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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-03-09
Greetings, have you a lit
tie fairy in your home?


Where is the old-fashioned
'ilm hero who had no valet?
GunpOwtier Is a mixture of
05 per cent saltpeter, 10 per
cent sulphur and Is per cent
charcoal. What makes IL so
powerful is the large amount
of per cent.
Some men make II a matter of
principle to pay their interest.
others find IL a matter of inter-
est to pay their principle.
So Judge Evans can IA
Thorn a woman's moods by
watching her feet, can he?
Well, what mood do these
shiny new high ones indicate,
your honor?
THINGS THEY MISSED
Alexander the Great new
err had his shoes shined By .
Greek.
Gen. Sheridan was never
pinched for speeding.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-03-09
IT ak o. the Times.

Solomon never observed
Baby Week.
Gen. sherman never SMELL
ed poison gas.
Lucullus never ate u cho-
colate nut sundae.
Peter the Hermit never
heard Billy Sunday.
Employees of the Armour plants
at East st. Louis have been given
their first raise in Is years.
They're open shop plants.
MODERN CONVENIENCES
Somebody is actually advertise
ing quackless ducks. Now for
crowless ROSTERS and barkless
dogs.
WAR CARTOON
90
(F'lock of bombs being fired by
crown prince.)
tsame bombs arriving At vsrs
0uusl
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-03-09
POLITICS
CHAPTER I
Wherein the Editor Does {
Little Keynoting
BY THE EDITOR

BY THE EDITOR
About the next big thing Tacoma must do
\ is to elect two city commissioners.
In series Of page-one chats | want to dis
>cuss with you voters of Tacoma what sort Of
men ought to be chosen, and why.
am sure it is needless to say in the begin
ming that The Times is no slate maker. It is
not our business nor our desire to plot the per-
sonal advancement or the personal downfall Of
this politician or that. We don't believe in
using newspapers for that purpose.
But The Times does believe in good govern
ment, and it is ready to fight at all times for
good government.
When the candidates all are in the field and
the issues begin to take form, then The Times
doubtless will be found definitely out for GER
tain candidates and against certain Others It
is not our nature to be neuter
Now general word about your attitude,
\ Mr. and Mrs. Voter, as YOU begin your duty Of
weighing the men who come seeking your suf-
frage.
Bear in mind from the start that commits
sioner under our charter must perform two
very distinct types of service.
First, he administers whatever department
his fellows assign him.
Second, he is legislator.
Speaking generally, our present city council
is satisfactory city council if you are to
judge it only from the standpoint Of the way
the five individuals composing it run their re-
spective departments.
OF course criticisms could be made. There
are too many employees in some departments;
4hopo ,.,aff a. {ln
baneful effect of politics is noticeable in some
but on the whole the administrative work of
the commissioners is up to about as high an
average as could be expected.
It is in their law giving that the members of
the present council fall pitifully short. :
Their votes on vital questions are bad, in
some cases rotten bad.
The mayor generally votes right about rs
per cent of the time. Lately he has not done
that well. His votes on the T. R. & p. power
franchise few months ago and on the civil
service resolutions just yesterday were lament
able.
Each of the four other commissioners votes
right about half the time on small issues and
wrong practically all the time on large, vital
questions
The moral, Mr.. Voter Mrs. Voter and Miss
Voter, is: Don't spend too much time worry
ling about the candidates ability to direct the
$work of the departments; that is important,
too, but it is only part of your task
hi You must choose men who will VOTE
0RIGHT the maximum number of times on big
ISSUES and little issues.
I'd That means you must select men of intelli-
#gence fearlessness, high principles and judg-
&|ment.
ID If they possess these qualities they probably
will succeed in both capacities.
Next article: Something about Franchises.
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WAR CARTOON

(same bombs arriving At vsrs
dun.)
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-03-09
TIP FOR DOC LLOYD

British government has just closed con-
ct for 800 ferrets, to be sent to Flanders
\ Kill the enormous number of rats infect
the British trenches. The price has risen
m 25c to $1.25.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-03-09

About the next big thing Tacoma must do
is to elect two city commissioners.
In a series of page-one chats l want to dis
cuss with you voters of Tacoma what sort OF
men ought to be chosen, and why.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-03-09

