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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-03-02
CAMPAIGN STARTED FOR
A LINCOLN MONUMENT

the movement forward. Repre-
sentatives from the school board,
Plymouth Improvement club, G..
A. r. Daughters of Veterans, the
Bar association and the Wash
ington Historical society were
present. Another meeting will
be held March 7 at o'clock in
the State Historical building.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-03-02

Plans are under way today for
a campaign to secure funds for
the building of Lincoln monu-
ment on the grounds of the new
Lincoln High school. A meeting
Saturday resulted in the election
of II. B. Hendley as chairman and
Mrs. J. B. Queever, secretary of
abe organization that is to push
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-03-02
BUILDING IN
TACOMA BRISK
AT PRESENT

Building activity in Tacoma
keeps right on. The building in
spector in February issued per-
mits for $167,722 of new con-
struction work which is 20 per
cent more than February a year
ago. 1t is $58, 200 more than in
January of this year. The larg-
est building started in February
was by John s. Baker for a
$4,000 structure at 18th and d
streets.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-03-02

BOTH SIDES OF MEDAL TO
BE PRESENTED TO COL.
COCKTAILS.
NEW YORK, Feb. 2S.-Not
since General Grant was well
coined home from his trip around
the world will there have been
gathered so many distinguished
Americans AZ will be present to
greet Colonel Goethals, builder
of the Panama canal when he APP
pears at Carnegie hall, here.
March 4, to receive the Civic
Forums medal for public service
rendered. The presentation may
be made by President Wilson II
be IL able 70 leave Washington.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-03-02
BECKER MUST
STAND TRIAL

NEW YORK, March RE
moving all doubt that Lieutenant
Becker would be set free District
Attorney Whitman announced to-
day that the one time police chief
would be brought to trial again
on April 10.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-03-02
REFUSES A JOB

e. r. Benson of Tacoma was Of
fered the job of state commission
or Of agriculture by Governor Lis
ter last week but he has declined
to accept. He is now serving as
receiver for the Hanford Irriga-
ton company and will be busy
with that for some time.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-03-02
NURSE HAS 8
PATIENTS NO W

District Nurse Donaldena Nc
Donald Is finding all she can do
In her new office created by the
city couple OF weeks ago. She
now has eight patients under her
care and her report which is to be
presented In a few days will show
what has been done.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-03-02
MARCH COMES IN
LIKE A LION

Old Boreas hit up pace of
rs miles an hour In Tacoma Sat
urday night and brought March
in roaring like a lion. Whether
there Is anything in this old say
ing about coming In like a Hon
and going out like a lamb re-
mains to be seen. The ground
hog theory rather got knocked IN
the head this year,
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-03-02
Testimony i'm Case Against
Poor. Ignorant Foreigner
Says Burns Men. by Con-
slant Hammerine, Coaxin9|
and SUGGESTION, Persuaded
Him to Attempt Crime so
They Could Step in and Pre-
vent Ii.

o,.1 Ne. ~
He prison because Burns detectives thous
and % sna him by e
forced him to buy it, according to evidence and helped him yet
bile The factory manager Jerry Decou
Ses
s as GS tss ss 7ss ss a @
got we'll and work for Then he fired
days BROoDED
THOUGHT had him. Then he the
"You will suffer my broken RIBS
sS % s t the
Joseph Brunswick Jas Pendergas of the Burns
They with Burns
In a and S e ne @ s
in the prison BUT KoscAK WOULDN'T
him. drank with him. always eggng him on to ge even with
They urged Koscak to try to shoot Decon to creep
and and arrest s the %oaGSs
KosCAK REFUSED. HE SAID HE WOULDN'T MUIR
so they could catch him The agency was getting
their AN @ sss afvss
Burns man. and by the deposition of Brunswick another for
Rotsno and Mersmno Hersmne Peppe
Their in cooboated the test
very make
s:ss I.
Under guse pleasure Chicago they
Poppica dynamite.
left the store.
testimony that the then got
Racine, Wis.,
mite they would it. BOiano to blow Deeou house
thought.
the ticket for Koscak. This they admitted
things o the witness stand.
Koscak dynamite When
evening
him hide it. Koscak
shed.
afterwards the sheriff chief of police plain and
BOiano and Poppic-drove the
found the dynamite.
erstwhie
transp O awful crime-murder
Burns went O admitted
deny in
after getting off the witness
They Prosecuting Attorney A. L. Drury explains could
conspng bring the
commit crime under the law They intended to
with explosive
ly al is him alone"
the factory led by Burns
men to belle n NOW
SICK OF BURNS MEM"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-03-02
Not ON PROGRAM

