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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-04-02
TODD FUNERAL HELD

The funeral of Albert w. Todd. for
mer president of the Todd-Fett Co.
who died Friday at Riverton Heights.
was held at 10 Monday. from the
Georgetown Undertaking Co. In
terment was In Tacoma cemetery.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-04-02
XyENATCIIEE.-After
serving

three years with 2sth Canadian regi.
ment. recruited at Regina In 1915.
Alex Mckenzie of Wenatchce was
discharged as physically unfit on &C.
count Of shrapnel shot In his ankle.
McKe nzie was wounded at Cource'
lotte on the Somme.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-04-02
Bingham
Plaiids

THEIR bright, refresh
i ing colorings are woven
in soft supple taffeta, for
dresses, waists and skirts,
in 36-inch width at $3.50
yard.
Tnsssh Piaids feature these taste
ful color cornbina tons on white
grounds. Alice-blue and gold.
navy and gray. lavender and
apple-grecn, rose and gray.
Thirty-six inches wide. 1900
yard.
la Jerz Silk is a fancy weave in
a soft silk Of good weight
adapted for dresses, sports skirts
and blouHes. In ivory, emerald.
ciel. turquoise. old-rose. tan,
pink. mails. purple and black. &c
inches wide. ,2.75 yard.
Wash Satins for sports skirts.
lingerie and trimmings. in white
and fiesh-color. SO inches wide.
si.T5. $500 and f2.25 yard.
Black Costume yelyets for suits
and separate coats, ~ inches
wide. $50 yard; n inches wide.
$500 and $3.50 yard. Another
quality. in brown. plum, cIaret.
myrtle. navy and black. 36
inches wide. $500 yard.
FIRST Floor.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-04-02

Brassieres i'm a number OF
desirable models. SOC to
$500. Second Floor.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-04-02
OPEN OYSTER PRESERVE

The state seed oyster preserve AT
North Bay. Mason county. viii be
open 10 oyster men from April % to
May . and May to Is. State Fish
T.. II. Darwin an
bounced Monday.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-04-02
JACK MOORE RELEASED

Jack Moore Seattle real estate
man, was released from custody yes
terday. Moore was arrested March
10, on charges filed against him in
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-04-02

FORMER Mayor HI GIN and former
Chief OF Police Charles Rockingham.
where the suits are the result of
their enforcement of tho dry laws.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-04-02
oI,yMpIA--That 80 per cent Of

the ears I'm the state have new H.
censes IL shown by the office OF
the secretary OF state.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-04-02

Chicago. He insists that the charges
made were due to a misunderstood
ing.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-04-25

The Cooper well in the Ranger
Texas, field is reported good TO,
1,l00 barrels at 5,420 feet.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-04-25
Forbids Guns in Ireland.

London, April 25.-Gencral Ma
hon, commanding the troops in Ire
land has issued an order forbidding
anyone to carry or possess arms,
ammunition or explosives in II Irish
counties and also the cities OF Cork
and Limerick unless duly author
lied.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-04-25

as the trucks are undoubtedly doing
much damage to the roads.
Other road work in the county is
also progressing well and Carter
County has an outlook for a fine
road system.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-04-25

office, Ardmore, phone 7Sj. DR.. r.
II. Dickinson, L. S. Veterinary In
spector in charge, has official head
quarters at Pauls Valley, Okla.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-04-25
WHAT YOUR BOND
PURCHASE WILL. DO

ONE $4,000 BOND will buy knives for rifle
company or % hand grendes 81 belt surgical
for enlisted
A$100O0 BOND will feed soldier EIGHT MONTHS
will cothe soldier will buy rifles,
anestheic painless operations soldiers
$4,000 BOND AND A $4,000 BOND will feed a SOL
der for will che and equip infantry
TWO $4,000 BONDS will purchase a horse for cavalry
artillery service
THREE $4,000 will cohe soldier and feed
him for year France.
Help America Win the
Help Clothe, Equip Defenders
merely do your BIT DO your best!
WE CAN HELP YOU HELP YOURSELF
Guaranty State Bank, of ArdmOre
Capital $20OOOOOO Surplus and Profits $112,5OOOO
SERVICE with SAFETY
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-10

