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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-03-23
This Makes Us Mad

Editor The Star Some people ask why doesn't Hoover
conserve tobacco" 49,
of life when it is such pleasure to blow the nasty fifth IN
other peoples faces and them dodge as tobacco JUICE
Is squirted around. go -
BY all means conserve the necessaries of life; let
the people go hungry but on tobaccoY Never!
When the Riddles hungry and empty their savings banks
Of their pennies send the soldiers for tobacco to burn
And since they have the habit it's such pleasure TO have
the stencil arise and for other people TO breathe the NTH
into their lungs. Suppose il does injure their health and
care for the rights Others when it's such pleasure to
them, don't you know?
A. NJ. s., sawtele.
This is the sort of thing that makes mad!
If the writer of this letter had to live for weeks at
time in dug-out wade thru mud knee-deep never know
ing when bursting shell snipers bullet might send
him to eternity
II he had to charge thru smoke and barbed wire
tangements face bowling boche with trench knife
ready to cut his throat
If he had to carry his best friend shattered bleed
ing remnant of what to the nearest Red
Cross relief station and had TO listen time after time TO
the agonized peadngs for cgaret something to smoke
to take the edge off the terrible soul and body racng
agony of the victim
Perhaps the writer of this letter would display little
judgment and have little more of the well known
milk of human kindness in his system.
. Our experience has been that the men who smoke
IN public do in sections set aside for them here at
home And if he wants to smoke the streets at ms
home that is his particular business. and doubt
any woman man ever gets smoke In his or her
face unless it is deliberately invited.
We never knew anybody who unable to get away
from tobacco smoke. and heard man refuse to
stop smoking if asked him.
The majority of women in this day and age do not
object to mans smoking and if has worse vice
than smoking his wife has much for which to be thankful
Give the soldier cigarets tobacco anything else
within that he may want.
He's going thru enough in the trenches to earn and de-
anything he desires that will make him no less
fighter
If correspondent good job of reforming
let him find something actually worth while.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-03-23
Editors Mail
WASTING SUGAR

Editor The Rtsr: In these times
% food conservation IL seems 20 me
that a waste. however small. that
can easily be avoided should be.
II you will take The trouble TO
notice. In almost every restaurant
cube sugar IL served ia the saucer.
beside the cup. and in nine cases
out OF ten IN coffee soaked. from the
fact that the waiter. IN handling
three or four cups. u bound to spill
moro or less coffee into the EnucerB.
In most restaurants three small
cubes are served and II you will
notice few people use over two.
while great many use none nj all
We're this sugar served on small
dishes an average % from one 10 two
cubes could be saved on every fourth
or fifth cup served.
While this seems 20 be small
waste. II II Is prevalent over the
entire country the waste must be
enormous.
JOHN c. SMITH.
Kingston.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-03-23
To Sell Out the Hyphen

The proposed trade boycott of Germany after the
may be unsound impossible proposition but the
Palmer bill, just unanimously passed by the senate is
entirely different matter both to prospects and effective
This Palmer bill, authorizing the sale of all enemy
property in this country is the first great step toward up
roofing German influence and interests in America 1t fits
into the general crusade for elimination of the German
language products and social and political organizations
We have not yet got to hating Germany, but have
got to calmly deciding that her influence is bad and
deliberately taking steps to cut it 1t is the
penalties that Germany has fully earned by her policies
of peace.
The Palmer does not interfere with the prop
erty of Germans Austrians living in this country. Prop
erty holding Of causing such to become good
American citizens But it is going to be cold day for the
hyphen The rman-American this, that or the other
thing is going to be made disreputabe, by public opinion
and by law.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-03-23
SUPERINTENDENT
OF TELEPHONE CO.
NOW A WELL MAN
Operation Failed: Prepared
TO Resign Position-Has
Gained 10 Pounds

