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The Nome daily nugget., 1917-08-02
By Associated Press.

LONDON, Aug. 1.-Delayed) in transmission.)-Thc desperation of the Germans over their weakened po- sition in the Flanders battle zone is manifesting itself in furious coun- ter attacks against the French and British lines in spite of the stormy weather and torrent of rain pouring down on the battle area.
 tons are hnging lines of men for ward in seeming disregard of losses
The Nome daily nugget., 1917-08-02
GERMANS ATTACK
 NEAR REIMS

attacks has been incorporated with the British defenses and the artillery is hclng brought up preparatory to a continuation of the assaults.
 The War office statement says that the German efforts to regain the lost ground in Flanders have failed, indi- dually and scVcrallN.
The Nome daily nugget., 1917-08-02
kORNILOFF NOW
 RUSSIAN ARMY HEs0

By Associated Press.
 pETROGRAD. Aug. 2.-An official announcement of the war office today says that General BrusiloH, com mander in chief of the Russian armies has resigned his post and has been succeeded by General Komllon, who has been in charge of the Russian military operations in Galicia.
The Nome daily nugget., 1917-08-02
KAISER CALLS WAR COUNCIL By Associated Press.

AMSTERDAM, Aug. 2.--According to sources, the German kaiser has called a war council of the high military and naval officials of the empire to meet at Brussels today.
The Nome daily nugget., 1917-08-02
HUNDRED FIFTEEN DEATHS
 RESULT FROM HEAT WAVE

ty SIX additional deaths have occur red here in the past twenty four hours a result of the intense heat wave. The death list in this city since the commencement of the hot spell now totals thirty nine.
The Nome daily nugget., 1917-08-02
LEAVES PROHIBITION
 TO THE PEOPLE

three fourths of the states within q limited period.
 The passage of the resolution IS the cause of great elation to the ad- vocates of nation wide prohibition that the necessary three fourths can be secured before the period fixed by the resolution expires, in the event of the house agreeing to ratify the action of. the senate.
The Nome daily nugget., 1917-08-02
SEATTLE CARMEN
 WIN STRIKE

although conceding the open shop.
 The ending of the strike has lifted a great load off the minds of the business interests who were fearing of the differences might involve other branches of industry and bring on general labor war throughout the sound country,
 The officials of the traction com pany declare the settlement is satis- factory to them as the company had no particular objection to the men joining the national union but could not recognize the closed shop.
The Nome daily nugget., 1917-08-02

P;ttsbure Reports Fifteen Deaths.
 PITTSBTRG, Aug. 1.-Fifteen deaths have been reported in the past twenty four hours as result of the heat wave
The Nome daily nugget., 1917-08-02
Cleveland Suffering Intensely.

Cleveland Suffering Intensely.
 CLEVELAND, Aug. l.-Trc popu- lace of Cleveland is suffering intense ly from the record breaking Neat wave which has raised the mercury to tor rid attitudes in this section for the past three days. The hospitals are filled with heat victims and fifteen persons are dc"i.
The Nome daily nugget., 1917-08-02

WASHINGTON, Aug. 2.--The fate of the senate resolution relative to nation wide prohibition amendment legislation rests with the house of representatives. If the house approves
The Nome daily nugget., 1917-08-02

Commencing Monday, July 9 the Board of Trade lunch counter will serve the best soc dinner in Nome.
The Nome daily nugget., 1917-08-02

Cucumbers large ones 25 cents :; rhubarb at Sc in 50 pound box.
 AZ. OESTREICH
The Nome daily nugget., 1917-08-02
SEATTLE GAR STRIKE ENDED BY AGREEMENT
U. S. BRITAIN PREPARE TO
 CONTROL WORLDS SHIPPING

connection with the shipping board program.
 Members of the shipping board state that the operating program is pre- liminary to putting into operation an q agreement between the American and British governments for the joint control of the worlds shipping
 c1Lscriha nn,M fnr the knne kunnek
The Nome daily nugget., 1917-08-02

Elite Baths open night and day, Billy Anderson proprietor
The Nome daily nugget., 1917-08-02

Thirty Nine Die in Philadelphia.
 PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 1.-Twen
The Nome daily nugget., 1917-08-02

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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-01-29
TO BUILD
COMFORT
STATION