Where is the old-fashioned
film hero who had no valet?
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-11-18

the country over fresh details Of
Teutonic plan Of giving employment
to Belgian civil population by deport-
ing them to Germany.
Three hundred thousand male Bel
gians above age of II are affected
by employment" orders from Ber-
lin. So far at least $4,000 of these
have been transported from their
homes to Germany.
The Irish standard., 1916-03-18
to provide flaxseed has lost the coun-
try not less than $25, 100000 since the

to provide flaxseed has lost the coun-
try not less than $25,00O,O00 since the
war.
Although experiments have shown
that sugar beets after eight or ten
years cultivation, could be grown sue
cessfully and sugar mills would follow,
the government has done nothing to
complete the demonstrations. In a
soil less productive Germany produced
100000 tons of beet sugar in 1913,
and after working on the problem .of
cultivation for forty years; doubled
the yield of sugar per pound of beet,
while the crop is so per cent greater
in tonnage per acre. ~
Ireland under q free government
would transform the grazing lands into
cultivated farms, and break down the
English policy Of large; ranches for
raising cattle that are sent to England
to be killed. The human beings OF
Ireland have been reduced from g..
! 100000 to 100000 in seventy years
while the beasts Of the fields have in
The Irish standard., 1916-03-18

great wooden mills, leather factories
and iron foundries, destroyed by laws
enacted by the English parliament.
He wonders why more than 10000
families live in one-room dwellings in
Dublin, a city not as large as Buffalo
or Cincinnati, and seldom recalls that
Dublin in the olden days was one of
the finest and most prosperous cap
itals in Europe. 49, .....
Although the fixed British policy is
to make of Ireland a country adapted
only to agricultural pursuits, her De-
partment of Agriculture has done little
in Ireland. after century, to develop
scientific farming, which, combined
with manufacturing, has been the sal
walton of the small nations of Europe.
Most of the cattle raised in Ireland
must be brought across the sea to Eng
lish slaughtering and packing houses.
Winter dairying is not carried on to
any important extent.
The system is SO bad that they have
to export most Of their foodstuffs,
and the farmer in turn is compelled
to buy imported and poorer quality
Of foodstuffs, both for his family and
cattle. The marketing and transport
ing is done in the crudest manner, and
the observing traveller rarely sees the
telephone, or motor-propelled farm
machinery, or any Of the modern ap.
pliances that we do see on the farms
Of the continent or in this country.
Wheat and Flax Crops Decrease.
The wheat crop Of Ireland will not
supply the people with enough bread
to last six weeks, although the soil of
Ireland raises good quality of wheat.
The rye, pea and bean crops, once so
important in Ireland, have been re.
duced to very small production.
The linen industry originated in the
superior quality Of Irish fax, but in
recent years the fax acreage has been
reduced two.thirds. The failure Of the
government department of agriculture
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hardly a spot in Ireland that is more
than twenty-five miles distant from
water communication with the ocean,.
: The value of the direct exports
from Ireland to foreign countries is
scarcely more than from s6,O00,000 to
$7OOO,0O0 per annum. Less than 1000
vessels cleared from Ireland for for
efgn ports the year before last. Her
overseas trade is negligible, and is re-
duced to the smallest tonnage of any
country in the world that is situated
on the ocean.
The year before the war little Den
mark shipped $15o,OoO.o00 worth of
goods abroad and operated 1000 ships.
Contrast the decay of Irish foreign
commerce with the fourishing small
independent state of Holland, only 49,
600 square miles, supporting popu-
latton OF 100000, while Ireland, with
$4,000 much richer square miles, sup
ports with the greatest difficulty q
population Of hardly 100000. The
year before the war Hollands over.
seas trade amounted to more than
