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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-07-03
WHEAT is THE TEST
FOOD is AN IMPORTANT MUNITION OF WAR, FOR ON
DEPENDS THE ENTIRE EFFICIENCY AND
MORALE OF OUR ALLIES

NAL times, fifty per cent Of all the food the
French people eat is wheat bread.
Wheat is lacking in France and England.
Both Of these countries are living on greatly
reduced wheat rationS, and have dangerously
low wheat reserves. We have been asked to
use wheat substitutes which are not prac-
ticabe over there, and to save our wheat for
them. We have individually been asked TO
20 entirely without wheat until next harvest
if we possibly can.
The Food Administration does not favor extra
meals, but urges that if such meals are
served, the use of those foods needed by the
Allies be avoided TO the greatest possible
extent.
Weddings, social gatherings Of any kind, and
dinners, especially where invited guests are
present, should conserve sugar and beef, and
should be WheatleSS.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-07-03
WOMAN KILLED BY AUTO
ON WAY TO CAMP LEWIS

CAMP LEWIS, July Mrs. r. r.
Kalepborn. Of Tacoma. was knocked
down ana killed by "A wild-running
auto while on her way 10 the camp
with 10 pupils to give n dancing ex.
hibition. The driver and passengers
OF the machine were uninjured
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-07-03
PULLMAN COMPANY NOW
UNDER u. S. CONTROL

WASHINGTON, July O. Tho Pun.
many company viii he operated un-
der federal control. tho railroad ad.
ministration announced today.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-07-03
BERRY pICKERS ARRIVE

PUNALLUP. July 3-The first
berry pickors have arrived in Puyal.
lup Valley and from now on they
will come in large numbers.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-07-03

WASHINGTON, July B. The
comptroller Of the currency today is.
sued call for a statement or tho
condition OF national banks at the
close Of business June %.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-07-03

Canadian official. I'VE can't let any
kind of food leave the country
The amazed managers OF THE
Wanderer" explained the situation in
some anxious talking and finally
tho sheep of the Hebron hills were
rrlnnsed
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-07-03
As a measure Of precaution. SAYS

~ H'hThf' w P''ah'oh' Haf y
the Cologne Gazette. the Cathedral
chapter has caused the most valu.
able windows OF Cologne cathedral to
be removed.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-07-03

Great Russia collapsed not because the Boil
shevk movement had innate strength, but
because the people OF Russia were hungry
and skillful German propagandlStS found it
easy to unSettle hungry people
France and England are today on reduced
rationS, and the German agitators are again
at work, as in Russia, trying TO cause a sim
liar calamity.
Men and guns are important, but so is food.
We must carry the War into our kitchens and
onto our tables, in order TO provide those
magnificent fighting partners OF ours with
their daily bread.
Sugar meats and fats are important, and we
must look for requests Of Sef-denial, as the
veering currents of War cause varying de-
mandS which only we can satisfy.
Wheat, for countless centuries has been the
staff of life TO all people, and still is. In nor
New-York tribune., 1918-12-15

and, looking at the exquisite Romanic
FACADE OF the church, rose-tinted by the
evening glow over sky of palest azure
fancy yourself in Lucca or Pisa, except for
the soft Venetian echoes around you re-
minding you that you are not in Tuscany
Thus, all over this strip of wonderland you
think you behoding a Carpaccio from
the Academia and there it is, at Capodis-
tria; you dream of Pordenone and Treviso.
of Rimini and Ancona, and the arch is OF
Pola, and the gateways of Diocletian at
Spalato, and the columns and sarcophagi
of the admirable ruins of Salona 1t is the
Roman power and the Tuscan line and the
Venetian dream blended and reflected on
this side of the Adratic; Italian history
and tradition mirrored in Dalmatian wa
ters it is the soft Venetian speech tapping
the fringed Venetian architecture even as
the soft, still waters of the deep-cut bays
lap the sunlit rocks from Miramare down
to Ragusa The result of the whole thing
is a sensation of surprising beauty, and
the whmscality of that contrast and the
subtleness of that admixture is one of the
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proper time to reduce her naval expendi-
ture to the very limit of safety. At the
moment, she does not know what is meant
by a league of nations, what will be its
power or by what system of voting de-
cisions will be arrived at. The British
mind is entirely practical and would rather
trust at this stage to good relations with
the United States than to scheme of
which we all approve but which, in the ma
ture of things, has yet to be tested. Dur
ing the last twenty years no diplomacy has
been less insular and more international
than that of Britain. And it is inconcev-
able that she would withdraw her navy
from the service of free peoples. In Eu-
rope, Africa, Australia, India and Canada
there is none of the misgiving British
intentions which is sometimes felt among
certain sections of the American people.
Let the league of nations be formed. Let
it get to work Let it prove its usefulness,
and our American friends may rest
sured that Great Britain will not spend
one unnecessary shilling in times like these
upon superfuous warships. Her estimates
have to satisfy labor. She has to meet
the interest on a crushing debt, and she
wishes to devote the entire resources of
her shipyards to restoring her mercantile
marine
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anna Not to Play the Shrew as Mistress of the Sea

