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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-01-19
BILL CoCKRoAcH

Bill COckroach, court house au.
{ tOcrat, flippered into Rev. Healey,
the probation officers, office and,
resting his chin upon the elbow
of his right fore-flipper, inquired:
whats doing?"
"What's doing?" repeated Rev.
Healey. "Why, didn't You hear
about A'thur?"
.Why, no." said Bill, sitting
mp, his eyes wide. Arthur who ~
"Why, A'thurmometer, Of
course"
They are looking for Bill yet.
CANADA WAR-POME
Little girls and little boys
Must not 10, * their German
toys
Little German soldiers make
Darling babies's tummys ache.
So for children we should try
Only British toys to buy,
Though to pieces they are picked,
British soldiers can't be licked.
DOES YOURS?
Does wife earn wages?"
Well, personally, we don't
think so. Our wife just TAKES
EN-.
CORRESPONDENCE
Dear Editor: Who is it that
Is known as the most unselfish
man in the world?"
Ans: The chauffeur. He's al
ways footing somebody else's
horn.
Dear Editor: I have heard that
bread is going up. Is this true?
Ans. We can't say, but we
wouldn't care to eat bread that
hadn't risen.
A member OF the Michigan leg
fslature intends to ask Wilson to
buy Mexico. That's one thing
the new board of county commits
sioners has thus far overlooked.
O DAD!
Many a young man sows his
wild oats in ground broken for
him by his father.
49,
SEIAH!
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IOuTS SIHCeFeIy,
safr TuuUyWpu MN UUnn

These are two good suggestions
for names and II wouldn't be a
bit surprising II the president and
Mr.. and Mrs. Sayre used one or
all of them. Until the baby is
named, other Tacoma boys and
girls have time to send in their
suggestions for names for the
Sayre baby.
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o . . o . o o Q 800 o 800
WHO SAID THAT? q

o @ . o o o o o o o o q o = o =
. WHO SAID THAT? Q
. Tacoma attorneys who .
. have been springing 1t on Z.
o juries as their own stuff will Q
3 likely be chagrined when We 9
. announce that 1t was Lord 9
. Denman (1778-1S54) who .
o first said: "A delusion, .
o mockery and snare" o
. 9 . o O o . . o o o o O . . .
PASS THE LEXICON
o Commissionermills
Doeswhathewills
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Forwomenskuills*
sUook it up in the dictionary.
We had to.)
A WORD FROM JOSH WISE
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-
On the Road
to Success

GIVE me the young man
with $50 In the bank--in
any bank-money he has
earned and saved himself,
and l will show you a young
man who is started on the
road to success. "---R. w.
Sears.
A word to the wise is suf-
ficient.
Our Savings Department is
at your service.
PUGET SOUND
STATE BANK
AIS Pacific Ave.
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GOOD NIGHT!

Go-carts retired while you wait.
"A sign In Seattle.
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"Yours very truly,

"OLIvE RENO"
Dear Editor: l GO to the
Lowell school and / am I'm
the fifth grade. 1 think N
good name for the baby
would be Woodrow Wilson
Sayre. after his grandfather,
who is a great man.
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m OMEH0W the happy little
] holdup men missed us last
night. We don't see how they
found anybody In all that fog,
- anyway. Littla weather guy
avs, "clear and cold"
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I N southern states today they are
commemorating the birthday an
niversary Of one of the finest fig
ures Of the Confederacy, Gen. r.
] E. Lee, born Jan. 10, 1907.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1915-12-23
GOV. CARLSON
URGES VOTES FOR
penn MOT HERS
Colorado Executive, Speaking
at Kane, Says Women Of His
State Have Made Good as
Voters,
Do NOT NEGLECT THE HOME
Nor Have They Lost Their NO.
manly Charm BY Voting
Against Its Enemies

Governor George A. Carlson Of Col
orado, State where women have
voted for the past twenty-five years
made q strong appeal to the men Of
Pennsylvania to vote for woman SUI
frage this November in an address he
delivered on July IS last, at the Swed
ish Lutheran Church at Kane, Pa. He
said:
Don't let people tell you that the
mothers Of your children will prove
incapable, or become coarse, cold Of
-neglectful in the home II given thu
ballot; those who for nearly quarter
Of = century have actually observed
the enfranchleed woman at work know
that she can sense the enemy Of the
home more quickly and will fight hin
with more telling effect than the hus
band, and while preserving all hel
natural feminine charm and sweet
ness, she will become even more de
voted 70 tho man who has allowed
her ampIer means and fuller power
Ter the protection Of their common
Aee0ide.
"The State in safeguarding and pre-
serving the health and morals Of the
young is but doing mothers work.
1--WE need the blending Of the mother
heart and the masculine Judgment ane
will to sustain and guard our homes
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1915-12-23
WOMEN IN EXECUTIVE POSTS

