The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 28, 1918, Page 6

THE SEATTLE STAR—SATURDAY, SEPT. 28, 1918 AR DRIDE Copyright, 1918, Ave, Near Ui MEMBER OF SCRIPVS NORTHWEST LEAGUE OF NEWSPAPERS ervic United Prees Aaseciation tter May &, 1899, at the Postoffice at the Act of Congress Mareh 3, 1978, SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS bride, her hashand, arises partly from the attention Jane receives from Hamilton Certele, @ doctor educated in Vienna, whom Robert suspects of being = spy; and partly from neglect to Jame occa- ioned by Bob's long talk with his father when he should have been saying alk concerns a dancer who will wreck th Mail out of cit Year, $5.00, in t month, $4.60 for Published Daily by The exehange connecting v f You are marching ON TO BERLIN | when you put aside a dollar or two for | _| the FOURTH Liberty Loan. i é ° ° ' Put Service Stars in Bank Book ; The man with lots of curiosity stared at the little cash | in the corner drug store. His curiosity was aroused) the tiny paper service flag pasted on the front and) 5. ing a pair of blue stars. j i Finally he addressed the druggist. “You ARE in hard jh to have lost two of your cashiers to the army. What nch are they in? “Two cashiers? Army? Whaddye mean?” a “Those two service stars on your cash register—don’t| on come to herself, time. ‘The plot is stru dane, ® country girl, married inte w rich family, I tack of hysteria, she finds thet of Lerimers. My announcement that I had discovered a whale didn't disturb the native at the wheel in the least, but the rest of the party tried to locate it, Luke's keen eyes first located the —m dark object between the waves. Then came his verdict, “ "Tain't no whale.” And he went back to his kite string. Daddy returned to his fishing lines 0 but Certeis studied my find thru his Dinoculars. ." was his comment, “it might be a whale.” I raised my hand for the glasses, “Let me adjust the focus for you,” sald Certeis. Then his fingers fumbled, somehow, and the glasses slipped | into the s “So sorry—my best glasses, too,” said Certeis, while his smile said it didn't really matter at all, Then he turned to Luke a “Think we can get up a couple more kites this afternoon?” they stand for two clerks gone to war?” | Very soon three fine triangles were swinging high in the blue sky. “Oh! Ha! Clerks in the army, nothing! Those two}«ain’t no one man could hold them three to oncet,” proclaimed Luke as he ervic tars "a r i Bonds that! proudly regulated his electrical gear. ole stand for ny A voir ane aves Uncle ‘This important success achieved, Certeis came back to me. His hana- came out of that little old cash register an J e some self was immaculate in white flannels, Certeis would be spotless on mm’s treasury department! Some idea, eh! Yes, and) a desert istand ’s going to be a lot more stars in that flag before I) “TONY LOSES GLASS AD MY FIRST VIEW OF HUGE WHALE Dt on a “Wasn't it a whale” I persisted. “It might be.” he replied. “Two years ago one drifted into our cove. Munsey, the engineer, made quite a fortune out of it. Now that the const | ; 4 | Some idea, indeed! Send your surplus dollars to war patrols are mistaking whales for U-boats and firing on them, a wounded f you can’t send a son. If you HAVE sent a son, send all} ieviathan would be likely to drift this way.” more dollars after him to be sure he’s well fed and; — “U-boats around here, too? Fascinating prospect! Please don’t let j any U-boats spoil this little paradise,” I pleaded in mock terror. "th ice flag in your window it’s! “Then you're having a nice time, Jeanne?” he asked in ou can’t have a service fla » 1t'S| complete contentment. = aay: as an American to put service stars on your é “Pertoctly splendid! I exclaimed, intoxicated by my new dream world. * boo! 7 i ick!