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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-05-30
Selective Service Questions
Answered; What's Yours?

o. have a brother in
Canada who is an American
citizen, but who is employed
there at present and will not
be in the United States on
registration day. Must he
register? A. ],
A.-The law says that every
American of registration age must
register upon his return to this
country. There is no registration
of Americans in other countries.
However, III anyone i'm another
country wishes to register, he may
do SO voluntarily by sending to his
local registration board for a
blank, and then mailing 1t back to
the authorities. Many have al
ready done this.
al was born Aug. 81,
1885. Will I be required to
register for war duty. l am
working, and it will save me
time and trouble If you will
answer. MACHINIST.
A.-Ccrtainly you will have Il,
register, as You are less than 81
years old and more than II.
Q.--My husband is 80 years
old, has a wife and sickly
baby to support. and a foot
that has BEEN crushed and
hurts when he stands on 1t,
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-05-30

Allen Gilchrist, Phil Friedman,
Theo. Motridge, David Blackman,
Ralph Rice and Frank Anderson
were fined SIS each. James
Harding, proprietor of the hotel,
who was arrested in his room
while the raid was on, and charg-
ed with conducting an establish
ment where gambling was per-
mitted, was dismissed.
All defendants gave notice of
appeal to the superior court.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-05-30
IN THE BLUE AND THE GREENLAND THE OLIVE DEAB
U.S.. TO
CRUSH
PLOTS

Federal and city officials
in Tacoma and through
out the northwest were on
the hunt Wednesday for
agitators responsible for
the circulation of anti-con-
scription stickers and
posters which made their
appearance in Tacoma,
Portland and Seattle.
Arrests were expected
before the end of the day.
Following are the de
velopments in the search
for sedition plotters:
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-05-30
PLOTS CRUSHED
Omitted Press Leased Wire. ;

tUhftfH Press Le0scd WIFE,
WASHINGTON, d. c., May 80.
Government officials today
hoped they had crushed anti-con-
scription plots.
Riots like those of Civil war
days were still regarded rs pos
sible, though the firm hand of tie
government in rounding up plot
tiers in advance appeared partly,
at least, to have chilled the work
of the propagandists.
Federal agents, U. s. marshals,
state and local police and civic
and patriotic orders are at work
over the entire nation to turn up
Continued ON Page 81
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-05-30
WILSON CONFIDENT
Omitted Press Leased Wire.-

Omitted Press Leased Wire.-
WASHINGTON, d. c., May 30.
Asserting confidence in the
virility of the nation, President
Wilson this afternoon declared its
manhood will respond to this
crisis with results that will hold
the attention of all mankind
The president spoke at the an
nual Arlington Cemetery Decora-
ton day service. Paying tribute
to the nations dead, the president
said:
81 envy them because their
great work for liberty has been
accomplished, while we are in the
midst of a work unfinished, test
ing our strength where theirs al
ready has been tested"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-05-30
OFFER U. S. LUMBER
AT $35 A THOUSAND

Despite the fact that the pre-
vailing price for shipbuilding lum-
Der is $40 thousand feet. North
west lumbermen today expressed
their willingness to sell timber for
$85 q thousand.
They telegraphed their offer to
the government
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-05-30
SELECTION PLAN
IS MADE PUBLIC

They will have the complete pow
err to determine which men must
be drafted, and which shall be ex-
empted. They will examine all
men registered in the district, and
then put the eligibles on a draft
roll, subject to call for the army
at any time directed by the presi-
dent.
Everything is in readiness for
the registration next Tuesday.
Announcements of registration
booths will be made later. May-
or Fawcett wants every Tacoman
to understand that all persons,
whether aliens or not, who come
between the age limit of 20 to 81
years, must register next Tuesday
or go to jail.
Ask Holiday.
An effort to have all manufac-
turing plants and industrial estab-
lishments close down for a half
holiday on registration day, June
5, is being made today by the in
dustrial division of the celebra-
ton under the leadership of Au-
gust Won Boecklen.
All large employers of labor
are being asked to let their men
off to observe the day and to take
part in the parade in the after
noon and the services in the Sta
dunn.
A meeting of employers is being
arranged to determine the ques-
ton.
Friday the committee of 100
Tacoma citizens who are arrang-
ing for the celebration will meet
in the Commercial club to COM
plete their plans.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-05-30
Villa Is Bound
Toward Border