WOMEN IN EXECUTIVE POSTS
Women hold many executive educa-
tional positions in the United States,
according to the Bureau of Educa-
tons directory for 1856 just issued.
1t shows that Of the $4,000 conspicu-
Gus positions. largely of an admins
trative character, $500 are held by
women. These women are college
presidents, State and county superin-
tendents of education directors Of in
dustrial schools, heads Of departments
in colleges and universities, directors
of schools for afflicted and Librarians.
Twenty-fuor out of 622 colleges and
universities are presided over by wo-
men. OF the nearly 5000 county SUI
perintendents 500 are women. OF the
70 institutions for the blind Is are d.
i.rected by women. OF the rs state
schools for the deaf, 10 are under the
leadership of women; and of the %
private institutions of the same char
acter 16 have women superintendent.
OF the 81 private institutions for the
feeble-minded, 20 are supervised by
women
Fourteen out of SO directors of in
dustrial schools are women, and 48 of
the 200 schools of art are in charge of
women. Out of 1900 public and So
cietv libraries, women supervise LOTS
Of the SO bureau officials in the Bu-
reau of Education itself II are women.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1915-12-23
cOLoRADo'S PROCLAMA-
TON TO THE NATION

. After twenty-five years Of ex-
. perience with woman suffrage In
. operation the Colorado Senate
. passed, unanimously, the follow
= Ing resolution on January I'D,
. 1915:
= WHEREAS, The question of
. woman suffrage has become an
. important issue In many States
. Of the Union, and
= WHEREAS, Woman suffrage
= was made a part Of the organic
. law of the State of Colorado
= more than twenty-five years ago,
. and
. WHEREAS, The operation and
. effect Of woman suffrage in this
. State ID being made the subject
. Of Misrepresentation IN other
= States where the question Is an
. issue.
: THEREFORE,, We deem It to
. be our duty to say that expert
. ence has demonstrated that
= woman suffrage Il not only q
. just recognition Of the rights Of
. all before the law but has
. proven In all respects materially
. helpful to good government
. among the people. and to . no
. ticeable degree has inculcated .
. higher respect for the majesty
Q and supremacy Of the law.
&$$@$@$& - = &$$ @$3%3@'
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Child Labor Campaign
Progressing In Spite If Wal

In spite of the war and hard times
the campaign against child labor made
progress in this country last year, ac-
cording to the annual report of Owen
R. Lovejoy, General Secretary of the
National Child Labor Committee, just
published in the quarterly Child Labor
Bulletin. Twenty states legislated
against child labor last year, while on
ly five states defeated attempts to i'm
prove their laws, and one passed a
distinctively reactiohary act Investi-
cations were carried on by the Nation
al Child Labor Con- o,ittee in Is stateG
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1915-12-23

and members of the Committees staff
were present at the legislative ses-
sions of 10 states. The Committees
exhibits were shown in 40 cities in p
states.
All these activities were made pos
sible by the fact that u per cent of
the members of the Committee renew
ed their subscriptions and almost 1000
new members were secured. AS Mr.,
Loyejoy puts it, THE persistence of
our contributing members at time
when other calls are urgent, and their
determination to see a solution of this
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1915-12-23

proOlem' are the most gratifying con.
itflDu'ion 10 'ne success OF our Work
tention to the fact that t.e federal "
child labor bill is the chief iptsrs -.
of the Committee this year and urss,
active support of the bill on the nv %,
of its members and friends. Tho d.
letin contains besides the Annu,l ),
port an article by Nathan Mach,
ney OF Chicago on the constitution.
ity Of the federal child labor law an,
number of editorials on the work d
the Committee.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1915-12-23

were carried by good majorities and
among these were four of the largest
in the state. The suffragists declare
that with the support of over three
hundred and thirty : thousand voters
they are sure Of victory next time the
issue comes UP. 1t will be five years
before the amendment can be re.
submitted.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1915-12-23
WOMAN SUFFRAGE AND
COST OF ELECTIONS

