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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-03-22

INITIAL RESOLUTION 1868, FOR
GRADING AND SIDEWALKS I'M
PROVEMENT.
BE 1T RESOLVED BY THE CITY
COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF Ia
COMA:
That 1t Is the intention of said
council to order the local improve
ment hereinafter set forth, and TO
levy and collect special assessments
to pay the cost and expense of such
Improvement, upon the real prop
erty which is hereinafter described,
to the extent that such property
shall be benefited thereby.
That said improvement shall con-
sist of grading to the established
grade Birmingham Street and War
to the southerly lines of South
Park. and South SIND Street from
Warner Street to South Park, with
roadway twenty-four CAD feet In
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-03-22
On To World Democracy!

The clouds tickenng
to declaration of hostite
Ordinarily, has sdethe
side the side which makes widows orphans children
cippes and of our manhood
But behind the of
looms tremendous opportunity
awfulness of war loses the faint of barbasm thereby
THE WAR HAS BECOME A STRUGGLE BETWEEN DEMOCRACY
AND AUTOCRACY.
1t has dmoacyin gaining it's
directly from evuon feeling intrigs
kaiser
The United States entering into the furnish that spark
lend the needed to the brave liberals
as dominion who been out against the rule of arism
And Russia looking
against German the thing
Russia which, though brought into being still
OF
War? It is awful pspectbu it's reward likely be great
THE DEMOCRATIZNG OF THE WHOLE WORLD!
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-03-22
$4,000 JACKRABBITS
KILLED IN OREGON

PORTLAND, Or, March 22. :
Fifty thousand. jackrabbits were
killed In four Eastern Oregon
counties in last winters campaign
said r. A. Ward, of the u. s. bu-
reau OF biology today. Poison
was used.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-03-22

What the allied cause has been most in danger Of.
Russia's making separate peace with Germany
seems to have been avoided by the simple process of
firing a man who was run by his wife. They might
and begin all over again in Hesse- Darmstadt bum
gaoW
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-03-22

The auxiliary to the United
Commercial Travellers will meet
Friday afternoon at the home of
Mrs. Henry Thompson, 1905 North
18th street.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-03-22

Mecca in Arab hands and Bagdad possessed by the
British Where would Mohammedans 60 if they lost
Constantinople? It's becoming most unhoy war
FOR the Turks anyhow
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-03-22
We Would Not!

Should President Wilson undertake dissolve
gress. would have revolution put Mike
In the saddle?
We would not! Examining dumas distribution o
pork wen take oath that would
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-03-22

Mrs. Albert Averill, who has
been seriously i'll the past month,
will go to the st. Joseph's hospital
to undergo an operation.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-03-22

The Progressive Psychic society
will give card party Friday even
ing at 223 South Tacoma avenue.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-03-22

Miss Helen +. Driver will go to
the st. Joseph's hospital today to
undergo an operation for appendi-
citis.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-03-22

say a few words to the girl
who signs herself Just 16."
She has the right idea. and II
she keeps that in her mind as
she grows to be a woman, she
will have more friends than
she would if she let every boy
kiss her. /, too, am a girl IL
years old. have been out
with boys who have asked me
for kiss, and when | refused,
they refused also to take me
out, so you see that class OF
boys care little for a girl
when she will not let them do
as they please. | went with
one boy and he asked If he
could kiss me good night and
when / said mo-" he told me
he thought more of me than
If | had consented. | have
been going with him for a
year and half and expected
to be married soon.
A LITTLE BRUNETTE.
Q.-Have been going with
a girl six months, and am get
ting very much interested in
her, but have never met her
father. Do you think she is
unintentionally avoiding our
meeting? Should the friend
ship be continued If she does
not arrange this little formal
ity? JOHN.
A.-Perhaps the girl is ignoran
of her duty; or her father may b
ignorant of his respons
bility as host to all who come IN
der his roof. Suggest to the yOun
woman that you would find pleas
ure i'm meeting her father.
al am a girl 81 years
old, a little above medium
height, and not bad looking.
l have neat clothes. try to
be jolly, and am told that
am good-hearted. Don't think
l have too good an opinion of
myself, for on the contrary,
l think something must be
lacking because boys never
seem to take a liking to me.
They never call on me. What
shall l do? 1t is only natural
that I should feel blue.
GREY MOUSE.
A.-SOme persons think the
get what they want by keepin
their minds on the subject. Other
believe that they attract what the
want only when they stop thinkin
about Ii.
Probably one method has a
great an influence as the other up
on shaping the future. But feel
Ing "blue" will certainly neve
draw any friend to you. Better for
get about the boys for awhile, an
trust the unexpected to happen
IL does.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-03-22
What People
Are Doing