ct am indeed glad you called. :"
said ". NJ. Yanccy. manager OF the
contract department OF the Atlanta
Telephone and Telegraph Co. At.
lantR. Ga. when the Tanlac repre-
sentative. In response TO an invita-.
ton from Mr.. Yanccy. entered his
offices. Continuing. Mr.. Yancey
said:
| II have boon intending TO call you
up for some time and tell you how
/ grateful ! am for what Tanlac has
done for me. as I think IL Is some
thing every one should know about.
/ II had been in very poor health
for over two years. 4 few months
ago my condition grew 80 serious
and my suffering so intense that
/ practically gave up all hope and pre-.
pared to resign my position un.
dcrwent an operation. which seemed
to do me a little good. but after a
short time. ! began to decline and
just went from bad to worse.
Il was operated on for gall stones.
but they found that this was not my
trouble. My principal trouble was in
my kidneys and bladder, and for
months / would have TO get up at
all hours OF the night and never
knew what IL was to get good
nights rest My digestion was poor.
| had hardly any appetite. was
feverish and nervous most OF the
time and could hardly muster IN
enough energy TO attend to my du.
ties and no medicine did me any
good.
This was my condition when |
began taking Tanlac. | have taken
four bottles. have gained ten pounds
and my clothes are all too tight on
me. When ] go to bed at night |
sleep ell night long and wake up in
the morning rested and refreshed
My appetite has returned and every.
thing | eat seems to agree with me
and nourish me.
NO one ever knows how to an.
preclate good health until they have
lost It. and guess I'm the happiest
man I'm Georgia today. Every man
and woman I'm this office. from the
general manager on down. has no. |
ticed the great change in my condi. |
ton and everybody In the building !
Is talking about Tanlac. Ever SO
many OF my friends are talang Tan. |
lac. and are congratulating me on
my complete restoration TO health"
Tanlac Ia sold In Seattle by Bartell /
Drug stores under the personal Iii. /
rcotion of special Tanlac represent. I
Observation-Disclosures.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-03-23
nY a. CnNRIEs HODGEs

of Washington state College
Authority on Far Fast Affairs
To kecp Japan IN the war. tho
United States has Ind 10 supply
her ms well IN the rest Of the
world.
In return. America has asked
reciprocal concessions from her
Pacific nclghbor and ally. using
commercial embargo as nm nd.
ditlcnai persuasion.
Japan IL us'aing every effort
Ia have this lifted or modified.
Therein Hes the answer 20 tho
appointment Of Nl=rouni fShii as
Nipron's new ambassador 10 the
United States.
Japan'H growth and prestige have
advahced remarkably since the out.
break OF the war. sh. has assumed
the police duty Of tho Far East. Her
trade arteries arc swelling with
golden corpuseiea She's become.
with ease. the shipping mistress OF
tho Pacific. She's gained a great
deal and lost practically nothing by
the conflict
shipping Il today her greatest pos
Hihle contribution to America and
her allied friends-the seven league
boots OF war
Builds fevsrishiy
You give "a ships ard well give
you steel" says Uncle sam.
When Sippon seemed inclined to
hem and ha~, wo declared an ON.
largo on steel and other supplies
vital TO Ispan'H growth.
Now tho Toxic government has
snid 20 Niacount Inhil. her mont can.
able and adroit Statesman. wis.
count. you 40 and talk this matter
over with Uncle Sam and let's get
Il strengthened out"
That's the one big reason he's
come to Washington.
The new envoy from the rnlkado
faces a hard task.
Cleared Up Sore.
lie " taking the place OF aAto. re
ealled-so diplomatic circles ray--be.
cause japan had not been succennrul
IN gaining a relaxation Of Americas
exports Of supplics needed by Nip.
poneHo industry. The new ambasaa.
dor undoubtedly has been cent from
The Far East In tho hops that the
embargo situation particularly re
FHrding specie Feniitnncra and the
supply % ttrcl~cau BE- made more
favorable 10 Nippon.
lrhh's negotiations with Secretary
81 state lansing cleared up chAl-
leuEinE political sores Now he nay
ic expected 20 devote himself 10 re-
noyai 81 restrictions whlrh have
been expected by tho United States
90 lead Ia more ala on tho seas from
Japan
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-03-23
LETTERS FROM SOLDIERS
The Star Will Gladly Publish Interesting Communication
From Sammies

This letter was written by J. u.
Douglas. former Seattle and Alaska
man. 10 his brotherin-Iaw, l.. ID.
Byers, 1913 Second ave. w. Douglas
IL In the aviation training camp nj
TaIiaferrol
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-03-23

