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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-04-18
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thousands of pocket mirrors flashing in the sunlight
In the foreground, a German shell crumps fairly
into farm house.
The former occupants probably are tramping along
the roads, regrettng they left their home. The
house gives off white smoke for few minutes
then flag of flames mounts toward the sky.
Gas shells flop into dylic fields in full cultivation
Strangling vapors are trailing heavily across the
sprouting crops.
An apparently fearless crow is due for the surprise
of his life
The whole business looks unreal from this hilltop.
1t gives the impression of monster Open-ar spec
tace in COMMUNICATION of an important centennial.
This is enhanced when gunner duck from a
blazing battery bucket in hand and chase an
less red cow-foraging for the supper milk, like an
awkward stage hand engaged in some ridiculous
maneuver in the midst of an Irvingesque tragedy.
Even the Cat Leaves Thatched
Cottage, But Old Couple Stay
All the while you standing in front of tiny,
whitewashed and matched cottage, feeling alone in
world where everything is soldiers, death and
Your turn to 60 and halt-startled
Peering thru little square paned window, you see,
outlined against the darkened interior the white face
man, staring fixedly toward the plains. They have
lived in that cottage too long to leave it,
A little way down the slope German shell bursts
above similar cottage. Bits of red tiled roof fly in
every direction. Now the enemys artillery is regis
.tering on the hill
A tabbycat licking discarded "bully BEEF can,
scampers off thru hole in hedge Even he is de-
sorting the old place.
But inside the cottage the old man lays his hand on
the woman's shoulder. Together they watch the
fields below.
You move away, but something makes you walk on
tip-toe For these folks and those they symbolic the
the end Of the world seems to have come.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-04-18

! hang on until our big brother
comes. America is needed over
| there"
He declared the offensive can
push forward just as fast as
wave after wave of fresh troops
can be brought forward. Then
| it must peter out while the heavy
guns are being brought forward.
That Is the present condition of
the first offensive, he said.
Gen. Swinton told of how he
got the idea for the war tanks
which he said have saved count
less allied lives and millions of
dollars of munitions. In July,
1914, q British officer from Ant
werp wrote him about an Ameri-
can agricultural tractor that
could climb like hell. AS re-
suit of this letter he drew the
specifications for the war tank.
The purpose Of the tanks. he
said. is to destroy machine guns
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-04-18

know whatever the British and
French give up the Germans must
pay dearly for first he said.
The present advance simply
means that you at home must
fight harder to get the best
equipment and training for your
sons. We are waiting for those
sons of yours as one man waits
for a big brother-and we can
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-04-18

ct looks to me as II the pres
emit German offensive in the re-
gion Of Ypres is just about to be
frozen out as was the first Of
fensive," declared Maj. Gen. e. d.
Swinton of the British army. in
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-04-18

ventor of the British war tank,
outlining the battle situation at
the Commercial club Wednesday
night.
Just what may be the out
come cannot be foretold, but !
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-04-18
BY ALTMAN
BY AHERN

the war;" he said. at Is spend.
ing this amount every second OF
the day and every day OF the
year"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-04-18

and so protect the infantry.
Frank G. Odell, personally
representing Sec. McAdoo, spoke
in the interests of the Third Lib
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-04-18

erty loan.
Each time the clock ticks off
second, it is ticking off $277|
that the U. s. is spending to win
The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1918-12-17
US. MEN TO MEET (.
TOMORROW WITH THE
LOCAL WAR BODIES
Will Discuss the Placing Of Mill.
tary Men in Industrial Life Up
on Their Return From Army
Camps.

