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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-02-26
The Wine Gun
EDITOR THE TIMES

EDITOR THE TIMES:
Since reading a few days ago in
your paper an article and an an
swer from you on the so-called
bone dry law, ! would like to ask
for space, for one more question.
The article in question asked
why 1t was necessary that clergy
men to be allowed booze since
most denominations have ceased
to use it in the church: your an
swer is, that a great many very
large denominations still do use
1t and therefore we should tolerate
their belief.
Now for my question: We have
a very large denomination whose
religious belief includes polygamy,
since you are so plonge for religi-
GUS tolerance, why do you not ad.
vocate the return of polygamy to
our laws as | think this is Just as
necessary to the Norman as booze
is to the class you represent?
Yours for a dry state,
Ct. M. w.
Frankly now, G. Nj. W., do
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Tin Cans, Scrap Iron, Even Smelter Smoke Turned
Into Cash By Multi Millonaires of Metal Mines
(Special to The Times.)

ANACONDA, Mont, Feb. 21.-
There isn't a tin can In the aiieye
or ash barrels of this great smeft-
ing center, nor for oo miiee
The copper kings snitch 'em to
swell their millions!
Tin cans are literally worth
wore than their weight in copper,
which. at war prices, is about 90
cents the pound! ,uor
For cans-and any scrap ron
Immersed in the copper saturateu
acid water flowing from mine 0,
smelter. precipitate the red metai
as the scrap is eaten away.
MANY thousand dollars a DAY
70 Tins recovered from water
.hot once went to waste, here at
The Washoe smelter, largest re,
dnct;on works in the world, ana
in the mines Of Butte. 81 niles
away. ,,,nino
hoe come down to the problem OF
sav;ng the fractional part OF PEN
Mes 10 saving q flake OF copper
or gold from a ton of ore.
Operators Get Rich.
THAT'S how the big operators
are getting rich these days.
In economy and conserve
ton these multi-miliionaire
m;ne owners are today setting
an example which shows up
the waste of the average
i houseboIder as reckless ex-
travagance.
The packer who cans all but the
"soueai'' of the hog has nothing
on the mine operator VINO con-
j verts even the smelter smoke into
gold.
Near the Washoe reduction
/ works here is mountainous dump
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Underground SYSTEM
In Olympia Exposed

10 to 16 vote, ordered the commit
tee to make IA report Tuesday.
The underground system scored
by Nichols was this: Whenever a
measure affecting cities or powers'
Of the public service commission
has been introduced in the senate
similar measure has been imme-
diately brought out in the house
by organization and indefinitely
postponed, to kill the senate
measure.
II don't believe the senate,
though it has gone on record
against home rule, will stand for
committee chairman becoming a
little boss of the legislature. said
Nichols. IF it should, then CONF
mittees are farces."
The majority of the senate
stood back of him, including Sena-
tors, Metcalf, Karshner and Davis
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a bit different than they, for you
work out revenge II you could, so
starts your letter.
Now, Mr.. A. p. T., read Mr..
Swanson s letter over several times
and see If more good can be done
this way. Even the Hindus and
Chinese have mighty words for us
which are all true and only the
truth.
To do more good, Mr.. A. P. H.,
get our and help fight the curse
that's on us now-"The high cost
of living"
II those capitalists were in a
starving position for week
(maybe they wouldn't last that
long, their greedy, grabbing ma
ture would be changed.
/ suppose these capitalists steer
clear whenever they can of such
news as food riots and starving,
dying ba bies like we have in New
York and Chicago right now.
Yes, we should do with these
men as Senator Thomas of Color
ado says, Take those who corner
food by the throat" Well, our
lawmakers have the best chance
to do this.
What will those warning coun-
tries think of us with big crops
every year and letting a few men
ship this out of the country and
land some place in the bottom of
the sea, while we have bread riots?
It's graft, grab and greed.
The war situation would not be
half as bad If the press of today
would withhold some of those
ridiculous war agitating headlines
and reporters views. l say the
press of today does much harm
and this means bucking peace.
American Born Citizen and B.
A. l.. expressed my sentiments
thoroughly. Thanking you in ad-
vance for your kindness in pub
fishing these few words.
w. G. d.
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Headlines
EDITOR THE TINES:

