The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 26, 1918, Page 2

and o “sThe discomfort of hearing unfavor- phen protects a healthyone. Aided by R Qo remove other eruptions, excessive - ‘dryness or ociliness of the skin, and! ALLEGED AUTO THIEF CAUGHT ‘enables one to have a complexion that) compliment Sie comment THE SEATTLE STAR—S. AT IRDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1918. “PUT IT UP TO BURLESON SAYS IT’S TIME TO ASK PHONE SERVIC ‘The time has come for Seattle people to demand of Postmaster General Burleson that the tele phone managers give “at least a semblance of service.” ‘This was the substance of a state: por yoatng gece ane ee tment issued by Mayor Hanson Satur: | 4t least & semblance of neryice, ay, in which he flayed the state| “Not much was to be hoped from public service commission, which 24/ the public service commission in any hours earlier had declared that it| event. The story of tho last gas rate would have nothing to do with fore-| case and other cnatters coming un ing better phone service |der their jurisdiction, and the = nt street car ser are other ‘The commission based its irrespon | senate ee thelr sibility on a communteation from the | compelling public service corpora postmaster general, which canceled a hearing on phone in Spokane. | their public duty. Mayor Hanson, who had previous “Chairman Blaine appears to re ly scored the commission for its fail-| sent criticiam of the conduct of pub ure to fulfill obligations to the peo | tic utilities by the users, and tries to ple, was rapped by Chairman Blaine, throw a halo of patriotism and who said: | righteousness around every incompe “Mayor Hanson is capable of con. tent manager of pubdltc utttities. The siderable mischief, but we trust he | time must never come fn this coun will be slow when it ix at the expense try when the acts of any public off! of the government.” clal are not subject to eriticien, for Mayor Hanson's statement Satur. When the right of criticism ts taken @ay was his “flare-back” on the com. from the people, our government issioner's outburst ceases to be a democracy and be Hanson's statement follows: comes autocratic “The public service commission Pass the Buck “There seems to be a disposition on the part of some men in public service to ‘pass the buck’ to other of ficials, or, failing in that, to say that criticlam is unpatriotic Without criticiam there would be no progress Without the firing of dishonest and | incompetent officials, our govern ment would soon die. “I happen to be mayor of Seattle | but in order to be mayor I had to be an Amertean citizen, which I prise | very much more highly, and as an | American ¢itizen I will continue to leriticiee all the two-by-four, skim: | milk officials who refuse to do their duty. “Now, Mr. Public Service Commis sioner Blaine, the city of Seattle wants service on the street car lines. sinol 22 eal it quic | will you do about it? The citizens of Seattle want extensions of fax mains, etc, and a reasonable rate therefor, What are you going to do * hk about it? What can you do about it? of realizing that one's skin 18 UM! You do not claim the gas and street , can be prevented by Resinol | raitway companies are under control , which not only heals a sick of the United States government, do . you? Or have you another way of esinol Soap, it heals eczema, helps | ‘passing the buck’? phone service, in relation to poor tek Jit is mow up to the people of Seattle jto demand of F master General | Burleson that the present manage 00. wi comments upon one's complexion, Spokane police have wired to the t instead of unfavor- | geattic office that they have arrested | 4. G, Taylor, who is charged with | stealing an auto belonging to C. R. Douglas from the corner of Seventh nd Pik: t Ll p.m, on October 20. (At all dealers. E ONE of those who will start saving tonight. 