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The Dolores star., 1918-09-13
Wears Gas Mask
Over Cook Stove

hut she huns, under her breath. at
her work.
Even before the hot chocolate II
quite ready, the boys begin to arrive.
They come in tin hats with gas masks
hanging at their Sides Her own he'll
met and mask are on the shelf behind
her.
"Hot chocolate ready?" the first one
asks.
1t with her long spoon. She fills one
Of the tin cups from the mantelpiece.
"Um-D-m."' says the youngster.
That's good and thick. Give us a
package OF cookies"
He takes his tin cup and his cookies
to IN empty packing box in the cor
ner. sits down, and feasts slowly and
luxuriously. Another boy is at the
board that serves as counter.
Gives the Home Touch.
Some of the boys stop to gossip.
when the edge is taken of their
thirsts and hungers.
"Remember Bill Johnson?' they ask
Mrs. Simmons. She does. He was
the boy who always took three cups
Of chocolate
ale won't any more for awhile"
they tell her. stopped one in the leg
last night.
"Oh. that's too bad" she says, just
the way she would say 1t at home II
she heard that Johnnie had the
measles.
That's the thing about Mrs. Sim
mons and such women. She brings
to the boys a constant reminder Of
the women they have left behind, Of
their mothers and their sisters and
their wives. She talks in the most
casual American way about things
that are neither casual nor American.
After the last Of her. soldiers has
put on his tin hat and gone down
the hill into the valleys from which
they start for their outposts she be-
gins talking very simply about her
work.
There is not mother or wife or
sister OF any one Of these boys who
wouldn't give all she has to be where
am today" she says. Just think
what privilege II is to talk to them.
and to see that they are well and
happy, and that their clothes are
whole. Women. you know, worry
most about their uncertainties If /
could only tell the people who are
worrying about these boys how husky
and cheerful their youngsters are
That's what would make them happy.
Every time I get tired, I just think
how many thousands of women would
he the happiest persons on earth IL
they could be where I am. Oh, it's
great ~ go
The Dolores star., 1918-09-13
BY ROY s. DURsTINE.

Paris.-Some day the story of what
American women have done over here
In France will be written. People
will hear. then, about the women who
are cooking and baking for the Amer
lean boys with their helmets and gas
masks on the Shelf next the baking
powder can. They will learn of the
casual herOines who see nothing re-
markable In making hot chocolate in
siiacks where the rain and the snow
come In on then, through fresh shell
holes in the roof
One Of the women people will hear
about will be Mrs. Clara Simmons.
She Is as close to the front line
here as any woman Is permitted to
so. For many days, during the active
fighting just over the hill from her.
she was the only woman In the entire
area. That didn't bother her at all.
The boys wanted hot chocolate, and
she could make 1t. So there you are.
And there she was.
She Is little bit Of America. of
American womanhood, dropped right
down in the middle Of the fighting
zone. She looks more like home to
the boys than anything In the world,
except letter. She has no pic
turesque ideas about carrying culture
and uplift to the soldiers. She's
there to work for them.
She works with huge mixing bowl
full Of pulverized chocolate. and seven
or eight open cans Of condensed milk
on the table. On the rickety stove
where the old fireplace used to be, q
great kettle of hot water is simmer
ing. She stirs and pours. and pours
and stirs, till the air Of the little
shack is as fragrant as that of
candy store at home.
A convoy Of camions rumbIes past
her door. They are almost at the end
Of their journey. German territory
isn't half II dozen kilometers away.
Mrs. Simmons knows that, of course.
The Dolores star., 1918-09-13
CHAIN HUNS TO GUNS

''One day we were lying in support
and We're pretty tired, for we had been
In for good many days. Our lieu
tenants came back from headquarters
and passed the word that for the last
three days the newspapers in France.
England and the States were full o.
nothing but the United States marines.
We were SO glad to hear that that
we felt like arising and strolling into
Berlin.
Il suppose you are reading about
the marines successes and telling
everybody. 4 told you SOL LIDO not
like to brag. so I will only say that
there may be better fighting men in
the world, but up to date no one has
ever heard OF them. We have been
through some hard fighting lately.
After the first four days the Germ
had to chain his men to the guns.
take off your hat to the Y. NJ. c. A.
II anyr..e tells You they are slackers,
hit him right on the nose. They were
up on the line with stretchers and
smokes" A@
The Dolores star., 1918-09-13
pershine Paid for pia.

