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PAOI FOUR
EDITORIAL PAGE THE TACOMA TIMES
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We Must Consider
In the breast of nine American citizens out of
ten there is a vague disquiet.
It is the feeling a man experiences when, after
traveling for a day with a company of strangers
and night comes, in the turmoil of a midnight
tempest he hears at the door of his sleeping
room the prowling feet of robbers, and, know
ing that he has much treasure and no arms,
realizes that the traveling companion* of tlie
day have become thieves, murderers and assass
ins of the night.
War is murder. War is assassination. War is
robbery. And our peaceful companions of the
sunshine of yesterday are, some of them at least,
the midnight assassins of this night of civiliza
tion, looking greedily at our treasures.
We must prepare for defense. We must have
an army. We must have an army great enough
H
OUR DUTY TO INTERNATIONAL LAW
It is true that there never was a body of statute law, with
courts and bailiffs to enforce it, to govern nations at war in
their relations to each other or to neutrals.
But there is a great body of accepted custom* whicli have
been of enormous value. They have been the upgrowth in
civilization. They have protected the flag of truce. They
have been of humane value in the amelioration of the lot of
the wounded and prisoners. They have made the Red Gross
possible.
They have made the sea a highway even during war, in
so far as civilized war could allow it to be free to neutrals.
They have been recognized by an elaborate system of prize
courts set up for the purpose of administering these customs
under the name of international law.
To say that these laws have all been repealed is as incor
rect as to say that the law against mobs has been repealed in
Georgia or the law against graft in Tammany. The law of
nations is not repealed.
It is only suspended in part by the breakdown of morals
of the nations in this dreadful war".
Shall the United States and the citizens of the United
States bow to the decree of the worst passions of a world in
arms acted upon by the extreme necessities of nations battling
for their lives i
No! It is our duty to struggle against the resolution to
chaos of all that has been won against unrestrained war in a
thousand years of struggle.
It is our duty to omit no word or act which may keep the
record straight, and uphold the rights of the arts "of peace
as against the ails of war.
Let us hold high the lamp of civilization, no matter how
strong or how numerous the mailed fists that seek to dash it
to earth.
EVEN MADE MONEY
Federal reserve system shows up with a neat sum as
profits for the first seven mouths.
It's perfectly shocking—to bank ere who shrieked that
Woodrow Wilson had headed finances straight toward tuin.
Billy Sunday believes in handing out the punch—but not
drinking it.
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Confessions of a Wife
(OB*) rUt, i. IBIS, Or N«-.p»p»r
■Catrrprtae Aaaortattoa.)
"Oh, 1 don't mean the money
you spend for the home and on
living expenses. Every woman
■panda a lot of money for those
Items. I mean the money you
spend for yourself.
"Did you ever realize that every
penny a woman spends for herself
almost always shows?
"You do not have the slightest
Ids* of how much you spend for
lunches, tobacco and drinks, for
•ar fare and taxes. A woman usu
ally saves all of the items except
tbe carfare, and that she cuts ln
half.
"1 have three or four hats a
year and that looks extravagant
to you, who, at moat, only have
two and oftitrtea only one, but
you muat remember that one of
my hata could probably be bought
with a week of your cigar
money."
Dlek looked ao ruefully that
both Mollie and I laughed
"Dick," said his sister, "how
much are your personal expenses,
and what are they?"
"I really don't know without
thinking them over."
"That's Just It. I'll bet Margie
knows what hers are."
Dick looked at me inquiringly.
"On* dollar a day,'' 1 answered
promptly.
,'But you mußt put In every
thing, your clothes, etc."
"1 have. You ace. Dick, every-
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thing a woman spends money for
shows. When we buy a new
frock or a new dress it speaks for
Itself, a man's bills for enter
tainment generally will average
more than what his wife spends
for clothes unless she is one of
those extravagant women who
just live to spend." Dick looked
guilty, for he knew that while he
gpnerously split his salary half in
two, I had taken upon myself the
heavy end of tbe household ex
penses.
"Well, you girls beat me." he
exclaimed, and he put his arms
about ub both.
Mollie leaned up against him
and burst into tears.
"Here, here, what is the mat
ter?"
"I was just thinking of Jack,"
she said brokenly.
Dick drew her closer to him
and I put my arms about them
both.
"Let's go and ask mother where
she would like to go and when."
I said. "Maybe It will Interest
her and take her mind away from
all her sorrows."
Mollie kissed me gratefully and
Dick whispered as she went to dry
her eyes and wash her fare,
"Margie, you are the best and
moat sensible little woman in all
the world." And, do you know,
little book, such Is the perverse
ness of women, that I would
rather he had called me darling
and kissed me.
Giving Millions of
to repel from our shores any landing army of in
vasion which any nation or all the nations might
scud against us!
How can we get it?
How much of an army shall it bet
What will it cost?
These and a dozen other critical questions
should be studied by the citizenry, and thus a
body of intelligent opinion built up that we may
understand what congress may be trying to do
when it meets and confronts its gigantic tasks.