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Uncle Sam came to the assist ance of 16 hapless tenants and | furnished them with legal pro- tection tn their unequal struggle | againgt the landlords at Friday night's meeting of the fair rent. insion, in the Securi- months, as a fitting | fa change of landiadies | and in order to be in the fashion | when such events take place—the rent of a threereem apartment on Howard ave. N, was run up from $27 to $35 @ month, But the commis sion Informed the woman that she would have to be satiafied with $30. to $15 A landlord who tried to squeese “Shall We Dissolve Partnership or "-MA YO Fire the Boss?” R HANSON 20 4 month out $15 A reduction from $40 to $35 was ordered for a sevenroom modern residence in the Interlaken district, on 24th ave. N The proprietor of a hotel south of a shipyard worker for a miserable little shack | in Georgetown was pulled down to ous as to prevent one man sending in a hurry up call to the police, my ing he had robbed, the police cnewerlng in force to find a Inborer in the neighborhood was wearing the ssesiniaee ve . ; siielipappcaniee 0 | ‘580 NEW CASES WHY HOOVER a | OF “FLU” INLOS ASKS YOU TO | LOS ANGELES, Oct 26. With | (Bpecial to The Star by N. BK AD 680 new cases of Spanish influenza BY MILTON BRONNER and 14 deaths reported here In two WASHING ¥, Oct Why has Herbert ¢ r taken so much | hours today, Dr. I. M. Powers, city | of the mweetnesms out of the tives heulth officer, announced additional |of the American people? measures will be taken to fight the| Answer: So that he can put epider Vaccine is to be brought |More sweetness into the lives of the into general use within a few days,|Atmerican troops, the allied armiag As noon nm it in definitely and the allied peoples. which form of serum is the The world is today crying for practicable, a supply will be provided sugar. The German sources of and all persons desiring the treat |#upply, which used to be neif-mug. ment will be vaccinated by the city | taining, are now badly crippled. health authorities The Kast Indies source is cut off The use of maxks is growing to because of the lack of shipping. a point where th re becoming| Sugar can come only from frequent on the str and sto United States, Cuba and Hawalian Some physicians, b er, main Islands ¢ ured to consume all masks are impracticable except for) that sugar ourselves, In old nurses, doctors and such other per days we uned to eat up 8,218,582,000 sons as are thoroly versed in their) pounds per year | use. Sugar is a necessary part of the Masks, however, are not so numer-| human diet, Since the war began we have been « the allies too it to nine p per person per year and France to 18. If our people will save one-third ng too much and Italy got down ot Yesler way wan forbidden to raise the room rent from $2.50 to $3.50 a week In an apartment building in the industrial section of the town rents were lowered by the board from Here you see sakd “Four Deuces"?) in session at of Bavaria and Friedrich August of Prussian Bill the boot, (thanks to the Potadam, called by Kalser Bil for the first royal conference in years ever-ready artist) the There are King Withelm HH. of Wuerttemberg, Wilhelin the Damned of Some say the other three kings of Germany are likely to give) Saxony. $86.40 to $24, from $87 to $30 and ~= from $36.40 to $26, according te the desirability of the room. Stopped at $30 ‘The change of landlords of an apartment house on the first hill was +signaled by @ rental increase from $21.40 to $35, but the new owner was told to stop at $30. An increase for apartments in the Madison Park district from $27.60 to | $21.60 was allowed over the protest of the ten tenants. The owner of a rather dilapidated fiveroom house in Georgetown, within three months had put the Pat Casey arrived home on leave of absence and was being greeted by Mra, Caney and the seven little “and phat do ye think! «aid Casey. “Oi've been promoted a cor poral?” “And are we all corporals, too?” shouted the little Caseys. Caney. { , HUMOR OF WAR . | how would you get it into line in the quickest powsible way, facing north pacer in “Well, sir,” said the HMeutenant | after a moment's fruitiess considera | tion, “do you know, that's what I've | often wondered ” | In an omnibus in Paris a man in| four Kings antiflu eage: of what they used to consume, it is (who hoped by the food administration to of Germany give land and France 20 Prussia (hous of