Prp*idfnt Wilson, in a statement today to the nation, hasIn asked \ OU to cultivate a garden in order that the food prob-
D'Cm may be re,irvecl to extent. Will you do it?
W%
The Star will help you. It has asked Floyd Kader, King?unty agriculturist, an expert in farming, to prepare a series of articles to tell youhow to grow things.
The first will appear in The Star Wednesday. Theip articles willsave you time.
trouble and expense. They will make that back lot of your* produce a consider-able portion of the vegetables you will need. They will be just what the Parent-Teachers association needs to stimulate garden growing among school children.
Watch for The Star Wednesday and every day after that.In the meantime, get that lot to cultivate. If you haven't one of your own, call
up James Callaghan, public welfare commissioner, at the courthouse, Main 9500.Ifyou have a lot you will be unable to cultivate yourself, let some one else do it.
The Seattle StaiTHE ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT DARES TO THE NEWS
VOLUME 19 SEATTLE, WASH., MONDAY, APRIL 16, 1917. ONE CENT.W^-'rT."'
LAST EDITION
Start that back yard garden thisweek. If you don't know how?watch for County Agriculturist Ra.der'a artlclea, in The Star. Weath.er Dopeiter Salisbury haa promised
"lho*eri tonight and Tueaday."
PORT PUNS TO SOL FOODM M
M MM M ______
; HAY EMPTY HUGE STOREHOUSES TO CONSUMERWuson toJbapeWar
CourseWASHINGTON. April IS.?
Th# firat formal step In en* oftha most Important internation-
al conference* of th# great warwill bo taken Wednesday whanProaident Wilton will receiveArthur J. Balfour, foraign mln-later of England, and member*af the French commiaalon now?n route to thla country.
Balfour and hla party, togetherwith the French commUalon. inrinding former Premier Vlvianl andOan. Joffre. nntll recently com-mander in-chief of the French ar-mies. will be tendered a receptionat th* White Houm.
To Shape Nation'a DoatlnleaThl* formality dtiposed of. ques-
tion* which may control the dee-tlalea of nations will be taken ui
ta&^dlacoaaloft.part to the world warof democracy ajrainat autocracy willbe definitely determined
Not only the question of cooperaUon on the fighting field, but probtem* of feeding and furnishing theEuropean natlona with prorlslan*and money.
FVieelgn Mlniater Balfonr willreach New York at S:3O p. m. Hei« expected to contlnu* on to Wash-ington after a brief stay In NewYork. The exact time the Frenchcommissioner* are expected to ar-rive la not known, but it la expectedthey will t>e here Wednesday
One of the first question* win hearrangement* to aubject Tlrltlshresident* in the V. 8. to conscrip-tion In the American army or tha !option of volunteering In the Brit-t*h army It became known todayon unquestionable authority.
Arrangements also will b« dla-russed whereby Great Britain marbe allowed to rernill British sub-jects In this country for herarmies
mm OF LENSBEING SEALED
BY WM. PHILIPS 81 MVSfrom si»ff f*i»rr»«pon<l»»i»
WITH THE BRITISHARMIES AFIELD, April 1« ?
British troops fought thsir way
forward in the outskirts of St.Qusntln and Lens today. Justnorth of St. Qusntln thsy tooktha village of Troisaauvagss.
Around thrcs stdss of Lana®»«y wars fiercely fighting?gainst German defenders andalowly encircling tha coal city.Again early today the Germans
fbrew two more strong attack* atBritish positions at Mounchy-l.e-Preu*. Both failed.
The British artillery concentrat-
ed artillery fire at the massed attar lii
"W» progressed to the north went
at I>-ns," van the British corn
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ADVERTISING MANAGER'SDAILY TALK
HARD CASHYou can save it?and Rood,substantial sums, too, byreading the ads daily in TheStar. And the best part ofIt is that the bargain pricesire very often on necessi-ties?things you actuallyhave to buy. Any day youdon't read the ads you areoverlooking good oppor-tunities.
best offerings of Se-attle's best stores appearregularly in The Star.
THE FASTEST OROWINO PAPERIN THE NORTHWEST
Another "Scrap of Paper"
PREACHER ADVISED I. W. W.TO HOLD EVERETT MEETIHG
Rev. O H. McGill, method--Ist, industrial evangelist, testi-
fied Monday In the trial ofThomaa Tracy, I. W. W. charg-
ed with shooting Deputy Sher-iff Jefferson Beard November6. In the battle with deputies
on the Everett city dock, thsthe counssled Secretary Her-bert Mahler, of the Seattle lo-cal I. W. W , to hold a massmeeting at Evsrstt to tell cttl-aena "the truth of the Beverlypark Incident."The minister's testimony came
a* a surprise to the state. Incross examination, the slate stroveto show thai while he might have'been In favor of a meeting. MrGIIIwas not fully Informed of the Bev-erly park affair and that he knewnothing of the call which had beenIssued by the I. W. W. to Its mem- ibers in the eastern part of the 'stste for a mass meeting, which |could make "the Everett mayor
and chief of police shiver whenthey heard the word 'I W. W.'"
