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Evening star., 1919-04-28

in the future ard glory of Russia Such
giants like Russia cannot perish! Whether
the Allied Governments come to Russia's
aid or she is left alone to free herself from
the putrid swamps, it matters not In the
destined hour Russia will rise from her
grave, will come out into the path of light
and will take up her place among the great
nations of the eartn. That which frightens
us poor mortals, whose life is but fecting
moment, is but single heartbeat in the life
of great and immortal people.
No, not help for Russia do | ask of you,
man, whom so eagerly await. | think of
the thousands who have only one brief life
eternlty's briefest moment-and who are
dying now in unbearable sufferings, or live
a lite worse than death itself. 1t is imma-
terla what names they bear, Russian
or other, but it is all-important at this hour
that they are human beings, tormented with
out ray of light as if within the very gates
of He'll, from where there is no return and
where the forces of evil and terror reign un-
checked over all. Their sufferings may yet
be alleviated and their necks may yet be
freed from the claws of death. For their
salvation bcseech mankind.
Friend! do not even attempt to tell
you how frightful life is in Russia at pres
ent, in our tormented PetroTad. Others
have told enough and new words cannot be
coined by the human tongue. 1t is frightful
when children starve and perish and assas-
sins are well-fed and Trotzky is pouring
down his throat the last bottle of milk. 1t
is frightful when the cemeteries of Petro-
grad have no more room for the dead, and
the murderers have free road not only to
the Princes Islands, but to ali the ends of
the world, and the wealth they have stolen
will enable them to live in balmy lands and
in the most attractive corners of our mcr-
cenary globe"
Evening star., 1919-04-28
RELIEF FUND GROWS.
Mr.. Taft's Inaugural Committee
Adds $4,000 for Charity.

Washington's centennial inaugural
relief fund, created from the surplus
of inaugural celebrations. and invest
ed in real estate securities for the
benefit of the needy in the capital,
was increased by $4,000 last week,
when the committee that directed the
Inauguration of former President
Taft sent a check for this amount to
the District Commissioners.
It is not known whether any ball.
ances are in the possession of the
committees that were in charge of
the two iinaugurations of President
Wilson. The fund has now reached
a total Of $42.S00. 1t was started in
1899. when the inaugural centennial
produced a balance of $4,000. In
terest from the fund is expended for
charitable purposes through the Citi-
zens' Relief Association.
Evening star., 1919-04-28
TREE TABLETS LIKELY
TO HONOR WARS DEAD
District Commissioners May Take
Action Favorable to This
Project Very Soon.

District soldiers killed during the
war may have their memory pre-
served through the placing of memo
rial tablets on shade trees that fringe
the capitals most beautiful thorough
fares.
Such a project is under consdera-
ton by the District Commissioners.
Two plans are being studfed-one
proposing the planting of memorial
trees. and the other the placing of
memorials on trees already planted.
The objection to the former. Com
missioner Kutz said yesterday, is
that there are no suitable thorough
fares remaining. with the possible ex-
ception of Bladensburg road, on
which memorial trees could be placed.
The Commissioners, it is considered
likely, will approve the second plan.
1t was stated by Col. Kutz yesterday
that action to this end may be taken
at an early date.
Washington's shade trees are about
to receive their annual spring bath in
the form of a spraying solution ad-
ministered by the department of trees
and parkings, of which Clifford Lam
ham is superintendent.
Plans for the work, which is to start
May l., have been approved by Assist
ant Engineer Commissioner Besson.
Evening star., 1919-04-28

ITO you, men of Europe and America, in
whose nobility l still believe to-day as l be-
lieved yesterday, am directing my appeal!
As wireless operator on sinking YES
sci in the thick blackness of the night sends
out his last appeal, Help, quick, we are
sinking, save us' so I, moved by my faith
in the goodness of 1uan, am sending out ints
distance and darkness my prayer for my
people who are sinking. 49,
If you only knew how dark is the night
around us, if my words could only convey
its density and depthl Whom am call
ing? l know not Does the wireless oper-
ator know who may intercept his call? For
thousands of miles around the ocean may be
deserted and not q living soul may overhear
his appeal.
The night is dark. The sea is frightful.
But the operator has not lost faith, and
he calls persistently, to the very last minute,
until the last light is gone and his apparatus
is silenced forever.
What does he trust in? He trusts in
humanity, and so do 1. He trusts in the
law of human love and life. 1t is impossible
that one human being will deny help to
another in his hour of perdition. It is i'm
possible that one human being will abandon
another to perish without attempting to
help. 1t is impossible that such an appeal
for help will not receive any response
Evening star., 1919-04-28
of April Goth

