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WAR'S COST IS 2,700,000 MEN

THE workman who fell four

•stories in an elevator said in

the hospital it was the fastest

ride he'd ever had, and .grin

ned. How's that for Tacoma

spirit?

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TAIKOTHE

TIMES

* WHO SAID THAT? *

*> "Naught venture, naught <|

* have." 4

* So said Thomas Tusser, *

* born 1515, died 1580. Tom ♦

»• evidently was an oil stock ■•

* salesman. *

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NEW B! WHIII FOR HI HI.IUS

The young .nan d! engaging

manners who is willing to hire |

himself out as an escort to worn-;

en has a field for his activities

these days. The new profession

originated in New York. Par

ents who wish to send their

daughters to a concert have only

to telephone the beaux's bureau.

Indicate the mental complexion

that they expect of the young

man, and say whether or nut

they want htm to wear evening

dress. The bureau fills the or

der, the girl hears the concert

an.' the young man Is well paid

foi his trouble.

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A WORD FROM JOSH WISE

Many talk, but

few are heard.

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tXIRRESI'ONDENCE.

"To keep a rubber plant heal

thy," writes Mrs. D. T., "give it

a spoonful of castor oil once a

month."

"But how?" postcards Puzzled.

Ans: The answer Is easy.

Throw the, rubber plant on its

back; hold its nose so as to ahnt

off Its wind. When it opeiu it-i

mouth to breathe, pour In the can

tor oil.

• • •

FAVORITE FICTION

"We arc so glad you came over

tonight. We-Just hate to be

alone every evening, aud you are

such jolly company.' .

• • •

AS IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN

"Oh —h-h—nm! We arc so

glad you are going home at last.

If you hadn't come over we'd

have gone to the show and had a

good time. Anyone would think

you were tonguetied the way you

carry on a conversation. GOOD

HTOHT!"

• • • •

BILL COt-K ROACH.

Bill Cockroach, most despised

of all court house Insectlvora, sat

on Hie back of a chair In Justice

Graham's court, waving Ids fore

flippers joyously.

Esther Vaughn had just tried

to point out tin* man who had

struck him In a Portland aye. rnr,

but missed his guess. Instead of

Indicating the defendant. Father

Vaughn pointed at an innocent

auditor. Whereupon Bill was

heard to mutter:

"Wonder which way Father

Vaughn was going when he was

struck?"

.Inst then the floor flew up and

hit Bill.

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SPECIAL DISPATCHES

OIG HARBOR, Jan. 28.—Some

people git all that's coming to

'em. Hank Smith is shearing his

sheep with a safety razor.

PUYALLUP, Jan. 28. — Nate

Mace of Tacoma has gone home

from visiting his daughter in Puy

allup. He sprained his ankle last

week dodging a cowbell, thinking

It was an electric runabout.

• • •

An Atlanta, Ga., shoe company

has made a shoe, size 50, which is

2t; inches long.

(We heard that Steve Murphy

had ordered a pair of shoes re

cently.)

• • •

NEWS NOTE

An apple tree owned by S. W.

Alexander of Los Angeles has

produced two crops within a year,

giving each time a different va

riety of apple. (Which reminds

us of a story we heard once about

a fish.)

• • •

Women have been blamed many

times for the high cost of lin

ing, but we have the goods on 'em

now. There's no denying the sex

of May Wheat.

• • •

The baseball game is in the

courts, but it would be a safe

wager to bet the lawyers won't

lose.

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THANK HEAVEN

There is talk of both Taft an«l

Roosevelt going through the Pa*

nama canal at the same time, at

tbe celebration. Well, it's a big

canal.

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SELAH 1

&• Gunner R. Carlson, who fell

four stories In an elevator at the

Olympus hotel yesterday, sustain

ing internal injuries and broken

legs, is Improving today at ths

county hospital.

I HALF YEAR OF WARI

AND WHAT IT COST

The great war reached the half-year |>oint today, January

28. Six month* ago today Austria open.*, its pus on Hervla.

For a half year the nation** of Enro|ie have torn at each other's

throatH, npending lives and money with recklessness unparal

leled in history.

HOW Mlt'll HAS THK FIX.ST HAIJ-' YKAR COST IN

I.IVKS AND IN MONKV?

No accurate figures on either are available. Hut the state

nieiii of Moyd-tJeorge that Great llrilain sia-mls 45,tMH1,000

*•( 9225,000,000) pounds sterling every month offers fair ground

for estiiiiMlcs.

