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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-12-08

EDITORIAL PAGE---Let the Truth Prevail!


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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-12-08
TO BLOW
AND SWALLOW
AT THE
SAME TIME
rs NOT EASY.
-PLAUTUS.
Personal
and
Social

The Ancient Order of Vikings
will give grand Christmas
entertainment and ball Monday
evening, Dec. 27, at Eagles hall.
Soley's orchestra will play.
=
Custer Relief Corps No. 8 will
give a card party Saturday after
noon at o'clock in the Armory.
All comrades of the G. A. r. ana
their friends are invited by the
committee, composed of Mrs. r.
Borgeson, Mrs. A. l.. Mills and
Mrs. Mollie Phelps.
4
Miss Leeds will hold a bazaar
at the First Baptist church Sat-
urday evening, Dec. II.
The annual Christmas sale of
the Grace Methodist church will
be held today at the home of
Mrs. G. M. Day, 1896 East both
st. The following will have
charge of booths: Mrs. L. j.
Bearss, Mrs. M. Rea, Mrs. u.
Fairbanks and Mrs. A. A. Rankin.
The Ladies' Aid society of the
Swedish Lutheran Bethel church
will meet with Mrs. Hedberg,
Asp Pacific avenue, at q p. m.
today.
The women of st. Luke's par
ish will open their Christmas sale
today and continue it tomorrow
in the parish house. Luncheon
will be served both days.
Women of the United Presby.
terrain church will hold their an
nual sale Thursday and Friday
in the Sherman, Clay & Co. quar-
tiers on Broadway. They will dis
pose Of fancy articles, home bak-
cry and candy.
Mrs. A. Frazier, 5441 North
45th ST.. will entertain members
of the Pierce County Women's
Democratic league Thursday aft
ernoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Louis Bean and
a party went skating Monday
night in Seattle. The party made
the trip In the Bean private car.
The woman's auxiliary of I'm.
maneul Presbyterian church will
give a tea today at the home of
Mrs. Ernest G. Wheeler on North
l st.
st. Andrews guild will hold
its sale tomorrow at Royce's hall.
9Th avenue and Anderson street.
Dinner will be served at $3.50
p. m.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-12-08
COsIBING WON'T RID
. HAIR OF DANDRUFF

The only sure way to get rid
of dandruff 10 to dissolve 1t, then
you destroy 1t entirely. To do
this. get about four ounces of or
binary liquid arvon; apply It at
night when retiring; use enough
to moisten the scalp and rub 1t
in gently with the finger tips.
Do this tonight, and by morn
ing most, II not all, Of your dan
druff will be gone, and three or
four moro applications will COM
pletely dissolve and entirely de-
stroy every single sign and trace
of 1t. no matter how much dan
druff you may have.
You will find, too, that all
itching and digging Of the scalp
will stop at once, and your hair
will be fluffy, lustrous. glossy,
silky and soft. and look and feel
Q hundred times better.
You can get liquid arvon at
any drug store. II is inexpensive
and never fails 10 do the work,
adv.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-12-08

They wouldn't pass the Nation
al Board of Censorship, for that
body is composed of the hire
lings of big corporations OF this
country whose graft woul vbe
stopped IL there were no waffine
nations to sell arms and mum
lions to. 81.
The only way war can be
averted in the future is to do
away with private profit. n.y.
This country and all others
should be run as great Acofn-
rponwealth. --
when there is no profit in wal
munitions or supplies Of 4 fny
kind, nobody will bother them
selves to start war. THINK Il
over. L. II. q.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-12-08
Copyright, 1915 By Newspaper
Enterprise Associa tiOu.I


Enterprise Association.I
DO you think girl should tell
the man she marries about the
other men who have proposed to
herr" asked Mollie rather visit
fully yesterday.
ut all depends" answered.
AS usual thing l should say
not, but in some cases, perhaps,
she will find that she has to do
So"
well, what would you do II
you were me? Chadwick has
asked Pat to be his best man and
Pat has accepted, and Jim Edie
is to be one of the ushers.
shall feel, Margie, as If it were a
gathering of the clans of those
who had proposed marriage to
me. | shall feel awfully silly to
be married to Chad while Jim and
Pat stand by. l know | will be
wondering at what they are
thinkink-and yet l could say
nothing when Chad told me the
plans. know it would make
him perfectly unhappy If he has
the slightest intimation that he is
taking from Pat the second wom-
an he loves. Do you know, Mar
gle. am not sure that he would
marry me IL he knew
Look here, Mollie, you can't
be responsible for all these foot
ball touchdowns that Fate seems
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-12-08

