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ftnc PFNT iaiaialaminr
The way to smash every "court \
house ring" and to squelch every
peanut boss for all time is to put ]
through the newly initiated non- ;
partisanship bill. ;
Jury Disagrees In Beutinger Case
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EAT RICE AND APPLES;
THEY ARE ONLY FOODS
THAT HAVEN'T SOARED
By Mabel Abbott
Everybody lias been hit by
high food prices.
And now we are collecting
our wits and asking ourselves
liow hard we have l>een hit,
and where we are going to be
hit next.
Here is exactly what has
happened. These prices are
taken from the actual retail
sales Blips of Taeoma grocers.
I'otaloeß have risen from $1
to 11.91 a sack during the
last month. A year ago at this
time they were To cents.
The grade of flour which
was $1.40 a sack last July is
now $2.
A dollar bought 17 pounds
of granulated sugar at this
time last year. Now it will
buy 12 poundc
A small sack of corn meal
that used to Hell for II cents
now costs 40 cents, hard has
risen 5 cents a pound. The
Krade of butter that used to
cost 30 cents now costs 35.
Onions, which were r>o cents
a sack last October are $:i now.
It is only fnir to say that they
were a drug on the market
last year. The normal price is
about $1.50. But at that,
they have doubled.
BEANS FAIL US, TOO
Btans used to be UM stand
by for big families when
other things went up In price.
But since the Mexicans quit
raising beans and went to
raising Xed, 10 cents worth of
beans sell for 25 cents.
The private consumer may
tftke gloomy satisfaction in
knowing that he Is not the
only one who it hit.
Restaurant men claim to he
caught between the upper and
nether millstones.
"It'll soon be cheaper for
me to ko out nnd buy meals
from the other fellow than to
eat my own Btuff," wailed a
well-known Pacific uvenuo res
tmiraiiteur yesterday.
These men buy .in large
quantities; hut sugar which
cost them $5.95 a sack a year
ago was $7.25 last month and
is $8.25 now. Flour was $7 a
barrel In September. Now the
same grade Is $8.40.
Sounds as if the grocers
were in the same class with
the munitions-makers, doesn't
It?
GROCERS HOWLING
Well, there may be a few
"war-babies" in this list; but
one of the queerest things
about the whole situation is
that grocers are howling aa
hard as anybody.
"It takes half as much capi
tal again to swing the same
volume of business," said a big
Taooma dealer in foodstuffs.
"Nails and palls and egg
fillets cost ub more; wrapping
paper costs three times as
much as it did."
"We're not making any
IN ALL ITS
DEALINGS
This bank com
bines ab so Into
safety with satis
factory service,
and never loses
sight of either.
Puget
Sound
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more money at the higher
prices, except on a few things
which we had in stock at low
er prices but had to raise to
keep the other dealern from
cleaning us ous," .iid an
other.
This hi liorne out by tho fact
that while the wholesale price
of canned tomatoes has risen
from 85 cents a dozen to
$1.-0, the retail price has not
yet risen. The same thing is
true of macaroni.
So apologetic are grocers
over the situation, that it is
impossible to get figures such
as are given here, except on
the promise not to publish
names.
HALIBUT 15 CENTS
Some cuts of meat have not
risen noticeably. Others hay».
Bacon, averaging all grades,
has gone up about 4 cents a
pound in the last three
months.
Tacoma used to be a cheap
fish town. It Isn't now. Hali
but used to be thought high
at 10 cents a pound. It costs
ir> cents today.
Why are prices aeroplan
ing?
It's hard to say.
Fresh eggs are always high
at this time of year, owing to
the natural obstinacy of the
American hen; but It used to
be possible to substitute stor
age eggs at 30 cents a dozen.
Now they cost 18,
A nation-wide crop shortage
undoubtedly has something to
do with it. A recent govern-'
ment estimate places the wheat
at 1,000,000 bushels less than
last year.
30ME CONSOLATION
Besides this, the war coun
tries are buying foodgtuffs as
SOAPS GO
UP TODAY
It's going to cost more to be
clean hereafter.
Dealers were informed by wire
today that the price of standard
soaps had been advanced 10 to 26
cents a hundred pounds.
