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SEATTLE STAR 1307 Seventh Ave. Near Union St. OF SCHIFTS NORTUWEST LEAGUR OF NEWSPAPERS News Service of the United Preqe Association Second-Cians Matt J 1899, at_ the Postaffice ‘Weeb. under the Act ol Bedagrese March & 1870, ft co! bbe 9 months, $1.56; 6 moni $2.7! Pia the ‘State of tate, Yee fer @ mouths month: ‘Washtn) Outside tbe er $9.06 per year. By carrier, city, ite Baty ty Fhe cter Fabueting, lume _9¢ Co. Phone Main €90. Private departments. Vote Today for Your Health The public health of Seattle threatened by ent No. 9 today. Be sure to vote against It. This amendment proposes to curtail the powers F the health commissioner in fighting against epi- d It proposes to put these powers in the hands city council. The council is a body of men ntific knowledge of medical matters. Why should be the chief guardians of the public health? The roposition*is not only silly but it is highly perilous. health department, on the other hand, is composed men who are trained in their work. They are the en to prescribe the rules and regulations for fighting is nics who have no am To preserve the health of this city, vote against endment No. 9. The constitution of the league failed to provide te punishment for a member who sasses the um- They Want to Go fanted, a married man for a farm. To suitable per- give rent of house, free wood, garden, pasture for $50 a month.” : - This small ad appeared recently. Within 24 hours it ms Served up 70 people, 70 families indeed, to reply. fe thin are making: “The town worker doesn’t want to go to country. The returning soldier doesn’t want to live in “4 these days of apparently high wages—only appar- high, please note—to immediately find 70 city work- who welcome a $50 a month job in the country should is more countryward than ever before; that the old for a bit of soil is coming to the top. igin should be forced into the country who doesn’t! go there. Farmers on protest are too little good land available. this big undeveloped nation should be able to pro- every family that eagerly desires to enter the producing 8 fair chance to do so. Just as many a good farmer has been driven to the city ) an indifferent tradesman, or a superfluous shop 80, Many an expert craftsman has been allowed to farm where he had no chance to make good. nation in its 18 months of war learned to employ not wanted, ¢ Uncle Sam in the peaceful years helps his sons and p we will in time have a nation of 125,000,000 cers, living in comfort, doing a good work; every them, to the child in the home, being trained along it has been we have had perhaps 10,000,000 skilled fitted to their jobs and doing what they desired The rest have been accidentals and, to a degree, a drain ter than tonic to the national nervous system. : nation has land enough, and money enough, and portunit) enough to give every willing worker a chance make good. now we have most of the machinery required needs of the people if we have the vision to : When a will do well was born. n agitator tries to start something, labor to discover on which side of the Atlantic When Water Is Set Afire E h ps dance qn choppy waves. Breakers roll a line of foam far up on a pebbly beach. Step back there! You'll get your feet sopping wet! Boats tack about far out on the expanse; bathers splash » \Plenty of water? ig anything more? Nothing but the home of the fish? Blind! eo there is one of the greatest untamed forces in nature, ts potentialities and possibilities are limitless. There are billions in ungathered treasure in those wild, waves. These are no new truths. Man has dimly realized them " Man has tried to harness the tide to r m his houses. Man has analyzed water. It is “H20.” What's that? One part hydrogen, two parts oxygen. Perera, inflammable, 4 powerful, inflammable, dangerous, explosive gas! Gas that will burn! Y E _ Tamed, it would run every engine, light every street and every home and cook every meal in the world! What would that mean? _ No more light and fuel problems or costs! Richer world! un his mills and Is he coming? There are no more impossibilities. The thing that couldn't be done is done in these days. Watch for the man who will “set the river afire!” Open your eyes! Imagine things! It’s good for the bonebound brain! Another little lesson of history is that something always happens to a