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Exclusively for the Times Billie
Burke today poseH in her latest
Spring hat attire on the woman's
page. Yonr mouth will water,
girls, when you see her spring
creations.
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lAUfIVIA MINK biggest IJN HIM UK I
Direct Election of Senators Means Revolution in Government
Ratification of the amendment providing for the
direct election of United States senators completes
a revolution for which the people have been eager
for 30 years.
It is none the less a revolution because long in
coming.
For it changes fundamentally an arm of the gov
TOTAL OF $20,000,000 NOW
IN FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS
$1000,0011 OF
NEW MONEY IN
THE CITY NOW
Over $2,000,000 of new money
lias been dumped into Tacoma in
tho last two nulls.
This is no guess work, not
somebody's opinion, but the facts
as shown by the actual flgures of
the bank deposits.
Never before in the history of
tills city have the bank deposits
hero reached a total of $20,000,
-000 until now they have loomed
up more than a million above this
mark. Kvery bank in town, ex
cepting the little North Tactile
bank of .South Taconia shows big
gains. Tncoma banks gained 0.5
per cent in deposits in two
months. This is unprecedented.
Seattle gained in the MM time
5.7 per cent and is making a great
blow. ■
It happens that February 4 a
rail was made for a report and
again April 4. This gave a period
of just two months intervening.
And that two months' shows the
greatest prosperity In the history
of this city.
-STRIiTFIBE
ON 0. S. ARMY
OFFICER
BUFFALO, April 9.— (By Unit
ed Press.) Sergeant. Wardup,
commanding the Seventh regi
ment, United States army, while
' commanding a dozen scouts on
special mounts, was tired upon by
a gang of street car strikers and
sympathizer* early today. No one
was hurt.
The assailants escaped without
. being recognized. Following the
trouble General Welsh ordered
the militia to fire on any man seen
picking up rocks. . ■
Orders were issued last night
for immediate mustering of 3,000
state militia men to report for
duty here.
There is little hope of a strike
settlement today following the
failure to bring about a meeting
between the officials of the Inter
national Railway company lines
1 and strike leaders. s •
Almost every line In the city Is
tied up. : v
NEW WESTMINSTER, B. C,
April 9.—Two of the most learn
ed king's counsel were present to
da> at the application for bail of
John MacNamara, accused of the
theft of an automobile. The de
cision was reserved.
We Offer You Today
Choice Building
Site for Bungalow
2 Lots Near 6th Aye.
On South Trafton
Low Price for Cash
Calvin Philips& Co.
211 Cal. Bldg., Tacoma
Money to Loan
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30cVMONTH.' TACOMA, WASHINGTON. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9, 1918. HOME EDITION
TACOMA BANK DEPOSITS
April 4. February 4. Gain.
Pacific National ..? 5,163,234.38 $ 4,594,181.51 $ 569,053.07
Nafl Bk. of Com.. . 4,072,347.55 8,942,713.11 147,661.44
Rank of California 4,094,000.00 4,009,000.00 85,000.00
Fidelity Trust Co.. 4,017,088.46 3,479,381.06 637,707.30
Scandinavian-Am. . 2,396,485.95 2,164,558.99 231.926.96
Puget Sd. Savings. 491,066.06 360,398.57 130,667.49
North Pacific 172,501.91 181,232.92
Totals $21,674,696.21 $19,794,651.79 $1,880,044.42
BROKE PLATE OVER HEAD
READ MORNING PAPER
HUBBY SEEKS SEPARATION
MRS. KATE AN'DKRSON.
ST. I,OriS, April 0. — After
riilmly breaking a plate over the
head of her husbnml, Charles J.
Anderson, millionaire attorney,
Mrs. Kate Edna Anderson as calm
ly retired to the front porch to
road the evening paper, she testi
fied at the trial of her husband's
suit for divorce.
Mrs. Anderson's testimony was
given to refute his charges that
she "quarreled and attacked him
with a display of anger and vio
lence" and that she threw chil
dren's building blocks at his bare
Vnlverslty refuses tij accept resignation of (rrofessor who was
acquitted for murdering laundry man for paying attentions to
his wife.
MINNEAPOLIS, April 9.—"1
am satisfied with the result of
the trial. I couldn't have expect
ed more. My wife and myself
wish to thank the press and the
general public for the fair con
sideration we received. I hope
the public will permit us to re
sume our flomestic relations in
peace and happiness. As far as
we are concerned, this case is ab
CAUCUS OVER
TARIFF HELD
WASHINGTON, D. C, April 9.
—With the opponents of free
sugar and free wool leading the
opposition, democratic members
of the house met In a caucus to
day to discuss the proposed new
tariff- bill. The approval of the
bill by a divided vote waa gen
erailv ezDected.
ernment. It practically does away with the purpose
for which the senate was established.
