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THINKING OF QUITTING SCHOOL, BOYS? READ HOW THIS BOY MADE | HIS MARK IN WORLD AT AGE OF 20 PITTSBURG, Pa, Deo, 19-—- Now onty 20 years old, yet fore. man of a department in one of the largest = manufacturing ints in the world, William M , Jr, has learned a lesson to teach other boy: “Skillful hands a Port to prosperity a sure is the le pass. Wer. ttt. Ball Je William Bal! found himself in a Dlind alley only five years ago. He left high school when he war 15. He wanted to make his own way in the world, and did the fatally easy thing that s open to every boy who leaves school before graduat Ing—he entered an office as a sub |inghouse Electric and Manufactur.| clerk. Willie Ball wasn't 16 when he woke up. He saw that with his incomplete education there was absolutely no jfuture for him | office He saved his and tn the fal! quit offt good and started t ach be oney that s to work b a No odd diffioutt two ye Ba lathing and white be an ¢ He did job washing in a chemi thing and an honest pe During bis fir when he was but a al labo! everythir that offered t Kummer vacate 16 and frat man’s work ir It was heavy, gruelling hours a day in the fle the foundry, with t Jabout him making life him with their Jetuck th |saved enough money to buy |sary clothes and pay for his seco jyear in the technical school. Wl |ie Ball graduated from Carnegte “Tech” an ¢ t molder when he | was barely 18! sort of post-graduate course in mold ing, without expense. He worked in various foundries picking up knowledge about diverse hods and processes. Presently he got a job with a con cern near home and went back to hool--this time to train his head rather than his hands. He began a night course tn metal lurgical engineering Now, at 20, he ts foreman tn the die-casting department of the West jing company. Folks who know anything about | molding know that die-casting ts a pet and fertile field tn foundry work That Santa Claue Is but a myth, And daddy buy @ the toys, Which motber hangs upon the tree While théy in bed repose— Just grab him by the thropple* And punch him on the nose! *(Look it up tn the dictionary. -ee We had to.) Oliver T. Erickson says a buxom widow of his neighborhood was be sleged by wooers when {t became known she had inherited $7,000 One of them threatened to hang himself to a tree Mf she refused to marry him. The embarrassed object of his his threat, he was so impassioned She didn't marry him, though “She had the tree cut down, ° in her front yard affections feared he would carry out and temperamental ‘eports Mr. Erickson. eee Capt. Oscar Ebbinghouse of the fire department has been much @nnoyed by a rat at his house, which would come ont at night and rattle around So he got a dog recommended And retired, confident that the rat would not disturb his rest that | December 28. it. The rat didn’t. But the dog sat at the rat hole “And kept the whole neighborh: 7. Tom Horner, raconteur, makes the observation that life is, indeed, This doleful view of things 1s due to an| marine to t filled with disappointments. experience yesterday. Horner had stopped on Pike st. jood awake,” to him as an expert ratter. barking his head off. says Capt. Ebbinghouse. to watch a coal wagon driver dump 8 load of coal down a chute and through a hole in the sidewalk. The coalman laid on his vest o: through the hole. mn top of the load and shouted down The coal started to slide with the coalman. But when he was half-way down the chute, headed for the hole and) produ 1g good, he stuck out his arms and stopped himself. “Spoiling the story I would have had to tell !f he had gone on! through,” complains the disappotnte: MRS. BROWN T0 GO ON NIGHT DUTY AT DOCK Mrs. Mary E. Brown, who has been in charge of the women’s pro- tection division of the police depart. | ment for several years, has been re moved by Chief Lang from that po- sition and ordered to dock matron’s duty between the hours of 4 p. m. and midnight at the Colman dock. Mrs. Jessie E. Nosler, who for merly held the dock position, will be on duty at headquarters in the Triangle building This exchange of duties ts the most important change ordered by the chief in the general shakeup an nounced Friday. The protection di- vision is now consolidated with the juvenile and humane divisions, and the entire three divisions are now| under one head, Sergt O'Brien being in charge. Harry G. a Mr. Horner. JACOB FURTH CASE REVERSED OLYMPIA, Dec. 19.—The state eu- preme court established a precedent Friday, when the conviction of Ja cob Furth, dead Seattle banker, wa: reversed. A Whatcom county jury jhad found Furth guilty of conaptr- | | acy In connection with the failure of |the W. EB. Schricker & Co. private bank, in La Conner. He was fined | $10,000. This {s the first time the supremo | court has passed on a case wherein the defendant was dead. DISCOURAGE LOAN SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 19.