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The midland journal., 1917-12-28
a ssntlarn Esnnoe.

When IN eil t,'w he %i.t nnt Of prli
witty ~ lie rcpl.rd Il Soi ont or
cell with il"Cuaity. ran upS'a rs
agility, era Wlcd oct the back windd
in secrecy. aid down the. llghtn ns
with rap.d IL, walked "ut OF the t9
with dignity nn:l am new hnsk "
the sunshine of liberty" Excmni
The midland journal., 1917-12-28
Some Answers BY Draft Registrants
Not Open To Public.

Answers of registrants on the
selective draft questionnaires re-
lating to health and answers under
the head dependency" with the
exception of the names and ad-
dresses of persons claimed to be de-
pendent, will not be open to inspec-
tion by the public without the con-
sent of the registrants.
Imprisonment for not to exceed
one year will be the penalty imposed
on anyone connected with the ad-
ministration of the selective draft
law who shall make this information
public
The midland journal., 1917-12-28
Justice.

Country Justice--The constable saw
you were speeding.
Motorist What! On such rott
roads as you have here?
Justice - Five dollars for spec
and ten for contempt of our ri
Exchange.
The midland journal., 1917-12-28
AWAY Behind.

ma, did pa promise you -nuch be-
fore you were marriedT"
my dear. we've been married over
twenty years. and your father hasn't
caught up yet with the things he prom
ised should have in the first year."
The midland journal., 1917-12-28
How to Prevent Cronn.

In child that is subject to at
tacks of Group, the first Indication
of the disease is hoarseness. Give
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy as
soon as the child becomes hoarse
and the attack may be warded off
and all danger and anxiety avoided.
The midland journal., 1917-12-28
rhe ReokIess Informant.

Isn't Gabbleton one of those people,
who tell everything they known
'He doesn't wait that long Bel
~uSh9S in AMI tells things before bel
has tine 10 fad them ont" Exchange
The midland journal., 1917-12-28

The American Library Association
mas raised fund of over $1,000, 900,
and is erecting special library build
ings in the camps.
The midland journal., 1917-12-28

A nationwide campaign for econ
omy in the use of coal in steam
plants has been undertaken by the
Fuel Administration.
The midland journal., 1917-12-28

The Red Cross has asked for
pumps to be used in France, to take
the place of those destroyed by re-
treating Germans.
The midland journal., 1917-12-28

Feed the Gull potatoes to hogs.
Cook the potatoes thoroughly and
mix with corn meal, shorts, or bran.
Skim milk is a good addition.
The midland journal., 1917-12-28

The partial open-front poultry
house is conceded to be the best type
for most sections.
The midland journal., 1917-12-28

No postmaster's pay will. be in
creased during the war, according
to an order by the Postmaster
General.
The midland journal., 1917-12-28

Heaven never helps the man who
viii not act.-SophocIes.
The midland journal., 1917-12-28

"Godmothering" of soldiers and
sailors is not officially sanctioned.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-08-14
NO MORE WEAK STOMACH
DIETING FOR ME

Today make your declaration
of stomach independence from
diets and stomach drugs. Just
because you have been pampering
a weak digestion for years is no
reason why you should not begin
today to eat the. rich delicious
nourishing food you crave. Try
one more good dinner taking with
1t a teaspoonful of pure bisurated
magnesia in little hot water.
Bisurated Magnesia neutralizes all
the dangerous acid in your stom-
ach, prevents food souring and
fermenting and allows easy
natural. painless digestion. 1t
works like a charm and old dys-
peptics dieting for years are for
getting now their stomach woes
and worry and are eating any
thing they wish. Bisurated Mag
nesia is not a laxative, Is harm
less and is sold by druggists ev-
erywhere in both powder and tab
let form-pever as a liquid or
milk.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-08-14
MILWAUKEE TO
SPEND $4,000
FOR VIADUCT

Bids for constructing the Ia
coma's tideflat street car line Will
be asked this week, according to
Commissioner Atkins Tuesday.
Plans for the road will be placed
before the council for approval
Wednesday.
Atkins spent Monday afternoon
in conference with Vice President
Earring OF the Milwaukee railroad
at Seattle, discussing the street
car viaduct which will cross 20
tracks of the railroad in the tide
flats freight yards. The viaduct
will cost $4,000. Atkins re-
ported Tuesday that Earring had
agreed that the railroad should
stand half the cost.
Nick Lawson, who has charge
of construction of the line, will
probably leave Tuesday night for
Idaho, to inspect a shipment of
rails for the new line. Street cars
bought in Salt Lake City were
shipped north Tuesday, according
to a wire.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-08-14
He Spoofs Us

