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WHEELER WILLGO SUNDAY TOHEAR DR. SHAW

By Edgar C. Wheeler"Well, here I am, folks,

still alive and kicking witha wbole skin at the end ofthe week, and with churchstaring me In the face againtomorrow!However, It goln£ to church

holds out the promise of moreweeks as full of enlightenment asthis last one I won't ever kick atgoing again.

It has been a great week.I learned one thing: If anyone

Is afraid the people of Tacomahave lost Interest In their religionhe has another guess coining.

Just let somebody light thetorch and I predict you'll have aconflagration.

Just let a pastor unite the dis-coveries of science with the bigreligious and moral truths thatwe ordinary folks would pin ourfaltb In and It looks to me as ifhe would never have to worry•bout the empty seats.

I have been consigned todarkneas by more than onereally res|>cet«blc member ofthe First Baptist rhiirrb, hutIf I've been traveling tbecrowded road to destruction,It has Ikiii rather pleasantjogging along.I hope you didn't miss the In-

teresting •come-back" of the Key.

James West, especially where he

quoted a piece of scripture to theeffect that "by the disobedienceof one man sin entered the worldand death by sin and so deathpassed upon all men."

You'll have to hand it to Rev.West. He's a game Bport. Whena little out-and-out reporting hithim in the theological midribs, hedidn't keep the white flag uplong. He was for sticking it outto the finish. And he knew ex-actly where in the Good Book torun for ammunition.

Every man to his taste, say I.If he wants, to load himself downwith a batch of sin right at thestarting line, let hlni go to it,and the devil take the hindmost.

Tomorrow morning I'm goingto journey over to the east sideto hear the rod-blooded Rev. Shawat the East Congregationalchurch.

I say red-blooded, becausetbe Rev. Shaw lias felt of hismiiHcle In my preneiice andhas told me how red-blood-hc Is. That was laxt springwhen lie was thinking ofrunning for city commis-sioner.

He lias also descill>ed tome all the things he woulddo if he bnd a million dollars.

I am interested in Rev.Shaw. I feel sure that I willbe Interested in his congrega-tion.

TACOMA FOODBOARD BEGINS

H.C.L. ATTACKThe People of Tacoma,

vs.Mr. High <_-st of Living.

SIMMONS, to all Tacomafood dealers.

You and each of you arehereby summoned to appearbefore Mayor Fawcett's foodcommission and give yourreasons. If any, why youshould not be publicly expos-ed for Increasing tho price offoods In this city to a pro-hibitive figure.

Punishment for failure toappear will be inflicted bythe bailiff of this court, Mr.Public Opinion.

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Armed with the power to In-vestigate the increasing cost of allfood products in Tacoma, Tae-nia's food commission met inMayor Fawcett's office at 4o'clock Friday afternoon and laidout plans for a vigorous campaign.

i Food dealers will be summonedbefore the board, to explain whythe prices of flour and sugar andbread and potatoes and all otherfood commodities have been ad-vanced so unusually during thepast few months.

It the dealers do not wish toappear, they cannot be forced to.

They Will Come."But they will appear, all

right,'' Dr. E. A. Rich, healthcommissioner and chairman of thefood commission, told the mem-bers. "Because we have thegreatest weapon in the world.Public opinion will force them toappear before us, whether theywant to or not."

The food commission is enthus-iastic over Its outlined work.

The first meeting was devotetlto a general discussion of waysand means of accomplishing a re-duction in food prices.

Tho second meeting will be held(Continued on Page Eight.)

This Is the Day!Today is Non-partisan day.In Tacoma and throughout

the state believers in politicalfreedom from party machinesare making a big, concertedeffort to obtain signaturesfor the Nonpartisan andHome Rule hills.

Reports from Tacoma andfrom headquarters in SeattleIndicate that fully enough

StrongProtection

Our large burglar-proof vault, with itsmassive doors, itsheavy walls of steel,protected with mod-ern locks, afford thegreatest possible pro-tection for your valu-ables.

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names will be attached to thepetitions to put the two billsup to the next legislature.