EDITOR THE TINES:
We admire your paper immense
ly In every respect but one and
that one is, those huge head lines
you employ most of the time.
1t seems to cheaper an other
wise excellent paper. Think of all
the good space those head lines
take up.
Why not take for your example
the Kansas City Star, an ideal
family paper, yet it does not hay e
to resort to immense black letter
ing on its front page to get il sold
by the many thousands.
Judging from your editorials
and the comments you make on
letters In the Editors Mail"
am sure you are too broad-minded
to feel hurt because you are critic
Used in this one particular.
About that army training. il
seems to me that II can't help but
be splendid thing for our Ameri-
can boys.
We have three sons, not yet in
their teens, but we hope by the
time the boys are old enough to
train, military training will be an
established fact.
Thank you for taking time to
read this, and will you please
thank Mr.. Altman from all this
family for the many smiles he
causes. Yours very truly,
MRS. II. H. SCHWALZ.
Longbranch.
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In the Editors Mail

ago, and for singing a song called
Germany Over All?
Now, Zbysko, IT, you want to
fight you go to Canada and join
the army there, and tell them to
rush you to the front. / think you
can get the job all right. But,
Zbysko, we don't want to fight
the Germans and we do not want
the Germans to suffer for what
they did in Poland or for singing
the song, Germany Above ALL"
We have song called 1.-THE
Star-Spangled Banner" and we
think of 1t above all. Did you
think the Germans should sing
Germany Below All?
Again, If you want to fight, go
join the British army. Ask the
editor. ! think you can get trans
portation from here. But we do
not wish to fight. G.. nj.
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Especial to The Times.)


OLYMPIA, Feb. 26.-Charging
that an underground railway sys-
tenn has been running between the
house and senate to throttle all
home rule legislation, Senator
Nichols today forced senate bill
No. 121 out of the committee, on
cities of the first class, where
Senator Croft, chairman, had at
tempted to bury it.
The bill gives the cities of the
first class the right to decide
whether their public utilities
shall be regulated by the public
service commission. 1t also makes
the cities party to all hearings be-
fore the commission where the
public service corporations hold
ing franchises are involved.
After Nichols had accused Croft
of high-handedly holding up the
measure, when every other MEM
Der of the committee was willing
to report it out, the senate by a
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DESTROYERS
Battle In
NORTH SEA

LONDON, Feb. 26.-British de-
stroyers met a German destroyer
squadron between IL O'Clock and
midnight Sunday night in heavy
engagement in the North sea, Sir
Edward Carson, first lord OF the
admiralty, announced In commons
this afternoon.
After heavy engagement
with guns and torpedoes, our ships
remained unchanged" he said.
1.-THE extent of the enemy damage
is unknown"
Another force OF enemy de-
stroyers shelled Broadstairs and
Margate this morning, but fled be-
fore our destroyers arrived on the
scene"
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Patriotic
EDITOR THE TINES:

EDITOR THE TINES:
I am another constant reader Of
the Editors Mail"
MY fathers fathers for years
and years, have all been Ameri-
cans, and I want to tell some Of
these so-called Americans my opin-
ion Of them.
I have reference to the "U. 8.
Citizen and American Polish
Zbysko." They seem to have it
In for the Germans and want this
country to go to war. Now l
think il they want to fight. they
can go to Canada and enlist and
get all the fight they want, for l
believe that is where "U. S. Citi-
zen" belongs anyway. And Zbysko
If he didn't want to be a Ger
man when he was in Germany-he
won't be an American over here,
so far as I am concerned, and |
think most Americans would be
glad II you would all go to Eu-
rope and fight the Germans, then
we would not have you here to
agitate national hatred, which Is
the cause of this present war.
II we we're to have war | doubt
IL either one of you would be the
one to go. The American people
don't want war with any country.
Germany and England both
have disregarded our rights and
Wa have a better reason to go to
war with Mexico than any other
country.
But I don't think the Ameri-
cans care to leave their own soil
to look for fight, but we are not
too proud to fight, and If some
nation ever comes to our shores
to invade-then the people will
start to fight and when they get
there the other fellow will know
he has been in some fight.
AN AMERICAN SUBSCRIBER.
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I surely do appreciate your
letter of kindly criticism, adj
verse and constructive alike.
As to the headlines. isn't
that, after all, matter OF
getting used to one style or
another?
Tread the Kansas City Star
regularly and admire 1t as one
of the greatest of American
dailies. However. I do be-
lieve 1 would read 1t with
greater ease and enjoyment If
the news stories were dis
played under larger headings.
SO that person could find
what he wanted by letting his
eve run over the headings
and without having to stop to
read the opening paragraphs
of the various articles.-Edi-
tor.
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Slayden Backed
Bv SteilacoOn

