press Association a A New Race of Men Doubtless it has been commented upon by many who witnessed it but we have not chanced to reach it in “our scattered reading. We speak now of the effect the line has on the young men whom we knew before y went away and who, a few of them, are coming back a brief and crippling dash into hell. More especially will you note the change in the expres- n, in the glance, in the indefinable abstracted gaze that lis upon so many of them; the removed, detached, set- look of those who dwell one place in their souls, and other in their bodie: | The casual, "I-give-a-damn” youth, who dashed into great adventure over there with as much heed as he peed picking his previous course in life—which was ly none whatever—he returns after a few months and he has blind spots somehow. He doesn't respond to the ; and the talk about him. The small life of the town him no more, nor does the heroic splash of cam- ign patriots, banging the war drum, and dying by proxy their country. He doesn't care to converse about his experiences; that} those who really descended into the pit and came out it half men in their bodies, rarely care to discourse. Medals and decorations, aye even the war news, doesn’t lly arouse them; tho they follow the important Flan- movements with a grim understanding. You cannot express this thing, but many mothers of sons returning will understand, and feel their boy pba away from them. has, and he hasn't; he hasn’t been sundered in any that is material; indeed, he probably loves her more and sincerely than ever before, but he has come the realities of life, and to guess a little at the nensities of eternity, and the blooded trench mud of ders has been wiped off a bit on his soul and he wants puzzle out, perhaps, just what sort of a person this fellaw is anyhow and, perhaps, why He is loafing on job and letting so many good men have such a hell of hard time of it. _ Growth? __. Aye, there will be found a mental and moral growth a ig among the millions of fighting men of terrible world that will in the reconstruction period) make it difficult for cant and piffle and small-mindedness ‘And rascality of high and low degree to flourish. Who said Greece was a poor ally? Athens, Tenn., given more officers to the U. S. army than any other of its size. a J e incing to Our Music The overshadowing importance of the allied success) the past few weeks is that since July 18 Marshal has been able to take the initiative—and to retain it.) Today Noyon and Bapaume are doomed to fall. Albert as fallen earlier in the week, after Gen. Byng’s masterful} ank drive. In one area, we are within a scant two or three! of the old Hindenburg line of 1916. | It has taken weeks to do what it took the Germans in their last offensive, which began March 21. _ Summing it up, Foch has regained since July 18 more half of the territory that the enemy had taken in four) ; Secondly, he has taken more than 100,000 pris-| according to dispatches today. | hirdly, the menace to Paris has been permanently | These are the immediate and direct results. Vastly more significant is Foch’s ability to take the id from now on, due to the balance of power larger every day in favor of the allies, the Hun, dance to our music. } The Germans will have to fight now wherever Foch | the battle action. The entire complexion of the is thus changing. It is the enemy now who must rush| Teserves here and there to meet the assaults of the! Heretofore the allies had to fight or retreat at the of the Germans. one considers that Foch snatched the initiative @ time when there was no numerical superiority for f , it is safe to say that it will remain with now till the end of the war. It is no wonder the Berlin itsche Zeitung admits that Germany has suffered “the| serious reverse of the war.” | Ve Pay Them A recent news story was headed “Our German Guests) ind Barbed Wire.” « Our German guests!—at Fort Oglethorpe and Fort, e ‘Pherson. These disciples of despotism make gardens and toys, al work in a quarry but are paid for it—and after an ht-hour day, tennis, volleyball and reading are provided their delectation, recreation and amusement. | Prisoners of war—a submarine crew and Huns from! s, the kind that sink hospital ships and fire on the, THE SEATTLE STAR—SATURDAY, AUGUST 24, 1918. 2 NN Cynthia Grey’s LETTERS Information Abaut Citizenship I, Jane Lorimer, am the original Dear Misa Grey: Iam anxious to| Was married to Robert Atwood Lor know if I can vote, 1 am a woman! 