Oliver T. Erirkson, whodrew up tbe nonpartisan bill,declares that returns are bet-ter right now tliun at the cor-responding stage of the whirl-wind referendum campulgntwo years ago, when a decis-ive protest went to Olymplain time to halt vicious legisla-tion.

But although things lookencouraging, men and wom-en who have some momentsto spare today have beenurged to get busy gatheringin new names.

What Is wanted ts notmerely the number of namesnecessary to comitel legisla-tive action, but enough to rollup such a tremendous show,lng of the people's desire fornonpartlsanship that the leg-islature will see the hand-writing and be quick to passthe bills.

80 far, about .1,000 nameshave been o \u25a0(allied in Taco-ma. The «i I) thing neededIs more hustlers to get outand give every voter a chanceto sign.

The petitions have metwith unusual amount of fa-vor wherever they have gone.

Sign initiatives 27 and 28today.

TODAY'B CLEARINGSClearings S 464,705.77Balances 117,554.27Transactions 1,670,088.06

\<<-.»|ili|,rr Enterprise AaaoclatloLONDON, Dec. 2.—Kather-

ine Mary Davies is beraldedthroughout England today asthe greatest heroine ln theEuropean war!

France is proud of Eme-inne Morcau, Belgium ofEdith t'avell, Austria-Hun-gary of "Sister Stephanie,"

Russia of Zoya Smirnov,women who, they say, dis-tinguished themselves morethan any man in the inter-est of their countries.

But the heroine whosename will go down In Eu-ropean history as the nameof Molly Pitcher is recordedin American history is MaryDavies,- who risked her lifenot on the battlefield, but inthe little Ris-Orangeis hos-pital in France.

Miss Davies has won herplace in history by saving life,not destroying It. Two actsstand out ln her life.

She perfected a system ofsterilizing the dirt-stained,germ-filled soldiers' uni-forms to prevent Infectionof wounds. This has savedthousands of lives.

Then she risked her lifeto test a newly-inventedantidote for the deadly gan-grene poisoning that resultedfrom Germun gas bombs.

Edith Cavell was martyred.

Who Is Greatest War Heroine?England Names Hospital Nurse

Two heroines of the world war! Miss Davies, a Welsh Igirl, called a heroine as great in Euro|iean history as Molly IPitcher of American history—Molly Pitcher who manned a gun IIat which her husband was shot In the war of '7(1 and fought Ioff the British. II

shot by tho Germans on a .charge of being a spy.

Emelenne Moreau, 17-year-old "heroine of Loos," killedfive Germans single-handed.

Zoya Smlrnov of Russiaserved in the trenches.

"Sister Stephanie," Count-ess Stephanie Lonyay, spenta fortune for war widowsand orphans.

And Molly Pitcher of revo-lutionary war fame, manneda gun, Rt which her husbandhad been shot, to keep offthe British.

But no heroine, until MissDavies came along, did any-thing directly to SAVE thelives of the soldiers at thefront. Sterilizing soldiers'uniforms was big enough.

Now comes what is calledthe biggest thing a womanhas ever done in the war.

Dr. Taylor of the Americanhospital ln France, had beenworking on an antidote forthe deadly gangrene poison-

tpg that entered the body ofsoldiers exposed to the fireOf Germun gas bombs. Hehad tested it on rats andother small animals, but hehad to have a human volun-teer to be sure of the anti-dote's effect on a person.

Miss Davies heard of Dr.Taylor's want. Without tell-ing anyone about her plans,she Inoculated herself withthe deadly poison and calledfor Dr. Taylor.

She was his first humansubject and she voluntarilystaked her life on an experi-ment.

Dr. Taylor injected hisantidote, a solution of hydro-chloride of quinine.

Twenty-four hours later.Miss Davies arose from astupor, positive evidence thatDr. Taylor's antidote willsave thousands of soldierswho willbe sent in the futureto inhale the deadly gas ofthe Germans.

DOBIE—STATE ASSETBY THE EDITOR.