Nickel a cake cleansers must
go to 10 cents to meet the ad
vance.
POLITICAL
1 MEETINGS
UKMOCIIATIC
Haturday.
8:00 —Tacoma theater. Speaker,
Gov, Urnest Lister.
Ortln*. Speaker, Thomas
Vance.
Ruslon. Speaker, A. R.
Titlow.
Nil nil«y
Wilkeson. George P. Fish
burne.
lUtPUBUGAN
Sn tun lny.
2:3o—Ortlng, Soldiers' Home.
B:oo—Women's republican hea'l
quarterti. 2nd floor NhUoii
al R<>ulty HI.Ik.
Friends' church. North Kth
Mini State Htreet. Speak
ers, Dix 11. Rowland and
Col. Albert K. Joab.
I'iijallup Com. club, G. D.
Oshorne, chairman. Speak-
K. Henley.
Vaughn, Matthnw Bliss,
chairman. Speakers, Fred
G. Remann and county
candidates.
Lake Bay. Speakers, Omo.
M. Thompson and County
candidate!.
Long Branch. Speakers,
Guy E. K»lly and county
candidates.
M'..i<!«f.
12 noon—Soldiers' Home, Ortlng.
Speakers, C. 8 Dnnkelber
>n^L g«r and candidate*.
fast as th«y can get ships to
take them away in. Kngland
is said to have bought two
shiploads of flour in Portland
within Up. laitt few days. Large
shipments of butter have gone
to France from Tacoma very
recently.
AltoKethear, It looks as if
when we Imy our Thanksgiv
ing dinners there will be Just
two things to lie thankful for.
One is that there is work
for everybody, and a man with
a job can buy a little some
thing to eat even when prices
are high, whereas a man with
out a job cannot buy anything
even at low prices.
The other is that rice and
apples have not gone up.
Nothing
Serious
Moral: Eat Oysters
<l nlli-.l I'rrn I ruard Wlro.i
MADKRA, I'til., Oct. 28.
John T. Bell w«b sinking his
teeth into a luscious oyster when
he encountered un obstacle in the
uliHpe of a huge pearl. He sold
the pearl to a jeweler for $300.
Throw "Fume Bombs"
l I iilinl TrcKK I .-iii.,.! Wlrr.)
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 28.—
Near European war methods have
been adopted by pickets in the
culinary strike, according to em
ployers. They declare "fume
bombs" of enormous smelliness
have been thrown into restau
rants.
Cupid Wins a Vote
(I ni1.,1 Pi-ran l.i-nni'd Wlrr.)
NEW YORK, Oct. ll.—Cupid
wins one vole for Wilson. Janet
B. Whytock, (ilendale, Oal., came
east to wed Principal Kingsley of
Northport, 1,. 1., high school on
condition that he shift his pro
posed Hughes' vote to Wilson.
She Drove It; Yes
NEW YORK, Oct. 2X.—Mrs.
Henry Nichols Mid she could
drive Charles Meyers' new auto
mobile. She could. She drove
It onto a third rail, stopped traf
fic, burned up the automobile and
had to walk home.
What Advertising Did
il'nltnl rrpm i . .i«.,i Wire.*
CLEVELAND. Oct. El.—Adver
tising may pay, but you can't con
vince James Soetkoff. On Oct. 7
he advertised for a wife. Two
days later he was married. To
day he filed a petition for a
divorce.
New Dance Appears
II nllr.l PHI I . f.. r .| \» Iri-.l
CHICAGO, Oct. 28.- It's the
newest thing In ragtime trots.
Originated by the Center club.
They call it "Walking the
Ghost." There is no music at all
and it hits nothing to do with pay
day.
Pick a Red Head
.1 nlini Prrita I <•■«.-•! Wlrr.)
RICHMOND, lnd—Pick a girl
with "red hair, is the advioe of
Judge Henry Fox of the Wayne
oirciiit court. He said redheads
don't figure in ns many divorces
us blondes and brunettes.
Admits Defeat
(I nlff-.l I'rrx imxnl Wire.)
WILKKS-BARRB, Pa., Oct 28.
