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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-01-02
CHEWING GUM CUD
SAVES AUTO DRIVER
A LOT OF BOTHER

George Dunn, secretary of the
Speedway association, was speed
ing out to his home on Steilacoom
lake by auto the other day when
he noticed his motor becoming I'M
usually warm.
Investigation showed that one
blade of the engines air-fan had
come off, and had torn a hole in
the "honey-comb" of the radiator.
George didn't have any repair
outfit for such an emergency, and
he couldn't go further without fix
ing that radiator. But he had a
happy thought.
Removing wad of chewing
gum from his mouth, the speed
way man rolled 1t into ball and
plugged the hole with 1t. Then
he scooped up enough water from
a ditch to fill the tank.
The chewing gum patch held the
radiator tight until Dunn reached
a repair shop next day.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-01-02

(United Press Leased Wire.)
WASHINGTON, ID. c., Jan. q
Republican members of the house
rules committee, led by Rep.
Campbell of Kansas, today de-
manded of Chairman Henry an
open and above board" investi-
cation of the charges by Thomas
w. Lawson that $60,000,000 was
made in Wall street through a
leak" on the presidents peace
note.
Chairman Henry introduced his
bill for regulation of the stock
exchange Immediately after he
had a two-hour conference with
Thomas W. Lawson today.
Admitting that secrets have
found their way out of the state
department" Senator Stone,
chairman of the foreign relations
committee, blamed the present
system of civil service" for such
leaks.
Storm Breaks.
A storm of charges and coun-
ter-charges regarding the re-
ported leak" from the state de-
partment to Wall street of adj
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-01-02

Police Judge Dewitt M. Evans
handed his formal resignation to
Mayor Fawcett Tuesday. 1t takes
effect next Monday.
On that day, Judge Evans will
open a justice court on the Sec
ond floor of the Provident build
ing. Justice Graham will be ap-
pointed by Mayor Fawcett to act
as police magistrate.
Evans quit because he wanted
to conduct a private law practice
in addition to his duties as JUS
tice of the peace. The city pays
$50 a month extra to the police
Judge.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-01-02

cliffe Grams them down her
throat"
And now, through Lloyd
George as an instrument,
Northcliffe is voicing the de-
mands of British democracy
and GETTING ACTION
ON THESE DEMANDS.
Look at this remarkable
journalist:
When he came to London
at 20, just out of Oxford, he
got job as reporter, at SIS
week. He was plaian AL
fred Harmsworth then, and
they called him "Alf." This
was 1885.
Ten yers later he owned
more separate magazines and
newspapers than any other
man In the world-though, to
be sure, his papers weren't
read in st. James palace nor
were his editorials quoted in
transatlantic cables.
English newspapers then
were dry-as-dust affairs, with
great, long unbroken columns
Of court happenings, board
of trade items, cricket scores
and parliamentary debate.
Northcliffe filled his col
umns with news that people
like to read.
He started paper after
paper-weeklies for women,
for bicyclists, for balloonists,
for sporting men; penny
dailies, two-penny dailies,
three-penny dailies-."about
As, / forget exactly how
many" he told an inter-
viewer in 1908.
And then he amazed the
world by purchasing con-
trolling interest in the Lon
don Times, the British daily
Bible" the most Conservative
paper on earth!
He changed the Times
from a six-cent to a two-cent
daily, and used ii to talk to
the upper classes, the peers
and nobility, just as he talk
ed to the common people of
England through his other
sheets.
Now he uses the artistic
cratic Times and the popular
Daily Mail, which prints a
million copies q day, and all
his other newspapers, to talk
to all Great Britain at once,
and hammer at British inef-
ficiency until he gets things
done.
This, then, is the man of
whom all Europe is asking:
us HE TOLSTOY'S MAN
OF DESTINY WHO WILL
END THE WAR IN 1912"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-01-02
ASK REMOVAL |EVANS QUITS
OF ELLSWORTH|POLICE COURT

Members of the city council and
civil service board met at / o'clock
Tuesday afternoon in City Attor-
ney Harmon's office to discuss the
councils demands that Examiner
Ellsworth be removed from the
civil service office.
Commissioner Gronen promised
before the meeting to introduce
charges Of incompetence and in
efficiency against Ellsworth, and
to have proof ready.
Members of the council have
announced their intention to Dust
Ellsworth by impeachment II the
civil service commission does not
act.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-01-02