can sector is rugged, judging from press
accounts The country thereabouts is
billy, woody, broken, damp and extremely
cold. To Americans arriving in what they
have always heard Of as "sunny France
it must be desolate country, indeed, re-
marks Rene Benjamin, writing in the
Paris Journal:
They arrive-these big soldiers with n
nonchalant air-in our harsh Lorraine, rude
and naked, robust and poor. Their eyes, ac-
customed to shield themselves against the
flare of the sun, open wide in establishment
at the poverty of the villages-the low,
earthcolored roofs the acrid dung heaps
at the doors, and the walls from which foul
ness drips Then their minds, appealed to
by the hard lot of our race, soften at the
thought that the heavens are not kinder to
a country for which they know so many men
have given their lives"
The location of the American sector is
also not without Importance in the gen
era] scheme of Allied transport. Accord
ing to Secretary Baker, the Americans
have already constructed 600 miles Of rail
road to help supply the sector. Moreover,
congestion of ports in Northern France
by shipping from England probably also
had to be considered in the selection of
this sector and the present American sea
base. However, these objections are part
~ counterbalanced by the nearness of the
sector to Germany, particularly because
the American front will be highly suitable
for air operations against Germany
When not in the trenches the Ameri
cans are billeted in small French villages
behind the lines, many pictures of which
have been sent home by correspondents in
the last six months. A striking difference
is noticed, however, by writer in the
Paris "Journap between the attitude of
the poilu and that of the American toward
these homely barracks The Americans
like things clean, it appears. In fact
They change the aspect of every house
which they enter. Our men sleep in the
eranares or the stables; they install them
selves IN the straw or mingle with the ami
mails, and they have as companions of their
dreams the chalk coored mouse and the
spider. The men from America, on
the contrary, sweep, scrape and scrub. They
purify the stable and whitewash the gran
airy. But they create a void wherever thew
clean up. The spirit Of poesy fees when
they empty the garrcts They do not want
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-10

are the American troops now facinp Ger
mans across No Mans Land? The location
CT the sector, as yet officially withheld. is.
nevertheless. relatively certain "In the
nelghborhood Of the Rhine Marine canal.
near the Lorraine frontier, in front of
Nancy and Lunoville, stands Pershing's
small army is the way one editor puts it.
Another account locates the front any
where between St. Mihiel and Epinal
This region has been quiet ever since the
first month of the war, when the Germans
were defeated on the Grand Couronne
before Nancy.
incidentally, the Americans are actu-
ally nearer the Rhine than any other AL
lied troops, except the French who hold
small corner Of Alsace. According to
'The New York Evening Sun" thew are
facing Germans at q point about midway
between the great fortresses Of Metz and
Strasburg, and any appreciate advance
would drive q wedge between those two
cities and put the Americans within strik-
ing distance of the Rhine itself. In addi-
ton it is historic ground the Americans
hold, for there also occurred some of the
sharpest fighting in the Franco Prussian
War
Similar vagueness exists as yet as to
the extent of the American sector That
it is of considerable length is indicated,
Gays one journal, by the statement that
IN the artillery clashes of the last week
the guns in one burst Of firing spoke
along several kilometres of front. More
over the casualties suffered also occurred
at points some distance apart
In climate and topography the Ameri-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-10

