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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-10-20
NEGRESS. JEALOUS RAGE.
Sheets Down Man She Accused in
Saloon He Once Ran.

Atlantic City. Oct. 20.-Entering
= barrCom ut North Carolina and
Baltic avenucs in u jealous frenzy
carly this morning. Sadie Mitchell,
ccio.el. accused Charles p. Seasons,
also colorcd, Of paying attention to
other conner and when Seasons an%-
lily waved her aside she drew Il re-
volver ard shot him ut close range.
The bullet passed through Seasons
stomach and coming out Ct liiS back
lodged in the woodwork behind him.
Seasons fell unconscious. and the
voman swooncd over his body.
Patrolmal Matthias heard the shot
ard had Sessions removed 70 the City
Hospital. where he is diving. The
woman, who is 80 years old. was ar
rc.tcd. Sing Walker the bartender.
wa arrested "a Il matcria! witness.
Seasons is married AMI is TIE fathe!
# one child. His wife resides ii
..ostcY. and tie Mitchell woman wa
employed as his housckccpcr. ScS-
sons was formerly proprietor of the
.al0on in which he was shot. but his
license was recently revoked because
f diSordcrIy practices in tEa place.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-10-20

The space for this advertisement
is contributed by the First National
Bank, the Citizens National Bank, the
Alexandria National Bank, Burke 4
Iierbert's Bank and the Alexandria
Fertilizer & Chemical Company.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-10-20
AN EXPERIMENT IN DEMOCRACY
Will the American People Enlist in
the Food Conservation Campaign.
and thus Show Their Loyalty?

and thus Show Their Loyalty!
Nowehere is the program of TIC
Food Pledge Week Campaign, Octo-
Der Il to %, inaugurated under the
auspices of the United States Food
Administration, being watched with
,ksener interest than in Washington.
The principle involved in the APP
peal to the people IS one concerning
which there has been division OF op-
inion. On the one hand, there were
those who from the first insisted
tntt food control must be neccssarl-
" autocratic. The view was that the
proper way to conserve the nations
supply of wheat was to pass laws
limiting consumption. The United
States Food Administration, how
cvar, declined to take this view. Her.
bert Hoover finally decided in fave"
of an appeal to the people in what
he termed an unparalleled adven-
ture in democracy"
Will Americans Cooperate.
The position of the United States
Food Administrators was that if the
American public would voluntarily
cooperate in a food program, de-
signed for the purpose of meeting
the nations food needs. the veya-
tious and frequently oppressive le-
gislation found necessary in other
countries would not be found neces-
sairy in this country while the
United States Food Administrations
plan for making the people the ulti-
mate food administrators eXcltes m
terest here, it is likewise a subject
Of lively interest in London.
You Can Help Avoid Drastic Food
Control.
If. as a result of the appeal to the
country, the American people vo!un-
tarily agree to curtail the conSump-
ton Of these products essential TO
the maintenance of the military es-
Establishments Of the United States
and its H~allics. the danger of drastic
and autocratic food legislation III
this country will have passed. 1t Isl
upon that phase of the situation tna'
interest centrrs; Ir all OF MS recen:
~utterances. Herbert Hoover. IN
sisted that the Food Pledge Week
Campairn Offered To ne pai'Iic a
chance adequately to protect !tse!i
arainst the danger Of bread cards
and meat cards and all that sort 81
thing.
Food Substitution but not Reduction
Desired.
The principal back Of the rood
Pledge Week drive is not that there
should be a reduction IL consumption,
Int rather that there be a substl-
tuition in the dict OF the pcopic. thasi
will increase the food reserves nt
those products that musr, a a mat
tor Of military necessity. ne export
ed. The people of this country are
asked to cat more corn, rice, baric%.i
ryc. fish. vegetables. and reduce as
much as possible the consumption
Of wheat. meat. sugar and dairy pre-
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-10-20

Insure the home NOW-don't 1e-
lay another day. This is the season
in which most fires Occur. 1nsuring
through this Agency mean ABSO-
LUTTE PROTECTION at regular
rates.
STABLER
lis Prince Street, Als1andria "a.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-10-20

ducts. If this scheme Of. popular food
control can be made effective. auto:
cratic food control legislation be-
comes unnecessary. If rae appeal. to
the people fails, and war conditions
continue, autocratic. food control be-
comes inevitable. -.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-10-20
TRAINS ARE RUNNING.
Fer i'irs. Time in 'i'w"nly-i'nnr Days
Argentina Has S"r"icc.