We cannot begin to raise all the crops that are
needed IN the merit crop year. We must augment the m
dustrioL forces hare NTH and money ,oe are
going to obtain the food hich is necessary oin the
mar. Over 100000 men haze left farms to join orr
army and Many Over 100000 hare been drawn
from farms into 1oar industries. The government 1oM
find necessdry beeue, to list all these men Who are
able to do farm aoork and demand that they return to
the farms. IL has been suggested that the farmers in
the contOnments be furou0hed, provded hey do farm
pork.-By John NJ Boer, Farmers Nonpartisan Con-
gresham.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-03-23
LITTLE PETERKIN PRATTLES ON

Continuation Of southey's Famous Posa)
But what good comes Of II at lastr'
Quoth Little Peterkin
The kaiser stared and looked aghast.
Then answered with a grin:
What good? What good? Why. don't you
II is famous victory
81 used dine sweets and fruits
And sausage cooked in lard.
Now all my foods substitutes
Apportioned by card"
Your hunger doesn't hurt" said he,
AS long as have victory
The blind. the crippled. the diseased
The millions who have died
Have not their suffcrings appeased
The Hohenzollern pride?"
Tut tut such little things must be
That should win MY victory"
"our ships now ro,ting day and night
Once sailed every sea,
And yet you tell us that fight
To make the ocean free7"
All YES. U-boats too" said he
Are helping in MY victory"
"our colonies are gone and none
Are left us far
The place you promised in the
Is bightng us each year
We'll. let all rejoice" said he.
THAT Gott has given victory"
I'VE proud OF trade
Which brought the land delight
Now what send. Germanmade.
Are Blood and Schrecklichkeit-"
And necessary both" said he.
ITO win German victory"
"our paper clothes wet with blood
Our black bread wet with tears.
Our German word If smirched with mud
For years and years and years"
We'll what you expect?" said he,
IL tell you Il is victory
We've used all forms of vice there are:
We've murdered and we've manned:
And thru the world and wide and far
Shall Germany be ashamed"
"Oh. yes. but shame is sweet said he,
when II is mixed with victory
But what good comes?" again the wall
OF Little Peterkn.
They took the Peterkin TO Jail
And rudey thrust him in
Rot there. du Schafskopf till you
II n famous victoryr'
wright 1918. by the Newspaper Enterprise Association
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-03-23

do drastic anyway? Hurley
actually did uterance of that connection with the
mnted arrows Point carpenters strike and had the stage all
for bloody riot in Btimoreunt the president issued
and definite statement appealing TO labor human vein
all this the red flag the patriotic American
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-03-23
What Japan Expects i'm u. S..

He IL liberal statesman OF first
rank.
Baron Ishli was recalled from
France, where he represented Sip
pom. and put IN charge OF the mlks.
dos ministry ~ foreign affairs. IN
the Kasunlgnscti during the last
days Of DUMAS war cabinet He
took the place 81 Kato following the
boomerang OF Japan's 1915 demands
on China. with it4 world oensure.
Frani1ness Makes Appeal
The nnmins OF this exforeign
minister IL doubly Important Not
only Is Inhli stftrsman IN japanese
politics. who has been aligned with
the opposition 10 the prc~ent Terau.
Chi government be IA former min
lister OF foreign affairs Of such great
oaliber that be has been chosen 90
represent Japan IN America.
The success OF Japans high com.
mission 20 this country iast year wns
largely due to his broad viEioned
Htatesrnannhip
OF thoroly iikable personality.
Baron fshii's frankness was the re.
verse OF the conventional picture
painted OF the runve diplomat who
COMES out of the mikado's land with
doublo-edsed words His openneHH
made instant appeal during his ne
gotiationH with Lansing last fall.
He has laid the ground for a solid
japanese American cooperation on
the Pacific The future OF the sn.
tente Of 1917 rests In the hands Of
the statesmen ~ both countries. This
ex foreign minister 81 Japan thus
has tho unusual opportunity given
statesman OF carrying toward fruit
ton work begun BY him-the max
Ing OF our new pact with Japan a
buiwark for peace on the Pacific.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-03-23

Tho old newspaper office job
about the roller towel that fell ON a
floor and broke In two l. now supe
seeded by Abe Martins report that
the Fast one Of these towels wei
Ia. 900 miles without n puneture.
THE COUNTERFEIT
The other day We
Saw n young
Flappcr strutuns
Up the street
In one Of these
New spring trench.
Brown top coats.
Cut very much
Military. with those
FLAP pockets hung
All over the front
or II. IL he
Wants to look real
Warrior like. why
Doesn't he crawl into
The real drticle7
We wonder how
II feels 10 go
Stepping up the
Highway in a toy
War regaiia and
Pass n real u. &.
Bullet pushsr
, guesses what
The Sammy thinks
When IL passes.
You wini
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-03-23
NEVER COMsCROK INTEREST PR0FLIEERS

president reiterated his sentiments
the United States s
mighty good place to begin keeping it safe.
the old and fabby gasbag
that
do will stand for
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-03-23