Tue French papers delight In an
ec'iotcs Of the good relations between
the American soldiers and the peas
ants. One Of these stories, with which,
General PershinG's name Is coupled.
u printed this week
n big American automobile tore
through n French village on its way
tn an American camp says Lyons
Paper. unfortunately a pig belong
ing 10 an old peasant woman straye'l
into the pnth OF the car and was killed.
The old lady was heartbroken. But a
few days later letter came for her.
inclosing a check for 100 francs. and
saying how sorry the writer was for
the death OF her pig.
THE signature was that Of General
rcrshin-."
The Dolores star., 1918-09-13
They Don't Like the Marine
Brand of Fighting.
Devil Doc" Tells in Letter Home Of
Some Wonderful Cases Of
Gameness.

Chicago.-Word has been received
from Dana b. Thrasher. with the Sixth
regiment OF the United States ma
rines, telling of the fighting on the
west front in France. in which his
regiment took part. The young ma
rine expresses deep admiration for his
fellow fighters and advises a blow in
The nose for the man who calls the Y.
NJ. C. A. men slackers.
II have seen some wonderful cases
nf gameness. We were lying in a
:avine one day when the Germ was
sheliing. An American fell down. on
top OF us with both legs shot Off. All
he said was: Tn sorry to bother you
guya. Can you beat It?
The Dolores star., 1918-09-13
LEMON JUICE
TAKES OFF TAN
Girls! Make bleaching lotion
if skin is sunburned,
tanned or freckled

squeeze the juice OF two lemons into
bottle containing three ounces of
Orchard White. shake well. and you
have quarter pint of the best freckle.
sunburn and tan lotion. and complexion
peautih"r, ut very. very small cost.
Your grocer has the lemons and any
drug Store or toilet counter will supply
three ounces of Orchard White for a
few cents. Massage this swectly fra
grant lotion into the face. neck, arms
and hands each day and see how freck-
les, sunburn, windburn and tan dIsap-
pear AMI how clear. soft and white the
skin becomes. Yes! 1t is harmless
Adv.
The Dolores star., 1918-09-13
Hot Stuff.

One negro porter was getting en-
thnslastic over cigars. Brother" he
said TO his companion. '.when I die
want a box OF cigars tucked under
one arm"
"What kind do you prefer?' asked
the other.
"Just anything. A 27-cent near Ha-
vnna will do"
Near Havana? Say. when you're
dend for two days you'll think Havana
used to be as cold as the winds that
blow over Greenland's ley mountains"
The Dolores star., 1918-09-13
All Figured Out.

Jack took great pride In dressing up
In his little soldiers uniform and drill
ing with his air rife. When his uncle
came home on furlOugh. Jack.
stretching to his full height. with a
serious and important air. told him:
Next year III he old enough to go to
kindergarten. and then the year after
that I'm going to the war"
The Dolores star., 1918-09-13
Thirsty Thieves Busy,