EDITOR THE TINES:
| want to congratulate the edi.
tor on that brilliant article, "All
Tyrants Must Co." It is brilliant
because 1t belongs to the prevail.
Ing journalism of the present age
and because of the great quantity
of easy-to-frame assertions unsup-
ported by analysis and fact.
When did the editor of The
Times ever stoop, or condescend
to become guilty of the use of an
alysis on sociological, economic
and historical questions anhow?
OF course we will excuse you on
the grounds that analysis is not
compatible with a policy of ear-to-
playground, straddle-all-over, Jour
palistic cowardice.
Please, please, Mr.. Editor, give
us some more of that kind of pie
with variegated patterns as usual
as We would like to get as large a
collection before we put the stuff
in pickle to preserve until such
time as an enlightened era evolves
from the present. We do not want
to see all these relics used to
kindle fires with.
Respectfully yours,
PROLETARIA BILL.
Puyallup, Wash.
Dict. by CWG.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-08-14
BY IDAH NJ. GIBSON,

NEW YORK, Aug. 14.-"Cer-
tainly there is no valid reason
why woman should not fight for
her country" declared Gertrude
Atherton, Americas foremost
woman novelist, when | asked her
what she thought of the flocking
of Russian women to the colors.
Women have now proved
themselves physically as strong as
men by doing mans work in the
munitions factories of England.
"They have done as brave
acts as men i'm the face of
certain death, as witnessed by
the martyrdOm of Edith
CavelI.
"They have shown their love of
country by not only sending to die
for it those they loved better than
life itself, but in doing so have
knowingly subjected themselves
to lifelong existence of great
est lonliness and hardship. The
nurses in the field hospitals have
withstood the nervous shock of
battle better than men.
Then why should women not
fight. if fighting seems the way in
which they may do their bit the
best? | think those women are
doing a wonderful act, not only
for their country, but for all wom-
en-, in breaking down conventional
sex barriers"
Mrs. Anterior looked up with
a smile which robbed her next SEN
tence of much of its sting:
think what il would
mean il we could send all the
idle rich women i'm the world
to war. They might make
good fighters-they certainly
do not make good at anything
else"
But the children?" l inter
rupted.
II cannot see where the advent
of women fighters will have any
Improbable effect on the race"
she answered. Even the most
rabid eugenists will tell you that
change OF type or temperament is
of slow growth. There will never
be enough fighting women who
will bear children after great
war to affect the next generation.
THE real reason for interest
over the Russian women going to
fight for their country narrows to
this-it is a new milepost in the
march of feminism.
"A new part of the man-made
world is erumbling.
And as such 1t will be COM
bated by every mind male or fe-
male, which still clings to the
woman is the weaker = vessel
idea"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-08-14
Billion Bushels
of Wheat Needed

demanding S2.S5 per 100 pounds,
or about $1.75 bushel, for 1t.
The feeling value of wheat for
growing pigs and young stock Is
so much higher than that of corn
that these farmers are confront
ing the problem of selling wheat
at from 50 to $500 per bushel,
which, when used as ground feed,
would go as far as at least SO
worth OF the corn they would have
to buy.
Because of these conditions, in
which the farmer, as usual, is
getting 1t in the neck" the prob
lem Of increasing wheat acreage
sufficient to produce billion
bushls next year is serious.
The government plans to assist
In securing a sufficient supply OF
fertilizers, farm machinery and
good seed. A fair minimum price
and better conditions for trans
portation and marketing are also
to be held out as inducements, and
every possible assistance is to be
placed at the disposal Of farmers
thru the department Of agricul-
ture, the food administration,
state colleges of agriculture and
other local agencies.
Kansas, which this year has
one-fifth of the total winter wheat
acreage of the entire country, is
to be asked to SOW an extra mil
lion acres this fall. Ohio is asked
to SOW 100000 acres, or ,120,-
600 acres more than last year.
Oklahoma, Indiana and Illinois
are asked to increase their acre.
age by more than half a million
acres each.
Educational work with a view
to increasing the yield per acre
will be carried on in every wheat
producing county.
To carry out the program laiad
down, agricultural experts admit,
without disrupting correct farm
ing practice, will call for tremen-
dous effort on the part of Amer
ica's farmers. But this effort,
they believe, will be made gladly
as a part of war work.
A billion bushels of wheat for
1918?
JUST WATCH UNCLE SAM
RAISE 1T!
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-08-14
Especial to The Times,