BILE for defending the coasts and commerce
of the New World including the Panama
Canal. Americans on their side will re-
alize that at the very worst their perils
den and irretrevabe ruin which would fall
upon Great Britain if at any time there
were the slightest doubt as to her ability
to keep open trade routes which are just
Central and Pennsylvania railroads are to
New York. What we should try to avoid
is naval formula which suggests infer-
ority to either side.
Colonel Roosevelt says that the British
Navy should stand first and the American
Navy second That is a pronouncement
which does great credit to his fairness os
mind in weighing up this matter. But it
might have struck some Americans in
different light if an Englishman had put
it thus. And I would suggest that both
parties might find salvation in Colonel
Roosevet's favorite expression, fifty fifty
1t might be that one side would have more
battleships and the other more destroyers
The strategic problem to be solved by
Washington or London is not the same
But gentleman's agreement can always
be devised between gentlemen and the
taxpayers of both countries would benefit,
while all thought of an irritating rivalry
would disappear
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\ way With the
"a War ak!

If we to hang the Kaiser for foment-
ing the late wary why should those escape
who are now talking about the next war
between the Old Country and the New?
During the past few weeks l have seen in
print and heard in conversation things
which are quite as criminal in their posi-
BILE effect as any oration from the Hohen-
zollerns. | have read threats against Eng
land which actually go far as to warn
her that if she does not accept orders from
the United States this country will spend
the interest on her loans to the United
Kingdom in building q navy with which
to exert influence the United Kingdom
in years to come.
Happily, such language is not indorsed by
the American people as a whole. On Brit
aims Days, I spoke seven times and can
bear testimony to the generosity of this
nation and it's determination not to play
an aggressive part. If l write with candor,
it is because during the last few years
Americans themselves have courageously
exposed and defeated German intrigue in
their midst. To get this country quarrel
ing with England is the supreme object
of the unrepentant conspirators in central
Europe.
Before the war Britain did not build one
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Roman mosaic paveaents in the Museum Of Antiques

is good ALTERATION, but it comes short
Of the truth. 1t really seems as if in that
narrow strip of land the ultimate express
sion of a civilization and a tradition had
been reached and consecrated in the monu-
ments, in the buildings, in the veriest ham
lets of the towns. Such a medieval marvel
as San Gimignano IN Tuscany pales before
the intensity of Venetian spirit in the very
skeleton of the architecture Of Trau, spirit
supported and elaborated by all the details
of the cathedral and the logga the winged
lions on the gates, the Venetian balconies
of the homes, the strong Paladian lines of
the gates. This city of Trau actually has
vaulted arches like Siena, and cathedral
pulpit that rivals that of Pisa, the round
bulwark on the water recalls the strong
holds of Romagna and the courtyard of the
city hall light belong to Certaldo or Pts
toia.
But ought to have spoken of Cara
first at least according to geography; nor
can we forget the massive stone piles of the
cathedral of Sebenico. You could stand for
hours on the Piazza SAINT Anastasia Of Zara,
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Castle of Dvino, where Dante stayed

