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473 @ PGs € 2 e2i5s F 2 2F service, may be called into the sen ate German propaganda probe. ‘The officer is listed in the military intelligence files on account of the | the war, | German propaganda is uncertain | No charges stand against the ex-offi joer, and his associates claim the mil | undue importance to his pre-war ac {tlon. | Edward B. McLean, son of the late John R. McLean, now editor of the J. Brown’s New Office |) Washington Post, said today, regard i ing reports yeaterf™y that the Post had been offered for sale or lease: Denies Post Report “My father purchased the Post for He managed it in my interest stoves, to geil the paper or run it by handing fur- it ov, to any special interest, I backs | would have known it. ‘Von Bernstorff was pug thru anything that Germany. He lied to his government and was often fooled by sharper, as —|previous «dispatches have proved This lie r Pont is on a par with the reat of the Ger-nan propagand: anxious to (Paid Advertisement) : W.J.Santmyer | For School Board ‘The the younger McLean's management as distinctly proAmerican and pro ally. One of the Interesting disclosures of the hearings has been that the Germans thought they could.stir up FOUTS FE SREP ES SERS SSS ESRC ETS BNET ETE SRESRVESRAY BERINOK SESSEs SEY F SEREEP a THINGS THAT I STAND FOR: y ; to A firm believer in equal pay for) “d equal work—for men and women. | af ‘The establishment of the rene other employees, with the prevailing | “3a Tete at pay for work of like nature| The construction of © new city sh ¢ hospital is advocated by Mayor Han 2 out the city—the salaries Of! ine present hoapital facilities * ll employees, including teichers.|are inadequate, declares Hanson, ‘engineers, who alxo states that a bond issue to . Janitors, ot cetera, (0 be) cover the expense of the building A ‘MS proportion to the cost of living—} will, in all probability, be voted on ‘established 4a. | by the people next spring Py, SAE Pete, "athe building would coat between : (Men Of the differential that now ex-| $250,000 and $500,000," said the 6s We between the grade and high| mayor, “and it would be one of the r ‘hel teachers; also to support the | best investments that the city has shoo! clinic. | ever made. é be" Gignet) = |U. S, Could Make Monster Cannon WASHINGTON, Dec, 7. — The United States may be preparing to make an 1#inch gun, the biggest | weapon it has attempted. This por |ordnance bureau report made public today, which said “The arsenal has now a capacity of -nanufacturing up to 18-inch caliber.” Sixteen thousand contracts were ced during the year, with a money ue of $5,000,000,000, In this | amount was $225,000,000 for expand ing mantfacturing facilities in order to meet ac ‘5 needs. a t | TEACHERS LISTEN TO | PEACE PROBLEM TALK Cc. R. Frazier, superintendent of vocational education in Washington, | was among the speakers at the meet onda |i ing of the Puget Sound Sch | ters’ club at Tacoma Sat just wold my berty Wghest spot price to T for t i Fra was dis NORTHWESTERN — | (ifsea. Another tople, | “Xeeded STOCK & BOND CO, | Juvenite Legislation,” came up for discussion. | paris chorus girls , | stockings; when they do they're Silk stockings are scarce. 1 Alnska Diag. 6 to 9 p. to 4p. m m. evenin Sundays, cot ‘ton. ibility is indicated in the | CALLED BEFORE GERMAN PROBE WASHINGTON, Dec. 7.—A former | One suggestion was-to have a. Japa. army officer, only recently out of the | nese outrage a girl on the Pacific | coast to stir up antiJapanese ing. | One tetter produced by A. Bruce’ work he did in 9 journalistic way | Biclaski, of the department of justice, with & proGerman publication before | before the committee, purported to | Rave been from Samuel Untermyer, What light he can shed on the New York lawyer, suggesting that a | deal for a New York paper could be put thru for $2,000,000. ‘This was in 1916, and Pielaskt ead [itary Intelligence department gave he believed the property was the ‘This letter was to German propaganda 4di- ew York Sun Dr. Albert, | retcor. | Hale Indignant | Wiliam Bayard Hale, He | andist ‘The allegation that I was at any! naian | time under contract with anybody on| It any proposition had been on foot |earth, German, Turk or Hottentot, ew York American, | except with the > in & piece of vivid imagination,” | declared. | Bielaski stated that Later hin wife joined him. gard to expense,” Biolasit said. During his stay in Europe, Post has been known under traveled extensively thru Rumania. Bielaski ald he believed his expenses the trip were paid for by the German foreign office, altho he had for. no positive proof. The object of his visit, he raid, waa | Rumania to align trouble in this country with Japan. ' herself with the central