Editor The Times:
DIR. Frank Dyer's editorial SER
mon of Saturday was fine, very
fine theoretically, but he over
looks entirely the practical part
He says that IL he had ten
millions of dollars to spend as
a peacemaker that he would puc
it into motion pictures of actual
conditions of war.
In the first place that sum OF
ten times 1t would not buy his
way through the lines to take the
pictures because they would sure
ly stop the graft of the big fel.
lows who are profiting by the
war.
Surprising he did take pictures
of actual war, they would never
get before the public.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-12-08
BY Blosser

that rapturous night before my
wedding when my whole being
thrilled as Mollie's does now at
the word belong" That awful
anonymous letter is before my
eyes and I am wondering If any
one of those "fifty-seven varie-
ties" also is thinking that she be-
longs to Dick.
Little book, little book, l can't
see my way very clear.
CONTINUED Tomorrow
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-12-08

New Democracy In Shopping World

Retail merchants
ePprova Only few
to
class shoppers support
Brought the practice Ii odiAepute
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-12-08
NOTE 16 YEARS
OLD IN BOTTLE

HOQUIAM, Dec. 8.-A bottle
containing note written 16
years ago was washed ashore
near here today. It was dropped
overheard from the schooner
Transit, August 10, 1899, by j..
Peterson, who gave the location
as 10 days out of Honolulu.
bound for San Francisco. The
note was unreliable.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-12-08

Trey: Please tell me how to clean a white
Will water hurt the ivory? GRACE
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-12-08

Dear Miss Grey: Having read
1t started, I certainly think Margie
live with Mother Waverly. am OF
in-law and knows what it is to be
behind the back. Not only that, tn,
liar. The husband would not live
why should the wife?
Alt all depends on who the n
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THE EDITORS MAIL

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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-12-08


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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-12-08
Puritan Practice of Preparedness

school boy knows that the
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The Cordova daily times., 1915-05-22
ACTION BY GOVERNMENT IN FAVOR
 OF ALASKA COAL AND RAILROADS

TT those accustomed to the nera indifference and
 what devious dealings of the land office in all matters
 pertaining to Alaska must be refreshing to note the prompnes and energy exhibited by Secretary Lane in getting to work the Alaska railroad the last obstacle had been removed and the word had ahead the Al aska and Northwest Mining Journal The wheels set in motion with the least possible delay purchasing agency established the heads of the departments seemed to know just where lay their hands the they wanted and within surprisingly short time after the route of the railway had been decided upon the work of construction under is evident time is to be lost in pushing the road at least far the Maanuska coal fields and making this coal available for There also signs that the energy will be displayed in getting the coal mines opened Frank M Johnson the supervisor of surveys the general land office his way Seattle and it is expected that he will for its Secretary Lane has also made the statement that large reservation will be made in the Boring river ied and that survey will be made this with the of running line to tap these coal beds There is nothing surprising this to the well informed spite of the dscOuragng report from the test of this coal has al ways been known that this contained of the finest seamng and cokng coal in the world All that necessary is nfuse little life into the land office But seems impossible for this department to realize that time the wing and that the present generation in Alaska would really
 like action few of the heat units generously stored within the country and yet ealOusy withheld from their The knowledge that leasing bill has been passed by Congress very encouraging to hem but they will all feel
 great deal of relief when it is announced that workable lease has been framed bearing the eamarks of real desire to see capital enter the country and open up the coal fields.
The Cordova daily times., 1915-05-22

petition, to which the promoters hope million sigma lures be procured being circulated throughout the
 y asking the administration to put end the shipment war material to Europe believing that such soppage will end the war and hep the working people of the country by bringing back employment along legitimate lines The headquarters of the organization of Women for Strict Neutrality in Roland Park Maryland which is just below the armament belt, of which Pittsburgh is the capital
The Cordova daily times., 1915-05-22