WASHlNGION, ID. e., Aug. IL.
One billion bushels of wheat
must be produced In the United
States in 1918 to guarantee suffi-
Client food-stuffs to this country
and her allies thru another year
of war.
To provide this volume Of grain.
assuming a yield per acre equal
to the average for the past 10
years, the winter wheat acreage
of the country must be increased
Is per cent.
This would give winter wheat
acreage of 47,337,000 acres, and
promise crop of about 675,000,-
900 bushels.
Practically no increase may be
expected in the acreage of spring
wheat for next years crop, but an
effort will be made to keep it at
this years figures of 100000
acres. Under favorable condi-
tions this would give harvest of
$50. 100000 bushels.
The department of agriculture
is sending to each state estimates
of the acreage that must be plant
ed to wheat this fall If we are to
meet next years demand for
grain. State agricultural bodies
are to be enlisted in the campaign
to win the fullest possible cooper
alton of farmers.
Washington Is asked to plant
$50, 900 acres to winter wheat, an
increase of 10 per cent over last
years figure, which was 754, 900.
The problem of getting a maxi
mum crop of winter wheat sown
has been complicated by the fail
ure of congress to pass the food
control bill in time to regulate
movement of this years wheat
crop. A large per centage of the
crop already is threshed. Farm
ers have hesitated whether to
move their wheat direct to mar
ket or to hold it pending passage
of the food bill.
Also. thousands of farmers in
the wheat belt who normally buy
corn to carry them thru the late
months of summer find that the
grain men who are offering them
around 50 per bushel for their
wheat have cornered the surplus
of last years corn crop and are
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-08-14
In the
Editors
Ma IL
No Fat Living
EDITOR THE TIMES,

EDITOR THE TINES:
Am writing to thank you for
the stand you are taking in behalf
Of the strikers in the timber in
dustry. Have just finished read
ing Your editorial, Business
Slackers," which is very good, as
are all your editorials.
The charge that the timber
barons maker about this strike
being in charge of agitators who
make a fat living off strikes is
false.
Mr.. Weiland, president of the
Information Union of Timber
workers, worked five years at his
last job and was discharged for
his activities in labor circles.
He has been elected three times
to the city council on the social
list ticket.
AS one of the members of the
strike committee here, | will say
that those having charge of the
strike on Grays Harbor are all
steady workers and were working
up to the strike, and receive moth
ing for their services. Am ennd-
Ing our strike bulletin.
Yours for justice,
M. P. CORBETT.
Aberdeen, Wash.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-08-14
Arrested After
Car Hits Window

John Mckee, 1880 South 41st,
was arrested by Officer Jeffrey at
/ a. m. Tuesday, after his auto
mobile, stalled on the 18th street
hill, had backed into a large plate
glass window of the E. T. Bates
& Co. store, 18th and Commerce.
Mckee lost control of the car
when his engine went dead"
Glass was thrown about the side
walk, and cut the tires of McKee's
car, but no one was injured. Nc
Kee was released on personal re-
cognizance, to be tried Tuesday
afternoon in police court.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-08-14
Novelist and Expert On
Woman Psychology Favor
Russian Legion of Death
BY ii. p. BURTON.