43 years of age, was born in Ko hemia, My parents both died short | ly after coming to America. I was 5 years old when we came here, and| off my feet and out of my reason. Well, Liberty day happened to A® soon an the United Sta year after he came. I came to this| train for an officer at C state 10 years ago, and prior to that) fraternity time lived in Iowa, and the women | have my bridal house upset by any don't vote there, of course, My pacifist than a patriot in those days. brother votes, and I would like to; Bob would have gone off anyway know if that entitles me to, just the | Canada that spring. same as tho it were my father? I Benjie had joined the KR. F. C., do not wish to violate any law be cause I am loyal, even if I am not a eltizen H. B.S. You would be a citizen only under these circumstances: If your father took out final natur alization papers before you be came of age; if you were born in this country, or, if you mar nied an American citizen, 1 fear you will have to take out citizen ship papers before you can vote Young Wife Doubts Her Soldier Hubby Dear Miss Grey: My husband has been in camp about eight months We write to each other almort every day. One of his letters told about secing some girls and flirting made me very unhappy, He says he| is true to me, and I have alWay8|on nim at first. believed him, but I don't want him pnammaamanananenenaeeaeenl BOB'S BROTHER'S BABY FROM CANADA A NEW FAMILY PROBLEM 1 do not believe my father ever took out any papers, as he died within 4 Hia death almost broke his lady mot than I've strangers raise one of her son’ Bepjie's child and bring it to her. 1 suppose that baby must have been my husband more than @ year, oh secrets from a nice wife like me. the girl because he really didn't lov Just as much to blame as he w as the mother was worth a million, he wouldn't live with her, Neither marry her. So he rushed off and Ie Of course, we may that Benjie think many persons suspect that w lclonet of Benjie'#*old room. the affair now to show how fa! | forget which, to handle bis rifle in to think I aim jeauous, for I am not, brain to work with hie bedy a as @ rule Would you advise me to! fot Bin keow that 4. don’t tke tt in| “emigre cme 00, tue Bent cota mee © my next letter? YOUNG WIFE: |ataying here and training in an off tells you about his “flirtation” shows he ts not serious in it | Reply to bis letter in such a way as to invite future confidences instead of repelling them. A Tip for get extremely irritable at times, I trouble at that farewell dance for th was caught up in the war, mp Ben, along with a bunch of men from h But I couldn't let my honeymoon be spoiled ro. liston with all his aing upon his head I often wonder if a nice husband like Bob has any Bob said that Benjie wouldn't marry It took my Bob a lot of time to ” helped ine to keep my bridegroom out of ‘This |the first army. ‘Some day, tho, I'm going (o unravel Henjie's mystery. In the course of months, Bob was drafted He found that his arms were too long or too short, When the time came to go abroad, he was © he wanted his chance at the boche while th Hut the decision left him tense and tired Hob and I have never quarreled mv heve had practice in making up quicr I wouldn't be breaking my heart today, AR BRIDE _— —< serene (ej Copyright, 1918, by the Newspaper Enter prise Ansociation war bride, At least #0 says Hob. 1 mer the very day the president Jeclared war against Germany We had been engaged—when were we not engaged? From our birch schoo! days, I had expected to ma Hob, except for a few months when Hamilton Certeis nearly rushed me Bob was in college at the time fall on our wedding day. Of course Bob was wild to 1 wouldn't old war, I'm afraid I was more of a But bride or no bride, I fee! certain if his brother hadn't been killed in apd hin plane came down in a col And Benjie had a plenty of them thers heart. Mrs. James D. Lorimer, my mother-in-law, has more pride of clan er seen in a human being. She said she could never let jidren, So Bob had to go and find mewhere, but tho Bob's 4 me her name yet! right to keep a mother #01 he hasn't told Benjie claimed that she was the ehild, but © her He would gladly take he wouldn't have to support her and law nor convenUon should make him arned to fly and met his death took a wife in Canada, and 1 don't © have locked up a skeleton in the get that child and I only speak of Camp drill was very hard 1 But he put his the snappiest way 1 rookie he made nd from a very poo in his regiment ffered the privilege of camp He refused it. He id ¢ chances are good For « slow man, Bob does ve known and kept out of corn’ should ha eo be I wish we had. Then I would like the older matrons do, and over almost nothing at all Indifferent Wives Dear Miss Grey: I, too, have been watching for replies to “Per plexed.” “A Fellow Martyr” thinks he did not get enough sympathy. I cannot say all that is in my heart, but I do understand and sympathize | with the hungry heart that prompt ed that letter, I wonder why some women hold #0 lightly the priceless love and pro- tection of their husbands? Others who have lost the same thru death would give half their lives to have it again. I wish I might tell that wife that there is nothing on earth that can compare with the honest| love of a good man. I would like to tell her just what it means to lone love and companion ship out of one's life. However, if| “Perplexed Wife” does not value that | love and companionship, what in he to do? I'd follow the advice of a “Fellow Martyr.” Man may do any thing. A modest woman may only wait JUST HUMAN. She Would Reform Soldier's Entertainment? Dear Miss Grey: Not long aro, in your paper, appeared a letter signed “A Soldier,” and I hope that he may have a chance to read this and know that there is one person who admires him for wishing to meet a woman and not a “kid.” I, too, have been dixgusted with the way these young girls flirt and hang around a soldier, one of whom they have perhaps just met And the parties that are given in “honor of our soldier boys"—the sentimental songs they sing, and the childish games they play, are about as much of a treat to a man, in my opinion, as a book of fairy tales. These young people, no doubt. mean all right, but often I feel that many of the soldiers have a good laugh among themselves afterward and then come back to jolly the giris along into believing they've caught a fellow. A MISS. Man's Standard and Woman's Dear Miss Grey: I wish to write a few lines in regard @® “Alone.”