making this quotation did not speak of Lin
coin. the American Lincoln has outgrowo
the boundaries of nationality and towers as
world figure, standing in the forefront Of
world crisis, his words full of world wis
DOM
when the eyes Of the immortal emancipa
tor closed in death, Stanton. his great war
secretary, exclaimed, Now he belongs to the
ages which was but another way of declar-
ing, NOW he belongs to humanity, because
lie IS the enshrined reality of democracy.'
And to-day the nations enlisted in tn.
grim and final struggle against autocracv find
thelr sustaining inspiration in the spjritun1
leadership of Abraham Lincoln.
France. who copied our institutions il,
i''o' England, who has erfranchised her sub
Jocts; emma, who arose against the Man
churlan dynasty and built republic mould
ca on the Constitution Of the United Statss
s!adly acclaim the democracy of Lincoln.
"nle IN the midst of the successful striyinps
OF Russian democracy up from the night Of
centuries of oppression, the bright p.,id;nc
star which illumines its pathway and glorifes
us goal has been the deeds and political
creed of Abraham Lincoln
And it is the spirit of Lincoln which loads
the United States to-day in the holv crusade
o. freedom IN which Rave enlisted. and il
VIII be the Spirit of Lincoln in Arms that
WIZ ieau 'he Allied hosts to glorious and
"hal victory over the foes Of democracy.
And ii you would know the secret of this
invisible leadership; if you would find the
chly explanation behind this new and thrill.
ing uprising among our own people for the
protection of humanity, have but to rcfar
You TO the two-minutc address that Iinco1n
delivered at Gettysburg, which to dav belonrs
to the world 0e'
You remember those immortal words. .Tbs
world Will little note nor long remember
"nat we say here, but it can never force+
"hat was done here And then he went
On 20 express the hope that out of the blood
OF 'hose VINO had given their lives for their
country tins nation might have new birth
OF freedom, concluding with those words
which President Wilson has already Quoted
una "h1ch every speaker everywhere during
this war will quote. You remember them
mat government Of the people by the nao.
PIE and Tor the people shall not perish from
the earth 1911 '0''i
AM If Lincoln were here to-day-and
believe he is "0
somehow l seem to see his serene shirt
looking oown upon US from the summit of
s"ese american centuries, and thus LOOKING
an" hs'ehlhg ne hears that prayer which he
.n e'eo at gettysburg trembling upan
., ups OF all the liberty loving nations Of
tne world the prayer for new birth ~,
,reeaom' and that government of the noon,a
ny 'ne people and for the people shall no.
Perish from the EARTH No'
:. IN the light Of that prayer. nv fr;erds
1t IS not difficult to understand the mcarino
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-10

raid is also comparative. Over line of
front Of approximately 120 miles, such as
is held by the British, trench raid is a
local incident. And when it comes to a
line of more than 800 miles, such as the
French hold the incident is even more
localized. But on front of, perhaps
four miles, as held by the Americans at
present. a trench raid rises to major i'm
portance. For there are big battles on
line of 120 to 800 miles, while four -milc
BATTLE
The time will come when American
troops will be fighting big battles For the
present trench raids are their lot and
trench raids are important to them and big
with Importance to the nation, for they
show the metal of the American soldier
and teach the nation what to expect in the
big fights to come.
Another reason why Americans get such
detailed accounts of the little raids on the
American sector is that both the French
and English governments have always
been particularly liberal to American jour
nalists. The censors on the other side will
pass many things for an American paper
that would not be allowed to be printed il
French or English paper. They will
often say to American newspaper men,
when some really big engagement is going
On: "Be careful not to overestimate the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-10
Abraham LincOln=T0-day

THE spirit Of Abraham Lincoln, like
government of the people, by the
people and for The people," has not
persisted from the earth. Perhaps the
name OF no other great American hero of
the past has been so frequently on the lips
OF people during the present world strug
gle as that of Lincoln This note of Lin
coins supreme contemporary interest was
especially emphasized in an address de-
livered few months ago by DR.. John
Wesley Hill, chancellor of the Lincoln
Memorial University, of Cumberland Gap.
Ienn.--an institution, by the way, which
is said to have been the first to respond Of
ficially to President Wilson's appeal for
volunteers. The address above mentioned
ran as follows:
"At the Battle of Marathon, the Atheniaos,
outnumbered ten to one by the Persians.
achieved memorable victory and the saliva
ton OF their country, because, as the fable
runs, the spirits of Castor and Pollux, their
national heroes, led the Grecan charge.
Ihe annals of every people are full of in
stances showing how the inspiration of the
heroic dead has stirred the hearts of patriots
" Hoole ana triumphant action.
1T has remained for America ia produce q
inquire which, embodying the typical charac-
terlstlcs of our democracy, makes appeal to
the sympathies and the aspirations of all
mankind, wherever and whenever ENGAGED in
the struggles of liberty against despotism
In very true sense, and it is perhans
the most striking fact in the entire history
OF the present war, the cause of the Allies
finds its deepest inspiration in the character
the principles, the convictions. the ut+er,nco
ana the achievements of Abraham Lincoln.
Lloyd George, the foremost English states
man of the day, finds the most perfect rx-
preston of the soul Of the present contest
Tor the enfranchisement of Europe in tho
words OF our backwoods President. which ho
quotes as the justification Of the Entente
policy
IN the opening paragraph of his inaugural
address as Premier he says: Il would like r.
quote the we'll known words Of Abraham Lin
coin, we accepted the war for an object
worthy object; the war will end when that
OBJECT mas been attained Under God hone
1t VIII never end until that time."'
Those were the words uttered by Lincoln
NJ the height Of our own Civil War and those
are the words which are ringing out TODAY
over the worldwide battlcfeds of the nres-
eht incompatible struggle, SOUNDING tho
death knell of tyranny and ushering in tho
reign of liberty.
~ Is noteworthy that the great Premier in
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-10