powers, to try to induce (ea Confession of Murder Doubted | nf to accept the confession of Regan that he killed Mra, Helen Hamel confessed to free Elizabeth 19, on trial for the murder lof the | proprietor. | for burglary. New York robming Regan is in Sing » the girl it.” attempt to Mrs. Hamel's kaa girl the an on by the FE them with teeth in an apple prove arm by Silks worth | from Look's Bazar, Kent ler, denies the charges that he was ployed by the Germans as a propa- Hale, while would help | writing in Germany, lived In lavish | yle in Berlin, occupying the bridal ite in one of the luxurious hotels, | Hale told | arding the Washington her to “travel in luxury, without re AMES F: TEGAN The New York court has refused house He eays that he had | strangled the woman while he and a pal were robbing the house and $20 and told her to A feature of the trial is teeth marks were made comparing prints of the girl's $3,000 were carried seldom wear, away in an automobile by burglars j 311 First st,/ h feel- writ Hale Sing THE SEATTLE year, every seven years, Seeming Injustice Dear Mies Grey Will you please oll me why it is that fome people always have j and others roll in riches have to work? other words, any ket clothes and food for himaelf and his family and pay the ing, for a living and never A poor man, or, in & worker, never gets except just enough to to work money his rent, while rich man does absolutely noth and yet lives in luxury and as everything done for b Pt 18) ‘This condition may be laid to the economic syrte nd the norance of a large per cent of the working class, You cannot keep an intelligent, ambitious person down, When every boy and girl in given a fair educa tien and is taught some remun erative oecupati thin injustice will be remedied to a degree But then, there is the alien prob lem to combat. Foreigners are permitted to come into this country and work for half, or sometimes a third of what a nor mal, intelligent person can de cently exist on, We must have more stringent immigration lawn You have an erroneous im pression about some wealthy men I have been in position to observe the so-called rich and the workers, It is not uncom- mon to find a rich man work ing harder than some of the workers, Go into some of our restaurants at the noon hour. You will find Mr. Prosperous Business Mam in plainly modest garb, seated at a lunch counter eating a ham sandwich, while down at one of the tables in a $20-per-week man in one of the smart tailor cuta, eating @ square. | haven't taken some one else's word for this, It is what I have actually observed among our town folk, six days out of every week If you will take the time and trouble to investigate the early careers of some of our wealth fest citizens, you will find that they were once common labor ors Great Havoc Wrought By Small Insects Dear Mina Grey: My wife and 1 had an argument concerning locust I say that locust year comes | and in some “ Every Picture STAR—SATURDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1918. of cy “= ls = <a The of Economic System parts of the U, 8 they eover the; Complains of ground and the trees ax thickly 4%! Careless Laundric Pm) x hops, and when they sing they mpeak MARY TRIES TO GIVE ME the word “Pharaoh.” My wife said) Dear Miss Grey: In ther law THE SECKET OF HIDDEN whe had never heard of it , which will protect patror f jaun REASURE AND I explain, T. BL dries from having their clean clot KEFUSK You correct about the | which they have paid a fancy price ™ x swarms of locusts or grasshop: | to have washed, returned to them Tiny wants to marry me—you'y pers, but I find no d guessed right,” Mary Thomas as firme the reat of your argum with onl; ‘half enough paper tO! sented with queer heartbroken In the past, at no regular inter. | cover them’ They are stuffed imo | note 1 had heard in her voice before vals, vast bodies of certam ape | filthy wagons, next to bundles ti6 wants me to marry him six Cles of locusts swept from one | solled clothes, such being Well| months from now, for then he region to other in swarms rubbed into the clean ones by the will be sure whether he is going to tpany miles in area, and so | J0lting Of the wagon, Or, if once In jive oF die dense aa to darken the sun, feed. |® While there docan't happen to be| ue oe te ng Ing on grasmen and herbage, and Bh ted ong the interior of cure cf him?’ t. threw consuming not only crops and | (i ee fron pwd Fd pr i ous question at Mary Thomas just Parturage, but stripping bushes | inwn Ury @ filthy clothes | 1.1 would have done at any other athe lig dd nla of | This In a prevailing habit with eti| St! I knew. But it was a thougpt | Among the most recent locust laundries, and® asking to h ge ye i vp “, were thone of 1856 and the bundles properly wrapped, only