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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-04-11
Is Years OF :.
Service Our
Recommendation

For the past IS years we have
been doing dental work at a
moderate price and we do 1t right,
as it should be done.
Here in our office We guaran-
tee a quality of material and
service that is second to none
and our charge is reasonable.
When you bring your teeth
troubles to us, you get the high
est grade workmanship by quail
fled, experienced dentists. We
do not employ students. We are
dentists with years Of experience
and know how to do dental work
right.
A little work now may save
you much trouble and expense
later.
CAREFUL EXAMINATIONS
ARE MADE
FREE OF CHARGE
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-04-11
TACOMA ASTONISHED
BY MERCHANTS STORY

A merchant relates the follow
ing: For years ! could not sleep
without turning every hour. What
ever / ate caused gas and sour
ness. Also had stomach catarrh
ONE SPOONFUL buckthorn bark,
glycerine, ETC., as mixed in Adler
i-ka relieved me INSTANTLY"
Because Adler-i-ka flushes the
ENTIRE alimentary tract it re-
lieves ANY CASE constipation,
sour stomach or gas and prevents
appendicitis. 1t has QUICKEST
action of anything we ever sold.
The French Drug Co., 18th and
Pacific, 18th and Broadway; Owl
Drug Co., 904 Broadway.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-04-11
CITY TAKEN
(Unitec Press Leased W,re.N

LONDON, April 11.-Charkoff
one of the most important cities
In Ukraine, was captured Monday,
according to an official announce
ment by the Berlin war office,
received by wireless.
In Finland, German forces &C.
cupied the Karis railway station.
Charkoff Is a city of $4,000
population, situated 42O miles
southwest of Moscow.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-04-11
GIRLS! MAKE A
BEAUTY LOTION
WITH LEMONS


At the cost of q small Jar Of or
binary cold cream one can pre-
pare : full quarter pint Of the
most wonderful lemon skin soft
oner and complexion besutifier.
~ squeezing the juice Of two
lfesh lemons into q bottle contain
1ns three ounces Of orchard white.
Care should be taken to strain the
1tleo through . fine cloth so No
111oon pulp gets in. then this To-
~ Will keep fresh for months.
(oey woman knows that lemon
nI6o h used to bleach and remove
~ Moulohos e fFeckles, sallow-
0 "a tan and = the ideal skin
~ snnoethsner and bsauti-
5usf ~ III oct three ounces
= orchard white at any phar.
<a6y anA Two lemons from the
ocor md nnks up 4 quarter pint
I ~ 6Wootly frag1ant lemon
~ - mocooge u daily into
~ urms ond hands.
~ - - Wh1ten,
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-04-11
CALIFORNIA DRUGGISTS
0PION|ON Of KIDNEY
MEDICINE

About fifteen years ago we
commenced the sale of DR.. Kill
mer's Swamp-Root and we do not
know of a single case where a
customer was dissatisfied with re-
suits obtained; all of them speak
ing words Of praise. Our expert
ence has convinced us that 1t is
a splendid preparation and we
recommend 1t when we can.
Very truly yours,
EASTERN DRUG COMPANY,
BY B. Odell,
June 20, 1916. Bakersfield, Calf.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-04-11
ORE. PASSES
LOAN QUOTA
(United Press Leased wire.)

(United Press Leased Wire.D
PORTLAND, Ore, April IL
Oregon claimed today the honor
of being the first state to pass its
quota-$18,495,0 O0-in the Lib
erty loan drive.
Oregon will now work for de-
cisive over-subscription on a mil
lion-a-day basis.
Portland also passed its quota.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-04-11

NEW YORK, April 11.-Amer-
lea will have an army Of 1900
900 soldiers in France by Christ
mas. under shipping arrange
ments just completed by the Brit
ish admiralty. said Sir John FOs-
ter Fraser, member OF parlia-
ment, here today.
1.-THE British admiralty has
completed arrangements whereby
it will be possible for America
to send to France four or five
times as many soldiers as 1t has
sent in the months of January,
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-04-11
Letter to
DIR. Knmer q Co,
D1nghantsas y. y.