SANTA BARBARA, Cal, March
2.--Lincoln Beachy did sideways
drop of 1900 feet yesterday be-
fore a crowd that thought his
spectacular exhibition was part OF
the program. His machine, a new
one, had gotten beyond control,
however, and righted itself when
short distance from the ground.
Beachey was not injured.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-03-02

"Swap" the dog for a Persian
cat. See Want Ad page. 80
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1914-10-29
How Long Will War Last7
From the Outlook.

A dozen eminent English specialists In
finance who had demonstrated not long
ago that a European war was impossible
are now arguing that within a few months
Germany will be quite bankrupt. German
writer's have for years pointed
out that the wealth of England and
France Is very largely based on credit.
and that credit functions only in times Of
peace !.
But I do not believe either side VIII have
to throw up the spong because of lack of
change. A French banker in 1910 told me
mat there was no chance of the little
Christian nations in the Balkans going to
war against Turkey. They haven't
fought the war against Turkey, but as
as that was finished they started a
new war anlong themselves.
The question of food supply is equally
uncertain. OF course as long as the allies
keep the command of the sea there Is no
danger of their starving. But is there any
chance Of their bringing Germany to her
knees witt. hunger? If Holland and italy
maintain their neutrality. which means
freedom to trade with both helligerents.
II Will be very hard to blockade Germany
effectively. But even IL Germany and
Austria are absolutely sealed up, 1T seems
to me thai the length of time they can
feed Themselves depends most OF an on
how We'll the national commissary is or
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1914-10-29

the fallen brother. Therefore. the Ameri-
can Red Cross, in cooperation with all
foreign Red Cross organizations, urges
most earnestly and begs with all it's
heart that Americans give as literally as
their means will permit in support of the
relief work abroad.
Hundreds of Americans have contrib
uted generously already and lave enabled
the humanitarian arm Of the United
States to reach across the seas and de-
liver to the sorely distressed countries
practical relief in the form Of about a
dozen hospital units, with three surgeons
and IL enrolled Red Cross nurses to the
unit, equipped with .arge quantities of
surgical and hospital supplies. A ship
was chartered for his purpose and start
ed across the Atlantic IN its mission of
mercy in September.
"But the American Red Cross feels that
that relief expedition is only a small offer
ing when the wide extent Of the. misery
and woe Is considered. It should be ap-
preciated that every dollar contributed to
the Red Cross will lessen the pain and
perhaps save the life of a wounded soldier.
Just think what that means! A small do
nation may result eventually in the res
toration of a father to his children or of
a son to his mother. Can anybody over
look humanitarian opportunities like this?
Let all Americans, and all others who
will. take up the battle cry of the Red
Cross! Let them thunder 1t SO that It
will reverberate around the world.
1T Is Observation-Disclosures"
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1914-10-29
Not Due to Ignorance.

Doctor Briggs received a note from
. farmer living back quite a ways in
the country, requesting him to come
as quickly as possible to see his child
who was very sick with "a very bad
cold"
The doctor examined the child and
then turned to the mother.
Don't you know" he asked, that
your little girl is coming down with
the m~easles?"
YES, DOCTOR was the woman's re-
ply. Il knew she was"
Then why in the world" asked the
doctor, did you write me that she had
q very bad cold?"
The woman hesitated for a moment,
then, looking at her husband, said,
with sullen frankness:
Neither him nor me knew how to
spell measles National Monthly.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1914-10-29
MODERN WAR IS MERcIFUL
Under Existing Conditions the Wound.
ed Are Given a Fair Chance
to Recover Health.

