The Tacoma times. [volume], February 02, 1916, Image 1

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ENGLAND WOULD FIGHT SWEDEN
Shucks, this is nothing! Why,
back in '93 the snow was
CITY WATER LINE IN DANGER
Fight For Fair Rates
Is Carried Direct to
Tourists Themselves
The Times today joined with its sister papers
in Seattle, Spokane and Portland, in sending a
complete account of the fight of Northwest bus
iness men against the southern railroads for
equal and just passenger rates to the Newspaper
Enterprise Association, to which we belong.
Through the association, this article
will be relayed to more than 100 other news
papers published throughout the United
States.
The article is an appeal to tourists, nearly all
of whom, when visiting the Pacific Coast, either
would come or return by way of Tacoma if the
rates were not $17.50 higher in the summer and
$21.75 higher in the winter, via the Northwest.
These tourists are asked to help Tacoma and
the Northwest in this fight, which is also their
fight.
The battle is going to be won. Are you
doing your part?
Times Colleger Meets
Bursar; Is Hit For Ten
(Editor's Note—The Times Is
tending n mnn to the state uni
versity to find out how millions
are spent to train 3,000 young
men and woi.cn. He is mnkiiig
leisurely observations in cluss
rooms and laboratories, and talk
ing with the men and women
who do the training and the men
and women they train. Monday
he told about registering with
Recorder Ktone. Todny he tells
alll.iii ii talk with the bursar.
Every few days he will take
Times renders a step or so
through the university.)
a c a
By Ted Cook
The fellow who has the high-
est income over at the university
doesn't let a bulldog drag him
over the campus, despite the
* suggestive colored posters in the
book store.
He isn't the son of a wealthy
tiiiibi i-mail. He doesnt' smoke
cigarets. He lent' "rushing"
The man who gets the most
money at the university la the
"bursar."
any of the sorority women. And
he doesn't get his Income by
writing touching letters to dad
or mumma.
He's not a ukalele player, eith
er, girls!
In fact, he gets the money
from the other fellows and the
Some lioys work their way
through college loading liners at
the dock.
co-eds. And he doesn't play
poker.
Well, Mr. Bones, who is the
man who has all this money to
spend at the university?
Bursar Herbert Thomas Con
don, LL. B.
Everybody Must Pay.
He sits at a desk in the Ad
ministration building, one floor
below the recorder.
After filling out the registra
tion blanks, every one who enters
the university has to go to the
bursar and disburse.
"Ten dollars—everybody has
to pay that, and I don't care
whether you are a reporter or
not," said the bursar. "It's the
law."
This Is the tuition f^e requlr-
EXTRY! HE SAYS
SUN WON'T SHINE
Tacoma will be completely hid
den from the sun otmorrow at
7:55 a. m., snow or no snow, ac
cording to Professor Hubawalt,
astronomer at the College of Pu
get Sound. This city is on the
edge of a total eclipse zone. The
eclipse will last about 30 min
utes.
The Tacoma Times
-~— 1 THE ONLY INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER IN TACOMA. \~~ZT 1
25c a ______ „ Home
Month VOL- XIIL N0- 38' TACOMA, WASH., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY St, 1916. Edition
Ed for each semester by a meas
ure passed by the last legislature
It took effect the first of the
present year.
Theoretically, it was up to me
to pay the bursar my ten.
All Right! Our Ante Is In.
I am supposed, in these arti
cles, to be conducting Times
readers through the university.
So please consider, dear read
er, that I have paid our ante.
Theoretically, I dig it up out
(Continued on Page Three.)
FLASHES
LONDON—The Dutch mail
liner Princess Juliana has been
mined in the North sea, accord
ing to word received today from
refugees.
UTICA — Fire of a mysterious
origin destroyed the lumber shed
of the Stevens Arms Co. here last
night.
LISBON — An attempt was
made here today by an unknown
assailant to assassinate Minister
of Justice de Meneses.
NEW YORK—Metal workers
struck today, completely tying up
the Brooklyn plant of the Amerl
acn Sugar Refining Co.