1--WE emphatically deny that Mr..
James w. Slayden has been gov
erned or influenced by political
considerations in the management
of the Mountain View sanatorium;
and we also submit that to appoint
another board of managers, with
practically no urgent accountable
ity, is inconsistent"
This is the summing up of a
resolution adopted at meeting at
Steilacoom Friday evening, of
which e. B. Annis was chairman
and J. w. Barclay secretary. The
resolution calls the report of the
committee of the Commercial club
CHASED"
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INCREASE SUM FOR
EXPENSES OF STATE

institutions, was given $511, 900
less than the state board of
finance budget, and 1904, 200
more than for the same institu-
lions two years ago.
The general fund appropria-
ton was $6,S54,727.16.
Rising to question of personal
privilege today, Jimmie Davis OF
Tacoma attacked an editorial ad-
vising him to report out the
$1,000 appropriation bill for the
$3.50 rate case.
He said he never had intended
to "sit on the lid" and that the
bill was reported favorably by the
appropriations committee, OF
which he is chairman, a few hours
after it was printed.
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POTATO SEED--FREE

Anyone wanting to plant potatoes in vacant lots on
parkng suggested by Mayor Fawcett last week. need
worry the expense of the Seed
In to letter to the council Monday in which
a who signed himself "A Poor Working Man" wanted
know the could afford buy the next
seasons CROP Fawcett explained the poor mans way.
All that needs to do for seed, is to cut the
that being used for the table,
boxes of earth, and with Stacked
lime lime prevents rottng the eyes. Keep the
boxes in the house until the ross past Then separate
the young plants which will speedily in the boxes, and
transplant them the parking vacant lots. They will
fine potato plants though seed potatoes were
used | obained this advice from potato expert
The council unofficialy decided to ask real estate
publish lists of property that could be used
by Tacomans for planting potatoes
explained that citizens entitled to use
free sprinkling purposes six lots.
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Answers Letters
EDITOR THE TIMES:

EDITOR THE TIMES:
Your interesting letter exchange
has my deepest attention.
would like to respond to one
or two of the letters have read.
There is American Polish
Zbysko" who seems to be rather
harsh with the Germans and to
my estimation he should leave the
American off his signature, as he
seems to be more Polish than
American. Surely an American
wouldn't say that revenge should
be worked out.
Now look here, Mr.. A. p. a., it's
a pity you didn't get chance to
read Mr.. G. c. Swanson's letter
printed In the same issue and APP.
ply his opinion and doctrine.
Maybe your letter would have q
different character. You are no
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Time to Readjust

EDITOR THE TINES:
The following are the words of
the newly appointed premier OF
Russia: 81 have not yet had
time to formulate program, but
nv watchword will be: Every
thing for war; everything for vic
tory Being occupied with this
aim, we cannot now think of re-
forms in the interior. After vic
tory we can begin the reorganiza-
ton of our internal life"
These words should impress us
with the importance of adjusting
our internal affairs while we are
a nation not yet at war.
p. d. LINDSEY.
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fSpecial TO The Times. }

OLYMPIA, Feb. 26.-The joint
appropriation committees general
appropriation bill, carrying $12,-
O11,0SS, was introduced in the
house today. Four million of this
is an appropriation from the acct
dent fund paid in by employers.
For the general fund, proyid-
ing for all state departments and
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Hits at Zbysko
EDITOR THE TINES:

EDITOR THE TINES:
Can you beat this-"American
Polish Zbysko" wants the u. s. to
make the Germans suffer for
something the Germans did to thu
Polacks in Poland 40 or SO years
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Congressman
Discuss Move

Omitted Prcu5 behscd Wire.1
WASHINGTON, d. c., Feb. 20.
Following informal conferences
In which house and senate demo-
cratic leaders and Secretary of the
Treasury McAdoo participated, the
house foreign affairs committee
and the senate foreign relations
committee were hurriedly called
this afternoon to discuss the presi-
dents proposals.
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it had been converted by the acid
into pure copper, made fortune
by contracting for this waste"
metal. But today the big mines
let nothing get beyond their grasp.
To say that these metal mon
archs save their pennies is not
only literally true, but their for
tunes are being made out OF the
FRACTIONS OF PENNIES saved!
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-U.XXY

heap where an old smelter, and a
careful one, dumped it's waste. To-
day this is being run through the
plant again and leached of copper
content to the tune of $4,000
clear profit every five days.
Fractions Are Saved.
The man who first threw a tin
can into the mine waters of Butte
and found a few hours later that
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-02-26

WATCH TIMES WANT ADS
FOR OPPORTUNITIES.
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Frankly now, G. Nj. W., do
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-02-24
CHURCH NOTICES.