A general impression is that with
powerful weapons of great precision
greater loss of life and greater pain
are caused. The view is almost GER
fainly inaccurate. The modern bull
let, says the Scotsmass, unless it is OF
the soft-nosed type, is on the whole
Mssrciful, and either kills outright or
gives its victim a fair chance of re-
covery. 1t does not, as a rule, mutt
late.
The ambulance corps was practical
" unknown so years ago, and not
only is aid brought more rapidly to
the wounded, but it is far more eff
fective than in the pre-Lister days.
Rapidly of conveyance has increased
beyond all comparison. In the pres
ent "a it is true to say that in many
cases men have been lying in a Brit
ish hospital within "a hours of re-
ceiving their wounds. If the risk of
being hit is greater, the chances Of
recovery fro-.s injury have been in,
mensely increased.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1914-10-29
ATE HORSE MEAT IN
FIRST SIEGE OF PARIS


In the Woman's Home Companion q
French woman gives her personal
recollections OF the siege of Paris, at
the close Of the Franco-P russian war,
when h half starved people resorted
to the most desperate efforts to obtain
food. What they were forced to a 10
described in the following extract from
the article:
For our months I never saw q
piece Of bread. A few potatoes we had,
but long before the siege was over they
had gone. All horses disappeared from
the streets. The government took
them. and the elephants in the parks.
We We're issued a card on which wa1
indicated how much horse or elephant
meat would be allotted to use every four
days. Horse meat was not bad, but
dogs-I could not bear 1t. And there
were those who ate much worse than
dogs.
Il walked home alone one afternoon
In n e dusk: Two old men, beyond the
age of military service, walked in front
OF me. and as they came opposite our
house n stopped and snatching some-
thing chastity from the ground, hit 1t in
q bag. Tt will NEAR food tomorrow
he said triumphantly to his compan-
ion.
s"Afterward I discovered what is was
that they had snatched up SO eagerly
It was u cat"
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1914-10-29
Tho Woman's War and the Zeal War.

BY S. NJ. Crothers. in the Atlantic.
We arc able to understand the so-called
militancy In England better than we could
a short time ago. We see it's relation to
the movement for suffrage to be more or
less accidental. Now that a great war
has come we see how feverish was the
condition of the peoples who looked for
ward to 1t with suppressed passion and
vague foreboding. Not knowing Just
whom they were to fight, but feeling that
fighting was inevitable, they conceived Of
everything in militant form.
There were to be not only wars between
Slav and Teuton, but between Celt and
Saxon, class wars and industrial wars
without number. Even the efforts in be-
half of the public health were conceived
OF under warlike imagery. There were
wars proclaimed against the fly and the
mosquito and the germs of tuberculosis.
Earnest women, perceiving that they
had been denied civil rights, and accepting
the prevalent philosophy, imagined that
when they We're breaking tradesmen's
windows and destroying works of art and
setting fire to unguarded buildings they
We're making war. 1t was supposed to BIO
hat appeal to force through which all hui
man rights have been won. Then sudden
lly. to those who were playing with fire.
the great conflagration came. War, grim
and relentless Is upon the world. All
make-believe militancies shrink into insig-
n~ifcance.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1914-10-29

gan1zed. In every community an immense
amount of nourishment is normally vast
ed. There are a great many unemployed
now in Germany who might be put to
work making hothouses to grow vege-
tables through the winter. Sugar beets
could be eaten instead of crystalized.
There are no end of expedients by which
the food supply could be conserved and in
creased.
Large as the German and French armies
are-in the neighborhood of 100000 each
II they use up these S,G09.00 men now,
there are 10 more in sight for years to
come. till the boys grow up. AT the end
of our civil war the north had more men
in the field than at any time before, and
mad not begun to run short of men. But
the theory of modern war is to put every
available man in the field within the first
month. The English-and the Russians, If
they car find the equipment-can increase
their armies. France and Germany and
Austria cannot.
Another consideration is that the supply
of arms and ammunition, while great, is
limited, and cannot be quickly replaced.
Take, for example, such very necessary
equipment as field artillery. A modern
cannon With its recOil abSorber is an intri-
cate mechanism. The life Of each gun is
known, just as actuaries figure out the
average life of men. Some of the great
guns are said to be dangerous after so
shots: other lighter Guns are good for 500
or 1000. Besides this normal wear and
tear, a certain number of guns are cap
tured; more are smashed by the enemy's
shells.
But today war is so technical and COM
plicated a matter that a nation might
have to sue for peace because 1t had ex-
hausted it's supply of something that Ma
poleon never heard of. Gas for dirigihle
balloons, for instance. was a thing about
which he never worried.
A modern army might be entirely disor-
gained by the failure OF its supply of in
sulated copper wire for field telephones.
Fuel for Transportation purposes Is an
even more important item.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1914-10-29
NO MORE weird Slides OR DIPS
WILL Be TOLERATED IN DANCING
GTacefulness to Replace Gyrn astics, and Terpsichorean Art
Will Now Be Thing of Beauty Instead of Wild Confusion.

