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Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1917-12-13
ANNOUNCEMENT

The Coulee Presbyterian Church
announces the following program
for next Sunday: Sunday School at
TO A. NJ; Preaching at II A. M. by
DR.. Henry r. Fancher, Subject, "The
New is Old in Religion" Young
Peoples Meeting at 6:45 P. NJ; Pre-.
aching at 7:30 by DR.. Fancher, sub.
ject, Reason in Religion"
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1917-12-13

them. Though very weary, the re-
cruiting officers are all cheerful.
AS one of them put it, 1--WE enjoy
the going, and expect to go on, at
least till after Saturday"
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1917-12-13

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SEATTLE-Seattle continues to
.eceive very few visits from the SOL
Tiers at Camp Lewis. Efforts on the
lart of Seattle citizens to induce the
Var Department to agree to raise
he quarantine provided the city OBJ
aimed new chief of police who
would agree to clean up the city brot
he response that the matter was en-
irely in the hands of the officers
the head of Camp Lewis and that
Washington City would do nothing
to interfere with their orders. SUI
erior Court Judge Macintosh had
lgreed that he would take the office
,f chief of police and rid the city
)f its undesirables, ii by SO doing
he pledge of the Government to lift
the quarantine could be obtained.
This could not be obtained and so
Judge Macintosh has refused to
AXE the job. Now the city has re-
lewed its efforts to have the council
remove Mayor Gill from office and
to have installed mayor and chief
If police who will give Seattle
,leaner and better administration.
is not likely that this program can
De carried out for Gill is pretty
strongly intrenched in office, is
showing defiance and says he will
fight to the last ditch to remain in
office. In the meantime the quaran-
tine against the city on the part of
the officers at Camp Lewis contia-
les and will likely continue for some
weeks to come.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1917-12-13
CABARETS WILL HELP
PAY OUR WAR BILL

Diners at cabarets soon will have
the satisfaction of knowing that they
are contributing towards the support
I of the boys in the trenches.
Rules governing the collection OF
the war revenue tax on cabaret adj
missions probably will be issued by
The Treasury Department next week.
Regarding 20 per cent Of the bill
for refreshments as the cost of adj
mission, where no admission fee is
charged, the proposed tax is one cent
on each ten cents or fraction thereof
of such 20 per cent of the total
charge. If, for instance, the check
handed you by the waiter is for 70,
you will find at The bottom an addi-
ional 10 cents for war revenues.
The term Cabaret is held TO in
clude 'every hotel, restaurant, hall
or other public place at or in which,
in connection with the service or
sale Of food or other refreshment
or merchandise, there is conducted
duN NuluCNlllC, vi OtllCl PNtIo' liiSiso
or diversion in the way of acting,
singing, defamation or dancing,
either with or without instrumental
or other music"
Where there is only instrumental
music by an orchestra, as in the case
of many hotels, the tax does not
apply. 1t does apply, however, ii
lanci1g is permitted.
The tax is paid by the person pay
ing for the refreshment
The proposed rules require every
person, corporation, partnership or
performance for profit at any caba-
ret or other similar entertainment"
to file with the collector of taxes in
the district in which the cabaret is
located on or before the tenth of
ZACH month beginning with Decem-
Der, return under oath in dupli-
ate Of the amount of tax collected
Turing the proceeding month.
Evening star., 1917-04-01
New Glass of French ARMY Made UP of l9Y@ar=Olds

reprisals on French prisoners In the
German prison camps.
Well, what was thought not good
enough for German prisoners, with
whom Frenchmen are at war, has been
turned over to the native volunteers
who come from tropical AMMAN to help
France. They are small, deft with their
hands like their Chinese neighbors, and
make themselves useful generally. SO
far they have not complained of their
new barracks, not even of their being
cold IN this first real winter which
they have ever known.
Another example will show how little
justification there Is for campaign
carried on to influence neutrals against
this employment of her own colonials
by France, in whose parliament they
are represented. Carriers and scaV-
engers have been overWorked in Parls
during the severe winter at hauling
coal and -four. To take their place in
street cleaning, first. women were en-
listed for the sweeping-and they
were real Parisians. Then, for the
heavy work of lifting and carrying.
Kabyles from the interior of Algiers
were recruited.
1t is hard to see why they are called
black savages by the Germans. who
blame the French for using them, for
many of these KabyleS are blue-eyed
and as fair-Skinned as many Germans.
They are of the primitive Berber race,
as old as the Egyptians, and have the
strength OF their Atlas mountains. And
they know how to make their bargains.
for they come now by thousands every
summer for the harvest in France.
And they are sober and keep their
money STERLING HEL1G.
Evening star., 1917-04-01