were the price of victory. Men had faith
that the victory of these noble gentle
men would bring the reign of jus
tice on earth, that the new world to be
built would be real world to live in and
not the beginning of new torments, killings,
arson and the determination of the defence
less. And when the bells of victory did
finally ring over the blood-stained Earth,
oh, how many unfortunate humans sighted
the dawn of hope and happiness! How
earthen-black and fear-twitched grew the
faces of the assassins at the sight of the ris-
ing order
Those were days of the fairy tale.
Worn-out and so1nbre Petrograd put on a
smile and put her faith in the English as in
the Almighty. 1t was strange and happy
dream, a dream that is dreamed only by
martyrs. Every gunshot that reused u.s. we
were certain came from English cannon, and
we all rushed to the Neva to watch the
English feet that came in the night The
assassins trembled with fear. 1t seemed as
if scarecrow in the image of an English
man would have sufhced to start the whole
brood of these Gains in panicky flight.
You are firm in accusing, with amusing
relentlessness, the old, miserable and
wretched Wilhelm. You are intent upon
trying him for the sins of his people, while
At the same time you stretch out your hands
towards those robust mankillers, monsters
and mongrels still bathing in the blood of
the innocents. The Assassin feels now that
his shoulder is being patted. that he is being
encouraged. He thinks no more of flight.
He is laughing in derision of you.'
Evening star., 1919-04-28
COURSES FOR HOUSEKEEPERS
Free Demonstrations to Be Given
at Wilson Normal School.

Announcement is made by Theodore
E. Miller, District home demonstrator
agent of the Department of Agricul-
ture, that two new free courses will
be given at the Wilson Normal Com
munity Center fn> .ss@ 1saSat of the
zwas1 - tk.s ,lsrthern section OF the
city.
At 2 o'clock Wednesday afternoons
and at 1880 o'clock Wednesday even
ings there will be a series Of talks and
demonstrations on '"Ihe Art OF Good
Dressing" The afternoon talk will
be for those who are not otherwise
employed during the day and the
evening sessions will be for day
workers.
The dates and subjects of this course
will be: April 80. How to Buy In
telligently"; May Z. The Secret Of
Good Dressing; May IA. planning
the Wardrobe; May q. 1.-THE Care of
Clothing; May. %. "The Use Of Com
mercial Patterns; June 4. Cutting
and Fitting"
Another course in "The Selection and
Preparation of Food" will be given
Monday evenings at 1880 o'clock. be-
ginning tonight. The subject Of the
first lecture will be "a Dozen Ways of
Using Baking Powder Biscuit Recipes"
Evening star., 1919-04-28

"One must, indeed, be insane not to
understand the palpable and simple acts of
Bolshevism! One must be sightless, stark
blind, or have eyes that see not, to fail to
observe on the face of great mutilated
Russia murder without end, ruins, miles of
cemeteries, dungeons and insane asylums;
not to perceive what hunger and terror have
done to Petrograd and, alas, to many other
cities!
One must be earless, stone-deaf, or have
ears that hear not, to remain callous to the
sobs, the sighs and the wailing of the wom-
en-, the heartrending cries of the children,
the death-rattle of strangled men, the crack
ling of the assassins' rifles, the only music
that has filled the air of Russia for the last
-Ateen morths!
One must, indeed, be a sayss., become
morally crippled like the Bolsheviki, to have
eyes, mind and will and at the same time
to remain Indifferent to the inhuman con-
duct of the Bolshcviki and to call it any,
thing else but crime, homicide, perversion
and piracy.
One must be completely devoid of every
human sentiment and be equipped with the
morality of an idiot to be able to say calmly
at the sight Of scoundrel violating
woman or of an unnatural mother torturing
her child, that that is their personal af-
fair, and not to interfere under the pretext
that such acts, no matter by whom COM
mitted, may pass under the banner of
Socialism or Communism
These words are sacred to mankind, and
they have power to charm mems souls.
But when vicious bufoons style a band of
ignorant and base hired Chinese cutthroats
the vanguard Of Chinese revolutionary
democracy, one must have a soul dead be-
yond hope of resurrection to be caught in
such shameless and miserable trap Shame
less, indeed, for the employment of yellow
mercenaries to butcher Europeans is not
recorded in the annals of any of the most
dcspicable tyrannies of Europe.
How painful to think that all Europe
has for over year watched with open eyes
the spectacle Of these exotic beasts tearing
our hearts to shreds, and has not yet deter
mined whether this is vanguard of democl
racy' or vanguard of devils released from
He'll in order TO destroy our ill-starrcd
Earth. They have looked on and yet they
sent that invitation to the Princes islands,"
Evening star., 1919-04-28
Radicalism RepudIiated.