A large underground public
comfort station will be built in
the retail district OF Tacoma dur
ing the coming year.
This promise was definitely
made Monday by the city council,
when a committee of lodge rep
resentatives, headed by Charles
Z. Keagy and Alex Fulton, APP
peared at the city hall in request
of such an institution.
Commissioner Gronen assured
the delegation that he had 5000
on hand for the work, and that
more would probably be forth
coming, IL needed. The station
will be built beneath the street
at 18th and Broadway, according
to present plans. Work will be-
gin early in spring.
The need of a downtown COM
fort station for men and women
has been urged for several years,
but this is the first time that
definite promise for erection of
such a structure has been made
by the council.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-01-29

United States supreme court says
what shall and what shall not be
law.
1t requires q specific case to
show clearly to what we have ar
rived. This case is furnished by
the so-called eight-hour law-the
Adamson act passed by congress
last summer declaring eight hours
to be the basic working day for
railroad employees, and setting
Jan. for the act to take effect.
Jan. 1 has come and gone; but
the act has not gone into effect.
Why not? Is there anything
more congress or the president can
do to make the peoples will a law?
No. The proposal passed all the
legislative hurdles. 1t was duly
presented as a bill. 1t was con-
sidered In committee, argued in
both houses of congress, received a
majority vote, was engrossed, and
signed by the president.
But 1t is not law.
Or Is it a law?
Some railroad lawyers started a
case out in Missouri and the de-
cision of a local judge has been
appealed to the supreme court.
That body has not considered the
appeal.
But what has all this to do with
the eight-hour law passed by con-
gress?
When congress passed the tax
requiring penny stamp on tele-
gram did telegraph users inquire
whether the case had gone to the
supreme court?
When the interstate commerce
commission ruled that the railways
might add five per cent to freight
rates, did they wait until test
case had gone to the supreme court
before they began levying the adj
ded tax on the shipper and con-
sumner?
They did not.
Is there then one kind of a law
for workmen and another kind for
owners? If the law favors the in
vesting class is 1t presumed to be
good law and to require no o. X.
from the supreme court; while II
the law favors workmen is 1t pre-
sumed to be bad law and may be
regarded as NOT LAW until the
supreme court has endorsed it?
Presumably.
Otherwise why all this flummery
of an opinion by a Kansas Judge
which is not really an opinion, but
is a perfunctory ruling intended
to expedite" the question to the
supreme court? Why are the rail-
roads not obeying the law?
What is law in this country?
What is. the law-making power in
this country? Is there any power,
or any law that the rich must
obey equally with the poor?
While the supreme court is
about 1t, suppose these black
gowned oracles answer the above
inquiries. X. Y. q.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-01-29
Appleby Declines
EDITOR THE TIMES:

EDITOR THE TINES:
My attention has been called to
the suggestion made by Mayor
Fawcett thta the new army post
be named Camp Appleby."
While appreciate the friendly
thought which prompted the sug-
gestion, yet 1t should be remem-
bered that success was obtained
only because OF the wonderful CO.
operation of all the citizens of
Fierce county. Each performed
his or her part splendidly. We all
made the fight for post at Amer
lean lake.
Let us keep the name American
lake, SO that In the future 1t may
be known, not as a monument TO
any single individual, but as a
symbol of achievement brought
about by a community spirit which
II kept alive will accomplish won
ders in the future.
STEPHEN APPLEBY.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-01-29
Our Rulers
EDITOR THE TIMES:

EDITOR THE TIMES:
Why not abolish congress and
take the veto power from the
president?
Our government would be much
simplified, and the change would
be inconsequential.
Why pretend any longer that
the people or their elected legisla-
tors make the laws? They don't.
The most that can be said for
them is that they propose laws.
And 1t is a slow and painful proc
ess that results in such proposals.
Nine old gentlemen appointed
for life by the president of the
United States and confirmed by
the senate are the real law-making
body of this republic" The
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-01-29
Corporations
and Cities In
Lobby Together

First-class cities in Washington
have lined up shoulder-to-shoulder
with the power corporations in a
lobbying fight at the legislature.
1t is the first time on record that
the cities and corporations fought
for the same legislation.
Commissioner Gronen went to
Olympia late Monday to lobby
with other cities and private cor
porations fora bill extending the
time in which the present system
of stringing electric wires must be
changed to more modern sys-
tenn. All cities and all power
companies want the bill to pass.
cts the first time Tacoma ever
helped lobby for bill that the
power companies wanted at the
same time" Gronen told the
council Monday.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-01-29
Carpenter Is
Facing Second
Serious Charge