fairly flung the words at me 1 1874, the latter enduring three | bring @n Irritated or ent ou think £ would murky a decent years and causing widespread vice to try anoth if you don't like | * , ’ ‘ge . ce t t it. Don't you think that during the |™82—Who loves me honostly—with ruin thruout the whole region | . . s out tellme him-—about—my past?” between the Mississippi! river | epaeiens the authorities should com Kea t apuiis't baawer . the eft oe hey See 1 Tes Proper wrapping of these bun’) vith the usual platitudes—that she is probably as good as Tiny; that he would never dream of confessing his Let us hear from other housewives on this subject, and pi No Gift Dear Miss Grey; I have read 80/| ‘phe clean linens for the hote the wisdom of my own marris I | many of your answers to questions,| returned in the samo baskets in| 2&Y® resol never to direct any but I have found nothing that will| which they were sent out, wiping | {#2 OF Woman, not even a son or a I have kept daughter, should I ever have chil-| lanswer my | expect | | | | difficulty, company with a young man for long time, and am acquainted with| 4 ttle clean paper would he his parents, but as I have been t/ derfully in overcoming this unn hin home but a few Umes, will they | gary impurity. Yours for cleanll a Christmas gift from me? | A HOUSI UNDECIDED. | | know of no law that covers the filth from the dirty clothes off | the sides and bottom of the basket. | en. slong otrmenns pee However, I must confess that I was less interested in Mary's frame of mind, in what she considered an honorable course of conduct, than I diate Jr Ip won was at the prospect of an im’ “automatic” release of Jim, No—at least they should not. Not Bolshevik Dear Mias Grey: Would you kind ly inform me, in the event that all organized labor should go on a strike for living wages, would they be} classed aa Rolsheviki? I am a mem- You should join the army for es Patrons should from the neat snare this dancing the prevention of superfluous Ganaienen a i tronizing such | girl had set for him. But I did not : undries, or refuse to accept the ress that point gifts, unless, of course, you | Gattis whlll ‘ther ; A (get -vungh. really have more money than |) . > y are clean. Another ¢ of her career arous you know what to do with. bw personally that all laun- [ed my curiosity. What were the avd dries are = as bret lean an the contents of that mysterious paper ; ones you have had experience ich: find baved ‘for tary, % C ze rn which I had sav ‘or Mary, by Irganized Labor with. Perhaps the drivers are | chance, when I carried off her hand- | } careless, and the managers have no way of knowing this, unless patrons report it bag? I spoke bluntly “What secret was that trio after at the Inn? Something of military | | value?” GOOD ROADS MEN PLAN | Mary Thomas came over and sat clone to me on the divan. ber of @ union, and am quite anxious Me. That paper is a cine te bid to know A WORKER NEW STATE HIGHWAY | 4..°“‘reasure buried Jewels worth Most certainly not if the PASCO, Dec. 7.—-The Washington | millions!” she said in a voice much unions preserved order among | State Good Roads association has lower than usual. “Oh, no! I’m not themselves, The union repre | elected N. B. Coffman of ¢ daffy! It's the truth. A collection | sents constructive organization, | president. In the final seanic of diamonds, emeralds, sapphires, | while from the record the Bol sheviki have established in Rus ia and Germany, it would seem that their chief atm is to create chaos, where constructive legis lation ts being formed, and to establish mob rule. | day.gplans were discussed for a bill to be drawn up and went to the leg jistature for the construction of one east and west crose-state highway, and use of automobile license rev. enues an a basin for a bond issue with which to build roads ris, rubles—the most magnifigent | sms owned in Germany—was sent) over here concealed in a U-boat—to | ay, 1 do not know what debt. But} as peace was approaching, the Jew- | els were not sold. They were sunk buried in a submarine—somewhere | Grip Left You with an hy Back? OLDS and =i] of fighting off a tagious disease. have headaches, over. They are recommended by your own friends and neighbors. was soon cured.” Mra, J. R. Dennis, 140) my kidneys were bot 1 had awful dizzy spells strong, and so d the one box, f was cured. Elmwood Place James Cubbon, manager Victor Cleaning & Dye Works, 2712 Elmwood pl, says and that made me suffer all the more, ney Pills helped me as soon as 1 took them, and I Eleventh Ave. N. fith awe N. ering me, about a year ago, Read These Seattle Cases: Americus St. James Court Mra, John Rreen, 1207 Jame: number of years ago I strained “My kidneys were ‘ad troub! let in bad shape, and every time I bent over