Gilmour Dobie, master football coach, is leaving the University of Wash-ington after nine years during which time his teams never have been beaten.

There are certain citizens, I /im aware, who are glad to see his departure.In their opinion too much emphasis has come to be laid on the WINNING ofgames and of championships. With Dohie gone, they reason, the honors willbemore evenly divided, and the game, the sport itself, will receive more attention.

And then there are still others who would like to see all professional coach-ing abolished.

In this matter I confess to being a little old fashioned. I recall the year atthe University of Washington before D.ibie arrived. That season Washingtonwas beaten "by every team in the Northwest.

Previous seasons had been much the same. The students were disspirited,the players game, but whipped. The whole institution felt whipped.

The fall Dobie arrived he had pretty much the same set of players. Jarvis,Bantz, Babcock and Tegtmeir were the backbone of his line. Allof them hadbeen there in the years of defeat.

It is history how that year the U. of W. completely turned the tables, how itwon every game, and how it has gone on doing it ever since. It is history, too,how, during these same years the U. of W. has advanced and expanded in a mar-velous fashion in every branch.

The difference between the losing and the winning in football was—Dobie.Now Iknow Dobie fairly well, and I always admired him because he plays

the game fair, and teaches his men to play it hard but clean.To my mind the presence on the campus of a man who stands superlatively

high in his vocation, who succeeds always by sheer intelligence, will power andenergy, is a factor that is bound to be an inspiration to every student even if h*'never goes near the gridiron.

I hope that some way willbe deviseed of inducing Dobie to stay. He is ;i

"pep" asset to the whole state.

MILLION-DOLLARSHIPYARD READY

TO START HEREDetailed announcement regarding the Ashtou shipyards was made Satur-

day.The company will be known as the Todd Shipbuilding 4 Drydock Co., cap-

italized at $1,000,000.One hundred acres of the Ashton tideland holdings will be utilized as a site.John S. Hnker and Chester Thome, bankers, have been in New York for

two weeks making final financial arrangements, and word came from them to-day of their success in raising the capital.

The plans include the construction of the largest drydock on the coast.The Todd concern is one of the largest ship building companies in the coun-

try.Many leading Tacoma moneyed men are interested in the project. Both

steel and wooden vessels willbe built.

MANIAC WITH KNIFEHUNTS FOR WILSON

(I'nited Press Leased Wire.)

PIIILADKLPHIA, Dec. 2.—CMMi by drink mid flash-ing ii large carving knife withwhich he said be would killPresident Wilson lie passedthrough here this afternoon,a pedestrian in Bending term-inal, sent hundreds of trav-elers fleeing lo safety and en-guged three policemen lieforehe was overpowered «nd ar-rested.He gave his name as Jonathan

Kraus, no home, when finallyoverpowered.

The man appeared before thepresident's train arrived here at1:30 o'clock, but made a mistakein stations.

Matted hairs flowed over hisshoulders and he continually mut-tered to himself.

1441 'HITTHE TRAIL'TOGETHER

BOSTON, Dec. 2.—HillySunday's campaign in Bostonis breaking all previous rec-ords of that evangelist.

He is having bigger crowds,bigger collections, more trailhitters and more enthusiasmthan he ever liad before.The newspapers pri'it pages

about htm every day, including hissermons in full, and descriptionsof his preaching which hail himas the greatest evangelist theworld has ever had.

Even the staid old Boston Tran-script gives him a page a day un-der a headline across the top ofthe page: "Billy Sunday's Bos-ton Campaign."

The crowds that go to hear Sun-day are so large that as many as20,000 have failed to get in, andthe disappointed ones did some-thing that has never been donebefore, hundreds climbed uponthe tarred paper roof of the Tab-ernacle in the hope of listeningat the skylights. But so manygot up there that the police fear-ed the roof might fall in and madethem come down.

Suddenly he drew the knife,leaped upon a man leaving thestation and shouted: "You're thepresident. I shall kill you."

When Billy made his first callfor trail hitters 1,4 40 came.

In Bill Sunday's vernacular itwas a "stampede to God."

