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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-09-20
COMMEMORATIVE
BABIES ARE LFE,s GREATEST JOYS

We had a letter Chad this morning book. saying
Moe the mother of beautiful boy and she doing
write you said
she be quiet few Personally Marge feel rather
had peculiarly inexpensive as he
Up to date he has opened them when he has his
However what don't about babies would make
book But when look this onewhich by the Mole
Darwin dreamed in his widest flights of fancy; .
81 the God makes mother blind to the impere
blind,
Mo would called attention the little button on his
worried most in that baby
But Mage there kind of thrill In the contact OF his SOFT
smooth flesh feel that never had cannot DE-
ho Mo when she is pink
chiffon velvet endowed with lfe
Moie about anything as she is
baby you pretty enthusiastic
whether she told GIRL that did not seem 10
anpaons the coming the baby and to tell
the truth Marge Nguess afraid he would make PAD
yesterday the little beggar In some
about finger and straighway that little
heartstrings tying them firmly about MS
why you do love him. chad Mole surprise I
her his little clinging hand.
ashamed to were wet when answered.
'of course what made think | did not? ~,
well said you repeatedly didn't want him
time did, just whispered down my heart
You can Margie for did say that
hurt her.
little OH glad nave poh my
my be unhappy grouchy again
snC said Dick when read him Cnad D
Margie could not write nor even TALK
human being suppose 1t is what you call cnao
artistic temperament
perhaps, Dick. isn't beautiful"
manly beautiful asked DICK: =.
should be, answered hoty Tor
what this meant Moe In the supreme
life she must expect her enthuS
over child uoz ,,, VA,
never felt the thrill of velvet that alive v
Some hope to feel it, said Dick souy ana III
felt bushlng IKE
Ito He Continually
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-09-20
: Lemons Beauty!
|. MakeQ uarterP int
|, of Lotion, Cheap

Here Is told how to prepare an
inexpensive lemon lotion which
can be used to bring back to any
skin the sweet freshness. softness,
Wilderness and beauty.
The Juice of two fresh lemons
strained into q bottle containing
three ounces of orchard white
makes a whole quarter pint of the
most remarkable lemon skin beau
tifier at about the cost one must
pay for small jar of the or
binary cold creams. Care, should
be taken to strain the lemon juice
through fine cloth SO no lemon
pulp gets in. than this lotion will
keep fresh for months. Every
woman knows that lemon Juice Ia
used to bleach and remove such
blemishes as freckles, sallowness
and tan. and is the ideal skin soft
ener. smoothener and beautifier.
Just try It'll Get three ounces
Of orchard white at any phar-
macy and two lemons from the
grocer and make up a quarter pint
of this sweetly fragrant lemon To-
ton and massage It daily into the
face. neck, arms and hands, and
see for yourself.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-09-20
Millers Can't Hoard;
Must Empty Bins

their inability to keep up with the
demand for both the export and
domestic trade, and Puget Sound
manufacturer have taken up with
the food committee a request to
increase the allowance to run at
least 80 days.
The millers are not objecting to
the federal holding Of tn grain,
but will ask that they be permitted
to draw upon storage as required.
Eastern hard wheat flour mill
ers have been cutting prices in the
Puget Sound territory, in some In
stances to 81 per barrel under soft
wheat patents.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-09-20

Led by the Walla Walla district.
other Eastern Washington farmers
have become convinced that they
will move their crop this year at
the price originally fixed by the
Hoover program, or on the basis
of $1.S7 for bluestem or NO.
soft white, on the farms.
Little hope is now being felt that
the plans will be modified or
amended to allow them $2.l0,
country price, as asked, and con-
siderable wheat has accordingly
changed hands this week.
The movement of wheat will not
be according to the customary
trainload standard of normal
times. The federal grain and flour
control measure, designed to pre-
vent boarding, storing and specu-
lation, forbids millers to keep on
hand a supply longer than for
3O-day grind, and Puget Sound
mills have already bought-np to
their limit.
Under the control law they will
be compelled, first, to empty their
bins and move the flour before
taking on more. This will cause
a sporadic movement, where I'M
der normal conditions the seasons
supply would be bought and stored
and a sufficient quantity of grain
to meet requirements placed in
mill bins.
The restrictions regarding the
30-day supply OF grain. 1t il stated,
are causing hardship to millers in
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-09-20
BiSbee'S Stacker