LONDON —Floods in Mesop
tomauia have hindered the Eng
lish offensive in that district.
AMSTERDAM —Twenty-seven
aeroplanes attacked a German
station at Ghent today. Dam
ages unknown.
LONDON — Unconfirmed re
ports say that one of the Zeppe
lins which made the recent at
tack on Paris waa hit by gun fit _
and forced to land at Laen.
FRANCE, FIGHTING, CRADLES DREAM
OF A WARLESS, KINGLESS WORLD!
RV ROBERT MINOR.
The French war office, after much persua
sion and largely because I had been a student
at the National Art school, gave me a permit to
roam at a reasonable distance behind their Hues
and make sketches of what I could ace. .My first
stop was at the little village of Sermalze, or what
used to be the village, for long ago, In the second
month of the war, it was made a heap of iiibhlsh
by the German guns.
A few boards leaned against the standing
walls of ruined houses, smoke curlln_> from
makeshift chimneys, and now and then v
family constructing a similar ahanty, con
stituted the "town."
It was a doleful sight to apply a sketch-pad to.
Here and there a wooden shack, swinging the
sign "Cafe," catered to the thirst and hunger of
troops moving to and from the front When
darkness cut short the sketching, I entered ono
of these for supper. It was full of Soldiers.
Everyone Is polite in France (except civil ser
vice employes), and the waitress politely found
a soldier willing politely to move up and let me
have a place at the table. I went after the pork
chops and potatoes, after politely saluting the
crowd.
Out there In the war country, strangers aro
rare. Very soon I discovered that everyone
wanted to talk to me. They were hungry for
news from the world outside of trendies, tho
world they had not seen for over v year. So,
after they had politely asked whether ".Mon
sieur" would mind talking a bit, there followed
one of the most interesting conversations I havf
ever had.
In two tours of Europe, before and after the
war, amongst all nationalities, including Ger
mans slowly dying from French bullets, I HAVE
NEVER, EXCEPT ONCE, MET A PERSON WHO
DID NOT LOVE FRANCE. And among these
plain soldiers, that night, was to be found the
charn. that accounts for this.
In simple language, each unfolded hi*
views of the war. They were not like the
views of the non-fighters I had met in
Paris. The most rabid haters and insane
talkers were always those that had found
some excuse to stay at home and sell sii|>
plles to the government I
On each of these soldiers' minds, chastened
BRITISH WANT NEW ENEMY
LONDON, Eng.. Feb. '.—ENG
LAND WANTS ANOTHER ENE
MY!
Such Is the startling theory
being advanced here today by
those who say the war ministry
would be g'?._ to have Sweden en
ter the war on the German side.
With Sweden and Germany
allied, England's navy can
blockade the Swedish coast
north of Denmark and shut
off the most Important gate
way through which Germany
is receiving food and manu
facture*, from the neutral
world.
Not only that—Great Britain's
cause for disputes with the Unit
ed States would be largely re
moved If Sweden lined up aa aa
enemy, because the blockade
could be mr.de effective and not
by suffering, was the impress of France's think
ers. They nil wanted the war to stop; they nil
wanted to get again onto the basis of friendship
with the world, in sharp contrast'to the vindic
tive spirit of the war writers that claim to repre
sent French feeling. How I wished that some
American crowds I've seen could be as brond
and tolerant of an "enemy" people as those fel
lows were!
But France is the home of new, daring think
ing, especially of the modern cry that THE
WHOLE WORLD SHOULD CONTAIN BUT ONE
PEOPLE, WITHOUT KINGS AND WITHOUT
WARS. That was the starting point of the
thinking of each of those soldiers in that cafe.
As the evening wore on and the talk became
more intimate, the heat from the red-hot stove
and the mild red wine seemed to get the better
of the discretion of one of them. "The Interna
tional for me," he said.
And then he begun to sing the French
workiiigmnn's song, "The International,"
the song they sing to proclaim fraternity
between all nations, defiance of rulers,
peace and co-operation. It Is the song the
police ill cad to hear In strike*, nnd it is ab
solutely forbidden In time of war.