Ell PASO, Tex, May 30.-A
Villista force under Chico" Cano
today captured the Mexican town
of Ojinaga, opposite Presidio,
Texas, after a battle with Carran-
zistas lasting several hours, ac-
cording to information reaching
military headquarters here. Bull
lets fell In the American town of
Preside, but SO far as was learn
ed. no Americans were injured,
the reports said. villa is reported
headed for the captured city.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-05-30
May Want Loan

Omitted Prcss Leased wire.S
WASHINGTON, d. c., May 80.
The call of Serbian Minister
Michailovitch upon Secretary OF
the Treasury McAdoo was believ-
ed to be forerunner of an Ameri-
can loan to Serbia.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-05-30
PROBES HOSPITAL +
SHIP COMPLAINT

tCnited Press Leased Wire.j
WASHINGTON, ID. c., May 20.
Secretary of the Navy Daniels
today ordered an investigation to
go to the bottom" of charges
made in round robin introduced
In the senate by Calder, New
York, that conditions aboard the
hospital ship Solace were no.
toriously bad.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-05-30

Admiral Wyman, Tacoma
naval recruiter, ought to get
a lot of the old boys to Join
and renew their youth, for in
the Sat. Ev. Post we read
"He admiral Sims) is 50
years old and will be 80 next
October"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-05-30
Fuller the ripples flow,
More whisking glimpses show
More than they oughter. s.
-Fairview. Kan. World.
"FURTHER" TRoIrRIE

FURTHER" TROUBLE
(From the Viroqua, Wis, Censor)
The party who took a meer-
schaum pipe from ths post office
window had better return same
at once and save further trouble.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-05-30

besides tubercular trouble.
Would he be exempt from war
service? If exempted, would
it be for all time?
Ale must register, and evil
IDENTIFY has sufficient grounds to
claim exemption, which will no
doubt be granted. The govern
ment does not make any definite
promise of exempting men for "alI
time.' That, no doubt, depends
upon the war developments. But
Uncle Sam wants his soldiers phy-
sically Git.
Q.-Are British, French
and Italians liable to SER
vice, although they are not
citizens of the United States,
or is 1t only a case of regis
tering? r.
'A.-This problem has not been
definitely worked out, but IL is
known that conferences have been
held looking toward compulsory
service for alien allies, either with
their own armies or under the
Stars and Stripes. This will be
cleared. up later, no doubt, after
registration statistics have been
assembled. A ~
q
Q.-My husband was mar
ried under an assumed name.
When 1t comes to proving he
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-05-30

Half an inch, half an inch,
Half an inch shorter
Whether the skirts are for
Mother or daughter.
Briefer the dresses grow,
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-05-30
Talk O the Times
Greetings, how's your dam
delion crop?

While selecting sites for pub
lie market, why didn't the retail
grocers pick that tract of vacant
land at Spanaway lake which the
city owns? It's out-of-the-way,
too.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-05-30

ought to be exempted from
military service, his marriage
license will show different
name than his real one, which
he is using now. What shall
we do? MRS. G.
A.--AccOrding to the prOsecut.
ing attorneys office, the fact that
your husband used an assumed
name does not make your marriage
illegal. However, your husband
may be called upon to go before
the district registration board tC
make his claim for exemption, and
there present proof of his real
name, and that he is your legal
husband.
Q.-I am an Englishman,
"a, with only first papers.
Would ! be liable for draft?
e. v.
A.-You must register. You will
probably be exempt from the first
call, but may later be required for
service with either the Canadian,
British or American troops. This
phase of exemption has not been
settled at Washington. You are
still an alien, as you have not YET
formally foresworn allegiance t.
your king, according to legal ad.
vice today given The Times.
Q.-Is man discharged
from the U. s. navy with a
dishonorable discharge, who
has served in naval prison,
subject to- draft? s.
Ale must register, but car
claim exemption ON the ground
that he is morally deficient.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-05-30
Eyes! NEXT"
by United Press