Asheville. n. C.-Despite a watch
man and triple-locked safety" door.
thirsty thieves recently obtained IS
pint TASKS of contraband whisky from
the steel storage cage in the United
States marshal's office here, leaving
no c1ew.
The Dolores star., 1918-09-13

tf.ifiin. a Baltimore Protestant Episco-
pal clergyman serving as chaplain
With the Fifth field artillery. the regi-
ment that fired Americas first shot in
the war, has written letter TO DR..
Henry Barton Jacobs, prominent BAL
timOrean, which was printed in full In
ATae current issue OF the Manufacturers
Record, in which he discusses at length
.cruelties inflicted by the Germans upon
seivilians and soldiers.
II feel" he says, that l express the
sentiment Of those who have seen and
heard over here. when say that were
IL America today. priest as am.
Vsh"uld do my best to have put to death
any Roche in America or any so-cahed
American who would apologize In any
way 1or what the BOche has done.
"AA that you have heard in America
about them does not approximate the
truth. There are little children right
here In France with their little stumps
or hands; there were some not far from
my last camp. and young men with all
me nngprs OF their right hand cut of.
The other day British officer and
three Tommies told me that a short
time ago they went as an advance
party into little village from which
the Boche had been driven back. aud In
a large room there were four Soung
Canadians crucified, one on each wall
Of the room.
Torture Young oirIs.
ALSO. when 1 was with the British
they told me the BOches had taken
young Belgian and French girls into
their first line trenches and tortured
them until their screams made the
Scotch and the Canadians SO crazed
they would go over into the machine
gun nests which the Boche had set up.
using the wOmen's screams as n decoy.
And I have it on the word Of Brit.
ish officer that they have stood (the
ofiicers) with guns leveled at their men
to keep them from going over when the
women scream, and being needlessly
slaughtered. l cannot tell you what
the TOmmies told me they found when
they drove these hell-fends out Of these
positions; 1t Is too awful even to think
about. l also have II on the word OF
one OF the greatest French abbes that
the BOcbe were especially instructed to
destroy cOnvents-and kill or outrage
the nuns-and lie says that all through
France and Belgium are ruined con-
vents. and that the nuns were given to
the soldiers to be outraged in camps.
"These are not isolated cases nor alb
normal conditions which prevail here
md there where troops were drunk or
without restraint. Go along the French
or British front. and the only cOncIu-
sion you arrive at Is that they are
just the ground principle of Boche ef-
iciency In action.
: 1T Is American blood that Is flowing
now. and God grant 1t may give Amer
ca some strength to realize what we
are up against. To talk of terms until
the BOehe Is exterminated is to league
with Satan for a corner In hell. Prjva-
tons, sacrifices! What can you do at
home to compare with what these men
Ut ours are doing over here? Meatless
days, wheatless days, sugarless days,
good women knitting benefits for the
Red CrOss-Or all your social diver
sions with charitable object sand
wiched in!
when you are out on n shell-swept
hill and the shells are going by like
bats ont Of hell, as the soldiers say.
The Dolores star., 1918-09-13
City Adopts War Orphan,

Carbondale, Nl.-The city of Car
bondale has adopted French war
orphan. 1t will be provided for from
city funds. 1t is believed to be the
first adoption Of its kind In Illinois.
The Dolores star., 1918-09-13
FLIP OF COIN LEADS TO
DEATH OVER THERE

Wheeling, w. Va.-Edward F.
Bowman. nineteen, Is dead In
France as the result of fiip of
coin. Bowman enlisted in the
army In May, 1917, after he and
friend had tossed Il nickel to
determine which one would en-.
ter the service. Bowman called
the turn and was soldier n
few days later.
The Dolores star., 1918-09-13
Heal Baby Rashes

That Itch, burn and torture. A hot
Cuticura Soap bath gives instant re-
lief when followed by q gentle appli-
cation Of Cuticura Ointment. For free
samples address, ''Cuticura, Dept. x,
Boston" At druggists and by mail.
Soap Is, Ointment rs and 5O.-Adv.
The Dolores star., 1918-09-13
A IA Berlin.

Say. pop. whit is n signal victory p
In Berlin tile capture of one Ameri.
can with the loss Of only twenty Ger
Mans Is 50 regarded, my son."
The Dolores star., 1918-09-13
Killing burdocks.