most exquisite intellectual delights that the
world Of art and history can give When
beauty reaches such refinement it partakes
of the character of a spell; you are afraid
lest it might dissolve or break With the
right companion to share your enchant-
ment it must feel dangerously like heaven,
but for heavens sake don't take the wrong
person along; it would be a crime And you
might we'll expect all the winged lions
carved in stone or marble on wall or but
tress to rise in wrath and strike at you For
one of the characteristics of the ubiquitous
Venetian heraldic beasties is that they are
seemingly endowed with human under
standing, having been originally carved
cording to a whimsical spirit of history and
actuality. The one of Mugga was placed
there in time Of war, and the book he holds
is closed, lest the words pax Tibi' be read
upon it. Similarly the Lion of Trau is sup
posed to have closed his book when Dalma-
tia was enslaved by Austria, and mourn
full little cypress has grown in the crevice,
which possibly by this time may feel that
its place ought to be taken by a sprg of
laurel. Even more touching it is to know
that actually under the main altar of the
cathedrals not only of lara, but of Perasto
down in the Cattaro bays, the Venetian
banners lie, buried there by the inha5-
tants at the moment of Austrian occupa-
ton, to await confidently the day of re-
demption.
After Salona and the imposing German
walls of Spalato, the line Of Italian monu-
ments is resumed with the islands, Lesna
and Curzola among them being veritable
little museums of Venetian art, and joins
southwark the mainland the brilliant
city of Ragusa, which was, in fact, for the
best period of its history an autonomous
republic, independent of Venice, but some
how couldn't help absorbing all of the
charm and brillancy of Nenetia1 civliza-
ton. Really when you first Dalmatia
you begin to realize how incomplete your
understanding of Venice was until you
grasped the significance and the results OF
her rradiation on this part of the Adriatic
And you realize, too, why the Romans con-
sidered the Adratic an inland sea, or rath-
er a magnified lake, and sailors for centu-
ries have persisted in calling it "the Gulf
of Venice" It not, mind you imperi-
alsm, it just the natural homage and
the due recognitior of the world to the
civiizing forces that made the Adriatc re-
gions what they are, by giving them in
plenty of that which alone insures the
evolution of the world and which makes
life worth living at all, both for the ind-
viduals and the natons-Law, Order and
Beauty.
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ended in the Venetian conquest of Con-
stantnople. And from Mugga down to
Pola, in veritable rivalry Of treasures, a
bevy of small cities, Capodstria, Isola, Pl-
rano, Parenzo, Rovigno, to quote only the
most important bear witness to the immor-
tai charm and spirit of Venetian civiliza-
ton. Each one of them boasts of cam
panile modelled after the one of ST. Marks
in Venice, and each one of them has, be-
sides, ray-or an aureole-of glory all its
own. Because Capodistria, having no
canals, couldn't have a bridge like the
Venetian bridges, she had a well like the
Venetian wells, and turned over it with in
imtable grace an imitation of Venetian
bridge! The bronze knockers of the pal
aces in her quaint Venetian CampieIl are
only equalled by the beauty Of the Car
paccio and Gina da Conegliano in her
cathedral. Isola has the most perfect ex-
ample of a palatial eighteenth century
Venetian residence to be found anywhere
outside of Venice, and Rovigno delights you
with its medieval lines, mirrored in wa
ters where ruddy and tawny Venetian sails
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The Sergius Arch, Pola

if you would see a good example of solid
early Romanc architecture you might do
worse, all over Italy, than go to Trieste
for an example, in the stocky pillars and
the square tower Of San Gusto. Mosacs
and frescos and altar pieces are there to
delight equally the simple heart craving for
beauty and the sophisticated desire of the
critic. The Roman Tergeste and the Latin
and Italian township that once, in answer
ing a request from a German emperor,
wrote in Latin, because, "being Italian, we
do not understand the Teuton speech" are
fully and forcibly interpreted by Roman
arches and inscriptions as we'll as by Vene-
tian eighteenth century characteristics and
a general character of Italian modernity.
Not far from Trieste one spot attracts
attenton-the rock of Dunno, where Dante
is said to have spent hours of solitude and
meditation.
Further south one strikes the quaintest
and probably the oldest Venetian town of
them all-little Mugga the Venetian Cru
saders' first port of call in the thirteenth
century, on that memorable voyage which
New-York tribune., 1918-12-15

