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LET THERE BE NO YIELDING.
At the moment the war is growing in intensity rather than
diminishing, Germany’s activities are certainly increasing,
presumably with a view of making a supreme effort. Kngland’s
drive* against t'amhrai has been cheeked. Italy is actively re
sisting a tremendous attack. Russia is in the throes of civil
strife. Spain and Portugal are both endangered by the fires
raging about them, while all the neutral countries are more or
less in danger of being drawn into tin* conflagration. In the
1’nited Stat(*s tin* war clouds are growing thicker and thicker.
The storm is here, though not yet raging in full force. As our
young men depart in increasing numbers for “over there,” we
grow men* and more serious; and our appreciation of tin* great
cause, and their supreme sacrifice, becomes deeper and stronger.
When the casualty lists come back, we will feel more keenly
the price required to make this a bettor and a freer world, if
not for ourselves, for those who come after. No wonder we
become solemn, serious and disappointed. But there should be
no yielding to this discouragement, and no gloom. \ ictory is
certain, providing wt* “carry on” our part with unflinching
hope and courage.
PATRIOTISM GROWING.
American newspapers have Ion,a: gloried in their imlepend
enn1. IT there was a head that they believed should ho hit,
they have never hesitated to take up a bludgeon and proceed
to the task.
The independence and freedom of tin* press is a national
institution. And it is real.
But in going over many newspapers, of all political ad
herenecs. in the past few weeks, we have failed to notice where a
single publication ha^ }>rinted a cartoon making fun ot tiie
president or published a diatribe of the character often semi in
newspapers attacking publie men. \\ hat criticism there has
been is moderately expressd in all cases.
The new patriotism is so all-embracing that it has come
to include an unprecedented loyalty to the man in the presi
dent's chair.—-Tacoma Xews.
THEY “MUST” BUT WILL THEY?
The Leipzig Xaohriehten urging that Germany hang on to
Northern France says that but for the iron mines there, Ger
many would long since have ceased to light. It asserts:
“All this twaddle about the restoration of northern France
must cease. \Ve must insist, by way of a very modest indemni
fication for all oni- struggles and suffering, on retaining pos
session of the iron mines of Briey and Longwy.
“Had this area not been in our hands the war, so far as
Germany is concerned, would long ago have come to an end
because of our lack of materials. This risk we must not run
again. Our munition supplies must be secured permanently.”
Our guess is that a person who proposed to go on an Arctic
expedition these days would be accused of trying to slack out
of hardships.
If the full truth could be discovered, probably it would be
found that it is better for love to be blind than to be able to
see ahead.
Of course a wife’s opinions ought not necessarily to be the
same as the husband’s, but it takes a big house to hold two sets.
As a general thing, it doesn’t take a young man long to
lean) how to tell who is a lady without her telling him.
Most of the alarmists we are acquainted with are afraid the
country will be ruined if other people don’t reform.
Another satisfaction the gray-haired woman has is that
nobody ever accuses her of having painted it that color.
Our position is simply this—that no winter girl should cut
her waist low enough to make herself cold-hearted.
It may get so some time that daughters are a comfort to
their mothers only when they are safe in bed.
Sometimes a self-made man looks like he put on the fin
ishing touches with his eyes shut.
Just by looking at a giggling girl you would never guess
how grim her mother is.
The man who uses the hardest words is sometimes the
mushiest thinker.
The instruction to the cook is, don’t spill the beans on a
meatless day.
STATESMEN EAT TURNIPS
RAISED ON COOK INLE
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event that Commissioner Riggs is a]
pointed governor. Jackson was i
railway commissioner, in the unlikel
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Washington recently, and to hear him
talk, everything is arranged. But
there is a big surprise in store for
Mr. Jackson. He is going to hear
something drop. And so is another
gentleman who has high aspirations
in a political way.
FEDERAL CONTRQLOFIIW
ITERIKSTD BE ASSUMED
IF NECESSARY ID WIN IR
SECRETARY OF TREASURY WILLIAM G. McADOO, AS
WITNESS BEFORE SENATE COMMITTEE ON INTER
STATE COMMERCE, SAYS SOME RAILROADS
WILL BE RETURNED TO OWNERS.
NO COMPENSATION GIVEN RELEASED LINES
Cabinet Officer Declares That Consideration Is Now Being
Given to Water Means of Transportation But That No
Definite Conclusion Has Yet Been Reached in Regard to
Taking Them Over and That Their Seizure Is Not Likely
In Immediate Future.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 19.