| Even Luke looked like a stowaway out of some book of adventure. * ss gt aumebtenia ik wherever they. will mech! “Perfectly lovely!" I repeated. ‘For the first time in months, the war - Assistant Corporation Counsel Kennedy wants to know if Mayor Hanson will require a guardian with "every American soldier, under 21, who steps out after 9p. m., in Seattle. We don’t know how these youngsters | seems far away!" | ‘The ris never far awn: Certeis said after me solemnly, almost | | meet city dangers, but when they get to “No Man's “Land” they'll be amply able to take care of themselves. | bitterly We are always in the whorl of it, ci s within circles.” it Yourself “It Chrys were here I always introduced Chrys into the con- versation, whene Certeis and I got to the brink of personalities—“if ‘We know this is contrary to all the established ideas it this is our experience. Chrys were here——' “Our fair seer would undoubtedly prophesy in her most dramatic The married men, men in the late thirties and early practically without exception, are eager to go to a tone of style,” interrupted Hamilton Certeis, “that you have never been #0 close to the war as you are at this moment!” And 80 we joked the afternoon away (To be continued.) it. Try it out. Take half a dozen family men; men who been stabled in the stalls of domesticity until you d have thought the smell of the world pasture had d from their nostrils; ask them if they want to go to IN CONDITION front and see what they say gi Pewee = agli Se - oad = "RO} uiney Tugsday, looking afier his We discover more eagerness in the men over 35 than} ‘Saas wrs farm. He has recovered the ure of| p } do in the newlyweds, in the unwedded, and in the bud-| Nature — finally his game lef, and now han a pair of i 7 j i i i | , . | the on which to make his run for dins coi have their first job, their first girl and) tice wa. th sheriff.—Mendon, Ill, Dispatch, ir firs’ ivver. ‘ eee _ These older men do not want clerical jobs; they are not ay for staff appointments, comfortable billets; they scorn} younger men in commercial chores, but they, last one of them, want to get Over There, and the ae er to the front the better. : ') The list of volunteers for the tank corps proves this. i But you can prove it for yourself any afternoon. What’s the answer? G’wan, we're married ourselves. + THE REAL TEST ls “Are you going to change your new hat, Gladys?” “Not much. Every girl I know is breaking her neck to tell me how | unbecoming it is.” complication of diseases, sir—at least six. Patient—I suppose you'll allow me | a discount on the half-dozen, doctor. eee DISAGREEMENT “We don't seem to agree with our Inefficiency of the German Intelligence Depart- ment is one of the complaints of the German general ' staff, it is declared. The intelligence department may | have its own opinion of the German general staff. “I'll give you 10 cents, Bobby, not to tell.” | ‘ I've had to raise my price on account of the war."—Judge. . . , 1,000 citizens engaged in the campaign every waking} ute will be automatically released for their regular tasks. | Every day that passes until the quota is subscribed ins that this army of 1,000 is being kept from perform- ») oe ‘ope, Barreled goof who Walks a concrete Pedal on the heel Of your shoe— w have the Mishapsburgs. eee ‘The Yanks caught a German count who is greatly peeved because he is not allowed an orderly, and 1s forced to shine his own shoes. He's lucky. They might give him a job of shin ing somebody else’ VY The war of movement for which Ludendorff sighed _ is in full swing, but its direction is an unpleasant sur- A Wilhelm’s Great Mistake When Kaiser Wilhelm Hohenzollern throws up_ his | blood-dripping hands, he will confess to having committed| history’s most horrible and disastrous blunder. - It was one time believed characteristic of kultur to} _ make no false move. Before blazing a trail of his own, the Hun bisected, dis- and vivisected the work along similar lines previous- is done by pioneers of progress eve: s e The mule act of Tossing the Trespassed heel Up under the eaves Of his cupola, So he'd get a Black and blue Ibye-dea, That heels were Invented to walk on, Not to step on. e | “A Seattle clothing dealer, -nis-| quoting from a war industries board | ruling, says, ‘Every man in the coun try has from three to eight suits,’"| writes Anon. “The only man I know who has eight suits is a lawyer.” eee | SOUNDS MORE LIKE NIGHT vhere. He rode free} cael oe rae a os : a . e company w: appear in full) Every time the allies start an of. on other fellow’s dearly-bought ae My EXPeFIeNce. | | adress, minus the coats, hats, trous-|fensive, it means several thousand in this manner, German so-called efficiency seldom|ers, shirts and army shoes.