posals for league of nations, as laid
down by Mr. Wilson, not only is the right
of capture in effect asserted for any navy
acting with the league, as would be the
case with the British Navy, but these pow
crs are infinitely developed All that We
did in the North Sea was search neutral
ships for contraband But under the
league OF nations there would be no ncu-
trails, and contraband would not exist be-
cause all material would be under the
control of the leagues officials at ports,
which officials would not allow cargoes to
be shipped. The doctrine Of continuous
voyage would be carried back to the very
mouth of the iron and copper mines, and
to the gates of every plant and factory
however far inland. The entire controversy,
therefore, has been hurried forward in ad-
vance of discussions which, if they are
seriously intended, would have rendered
the argument irrelevant.
The British and American peoples are
high spirited and will not tolerate patron
age The danger is that this talk about
supremacy on one side, and building two
ships to one on the other side, will gen
crate imperialist fervor and seriously in
jure the growing comradeshlp between the
two peoples. This would be direct blow
against the security of France and Italy
and an absolute disaster to the smaller
nations which lie the frontier of still
united German population of about 10o,-
100000. While we compare our navies,
great tasks await us in Russia and the
Near East, and with the Bolshevists still
in power it is our solemn duty to hold
together as pillars of social order in pro-
gressive civilization.
This being So have proposed as one
possible solution that Great Britain and
the United States might extend their agree
ment which dispenses with fortihcations
along the Canadian frontier and armed
fleets on the Great Lakes. Britons rec
ognize that the United States is response
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merely another twist of the lions tail.
To no foreign statesman have we ever ac
corded the influence which President Will
son enjoys in our country. We are Jury
anxious to be convinced We wish tn
meet him halfway We rejoice to think
OF him guest. We are passionately
deslrous to remove from the path of history
any occasion for future war.
But We not in an apologize mood.
Nor, after our recent narrow escape. in
which things might have gone very differ
emily II it had not been for the American
Navy, are we inclined to leave so vital
matter to chance. If, then, the American
government wishes to relieve us of ths
burdens of securing our national existence
we mast ask, gratefully, courteouslv. vet
hrmiy, what alternative guarantee is Of
lered by America? Canada, Australia and
New Zealand have no navy, because Brit
ain promises under ell circumstances to
hght their battles. Is the United States
prepared to give the same pledge to 6ght
the battle of Britain and her allies under
all circumstances and without oualifca-
ton? If so, the situation will be simn,a
But if not, what exactly would be the moral
responsibility of the United States if, after
persuading Britain to get rid Of her navy.
she left Britain unprotected at some future
crisis? Even if the crisis arose in part
through British stupidity or self-interest,
her fate would be none the less serious.
we may be unduly apprehensive, but We
nave lived through grave dangers in which
it must be remembered that on the sea
we had to deDend almost apt;rel,r -. ....
selves. 1t is essential that we should know
to what extent, under all circumstances.
we may expect to depend the immediate
comradeship of the armed forces Of the
American Republic. OF course, if an alli-
ance of that kind emerges, the whole sub
ject can be discussed in very different
terms. But have not heard that such am
alliance has been offered.
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Stairway in the Governor Palace
make splash and riot of color to beat
Chioggia by the mile.