An experienced gardener says that
good way of exterminating burdocks
Is TO cut them of close to the ground
Just before they go to seed. then apply
81 little Kerosene to the root. He uses
common machine oil can for apply
ing the oil. ..-
The Dolores star., 1918-09-13

In the base Of new electric hand
lantern Is a generator that is driven
by clock work SO that 1t may receive
current away from regular source
Of supply.
The Dolores star., 1918-09-13

n political job then he assumes the
role of nurse.
The Dolores star., 1918-09-13

Friendship means more and mt the
same time less than any other word in
the English language.
The Dolores star., 1918-09-13

Every time man tries to get some
thing for nothing he gets little nddi-
tional experience.
The Dolores star., 1918-09-13
Our Darner's in Use.

"Dain cutworm :" calculates an
exchange. Let the cutworm mend his
own Ways, say we.-Boston Tran
script.
The Dolores star., 1918-09-13

How very easy are some of the tasks
we lima CINE difficult.
The Dolores star., 1918-09-13
Before and After,

Parks says he was first attracted
by his wife's voice."
"And now he is distracted by IT,"
The Dolores star., 1918-09-13

Any kind OF success worth having
never arrives unexpectedly.
The Dolores star., 1918-09-13

Makes the iaundress happy-thats Red
Cross Rag Blue. Makes beautiful, clear
white clothes. All good sTocers. Adv.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-05-30
IRlShWOMAN ADDRESSES
TACOMA LABOR COUNCIL

In the course of forceful and
brilliant address before members
of the Central Labor Council
Wednesday night, Miss Kathleen
O'Brennan, of Dublin, ireland.
told her audience that the peo-
pie of ireland were making the
greatest fight for democracy the
world has ever known, and that
1t was fight she had been max
ing now for 700 years"
ireland is the one country In
the world" said Miss O'Brennan,
that has been deliberately de-
for the last SO years,
because the country has been. and
still is. owned by the landlords"
Touching on the Sim Fein
question, Miss .O'Brennan said
that the Sim Feiners were ar
rested and thrown into jail be-
cause they endeavored to do Just
what Mr.. Hoover is doing for the
United States-preserve the food.
ireland could, and should,
support population of SO mil
lions," went on Miss O'Brennan,
as II u. she struggles undsr nm
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-05-30
DYNAMITERS
ARE FOILED

LOS ANGELES, May 80. - A
second attempt to dynamite the
residence of Gov. stephens at
Sacramento was foiled three
weeks ago because the plotters
were afraid two men seen near
the dynamite cache were officers,
according to a confession the po-
lice today state was made by Paul
Sokal,t a Russian radicalist and
l. w. w. sympathizer.
Sokal declares he and two other
men reached Sam Francisco from
Cincinnati month ago and pur-
chased dynamite there, caching 1t
at Paso Robes while they per-
fected arrangements for the ex-
plosion, the police state. He stat
ed that a week later he and his
companions returned to get the ex-
plosiye, but, seeing two men whom
they believed were officers, they
left it.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-05-30
SIX ON the BALLOT
IN PARK ELECTION

crossed from the registration lis s.
Only those who voted at both the
primary and final election retain
their registration.
The IA polling places are an
nounced as follows:
Precincts 10 and II, Radonich
Bros. Grocery, 2323 No. 30th;
to 8 and IL to Is, all inclusive,
engine house, No. 18th and j; 16
to 33 all inclusive, furniture store
TAP St Helens av.; "a to SO in
elusive, market. 1905 Broadway;
SO to 10, all inclusive, Mackenzies
SO to 70, all inclusive, Macken-
zies' pharmacy, 1921 Pacific av.;
II to rs. all inclusive, Woodlands
hall, East Gath st: 76 to rs, all
inclusive, Odd Fellows hall, Park
av., Fern Hill; 70 to 50, all in
elusive, hall, So. Seth and l. SITS.
SO to so, all inclusive. Dague Drug
store, So. 3Sth and Yakima av.;
SO to 100, all inclusive, Hartman
Drug store, So. 23d and X sts.;
101 and Ill, only, Presbyterian
church, So. 34th St; 102 to ITO
all inclusive, Ludwig Drug store,
.5401 Union av.; 112 to 1874. all
inclusive, Bell Drug store, 9th av.
and Anderson St; 125 to 1871, all
inclusive, Drumm Hardware store,
1924 No. Proctor st.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-05-30