Representatives OF the United
States employment service. state coun-
ell OF decense. community labor
boards. state advisory board of the
employment service ana state cxamin-
cr's office. Will meet tomorrow norm
INK AZ the Chamber OF Commerce
building with local leaders Of the va
riOus war work organizations to dis
cuss the employment Of military men
of New Mexico after they are dis
charged from service.
The meeting Is called for 1880
o'clock. II. 4. Macpherson will repre-
sent the u. :. employment service and
Charles Springer Will represent the
state council OF defense. Agricultural
agents of the ~ paso and Southwest
ern railway and members OF the Red
Cross and other local organizations
viii also lie present.
the mayors and city attorneys Of
New Mexico. who are 10 assemble here
tomorrow, will probably attend the
meeting Of the employment service II
~ continues until Thursday. They have
been Invited 40 attend the confer
enCo.
The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1918-12-17
Food Heads Define
Wheat Conditions

The wheat situation In the United
States Is about AZ follows. said state
food administration Officers this morn
ing
ALLOWING 100000, 600 bushels for
consumption, 9S. 00O,000 bushels for
seed. 10000. 600 bushels TO carry over
Ia the ncS crop. there will he around
537, 000.o coo bushels for export Around
lis, 0O0. 600 bushels were exported
from July lat to- December list.
The original food administration
program for this yeac called for TO-
SOC. 600 tons OF breadstuffs for export
when, ~ -. wheat, wouid se about
$50 coo 900 bushels. II Is already APP
parent that this estimate must he
greatly increased. As investigation of
food conditions In Europe progresses,
the needs are found To- be much great
Ell than expected, n America Will
he called upon Ia ship more than the
original estimate Of 20.o0O, 600 M
But this will require careful conscrVa-
ton OF food In America. The surplus
otherwise will not reach the require.
ments for overseas.
The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1918-12-17

The name-Doau's inspires conf.
aence-Doan's Kidney pills for kidney
ing. Doan's Regulets for a mild lax
alive. Sold at all drug stores.
The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1918-12-17

on Thursday evening OF this week,
the Junior gymnasium class OF the
Y. NJ g A. will hold a championship
swimming contest nj the "f."
The four events OF the contest will
he a one-length swim, twenty yards;
diving stone gathering. and long
plunge. The hoy swimming first place
in each event will be given five points;
three points will he awarded for sec
ond place and one point for third
place. The champion will be- present
ed with an honor monogram for his
sweater.
Among those who have already en-
tered for the contest are Charlie Rem
fro, Billy O'lieillY, Henry Gerpherdie.
Billy Rogers, y. Salzier and \. Bryce.
II n expected that ~ least "a dozen
more will sign az for the event.
The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1918-12-17

Fish and Oysters served an styles
ON Wednesdays, Fridays aud Satur-
Ibcriy Dairy Lunch.
The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1918-12-17
Local Boy Reported
Missing Is Located
In German Hospital

word was received yesterday from
;he war department h q ksquipuio
Baca, lr, who Vas reported missing
in action on the French battle front
since August 20. has been located ia
"a German base hospital
Esquipuio Buca. although only c.eh-
teen years old, volunteered for SER
vice q fow days after war was declared
ana was sent to- a. training camp in
California. from whore he was snon
sen overseas. Iaca has seen action
since almost the first day AN Ameri-
can unit landed ON French soil. The
message from the war department
does not state how seriously Buca has
hcen injured.
The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1918-12-17
sTuCKnolpERs' MEETING

Kathleen Consolidated Copper co.
will hold their ANIMAL meeting Dec.
20th. 1915. at . o'clock. at lei West
venue FOR tho purpose of
eiectinr officers and other business
that may ZONE before the meeting
o. o. BEHBEk.
Secretary
The Washington times., 1918-02-01
TrOtzky Is Not Pleased
BE Has a Big Idea Of Freedom.

We hear today from Frotzy and learn that he is like
the watch at the mad halter s tea party.
The doormouse told Alice he had put the best butter in
the works Of that watch but nothing seems please it.
wouldn't go.
Nothing seems to please Trotzky, either
BE suspects that Woodrow Wilson is trying to build up
imperialistic America. IA
According Trotzy President Wilson does not go far
enough Ia s desire to give independence ttle people
Under Tfotzky ruling the British government would have
70 say Ireland Scotland and ree up gov
enents of your Own armies and naves of your you
want to,
Is Here in Ameica-to please Trot1y-we should have to
allow Rhode Island to secede from the United States New
port to secede from Rhode Island and send buffers
Senators to Washington cut of from Washington
trsy and go it alone In New York the East Side would
secede from the West Sds and Staten Island from North
America.
There are sweet dreams Of freedom that lead to non
sense and Russia is dreaming those dreams You can't
aow the right leg separate from the left Leg each hob
hing IN its own direction. The body needs two legs
What the world is watching in Russia experiment
anarchsc government the first of its kind big scale
The late Count Witte who here to represent Rus
a In the peace negotiations with Japan said to this writer
gDont itiese the Russian government harshly The
wonderful thing in Russia is that have ANY govern
ment'
They haven't any now and win not have any-exceptI
the machine gun for many day.
Europe used to devote its thinking to the Balkan prob
lem That win be baby problem hereafter compared with
the Russian problem
What to do with scores of millions that cannot read or
write led by handful Of earnest fanatics that have read too
much and thought too little is the problem.
The Washington times., 1918-02-01
Something on Rent Boosting
By EARL GOODWIN.
The johnson Rent Proatesring Bin Is sharp Medlein
win Not Inims the Ihnosent.