teers could always forestall their
compulsory military service by enlist
ing at eighteen. with their parents
consent. So 1t has been in this war.
An effort has also been made to per-
suade neutrals that German prisoners
and interned civilians are severely
treated. In the spring of last year
I saw such prisoners employed on the
docks at Marseile, and they were given
a time for siesta after their lunch.
The hired laborers-Spaniards and AL
gerian Kabyles-had no such privilege
and looked enviously at them. At Bor-
deaux, In autumn. saw Austrian pS1S-
Evening star., 1917-04-01
Reviews of New Books

of this ethical outlook he uses con-
crete cases Of high Illuminating pow
er-the invasion of Belgium, the sub
marine campaign, the mutilated and
distraught nations, the wanton indl-
vidual sacrifice like that of Edith Ca
veil, the sinking of the Lusitania. TO
each of these he gives clear and fair
attention, the story Of Edith Cavell
one has seen 1t elsewhere. With the sum
of moral implications and obligations
derived from this consideration he
fronts upon the United States IN
challenge and appeal. The challenge Is
of official United States. The appeal
is to the people. Mr.. Beck discusses
the neutrality of this country, a neu-
trality which at best is a hodgepodge
thing. At the top is the executive
order to be neutral. Below this is a
generous outflow Of help toward Eu-
rope proclaims And cutting across
the executive order Is business, a per-
sonal rather than a national matter,
sending munitions to the front as fast
as bottoms can be secured for trans
portation. In order to take the place
that we should take in the future of
affairs the writer points definitely to the
new view and the new motive that must
actuate and animate this country. This
is a finely informed and authoritative
study of the United States In relation to
the European conflict, a study Of robust
patriotism and clear vision
an in Germany; 1915-19l8. BY Mad
eleine Zabriskie Doty, author Of
"Societys Misfits." illustrated. New
York: The Century Company.
This record is the outcome of the
authors two trips to Europe during the
war period. The first one was made
IN ~
Miss Doty gives a graphic description
followed by an account of the Woman's
Congress at The Hague. Here also Is
an account of her own work in the
hospitals of France. The second trip
took her to Germany and 1t is Of her
observations and experiences in the
empire that the most illuminating and
important part of this record deals.
Thes. observations are summed in the
title of this book. Everywhere in Ger
many, according to Miss Doty, there is
evidence. not only that the country can
not hold out much longer because of
the general shortage of food. but that,
besides, there is general spirit Of re-
volt, an awakening to the fact that
Germany's salvation lies in Germany's
made up of day-by-day scenes, Of
street episodes. of personal dangers to
be avoided by Miss Doty herself and
personal fears to be assuaged. One
sees more clearly from this story than
from many another that. below poten-
tates and powers. all are alike, Just
pttifully dear human beings all, what
ever their national names may be-and
in Germany these women and children
are hungry. more destitute than they
are otherwise. One Is not able to read
this story without renewed aching
sense of the awful wickedness, the
monstrous futility of the thing.
rr,u wAR OF DEMocR Acy, rh a,
lies' Statement. New York: Double
day. Page & Co.
The chapters of this volume bring
together statements from q group Of
n1ornduanE An6 tn1naukiaA NnHonaann1n
Evening star., 1917-04-01