by those who practlced and this fact linn
tied the number of partners a dancer
might have. This year all dancing mas
tiers have adopted the slogan, Standard
lie" and before long everyone will be
dancing similar steps"
MISS Carroll says that side positions will
prevail and that most of the steps will
be executed with the gentleman walking
at the side of his partner. The half and
half promises to sweep over the country
on a popular wave. 1t appeals because of
the beauty of the steps and the restful-
ness of the dance. The hesitation Is some
what slower and shows a strong tendency
toward the dip. The tango will be almost
entirely a series of walks and turns.
The hale and half includes the prin-
ciple of hesitation and has an unusually
large numbe of leisurely steps. 1t re-
qusres special music of the five-four time.
Already several compositions have APP
peared and orchestras are busy mastering
the peculiaritios of the time.
The nlaXiXe will consist of the following
formations; first the promenade, then the
single arch, the Coquette, the double arch,
the spinning step and the maxiXe.
The hesitation will display four figures.
First will come the side hesitation, then
the forward hesitation. then the butterfly
and lastly a pretty movement consisting
OF one hesitation, three waltz steps and a
turn.
There will be a greater distance between
partners in ali dances. Because the speed
has been reduced and the dangerous
whirls eliminated, there is no longer need
for partners to maintain frantic grasps on
one another. TIL new position of the
hands Is to keep them nearer the face.
The left elbow of the gentleman and the
right elbow of the lady are bent while the
hands press against one another, palm to
palm.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1914-10-29

Those who went through the agonies of
the 1884 dancing season when everyone
seemed to have hundreds of truck" steps
and no two danced them alike, should
feel relieved over the announcement that
the coming season Is one of simplicity of
steps and standardization of figures.
There will be no wild, weird or wonderful
slides, slips or vaults such as might be
demanded by the r~ing,naster of a three
ring circus. There will be no wild west
procession of whirls, fiips and runs In
stead there will be a stately. dignified
program of graceful figures and httrac-
tive steps, so simply arranged that a
person living on the east side of the street
may successfully dance them with a
stranger living on the west side Of the
street even though the two nave not had
weeks of practice.
The authority for the statement that
gracefulness has replaced gymnastics and
that all popular dances have been
trimmed to a certain standar is Miss
Margaret Carroll, of the Carroll school Of
Expression and Dancing. Miss Carroll
has recently returned from several weeks
spent in Chicago and the east.
The four popular dances. she says. will
be the maxixe, the half and half. the
hesitation and the tango or one-step.
They have been arranged in orderly fash
ion and because of this Standardization
they are more beautiful than ever. The
maxixe consists of six figures, the half
and half, five; the hesitation. four, and
the tango, four.
Mo More Confusion.
This year the ballroom will be a scene
of beauty instead of confusion" sad Miss
Carroll. Last year the number OF fancy
steps was appalling and few possessed
the grace necessary to master them. They
could not be danced successfully except
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1914-10-29

