The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 4, 1919, Page 6

‘a : { i j i i i PAGE 6 THE SEATTLE STAR 1307 Seventh Ave. Near Union St MEMNER OF SCRIPPS NORTHWEST LEAGUE OF NRWSrArnns Telenraph News Service of the U A Vrege Association Entered as Second-Class Matter May &, 189% at the nifioe at Beattie, Wash. under the Act of Congress Marek 3. IST® pantha, $1.50; @ montoa #275 hington, Outside the state The per 3.00 per year, Ly carrier, otty, Lee The Greatest Nation Politicians are still talking about competitive arma ments. Many of them do not see that the formation of a League of Nations is brought nearer every day There are good reasons why other nations will not want to go into a free-for-all navy-building or any other kind of armament competition with Uncle Sam, There are facts about man-power, wealth, national incomes—all comprising potential military and naval power—that the long-headed abroad, as well as here, must take into consideration. A conservative estimate of our total wealth is 250 billion dollars. A conservative estimate of our total annual income is 50 billion. The fact is, tho, that this last figure should be nearer 60 billion On the dollar score the United States is far and away the-greatest nation in the world. The British empire comes next, but with much less than half our income—between 20 and 22 billion dollars. And dollars in this connection mean something more than a big bank account, to sit back and brag about. They mean power—power to build ships, to transport and equip fighting men, to be ready for anything! The United States has more of this kind of power than any three other nations in the world. For instance, ship- for-ship, we can build and run a bigger navy than any other three at a less individual sacrifice—if we want to, or have to. In population—effective population—we are also ahead. We have well over 100 million. In military terms, this means that we have some 20 million men of what is called “militia age”—that is, 18 to 44. Even under the first draft age limits—21 to 31—more than 10 million men were reg- istered. Here again the British empire comes second. This time, tho, in better proportion. Her total of effective pop- ulation is about 70 million. That's counting out the Congo blacks and other natives in India, Africa, Egypt, ete. But they are counted.out properly when we speak in a military way. Even under the stress of the great war just closed England did not see her way clear to use these peoples in any great numbers as troops. The total army called from all sources numbered about 844 million. France had less than 40 million souls, and she is about on a par with other European nations. In man power Japan is next effective to England, with 50 millions or more. Figures may be dry as dust, but there’s a lesson in these. They are the principal argument for the League of Nations—the argument that will weigh in the end. With submarines and airplanes and three-day “mys ships” crossing the Atlantic, with Mexico on one side, ada on the other, and Japan just across the Pacific, Uncle Sam has learned that, failing adequate guarantees of peace, he cannot live alone without a gun in the house. Uncle Sam, speaking in the voice of Woodrow Wilson across the peace table at Versailles, has just this to « “TI don’t want to go in for expensive armaments. I'd rathe pay my part for a first-cl Nations that will not only have the inclination, but will have the power, to keep the peac But, if you fellows won't play that way, all right; I will go in for the arma- ments—a navy and all the rest of it—and I guess I can set the pace if I have to.” It’s a safe bet that, getting right down to cases that way, the greatest nation of them all will be listened to. War mothers of America are too busy firing up that silver star room for the boy to waste any time hold- ing meetings. Mother, Be Boy’s Sweetheart How to keep The Boy from going wrong! A lot of good people are searching for a hard-and-fast rule to solve this question, and