Il forecast of the struggle for
economic mastery that Is
bound to follow the close of the pres
ent war The problems in which this
new warfare will be set are already in
the making. Mr.. Marcosson outlines
the most conspicuous and important OF
these for the sake of giving point to
the necessity for a commercial prepar-
edness that will insure the broadest
scope in production and the highest ad-
vantage of distribution and exchange.
OF the new war itself the writer says:
Its fighting line will be the bound
aries of all human needs; its dynamic
purpose a heroic rehabilitation after
stupendous loss. 1t will be the far
flung struggle for the rich prize of in
ternational trade, waiting at the end
of the Crimson Lane that sooner or
later will have a turning. Embattled
commercial groups viii supplant en-
broiled nations; boycotts. discrimina-
tions and exclusions viii succeed the
strategies of line and trench; the ami
mosities fought out today with shell
and steel viii have their heritage in
ruthless rivalries. How shall we fare
In this tumult of tariff and treaty?"-
and this question is the point of the
subsequent discussion. For the book Is
addressed to America. 1t is an urge
for preparedness to meet this new
struggle, an urge that holds up the
tremendous awakening of England
for emulation, that gives colorful pic
lures of France for instruction, that
goads and stings and laughs at Amer
lea all for the sake OF shaking 1t out
of it's obvious unreadiness for this new
war, as it is SO manifestly unready for
the one now waging. Within this large
frame of propaganda there is a wealth
of specific advice and practical recon-
mendation. The book closes with two
remarkable pictures gathered by the
writer III England One Of these Is the
picture of David Lloyd George. The
other is that of William Morris Hughes,
prime minister of Australia,-"theu un-
known who walked up England"
THE WAR AND HUMANITY. By James
NJ. Beck IL D., late assistant at
torney general Of the United States.
author Of The Evidence in the
Case" etc. New York: G. P. Put
MANS Sons.
The Evidence In the Case" drawn
from the rainbow books of diplomacy.
fixes the moral responsibility for pre-
cipitating the war in 1914. The book
in hand continues the discussion of the
ethics of the war in its particular
bearing upon the United States. For
the purpose of this discussion the
writer reviews certain outstanding
facts and aspects of the conflict to
bring out the instructive common re- re-
action set up by these facts in the
feelings of civilized peoples. This
body of revulsions against the aims
and methods Of certain phases OF the
war Mr.. Beck calls the common CON-
soienoa Of mankind. For tho purposes
Evening star., 1917-04-01

of Germany, without which reprisals
are executed on French prisoners and
interned civilians held by Germans.
The stories of such French prisoners
who have been exchanged or allowed
to come to Switzerland because of last
ing sickness. like tuberculosis, are not
comforting, particularly with reference
to food and medical attention. At any
rate the brand-new French prison
camp, which would eventually have
had to come under che supervision of
the American embassy ,it was before
the rupture of diplomatic relations
with Germany. was rejected by the
French authorities not up to the
mark of German exigsncies. They did
not wish to give the least excuse fox
Evening star., 1917-04-01

Great Salt Lake valley, which formerly
had no outlet to the sea. and no ade-
Quate fresh-water supply. The land
now served by the Strawberry river is
comparable in size to the Holy Land,
and the introduction of this large
amount of river water has made poSSl-
BILE the raising of large crops on this
land which formerly would perish for
lack of moisture.
Again. the St. Narys river. in Mon
tana, which formerly drained into the
means of a twenty-nine-mile canal and
induced to flow through the Milk river
valley into the Missouri. enriching en-
route a vast stretch of territory which
was formerly barren OF Sutflclent water
for its needs
Uncle Sam has been so successful in
these practical jokes that perhaps,
some April fool day. he may decide to
upside down and thoroughly frrigate
the upper valley, then turn 1t back
again in time for the summer trade
around the delta. 1t does not sound
has succeeded in turning three streams
completely out of their courses and
making them flow in opposite direc-
tions one might be pardoned for at
least contemplating engineering works
upon much larger scale.
Experts of the reclamation service
claim that there is hardly any limit to
the practical Jokes of this kind that
100000 acres of waste land have been
reclaimed. 10000 families have been
established on what was formerly des-
ert stretches and s30.000.000 worth of
crops are being raised every year on
this reclaimed land. while 100000
acres are yet to be served by the water
from the works already completed.
Contemplation of these figures brings
the conclusion that the turning of the
Mississippi might not be a mere dream,
after all-although the government Is
not planning 1t yet.
Ten years ago II a person had pre-
dicted that long-f1ber cotton, the most
valuable of it's kind in the world, would
be grown upon the desert near the
lower stretch of the Colorado river he
would have been laughed at. Today
the joke is on nature, for the gov
ernment has succeeded in doing just
Evening star., 1917-04-01
A Soldier.

