The Tacoma times. [volume], September 17, 1917, Page 8, Image 8

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—Skirls of good quality black '^J^^Sf'^^
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—Also Renown Ranges, Perfection Oil Stoves and Heaters.
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Famous Beacon Blankets
—We are extremely fortunate in having a complete stock of
these beautiful robes, blankets and robe flannels. The gov-
ernment is now operating the plant for its own uses, and Bea
con Blankets are oft the market.
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—In a very complete assortment of beautiful colors and de
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nursery designs; also white with Mue or "ink borders.
—Size 30x40 in., at S9r, 75c to 91.85.
—Size 36x50 in., at 91.25, #!.«.-, to $2.50.
ROBE WtAMnWUt
—Famous Beacon Bath Robe Flannels, in a variety of revers
ible Indian and floral designs; also nursery designs in light
blue* or pink; yard, sOc
Minister's Daughter Scares
Burglar Away From House
Presence of mind of 12-year-old
Margaret Weyer, daughter of Key.
C. W. Weyer, 308 North I St.,
prevented a burglary in the par
sonage early Sunday evening.
With a girl companion, Mar
Caret had been left at home when
her father, accompanied by Mrs.
Weyer, started for the First Pres
byterian church for the evening
service.
Within fire minutes after the
parents had departed, a man slip
p*d up on the front porch and be
gan trying keys In the lock. The
children saw him thru a window.
Stepping to a telephone, little
Margaret called to Central:
want police headquarters, quick."
And she spoke thf words as loudly
mm she could, so that the burglar
might hear.
"Hello, is this the poll** sta
tion?" aHked the little girl, as
flgt. Hine answered. 'There's a
fcargiar trying to break Into our
fcova*. Come quick." „
The., thief turned and ran as
boon a* he heard the word "po
lice." When officers arrived he
was nowhere to be seen. The
children had remained calmly in
the house, and showed no evi
dence of fear over' their sensa
tional prevention of a burglary.
Ransack Home;
Take Nothing
Burglars entered Uie home of
Carl O. Egan, 2714 So. 7th Bt.,
Sunday night, ransacked the en
tire dwelling, and departed with
out any loot. Everything In the
house waa turned topsyturvy,
Egan reported to the police, but
so far as could be learned noth
ing waa taken. Many articles of
Jewelry and silverware were
atolen.
We Are at Peace With the Sett-Styled
Huns; Are They Menace In Our Camp?
(Special to The Times.)
WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 17.
—A protest about the presence 0(1
Ajustnans and Bulgarians In
Washington, lodged the other day
by the Patriotic Education soci
ety, calls attention to our curious
position in this world conflict.
We have declared war upon
Germany.
Austria and Turkey have sev
ered diplomatic relations with us.
And —-we are upon terms of
perfect amity with Hulgaria,
whose minister, Stephen Panare
toff, and attaches are here in the
capital.
Ask state department officials
whether Bulgarians might not
send war information to Germany,
by cables in code thru Sweden or
other neutrals and they answer
Great Britnin and France hold up
all such mi■■.!•.■■ ■■.
Ask whether it is not possible
to mall Information, say to Ha
vana, thence to Spain, and Ger
many by roundabout route, and
THEY ADMIT IT CAN BE
DONE. However, they add such
a procedure take** time. There is
also a feeling that by keeping on
terms with Bulgaria we keep open !
a window looking into Mittel-
Europa. ,
\< t«-ss to Bulgarian papei*.
revealing Unitarian thought,
causes oar to wonder whetti- '
er the Bulgarian legation
ought not to be racked at
once. ,
They will tell you there that ,
Blugaria is only a little country. ,
But modern Germany started with .
a Prussia no bigger and no more |
~ I :
In the
Editor's
Mail
Officers' Pay
EDITOR THE TIMES:
Will you please tell me what
are the salaries of army officers.
DBAVTU MAN.
Officer*, in addition to
fixed ilin\'.imes for quar
ters, Ihmi mid light, receive
IM- I till 1-nil.l'. Minis j«-ml.\.
with provision for incrca.se
every five yeinx for all
Link-, below brigadier gen
eral:
Sen, ml lieutenants, 91,
--700; first lieutenant*, *2,OOO;
1 a in 11 his, 92,400; majors,
s.i,(>(»< 1, lieutenant colonel*,
*.■{.."Will; ColOlielN, *».IHH>;
lil-iiTHlli.-r d-ll.'l'ills. SlI.OIIIl;
major i-rii'-r.iK, SS.IIOI* ami
111 alenaiil ynrial-, .SII.IPOO.
—Kditor.
