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In the i Editor's Mail Are We Meek? EDITOR THE TIMES: Referring to the telegraphic Item in one of our papers under the heading, "Ufortu to Have It I'aui |> Lewis, Taconia, Meet With Rebuff, ' in which it ia stated i i.it efforts made to hare the war department officially designate • aiuii Lewis us Camp l.c-wis Ta coma. instead of Camp Lewi*), American Lake, have (ailed, and that ' niiL-.ri': ■ n: iii .11>iiu-.«hi had received a letter from secretary of War Baker in which lie Hays that for many yearn the site of the military camp now designated ad Camp Lewis has been known aa American Lake, and it Is not now deemed advisable to make any change in the d ■ ignatlon of this site in view of the confusion that would ensue, would say that It NWM to us this decision and at mi i'<l'- on the part of the war department Is unjust and incon- Bfateal In view of the fact that the olflclal designation of the itrinv post is not (amp Lewis, American Lake, Wash., hut sim -I>l\ Ciiuip Lewis, Washington—■ ■'Somewhere in 'Washington"— anywhere from Hremerton to (forth Yakima. There certainly appears to be a va-4 amount of misinformation and i mifiu ion in tkt minds of a great majority of the newspaper men, magazine writers, etc., in regurd to the location of Camp I.ewi«, notwithstanding the fact that the army pout is practically part of the city of Tacotna —the | boundaries of the city and post j belnit only four or five miles apart What are the Taroma people going to do about this latest "re buff?" Are they going to accept it in the customary meek and lowly Taenma spirit—with the same poverty of spirit that has brought upon our city the disrespect, ridi cule, discrimination, the Blights, aneers and Jeers from every part of the country for the past quar ter of a century? Are they going to continue to ait with folded hands and fold ed minds and accept the cuntom a.ry rebuff*, slights and discrimi nation indefinitely? Or are they going to make a Mart right here and bow and continue this effort to secure justice for Tacoma in the mat ter of the army post for which they bonded themselves for two million dollars—such an effort by the entire city that whether it k'u-i (t»(K or not at the present time in getting the name officially cVmi'ml to Camp Lewis, Tacoma, Washington, will at least go a Denies He's Traitor (United Prees l.vasrd Wire.) WASHINGTON, I). C, May |. —A. C.. Town ley. president of the Non I'rfr'i.-im league, today denied In-fore the senate military affairs committee that the organization is treasonable or that ha or other officers are traitors. Sees Suffrage Coming (I'oitod Promt l<;is.«i Wire.) COPENHAGEN. May I.—Chancellor Hertlfng. during a tem pestuous session of the Prussian diet discussing electoral reforms, declared that "equal suffrage is coming to Prussia, and we cannot long j-tand out against the progressive movement." "We can give it now. If we refuse, it may iw> wrung from us later, amidst severe convulsions of national life." Held As Alien Enemies ( I'niid l'r<--. l-.Nis.il Wirr.) Three alleged alien enemies who were drafted and who have I*>en serrlng in the National army at Camp Lewis, wore brought to Tacc/ma Wednesday by Deputy IT. S. Marshal Kleetwood. Two of them.—Lewl» Novak and Morris Toman—are Austrian* and entered the army before the U. S. declared war against Austria. Henry 1). Strasier is declared to be a German. Joe Put in Class One (I'ill Id Press leased Wire.) CREENWOOD, S. C. May I.— Joe .Jaeknon, the noted slugger from Urenvllle, now with the Chicago White Sox, was placed in OtaM Oa« i>v the district board In session hero today. The decision of the Greenville local board was reversed. It had put "Shoeless Joa" in Class Four. Michigan Goes Dry (I nii.il Prms IjOMeri Wire.) DETROIT, May 1. —Michigan went dry quietly at midnight. With New Hampshire, which also became dry today, it was the SStfc state in the Union to enter prohibition. U.S. Seizes All Wool (United Press X^rmned Wire.) WASHINGTON. D. C, May I.—The government today comman deered the entire stock of unsold wool In the bands of dealers and growers and the entire wool clip of the year. Calls 9000 More Men (I'nlted I'n-s. r«aaed Wire.) WASHINGTON. D. C, May 1 -ProTOrf Marshal General Crow der today ordered the mobilization on May 15. or 8,985 drafted men to begin a two months' course of training for special army industriai work. Automobile mechanic*, chauffeurs, machinist*, blacksmiths, •eeet metal workers, general uiechaaics, cwrpenter», electricians! radio operators conrret workers and telegraph <r.s will be developed from tkoee called. long ways toward* letting the, world know where the camp Is really located. The meek and th» lowly evi dently are not inheriting the earth at the present time, and if we accept thU rebuff with a spirit (it contriteiießg instead of resentment we are very apt to Ret what the meek and lowly usually art —the worst of It In every way. What are we going to do about It? Respectfully. M. O. MITCHELL. Larchtnotit, Taroma. A Graft KIHTOR THIS TIMKS: When a person Is sick and a doctor writes a prescription for whisky and you go to the dniK gM and get a quart the druggist charges you )•!. Pierce county officers are mak ing raids on booze, and they get from .">0 to COO gallons and it ko.'s to the court house. Why not no there with the prescrip tion and get it for, say $2.50 or $:: ■ quart. Don't you think those drug stores are a hold-up? Six dollars a i|iiart Is {24 a gallon. It that 13 not a graft, tlien I don't know what you call xraft. A READUIt OK TMK TIMIOS, Spanaway. Why Not Now? KIMTOR Till: TIMES: Your paper the other day ad man and b*lB( able-bodied young men that are now doing work that could be done by other people !