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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-05-30
JOHNSON URGES A
CLEAN ARMY POST

ing to be equipped with cots,
clothes, and everything else, and
then you have an idea of the real
army post before you," said John
son.
81 hope and pray that condi-
tions in America will allow us to
send ammunition and money to
the allies to cause an early break
in the war. AS soon as Germany
sees our strength and resources,
the great break will come. l hope
that 1t will come before much
American blood is spilled.
Thanks Supporters.
Terrible chaos is going to
come after the war, especially in
Russia. No leader has appeared
in Russia yet. / hope one does
come soon. They need another
Tolstoi of the North.
II want to express my appreci-
alton of the support given me by
the citizens of the southwestern
Washington. / have received hun
dreds of letters from persons Of
fering their support in this time
of war;"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-05-30

Make your army post the larg-
est, cleanest and healthiest camp
il the U. s., and 1t will then always
be used by the government for a
large training station after the
war;" said Congressman Albert E.
johnson Wednesday morning on
a flying trip to Tacoma.
1.-The churches and everyone
should united in one large union
to make the camp the cleanest
possible. and then the govern
ment will always do its best for
the city, in return for the support
given it in time of war;" said the
He arrived in the city early
Wednesday morning, for brief
visit with his mother. He left at
1890 for Portland to rejoin other
congressman who are in the west
to attend the funeral of Senator
Lane at Portland-McClintock OF
Oklahoma and Walsh of Maine.
Predicts Chaos Coming.
Gust to give the citizens OF
Pierce county an impression OF
the size of the army post, the first
order for lumber will be more
than 36,000,O00 feet" said John
son.
He could not tell of the con-
tracts that will be let for the army
post.
Just think of $4,000 men hav.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-05-30
GUSHING
JITNEY
BUSES

Jitney buses in Seattle and
Spokane are being put out of bust
ness this week, as result Of the
recent dissolution of a bonding
company which furnished bonds
for the public automobiles, but as
yet no action has been taken to
restrain the machines In Tacoma.
Mayor Fleming of Spokane put
all of the buses In his CITY out of
commission Monday, on the
ground that they were operating
under invalid bonds. There had
been "a jitneys in operation there.
The Puget Sound Traction,
Light & Power company in Seattle
has enjoined all buses from op-
GRAFTON. but some of them are
still carrying passengers under a
donation system. They charge
no fares. but permit passengers
to donate" whatever sum they
wish to give towards the legal
fight which will follow.
There are seven jitneys remain
ing in Tacoma, according to Police
Chief Smith. No official word
has been received here regarding
the invalidity of jitney bonds,
and until such word comes from
Secretary of State Howell, Chief
Smith says he will take no action.
Representatives of the Tacoma
Railway G. Power company de-
clared Wednesday that the jitney
competition was not affecting
them, and that they had no inten-
tion to force their removal. They
intimated that an official edlct
would be received from the state
this week, demanding that all jit-
ney buses in Tacoma be ordered
to quit business.
There is no organization among
local jitney bus drivers, and they
are making no preparations to re-
sist orders to give up their runs.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-05-30

teachers association says many
children in their school are I'M
properly nourished. Hungry
children eat their noon lunches
going to school In the morning.;
lunches are stolen from the
school and other evidences of
hunger are seen. Reports show
in most schools there are children
who do not get what they ought
to have to eat or enough of it.
Some parent-teachers assoeia-
tions formerly gave children a
glass Of milk or a free lunch, but
this placed too great a burden on
the few. 1t can never solve The
problem.
School authorities should see
that children are properly fed.
We will not have the kind of
school system we should until the
management knows the home con-
ditions OF every child and then
takes steps to remedy anything
lacking. 1t is largely a waste of
money to try to teach a hungry
child very much. A poorly nour-
ished body will not develop a very
vigorous mind. We hire physical
culture teachers but a child can
not show much zeal in calisthenics
or an empty stomach. School
doctors, athletic teachers and
school ground apparatus may be
all right but it seems to me the
first thing would be to get well
nourished children. Their ma
tural tendency to play If vigorous
might solve the exercise problem.
Il want the next school budget
to make provision so that at least
e glass of milk may be given every
child that needs it every day. If
there is not enough money for
this and what we have now | say
cut out some of the present frills.
I'VE are right now experience
ing the necessity for strong men.
Let us take steps now to insure
a vigorous race in the future by
building up the constitutions of
the little ones in our schools who
are hungry"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-05-30
MARTIAL LAW
i'm E. ST. LOUIS
Omitted Press Leased wire.)