Every often somebody that has something TO do with ships
either Hurley Pez subordnaes reported
with threat labor promising drastic measures and all
horrible things in the of small strike somewhere
The latest brought forth by strike of 1856 caulkers and
Emergency Fleet officials unnamed quoted the hand
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-03-23

If you want a reliable watch, go
to Haynes. Next to Liberty Theatre.
Advertisement.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-03-23

y. J. Constantine. aged 81. died
Thursday night. He will be buried
Sunday afternoon at from the But
terworth chapel.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-03-23
i. . e. ID. KS.
COL YUM
Greetings; Tcday's payd day. How
many stamps are You buying

etfthtr ttuff fttN uaNs ttNh
many stamps are you buying
Francis Dohlke. 6eoi Sycamore
ave. y. W. says this happened in
his family.
Iattle nrother--fet's have sleep.
less nights. Mother.
why. DEAR
L. B.--wc should Hooverlze on
sheets. shouldn't wef
HEAR ABOUT THE WAR WE'RE
HAVING
And now let ~ hear from the Sc.
attic Daily Bulletin. Says Thursdays
issue:
Mayor Of Seattlg--Itlrsm G. GIL.
Chairman Finance Committee Of
Ccuneii-Wili II. Hanna
STILL MciDO0ING
Leaving aside all Jokes and fun,
wish Id did what McNdone.
To him III have TO Mt my lid
could not do what MeAdid.
SAME WITH Us
Dear y. y. X; Is khaki a cloth or
a color have asked hundred
people. and the vote IL $3.50.
II. A. II.
WE'LL SAY so
Says the lady next door:
Somebody always got some
body else by tho neck"
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-03-23

Says the lady next door:
Somebody always got somr
body else by the neck"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-08-17

Camp Dodge and Perry. were guests
at the home of Mrs. H. L. Lang.
sails for France soon.
Mrs. Sowerwine and Mrs. landlord
have rented their home and left We'd
nesday, the former for Lincoln, Neb.
and the latter ;or Duluth. where they
will reside in the future.
Six boys ranging in age from Is to
20 enlisted from here las; week. Wal
lace Davidson ard Dewey Berckhan.
in radio wireless, go to California
Russell Ormiston, civil engineer and
Roy Mcclusky, electrical engineering.
so to Fort Logan, Colo, Harry Hol-
strom, second class baker. enrolled in
the navy and goes to Great Lakes.
and Robert Bowers, machine gun de-
partment. goes west with the others.
Failor Wertz, who has been In the
navy as baker for more than year,
has been discharged because of poor
health. He seems to nave some in
jury to the spine.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-08-17
FATALLY HURT IN DIVE.
Gerhard Olson, Of Story City; sueeumbs
q. to Injuries Sustained at Lake.

r 49, " siulOsi0SF SOSkdItSO dt IdN0s
Special to Times Republican.
/, Nevada, Aug. 1T.-Gerhard Olson
aged % years, of Story City, was so
seriously injured In a dive from high
place at Lake Conan, northwest of
here, Monday. that he died on Wednes-
day.
Olson, a son of Mr.. and Mrs Torris
Olson. of Story City. was at the lake
with friends and while bathing madeSa
dive in which he apparently wrenched
his neck or the upper part Of his spine
in such a manner that his body was at
once paraly1ed from the neck down.
Shortly after he made the uive he men
toned to his friends that his hands APP
peared to be getting stiff and cold. He
was advised to leave the water. The
advise was not needed. however, and he
again mounted the springboards, for a
second dive hut the friends noticed that
he virtually fell from the end of the
board into the water. He was taken
out and hurried to his home where
medical assistance was called. Exam
ination showed that there were bruises
to the back Of the neck. He died within
about thirty hours.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-08-17
PROBABLY ON SPY MISSION.
Escaped VaterIand Sailor Found at
Camp Dodge to Be informed.