Swedish Evangelical Lutheran church.
Services Sunday at 1880 a. m. and $50
p. III. Sunday school at 1910. Young
Ladies Dorcas society meets Thurs
day evening.
Unitarian church, Rev. +. Q. S. Os-
good pastor. Service Sunday morning
at 1870, with preaching by the pastor
In place of the usual church offering the
annual contribution for the Sunday
school will be received. Sunday school
at Ills. All are welcome at both serv-
ices.
First Church of Christ, Scientist. EN-
erson building, Elliot street. Sunday
services at 1915 a. m. Subject, Mind.
Wednesdays ssueRiag test iasonial meet
ing at 5 O'Clock. Reading room open
daily, except Sundays and legal holt
days, from 3 to o clock. All are vel
come
St. Michacl's Episcopal church, Rev.
|. Fredrik Virgin rector. First SUNDAY
in Lent: s a. M, holy communion; $50,
Sunday school; lO45, morning service;
80 p. m, evening prayer Tuesday:
80 n. m, holy communion. Thursday:
8 a. m, holy communion. Friday: AS
p. m, confirmation instructions; 80,
evening prayer and intercession.
Methodist church, Rev Thomas w.
Owens pastor. Services Sunday: 1890
a. m, divine worship with sermon by
the pastor; las a. M, session of Sun
day school-there S class and a wei
come for all; 8 p. M, meeting of Ep-
worth League i'll the league room, with
song service-your favorite songs; 7
p. m, regular Sunday evening church
service with talk by the pastor The
church prayer meeting Friday evening
in the vestry ut 80.
Universalist church, Rev. D. Z. Trout
minister. Divine worship 1890 a. IN.
with the fifth sermon in the series on
Cniversalism. Subject, The Satanic YER
sus the. Divine Estimate of Man. The
choir will be assisted by Alison Dugan,
violin. Bible school, 1l.45. Stereopticon
lecture p. m. Subject, South America,
the West Coast, a study of Chill, Peru,
Bolivia and Ecuador Many colored
slides used. Service at Home for the
Aged at 3 p. m. Thursday, March /, a
meeting of the Ladies circle for mem
bcrs and invited friends. Sewing. 10 a.
m; luncheon, y; business meeting, >
7. N.
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MOTHER. GIVE CHILD
SYRUP OF FIGS" IF
TONGUE IS COATED
IL cross, feverish, sick, bilious,
clean little liver and
bowels.

Children love this "fruit laxative, -
and nothing else clcanscs the tender
stomach, liver and bowels so nicely.
A child simply viii not stop playing
20 empty the bowels, and the result is,
they become tightly cloggcd with waste
liver gets sluggish, stomach sours, then
your little one becomes cross, half-sick,
fcversh, don Z cat, sleep or act natur
ally, breath is bad, system full of cold,
has sore throat, stomach. ache or diar
rhoea. Listen, Mother, See ii tongue
is coated, then give tcaspoonful Of
!" California Syrup Of Figs and in a
few hours all the constipated waste,
sour bile and undigcsted food passes
out Of the system, and you have a well,
playful child again.
Millions of mothers give California
Syrup Of Figs because il is perfectly
harmless; children love il, and it never
fails to act ON the stomach, liver and
bowels.
Ask your druggist for a j0-ecnt bottle
Of California Syrup of Figs which
has full directions for babies, children
Of all ages and for grownups plainly
printed on the bottle. Beware of coun-
terfeits sold here. Get the genuine,
made by the California Fig Syrup
Company" Refuse any other with con.
tempt.-Advt.
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BRATTLEBORO LOCAL.