the concern), Ludwis UJ, S, Naval Guns pounds and Italy 12 pounds per TRE SELON : | Smashing Germans 0 What in periaps more time | “ | WITH THE AMERICAN ATMY | portant If we save, there will be Asks Divorce From (i France, Oct. 26—American ample sugar for the American, Brit. 164nch guns are trained on the Ger-|ish, French, Italian and Prosperous Mate jis: ruirond centers back of the | armies Belgian Charging ber husband with eruel cre-Olee front, also against rail The only way to get this sugar for as filed her | Gustav EB man in th and dect f her marr who is sat road supply stations and junctions jg to save it ¢ that from th ume ge in 1907 until last |in the vielnity of Vervins and Kozoy.| The world’s sugar situation is ear abe has had to go out washing These are navy guns, which were | best illustrated by a comparison support, Etal Peterson not mounted on battleships, and of the wholesale prices per 100 a nuit for divorce against | later made available for use on the! pounds for sugar in the great terson, a trucking fore | West front. They have @ great) cities; New York, $7.30; Mon. kinner @ Eddy shipyard, | range and shoot a projectile weigh | treat, $8.07; Paris, $12 “Lendo . to be earnin: a jing one ton. $12.59; Rome, $26.20. 7 and to own a $15 wick | : | snonth. | automotiic preventing the National City A restraining order ix CATERER TO WEALTHY ‘two FAMOUS FRENCH rent up from $10 to $20 told to come down to $15. From $8 to $18 was the raise asked for an unfurnished fourroom flat in the lower Queen Anne district tn side the past 12 months, The figure was brought down to $12. Withhokd Ejection In six months the landlord of a four-room shack on an alley in the edge of the business district raised the rent from $10 to $21. After looking at the premises the commis sion fixed the rental at $15. A hotel was forbidden to give effect to an announced increase in room rents, and was instructed to provide more adequate heat for the $3.50 per week which it was per mitted to charge. A landlady was ordered to witth- hold the threatened ejection of a shipyard worker wntil the commis sion had time to investigate. CHOICEST COWS FOR HOSPITALS (Special to The Star by N. EL A) LONDON, Oct | Stock dairy cows are the good-will gift of the little islands of Jersey and Guernsey, in the English chan nel, to America. ‘The cows go to the new American Red Cross hospital at Sarisbury | Court, near Southampton, England boca wounded Americans are cared lor. He was! bank and the Pacific Safety Deposit “No,” guardedly replied Pat, civilian's garb rose and offered hin | company from releasing to Peterson “only your mither and me!—-Car | seat to a woman | toons Magazine | “I never accept favors from | community property of $1,000 cash | eee | slackers,” she said witheringly jand $1.650 in Liberty Bonds and PARIB.—A mule skinner from) “Madam,” he replied blandly, “I) War Savings Stamps Alabama was brought Into a dress. | 8s all thru the Gallipoli, and if we'd ing station. His munition wagon|>ad a» much powder as you have |Perfecting Plans COOKS FOR SOLDIERS PARIS, Oct. 26.—Mary Elizabeth Evans ts caterer de luxe to wound- ed American soldiers in Paris hos- pitals, She has established kitchens in the Hotel Regina, Red Crons headquarters, aud is superintending PILOTS ARE MISSING PARIS, Oct. 26—Two famous French air pilots, Lieuts. Lucten Martin and Jacques Erlich, have been reported missing. Erlich has been officially credited with bringing down 19 German airplanes and bal- 26.—Bixty high: | ner Then he added, sadly | when a big ‘an plumped right in| | front of us—and it killed all mules; I feel mighty bad about animals gettin’ bumped off quick" my | them day.” said the war hospital eurgeon. * whom I certainly doff my hat. He had lont a lee and | when they picked him up the first | thing he mid was: “Thank God it was the leg with the rheumatiam'” eee “Horses” aid the Yankee soldier off duty in France ‘Wuess you can't talk to me about horses. 