| Never reveal your past life to a man you are going to marry I agree with “Mrs, R.." for no matter what a man's pest life has been, he wants a woman as pure as gold for a wife and mother of his children. I married a man whose past life was not what it should have been, and if I had not known about it, I know our married lives would be happier than it has been, for it is hard to trust a man when you know his character has not always been the best. But I have never accused him of his past Ife, and try to make home happy and pleasant for him and the children; but it is awfully hard, sometimes. I think he has been true gits robbed pretty often, An Australian has a scheme for scattering salt on the clouds and causing rain. It's a fine scheme The aviators could also sprinkle salt on the tails of the birds they met eee “I'm glad to see the girls wearing thone cheap little gingham dreases,” said a Ballard man. “They'ro the most sensible thing I've seen in a long time. My daughter's got one, and {t looks as tho she had paid a lot of money for it.” Daughter had paid $1.35 a yard for it. Father has an idea gingham is selling at 1890 prices. oe THE MELANCHOLY MUSE When I can no longer eat, I am ready for death. That will be the end of things, the eetting sun of life; I live, as long as I draw really happy only plying fork and knife. Fair ix love and all the ways of love, But the end is grievous—marriage in the end Debts on all sides and debta above And swarms of progeny to tend. I crave not riches, no worldly gain, Nor friends, who never friends are or remain All I ask is appetite, The wherewithal for the gratifi cation of it, The solace of food and feeding my face. long an I have trouble no one. I am content to eat. As these, I will —POMER. The Star Will Gladly Publish Two brothers of Mra. Fred Blue, Never throw away an old billiard cushion. It can be used on the porch chatrs A cake of ice that is so slippery fs difficult to handle can be roughened by rubbing it with a plece of sandpaper. Nutmeg is much bought by the barrel Chidiren should be taught kindll ness. Never whip the cream or beat an oxg when they are around Khaki-colored doughnuts are quite lish, on account of the war. eee cheaper when at. | Speaking of high rents, how about the fellow who owns a vacant lot that was worth 500 before the war and ts worth $15,000 or more now? How much of the increase does he give up? and white striped | man’s overcoat. Finder notify Har- old Wohigezogen, Sheboyan.—Mant towoc, Wis, Herald. ee Lost—Black | An Fastern clothing manufacturer | anys suits selling at $25 in 1914 will cont $65 next spring, and Herbert! Peabody, chief of the woolen division | of the war industries board, says| there is no wool shortage in sight Which do you believe? 80 do we. | eee | We know why King Charlie has} gone up to Berlin to visit the kaiser, | He went there to get & square) mea! | | | Luxuries, we hear, are to bear the brunt of the new war tax. Now, watch everybody cut out the luxu ries. | And we hear, too, that expensive | ¢lothing is to be hit. What other | kind of clothing here? . cr Rarbers in a section of New York city struck because customers re-| fused to tip them. Pretty soon we'll | ja be #0 tight we won't even tip our | hata, LETTERS FROM SOLDIERS Interesting Communications From Sammies |soon, and writen often, ie change nex feboats—paid for the work they do. And the officers have special quarters with exem labor. Heaven help us! In Brandenburg, they poison the water to kill off the| oners. The sentries kick, beat, lash and smash them) h thong and rifle butt. The prison doctors hasten the! ith of the ill The Huns in our detention pens, our “internment pstelries,” are the same as those guards at Brand | d we PAY them to work for us! ieee: We pay them whose racial relatives, if not blood kin ethibited the first American prisoners at Cologne in caeel wr public revilement and derision e Czecho-Slavs e hopes of the Czecho-Slovaks are gradually being ption | | | | 1. : Great Britain has formally recognized the Czecho- 3 Slovaks as an allied nation and their three armies as part the great allied fighting force. | France and Italy have already officially recognized the| moe ot ee pate er the United States has un- Officially, thru its secretary of state, expressed the | pathy of this country for their cause, 4 me | ‘ The recognition of these people by the allied powers! ‘is but the carrying out of one of the principles for which ‘we