$3.50. 100000, and her exports to more
than $soo,000.0o0. Foreign commerce
has made England the mistress Of the
seas. and has made powerful and pros.
porous the states Of Denmark, Sweden
and the Netherlands, and the lack of
it has impoverished Ireland.
Freedom Makes Holland Prosper.
Ireland, unlike Holland, has had no
struggle between the ocean, no con.
slant war with mud banks or alluvial
deposits and bikes. The Dutchman
has done his wonders in an artihcially
constructed land below the surface of
the sea. working on land too low for
freedom, but the Dutch breathe the
spirit of freedom and they are free
people, and although their country
lacks the beauty, the charm and the
climate of Ireland, they are a content.
ed and prosperous people whose wares
are found In every corner of the world.
For every 5000 Of wealth in the pos
session Of q ,Celt in Ireland the Dutch.
man has $1,100. 4
England has caused the world to be.
lievefn many fallacies. Many Of them
are being exposed or exploded through
the revelations of her real condition
in the midst Of her present agonizins
struggles. sshe has taught the world
that Ireland was only At for grazing
lands and supplying food. Her com
mercial bodies, as we'll as her histor.
ians. have >unceasingly sndeavored to
create the impression that Ireland was
not adapted for general manufacture
ing, and was only fit for farms and
gardens, out of which the English fac
tory workers must be fed.
British Policy 10 to Discourage scien
tihc Progress In ireland.
i The average visitor to Ireland
passes over the tourists route, admir-
ing the roads and the beautiful seen
cry, the lakes, rivers and mountains
and scarcely ever thinks Of the ne
elected riches in that soil and of the
uses to which those wonderful but ne
elected harbors could be put. TIL,
, traveller sees the ruins Of antiquity
the round tower and the affairs of tn,
Druids, but he overlooks the ruins o
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hallowed haunts of our early saints.
For centuries she had a prosperous
commerce with the East, even your
classic Inver-scene was once busy
scene with shipments of timber, fish,
cattle, wool and Wines. Records show
that the minor chieftain, O'Sullivan OF
Ardea Castle, across the tide from you,
was in receipt annually, from Spain,
of three hundred pounds for harbor
duties for its ships. The great Anth-
ologist poet, Mangan, gives us thir-
teenth century picture of the O'Con-
nor province before the blighting ad-
vent of the foreigner:
II walked entranced through land
of morn;
The sun, with wondrous excess OF
light,
Shown down and glanced over seas
of corn,
And lustrous gardens aleft and
and right.
Even in the cline Of resplendent
Spain,
Beams no such sun upon land;
But it was in the time, twas in the
reign.
OF Cahal Nor of the Wine red
Hand"
And 500 years earlier-6s4-the An
glo-Saxon prince, Aldfrid. afterwards
king Of the Northumberland Saxons
who was educated in Ireland, has left
in a long poem of great beauty, his
Impressions of Erin as he actually
saw It.:
II found in 1nnisfail the fair,
In Ireland, while in exile there,
Women of worth, both grave and gay
men,
Many clerics and many laymen.
II travelled its fruitful province.
around,
And in every one of the five found,
Alike in church and in palace hall
Abundant apparel, and food for all.
Gold and silver l found, and money
Plenty of wheat and plenty of honey
found Gods people rich in pity,
Found many a feast and many city
II found In Munster unfettered of any
Kings and queens, and poets a many
Poets we'll skilled in music and meas
ure,
Prosperous doings, mirth and pleas
ure." -
And history repeating itself, futur
ages will witness Saxons, and strane
ers from many lands, hocking to tn
Irish shore, to the Irish schools, t.
study and sketch and chronicle
did Aldfrid, and Hayden, and Scott
the scenic glories, the ravishing ns
ture symphonies and songs of limits
fail, and the charm and culture, tn
spirit and piety, progress and hosp
tally of the children of mother Err
DENNIS HARRY SULLIVAN,
406 South Wabash Ave.,
, Chicago, Ill.
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creased from 100000 to 100000,
: viii. Be Worse After War.