1 an old mare, Maizypop, who © licked our best express by a uple of miles on a 30mile run to Chicago.” | “That's nothing.” said the Cana dian, with whom he was swapping yarna, “I was out on my farm one eS Some of the cattlemen aent out dey, about 60 miles from the house, an appeal like this to all cattle breed When 4 frightful stotm came up ers on the inlands: |1 turned the pony’s bead for home, “A year ago, when the food situa- | and, do you know, he raced the |tlon in England and in the channel #torm #0 close for the last ten miles | was « source of greatest anxiety | that I didn't feel a drop, while my to the suthorities, the Americans, | og, only 10 yards behind, had to | living tm the land of plenty, volun | tarity rationed themaeives in order | And they are still doing #0. | “At the most critical moment in | the history of this righteous war, | America came to our anaistance * is now turning what | might have been defeat and degra- dation into glorious victory. What can we do in return?” The “appeal” then mentioned the new hospital and added, “It has been suggested that it would be a gracious act” to stock the hospital farm with Guernsey and Jersey cows. From every corner of the islands the farmers responded. And only the best cows were given. TANK CHASES HUN COLONEL | PARIS, Oct. ewim the whole distance.” Unes, reading 4 newspaper's account of a recent battle Pat got a far in perplexity. “Say, Ignatius, phwat | th’ hell license has a man with « ‘so | Harp name like that got commandin CALLED HUN, HE “ASKS $375,000 | DENVER, Oct. 26 “Hun” has hurt to the extent $375,000, Ernest Morris, chairman of the Denver county council of de fenne, indicated In a bel muit for that sum, prepared for filing today against F. G. Bonfils and H. H Tammen, publishers of the Denver t » 66 ’ ad Humphreys’ “Seventy«even* breaks up Coughs, Colds, Infuenza, Cold tn the Head, Catarrh, Sore Throat,Quinsy, Reing called a Washington } | | | | | j that we might have enough to eat. | see Tonsilitisand Grip, Atall Druggist Admiral Sims visited an English | school. After his departure, the headman asked his pupils to write thetr impressions of the admiral One ad wrote he thought the ad | miral would have gold braid down 7 wa | the sides of bis trousers and wear | a hat ike Napoleon's, but if it had 0 | not been for the gold bands on his | sleeves, he could not have told him | ee | ; from @ taxi drive Be Better Looking—Take | ‘The proprietor of a public house Olive Tablets Dover, dixplayed a bulletin, fs yellow—complexion | “Naval raid at Zeabrugge.” A Yank coated—appetite poor— noticed the word spelled wrong, dropped in, ordered a drink and said |to the proprietor, “You've got that word ‘Zeebrugge’ spelled wrong.” “I | suppose that must be #0,” said the |landiord, “but since you are the | fortieth man to call in and tell me | no, I'll tet it stand as it is for the | present.” | *\ | “One little fellow, with both legs | gonc, told me how he had crawled | Dr. fields. | up a hill to where he could see the A British tank ordered to charge | boche plainly, but all of a sudden it & house which was a nest of German | occured to him that if he could see machine guns plunged: against the the enemy they could see him. ‘But,’ building amid a hail of bullets on its|1 says to moself, ‘they won't waste a the houge, the second brought it! of artillery guys come up. ‘Hey,’ I down about the tank, which drove | yells, ‘get outta here. Youse'll gum | thru the wreckage, crushing the the game’ and sure enough, I'd _| Germans in the house and permit | hardly gotten the words out of me ting no one to escape. | mouth when-—blooie!—and I finds Another tank sighted a German| meself in the hospital with both colonel in @ wheat field and started legs gone.” after him. The an ran in cir cles, doubled and turned, but “| tank relentlessly followed. He dash “Now, Lieutenant Tompkins,” said the general, “you have the battalion | over it; he cazne out and the tank followed. He bolted breathless across a field, and the tank overtook | him, forced him to surrender and| took him aboard, 28 HUNS AND HUN GUNS DIVIDED PRO RATA (Special to The Star by N. E. A) PARIB, Oct. 26.