refused to go to the rear to have thai,
wounds dressed, and at least one wounded
man after having his wound dressed re.
turned to the front line, where he remained
throughout the night"
Several men were caught at a listen.
ing post just outside Of the barbed wire
within forty feet Of an enemy listening
post, by the German barrage:
"'Then hell broke loose said one of III.
men there. For fifteen minutes the enem,
broke hundreds Of high explosive IT'S around
the post and the surrounding ground cutting
off the men there. Two of them were killed
in the first few minutes.
Another man who was at the post told
the correspondent later, as he was lying in
cot in field hospital, that he saw four
Germans approaching out of the fog as tn.
barrage lifted. He brought his automatic
rifle into play and saw two of the Germans
fall. He kept on firing until she'll spnters
hit him in the head and arm.
The last l remember in the time before
reached the hospital said another wounded
man, is seeing something moving through
the fog. l determined to get some Ger
mans, and put my life to my shoulder. bu,
never pulled the trigger There was deaf
enng explosion behind me. Frozen earth
ice, stones and shell splinters came my way
"lnspection OF the scene of the raid showed
tlat the ground was ploughed up by the ex
plosion of Shells"
So at last, remarks The Cleveland
Plain-Dealer," though it may be very
short, there is an American sector:
america is fighting with American SOL
diers as we'll as with American food ano
American munitions. American boys ar,
standing shoulder to shoulder with French
OF British or Belgians. sharing the hardship
and the perils of the common cause More
than ever before is the reality of war brought
home to the American people More than
ever before the American people are deter
mined to make the war as brief as possible
If for no other reason, to bring home the
hoys who are to-day holding the American
sector somewhere in France"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-10

Importance of this" But if in the same
conversation the question arose of some
thing that related to American activities.
the correspondent would be left strictly to
his own devices, and the censor would
raise no question of the Importance with
which the subject should be treated
The French and English governments
adopted the attitude that the American
people were used to certain thing and
the American correspondents knew what
that thing was. Very we'll, let them have
1T IN their own way. And so, the Ameri-
can people all through the war have al
ways got from the other side of the water
what neither the French nor the English
could get
Yet it is mistake to think that such
little things as trench raids receive no at
tenton from the French and English
papers. 1t often depends on whether tho
particular raid is fortunate enough to have
journalist at hand to he it's historian.
A trench raid in which a dozen men take
part will get a column and half or two
columns with pictures in French paper.
IT there is some one to write the story, and
the French paper will be mighty glad tn
print it. The trouble is that there are so
many of them that the newspaper men
can't get around. But when they do pick
up the story of trench raid they make
good copy of it.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-10

