The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 13, 1918, Page 6

STAR THE SEATTLE 1307 Seventh Ave. Near Union St. a MEMBER OF sCLUrTS NORTHWEST Lracun oF NEWSrArEns Telegraph News Service of the United Mreas Assocte Entered as Second-Class Matter May 3, 1599, at_the Po Beattie, Wash. under the Act of Congress Mareh 3 EE a ren Meche ~- a By mail, ont of city, Se per month; 3 months, $1.50; 6 montha, $278 year, $5.00, in the State of Washington, Outside the state, month, $4.50 for 6 months, or $2.00 per ypar. per week. — — ‘ apfihan Pat gle Published Daily by The Star Publishing Co. hone Main 600, Private enchange all departments. 20 The Next Great War Pneumonic plague, imported from China as quence of the world-war! a That’s the substance of the “Spanish influens expla- nation offered in a New York medical journal by Dr. James J. King of the United States army medical corps. Three hundred and fifty thousand lives have thu : been lost in the United States since the epidemic reached “/ Atlantic Port” in the summer of 1918. i ee Other explanations than that offered by Dr. King fail to take into account all the facts. The disease is independent of climatic conditions. It has raged in damp Boston, in moist Cleveland and Detroit, in windy Chicago, in dry Arizona, in balmy Los Angeles, in frozen Alaska and in warm Porto Rico with equal fury. It took the open-air sleeper and the man who seals his windows and covers his head 0’ nights. It hit the riders in crowded street cars and the rider in the luxurious limousine. Preachers and bartenders fell victims # “There is no known preventive,” says Dr. the United States public health service. Dr. King tells us that pneumonic plague first appeared in 1910 in Harbin, Manchuria. It swept North China. It is prevalent. “The mortality,” he says, “has been fearfully a conse- n lonely Rupert Blue of “tn 1917,” adds Dr. King, “about 200,000 Chinese cool- ies, collected from the northern part of China, where pneu- monic plague has raged at intervals since 1910, were sent to France as laborers.” ol In March, 1918, some of these Chinese were captured by the Germans. “Spanish influenza” soon appeared in the Ger- man army and spread to Spain. It has gone around the world in less than a year! Dr. King believes pneumonia and bubonic plague germs mingled in the blood of some obscure Chinese coolie in Har- bin and produced a new disease terror. : All great wars of history have been followed by disease epidemics. The next war must be against this plague! WSSIWSSINSS) Why Shop Early? Shop early! But why! 4 Because of the annuying consequences oi late shopping. Take the matter of sending gifts to friends out of town by mail or parcel post, for example: a Late shopping means late mailing. Late mailing means a jam in the postoffice, a congestion in the mail car and in the delivery wagons. Packages bought late and mailed late may arrive days, even weeks after Christmas. ; ; Ask your postmaster what he thinks about this point. He can tell you a lot of illuminating things about the results of late shopping and late mailing of gifts. Take the matter of gift-selection. Shop late and your choice is always limited by a depleted, pawed-over assort- ment of gift goods. It is hampered by the weariness of the clerks, by the rush of last-minute buyers and by your own necessity for haste. Ask any merchant, any clerk for a few remarks on these points. They'll unanimously tell you to shop early, to shop early in the day, and to shop today and get it over * and done with. ad And that’s our best advice to you, even if you're think-| ing of sending*us a red necktie! ] Shop early! | WSSIWSSINSS) They’re Readjusting The greatest statistical firm in the country presents on commercial business failures that must be co forting to people worrying about readjustment in the busi- ness world, and that strongly indicate the recuperative power of American business, generally. | For several months past, or since about the time that, America got into the job of “holding the Hun,” there has) been reduction in the number of commercial failures in| | This October's failures were 660, involving $13,980,306. The figures for last month