And these estimates Klve the total rout ot the first six

months of the war as 97.200,000,000—0r fully as much as the

1014 record crop of the I'nited States In worth!

Remember these are military costs only. German esti

mates of Kuro|ie's Keneral loss because of the war—business

depression, ruined commerce and niicli—-give 910,000,000,000,

whereas military costs have been only a little more than one

t/iird of this.

It..nub estimate*, used in connection with averages estab

lished by precedent give 540,000 killed and 2,100,000 wounded

or victims of disease. This means a total of 2,700,000 battle

field victims since the war began.

Take a pencil and figure out this awful loss in flesh and

blood. First the table of money costs:

England 91,500,000,000

France I .iiiiii.imhi.iiiiii

1 .Cllllllllj 1,500,000,000

Austria 800,000,000

Russia 1 ,250,000,000

Servla IOO,000,lMH)

Jauan 2iiii.imio.iumi

ltelglum 050,000,000

Turkey 150,000,000

Montenegro '. 50,000,000

Total 97,200,000,000

Now to find the Milliliter of killcil anil wounded. To place

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PRESIDENT VETOES

IMMIGRATION BILL

WASHINGTON, D. C, Jan. 2S.

—President Wilson's veto of the

Dillingham immigration bill was

received by the house today. The

president rejected the measure,

which piissed both houses, be

cause of the provision for lltcr

acy tests for immigrants.

Mills Balks At "Led

Shows" and Corsets

Commissioner Mills doesn't

want "leg shows," pictures of

hosiery, corsets or lingerie,

flaunted In the faces of tbe Ta

coma public.

But he can't see how the pub

lic's esthetic taste will be in

jured by the display of gaudy ad

vertisements of shoes or liquor or

merchandise on the city garbage

cans.

Last week the council passed

an ordinance allowing J. Harvey

Jones of Tacoma to install 80 or

more garbage cans on the promi

nent streets, with the considera

tion that he be allowed to paste

BITTER COLD

IN THE EAST

CHICAGO, Jan. 28.—The en

tire middle west and central sec

tions of the country are today In

the grip of the worst cold wave

of the winter. Below zero weath

er Is registered .in a dozen state>i.

Two deaths are reported in Chi

cago. Suffering among the poor

is intense.

A Young Depositor

Said the Other Day

"No man ever saves money by

putting It off until tomorrow or

next week. Now is the time to

begin to save. lam now just get

ting Into a position to save a regu

lar sum every week, and I am

convinced that if anyone will take

the small sum that Is left over to

him, after paying his week's ex

penses, and put it away in a good

bank he certainly ran save money.

Furthermore, it will.grow."

Let us help you save your

money.

PUOET SOUND

STATE BAli*

llfS Pacific Aye.

The Tacoma Times

1 THE ONLY INDEPENDENT NEWBPAPEB IN TAOOMA. | HOM£

MONTH 1 VOL. XII. NO. 34. TACOMA. WASIi., THURSDAY, JANUARY 28. l«>1, r >, [ gDITIOW

The president's message, which

accompanied the bill, explained

that the measure would in effei't

close the "open door," which the

United States has always main

tained towards immigrants.

He objected to the use of the

literary test and ohcr restrictive

provisions of the bill.

advertisements on them. Mayor

Fawcett told the council today

that the people were kicking.

"Well, I don't see where ad

vertisements on garbage cans

will be any worse than on bill

boards," declared Mills. "But I

wouldn't want to see 'leg show*'

on the garbage cans or advertise

ments of corsets or hoisery or

underwear."

The council voted, however, to

hold up the ordinance until it

could learn the sentiments of t'»~

city regarding tho garbage cab '

advertiseing stunt. The 80 cans

would cost $200 if the city in

stalled them.

RANCHER SLAYS

LARGE COUGAR

Ole Bakee, a Buckley trapper,

brougut to the county auditor's

office this morning the skin of a

cougar which he had killed on the

White river and which measured

exactly eight feet from tip to tip.

He also claimed bounties on three

cougar kittens. His total in

bounties was $80. But one lar

ger cougar was ever killed in

Pierce county. This animal was

shot three years ago by Otto

Haines, and measured 8 feet 3

Inches.