Bisbee, Arlz, made itself famous during the
summer by summarily deporting several hundred
citizens, the vigilantes who pulled off the job
accusing the ousted ones Of being /. w. WIS.
Now it turned out afterwards that at least
nine out of ten of these people were not l. w.
VS. at all, but simply working people who had
demanded of the immensely wealthy copper
mine owners reasonable wage and decent living
conditions.
Most of them were found to be contributors to
the Red Cross fund, buyers of Liberty bonds,
registered select service men and law-abidng
citizens.
Today Bisbee, Ariz, again appears in the news
dispatches. Warner A. Shattuck, son of one of
the millionaire copper kings of that burg, has
been reported for failing to appear at Camp
Funston to enter training under the draft. His
father, pressed for an explanation, admits that
the boy is probably somewhere in Mexico, a
skulking Stacker, fugitive.
We refrain from comment
{ Sweden seems disposed to admit that her minis
FER to Argentina blockhead and let it go at that
Thought takes man out of servtude into freedom.
Emerson.
One man went to war because his wife didn't wash
Afs shirts In the trenches he'll be happy if he can
Vash them himself.
Why don't the Swedish diplomats, in America to
Eot food from Uncle Sam, cable their eatable from
Argentine?
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-09-20
lii Is a Good Move

What to do with the aliens in our midst is a
real, live burning question, so many of them
are jumping into the places vacated by drafted
Americans and the senate has tackled it by pass
ing the Chamberlain bill.
Under this measure, aliens of the central pow
ers can be utilized for necessary purposes dur
ing the stringency." In other words, such aliens
can be drafted for other than fighting purposes.
German Aliens for instance, will not be holding
drafted Americans jobs, while the latter are at
the front fighting to protect them and the jobs
+. ~ There is widespread demand for some such
measure, if such can be enacted without inter-
ference with treaty rights. We've got to re-
spect treaty obligations even tho the central
powers don't.
There's one thing about the Maine suffrage defeat;
they can't blame it on the brewers.
Count Llxburg really should be sent home on one
~ those steamers which he urged his government to
destroy so as to leave no trace
The high cost of living says consulting engineer
- due to the railways poor terminal facilities Most
l6 find the H. C. Of l. due to their own poor termi
N facilities raid being constructed that they
- unable to make both ends meet
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-09-20
One Man Shoulders Job of
Building Army Camp Cities

1900 replies. giving us list of
about 1000 contracting firms.
We put the list in charge OF
Mr.. Gfbbon of the Chicago Fidel-
ity & Guaranty Co. He deter
mined what contractors thruout
the country were doing $5,000,000
a year business. There were about
100. These we separated and
cross-referenced geographically.
This gave us so or 70 concerns
based on their proximity to the
16 military divisions Of the coun-
try.
We considered our preferred
contractors by these geographical
groups. We got what the archi-
tects and engineers said about
each man, and what each man
said about himself and what 9th
ers said about him. Thus when
we came to the selection we had
the available, competent firms and
their respective records before us.
Selected Themselves.
The applicants really selected
themselves.
Secretary Baker sent us a COM
munication saying all things be-
ing equal to pick the contractors
from the locality in which the
camp was to be located. That was
common sense. We were in a pO-
sition to do what he suggested.
"You feel them" it was asked,
chat everything humanity posi-
BILE was done to safeguard the in
terest of both the government and
the public in the selection of these
contractors?"
Eyes, l do" said Maj. Starrett.
"It is just like any other emef-
gency work. You have to know
as many facts as you can and be
as just as you can, but you have
to move and do something"
Tin another article Mai. Star
rett will tell how he kept graft
and favoritism out of the work of
l.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-09-20
Trench
At Preside
(Unitea Press Leased wire.)

