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Somebody urges a universal post

age stamp for all the nations. The

idea attracts until one considers

whether the British lion, the Prus

sian eagle and the Russian bear

could be made to lie down together

on the same scrap of paper.

WOMAN THROWS ACID

MRS. FORD STILL DAIRMS FWEND HENRY'S SOCKS

FINDS

HIDDEN

JOKER

At least one moiv joker

will have to lie weeded out

of the T. 11. A P. power c<m

ti.ut and franchise ordinance

before the city should allow

It to go through, Mayor

Fawcett pointed out today.

Willie Manager Bean luts

backed down on prn<»i"ally

all the raw demands which

The 'limes pointed out in the

original proiMmed deal tliere

Is a clause here and tlirro

In the contract submitted

yesterday which .maths mis

pielously of the oi'i'^hiiil

grab-bag deal, a further

study of the measure kliowm.

One of these is a clause by

which the city, during the 14»

years of the agreement, would

guarantee to furnt-'i lighting

current to all power patrons of

the T. R. & P. Co. at a rate equal

to the special rate for patr in I of

city power, which Is th. lowest

rate In Tacoma.

Under this rate all factories

using more than $25 worth of

city current for city power, are

charged the power rate for light

current, provided th. current

used for lights shall not exceed

*>0 per cent of the amount of cur

rent used for power.

Would Be Discrinilnati-n.

"To give this rate to the pa

trons of T. R. & P. power would

be absolute discrimination against

our own patrons," said the mayor

today. "It would give Iho very

cheapest rate in the city 'o nil

T. R. A P. patrons, even tiiouyh

they do not use our power at all,

•nd would be tying the noose

our own necks. '

With the fight for the elimin

ation of this clause, tne mayor

proposes also to compol the m%

tension of the Pacific avenue c_r

line to 64th street as was orig

inally demanded.

Residents along th'» line ap

peared at the city hall this morn •

ing and pointed to tin fact that

the contract, while It glvr-s the

T. R. _ P. a franchise to 6Uh

street, compels the building of Ml

extension only to 46th street on

or before Dec. 1, 1916.

Also Wants B Per Cent.

They promise to be on hand In

full force to get the extension

they want when the contiaot

comes before the council for de

cision.

The mayor will also make a

fight to obtain a tax of . per cent

on the gross earnings of the T.

R. & P.'s poxver business, In

stead of the 2 per cent named In

the contract, and will back up

the effort of West End citizens

to get a Sixth avenue extension.

PUBLIC LECTURE

ON BIBLE TONIGHT

"The Bible and the Public

School," will be the subject of a

lecture to be given tonight by

Prof. C. S. Longacre at the Tem

ple of Music. The public 1b in

vited.

Sets Forth German

View Toward Peace

BERLIN, Dec. B.— (Wireless, Scheidemann, socialist leader,

via Sayvllle.)—"Fully conscious assailed those favoring annexation

of her unshaken military sue- »' "|« fl£___^__ <W __rt___!:

_ , , minding them that the kaiser

cesses, Germany declines to take himself declares that this is not

the responsibility for a coitlnu- a war of conquest,

ance of the misery now filling Following yon Hollweg's

Europe," Chancellor Hollw.g speech, all the parties united in

told the relchstag tod v. a formal declaration approving

He declared further that Got- his stand and declaring any peace

many Is ready to discuss peace terms offered by the allies must

only provided the enemy's pro- guarantee Germany's safety even

posal Is compatible with her dig- If annexation of territory Is nec

nlty. The crowded galleries essary.

loudly applauded. It was suggested, however, that

He denied that Germi iy a cue- annexation of territory was not

mies have made formal peace what Germany was seeking.

suggestions. He reviewed the _________

recent utterances abroad in re

gard to peace and declared that BANK CLEARINGS.

the enemies' pretence of fighting

to protect the small countries haa Clearings $310,147.07

lost its persuasive po ver since Balances 88,838 88

recent events in Greece. Transactions 808,89..58

Which Is Fly-By-Night?

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POOR LOUIS HAS PAVING BETWEEN HIS WHEELS AGAIN

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Who Are Free-Booters?

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Poor Louis! He has paving between his wheels again.

He runs an ad in his subsidized papers under the heading, "To Tax

'Fly by Nights'."

