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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-01-17

he is too excitable to be a good
diplomat.
And-anybody who knows Mex
leo knows few Mexicans would
consent to any nation getting
foothold there.
When resident japanese sought
to enter the Mexican army their
offer was refused BY President
Carranza.
Clipperton island, according to
the interventionists' scare, bears
the same strategic relations to the
Panama canal as Heligoland bears
to Kiel.
Well, as a matter of fact, Clip
perton island is 2,400 miles from
the canal. On an air line Boston,
Mass, is 76 miles closer.
A U. 8. fleet could start from
Hampton Roads at the same time
a japanese fleet started from
Clipperton and the Americans
could sail thru the canal and meat
the japanese almost 500 miles
from its western mouth.
Perhaps Japan would IKE
foothold in Mexico some day, but
she knows better than to try for
lit now.
Uncle Sam would tolerate no
Japanese base on this side of the
Pacific, but Clipperton would
make a poor one.
Japan Is satisfied for the pres
ent with the Lansing-Iehii pact,
which means that we stay away
from China and the Japs stay
away from the western hemis-
phere.
England would not permit jap
anese expansion in American wa
tiers.
We've got just one job now
to beat the kaiser. II we do that
we will not have to fight anybody
else.
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Mayor Explains
EDITOR THE TINES:

Iyoted against the surplus pow
er contract with the LaGrande
Nitrogen Co. because the price is
too low, it is questionable wheth-
err we have any legal right to make
a contract for power sales at La
Grande and we ought not to tie
up for five years with all our
power just on the eve of great de-
velopments here.
We are to sell this power as
low as 81 horsepower per year.
That is only one-fifth Of the low
est rate ever given for commercial
power in Tacoma. 1t is less than
it costs us to produce the power,
and why should we here sell power
at loss to this Seattle concern?
We are tearing down one ma
chine at LaGrande now for repairs
and the electricians say it will cost
$4,000 to refine it. IL we fulfill
this Nitrogen contract it will
make junk of our whole plant and
we will not get enough out of ii
to install new machinery.
l would be glad to encourage
the Nitrogen company if We were
making anything out of 1t. l am
told they make ton a day OF
product and sell it for 5000 ton,
and expect to raise the price on
account of the war, yet the council
here furnishes the power, which
| Ia the M in thing in the Droducf al
less than it actually costs us.
If We have power to give away
prefer to give 1t to Tacoma citi-
zens who own our plant and lei
them use 1t for heating their
homes and settling the fuel prob
lem, rather than bestowing it on
Seattle capitalists who own the
nitrogen plant to enable them tC
| get rich quick and make a stocl
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Much Smoke and No
Fire, Comes Report

because they distract our atten-
ton from the main job in hand
whipping the kaiser.
In probing this condition l In
vestigated for The Tacoma Times.
Gen. Obregons recent stay in
San Francisco and rumors of fire.
quent conferences with Mexican
and Japanese officials.
Reports of coming Cantu re-
public in Lower California, which
might embroil the U. S. and Mex
leo.
And-most thrilling Of all -
the so-called Burns secret mis-
sion to swap Clipperton island to
Japan for war munitions ald
money.
And found - lots Of
smoke and no fire.
During the recent turbulent
years in Mexico Japan has been
the club held over Uncle Sans
head by Mexican factions and
American interventio alike.
When a Mexican sails for Japan
he is, in the interventionist press,
a secret emissary TO negotiate Sc
cret treaties.
Mexico is always just about to
sell or lease Magdalena bay to
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The Other Side
EDITOR THE TIMES:

EDITOR THE TIMES:
/ am going to write my opinion
IN answer to the soldiers letter
who signed himself Private Nick
Mellichine, Camp Lewis" He
writes that the soldiers come to
Tacoma and cannot find a room
without paying 81 or IS for rent,
and the room being very poor at
that.
Now, one day last week while
downtown, / overheard some sol
diers talking On the corner of 18th
and Pacific avenue. They were
wondering il they could find a
room.
stepped up and asked them IL
they wanted a place to stay. They
said that they did, so ! told them
that ! had room with two nice,
clean beds that they could have
for SO cents each. They seemed
very glad and said that they would
surely come, and bring friend so
that there would be four of them.
They took my address and said
they would be in about IL p. m. /
Nvc on a car line and not Is mill
utes' walk from 18th and Broad
way.
So / went to a store and stock
cd up with groceries so that l
might give them good break
fast, and worked hard all even
ing so that they might have real
kovao welcorne
But not a soldier boy showed
ID that night! All my work had
been for nothing.
Now | would like to know why
che soldiers do SO. much kicking
about Tacoma when they do not
Appreciate. eur kindness. when we
a. all we can for them. l know
that ] was very do,rnhearted and
discouraged.
l thought that | was doing my
bit 10 help the soldiers. / have
onken out bonds, donated to the
bix flag and tobacco funds and am
very glad that I did. I am sur'
that II any soldier wanted q
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By G. G. LYON.
(Times Reporter with American
Army in France.)