are fighting—the freeing of the smaller nations from in} ga ciple 4 : : e allies have much to be grateful for in the s' of the Czecho-Slovaks for political freedom. agg pt alive the flame of revolt in the Austrian empire. They we deserted to the cause of the allies whenever and| h er possible, fighting under their banners when cap- ture meant death as deserters. They kept on fighting the ing armies of the Germans into Russia, even tho the ussians had fled. And now they are also fighting shoul to shoulder with the French, British and Americans the western front, driving the Hun back to his lair. Political freedom as a separate nation will mean the nd of the sufferings and privations of these people, to me since marriage, but I am al ways in doubt. But I love him as n other woman could, and for the sake of our little ones, will try to make the best of the life I have chosen will preach a sermon Sunday morning entitled, The Unshackling of the Nation In the evening he will discuss the subject, The Kaiser’s Ally in America Come to the great song service at 7:45 o'clock. Presbyterian Church Seventh and Spring tty 2016 Fast Union, have been gassed | |while in action in France, Letters from the brothers follow France, July 10, 1918. Dearest Sister and Brother: Well, Sis, I am here and ready to go some more. Frank and I have |been in the hospital, all gassed up a bit, but feeling fine now, and jhope these few lines will find you |hoth the same. We are having Ifine weather now and everybody is itaking a whack at the Huns. Sum- |mer is here and the airplanes whiz around thru ‘the cloudless azure lakies, almost all the time. The} guns on both sides are very active and they make both sides around a little. | ' We have learned several new/ dances since we have been over! here. Some of them are as follows |The Duck Board dip, the Whiz Bang gallop, the Shell Shock glide, and they are very beautiful when danced to appropriate music and) we are teaching the Huns to dance} to the same tune. There are lots of flowers, grass and green trees except near the lines, where the gases have affect- ed them. The little birds, which neem to defy bullets, shells and gas, fly around overhead and roost sofgewhere in No Man's Land, and [send their sweet muste floating over the ghastly land and soothe ithe nerves of the tired, sleepy sol- diers, sitting at their post, and it |is the only sound we hear from eo we havo nothing to fear. hop | Captain Ross is back with our company again, and we are going out for a rest, but do not know where we will go to, Well, dear, this will be all for this time. 1 will have to go and roll my pack, Hoping to hear trom you | this short | Your loving brother, | “DUTCH.” | | ee France, July 10, 1918, | Dear Sister: Will write you a! short letter, if I can think of any- thing to write. I have written to! you every two weeks, but the last | time I got a letter from you was the day I got the cake from you, | and that has been a long time ago, | What is the matter with you, are | you all sick? | Well, Sis, the Dutch have got me in the hospital, but it will be out before long, and back with the com-| |pany, I can't think of much to |write about, so will have to make I haven't heard from| home for some time, or anyone else, | so please answer soon, and tell Fred to write. With love to all, FRANK J. TAYLOR, M, 168th Inf. A. KF, Co, CONFESSIONS OF A WIFE wn anne DO WOMEN TIME THEIR PROPOSA » 20 “I will say this for you, Margie you have always tried to live up to your ideals, You have never said anything that I ean remember, for the mere sake of hearing yourself talk, and, above all, you the courage of your conviction and said many things that Iam sure you knew as well as I that your auditors did not like to hear, It has always ) your #incerity that has appealed me Add to t Donna, that I am not afraid to change my mind and you have given me the compliment that I like best of all.” Are you going to refuse my friend, Barclay Sill, Margie?” asked Donna abruptly, changing the sub Jeet He has not asked #aid.” 1 hummed softly. “That is only because you are not ready to refuse accept him yet, Margie,” "Bo you are one of those people that think with George Bernard Shaw that a woman can precipitate or put off a proposal, Donna “Of course, and you not only think. but you know it is true from your experience. How many pro » have you warded off since died? bo you think it quite seemly Donna, for a widow to receive a pro poral of marciage ten months after her husband's death?” My dear girl, there you are wor shiping the symbol, that you just have been telling me in willy. I think that the time for a widow to receive & proposal is when she wants the man to propose. When she wante to tie him to her belt or wants to get rid of him, whether her husband has been dead ten monthes or ten years has nothing to do with it.” 1 confess 1 feel very sorry for Barclay, for | am quite sure you 4o not want him a lam sure you wan me, sir, she wee that he really is a very nice man indeed.” “Yeu, I can see that, but Donna, why are you tacitly inviting me to marry again when you have been a widow for many years with appar ently