NEW YORK, Aug. IA. = Floyd
Dell, noted New York psych ololgist
of woman, and author of "Wom-
en- as World Builders" sees In
the advent of women into the
Russian army and the espousal of
their action by an American girl,
Miss Frances Clifford, the begin
ming of an era in the world of
woman warriors.
Dell prophesies the last wars
which will be wages by the peo-
Piles of the world will be fought
entirely by women!
1.-THE history of the race"
Dell declares, "shows women
always adopt an institution
originally invented by man,
Just as man is getting ready
to discard IL.
Let us take the case of the
home: man invented the home and
thought 1t was fine idea. Wom-
an disliked 1t, and saw in the in
stitution nothing much more than
a lot of hard work for her while
man went out and hunted and
played. After a while man began
hating the home, but at that time
woman had BECOME enthusiastic
about the home, and man has been
put to 1t ever since getting up ex-
cuses to get away from 1t.
ut was the same with romantic
love. Man Invented that, deciding
that mating was not just a beau.
tiful act Of nature, but something
mystically fore-ordained. Men
became lyrical poets, celebratinx
such a romantic Idea of love. Then
man began to reason about love,
and came to take 1t as 1t actually
is. But woman had meanwhile
taken up the idea, and now all our
lyric poets are women.
Next came politics. Women
were bored by mans invention
called politics. Dry as dust
they all said for years, as they
walked into the drawing room for
some interesting chatter while
men smoked out their political
ideas in the dining room. Then
just as the advanced men were
beginning to wonder IL the vote
isn't very elaborate and slow
method OF getting almost nothing
for themselves, the women cry,
We must have that most import
ant thing, the vote.'
And now it is war. Advanced
male thinkers are coming to be-
lieve war is ridiculously costly
manner of settling things. And
just as this sentiment is coming to
the fore among the men, the wom-
en- who have always hated war
heretofore, decide to become fight
ers.
This outbreak on their
part Is not, take IL, merely
spasnodic, but runs true to
form, and I look to see our
last wars waged mainly by
women and not by men!"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-08-14
Wright Won't
BE UnioniZed

Reports received at the Central
Labor Council that George p.
Wright had received a telegram
from Washington, ID. c., warning
him that unless his shipbuilding
plant on the tide flats were union
lied, he would not get contracts
from the government, were denied
by Wright Tuesday.
This will never be a union
plant" said Wright. THE plant
will be closed down first"
The report had II that the gov
eminent wanted all plants run on
a union basis, in order to prevent
the work of building government
ships from being halted by labor
difficulties.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-08-14
in DEATH, SAVES GIRL
(SpeciaI to The Times.1

TERRE HAUTE, Ind, Aug. IA.
Don't you worry, little girl.
before you go down I'll go down
myself"
That pledge from Dennis Nc
earthly, a lifelong friend of the
family, took Mrs. Betty Shaffer,
slender and 20. into the water.
McCarthy's lifeless body, hold
Ing the girl up to safety, took her
from deaths grip and fulfilled his
promise.
He shook hands with me as he
promised to drown to save me il
necessary said Mrs. Shaffer at
her home after the tragedy. 81
am a poor swimmer, and afraid,
but his handclasp banished all my
fear.
And that is the last l remem-
Der of Dennis McCarthys courage
until this:
Il stand on his shoulders. His
feet are on the ground. My head
is above the water. | am safe.
Men are coming to take me out.
"But-the current swings
past my ankles. And as il
swings IL m0ves something
back and forth against them,
something that bObs first
against one ankle and then
against the Other-Dennis
McCarthy's lifeless head,
swayed on his shoulders by
the flowing water"
Mccarthy and Mrs. Shaffer had
started out of their depth to help
rescue another girl. They got
into swift current.
Put your arms around my
neck said Mccarthy. Her body
was too heavy. He began to sink.
Il could feel him slipping lower
and lower Mrs. Shaffer told aft
erward.
But he kept hold of me and
held me up.
His hands were at my waist,
then at my knees, then at my
ankles.
'He put my feet on his Shout
| ders. 1t seemed many minutes
that | stood there. knowing he
was dying, and saving me.
"And-I could tell from
the feel of IL when there was
no longer any life in his toss
ing head"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-08-14
POPE REVIEWS
PEACE PLEA

ROME, Aug. Hills Holiness
today renewed his formal propos-
ais of peace.
The pope, in outlining these con-
dltions, made new and general
appeal for the restoration OF peace.
The appeal is addressed to all
neutrals as well as the belliger-
ents. 1t is nderstood to be some
what general in form but of such
noture as to form the groundwork
for more detailed discussion.
The desire of his Holiness, in
presenting the general conditions,
is understood to be to furnish
some common ground for discus
sion thru preliminary under
standing.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-08-14
A WEEK,
MEN ALMOST DEAD

HOQUIAM, Wash, Aug. IL
After drifting for a week on the
Pacific in the power fish boat
Wasco, Albert Hilterbrand and
Herman Moorback were picked up
on the beach at Copalis today, al
most dead from hunger and ex-
posture.
The men put to sea last Tues
day. The engine broke down and
a current carried them further
from shore. The food supply was
exhausted, and they were caught
by a severe storm.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-08-14
BUS DRIVERS
FORM UNION