—German prison- ers taken by American and French units intermingled are divided ac- cording to the proportions of Ameri- cans and ¥rench in the action, The mame rule applies to captured guns and supplies. If 00 French and 200 Americans capture 700 German pris- onera and 250 guns, the French get 560 boches and 200 guns and the Yanks get 140 boches and 50 guns. If you want quality. We Charles Myers, a Russlan Pole, in Landon, fined ler the alien re- striction order, said he had slept in the parks every night since March to escape service, steel sides. The first lunge shook | shell on just me.’ Just then a bunch | All jad ed into a trench and the tank ran/in quarter column, facing south— CASHMERE Special price on car lots to the TRADE only. Exclusive Agents California Commission Co. Wm. Meister, Prop. 1005 Western Ave. ‘gp dangerous after ‘They start the bile and overcome con: stipation. are sold annual! note the pleasing results, sell from 10 gallons u Pp. h been blow a German | °n your face we'd have got to Con “ | sel and he had y * grave | Stantinople in no time.” to Ship Coal to S. A, the making of jellied soups, wine | loons, He has the French Military | wounds / ae oF & L. Yerkes, assistant general di-| Jellies, ice cream and lemon, custard | Medal and has been proposed for “How @o you feel? the doctor| PARIS—This ts from the Starx | rector of distribution for the fuci ad.|@nd chocolate ple for wounded the Legion of Honor. Martin has soked. and Stripes: Vat and Ignatius were | ministration, has arrived in Seattle heroes, When baking powder and) a record of 95 bombardments over “Mighty bad.” said the mule skin-|1¥ing on the greensward bebind the | to pian for the shipping of Western corn starch are sufficient, Miss the German lines and bringing down coal to the western | Evans ts going to make layer cake,| two enemy machines. He is believed candy and that prize American deli-|to be a prisoner. “But not because of my wound jeoast of South America. Western | 4oc. You got me wrong. You see, |*% “The French troops under com | south America has been receiving |cacy—rained biscuits with maple} e.g Ge lt wae goin’ on up front with my mand of General Mangin — its coal from Ue Baatern states. syrup. This is not a free ad—tho| German artillery scored direct hit four old mules and a wagon load| Then he paused and scratched bis |The new plan will save tena of |Miss Evans back home is famous/on American gun, but efficient of @eath for those damned Huns, | thousands of dollare yearly in trans. as “Mary Elizabeth,” caterer to| Yank crew had the gun returning “Mangin? Mangin?” he repeated | portation costs plutocracy. fire in five minutes. No Landlords in COTTAGE GROVE No rent receipts in this thriving district of happy home- owners. Every man is his own landlord in Cottage Grove. It’s the fastest-growing section of the giant city of the Pa- cific Northwest! Cottage Grove is part of Seattle proper—not an outlying suburb hours away from your work and with two car fares to pay. It is within a few minutes’ easy, level walk from all the big shipyards and mills of the West Waterway district, with one of the finest Public Schools in Seattle and a big 20-acre Public Playfield adjoining. BIG LEVEL LOTS All Cleared LOW PRICES—EASY TERMS Pick out your lot and we will furnish the lumber right away. The terms will suit you all right. Utilize your spare time evenings and Sundays like other people are doing, and you will soon be free from the largest drain on your pay envelope. Every board you cut, every nail you drive, will be better than putting money in the bank. You'll have a deed before you know it. Every dollar you are paying out for rent now is money absolutely lost forever—you can’t get it back. Come out Sunday and see how easy it is to build a cozy little place in a few short weeks. Watch the thrifty men and women saw boards and drive nails. See how fast the home grows when you put your heart into the work. Fauntleroy cars take you close to the Cottage Grove. Get off in Youngstown and walk straight out 26th Avenue—it’s only a few blocks. Our West Seattle Branch Office is open evenings and Sundays for your convenience. Alki and Fauntleroy cars stop right at the door. PUGET MILL CO. LAND DEPARTMENT West Seattle Branch Office, corner Spokane and 26th Avenue S, W. (Where the cars turn into Youngstown.) Phone West 499.