Individual members Of Congress predict an early enact
ment Of the johnson bill to curb rent proteerng in the Ma
tionaI Capital ~ =
While regret exceedingly the stigma such Law wiz
leave upon this city, the pful appeals made BY salary
bound Government clerks and Others against the gougng
practices OF some few hearess house tel Of tua
tion 70 be remedied only BY the drastic measures
Yet must not be carried away by the crysof rent
po6teerng The entire city has not gone into the business
of extoron has there been any concerted action
and exOrt from persons who must pay the price
sleep under the stars
What are the factsf
Members Of the Real Estate Brokers Association make
open declaration deplorng rent boosting They openly
advise their clients against taking advantage Of the
sold market for homes The members Of this Association
mnge conscience with their business Also they have long
heads They know fierce reaction win set against Wash
ngon after the If the property start In TO boost
prices Just because there is crowd in the city
On the other hand all the real estate do not belong
to that association and the District Committee Of the House
has many letters accusing OF excessive rent exo
ton The facts the of many choice apartment and
hotel apparent and it is these garng examples
fear that Congress viii enact this antrent boosting law
in such that the whole city win be held up the
ton as a band Of pirates
seems that some people have boosted their rentas
excessively and have not raised their rentals at ALL
For the benefit Of the city and for the sake Of justice
trust that those who have played the Shylock viii get
their deserts and that those who have acted with wisdom
and humanity viii not suffer for the sins Of the Others
The Washington times., 1918-02-01
There Will Be No Idle Rich
In World
By Mrs. Wilton Woodrow

70 the parasite have been swept
away. These arguments affirm that
neither physically nor mentally was
she equipped to stand side by side
with man in his various occupal
lions. It was apparently solid
ground, but 1t turned into q quag-
mire before such facts. and figures
as England produces today. with
her 100000 women in munitions
and her 25s,300 women con the
land"
As for the drudge, she either
didn't permit herself to think or
else she carefully suppressed her
thoughts; otherwise she would
have filled the world with her iron
ical laughterl Fancy telling q
woman who scrubbed and cooked
and washed and ironed and darned
and mended and cleaned all day
long for q large family, and bore
children the while, and tended and
cared for them. that she was not
capable Of the physical and ner-
Vous strain Of most Of the occu-
pations Of men. "
Let US imagine a man coming
home from the war. His wife, let
US say. has become an expert work.
er In the manufacture Of aircraft.
He Is an expert worker In steel.
He says to her: 81 have secured q
fine job at the best wages; now
you can stop working and come
back and take care Of the home
and the children again"
What Is she going to answer?
Her reply will be that Of many Of
her sisters:
IL. too, am an expert ! am
making as much money a. you are
l like my work, ! am not willing
to give It up. Formerly took
care Of the house and children, but
now i think / have q better plan
Together we can pool our wages
and have certain comforts and
amusements for ourselves and the
children which heretofore we have
been unable to AFFORD.
81 do not and never did enjoy
the work OF housekeeping. but now
we can hire some one to do 1t who
does like It, and who will, there
fore, be more efficient than | ever
was. / earn my own wages and /
am used to spending them In my
own way. You thought various Of
my tastes were foolish and be-
grudged me the money for them;
now the money that ! lay aside
from our common expenses l shall
use or invest a. ! please"
The Washington times., 1918-02-01
SPLENDORS OF SKY
Wonderful Aspects Of Great Consultations and
Star Clouds
BY Garrett P. Serviss.
ConstelIations and