women should not be given the
vote because their acknowledgements
will double the cost of elections. :"
This anti-suffrage statement is fire.
quently advanced as a would-be argu-
ment against woman; suffrage. Now
what are the actual facts in the case?
An inquiry sent out to election Off
Gals of all the suffrage states by
Mrs. Mary Summer Boyd, head of the
Data Department of the Nationa.
American Woma nSuffrage Associa
ton, brought the answer from all that
the additional expense when women.
voted was Insignificant. And this in
significant increase is an increase on
a nitem that is itself one of the most
Insignificant in the state budget. Some
of the figures received were as fol
lows:
The clerk of Cook county, Illinois,
estimated that the vote of women had
increased election expenses about a
third In Chicago, for the three
years preceding the woman suffrage
law, per capita election expenses
were: 1911, 23c; 1912, 39c; and 1918,
18c. In 1914, the first year women
voted, the cost was 47c. In 1915 the
cost went down to 32c In 1914 they
had reorganization of the election
machinery in Chicago, which entailed
an election expense they never have
had before. The chief clerk Of the
board of elections contrasts the cleo
ton activities in the presidential year
with 1914 as follows:
I'm 1912 we had one primary, one
Intermediary registration, one Spring
election, one Spring primary, a gen.
eral registration in October and
general election in November. In
1914 we had primary registration,
revision and canvass in February, a
general election in February, a regis
tration, revision and canvass in
March; an election in April; regis
tration, revision and canvass in Aug
ust; a general Fall primary in Sep
tember;- general registration. revi-
sion and canvass in October and
general election in November"
In view of this large outlay for
matters unconnected with women's
voting the expense of &c in 1915 may
be regarded as representing the nor
NAL cost of votes of both men and
women.
Figures for San Francisco show in
1911 (men voting) per capita cost
Of SIC; the women's first vote in 1912
raised the cost only to SIC; Zoe in
1913 and down again to BIC in 1914
The unaccountability of all the
above figures shows that many other
elements than an increased number Of
voters enter into cost Of elections
Some of the elections whose cost is
given above cost very little more
tina nelections in which men only
voted. In others the extra expense is
amply accounted for by other causes
than the increase of voters. Indeed
in some cases elections where women
have voted have cost less than others
where men only have. been voters.
notably the last election in Denver
(both sexes) and Albany (men alone).
The former city spent SLABS per
thousand for its election expenses,
the latter $24.6O per thousand.
The estimate Of an average increase
In cost due to women's voting, Of one
third. is probably liberal one.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1915-12-23

general condition. The acreage in
wheat has been only IL per cent less
than last year. The acreage of rye is
about the same as last year, and the
oats are a little short of last year.
Wet seasons and pests have caused
the vineyards to fall off lItle. But
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1915-12-23
WOMEN AS AARvEsrERs.

The women of France who have
been called upon to harvest the crops
this year have made a creditable
showing as compared with that made
by the men in former years. The
Ministry of Agriculture reports a gooG
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1915-12-23
VlcToRY SURE NExT FINE

The official figures on the vote for
the woman Suffrage amendment in
Pennsylvania are Ss5. S4s in favor and
441.osl against. Thirty+hres counties
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true Story 81 z
Steamship Lines

(COnttnued From Page Olie.)
These vessels are coolie man
ned; always have been coolie
manned and always have sailed
under an alien flag.
When German raiders, how
ever, we're loose, two of these
ships sought the protection OF the
American flag as the head of the
company announced, for the
time being only"
The German raiders having
ceased their raids, "our flag" was
Of NO further use to the manage
ment OF the Dollar fleet and one
Of these two coolie manned,
foreign-built boats changed back
TO a foreign flag, leaving one ves-
sci only of the offshore fleet un-
der the Stars and Stripes.
The Dollar line will come under
the Stars and Stripes or leave
them just as 1t profits their own
ers, and nobody need be alarmed
about the effect of the seaman's
bill In driving" them from un-
der the flag.
As to the Pacific Mail Steam
ship Co, the facts are equally IL
Illuminating. The company is rail-
road owned, and being such is not
allowed by law to pass its steam
ers through the Panama canal.
Observing that foreign lines
were likely to take the Panama
canal business away from them,
the Pacific Mail transferred own
ership to subsidiary of the In
ternational Mercantile marine,
and announced that at least two
of its five vessels are to be used
In the New York-to-San Francisco
run via the canal. These, of
course, must be under the Amer
lean flag.
Great efforts have been made
10 make 1t appear that this trans
Ter OF ownership was caused by
the seaman's bill driving the
Pacific Mail out of business.
The fact is that the transfer of
the Pacific Mail was brought
about not by the seaman's bill,
but because this company. being
vailroad owned, found that 1t
could not use the canal until 1t
did transfer ownership.
The withdrawal of the trans
Pacific coolie manned liners of
this company will leave the way
uncontested for the establishment
VI the proposed government own
ed merchant marine on the Pa
cific, as desired by President Will
son.
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LEGAL NOTICES
LEGAL NOTICES.

