The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 19, 1918, Page 6

} Sk beaks Seaenecatad PAGE 6 THE SEATTLE STAR 1307 Sevemth Ave Near Uniom St. n oF RIPPS NORTHWEST LEAGUE OF NEWSFArERS Telearaph News Sorvice of the United Drege Assuciation t the Postoffice at 1978, Entered as Second-Class Matter May 8, 189 Bei * Mareh 3. ttle, Waak, under the Act of Congr By mail, ont of city Year, $5.00, in the State of Washington, month, $4.50 for 6 montha, or $9.00 per year. _per week, x Published Daily by The Star Publishing Co. Phone Mal all departments. 20 ontha # per month; 2 months, $1.50; 6 By carrier, etty, 8. Private Our Gold The financiers of the world aren’t going to engage in any button-button game over the precious metal, going over | the list of nations demanding “Gold, gold, who's got the gold?” No, every financial finger is pointed right at Uncle Sam. For four years past he has been salting down the yellow metal in his stern pocket and paying out from his Western pocket his running expenses in some other form of exchange than gold, until it is no secret that he has the bulk of the gold of the world. Financing, big or little, depends upon who commands and controls the basis of exchange, or money, doesn’t it? Since the war opened, America has boughteback pr tically all foreign-held American securitie! purchased nearly two and a half billions worth of foreign govern- ments’ obligations and lent the allies eight billions, largely credit for use in our midst, and still has the bulk of the gold, We are now going to do much toward feeding and rehabilitating Europe, for pay. The president of the gres York says that we must absorb foreign securities without stint, that we can save some three billions annually for it, and that banks and investment houses have a great role to play in popularizing foreign investments. To the layman in finance it would appear that, if there is disaster in milking America of her gold, if we want to lose our grip on “the financial center of the world,” the sure way to do it is to popularize foreign investments. In other words, we will expand and extend our altruism as to} men, credits and governmental policies and make it include| power of some foreign fellow to monetize, demonetize, or| Tre-monetize. to our gold and, consequently, our big influence in world| finance, a fine way would be to popularize investment in American securities—by putting a high rate of interest) course, that it be genuine popularization for legitimate! business purposes and not for Wall Street speculation. | Ha! It’s a great day when a simon-pure socialist like | Ebert is not radical enough for a large group of Germans. The Ships That Saved Lloyd-George’s speech at Leeds strongly indicates that, in respect of freedom ef seas, disarmament and League of} Nations, Woodrow Wilson is going to have his troubles. The British premier called attention to the fact that last March, when the Hun was nearing Paris via Amiens, and Haig was crying that his back was against the wall, Great Britain _— to America to send over 120,000 fighters! per month. | “Send your ships and we'll send the men,” replied President Wilson. Britain sent the ships and the Hun was stopped and turned back, never to return. “The good old ships of Britain!” toncludes Lloyd- George in his speech. “The ships which have saved the liberty of the world many times—saved it in the days of Queen Elizabeth; saved it in the days of Louis XIV.; saved | it in the days of Napoleon; saved it in the days of Kaiser Wilhelm IH!” The days of Louis and the Corsican butchers and Wil- helm, the bloody Hun, are gone, and civilization has paid an awful price that they may never return. But will Brit-) ain, issuing from a test that tried every pound of re- sources she possessed, be at all willing to abandon or weaken that which saved her? If she is so, peace finds in the hearts of the British a sentiment far greater and nobler than joy over triumph with arms, and Woodrow Wilson will earn laurels such as no other mere mortal ever wore. “Police stumble onto big booze layout,” says a news- paper headline. Whaddayamean stumble? A Fine Start All hail to Herr Merries, president of Brunswick! He’s a corker, and promoters of republics can well consider his example. The Duchy of Brunswick was one of the first German states to declare itself a republic, after Wm. Hohenzollern emigrated, and it promptly chose as president Hugh Mer- ries, a four-foot dwarf tailor. President Merries’ first acts indicate that he has talent, courage and an almighty fine grasp of the eternal fitness of things in a government suddenly turned from high caste autocracy to proletarian republicanism. He appoints a washerwoman as minister of education and insists that his own salary, $17,500 a year, be paid in daily installments. You have to admit that these acts indicate high conception of republicanism and unusually high-class acumen, financially speaking, in a tailor. Brunswick republic will go