Geography
EDITOR THE TIMfJS:
It is very hard for me to be- |
lieve that any Tacoma merchant <
would charge a soldier more for
an article than he would charge
another. In spite of all the fuss
that has been raised over this
question, 1 refuse to think any
merchant of Tacoma is so colos
sally stupid, not to say immoral.
However, many unbelievable
things happen these days. It
seems to me if there is a fault
of this kind there is also a simple
remedy. The soldier should re
port the matter to the Commercial
club, and the club should first
carefully investigate, and the mer
chant being found guilty, the
facts should be printed in all the
newspapers. I think that would
stop it.
But this is not what I started
to write about. I want this time
to Hre a slftt at The Times,
which is a thing I seldom feel
occasion to do—l generally agree
with The Times, and often heart
ily. But in making its strong pro
test against this overcharge of the
soldiers (as alleged) The Times
I went out of its way to s<am the
I movement started by Mrs. M. G.
I Mitchell to have the station at
jCamp Lewis so named, rather than
Ito continue to call it American
I lake. As Mrs. Mitchell points out,
I the official designation of the can
tonment is "Cannp Lewis, Taco
ma." The effect of designating
the cantonment as Camp Lewis,
American lake, is to leave the
country at large In doubt as to
Just wlysre it. And the effect of
THAT is, of course, for Tacoma to
be left out of it as usual.
The Times, under a two-column
headline in its news columns Sat
lurday gave a startling illustration
.of this truth. According to The
I Times, a map of the U. S. has
been printed by the Minneapolis
I Journal locating all the army can
tonments, and on this map the
I name of the city of Tacoma
(where the Washington canton
ment is), does not appear—but the
city of Olympia and the city of
Seattle does apepar. This, too, is
almost unbelievable, but The
Times, which editorially sneers at
Mrs. Mitchell's suggestion direct
ed toward making such a thing
impossible—or leas possible) says
In its news columns tbat it is
true.
In forwarding one good move
ment, is it necessary to belittle
another pool movement? Mrs.
Mitchell's suggestion In directly
to the point and should be acted
upon at once.
8. W. WALL.
Voa-ro right. We're with
yon.— Kdifaor.
Monday, Sept 17,1917,-THE TAOOMA TIMES-^ PUge Eight
BULGARIA'S REPRESENTA
TIVE IN THE UNITED STATES.
I
consumedly ambitious. Remem
ber, too, that Bulgarian troops,
:;r,ii.ikmi strong,tare holding the
line in Rumania, occupying two
thirds of Serbia, the district of
Kavala in Greece and with * Teu
tons and Turks are facing the al
lied armies at Monastir.
WHEREVER THEY ENGAGE
THE ALLIES, THE BULGARS
THEREBY RELEASE GERMAN
TROOPS FOR THE WESTERN
FRONT, WHERE THEY WILL
ULTIMATELY FACE OUR AMER
ICAN BOYS.
We are asked, and rightly, to
burn with indignation at the.
cruelties heaped upon Belgium by
the Germans. But we are allowed
to forget the Bulgars' tortures of
the Serbians.
We call the Germans Huns and
we do not know the Bulgars
proudly call themselves Huns.
The newspaper Primerski Ne
vino of Sushak says: "The Bul
garian scholar Panoff of Sofia
writes in the Nord and Sud tbat
the BULGARIANS ARE DE
SCENDANTS OF THE HUNS who
came to Europe, and that their
only kinsmen in Europe are the
Magyars and the Finns.
The Itulfiaitiiiis liave up to
now iire.MWved the main traits
of the Hun cltHracter iiml
then |ih>si<,il nppcarancc.
The Slavs aro dreamers,
frank, iiinleei.leil, lazy and
indolent, and the Hindus arc
< I.ld irl.u.ili .1. calm, clever
and eiMTtfvde."
Last year when there was a so
called international conference on
peace topics at Lausanne, Switzer
land, the Journal de Geneve re
ports: "Mr. Aktschura, as repre
sentative of the Tartars, sang the
unstinted praise at Hulgarians as
the most civilized of the Tartar
tribes."
A people may lie Judged by their
national portrait. "Uncle Sam"
represents Americans, as "John
Bull" represents Englishmen.
Aleke Konstantinoff in his novel,
"Baya Gagno," tried to portray in)
his hero of that name the essential
characteristics of the Bulgars. To
day Bulgars hail the novel as one
of their greatest. "Baya Ganno"
is painted vas insolent, repugnant,
avaricious, egotistic, lying, rascal
ly, hypocritical, brutal and gross
to the heart. He is the product of
his uncultivated surroundings, the
I victim of his brutal education.
This type of man is deporting
Serbians to Asia Minor and send
ing Serbian girls to Turkish ha
rems.
The Bulgars hay« become com
pletely imbued with the Prussian
idea. They dream of conquest
and loot.
THE KAISER'S ARMY IN AMERICA, HOCH!