Dropping baggage m.cl hutthe stranger went down thesteps three at a time, bis as-sailant close behind.

Women and children rush-

Ed in all directions, sciVant-iiillfor help.Three policemen leaped upon

the man but he fought for 10ininiites before handcuffs could beadjusted.

"I prayed on the steps of thiscity hall," be said, 'before I start-ed out on my mission—to killWilson.''

Physicians will examine him."I'll get him yet," shouted

Kraus. as he was led to a cell,"and J. P. Morgan, ltockefellerand all of those fellows. They'rakeeping the cost of living highand the war going."

GRAND JURY TOPROBE H.C. OF L.

A special federal grandjury in Tnromn to make vthorough Investigation ofalleged conspiracies to boowtfood prices, apiieared prob-able Hatunlay when orderswere sent out from Wash-ington, |i. V., to AssistantV. H. Attorney Kisbburnehere to give all possible aidto George W. Anderson inhis nation-wide investigation.Definite plans for the gov-

ernment's probe have not been

ods of artificially boosting thsprices of foodstuffs.

The department of justice, ac-cording to Fishbume, Is drawingup a plan of campaign whioh willbe followed ln all parts of thacountry.

Orders from the department,outlining the plan, are expeotedIn Tacoma in a few days.

The Investigation probably willbe centered in Tacoma, Spokanaand Seattle.

Our old friend Flynn FlamFlynn, ln his Kansas City meet-ings, now has arrived at that stage

"The procedure Is out of thaordinary," declared Fishburn.decided on, but it is understood

that the cities of the state willbe gone over with a fine toothcomb by special agents of the de-partment of justice to run downpersons and concerns responsiblefor combinations or other meth-

"Agents of the department ofJustice will probably be put towork immediately, but it Is likelythat a special grand jury will benecessary to make the investiga-tion a thorough one.

t Talk o' the Times JGreetings, have you signed far as we have observed, the

the nonpartisan bill? And new ruling doesn't seem tovoted? leave much for the poor girls

to do except type letters."BLIND PIOS," ATTENTION!

This Is election day.

We hope that in Monday'swrite-up of the East Congrega-

tional church service, Edgar 0.Wheeler won't Btart off with anyhighly original pun such as, "Oh,Shaw!"

Is a discharged stenograph-er necessarily a canned chick-en?

ENGLAND RAISESWAGES OF MINERSilnllfil Pro I _•«__<-,l 'Wire.) |

LONDON, Dec. t.—The govern- 'ment today granted demands of 'South Wales miners for a 15 percent Increase in wages. The de-cision follows announcement of •operation by a government com- 'mission.

LONDON —The armistice re-ported to have been arranged inAthens in settlement of- the.reek-Ally controversy has failed,t is reported.

TARRYTOWN, N. V.—John D.vrchbold, Standard Oil president,s holding his own, say physicians.

where the sale of his booktf is re-ceiving first attention.

A Ruston young woman says\u25a0he doesn't intend to marry untilafter she's 30. Very unusual.Most women do not Intend to be30 until after they're warned.

The kissed stenographerseems doomed. Eastern movie.censorship has barred herfrom the films in some states.

And as the film world wasabout the only one In whichemployers kissed their stenog-raphers in modern times, so

CLOTHESThe little Ksklmoses,Whose home among the snows la,

Must wrap up warmFor fear a storm

Should nip their ears and toeses.

While tiny JapanesegDon't dream of furs and friezes;

Their native spotIs much too hot

For even light chemises.

But small I'nited StatersMay wear the furs of skaters,

Or flannel suitsAnd tramping boots.

Or overcoats and gaiters.—Arthur Gulterman ln Life.

Suggestion to clgaret ad-vertisers: Why not use thisline, "The aroma your wifelikes to have in the lace cur-tains"?

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Evidently Rudy Examined His CarWhen He Arrived Home.

Lost—On St. Joseph's Ridge,bind wheel of Ford automohtla.Finder please notify Rudy Wer-ner.—Advertisement in La Cross*I Wis.) Tribune.