Tacoma court No. 2, Tribe OF
BEN Hur, will give Ben Hur en-
tertainment and box social at 3
p. m. Thursday at Fraternity hall,
1117h Tacoma ave. All members
of the order, their families and
friends are invited. Women will
bring lunch boxes to be sold to the
highest bidders. A surprise pro-
gram has been planned.
Chapter @ of the =. Il. o. will
hold a special meeting Saturday
afternoon at the home of Mrs.
Dwight Phelps, 902 North X st.
Mrs. Stephen j. Chadwick of
Olympia, state organizer, will pay
the Tacoma chapter an official
visit.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-03-22

what do you think or this news from London?
for whom the worst said is that lacks and
Poor fellow You're only fool and moral weaking
have to angling for sympathy to fish in
Pacifists remind us of the old Mssourian who
wouldn't mend his eaky roof in fair weather because
It didn't need mending then, or in wet weather. be-
cause it was too late.
In Cousin Wilhelm's place, we'd put our best GEN.
sor on incoming reports of that Russian revolution
A mans opinions are generally of much more
value than his arguments. Holmes.
We must make our own public opinion to buoy us
up in every loftier aspiration
The Double Standard
sad OF 1s-year-old Seattle now
or D s s the ~sss ns o
At best, It is another of the double standard of
morality with all its Injustice and nhumanity.
British imports increased by about SIT 900 dur
ing February. Doesn't look much like unrestricted
starvation.
Well here's one real preparedness measure. They're
calling on New York police to guard the harbor forts
Last wooden sleeping cars are bound for the Junk
pile. But it's just as hard to sleep in the steel ones
Spring comes on March 20, at 113O p. m. That's
really better time to celebrate than New Years
Edison is trying to perfect smoke screen for the
navy. How often he must wish he hadn't declared
against cigarets
New York has proposals for cat tax, and one leg
islator wants a tax on frogs. We suppose New Jer-
yey will tax mosquitoes now, and San Francisco place
levy on fleas
One way Germany can make herself popular is by
tying can to the H-yiser
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-03-22

Pacifists remind us of the old Missourian who
wouldn't mend his leaky roof in fair weather because
It didn't need mending then, or in wet weather be
cause it was too late
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-03-22

In Cousin Wilhelm's place, we'd put our be
sor on incoming reports of that Russian revol,
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-03-22
Only His Worst

What do you think of this from London?
Pity and sympathy expressed for the Russia
for whom the worst said that he lacks intellectual
moral strength"
Poor fellow! You're only a fool a weakingi
Jimminy! This ought up Nicholas But, we
have angling for sympathy we're going
London.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-03-22
The Double Standard

In the sad OF 19-year-od Mabel
suicide plain from the evidence that directly
responsible for her DEATH whether he actually
At best, 1t is another of the double standard OF
morality with all its injustice and Humanity
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-03-22

Last wooden sleeping cars are bound for [
pile. But it's just as hard to sleep in the stee
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-03-22

A mans opinions are generally of mucl
value than his arguments. Holmes.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-03-22

Attest W. d. NICKEUS,
City Clerk.
March 22. 20. 1911
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-03-22

Spring comes on March 20, at 1870 p. !
really better time to celebrate than New Y
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-03-22

One way Germany can make herself pop
wing acan to the XII wiser.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-03-22

Dear Miss Grey: After ar
irving at the staid age of 80
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-03-22

Well, here's one real preparedness measure.
calling on New York police to guard the harbo
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-03-22

against cigarets.
The Washington times., 1917-03-23
CHINA TO HONOR JOHN HAY
Memorial to "open Door" Champion
VIII Be In PekIng.

China is preparing to. honor the
memory OF John Hay, originator OF
the policy of the open door. as no
other foreigner has been honored in
China.
DR.. V. K. Wellington Koo. Chinese
minister here, has been advised by
one OF the leaders OF the Chinese SEN
ate that a bill had been introduced In
the parliament and was virtually as
sured OF passage for the erection of
monument to the former American
Secretary OF State in the Central Park
of Peking.
John Hay is regarded by the Chi
nese as one OF the best friends that
country ever had. In the last years
OF the nineteenth century there was a
scramble among the European powers
to obtain concessions Of territory,
spheres Of influence and exclusive
commercial rights in China from the
decadent Manchu dynasty.
At the critical moment Secretary
Hay, by announcing that the United
States stood for equal commercial
privileges in China for all nations and
for the integrity and independence of
that country, practically put a halt to
the movement.
The Washington times., 1917-03-23

fall of the German empire. Upon
the ruins of war it should be pos
sible for these allied nations to con-
cert measures that will bring endur-
ing peace, to study questions of dis
armament and of using the arma-
ment that remains as a force for
policing the world; and the United
States, now that it has been vir-
tually forced into the war, will fur
ther the prospects of enduring peace
by becoming one of the allied ma
tions before the war ends. A war
with Germany which ignores, or
duplicates, or interferes with the
warfare which the allies are success
fully conducting will be the height
of folly. Let fools try to salve their
conscience by talking about a little
war and about the avoiding of en-
tangling alliances at this crisis in
the worlds history.
The Washington times., 1917-03-23
MONEY AT FIVE PER CENT