Few of the men about to take office ever held of
flee before and none of the that put them Their
had any previous experience in politics.
At the last election the farmers, in revolt cap
tured the legislature, all the state offices except
one, and what is still more important, grabbed
off the supreme court.
They will now run the whole shooting match
from. A to lizard. They can pass any law they
please and nothing this side of the supreme
court of the United States can interfere
1t is the biggest revolution that ever occurred il
any state in this Union. "-~--
CONTINUED Page Five.)
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-01-02
Search for Missing
Couple Is Widened

With searching parties number
ing so men beating the woods in
all directions from the town OF
Alder, no report had been receiv-
ed Tuesday noon of Mr.. and Mrs.
otto Powell, missing from their
cabin In logging camp since
Dec. Is.
Relatives of the missing Taco
ma couple still cling to the belief
that they are alive and safe some
where.
But the belief is growing less
positive as each day goes by with
no trace of them.
Search parties are extending
their hunt.
Two woodmen, P. Parmenter
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-01-02

tirely over her self-centered
attitude of business as
usual"
"Asquith must go!" North
cliffe decided. Lloyd George
gets the glory-but AS
QUITH WENT.
That's the kind of a man
Northcliffe is. An American
interviewer summed 1t up:
Britain doesn't like the
Northcliffe papers, but North
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-01-02
Dealer Held
For Perjury

A warrant charging perjury was
issued Tuesday by Deputy Prose-
cutor Thompson against N. v.
Simonian, Oriental rug dealer, of
744 st. Helens ave., as the result
Of a transaction by which he dis
posed Of his stock to a Tacoma de-
partment store.
1t is alleged that in an affidavit
giving a sworn list of his credi-
tors, Simonian did not include
them all as provided by law.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-01-02
LABOR COUNCIL TO
HEAR ARGUMENTS

Desiring to hear a general
discussion of the merits and de-
merits of the army post bond is
sue, the Central Labor council
has arranged a public meeting in
Masonic temple for Thursda,
evening.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-01-02
OUGHT TO BE SENT
BACK AFTER SOME

"My husband spent several
years in Peru before we we're
married, and never even thought
to bring back any curios or needle
work, or antique silver pieces, or
Spanish shawls, or anything like
that. 1t makes me so tired every
time l think about it, laments
Mrs. Roger e. Chase, 1905 North
Proctor st.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-01-02

to Northcliffe, became a pop
ular British sport.
NOrthcliffe kept on print
ing the truth.
"CirculatiOn's going up"
he said. II suppose they're
buying them to burnt"
Kitchener was shelved, and
Lloyd George became minis
ter of munitions. The troops
got their shells.
But still Britain wasn't en-
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-01-02

States stage. A kind of govern
ment new on this continent or
anywhere else today took hold
of the machine here! 1t is
farmers government from top to
bottom and all the way across!
That is one thing novel about
it. Then it is strictly nonparti-
san, being chosen by the farmers
for reasons of their own and
without the least regard to party
lines.
1t is also a government that
owes nothing to any politician on
earth and no corporation. bank,
railroad or interest has single
string on it.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-01-02
Superfluous Advice to the Inhabit.
ants Of Milwaukee.

Milwaukee's general health Is
gratifying, announces Health
Commissioner Rutland. Contag-
ious diseases are fewer. He adj
vises holiday season caution, par
ticularly with water drinking.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-01-02
CAR HITS WAGON

A. J. Jensen, driver of de-
livery wagon of the Wingard
dairy, narrowly escaped injury
early Tuesday morning when !
South Tacoma car struck his wag-
on on broadway near 18th. "A
horse was knocked over and the
zagon overturned. Jensen wa
brown out, but not hurt.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-01-02
CHARGE FORGERY

Charged with having forged
the name of DR.. Smeale on pre-
scription for alcohol, and to have
attempted to get 1t filled at a
downtown drug store, Harold
Ault, age 10, was arrested by the
police Monday night.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-01-02
THE PIGHEADED ENGLISH

"a German pastor, on the Battle
of the Somme.)
Many wounded men are coming
back to our church from the
dreadful Western front. They
have been fighting the English,
and they find that so ignorant are
the English of warfare that the
English soldiers on the Somme re-
fuse to surrender, not knowing
that they are really beaten, with
the result that terrible losses are
inflicted upon our brave troops.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-01-02
,YOUCan
Perform
a Miracle!!
BY THE EDITOR