Last year Risov, the Bulgarian
minister to Germany, ecstatically
■aid:
"Never a ruler tva* to
<iui<-kl> conquered the hearts
<>f a nation a« the <J«-nn«u
kalM-r did with Bulgarian
heart*. The whole nation in
enthtuiiaatic for Kaifter WU-
Iklih. Hie* ini»)rnaninilty made
us forget the imisl. He hat*
pneAttuted un with the whole
hooty taken by German
troop* In Serbia, worth 30 t<>
4O million franca."
About the same time the
kaiser's third son, Prince August
Wilhelm, returned the compli
ment, saying that BETWEEN
THE GERMAN AND BULGAR
IAN ARMIES THERE WAS
PRACTICALLY NO DIFFER
ENCE, AND ADDING: "In Ger
many and her sovereign Bulgaria
will always find co-operation."
This kind of thing has im
mensely increased the Bulgars'
ambitions. They dream of emerg
ing from this war as a world
power, an ally on an equal foot
ing with Germany and Austria.
They expect to give up no terri
tory.
Sofia newspapers speak seml-of
ficially.
Kambana of Sept. 16, 1916,
says boastfully: "With Serbia
destroyed and Rumania parti
tioned, this signifies for Bulgaria
that her territory will he doubled.
Also this signifies the classifica
tion of Bulgaria in the rank of
the great independent nations
whose word must be considered
in the regulation of the destinle*
of the whole woTld."
The Narodni Prava speaks of
a quadruple alliance which Is
not merely political and military,
but also economic. After the war
Bulgaria will be able to use the
German-Austrian network of rail
ways clear to Bagdad and the
Persian gulf.
July 7 of this year the Balkan
ska Poshta commented that upon
the thirtieth anniversary of the
accession of the Bulgarian czar,
news from Germany showed the
Germans firmly believed Bulgaria
would emerge from the war as a
great power.
Fostered by Germany and her
allies, the socialists attempted to
hold a peace confab at Stockholm,
proclaiming a doctrine of no an
nexations and no indemnities.
This was designed to please the
Russians. By the samte token, it
greatly displeased the Bulgar
ians. The Utro of Sofia said
early this year:
"The deputy, Mr. Janulov, de
clares the formula peace without
annexations, recently adopted by
the Russian and German social
ists', caUs for an amendment
where Bulgaria Is concerned.
After so many revolutions and
wars we cannot admit that the
unification of the Bulgarian na
tion is equal to an annexation."
April 2 7 last Kambana com
mented on this: "The formifla
peace without annexation natur
ally applies only to the incorpora
tion of alien nationalities by force
and against their will. If one
speaks of a renunciation of all an
nexation on the part of the cen
tral powers that does not mean
tbat anyone thinks of leaving
Macedonia, the Debrudja and the
Morava."
* The Narodni Prava, organi of
Prime Minister Radeslavoff, puts
forward the same idea. This
would mean Bulgaria's annexation
of two-thirds of Serbia, a consid
erable part of Rumania and the
Kavala district of rGeece, making
in all a country with nearly half
the area of Germany and with
■lose to 15,000,000 people.
It would .mean an army of overp:
1,000,000, trained according to
German ineUiodH, and to be used .
by Qermany in that next war of
which she is dreaming.
AND IT 18 THIS HTOI'T A MA'
OF UKKMANV WITH WHICH
WK AKK AT PKAOK!
DEFENSE
COUNCIL
MEETING
The critical need of the govern
ment for nun ii»i m spruce for
airplane construction and the'
failure of Washington lumbermen |
to supply the government all it I
needs, as promised, was one of
the biggest questions which faced
the state~council of defense when
it met in tbe Commercial club
{rooms Monday.
Equally important was the
settlement of the eight-hour day
question which today has crip
pled coast shipbuilding.
These question* were to be
taken up by the council at its aft
ernoon session.
Moot With S. l.ii.r.
The council, headed by Dr.
Henry Suzzallo, met* with Dr.
James Scherer, chief of the sec-j
tion on co-operation of states of j
the national council of defense.
He was here to get suggestions!
for use in other states and to
make suggestions to aid the work
of the council in Washington.
Plans for the permanent or
ganization of every precinct in the
state to push' Food Dictator Hoo
ver's food conservation drive, the j
Liberty loan bond campaign in.
October.' and the Red Cross cam
palgn, was the chief subjects of
discussion at the morning sett-;
sion.
Orfcani/i- Women.
The active organization of.
"mlnutomen" thruout the state
to aid the government was report
ed by Mrs. 3, S, McKee of Ho
quiam, In charge of the women's
work for the council.
Thru this organization a direct
lin# of communication from ad- j
ministration officials at the na
tional capital and the home is to
be established.