no desire of changing your own name and estate?” “That ts true, Margie, 1 would hate to give ®p my Uberty——I mean,” whe hastily added, “I think I am rather selfish, but I certainly do not feel that I can subjugate my whole life to a man again—at least, I have not seen one since Will died that has made me fee] that great emotion that would make it any great pleasure to give up my life to him Say what you will, Margie, when a woman elects to be married, whether she in 16 oF 30, whe elects to make marriage her business and house keeping and the bearing and rearing of children are only incidentals to a business that makes more demands | upon the individual than anything else in the world.” “And get, Donna, it seems to be the only business that the world thinks any woman can do without the slightest preparation, or the slightest talent or incli jon.” “Some day, Margie, we are going to change all this,”” “How can we do it? We cannot As long as the world lasts there will be men and women.” “No, my dear Margie, we cannot change nature, but we can accept |nature for exactly what it is and build up our existence on that basi«. It im not necessary to glorify sex al mont to the extinction of mind and spirit in woman.” “Which makes me think, dear Don na, of what a man said to me the other day-—'I love you, my dear, in spite of your brain.’ ” “I love that, Margie, it is so mas culine and egotiatical.” (To Be Continued) “FALL STYLES and materials for Suits, Coats and One-piece Dresses. RABY TAILORING CO., Inc. 425 UNION ST. Dr.J.E. Crowther Morning at 11:00 “RESPECTABLE IDOLATRY” Mrs. A. P. Gouthey will sing “My Father Watches Over Me." Evening at 8:00 “1,” or “The Autobiography of a Christian Soldier” Enlisted Men and Strangers are especially invited, COME and bring your friends. FIRST METHODIST CHURCH Downtown Fifth and Marion SEATTLE (2 Days tres.) Aug. 26-27 Third Avenue,and Republican Street >PRECE OIG FIRS 7 PM. PERFORMANCE? gt (A) Tickets on Sale Show Day at Sherman-Clay Piano Co., same prices as charged on show grounds, have had)! ITS BLESSINGS—DEMOCRACY BY WINONA WILCOX A woman who never before did a useful thing in her Ife ts knit ting socks for soldiers, She paid $1.48 for the three hanks of yarn required, Then she discovered that socks from the same yarn, knitted by hand, cont from $8 to $4.66 in the shops! Plainly, the work of her fingers wag worth the difference between the price of the hanks and the socks. She who had been a waster, born only to weap holes in silk stockings knit by others, had suddenly ber come a creator, and a valuable member of the com- munity. Incidentally, this woman learned an important les son in economics: Wealth is created by human em ergy applied to the natural resources of the earth. “But the value of the socks to the soldier,” she com mented, “is exactly the same, no more and no lesa, whether they come to him from the Red Cross, or from | me, or whether he buys them himeejf. 1 suppose we could all get along without money, somehow, & WHOM WILCOX. couldn't get along without socks, we couldn't without labor, I guess that idle people, even if they are rich spenders, | don’t count for much in this busy world.” | And #0 she came to take more pride in # a La Fayette heel | than ahe ever had had in owning her most expensive dancing hose. Knitting socks for soldiers made her one with humanity in another way. She no longer thought solely about the number of bars her officer friends wore on their shoulders, nor whether they were gold or silver bars, Hut while sbe knitted, she humbly wove a wish with every stitch, & prayer that the soldier lad who should wear her socks, would never be wounded, never taken prisoner, never be killed, but t ¢ would come |home safely to the women, somewhere, who loved him best. Knitting has brought unlimited joy to many women because it has | eiven them something useful to do. While it is the simplest form of war | work, it may be ken as a sample of what war work does for women in | genera). Starting with the woman, it proves the value of human labor, and ending with the unknown soldier boy across the seas, it makes the knitter \etaunchly democratic. And this result is, perhaps, the supreme blessing. in, | Girl munitions worker fills grenades with high ez- plosive in record time of one every five seconds, Now, tf we can LAND them that often in a trench-nest of SEVEN MEN MUST WORK AT HOME | | T part here at home then is to support those soldiers of Democracy. That means we must work harder, more efficiently, less wastefully, and “Save. Our greatest opportunity to aid the men in the trenches is to invest our sav- ings in i War Savings Stamps and Liberty Bonds ‘The facilities of this bank are at your disposal to ald you in this im- portant work. “A bank balance is an education, a devel- oper. It is the difference between drift and thrift. “Thrift means economy, frugality, care- fulness. Also it means moral and finan- cial growth. 2s “The person who has the saving bee is the person of power and influence. Ho is in the path of progress.” : —Elbert Hubbard. Are you in the path of progress? 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