Fred Carpenter, who was ar
rested for alleged perjury COM
mitted in Superior Judge Cliff
ford's court during the trial of
the case of McCabe against the
Lindberg Grocery Co., Jan. 10,
may confront the charge of being
an habitual criminal, if informa-
ton received by Deputy Prosecu-
tor Thompson is verified.
At the time of the McCabe trial
Mrs. Mary G. Craemer, whom
Carpenter admits to be a d.
vorced wife, and a Mrs. Mary M.
Kissler of Fern Hill, who claims
she also married and was divorced
from him, gave information lead
ing to a search of the records,
which indicated that Carpenter
has served two terms In the Colo
RADIO penitentiary.
Thompson has asked the po-
lice to make sure of the facts,
and IL the information is correct,
Carpenter will face the more seri-
Gus charge.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-01-29
Better Acquaintance
EDITOR THE TIMES:

ELI L YIN L he I"iSCs
would suggest "get-acquaint-
ed" campaign for capital and
labor.
These two are now strangers to
each other, and strangers are al
ways suspicious, resentful and
prickly. They are always think
ing and talking of their rights
never of their duties and mutual
obligations.
I mean literally that employers
and employees are now practically
strangers to each other. They eat
differently, dress differently, live
in different kinds of houses in diff
ferent sections of the city and
hardly speak the same language
The talk of the worker Is shot
| through with economies. He has
read more on this subject than
his boss" and he uses "proleta-
riat," working class" the class
struggle" and the cooperative
commonwealth" in way that IT.
ritates rather than instructs his
employer.
The latter is talking Of my
business" open shop" rights of
Independent workers" and dam
ned labor agitators." The periods
between strikes are. armed truces.
Each side holds itself aloof,
marshals it's own resources and
feeds its membership on prejudice
and hate. Then when the newt
able strike comes, each side looks
"holier than thou" pleads for
public sympathy and runs to the
governor and mayor for PRO
lection"
Why doesn't each side use some
of its funds to promote industrial
peace and better understanding
one with the other? Why not
have the employers represented at
union meetings and employees rep
resented in the employers asso-
Citations?
The English writer, Charles
Lamb, once refused to meet a dis
tasteful rival, saying, Never!
want to hate that man, and you
can't hate men you know"
If these two factions In society
would, for while, treat each
other like regular persons" the
employer may develop into some
thing besides the capitalist class
and labor may appear something
different from a commodity"
Very truly yours,
GLENN HOOVER.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-01-29
Petit Must Take
Mills Secretary

Max Garretson, civil service en-
ploye of the city and private secre-
tary for former Commissioner A.
U. Mills, will be reinstated as sec
rotary in the public safety depart
ment Thursday. Garretson has
won a fight that he has waged
since Petit took office, in which
he has declared that the commits
sioner had no right to GUST him
and replace him with non-civil
service man.
G. w. Burroughs, campaign
manager for Petit, who has held
the secretaryship for eight months,
has been told by City Attorney
Harmon that he must relinquish
his job. Petit is trying to place
Burroughs in the position held by
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-01-29
In the Editors Mail
Building Beauty
EDITOR THE TINES:

EDITOR THE TINES:
My hope for Tacoma is that II
will arouse itself and make a beau
tiful city. Nature has done ev'
erything possible-scenery, eli.
mate. geographical position.
Lately the people have been
doing something by constructing
good roads and streets. Our park
system is creditable. Our school
structures are sufficiently elabo-
rate and conform reasonably to
architectural requirements.
Our municipal and county struc-
lures are atrocious. We have real
ly only one classic structure in
the town-the Stadium. The Elks
have set an excellent example In
club house architecture.
The other orders should arouse
themselves. The Masonic bodies
particularly should have q home
worthy of our natural surround
ings. It will mean money to build
such building but 1t ought to be
done and done soon.
ATCultCCtuIC ohOuiu SCI ihto thO
scenery and become part of the
general effect. While classic
lines are desirable, it should have
a local color, which means that
structures should become a part
of the landscape, not a blot upon
natures beauty.
My hope is that the Masonic
bodies will set an example of real
architecture, conforming their
building to the traditions of the
order and at the same time con-
forming to the local atmosphere
and scenery.
Beauty is a real asset. 1t en-
hances the price of livestock and
town lots, and contributes to life's
pleasures.
There is no conflict between
beauty and utility. A city beau
tiful on these shores would be-
come famed throughout the world.
Very truly yours,
B. S. GROSSCUP.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-01-29
Department YOU May Edit