The senate was meant to be a check upon the peo
ple. It was carefully designed to be one of three
agencies by which wealth and privilege might curb
the common will.
Of the other two, the electoral college was demo
feet.
"While we were seated with
our son at the breakfast table,"
Mrs. Anderson said, "Mr. Ander
son called me a vile name, and
when I protested he applied an
other name equally as bad to me
and I calmly picked up a plate
and broke it over his head.
"Then I walked to the porch
to read the papers and my son
Clifford, sixteen years old, said he
had looked up the names his fath
er had called me in the diction
ary."
solutely closed a^l» sealed." I
This was the statement today
by Professor Olson of the Uni
versity of Minnesota, following
his acquittal on a charge of mur
dering Clyde Darling, laundry
wagon driver, because of the lat
ter's attentions to Mrs. Olson. A
verdict of "not-guilty" was re
turned last night. University of
ficials declined to accept Olson's
resignation.
RENEW ATTACK
ON GARRISON
MACO, April 9. —Sonora consti
tutionalists renewed their attack
on the federal garison of Maco,
Sonora, by firing from the east
and west side of the town with
machine guns. The defenders re
plied with heavy artillery. Dur
ing the first exchange two federals
were killed and four wounded.
ORDINANCE FOR
BOND ELECTION
PASSED TODAY
PROPLH AHE NOW AMMI?ItKI>
OF iik.mi TO DKCIDK
\\ lll.'l'l.'l .1: TACOMA WlttliKM
A MI'NICIPAIj HTKKKT CAR
LINK ON THE TIDEKLATS ON
MAY 10.
The council this morning pass
'■<l 1 In' ■mlin am c submitting the
inmil- for n'ni'is. roads an<l the
nniiili'i|inl farm ami sli< ■•■( railway
to the people on M«\ 10.
I Ik- iniiiiii ipnl farm is put in
for #40,000, hut only $1.5,000 of
it is to In' issued in hon<l-, aceord
iiiK to <'oiiiiiilssis.iii. 1 Mill-. The
rest will be warrants at 0 per
rent, which will be retired from
the tax levies In the next five
years.
The $87,000 for the municipal
railway 1b for the line complete,
with track, rar barns, repair shop
and four big cars with motor
equipment.
It is a question whether the
enemies of municipal ownership
can eet the city commlslson to
head off the bond vote for the
municipal street railway line by
turning the Eleventh street bridge
line over to the Stone-Webster
people.
"It would be foolish to con
sider such a proposition now aft
er we have submitted the ques
tion of a line to the people," said
Commissioner Lawson this morn
ing. "If the people vote down
the municipal line then I would
be willing to let the T. R. & P.
or any other line go over there."
Commissioner Mills said there
was a plan on to simply let the
Stone-Webster people build a
line across without giving them
a franchise.
TACQMASTRONG
FOR COMPLETE
OWNERSHIP
ADOPT HKSOLUTION SIMILAR
TO THAT KNDOHHEI) BY
CITY OF CLEVELAND ME
MOKIALIZING GONGKEHH TO
TAKK OVEIt WHOLE PHONK
AND I I 1.1 (.ItAl'll SVSTJM
OF COUNTRY.
Tacoina Is for government own
ership of the whole telephone and
telegraph system.
This morning the city commis
sion received a resolution from
the Cleveland city council me
morializing congress to take im
mediate steps to take over or to
build a complete government sys
tem of telephone and telegraph
service as a branch of the postal
service.
"I'm for that," Bald Commis
sioner Woods.
Commissioner Freeland im
mediately moved that the city at*
torney be Instructed to draw up
a similar resolution i'or Tacoma
which will be adopted at the next
meeting and forwarded to Wash
ington,
In the meantime the franchise
of the A. D. T., a branch of the
Western Union, which is coupled
up with the Bell telephone, was
held up.
"I want to say I will not vote
for any franchise to this company
that in any way has a bearing on
the telephone situation; I would
rather they would go ahead as
they are," said Mills and the oth
er councilmen seemed to agree
with him.
The commission seems to be a
unit for government ownership of
the whole telephone system.
CINCINNATI, 0., April 9. —
Because flood waters turned the
National league grounds into a
quagmire, the opening game of
the season wag postponed from
today until Friday. The contest
will be between Cincinnati and
Pittsburgh
cratized long ago. Only the supreme court remains
unchanged—the last stand of aristocracy.
A popularly elected senate is nothing more than a
house of representatives elected at large but lacking
the element of fair apportionment.