Des Moines. Aug. 17.-Orders have
been issued at Camp Dodge pursuant to
instructions from the war department
for the interment and deportation after
the war of John Batiste Gruber, alias
John Schmidt. alias John Lange, former
member of the crew oc the German
steamship Vaterland from which he
escaped In 1915 after the boat hao
been informed at an eastern seaport.
The order halks what is believed by
army intelligence officers to have been
a plan by Gruher to enter the military
service of the United States with view
to providing enemy countries with in
formation of military value
1t was the draft which finally
brought the former Teuton seamon to
light. Civilsauthorities at Carroll. Ia
arrested him as a draft register without
knowing his identity, and brought him
to camp with several others.
Here he declared his Willingness to
serve in the military forces and gave
plausible excuses for having failed to
report for service to his local board. He
was assigned to company four OF tne
depot brigade.
His strong German accent and the
fact that he admitted Munich. Germany
as his birth place resulted in his actions
being carefully watched.
When officers reported sGruber to the
department of justice q comparison of
data showed him. to be the much-want-
ed sailor from the crew of the Water
land.
Investigation of Grubers action also
showed him to he on intimate terms
with Otto Greenburg. another member
of the crew Of the same boat who was
arrested lin .Des Moines and later in
termed for,the duration of the war
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-08-17

marias lined up along the curb. 1t has
been a farcical proceeding, stupid both
on the part of the woman and the po-
lice
After their release from the police
station, "Wednesday night, twenty nine
SutfraTists made Il second demonstra-
tons. In this they were successful, for
the first time in putting their speeches
over They had not announced this
demonstration with hand bills as they
had the previous ones and the police
were not there.
Eunice HUFF. of Des Moines, was the
only woman roughly handled in the
Wednesday night demonstration. \
plain clothed policeman attempted to
arrest her. and questioning HIS authori
ty, she resisted. She slipped in tho
melee and was picked on bodily and
carried to the patrol. The suffragists
lack two votes to get their bill thru the
senate. The demonstrations are frank
ly intended TO influence the president
into forcing the votes they need. some
thing the president apparently IDS dis
inclined to do.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-08-17
WOMEN lNJuRE CAUSE.
Suffrage Demonstrations Trying Tenn
per Of Washington.

Suffrage Demonstrations Trying Tenn.
per Of Washington.
Special to Times Republican.
Washington. Aug. 17-From outward
appearances Washingtons temper is be-
ing tried by the RESUMPTION of suffrage
demonstrations at the White House.
For the last two weeks there have been
semf-weekly parades of the suffragists
from their headquarters, f1anking
Lafayette park. down past the White
House to the Lafayette monument,
which is directly opposite the main
White House gate.
The procedure has been the same
every day demonstration was staged.
From twenty to thirty women carrying
banners marched down the broad side
walk opposite the White House until
they reached the Lafayette monument.
They circled the monument and climb
ed the step to the monuments base.
With a squad of policemen standing
humid. waiting for the first speaker to
ch q suffrage speech. which was
signal Tor the arrest OF the demon
ORE and another march to the black
Ids
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-08-17

REMOVE GERMAN BOULDER.
Commemorative Stone Taken From
Washington Square. Davenport

Commemorative Stone Taken From
Washington Square. Davenport.
Davenport, Aug. 1.-THE German
boulder, which was placed in Washing
ton square, Davenport. n number of
years ago. to commemorate the Ger
man victories in 1S4S was removed yes
terday. For nearly two months the
stone has been covered with a thick
coat of yellow paint which completely
obliterated the German inscription.
The work of removing the boulder was
started Friday morning and by after
noon all traces of 1t had vanished.
This is the second German stone to
he removed from Washington square
Several months ago the monument
which was erected by the Kampfgenos
sen Verein, to commemorate the Ger
man victory over France in 1901,
was. taken down.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-08-17
EIdora News Notes.

Special to Times Republican.
Eldora. Aug. 17.-George Fagg, who
is in training for service as soldier
in Jefferson Barracks. st. Louis, Mo-.
is here for visit with his parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Joseph Fagg.
Charles Bushman has returned to
Camp Dodge, after short visit here
with his mother. Mrs. Mary Bushman
Mrs. Clara Lawrence. of Williston.
n. D., is here for a visit with her par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. George French.
Maggie NJ. Bourne, of Radcliffe, has
filed petition in district court asking
a decree of divorce from her husband.
Frank S. Bourne, alleging as grounds
for the action cruel and inhuman treat
ment. The couple was married in 1910.