This department is the property Of the people
of the Northwest. Herein, they may freely set
forth their views on any matter Of public inter-
est, whether their views coincide with or diverge
sharply from those of the paper.
The editor retains merely the right to censor
such letters as he considers malicious or too
trivial or too long to be worth the space
You are invited to use this forum in any
worthwhile cause whether a regular reader of
The Times or not
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-01-29

1913 stands high as a model piece
OF legislation. However, one loop
hole remained open whereby pro-
moters and spectators have been
able to operate on the public and
under the guise of soliciting de-
posits have confiscated payments
made to them.
This proposed bill, senate bill
"a, was prepared by the legisla-
tive committee of the State League
of Savings and Loan associations,
endorsed by the league and is de-
signed to change our present law
in such way that the public may
not be mislead by solicitors.
The amendment reduces fees
that be charged from 81 share
to 81 share with a maximum
charge to any one person $40. Also
separate receipts must be given
and not be entered as deposits as
is the practice of some societies
now.
The practical operation Of a
So per share fee is to make 1t i'm
possible for member having reg
ular installment stock to with
draw short of three and one-half
years and get even his principal
back. The committee felt that a
limitation to $40 a person would
work no hardship on associations
needing fees for organization or
promotion work. Some associa-
lions having a per cent member
slip fee put it in the earnings in
legitimate way.
However, $40 limit was made
necessary by the numerous COM
plants that have come to associa-
lions, the state auditor and to
county officials of instances where
solicitors have overreached their
patrons and under the guise of
deposits have MIXED them for $50
or 500 membership fees, using a
painless extraction" method. One
agent recently confiscated labor
er's whole savings, $500, by hav-
ing him subscribe for 100 shares
of stock and charging a 50 per
share membership fee. The labor
er subscribed for 100 shares with
out knowing there was any fee and
thinking he was making a deposit
of $500.
One of these new societies has
probably cleaned up $4,000 or
$4,000 a month for the promoters.
These new societies are not af-
filiated with the state league and
are following outlaw practices that
have been discarded by progress
sive societies for years.
We are asking that the loop
hole in an otherwise good law be
plugged.
While in the university I made
a special study of savings and loan
legislation. The legislative COM
mittee called me to Olympia to act
as the committees secretary.
Alfred Lister of Tacoma was in
conference with the legislative
committee and at the conference
called was active in framing the
law so to limit this charge to $40
person, as a maximum.
The Tacoma Savings and Loan
association, and the Northwestern
Building & Loan association and
the State Building & Loan associa-
ton, all Of Tacoma, are members
of the league.
This proposed change is an at
tempt by the state league to elm
mate as far as possible all tontine
features and the amendments are
so framed that no association can
object without being in company
with those who desire to promote
or perpetuate a graft.
Cordially,
J. VINCENT ROBERTS.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-01-29
A Food Test
EDITOR THE TINES:

EDITOR THE TINES:
Now and then l read
OF experiments
With diet squads
Feeding a bunch of men
At twenty-five cents per man
A day.
/ know a man who
Makes SO a day
And out of that
His wife pays the rent
And buys shoes and clothes
For five children,
And school books for two
OF them,
And feeds them,
And they haven't
Light appetites, either.
If you hear
or any experiments
In Tacoma,
Allowing twenty-five cents
A day for each person
Please notify me
And / will enter
The father
And mother
And five children
So the experts
Can practice on them.
P. s. T.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-01-29
GIRL MISSING

Detective Kent of the Seattle
police department Monday asked
the local police to watch for Lucille
Kingston, a 17-year-old girl of Sc
attic who disappeared Sunday. She
weighs about 120 lbs, is dark and
about 5 feet tall, is the descrip-
ton given the police.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-01-29
Birds Suffer
From the Snow