Prove What Swamp Root WIN Do
For Y0u.
Send ten cents to DIR. Kilmer q
Co., Binghamton, N. Y, for . sam
pie size bottle. 1t will convince
anyone, You will also receive q
booklet Of valuable information,
telling about the kidneys and
bladder. When writing. BIO sure
md mention the Dept n. No
Gum and hrgo - bott1es
- - q ~ tru9 sloseR -
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-04-11
Boy Scouts Right On Job
In Liberty Bond CAMPAIGN

High up on the list Of those
who have been working every day
to send Tacoma over the top In
Liberty Bond subscriptions, put
rs Tacoma boys, members Of the
Boy Scouts.
They have been on the job
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-04-11

right from the start at Victory
Hall and Tacoma banks, running
errands, hauling supplies, and
making themselves useful in gen.
eral.
These boys are known as the
blue Ribbon" Scouts. They
were organized recently under
Scout Master Ansel Nye, and ex-
pect soon to receive their regular
registration in the Boy Scouts Of
America.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-04-11
Railroad Men

These men know from experiences
that Sloane Liniment viii take the
stiffness out of joints and the sore
ness out of muscles--And it's %
convenientl No rubbing required.
1t quickly penetrates and brings 70
lief. Easy to apply and cleaner than
nussy plasters or ointments.
Always have q bottle in the houss
for rheumatic aches: lamo back
sprains and strainA =. -
Generous sized Potslss et ~ drug
gists.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-01
Pity the Poor Germans

THE German people have been
led to believe that the Ukrain-
ian peace meant full market
basket, and in Austria 1t was de-
scribed as "a bread peace" Now
comes along the Berlin Statistisches
Korrespondenz, the official organ of
the Prussian statistical bureau with
a nice little bit of cheerful reading
for hungry Germans. 1t says:
"Podolia is so densely populated
that it has no grain for export. The
crops of the Governments of Kief,
Volhynia, Kharkof. Tscherniov, and
Poltava are just sufficient for the
needs of their own population. Ev-
en- in peace time there was scarcely
any surplus. The last potato and
hay crops were both bad. Conse-
quently large quantities of corn must
be used as fodder. The Ukraine
sends forth no produce, the supply
being not even sufficient for the de-
mands of the town populations.
The stocks of cattle in the Ukraine,
with the exception of horses, are
very small and there is no hope of
any cattle being exported"
The poignant part of the situation
is that even the Austrian forces sent
to plunder Ukrainia have to be fed
from home. A cable dispatch tells
us:
"That Germany and Austria will
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-01
Comparatively Speaking

In Washington there are spas
modic attempts on the part of exc
cutive departments to pin upon the
back of the galloping Congress the
charge that Congress has been re-
sponsible for delays. No doubt in
some rare instances the accusation
will stick. But, as compared to ex-
ecutive speed, Congress is an airplane
preceding the advance of an apple
cart over rough ground.
"I am amused when our friends of
the shipping board complain that
Congress has been slow" said con-
tractor to pe. "As you know. we
have just finished a shipbuilding
yard for the government. Now, here
is the literal truth-it took longer
for the executives to read and sign
our contracts, even after the terms
were all settled, than it took us to
build the yard. Washburn
Child in Golfers Weekly
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-01
MACHINE GUN FORTS

1t used to be thought that the Bel
gian forts of armored steel and con-
crete, almost completely buried in
the ground, would hold out against
any artillery. But when the Ger
mans brought up their great no.
witzers and hurled undreamed of
quantities of high explosives on
these forts, they broke and crum-
bled to pieces. Then 1t was predicted
that the day of the fort was over.
But the machine gun has developed
new type of warfare. Instead of
great forts mounting huge guns. we
now have little machine gun forts.
and they are far more troublesome
that the big fellows. To .he Ger
mans belongs the credit for this type
of fort, which consists of a small
concrete structure. hidden from view
as far as possible. but commanding
some important part of the front.
'Pill-boXes' the British call them. be-
cause the first ones they ran across
were round in shape and something
like a pill-boX in appearance.
These pill-boXes are just large
enough to house a few men and a
couple of machine guns. Conceal
ment is of the utmost Importance;
their safety depends upon it. Air
piaheS arc pa tiSoiaiiS rear GU pS-
cause a machine gun emplacement
is recognized to be so important that
q whole battery of artillery would
be turned upon a suspected pill-box.
1t is claimed that some pill-boNes
are built with turrets that rise out
of the ground. Normally they are
completely buried and covered with
turf so that no one would expect
their existence. During the bonn
bardment preceding charge they
would remain hidden. and only
chance shot could put them out of
business. When the charge took
place the elevating mechanism
would be operated. and out of the
ground would rise the miniature
fort, ready to halt the advancing SOL
diers. A. Russell Bond in st. Mich
olas.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-01