—John J. "Butch" McDovitt, self
nominated candidate for presi
dent of the United States, admit
ted today that Woodrow Wilson
would defeat him.
$1,800 Lies Around
11 niinl Pr«M Lraned Wire.)
CHICAGO, Oct. 28. —A dia
mond brooch valued at $1,800,
lost by Anna Case of «<je Metro
politan Grand Opera Co. last
aprlng, had lain among cushions
on a aettee at th« opera i-i'U) until
found last night.
WII3OH KEPT IJ) OUT
£.V EDMUND VAttCE CGDKE
O, Germany is drenched in blood mid Kncl.t mi's splotched With
red
And Austria's arithmetic can hardly count her dend,
And France Is curbed and crippled and Helmnm in worse,
And Russia is a graveyard, while ll'ingarvs' ,1 hearse.
And all the Balkan ■ •■■li.im is in riot or in rout,
And Mister Hughes in pee\inh, because Wilcon kept uh out!
Kept us out! Kept uh out!
Yes, Mister Hughes is fretful and Ik much inclined to pout,
But here's to Woodrow Wilsuu, to the man w ho kept us out.
The reifiii of Cain it in the world and nlories In its mißht
For men are i>unMon'g pluyilungs when they seize the sword and
smite.
YeR, teetli and clip's arc everywhere and every beast can bite,
But behold! a Man arises who achieves Iho Higher Right.
O, any child can criticise and any fool may flout,
Hut the world rotx.ln its trenches, and Wilson kept uh out.
Kept us out! Ivept us out!
Let us sing it with'tt Mlvo, let us bay it with I shout;
Any in.hi cau rait»u a rumpus, hut Woodrow kept l>» out.
Freedom flees from warring tut inns Europe lms become a cell,
Where they chain the very children, wailing for their coining
knall.
Where they've bartered woman's laughter for the shriek of
shot iind shell,
Where the very dews of heaven are replaced by rains of hell.
And if Mister Hughes regrets he'H in America, no doubt
They will welcome him in Kurope, where no Wilson kept them
out.
Kept them oul! Kept them out!
If heaven doesn't suit you and you'd rather stay without,
Go to —well, just go to Europe where no Wilson kept them out.
If Europe's dead arose and spoke their honest dead men's viewe.
If children maimed and women shamed should add their ghastly
news.
If now they stood in flesh and blood with power to pick iind
choope,
How many of them, do you think, would side with Mister
lltlghM?
O, I enn hear their ghostly cheer, can hear their piteous shout
Arise for Woodrow Wilt-on, for the man who kept us out.
Kept us out! Kept us out!
So I sing it with a salvo and I say It with a shout,
Glory be to Woodrow Wilson, to the man who kept us out!
MUCH YET TO BE DONE;
WILSON OUTLINES PLANS
(1 -..itr.l t-im l.rane* Wire.)
siiMMtw LAWN, IA)NG
BRANCH, S. .1.. Oct. 2A.—
Miuli needed reforms may be
lnl4'iiu|>t<Ml. perhaps for m
tl«<n« t-.tll<m to imiic, should
Hi< democratic party Buffer
defeat on Nov. 7, IVesldent
Wilson told a went gather
liift "f Nnv Yorkrr* -on «lie
lawn of the Nnniiiirr \VIUt«
House i hli. afternoon.
The president made his address
before delegates that poured Into
I.or t Branch on special trains to
celebrate "Wilson day," which is
also "Kmplre State day" In New
York.
"Four years ago there wer«
two p»i tii's in the field whose
program wu conceived under the
influence of these great forces of
progress and adjustment—the
democratic party and the progres
sive party," said President Wil
son.
"This year there Is but one,'
the democratic party. In the
presidential election of four yeara
ago some 15,000,000 votes were
cast. Of these nearly ten and a
haf millions were cast for the can
didates of the two progressive
parties—only three and a half
millions for the republican party,
the party which has lingered In
the old days and felt none of the
Ml. FOX W I IXi >\
(Bpeclnl to The Tliiv f.)
NEW YORK, Oct. 28.—.-ill told
there are 36 men employed in the
pressroom of the New York Kvr-n
Ing Glebe, a republican paper.