COUNCIL TAXES FOR lslo
Notice that the City Council OF the city OF
objections make the
" BE 1T RESOLVED CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
the required to
public the City Of Tacoma for the year s ana
other than direct tax
FURTHER RESOLVED:
That the CITY Clerkp publish Tacoma
Times
Council will
the
the Hall for the making tax leyie
VIII md
AGAINST Of the proposed tax ieyes
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JOLT NY.

NEW 1Ohh, sept. Z1.-buT-
rowed and excavated with hun
dreds of miles of new subway
construction, New York's busiest
thoroughfares today are built
over yawning chasms! f
The swallowing up of two
crowded street cars, automobiles,
trucks and wagons when a dyna-
mite explosion caused the collaps
of two blocks of Seventh avenue,
followed by the Broadway cave,
in ofNSaturday, has suddenly made
New Workers feel il is as safe on
the street as sitting on mined
bridge in Flanders! Fl
Over 800 miles of new subway
and elevated tracks are being
built in New York.
Have Done Wonders.
The public service commission
engineers have done wonders.
How to dig a subway under busy
Broadway, up Seventh avenue,
below the present subway along
42nd street and then up LednG-
ton avenue, to say nothing of the
long spurs under the rivers into
Brooklyn and the Bronx, without
disturbing the normal traffic on
the roadways above, was a colos-
sal problem to solve.
The planking along 1.-THE Great
White Way" has meant little to
the average New Yorker. Yet
this is the outward and visible
sign of unique engineering feat.
At the beginning a few heavy
beams were placed on the road
way and planks laid across them.
How They Did 1t.
At night couple Of ground
hogs" would dig a six-foot wide
pit on side street and gradually
work their way under the plank
ing. When they had thrown out
sufficient dirt they would drag
under timbers and prop up the
planking.
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AS the excavation grew in size
more Italians would be poured
into the hole and more timbers.
In time steam excavators would
be let down and a whole army Of
laborers would commence to push.
inch by inch, further undo: the
main thoroughfare, the pioneers
digging the dirt out with their
hands a few feet below the plank
ing over which were passing troll
ley cars, automobiles and an in
terminable stream of vehicles.
Cost $3.50, 900, 900.
Many times during the last few
years have heavy auto trucks
broken through this planking and
fallen into the channel. %.
On lower Broadway there 4, an
express truck below the local line,
and at many spots 20-story sky
scrapers have had to be lacked yip
and have new foundations put un-
der them!
The new transportation routes
will cost $330.000,00O and IL used
to their full capacity will be able
to handle more than 3,OOJ.UO0.-
900 fares" a year.
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have a bottle of whisky in his
desk for callers.
But the day after his recall, HI
went on the wagon, and has re-
manned there ever since.
Day after day l sit In my Of
flee and listen to citizens trou-
bles," continued Gill. Ninety
nine out of every 100 are due to
drink.
THE prohibition law can be
enforced-and l shall enforce 1t.
But upon you citizens, too, will
devolve the task of keeping this
state forever free from that which
has been the curse of humanity
since time began.
II am tired Of hearing men
say: The law can't be enforced
! can-and will-make this hU
absolutely effective while / nm
mayor. My successor can dotso
II he wishes"
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for the foundation or the u. NJ. C..
factory. A strip OF land a mile
long and two hundred yards vide
adjoining the existing Remington
works, was razed clean of big
trees and houses In four weeks.
A branch railroad has been laid
right into the grounds, which ne
cessitated building a heavy con-
crete bridge in order to set the
tracks under the main road.
Opposite the milan gates Is
a six-stOried barracks for the
private army that will guard
the work from bomb plant
ers.
A high barbed-wire fence sur
rounds the grounds, and there is
an armed sentry" every %
yards.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-09-27
BUSINESS ETHICS
LECTURES TOPIC