CLEVELAND, o., May 80
Registering clerks met
with unusal circumstances
here late yesterday when q
man said he was born ut
10 p. m. June 5, 1895. The
youth said he would not ne
q years old until one hour
after the registering booth
closed, and asked IL he
would have to register.
YES said the CLERK.
Next"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-05-30
FOOD and FUEL
STOCKS SHORT
Especial to The Times. }

Tmes.)
NEW YORK, May 30-Norway, Sweden and Denmark are
facing food fuel shortage serious than Americans
have comprehended.
The desperate efforts being furnish
with described
Lund, Scandinavian representative of the Ma
tonal City bank, digest of which follows:
reaching the shortage in supplies
ordinary living where physical ineonven
supplies hardly be obtained
ALL
1.-THE famine is taking serious aspects, notwh-
standing approaching Coal, when it is to be had,
and three and a half times the normal price
HAVE TO GO TO BED EARLY
shut down because of lack of fuel
blockade submarines 1t became
houses properly
work, ordinary life the
dark when nearly everybody
o without using fuel.
situation is Industries not permitted
to
they would have to shut down Municipal
and electricity Copenhagen three months has
in darkness at night
heating water for washing and bathing
is illegal light in the Anybody
using electricity certain the
purposes penaized five times the
lar the excess
DIG PEAT AND CUT WOOD
It was like national when a Oil
with 5000 of refined petroleum
Street a reduced schedule
by these countries provision
Two)
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-05-30

Q.-My husband was mar
ried under an assumed name. :
When 1t comes to proving he
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-05-30

al am an Englishman,
"a, with only first papers.
Would ! be liable for draft?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-10
A PINK SATIN HAT

From the Philadelphia Public Ledger
 N SAD tale of a pink satin hat is told
 N\ by the Detroit Free Press-how e = the Young Person came to the office on a spring morning wearing 1t, how the rain at the end of the day quite spoiled it's floral decorations because she had no umbrella and presumably found no man gallant enough to lend her one. "It was matinee hat" the Free Press goes on to inform us, (which a misguided girl bought because it was pretty and beco1n- ing, and she wanted it. without thought of it's unsuitability to the occasions and places where she would have to wear it. Such is the moral which doubtless most persons would draw. But does it express sound philosophy of life? Nothing is easier than to chide musiness woman for buying things that 'are too fussy. flimsy and fluffy. There is an apt allit- eration to which mere man in his igno- rance will easily subscribe. Yet he him. self is the first to discredit a simplex munditis' theory of dress Ben Jonson to the contrary, he f1nds no charm in sweet neglect. He is no judge of a wom- ans clothes; but although he affects to scorn them he is profoundly influenced by them It is a safe gamble that tho
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-10

young person in this case won many glances of masculine admiration denied to her suitably dressed sister.
 The suitable, indeed, is usually what we recommend to some one else. We blandly commit errors of taste on our own account and resent the frankness of those who point them out. A pink satin hat may be inappropriate by all the rules of common sense for office wear. But who shall cast the first stone at the girl who finds 1t pretty and becoming? Who is always prudent in the face of tempta- tion? Who has no pet extravagance7 This young person had probably worn suitable clothes so long that she was sick and tired of them. Probably she had been saving her money all the winter for one sartorial dissipation. And when spring danced in her blood every in- stfnct bade her blossom out like the flow CTS. The pink satin hat! She had seen it in the window for days. Each morning on her way downtown she had looked with fearful anticipation lest it might be gone. Then at last as the thermometer went up the price went down, and sha sur- rendered to the thrill of possession. Blame her? No. Blame the weather-or the in- senate man who didn't lend her an um- brella.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-10
MAMMALIAN TN MEXICO