EUROPE in DESPERATE
NEED OF RED CROSS HELP

~ '-'' v
The leading editorial in the European
war number Of the American Red Cross
Magazine. which Is the regular October
Issue. appears under the caption, Help
the Brother That Has Fallen!'' and fol-
lows:
God OF our fathers, known of old
Lord OF our far-fiung battle line
Beneath whose awful hand we hold
Dominion over palm and pine
Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet,
Lest we forget-lest we forget!'
Many Americans and others dwelling
In lands now enjoying che manifold bless
tngs OF peace seemingly have been dazed
by the enormity and awfulness of a war
IN which the greater part Of the old world
Is engaged, or else we have been slow to
realize how widespread and terrible is the
suffering In the paths of the great armies
NAL combat.
Nothing SO calamitous. nothing so
bfighting. nothing SO bloody. nothing SO
lnhumane, nothing so freightea with aron-
les. sorrows and tears has happened since
the mighty hordes of the middle ages en-
gagged in %sanguinary conflict!
earthly hand can make full repara-
ton for the havoc being wrought. No
human effort can tighten the burden of
grief which has fallen heavily on count
less thousands of homes whence fathers,
husbands n brothers have gone to re-
turn no more. Rarely is 1T recorded in the
history of mankind that the Grim Reaper
has gathered so rich and 50 bountiful a
harvest of human lives.
"Darkening the sky like a black storm
cloud from which are loosed all of the
thunderbolts of Jove. the shadow of death
hovers over Europe.
"YoN who are reading this, recall to
.nlnd for q moment the intense grief you
suffered as a result Of the death of some
one dear to you. or how your heart was
wrung when you witnessed such an one
wrtthing In pain from some wasting sick
ness or crnell injuryi Then try to imagine
many, many thousands of persons just
RS dear to others experiencing 1t once
the suffering you saw and many thou
sands more feeling the agony you felt!
BY some such process only can we IN
America make ourselves even vaguely
comprehend the existing conditions
amongst the peoples In the war-stricken
lands beyond the oceans.
Perhaps the destruction of life and
property has been so tremendous that 1t
has appeared to us at q distance OF little
use to try to give relief, But no such
thought should be entertained for a sec
ond. II. not only is very needful but a
bolnden duty for everybody to do his ut
most. no matter how trivial that utmost
may seem to ameiiorate the suffering OF
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1914-10-29
Roosevelt on "Drys."
rron tho r,io,.o post

tTOEh inc chicago POSt.
DO you want to let the liquor interests
dominate your parties. your public life
and your government
When Colonel Roosevelt asked MS
courageous question in Ohio he %propound-
ed the liquor problem as it presents
itself to thousands of Americans Who are
not directly interested in the kuock-down-
and-drag-out-fight between prohibition
and rum"
Always these observers have found the
corrupt machines of both democratic and
republican parties tied up with the Evil
liquor lobby. 1t is SO in this state in the
senatorial campaign.
And decent Americans have revolted
against the dominance Of their politics
by this special interest just as they re-
VOTED against railroad dominance a de-
Colonel Roosevelt has put his finger
upon a vital practical issue In our pol
itics today.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1914-10-29
Italian Attitude Toward tho War.

The natural impulsive chivalry Of the
italian nature would undoubtedly cause
the proietariat to sink their domestic Diff
ference, nj fly to arms were their ma
ton or racial ~sympathies awakened. No
government would have the slightest Diff
riculty in carrying with it the vast ma
against Austria in defense of the Italians
of Trieste or the Trentino, or against
Germany in behalf of the Latins in
France. But no government would find
it possible to unite the country in a war
of aggression against nations Of the Latin
race, or to count on the support Of the
Italian masses In any war, unless their
~sympathies or passions were aroused.
There car be no question but that Signore
Salandra realized that a declaration Of
war against Russia or France would have
been the signal for a general strike in
Italy. which might have resulted in the
fall of the dynasty.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1914-10-29
Trouble With Our City Governments

Trouble With Our City Governments
The basic difficulty. as 1 conceive it, is
that we made the mistake of fashioning
the forms of our city government upon
the governments of the nation and the
states; and that, having thus set up a
system of administrative machinery Who'll
ly unsuited to it's purposes. we proceeded,
logically perhaps. to run our cities not
with reference to their own needs of bust
ness interests, but upon the issues of ma
tional politics. The fact that the admins
tration Of a city has nothing whatever to
do with divisions of opinion upon lines OF
national policy has but recently occurred
to us, and Is still strange doctrine in many
parts Of the land. Thus-to cite an in
stance that sums up the system iself-the
question Of the choice of a city commits
sioner of street cleaning, whose sole duty
1t would be to clean the streets efficiently
and to help protect the public health,
would be determined according to views
held by the voters upon the tariff, or the
currency, or the proper method of regu-
lating the trusts; and the socalled com
missioner" when SO appointed. might be
depended upon to turn both contracts and
subordinate appointments over to those
who had made. him politically possible.
When we consider such a situation re-
fectively, 1t seems difficult to conceive of
American people, who pride themselves
upon their keenness In business and trade,
LAY for generations tolerated a system OF
handling the purely business interests of
their communities that sets aside the first
principles of business, and has rolled up
an appalling bill of waste in every part Of
the land.