it seomed | that | had trouble Cavey, but as though my back would break, The kidney se- mistaken IT fina ot where I could hare¢ ars old. 1 just ce cretions were scanty and painful, and irregular in rable. Mornings when I got ny hands presse passage, My work as a tailor kept me bent over, Licey eps eed Reb Doan's K\d- e difficult to pi . and as 4 highly, 1 tri . and before long I was cured W. Fifty-ninth Street helped’ me. Mra. G. W. used to suffer “When ng dg J. M. Johnson, carpenter, 2625 W. 59th st “Tr caught a cold, which settled on my kidneys and made them weak After that I had a great deal dreadfully My kidneys were awfully weak, and didn't act often enough, so my handa | of trouble. My back was lame, and it felt as though I could hardly stand it. and feet became swollen, My back ached eyery | the muscles were all drawn up ana stiff, My kid- made me bend over was minute of the day, and a weakners across my kid neys didn't act right at all, and the secretions were my back so, T just felt neys made me feel il drag out and run down. highly colored, T had to get up often at night strength and ambition al I was all out of sorte, Fortunately 1 heard about Doan's Kidney Pills gave me a completo and lasting acted irregularly, and the Doan's Kidney Pills, and by g them, Doan's cure, and since then T have only used them occa rious when I heard about soon had me feeling bett Kidneys became sionally to keep my kidneys in ge yrder, ‘They decided to try them. Doa my back. After I had finished | have kept mo free from kidney trouble, in spite of as they went right to the soon cured my age, which is past 60 years.” Doan’s Kidney Pills Every Druggist has Doan’s, 60c a box. Foster-Milburn Co., Manufacturing Chemists, Buffalo, N. Y. CONFESSIONS OF A WAUR BIRDIE influenza leave thousands with weak kid- =f neys and aching backs. The kid- neys have to do most of the work —slow up. Then you feel dull and draggy, irritable or nervous, and lame back, backache, sore joints and irregular kidney action. Give the kidneys quick help and avoid serious kidney trouble. Doan’s Kidney Pills are always in unusual demand after grip epidemics, as so many people have learned their reliability. Doan’s are used the world Wallace Pike, 2913 Americus st., says: old, which put m: b 1 was about all played out . it was surprising to see how quickly Doan’s I kept right on using them, and they flushed out my kidneys and completely ¢ured me.” W. Fifty-eighth Street Pomeroy, 2622 W. back, from my hips to my shoulders, was so weak specially hard, as it hurt all dra PAGE 7 where any ¢ them in 4 n Atlantic diver can timet”* port ecover ‘ow hours’ adventur your way, and we laughed to- tell me—I’m not a know—how do you hap. pen to pomwens thin secre , paper was given me for eafe keeping by a man who believed th government detectives were after him. I was to return it to him for the price of a string of pearls 1 romantic certair are on omas!’ 1 #aid, gether I when he should come for it. But he haw never come—haa never writ ten And I wonder why?’ Isn't it queer, I said to myself, at I could tell her why? Bremer was dead, All the U-boat officers were past the love of hidden treas ure, past all power to find it now. ave time 1 wondered, but I didn’t to count, just then, how many other living persons were on the track of the gems, Mary was saying inter esting things: Now I want you to take the pa per—it is less than a serap. No trouble to conceal it—and no one will ever guess you have it. I am pursued—persecuted—day and night. See!” Bhe held up her beaded bag. It was slit from edge to edge. “That happened in a shop yesterday Strange women try to get into my house agents. Last night my burglar alarm went off. It's uncan Please, please say a as ny. I need sleep. that you will hide this paper for me!" (To Be Continued) Earthquake Shakes Estevan Lighthouse VICTORIA, Dec. 7.—Shaking the mercury out of the lens’ table, the earthquake shock Friday put the Estevan Point lighthouse beacon out of commission. WASHINGTON, Dec. 7.—The seis mograph at Georgetown university registered a severe earthquake, oc- curring 2,500 miles south of this city at several intervals Friday. One shock at 401 was so severe that it dislodges the needles from the ma- chine. World War veterans, recently or- ganized, want a permanent home in Seattle. A financial campaign with this end in view bas been launched for them by the Canadian club. cold or a con- They weaken dizzy spells, “T got wet kidneys out le became more ag- ke @ man a hun- up and walk ack, trying to right, and the I-like sediment which ould’ on my didn't ac 58th st, with my ki My Any housework which ed out, and my 1 left me. My kidneys trouble was getting Doan's Kidney Pills, and s 1 found what I needed, Seat of the trouble, and