not get their much-needed supplies
of foodstuffs from the Ukraine, de-
spite the glowing accounts which
are used to bolster up the spirits of
their hungry peoples, is confirmed
by the Berne correspondent of The
Morning Post, who telegraphs that
the German authorities admit these
hopes must remain unfulfilled for
the present.
Austria actually is sending flour
to the Ukraine to feed her troops
operating there, the correspondent
adds. This information is published
in a local newspaper. which received
it from it's Czernowitz correspondent
under date of March 23. The lat
ter obtained it from members of the
military administration. who eX-
planned that difficulties had arisen
in the export of foodstuffs from the
Ukraine, and it was found necessary
to send provisions for the Austrian
armies in the Ukraine.
within the last few days one
hundred wagon-loads of Austrian
flour had been sent in and other con-
signments were to follow. This
condition is confirmed by a recent
speech of the president of the Kra-
kow Municipal Council, who, referr-
ing to the danger of famine that was
menacing that city, said there were
wagons full of flour on the trains
traversing Galicia, but only on those
going from west to east"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-01
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
PATRIOTIC ITALIANS

To the Editor Of the Telegraph:
It was my privilege to be guest
at a meeting Monday evening at
which a scene of interest occurred
The people at the meeting were
chiefly a group of our Italian ciu-
zens. The guest of honor was young
man who went out April 80, as Sc
lected man to Camp Lee. This young
As the evening wore on q piece was
put on the Victrola which proved to
be the Garibaldian hymn, Italy ma
tional song. 1t set the Italians to
laughing and singing. Then one went
to the piano and they arose, and
sang u song TO the music of the ma
tional hymn. 1t was then that the
interesting scene took place.
The young man who was to leave
in a few hours for Camp Lee said,
now let us sing America And
they sang 1t and we sang It, Only
they sang 1t in Italian, and we, who
knew none OF their language, sang it
in English. More Italians were sing
ing than Americans, because there
were more Italians. The signs of
deep enthusiasm and of sincere 10y
atty to the land of their adoption,
were evident in every action every
note. The young man who had been
drafted came to me and said: Il am
glad to serve this land where l live.
go to help men become free, and
keep men free!" Fine, wasn't it?
Sincerely.
G. E. HALVES.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-01
SCHOOL TAXES

II OBERT A. ENDERS. president
X of the Harrisburg School
Board. takes the very proper
view that an advance in the school
tax rate is justified at this time in
order to keep the schools up to
peace standards and pay the teach
ers a living wage. He defends the
course of the board as being good
business" as indeed it is.
To begin with. the board must
pay more for its supplies. just as all
of US must for the things we use,
and that means greatly increased ex-
pense. Also, it is quite true that the
school teachers must have more pay
If they are to be kept on a par with
workers Of their class in other lines.
Not only is this mere justice, but
the board could not hope to hold its
highly efficient instructors IL it were
niggardly. in its treatment of them.
War must not be allowed to lower
our school standards. 1t is not pleas
ant to face added burdens of taxa
ton. but much better a few more
mills on the tax rate than that our
children should be cheated of their
rightful heritage. So long as the
money raised is used to meet legiti-
mate expenses increased by the war
and to pay teachers salaries. the or
binary citizen will pay the taxes
without complaint. whatever wry
faces he may make as he contem-
plates the hole they make in his
hank balance
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-01
THE PRICE OF ICE