They were polled today. All &6
deolared tUerueolvei for Wilson.
imp.' • of a new day."
President Wilson reviewed the
legislative history of tho last
throe years, much along the line
of his other recent speeches.
Then he outlined his program
for the next four years.
lie mid:
"And eMU the gteat work !•
FOR WILSON, JOHNSON,
POINDEXTER AND LISTER
Here's some real non-partisan
ship:
"Vote for WilßOn and Mar
shall.
"Vote for Mil** Poindexter for
U. M. senator and Ernest Lister
forl tovernor.
"Kill all the referendum meas
ured, right down the line.
"Bury the booze bills, 18 and
24, beyond recall.
"Work for the blanket ballot
for both primary and general
elections, and cut out lying about
party affiliation."
This is part of the advisory bal
lot at the Ratlwajmen's Nonpar
tlsan league, which not long ago
was the Railwayman* Republican
club.
"There haa nertr been a time
in the history of organized labor
when so much depended upon Its
political co-operation as now,"
says the league's bulletin, just is
sued. "Therefore, our organisa
tion has taken the unprecedented
■(An of Ibmulbc Uila advisory bal
m
not finished, it can never be
rounded off and concluded bo
long as circumstances change and
the fortunes and relations of men
shift and alter.
"The question you have to de
cide one week from next Tuesday
Is whether it shtall be premature
(Continued on Page Bight.)
lot, naming such candidates to be
voted for Nov. 7 as are known to
be fair to the ideals of the wage
workers."
For state offices, the follow
ing candidates are recommended:
For lieutenant governor, Louis
F. Hart, republican, Tacoma; sec
retary of state, J. M. Tadlock,
democrat, Seattle; auditor, Otto
A. Case, progressive-democrat,
Seattle; state treasurer, W. W.
Sherman, republican, Olympla;
land commissioner, Clark V. Bav
idge, republican, Olympia; insur
ance commissioner, H. O. Flsh
liaek, republican, Adna; superin
tendent of public instruction, Mrs.
J. C. Preston, republican, Walla
Walla; attorney general, W. V.
Tanner, republican, Seattle.
The re-election of Congress
man Albert Johnson from th«
third district is urged. "Mr. John
son is a labor unionist and has an
excellent record in congress,
while Mr. Plshburn* is untried,"
•ays the bulletin.
g«i«««NIGHT EDITION*****
WEATHER
Tacoma: Rain tonight and Sun
day, warmer tonight except near
coast.
Washington: Same.
FREEDOM
OF WIFE
REFUSED
it ni.,l I-..-. Lt-aard Win.)
NEWARK, N. J., Oct. 28. —
Alter 22 hours deliberation the
jury trying Mr«. Murg'iret Btv.i
tliiK< jr for the murder of her weal
thy huHhand, C hrlstopher lleu
lingrr, reported to Judge Martin
today tlint it had liecn un.iblo to
iiKri'p and wim (lisiniHsed.
The little woman rkfend'tnt
went into hjmtMrtM when she w.is
bfOUght into the court room nut!
fbw the Jurors lined up before the
judge's bench.
W.l < 'iiiiflili-nf.
When the Jury retired nt 3: OB
yesterday afternoon lift, Heutln
ger was confident of Rei|iiittal.
Throughout the night 'he Jur
ors fought and wrangled over the
question: "lias a married woni
nn, the mother of five children,
the rinht of ownership of her own
| lindy and the right lo kill, if
j npcenmiry, to protect it?"
So certain was Mrs. Iteutlnger
that she would be freed that ahe
hud arranged a piirty for her five
babies last night. The Jury came
in at 1:11 this morning unable to
npree and with a request for fur
ther instructions.
After the questions hud been
answered the jury retired agiiin
to deliberate.
The questions were:
Ash Two Ouestlnnfl.
"Does the law impose on (he
defendant t)M necessity of taking
all reasonable •tefl to avert a
tragedy when she wlnhes to estab
lish a plea of self-defense?"
"Please dt>fin<; agatl the differ
ences of dosrecs of homicide."
Tim jury's failure to vote an
acquittal wiis v great surprise to
court attendants. .ludjce Martin
aft a new trial for Nov. 20.