were 570 and $13,815,1 November, 1917, they were 981, and $13,635,605 the first year of the war, they were 1,815 and $25,489,458. There being little difference in the totals of money ir volved, while there is still a great reduction in the number| of concerns, would indicate that, in the months of 1918, the little business men have not been going under as formerly. There is comfort, too, in the character of the businesses that make up the reductions iu failures this year. Among the manufacturers the bulk of these decreases in failures) is made up of producers of lumber, clothing, millinery,| chemicals, bakery goods and the like, and this feature of character of failures is still more striking in respect of the traders in the products just mentioned. The November figures on this point are worth while: For Failures in 1917 in 1918 General Stores . 54 42 Groceries and meats . 107 Clothing and furnishings 28 Dry goods and carpets ...... c 16 Hardware .........-.++ 11 i Furniture and crockery ......,.- 3 3 TIED. he he Sho os caccnes sécsemcocsis 10 é Evidently the many thousands of retailers are succes: fully readjusting themselves, and are about ready for the manufacturer can do. Is it not true that when the retailers are in shape and confident, we never have any- thing like hard times, for the reason that the retailer large- ly reflects the status of the manufacturer? : Fight Famine “Save Food and Win the War” served its purpose. A new food conservation slogan has come: “Fight Famine!” | The war of the kitchen army has passed into its sec- ond phase. | It was a great thing to have saved enough wheat, fat and sugar to feed the fighters. It will be a greater thing to save and distribute enough food to save a ring world. Fight Famine! The words conjure up a vision of the stalking specters of hunger, want, and death that follow all great wars, claiming the most helpless and pitiful vic- tims in the world—children and women. Women and children have already paid a ghastly, a ter rible price of suffering and terror in the war. The world must not allow them to pay with their lives for sins and stupidities not their own. For a year, until the hands that carried guns can be restored to plowhandle and factory, until the devastated or neglected fields can be restored to fruitfulness, until seed- time and harvest shall resume their accustomed cycling— Ps must al' Fight Famine, giving of our abundep-a to feed) fay bane ‘aboard |SAYS ADMIRAL “4 Queen Elizabeth. THE SEATTLE STAR—FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13, Breech locks had been taken from every gun. There was no ammunition. Not a rifle, not even a revolver, was found. Kirass fittings had been removed. Fy Fi i And the dirty engine rooms and guns gave the British and American engineers apoplexy | Men were in dirty uniforms. The officers were trained and tho nome of them sulked. courte But r and 17 years old. Below, the alr was foul with the Blanene & rh ‘ores, NewYork 9 seaman BATTLESHIPS Feortene | eoocccooca «-- ES S6caman OATTLE CRUISERS J ete oe qn ie wh (Admire! Beatty) Ors penedateeceescoqes OIF ence Joke overs Coren? Queee thin euace The American battleships, the diagram shows, formed the Sixth Bat- tle Squadron of the Grand Fleet, which in battle formation stretched out for 30 miles or more. In case of « naval engagement, it may now be told, this squadren would form one end of the line while the Fifth Squadron, British ships, would form the other, Thus one or the other would be firse) in action. “Death or Glory Squadrons” they are called. The fighting men, looking forward, | man line in | Imoat lived that battle daily. The Cardiff was soon visible, shoot: | right over there are the ing aloug at good speed, with the bal- | ‘They are loon in tow. j Up in the crow'snest and at the now German ships, 70 of them. helpless, guarded captives. And not a@ shot fired! range finders eyes were glued to in-| Germany dropped in a day—on struments. Glasses were up. Every) “The Day"—from second naval pow- eye was on the horizon just behind er to sixth. That's in material alone, the Cardiff. | But a navy bb something more than “WILL THEY FIGHT?” } ships. Judged on that