~ EN-. BLISS was relating reminis
VI cences of sham battles.
Il had a young friend, Capt. Exc, who
could never be worsted in sham warfare
he said.
"Exe one day started to lead his valiant
company at double speed across a bridge
to storm a height, but a young captain
belonging to the opposite side rushed up
and shouted:
Hi, Exc! You mustn't cross that
bridge. Don't you see the notice? The
bridge is supposed to be destroyed.
lit is, hey? roared Exc. Well, then,
we're supposed to be swimming across.
On, boys, and at emf"
Evening star., 1917-04-01
The Bluff.

e61Trs HE late Gen. Funston" said mag
azine editor. "hated buffer. Bluff
fers, he claimed. always gave themselves
away.
"He often told a story about a buffer
who applied for a vacancy as tutor to
brokers' son.
THE broker was an enthusiastic stamp
collector, and he thought he might per-
haps put the tutor to work cataloguing
his stamps, so he asked the man:
"One last question. 'Aie you acquaint-
ed with philately?'
"The tutor smiled.
"'My goodness, yes,' ha SAID T Apeak
It like a native. A&fA
Evening star., 1917-04-01

of military service begins In time of
peace. They are to be called together,
for the few months of training abso-
lutely necessary before they Will be
At to go to the fighting front, in
April of this year, 1917. That is, the
youngest soldiers whom France will
have drafted into her army will be
nineteen years old.
Note this age, for a great many wrong
things will be said about it and against
1t by parties interested in peace al
any price. The French parliament
voted little earlier-in November
1915-the calling out of the class of
ing in January. 1915. which was also
the young soldiers nineteenth year.
But the propaganda Of peace At any
Evening star., 1917-04-01

price published everywhere that France
was calling out seventeen-year-o1
boys to serve as soldiers. Class of
1917 - soldiers seventeen years old.
Glass of 191S-what? Eighteen years
old? That Will not sound SO telling
In both years the youngest soldiers
called out by France were nineteen
years old.
In the American civil war soldiers
were taken down to eighteen years old.
In France even in time of peace. volun
Evening star., 1917-04-01

oners cuItlvating little plots of waste
land for themselves and eating the
salad they had grown. Something more
astonishing still has just happened
What is called a concentration camp
had been prepared for German prls-
oners-wooden barracks quite new.
with proper floors and windows ana
conveniences and heating facilities. Be
fore the Germans were brought there
the barracks had to be inspected to
verify that they fulfilled the eXigenc1es
Evening star., 1917-04-01
euNN1soN FLOWED TOWARD MEXICO
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not considered remarkable, while the
long fiber cotton from this region sells
on the Liverpool market, in competition
with the finest yield from Egypt, at 3 Y
cents pound more than that from any
other part of the world.
But Uncle Sans April fooling Is by
no means confined to the reclamation
service or its projects. Nearly every
governmental department participates
in this work, with excellent results.
The bureau of mines, to cite single
instance. found some time ago that ex-
plosions in coal mines were much more
frequent in the winter than in the
summer Investigation showed that this
was because the cold air, sucked into
the mines by means of huge electric
ventilating apparatus, was naturally
less moist than the warm air below or
the air which was taken In during the
summer. When it mixed with the warm
air in the interior of the mine IL there
fore sucked the moisture out of the
walls of the mine and, in the course or
a few weeks. the interior was as dry
as the proverbial bone, which gave rise
to many explosions which could be
traced directly to the infiammable coal
dust.
The problem was, therefore, to fool
the mine into believing that 1t was al
ways summertime. This was accom-
plished by means of humidifying de-
vice, which sprayed the incoming cold
air with waste steam and thereby sup
piled it with its proper quota of mois-
ture, relieving it of the necessity of
sucking this out of the walls. The
operation is comparatively inexpensive,
as only waste steam is used, and it has
the added advantage of acting as ex-
plosion insurance. Since the widespread
adoption of this method of deceiving
nature coal mine explosions have been
much less frequent than formerly.
Again, the bureau found that 1t was
necessary to perfect some device which
would enable miners safely 10 pene-
trate the poison-laden interiors of coal
mines, where explosions have taken
place and where the deadly carbon gas
is present in large quantities. An ap-
paratus is now in use which fools this
gas by supplying to the miners the
Evening star., 1917-04-01