It isn't very often a man has a chance to perform
a miracle. But it does happen once in while.
If he possess the marvellous brain of an Edison
he may create the talking machine or the electric
light where none ever existed before
If he have the patience and botanical genius of a
Burbank he may cause new flowers to bloom and
new fruits to ripen
If he have great organizing ability he may split
continents apart with Panama canal, may organize
under one house flag all the shipping of coastline
many thousands of miles in extent, bring to berry
growers of rich valley by cooperative methods
the benefits that they long have failed to reach by
individual effort or be able to make third of all
the worlds automobiles at price per machine with
in reach of almost any pocketbook.
The great gravel prairie that stretches from South Tacoma
to Tenino long has fascinated me and perplexed me-
There lay, tark-Hke, beautiful cnicmg, like CaHot
Soews hat from Paris-and just about impractical
Henry Lande state geologist has explained the plains
origin to me as follows.
Some hundreds of thousands of years ago when great
glacier down from the north and covered the Puget
Sound region depth of several thousand feet the southern
extremity reached only to about where South Tacoma now
lies
From the great ice face when the melting began there
poured forth tuuou carrying the bouders and other
glacial debris transported from the north This material
laid down in immensely deep bed of that biologists
know outwash plain The loan carried on to the
and only the rocks and residue dumped The virtue Of
the soil drained from it.
demands as much in fertilizer it is willing produce in
fruit or vegetables.
Now comes Uncle Sam with the offer to place a
man on every third of great section
of this beautiful, but non agricultural land
This mans wages, together with the money spent
for housing, clothing and feeding him, w. H. Paul
hamus has aptly pointed out, will make this land
revenue-producing, so far as the whole community
is concerned, to degree per acre, equalling the
famous Puyallup valley.
It will do it by furnishing Pierce county ranchers
with market for their produce, and Pierce county
workingmen with labor to sell, a market for their
Skill
You Pierce County Voter Saturday have it in your
power to perform gigantic miracle For you by the simple
process of marking your ballot with in the yes
square, convert that gravel outwash plain from the u
productive state in which the great ice cap left to COM
niybuidng district equal to the Puyalp valley that an
other set of geological forces created
In few hours you undo hundreds of years of herc-
lean mischief the great glacier played You can put back
into the Nqualy plain the virtue that gushing rivers robbed
it of.
4rise TO your opportunity. Work the miracle vote eyes u
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-01-02

What has become of that
vigorous campaign against
the army post the labor coun-
Gil was going to wage?
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-01-02

The fight is still going on
to make the District OF Co
lumbia dry. We don't see
how any place could fail to
be dry where the Congress
sional Record has such q
large circulation.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-01-02
Greetings, have you con-
verted a doubter on the army
post project yet?

The old-fashioned girl who was
brought up on the Elsie books
now has daughter who just can't
wait until the Cosmopolitan
comes.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-01-02

Pet canaries in this country
consumed 2,350 tons Of birdseed,
last year.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-01-02
As the editor of The Times
SO eloquently remarks, Don't
Be a Chinaman!

We haven't heard anything
lately about the proposal to Coin
two-and-a-half-cent piece. The
churches probably are lobbying
against it.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-01-02
FABLE

Once upon q tyne a druggist
didn't have a certain article a GUS
toner wanted and We druggist
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-01-02
WOW!

On some automobiles a pedome-
ter would be more practical BILE
than q speedometer.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-01-02
BY CHARLES EDWARD RUSSELL.

BISMARCK N. d., Jan. North Dakota is
now to hold for some time the center of the United
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-01-02
Talk O. the Times

didn't recommend something else
lust as good to We customer.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-01-02
TODAY,s CLEARINGs

Clearings .........$ 600,0S2.49
Balances ......... 132,S20.7S
Transactions $500. 1,267,65S.ee
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-01-02

of the experiments I'm governing
North Dakota. where
the the This newspaper, be-
vitality interested
Charles RUSSELL staff writer,
write ii. Herewith is
Russells first article.-Editor.)
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-01-02
REVOLVING FARMERS
BRING WORLD A new
KIND OF GOVERN MENT
OUSTED OFFTCE-HOLDER COMMITS SUICIDE
Omitted Press Leased Wire.)