I ns—-— I WHEN A MAN'S MARRIED I I I 1

the dead at 540,000 seems like nutlet-estimating after the

many reports of "2t)O,0OO killed" thai have reached the I'nited

stale*, after certain prolonged halt lex. Hut let pre. cdenl belie

■ these minon,.

To kill one soldier in war la recent times has cost $90,000

—an average ranging from the fIA.OOO in Hie Husso-Turkish

war of 1877-78 to the 921.000 of the Franco-Prussian war of

IHTO-TI. The Russo-Japanese war. ifividlng the total minimi

spent by the number of men killed, gives Alio, iimi as the cost of

killing each man.

Then to divide 117,200,000,000 by $20,000 gives UOO.OOO

dead as the answer. Hut daring the first three months of any

war, when deadly hand-to-hand righting In frequent, before

armies get firmly intreurhed and proteetiaa In greater, twice

as many are usually killed as later. Ho in this war. Tints, to

:tOO,OOO add one-half of the snm, and 540,000, or the total of

slain iii six months. Is ohtaiued.

About four times the auinher killed are wounded, die of

wounds or are victims of disease. Four times JV40.000 gives

It. 100,000 as the total of llie wounded in si\ mouths. Add to

this the .140,000 dead and it Is shown that 2,700,000 have been

incapacitated in half a year, makihu a record for slaughter

and carnage Without a precedent.

In 1854-50, the Crimean war, it took nearly two full years

to kill iKJyoiMi men.

In 1801-65, our civil war, four yearn were required to kill

1,000,000 men.

Hilling lA7O-71, the I iaiu»-l'i im-ian war, seven months

were needed to di«po<.e <>' 200,000 men.

The Husso-Tiirkii.il war of 1K77-7K meant IHO.OOO lives

lost in a little less than a year.

The Hpaaish-AmericHn war of 1008 went uo for eight

months, with only 2,010 killed.

The ltusso-.la|iaiiese war of IIMI4-5 cost 5A5.U00 lives In

close to two years.

HIT THIH IH 1915! CIVILIZATION HAN MAIM*:

HAPID Slltllils. \\K CAN NOW BIT! HFIt KM AT Till

HATK OF A MILLION A VKAH!

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STOP FIGHTING TO CARRY

AWAY DEAD AfiD WOUNDED

PARIS, J mi. j.'S.-The Herman?

losses in the fighting against the*

French tn the last three da' c to

tal at least 20,000, according to

the claim of the war office in

the official statement today.

It is officially announced that

the Hermans lost between 7.000

and 10,000 killed and wounded In

three days' fighting for the pis

Resslon of the heights near

Craonne.

LOWER PHONE RATES

Another victory for tiny people.

Yesterday the city fcouncil unanimously

pasted a franchise ordinance for the Pacific Tel

ephone & Telegraph eoinp.inv, (riving that con

cern a 25-year privilege in Tacoma, but demand

ing a big cut in photic rates to customers in Ta

coma.

As usual, The Times was the only Tacoma pa

per that stood by the people and fought for their

interests in this ease.

But this is only the first step in a fight for

lower telephone rates. Public sentiment must

now be exerted to prevent the public service

commission from playing .into the hands oT the

phone trust and abrogating this franchise.

The public service commission is not stronger

than the people, but it would like to be if the

people did not keep up a close scrutiny of its

actions..

The Times intends to continue its fight fol

lower rates.

It's a fight that every person in Tacoma is in

terested in—and sue that every individual

should take up in the inteivsts of his city.

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The hillsides near Craonne ur*

covered with bodies of dead and

wounded. There Is a lull In the

infantry fighting to permit am

bulances to recover the wounded.

WANTS COW MONEY

Codlicy Fox of Flett began

suit in superior court today lo

recover |12! i damages for a cow,

alleged to have been killed by a

T. H. & P. car last September.

SUED FOR $50,000

HEART BALM, AGED

SUITOR WOULD WED

101 ANOELKX, Cal., Jan. km.

—The professed love of A. O.

<'arilin*r, a wealthy music dealer

Ik re, for Miss Marguerite Coffey,

less limn one-third Ids age, was

recently put to the acid lest when

the girl Hued him for 950,000 un

der breach of |>rouilse proceedings.

Gardner, 07 years old, respond

ed by getting a nisri'luge license

anil declaring his willingness to

murry the 21 -year-old girl ut any

lime or place, assert lug that he

still loved her.