The committee headed by Viscount Brce draft report on the alleged German atrocities Belgium has made it's port and 1t IS live reading How much of it is knows report of this character made in the midst always accumulaes less exaggerated color One marks back to the stories that told of Shermans to the sea and of the Confederate raid Chamberburg
The Cordova daily times., 1915-05-22

motoman charged with carelessness in letting his jump the track discharged in Detroit and all his fellow workers jumped the track. The deralment whole city wakngan aristocrac pastme in these days automo- piles and trolleys.
The Cordova daily times., 1915-05-22

We would like another taken the question of who the 50 greatest Americans ascertain if Col Roosevelt would be in the running at all
The Cordova daily times., 1915-05-22

Nobody deny that it would be unpeasanty inconven- tent for fleet not eetsto to the Pacific Coast needed suddenly the Atlantic and then find that Cuebra slide blocked the way.
The Cordova daily times., 1915-05-22

The staunch little steamer Corwin which the frs vessel to leave Seattle this year for Nome unable arrv at it's destination account of the ice being solid for mile in front of the metropolis of Seward peninsula
The Cordova daily times., 1915-05-22

If there's idle in Corova it is becouse he's not very anxious to work there scarcity of labor at the in teriOr mines and the cannery plants.
The Cordova daily times., 1915-05-22

The fire boys will entertain their friends at the city hall tonight when all will have opportunity of letting their troubles go up in smoke and washing down any unpleasant taste with the liquid refreshments that have been provided
The Cordova daily times., 1915-05-22

Reckoning from the spurts they made it is assumed that both English and German Great Britain have dis carded the tight skirt One afford be hobbed on battlefield
The Cordova daily times., 1915-05-22

Rules of will hereafter continue to be a of cunary satisfaction to pompOus committees assigned rea them in times of peace to be broken in times of war
The Cordova daily times., 1915-05-22

Forest fires raging in Southeastern Alaska to the west ward and in the interior but thus far Cordova has escaped during this dry spell too much be exercised by
The Cordova daily times., 1915-05-22

Hail stones reported to have covered West Virginia yard three feet deep This country such hail of a storm.
The Cordova daily times., 1915-05-22

The reports from Toovana most encouraging today s dispatches telling of unusually large payseak having been discovered.
The Cordova daily times., 1915-05-22

An unusually early and large of salmon is reported in the local fishing grounds.
The Cordova daily times., 1915-05-22

Two "movie" houses promised for Valdez, aesng the popularity of the shows at neghbog town.
The Cordova daily times., 1915-05-22

parties who visit the hills that the fire extngushed when they break camp.
The Cordova daily times., 1915-05-22

Thee ball fans will be out in force tomorrow to witness the baeroya between the Corova and the railroad boys
The Cordova daily times., 1915-05-22

Repairs being made by the government to the Alaska Northern railroad and there is joy at Sew ard.
The Cordova daily times., 1915-05-22

wing and that the generation Alaska would really like get action few of the heat units generously stored within the country and yet eaOusy withheld from their The knowledge that leasing bill has been passed by Congress encouraging to them but they will all feel great deal of relief when 1t announced that workable lease has been framed bearing the eamarks of real desire to capital enter the country and open up the coal fields
 -:o:----
 An unusually early and large of salmon is reported in the local fishing grounds.
 Thee ball fans will be out in force to witness the bateroya between the Codova team and the railroad boys Repairs being made by the government to the Alaska Northern railroad and there is joy at Sew ard.
 Two ''movie houses promised for Valdez aestng the popularity of the shows at negborg town.
 Hail stones reported to have covered West Virginia yard three feet deep This country such hail of storm
 The reports from Toovana most encouraging, todays dispatches telling of unusually large paystreak having been discovered.
 If there's idle in Cordova it becouse he's very anxious to work there scarcity of labor at the in teriOr mines and the cannery plants.
 We would like another taken the question of who the 50 greatest Americans just ascertain Col Roosevelt would be in the running at all
 Rules of will hereafter continue source of pc satisfaction to committees assigned to reda them in times of peace to be broken in times of
 