race that claims to have a corner om Ys affection. "| Leniency in dealing with Germany may indicate a _ 8oft heart, but certainly indicates a soft head. , Yee = The Hun assumption “that necessity knows no law overlooked the law of retribution. The man in the street has a hunch that this oppo- sition to the league is simply opposition to Wilson. The chief complaint “against the new income tax law is that it has teeth that discourage dodging. This epidemic of assassination in Bavaria starte years too late. ime ty that is the best answer to the charge that) fe surmise that the truth is that the thought of the) according to their preferences, abilities, training! ' to find their work, to realize their ideal, to be-| / | 1) ) What Your ‘ ‘ D.C, Mareh 4 congress, — which pn today WASHINGTON, The fifty sixth ended Its career at leved some remarka leg viete and suffered many It did things tt le should have tive ries feats " et Ny e, and ' reconstruc }tlon measures eau ant to country’s wel War able of the war import it and claimed credit for the But it failed onatruet congress wh War Congress wag the nation Congress winning rably ar This { did Convened in nowmion by proclamation of the president, April }2, 1917, and was tn not continu |ous seanion holiday recesses, adjourned sine die. | DEMOCRATS CONTRO |SENATE AND HOUSE at your special xcepting election and until the hour it Democrats were in majority jboth hoses, ‘Their leaders ir | were Speaker Clark Kitchin; leaders Martin, Simmons and Lewis. | At the special semion of the sen jate immediately preceding extra sen sion of congress, there was passed a “1 cloture rule under which business might be expe: April 2, 1917, the Germ: was introduced April 6 the pres » to that both bh the opporit of both repu in the and Ie the | wonate | moe put On reac b on and on attached his algnatul jure, after it had {in record tim: of a small jeans and democrats | The next important act authorized an inaue of bonds to meet expend tures for the national security and defense and for the purpose of a» sisting In the prosecutic of the war, to extend credit to foreign gov ernment and for purposes This paved the Libert: | loans j DRAFTED NATION'S | MAN POWER Public Act No. 12 was another | portant piece of war legislation | authorized the president to increase |temporarily the military establish jment of the United States by the | drafting of aged 21-31 Congress then, by resolution tho! 1 the president to fake any veesel owned in whole or pa by any corporation, citizen or #ub- of any nation with which the d States was at war | brought about the legal seizure | the tremendous German shipping in terned tn American harbor Pasned war revenue act ing income taxes, taxing profits and increasing internal rev. | enue taxes. The war risk insurance acts per m marine fo and cargoes and life insure American soldiers and sailors, other way for m This Thin of | | increas excess | naurance jlargest sum of had ever appropriated 994.541.60 for military al expenditures ney any congre The espionage act made it possible for the government to ferret out a punish proGermans and antlAmer jeans who sought to give aid to our enemies. National war time slogan, “Free-| dom, For All, Forever,” introduced in resolution form by Congressman Cari Van Dyke, commander-in-chiet United Spanish War Veterans Food and fuel administrations were authorized. During the first seasion of thin | congress appropriation bills allow: | ing the expenditures of $18,879,177, | 014.96 were pasded. Of thin $7,000,-| 000,000 were loans to our allies. Ad | OLDHAM TRAVELS — TWENTY-FIVE MILES | FOR MORE TANLA Farmer Finds Relief After) Suffering for Twenty- Five Long Years. “For twenty-five years, I hee! been looking for something to re Heve my trotibles, and I believe I have found it at last in Tanlac,” sald Richard Oldham, R. F |1, Platte Mo., recently |Oldham, known familiar! friends ax “Dick” Oldham, is a pr perous farmer, who has lived comtnunity for fifty highly respé@eted by him Mr in his years, and all who know| sir, I have so muych faith in Taniae,” continued Mr, Oldharn, that I have come all the way from | Platte City, a distance of twenty-five | miles, to get me another bottle of | this wonderful medicine. All these | years I have suffered terriblf with indigestion in its worst form, and my stomach was in an awful condi t Just as soon