EAST ST. LOUIS, ILL.,, May 80.
East st. Louis today was virtu-
ally under martial law. Five in
fantry companies of the Fourth
Illinois National Guard regiment
and one cavalry troop were patrol
ing the downtown and negro Sec
lions and plants where negroes
are employed.
The second nights rioting
which resulted In the shooting of
three white men and two negroes,
continued for three hours. More
than a score of blacks we're beat
en- and struck by rocks and clubs.
The races exchanged hundreds
Of shots in various parts of tae
city and the rioting would have
assumed dangerous proportions
but for the timely arrival of the
troops. The situation had gone
beyond control Of the local police.
Lieut.. Col. Clayton, commander
OF the troops, and Mayor Mollman
announced today the situation was
under control and that furtres
rioting was not feared.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-05-30
COMPLAIN SCHOOL
CHILDREN UNDERFED

Confirmation of reports tlr1t
many school children in Tacoma
are underfed and do not have
sufficient nourishment to keep
them in health, is being received
by Mayor Fawcett from parent
teacher associations of the various
schools.
Mrs. w. e. Davis, 422 East
63rd street, president of the Sheri-
dan Parent-Teacher association
told the mayor Wednesday that
many children at this school were
not receiving proper nourishment,
and that the repeated theft Of
lunches at school indicated lack
of food among some of the pupils.
Fawcett issued statement
Wednesday urging that the
schools make some provision for
feeding the children of poor fam
lilies, as one means of increasing
the efficiency of local school edu-
cation. 1t follows:
1.-THE president of a parent
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-05-30
Stones Record
EDITOR THE TINES:

EDITOR THE TINES:
1t is amusing to recall Senator
Stones war melting, die Alright
ing speech in the senate near
the close Of the Taft administra-
tion on the mistreatment of Unit
ed States citizens in Mexico by
Mexicans.
He walked up and down the
aisle of the senate, gesticulating
and demanding in his most feroc-
ious manner that the United
States protect the lives of her
citizens in Mexico.
Oh, what a change a few years
makes! There has been no change
in Senator Stone, however; he's
the same type of politician he al
ways has been. X. Y. y.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-05-30
Asked to Aid
In Recruiting

Mayor Fawcett received a tele-
gram from Major General George
Barnett, commander of the U. s.
marine corps at Philadelphia, ask
ing Tacoma to take an active part
in the enlistment drive to be con-
Quoted the week of June 1915.
The corps needs 1000 men at
once, to be brought up to war
strength. and Tacoma is asked to
do all it can to support the work
of recruiting officers here.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-05-30
CHIEF Will FIGHT
SPEED Law Farce

effect, it simply takes away from
the police all power to regulate
speed under city laws, and turns
over to the state road fund al
money derived from fines or bail
forfeitures.
Il do not believe that the law
can stick, SO we will take it up
to the supreme court at once"
The new law takes effect next
week. During the time the test
case is being decided, Chief Smith
says he will continue to order his
motorcycle cops to arrest speed
ers. unless restrained by legal
Injunction.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-05-30

that it will encourage rather than
oppose direct trading in produce
between farmers and consumers.
I'VE will permit any rancher
who wishes to do so to back his
team up to our curb and sell di-
rect to whoever he wants to-"
said Mr.. Young.
I'VE will expect to derive our
revenue through the sale of gro
ceries, meats, fish and other food
stuffs, and will gladly aid in fur
thering the sale of home grown
produce at the curb free of any
rent or other expense"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-05-30
What To Do
With Booze
Is Puzzler

Prosecuting Attorney Remain
is still puzzling over the question
of the liquor still in the state June
6, when the bone-dry law takes
effect.
There will be a large amount
of uncalled for liquor in the vari-
Gus express companies, and what
to do with it is a question, as the
law makes no provision for the
disposal of It, | supposed | could
seize it and destroy 1t, all right"
said Remain Wednesday morn
ing.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-05-30