mead.
- Will Be Worse After War.
. AS the children of Ireland die and,
leave the country their place is taken
by the animals of the fields. The war
has killed the sale of Irish land secur-
tiles, and at the low rate of interest
fixed those, securities will have no,
sale long after the war. If England
survives the war, she will have fac
tories and commerce to bring wealth
to her shores, while Ireland will only
have part of her land to feed her peo--
pie and small profit from little COM
merce and manufacture. The eco
nomic side of the war in Ireland SIM
ply means for her harder struggle
for life or death.
have spoken of the destructive
methods Of conducting the livestock:
trade In Ireland. The answer I made
is that Ireland should not worry when
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IRELAND NOT PUT ON EVEN
FOOTING WITH CANADA AND
OTHER COLONIES

OTHER COLONIES.
England has largely exhausted her
natural resources, with a population
Of 38,000,000 In q territory but one
third larger than Ireland and thus the
free-trade policy may suit her wants,
but young country with undeveloped
resources might find it to her advan.
tage to start with protective tariff,
and under the home rule act, Ireland
cannot change from free trade to a
protective tariff country, like Canada
or other British colonies which have
high tariffs as part of their fiscal laws.
Thus Ireland must always find herself
suffering from the older organized
manufacturing industries just across
the channel.
The finances of the new proposed
Irish government act, under section
%, create a board of CONTROL consist
ing of two members appointed by the
British treasury and two members ap-
pointed by the Irish treasury, and a
chairman appointed by his majesty
the king. Thus England will be able
to protect her own financial interests
against the interests of Ireland
through the control of the joint ex-
chequer board.
No Hope Of Prosperity.
I do not believe that even this at
tenuated measure of home rule will
be put into operation after the war.
But the merest tyro in reading legis-
lative acts can see that under its terms
there is no hope whatever of a new
industrial and prosperous Ireland.
Owing to their neglect for centur-
les the natural resources of Ireland
are the richest $4,000 square miles of
territory in Europe today. This is a
surprising statement to make, and yet
is true. There are more natural har.
bors for the accommodation of the
largest ocean steamers than in any
country in Europe. England is not
nearly so we'll situated in this respect
as Ireland.
l have myself seen fourteen harbors
in Ireland which, combined, would hold
the fleet of the world, and in most
Of those harbors, outside of an &C.
casional fishing smack, I have never
seen sail. Ireland, the first country
we meet when we leave the shores
of America, stands exposed as the
sentinel and the gateway of western
Europe, and the 5000 miles of the
broad Atlantic beating against her
shores have created the indentations
on the coast which make for so many
natural harbors.
Exports Almost Negligible.
And Ireland has more inland rivers
suitable for navigation than any coun.
try Of its size in Europe. Ireland is
the only country we'll situated on the
ocean which has failed to secure great
advantage in the affairs of the world
from its natural situation. There is
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A Vision of the Future

With Irish Parliament Devoted Irelands Interests,
Chicago Writer Paints Beautiful Picture the Future Pros
perty Of Hi. Native District as Typical Of What All Ireland
Might Attain if Freed From Englands Msr,le Specially
written this of the Irish Standard by D. H. Sullivan
The Detroit times., 1916-05-11
Is NEGROES Are
KILLED IN BLAST
Virginia Mill Town "M0vie"
Collapses. Injuring 30
Other Occupants
Bi UNITED PRE- SIS.

NORFOLK. Va. May ll.-At least
Is Negroes are dead and 30 others
injured as the result OF an explosion,
apparently from gasoline tank
which supplied oil for the lights IN
Wallacetown, Va. moving picture
show
The frame building In which the
show was held went up in smoke
and in the stampede 20 escape many
were trsmpled under foot.
The structure, formerly a store,
had been turned over to the Negro
employees OF the Norva Land & Lum.
Der Co for nights entertainment.
II was wholly without facilities for
escape. Exits became blocked and
before they were cleared the roof
colla psed.
Wallacetown is small mill set
tlement. ie miles from Norfolk.
The Detroit times., 1916-05-11
Great Heavens! Euen Candy Is Going
Up! Imagine, Girls, a Hammock,
Laura IeQnL ibbey and no Bon Bons

Girls. this mean old European war
has got 10 stop right now. so there
It's gone absolutely too far. Why,
il has even raised the price OF
candy,
Yes. and with summer coming
along. too, ard those long. hot after
moons when IL IL so pleasant To sit
In the hammock and MUNICH bon bons
and read Laura Jean Libby. Mabel
and Laura and Isabel may well pic.
ture themselves. this season. sitting
on the front veranda knitting socks
for soldiers with never n Bit OF choc.
olate or bon bon by their side TO
help sweeten the bitterness Of a
lonesome afternoon.
IT'S sad but true. This war has
so seriously interfered with the I'm.
portation OF materials necessary In
the manufacture Of candies thai
Prices OF raw material have scared
skyward and the manufactures has
been forced TO raise the prices on
his product.
According 10 v. l. Price. chair
man OF the executive committee OF
the National Confectioners' associa-
ton. which Is holding q convention
this week. In the Hotel Ststler. the
price of high-grade candy has risen
The Detroit times., 1916-05-11
SMITH SAVES
pet PROJECT"
Kenyon Charges Michigan Sen
ator With "Helping
Himself"

WASHINGTON. May 1l.-Thal
Senator William Alden Smiths pet
project" the development OF Arcadia
haroor. has been saved in the-pork
barrel-riyers AID harbor bill be-
cause he is member Of the com
mittee that prepared the measure.
was charged by Senator Kenyon. OF
Iowa. on the ioor of the senate.
H. submitted report from the
chief az the army engineers con-
demnine the Arcadia project. be-
cause of lack OF commerce. Senator
Kenyon called attention TO the fact
that an appropriation for deepening
the East river. New York. so as 10
get big lattleShips into the New
York navy yard under all tide con-
ditions was eliminated by the COM
mittee
The Detroit times., 1916-05-11