as I would eat ning I wo bloat up so with | Ras that 1 would have tomlet out my jbelt a few inches, and there was jsuch a tightness in m chest that 1 could hardly get my breath. Why, at times, even a drink of cold water | would seem to set me on fire inside, | and often I would turn #0 faint and weak that I.could hardly do a thing. Sometimes my appetite would seem to be normal, then it would go back on me, and I would go for two or three days without cating a thing I just felt miserable all the time jand, altho I tried everything I could r off T get a little orary “I have been reading quite a lot about Tanlac in the papers, but couldn't make up my mind to try it till one day I saw a statement made | by a man in Kansas City who, I knew, is absolutely reliable. I have taken only three bottles so far, and considering the nature of my trou ble, and the many years I have suf- fered, the way I have improved is| just simply wonderful My appe-| tite is just fine, and I am not trou. | bled now with indigestion, ike 1 | Wag before, and | am getting better ‘right along every day. The way t with if a medicine didn't jhetp me I would and if it | did me good I think it is entitied to |the eredit, and that is why I say what I do dbout Taniac.” Tanlac ts sold in Seattle by Bartell Drug Stores under the personal di- rection of a special Tanlac represent- ve.—Advertivement, AY, MARCH 4, 1919. Congress Did for You H \ Most Important Acts Briefly Recounted’as Famous “War Con. | gress” Passes Out of Existe nce Tod ay * it ing ral Greatest Days sre of 65th Congress ad equipment © thing Into under the States ralir and turned pe railway rol of the United tion Panned the d Third and 1 erty Loan acts, — ine amount of bonded indebtedness from $7,698,945,460 to $20,000,000,000, ing * 1017—The president ad dresses both honses of Congress, with the U, 8. Supreme guustypt honor, ress to declare war agal the Imperial German government, JANUARY 8, 1918—The president again addresses both houses and eounclates his famous fourteen | Peace terms, including the league of nations. NOVEMBE) 1918—The presi dent, standing at the speaker's desk, informs the two houses as semble together, that the armis- tee has been signed, and that war) is over. neheme launc n Of $40,000,000 hounes for appropriat to build dwelling | workers employed in congested cen ters, Congressman Denton, Indiana, in | troduc resolution granting federal charter to War Mothers of Amertea Vocational rehabilitation and re turn to eivil employment of disabled soldiers provided for Pansed Nght saving bill Appropriation records were again broken by the passage of Public Act 193, appropriating $10,225478,312.91 for the support of the army MADE NATION DRY ON JUL Pansed tab hing . 1919 President authorized to take over telephone, telegraph and cable tines, Belective nuthorize! for between ages of 18 and 21, and war ditional riations amounting to $2,511,65 0 for contract authori zations, brought the total appropria > $21 20,940.46 ccond wernion this congress tions up In the lid these things Declared between the dry” law nal prohibition em. natic July A mtate of United jan empire war existing tates and Aus tro- Hung pat Laune nation upon a tre Iding program by 1 States Shipping Fleet Corporation. m private interests ud mendous pbu reating the Unit rd Emergen fr Boece appropriated total of $26.8 5,102.07 In ite third (mienamed “reconstruc Uon”) seenion congress spent mort jof ite time debating and neglected legixiation until the last days of the senniom. It did this 1 (in senate) woman suf consUtutional amendment aneed the hin Simmons rev bill increasing income and jaxation, providing for the ne of $6,000,000,000 this ting » feder a © railroads, inc @ RHEUMATISM @ ACHY JOINTS Headache Stiff Neck Earache Toothache Colds Grippe year ond m next to $4,000,000,00 FOUND TIME FOR “PORK” BILL Kivers and harbors (pork) appropriating $33,000,000, paased Transportation home of war work ers in Washington paid. Ap ypriated $100,000,000 rving Europeans outside many Repealed ling to $2 pones Paseed 1920 census bill Validated contracts illegally made by war departme Panned portofti appropriation bill, carrying $600,000,000. Reconstruction legin tax bill for Ger Lumbago Sciatica Lame Back Neuritis Neuralgia Pain! Pain! appropriations 660,000,000 for amount war pur tion of ade led to get attention farme-fe and Kenyon's The cre of education for « deferred. 