ARMY III TuhCcsJ
WITH THE AMERICAN ARM
IN FRANCE, Jan. 17.-(Controle
Americain) Its high time the
American people quit fooling them
selves about this war;
Personally, Pm not going to
keep on trying to deceive myself
any longer as to the seriousness
and the bigness of the job my
country has ahead of it in the next
few months to come.
Dead certain 1t is there is an
awful jar in store for the compla-
cent man back home who sits be-
fore his CHEEKY fire and observes
to his wife:
Mother we can't lose this
war! How can we when con-
gress is spending steen mil
lions of dollars a day and is
loaning our allies all they
need, too? Why, 1t says
here in the paper we have
nearly two million men in
training for service. Just
wait until we get them over
to France. The kaiser won't
last three months!"
Just wait.
Has it ever sunk into the
American mind that perhaps there
is one fellow over here who won't
"just wait" until America gets
everything in apple-pie order to
strike him?
The kaiser is anything but the
lust wait" kind.
He didn't wait on Serbia or
Rumania or Italy, but struck them
when they we're least expecting it.
THE GERMAN GAME HAS
ALWAYS BEEN TO SMASH BE-
FORE THE OPPOSITION is
READY.
Is America really in this war
or is she just playing as II she
were,
Let the swivel chair warriors
at home answer this question::
IF a big German offensive In
the west does come soon what
part is America prepared to play
in crushing it,"
Consider the present war stu
alton in it's naked truth.
Even tho permanent peace
between Germany and Russia
fails, the fact remains that Ger
many already has withdrawn an
enormous number of men from
the Russian line and has sent them
into France, figuring that the Rus
sian army is so badly demoralized
that it can't become very bother
some.
| Now as to Italy.
The recent German offensive
against Italy forced both Great
Britain and France to rush i'm
mense armies to the Italian sec
tor to stop up holes. and as long
as they are held there they are
unavailable for service in France
or Flanders.
Not for a minute do think the
expected German offensive will
break the allies western line.
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moons and bringing in a load of
the boys, and taking as many
home with them as they can take
care Of, returning them to camp
again Sunday after church serv-
ices.
Such action will go further to-
ward advancing the cause of the
Master than wagon load Of
blessing on the head of the host,
for after all the Joy of the Chris
tion life is in serving others.
The writer advises any one
with burden on his heart for the
welfare of these boys to try as an
experiment next Saturday after
noon the program outlined above,
and after it is all over and you
have bid the boys goodbye and re-
ceived their hearty hand clasps,
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-01-17

talked with Burns. have known
him for years and am confident ]
got the real story.
Juan Burns is going to Japan
to act as consul general at Kobe
or Nagasaki.
He is on no diplomatic mis-
sion. He seeks no munitions
and he will not talk of trading
Mexican land to Japan.
Later I verified the story by
talking with Consul General
Ramon de Negri at San Francisco.
There had been no time for Burns
and de Negri to exchange tips.
The consuls story Tailed in every
way with that Of Burns.
Burns is not the man Mexico
would trust with a delicate diplo-
matte mission.
He may be a good consul but
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Japan in return for a treaty OF
offense and defense against the
United States.
Jan. IL Juan Burns, former
Mexican consul general to New
York, sailed for Japan aboard the
japanese liner Anyo Maru.
Burns was arrested some
months ago in New York for
blocking the draft act. When he
went back to Mexico he jumped
$4,000 bonds.
The interventionists flashed
over America a tale that he was
going to Japan to buy arms and
ammunition for Mexico, to sell
Cllpperton island, Mexican land,
to Japan for a naval base and to
negotiate offensive and defensive
treaties.
| boarded the Anyo Maru and
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-01-17
Dangerous Words Are
These: JUST WAIT