"It was only after I had

i*e--eatedly and rut I Idy urged

our early marriage," evplaln

inl I'arduer, "that I broke

our engagement. I felt that

her apparent, reluctance to

have the banns published

tokened that she really did

not love me.

"If Marguerite loves me,

am I still lio|M* she (lots. I am

not only willing but eager

to marry her."

The elderly suitor of youth ami

beauty asserted tint! while he hud

signed au agreement to marry

Marguerite Coffey, the girl ha.l

not consented to marry him. she

PARIS MAKES READY

FOR AERIAL ATTACK

PARIS, Jan. 28. —Increased Aviators equipped with armed

activity of Oerman airmen and aeroplanes will be stationed at the

rumors that the kaiser's advisers ° l utßk'rt,» ot the <«ty, ready to

, - - -• ■ - „ rise to attack the Invaders the

Plan a Zeppelin raid over Paris moment they , l)pMr ™ ™ ™

caused the war office to announce proposed to have heavily armcl

elaborate plans for the defense of dirigibles hover over the city an a

the city against aerial attack, support ot the small air craft.

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51.50 WHEAT

REALITY NOW

CHICAGO, Jan. 28.—Dollar

and a half wheat Is today a real

ity, May wheat opening at that

figure this morning, showing an

advance of a cent and five-eighths

over yesterday's closing mark.

July wheat made the same gain,

opening at $1.35. Other grains

are up. The May opening is the

highest since Letter's famous cor

ner.

A UST that bubble about the

I I nice skating party with your

U girl •Saturday afternoon. It

I I ain't to be. The little weather

\_J guy says rain tonight and Fri-

A.G. 6du*d*iev i

had pretended t<» sign the agree- ,

nieut, lie aliened, but had never p

revealed to hi in what she had

written. ,

"I spent mouey incessantly on i

her from the time she first came

to my store," he said. "I bought

her eh.Hies, promised her property '

and trips and a maid to do the

housework as soon as we should

be married.

"There Is with me no question

of age between us, for lone is the

elixir of lifts—the fountain of

youth."

THOUSANDS OF

FRENCH KILLED

BERLIN, x Jan. 28. — Frenen

losses have gone far into the

thousands during the last three

days' fighting on tbe Heights of

Craonne, it is claimed in an of

ficial statement today.

"We found 1,500 dead in the

French trenches which we occu

pied," said the statement. "t_

addition 1,100 were taken pris

oners."

mjh

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THROAT

HOI'HTON, Tex.. Ju. 28. ~

Word Snyder, age 42, said to he

the son of a millionaire Pittsburg

oil operator, »U»liod his wlf«'»

tlimat from ear to ear and then

swallowed bichloride of mercury

tablets here today. The woman

is dead. Hnyder is dying. Mrs.

Snyder was a former opera stag*

er and was noted for her heaaty.

Blood trickling under the door of

the woman's room waa the first

Intimation of the tragedy.

PROFESSOR

HELD FOR

KILLING

j MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., ia*. 28.

—.William Allen, professor of

WjlHnmij at the University of

Minnesota, was arrested today for

killing Carl Nyrall while the lot

' fer was atteni|ttlng to enter Al

len's home last night. The police

soy thai Nyrall was intoxicated

and did not know what he wai

doing. Allen prof eased no re*

gret, saying: "A man who at

tempts to enter another's home

may expert to he taken fee a bur

glar and he must take the ronse*

iiuences."

TO ii WAR?

BABEL, BwluerUnd. Jan. ti.

—Private advices from Vienna

state today that Emperor Prims

Josef has sent Baron Kajec., tlui

new Austrian foreign minister, to

Oermany to confer with the kais

er with a view to ending the wn..

No confirmation could be ob

tained.

Open Canal On

Fourth Of July

WASHINGTON, D. C, Jan. 2S.

—The formal opening of tbe Pa

nama canal will be probably post

poned until July 4. President

Wilson told congressional callers,

today that this date had been sug

gested as more satisfactory for

the exercise than March 6. Ha

Indicated that he approved ths

July 4 date.

TODAY'S «JLKAIUNUM.

Clearings $_; ti,,si»2.,*,rt

Balances 7 4.349.'. o

Transactloiih 811,166.18

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Today's Best Joke

"Jonesby had a doctor with

him all night.''

"Was he very sick?"

"He was toward the last, when

the doctor held all the good

hands."