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Aeronauts aver that the barking

of a dog can be heard at an eleva

tion of four miles.

9 TYPHOID CASES AT STADIUM

TUCK IT AWAY

When a |ietltion for the

abolition of civil service in

the city government I'omw

before the council tomorrow,

we suggest that It be filed

«mi ifuif a lily away along with

other relica of misspent zeal

and petty political thimble

rigging.

It hasn't a single redeem-

lug feature.

It has been circulated with

ruii-iilei.il j« energy for two

weeks by certain Individual*

aisappointed over a failure

to attach themselves to the

municipal payroll.

As a result, IH7 signatures

appear as Its sponsor*.

A study of the nuines does

not Indicate that It is back

ed by |iersons in whom the

GERMANY

KEEPS ON

DODGING

WASHINGTON, D. C, Jan. 25.

—Reports that the latest German

Lusltanla note meets all of Amer

ica's demands arc based on "pure

supposition, unjustified by facts,"

it was announced from the White

House today.

The note was presented to.the

cabinet today. President Wilson

will confer with Secretary Lan

sing tomorrow, ln the hope of

clearing up the case before start

ing on liits preparedness cam

paign.

It Is reported that Germany did

not mention the matter of giv

ing warnings ln the future to

liners before they are attacked by

submarines, and that the note

contains a modified refusal to

concede the wrong-doing of the

submarine which sank the Lusi

tanla.

FLASHES

PARlß—French troops were

successful last night ln several

engagements near Nieuport, Bel

glum, after the Germans had

reached their first line trenches

at several points.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark.—Blood

hounds are pursuing 20 prisoners

who escaped today from Pulaski

county prison farm.

LYONS—King Nicholas, of

Montenegro, accompanied by his

chief of staff, arrived today from

Italy where he was accorded an

ovation.

LONDON — Scotch hose will

cost considerable more this year

because of the Increase In the

price of wool and the scarcity of

dyes.

OLYMPIA — Interest in the

case against .1. F. Gillies arose to

a higher pitch today, following

Governor Lister's tetslmony ln

which he traced the history of

some of the fraudulent claims.

PARIS—The city of Nancy was

again bombarded yesterday by

long range German guns and a

number of bombs were dropped

from German aeroplanes.

Woman'c

Work

The housewife finds

sytitem just as helpful

in her husiuess as her

husband does in his.

<»As soon as she begins

to bank her funds and

pay by check she no

tices the convenience,

the safety and the

feeling of efficiency.

We take good care of

women's accounts be

cause we want them.

Puget Sound

State Bank

111 l Pacific Avenue

The Tacoma Times

community hag any reason to

entrust leadership.

For i be most part the sign

ers are men who failed to

pa*, civil service examina

tions or who, at least, s*ee in

the civil service system a

barier to their attaining pub

lic appointment*.

Our civil service system is

far from faultless; but that

is no reason for abolishing It.

If we are t«> start in to abol

ish all the institutions that

are imperfect, we stagger to

think what a loneeome craft

thf good ship Earth would

be.

Instead, one of the early

duties of our council should

be to strengthen and extend

our civil service.

EXPEDITE

HEARING

OF RATE

• By Gilson Gardner

WASHINGTON, I). Oh Jan.

ii.l.—The influence of Jud

son C. Clements, a veteran

and much-res|iected member

of the interstate commerce

commission, will be used to

its utmost to secure an early

hearing on the application

of the public service commis

sion of the state of Washing

ton, which seeks to correct

the unfair discrimination in

passenger railroad rales ,

against Tacoma and other

points In the Northwest.

Part of the flies in the case is

a letter from C. A. Reynolds,

chairman of the public service

commission, of Wellington, to

Judge Clements, asking that the

case be expedited, so that the

Northwest, may have the benefit

%f any rate corecllon which may j

be made during next summer's

tourist season.

Will Hxpedlte Caae.

Judge Clements has said he

will do what he can, and the feel-!

ing about the Interstate com-!

merce commission is that the case

will be expedited.

According to the regular prac

tice of the commission, the re

spondent railroads would have

until February 7 to file their re

ply, which Is still unfiled.