Tacoma voters will have the
choice of six candidates to fill
two jobs on the Metropolitan park
board in the park board election
Tuesday, June 4.
Official notice of the election
and a list of polling places was
issued today by Secretary Cover.
OF the six candidates. three are
for the five year term to succeed
Richard Vaeth, whose term eX-
pires, and three for the two-year
tearm to succeed w. b. Newbe-
gin, resigned. They are:
For five-year term: James A.
Hays, insurance agent, 3211 No.
31st St; Frank j. Townsend. car
penter, 1417 So. 44th St; c. A.
Dow. stationary engineer, 1929
So. X. Vote for one.
For two-year term: o. F. Lar
son, contractor, 1899 So. Tacoma
av.; James T. Coffman, barber,
637 No. Trafton St; j. b. Lynch.
machinist, 5433 Birmingham st.
Vote for one.
The polls will be open June 4
from / to s p. m. Only those can
vote who were registered before
5 p. m. May 20 Only about so
per cent of the registered voters
voted at the last general election.
and the other SO per cent were
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-05-30
LEGAL NOTICES
NOTICE OF HEARING

ON ASSESSMENT ROLL.
NOTICE Is HEREBY GIVEN that
the assessment roll for the i'm
provement of C&lrt Street from the
ter line of Third Street. in said
Bay View and Boulevard Avenue
otherwise known as Fourth Street)
in said Bay View from said Court
Street to the north curb line of
Forty-ninth Street. all in the Town
MENT DISTRICT No. Is, by grub
bling and grading and constructing
curbs, cutters, cross-walks, cross
drains and cement sidewalks, and
doing such other work as was nec-
essary In connection Herewith, un-
der Ordinance No. 149 of said Town,
has been filed and is now on file
in the office of the Town Clerk OF
said Town.
NOTICE is FURTHER GIVEN
that hearing upon such roll Will
be had before the Council OF said
Town on Monday the nth day OF
June, A. ID. 1913, at 1870 o'clock
p. M. All persons who may desire
to object to said roll or assessment
or any part thereof are hereby no
titled to make such objections in
the said Town Clerk at or prior to
the date herein fixed for such hear
ing. All objections shall state
clearly the grounds OF objection.
At said time and place. and at
such other. times as the said hear
ing may be continued to, said
Council will sit as a board Of
equalization for the purpose of con-
siderlng such roll. and will consider
the objections made to said roll, or
any. part thereof, and will correct,
revise, raise, lower, change or mod
ify such roll or any part thereof
or set aside such roll and order
that such assessment be made de
qovo. as to such body shall appear
Just and equitable. and then pre-
coed to confirm same by ordinance
J. p. GARRISON,
Town C1ark
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-05-30

Herbert Hoover, federal food
administrator, has appealed to the
Americans of Tacoma and the ma
ton TO take this food conserva-
ton pledge in the wheatless drive.
The appeal. received here by
County Administrator Griggs, Is
as follows:
Washington, d. c.
you have responded enthus-
iastically in the past to all re-
quests for food conservation. We
hope for the same response now.
las to MEATS: The allied con-
sumption is l IA pounds per per-
son per week, while we still use
3 IA pounds. We can certainly
get along with less.
"As to SUGAR Lack of ships
makes absolutely necessary con-
tinued great economy in the use
Of sugar.
AS to WHEAT: The condi-
iton Is critical.
oui use VI ilOhi liihEb p' WV
to one-third of normal If we are
to ship the allied nations the min
imum for their requirements. On
that basis we have for domestic
use only 100000 bushels a
month for the next three months.
But last January with the sub
stitute rules In force and gener-
ally obseryed) we used 10000
900 bushels. 1t is inconceivable
that the American people should
fail in this crisis. No soldier can
fight for long on an empty stom-
ach.
From the above figures it Is
evident the real crisis here is the
food situation. To all Of us the
opportunity for service is a priv
ilege. Certain classes, however,
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-05-30
100000 Tons
Of Shipping
In a Month
,Unifcd rrcss Leased WIRE.