while they are halting many a wayward lad, they are far from finding a method to save every boy. Often have good people) voiced fear that there is no such all-saving rule. But! there is! All the boy needs is the right sort of a mother. The kind of mother Ben Mc- Lean had. Ben was a_ courageous soldier, and a 100 per cent! son. Just a few days before the world war ended, Ben r died in a French hospital. “I asked him,” wrote the nurse, “if he didn’t want me to write a word to his sweetheart. And he mother. “And a smile came to his pain-tortured face as he whis- pered: ‘My mother is MY sweetheart.’ That was his last word.” This she told in a letter to the mother, Mrs. William McLean, Dunmore, Pa. The dying boy made the “boy problem” crystal clear. It is the solution. So long as a bo} heart” he will not go wrong. Of course, all boys haven’t living mothers. And some mothers haven't learned how to be their boys’ sweethearts from cradle to manhood. 7 Ben McLean’s mother knew how d, write to 8 mother is his “sweet- The country owes a big debt to his mother for the! gift of her son, and second only to that comes the gra of all mothers to her for thus pointing the way the; keep their boys going right. No higher honor comes to any boy than that it is said of him: “HIS MOTHER IS HIS SWEETHEART.” itude may Even a flu epidemic is gratefully received by the enthusiastic youth if it makes a noise like the closing of school! Civilization and Eskimo “Don’t civilize the Eskimos,” begged Viljhalmar Ste- fansson, Arctic explorer, in a speech in New York the other oe night. Why not? Well, as fast as Eskimos are civilized they die, Stefansson says, ; Civilization brings them boc disease and new habits of living. The combination is fatal. As a rule civilization, such as they get, anyway, is deadly to ges. Is the fault in the savage or in the civilization? Well, there’s a lot to be said on both sides of the ques- Three things are certainly true: Civilization can stand a lot of improvement. And savages need improving, too. The place to begin improving is at home. tion. Mrs. Wilson “chatted with the queen” in London. What about? The weather—or husbands? ss police force—a League of { THE SEATTLE STAR—SATURDAY, JANUARY 4, 1919 [ The Great American Home! || starsHELLS | 91ST TROOPS DOWNED | OW,! SLPPOSE | DipN* | WAVE ANN THING To Do ~ Who GoY Your: pner? IF You'Re SO SMART WHY DION*T You SHAVE WHILE \ WAS WASHNG The Osnes ? “FRR 3) tear AS I CAN GET Now ! | [ever SAW IT TO FAIL | Just AS SOON AS | START ‘ro Snave You WANT To ' GeT AT Tws MIRROR: v's A WonpeR You WooL oly FIX Your. HAIR perore | GBT Home! ~ A worp rom i 4s J08H W Northwest fought the famed s A man may see) Prussian guards to a stand and | iS straight an’ talkiwon the pect of allied came straight, an’ walk ery for wallants rooked rh the w ffieia tw Yirector General McAdoo de 1 J t 1M an pantors whall have half-fare rafiroads after January 1, The ave had nif fare all alone t the Th f extaurant An citizens of th ol hoe ili ington were Kned to the The authors of war 1 Pres lator wh ent Wilkon In Paris, “must be ntrip:| Camp Lewis, ar ped of powe And what #hall be | tary training at ve with the authors of war books?! their departure , ee. 19148, it 4 me gre NO COOTIES IN furnish the f NEIGHBORHOC tion concerning the ner L. M heard int division wince it from his brother Karl France the American army in Italy He The ¢ iaion, | th tates he was in @ battle lasting #ev" | artillery brigade, received en day and ¢€ out without @ training while bille orutch.-Cambridge, O., Journal Marne de ment, with A Li tors at Montigny-Lelol Hill Hohenzoliern spends mont of |, . to kno what he ts writing about “ ent, on arri to Clermont | We have a hunch that he Is WUE Perrand De Dome department | A second crop of onions doemn't pave no informatic aan vou ane pe at an Kenerve at St. Mihiel | their « atulations to hi / - —w wife on thelr reeent marriage and Void, Meuse as he in familiarly known here, in| 1 mon Was & pert : onsidered a man of sterling quali ie First American army, Gen. J. J ies, and makes friends wherever he sisi Guring ples “" at : ost goes, and the most unique bass drum: | 2UDIe! me ‘ ! " andes ner the I if not in the *™ ppor > — THE COMFUCY “THAT USUALLY * tate.