He quotes, incorrectly but in the main fairly, a news article in The

Times of Dec. 4, in which we narrated how the city council proposes to tax

auctioneers and other salesmen who flood the town with cheap merchan

dise and compete unfairly against our home merchants.

And then, adds Louis Bean:

"The situation so aptly expressed by that paper (The Times) does

but substantiate and indorse the position taken by this company in its

stand against the jitney bus, a factor in the transportation field analo

gous to that of the freebooter in the mercantile business."

Louis Bean, the Boston-appointed servant of the Boston owned T. R.

&P. Co., calling Tacoma-owned and Tacoma-operated automobiles "fly

by-nights"!

Louis Bean (the Stone & Webster manager whose work was so raw

that a state supreme court took away his power franchise and who only in

the last few weeks tried to stuff down a subservient council's throat a

looting power deal, calling state-licensed, city-licensed and indemnity

bonded jitney men "freebooters!"

BRICKS IN THE GARRET!

SEATTLE

COUNCIL

IS BALKY

SEATTLE, Dec. 9.—Although I

the public safety committee of]

the Seattle city council turned!

down the request of Mayor Faw-1

cett and the Tacoma council for;

a joint conference to discuss a;

new name for the mountain, there:

Is still good promise that this city j

may meet Tacoma half way.

By a vote of three to two yes

terday the committee ordered the

request filed.

Councilman Dale urged that

courtesy at least demanded that

the city council should meet Ta-;

coma half way, and Councilman'

Hesketh moved that a representa

tive be appointed to go to \

Tacoma.

The three councllmen who vot-:

ed down the motion said that

"Rainier" was "good enough for

them."

VOTE TO CHANGE

NAME OF MOUNT

Tho Spanish war veteram j

Tuesday night adopted resolutions

favoring changing the mountain's

name and censuring the city com

missioners for not increasing the

efficiency of the health depart

ment. M. D. Redburn was elect

ed commander of John R. Thomp

son camp.

The Tacoina Times

1 THE ONLY INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER IN TACOMA. PhOME

MONTH 1 VOL. Xll. NO. :.()_. L'ACOMA. VVA^-^THUttSDAY, DKC-AIBI.K <), 1915. | EDITION

'CRAZY HENRY'S' WIFE

SOME PARTY!

By D'Loss Sutherland

For Sweet Charity's sake,

1000 pairs of feet shlned the

surface of the Commercial club

ball room last night. Everybody

in town, from Romeo Hagen to

John S. Baker was there, arid

everybody gave cheerfully that

Tacoma's hungry woura not go

unfed this Christmas.

From the time Heqry Rhodes

got stung two bucks for four

pieces of Rhoda Vaeth's fudge

to the supreme moment when

Prof, loan and Miss Winifred

Howell did a Vernon Castle down

the waxed quarteraawed, thiugs

buzzed.

Gay young girls-of to did fun

ny dances -with boys who re

membered the Civil war.

I

MRS. HENRY FORD

A 820,000,000 gallery fringed

the dance floor.

Dorothy Kershaw was there

smiling and happy as usual.

Everything was ch.rl—ble until

John Stevens flashed the fur

topped boots and Col. Juab'*

fourth collar began to lose hopeJ

Mr. and Mrs. Louis Mean and

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hxde stootp

the heat as well as the rest. ■

Sen. Paulhamus'. Frugu was

the only thing which did not move

during the whole evening. it

passed the evening in a quiet,

secluded corner while the P. O.

band wheezed Its way through

Ben Bolt, and the committee,

headed by Mrs. A. G. Prlch&rd

and Mrs. John McFaddon, esti

mated the bouse. It was some

party.

BELIEVES

IN PEACE

MISSION

DKTHOIT, Mich., her. o.—This

Is a step ■bom Mr*. Henry Ford.

I'ntll ii Tew days ago jou prob

ably never heard of her.

"Who in wlie'.'" asked a nation.

Tliln In tin- Answer:

She's the woman who Is

responsible for the 910.000,.

000 a year increase In wage

to the Ford employe* nearly

two years ago.

Slie'g Hi,- woniaii who

alone encouraged anil had

faith In her husband when,

IK years ago, people laugh

ed Ml him and called him

•Treaty Henry" because be

refused to give up his great

automobile Idea.