This might bring the hearing

In March, unless it were put it

the end of a long calendar, and

the decision might be expected by

April or May, ln time for the

spring and summer tourist sea

son.

Make Rate Complaint.

The petition sets forth that the

railroads have made a rate from

Chicago through the Southern

and Central routes, New Orleans,

etc., to San Francisco and return,

which is $21.7 5 less In the regu

lar season than the route through j

Tacoma and Seattle, via St. Paul,

back to Chicago, and which is I

$17.50 less than the summer rate j

by the same routes, though the

Journey by the Northern lines Is

aproxlmately 253 miles shorter

than the distance to San Fran

cisco by tbe Southern line.

The petition sets forth,

also, that there are many

places of Interest to tourists

along the Northern line, par

ticularly in the state of

Washington, where large

sums of money have been ex

pended by the state in the

construction of highways

and the improvement of state

reserves to make points of

interest accessible to tour

ists.

[What's Doing)

Today

Address by Dr. John Grler

Hibben, president of Princeton,

on "Preparedness;" University

club; to club members and

friends only.

Lecture by Prof. Rdmond S.

Meany on "The Race to Possess

the Northwest;" Y. W. C. A.;

evening.

First meeting and rehearsal of

persona who take place in Pales

tine Pageants at Glide rink; First

Baptist church; evening.

Tomorrow

Free public demonstration of

transcontinental telephone serv

ice between Tacoma and New

York; Tacoma theater; 7:1)0,

8:80 and »:»•.

25c a

Month

VOL. XIII. NO. 3t TACOMA, WASH., TUESDAY, JANUARt 25, 1.M.1.

When They Fall Back Dead!

BY ROBERT MINOR

Famous Cartoonist and Correspondent.

I don't want the editor of The Times to give

the impression that I actually saw this scene.

There are enough correspondents claiming to

have seen what they have merely heard de

scribed by soldiers.

CORRESPONDENTS DON'T SEE SUCH

THINGS. The authorities take pains to have

them come to the trenches only when there is

no chance of such activity.

The above picture of the inception of a bay- .

onet charge was drawn from a description by

a lieutenant of the French army.

"You fellows have a wrong idea of a bay

onet charge," he told me. "There is none of

the heroic in it that you print in the papers.

None of that wild exultation —just a sick feel

ing takes its place.

"You don't understand that, because you

imagine the surroundings to be so different

from what they are. We just stamp around in

the mud and cold for a long time, and then we

throw bombs, maybe, or dodge bombs. The

- order comes to the officers to get the men out

to charge.

Public Is Going to Win This Fight

We're going to win this

fight.

Tacoma and her sister cit

ies ln the northwest are go

ing to win back that IM) per

cent of western tourist travel

of which they have lieen

i-ohbed by the unfair rates

which Hie southern lines have

hoou allowed to exact.

While public opinion, in the

shape of red-blooded business men

and commercial organizations,

baa been awakened to Its full

force to get fair treatment for

the northwest, the fight is being

carried today to tho door of the

national capital at Washington.

Ollboii Gardner reports that

Judson C. Clements, member ot

the Interstate commerce commis

sion, Is using his influence to

get an early hearing of the north

west's complaint before the sum

mer tourist travel begins.

At tlie same time conies tho

news that Senator Mils*

Polndexter will introduce a

bill to congress to have tho

interstate commerce commis

sion put back Into efficient

working order where It be

longs.

The public service commission

ln Its fight for Just rates, found

Itself up against a rscoat ruling

THE ONLY INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER IN TAOOMA.

of tho U. S. supreme court lim

iting and crippling tho powers of

the Interstate commission. .

According to Chairman Charles

A. Reynolds, wh-. was ln Tacoma

yesterday, the word "advantage"

ln the Interstate commerce law,

hag been so construed! and mis

construed and jumbled that it

doesn't mean anything much.

Senator Polndextor Intends to

see to it that the law Is made to

mean something and that tho way

Is paved for putting the kibosh

on the "advantage" which the

Southern Pacific and Its allied

lines have been exerting against

Tacoma.