It becomes a fifth wheel under the wagon. It is as
redundant as a second council in a city. Its continu-
HE BACKED HIS FAITH WITH WORK
PRATT IS ONE MAN
WHO HAS A RIGHT TO
SAY "I TOLD YOU SO"
.$> __ _ <$>
He Smiled and Boosted When Things Looked
Dark. He Had Faith But Knowing That "Faith
Without Work Is Dead" He Worked; He Built
a Skyscraper. .
BY FKKII L. IJOAIiT.
Against the time when the
Paniima canal shnll be opened to
the sea traffic of the world, Ta
< nmii is making ready. In the
year past three great improve
ments have been effected—
The Nisqually hydro-electric
light and power plant;
The Green river gravity water
plant; and
The great city bridge which
spans the waterway and links the
retail district with the railroad
terminal and the factory district
011 the tldeflate.
And Pratt -miles.
lie says: "Didn't I tell you
so?"
He did. You've got to I I it
to him —he did! In the lean days
he boosted. In the sorrowful days
he smiled. He has earned • !•• -
right to say, "I told you *o."
Louis W. Pratt is a remarkable
man.
He used to be a newspaperman,
and now he has money!
1 know one other newspaper
man who had money. I remem
ber the exact sum was $8.45. It
may seem strange to you that I
should remember the amount, but
J can explain.
I had an unreasonable landlady.
Bhc insisted that I remit. I need
ed $3. I got it from the pluto
cratic journalist. Thus he had
had $5.45 left. He says, if I
would return the $3 he would
Again have $8.45. He has men
tioned it several times.
But we digram. We are talk-
Ing about Ihhils \V. Pratt, who
started out as a Journalist and
wound up a capitalist. Pratt lias
'more than $8.45. 1 don't know
! exactly how much he has, but It's
up in the thousands, or millions,
or billions.
Before Pratt became a capital
ist and a*Tacoma booster, he lived
in the effete east. That is, he
lived in Chicago. Funny thing
about Chicago. When you're in
.New Yerk, you speak of Chicago
as "out -west." But when you're
in Tacoma, you refer to the
Windy City as "back east."
Anyhow, that's where Pratt
lived and had his being until some
paper-—the Tribune, I think it
was —sent him abroad. Now, If
Chicago is effete, London is ef
feter. Pratt didn't like it at all.
He figured It out that if it got
efteter the farther east you went,
it would get less effete the far
ther west you went. That was
good logic.
So Pratt returned to America,
and kept right on going west un
til he nearly went, splash! into
the Pacific ocean. Which is our
comical way of saying he came
to Tacoma, in 1900.
He went to work as editor of a
morning paper.
Everybody was pretty blue
when Pratt hit town. Not be
cause Pratt had hit towr, but be
cause the panic had. The panic
got here before Pratt did.
Pratt took one look at Pacific
avenue, deserted and forlorn,
drew a long breath, and said with
conviction:
"When things get as bad as they
can be, they can't get worse. Ergo,
they must get better. I like this
town fine. Its future is Im
mense."
Wherewith he began compiling
statistics — Tacoma statistics—
which proved a! his clalma.
Pratt ran do anything with sta
tistic*. For him they will stand
on their hind legs, play dead,
apeak, beg and roll over,
Pratt came to believe in his sta
tisiirs. What's more, he made
other people believe In them.
In 1905 he left journalism to
become secretary of the chamber
of commerce. In 1907 he organ
ized the National Realty company,
of which the next year he was
made president.
He built Tacoma's tallest sky
scraper. He boosted and boosted
and boosted. And most of his
statistics have become true al
ready.
Pratt is a stoutlsh, Jovial man,
and his head is fascinatingly bald
and shiny. A few years ago he
went east on a boost trip. In
Salt Lake he talked long and elo
quently of our sun-kissed peak,"
and straightaway the clever Fish
er Harris named him "Sun-kissed
Peak" Pratt.
I railed on Pratt today at his
office on the I.lth floor of his
skyscraper. He took me to the
window, and together we looked
down and down and down to a
little square corner lot.
"Just bought it," he said com
placently. "Paid 9100,000 —
cash."
He said it just like that.
"How big will Tacoma be 10
years from now?" I asked.
"Double," be Mid. He said it
Jusi like that.
The Ad rial) will take * rhnr^ -' ■***-—■'* /^1&
; of the gnuid openlng'of the bM*^*S^ A
ball season next Tuesday. TtuU i'.rh fff*
iiii'iiiis that there Is going to b«
Koine fun, fireworks, noUe ami •".■
lot of enthu*iMin. '. "-)
ance is a token of our respect for forms after the
spirit has fled.
If it will be a good little senate the people may
let it live. But if it gets in the way of the onward
march of the American nation toward social justice
and the square deal, the chances are it will be treated
as our English cousins have treated their house of
lords or abolished altogether.