She's the woman who as

snnied all tin- expense Inci

dent to Mother's day In the

1 iiii.-.l Htnles, Friday, Nov.

_Mi, when thousands of tele

gram, were sent to women's

organizations asking them to

pray for |>eac<. and later ask

tin- president's aid In a move

ment for Kuropean peace.

She's the woman who, her

husband says, is re-|stnsible

for the success of the Ford

Idea.

HJi^'s tlie woman who even

in'if may be seen through

the window of the $1,000,

--04 MI Ford mansion darning

the socks of her husband

and son.

And she's a successful

mother.

"I am a mother, and if I were

t European mother I'd rather give

' up my own life than send my eon

I Into battle to seek the life of an-

I other mother's boy," declared

Mrs. Ford as she left Detroit for

New York to sail on the peace ship

Oscar 11.

"Participation in this move

i ment 1 consider a god-given

, duty," she said very quietly, "and

il believe it is an immediate duty,

: for the nearest day that peace can

be obtained is the time for peace

! "I'ntil I talked with Mme.

Schwiniuier I did not realize what

tills war has meant to the women

of Europe and means this very

minute while we are talking of it.

If every man and woman in this

country appreciated the horror of

j this war to the mothers as that

! horror was pictured to me, there

i would be one united demand for

L quick action in this country."

In face of the world's laughs,

i sarcastic comment and skepticism,

f she confidently believes that

; Henry Ford will accomplish what

: be has set out to do —end the

'. European war.

How did Mrs. Ford bring about

I the f. minimum day in the Ford

' y factories? 8

Ford had been wondering for

I several days what lie could do to

j better industrial conditions in his

| great automobile plants.

"Do you remember. when

yon worked by the day?"

asked his wife aa she glanced

up' from a book.

"Hone I'll never forget It,"

he reviled.

"Well," whispered Mrs.

Ford with m smile, "what did

yotl look forward to?"

/'A raise In pay,' be an

i . swered.

I , Au. few days later the an- ■

: notiitneiiii>iit was made that

' thereafter the lowest wage

paid by the .Ford company

wi>uld be 39 a day. The pres

ent extensive Ford sociologl

' cal system followed.

Ediel Ford, the son, is of the

same quiet, unassuming type as

bis mother. He is a thinker and

has • already perfected several

< min^r inventions. '

Rp is now secretary and treas

ure&of the company, having suc

ceeded to that position through

1 the Tecent resignation of James

Coutens, the vice president, who

quit because he did not agree- with

- Ford's peace views and statements

1 of them-

HaiseJden May

Lose License

SPRINGFIELD, 111., Dec. ».—

Secretary Drake of the state board

of health announced today that

Dr. Halselden will be cited to ap

pear before the board to show

why hie license should not be re

voked because or his action In the

Bollinger baby case.

The Tragedy of Serbia

Here is a heart-gripping picture from that most desolate land In

the world today—erliia. Here is one of the victims of Europe's

greatest tragedy—the destruction of a nation. One of the 10,000

Serbian children who are living like* animate in the woods of the

mountains, he has tramped about his 'war-scared country until one

shoo has been worn completely off and the other hangs in tatters —

with a cape of goat skin around his neck and his cap tied on wiih

itrings of cloth over his cam.

PLAN TO CONSERVE

LIFE AND PROPERTY

Reductions in the loss of lif.

and property through tne Q irelul

co-operation of various <lu'.- and

business establishments la the

fundamental principal bohlnd

the organization of Tacoma Coun

cil, No. 23 of the National Safety

council perfected yesterday at

the Commercial club.

According to temporary plans

formulated yesterday, the new

council will Join with the Au

tomobile club, tne- commercial

club and the Transport it ion club

to work for the prevention of the

loss of life; the reduction of In

juries; to assist in aiding to en

force traffic laws and to help

reduce fire losses.

Another Meeting Dec. 111.

N. A, Leuenberger, William

Schlarb, Jr., and E. A. White

were appointed a committee to

draft by-laws and submit them

at the next meeting to be held

Dec 16.

The followfng officers were

elected:

Capt. Hartwell W. Palmor,

president; N. A. Leuenberger,

vice president; H. G. V'lnsor,

secretary-treasurer.