They're*putUng the batteries In

to position at Washington.

And public opinion, in a

smashing attack, it going to do

the rest. *, -

A public mass meeting is being

held ln Seattle today. * Another

one will probably be held ln Ta

coma In a few days. The Taco

ma Commercial club and other or.

ganlaatlona of the kind, together

with the shipping men. hotel man

and business houses, are Inter

vening ln the public service com

mlssion's complaint.

The Interstate commeroe com

mission will have no oauos for

saying "the public la not com-

"The difficulty of starting is complicated

by our own barbed wire entanglements. They

are built to keep the enemy out, but they also

keep us in, and we can only get through by

way of narrow alleys that we leave for the

mirpose. Opposite each such alley is a cut in

oW trench, made to get out by.

A"\Vhen the word comes, we stand at these

places and call to the men to come. It's a dis

agreeable Ihing to have to call the first ones;

tb« i first two or three are always doomed.

."The nearest man to the little step is call-edc

'Come, old man, you've got to do it.'

"lie turns pale and comes. We catch him

behind and shove hint up till he's out. Then

he falls back on us dead.

"I HAVE HAD THREE FALL BACK IN

$0 MY ARMS DEAD. We shove more and

more up, until some get out alive. They can

only get out one at a time, so they have to come

quick. Those that get by the first few metres

alive, crouch and run like rabbits to the only

place where there is a chance of life —the Over

man trenches. Then they have to get the Ger

mans out, or be killed.

"THEY KNOW THAT IF THEY CAME

BACK WE WOULD SHOOT THEM."

plaining." nierce commission will be

"Concerted public opinion Is compelled to heed the pro

the hlg factor which is going to test.

win thlß fight," said (Chairman ..*•**,„, j|i 7 . Bo ,„»f eM)nU ai

Reynolds yesterday. "And were .... ....... „ .„

going to win it. The law under wh,oh U,e Houthorn I'aclflc

wbteh I hold office directs me as has been using to divert

a public officer to see that jus- from the northwest the t»ur

tice le done. That is the reason Ist travel to which it is

I have filed the complaint. rightfully entitled will be

"The public Is complain- knocked out by public opin

ing and the interstate com- Ion."

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Business Better For

"County Barkeeper"

That liquor permits will be is

sued at the rate of 100 or more

a day within tho next two weeks

from the county auditor's office,

is the opinion expressed today by

Deputy Auditor Doten. During

tho last three days 114 were is

sued, bringing tho total for the

first 29 days of prohibition to 327

permits,

"County Barkeep" Doten bases

his belief on the stimulus In the

county liquor business to the

toot that th« stored-up stocks are

Home

Edition

getting low. Several persons have

Intimated that their slowness in

taking out permits was due to a

fear Of newspaper publicity.

FRENCH AIRMKN BUSY

SALONIKA, Jan. 25.—Sixteen

French aeroplanes bombarded

Ghevegeli today, killing aad

wounding more than 100 persons

and dolug heavy damage to tbe

Bulgarian camps.

WEATHER

Tacoma: Rain or snow tonight

and Wednesday.

Washington: Same.

Health Officer Wall

Blames Cafeteria As

Source of Disease—

Assistant Principal

Among the Stricken

A scare of typhoid

fever at Si: m HlKh

school, which already has re

sulted In nine severe cases,

including that of Assistant

Principal __, K. Perkins, Is

being Investigated this week

by Health Officer Wall and

Ills deputies.

That the disease has been

spread iii the restaurant of

the school has lieen deter

mined almost definitely, he

says.

He has oidered a string*!

examination of the restau

rant and all peisim*. con

nected with 11. It is possible

that everyone employed In

the school cafaterla will be

subjected to a typlniid ami

toxin.

Assistant Principal Perkins be

came 111 a month ago, and was

removed to Tacoma (ieneral hos

pital a few days later. Shortly

afterwards two pupils, a hoy and

girl who had been attending

dances) together, became serious

ly 111 with typhoid and were also

taken to hospitals.