NEWARK, N. j., May 40
The fabricated steel ship Aga
wan, first of the vessels to be
constructed by the Submarine
Boat corporation, was success
fully launched here today.
Speaking after the ship had
left the ways, Charles M. Schwab
declared that during the month
100000 lightweight tons of
shipping have been launched.
This means, lie declared, that
two completed ships have been
placed in the water every day.
This will be doubled. he predict
ed, within four months.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-05-30

must have a fairly normal supply
of wheat flour; those doing the
heavy physical work; also the chill
dren, the sick, and the infirm.
But to the rest of us this oppor-
tunity DIS no sacrifice at all. We
have plenty of other foods. We
must make up for the inability of
the others. We must go the limit
and that limit is the WHEATLESS
PLEDGE.
HERBERT HOOVER,
National Food Administrator.
The wheatless drive has been
handicapped, according to County
Administrators Griggs, by a false
report, published in the Tacoma
Sunday papers purporting to come
from the food administration that
no further limit i'm the use Of
wheat was necessary.
Denies Report.
THAT report has been flatly de-
MED by Hoover as incorrect and
unauthorized and absolutely con-
trary to the facts" said Griggs
Thursday. The facts are as stat
ed in Hooyer's appeal. The wheat
less pledge is necessary II we are
to supply the allies with the mini
mum requirements. We hope all
organizations will help in this
drive"
A food conservation lecture will
be given by Mrs. DIR. Vernon Kel-
logg in the First Methodist church
at p. m. June II. Mrs. Kel-
logg. an authoress, was with
Hoover in Belgium.
Miss Georgia f. Meek will come
to Tacoma June / to take up her
duties as city emergency home
demonstration. Her work will be
to show Tacoma women how to
use wheat substitutes.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-05-30
SHlPMEN TO PICNIC
AT POINT SUNDAY

Shipyard workers and employ
ers and their friends and families
chat must include about all Ia
coma) are invited to picnic at
Point Defiance park next Sunday
under the auspices of the Tacoma
shipbuilding school.
Dinner is to be served at /
o'clock. coffee to be furnished at
the tables by the hosts. This will
be followed at 2 O'Clock by at pat
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-05-30

just and burdensome taxation to
support four million. Ninety
seven per cent Of Ireland's trade
Is with England, and England
wants to keep it that way"
The British forces stationed
In Ireland are parasites" said
Miss O'Brennan In conclusion.
they should be fighting on the
western front with the rest of the
allied forces and where 10000
Irishmen are fighting that the
world be made safe for democ-
racy."
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riotic meeting.
Howard Gray heads a commit
tee having the affair in charge.
Invitations have been posted at
the various plants, and one Of the
biggest events that Point Defiance
park ever sheltered is expected to
result.
A meeting for the purpose Of
perfecting arrangements is to be
held by the class at Stadium high
school auditorium Friday evening.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-05-30
SNAP

fIIIS will be sold this week or TAX
en- off the market. $500 cash or
$500 terms. Nice stream, two
springs, lots of wood, but mostly
surface cleared and seeded to
clover; large chicken houses and
yards; orchard. 5 acres bottom
and the rest upland. Nice 3-room
house. Take old Puyallup car
Tuesday and Thursday at aga a.
m. and Sunday at $3.50 a. III. Get
off at Fruitland where YOU will
meet Mrs. Davidson. Very easy
terms on this,