Attorneys Bicker
The examination of the Rev. Mr ;(fill and the Rev. Herbert Hint andJoseph P. Marlatt. of Everett, who !prereded him on the witness stand,was conducted with much bicker- ,Ing between the attorneys on bothrl*|e* snd with frequent objectionsand exception"
Attorney Vandcrviir. for the de-fense. Interposed a aerie* of objec-tions to the line of examination jlined by the state to ithow thatMahler had tricked and duped the
minister. Tin objection* were joverruled.
MAY SHACKLETON'S EPIC END LIKE THAT OF GREEK HERO, IS OUR WISH FOR HIMBY THE EDITOR
Mint and Msrlatt testified thatthe In company with PresidentK 1" Marsh, of the Stale Kedera-
At home I have a book which.If I couldn't replace It. I wouldgrieve to lose
It la Homer'* Od.vs«ey, translat-ed not Into atllted Knsdlsh poetry,
I.ut Into musical Anglo-Saxon proae.
It tell* 111 language like thit of a
raga the»tory the CJreek poet madeImmortal.
When I weary temporarily of the
artificialities of this age of movies,
newspapers, law courts and organ
Uatlous, I Uko to so back Into th«
The yBond TMan's IEyes |
A novel of mys-tery concerning thestrange powers of asightless attorney tocomprehend the sub-tie strategy of crimi-nals, begins in TheStar today, page 4.
golden day* when the world *?»
youngDawn, the may fingered, uahera
In that day A fresh wind sings
over the wine dark Hen. Hwlft lila< kliliin cleave their wa>. accomplish-
ing their pith.It I* a world of heroic men.
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Last night I had the fortuneto be one of 4,000 Seattle peo-ple transported, thru an en-tirely different medium, Into
thla *am« Wld of primitive
tin it of I-abor, am! others, vis-lied Heverly park several da>salter the alleged Ku'intlf runningand later held h conference as towhat should be done It «u dla-cus*ed at that time the advisabilityof permitting the I. \V W.'i to holda mass nicotine In the tabernarleof Evangelists Hart and Mcllaan.who were holdlriK meetings In Ev-erett. No decision was made. hutIt wan am a result of this confer-ence that MoOlil saya he advocat-ed a meeting In Everett November6 to MahU-r.
Navy Suspends AllWireless Licenses
WASHINGTON, April 18.?In keeping with President Wil-
son's recent proclamation, turn-
ing wireless stations over to the
navy, Secretary Daniels todsyannounced all licensee forshore radio stations ars sus-pended during the wsr.
BRAZILIAN LABORWORKS FOR PEACE
RIO I>E JANEIRO, April 1f,.-
The ItrHZlllan Federation of l.abormet today and adopted resolutionsurging peace.
Do not fall to start reading "TheBlind Man * Kyrm" today.
times.
We sat In the Arena, and a
stocky man, "so ready at need,
who wandered far and wide,
and many the woes he sufferedIn his heart upon the deep,
striving to win his own life andthe return of his company,"told us hit Odyssey.
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Drastic Course Proposed to Bring DownPrices; Dealers Blame HousewifelyHysteria for Unprecedented Buying.Who is responsible for potatoes?And for several other threatened food-price phenomena?You'll never guess?unless you start out, as The Star
I has dune within ,the last two or three days, to trace thej guilty party to his lair. And then you'll find it hard to believewhat you discover.
Hecau.se, from all indications, the trail leads right aroundjin a circle to the people who are indignantly asking thequestion the housewives and the bill-payers.
It's a pretty plain trail, right here in Seattle. It began'with the complaint of retail grocers, a week or more ago, thatitheit customers were suddenly buying their shelves bare.Housewives Buy by the Case
Housewives who had always bought condensed milk by! the can. w anted to buy »cveral cases. Potatoes, which, to-ward the end of the season, and only a month or so beforenew potatoes may be expected, are usually bought in smallquantities, were demanded by the -ark or more.
Sugar and flour were so |>opular that the astonishedgrocers were in danger of being bankrupted of these staple*.
This sudden buying of f<*>d was and is, if it is stillI continuing at the present high retail ptn.es.
As soon as the situation became clear to the grocers,| they took measures to protect their stocks by refusing t«# se'lmore than a certain amount to any j»erson, and, in the ca->r\u25a0if some who had been extending credit, hv demanding cash.