company Il good. and thought ny
Southern sky Would match your
Northern one because II was good
asa whole.
1Never have / seen 50 much of
the heavenly vault occupied. ]
thought, too, that night, Of the
hundreds Of people living under
that canopy, who are sleeping IN
ignorance Of the display they had
but to walk outdoors 70 see; and
when spoke to . fellow-passen-
ger, who had impatientiv switched
on the lights again. he looked ct
me as If I were q hrnatie, and
grinned HkeAo himself as he
asked: is it trao that Mars is
inhabited ?'S
Gods Big Purpose.
Mr.. Forests sarcastic fellow
passenger represents q very nu-
merous species Of the genius hO-
mo sapiens, whose sapience does
not rise to the levels Of the uni
verse. But perhaps Il he had be-
held that sublime spectacle the
scales Of this little world would
have dropped from his eyes. The
audience in this coy round thea
ter Of ours, the earth, with its
open views in AL directions Of the
crowning marvels Of creation,
numbers about 1900 millions,
1,4O0, 900, 900, say, seated north Of
the equator, and 200, 900 900 occu-
pying the opposite benches, south
Of the equator. Perhaps the chief
reason why the Almighty admit
ted them for q brief space into the
celestial coliseum was IN order
that, through their eyes, their
minds might be uplifted. But,
installing the intention, 50 much
above their comprehension, Ike
ants in a palace, the majority Of
them never looked upward, but
eagerly run about the floor en-
tranced with the cracks and the
dust-holes.
Mr.. Forrest has not spoken Of
q feature Of the southern view Of
the heavens which often has q re-
markable effect upon c traveller
from the North. Wellington,
New. Zealand, p little farther
south Of the suator than New
York is north Of It. For Us the
ecliptie, which marks the center
Of the zodiac. the track along
which the sun, the moon and the
planets pursue their wav through
the sky, lies south Of the Zenith
throughout its course.
The Washington times., 1918-02-01
Love Will Do AS Nothing
Else For A Baby
By Winifred d Black

must have TO be any kind Of nor
NAL, healthy human being at all.
Love-that's the oId-fashioned
tonic; that's the appetite bringer;
that's the growth promoter. No
nursery should be without it.
always IN the home nursery?
No, It isn't Il should be, but
sometimes it isn't.
Don't you know mothers who are
just about as much fitted to have
the care Of little children as q
typewriter is to trim a hat?
Not bad women either, not con-
sciously selfish. not willfuIly indif-
ferent, but Just self-absorbed Srea-
lures who can't forget themselves
long enough to remember how it
feels to be little and helpless and
lonesome and want your mother
not some one else's mother, not q
hired mother, paid so much a week
to keep the ribbons fresh and the
hair curled, but q real mother who
has foolish little motherly ways,
with kisses and cuddles in them.
Love Works Miracles.
/ know a woman who loves her.
children inordinately-at least she
says she does, but she never spends
minute with them IL she can find
any excuse to get away from them.
started to tell one Of them a
= fairy story the other day. and
she'd never heard one in all her
life.
There's another woman / know
who keeps a notebook and sets
down In 1t every time her baby
gets a new tooth or a new spear
of hair or turns over In bed. She's
making a study OF 1t, Temperament
tally, scientifically, hereditarily-
and she doesn't seem to care any
more for the real little hesh-and-
blood baby that's just aching to be
loved and not to be studied than
she does for q problem in arith-
metic.
Love-that's what they all need.
It's what none of US can live and
live sanely and naturally and hap
PLY without.
Love will do what nothing else
on earth could do. IL will remold a
character, turn a plain face into a
beautiful one, soften a hard heart.
turn stray feet from an evil path,
reach down into the very grave it.
self and pull the dying back to life.
, No wonder the babies In their
cribs want II and die by thousands
because they cannot get It.
Copyright. Dis, by Newspaper Enterprise
ssTvisS, 1na ossAt RE.lpiA Fishts Ess-Eysd.l
The Washington times., 1918-02-01