Today, viewed historically, both
sides say 1t Is an i'll wind that blows
no good. Radicalism was repudiated
by the large body Of peaceful work.
ers who believe in American instf-
tutions and who want no bolshevism
in this country. The conservative
leaders among the union men have
grown stronger with the rank and
file and will gradually displace the
radicals
Seattle is busy and prosperous The
city is on the threshold Of an era Of
tremendous expansion. Skilled work.
ers. machinery and shipbuilding
plants abound. If the government
were only to adopt a definite policy
on shipbuilding. this region would
jump ahead instantly. Indecision Is
painful. \
Peace is anxiously awaited. Sym
pethy with President Wilson ana
confidence in his judgment at Paris
are characteristic Of the people here,
Evening star., 1919-04-28

most of whom are republicans. Out
spoken editorials of support for the
President in the Italian controversy
appeared in the newspapers of Seat
tie today. Senator Poindexter's atti-
tude is criticised by the Independent
newspapers of the state and the SEN
timent for league of nations is
overwhelming in this regior- Seattle
Is an idealistic community.
That's why ten weeks after that
revolution-bygones are by
cones, and far from being victims of
the subversive doctrines of bolshe-
Vism-employer and employees have a
full appreciation of interdependence
In the social and industrial COM
munity.
Copyright 1919, by N. Y. Evening Post.)
Evening star., 1919-04-28

"Not for the Russ an people do l pray
for help. To save the Russian people is too
great a problem, and God alone is the mas
ter of its life and death.
In these sorrowful days when the scorn
and laughter of fools is the lot of great and
trampled-in-the-dust Russia, l bear with
pride my Russian name and firmly believe
Evening star., 1919-04-28
Contest for Russ Patriotic Hymn.

vLADIvOSTOK, March Is (Corres-
pondence Of the Associated Press).-A
contest for composition of Russian pa
triotic hymn, unindicative Of any form
of government or of any political
party, has been announced in Omsk.
Evening star., 1919-04-28

Il appeal to you, Frenchman, English
man and American, l appeal to all of you,
individually. appeal to you, Americans,
who yearn that the torch of your liberty
should cast light on Europe. Come to us!
Look and you will cry out with horror, and
curse those deceivers who brought tyranny
to the freedom-craving Russian people.
And you, Italian, Swede and Hindu, all,
all who may hear my call. There are men
with hearts among all of you, and to these,
to all of them, l direct my appeal. For the
hour has come when the inhabitants of the
whole world must battle not for land, riches
or power, but for Man and his victory over
the Beast.
All that is taking place in Russia to-day
and that which has started and may con-
tlnue in Germany, going further and fur
ther, is not revolution. 1t is chaos and
darkness, called forth by the war from the
blacklist human caves and armed by the war
for the destruction of the world.
Let the tired rest. Let the weakened
warm themselves In their snug corners; let
him who can sleep in this terrible night;
but you, the strong, the vigilant, whose
hearts are brave, come to the help of those
who are perishing in Russia.
My last appeal is to you, writers of all
nations! Support my prayer for those who
perish. appeal to those of you who write
with their blood and nerves! Help us!
Don't you understand the danger confront
ing mankind? Help Russia! Act imme-
diately!'
Evening star., 1919-04-28