-—Dead-|more Germans. who cn: eat a wood, ! EVERY MAN IS HIS OWN 2 CHARLES STELZLE . Every man is his own kind of a fool. | And he doesn't find it very hard to justify his foolishness, | But the strange thing about it is that when anothar| man tries to get away with the same thing, it seems all wrong—and different—to the original fool. Every man in the lunatic asylum believes that every man in the place is crazy—but himself Every man is his own kind of a fool, There aren't any two of us exactly alike about this fool business. In this respect we are all individualists— | we stand alone—and in our own particular pay. But the Hun undid his years of caution, calculation and| 5 ek ee | kultur when he entered upon a war of terrorism by atrocity. |] : He chose} @ course based on failure. He precipitated the calamity| now upon him. world to shudder, quake and tremble. It increased hunaie i ity’s resistance till now it overwhelms and is slowly crush- Made a misstep. 8: D., Pioneer-Times, | Thanksgiving dinner in Paris, He reverted to a fallacious medieval practice. | Each successive unspeakable outrage did not cause al ing out of the Hun the price of his mistake. “We Wronged Belgium” | The world at last hears Germany’s confession of its! wrong to Belgium from the lips of Chancellor Hertling. Even tho he seeks to find extenuation for the dastardly invasion in a theory of self-defense, it will not wash the | blood from the guilty Hun hands. 3 And when anybody else tries to interfere when a ) Kultur alone could preach this kind of doctrine. “It are making fools of ourselves, we become indignant—} i is true that we transgressed the written law, but as for we Preree to be left alone in our foolishness, \ )) individuals, so there is for states, a law of defense.” Sete tee IM Bis sy ot top}, Nf: There is a law of defense. When a bandit attacks you, of Phat pag a co ah Mep recog ast Ht ‘ou may slay him in self-defense. Hertling would compare But—there's a point where the law does step {n and te gium—the peaceful, neutral Bel call a halt—it's when the fool injures somebody else thru his fooliahness, whatever it may be, | | And if the fool is guilty of a practice which injures his own usefulness ; ple| as a citizen, then, too, the law stops him—whenever it can, | children—non-| Every man is his own kind of a fool, | | Few fools ever reform. Usually they go clear down the line—and get | what's coming to them—at the end of the road. | Some of them glory in it. They have been the “captains of their souls"’ —and that’s something. | Some cower when they face the fruits of their foolishness. But most of them never awake to the fact that they were fools, Every man is his own kind of a f>' gium of the summer 1914—to the armed bandit. a A law of defense? Yes, but not a law to tram upon innocent men, women and combatants all. WAR SAVINGS STAMPS ARE THE SAME AS MONEY. GOOD AS CASH. ° organization,” Hakanson of Co. B, 1 was too weak was sent to the hospital ment tries, rorism, east of NEARER EVERY OBSERVATION Editor's Mail — HOW'S THIS FOR GOUGING? Editor The Star: Speaking of profitecering, how is this one? | Last week the writer, while shop ping at a South End market, felt hig mouth watering at the sight of some beautiful red apples. Upon inquiring — the price from the map at the fruig” stand, was informed they were 19° cents a pound or three pounds foe” 25 cents. ediess to say I left withe out any apples. Py t to bring to the Now what I wan! attention of The Star readers is 4 Out in Rainier valley, where #0 3 have large orchards, these same ape ples are sold for 2 cents a pound) plums for 2% cents and pears for 2% cents a pound. I got ten pounds” of apples for 20 cents, which