BISMARCK, n. d., Jan. Estates A
swept from his office in the political uprisir
committed suicide by shooting himself, in
county courthouse yard today.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-01-02

II you have an auto that you can spare
and why can't you?-it can be used 10 cx-
cellent advantage Saturday In carrying vot-
ers to the polling places. Telephone the
Rotary club, Main $50, and volunteer the use
Of your machine.
The Harrison times., 1917-06-30

He still had a good many superhuous
Hands and Feet and was bleeding free
ly on every Green.
Sometimes he would last as far as
the Water-Hazard and then sink with
a Bubhling Cry.
Notwithstanding which, he kept on
trying to look like the Photographs OF
Byers.
II he spun into the High Spinach on
at the Right 1t was Tough Luck. If he
whanged away with a Niblick down in
a bottomless Pit, caromed on a couple
of Oaks, and finally angled of toward
the Cup, he would go around for Days
talking about Some Shot.
As his Ambition increased, his Men
tai Arithmetic became more and more
defective and his Moral Nature was
wholly atrOphied.
The Harrison times., 1917-06-30

As an Exponent of the more ad-
vanced Play he was Fliy, but as a
Matchmaker he was a Hum-Dinger.
He knew he was plain pastry for the
Sharks, so he would hang around the
first Tee waiting TO cop out something
Soft.
One day he took on Mrs. Olmstead's
Infant Son, just home from Military
School. The tender Cadet nursed him
along to an even-up at the Punch-Bowl
and then proceeded to smear His Vital
Organs all over the Bad Lands.
That evening Mr.. Pallzey told Mrs.
Pallzey she would have to cut down
on Household Expenses.
Six years after he gave up the Busi-
ness Career and cOnsecrated himself to
something more Important, Mr. Pallzey
had so we'll mastered the battling Intri-
cacies that he was allowed to trail in
Foursome with the President of the
Club. This happened once.
1t is we'll known that any Person
who mooches around a Country Club
for a sufficient Period will have some
kind of a Cup wished on to him. n
Fourteen years after Mr.. Pallzey
threw himself into it, Heart and Soul,
and when the Expenses Appropriated
$4,000, he earned his Halo.
One evening he came back to his
haggard Companion chOrtling infant
wise, and displayed something which
looked like an Eye-Cup with Handles
on ii.
He said it was a Trophy. 1t was a
Consolation Offering for Maidens with
an allowance of more than eighteen.
After that their Daily Life revolved
around the Department-Sto Bargain.
Mrs. Pallzey had to use Metal Polish
on it to keep it from turning Black.
When the Visitors lined up in front
of the Mantel and gazed at the tiny
Shaving-M Mug, the Cellar Champion OF
the World would regale them with the
story Of hairbreadth 'Scapes and NOV
ing Adventures by Gravel Gulleys and
rushing Streams on the Memorable Day.
when he (PaIlzey) had put the Block
to Old Man Willoughby, since des
ceased.
Then he would ask all present to
feel Of his Forearm, after which he
would pull the Favorite One about
Golf adding ten years to his life.
Mrs. Pallzey would be sitting back,
pouring Tea, but she never chimed in
with any Estimate as to what had been
the effect on her Table Of EXpecta-
tiOns.
Moral-Remain under the Awning.
The Harrison times., 1917-06-30
"WaIlflower" Fighting Term.

II one man refers to n fellow worker
as "walllower" is 1t sufficient provo
cation to strike him?
This Is the question that Justice
Packard in central police court at Bal.
timore was called upon to settle when
Henry Katz, an official Of the Mldcity
garage, faced the magistrate on q
charge Of assault. The complainant
was Samuel @. Fernheimer, manager
Of the supply department.
Fernheimer was walking through the
garage when he saw Katz standing q
short distance away.
'If there were not so many wallflow-
ers here, there would be more work
done," remarked Fernheimer to no one
In particular. d,
"Do you mean mew shouted Katx-
IF the shoe fits you, wear It." retors.
ed the supply man.
Then the blow came.
Magistrate Packard thought the re-
mark was sufficient to justify the blow
and dismissed Katx. 1
The Harrison times., 1917-06-30

nothing on him. Her Man was the Gink
10 show that Pill how TO take a Joke.
Then she would know that he had
won Box OF Balls from Mrs. Talbot's
poor old crippled Father-iE-Law.
She could read him like a Barometer.
II he and Mr.. Hllgus, the Real Estate
Man, came home together fifteen feet
apart, stepping high and looking
straight ahead, she would know il had
been a jolly Day on the Links.
By the second summer Mr.. Pallzey
had worked up until he was allowed to
use a Shower Bath once hallowed by
the presence of Jerome Travers.
He was not exactly a Duffer. He
was what you might call sub-Duffer,
or Varnish, which means that the Com
mittee was ashamed to mark up the
Handicap.
The Harrison times., 1917-06-30