Allied invitation to meet the Boil
shev nt Prinkipo was either madness or
treachery towards Russia, differing from
Judas's treachery only by its immensity.
If it was not Judas's trcachery-perhaps
it was Pilates washing his hands when
Russia comes to her cross. Was it worth
while to start the great game with so much
thunder and wind up with the faint treble of
4 PLATE? Why was it necessary to defend
the neutrality of Belgium, to rise in defence
of Serbia, to rouse millions of men, to pour
out oceans Of blood, to threaten Germany
with terrible reckoning for her inhumani-
ties, to weep over Louvain and the Lusi-
tania, to call upon Heaven as witness and
to pay homage for five years to the God of
Mankind, and then finish up with wash
ing bowl!
The world waited for the victory of the
Allies as for the ringing of Easter chimes,
as for the resurrection of the dead. The
very dead awaited 1.-THE dead, whose lives
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Ell officers and $4,000 men. The
volunteer cnlistments were stopped
BY Executive order on August Sth.
when the maximum. showing n total
OF 1907, had been reached.
According to General Pershing's
report to Secretary of War Baker.
dated November 20. 1918, the losses
to the American Expeditionary Force
had been as follows up 10 November
18th: Killed and died Of wounds. So
AS; died of disease. 14.S11; deaths
unclassifieG, 2.2O4: wounded 179.
625: prisoners, 2.l6S: missing. l.
go. a supplementary report trans
mittcd November 30th made the fol-
lowing distribution of casualties
wich the Exl'editionary Force Of L.
"3S.169 combat troops had suffered
in France. according 20 date verified
up to November 26th:
Killed in action. 2S.3G3: died of
wounds. 2.101; died of disease. &c.
e34; deaths unclassified. 1850:
prisoners and missing, 1920, and
1885 wounded, divided as follows:
Sevrely wounded. 54.75l; undeter-
mined. 43.16S; slightly, 92.036.
On January 7th the War Depart
ment received 4 report giving the
casualties suffered by the American
Evolutionary Force in Northern
Russia as follows: Killed in action
and died of wounds. officers and
81 men; died Of disease. officers
and GO men. accidentally killed. 4
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r1en; drowned. officers and 9 men :
missing in action, 16 men; wounded.

! r1en; drowned. officers and 9 men
| missing in action. 16 men; wounded.
is.
Before the United States entered
the war 81 members of the navy had
lost their lives on armed mercha mt
! men attacked by Subma rines: during
| the war the service lost on sea by the
sinking Of as naval vessels and 100
merchant vessels in convoy, 1.142
officers and men.
The casualties suffered by the Mar
inc Corps are best described in a
passage taken from the most recent
report Of the Secretary Of Navy:
with only 5000 men Engaged in
the iercest battles. the Marine Corps
casualties numbered 60 officers and
1881 enlisted men dead. and rs Off
GERS and 2.435 enlisted men wound
cd seriously enough to be officially
reported by cablegram to which num-
her should be added not few whose
wounds did not incapacitate them
from further fighting. However.
with casualty list. that numbers
nearly half the original 5000 men
who entered battle. the official re-
ports account for only So United
States Marines who have been cap
tured by the enemy
From the foregoing data the to-
tails reached in regard to the Ameri-
can troops AS shown in the table were
obtained os follows:
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The table printed above gives the
authentic figures regarding the man
power employed and the casualties
suffered by the sixteen nations which
were officially modified for the war
ind took active part in it. There is
as yet no record available concerning
the casualties suffered by the three
new nations which came into being
through the war. or by little San
Marine, which sent gallant 800 TO
help Italy beat their common enemy.
The rest, however. Is upon record.
Army and Navy Of the United States.
Two elements contributed to make
The armed forces OF the United States
the numerical and dynamic success
they had already registered when
Germany signed the armistice--the
wise laws which brought them into
being and the intelligent execution
OF those laws by both public SER
wants and public sentiment. Under
the original selective service law of
May Is, 1917, with its subsequent
amendments, the man power of the
nation between the ages OF IS and
IS, inclusive, had registered to the
number Of 23.709,000, and Of these
slightly over 100000 had been in
Quoted into military service. These
lad been added to the Regular, Natl
onal Guard, and Reserve Corps units,
making total Of 3,665,00O men
modified, of whom there were in
Europe, or on the way to Europe, on
November 18th, 2,053,347 men,
less losses---and over 100000 In
training at home camps.
On August z, 1918. the appella-
tons Regular Army" Reserve
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Corps" National Guard and Ma
tional Army" were ordered discon-
tinued and the military forces Of
the nation were consolidated into
the United States Army. The old
volunteer army had numbered on the
eve OF tho declaration of war 1907
100 men.
The creation Of the National Ma
val Volunteers by an act approved
August 20, 1915, had already made
IL possible to place the Naval Militia
under Federal Jurisdiction. The same
act also provided for the increase Of
the enlisted personnel OF the Regular
Navy and the creation OF the United
States Naval Reserve Force. On
Nov ember II, 1918 the Regular
Navy was represented by $3.50 per-
n,anent and 1888 temporary officers
end 206,SS4 mon, and the Reserves
numbered 21,9S5 officers and $780,
348 men, giving a total Of 32,474 Of
Ulcers and 497,030 men, to be added
10 the United States lighting forces.
The total, however, included many
women WHO had been enrolled az
yeomen due to the sudden increase
OF the business of the service ON
account OF the war When war was
declared the enlistment and enroll
ment Of the navy numbered only 65.-
f,17 men.
Then TO the land army and navy
must be added the Marine Corps,
who corspicuously upheld the tradi-
tons Of their caste ut Chnteau-Thier.
ry. BY an act that went into effect
July 1, 1918, the strength tf the
corps was temporarily increased from
693 officers and 10000 men O 3d.
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WHAT IT COST.
WAS 1T ALL IN VAIN? THE
PRESIDENT SAYS mo"
Congress Plays Peanut Politics.
Organized Greed IL the Tory
of America.