Rather than submit to a joker
in the new state motor vehicle
code which restraints all Washing
ton cities from regulating the
speed of automobiles, Police Chief
Smith announced Wednesday that
he would make fight on the new
law.
II intend to continue the work
of speed officers, and will ask the
county attorney to institute q
test case, so that we can determine
the validity of the new law" said
Smith.
ut makes a farce of the speed
law. If this new code remains in
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-05-30
YOUNG & CO. WILL BUILD
new MODERN Market

d. p. Young & Co. announced
today that a contract will be let
Friday for the excavation for a
new modern market building at
1106-0S-10-12 Market st.
The structure will be 100x120,
one-story high, with a new glass
roofing which is said to give COM
plete ventilation and perfectly diff
fused natural light.
The building is expected to be
completed July 1.
A feature of the firms plans is
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-05-30
BALLOON HAS
LONG JOURNEY

WASHINGTON, d. c., May 80.
ALI American records were
broken by a military dirigible
balloon in a 450-mile continuous
flight from Chicago to Medina,
Ohio, the navy department an
nounced today.
midnight and landed at Medina at
/ o'clock yesterday afternoon. 1t
was piloted by Ralph Epson, hold
err of the Gordon Bennett interna-
tional trophy.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-05-30
MAY DISMISS
MOONEY JURY

SAN FRANCISCO. May 30
Superior Judge Seawell will decide
tomorrow morning whether or not
there was irregularity in drawing
the jury selected to try Mrs. Rena
Mooney for completely in the Pre-
paredness Day bomb murders.
Prosecutor Ferrari asked that
all IL jurors be dismissed because
he discovered that the name of
Daniel Kelly, the first Juror
chosen, was not among the $500
names in the jury box, though
In some way Kelly's name got into
the panel of 100 drawn for this
trial.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-05-30
A Suggestion

EDITOR THE TINES:
Kansas City should drop 100,
600 cards over Germany, bearing
the message:
Following in the steps of
Russia will bring quick and
lasting WORLD peace.
I'll give a dollar to a fund Il
do 1t. G.. H. w.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-05-30

farm and be of very much help.
be he ever so willing, Is just as
unreasonable as to expect the boy
fresh from the farm to take up and
make a success Of the duties OF a
salesman in one of our big mer-
camille establishments.
EX-FARMER.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-05-30
Coolie Labor
EDITOR THE TIMES:

h AS laboring men we wish Il
thank the Scripps newspapers fol-
their timely stand against the
threatened importation of coolie
labor.
AS Americans, sir, we salute
you and your fellow editors.
1t is but two short winters ago
that the streets of our cities were
crowded with idle men.
| And hunger and want predomi-
mated.
And the wonderfully efficient
CD and patriotic CD directors
of our great corporations sat
back in satanic glee and awaited
In full confidence the coming of
the presidential election.
They were playing politics
cleverly? Not at all, but bru-
tally.
At that time, with labor and
material at the very lowest mark,
with the steel mills begging for
orders at the very cost of produc-
ton, with the president threaten
ing them with prosecution for the
unlawful suppression of business,
these great efficiency managers
CD continued In their frameup.
And now, thanks to The Times,
and her sister papers, we see
their hand.
Thousands of laboring men
were forced to leave the coast and
go to eastern cities.
Not as many as these parasitic
schemers planned for, but those
that could, did go.
The president of one of the
great railroad lines, in justifying
the importation of coolie labor,
recently said, They make ideal
railroad and farm workers"
But why particularly railroad
and farm workers?
The life that railroad laborers
and many farm workers are
forced to live is as un-American
as are the much discussed coolie.
Filthy box cars and barns to
live in, rotten food to subsist on,
long hours to work, brutal fore
men to contend with, and the
smallest wage of any industry in
America to buy Liberty bonds
with.
To say that it is living the
''life of dog" is verify an insult
to a mongrel dog.
Were a laborer with the faint
est semblance of responsibility in
dress to apply to railroad office
for work, he would be laughed
out of said office as being
"simp."
The life of the railroad worker
is short, and again he is fast be-
coming more enlightened. He is
refusing, as a whole, to contend
with such rotten conditions.
And so they cry, 1--WE need
coolie labor" But, do we? Or
do we, the American people, need
rise in justifiable wrath and force
these greedy dastards to Ameri-
canize the working conditions of
their employees?
We are,
Respectfully yours,
G. MANNING,
F. NEALE,
Nj. E. MURPHY,
c. ]. HOLDEN,
II. ]. KELLY,
G.. c. MONSTER,
H. STEIK,
F. M. WOELFEL, 4
G.. COUGH,
S. II. BEEBE,
JOE BITTLE,
S. JOHRMAN,
s. SEVERSON,
GEO. GRANT,
FRED HENDRIKSEN,
FRANK j. HOSSMANN,
CHAS. NELSON,
TOM GIVINS,
JOHN LONG,
B. PICKLER.
c. NJ. BOWMAN,
FRED HOFFMAN,,
J. C. LARSON,
AXEL ANDERSEN,
e. T. WAITE,
G. o. HAAGENSEN,
c. LINDBERG,
OLAF MYHRE,
Employees McKenna Lmr. Co.,
McKenna, Wash.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-05-30