Augustine * Krer's Klrst ave\u25a0tore, for Instance, fixed a maxi-mum of one wark of sugar to aper*on ? and at that they have beenselling about 60 times a* much
! sugar a* uaual. according to II AHeppenstall, ? manager Meppen-*tall Instructed his clerk* to ex-plain to cuatomera that they donot know whether prices are goingto go up or down, and to discxxir-ace reckless buying
Kred Anderson. of the Royal
Annex grocery. Eighth and line.»et a maximum of one cask of flour,one of eugar and one case of milk,
to any one pe.rsoti Me also had arun on hla canned good* of allkinds Ho will »e|| for caah only.
A Ixmg. who owns a chain
of store* In the public market,
turned down hundreds of wouldbe buyer*, he aaya. because he feltthat to aell In auch large quant I-tlea would demoralize the mar-ket. Moat of those who wantedto buy offered caah.
Sales Show Record Increase
Jamea O. l<oro. of 1620 Itorenave.. aold 50 per cent more flourand sugar the early i«rt of last
week than usual Many of hla
credit cuatomera paid caah for the!aurplua over their usual pur-chases
Mr* I). W. (>ioK. "00 70th W.,refused to aell Isrge amounta except for caah On last Monday jand Tuesday ahe aold 15 tltnea aamuch sugar aa uaual
A Pike Place market man haa abig sign out: "Not more, than threecan* of milk to one person."
"We have hard work to get It ifrom the wholesaler*." he explained.
"Why are i>eople buying In auchlarge quantltleo now?" demandedanother Saturday "This *prlng and
summer will surety bring many
things down In ?prlco- especiallyvegetable*.
Moat hucksters were too husv fill-ing "war" order* to talk about them.
The testimony of all retailer*
wii to the effect that Beattle
housewives have been apendlngtheir husband*' aalarle* and\u25a0training their credit to lay In
a stock of food, at unprecedent-edly high price*, evidently be-lieving that It ll going to be
scarcer and higher »oon.And on the other hand there Is
just as much proof, and Just nseasily obtainable, that there is no jdang'T of h shortage; ANI> THAT.Willi.E THERE IS HANCiKIt OKllKillEft PRICES. IT IS THEHOUSEWIVES THEMSELVES, IKANYIIODY, WHO WIU, CAUSE'
in tiny boats on the Rtorm-tosHcdhack of the angry sea. duplicateOdyssey's years of adventure.
The Mishaps that befell Ills herole hand are quite iih varied and
marvelous n* the (Ireek warrior'sencounters with the Cyclopes, theI/itus-Haters, the drones, thenymph Calypso and Aeolus.
The onb difference was that nnunknown Aegean sea wan the back-ground for Homer's story, and un-known Antarctic, sess and conti-nent for Bbackleton's.
Hlr Krnest Hhackleton's wander-ings. In strong wooden ship*,across untraoked mountain ranges.
THEMSupply Is Plentiful
"There I* no possibility of a timecoming when we can't supply thegrocer* with all their customerswant." declared E Morganatem.secretary of Kchnabacher Hros.,Wholesaler* "We haven't even feltany unusual demand from them yet.except some uctivlty In sugar andcanned milk. It I* foolish of house,wlvea to buy recklessly, especiallyof perishables."
The National Orocery Co also de-clared supplies to be ample.
In the Bell at. warehouse of the
l*irt commission, where commissionmen and some grower* keep theirvegetable* In cold storage, theamount on hand I* normal for thistime of year. Carrots and ruta-baga* are naturally almost gone, be-cause H will soon be time for newones One great cold room whichw ill hold fi.ooo sacks of potatoes hasbeen about one-third emptied, and
others have been drawn on In pro-
portion. There Is more barreledfish In th« warehouse than usual
at this seasonTHRKK IS NO SHORTAGE OP
KOOD AT PRESENTPaulhamus Explains
Why, then, are people buyingfood so frantically?
This Is what W. H. Paulhamus.president of the Puyailup anil Sumner Kruit (.rowers' association,
thinks about It. The association lacomposed of growers, who are
themselves consumers. It putsup Its own products and sellsthem. It maintains a general store,at which Its members can buy sup-piles of every kind Consequently,he can view the subject from nearlyall Its many sides.
"I think." he says, "the troubleIs that housewives have got scared,thinking there Is to be a shortage,
and lire causing the high prices andthe shortage, If there U any. them-selves.
Predicts Big Production"There certainly can be no seri-
ous food shortage. The state ofWashington, If planted intensively,
could produoe 20 times what It canconsume. In the volleys betweenSeattle and Tacotna. every avail-able acre Is being cultivated. ThereIs surely going to be such u produc-tion of staples this year ns will Keepprices down.
