The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 25, 1918, Page 4

PAGE 4 WOMEN EAGER TO FILL GAPS | LEFT BY MEN More than 500 women have regis: | tered with the women's division of the United States employment bu- reau, at 110 Cherry st., and are anx | fous to supplant men who go to war | essential industries, according to} Niss Birdie Campbell, in charge of | the division. | “More than 100 women have ex | pressed willingness to work tn the} shipyards, doing light work, such as piling serap fron,” stated Miss Camp bell. “Thirty-five women were put to work in the Pacific Coast Steel | Works plant during the past week, and their work was reported to be very satisfactory.” | Women have registered for NMeht work now being done by men in the) buflding trades, garment work, per sonal services, bakeries, cigar stands, | auto accessories, waiters and clerks. Stenographers are put thru an ef: ficiency test before placed in a post | tion, according to Miss Campbell. Employers seeking woman labor to | replace men in non-essential work | will be able to get in touch With Miss Campbell at 110 Cherry st. or by! calling Eliott 5728. | Whether Seattle receives any core | contracts for war materials for the United States government depends to a large degree upon the results of an industrial survey being made by the community labor board, according to | Henry McBride of the board, for the | government desires to place con tracts in such a manner as to avoid transportation and movement of la bor. With the women ready to take up! the work of the men going into es.) sential war work, and -nany firms ab | ready employing women, the conver. | sion of nonessential male employes to essential war work ts progressing | favorably, says McBride. Influenza? LaGrippe? Foley’s Honey and Tar! THE SEATTLE STAR—FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1918. “OVER THERE” WITH THE YANKS “Come on, you dudes, shake a leg. all I'll have is your names. GERMANY AND AUSTRIA FACE WINTER OF ACTUAL STARVATION BY HAROLD E. BECHTOL By J. R. Grove. 2 If we don't make headquarters before dark, od is just what every suf- ferer of influenza or la grippe needs now. It} covers the rough inflamed) throat with a soothing healing coating, clears away the mucus, stops the tickling and coughing, eases the tightness an bronchial wheezing. Day and night keep ~ POLEY’S HONEY AND TAR handy. It gives ease and| -comfort from the very first) i} (are Tey latin || HOW BEEF ADVANCES || Figures compiled also by the LONDON, Oct. 25.-—The food situa-| | British food ministry, showing tion in Germany and Austria in go- the increase in beef prices for ing to be worse this winter than et Europe, as follows: any previous period of the war. || Austria, $00 per cent. i} Keefe has — ee -— | pg po pot ga meat is growing scar: scarcer. | | m ce A study of So geese meowe| | Italy, 360 per cent. i | | shows a constantly growing official England, 100 per cent fear of what the “worst winter” of Holland, 160 per cent. the war may bring, In view also of | Denmark, 200 per cent. Switzerland, 90 per cent. Norway, 600 per cent. Sweden, 300 per cent. more than what they were before the ii war; in Germany they have gone up ®-—— 270 per cent. | were 12,000,000, Now there are only | Before the war there were 27,000,- about 5,000,000. } | |towns announce the ounces, and country places from 5% to 6% ounces: That's the ration—e#mall enough— jose. Buy it Now. 000 pigs in Germany; last year there | buy—you'll ONABLE, STA FOOTWEAR AT THIS ECONOMY SHOE STORE! 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You will not | | NDARD QUALITY you want in brown, Boots in dark gray or .. $4.95 | $5.95 $5.95 priced at craven- | | in, flexible sole, priced $5.95 Stamps | Bldg, Second & Pike St: We suggest buying now later owing to curtai we ont tee | Tecelved advices from Dutch work-| men that in the large industrial cen- | |ters of Rhineland, where the men) | wart hard and long, and where ef- forta are made to get them the most possible and best possible food. the German workmen are lucky if they can get 5% ounces & week, despite the official ration of up to 7 ounces In Austria the situation is very much wore, Austria has rationed meat at last, and has given out pink and white |coupons. The total amount of ail | meat allowed under the new ration | \ing system is 3% ounces a week. | |Pink coupons are for beef and better | | meats; white for inferior meat, such | ‘as hornefiesh. Three meatiess days | | restaurants, and it is often impossi- | private