•■ . able-bodied to work on tin; farms. Pete learned the trado of ship building when he was a y<>un.. man man ami being able-bodied and quick to learn, he was one oi the best. Then shipbuilding took a slum;. and he could not get steady work, ho he toook to house building, but lie found that he had to move around to keep working and tue family was netting larger and every time he. moved It would take him a year to get out of debt. So about eight years ago he bought a small farm on time and by working out when he could got work so he could get home tight! he has paid (or the farm and got some cattle, a team, chicken* and other things necessary to get alone, with hit wife and children helping with the work. They were able to Improve the farm at the rate ot about $1.50 a day. Now Pete bad » neighbor who DOINGS OF THE DUFFS SQUIRREL FOOD all his life had lived on a farm. But when the shipbuilding started lie weut Hutu to work and lie got wages enough so he could keep b;. family and then have $4 left out of his day's wages. So now Pete Is going to let his family run the farm the best they can and he is going to work in town. Mow, Mr. Editor, if this war Keeps on the government will have to take possession of all the land that Is suitable for raising crops that the people must have to live. Then why not take it now? OHARLM RAWLINSON. McKenna. Pershing KDITOR THE TIMKS: Why not give Biuinarrk up aud put Perilling In? And as there seems to be a little trouble over Division aye., why not put* the same man in charge there? Pret ty soon it will be Pershing this and Pernhlng that, so why not let us Htart the ball railing and rail Bismarck Pershlng, and Divi sion aye. PershliiK aye.? We will all want to honor this man, for he surely will have a big band In putting the screws to that bunch of murderers and rut-throats across the water, and besides Pershlng sounds nice to me. I read In last Friday's Times how a young Tacoman at Camp I Lewis proposes Htartlnrc a school her* for crippled soldiers. I thought of your great work in '■ landing the army poet here, and' I thought what a great thing it' would be if you won hi take thU up and hammer It thru, too. This is the very place for It. It would i be a Mntf thing than most poo pip imagine. I believe yon can put it thru. ED DONAHI'K. Substitutes EDITOR THE TIMKS: I send you a few thoughts on food conservation. I assure yo'i It represents the mind of thei working man in general in Ta-l coma. I'lciise give us room In tlio A CLEAR COMPLEXION ] RuddyCheeks—SparklingEyes —Most Women Can Have Says Dr. Edwards, a Well Known Ohio Physician Dr. P.M. Edwards for 17 years treated \ scores of women for liver and bowel ail writ s. During these years he gave to his patients a prescription made of a few well-known vegetable ingredients mixed with olive oil. naming them Dr. Edwards' Olive Tablets. You will know them by their olive color. These tablets are wonder-workers on the liver and bowels, which cause a 1 normal action, carrying off the waste and poisonous matter in one's system. If you have a pale face, sallow took, dull eyes, pimples, coated tongue, head* i aches, a listless, no-good feeling, all out of sorts, inactive bowels, you take one of Dr. Edwards' Olive Tablets nightly far a time and note the pleasing results. Thousands of women as well as men take Dr. Edward's Olive Tablets—the, successful substitute for calomel—now | and then just tokeepin the pink of condi tion. 10c and 2Sc per box AlldrugghU I PAULHAMUS MILK l'ho»« Main 7«M> Thursday, M*y 2, 191& -THE TACOMA TIMES—Pag* fwO. columns of The Times, the only paper I take and to which I feel 1 dare speak freely. In these days flf wln-the-wur cry—a cry that re-echoes In ev-j cry truly loyal American's heart,' It seems almoKt disloyal to raNfl a protest against any plan hem-, pursued by ihose in authority to speed the end of the great strus gle for the suHtalnance of d.-nioo racy—yet nun of us have bOM forced to the conclusion tliat some of Iliis cry is a mere blind, a stall. I refer specifically to tlie food problem. Whon I bought my last sack of flour It com me the handsome little Hum of $7.NT, or in other words, I paid for 4S pound* of flour $J.BO for sub stitutes that my family will not eat. |1,t7; total, $7.87! On many of these substitutes there Is a profit of 300 per cent that represents the food profiteer's share in the transaction. Coming to the ' SUNDAY JOF- J Dance Halls of I , i j \ I i X §'4?'\ JMI ';>' \ gan's Girl," 191 v' Jim an<^ Carmen of the Klondike Tom, You'll Have to Tell It to Hoover. Look! Look! He ("aught Something! If we protest we are in dangerl of arrest for disloyalty and at tempting to block war measures. Why can't I have my choice in this mater, either to buy substi-' ItUtM with my flour or to invest [that $5 in war savings stamps? That would be actually helping to win the war. and not helping tot! food profiteer. The cry of wheat shortage and flour shortage is getting very j stale. The ordinary workiag man ! is a reader as well as a worker and you will have a hard time a fooling him all the time. I see our city council is taking action in this matter and the may or has urged them to make it strong. Yes, gentlemen, the working man would add not only sitrong bu 1 red hot. Mr. Editor, none of us wish to be disloyal to this, the best gov ernment in the world, but we surely feel that when a worklug man pays for a sack of flour he should tin the namn of the very liberty for which we are fight ing) have his choice of either In-1 vesting his money in substitutes or I in war savings itMipt, ' Broadway at Ninth iyiw!iiLli^ w^feiil^. *v «- "s ''"• c'l....\^ . ■ - -AS "Mr. Fix-It" * This is one of those pictures you "JUSTHAttE TO LIKE," you can't get away from the fun, or "Doug" either! It will cheer you up. + ALSO PLAYING •SHERIFF NELL'S TUSSLE' - A HACK SENNETT COMEDY With POLLY MORAN and BEN TLRPIN This would give ufl a chance to actually help the government, and I not the profiteer. ' This in all respect to those in BY ALLMAN BY AHERN authority and In the Interest of humanity. n. V. TAYLOR. 6444 So. Cheyenne a*.