The most direct attack that has
recently been made on the H. C. of l..
is the announcement of the Federal
Farm Loan Board that the interest
rate on all farm loans throughout the
country will be s. per cent. A rate
of Az per cent on bonds issued by
the land banks was also announced.
The creation of the Farm Loan
Board has been followed by declining
rates of interest to farmers with
mortgages to renew. But long time
loans at 5 per cent on farm lands
will seem almost too good to be true
in many sections of the country,
where the rates have ranged from
8 to IL per cent, not counting the
bonus to be paid to the agent Sc
curing the loan. No borrower was
ever subject to the lender as the
American farmer has been and the
result is not only seen but felt in
the moving Of the people from the
country to the town, the decreasing
amount of foodstuffs raised for an
increasing population and the high
cost of living to the more than so
per cent of the population who can
not be classed now as rural.
Cheaper money means better
equipment, better methods of farm
ing, more fertilizers, better breeds of
stock, and the ability to hold ones
products for the best market. Farm
ing life made attractive again, we
may count on larger proportion of
tillable land being put under culti-
walton, upon a larger class of land
owners and a decreasing army of
When the investing
public discovers how safe the farm
bank bonds are, there will be plenty
of money to go around. But for the
present per cent is the limit of in
terest that the farmer must pay.
The Washington times., 1917-03-23
AMERICAN DOLLARS ABROAD

However much money our manu-
facturers m>v be taking out of GER
tain countries C. Europe, there is one
land where we lose money, accord
ing to the report of a returning
traveller. In Spain, it is said, the
American dollar is worth SO cents.
This is laid to the absence of a
general American bank agency in
Spain.
Certainly there should be such an
agency to make advantageous ar
rangements for the handling of
money. There are more substantial
properties than "castles in Spain" to
be disposed of there. Our consuls
tell US that the opportunities for
business are highly alluring. These
ought to be studied and taken ad-
vantage of.
But whatever is done in other mat
ters, simply as a matter of national
honor it should not be said that
American travellers cannot secure
exchange on their cash at a reason
able rate in one of the great coun-
tries of Europe.
The Washington times., 1917-03-23
AN INTERESTING LINE

A member of the legislature of
Illinois is undertaking to have the
State law establish and enforce a
most interesting line, beyond which,
in a sense, it will be a misdemeanor
to venture.
His proposition is that it shall be
unlawful for any woman or girl to
attend a dance within the State of
Illinois, wearing a garment which
exposes any portion of the female
fern divine below a line extending
from shoulder point to shoulder
point. Appropriate penalties are
provided in his measure for the pun
ishment of violators of the laws pro-
visions.
We can't understand why any
human being, especially a man,
should desire to rob an observant
world of so much of its most inter-
esting scenery. There is little
enough of beauty in this old world,
and the war in Europe is destroying
a vast deal of that which has here
tofore been in existence. Why
should it be thought wise to hide a
large portion of the beauty upon
which we have been accustomed 20
feast our wistful eyes? Wherein
lies the advantage to mankind in the
prohibition of the V-waists and the
substitution therefor of garments on
the painful level from shoulder
point to shoulder point?
The constituents of the honorable
member who fathered this cruel
measure should send him to the
bench as soon as the inning is over.
He has no more business in a legis-
lature of sane people than a billy
goat has on the vacant throne of the
Romanoffs. He should be sent to
detention camp and interned until
such time as his longing for a sight
of the 1917 model peekaboo waist
and its contents becomes so strong
that he is entirely willing to repent
of his unorthodox views.
We have no fear that he will be
retained in power in his bailiwick.
The women of Illinois have the vote
now, and they will no doubt soon
settle with a mere man who has the
temerity to offer measures in the
legislature designed to restrict the
personal liberty of the ladies to dis
play their beauty, adorned or other
wise, to an appreciative world.
The Washington times., 1917-03-23
PRESS AIDS GARDEN PLAN
Fifty Newspapers Willing to Co.
operate With Food Commission.