But is there not = great
deal of hard work that does
not require much experience
that such boy can perform
under the farmers watchful
eye? There used to be when
/ was q boy.-ElitOr.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-05-30
REFUSE
TO REGISTER

MINNEAPOLIS, MINI, May 80.
Members of the Young Peo-
pies Socialist League in Mime
apolis today announced they
would not register next Tuesday
and would take the consequences
IL federal officials want to prose
cute them.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-05-30

Here are five leaders who will
sit in the convention soon to as
semble to plan Irish home rule,
following a call issued by Premier
Lloyd George.
Top left, John Redmond, noted
Nationalist leader; lower left,
Sir Horace Plunkett, Sim Felner
and organizer Of the Agricultural
Organization society.
Right, top to bottom: Sir John
Lonsdale, Unionist whip; William
'O'Brien, National leader; Sir Ed
ward Carson, Ulster Unionist, IA
nous opponent Of Redmond.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-05-30
EXTEND LINES
United Press Leased wire.

Omitted Press Leased wIre.D
ROME, May Boy a local
offensive between Jaminao and
the coast, we extended our lines
OF the west of Medeazza," declar.
led the official war office report
tcday.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-05-30

TURN TO THE CLASSIFIED
WANT ADS ON PAGE z FOR
RESULTS. SEE PAGE SEVEN.
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The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-10-05
JAPANESE WANT A
MONROE DOCTRINE

Viscount Ishii, head of a special
diplomatic mission to the United
States, in a recent speech in New
York, said Japan wanted guaranteed
world peace, such as indicated by
President Wilson; that his country
favored the open door" trade policy
in China, and that Japan desired to
declare and enforce the Monroe doc
trine" in Eastern Asia on the same
principle as that doctrine has been
enforced by the United States in the
Western hemisphere. All of which
looks reasonable and will probably
be acceptable to America
Japan wishes, according to Ishii.
the destruction of autocracy and
militarism as being the oppressors
and enemies of the peoples of all
nations. Let US hope Japan is sin
cere. Any how she condemns an
"only a scrap of paper" policy.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-10-05
DO YOU WONDER AT
LACK OF RESPECT
FOR THE COURTS?

Last Monday when Judge Walter
R. Burns was charging the Harris
County (Texas) Grand Jury and aft
err calling the names of Senators
Stone of Missouri, Hardwick of
Georgia, Vardaman of Mississippi,
Gronna of North Dakota, Gore Of
Oklahoma and La Toilette of Wis
consin, said:
IF | had a wish l would like that
you men had jurisdiction to return
bills of indictment against these
men. They ought to be tried prompt
ly and fairly, and l believe this
court could administer the law fair
ly, but l have a conviction as strong
as life that this country should
stand them up against an adobe wall
tomorrow and give them what they
deserve. If any man deserves death
it is traitor. | wish that | could
pay for the ammunition. l would
like to attend the execution and if I
We're in the firing squad I would
not want to be the marksman who
had the blank she'll"
And yet this fellow Burns is a
United States District Judge. He
would like to have the chance to
pass the death sentence upon the
men he considers traitors and exc
cute the sentence himself
Some Senators have said things
which unfit them for the positions
they hold, but they have done no
worse than Burns would do.
1t is regretable that some judges
are made of the same sort of stuff
as this fellow Burns
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-10-05
TO MAKE PEACE
PERMANENT