This Is an attempt to reveal the
wars cost measured in terms of hu-
man life. with special reference to
tho millions diverted from the pro-
dnctive industries Of peace to the an
Initiating vocation OF mortal combat
to other millions who today are
dead, suffering. or helpless because OF
the war.
Sixteen established nations and
three new ones, which the war
brought forth, assembled their hu-
man powers for the great conflict
fifteen on one side and four on the
other. Against one or more of the
tour. twelve other nations also de-
clared war. but did not actively in
duige In 1t. or the remaining fifty
more OF less independent nations Of
the world. five also severed relations
with one or more Of the four origi .
nal aggreSsors. All were seriously
affected
It has been estimated that the
Polish combatants with the Allies
numbered 10000: that the Czecho-
sfovak armies in Siberia, France, and
Italy included 10000 nationals;
that the King of Hedjaz fought the
Turk with 100000 Arabs These
three new nations, therefore. en-
ploycd combatant force Of $4,000
Ten. which was joined TO the Allies
IS, 6?2,864 against the Central Pow
ers' 19,50O,OOO.
Nearly 100000 men at war, OF
this huge nuraber over 100000 are
dead and nearly 100000 go per
cent. Of the wouDded) are permanent
human wrecks.
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But this only refers to the soldiers
who died or were irreparably MAIN
ed. Civilians were even greater, not
only by engines of war but by fam
inc. disease, and massacre There
were those who were killed by direct
military causes; those who died from
indirect causes.
In the first category we have:
692 Americans slain on the high
20,620 British subjects slain on the
high seas.
1870 English men. women, and
children the victims Of
air raids and lombard
ments
10000 Belgians butchered or de-
prived of life in various
ways.
10000 French butchered or deprived
of life in various ways.
$500 Neutrals slain by the U-boats.
1O0,0S2
In the second category we have:
100000 Armenians, Syrians, Jews
and Greeks maSsacred or
starved by the turks.
100000 Deaths beyond the normal
mortality of influenza and
pneumonia induced by
the war.
,0S5,4 Serbian dead through di-
------- dease or massacre.
a,OS5,441
All this give military and civil
liam mortality, directly or indirectly
the product of the war, Of:
Military deaths $500 7,7S1,SO6
Civilian deaths ........ 9,1S5.523
Total 16,967,329
And this is not all. Who can even
estimate the millions OF human beings
whose bones whiten the roads of
Poland or fill the charnel houses of
the Bolsheviki?
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ss.s7esS4 4.s6s,47s 11,o75.715 4.s5s,2ss 2oss222e
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Total 100000 2.s12,32S 7.So5542
Grand 5s176S64
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Modified Strength Casualty Bcigcrens
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1919-02-12

LIMITED AMOUNT OF GOOD
white clean oats, suitable for seed.
J. G. Gibson. eft
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1919-02-12

We cannot blame ignorant foreign
ers for having little respect for our
government our laws and our presi-
dent when United States senators and
congressman and men high in political
and financial circles denounce all of
them in the bitterest terms and
women burn an effigy of the presi-
dent in front of the White House.
None ofthe aliens have shown any less
respect for American institutions than
have these people, who certainly
ought to set the aliens a better ex-
ample.
IA - -
The movement to create a closer
relationship and deeper interest in
each others welfare between fathers
and sons is a good move. Every man
who "chums" with his son will be a
better man and he will make better
man of his son, if the relationship
between them is close, friendly, init
mate and frank