600, 900 tons, was built near Yuma and
the entire river checked in Its wild
career. Experiments proved that the
water in the Colorado was not At for
use as it came down from the country
above, on account of the large per-
oentage Of silt and other substances
which 1t carried. Therefore, Uncle Sam
again fooled tho river by 'skimming"
running off only the top foot Of this
into the irrigation canals and pump
ing stations. In this manner 10000
acres OF land in Arizona and California
BILE instead Of a dead waste. as for
merly.
= 4
In tho MInidolsa project, IN idaho,
Uncle Sam has fooled nature to the
extent of making the river supply its
own electric powep. through tho me-
dium OF a huge barge anchored in the
center of the stream and moved every
time tho current decides to change its
course, which It does quito frequently.
BY this means the surrounding country
is supplied with electric Light and
electric power at a very low rate. and
section of it's size in the United States
where all the farmhouses, schools and
public buildings are equipped with
electric lights and fans
In 1904 this region was desert, with
only a few scattered farms hugging
the river bank. Today It is flourishing
and prosperous, yielding yearly crops
valued at more than s1,500.000. The
two schoolhouses are electrically equip
ped throughout, domestic science is
taught on electric ranges. and even
the air breathed by the pupils is
washed by electricity. all through the
ingenuity Of government engineers and
the determination of Uncle Sam not
to allow nature to place insuperable
difficulties In his way.
Another practical joke which has
turned out most successfully was the
irrigation Of the desert near Salt river
in Arizona. The erection of the Roose-
welt dam, 2S4 feet in height has made
this section SO fertile that the produc-
ton Of crops valued at $500 per acre is
Evening star., 1917-04-01


in scboai g., In,,e i,, bnsin"ss ~ 10 the
same. That the boys mind is more
than commonly active, that ms sensi-
1ti,,ij,7e 'di't eo,,,, co. Ii+,ia
in face of the English tradition for
brave and lusty sons. The writer's
consistent realism OF deNelopment
makes this story as poignant as IL IS
convincing. Happlly, influences OF
plauSinIe origin arse TO chahse the
outlook OF Jasper Sedley The reader
Is dellghted 10 hnd one or these IN the
ch3hEed neart ana attltude OF TeoIse
sedley, ne IS me le!loW' hlueIl 700
!oWarG the boy OF ms pWh Ilak
lhE' AS soon as tne l@th"r pf lnS "
@ FueiSlaIld, the s'sos OF clduEs IN jas
~ pe5 ~ 70 Sl-t -NiIu, ~ ny 5aet
sn',i n Rroui t,. e2ntu my o
iauIt Win tht courage OF Jasper SEQ
~. - IS d uti .uS tttr " i.' s az li.is
pStrti ,. altr Ju!ictlle chooses co"1ra ar,
'lS esilfal hsure 2i q story. Bul
f 'il.iel- ns f,,e att
q tereSt seoFE ar ana study OF exceptional m
tereSI ana merit.
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Muir" Illustrated. New York;
fleinihs IL EeFeI company.
Decades of intimate association with
Alaska, during which he shared IN the
gold-rushes and every other big move
luent that deyeIoned Ssv-ari's ridiculed
=,
bargain INTO the rlcHest secton OF
either American continent" qualities
Mr.. Young to speak with the authority
of one who has lived the life and
1,Ia,.aJ w. ,r,,,3." AJasL, 10 t,is horne
He considers il the best Of ali lands to
live in. to yorl, in. to die In. He es-
teens it's penple as among the bravest,
cleanest and most admirable in all the
1y-o,id. ~ s,,,,,j,-.I 81 tta 9tfest tba
winners ~ a ,cfeb+y tatt1e the sfft-
ed wheat The separated nuggets"
Also he nrovss II Hs gives TO his
present rorL, tbe charm Of fiction IN
Hoi N '''s '-.l e4l'r' - t.-,
adventure .jsion for the reader the
soul of the great white north. To the