MARRIED FOR HER
OWN CONVENIENCE
DECLARES DIVINE
EX-MINISTER ON Til 10 STAND
THIN MORNING DKCI/.lltKS
UK HAD ONLY TWO MONTHS
OK HAIM'INKSS IN 17 YEAUB
' OF WEDDED LIFE.
Asserting on tlio witness stnixl
this morning (hat Ills wife Imil
never loved him but liiml married
him for her own convenience) O.
K. l{«>dekei\ ex-minister sum;. for
divorce, <It»clnred i li.-h lie had only
two months of happiness in Ills 17
yen is of lift; with Mrs. Ilerieker.
"About two months after we
were married," Uedeker related,
"she Informed me that she had
married me because her brother
had told her I was making the
best wages of any man at the fac
tory outßide of the superintend
ent, and was sober and Indus
trious. After that she was con
stantly nagging me year In and
year out."
f "And why had you stood for
this for 17 years, eh?" asked' M.
E. ! Noal, counsel for the absent
defendant.
"Because there never has been
any stain on our name," replied
the former pastor. "I shrank
from the ordeal of undergoing a
divorce trial."
Redeker admitted that his wife
was one of the best housekeepers
that he had ever seen, but said
she had the wrong temperament.
Before he married her, he- declar
ed that she objected to his enter-
Ing the ministry. After marriage
she didn't seem to care, he says.
Immorality . and other grave
charges were ascribed to Redeker
when a deposition from the absent
defendant was read yesterday aft
ernoon.
•In her deposition she says that
Redeker had a habit of keeping
company with other women In the
East, and that he was put out of
the United Evangelical ministry.
She declares he preached for the
Methodist Protestant church in
Baltimore for six years and then
resigned by request.
The deposition further relates
that she supported him with her
earnings while he studied for the
ministry. She states that he fail
ed to get a divorce from her in
Has Faith In Tacoma
Business Man Expands
Enters Wholesale Trade
Believing that Tacoma Is enter
ing an era of tremendous expan
sion that will make her one of
the great supply centers of the
west J. 8. Kean, the popular
house furnigher at 15th and Pa
cific, 1b preparing to go back into
his old business of manufacturing
and wholesale furniture.
For 20 years Mr. Kean was In
this business with J. P. Harmon,
for 14 years being general man
ager. He prospered in his work
and finally went into the retail
business and hag done well but
with the opening of the Panama
canal he believes big things are
about to be doing on the coast
and he desires to expand more
rapidly than is possible in retail
trade.
IMMIGRATION
LAWS BROKEN
Nets Larson and Carl Carlson,
sailors on the schooner Mabel
Gale, were arrested this morning
by Alex Fulton, United Stales Im
migration inspector, and two dep
uties charged with violation of
the immigration laws. They were
removed to the city Jail and will
be deported. The prisoners may
be given an opportunity to leave
on their vessel when she sets sail
for Mexico.
Montana, name East to effect a
reconciliation and borrowed
money to go west nualn, promis
ing to Bond her $40 each month
for tlie support of the family.
Redeker wiib linked to explain
the statement df his daughter,
Ruth that he had been caught
one (lay holding a young lady on
his lap. The ex-minister re
sponded that ho had no recollec
tion of guch a thing unless it
might have been one of two girl
chuniH of his daughter's, the old
est of whom was 10, who had the
run of the house and who were
very fond of him.
lie alleged that he was never
illsminsrd from any church as his
wife charges, but that her con
tinual fighting with members ot
his flock forced him to give Jt up,
She objected to hlg visits to peo
ple in Ills pastorate, which he
avers is a duty of all ministers.
WILSON TOOK
PART 111 WAR
URGE MADE
EL, PASO, April 9.— (Ily Unit
ed Press.) —Declaration that he Is
going to Washington to give Sec
retary of State Bryan proof that
Ambassador Wilson took active
part In the recent revolt In Mexico
City wag made by Rogue Gonzalea
Oarza, formerly member of the
Madero chamber of deputler, to
day. "Charges against Wilson,"
said Garza, "will be formally pre
sented by my colleague, Deputy
Rojas. These charges will be
substantiated with actual proofg.'*
BELUSFONTAINE. 0., April 9.
—Dr. Frank B. Kayler, hearing
that his brother, Scott Kayler,
had been drowned at Dayton,
took an undertaker and a coffin
to Dayton by automobile and
found his brother alive and well.
"I intend to sell out my stock
here and hope to clean every
thing up by June 1 preparatory to
going into the new business," said
Mr. Kean today.
We Don't Steal Our
Merchandise
But the other fellows
would have to steal
thoir's to undersell us,
quality for quality.
Menzies &
Stevens Go.
T. 3. FJt-EETWOOI*. Mgr. I
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