Rev. Thomas w. Owens will conduct
the chapel service at the Retreat Sun
day afternoon at 3 O'Clock.
E. Crosby & Co., have begun the
erection of a 200-foot reserve ware
house near their elevator on Vernon
street.
Miss Miriam Childs will sing solo
with violin obligato by Alison Dugan
during the offertory in the Universalist
church tomorrow morning.
The three-tenement house at the cor
ner of Chestnut and Estey streets be-
longing to the G. c. Fits estate has
been sold to George R. Lindwall
through the J. L. Howard real estate
agency.
Ralph ~ Pierce of Athol, Mass, Il
native of Brattleboro and q son of
David W. Pierce of Brattleboro. was
married here yesterday afternoon by
Carl 5. Hopkins, Esq, to Miss E. Flay
Coffin of Athol. They are to make
their home in Athol
There will be meetings of the Wom-
ans auxiliary Of st. Michael's Epis-
copal church everv Monday during
Lent for sewing and reading of the mis-
sion study course. The first meeting
will be held next Monday at 3 D. m.
at the home of Mrs. George w. Tyler,
9 Tyler street.
The Windham County Fish and Game
club will have a meeting in Grand
Army hall Tuesday evening at which
Charles II. Wilson of Glenns Falls, n.
Y, an authority on fish and game cul-
ture, will be the speaker. The meet
ing viii be open to discussion and
members are asked to be present with
guests.
South America, the West Coast, a
Study of Chill, Peru, Bolivia and Ecua-
dor, will be the subject of the illustrat-
ed lecture by Rev. ID. f. Trout at the
Cniversalist church Sunday at p. m.
South America is unique in several par
tlculars, such as Quito on the equator;
Climborazo, the highest volcano Utica
ca, the highest nayigable lake; Caro- De
Pasco, the highest town; La Paz, the
highest city; Punta Arenes, the south
ernmost city, and railroad over the An
DIES mountains with the highest railway
station. Scenes of all these places will
be shown; also other places of interest
like Valparaiso, Lima, Santiago, etc.
There are some beautiful slides of the
ruins of the old Incas and their won
derful building achievements III and
about Cuzco. The public is welcome.
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WEST BRATTLEBORO

Miss Eleanor Taylor is i'll with
measles.
Miss Eliza Davis, who had been Wis
iting Miss Edna Wheeler, has returned
to her home in Crosby block.
There will be a regular meeting of
the Western Engine Co., No. l, in En-
CINE hall Monday evening, March 5.
Miss Eta Miner was discharged
from the Memorial hospital Thursday
and returned to her home on Western
avenue greatly improved in health.
julius Exner has exchanged his farm
on South street with George 4. Little
field of Prospect street for his house
ald land. Mr.. Exner will move there
April l.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Neatherhead, who
We're burned out in the Z. /. Convey
fire Wednesday, have moved to the
home of her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Rus
sell Briggs.
Emil A. Erickson left the Melrose
hospital today. He had been there
four weeks, following an operation for
a gall trouble. Mrs. George Burns of
White River Junction is expected to
20 to her home Sunday. Mrs. Burns
was operated upon two weeks ago for
appendicitis.
Miss Mary E. Grout, 50, died in her
home in Medford, Mass, Feb. %, after
ar illness of several months. Miss
Grout suffered complete nervous
breakdown neary two years ago anC
| had not been in good health since
then. She was a frequent visitor here
/ in the home of her uncle, A. ". Stowe
| She leaves her mother, Mrs. John
Grout, and one brother, Edward circuit
The funeral was held today at
o clock in Medford.
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ADJUSTMENTS
Motion Picture Attractions.

Empire today Ruth Clifford in
Should She Have Told, three-act
drama; Roberta Wilson in The Emer-
aid Pin, two-act drama; and Louise
Ortiz in Spring Fever, an L-Ko comedy,
make up the program. Monday Will
liam Fox presents June Caprice and
Harry Hilliard in Little Miss Happi-
ness.
Today the Princess theatre presents
Helen Holmes in the fourth episode of
The Lass of the Lumberlands, in two
acts; His Moral Code, an Essanay fea-
ture drama in three acts, and Edward
Kennedy in the Triangle comedy
Scoundrel's Toll, i'll two acts. Fol
Monday Sessue Hayakawa in the Para.
mount feature, The Soul of Kura San
/ and Burton Holmes travel picture
are booked.
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SIGNED VOCATIONAL BILL.
President Wilson Used Four Pens
Made at Boys School

WASHINGTON, Feb. 24.-With four
different pens, made especially for the
occasion, at a boys' vocational school
at Buffalo, n. Y, President Wilson
yesterday afternoon signed and made
law the Smith Hughes Vocational Ed
ucation bill. 1t provides federal CO.
operation with the states in establish
ing industrial schools, appropriating
$1,700O0O this year and increasing to
$4,000 in nine years.
Secretaries Redfield and Wilson AID
Representative Hughes of Georgia, CO.
author of the bill with Senator Smith
of Georgia were present.