= CE to the small consumer in
Harrisburg is TO cost no more
this year than last. In this re-
spect, at least, we are now about to
reap some benefit from the hard
winter that kept us shivering so long.
Mr.. Hoover and the local food ad-
ministrators are entirely justified in
their stand against profiteering in
ice. Ice is so closely allied to the
food supply that it may be said to
be part and parcel of the food ques-
ton. 1t might have happened that
prices could not have been kept
down this year had it not chanced
that local dealers were able last win
ter to lay in unusually large sup
plies of the natural product. Am
monia, which is required in large
quantities for the making of artificial
ice, is in great demand for war pur-
poses. 1t is both limited in quantity
and high in price, so that localities
where the natural ice supply last
winter was below normal will have
to pay more than usual for their
ice.
Modern living conditions demand
ice for every family. 1t is a house
hold necessity and the poor cannot
afford to pay excessive prices for it.
The whole situation has worked out
very we'll for Harrisburg. the ice
companies and the food administra-
tor cooperating to that end.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-01
No Better Than Bonds

There is a rumor going about that
certain persons are boarding cur
rency in the fear that the exigencies
of the war will invalidate all other
forms of credit. 1t seems to he their
idea that a IS note must in the very
nature of things maintain the value
which the government engraving
places on it. For these persons it is
worth while saying that the engrav-
ing offers no greater surety than the
surety of the United States govern
ment. The use of this currency to
purchase Liberty Bonds merely
transfers it to another form of gov-
ernment obligation. If Liberty Bonds
should become worthless, currency
would become worthless. Govern
ment bonds and government notes
rest on the same foundation.-Chi-
cago Tribune.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-01
CLEAR THE WAY

[Faugh-a-Ballagh means Clear
the way" 1t is the Gallo motto of
the famous Irish Inniskillin Regi-
ment. There are many Irishmen in
the ranks of the 307th Infantry of
the National Army. The officers car.
ry blackthorn sticks.1
There's Blackthorn Regiment be-
longs to Uncle Sam.
And it's heading out for trouble
any day,
Be 1t France. or Greece. or Russia. it
doesn't give a damn,
Only start it on its way and. Clear
the Way!
So clear the way before us when our
marching orders come!
Can't you hear the flies a-screaming
and the throbbing of the
drum,
And the roar of marching feet
Down the crowded city street,
Past the avenues of faces? It's the
long good-by for some.
It's the price we gladly paw
To the Resurrection Day.
Let us pay it as we play it-Faugh-
a-Ballagh f! Clear the Way {!
We have never faced a barrage, and
we've never shed our blood,
Though We've done our duty de-
cent up to date.
But were strong on stumps and
snowflelds, we're hyenas for
the mud,
Well be ready when we hear their
Hymn of Hate.
We've a debt that's due to England.
We've a price to give for
France.
We've a score with God Almighty
we would pay.
We have talked and we have dallied
while the others staked our
chance.
1t is time we drew our cards-so
Clear the Way
There's length OF battery trenches
where the trees are torn and
dead.
With the reek of rotting horses
in the air;
When through the binding fog the
shells come wailing overhead.
And it's waiting for us now over
there.
When the yellow mud is spattered
from the craters in the snow,
Where the dice of death are load
ed-let us play.
We have pledged our word to Free
dom and it's there that we
would go,
With the strength that Freedom
gives us-Clear the Way!
!,
Clear the way to No Mans Land.
with bugles shrill and high.
Clear 1t to the lid of hell, with flags
against the Sky.
Clear the Way to Kingdom Come,
and give us glad good-by-
We've blow to strike for Free
dom-Clear the Way
Capt. w. Karr Rainsford. N. A..
in the outlook.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-01
Freedom Of Labor and CAPITAL

The plan to make strikes or boy
colts unlawful during the period OF
the war should not be represented as
labor's or capitals victory. Conces-
sions were made by both, resulting
in what may be called a victory for
the freedom of both.
The report submitted by the War
Labor Conference appointed by Sec
retary of Labor Wilson outlines a
program for the prevention of in
dustrial troubles during the war.
and contains provisions that should
insure industrial peace when the war
is over. Each side agrees to lay aside
its most powerful weapon-the
strike and the lockout-for the per-
iod of hostilities. Employers are not
TO discharge workers because of
union membership. and workers are
not to use coercive measures to in
duce persons to join their unions or
compel employers to bargain with
them. All these provisions might well
become permanent part of the new
Industrial order.-Leslie's Weekly.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-01
HUM-DINGING THE HUN