BucnoS Aires. Oct. 20.-For the
first time in twcnty-four days trains
..cYc running in Argentina ycStcr-
day. marking the governments sue
rcssrul step in combating the general
strike. All those in operation TO-
day were under strung military
Guard. Even if the present paralysis
If business or'account of the strike
is amcIioratci leaders predict another
similar movement about the first of
:Ac year. Presumably the govern
racat. having started trains running
will low tim IL attention - other
Industries ted p >" tn" strikers.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-07-03
tUnited Press Leased wires


WASHINGTON, d.. c., July 3.
War wealth, incomes, drinks
and smokes" would pay the bulk
of the first $1,670,000,000 war
tax under the recenue bill drawn
by the senate finance committee
and reported today.
OF the total 1,277 100000 will
be derived as follows:
From income taxes incomes as
low as $1,000 for single persons
and $4,000 for married, are hiD +,
1892, 100000.
From excess profits, $753,000.-
600.
From distilled and rectified
spirits. $111,000,000.
From fermented liquors ana
wines, $44,500,000.
From soft drinks, $10,000,000.
From tobacco products, except
ing the poor mans stogie, $780,
500 900.
Minority Report.
This schedule of taxes repre-
sents, authors of the bill insist, a
heavier burden on the rich and a
lesser weight upon the poor than
the committee originally contem-
plated.
Senator LaFollette. Wisconsin,
has a minority report. signed by
Thomas, Colorado, and Gore, Ok
lahoma. which would raise the en-
tire $1,S00.000,000 asked by the
administration by hitting excess
profits to the extent of more than
81 ,000,000,444, swollen incomes
more than $500,000,000 and the
balance derived from internal rev.
enue taxes.
Every class of people. however,
will be affected under the tax bill
reported by the majority-from
the man who will have to pay a
one per cent tax for owning an
automobile to those who will have
to pay five cents on every tele-
phone or telegraph message cost
ing more than Is cents. 5 per cent
on amounts paid for Pullman seats
costing more than 35 cents, and
verybody will have to pay one
cent more to mail a letter.
Hit Tea and Coffee.
1t will cost more to buy sport
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-07-03
Especial to The Times)

Especial to The Times)
NEW YORK, July "a
CzechO-Slovakian empire of about
S,50O,OOO population entirely
separating Germany and Austria,
except for the section between
Switzerland and point little
north of the Danube, would be
the result of u successful revolt
of those peoples against Austria.
Such revolt is under way. cables
DIR. Edward Benes, secretary of
the Bohemian Slovak national
council I'm Paris.
According to information from
him, the Bohemian revolution
sprang into being after the issue
had been put squarely before the
Austrian national legislative body
and Emperor Karl.
The socialist party is reported
aligned with the revolution under
the battle cry, March With the
Czech Nation to the End"
Union of all Czeh-Sl ovak peo-
pies in one democratic state is the
declared object of the revolution,
which, IL actually as well under
way as cables indicate, Is one of
the most important developments
of the war and may be the begin
ming of complete disintegration of
Austria-Hungary.
That the revolt, whether sue
cessful or not, is certain to weak
en- Germany's military strength
materially is sure.
Even state. of revolt would
separate the allied empires suffi-
ciently to hamper seriously mill
tary operation.
Creation of such an empire
would take from Austria all of
what Is now Bohemia, all of Mo-
ravia and thick slice from the
north of Hungary. Austria's ply
steal contact with Germany then
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-07-03
(United Press Leased wireJ