had ever seen. The moment my eyes
rested upon him l read him through
and through as a scOundrel. My analy-
sis later proved entirely correct. l
noted his crafty eye studying me keen
ly. It's sinister glow repelled me, but
likewise put me on my guard.
Doctor" he said in a low tone, VI
have sent for you at the whim Of my
wife, who, while an invalid, is not in
any dangerous condition. Confiden-
TALLY, she is a hypochrondiac, has Pc
culiar fancies, and one is that she Is
about to die. You will cater to her
fancies, give her a sleeping potion that
will quiet her and your mission Is
done. AS I have some important writ
ing to do, kindly make the visit brief.
Here is your fee in advance. You un-
derstandW
entirely so," I nodded, with truly
professional smile. "These cases are
quite common" and / determined, in
deed, to curtail my services as much
as possible, to get out Of the way be-
fore the real physician summoned
should arrive.
The man led me through the adjOin-
ing apartment, tapped at the door Of
third room and said, curtly: "Here
is the DOCTOR" opened the door, ush-
cred me across the threshold and
closed the door after me.
Upon a couch lay a woman prema-
turely old. What l first noticed was
her eyes, glowing, cleaning, bright,
haunted. The face was white and
wrinkled. Her hands trembled, her
The Harrison times., 1917-06-30

whole appearance was that Of a per-
son laboring under some intense spell
Of terror or excitement.
She looked me over with fairly de-
vouring glance. She beckoned to me
urgently. As l approached the couch
she seized my sleeve with feverish
haste and whispered hoarsely:
"Don't let him hear-pretendW
/ was thrilled and startled. / fol-
lowed the mystery Of the moment only
so far as to surmise that my patient
was in deadly fear OF the sinister man
who had ushered me into the room,
and whom she apparently suspected Of
being an eavesdropper on the other
side of that closed door.
pretend what2" l stumbled.
81 need no DOCTOR" she whispered.
Then In a perfectly audible voice she
added: Doctor, / cannot sleep. am
The Harrison times., 1917-06-30

in pain. Please try and relime.
Bend Closer" came the hushed SIes
ensuing. 81 am in deadly peril. l i'm
plOre you to do me a service. Keep
talking about my sickness so he can
hear you outside there, till l hand you
something"
understood the situation as my pa
tlent groped under the bed coverings
and produced a jewel case and long,
fiat wallet. =
"Take them" she whispered hur-
riedly. keep up the farce until you
get safely out of the house. Then
hurry to the address written on a card
inside the wallet. Deliver these things
to my niece. Tell her l shall be
robbed, or murdered, if she does not
hurry the police to my rescue. You
shall be richly rewarded"
l made a great clatter at my sup
posed medicine case. voiced a lot OF
medical gibberish. bade my patient
truly professional adieu. / left the
room, to be shown to the door by my
host, who looked elfish and satisfied
as | indicated that his wife would
sleep soundly through the night and
read his mind meditated robbery.
perhaps worse.
An automobile pulled up In front
of tho house as l reached the street. A
professional-looking man stepped out.
The real doctor had arrived. y
/ gave my case a fling into an empty
lot and inspected the wallet. 1t ESsA
filled with bank notes Of large deAT
nation. I opened the little box. A
galaxy Of precious, flashing gems came
into view.
"Alice Derby, % WaItham street"
the card within the wallet read. !
hailed a taXicab. Half an hour later
l stood within the parlor Of neat,
pretty cottage, explaining my mission
to the fairest young cerature | had
ever met, and her father. The latter
became instantly excited. He hurried
from the house with the words:
"Sir, fear to leave my daughter
alone, while the man you have seen
tonight Is at large" and so l had that
first blissful interview with Alice
Derby.
AS I learned later the man I had
met was the disowned husband Of my
patient and an escaped convict. He
was returned to prison that night. |,
never told the true story Of my
acceptance as doctor. My patient,
indeed, rewarded me-she helped me
into business, and she helped me to
win the peerless Alice for my bride.
Copyright, 1917 by w. G.. Chapman.)