basis, her rat- ON EVERY LIP | Ing is lower st i | On the afternoon before “The Day”| cane sit of the hare gredually teow & Kroup of newspaper men Were ing up, and followed by & second, | the American flagship New | thing fourth...... York. We asked Admiral Rodman | wouig they fight? whether he thought the Germans| ‘phe air was charged with uncer would put up a last fight tainty and expectancy. The admiral didn’t answer that ¢z| Commander Weaver walked over ote. aes eee Wee |to whore I was standing on deck, and We're sooty said: “If you see a burst of flame “I TOLD YOU 80,” over there, run behind that turret. | | Youn have plenty of time, and it After the surrender over on the | ™4y lengthen your life.” | flagship of the fleet,| _ Th# allied lines were moving slow: the British bluejacketa gathered on |'¥ to allow the German line to move »ck and yelled for Admiral Beatty, |4P between them. Ship after ship carne out and when they yelled |c&N¢ into view and passed forward. Speech!” he said, grimly, and per-| From the crow’s-nest, I looked haps a little disappointedly thru glasses. The ships looked spick “T always told you they would/*"4 span—from that distance. But, nave taidiene one as te officern who inspected them ‘All thru the afternoon before the | ter found out, they were dirty and day of sucrender, Beatty's wirclesa|~ SS was flashing out orders to the ap-| proaching German fleet; messages xl | Housewives will the other ships in his own fleet. ‘There was still a hope the Ger- mans would start something! i Along toward evening we watched | a row of destroyers and submarines steam ouf. Probably the submarines | cleaner and prettier. That is the mission of were never seen by any of the Ger-| - mans. But their periscopes were | , | working. They “had a look” before- r ard the Wyoming, later in the evening, I was talking with Com mander D, A. Weaver, executive of- | ficer of the battleship, when the priuted order and diagram for the| fo! day's operations were | umander Weaver read tho or ra and glanced at the diagram: The and money. Ge 4 were to come in in single tween two long lines of British nd American warships, The Ger man.line would be three miles from each allied line GUNS ARE GIVEN POINT.BLANK RANGE but surely a 25c or 50c bottle. She will appreciza pi DR, J. R. BINYON “Three miles," said Commander Free Examinations tes, “Zou barley be able to no | BEST $2.50 GLasses that distanc inything, they'll just be blown out of| We are one of the few optical ate it. ‘he wateeh | stores in the Northwest that really before k, the anchor chain SEATTLE, ON FI y A] | %, OD RST AVE tore off an unearthly noise; things! Examination free, by graduate op. to le! sizes were “beg ng to start.” tometrist. Glasn ‘Dot prescribed From the deck, lights of other | Wnlers absolutely necessary, A all Dealers how kotting, under way ‘could te| BINYON. OPTICAL CO, t wen. One after another the ships a passed down under the Firth of Main 1550, Forth bridge, ff Edinburgh, and By took their positio Thru the darkne moved out to s the and fi ty proces: ea in a 4 most formidable fighting n on water—and it grew lighter, reached the ren us hen, sion for probably an hour the huge fighting ships moved round and round in cireles, by drons, keep ing thelr positions in the two long line During this time men not engaged Headquarters for Suits, Coats and One-Piece Dresses were on deck watching, or dropping into seme corner to catch a minute's s relaxation before the battle—if it 425 Union Street came, = STAR WRITER DESCRIBES “DER TAG” WHEN DEFEATED HUN NAVY GAVEUP of the crews were untrained boys, 15, mnell Of cabbage and oll. Apparent TRIOTIC women will resent useless gifts this year. And well they should. which will save. Save time, work and money. And what woman who takes pride in the appearance of her home will not appreciate something that will make her furniture brighter, Making things brighter, prettier, cleaner. And at the same time saving work, time So give her O-Cedar Polish. A gallon or a quart if you can, 1918. STARSHELLS —— BY HAROLD EDWIN BECHTOL | ' Clang! Clang!, generally run down inside \ly. 9 pep’ hurepea anager of the Newspaper | ntire ship was in Thru the periscope in the 12 Inch | tation. Walkin ood te f for the Enterprise Assoctation wat Was genernd quarters | forward turret, I watched the Ger | Mun a finger along one o It saves you tab r " Tne With WATT at battle ponition mans moving about on deck, Appar-|«uns, inuide or out, and you « 8 rote WUADR eNT.