considerably and In destined to 20
even higher should the war continue
much longer.
There Is a serious shortage OF
materials necessary for the manu-
facture Of candy because OF the cut
ting OF OF importations by the war;
said Mr.. Price. about 90 per cent
of the materials used In the coufec.
tionery business Is imported. Lack
of transportation facilities and the
blockade OF Germany practically
have completely stopped these ship
ments. leaving the confectioners
without means OF conducting their
business properly"
Nuts. cocoanut, chocolate made
from the cocoa beans. and other pro.
ducts OF the south have been cut OF
by the dearth OF transportation IA.
cilities between this country and
South America. Flavoring oils, such
as vanilla, lemon and other extracts.
formerly obtained from France and
Italy, are now ''as scarce rs hens
teeth" Coloring matter from Ger
many is absolutely not procurable.
and gum arabic and licorice from
the south ar very much lacking.
In addition 10 this. there Is the
sugar problem. Most OF the sugar
The Detroit times., 1916-05-11
Actor Folk Block
Main Stem" Ask
For Street OF DUN

NEW YORK, May ll.-Because
out-ofwork Broadway actor folk are
blocking the thoroughtare. they are
clamoring for a side street 10 be
set apart for their use exclusively.
II IL is given them. it will be called
The Ham Curb New York
brokers have a street for their ex'
elusive use In the financial district.
so shy not actors. they argue.
Two OF the "Hamlets in the win
ter time were arrested today for
loafing on the White Way. and when
fned by Magistrate Ten Eyck were
told the court would not permit the
Thespians blocking the main stem.
Convictions for sfmilsr ofenses iH
The future will be followed by work
house sentences
The Detroit times., 1916-05-11

Most % thc railways IN Germany
tr lo7g either 20 the state govern
merits oT 20 The imperial govern
uent
The Detroit times., 1916-05-11

fey sides. As he approaches, the
paths OF the huge glaciers and the
rivers OF ice that grind their way
down It's slopes, shine forth like
streaks OF silver in their setting OF
pines and flowers
Tohan.a is the father OF -
named glaciers and many more not
yet explored Ages ago when Tia
Roma ard its giant neighbors of the
Cascade range were belching forth
fame AID lavs great explosion
plew Tshoma's cone into fragments.
When the fires were cooled the
warm Nater.laden winds from the
Pacific were chilled rs they hurled
themselves against it's summit and
,iilee With snow the hole left by
that prehistoric blast.
As tn. centuries passed the weigh;
of the snow grew so great its low
or strstas were pressed into solid
ice ard these were squeezed
The Detroit times., 1916-05-11

used In this country comes nom
Cuba, where one large corporation
controls the market and is thus able
to regulate the price to suit itself.
So sugar also has advanced In price.
Not content with boosting the
price OF the candy. the Demon War
even had to 20 so far as to inter
fere with the trimmings" Col
ored paper for covering the boxes
Is not obtainable. Neither is n pos
sible In get The dyes with which to
color the paper In this country.
Candyland. then. has become a
second Belgium. through which the
ruthless old war ls sweeping, leav.
ing devastated front porches and
hammocks, and yearning sweet
'ooths" in an agony OF misery.
'The price of these raw materials
that II has been SO hard for us to
get has risen in different products
from 25 TO 1000 per cent" said Mr..
Price.
SO II appears a. though the girls
will have TO prepare for long. mis-
cradle. candyieSs summer, unless
Tcm. Dick and Harry are gentlemen
enough TO cut down on the cigars
and cigarettes and save their money
fo- 'the sweet things"
The Detroit times., 1916-05-11
IL Ben B. Lindsey, Critically iii,
famous As Originator Of Juvenile Court
System and Father to the Poor Kids

3kIH Colo.. May II Ben B.
y, efitically III ss mis- home
r. f1n1sas - the originator of
x1nlls coaFt system and known
~ m judge OF Denver. For Is
~ - presided over the ,ria,
l| ~ ~1tch juvenile delinquenis
Hen1 for correction.
Sey's reform work in handling
- VIC have fallen into evil
1 - been the basis OF tie
NJ ccurt system In every state
M cp4ntry.
K y tD1ee ~ TIE bitter opposition
liclnns here. plots that IRE.
NJ Were 70 vicious and clabog.
w - inyo5S< the whole machin-
1g tAe state. Lindsey has remain
" charge Of his court and Ia.
sH npaxt frum every outside e.
ben srrested many times
Gt4Upf charges; houncet By
1Isee and spoilers IN an effort
him. Every attempt has
~ Lindsey Is IS.
n ~ taking Z rest cure In a san
m ~ Battle Greek. Mich. three
~ ~ met Miss Henrietta
~ q Detroit. She was p.
W : uhiriwind courxhip they