"As to canned goods. I see nolikelihood of a shortage. We arecontracting for our cans now It Istrue. It Is hard to get cans, becausethey are made of steel washed with
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To eliminate the middleman's profits and to reduce to aminimum the possibility of food speculation, the port com-mission of Seattle will utilize its immense facilities in ware-houses and storage plants in a plan which will actually bringthe producer and consumer together.
l>etails of this j>owcrful campaign against food specula-tion have not yet been worked out, lmt in general, PresidentRobert Bridges, of the port commission, has mapped out thefollowing program:
The port commision, thru the traffic department, to actin the unit manner as Western ave. commission housea to 'receive food products AND TO SELL THEM DIRECTTO GROCERS. BUTCHERS. FISH MARKETS. DEAL-ERS OF ALL KINDS. AND TO INDIVIDUALS.
To place a tjme limit for holding any commodities instorage and compelling their sale after the expiration ofsuch limit, thereby preventing the holding of food for spec-ulation prices.
I hc>c arc the two main divisions of the port commissionplan.
Inasmuch as the publicly owned port plants have mo'j
than one-third the total area of cold storage capacity »ntie. the port commission is in a po-itiun to make its war onspoliation absolutely effective.
Because of the nominal storage rates made possible bythe port, commission men have been buying up large quanti-ties oi food stuff and holding them for speculation, accordingto Bridge*. The new plan will absolutely prevent this.
"It is quite as important." Bridges ?aid, "that thereshould be a proper distribution of food to the consumer ftreasonable prices as there should be a large food supply." \
WILSON ASKS NATION TO FEEDITSELF AND ALLIES IN WAR
WASHINGTON. April 16 ?
One of the mote eventful weeks
In American history lay before
the United States today. With
President Wilson's appeal call-ing for the co-operation of everyman and woman of the nationIn waging a successful war,bringing the conflict homa toevery farm, factory and house-hold, events of the next fewdays will move America rapidlyforward to participation In thastruggle with Germany.
The president's appeal to thanation follows:
My fellow countrymen:The entrance of our beloved
country Into the grim and ter-rible war for democracy andhuman rights which has shakenthe world, creates so many
Says Dr. MatthewsAdvanced That $500
for Burns Sleuths
Tell your amusement pur-veyor who says that no attrac-
tion will please an American
audience unlets the sex ele-
ment predominates, about theShackleton lecture
Not a woman on the atage.Not a wom#n in any of thepictures. Not a woman mentloned In the story, or referredto in the most distant way.Just a recital, poetic In its sim-plicity and directness, of virile
Prosecuting; Attorney bun-din and the county commission-ers still were in a deadlockMonday over the $500 billwhich hundin has asked thecommissioners to pay theHurns detective agency, andwhich Commissioner 1/ou Smithrefuses to approve unless It Isitemized.
Smith declared Monday I.un-din had told him the moneywas needed to repay Dr. M. A.Matthews, who had advancedIt to tha Burns operatives for
exitenses during their workfor the county.
problems of national life andaction which call for Immodlataconsideration and settlementthat I hope you will permit mato address to you a few wordsof earnest counsel and appealwith regard to them.
We ar» rapidly putting ournavy upon an effective warfooting and art about to cre-ate and equip a great army,but these are the simplestparte of the great task towhich we have addressed our-selves.
No Selfishness in CauseThere is not a single selfish
element, so far as I can sea,in the cause we are fightingfor. We are fighting for whatwe believe and wish to be therights of mankind and for tha
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The detective*, under the di-rection of the prosecutor, woretrying to set vvluenre of graft-ing by pollen en.
"Ves," I.iinilin admitted toThe Stir, "the money was ad-vaneed by Dr. Matthews. The
man life. And the 4,000 menand women of the audiencemade the theatre rock with anapplause such as musicsl com-edy never In thl* world receiv-ed, and never will.
Rut, 1 llko the Odyssey for Itsi ndlnn hn wpll ;tk lor llic ilriunatiri liapters of tlie wanderings and ad\ onture.
detectives needed expensemoney, and I could not get Itfrom the county at that time.ro Dr Matthews borrowed $500from a I ank nnd turned it overto them."
0. K. WAR BONDSWASHINGTON, April it>.?With
little discussion and no oppositionthe senate finance committee to-day reported favorably tho $7,000,-UOO.OOd bond bill.
The hill will be rushed thru thesenate tomorrow to make availablethe flood of gold, Senator Simmonsnitid.
RESERVE BANK HEREWASHINGTON*. April IB?The
federal reserve board is Informallyconsidering establishment of banksat Portland, Ore.. Spokane, and Se-attle as branches of the federal re-serve bank of San Francisco, itwas learned today.
[stress, to his lofty house, hisI'enelope and his own people.
Similarly, I hope, will be the end-ing of Sir Kraest s epic. He andhis comrades (those who have notalready Joined the colors) are hur-ry inn (o their posts to fight forKngland and "us." as the lecturersaid in conclusion.
May they survive,the new dan-gers, as they have the old. an<Jcome again to their high roofetlhomes.
For Odysseus finally arrivesbuck, after all the flghtiug an J the