"If this snow should keep up a
couple of days, we'dd have ODE
gin feeding the BIRDS" said Game
Warden Ira Light, Monday morn
ing, regarding the driving flakes
speculatively. so far, there
hasn't been enough snow to make
1t impossible for them to get their
own food. We have arrangements
with the school children to look
out for birds that are getting
hungry and let us know, and we
will supply grain for them"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-01-29

Garretson, clerk of police, but the
secretary is not eligible for this
place, according to civil service.
The board will be asked Tuesday
to grant special permission to Bur-
roughs, allowing him to hold the
clerkship temporarily.
II naturally wanted to appoint
my own secretary, because there is
a lot of work in any city officials
office which is confidential" said
Petit.
at is unfair to a commissioner
to force the private secretary of
his predecessor upon him. How
ever, / will accept Garretson, and
l am quite sure that he and l can
get along together all right"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-01-29
GIVEN
TERM in PEN

Not less than two nor more than
Is years was the sentence given
Jack Lane by Superior Judge Card
Monday morning, when Lane was
brought before him on the charge
of burglary in the second degree.
Lane broke into the jewelry store
of Joseph Amrhein, 1906 Jefferson
avenue, on Jan. Z.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-01-29
A Challenge
EDITOR THE TINES:

EDITOR THE TINES:
Your Editors Mail' depart
ment is the best thing l ever saw
in The Times-or in any other
paper, for that matter.
The letters you publish are so
different from those l read in
other dailies. They are more prac-
teal, more concise, more down.
to-earth. 1t must be that you are
willing to let your readers set
forth their ideas, where other edi-
tors censor all communications
that don't suit them.
Whatever the explanation is, I
find more enjoyment from a daily
perusal of this column than from
any other thing in the papers.
What l write to ask is, why
don't you run solid page of It?
P. V. PAXTON.
Hoquiam.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-01-29
Protects Investors
THE TIMES:

EDITOR THE TIMES:
You may or may not be aware
of a critical situation that has ex-
listed in Seattle, North Yakima
and other points owing to the ac-
tivity Of certain savings and loan
associations, most of them recent
ly organized, which have, on this
returning tide of prosperity,
fleeced the public and cast reflec-
ton on the good name of the saw
ings and loan movement.
We have no blue sky law in
this state. Our present savings
and loan association act passed in
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-01-29
AGED INDIAN
WOMAN DIES

Mary Charley. an aged Indian
squaw, who is said to be more
than 100 years old, died Monday
at the Cushman school. There
has been quite history connect
ed with Mary Charley, as she was
born on the reservation here and
had lived near Puyallup all her
life. The body was removed to
Buckley-King company's.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-01-29
ASKS LAWSON
BE ARRESTED
FOR PERJURY
Omitted Press Leased Wire.)

NEW YORK, Jan. 29.-After
entering categorically denial of
having had any leak information
from a cabinet member or slicing
a leak pool with Secretary Nc
Adoo, Pliny Fisk suggested to the
house note leak committee this
Afternoon that Thomas w. Lawson
be imprisoned as a perjurer.
He held Lawson had "wanton-
ly" blackened a reputable name,
but that perhaps ut was the re-
suit of disordered brain"
While denying all knowledge
of leak or a deal with McAdoo,
Fisk admitted previous close re-
lations with the secretary.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-01-29
BAUSMANWILL
DEFEND! MAYOR

SEATTLE, Jan. 20. - Judge
Frederick Bausman, formerly on
the state supreme court bench, to-
day voluntarily offered to defend
Mayor Gill in the coming conspir-
acy case to be pushed by the gov
eminent. The offer was aceeDted
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-01-29
MINE OWNERS ASK
$685. 62 Damages
Omitted Press Leased wire.)

UNITED Press Leased Wfre.J
WASHINGTON, Jan. 29.-The
senate will start working nights
Thursday in an effort to appropri-
ate during the 20 legislative days
before the session ends, March 4,
approximately $939,000,000 = an
average of $2,943,574 "a legislative
hour; s32,379,655 legislative day
or $3.50 for every person In the
country.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-01-29

just exactly right! Here is
hoping that as soon as the
new civic betterment commit
tee gets its plans for beauti-
flying Tacoma through a clean
up of unsightly vacant lots.
the planting of trees and
shrubs and the adornment of
the bluffs well under way,
that IL will turn to the archi-
tectural aspect of the task
Editor.