Control of canals and inland water
ways will be assumed by the federa
government if their possession by tin
United States is essential to tin
prosecution of the war, declared Sec
retary of the Treasury William G. Me
Adoo today to the senate committe
on interstate commerce.
Witness Before Committee.
Secretary McAdoo was a witnes
before the committee on matters re
lating to the government’s operatioi
of the railroads of the country. H
; told the committee that the govern
1 ment did not intend to keep contro
of any railroad lines not necessary t
the conduct of the war and stated that
. no compensation would made to any
I railroads not retained by the govern
ment. He declared that the federal
authorities had already concluded to
release from control certain short
lines of railroad.
Now Under Consideration.
The matter of taking over the con
trol of certain canals and inland wat
I erways was now under consideration
> i said the secretary, but no definite
- conclusion for assuming control of
i them had yet been reached. The indi
' cations, he declared, were that pos
- session of canals and inland water
1 ways would not be taken for some
> time, if at all.
RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT CAN NO I
CONTROL ASSEMBLY ANI) MAY
DISBAND IT BY FORCE.
STREET BARRICADES ERECTED.
Cabinet Brings Thousands of Soldiers
and Sailors Into Petrograd to Rein
force Troops Already There in Com
batting Riots.
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PETROGRAD, Jan. 1!).—Contrary
to all expectations, the Maximilist
members of the Russian constituent
assembly, which convened in Petro
grad today, were in the minority, and
after they had been signally defeated
in the first test of party strength by
the failure of their candidate to be
chosen chairman of the legislative
I body, they and their political allies,
the left wing of the social revolution
! ists, withdrew in a body.
Russia’s internal situation is now
entering on a new phase. Supporters
of the Maximilist cabinet freely pre
dict tonight that the present govern
ment officials will issue an edict as
suming supreme control of affairs and
that probaly they will disband, by
force if necessary, the constitutent
assembly.
Elements in the populace opposed
to the government and in sympathy
with the assembly, have erected street
barricades in different parts of the
city, particularly near the telephone
station and at other strategic points.
Thousands of soldiers and sailors
have been brought into Petrograd by
the Maximilist government to rein
force the troops here in combatting
riots.
AUSTRIAN WORKERS
STRIKE FOR PEACE
MORE THAN 100,000 LABORERS
IN VIENNA RESENT GER
MAN INFLUENCE.
AMSTERDAM, Holland, Jan. 22.—
i More than 100,000 workmen in Vienna
and vicinity have gone on strike as a
protest against Germany’s influence in
Austria’s affairs and as a demonstra
tion of peace, according to authentic
repotrs received in Amsterdam from
Vienna.
The strikers demand the conclusion
of a spe'edy peace with Russia.
CABINET OFFICER SAYS WORK
ERS ARE INDUCED TO LEAVE
GOOD JOBS FOR WORSE.
CONTROL OF PACKERS URGED.
Chicago Employes Extend Request for
Government Operation to Include
All Meat Plants in the Linited
States.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 22.—
Orders to large industrial concerns to
cease advertising for workmen and
the presentation of demands by Chi
cago packing house employes for gov
ernment control of the meat packing
industry in the United States attract
ed attention today to the department
of labor.
Secretary of Labor William B. Wil
son issued peremptory directions to
industrial conerens telling them to
cease their widespread advertising for
help. He pointed out that such adver
tisemnts made laborers restless and
caused them to abandon good jobs in
the hope of getting better ones and
that in the great majority of in
stances workers who thus abandoned
their positions suffered unfortunate
experience in that their new places
were not as good as their old ones.
The employes of Chicago packing
houses had previously asked for gov
ernment control of the packing houses
in Chicago, but today they amended
their request to have all packing
plants in the nation put under the con
trol of the federal authorities.
GERMAN DIPLOMAT
BECOMING INSANE
COUNT LUXBUKG, WHO IS IN
HOSPITAL IN BUENOS AIRES,
IS BECOMING WORSE.
BUENOS AIRES, Argentine, Jan.
19.—At the German hospital here,
where Count von Luxburg, former
German minister to Argentine, doc
tors report he is steadily becoming
woi’se. The count has been in the
hospital five t eeks suffering from
nervous breakdown. It is repoi*ted that
he is becoming insan.e
Count Luxburg is the German diplo
mat through whom Joseph Cailleaux,
former premier of France, communi
cated with the German foreign office
in Berlin when he visited Buenos
Aires in 1915.