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 30
Six hundred men of the first bat
talon Of the Preside training
camp doggedly held their first line
trenches today against the imagi-
nary invaders moving up the pen
insula from San Mateo.
The men moved into trenches
this morning after q night during
which much electricity was con-
sumed while orders covering the
duty of platoon commanders at
the front were studied.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-09-20
"A Beneficial CHRISTENING

Last spring the Rev Bou White pastor of the Church Of the Social
Revolution New York City and author Of 1.-THE Call of the Carpenter"
and other books preaching pam loudly he could To show
the his democracy he burned several flags including
American flag
For this Of the country
TOmbs prison He released recently and found his
country He writes
II am still pacst That for against but this
fact country being quite different af
fairs
Whatever said rights minority peace
not be affirmed with times matters
by whose fault happened the
with the anchors the officers bong inch
ong muty by the illogical ndeensb My read
s the book history show instance paci aft
the howitzers had begun their benowings.
I'm times Of the word of the constituted authorities must be
law The holds all the cards. and ought to-
The Christening received apparently profitable his
Certainly it has brought @ the peaceabe fruits of righteousness
b similar method of treatment would help other pacst agtators
ike sanity.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-09-20
SENATE ADOPTS
HUGE BOND BILL

Omitted Press Leased Wire'S
WASHINGTON. d. c., Sept. 20.
The senate today adopted the
conference report on the $11, $780,
900, 900 bond bill. The house 10
expected to agree to the report to-
morrow.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-09-20
.tSOC19N]

The rummage sale for tho bene-
fit of the Tacoma Day Nursery, at
1883 Broadway, will be held Sat
urday and Monday. The sales
rooms will be open Friday to re-
ceive donations. Everything ex-
cept furniture is desired. Articles
which cannot be brought to the
salesrooms will be sent for II Mrs.
F. A. Carlyle. Main 1898. is noti-
fled.
Miss Miriam Woodbury., secre-
tary Of the Congregational Home
Missionary society, will speak on
"The Problem of Foreign Women
in the United States" at the First
Congregational church Sept 26,
at $3.50. Miss Woodbury. has
personally Investigated foreign
settlements, lumber camps. min
ing camps and factories. She 10
the guest of Mrs. w. G. Wheeler.
307 North Cliff ave.
Tho Y. w. O. A. gymnasium
will be formally opened Sept. %
with an open house so that the
public may inspect 1t. A special
program will be given.
Marriage licenses were issued
Wednesday to Nelson Prother, st.
Joseph, Mo-, and Rose Steel. Kan
sas City, Mo-; Alexander Holland
and lola M. Miner, Tacoma; Ar
thur A. Seyarssn. Tacoma, and
Hazel johnson. Bee; Willie Holm.
Wanna, and Minnie Lee. Elgin;
Paul J. Buon, Camp Lewis, and
Mae Rose, Lostone, Ore; Robert
Howard and Esther Johnson, Ia
coma; william Obenhofer and
Clara Orossman. Tacoma.
Invitations are bolng issued
for the first dance to be given ~
the Waikiki club on Friday even
ing. Sept. %, at the Lncsln Dane
ing academy. At the last bust
ness session the members voted
to hold the first Of the series for
Camp Lewis.
Invitations may be secured
from the secretary, Main 66SS.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-09-20

them. Finish them In three
months. That's your job. Now
go to it," y
Would you know where TO be-
gin?
Would 1t excite you at all to
realize that every mistake you
made meant perhaps fatal delay in
the training Of your country's
armies for the war?
That proposition was put up to
one man by Uncle Sam. He and
his colleagues shouldered the bur-
den and did the job,
The man was Mai. w. A. Star
rett, before the war an architect.
now chairman of the committee
on emergency construction and
contracts of the council Of nation
al defense.
Biggest on Record.
No such task had ever been un-
dertaken on a nationwide scale
in that space of time.
when this thing was first con-
templated Maj. Starrett told the
United Press today, "the govern
ment provided a couple of army
officers and stenographers at
Washington, d. c. to do the job. "
WORD had gone out that the
work was going on and every con-
tractor in the country was here.
AS a result, all those men did was
to stand in front of the desk and
shake hands all day.
I'VE told the munition board
these people would have to be
taken out and that the canton
ment men would have to be let
alone.
Accordingly the next morning
the men were taken to the Munsey
building with their records. We
Immediately saw the need for the
finest men we could get, so we
reached into the big engineering
organizations all over the country
by wire and telephone.
Send BIG Men.
We asked them to send big
men. We got big men. I could
name you a list of rs men we got
who were worth $4,000 to $751;
900 a year.
We said to these concerns:
"You will have to give these peo-
pie up. We face an emergency.
They periodically gave them up.
Then and there, over about two
days and nights solid conference
work with alfthese people we built
great organization under Col.
Little OF the war department.
Inside of four davs we had the
organization in skeleton. Every
thing was worked out with tho
object of speed and economy. That
machine constitutes about $50
people occupying whole building
and working anywhere from IL to
18 hours a day.
We looked around TO see what
the government had in the way of
q register OF contractors. It did
not have anything for us.
We asked the American Insti-
tute OF Architects, the chief engi-
neera Of all the railroads and, big
Industrial establishments, who the
reliable people we're they had been
dealing with In 10 davs urn Sad
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-09-20