belief that a repetition of the reported
 seventies referred to would shock it's sen- abilities and check the current of it's sympatEies. It is believed that such acts to prisoners of war as are reported can not elevate the character of the Mexican states in the esteem of civilized people, and may tend to bring into dsrepute the
 cause of republicanism and retard it's
 progress everywhere. The government in-
 structs me to make known to President
 Juarez promptly and earnestly it's desire that, in the case of the capture of Prince
 Maximilian and his supporters, they may receive the humane treatment accorded
 by civilized nations to prisoners of war" The end of it all was Maximifian stand ing before a firing squad on the Hill of the Bells on the early morning of June 19, 1887. After he had said, T pray
 God my blood may bring happiness to my new country. Viva Mexico!" came
 the crack of the rifles. Seven months afterward. on the night of the 18th of
 January. 1868, during heavy snowstorm, a funeral cortege reached the chapel of the royal palace in Vienna, where the
 empress-mother was awaiting her son.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-10
LUKE M'LUKE SAYS

A man likes to kill time by sitting around and bemoaning the fact that life Is so short.
 If husbands and wives were absolutely frank with each other they wouldn't live together for week.
 The only time a family wants a skei- eton in the closet is when the one they had got out.
 If you owe man money, you know at least oHe man who has wonderful memory.
 When two men tell each other how hard they have to work. neither does much listening to the other.
 Another reason for the high cost of liv- ing Is that every woman believes that sle ought to be dressed better than other women.
 Many a man has worked himself to death trying to get enough money to pur- chase all of the labor-saving devlces. What has become of the old tad who used to wear a blue army overcoat? The theory that demand regulates the supply gets all shot to pieces when it Is applied to reformers and female imperson- atorS.
 1 The average man is so careless That he never thinks of billing machinery unti | i, it begins to squeak Any woman who can't afford them car tell you that it is vulgar to wear dia- monds.
 l Never mind figuring on how mucf I farther you are ahead of yourself thar | you were this time last year. Just fig
 ure how much you are behind the othel fellow right now. | After a man reaches 50 his great am
 oition is to keep his life insurance pre-
 lnlums paid up. l There Is brief space of married Tiff,
 in which she worries as much over hi
 digestion as she does over her compiex-
 ion. But 1t doesn't last .onx. l He wants the biggest share of every thing else. But the average married
 man is willing to let his wife have al
 the religion in the fAmiiN
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-10
BAEDEKER's OPERA

From Life
 Orchestra-A place to leave your hat and coat while smoking cigarette in the foyer.
 When the orchestra starts an ill-man- nered crashing to indicate the approach of a finale, the gentlemen arise and ad- just their silk toppers. Then in unison they walk briskly down the aisle, tap- ping cigarettes on monogrammed cases.
 On the descent of the curtain the ladies raise their hands aloft in the atti- tude of prayer, simultaneously bringing the palms together sharply in quick suc- cession. This is supposed to register pleasure that the act is over.
 Family Circle-The spot where one misses the applause and applauds the misses.
 The appearance of the conductor at any time is the signal for rounds or clapping from all those who wish to guish a conductor from first violinist. With each shift of the conductors vane he of the billowing locks and unstinted tie says, sotto voce. to the girl with the bobbed hair girded by a filet: "Ah! The Swansdown motif." or This staccato movement heralds the entrance of Ziegfeld.''
 After the curtain fall. if the shouts of Bravo" "Beese'' and "On Coore'' are sufficiently persistent, the singers are compelled to come out in front in an attempt to quell the disturbance. This l is styled curtain call.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-10

From "Old Mexico and New in Quere-
 taro." by John R. Stillman, United States
 consul, in the April Scribner.
 M MUCH has been written regarding llWll Maximilian's downfall and death. = There is much in it of romance and love and devotion as well as of tragedy and of relentles doom. Mighty influences from afar and every possible means at hand, including pleas from dis tinguished people and even efforts along the lines of intrigue and bribery, were all in vain. Maximilian was blood kin to the Emperor of Austria, the King of Prussia, the Queen of Great Britain, the King of Spain, the King of Italy, and the King of Sweden, but they could not save him. The following is from the note of the envoy of the United States, Lewis D. Campbell, to the foreign minister, Lerdo de Tejada. It was written from New Orleans, hurriedly and urgently dis patched by special messenger, and it has a familiar sound.
 "The government of the United States has sincerely sympathized with the re- public of Mexico and feels deep interest in it's success. But have to express the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-10
INITIATED G. W. BUT FAILED