WASHINGTON. d. c., July 3.
The senate food control bill
hit a new snag today. Fresh re-
volt and concussion is seething
in the chamber.
Southern senators learned that
cotton dropped eight points when
the senate included that produc.
IN the control measure yesterday.
As a result today these senators,
some of them foremost admins
tration leaders-have become
bears" on the bill.
Many say they won't vote for
a cloture rule, they won't agree
to a time for voting and they
won't approve the bill in its pres
ent form.
This new development tenn
porarily shattered hopes of those
in charge of the bill that vote
would be possible within a few
days.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-07-03
WAR TAX TO fall
ON PROFITS, DRINKS,
SMOKES, incomes

ing goods; more to own yachts,
and the girls suffer from a tax OH
cosmetics and perfumes; patent
medicines will cost more and
cameras, too.
But the tax that will hit the
average householder will he that
on tea, coffee, cocoa and sugar.
Some of the food levies are:
Coffee, 2 cents a pound.
Tea, 5 cents a pound.
Crude cocoa, cents a pound.
Sugar, hc pound.
Grape sugar, molasses and cane
syrup, from nc to &c gallon.
Theater Tickets, Too.
Taxes amounting to 1c are
placed on each 10 cents worth OF
theater tickets, except in the case
of movies, where there is no levy
except on shows costing over 25
cents.
In addition to taxes already i'm
posed on alcoholic beverages, the
committee decided to put a pro-
hibitive tax on spirits distilla-
ton and prevent their importation
from other countries, to say moth
ing of minor taxes on red liquor"
now on hand.
Beer is hit $1.25 a 31-gallon
barrel. in addition to the present
tax and still wines are taxed dou-
BILE their present figure. Sweet
wines must pay an additional tax
of $1.10 proof gallon on the
grape brandy or wine spirits used
in fortifying them.
Syrups and extracts used in soft
drins and sodas will be taxed on a
scale ranging from 3 cents gal
lon for those selling at no more
than 81 gallon to IL cents a
gallon for those selling above 81
gallon.
A tax of l cent a gallon on all
unfermented grape juice. ginger
ale, pop and kindred thirst
quenchers il imposed.
1t will cost 1 cent for each 25
cents or less paid to ship pack
ages by express or parcel post.
Second class postal rates are in
creased one-quarter cent a pound
and net incomes of all newspa pers
are taxed 5 per cent when exceed
ing $4,000.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-07-03
The Kaiser's Dream

There is a story, though strange 1t
may seem.
OF the great Kaiser Bill and his
wonderful dream.
Being wearied by Allies, he lay
down In his bed,
And among other things he
dreamed he was dead
And in a coffin lying in state,
With q crowd of brave Belgians
mourning his fate.
He was not long dead when he
found, to his cost,
His soul, like his soldiers, would
soon be lost.
On leaving this earth to Heaven
he went,
And arriving up there gave a
knock on this gate.
st. Peter looked out and exclaim-
ed loud and clear:
"Try down below, Bill, you can't
get in here"
Now" said the Kaiser, II call
that uncivil,
But welcome I'll get from my
old friend, the Devil"
He turned on his heel and away
he did go
At the top of speed to the regions
below,
But when he arrived he was filled
with dismay,
For while waiting outside he
heard old Nick say:
"See here, all you imps, ] give
you fair warning,
I'm expecting the Kaiser down
here this morning,
But don't let him in, for to me
tits quite clear
He's after my job, and we don't
want him here.
If once he gets in there'll be no
end to quarrels;
In fact, I'm afraid he'll corrupt
all our morals"
All right, my dear FRIEND" the
Kaiser cried,
Excuse me for listening while
waiting outside.
If you don't let me in, then where
shall / go?"
Indeed" said the devil, "I'm
d If | know"
ooh, do let me in for I'm feeling
quite cold,
And If you want money I've plenty
of gold.
Let me sit in a corner, no mat
ter how hot"
mo, no. yelled the devil, most
certainly not!
We don't allow folks here for
riches and pelf;
Here's sulphur and matches
make a hell for yourself"
And he kicked him out and van
ished in smoke.
And Just at that moment the
Kaiser awoke.
He jumped out of bed in a SILVER
ing sweat,
And said, That's a dream
shan't soon forget.
That | won't 60 to Heaven ] know
very well,
But It's really too bad to be
kicked out of hell
A 14-YEAR-OLD SCHOOL GIRL
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-07-03
You're Welcome
EDITOR THE TINES:

EDITOR THE TINES:
The success of the Tacoma rose
show has been such that it gives
us great pleasure, at this time
to express to you our feelings for
the help and assistance you have
given us in advertising the show
for us.
This we appreciate very much,
knowing full we'll it is a public
project and as such wins the APP
plause of every civic-minded in
dividual.
Permit us, therefore, to ap-
pend our names in appreciation
and thanks.
Yours truly,
j. II. HOLME,
President.
p. F. ADAMS,
Secretary.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-07-03
Miserable Weed