More than fifty kilograms were re-
ceived' today from newspapers in all
parts OF the United States signifying
their willingness to cooperate with the
National Emergency Food Garden Com
mission in its effort to enlist a million
young city farmers this summer. Tele-
grams were sent out from Washington
today to mayors Of more than 100 cities
asking them to cooperate with the COM
mission in urging the boys. girls. and
adults. who never have done 50 before.
to plant gardens. The telegram. signed
by Charles L. Pack, president. follows:
National Emergency Food Garden
Commission. organized to inspire plant
ing Of one million food gardens this
year, for overcoming food deficiency
and reducing living cost. requests your
cooperation. Please ask your citizens
to plant home food gardens and request
your newspapers to encourage the move
ment."
That this country. in its preparation
for any emergency. must utilize every
available back yard and vacant plot Of
ground to increase the food production
is the commissions intention Govern
ment officials. members Of the commits
sion, point out that a sufficient food
crop Is Just as important In time Of war
as a highly trained army with plenty
of munitions.
The Washington times., 1917-03-23
SPEAKER CLARK IN NEW Or
LEANS

The Speaker has been paying his
respects to his newly arrived grand
son, so the news dispatches tell US.
Doubtless the pleasure of his visit to
New Orleans was unalloyed. But we
wonder if there was not a little po-
litical business of Importance mixed
with this pleasure trip. Louisiana
sent to Congress, in the election last
fall, one W. P. Martin, who styles
himself a Progressive Protectionist,
and belongs to the group of five In
dependents.
The Independents are hard enough
to classify, but this new form of
hyphenism, called Progressive-Pro-
tectionism, has been very difficult
to catalogue. The Republicans are
now playing for an even break, with
the New York and New Hampshire
vacancies untitled, and three of the
Independents, including Martin, vot-
ing with themselves. If Martin
should help the Democratic side with
his vote that party would be able to
organize the House.
If anybody can persuade Martin
to cast his lot with the Democrats
of the House, Speaker Clark is the
man for the job. He can argue that
Progressivism is not a Republican
monopoly. AS for Protection, It only
means in Martins estimation some
thing done for sugar, and the Repub-
lcans cannot promise that this ses-
sion, with the Senate and the Presi-
dent of another mind. The appeals
to Martin to stand by the majority
opinion Of his own section would be
rather strong. And then there might
be the patriotic appeal, that the Ad-
ministration, with war existing,
should have the entire sympathy of
both houses of Congress.
At all events. it would pay to
watch the results of the visit of
Speaker Clark to New Orleans. It
may prove to have been a historic
visit, and the political battle of New
Orleans may take its place in the an
nails of the Republic.
The Washington times., 1917-03-23
THE NEW LEAGUE TO ENFORCE
PEACE

1t will consist for the present of
the United States of America, Great
Britain, France, Russia, Belgium,
Italy, Roumania, Japan, China, and
any other nations that may come in
to enforce peace upon Germany.
Germany and her allies may be ad-
mitted when the war is over and the
conditions Of peace have been made
and accepted. Promise of good be-
havior on their part will be probably
held Of less value than the depriva-
ton of power for a long time to
come to make war.
The newspapers and public men
who are urging half-measures upon
the United States at this juncture
are warning against alliance with
the entente powers. One paper goes
so far as to suggest that we should
arm our ships at the same time to
break the blockade which Germany
is attempting by her submarine cam
paign and break the blockade which
Great Britain has accomplished
under the necessary provisions of
seizure and search for contraband.
If we go into the war to break the
British blockade, our aid to Germany
would be very acceptable and she
could only ask for continued hos
tilities on our part. There is no
course open to US, once we enter the
war, and no other would be ad-
visable if it were, than to become
allies Of the allied nations in the
war against Germany. Cooperation
of all the powers that have been
drawn into the war by the miscon-
duct Of Germany is the only hope of
victory and cooperation in war
means alliance. Such an alliance
will be league to enforce peace; it
will be a league that will hasten
eesce through Fastening the down.
The Washington times., 1917-03-23
Dorin I'm .Sadko.n

To Doris Faithful, who danced the
Sea Princess in the Diaghileff bal
kov opera.
o Antick OF old Athens, Bottom, thou
Who wooed the faery queen as
clods must WOO,
/ too am numbered of thy clumsy
crew,
For 1 have delved strange oceans,
and somehow
feel the sea still damp upon my
brow;
Phantoms and legends, and old
loves and new,
Charms cast by purple mermaids,
iris dew,
And feet jocose perplex my long
ears now.
And One there was, like thee trans
planted far
Amid strange lands and strangest
folk, what yet
Gave England back some Joy OF
England born,
Where Beauty, like a white Arthurian
star,
Trips forth across her emerald
parapet,
And Nereus broods beneath a cliff
forlorn.
EARL SIMONSON.