A fellow isn't sure he's right until someone tells
him he's wrong.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-09-20

The suffragets in Occoquan jail lost from six to
mine pounds each. The trouble with all these anti
ut remedies is that the cure is worse than the con-
dltion.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-09-20

Suppose Uncle Sam step
ped up to you on the street
today and said:
Look here, son: I want
you to build mo 10 cities.
Put them i'm various parts Of
the country. Plan each one
for a population Of 10000
men. Have heating, lighting,
water, ventilation and sewer
age systems perfect in all Of
them. Finish them In three
months. That's your job. Now
go to it,"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-09-20

Tin another article Maj. Star
rett will tell how he kept graft
and favoritism out of the work of
building cantonments.)
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-09-20

There's one thing about the Maine su.
hey cant blame it on the brewers.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-09-20

! Sweden seems disposed to admit that her
Der to Argentina was blockhead, and let it 90
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-09-20

One man went to war because his
s1fs shirts. In the trenches he'll be
wash them himself.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-09-20

Thought takes man out of servitude
Emerson.
The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1917-04-06

the following were evenly divided
between the two divisions.
In order to make the test more
spirited, 1t was decided that on the
last night instead of reporting by di.
visions, the reports of the various
teams would alternate. Team No. l
from Division A made the first report
and cheers went up when they an
nounced their total. This was fol.
lowed by team No. from Division E.
There was more cheering. THIS was
kept UP until the ten teams had re.
ported and until the Campaign Com
mitttee had made their final an
nouncement with the above results
that the campaign had been put
ever with the greatest shove that
had ever been given to any benevo-
lent movement Or charitable effort in
the city The individual pennant for
last night was taken off by team No
Of Division A, the chairman award
ing them the pennant, ruling that
they had reported the largest individ-
ual amount for the night, which was
S27OO.O0 Fhe honor for raising the
: largest amount of money throughout
The campaign went to Division B.
The gladiators of the campaign shook
hands one with the other. then the
campaign song, eve Have Rarsed It
ALL that had been especially written
by DR.. Jasper Phillips, sung to the
tune OF "I Surrender ALL rent the
air with its volume. Hardly had this
died away when Prof Hardeman be.
gan to sing the African song with
its ninety-nine verses all the same,
under the caption of Go on, Go on,
Go on" The. grand total was re-
ported by Divisions and teams.
Immediately congratulations were
showered upon the campaign commit
Z tee and the Committee of Manage.
ment Of the Advisory Board. The
+ heroic work on the part of the WON
en- who were recruited into the cam
paign on the last day. and the splen.
The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1917-04-06

Not Satisfied With Splendid Cam.
paign Efforts Vote to Have General
Cleaning Up of Colored Y. NJ. C.
A. Building Soon.
The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1917-04-06
PRES. JONES CALLSBAPT.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
WILL MEET In NASHVILLE JUNE 1918 TO MAKE PRO-
GRAM FOR NATIONAL BAPTIST CONVENTIO.- WILL
BE- WITH THE S. s. CONGRESS FORCES