The following representatives

of Tacoma Industries were pres

ent:

Major E. G. Griggs, Capt. Hart

well W. Palmer, W. W. Lathrop.

St. Paul 4k Tacoma Lumber C. ;

WEATHER

Tacoma: Fair tonight and Fri

day.

Washington: Same, cooler east

portion tonight.

George 8. Long, B. W. Sawyer,

T. M. Foley and E. J. And.rs-n,

Weyerhauser Timber Co., Em

ployers' Assn. of Washington,

Griffin Wheel Co.; N. A. Leuen

berger, Wm. Dayton, TRcoma Gaa

Co.; William Schlarb, Jr., Operrv

Flour Co.; E. A. White, Tacoma

Smelting Co.; Dr. James R. Yo

com, Industrial Surgeons' Assn.;

Harry L. Pelletler, H. O. Wlnscr,

Tacoma Railway A Power Co.

I - Talk o y the Times ■

Some of those Itay Nur

sery girls weren't very cl ar

ltable to certain finite Illy

wobbly young men friend.-, of

ours at that Charity hall.

New Yorkers are puttlug up

sound-proof flats so that a fel

low can whang his piano, wife or

baby without disturbing his fol

low tenants.

"Never handle chickens

roughly," proclaimed the V.

8. department of .igrlral

tui-.whirh shows that the

U. H. department of agri

culture sever tried to catch I

• pullet.

FASH TKUa*.

VICTIM

LOSES

SIGHT

HOLT VI 1,1,K, Hal., Dec.

O.—Authorities are looking

for thi! mysterious woman

who rode on horseback last

night to the In of Thomas

Pciii.s, m local druggist, and

hurled a phial of nitric acid

in his face as lie slept.

P..tu' eyesight la totally

destroyed ami his shoulders

iukl arms are badly burned.

He could think of no ene

mies or no reason for such

an attack.

| FLASHES|

BUDAPEST — Russian plans

have been completed lor an In

vasion of the Balkans, accordi"?

to dispatches received lodvy from

Bucharest.

CONSTANTINOPLE - An

nouncement was made today from

the Turkish war office that fur

ther Hiicenssi.i had been mauo

against the British nea.r Mu._l

and Aden.

WABHINOTON—EIsIsIo Arl

endondo has been named Mi -ii in

ambassador to the United _Ua _».

AN DIEQO —The message re

ceived today from Capt. Qarllck

of the ldsabled Minnesota, i.at

the trouble aboard was purely

mechanical and not the result if

bomb plotters, is viewed with

skepticism by local seamen.

SAN FRANCISCO—Friends of

Capt. Jebson, former shipowner

of this city, doubt the recent ru

mor that he was killed In a Ger

man submarine which was sunk

by a British patrol boat.

SEATTLE —James Moran, al

leged bandit, was shot early ihii

morning after an attempted

holdup of 11. Ilalversin night

watchman, and lies at the point

of death at a local hospital.

With a bullet hole through his

liver, Moran carried on a running

duel with officers for two blocks

before lie collapsed.

1 What's Doing

Today

Lecture on "The Bible ar.d

the Public School," Prof, a C.

Longacre; Temple of Music; 8

p. m.

Margaret Illlngton in "TU_

Lie," Tacoma theater; S:l6 p. m.

Benefit ball; Tacoma musi

cians; Eagles' hall; 8:30 p.m.

Annual wild game dinner ok

Pierce County Game Protective

and Propagation society; Lotus

grill; 8 p. m.

Tomorrow

Margaret Illlngton in 'The

Lie," Tacoma theater,B: 15.,

"Buy-at-home" exposition; Ar

cade building.

"Sylvia," high school operetta,

tadium sti dents in high schocl

auditorium.

---------------as

About tomorrow we expect t

hear the subservient eounctlme

saying that the new T. R. 3 I

franchise was Just what the

meant to vote for all the tIRM

anyway, etc.

A man was shot to Ism

Angeles for holding five a as

In * poker gam*, Blare

when hat California abet,

islied hrjnglng for d-pital «**•

Ford takes on his pea. c t,

60 newspaper writers. Ought t

be enough to writ* up til th<

peace they'll find la Europe, «_H

a few kind words shoot satonrt

biles In addition.