at the market would have cost me 85 Sa 0 Lots of fruit in these orchards in the country is rotting. Why not spend 10 its car fare next time you need fresh fruit, and go out in the suburbs, where you can get it fresh from the trees and save 166 per cent? BG eee THE STREET CAR ISSUE Editor The Star: Your article im” The of August 28, on the street car question, meets with the approval of the Seattle public, I am sure. If we were as far ahead with — our street railway system as we age with our light, water and port fi cilities what a blessing it would Many of us feel the disgrace ke of the federal government having step in and settle our tran ti problems when they are Dura with stupendous national affairs, city ownership will solve the probl let us go ahead with it. Then if it necessary to increase the fare to cents we are ready to pay it. A. R. DRAKE, HOW ABOUT HAIR CUTS? — | Editor Star: Myself and others) — were overwhelmed with indignation upon reading the suggestion of EB.” Gustafson in this column Septem- ber 25th, advocating the abolition — of the barber shop, which would be — the result if every man adopted the ‘Shave yourself.” ‘ e first place, this would throwing hundreds of men out | work, @ condition to be at this time. Barbering is an | tial industry. It is a trade |has taken the average man to learn. The U. 8S. Labor : inl The Drive Is On BY CHARLES B. DRISCOLL Our boys are headed for the Rhine, The Huns are homeward turning, With towns the boche is burnin ull soon the trall of blight death, The path of devastation, Across the German nation, land! Our hearts with pride are swell LETTERS FROM SOLDIERS And every night the sky is bright ne. and Drive on, brave boys from Yankee. | W: ling; ! ' | Today we dare to do our share With something more than yelling We're going cash As much as may be needed We'll give you guns to beat the Huns, Till vict'ry is conceded. to back you up with d iP Will point the way, by night and day, | ) |The home-front drive is under way; ) | Your voices seem to call us; 1 change this thing the Heintes sing To “Deutschland Unter Alles.” } The Star Will Gladly Publish Interesting Communications KEEP HUNS RUNNING |bulances. Say, they can all talk | “I teil you, the Red Cross is some|about the institutions that are do- writes Private “Today, my birthday IT am in an/| were treating us all “Our boys sure have kept k th Inf., to his living | Red Cros allies on one point. Lloyd George retry ed aie bape preys wae s ‘No inch a 2 es 9th st. e states tha please 1,000 Men er bale oat en a da the Red Cross is doing wonders for You're going to subscribe to the Fourth Liberty Loan, mt a ee ve ‘em hell.'*| wm i ee course—everybody will—but has it occurred to you that said. ADP det ge pe u are performing an immeasurably greater service if you} THE PROFITEER | American Red Cross hospital. But iy your bonds today, rather than leave it until next week?! «1711 nave to tell mother that 1 1 am inet wounded or hurt, only Seattle takes its full quota of $26,872,400 on Satur-|saw you kissing sister.” | Le ee Huns but I| train again we got and exhausted so 1 | sandwich the Huns on the jump since they came ing good work over here but let me tell you none can come up to the| At the first field hos- tal we came to, a Red Cross nurse ‘a the boys choco. Then when we| pi | late and cigarets got to the hospital in Paris they | the time. 1I| had the first ice cream here since 2 arrived in France. | “Then when we were aboard the | hot chocolate, | d grapes besides being fed on the train, ‘They sure do all they can to make the sick and wounded comfortable Sept. 28, tatements indicating nough money Germany 28, 1914—French joucher, Sept. Dr. J.E. Crowther LIBERTY LOAN SUNDAY Morning at “THE HIGHER FREEDOM” Afternoon at Participation in the Chu Parade satuhes . 