make a splash and riot of color to beat
Choggia by the mile.
AS for Pirano, how many people know or
remember that she is the birthplace OF
Tartini, and delights you with the prettics.
Venetian architecture outside of the moth
er city? Or that Parenzo has the best
Byzantine baslica after Sophia of Con-
stantinople, and possibly before st. Mark
of Venice because of the greater purity Of
its style? But when, after having lost
yourself in reveries of Venetian languor,
you come in sight of Pola, you realize Rome
with sudden and startling wonderment as
to when and whore you have been dream
ing this magnificent medley of all that Italy
has to offer of her best, and finding it here,
fringing and skirting the Adriatc with its
wealth of memory and suggestion. The Ro-
amphitheatre Of Pola does indeed sur
prise you with it's remarkable likeness to
the real Colosseum of tho Eternal City,
and it outrivals by far the Roman theatre
of Orange and the Arena of Verona because
Of its unique position right by the water
SO that the incoming ships first it's noble
outline against the verdure and the sky
much in the same way as you the Greek
columns GROWING Capo COlOnna on the
Egean Sea. Scattered about the city, the
Porta Ercole, the Temple of Rome and Au-
gustus, the Porta Gemina, and the magnif-
cent Arco del Seri give US resume of the
best and noblest that Roman architecture
mas to offer throughout the world. Roman
remains of equal historical Importance,
though not Of such conspicuous beauty, are
also to be found in and around Fume,
whence the Italian character of the land
runs into the quaint islands of the Quar-
nero. Here the coast line splits itself in
two strips-the Venetian islands, and the
Slavic mainland, with Segna Zengg for its
chief port. The contrast between the
quisitely subtle and languid beauty of the
islands, principally of the gem-Gke Arbe,
and the rugged characteristics of the main
land is most interesting and significant of
it's kind. The last of this chain of islands,
Pago, faces the classic remains on the
mainland of the Roman city of Mona, and
here begins the unparalleled beauty of Dal-
mata-Venetian history and art and trad
ton concentrated, sublimated and glorified.
"Deightful Dalmatia," as it has been called,
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The CITY Asls at Capodiss.ia
BY Amy A. Bernardy

Z TALY from another angle, vision of
Latin beauty almost unknown and
l. practically undiscovered; radiancy
Of art hitherto undreamed of except
bv very few of the initiated; the charm
Of Venetian civilization preserved, with a
particular glamour Of its own, through
centuries of conservative existence-such
are the lands recently redeemed from the
clutches Of the Hapsburg eagle, on the
eastern coast of the Adriatic. 1t is hard
to say which of the two, Istria or Dalma-
tia is richer in monuments of art or in
records OF history, or IN which of them
the elusive charm of water and sky reaches
more poignant harmony with the natural
and the artistic lines of the land.
When you slip out of Friuli, and the for
mer Italo-Austrian boundary, into the dis
trict of Gradisca and Gorilla, leaving back
Of you the peaceful little town which clngs
so proudly to its Latin name of Cormons
cor montlum-heart of the mountains) you
travel for quite while into a pleasant,
quiet kind Of a country, where villages and
might say. so incons spcuously Italian that
you wonder how in mischief anybody
could ever have dreamed of drawing line
through it and calling it boundary But
that is another story. If you proceed
northeast you strike Gorilla, with her typi-
cal Venetian castle, her Venetian lion and
the shaded and arched piazza that might
have been lifted bodily from q town of the
Venetian Plain, and the southern charm of
gardens and hills, of churches and trellses,
would surely be enough to hold you were it
not that southwark witness of history
calls, with such grandeur and power that
you are forcibly attracted to it: Aquileia.
Aquileia, OF Roman descent, with q most
beautiful museum of Roman antiquities and
invaluable Roman mosaics ncrusting the
whole floor space of her noble cathedral is
the city whence Pope Leo the Great went
forth to face the Huns of his time and
actually stopped the progress of Attila.
Comment on later events might be in order
here but for the fact that this is just Il
descriptive sketch
From the patriarchal tower of the cathe-
dral Of Aquileia you look upon a scene of
majestic lines, the city of Trieste filing the
horizon. Now. Trieste is generally known
as Aourishing seaport, a wealthy en-
porlum of commerce and forth 1t has
not, that we know, received much comment
on account of its artistic treasures, and yet
ITS Roman Lapidarium is by no means in
terror to those of the Appian Way, while
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mighty elements. In particular, there must
be nnumerable points of contact between
the expanding activities of the United
States and the delicate fabric of far flung
British sovereignty. The issue before US
is whether that contact shall be friend
~ unfriendly. Are we to lie competi-
tors or are we to be comrades? To that
question one would expect decisive and
unanimous reply. Differences between the
American and British peoples must
such definite loss on both sides that mis-
chief making is surely the gravest conceiv-
able crime against human happiness.