What saw and heard at YER
dun, where the valiant French
have actually killed more than
100000 Germans, convinces me
that the last French soldier is
ready to die with gun in his
hands before he'll let the Germans
pass.
And there are no more tena-
cious, brave fighters In all the
world than the British, with their
wonderful faculty for organization
and their almost unlimited mu-
nitions.
But IL the allies should be able
in the near future, only to stand
off the German offensives, instead
of coming back with a knockout
punch that would put the kaiser
out of business, then the result
can mean only one thing and that
is that the struggle must go on
for q long, long time.
| am but expressing an opinion
often spoken here when | say that
AMERICA MUST SPEED UP and
become an actual battle line help
to the rest of the allies.
Every day that America delays
or bubbles means the loss Of
more lives in the end.
If the war should terminate in
a German victory before America
throws her weight into the scales,
then we must necessarily hang our
heads in shame for all time to
come.
Speed up, America!
l sat the other evening with a
group of American army officers.
II see," said one, they're talk
ing of doubling the daily shifts
that are working in your shipyards
over home"
Another officer arose and struck
the table violently. He was almost
white with anger.
"Double the shifts?" he ex.
plOded. "Great God man,
there are three eight-hOur
shifts i'm a day, aren't they?
Why in hell don't they treble
tho shifts?"
ThatS the way everybody over
here feels about it.
Two million men training in
America aren't worth as much as
1000 in the trenches in France II
they don't come over and fight
while the war is on
Get 'em over here.
The hour is striking in this
great war.
| Does America hear it?
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-01-17

distribution on the strength of a
contract with this city.
We do not know what good
proposition may come to Tacoma
in the next five years If we had
surplus power" to offer them,
but if we tie up in a longtime
contract with this concern at a
loss we sacrifice any chances we
may get to secure such industries
and make Tacoma grow.
That contract voted by the
council is a mighty fine thing for
the Seattle capitalists, but per-
fectly childish piece of business
on the part of this city.
A. v. FAWCETT,
Mayor.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-01-17
Druggists Pr aise
Excellent Kidney
Medicine

have been selling DR.. Kill
mer's Swamp-Root for the past
ten or fifteen years and to my
qualification l have not had a
single complaint, and every GUS
toner is satisfied with the results
obtained from it's use. The SPLEEN
did sales which l enjoy on the
medicine is a sufficient guaran-
tee of its merits in the diseases
for which it is so highly recon-
mended by those who have tested
1t and proved its value.
Very truly yours,
A. w. ALLEN, Druggist.
Sept. IA, 1916. Portland, Oregon.
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Letter to
DR.. Kilmer q CO.,
Bling hamton. ". Y.

rrove What Swamp-Root Will Do
For You.
Send ten cents to DR.. Kilmer
& Co., Dept. M, Binghamton. N.
Y, for a sample size hottie. 1t
will convince anyone. You will
also receive booklet of valuable
information, telling about the
kidneys and bladder. Regular
fifty cent and one-dollar size bot
ties for sale at all drug stores.
adv.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-01-17
23O, 900 WORKERS
HIT IN DETROIT

DETROIT, Jan. 17.-Fuel Ad-
ministrator Garfield's five-day
factory closing order will affect
100000 workers in Detroit, cost
ing them 81, 500, 200 in wages, ac-
cording to an estimate of Will
lam Storking, statistician of the
board of commerce.
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and their "how will ever be able
to thank you" and II you don t
feel as tho you had been repaid a
thousand fold and II the ride back
home isn't the happiest you have
experienced for a long time, then
go back to your crouch for your
case Is hopeless.
"And the King shall answer
and say unto them, verilly l say
unto you, inasmuch as we have
done it unto one Of the least OF
these my brethren, We have done
it unto Me-"
Yours truly,
s. d. L.
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Bonney's Offer
EDITOR THE TIMES:

EDITOR THE TIMES:
For the next two Sundays ]
shall be giving some addresses OF
a spiritual nature at Lon branch
Library hall, commencing at 1880
(sharp).
II collections amount to more
than hall rent I shall send balance
to Tacoma Red Cross fund.
Friends from the city and sur
rounding district are invited.
Yours truly,
w. E. BONNEY.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-01-17
MINNESOTA WOULD
SUFFER HEAVILY
Omitted Press Leased WIRE

ST. PAUL, Mimi, Jan. IT,
Two hundred thousand persons
in Minnesota are estimated today
to be affected by Fuel Admins
traitor Garfield's closing order.
Another 100000 in other north
western states, not under the
order, will also be affected by
shutting down industries east of
the Mississippi.
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A Solution
EDITOR THE TIMES:

We hear a great deal these days
about the transportation prob
lem between Tacoma and Camp
Lewis, also the one of recrea-
tion and entertainment for the
soldier boys.
Some of Tacoma's patriotic c!ti-
zens have solved both questions
in a practical way, by driving out
to Camp Lewis Saturday after
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-01-17

(Former Officer in the Mexican
Revolutionary FOrces.)
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. II. -
What about the Mexican-Japanese
bugaboo, always hanging In the
offing as menacing as a ghostly
submarine and just now out in
front, with the wind in its teeth
and going strong, as the result OF
of the report by the American In
terventionist press of japanese
deal for ClippertOn island, off
Panama, as a naval base threat
/, ening the canal?
Are Japan and Mexico nego-
tiating secret treaties?
Is Japan to supply Mexico with
munitions?
Is Japan to acquire thru Mex
leo a footbold on our side of the
Pacific?
In % WOrd-are Mexico
and Japan plotting to sand
bag Uncle Sam from the rear
while he has his fists turned
toward Germany?
IL .hey are, Americans ought
to know about ii.
And IL they aer not, then these
rumors ought to be chloroformed,
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-01-17
WANT SHIPYARDS
REMOVED FROM BAN

tUnIted Prcss Leased Wfre.l
WASHINGTON, d. c., Jan. IT.
The navy department today
asked the fuel administration to
exempt from operation of the coal
order all shipyards engaged in
destroyer work.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-01-17
AFFECT 10000 IN
a BIG STEEL PLANTS

VUh1VSU TTCbb ItuHeu "IFtsD
youngstown, o., Jan. II. -
Forty thousand men in the
Youngstown steel plants, mostly
working on war orders, are affect
ed by Fuel Dictator Garfield's
shutdown order.
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come to my home for room and
clean bed / would welcome him.
Yours traiy,
A FRIEND TO EVERYBODY.
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Piles Cured in o to II Days
Druggists refund money If PAZ0
OINTMENT fails to cure Itching.
First application gives relief. soc.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-01-17

MOOSE AUTO STAGE
Stand-CrOft Hotel, 1910 Pacific Ave.
and Central Bus station
Tacoma and Yelm, LakevIew. Hill
hurst, Greendale, Roy, McKenna.
NJ. II. Miles.
Lv. Tacoma-4 y. M; Sunday. s a. m.
Lv. Yelm-9:30 n. M; Saturday night,
1890, and Sunday, 4 p. m.
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SUMNER-TACOMA
EATONVILLE-KAPO
49,, .. TACOMA AUTO STAGE

IIth 81, Opp0sftc POsfOffIcc
Leave Eatonville daily, a. M, and
$3.50 p. m. Sunday, a. m., and
p. m.
Leave Tacoma daily, s a. m, p. IN.
p. m. Sunday, 8 a. m, and 9:15
p. m.
Saturday Evening Special - Leave
S.15 d. m.
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in THE EDITORS MAIL

TN ..: @ & I'm: : ~. r.. st. :::s : s: %:. :
he " initial" Other signature" BE brief
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lis SO. 10TH ST. TEL. MAIN 284.
Baggage Checked.
CARBONADO-TAC STAGE
Leave Tacoma-11:00 a. M; 400,
5:15 p. m.
Leave Carbonado-7:30. s;15 a. M;
ZOO p. m.
BUCKLEY-TACOMA
Lv. Taeoma-10:00 a. M, $40 y. m.
Lv. Buckley-S:00 a. M, 1890 p. m.
Saturday and Sunday. pecial-Lv.
Buckley, 6 p. m. Lv. Tao. 1870 p. m.
SUMNER-TACOMA
The Blue Line-Via Valley Road.
Nv. Tacoma a. m. and every
hour to ii p. m. Saturday, last car
at IL p. m.
Lv. Sumner-6 a. m. and every
hour to 10 p. m. Saturday, last car
at IL p. m.
Orting-Tacomn Stage Line
Leaves Tacoma, "7:30, 1870, $3.50,
II a. m; *12 m; 1:30, *2:30, 1890,
4:30 $3.50, g, 1880 P: m.
Leave orting. Z, IS, go, 40, IL a.
m.: 1890, 1870, 8, a, IS, G. I p. m.
sTrips direct to Soldiers Home,
leaving home Is minutes before leav-
ing Orting.
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CENTRAL
BUS STATION
CARBONADO-TACOMA

Buses and Taxis Anywhere.
lis SO. 10TH ST. TEL. MAIN 284.
Baggage Checked.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-11-08
HOWARD BELLAMY NOTED ORATOR
 SPEAKS SUNDAY
Camp Pike Quartette and Famous Speaker at Tab ernacle Next Sunday
 Afternoon.