80 was War Mothers jeations for ch ane’ organizat quate shape and w What else offers relief so) « safely? Don’t suffer! Adults—Take one or “Bayer Tablet water; if necessary, repeat dose | the cap « three times a d fter meals, ‘°° ter America App Tablets New Dil, restoging od The’ Bayer Cross'on Genuine Tablets = iar army to 175,000, panned army . | Soldiers, sailors and marines per 20-cent package—Larger sizes. Buy! mitted to retain uniforms when dis only regular Bayer packages. Owned charged, and allowed five cents a by Americans—Entirely! | mile for traveling expenses home. 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About Your Teeth | Sound :Teeth Are the Outward Sign of Personal Efficiency, Good Health and Contentment You must know by this time that sound teeth are essential— and will be more so in the future. Those with sound teeth, which means better health, will take the place of those who are constantly away from their duties with tooth- ache, and all the kindred ailments that poor teeth create. Come in tomorrow and have the work of correction commenced — do this much for yourself when you know you should have it done. Make the start and you will soon be fully equipped for your duties. Phone for an appointment. Electro Painless Dentists “Laboring People’s Dentists” Located for years at 8, FE. Corner First and. Pike. We Will Gladly Examine Your You Advice, Patients From Out of Town Whose Tir Limited, Give Special Attention, Phone Main 2555 administra | urth Lib the } STARS 6HOWATT EGGS popular belief that her nt in the to take © quite nclence propos the hen lack of mental mach by putting over a the omelette biped lights. The the decides call knock off work cupola, ne ndvantag 14-hour thru electric when the sur the to ta da hens too. a hen ~o enough to be couched by a b into laying eggs, the feath uawk still ha the beak to fall for an a veut pocket edition of th and keep up the shell gam M-hour day shift with 1 lunch and two for wor) nmonly known that with an owl with hens, and the next t ration would f and hen effair hour working 4 TELAS OF PROSPERITY “Why did you buy that old doc mat when office furniture vacuum over ligt 4 for a ® for good for your brand new wornout doormat out d advertisement Judze . lawyer.” ee IN THE PUBLIC EYE “You are spending a great time in front of the Yes,” replied n't that I think special appearances, but a 1 with as little te #1 have now is jurt an interesting an he is to listen to."- Star camer Senato Sorghum. “it I'm anything nay Washingtor MAKING SOME PROGRESS “You seem to stand with this waitress “O, 'm making some said the restaurant patro: “She already thinks enough of me to bring me a ple ¢ \aay’s pie." -— Birmingham ald pretty well progress Age Her . WAITING Twelve-year-old Tommie was help. nz bis uncle gather tomatoes from the garden. He started to work ener getically, but by the time hin has was half-filled he grew tired, put the grou he stood st f and he Fe w weve minute We Tommie I'm afraid good worker said his un thet you are not a very You must work faster than. this m to fire added, laughing After a few minutes he looked up ». Tommie was still standing in he j | | It Teeth and Give || ur Expert |ne t | | the same place, watching him in-| tently “What's the matter, Tommie?” his uncle asked. “I'm waiting to be fired,” said Tom-| mie."--Youth's Companion | USELESS EXPENSE My doctor warns me not to over eat “Any objection to that?” "No. same advice from the food controller | for nothing.”—-Passing Show 1 HELLS confectionery « tockton te for 10¢ ar This Best 1 Treatment M Oak Management Tender the City WIFEV'® PLAN FAILS . There, now,” said the wife his to to do mar room our den 1 #hall no ou yt may clean it becomes #o bad of decency.” Phe pb room in the maculatene kept #o t nelf ing who de und paper in the dining roc Star THOUGHT GEMS STOLEN; FINDS’EM UNDER PILLOW NEW YORK, March 4 Mrs. Henry Prince, of th Ray found und sh her pillow that jew , she was ne an were Detectives wil mor Jame 145th st. and a varieties of inve nen k under her pi she failed to w where she had them. ASKS DISCHARGE GIVE SOLDIER SQUARE DEAL FAitor T I wish to thank ‘Thursday's Star nd road thru Cedar should have ul week Org members have been trying to me or create public sentiment rinst it for fear Senator Lamping t credi@out