—The Chinese Six companies sent to | President Wilson a plea to do his jbest to checkmate an effort by President Yuan Shai Kai to nego. tlate a $60,000,000 loan in the Unit ed States THE SEATTLE STAR THE STAR’S MOVING PICTURE DE | two years he engaged tn a| Reading From Left to Right: |Liberty Has Thriller on New Bill The Ghost Break with H. B, Warner tn the title role, will be | the main offering at the Liberty theatre for the coming week | A beautifal young princess in Spain unexpectedly finds a clue to | the lost family treasure } However, one of the precious jewels is stolen by | pawned The action of the play then Jumps to America, just at the time when Jarvis and Markham, members of two hot blooded southern families, have been shooting the daylights out of each other j | One of the Markhams plugs old Judge Jarvis and {s pursued by the) | Judge's eon to New York. Markham sees the locket of the princess in @ three-ball shop and purchases It The princess upon her arrival stumbles into Markham in her hotel and after she explains matters, he restores her locket ] Jarvis sticks Markbam with a dagger and is saved from the coppers) | by the princess. | | The princess buys Jarvis a ticket to Europe, He finds the lost) treasure, marries the princess and lives happy ever after oeeee |Class A Has a Story of War “A Question of Courage,” a two-reel Komic drama, will be the main | offering at the Class A next week until Wednesday night Mother love conquers over patriotism, An old woman who had! lost her two elder sons on the battlefield refuses to let her third and) last son go when his country calls him. In order to detain him she} drugs his coftee, He {s arrested for desertion and sentenced to be shot. | her maid and Gen. Grant, while stopping at the home of the mother, overhears | the servants tell of the arrest. Grant arrives at headquarters in time / | to stay the execution. | |Marguerite Is Nervy Little Marguerite Clayto: cee It’s a Rough Life, Boys n, who a| Lee Willard, who takes the part was serious by burt|of a horse thief tn the eanny toric naling a fin for the Ee |photoplay, “Broncho Billy's Christ |eanay company, 1s one of the nerv./mas Spirit.” declares G. M. Ander tn the game to (ton Insists on such realistic action oor. ec aeuaacncen oe |that {t frequently makes for per : | while acting in the|sonal discomfort. Ph Lore and Hono:| A rope was twisted about Wil | Called,” she compelled to grasy |lard’s neck, when a gang was about |g hook at the end of a block and |to hang him, with auch a vengeance tackle, fifty feet from the ground | that he was almost strangled before and swing out tn midair |it was decided to give him a new be iz | lease on life. U. S. Loans Submarine | pat ‘An capecially timely photoplay {s| “The Life of Christ’ “fhe Submarine Spy.” a two-reel! Pathe Freres’ j-sentation of naval drama reiasued under the Imp| “The Life of Christ” will be shown brand, to be released on Monday,| at the Moore theatre all week. It n is & beautiful, seven-part drama, Trapped 150 feet beneath the covering the period of the Savior's ocean, the last dying struggles of life from the manger, {n Bothele- & submarine crew and officers make | hem, up to the time of the Ascen-| | as startling a “thriller” as any play| sion. In addition to the film, there| je put on. will bea mesical program. Uncle Sam loaned a real aub-) he Universal for the tak | Tillie to Stay a While ing of this picture, | Tho wthceal alien cbmbty; ae “Tillie’s Punotured Romance,” |Beverly in Society which has been playing to packed Miss Beverly Bayne was right houses at the Clemmer all week, lin with the “four hundred” while| will continue until Wednesday| ing the film, “The Crimson | night. | Win There are a number of thr biggest society people in the Fast |acting in the film at various times | The scenes for the productior | were taken at the home of one of the wealthy families of Lake For t. The days were given over to scene making and the evenings spent in studying the book and en-| tertainment. | Pretty soft for Beverly! But may- | |be in the next production she wil! | have to act a six-reeler in the slume | of New York. oe . Miss Hough to Play Here Miss Irene Isabelle Hough, a 19 year-old girl of Omaha, Neb., who was picked as a winner by the Es sanay company as the most beautt ful telephone girl in the United States, will be seen in Seattle tn the photoplay, “The Ways of a Woman.” The film will be released about December 29 Victor Cheers