With the call of the Executive
Committee of the National Baptist
unincorporated, to meet
in Nashville Thursday, June 14th,
there comes an assurance Of even a
greater attendance to this city aug
the Sunday School Congress
forces. Information concerning this
call was received in Nashville last
week when the official announcement
signed by Rev. E. p. Jones, d. D.,
President of the National Baptist
Convention, unincorporated, who is
located at Vicksburg, Miss, and Rev.
T. j. King, d. D., Secretary of the
convention, who is located at Rich
mond, Va. In the call the president
and secretary of the convention
urged u large attendance and set
forth that the purpose of this Execu-
tive Committee meeting is to take
into consideration important matters
as affecting their contention, and to
pIGpdTC IL lOl thO Soh Sh7
ton, which is to be held this year
during the month of September in
Atlanta, Ga.
1t is estimated by Baptist leaders
in Nashville that the meeting Of this
Executive Committee will bring ~
| proximately one hundred fifty Bap-
, fist officials to the city, and since
they are to meet at the same time OF
the Sunday School Congress, it is
said that it means much to the city,
because they are representatives and
leaders in their respective cities It
is not known at what church the eX-
ecutive session will be held, this
presumably having been left entire
" with the local ministers. Arrange
ments TO this effect are expected to
lie made at the Baptist Minister'S
Conference Monday, when they will
announce the personnel of the local
Reception Committee the Committee
on Homes and General Arrangements
The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1917-04-06
DIR. McBRooM PASSES AWAY.

The many friends of the McBroom
family will be grieved to know that
DR.. Harrison McBroom. passed away
last week in Franklin, Tenn. DR.. Nc
Broom is survived by a wife and
daughter. Mrs. McBroom is an in
valid.
The McBroom family is one of the
best known in the city. Mrs. Flor.
ence Cowan the mother, having
reared a large family of boys and
girls at the home on Jefferson street.
The boyhood of DR.. McBroom was
passed in Nashville, where his litera-
ry as well as medical education was
procured. For several years DR.. Me
Broom practiced in North Alabama
hut a short while ago moved to
Franklin, Tenn, where Mt the time of
his sudden demise he had a flourish
ing practice The deceased was a
member of the First Baptist Church
on 9Th avenue, North. The funeral
services were held from the home, tie
Rev. w. s. Ellington officiating. w.
H. McGavock and Company were un,
dertakers in charge.
The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1917-04-06
$20,140.88 RAISED
FOR THE Y. M. G. A.
NEGROES OF NASHVILLE ACCEPT CHALLENGE AND PUT
OYER ANOTHER CAMPAIGN, CLINCHING THEIR new
BUILDING FOR THE Y. M. CA

After a seven days whirlwind cam
paign for cash and subscriptions, the
Negroes Of this city reported last
Friday night, collections and sub
scriptiOns to the amount of $40, 140.SS,
with subscriptions still coming In.
Much enthusiasm was injected into
the campaign from the very opening
day, Friday, March 23rd, until it
closed, Friday, March Both. Patriotic,
race-loving citizens, whether men,
women, boys or girls, participated
in the campaign. All records were
smashed on the last day when more
than $10,00O.O0 was reported as the
result of one days work. Nashville
virtually suspended its business in-so.
far as Negro business men We're con.
cerned, and all hands were busy and
all hearts bent on the one big task
When the Campaign Committee met
at :306 in the New Y. M. c. A.
building and the meeting called tc
order, supper was served Immediately
i'll the parlors, because the dining
room had been arranged for gymnas
tic exercises. LET us hear the re
port!" was the clarion call from
Chairman ]. c. Napier after devotion
lad been pronounced. Report! re
port!' Report!!! was sung to thu
tune of "Blest be the tie that Binds.
by every member of Divisions A an(
B. Notification and merriment wer,
rampant. The rivalry between til,
two divisions was keen, as Division
b under Gen Preston Taylor, Lieut.
Gen. Jasper T. Phillips, assisted b,
Mr.. Enoch Brown and Prof. T. E
Hardeman had led each night, not
withstanding Division A under MI
w. d. Hawkins with Lieut.. Gen. d
Wesley Crutcher, assisted by DR.. J
L. Leach and Mr.. r. Clay Moore, ha
given them run for their lives
The five teams under the captaincy q