—«By From Capt, HM. 1 Christy, in the | ently, they were as keenly interested | pick up a lump of dirt BUT A CHAPING Is A HIT unty, The sen on! conning tower or ne yp. to in the allied ships as were the allied| ‘The boys wore white arm bands HAKD ON ‘ uTH 2 Britinh an fighting | the bluejacket below, every man was | officers in thelr veuneln |with the letters “8. A.” in red: Bol}| Pear Miss Joy: 1 See a hips up hi » it yet ready to fight | PLANES FROM SECRET daten und Arbeiter (roldiers and F 1 1 - Day after day, month after month,| Watertight doors slamened shut as | py NG SHIPS : workers) rt they tried to tempt, coax, wheedie or |the men scampered up ladders, thru On ever fool the German fleet into coming | passe ays and acrone docks to po.|,. OVrHeAd airplanes soared—planes | vray ¢) es | sition from the pecret “landing shi as her Ships went out singly, In email par-| Shella were ready, and charges, | %7™Mething the Germans saw for the t ry Way-—on all sorts of mis | Guns were carefully pointed fore and | st Hime after the surrender " ms hoping some of the German |aft, But they were free, ready to! , Ob#ervation balloons wailed up and | asela woul! put to sea after th swing out and let go in a few sec. | 2¥" the German line, t brush his t coisa tical tea tine winaaies tania ing the German tops—“rubbing It une der, The idea was to Shortly after 9 a. m. a mpeck wan |i" the sailors called it. They were | ii) coming around?” and « eaten no matter w sighted on the horizon, ‘Then n trait |M&V!N & ood look, thone ballooniats, | ruewions were shouted at the i St 1 jontty and then maneuver | of mmoke below. It wns the observa. | Wd. *upPoaing they decided to let £9) cericors by Germans _ 6 8 @ ” between the German ships and their | tion balloon attached to the Cardi¢t,| “ith & cargo of . Down in the wardroomn, after the! 7, : 4 [which had gone out to lead the Ger-| .NO! the chance for a Meht WAS! woning had anchored, somet <r t g- |" "The men's hope for « scrap faded, |Fecalled the former kaiser’s remark:| not wear a crown sony Js A redhe-p apg focling | “Germany's future Hes upon the eee . f Sh Hi S place 4 strange ee 2 r } I ine-up re) Ips as Friuns Surrender { of pwit pity, hair contempt for the |" e yi PROBABLY A RAZOR . ee ‘ i. enlednameaa Santaeaet dhusuanae | “Some future,” remarked a Heuten-| pout N travelir 2 | Well into tho afternoon the lines |" ston the talk turned t tained ing r P pata |moved in until the spot for tempo- | AMG then the talk turned to loo (ia.) Courter, t @ samen rary internenent was reached, The gh 1 .O-StRwan ‘ Germans moved into the e-dered for-| D d S h According to the thy E | mation and dropped anchor t ports the Chicago a British ships “boxed” them tn. And ea omac kentleman's agreement ' r at wunect the German flags woce —— know wi governt ; apes pee henied Gown, Of What Use Is It? tt oe, oe : Wisdentiics the termi FL uke at least three months ae RE eae plan & payroll holdup p ! ‘ , tes p fom to make nt ships out of the 70 er : “ r On cali surrendered German warships jare taking th LID ON AGAIN 4 tne. Crviser Pritish and American officers oa pire ol olified armistion, | Squedren them dirty, machinery rusty, | stomach, th a ee Ais eae | ree | vinci tare y | by the une to tt THE MELANCHOLY MUSE The Germans had carried out the | {ink they a aac "Of patriotionn of our eitisens|! have fed my tace t terms of the armistice, all right, with | "This in no sensational statement: | ccicbrating the end of the war, there a regard to ammunition, All torpodoes | it i# a startling fact, the t Stl tao Gaaes @ diame Ob the had been removed. any bonorab’ y wtate aw of the t, many much the rame POMER, BUSINESS AS USUAL eke they 4 up the ce reigns over this wor od make DWE both of th us an of to take care @ paper -hanging, neral repaing Bartell Drug ement im Ab wledge al, " them. prefer those things