r T will not be at all surprising-ir
fact it is to be eXpected-that
since the American troops have
become a factor in the war and the
American officers are in a position
to make suggestions with the pres
tige of participants, there will be
some new methods introduced and
some new stunts" pulled off. While
it is true that Americans have no
monopoly of Imagination, initiative
and inventive genius, yet the board
and varied experience of Americans
has been such as to make them
prompt in seizing opportunities and
resourceful in meeting emergencies.
The American soldiers. both Off
GERS and privates, come from every
walk OF life. Many of them have
had varied individual experiences
life in the city, on the plains. in the
forests, in the mines. on the rail-
roads, and they have been trained
from youth to meet new situations.
cope with unusual difficulties, take
long chances. form decisions quickly
apd act promptly. No man could
have ridden bucking bronchos on the
prairies without gaining more conf
dence in himself. No man could
have mingled with the motley
throngs of the mining camps with
out becoming a better judge of men
and how to handle them. Taken
by and large, life in America pre-
sents an almost endless variety of
experiences as compared with the
hamdrum routine of life in the old,
conservative nations of Europe.
In the matter of courage and in
willingness to sacrifice, America can
not excel the brave men who have
held and are holding the Allied lines
in France. In the planning of de-
fensive campaigns and in the larger
problems of the war, quite likely the
European commanders are the equal
of any. But we have been pleased
to believe that some of the
stunts" recently consummated were
suggested by Americans, and we
fondly hope that in the next few
months American genius will direct
some brilliantly successful feats that
will add pep" to the Allied cause
and greatly hasten the victorious
end.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-01
THE FEAR OF AMERICA

"HE same cables bring the news
that Germany at last is prepar-
ing her people for the news of
Americas growing strength in the
war and that for months previous
the Germans had been parading
fifteen half-starved American pris-
oners throughout the country to
prove that Americans cannot stand
before German troops. The German
government has gone to great pains
to make the people believe that
America would never amount to
much as a fighting factor in the war.
Apparently the thing has been over
done. There are indications that the
people at large, notwithstanding the
governments propaganda, have a
wholesome and abiding respect for
America and American soldiers that
in some localities at least is near akin
to terror.
What was the effect on the Ger
man populace when the pitifully
small group of American prisoners
were paraded for their derision we
have no means of knowing, but the
result of this bit of news spread
throughout the American forces of
France will be anything but con-
ducive to gentle treatment when the
Yankee boys have their next bout
with Fritz Imagine for a moment
the feelings of the men of the regi-
ment to whom these poor chaps be-
long and consider how you would
like to come at them from the Ger
man side of No Mans Land, as the
word went down the trenches to
square accounts"
More and more It becomes evident
that America is obtruding herself as
an ever-growing object OF fear in the
German mind. All of which Is good
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-01
SACK OF LOUVAIN

brand Whitlock in Everybody's. ]
All over the city the soldiers be-
gan firing wildly at the facades of
the closed houses; the people ran to
their cellars in terror; the soldiers
beat in the doors, turned the people
into the street, shot them down, set
fire to the houses. There were rid
erless horses galloping about; mad
a blind, demoniac rage seemed to
have laid hold on the Germans, and
they went through the streets
killing, Staying, burning and looting
torturing and massacring. and for
three terrible days the vast and aw-
full tragedy was enacted.
The people were assembled in
tragic groups between the totter-
ing walls of burning houses; march
ed through choking, suffocating
streets that were strewn with the
dead bodies of men and of horses,
the women and children weeping,
screaming, imploring, and the SOL
diers compelling them to walk with
their hands up, or making them
kneel, or run, or kicking them, or
striking them with their fists or with
the butts of their guns, herding them
through the streets, in the midst of
the smoking ruins; while other SOL
diers, with wine-bottles under their
arms, went reeling past. crying out
at the captives: Humid Schweini
Schweinhund!'
And so. for another day and an
other night, the madness went on
the murder, the looting, the sacking,
the riot and the burning and the
lust; with soldiers pillaging the
houses. bearing the wine in great
baskets out of the cellars, to be guz-
zled in the street, while men and
women and children were shot down
and their bodies left to lie in cutters.
or on the smoking ruins. or thrown
into foul cesspools.