Success reduced to four laws,
is the gist of the talk which
Harry l.. Fogleman, official lee
turer of the Sheldon school of
Chicago, will give at the COM
mercial club Wednesday evening.
FCgleman comes to Tacoma
with a reputation as one of the
greatest orators on the pholosO-
ply and ethics Of business. His
personal magnetism is said to be
remarkable.
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Tells Story Z
Of Man Reformed

SEATTLE, Sept. 27.-Hiram
c. Gill, mayor, who never has
touched drop of liquor since the
day of his recall, delivered a tenn
perance lecture last night in the
Madrona Presbyterian church.
II speak as one who knows"
said Gill. II have never been an
inebriate, but | have drunk, and
! know what II means"
Friends in the audience re-
membered that in his recall fight
Gill made many foes by appear
ing In public and even speaking
while under the influence of in
toxicants. Also, 1t was the Gus
tom of his private secretary to
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take seven years to fill.
! The day after the fall OF War
saw, Russia tried to place further
orders for 2,000O,O00,O00 cart
ridges and 100000 shrapne
shells, while England was hunt
ing for new concerns on which tc
shower another $109,000.000.
This war work has pre-
cipitated a crisis I'm housing
accommodations and lodS-
ings In bridgeport. One night
last week IL Is estimated 300
well-to-do persons were bed
less.
On the questions of Euro
pean strife, Bridgeport N
strictly neutral. IL Is root
ing for another 3O-years'
war.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-09-27
CONNECTICUT TOWN RECOGNIZES
THE ESSEN OF THE NEvvsWO D

BRIDGEPORT, Conn, Sept 27.
Essen of the New World"
This is what the people Of the
Nutmeg State now call Bridge
port. They have good reason for
the boast.
Bridgeport is about to start
out on a colossal orgy OF war
munition work. II is just fin
ishing for the Remington Union
Metallic Cartridge Co. the largest
factory the world has ever seen
put up at one swoop.
1t is a mile long, including the
old factory, a mile and a half.
1t will start producing in a
month.
Bridgeport's share of the ST.
500, 100000 worth of war orders
placed in this country by The en-
tente powers is $160,000,0 Gn.
The Remington company is work.
ing day and night on a 100000
900 order for rifles, small naval
and field guns and other NUM-
tions. As soon as the mile-long
plant is finished it will get busy
on $30,000,000 worth OF cart
ridges.
The remainder of the $780,
100000 is being shared b. the
Torpedo & Submarine Co., Auto
matte Machine Co., American
Chain Co. and a score or more
typewriter, sewing machine, pho
nograph and even baby carriage
concerns that are turning out
shell or cartridge cases or some
other kind of war munitions.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-09-27
SHIP BRINGS ORE
FROM s. AMERICA

The Norwegian steamer Tri-
color Is expected at the Tacoma
smelter today with cargo Of o.
500 tons of ore from South
America, bringing the shipment
of South American ore for the
week up to 1000 tons. She will
take cargo of wheat and lum-
Der.
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OPEN FINE HOME
AT LONGBRANCH

Mr.. and Mrs. Frank McDermott
OF Seattle, entertained a crowd
OF 35 from Olympia, Tcaoma and
Seattle yesterday to open their
new country place at Longbranch.
The new summer home has
seen developed to one OF the fin
est OF its kind in the Northwest. 4
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LONGMIRE'S OPEN !
UNTIL OCTOBER 4

Park Superintendent d. J.
Reaburn, who returned last night
from attending the annual meet
ing OF the American Society OF
Civil Engineers In San Francisco,
said the National park would hs
kept open to visitors as long as
the weather will permit. Long
mire's season will last until Oct.
Is at least.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-09-27
WIRELESS JOKER
SENDS OUT s. q.

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 21s
Pacific Coast radio stations to4ay
were unable to obtain q tract OF
the vessel sending the recent
mysterious "S. o. g." calls pr
help. 1t is thought some prattf-
cal Joker was working.
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Lights Out
In WenatChoe

WENATCHEE, Sept. 27.-Bel
cause a flood destroyed the sta
ton of the Wenatchee Valley Gas
& Electric Co., the cities of We
natchee, Cashmere and Water
willie are lightless nights. The
water system also is affected. IL
will be a week or ten days before
repairs can be completed. Gil