EDITOR THE TIMES:
am sending you an editorial
clipped from the Monday evening
Perkins paper and hope you will
print 1t, for IL deserves to be gen.
orally read.
1t is a lovely mixed metaphor;
II is a beautiful example of bad
taste, of carping criticism, of dis
torted vision.
1t suggests the presence in Ia
coma OF an evil influence, a
sneaking but dangerous malicious
ness, which would appear to be
curbed only thru fear.
Sunday skies smiled and rose
laden breezes caressed; but this
miserable weed was stirred only
to emit this noisome little vapor.
President Wilson squirms, says
the writer. who thereby shows
himself to be the grand prize
squirmer of this district, and who
should be himself put to re-
doubled sQuirming for such a low
thrust. A pup that snaps at a
mans heels would spring at his
throat II he but dared.
Our presidents critic would
have us believe that Woodrow
Wilson is allowing himself to be
frightened out of his duty. This
duty consists, forsooth, in delay
ing the passage of the emergency
food legislation to urge the at
tachment to 1t for cure-alls for
various unrelated evils. MEAN
while, we might starve to death
were we to depend upon the bill
getting thru congress).
Personally, ] would like to see
the country go bone dry. But the
question OF the manufacture OF
light wine and malt beverages is
not the vital point of the emerg-
ency food bill.
The prohibition question is big
enough to stand by itself and
travel on its own merits. There
Is no occasion to railroad 1t thru
as a rider.
A "basilisk, Mr. Editor, is a
terrifying monster crossbred from
lizards, serpents and dragons and
its very glance is fatal. The
"booze basilisk," then, is goo-goo-
cycling our president to death, and
just as we are celebrating the
glorious Fourth, too. How sad!
(But before enjoying the funeral,
perhaps the writer had better
catch his corpse.)
The whole world is drunk to a
drunkard. No doubt every brave
man is a coward to him of the yell
low streak.
We are reminded of those pin
headed politicians who lately as
sured us that the president would
not dare to turn down the Roose-
welt army on account of the great
popularity of this project.
President Wilson is already re-
duced, we are told, to "congealed
contumely." which must indeed
be terrible.
"Contumely," according to the
Century dictionary, is 'insolent,
abusive and offensive speech
would suggest to the writer that
he has furnished us an expression
which fits a case nearer home.
Very truly yours,
ROGER e. CHASE, JR.,
1905 No. Proctor st.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-07-03
Answers e. A. Austin

EDITOR THE TINES:
Permit me to ask G. A. Austin,
have you really an idea of
what you are talking; do you not
know that every improvement in
working and living conditions of
all classes of labor can thank
union labor, who cave fought the
Industrial battles for the better
conditions they now have?
Who has been behind the abol-
ishment of child slavery in the
coal Mines cotton industry and
the sweatshops of the big cities?
Now, one of our finest labor or
CARNATIONS, the railwaymen, have
at last shown us what organiza-
ton will do. They have been
struggling for better conditions
ever since they lost their big
strike in 1894. Why did they
lose then, you might ask. and
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-07-03
In the
Editors Mail

the answer is, There were too
many men like you without either
brains or backbone to stand up for
their rights"
suppose you made good money
last summer through the long
shoremen's strike, and l am sorry
for you that there is no big strike
on at present; but one of the
city's largest industries on the
tideflats, commonly called "the
penitentiary," might have use for
you, and there you can be sure of
10 to IL hours and half a shift
with wages that no family could
live anywhere near decent on.
e. ENGSTROM,
Palace Hotel.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-07-03
Omitted Press Leased wire.)

A FRENCH POST, July 2. -
delayed -Envied of all their
comrades, a certain battalion of
Gen. Pershing's Sammies were
putting an extra finish shine on
their guns and bayonets and an
added brushing to their uniforms
today as they prepared for a
friendly invasion of Paris. They
were to be the center of the
French capitals celebration of the
Glorious Fourth.
But those left behind took it
philosophieally-and get busy at
once arranging baseball games
and field sports as their own
American celebration of Independ-
ence day.
This French town now looks
like an American village all dress
ed up for Fourth of July celebra-
ton. The army has just about
made it over. American flags fly
in profusion everywhere. The
American sailor blue and white
and the American olive drab and
khaki overshadow the occasional
dingy war worn uniforms of a few
French poilu stationed here.
Pretty Girls, Too.
1t hasn't taken the American
Sammy nor the American Jackie
long to get acquainted with the
pretty girls of the town-even il
both are badly handicapped b,
lack of a common lingo" MOI
has it taken the Americans any
time to search out places to spend
money.
The camp of the American ex'
peditionary army is in the midst
of great yellow wheat fields
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-07-03
PlCKPOCKET
KEEPS BUSY