Prisoners Victor Potel, who as “Slippery Slim” in the Basanay's “Snakeville | comedies {s making the world laugh | brought gladness to the hearts of| Maid—The dressmaker called a hundred prisoners at the county | with her bill, and I told her you jail In San Francisco when he ap-| were out, peared at a performance for the tn Madam } DAWNING” ON HER . What did she say? jof the Melbourne theatre was ar| |mates. He made the prisoners a cheery little speech. PARTMENT, Clase A. PATHE GETTING =| REAL PICTURES ON BATTLEFIELD The statement has been wide ly circulated that it Is impossible to get genuine war pictur braries furnish practically all of the war news in filme. That this le contrary to the truth Is proven every week in the Pathe projection room in Jer sey City when the newly arrived negatives are shown, Some of the battlefield views are so horrible t sible to make use of them. Piles of unburied, dead ready to be cremated and long burial trenches filled with the mangled remains of what once were men are shown. Such reallem Is, of course, un- adapted for public showing. it Je Interesting to no owing to the absence of most able bodied Frenchmen on the firing line that Pathe has been driven to the nm y of using women a8 cameramen. The sight of these Pathe “camerawomen,” trudging alony with camera and helper, has bi come a fairly common sight In Parie. What I Think About It BY FREDDIE FILM Poor Mary Pickford has been worked to death by the local mov ing picture houses, I think there Is no better little actress on the screens today than Mary, but there is such @ thing as overfeeding the public. ee I dropped into theatre last week to see “The| Thief.” 1 thought the characterr were overdrawn. After voicing the| matter to others, I found the opin. | fon was universal, The theme of the film was excellent. Probably If it were more carefully pro it could have been made a wonder ful success. . the Colonia) eee | At last the police have stepped | in and mussed up the game of the | sensational film exhibitor. De Lay| lat the Liberty Until |WRITES MOVIES TO FIT HER AUDIENCE Three years ago Catherine Carr Was engaged as a special scenario writer. From that position she rose to be editor-in-chief of the scenario department in the Kinetophone of flees. “When I see one of my pictures in the ‘movies,’" she says, “I want those about me to be thinking "Why, that story might have hap- pened to me just as easily as not” Then you will have your audience with you as certain as the sun rises.” NEXT WEEK’S BILLS At the Colonial All Week “The Idler,” society drama ee Wednesday Night Breakers,” drama; nie; a comedy. ee “The Ghost “Pisa, Italy,” sce . At the Grand Until Wednesday Night Hadley’s Uncle,” Detective,” Who Shot Bud Walton?” Reliance drama; “Strand 16. . “Mr. jo, 12; “Amateur comedy; two-reel War Series,” No. ee rested this week for running an im moral picture, The stunt has here | tofore been to get out an Injunction and continue to display the film, but | the cops put a crimp In It this time | when they seized the films along | with De Lay. | oe | ~—Jim Clemmer this week has-been | running one of the funniest films| that has ever come to town, Marie! Dressler and Charlie Chaplin in “Tillie’s Punctured Romance.” 1| saw tho film and nearly passed tn| my checks laughing, Keystone comedies are usually good. This one is the best the company ever turned out. Judging by the packed | houses and the shekels Jim has/| been storing away this week, th are a lot of people who think the same as Ido, The film has been so} successful that Clemmer will con-| |tinue to show it until Wednesday night, ° The fact that the Mission closed its doors this week only goes tc show you "t peddle @ ten cent show for twenty cents and get away | | with it | Board of officers begins survey Maid—She said tt was beginning of cruiser Chattanooga at Bremer [to look as If she was going to be ton Tilikum Until Wednesday “The Battle of the Sexes,” with Liltan Gish. eee At the Class A Until Wednesday Night “A Question of Courage drama; “Mutual Weekly stone” comedy . " two-reel “‘Key- ¢ At the Melbourne Until Wednesday Night Every Inch a Man,” two-reel drama; “The Moonshine Maid and the Man,” drama; “Curing of Myra- may,” Vitagraph comedy eee Alhambra Until Sunday Night “The District Attozaey’s Broth er,” two-reel drama, with Francis Ford and Grace Cunard; “In Tax 23," comedy tive,” educational; Shadows,” two-part STEAMER FOUNDERS KEY W iT, Fla, Dec, 19.