ahead. Republics exist on school books and ready cash. Brunswick has a strong- armed minister of education, who will wring, rinse and iron the beastly Hun out of her kultur, and a chief ex- ecutive who collects as he goes. The Chief Nut is to lead the Icelanders’ dance in Se- attle. It promises to be a hot night. Unrest and the Legislature . There will no doubt be some legislation attempted in the next legislature to curb the red flag. There will be much explosive oratory on the part of some smug solons against the various radical elements, and with their oratory they will contentedly drop the problem. But they might as well learn early that a law curbing the red flag is only surface treatment of the social evil. Flag or no flag, there will be growing protests if industrial and political ills continue. The remedy is in tolerant adjustment of things. Ex- cess profiteering must never again be permitted. The man or the woman who toils is entitled to decent living condi- tions. Unemployment must be Insured against. The earth must be made fit to live in—and it must not be owned by a mere handful. The legislature must seek to give the people all the opportunities of bettering their conditions, rather than adopt the policy, as it has done in the past, of giving the public as little as possible. Col. Roosevelt would make President Wilson's job an easy one—wants him to listen to England and say “Amen.” Even the German people themselves no longer be- lieve that the kaiser gang didn’t start it. And soon all the schools wil have to buy new jogger- fies, with a new face for Europe. The street car deal seems to have a hard Lane to travel. Outside the state The mM t National City bank of New) On the other hand, if it is best to hang on} = | — “Huh! Bs MARRIED SAILOR WRITES. Editor Star—The letter in the De 16 issue of your paper at States sailor, commenting on Sena tor Ashurst's plan for helping arm and navy men on their release, con taing the sentiments of all enlisted men. I think there fs one thing he has overlooked, however In the demobilization process, 1 think married men and those with dependents should be released before those who have only an unfinished school course to return to. I, like the writer of the previous letter, am & married man, have been married several years, and was in business prior to my enlistment. I sacrificed my business for practically nothing in order to enlist This money I gave to my wife, but the was forced to go to work to aug ment it, @ thing she had never done before, She was willing to do this, as a matter of fact; she was proud! to have her husband in the U. 8. uniform. Everything went well for a time, but she was taken {il with influenza, and has been unable to work for over six weeks. The money she is rapidly go ing. I feel as tho a man whore wife is in this condition, ia more entitied to release than some schoo! boy. A majority of the students that are being released come from fata ilien who are in good circumstances, Their assistance is not needed at home. 1 have no complaint to make as to my treatment since I have been in the service, as I have been treat- od splendidly, better than I ever ex pected, and I think the service great But I think dependents are getting it “in the neck,” when students are allowed to obtain release before mar- | ried men with dependents. ANOTHER GOR. Bremerton, Wash. SOLDIER'S WIFE WRITES Editor The Star: I am a soldier's wife, writing to urge the people to get behind Senator Ashurst/in his efforts to have the government grant discharged soldiers 90 days ex tra pay in addition to their uniforms We are in very unfortunate cir cumstances. Our bank account has steadily diminished while my bus band was serving in the army, and} now, if he is discharged without ex tra pay, we won't have a cent to start life with, We haven't even enough money to move our furni ture to another house or pay a month's rent. We are penniless, and Fine exercise! Keep: rosy by forcing the delay from the stomach, live! But most people take their exercise in an easy chair. become headachy, bilious, sallow, dyspeptic, constipated. folks must take Cascarets occasionally. laxative ‘‘works’’ like harmless Cascarets. clogged liver d constipated be Cascarets cost only 10 cents a be Ending the War With the Yanks | 1 hiotinedncienste | r " ‘ Wilson’ » - on future U. S. bonds, for instance, taking precautions, of | — Di shannnidet. :thenaBssnadacinsialic teil DOOR TTERS TO TEE EDITOR} ~ Touch Toes Fifty Times ATTLE STAR—THURSDAY, DEC. * ta ees See PRPs " " STARSHELLS clea iia IS THE RED CROSS ee Tae par Past Cate eae BY RABBI A. H. SILVER tor The Temple, Cleveland, Ohio. = For the sins of men God gave them repentance, uxed ax an ash tra and for their inds a healing dalr Jopera are of . sca For the errors of men God gave them truth, and | at hea ha “te s Mr. Grey Cannot Angwer for their sorrows a gre consolation WA eu oe greasy, ia 0 larder For the hate of men God gave them love, and | 08 are ul " for their greed the gift of sacrifice. y restaurant keepers H . ¢ pom : to push a pene a 08 pope ia n pig If st good form to eat mashed And for the \ of men, which bring sin and ¥ Koes Into effect Why the | Potatoes with a tuntr G.G sorrow, error, evil, and greed, God gave them | Please tell me where I can bu repentance and gi healing balm, truth and a noineleas celery? —M. J. K P } | € 55 ¢ great consolation, love and the gift of sacrifice, | And no doubt those who don't ee! 6.4.6 And the symbol of these is the Red Cro: | boone will ra too. Why Not Post a Sign, Explaining? The dogw of Dea certainly |\ A Rerlin paper jermany tn » the bub untaing, for - — cited Austria tun to war and t each of them |% - 4 |that Bill Hohensoliern lied when he pouting weler'teell He’e Peace Envoy ee Men | anid, “Our enemies attacked us.” Old t from. They fre r4 . mer stuff, We've wn that since the quent uns, even though the}, With the President w ees ican Army latter part of July, 1914 water has been shut off and, no| gy - x ous ae ee Joubt, wonder why it is they can ‘ manent enlisted naval atr Crowds in Holland hooted the | "ot secure their usual drink. —Dead : requested in cop. crown prince, Wait til! «into Wood (8, D) Times grens in a handed members of vaudeville and we all have a chance hg he a a ho committee by Capt, | Ce ce A New York rehiteect denow This fig No more wooden cara are to be run | “the American mania for th 000 mer the me jin Brooklyn subway. Mebby they're | house nd says the at pnt Sraemyrest s ot the aa |to be burned up on the surface earner im better off in fa 4 ‘ Be ‘ porary na ° house, Wouldn't he be still better Open season for the furnace doors. | off if he had wage arte. ¢ uble ANSWERED BY MR. C. GREY 9 @ What instrument does every musi ! clan take when he goes to a concert that would en him to live in @ single house More than a score of dail the United 8t ely ma Macon Noyes. According to @ British scien | ‘The eardrum weight fc eight, macaroni in as) valuable a flesh-building food as beet When my dog laps milk or water or mutton [he takes so m | heard all over with him. Ev © in a lap ¢ Xmas Pin Money Golden West TAILORING CO. MK. GREY'S HOUSEHOLD HINTS An Akron inventor has perf |a rubber kettle in which it is a | impossible to burn food, as the ke ST COL. HENRY WHITE White is a former ambaxeado Headquarters for will burn first and t odor is an My France and Italy and . the | catty warning to the housewife Suits, Coats and y oe President: Wilwon ae { Spices Bran muffins, cut in two, with a | One-Piece Dresses can member of the Amer Pp peace commiasion. His daughter 425 Union Street J 12.8 eek an under the kaiser | layer of cracked ice between, sand wich style, make a nice breakfast dish Oatmeal pie makes a dainty dew Watch Friday's Papers. sand officer worst of all, we are in debt My allotments from the govern ment have never arrived, and I have been alck for aix weeks, unable te get medical care, I am wearing the same clothing I wore in hottest summer, and believe me, it is cold ust now My husband was sick at camp with lock jaw, but was refused medical ald. and foreed to drill when he could scarcely stand, He was nearly dead when he obtained a passport and came home, securing medical at tion from a private physician at own expense In it any wonder that #0 many soldiers die at camp, when they are not sent to the hospital until they are #0 nearly dead that it in too late? I had no idea this waa Germany The real estate men could help ux if they would, by selling small homes on easy installment plans, say. from $25 to $50 down, and a moderate monthly rental. ‘These homes would not have to be new. Real estate men were making money fast while the boys away fighting. They should be in a position to help those who macrifieed their interests and prospects at the nation's call MRS. V. P. were Wants His Name | to Be Pershing LOS ANGELES, Dec. 18. —Herman | Wishman Pfersching petitioned the court to change his name to Persh ling, this to include the other mem bers of his family, Mary Seull Pfer eching, Richard and Myra. 5.) farnily name in Germany wa | Pforsching. It was changed to Pfer leching, and then in this country Ar | glicized to Pershing. Mr. Pfersching |is a direct descendant of Philip Pfoersching, who lived in Almce-Lor. | Faine about 1749, He is president of | | the National Engraving company ESCAPED BARBARIANS, | | THEN HIT BY CAR 1D8 ANGELES, Dec. 18.—After | going unharmed for 18 years amon; the Chines@ barberiang aa a miasion ary, returning to (his country just ir time to have all her posseasions lost in the San Franciaco earthquake anc fire in 1906, but in which she re eelved no bodily injury, Dr. Lydis Wycoff, 56 years old, waa struck by i* street car in front of her residence and suffered a broken ankle and | numerous brutsen. $ skin clear and complexion ed food, poisons and waste t and bowels. Splendid! They Such No other cathartic or They act on the bile- »wels gently—no inconvenience! Ke