Dr. Howard Bellamy of Cleveland, the great tenement worker. sociolo- gist and speaker of national renown, will be the principal speaker at the Tabernacle Sunday afternoon, when the United War Fund campaign mass meeting will be held. He is one of the greatest orators of America, and it is expected that hundreds of out of town people and even residents of other counties will make the trip to Pine Bluff to hear him.
 The Camp Pike quartet will be an- other big drawing card on the pro- gram, as well as banjo soloist who is said to De able to make his instru- ment do everything but talk.
 Judge w. B. Sorrells, chairman of the speakers committee for the city, says there will be no solicitation of funds, but merely entertainment and brilliant oratory. The event will be scheduled, he said, whether Germany accepts the allies peace terms or not. Three o'clock sharp is the time.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-11-08

One can imagine that the material eli- cited more laughs in tle 'hear-them- say-it" form. Neveretheless, this screen adaptation has number of excellent situations and employs many clever substitutes to make it decidedly amusing excitement.
 But it is John Barymore who puts it over" He never losess sight of an opportunity for a funny action or facial expression and when he is on the scene there isn't a dull moment or a lull in the action. Director Withey, having been Tn the position where he had "the giftie gi'e him, 70 see the actor as ithers see him" doubt less deserves share of thls praisc.
 ', The story has obviously undergone some changes and elboration, rossi- ble on the screen, in it's transfer to celluloid. As film is concerns the adventure of Robert Ridgway, wild but altogether likable young man who is in love with Agnes Colt, but can- not obtain her brothers consent to their engagement. Tho consentr is desirable, inasmuch as Agnes IS heir ess to few millions Whica will find themselves elsewhere ill the event she acquires husband to whom her brother is opposed. Roberts yari-
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-11-08
START BAT BOOST
Texas Physician Says Breed Bats to Combat The Spread of Malaria
 Germs and Other Disease.

Dallas, Tex, Nov. 4.-Start bat roost and help rid the country of dis ease, is the admonition of Dr. Char les A. Campbell of San Antonio. who recently attended the South western Medical Association meet ing here. Il
 Malaria, he says, is one of mans worst enemies and the lowly bat as combatant of the disease is highly valuable. Dr. Campbell has worked out his theory for seventeen years, perfecting it. scientifically only dur ing the war.
 1.-The malaria mosquito and the bat are both nocturnal and the mosquito furnishes 90 percent of the bats food'' he said. "All that is needed to com- bat the mosquito and resultant malar- ia, is to furnish the bat with home. A roost similar to the method in keep ing bees in ones backyard will suffice. for the bat knows it's home and will return after nights foraging. In my back yard l have many of these sanitary workers.
 The malaria question is a serious one in this country. More than $100,- OOO,OO0 is lost annually as direct re- suit. nI the United States there lies idle 79,000,000 acres of soil, fertile as the Nile, an area sufficient to grow the American cotton crop be- cause of the malarial conditions exist ing. More than 2,00O,000 ounces of quinine annually imported to help era dicate malaria If we take the proper step to eradicate malaria from our blood We will start with the mosquito. And the bat is the mosquitoes worst enemy" Thehefose bat roost should be started as they are profitable.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-11-08
OUR PARENTS
 BEFORE US
Says Golden Lady, Used Black. Draught. Interesting Tale Of
 Her Faith in This Old Reli. ,.,
 able Family Remedy.

Golden, Ill.-Mrs. Alice Metz, Of this place, thinks that when you have found a good thing, it is your dty to let others know about it. She writes:. ''We have used Black Draught in our family for years, as Bur parents before us used it, as 6 general medicine for liver and stom- ach troubles.
 It is also fine for the children. They get away sometimes, just like children will, and eat just everything Many times have prevented serious troubles by taking my children in hand and dosing them thoroughly with Black-Draught
 My husband takes Black-Draught for constipation. It worked wonders in his case. In fact, we are all true believers in Black-Draught and are never out of it. We would not re- sort to any other remedy, under any circumstances"
 Thedford's Black -Draught is me- dicine that every person should keep in the house, and use at the least sign of indigestion, constipation, liy- CT and stomach troubles.
 It is purely vegetable, and acts actively on the bowels, gently stimu- lating the liver, and helping to in- crease the normal discharge of bile into the intestines. It assists in the digestion of food and relieves con- stipation in a prompt and natural way.
 Try Black-Draught.
 : At all druggists.