EXPLAINS
BLACKLIST
(I iiMr.l IV.--. I . :•'<■.! Hi,,]
WASHINGTON, D, C, Oct. 28.
—The British blacklist note, ex
plaining that government's posi
tion in issuing the list, was de
livered at the state department to
day from the American embassy
at London, Secretary Lansing an
nounced.
BANK OI.KAHINOH
Clearings $383,078.77
Balances 109,301.27
Transactions 957,444.01
Talk o* the Times
Greetings, hay© you Uiken
a straw vole yet?
PAGE CAPT. HOWELL.
The Lynden Tribune remarks:
"Funny what peculiar ideas
some people have! Two men came
Into The Tribune office this week
to get copies of the official refer
endum booklet so that ihey would
be able to vote Intelligently."
Don't Illume Cynthia Grey
because she was made to nay
In her colyuin tliat gum wa
ter X made by dissolving i
small quantity of "hum ara
ble" In hot water.
Down In Montesano the Wash
ington Call is still ripping one T.
W. Bibb, candidate, violently up
the back on tho ground that said
Bibb at one time failed to pay a
board bill at Burton.
The latest outburst In headed,
"More Bibb-Heal History."
Gentle reader, we leave It
to rout When the N. P.
Headquarter* building straw !
votes 28 for Hughes to B4 f or <
Wilson, what la the city go
Ing to do? I
BOMB IS
DROPPED
ON TRAIN
II ullril l'rr»« I in.pd Ulrr.)
LONDON, Oct. 28. —A wire
less il' .;i.Hi ii from Zurich today
Hid ihat tin: kulaer recently nar
rowly oHcaped death when an
ii(M()|il;iiic bombarded his train.
Thi> I'iiKlncer, the dispatch Mini,
whs killed.
Knipernr William recently wan
reported to be at Hapauine, on the
Somme front, personally oversee
ing the inellmlnarieH for a coun
ter offensive for which the Ger
man troops there were flnld to
have received strong relnforfe
menls.
Apparently during this visit lie
delivered a brief Bp«erii to the
Ci-rni.ni troop* ihauking them for
the heroic manner in which thty
had fmii-.iit for four monthi.
On .Monday last the emperor
was in Berlin on a brief visit, con
ferred with the Imperial chancel
lor und rl.ii.'ii the palace at I'oU
ilhdi Him movements since then
have not l>een reported.
KAISER
HITS AT
NORWAY
I.OMM>X, Oct. 2S.—Nine
Xorwrjiliin vessels ha\e ixtii
i sunk by German submarines
> within -i hours, said <'hrl«
--i titiniti dtapatch today, in the
caiii|>aiK» ilirwleil atfalnst
XorueKinu *lii|>plug us n i>i<>
teM Hltuillst \n:\ia,\'« ilri !•»•«•
refusing stilmiarinoH atlmitt
sion (o hoi* »aters.
The ( ;,r i .1 i.niiu newspapers are
urging the government to stand
firm nnd not be coerced by Ger
man threats.
"The deliberate murder of so
. many Norwegian sailers Inevtt
• ably makes bad blood between the
■ two nations and it Will be a long
• time before they are forgotten in
■ Norway." said the Verdons Gang.
"The brutal deeds of German
submarines, however, have not
caused any hysterica among Nor
wegian ship owners.
"The Norwegian government la
"iiifiilnit that the nation was
strictly within Itn rights, accord
ing to international law."
shopping early, don't forget to
vote on election day.
It i« best to avoid a break
with a bad egg.
Spaghetti is now served on
spools in Naples owing to the
shortage of sphaghettl cutters an
account of the war.
Spite is a luxury In which
little mind- delight.
FABLE
Once upon a time a man sat
watching a moving picture and
when t'.t tlirilliut! part came th«
people in front of him didn't get
up to go out.
I HERE'S A FACT TO
FO8TOAIU) TO YOUR
FRIKMtii IN THB EAST /
Work is to begin soon on
on a $289,000 passenger eta- ti
tlon In Tacoma for tile Mil r
waukee railroad. The Qnv n
Northern ia to eleoMQr -tttJi
road from Spokane to Taec-
I nia. Survojrs are baiag mWtJMi