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TAR AND FEATHERS
GIVEN S0CIALIS1
SEATTLE AUTOMOBILE ME
CHANIC IS ATTACKED BY MEIN
WHO OPPOSE HIS BELIEFS.
SEATTLE, Jan. 19.—Donald Leroj
an automobile mechanic, was foun
bound hand and foot and tarred an
feathered on the King county road nea
Georgetown, a few miles south o
Seattle, early this morning. He sai
that five men entered the garag
where he was working last nighl
seized him, carried him away in a
automobile and tarred and feathere
him. He declared he knew no reaso
for their act.
The police assert that Leroy is
strong socialist and they believe th
attack was made by men who oppose
his beliefs.
GERMAN - RUSSIAN ARMISTIC1
INCREASES STRATEGIC FREE
DOM OF TEUTONS.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 22.
Troops of the entente allied nation
on the western front in France ar
waiting in an expectant attitude fo
the next move of the German forces
says Secretary of War Newton E
Baker in his review of war conditions
The German-Russian armistice, d€
dares the secretary, has greatly in
creased the strategic freedom of th
Germans and Austrians.
GIRL, 16. ARRESTED
CARRYING DYNAM1TI
ARMED MAIDEN IS SAID TO Bl
EMISSARY OF INDUSTRIAL
WORKERS OF WORLD.
CHICAGO, 111., Jan. 19.—A gii-1 be
lieved to be Laura Jose, of Youngs
town, Ohio, was arrested in Chicag
today carrying a satchel containin
thirty sticks of dynamite. She is 1
years old. She was armed with a re
volver.
The Chicago police say that, she i
an Industrial Worke?' of ■fTie Worl
emissary and that she was on her wa
to California.
GRADE PUPILS SAVE MONEY.
SPOKANE, Wash., Jan. 22.—Dui
ing the last year pupils in the publi
grade schools here have saved $14,58:
according to announcement of a loee
bank which handles the savings of th
school children. The total savings e
the children now are $105,714.
ACCUSED STATESMAN
' HAD HIDDEN RICHES
- FRENCH AGENTS SEIZE IN FLOR
ENCE, ITALY, VALUABLES
OWNED BY CAILLEAUX.
, PARIS, France, Jan. 19.—Money
1 and valuables owned by Joseph Cail
1 leaux, former premier of France, who
r is under arrest on the charge of hav
f ing held traitorous communication
1 with representatives of Germany,
5 were seized today by French agents in
;, Florence, Italy, where M. Cailleaux
i had them secreted in a safe.
1 The treasure consists of 30,000
n francs; jewels, valued at 100,000
francs, and stock certificates whose
a value has not yet been computed,
e French officials believe that M.
1 Cailleaux had cached the treasure to
provide against the contingency that
his dealing with Germany should be
discovered and he should be compelled
I to exile himself from his native
| country.
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. POOL ROOM OWNER
GIVES $3,500 BAIL
H. C. REED, UNDER LIQUOR
CHARGE, WILL BE TRIED
BY JURY MONDAY.
’’ H. C. Reed, one of the proprietors
of the Bank pool room who was ar
rested early Friday morning charged
with having whisky in his possession
was released from jail late yesterday
e under $3,500 bonds. He has requested
a jury trial and the case has been set
for 10:30 Monday morning. ¥
Attorney William Rager will ap
1 pear for the defendant while the ter
* ritory will be represented by Assistant
District Attorney J. C. Murphy.
SOLDIERS DROWN AS
. CARS FALL IN RIVER s
" TWENTY-FIVE GERMAN TROOP
0 ERS LOSE LIVES WHILE GO
?\ ING HOME ON LEAVE.
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-1 BERLIN, Jan. 19. — Twenty-five
j German soldiers on leave from ' the
s front were killed and about the same
d number were injured when three pas
y senger cars in which they were l’iding
were riding fell into a river. The
fell into a river. The washout of a
dam caused the accident.
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c i HONOLULU HAS SEA SCOUTS.
L, HONOLULU, T. H., Jan. 15.—A sea
J scout troop has been organized here
e to train boys in the simpler arts of
f navigation. The organization is fash
ioned after that of the boy scouts.
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