homes. | | Earlier in the year some Rumant- | an pork was imported at about $1 a! pound. But this has run out, and for | | several weeks there have been no im | ports from Rumania. On top of all this, in Germany cer tainly and probably in Austria, an order haa been issued forbidding any distribution of meat whatever for) four weeks (12 weeks in Bavaria), pre | sumably because of the short supply | The date of the ban is to be announc- | ed later, When Your | Head Aches Y OU will enjoy the, cooling, soothing and refreshing effect of BAUME ANALGESIQUE BENGUE that famous French prod- uct, originated by Dr. Jules Bengue of Paris. This preparation has been for years recom- mended by doctors both here and abroad. You can |get it at almost any drug | SOLDIER “GOING IN” |store in the United States | in spite of war conditions. 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FOR VOTE OF CONFIDENCE wo || Continued From Page One — oer ———8 | times like these, be allowed to stand | ih the way of speaking the plain truth | Asks Undivided Support | “1 have no thought of that any political party is para-| |mount in matters of patriotinm. 1) [feel too keenly the sacrifices which | | have » made in this war by all | citizens, irrespective of party liation, to harbor such an idea 1 mean only that the difficulties and delicacies of our present task | are of & sort that make it im peratively necessary that the na- tion Bhould give its undivided sup- |port to the government under a} lunified leadership, and that a re | publican congress would divide th leagership. | “The leaders of the minority in| the present congress have un- questionably been pro-war, but they have been anti-administration At turn since we en- jalmost every | tered the war they have sought) }to ta the choice of policy and! the conduct of the war out of my jhands and put it under the control | of instrumentalities of their own | choosing. | “This is no time elther for divided | counsel or for divided leadership. | Unity of command ts as necessary now fn civil actions as ft Is upon the field of battle. If control of! the house and senate should be taken away from the party now in) power, an opposing majority could asmume control of legislation and oblige all action to be taken amid) contest and obstruction. | Europe Would Misunderstand | “The return of @ republcian ma- jority to elther house of congress would, moreover, certainly be in-| terpreted on the other side of th | ership | “Spokesmen of the republican congress in order to |hack up and support the president, | |but even if they should, in this| 4) the British food ministry. They are way, impose upon some credulous | | the latest information to be received voters on thin side of the water, | from accurate | they should impom on no one on the other side, It ts well under- the bad harvest and the | stood there, as well as here, that much |to control him. “The peoples of the allied coun- |tries, with whom we are associated, }are quite familiar with the sig- nifleance of elections. find {t very difficult to belleve that the voters of the United States had chonen to support their prest- dent by electing to the congress a majority controlled by those who are not, In fact, in sympathy with the attitude and action of the ad- | ministration, For Nation's Sake “I need mot tell you, my fellow countrymen, that I am asking your support, not for my own sake, or for the enke of @ political party, but for the sake of the nation itself in order that its Inward unity of pur pose may be evident to all the world. In ordinary times I would not feel at liberty to make such an appeal to you. In ordinary times divided counsels can be endured without permanent hurt to the country. “But these are not ordinary times. If in these critien! days it is your) with to sustain me with your und vided minds, I bee that you will say fo In a way which it will not be pos | are compulsory in Austria and two in| "ible to misunderstand either here, | Hungary. No meat ts obtainable in| “t home or among our associates on T submit | | ble to get the allowed 3% ounces for |™Y “difficulties and my hopes to you. | the other aide of the sea. (Signed) “WOODROW WILSON.” Here’s Proper Way | to Make Good in}; Uncle Sam’s Army }| ORBGON AGRICULTURAL } COLLEGE, Corvallis, Oct. 25.— } “You succeed in the army the /| way you make love to a giri— (| amear it on with a shovel. Pass | out courtesy in gobs.” $) This was advice given members), of the 8. A. T. 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