INITIATED G. w. BUT FAILED New York Correspondence Pittsburs Dis
 patch.
 How George Washington ever managed to get across the Delaware river with his army is a matter that simply stag gers the understanding of 10 youngsters. Yesterday afternoon they were playing along the shore of the Hudson river near Grants Tomb, when the leader of the bunch noticed boat tied to the pier. Let's play George Washington crossing the Delaware" he suggested. And in less time than said the 10 kids had pre-empted the boat and were circling around in the ice flow. The leader of the gang took off his coat, tied the tip button aroun4 his neck so that it became a cloak, turned his hat backside front and an nounced to the boys in the boat that he was ready to make the crossing. Stand ing in the bow of the boat, as General Washington is credited with doing, in all extant art works on the subject, the leader lifted his foot with dignity. put 1t down ponderously and in the next minute he and his army were sunk without warning. Some one on shore set up a cry and in few seconds 10 men were pulling out the 10 soaking kids. As each was brought on shore he received as smart spanking as any young person ever received from a total stranger.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-10
WOOD STUDIED THE KORAN

From Everybody's Magazine.
 At one time General Wood had the most hazardous post in the Philippines, that of commander of the department of Mindanao and governor of the Moro Province. fiercest of the island bailiwicks. More than once," writes Isaac F. Mar cosson, whose personality study, Leon ard Wood-American," appears in Every body's for March, he blocked savage cunning with his knowledge and fore sight, as in the following instance:
 ''On one occasion he received a dele gation of Mohammedan polygamists who had come to plead for their harems and justify slaveholding at the same time The Sultan of Jolo, who sat cross legged on his rug, spoke up:
 The prophet has said that a man may have many wives. It is so ordained in the Koran
 That is quite true,' replied General Wood. I have read it there myself All the Mohammedans looked up with pleas ure and satisfaction
 But" continued the general, ''the prophet also says that a wise man vii be content with one.
 There was nothing more to be said and the Moros left, stunned into silence and obedience by what they believed te be the uncanny wizardry of the big white chief who was as wise as he was brave.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-10

some intimate glimpses of life in Bir- mingham which are reflected in his witty observations on the practice of "cutting in" at dances and the scarcity of alcoholic refreshments. He does not mention the $2,0O0,000 Terminal station, of which we are justly proud, although he compliments the station he passed through.
 Dr. Henry M. Edmonds and the work he is doing in Birmingham elicited from MT. Street glowing praise.
 1 Julian Street claims to have found a Birmingham man with a flask of Scotch whisky on one hip and a flask of bour- bon on the other. Paradoxical as 1t may sound that fellow was well heeIed."
 
 One of the strongest men in Germany is plain Herr Ballin, who has repeatedly declined honors and titles offered by the Kaiser. Herr Ballin knows how little a title is worth
 At last! MT. Jess Willard, champion of the world, has offered his services to the President That must have been h ferfnl ftr;, fo agent.
 All Uncle Sam asks of Germans in the United States is that they behave and keep their mouths closed. Under the circumstances, that isn't asking much.
 < * * The Cuban Congress voted to declare war on Germany with unanimity and promptness which puts the American Con- gress to shame.
 Were used to fighting the world" says one German editor. It is remark able how quickly some habits are acquired.
 When practically the whole world is against one nation there is something radically wrong with that nation, or it's rulers.
 over his person to convince the public that he is patriotic Ones enough. The ultimate consumer should cheer up. It isn't likely that the American people will ever have to eat acorn bread. Shippers along the Atlantic seaboard should not get excited and mistake a derelict for a German sea raider. The Confederate veterans will fan the fires of patriotism by marching down Pennsylvania avenue next June.
 
 Hats off to the people of the middle west who are repudiating the actions of their pacific congressman!
 * *
 The scarcity of news from Russia doesn't necessarily indicate that the Czar is trying to "come back"
 !.
 Ed Howe will never like Jacksonville, Fla, because a hotel clerk charged him s10 day for two rooms.
 < x $:
 When the cub reporter writes, Strong men wept'' his descriptive powers are exhausted