The other soldiers stirred uneasily. One got up
and came over to the singer, saying, "It is not tho
time." They got about him and persuaded him
to stop. But as 1 looked about at the faces of
those men I saw in each that he, too, wanted to
sing that song.
I climbed absentmindedly onto a train for
Nancy, and settled into a seat to dream about it.
It was the finest thing that I had seen, the most
hopeful sign that all civilization was not de
stroyed in this war, that progress was still pos
sible. An officer was eyeing me curiously. He
was very polite—whenever I looked up sharply,
his eyes would politely shift from my face. He
gazed long and intently at my suitcase In the
rack above.
Aa the train pulled Into Nancy, he disappeared,
and when I left the car I was arrested as a Ger
man spy. When they saw my papers and let me
go, 1 examined my suitcase to discover what had
interested the officer.
It was a fragment of an old steamship sticker
of long ago when I had made a voyage on the
"Kronprlnz William," and barely visible was the
word "Nordeutscher."
"on paper." And Sweden couldn't
do much harm to the allied cause;
& few troops might cross into
Russian Lapland, and Sweden's
small navy might join "the Ger
mans, already outnumbered, In
the Kiel canal. That would be
all.
Shipments of American goods
destined for Sweden, which Eng
land maintains are Intended for
reshipin.nl to Germany, have
been the principal cause of con
teentlon with Washington. With
Sweden In the war, England
would substitute an actual block
ade of Germany and Sweden for
th? present paper blockade of
Germany—and oae of the admir
alty's perplexing problems would
be solved.
Diplomatic England won't ad
mit It, of course. But you hear It
rumored that British submarine
activity in the Baltic, British In
terference with Swedish com
merce, haa one deep purpose; to
aggravate Sweden so that Sweden
will want to declare war.
And Germany, in secret, is
striving to keep Sweden neutral.
Germany doesn't want Sweden as
an ally.
Sweden already is retaliating
against England by stopping par
cel post mall destined for Rus
sia. She is also furnishing armed
convoys to the merchant men t
crossing the Baltic to Germany,
thus crippling Britain's subma
rine activities.
Wouldn't Help Germany
Prime ministers of the
thr^e Scandinavian count ries
(Continued on Page Six.)
WEATHER
Tacoma: Rain or snow tonight
and Thursday.
Washington: Same west, snow
east portion.
CHINOOK WIND
WOULD CAUSE
SEVERE FLOOD
Wltli .several inches of mow
falling again toda. in Tin Otna
and vicinity, tlie danger of tre
mendous damage froui v pOeetble
Chinook thaw was im reas'd al
most mo per cent, according to
public officials.
Urenter Ag&gar, so fur as Ta-
conia is concerned, exists on the
big pipe line that bring! water
from (ireen river to Ta< onia.
The Pvyallup river, durini .1
brief flooil hi>v'-al days „;_>). ,1.
dernilned ;if>o feet 0. aider -and-
MOIM bulkhead al McMillan thai
separates the river from tlie bin
steel pipe.
Would lie Sertoli _
Although the ri\er wai cow
parntively low today, the rai ■'.I.
falling snow greatly Incn 1 1 d
the expected danger «hw a I ha*
nets in. Kilty city workman are
rebuilding the bull.head.
Khoulil a thaw occur in tha
next day or two, accord lag :o
members ol t lie city council :
the river rise to the excoaalva
beiKht thai ig anticipated, hulk
head and pipe would be a ijied
out iv 1111 instant.
"We are keeping the fit > res
ervoirs filled to the brim, in an
ticipation of trouble," declared
Water Supt. Savldge today. "The
supply would last more lban a
week In this weather. However,
if the pipe is wiped out, and the
flood continues, it might take
several weeks to rebuild the line.
We are keeping the auxiliary
pumps in readiness lor ißltaat
action."
Visit Bulkhead.
Rumors that the Green river
pipe line had been washed out
were circulated through the city
today, with the result that hun
dreds of telephone calls wire re
ceived at The Times office and
city hall from anxious citizens.