of it, J can- ingle argument againat ity been at home getting good wages while our boys bave been rise ing their lives and working at the ardest Jind of work, And now we so niegardly that we do not wamt rselves & few dollars eagh boys a square deal. Lat ing besides waving the ing patriotism. Yours very truly, H. C. BOHLKE, Representative 42nd Dist. 7 are to tax « to give t AN RIGHTS UPHELD NGTON, March 4 : supreme court has upheld lowes! ourts which sustained fishin rights of the Yakima Indians on t \Columbia river, as granted in thé treaty of 18537 — Fine exercise! Keeps skin clear and complexion rosy by forcing the delayed food, poisons and waste from the stomach, liver and bowels. But most people take their exercise in an easy chair, Splendid! They become headachy, bilious, sallow, dyspeptic, constipated. Such folks must take Cascarets occasionally. laxative ‘‘works’’ like harmless Cascarets. Only I could have*got the! clogged liver and. constipated bowels gently—no inconvenience} No other cathartic or They act on the bile- Cascarets cost only 10 cents a box. Physicians Explain Why Women Need:More. Iron in their Blood Today than 20 years Ago | Say Anaemia—Lack of Iron—Is Greatest Curse to the Health, Strength, Vitality and Beauty of the Modern American Woman. The Child's Appeal—What Is Your * Any woman 8 Nuxated he strength and endurance nervous, careworn women in two weeks’ time “There can be no strong, healthy, beautiful, rosy-cheeked women with rdinand King, tora should anie iron ir. nervous, ard-looking Ww pre- Nuxated rundown, flesh flabby, The musele the b iron goes omen the roses melancholy n the blood of we from their cheeks. the most common foods of i a crack spaghetti, degerminated iron to be found. have removed Barth AD farina, orn meal, no longer is Refining proces: the irc these ly meth throwin water in which another grave iron lo Therefore, should supply the deficlen your food by using some form of organic iron, just as you would use salt when your food has not enough salt.” Dr. A. J. Newman, surgeon of house surgeon, Jeffersc pital, Chicago, say my particular duty duri six years to assist in k cago's 6,000 bluecoats in and perfect fighting trim, they would be physically to Withstand all) manner and ravages of ni Recently | wa a former police and former on Park hos- “It has been g the past ing Chi- d health so that equipped of Chicago, ry OWN. tests ¢ 18 any pre reating 1 1 bk building up the nerve rengthening the muscles and correcting digestive disorde Dr. Schuyler C. Jaques, Visiting Surgeon of St. Elizabeth's Hospital, New York City, said: “I have never before given out ny medical in- formation or advice for publication jas 1 ordinarily do not believe in it. younger complaining creat to have around, Just fine.” Rut in the case of Nuxated Tron I el 1 would be remiss in my duty to mention it. I have taken it myself und given it to my patients with most surprising and satisfac tory results. And th >» wish ckly to iner strength, v will £ ‘ wonderfully (Outd doctoring them f ills, when the Land true cause underiying their ondition is simply a lack of suf- ficient iron in. the red blood cor- ature to trans. t into braw which more harm good otwithstanding all that said and written on th 1 freq than bben has ub inet Ans thor lonir ¢ mply a fev physician's preser iron—-Nuxated tron--or if you don't want to go to this trouble, then pur- chase only Nuxated Iron in its origi nal packages and see that this par name (Nuxated Iron) a pears on the package. If you have taken preparations such as Nux and Answer? can tell the wei i tired, wants Iron and other similar iron products and fai to get resillts, remember that such products are an entirely different thing fr If people would take Nuxated Iron when they weak or runs down, in Ing themselves and al their themse! 1 off the ms that nd uh ny ney nergy and ge ndit n to Wa inually prising how from iron defic know of it. If you ar or well you owe it to yourself t make the following test. See how can work or how far you without becoming tired: ‘ext take two five tablets of Nuxated Iron per, day after 1 ‘Then t rain and see wainod Nuxatod not stron ks Ww much you have Manuf Irom, edd teot stomach. njuire the fet th make thon The manus P refund your money. It is dis« penged in this elty by Ow! Drug Co. Bars tel rag Oo, Swift's Pharmac all other druggists