 Reckoning from the spurts they made it is assumed that both English and German in Great Britain have dis carded the tight skirt One cannot afford to be hobbed the battlefield.
 Nobody deny that would be unpeasanty nconven tent for heetno eetso to the Pacific be- needed suddenly the Atlantic and then find that Cuebra slide blocked the way.
 -:o:-
 Whi The first vessel to leave Seattle this year for Nome unable at it's destination account of the being solid for in front of the metropolis of Seward peninsula.
  tonight when all will have opportunity of letting their troubles up smoke and washing down unpleasant taste with the liquid refreshments that have been provided motorman charged with careessness in letting his car jump the track discharged in Detroit and all his fellow workers jumped the track The derament set whole city to wakngan aristocrac pastme in these days of auono piles and troeys.
 Forest fires raging Southeastern Alaska to the west ward and the interior but thus far Cordova escaped and during this dry spell too much be exercised by
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-05-24

it would be to the best interest of all
concerned to pretermit the term as a
means of economy as well as to the
fact that the farmers are exceeding
ly busy, with their crops at this time
and it would be a hardship to many to
take them from their work at the
present time, and an order was enter
ed accordingly.
Judge Holden, who has made a rec
ord in this district for expeditions
work, after writing the formal order
made the statement that from the
docket in sight and probable criminal
charges that might come up between
now and the September term, the
next regular court when the grand
jury sits, there was every reason to
believe that ne would be able to clear
the docket in the fall in two or three
weeks at the most, although he is
allowed a four-weeks' term.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-05-24
To HAVE REUNION.

Jackson, Miss. May 24.-Members
of the famous Ratliff's Battery will
have a reunion and annual meeting
ut the court house here on Monday
morning, June Z, at $3.50 o'clock, the
call for the event having been issued
by Mrs. Mary Andrews Groom, secre-
tary.
1t has long been the custom Of the
survivors of this command to meet
every year, recall incidents of the
civil war and eulogiZe deceased com
rades. Since the meeting OF the mem
bers of the battery last June four OF
its ranks have answered the last
bugle call, and of them and their
lives speakers will speak in kindliest
and most loving terms.
The call issued by Mrs. Groom in
full is as follows:
You are hereby notified that the
annual reunion of the survivors OF
Company A, First Mississippi with
ers) Light Artillery, Ratliff's Battery
will be held at the county court house
in Jackson, Miss, on Thursday, June
3, 1915, at $50 a. m, and you are
earnestly solicited to be present on
that occasion.
The following comrades have pass
ed to the great beyond since our last
meeting:
Lieutenant Frank Johnson, Jackson
Miss.
DIR. w. T. Moore, Mckinney, Texas
]. L. Perkins, Filters, Miss.
r. c. Adams, Franklin county.
Kindly write me if you will be pres
ent on the day named, and let me ask
you in the name of the old command
to make every effort to do so.
Yours sincerely,
(Signed)
Mrs. Mary Andrews Groom,
Secretary
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-05-24
LET'S. BALTIC PROVINCE
FOLK, REFLECT ROMANCE
~ sB@'-Ai,

Russia contains within its vast
borders probably the worlds most in
teresting assembly of peoples and
fragments of peoples; peoples, not as
in the United States melted TO a Ger
tain uniform-tone of character, forced
to lose much of the peculiar under the
pressure of a more complex, more
highly developed social organization,
but peoples still distinctively peoples.
preserving in themselves the fascinat-
ing markings handed down from tribal
days. when a journey between coun-
ties was an undertaking and jour
ney between nations fell only to the
lot of the soldier Of fortune, the diplo-
mat, the statesman, and the foremost
of artists and scholars.
Among these interesting, still per-
sistently individual peoples of Russia,
the Let's, the indwellers of the Baltic
Provinces, whose fields are now once
more the scene of invasion and battle,
captivate the imagination and refec-
ton through the mystery of their orr
gin, the romance of their history, and
the peculiarities of their present rela-
tiOnships to mighty Russia. The
Let's are a branch of the Lithuanian
nation, a Slavonic division whose past
in the marshy swamps of Lithuania
lies as deeply hidden as the mystic
ritual of the Druids. Lithuania was
once a great kingdom, later an ele
ment of the unfortunate Polish nation
and now a part of the States of Russia
and Prussia The Let's, a subdivision
of this people, have survived as its
most distinctive representatives"
Thus begins the bulletin issued to-
day by the National Geographic Socie
ty. which deals with the native peas
ant population, the patient, long-suffer
inc farmers, fishermen and small
tradesmen among whom Russian and
German armies are contesting for the
mastery of the regions around the
eastern elbow of the Baltic. The
statement continues:
THE Borussians, whose name per
sists in Prussia survive as the mod
ern Prussians, or, at least, as an inn
portant element that has gone into the
makeup of Prussias citiZenry. They.
however, are lost as Lithuanian
tribe; have been thoroughly assimilat-
ed to a modern amalgamated type
that feels itself a unit and not a COM
posite, that feels itself more nearly
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-05-24
PLEADS "UNWRITTEN LAW"