—Lead, § m in t TAKES PlLack BEFORE AN 1 ayilis Weide! ees ein ta marchir EVENING OUT — # to get her property back fo rein tinea ne or brewery Our own f ry br nothing to get back In a brewery * ar French re fle rtiller part ed in the « - ~~ 8 T tcteck Hires ate initial offensive between the Meuse Expl ation of Moonlig ht *) Miller Freeman ee an oe portion 6¢ sia MAie AEM? eeac, Mehse Rambl ds F in Jail | Will Return to jun Gen. Gepree M. Cameron. 1 } ambie s rr In Ja Civilian Duties A Syracuse working girl, replying | Henne. Just north of the Clermont das Vacdemaiean a 2 | % to club women who asked the girls| Verdun highway and at of the N were dixcuasing tt ey quested ther and thither |waists and silk stockings, said, “If ck Sept. 26. The division Gees fr ather at Third ave. Fred with } fficers y are no deadly, why don't society | te bth fie beignde) was “1 from the front line Oct. 4 of the Fifth re with their cumberson torbiken nen drop them?” One might a whudder to think of the see 1 4 in rene Oc he 18let in at a little while we aha t the pasture,” sald Fred, a Gneluding mi § was returned to the line 1 fought under the First division J the 32nd division, October 12 ™ Nearly every republican led to paper we pick up in angry because | President Wilson ix iP rin hotwe that has carpe manner in wh elec Under Belgium K. tho he were hu«ging ter his ¢ lights, a comfortable bed and a ting by rail and m 4 y om. Where did they think he) Oct » "The « nation oing to stay? In a warehouse?! y the Gard and } of me! I tor division (Pennsylvania Guard) was assigned to duty in the ‘Group of Armies of omputations ‘MAY LET DOWN BARS | FOR SCHOOL TEACHERS Officers Mystified w ool board Ix organ to pick n t Frea pe ‘ |left over by the old board will be the said to plied # rabt settlement of a cnaximum age for a police jintendent Frank Cooper recom t mended a teacher more than 40 for! An elective m ked, waa jpermanent appointment. Hoe anked | 4. proposed officers where he that an exception be made to Se “ ran peor aateahas edie. ta hereeen get-Bound rail terminals tion, the at @ grass that grows under the W. J. Santmyer, new board -nem-| by the state public service commis tien would caring out. and moon, tender wit jew diamonds at ber, believes the maximum age rule | «on and county and city officials of accompanied him to where the green the hour of a bad nd thinks it ought to be the state, will be thoroly probed at a Krass was supp to be tender and! The police covered with diamond-like dew of the and hin sack nvestigating Fred Alwe The matter was left on the table for the new board meeting in Tacoma Wednesday. A draft of the terminal project _ —— — am uniting freight shipments for Taco- ' 249 New Flu Cases iii!iherit ant seattle under one IS YOUR JOB WORTH DOING? | in Portland in Day| ‘sewn. to arcrese shonin conte, i go before th Tacoma ~~ ~ 4 Commander Miller Freeman | PORTLAND, Jan. 4—Two hun-| 0o"ln wil BO Nelone ning been BY REV. CHARLE ; ER | forty-nine new cases Of! inte indorsed at a meeting in You never do permanent damage to a running stream by damming| Commander Miller Freecnan is pre-| ip were : the ile Chamber of Commerce it—you simply lft it higher ' ‘om his post au yeste The deaths ‘ 1 nothe ¢ n that Ur Wash weven. arist “ Op ae Cau’ theeatan (es llega a tal ag Iry Fe) terminal governing body the power . eo same way with a mar t bas son ad structed bad. plame m now held by port commissions. A lidation between a possible ter nein private SWAMP COMMANDER minal commission and the port com ground "| publishing * ne 5 The, this figure of 6 nning stream!" It's “yee caohene sung deny Mag a WITH APPLICATIONS Nasdek \ogitialion ont terminal t t hat the attempt to | CAMP LEWIS, Jan. 4—Since an-| project may be framed at the Ta been roughly said that you can't ered the w down; be is sure to get up again when beate bi reed by a jer, adju « been bewil why should the f And, if the thing he's 5 it SHALL be done, even the Somebody else may fi requests for dienissal the fort of kr If there were nition, | ects aaa rf Canada Death Toll Is hanes ahent i sed chats ths ee lean Same as U. S., 60,000 = TTAWA, Can. Jan, 4.