M r. HAL FORREST has sent
M me q description Of view
4 of the Southern winter
heavens which Is so vivid that 1
want to put it before all my
readers:
1T was July, and the air was
very crisp. Our train. running
from Auckland to Wellington. New
Zealand, had been delayed BY iand-
slides, and we did not reach the
capital city until about 3 O'Clock
In the morning. About half an
hour before that time we stopped
on signal at q siding. The COM
partment was stuffy, ami / stepped
out into the cold night for fresh
air. There were no lights save
the lanterns Of the train guards,
and as / instinctively looked over
head I beheld the most wonderful
sky It has ever been my fortune
10 see.
Dome Of Aladdin.
Millions upon millions Of gor-
geous jewels set In black velvet.
Diamonds Of all hues! Sapphires!
fRubies! And then for the frst
time I realized what was meant by
starlight. I seemed to stand under
the roof Of a great Aladdin palace.
The stars seemed so near the earth
thai the scene was overpowering.
"The shouting OF a train guard
awakened me rudely from my
semi-trance, and l jumped on the
steps OF the carriage and gained
my compartment as the train
started. Once inside Immediate
ly extinguished the lights and
sought to locate, from the window,
some Of my new friends among the
consultations, ! can remember
now distinctly the Milky Way and
the Magellan clouds. the triangle
formed by Achernar, FormAlhaut
and Alpha Pavonis, and the glorious
Scorplo viewed, as It only can be
rightly, from the southern hemis-
phere. the red Antares glowing
magnihcently. l thought OF what
you had written about the splen-
doris OF the Northern sky in winter.
when Orion and Taurus. with their
wonderful first magnitude stars,
and Sirius, Prooyon. the Twins and
Capella are all In the sky at one
time. and l wished that you were
there to see, what i saw. Some
times a theatrical production gilt
ters because Of its individual stars
and other times because the whola
The Washington times., 1918-02-01
M IsS JULIA LATHRoP. the
W head, OF the Children's Bu-

M ISS JULIA LATHROP, the
W head, Of the Children's Bu-
AA reau In Washington, has
Just made her annual report. and
some Of the things she says in
that report are well worth read
ing-and remembering.
Here's one of them:
The children whose mother goes
out to work and leaves them to the
care of some one else. and the
children whose mother dies and
who are sent to an institution. even
where there is a good trained
nurse and q doctor In constant at
tendance, have by actual statistics
Just one-half the chance to live and
to grow up as the children who
are brought up by their own moth
ers.
What do you think of that?
After all our earnest working to
learn how to be scientific and nom
emotional and non-sentimental
with our childreni
The ungrateful, unfeeling. outra-
geous little things! There they lie
In their cradles and defy US and
our science and our hygiene and
all the rest Of It, and don't care to
live unless they can have a real.
sure enough mother to love them
and pet them, and spoil them and
take care Of them.
What? Not, even cradles won't
kill them II there's a mother at
tached TO the rocker!
They'll even live II they are fed
when they're hungry and not when
the nurse thinks they ought to be.
Baby Needs-MOther.
They'll defy heat and cold, and
too much pettin1 and too much
rocking and too much foorwalk-
ing, and gurgle and giggle and get
fat on it-just as long as there's
foolish. loving, irresponsible, in
competent mother somewhere
around to love them and to be
loved.
Therei> If Miss Julia Lathrop
never does another thing in all her
life, she's done enough IN this re-
port of hers to make US write her
name down in letters Of gold, or
at least Of silver, and hang it
somewhere on the wall where we
can get up and look at it every
time the ultra-scientific, ultra-ad-
vanced, ultra-emotional lecturers
and would-be practitioners begin
to lecture and to try to make US
practice.
Mother-that's the one thing the
little, helpless, loving, tender crea-
tura vA sau . baby needs and
The Washington times., 1918-02-01
A California Prohibition Idea
Sound. It Would Mean Real Temperance.

Two classes not willing to listen to reason in regard to
the great temperance question are
First the saloon man. who demands the right to sell
whiskey make drunkards Of men and ruin their families
Second the sincere but misguided absolute prohibition
lists that demand the right to put absolute prohibition upon
the statute books thus nsurng the secret sale and Of
Whskey, and put this country whiskey basis
IN the days Of Jefferson!
middle path: