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Aeronauts aver that the barking
of a dog can be heard at an eleva
tion of four miles.
9 TYPHOID CASES AT STADIUM
TUCK IT AWAY
When a |ietltion for the
abolition of civil service in
the city government I'omw
before the council tomorrow,
we suggest that It be filed
«mi ifuif a lily away along with
other relica of misspent zeal
and petty political thimble
rigging.
It hasn't a single redeem-
lug feature.
It has been circulated with
ruii-iilei.il j« energy for two
weeks by certain Individual*
aisappointed over a failure
to attach themselves to the
municipal payroll.
As a result, IH7 signatures
appear as Its sponsor*.
A study of the nuines does
not Indicate that It is back
ed by |iersons in whom the
GERMANY
KEEPS ON
DODGING
WASHINGTON, D. C, Jan. 25.
—Reports that the latest German
Lusltanla note meets all of Amer
ica's demands arc based on "pure
supposition, unjustified by facts,"
it was announced from the White
House today.
The note was presented to.the
cabinet today. President Wilson
will confer with Secretary Lan
sing tomorrow, ln the hope of
clearing up the case before start
ing on liits preparedness cam
paign.
It Is reported that Germany did
not mention the matter of giv
ing warnings ln the future to
liners before they are attacked by
submarines, and that the note
contains a modified refusal to
concede the wrong-doing of the
submarine which sank the Lusi
tanla.
FLASHES
PARlß—French troops were
successful last night ln several
engagements near Nieuport, Bel
glum, after the Germans had
reached their first line trenches
at several points.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark.—Blood
hounds are pursuing 20 prisoners
who escaped today from Pulaski
county prison farm.
LYONS—King Nicholas, of
Montenegro, accompanied by his
chief of staff, arrived today from
Italy where he was accorded an
ovation.
LONDON — Scotch hose will
cost considerable more this year
because of the Increase In the
price of wool and the scarcity of
dyes.
OLYMPIA — Interest in the
case against .1. F. Gillies arose to
a higher pitch today, following
Governor Lister's tetslmony ln
which he traced the history of
some of the fraudulent claims.
PARIS—The city of Nancy was
again bombarded yesterday by
long range German guns and a
number of bombs were dropped
from German aeroplanes.
Woman'c
Work
The housewife finds
sytitem just as helpful
in her husiuess as her
husband does in his.
<»As soon as she begins
to bank her funds and
pay by check she no
tices the convenience,
the safety and the
feeling of efficiency.
We take good care of
women's accounts be
cause we want them.
Puget Sound
State Bank
111 l Pacific Avenue
The Tacoma Times
community hag any reason to
entrust leadership.
For i be most part the sign
ers are men who failed to
pa*, civil service examina
tions or who, at least, s*ee in
the civil service system a
barier to their attaining pub
lic appointment*.
Our civil service system is
far from faultless; but that
is no reason for abolishing It.
If we are t«> start in to abol
ish all the institutions that
are imperfect, we stagger to
think what a loneeome craft
thf good ship Earth would
be.
Instead, one of the early
duties of our council should
be to strengthen and extend
our civil service.
EXPEDITE
HEARING
OF RATE
• By Gilson Gardner
WASHINGTON, I). Oh Jan.
ii.l.—The influence of Jud
son C. Clements, a veteran
and much-res|iected member
of the interstate commerce
commission, will be used to
its utmost to secure an early
hearing on the application
of the public service commis
sion of the state of Washing
ton, which seeks to correct
the unfair discrimination in
passenger railroad rales ,
against Tacoma and other
points In the Northwest.
Part of the flies in the case is
a letter from C. A. Reynolds,
chairman of the public service
commission, of Wellington, to
Judge Clements, asking that the
case be expedited, so that the
Northwest, may have the benefit
%f any rate corecllon which may j
be made during next summer's
tourist season.
Will Hxpedlte Caae.
Judge Clements has said he
will do what he can, and the feel-!
ing about the Interstate com-!
merce commission is that the case
will be expedited.
According to the regular prac
tice of the commission, the re
spondent railroads would have
until February 7 to file their re
ply, which Is still unfiled.
This might bring the hearing
In March, unless it were put it
the end of a long calendar, and
the decision might be expected by
April or May, ln time for the
spring and summer tourist sea
son.
Make Rate Complaint.
The petition sets forth that the
railroads have made a rate from
Chicago through the Southern
and Central routes, New Orleans,
etc., to San Francisco and return,
which is $21.7 5 less In the regu
lar season than the route through j
Tacoma and Seattle, via St. Paul,
back to Chicago, and which is I
$17.50 less than the summer rate j
by the same routes, though the
Journey by the Northern lines Is
aproxlmately 253 miles shorter
than the distance to San Fran
cisco by tbe Southern line.
The petition sets forth,
also, that there are many
places of Interest to tourists
along the Northern line, par
ticularly in the state of
Washington, where large
sums of money have been ex
pended by the state in the
construction of highways
and the improvement of state
reserves to make points of
interest accessible to tour
ists.
[What's Doing)
Today
Address by Dr. John Grler
Hibben, president of Princeton,
on "Preparedness;" University
club; to club members and
friends only.
Lecture by Prof. Rdmond S.
Meany on "The Race to Possess
the Northwest;" Y. W. C. A.;
evening.
First meeting and rehearsal of
persona who take place in Pales
tine Pageants at Glide rink; First
Baptist church; evening.
Tomorrow
Free public demonstration of
transcontinental telephone serv
ice between Tacoma and New
York; Tacoma theater; 7:1)0,
8:80 and »:»•.
25c a
Month
VOL. XIII. NO. 3t TACOMA, WASH., TUESDAY, JANUARt 25, 1.M.1.
When They Fall Back Dead!
BY ROBERT MINOR
Famous Cartoonist and Correspondent.
I don't want the editor of The Times to give
the impression that I actually saw this scene.
There are enough correspondents claiming to
have seen what they have merely heard de
scribed by soldiers.
CORRESPONDENTS DON'T SEE SUCH
THINGS. The authorities take pains to have
them come to the trenches only when there is
no chance of such activity.
The above picture of the inception of a bay- .
onet charge was drawn from a description by
a lieutenant of the French army.
"You fellows have a wrong idea of a bay
onet charge," he told me. "There is none of
the heroic in it that you print in the papers.
None of that wild exultation —just a sick feel
ing takes its place.
"You don't understand that, because you
imagine the surroundings to be so different
from what they are. We just stamp around in
the mud and cold for a long time, and then we
throw bombs, maybe, or dodge bombs. The
- order comes to the officers to get the men out
to charge.
Public Is Going to Win This Fight
We're going to win this
fight.
Tacoma and her sister cit
ies ln the northwest are go
ing to win back that IM) per
cent of western tourist travel
of which they have lieen
i-ohbed by the unfair rates
which Hie southern lines have
hoou allowed to exact.
While public opinion, in the
shape of red-blooded business men
and commercial organizations,
baa been awakened to Its full
force to get fair treatment for
the northwest, the fight is being
carried today to tho door of the
national capital at Washington.
Ollboii Gardner reports that
Judson C. Clements, member ot
the Interstate commerce commis
sion, Is using his influence to
get an early hearing of the north
west's complaint before the sum
mer tourist travel begins.
At tlie same time conies tho
news that Senator Mils*
Polndexter will introduce a
bill to congress to have tho
interstate commerce commis
sion put back Into efficient
working order where It be
longs.
The public service commission
ln Its fight for Just rates, found
Itself up against a rscoat ruling
THE ONLY INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER IN TAOOMA.
of tho U. S. supreme court lim
iting and crippling tho powers of
the Interstate commission. .
According to Chairman Charles
A. Reynolds, wh-. was ln Tacoma
yesterday, the word "advantage"
ln the Interstate commerce law,
hag been so construed! and mis
construed and jumbled that it
doesn't mean anything much.
Senator Polndextor Intends to
see to it that the law Is made to
mean something and that tho way
Is paved for putting the kibosh
on the "advantage" which the
Southern Pacific and Its allied
lines have been exerting against
Tacoma.
They're*putUng the batteries In
to position at Washington.
And public opinion, in a
smashing attack, it going to do
the rest. *, -
A public mass meeting is being
held ln Seattle today. * Another
one will probably be held ln Ta
coma In a few days. The Taco
ma Commercial club and other or.
ganlaatlona of the kind, together
with the shipping men. hotel man
and business houses, are Inter
vening ln the public service com
mlssion's complaint.
The Interstate commeroe com
mission will have no oauos for
saying "the public la not com-
"The difficulty of starting is complicated
by our own barbed wire entanglements. They
are built to keep the enemy out, but they also
keep us in, and we can only get through by
way of narrow alleys that we leave for the
mirpose. Opposite each such alley is a cut in
oW trench, made to get out by.
A"\Vhen the word comes, we stand at these
places and call to the men to come. It's a dis
agreeable Ihing to have to call the first ones;
tb« i first two or three are always doomed.
."The nearest man to the little step is call-edc
'Come, old man, you've got to do it.'
"lie turns pale and comes. We catch him
behind and shove hint up till he's out. Then
he falls back on us dead.
"I HAVE HAD THREE FALL BACK IN
$0 MY ARMS DEAD. We shove more and
more up, until some get out alive. They can
only get out one at a time, so they have to come
quick. Those that get by the first few metres
alive, crouch and run like rabbits to the only
place where there is a chance of life —the Over
man trenches. Then they have to get the Ger
mans out, or be killed.
"THEY KNOW THAT IF THEY CAME
BACK WE WOULD SHOOT THEM."
plaining." nierce commission will be
"Concerted public opinion Is compelled to heed the pro
the hlg factor which is going to test.
win thlß fight," said (Chairman ..*•**,„, j|i 7 . Bo ,„»f eM)nU ai
Reynolds yesterday. "And were .... ....... „ .„
going to win it. The law under wh,oh U,e Houthorn I'aclflc
wbteh I hold office directs me as has been using to divert
a public officer to see that jus- from the northwest the t»ur
tice le done. That is the reason Ist travel to which it is
I have filed the complaint. rightfully entitled will be
"The public Is complain- knocked out by public opin
ing and the interstate com- Ion."
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Business Better For
"County Barkeeper"
That liquor permits will be is
sued at the rate of 100 or more
a day within tho next two weeks
from the county auditor's office,
is the opinion expressed today by
Deputy Auditor Doten. During
tho last three days 114 were is
sued, bringing tho total for the
first 29 days of prohibition to 327
permits,
"County Barkeep" Doten bases
his belief on the stimulus In the
county liquor business to the
toot that th« stored-up stocks are
Home
Edition
getting low. Several persons have
Intimated that their slowness in
taking out permits was due to a
fear Of newspaper publicity.
FRENCH AIRMKN BUSY
SALONIKA, Jan. 25.—Sixteen
French aeroplanes bombarded
Ghevegeli today, killing aad
wounding more than 100 persons
and dolug heavy damage to tbe
Bulgarian camps.
WEATHER
Tacoma: Rain or snow tonight
and Wednesday.
Washington: Same.
Health Officer Wall
Blames Cafeteria As
Source of Disease—
Assistant Principal
Among the Stricken
A scare of typhoid
fever at Si: m HlKh
school, which already has re
sulted In nine severe cases,
including that of Assistant
Principal __, K. Perkins, Is
being Investigated this week
by Health Officer Wall and
Ills deputies.
That the disease has been
spread iii the restaurant of
the school has lieen deter
mined almost definitely, he
says.
He has oidered a string*!
examination of the restau
rant and all peisim*. con
nected with 11. It is possible
that everyone employed In
the school cafaterla will be
subjected to a typlniid ami
toxin.
Assistant Principal Perkins be
came 111 a month ago, and was
removed to Tacoma (ieneral hos
pital a few days later. Shortly
afterwards two pupils, a hoy and
girl who had been attending
dances) together, became serious
ly 111 with typhoid and were also
taken to hospitals.
Health officers made an Inves
tigation of the three cases and
were perplexed over the origin of
the disease. Water sum pies were
taken In all parts of the city, but
no trace of the typhus germ was
found.
Trace Trouble to Cafeteria.
Within a few days other stu
dents of the Stadium High became
111 with typhoid. For six days
there was a new case reported
daily. With nine cases of the
same disease, all from persons at
tending tile same school, Health
Officer Wall's suspicions were
aroused and he ordered a general
investigation.
Water from every faucet in
tiie Bchool was tested, with nega
tive resultß. Then the health de
partment discovered that every
person afflicted with the disease
had been patronizing the school's
cafaterla*
Working like a corps of detec
tives. Dr. Wall's officers probed
the restaurant system at the
school.
One a "Carrier."
It was found that 20 persons
were employed serving food dur
ing the noon hour. Of this num
lier eight were employed by the
cafeteria and the remainder were
students. Half of the 20- had
been ill with typhoid at some time
or other in their lives.
Any person who has had ty
phoid may continue to act as a
carrier of typhus bacclli Indefi
nitely after he has apparently
been cured ot the disease, accord
ing to Dr. Wall, and it is the be
lief of the health department that
one of the employes of the Sta
dium High school cafeteria is act
ing as a "typhoid carrier."
None for Two Days.
As proof of this theory, Dr.
Wall cites the case of "Typhoid
Mary" of New York, who spread
the disease to hundreds of per
sons unconsciously, while she was
not herself ill with disease.
Basing his work on this theory,
Dr. Wall has given a temporary
order demanding utmost care and,
cleanliness among the 20 em
ployes of the school cafaterla.
Unless the individual who is
caring the disease Is discovered,
|T?Talk o' the Times« I
Greetings, hays you no
ticed what shabby spots were
left by the IUII-stre«t news
stands when they moved
lost w-sek? Maybe the own
ers of the buildings will
clean up. Let us watch and
Headline ln last night's edi
tion of Tacoma paper: "Wilson
will not run, says Washington
rumor." Aside from the fact that
he IS running, we see no reason
for doubting the rumor.
Speaking of the Coren
disaster, the Seattle P.-I.
•ays editorially that it "re
calls how few snch accidents
have been In the railroad his
tory Of the I'nlt-sd Htates
within the last few years."
Did it recall anything like
that to yon?
a Keiier.il order wilt he Issued de
manding that all be subjected to
an antitoxin. No new cases of
typhoid have lieen reported la
the last two days.
Principal's Version.
"I believe that the theory of
the Tacoma health department Is
a rather remote one," aald Prin
•'lpal il. F. Hunt of Stadium high
today.
"The department seems to be
lieve that someone connected with
the cafaterla might possibly bo
what In known ns a long time car
rier' of the 1 v 111,c1111 germs. It
seems to nic that If such were tho
case the disease would have shown
itsclt sooner. Although some of
the persons connected with tha
food department have had
typhoid, the most recent case l»
more Ihun two yearn ago.
"It neeniH to lie merely'l<fc re
mote possibility. I do not be
lieve that the Uphold cases can bo
attributed to the cjtfatlria any
more than they can to any private
home." j
CONSCRIPTION
IS NOW CERTAIN
LONDON, Jan. 25.—There If
little doubt that the military
service hill will successfully past
the house of lords and become a
law within a few days. It passed
the third reading in commons
yesterday.
What Is This ?
\ \t /
NO. 1
Read the answer in
The Times
Saturday and
Give Yourself
a Surprise!
More beautiful snaw!
We're fast losing all pa
tience with that man Cover.
RECENT FICTION
"We really don't need heat la
the street cars any more, any
how."
'"This new Commercial club
scheme never can succeed not
in Tacoma.''
"if the Southern Pacific cag
wring an extra 120 Air every
tourist that wanu to s*s tIH
Northwest, as welt aa Callfornfab
It ought to be permitted to *#
It."
If your nscfc hilt i
ready boWs !»«■*■, w_6_r*
yon to walk Oornm 9*a ilnW
frasn m. Halo— aye, to fat n - a
eiflc. * *