The entire city commission
made a hurried trip to McMillan
by automobile yesterday after
noon and investigated the bulk
head that is breaking up. Or
ders were given for a crew of
workmen to remain on the lob
day and night until the flood
damage had been repaired.
Clear of Crossings.
The entire force of tlie public
works department—street wash
ers, whitewlngs. carpenters,
teamsters and laborers—was as
signed by Commissioner Wood?
today to the work of t-lenring
downtown street intersc, tiOßt,
and opening drain sewers.
In some places water and slush !
stood six Inches deep In the |
streets. On downtown lateral ••
tions the snow- was hauled awc.yl
in wagons, because Woods fenr-j
I-rTalk o' the Times r 1
Greetings, have you laid in a
supply of gtimdrops?
TACOMA GETS A X.IVY BEAU
We notice that the Xai.v
l/rngim has elected our
Louie to membership.
Too much police protection!
Residents of one part of the
north end are complaining that
a certain plain clothes man Is en
tirely too assiduous in his at
tention to their neighborhood.
Fred Selt_, Times stereo
types tells a fishy tale. He
says that last night he saw
a copper at 1 lth and Taco
ma avenue with a shovel,
scraping out a gutter so the
water could drain off. Those
stereotypers are awful liars.
Speaking of improbable tales,
an old subscriber phones in to
say that he rode last Sunday on
a Point Defiance car that had an
electric heater.
The lady next door says
she always thought the
Ed a Clogging of the ir •1 ■ ,w
--rrs.
"if a Chinook wind comet 10
--day, everybody might as welj
May home," de I a red Wood..
L_ghl Plant <). K.
"The aewen ■ inuoi po-. .My
carry off half of the -1 •-'. ,nid
water, when the thaw seta in.
We'll have v.aiei run ,\ in
ches down the middle ol 1 lie
streets. The ground la still fro**
en, and tin- water ean'i oal in,
bo it simply baa 10 flow do .- 11 to
s< ,1 level. The dai,. ' ' may,
occur In Tacoma cannot ha <*n
liiiialed."
Ice and slush 0 >-ar
rails caused Intermittent 1 -nice
on several <ii> lines tiiia ■ ■■.ru-
In,'.'. Aiiloliiobile tral: Ie iii the
lower hill:. w;>s |i. 'i. all . ;,t a
itandatlll.
In Seattle I • ol ' now
fell last Bight, and sii >! c,,r
traffic on many line- tvi .ra
lyiod today,
Tiieomn's municipal • ■Y-trle
plant is not lUI I'- riii_ : I _.i ihe
storm. There araa onh Iw o In
ches 01 si iU m at i.ai Iran ilila
moralßf, nnd a rain all da) com.
plelely melted It.
More weather new* DO page fl.
SCHOOLS
NOT TO
CLOSE
Tacoma day schools .ill con
tinue open today and tomorrow.
despite the bud areather, but all
parents who wish to keep their
children home muj ■!,, - . . r..rd
ing to the stateincnt toda.v ',! Su
perintendent Geigei.
Night school in both ll Bta»
ilium and Lincoln Park high
buildlaga will be dli cout In tl un
til tiext week.
Unless the s'urin abates hy to
morrow night, it inav he
sary to close ul! the school, in
definitely.
Superintend! tit Q( I [« I that
his reaeoß for keeping the -• iooli
open ibis week is bin f( It
that many ol Ike children mild
be out in the snow an raj In
this case they would In- wor ■ off
I hail if they were In X '■■■■ ■
The Puyallup and S::nner
schools were closed tod../.
worm drive was something
to sine orchards.
The Commercial club cat rasa*
crs say they found eever.il l'aco
mans who got their backs up
without thinking of putting their
shoulders under the wheel.
How'd you like to lie a
goedurk?
That man Cover Is clean rm/.f,
that's all we've got to My.
Where, oh where I* the
man who boasts Hint he
wears his B. V. D.'s all win
ter?
a
M. H. S.
Town Zob returns tonight.
Those Perkins papers certainly
have a fine spark plug. The
morning edition's using it now.
One of its heads today says
"Democrats Looklag for spark*
to Fly.'Tfs a dull day when
they cant "spark' about some
thing.