—Canada's A damned stream increases its depth. It ceases to be a ab WILSON AVENUE COST ie in the great war number 60,382, Operator; ‘Number, please.” without power. The fact ix that men deliberately dam streams vut of @ total of 220,182 casualtien,| North 3490 says: “Main 1280 4 “ t sda ESTIMATED $253,000 scortins ‘to figures. isaued by. the A man, opponed, develops strength. He sees and feels and } pores minister of militia today, These fix becomes a better m : ‘re | ores are practically the same a try to hinder him? of the a ered by hundreds of |! jon ning to do should be done doesn't do it but he will have TELEPHONE (Contributed it across STELZLE prove that everybody agr North 3490: Calls, calls, waits, ce for three minutes.) North 3490 calls, calls, waits, ham, 1 Mond who t al had his own w opposition, de ai a bully, a weakling on pe © ineued for the American army. | mers me th » has been dammed for the job that require Vil 8 alma “ ~| Operator Number, please.” sympathy, heart, strength of character and superiority of soul et : bvivep Me. . * North 3490 says: “Main 1280, + Rutld of the Nair eon (Silence for one minute.) Did You Fall on : ; ‘ ras | North 3490 calls, calls, waits, ham mers Operator: “Number, please.” Editor's Mlaill| Sidewalk Today? 1/00: is"%it. aa re nrg, rage So Did Everybody im P th + rth 3490 says: “Give me the SUGGESTS GOAT FARMS Did you slip on Arie "a “ nt os : v ee will isor.” Editor The Star: Permit -ne to of hay. geANIS MeaAte “and at asin \Uihd averrironk cia: Re ae ; (Silence for two minutes.) fal ‘a ld ceeattl tn’ conde tbe : al Por a e Supervisor: “This is supervisor." eis ig Oe Soh Reapers - | North 3490 says I've been try a 1 i " ing to get Main 1280 for an hour Ai remedy will not only help ob POLCE BELIEVE TH Can you help me?" 1 t ead sT teagio jewall | | f bout i mea prices, and help pre af ' HAVE TOOL THIEVES |“Supervisor is busy; will answer in ent * 7 _ wi tt arrest ¢ D. £ and ~ a minute.” In the nd Olymp ; and lc, ¢ both of Sea a North 3490: “She has answered, anges are f acres of land NINE | 44 ship detail sa ru “I say supervisor will now usele tate take th t up the mystery of e answer you soor a running back to | Srvet Peery e in 1 coording North 349 calls, waits et ranges, ‘Then fence | on haat area preys te of the de did li hammers with nf w ane ha ip regu ae 4 1 er | pail f Ope oO > ne eas goats from Siberia, say, 100 goats to : the tora had North 3490; “Supervisor, please hese Hasbro "an | One of the mont slippery places in| that eczema! Operator: “Supervisor will reply t ‘1 th was the pavement on t id the best time to buy and tmport th cline, Delow the put safety build | ¢ 1 the awe his “old kit bag ** Nothing is too good North 3490 Calls, calls waits, Tha of cate cron ain iy, Ink. Scores of pe Md, felt, wat | oe" pattie Pew" for him, and he will need it “over! nammers toe and other place lown and tumbled over one another. | wa yma, the other there’’ where exposure, vermin, con. Opera’ Number, please.” SAMSON HAUKENES, | N. P. Nelson, of 722 Summit ave.