Houston, Miss, May 24.-Quitman
Mouser, young married man, will
plead the 'unwritten law" when he
appears for preliminary trial here
next Thursday on the charge of muir
dering w. E. Knox, a prominent farm
er of the Macedonia section, five miles
east of Houston. Houser, who shot
off part of Knox's head with both
barrels of a gun, surrendered to of
ficers here, and is in Jail.
Knox, 40, married, and the father OF
two young children, was planting corn
in a field when slain. James Fisher
plantation hand, who witnessed the
tragedy, says Houser walked beside
Knox for an hour of more as the
latter plowed back and forth.
They "laughted and chatted," Fish
er told County Prosecuting Attorney
jeff Busby, "and Houser on one occa
sion helped Knox adjust the pillow
lines. When Knox stopped to arrange
machinery of the corn planter, Houser
discharged two loads into the back
and side of Knox's head.
Knox died laughing" concluded
Fisher.
Houser, "a years of age and mar
ried, will, it is said, bare family Sc
crets when arraigned for trial.
Fisher says Houser, after killing
Knox, went to point some distance
away, unbreached Knox's shotgun an(
withdrew the shells. Knox had car
ried the weapon to the field to Kill
game.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-05-24
THE MARDlS CASE.

Fayette, Miss, May 24.-The tria
OF {. M. Mardis, charged with perjury
was held here with Justices Butler
and Groome presiding, sitting togeth
er in the case, and the result was {
prompt acquittal of the defendant. At
torney Jim Money Vardaman, actins
as deputy state insurance commission
er. appeared as the chief prosecuting
witness, and charged Mr.. Mardis witt
having made false return of prop
erty saved at the time his store was
destroyed by fire the first of the year
County Attorney Easterling prescott
ed the case and Judge JEFF Truly rep
resented the defendant
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-05-24

akin to the German than to the Sla-
vonian. The Lithuanian of the interior
Russian Lithuanian provinces feels a
kinship with the Pole, whose po-
litical fortunes he shared so long
He is beginning to feed a kin
ship with the Russian, whose for
tunes have now become his own. The
Lett, on the other hand, the Lithu-
anian tribesman of the Baltic Prov
inces where the German invaders are
now marching and fighting, still feels
himself an element apart
''The Lett is taciturn, morose, little
given to welcoming the stranger. He
dwells apart, not as the communistic
Russian in villages whose houses
closely press one another The Lett
preserves his own tongue, traditions
and dreams, and remains in this twen-
tieth century more than half a wor-
shipper of Nature and a believer in
Omens and black craft. The old gods
whom he cherished and reverenced
the longest, whom he sought long after
Europe all around him had accepted
the teachings of Christ, still exert an
Influence upon him, still survive for
him in a thousand superstitions, even
though he is as devout as any of the
other present-day Christians.
THE Lett was Christianized by the
sword welded in the hands of the Ger
| mans and the Swedes. Shortly after
the year 1900, a religious order,
Continued on Page Six
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-05-24
SETTLING STANDARDS OF FLOUR

st. Paul, Mimi, May 24.-The Unit
ed States department of Agriculture
will open here today a hearing on def
nitions and standards of various kinds
of flour and meal, and has invited
leading millers and bankers Of this
section to give their views. The in
formation will be used as a basis for
the defining and standardizing of
flour, for general use throughout the
country.