A mobile army of at least 200,000 men in the
United States is called for by the most modest
proposals to increase the regular army; but that
would not be enough.
An alliance of an Asiatic enemy and a Euro
pean enemy could land troops enough on either
shore to call for more than this number on each
I wish I could be satisfied with
"being the best and most sensible
little woman in the world. I
don't just want to be a habit to
Dick. I want to be a necessity to
Dick. I wonder, little book, if
that is what I do want or whether
it is a basket of purple thrills tied
in love's pink ribbons that I want
him to hand me.
You see, little book, although I
know that it is foolish, I still have
that old story book Idea of love,
although I have found out that it
is all only the star dust of imag
ination.
I guess it Is the illusions that I
have lost that makes me always
longing for something I do not
have. Dick said to me the other
morning, when I had the tooth
ache, "Gee, Margie, you would
laugh If you could see yourself.
You are a cure for any kind of
flattery today."
"Not more than you are when
you are shaving," I snapped.
Dick added insult to injury by
laughing. "I guess the sure cure
for romance is marriage, don't
you think, Margie?"
Do you think, little book, that
DON'T WAHH VOIR
HA!It WITH SOAP
When you wash your hair, don't
use soap. Most soaps and pre
pared shampoos contain too much
alkali, which is very' injurious, as
it dries the scalp and makes the
hair brittle.
The best thing to use U Just
plain mulsified cocoanut oil, for
this is pure and entirely grease
less. It's very cheap, and beats
soaps or anything else all to
pieces. You can get this at any
drug store, and a few ounces will
last the whole family for months.
Simply moisten the hair with
water and rub it ln, about a tea
spoonful is all that is required.
It makes an abundance of rich,
creamy lather, cleanses thor
oughly, and rinses out easily. The
hair dries quickly and evenly,
and Is soft, fresh looking, bright,
fluffy, wavy and easy to handle.
Besides, it loosens and takes out
every particle of dust, dirt and
dandruff. "adv."
THE TAOOMA!TIMES
THE SPIDER AND THE FLY?
he is cured? And it he Is perfect
ly satisfied not to have them any
more, what is tbe matter with me?
Why am I not content to settle
down into the "sane and sensi
ble"?
(Continued Tomorrow.)
Personal |
and
Social 1
—*
Miss I-ols BeO, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Bell, of Taco
ma, was married last evening to
Robert Sandall in one of the first
autumn ceremonies, amidst a
bower of flowers. Following
their return they will make their
home in Tacoma until the groom
completes his law course at th*
University of Washington.
MUs Helen NipiH.lt. daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Nippwit.
was married yesterday to Dr. *W.
O. Nuessle, of Lansford, N. It).,
at her home, 1126 North Pros
pect, ln the presence of 65 gueAts.
The couple departed iramedlafcfly
for California after which tfOT
will make their home in North
Dakota.
Mlse Dorothy Kemhaw hatr-ii9>
turned to Tacoma from hef Va
cation and will conduct her dye
ing classes again.
Mia* Helen Stevens, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. John Stevens, en
tertained Tuesday evening Al'-a
dancing party at her home on
Yakima avenue.
Miss Kllx-beth YtMinglove will
entertain Friday at a bridge
luncheon, honoring Miss Marlon
Wllkie of Amsterdsm, Ni T.
Custer Relief Corps No. _ will
entertain at 2 p. m. Saturday at
the armory with its flrat card
party of the season. The affair
Is in charge of Mrs. D. Bergeson
and Mrs. O. A. Muckenhlrn. All
O. A. R.. members are Invited.
American Citizens
of two fronts at once.
Two hundred thousand trained men fully
equipped could be landed from Asia in four
weeks, 500,000 in four months, and 1,000,000 in
10 months. Similar invading hosts could be
landed from Europe in half the time.
What could 200,000 do? Nothing—not even
delay the onset.
Already there is an alliance between Great
Britain and Japan, and we have in this country
a party favoring such a policy with reference to
the export of munitions as would, if that party
should gain control of the Washington govern
ment, bring us to the brink of war with this alli
ance.
But this not the only similar danger. If Ger
many can do so she will force Russia to make a
separate peace.
Some Observations of An Editor
Who Went Up the Big; Mountain
We struck off on a trail
through the woods that leaves
the government road a mile above
the Mt. Tacoma national park en
trance.
"We" consisted of the editor
man and an N. P. engineer we'll
call Jim. The reason we call
him Jim is that it is his real
name.
There were just tbe two of us,
and on our backs, in U. S. army
knapsacks, we carried all the
food, extra clothing, bedding and
other supposed necessities of civ
ilization that were to do us for a
week. This is not to mention a
camera, a hatchet and a few oth
er luxuries.
The trail is part of a newly
fompleted route that now leads
he hiker clear around the moun
tain, on the western side, to Fair-
Tax
We found it to be fine going,
tuit its elevation is too low for it
o afford much of an outlook at
the scenery. To get the view and,
ln fact, to reach the real flanks
of the mountain, it is necessary
to climb up out of the woods,
where tbe trail runs, and into tbe
fark lands.
• • •
It was this that Jim and I did
the second morning out.
1 The first day's tr-mp (it waa
'really only half a day, as we had
left the auto stage at noon) had
brought us to St. Andrew's creek,
which is nearly due west of the
summit.
There, near tbe foot of a beau
tiful waterfall, we oamped under
the stars. Thick moss and bought
made us a bed rivalling Mr. Os
termoor'a best.
Our real work began the second
jnornlng aa we adjusted the soft
er spots ln the pack-sacks to the
sorer areas of our backs and
shoulders.
We were to follow the trail
A BOOK WE'LL ALL WANT
Some day some sensible man or woman will write a book
called "HOME PHILOSOPHY."
There will be a chapter on the philosophy of WASHING
DISHES —without making a mess or getting mad.
There will be a chapter devoted to MAKING BEDS
WITHOUT MOUNTAINS OR VALLEYS.
There will, of course, be several chapters about GOOD
HEALTH AND AIR.
The woman who fills her home with knick-knacks will
receive a gentle chiding; and tlie man who litters the house
with tobacco and ashes from his pipe or cigar or cigaret will
receive a mild scolding.
The man who never stays at home evenings will get hail
eolumbia, and the woman gadder will get hers, too!
That dear home-body woman will receive full credit.
That fine man who works and thinks and lives for his
home will be remembered.
"HOW TO RUN YOUR FURNACE." three chapters.
"HOW TO KEEP ON GOOD TERMS WITH THE JAN
ITOR," five chapters! No living person has solved this prob
lem; it is extremely important.
"THE HOME BEAUTIFUL," let us hope, will receive
proper attention.
When this book has been written, if it is well done, the
author will find himself (or herself) immortal.
HIGH CLASS APPRECIATION
When that big Wichita, Kan., farmer kissed Bryan, he
said: "Mr. Bryan, I have read your paper for years and
made up my mind that if I ever got a chance I would kiss
you."
What a delicate, delicious compliment to editorial gen
ius! And why shouldn't it be catching? No one loves appre
ciation better than the editor. If every one of our apprecia
tive readere should, the next time they meet us, just be good
enough to—
Oh well! perhaps you'd better put it on paper and mail it
to us.
Judging fronj the manner in which the citizens' posses are
disposing of the Mexican banditti along the Texas border,
General Funston's army is a superfluous superfluity.
again up several swm 'i urn »n id
a point above a second and a
third waterfall, continuations of
the one beside which we had
slept.
The second falls we found to
be labeled Larupin and the third
Denman, named for A. H. Den
man, the Tacoma lawyer-moun
taineer.
I have no way of knowing what
Mr. Denman thinks of the tribute
that was paid him when that
beautiful cataract was christened
for him, but for me, if I were to
be honored for some service to
society, I can think of few monu
ments 1 should prefer to a water
fall.
Carnegie can build a library ln
every hamlet, but only the force
that heaps mountains together
can produce the equivalent of
Denman falls.
• • •
And right here Jim and I want
to register a kick against our
friend J. H. Weer, a leader ln the
Mountaineers' club. He told us
before we started—l swear he did I
—that at the end of the THIRD
full switchback we should find a
snake trail leading off upward
toward St. Andrew's park.
And we didn't find it until we
bad done all the legs of SIX.
However, we did find It at last,
and It went Just where Mr. Weer
said It did, up and up the great
slopes to St. Andrew's, least
known, perhaps, of all the Mt.
Tacoma parks.
What happened to us there I'll
tell next MM,
HHKAItI) COWAIiKSTINO
W. F. Shcaiil. who was Injur
ed some days ago In a collision
with a cable car while riding a
motorcycle, Is reported at St.
Joseph's hospital today as im
proving rapidly, and as likely to
be home in a few days.
Military Training
If Russia makes a separate peace, it will mean
the same kind of an alliance with Germany that
she made with Prussia in the midst of a great
war in the time of Frederick the Great, and un
der which Poland was divided among Prussia,
Austria and Russia.
An alliance between Russia and a victorious
Germany could do exactly what The Times has
suggested could be done by a British-Japanese
alliance.
National defense requires millions of trained
men, not hundreds of thousand*.
On another page today we print the first of a
series of articles on the Swiss army system, a
system which trains all men in military ways.
We ask you to read these articles. They will
interest you. If, after you read you have any
thing to say to the editor on the subject, we ask
you to writo The Times about it.
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FRENCH HANDS THAT ROCKED CRADLES
ARE NOW FILLING DEATH MESSENGERS
W ..nun of France Making "Death Me* -„,■„" for Their Men at
the P ront.
The women of France cannot
fight on the battle front, but most
of the shrapnel shells that carry
death to the enemy have been
filled by a woman's hand. Be
cause the men of France are
Thursday, Sept 9, 1915
needed on the battlefield, French
women have left their kid-hens
and gone to the munition factor
les to make "messengers of
death" for tbe men on tin* firing
lines.