Auto stage and bus drivers OF
Tacoma met Monday night and
formed union, with charter
membership of so.
The union will be affiliated
with the American Federation OF
Labor.
Delegates were chosen to the
Central Labor Council. The
formation OF the union was d.
rected by Secretary Lyons of the
Central Labor Council.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-08-14
5000 MEN AT
WORK ONPOST

Eight thousand men are now
working at the army post. The
force has been increased beyond
what was originally planned, in
order to get the buildings ready
by September 1.
The infantry barracks now are
almost done, and the light and
heavy artillery barracks at the
east end of the cantonment are
we'll under way.
Nearly 100000 worth of sup
plies have been ordered for the
selective army. The bakery school
will be open August 20.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-08-14
U. S. ATTITUDE
United Press Leased yvire.)

WASHINGTON, d. c., Aug. IA.
The United States government
is prepared to listen to any bona
fide peace offer, but it must in
sure consummation of Americas
objects for entering the war.
Experts saw in the pope's move
the Influence of his recent confer
ence with Austrian dignitaries.
who we're afterward closeted with
the German chancellor in Vienna.
Allied diplomats here believe
the war is destined to continue for
at least another year. They stat
ed that the pope's effort, like that
of the European socialists, will
prove merely another step for
ward in eventually concluding the
great struggle.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-08-14
ARMY TRAINING
AT UNIVERSITIES

tte" Fress behsed Wfrc.b
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. IL
Arrangements were started at four
western universities today for the
opening six weeks courses to pre-
pare men for Places in the quarter
masters enlisted reserve corps of
the regular army.
The adjutant general at Wash
ington has authorized such courses
at the Universities of California,
Nevada, Washington and Stanford.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-08-14
Judge Be
Officer Also?

A decision as to whether JUS
tice Dewitt M. Evans can hold his
position as a Pierce county justice
of the peace, and at the same
time a commission in the army,
will be made by the county COM
missioners within a few days.
Evans, whose commission as first
lieutenant was announced from
the officers training camp at the
Preside Tuesday, has written the
that he will be in
Tacoma the latter part of this
week.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-08-14
Noted Lecturer
Speaks Sunday

Hon. j. F. Rutherford of the
New York city bar, successor to
the late Pastor C. T. Russell, as
president of the International
Bible Students association, will
be heard in Tacoma again Sunday
afternoon.
Mr.. Rutherford lectured in Ia
coma a year ago on the subject,
why Do the Nations War;"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-08-14
STARTS HUNT FOR
RUTH ARMSTRONG

HAVANA, Aug. IA. - Buel
Armstrong, brother of Ruth Arm
strong, former teacher in Youngs-
town, Ohio, and Los Angeles. who
has been missing here for several
weeks, took up the search for his
sister today.
Armstrong arrived here after
having been advised that search
by an agent of the state depart
ment had failed to reveal any clue
to the whereabouts of his sister.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-08-14
GERMAN ATTACKS
ALL THROWN BACK

PARIS, Aug. 14.-Repeated
German attacks on French out
posts about Conflict in the
Champagne and successful French
raids northwest of Rheims we're
reported by the war office today.
All of the German attacks were
thrown back.
In Belgium artillery fighting
was active.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-08-14
SHELTER MEN
WON'T STRIKE

ANACONDA, Mont, Aug. a.
Anaconda smeltermen will not
strike.
This was assured today when
the results of yesterdays strike
vote was known. Two-thirds ma
jority is required to call out the
men and the vote failed by COM
paratively narrow margin.
Twenty-four hundred smelter
workers are members of the union.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-08-14
BRITISH RAID
GERMAN LINES

IUhfteu Press EeHseU Wre.b
LONDON, Aug. 14.-Northeast
of Guazecourt and at two points
east of Vermelles, British troops
raided the German lines last
night, taking a few prisoners,
Field Marshal Haig announced to-
day. A number of the enemy were
killed by bombs in their dugouts.
North of Roux hostile raid
was repulsed. To the east and
northeast of Ypres and in the
neighborhood OF Lombartzyde, on
the coast, the enemy's artillery
was more active during the night.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-08-14
FEDERAL MEDIATOR
TACKLES S. P. MIXUP

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. IL
Judge G. w. w. Hanger, federal
mediator, today began his confer
ences with S. p. railroad officials
and representative of the four
railway brotherhoods in an effort
to adjust amicably the differences
between the men and the company
which recently threatened to pre-
cipitate a strike.