| in seattl tagions, and the exigencies of asoldier's) North 3490: “I'm waiting for su wae bw first pe ) report life cause all sorts of skin irritation,| pervisor GETS GOB'S GOAT sersounty Sure Nel ‘ itching, sore feet and suffering Supervisor: ‘This is supervisor.” VOR gb ee lhe ol A fell while running to eatch_a Gottstein Case Is San Chess cicos laine dimen ements,’ North 450: ‘I've bosn ‘trying to , " : v i reet car at Mercer s#t, and Kast . It heals little sores before they can become big cet Main 1280, a taxicab call, for publication 1 read an article duotins | take ave, at 6:36 a.m. He was Under Advisement ! \s, iis nrc betore « Shout two: hours. My train bas sa rig a re ™ i knocked sensele und is in the cit Attorney Aller motion for a new Fer vale by ail dealers. probably gone; please hurry—Main statement that the nation now faces | howpital, Kuffering from head in-| tral for his elient, William Gott 1280," an era of robbery and murder, ete. 1M | suri tein, convicted on the charge of (Silence for two minutes.) rt tT think he |” ‘geores of pedestrians were injured | murdering J Mut m October > one | Operator: “Number, please.” Ko nen he men-| thru falls, a number removed | 4 near Dew M en under th 3490: “I'm waiting for the tor listed ,pernonnel of the | to noxpitals for treatment advisement — : r Judge rvisor army and na A Got Frater Fri ufternoor er heat ipervisor This is supervisor.” ng the argument ‘ | 1 3490 ! RAIL BONDS APPROVED Burglar Leaves a 4 Fg 1 rh iv pp }train’s g anyway Merry Christ | ma brie reeuinat we tattae arava Finishing Touch DAYLIGHT BANDIT MUD CIPAL AND ‘ J hepherd, of the local wy wa judine the avan py Supervisor Ie that what u of th federal ever nk | I Be Se aven GETS-JEWECRY HAULIN. “‘componarion sonpe = cere ene ra anc attle re ouch, am the mile when the AN FRANCISCO, Jan 4 A | Your Patronage Appreciated aeitutive’ of-thip Gave, aatuneproumital cil “thats De esac late diyllahtate na erences UA BOUGHT AND SOLD | Pay Checks Cashed ue committee of Washington, | Laurence Hol ither wallet af walked into the jJewelr tore of ten , ny tigud, to the miter door knob of tia| dare Atel oan Ano sahaoad TORREY & SEARS Khenherd Informed Meter that the| room in the ‘Guinn hotel 7H8 Unt | with avers thotiand diary worth JOHN E. PRICE & CO. BILLIARD PARLOR committee id approved the city’s| versi ‘riday night, after ex-|of jewelr fundr ri verson: r 4 | ianue of $550,000 in bonds for mu-|tracting $20 and a ada ticket for| were passing while the ite youth Ninth Floor Hoge Building imate nicipal street railway improvement. Holmes’ watch, held up the st | Gorh Delany Main pa18 Som © Tent stvan 3 ote fos neement was made that 10 per|coma meeting and presented to the When a man’s foes mpt to stop him, it's a sure of the 13th division could. be | legislature when it opens at Olympia. | Luc sign that he's mewhere to do something, or - tion, Maj. W.|—— — iss Foam J c 1 C cute, Did Not Hesitate nd thru you of Washingt of that toward t lished t ¢ was called to partic cent nee of th er fier one years not hesitate to attack visions of th russian guard in the Me Argonne offen sive before the general retreat of the enemy began. They continued \to attack until withdrawn by the corps commander to rest and replace casualties. “The same animated them they advanced thru Belgium to expel the invaders. I feel sure the same courage and efficiency will aracterize their service in the fu ture, should any orders require ae tion. Finally, It that all, when discharged to resume the pur: wults of peace, will be more valuable citizens of the state of Washington © in the army ns toward the thruout the WM. H. JOHNSTON, U. & A. commanding.*™ BOND ROBBER IS SENTENCE Ixadore R. Eldest was sem tenced to serve from five to fifteen! rd labor in the Wa’ by Superiot® Judge Hall Saturday when he, pleaded guilty to the charge of steak” ing war savings stamps, liberty | bonds and other securities from Se attle brokers during September, The prosecuting attorney's office recommended a sentence from! fifteen years, but Judge red that nothing had been) to his attention that would induce him to lighten the sentence, Edelstein ix alleged to have stolen | over 0 in securities from Seat: Ue people, of which nearly $15,005 worth has been recovered. WV FIRM + The n law firm of Kellogg, Hyde & Luccock will have offices in? the Central building, according to? the announcement of J. ¥. C. Keke &, who organized it. His partners | Edward C. Hyde and Eugene 7 OR EFFICIENCY by a Reader) | were bothering me for?" 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