Health officers made an Inves

tigation of the three cases and

were perplexed over the origin of

the disease. Water sum pies were

taken In all parts of the city, but

no trace of the typhus germ was

found.

Trace Trouble to Cafeteria.

Within a few days other stu

dents of the Stadium High became

111 with typhoid. For six days

there was a new case reported

daily. With nine cases of the

same disease, all from persons at

tending tile same school, Health

Officer Wall's suspicions were

aroused and he ordered a general

investigation.

Water from every faucet in

tiie Bchool was tested, with nega

tive resultß. Then the health de

partment discovered that every

person afflicted with the disease

had been patronizing the school's

cafaterla*

Working like a corps of detec

tives. Dr. Wall's officers probed

the restaurant system at the

school.

One a "Carrier."

It was found that 20 persons

were employed serving food dur

ing the noon hour. Of this num

lier eight were employed by the

cafeteria and the remainder were

students. Half of the 20- had

been ill with typhoid at some time

or other in their lives.

Any person who has had ty

phoid may continue to act as a

carrier of typhus bacclli Indefi

nitely after he has apparently

been cured ot the disease, accord

ing to Dr. Wall, and it is the be

lief of the health department that

one of the employes of the Sta

dium High school cafeteria is act

ing as a "typhoid carrier."

None for Two Days.

As proof of this theory, Dr.

Wall cites the case of "Typhoid

Mary" of New York, who spread

the disease to hundreds of per

sons unconsciously, while she was

not herself ill with disease.

Basing his work on this theory,

Dr. Wall has given a temporary

order demanding utmost care and,

cleanliness among the 20 em

ployes of the school cafaterla.

Unless the individual who is

caring the disease Is discovered,

|T?Talk o' the Times« I

Greetings, hays you no

ticed what shabby spots were

left by the IUII-stre«t news

stands when they moved

lost w-sek? Maybe the own

ers of the buildings will

clean up. Let us watch and

Headline ln last night's edi

tion of Tacoma paper: "Wilson

will not run, says Washington

rumor." Aside from the fact that

he IS running, we see no reason

for doubting the rumor.

Speaking of the Coren

disaster, the Seattle P.-I.

•ays editorially that it "re

calls how few snch accidents

have been In the railroad his

tory Of the I'nlt-sd Htates

within the last few years."

Did it recall anything like

that to yon?

a Keiier.il order wilt he Issued de

manding that all be subjected to

an antitoxin. No new cases of

typhoid have lieen reported la

the last two days.

Principal's Version.

"I believe that the theory of

the Tacoma health department Is

a rather remote one," aald Prin

•'lpal il. F. Hunt of Stadium high

today.

"The department seems to be

lieve that someone connected with

the cafaterla might possibly bo

what In known ns a long time car

rier' of the 1 v 111,c1111 germs. It

seems to nic that If such were tho

case the disease would have shown

itsclt sooner. Although some of

the persons connected with tha

food department have had

typhoid, the most recent case l»

more Ihun two yearn ago.

"It neeniH to lie merely'l<fc re

mote possibility. I do not be

lieve that the Uphold cases can bo

attributed to the cjtfatlria any

more than they can to any private

home." j

CONSCRIPTION

IS NOW CERTAIN

LONDON, Jan. 25.—There If

little doubt that the military

service hill will successfully past

the house of lords and become a

law within a few days. It passed

the third reading in commons

yesterday.

What Is This ?

\ \t /

NO. 1

Read the answer in

The Times

Saturday and

Give Yourself

a Surprise!

More beautiful snaw!

We're fast losing all pa

tience with that man Cover.

RECENT FICTION

"We really don't need heat la

the street cars any more, any

how."

'"This new Commercial club

scheme never can succeed not

in Tacoma.''

"if the Southern Pacific cag

wring an extra 120 Air every

tourist that wanu to s*s tIH

Northwest, as welt aa Callfornfab

It ought to be permitted to *#

It."

If your nscfc hilt i

ready boWs !»«■*■, w_6_r*

yon to walk Oornm 9*a ilnW

frasn m. Halo— aye, to fat n - a

eiflc. * *