Some time or other peace will be
made. Let us hope that it will be
on terms that will ensure permanent
peace. But there is little put forth
so far from any official source to
Justify that expectation. Peace can
not be made permanent without aboli-
ton of the economic causes Of war
So long as these causes exist there
will be danger of war, regardless
of the outcome Of the present strug-
gle So long as democratic nations
insist on maintaining an autocratic
economic system, so long do they
make it possible for political auto
Gratis to fool their subjects into max
ing war. Moreover an autocratic
economic system must breed new po-
litical autocrats, even though all ex-
listing autocrats be overthrow in the
present war.
There is no reason why the United
States, or any other democratic ma
ton, should wait for a treaty of
peace to abolish the institutions it
maintains which tend to create in
ternational hatred. A treaty of
peace may provide for evacuation of
all conquered territory, independence
for all subject people desiring it,
cession of provinces by the govern
ment to which they object to the
one they prefer, cash indemnities to
all who have suffered from outrage,
reduction of ornaments and even in
dethronement of every monarch But
future war will still be possible, if
not probable, should the various ma
tions continue to maintain protective
tariffs, and allow as much of the
earth as they control to remain the
private property of a privileged few
The duty of each nation desiring to
maintain peace is to establish eco
nomic justice within it's own Dor
ders. That done, it need not feel
concerned over possible hostile feel
ing of any foreign potentate. Tho
subjects of such potentate would
see in the country of economic jus
tice a haven of refuge and would
turn against their potentate in pref
erence to making war against it.
In time thew would compel their DO
tentate to adopt some more useful
occupation.
AS to how economic justice may be
established, that has been explained
many times by economic experts. To
mention but one: Henry George il
his work Progress and Poverty
showed how it can be done by max
ing the land common property, not
through sudden revocation of titles
and government seizures, but by a
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-10-05

The State of Washington to the
said defendants, Rosa J. Woods, and
the Heirs, If Any, of Walter w.
Woods, Deceased. Greeting:
You and each of you are hereby
summoned to appear within sixty
days after the date of the first
publication of this summons, to-wit,
within sixty days after the 21st day
of September, 1917, and defend the
above entitled action in the above
entitled court, and answer the COM
plant of the plaintiff, and serve a
copy of your answer upon the I'M
dersigned attorney for plaintiff at
his office below stated; and in case
of your failure to so do, judgment
will be rendered against you accord
ing to the demand of the complaint,
which has been filed with the clerk
of said court. The object of this
action is to foreclose a mortgage
past due, on Lot in Block "a" of
the Walker River View Addition as
per recorded plat thereof in the
office of the auditor of said Sno-
homish County, State of Washington.
r. j. FAUSSETT,
Plaintiffs Attorney.
Address: 206-7 Stokes Block,
Everett, Washington.
First publication September 81,
1917.
Last publication, October &c, 1917.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-10-05
CIGAR MAKERS SEEK
BENEFITS FOR
OCCUPATIONAL ILLS

AS a result of the recent decision
of the Massachusetts, Supreme Court
denying insurance compensation to
cigarmaker who in the course of
his occupation had developed "neu-
rosis" seriously affecting the use of
his arm, a campaign is being con-
Quoted by the unions to secure the
passage of an amendment placing
all diseases arising out of employ.
ment definitely under the protection
of the workmen's compensation law.
In addition to such an amendment,
the letter sent by the Cigarmaker's
Union of Boston to all locals in the
state urged support of state insur
ance and the exclusion of private
companies from the field of indus
trial insurance.
Holding that the law awards COM
pensation for disease when it rightly
may be described as a personal in
jury" but that "the gradual break
ing down or degeneration of tissue
caused by long and laborious work
is not the result of a personal in
jury within the meaning of the act"
the Court says: "The act affords no
relief against general disease. 1t is
not scheme for health insurance.
1t deals only with personal injuries
following as an immediate result
from the employment as it's direct
cause"
This decision has stimulated the
rapidly increasing demand for uni
versal workmen's health insurance
under which medical care and cash
benefits would be furnished to every
wage Garner at small cost to him,
whether his sickness resulted from
his occupation or not. In nine
states official commissions are at
work studying health insurance for
workers with view to legislation.
The hearings now under way by the
Massachusetts Commission have de-
veloped the fact that the unions are
strongly in favor of plan of work
mems insurance that will exclude
private insurance companies from