The plan of organization out
lined Is to have the woman coun
cillor on each county .council of
defense appoint ward captains.
These captains will in turn name
precinct lieutenants, who will
have staffs of precinct commtt
teemen to get in touch with every
woman in the neighborhood.
All Will llel|>.
"I am confident the organiza
tion will work," said Mrs. MeKer.
I "As soon as we realize what this
I war really means, and begin to
j feel some of Its sorrows, I nm
sure the women and mpthcrF of
the state "will be eager to do
something, no matter how small
it may be, for the government."
"Thru our organisation we in- '
tend to give every woman some
thing definite to do to help win
the war."
Campaign Open* Ort. 21.
The campaign to get enlistment ,
pedges for the food administra- ,
tion will begin Oct. 21. During
all of October the Liberty loan
campaign will be carried on.
A. L. Rogers, in charge *of .
farm labor, reported that the i
crops of the state are safe; that
many of them have been harvest
ed, and that there have been
lenty of farm hands.
Th* Hen tKt " yoamcm«9
Broadway and 15U> *Str«et
BuyrallNeedsHcrc
Shop" Sensibly—Select Your Autumn Needs
Where There Are Wide Assortments of POPU
LAR PRICE Merchandise. We SPECIALIZE
on the Lines That Appeal to the Modest Purse.
Blankets and Bedd ing
Our stock of blankets and bedding was con
tracted for nearly a year ago—long before the
present scale of wholesale prices went into ef
fect.
Buy here and you'll save 15 to 1-3 of wha'i
you'll pay in stores where goods were bought
at this season's figures.
Women's Autumn Apparel
The most complete and best selected stock in
the history of this store awaits the style seek
ers of Tacoma and vicinity.
The record business that we are doing now
justifies our claim that we're selling for less
than most stores where equal styles and qual
ities may be had.
Heating Stoves—Low Priced
We have a limited number of last year's stoves
on hand—they're on sale at just about 13.
less than we'll have to sell the new stock at.
• Come in tomorrow and look them over.
A good sized stove, well made d»i O7C
as low as «P 1 O. f O
Boost For the 8-hour Day
Every man who works is in favor of the 8-hour
day. This is pre-eminently the working men's
store. We keep open Saturday evening for
the benefit of our friends who work all day—
but every man in our employe is required to
work but 8 hours a day—Saturday's included.
MAYOR NAMES
ANOTHER SON
A. Iy. Fawcett, a son of Mayor
Fawcett, was appointed by the
mayor Monday to the position ofj
superintendent of the city conta
gious hospital.
Vance Fawcett, another son,
who has heM the position up to
this time, has been appointed as
sistant sanitary inspector. Both
offices are in the health depart
ment, which is managed by the
mayor.
A. L. Fawcett, with his wife
and three children, came from
Chicago last week, where he has
been employed for years by a
large wholesale tea and coffee
establishment.
FIX FREIGHT
RATE ON LINE
A flat switching fee of $. r > per
car for all freight transported on
the city's new municipal car Una
to any point on the tideflats, was
agreed upon Monday by the coun
cil.
Tlie fee was suggested by a
committee of 1:■ men represent
ing all railroads in Tacoma and
all industries on the tideflats.
The city had previously f'xed a
sliding scale of rates, but the com
mittee pointed out that the flat
fee would bring a larger grows
profit, besides preventing any
charges of discrimination in rates.
Work on the new line was being
rushed Monday. Fourteen days
are left for completing the ime
by Oct. 1. Rain? on the 11th
street fill will be laid this week.
The viaduct across the M'lwaulice
railroad yards is half completed.
MILLION IS
FIRE DAMAGE
I I ulli-.l Prr», 1 riiaril Wire.) J'
WESTWOOI), Cal., Sept. 17.2.
One million dollars damage was
done today by a fire which le
stroyed two-thirds of the lumbe*
stock of Red River Lumber Ca.
and threatened the plant itself
here.
The yards of the company were
swept by flames for several hours
and .-0,000,000 feet of lumber de
stroyed.
The fire, which began at 3 a.
m., endangered the entire plant
but at 10 a. m. was brought under
control and confined to the com
pany's 'yards.
I FREE i
I |
GLASSES $2.50
For the n<"\( 10 days, in ordoe
to iniiM.liK p our Roods, w« vIM
sell <U'AHANTEKn «;i,*ssi.s
in «old I tll.Ml Fnunra for
•2.A0. TIm«« klmm* «r« «|ual -
to hiiv $5 or $10 glaMrs noid
in the city.
KRK« I \ \\ll\ ATION BY
HI'WCIALIKT. CALL ANI> XX
CONVINCRI).
GE MOPTICAL CO. t,
latßH Parlflo Avanae.