8:00 rch Evening at IN THE WAR CLOUDS” OF 500 SAILORS from the LAKE WASHINGTON NAVAL TRAI STATION, Over 1,000 turned ay Sunday. FIR Come carly NFORCED. FIRST METHODIST CHURCH FIFTH AND MARION s “SILVER LININGS MASSED CHORUS y last mn ms by up here, but it has meant lots of “I was quite surprised to be taken | the other war tasks of the nation. THE TEST A DANDER RAISER hardships and work, this far back but here I am Yet I Many of the 1,000 Liberty Loan workers are men], Johnny—Huh! I bet you didn't, 1, 0 eadudh get where I am now TI had|don't expect to stay here long. to the cause from vitally essential industries. While|"*’* * "001 time at your birthday) 2) iM kward two rides on the fine American| “Don't worry for I'll be out and_| ‘ e ca “ ry, cae ry ~ + | party yesterday, enh ROMS AWK WER Red Cross train and about six am- going in a short time.” campaign for Liberty Bonds their other work is) winie—t pet 1 aia CiiGopa pina a 5 ells e ol on y " eat led brogan 7 ected. set , 4 noma ‘Then why ain't you sick) | OnMing trow at your THIS DAY IN THE WAR ‘ Your subscription to the Fourth Liberty Loan is worth | today’ sore Irritable orphan corn— Sept. 28, 1917—Rritish advance | far more to the government if it is made today. Resides the Hohen-hollerins, we| But, the double north of Thiepval | 1916—Chancellor Mich: | aclis says the United States govern- “even by unparalleled tei to stir up war enthusiasm, Sept. 28, 1915—Rerlin banks make | has to carry on the war| for a whole year yet. | advance | at Linz to two da | prisonment for failing to report to the authorities the receipt of a| | quantity of old leather from the| town of Ulm. When she reached the Schwanenstadt jail, however, the warden declined to allow her| police escort to conduct her inside. He declared that as there was noth-| ing to eat for the prisoners in the building he could not assume re-| sponsibility for admitting fresh in-| | He added that if the intended | prisoner would bring with her a/ sufficient supply of food for the| two days she would be at once ad. | mitted. The two policemen, there. | fore, had no alternative but to reconvey their charge to the town hall, where she was detained pend ing the decision of the municipal | councilors. | From this incident, therefore, we | | gather that he who does not come | | adequately provided with victuals | not only need not, but may not, jenter a jail. | WHY WAIT BUY YOUR | | A | TAILORING CO. Headquarters for Suits, Coats and One-Piece Dresses 425 Union Street | front in that region, encountering emphasizes the fact that | purpose is to adjust condit that every man is filling the which he is best fitted, and |as these ranks must be filled, take the experienced men Hy uw! g £82 Yank “Amateurs” Outguess German “ 2. 9% line of work? Few people would Professionals” } vi their own wait, even it they American artillery violently { could find someone to hold the bombarded the whole front be-{ glass, and the average American tween Verdun and the Metz re sion Wednesday night. A score of deep raids were made into the German line in this region. The German command, to meet this “attack,” concentrated great masses of artillery and reserves comfort as candy, tobacco and other things which are considered and are conducive to good health and spirits. No one would dream of @ slogan, between"Verdun and the Moselle.) “Wash your own underwear,” and Then, when the enemy had ) thereby release thousands of laundry weakened his lines sufficiently (| workers, yet there are many men west of Verdun, the Americans (| who would as soon do that as shave suddenly attacked on a 20-nile themselves. Needless to say much! of the barber's money goes for Liberty Bonds, Red Cross, ete, | Thank God our Labor board has jbrains enough to figure things out, and has the barber shop is a necessity. + Little opposition. The American “amateurs” had completely outguessed the Ger- man “professionals.” WINTHE WAR | Litt adda REALL LLL LS i IN ONE DAY |, SATURDAY Sept.28, 1918 The people of Seattle should subscribe their share, which is twenty-eight mil- lions. And the people of our na- tion should subscribe the six billions in one day. $i This act of loyalty would ( put the fear of Right in the i Kaiser where his heart 3 ought to be and compel the confidence, respect and es- teem of the natives of the earth. Do it in a day. EDWIN J. BROWN