The second report of pick
pocket operating in the crowds at
the Point Defiance waiting room
and car station in two days was
received by the police Tuesday.
John Hedberg, lilo Prospect
street, reported that a purse con-
tanning $1.25 had been boldly
lifted from his pocket. A Sunday
visitor at the park lost SIS.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-07-03
Sammies Polish Up
For Trip to Paris

where women and aged soldiers
at work merge into the landscape
almost imperceptibly.
There is a great dispute on here
as to which unit had the honor
of first bringing in the American
flag to camp. The driver of one
big motor lorry" is believed to
have the honor. He hustled ahead
full tilt as soon as the big ma
chine was swung to the dock and
unfurled the flag at the first hut.
The French port has finally re-
covered from its establishment and
pleased surprise over being select
ed as the spot where history was
made in the landing of the Ameri-
can forces.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-07-03
JONES MIKES IN WHEN
FOOD BILL HITS SNAC

Senator Jones, Washington
dry" leader. then rose to exhort
newspaper correspondents to let
the country know that this time,
af least, it is not the friends of
temperance who are delaying pass
age of this measure"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-07-03
Orders Meal;
Minus Purse

Miss Ivy Counts, TAB So. e St,
employed in shooting gallery at
1916 Pacific, notified the police
Monday night that she had laid
her purse, containing $57, on the
counter of a downtown cafeteria
while she selected her supper, and
that when she turned to pick 1t
up someone had taken II.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-07-03
U.BOATS HIT
SWEDEN NOW

|UnftCd FTesS LeHseU WITH
STOCKHOLM, July Seer
many has apparently opened sub
marine warfare on Swedish fish
ing boats. Advices today showed
that on Sunday four such vessels
had been sunk by gunfire by Ger
man U-boats outside the German
blockade zone.
The Swedish crews barely es-
capped to their boats. The subma-
rine commander, they said, de-
clared all neutral shipping would
hereafter be destroyed at sight.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-07-03
5000 MINERS
JOIN STRIKE

WASHINGTON, ID. c., July 8.
The strike of copper miners in
ella county, Ariz., has gone be-
yond the control of the local au-
thorities, according to a telegram
received by Senator Ashurst from
Sheriff Armer of that county to-
day.
More than 5000 men are strik-
ing in the Bisbee and $500 in the
Glbe district, the message said,
and troops are needed.
These strikes are the ones at
tributed to German influence
among copper miners both in
Arizona and Colorado.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-07-03
The News editorial follows:
UNDER THE FATAL GAZE

President Wilson is squirming
beneath the fatal gaze Of the
booze basilisk. He can't bring
himself to the mat with the pro-
hibition question just now. There
never was a better time. We of
the far northwest are too remote
from the distilling and brewing
centers to realize what a tremen-
dous pressure is being brought
upon the president by the liquor
interests OF keep prohibition out
of the FOOD conservation measure.
It is a most formidable pressure,
backed and thanked by banking
and other interests so strong
that one threatening wink of the
eye is enough to send the White
House mercury down into a state
of CONCEALED contumely.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-07-03
$1,000 to City

An unusual number of arrests
made Saturday and Sunday re-
suited in $1,000 revenue to the
city Monday afternoon. This
amount was turned over to the
city treasurer from police court,
where "a cases, the largest num-
Der In the history of the court,
were tried at the afternoon ses-
sion.,
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-07-03

would be reduced to that section
on the west of Austria from Boz
hemia to the Swiss border, a great
part of which is mountainous. IN
the great fertile section of Bo-
hernia would lie a new, demo-
cratic state entirely out of SYM
pathy with the present teutonia
autocracies. -
The new Czecho- Slovakiau
state would run south almost to
the Danube.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-07-03

Horse chestnuts are half starch
and sugar. Scientists are trying
to take out their bitterness.