has given many pictures from the different
special correspondents, telling Of Amer
leans within sixty feet Of their German
enemies There is the vivid picture sent
by Thomas NJ johnson to "The New York
Evening Sun" shortly before the last
artillery brush, not the least of which is
typical American trench humor:
eve stepped down from the firing step.
The glory of seemed utterly absent.
From that lonely gray wilderness we heard
splashing water. A trench soldier came tow
ard us saying, Join the navy and see the
world He chuckled he passed in water
up to his knees The spell is broken by such
men. Nothing matters.
ave slipped and waded through upward
Of mile, and that trench at one time
was only sixty yards from the Germans We
didn't talk, even in whispers Then we came
TO a smashed up place where three men had
been killed Here said the major, "a big
she'll exploded, and we walked down through
the crater without more being said.
GIVE got over the top here said the
major. IT'S all smashed up here. Walk
singly, five yards apart, SO if they see US
they won't get more than one or two"
"The American trenches" runs another
dispatch, 'are all in more or less marshy
ground, making the use Of 'duckboards'
necessary at all times, except when the
trench water and mud are frozen.
"In every dugout the soldiers work al
most constantly at the pumps, keeping out
the water which seeps in. But the watery
conditions unfavorable for trench rats,
and few Of them seen. One unit spent
more than a week in the line before seeing
rat, and he apparently was in hurry
to get some place where the ground was
drier.
I'm some places the artillery is on ground
but little higher than the trenches although
number of our batteries manage to keep
dry feet most of the time"
Another writer, Lincoln Eyre, made
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-10

to sleep with the owls. Their nights are
without mystery. They eradicate even the
odor of the gathered harvests, and for them
winter retains memory of summer
When food is mentioned, one easily
guesses that the Sammy, used to his Amer
lean sweets, ice cream, cake, soda water,
chocolate, not to mention turkey and
chicken, finds in his meals his greatest war
burden. In the trenches, of course, things
are very simple. AS one dispatch says:
"All the men apparently we'll salts
fed with the food. Two meals a day are
always served, and sometimes there are
three. For breakfast the men frequently get
a large bowl of oatmeal the principal
dish, while at dinner there is beef or some
other meat and vegetables. Supper some
times brings bacon, corncd beef hash or
canned salmon There is always good white
bread made from American -four, and plenty
of it,"
But out of the trenches what little
tragedies are revealed to an observing
French correspondent, writing to the Paris
"Journal":
II know that after their arrival it was n
very great disappointment to them to find
themselves still fed on canned meats. Since
they sailed they had been fed on nothing
else Now, in poking his nose into one
corner after another, one of the soldiers
discovered, in a pigsty, young porker
RECALLING himself sugar beet leaves. Their
favorite vegetable The soldier approached
the pig and, lifting his hat, said politely:
Dear pig, whom I may also call our ally,
if you will give me part of your rcpast
YOU may have this whole tin Of canned
meat
And he added, as an extra inducement:
"Ill even open it for YOU
The pig made no response. But war is
war. The American helped himself
Nov they all the beet leaves One by
one they pass before the cook, who gives
them slice of the whitest possible bread.
potatoes and beef in gravy. While they wait
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-10
O Captain! My Captain!
BY Walt Whitman

0 Captain! lily Captain! Our fearful
tip is dole;
The ship has weathered every rack. the
prize we sought is won.
The port is near, the bells I hear, the
people all exuting,
While follow eyes the steady keel, the
vessel grim and daring:
But O heart! heart! heart!
O the bleeding drops of red,
Where on the deck my Captain lies,
Fallen cold and dead.
My Captain does not answer; his lin. ara
pale and still
My father does not feel my arm; he has
no pulse nor will
The ship is anchored safe and sound: its
voyage closed and done.
From fearful trip the victor shin come.
in with object won:
Exult, O shores, and ring, o bells,
But |. with mournful tread,
Walk the deck my Captain lies,
Fallen cold and dead.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-10
Why America Plays Up Trench Raids

wv THY do American newspapers give
wv such prominence to the death of
four men in the first line
trenches? DO the English papers treat the
death of four British soldiers with equal
Importance, or the French papers go into
like paroXysms over the death of four
French soldiers?
The value of news is comparative. After
the French and the English have lost not
thousands but hundreds of thousands in
battle the death of four men is of i'm
portance to the families of those concerned
but otherwise it does not take a large
place in the national life.
With Americans, on the other hand
their soldiers are now for the first time
actually holding a section of the battle
line, and what their soldiers are doing in
the front trenches, how they comport them
selves, whether they fight we'll or i'll when
there is chance to fight, is Of the highest
Importance to the American nation. Il
makes important news. Every detail helps
to form judgment of what can be ex-
pected in the future, when really bic.
things are to be done. The death of four
Americans in the trenches is important
not only to the families of the dead but to
every American who has the honor and
future welfare of his country at heart
Moreover, the Importance of a trench