—The Pritish steamship Alton arrived with news that the S. 8, Rivulet, also British, Naples for Ifport, had foundered at sea, but that its crew was saved Lights and Rex drama ; BILLS FOR NEW Thanbouser! Building a Locomo | nnn, WEEK Scene From “The Ghost Breakers,” at the Liberty; Marie Dressier and Mabe! Normand in “Tiilie’s Punctured Romance,” at the Clemmer; Scene From “A Question of Courage,” at the |CHURCHES TO HAVE | CHRISTMAS MUSIC throughout the city |have prepared special music for their Christmas programs Sunday. jA number of the best concert sing- era in the city will be heard in the | bigger churches. | Theo Karl DRIVING OUT ITS __ 800 MAGDALENS Churches (Continued From Page One. Johnston will sin, |Gounod’s “Nazareth,” at the Fir but it struck the women hardest tas re se 37 registered denizens| Doth yterian church. The West- of the tenderloin here. | minster quartet will be offered as Beside these there are hundreds! part of the regular services at the on “the waiting list"—giris who| Westminster Presbyterian church. have begged Detective Thomas Fur-| x A Word of Explanation | | man, head of the white slave depart-| ment of police, to give them regis-| A GREAT many of our patrons have often |try in the underworld “It is largely the unemployment or precarious employment of many| a women that {s responsible,” declar| wondered how it was that ed Detective Furman. this theatre could put on “They would come in here and) a first-run program of beg and cry and plead to beallowed| uch high quality-—i ’ —in to register. I would try to n hd 4 hae — reed Mie pad ager fact much better than the average 10-cent house— for the low admission price of five cents. Well, with them. I would tell them th terrible consequences of such a life. we're going to “let the cat out of the bag,” just But they would only continue to beg to satisfy your curiosity. and plead. “Many a girl was down to her HE reason we are able to obtain such last 10-cent piece” ee a high-class program, in- cluding such features as the two-reel, special Key- stone comedies, the Mu- tual Weekly, etc., is that we contracted some time ago, for the pick of the entire Mutual program every week. Our mana- ger, Mr. Smythe, spends most of his time viewing the new reels as they ar- rive, in order to select none but the best, and be- lieve us, he doesn’t take any second rate stuff. HE reason we can put our price down to 5 cent and still remain in business, is the fact that we have not the large amount of money invested in uselessly extrava- gant furnishings, for which the patron pays in the long run. Another reason is that a long time ago we made a favorable lease, when rents were low, and are still opex ating under that lease. THese are the reasons why we can put on s show, such as we have for tomorrow, including a Key- stone comedy, the Mutual Weekly, “A Question of Cour- 9 two-part Majestic, and a Pathe educational feature. “I guess I'll have to get a heavier pair of shoes, that’s all. A girl with brown curls and pur- ple silk house gown contemplated her thin suede slippers She meant she would walk the streets to ply her outlawed trade. “I used to be a waltres: she said, “earning $2.50 a week!” Another one spoke, tall blonde. “I intend to remain in the city and walk the streets,” she sald, de- terminedly. “I'll pay my fines and go to jail. No use going to another city; the streets are full every- where. “Some day, I suppose, I'll be found murdered, In a house a girl has some protection. On the streets, none. I'm 26 years old. I've been in this business for 10 years. My health is broken down. I couldn't work in a kitchen, even if I would be taken in and given a chance— which I know I won't, see So they are telling their stories, | making their pleas, uttering their threats—the 837 who have been tol- erated by registry. Some are contemplating suicide; some the life of a crook; others a merely drifting. . ° Mrs, Kate O'Connor. one of San Francisco's policewomen on the white slave squad, declares frankly her bellef that the new law “can Jonly work a hardship all the way | round.” “Just ay this to the good people for me,” she requested, “that if the girls move out into their home neighborhoods, right next to their families, as has been the case in every city where the district has been abolished, they must not ob- Ject; they must be willing to suffer | some of the consequences.” FILE “KING'S” WILL NEW YORK, Dec. 19.—Richard Canfield’s will was filed, showing that the gambler king left more than $1,000,000. | | | LUNDIN SEES PEN Having inspected the Monroe Re- formatory, Prosecutor-elect Lundin is planning to visit all other penal institutions in the state. “{ will try to reform all wrong: doers, if it is possible,” he said, Announcing a Paramount Feature at the Liberty Sund H. B. Warner in “The Ghost Breaker” The action of the play travels from Spain to America and then back to the old Recent $2.00 Success, TONIGHT ONLY HELEN GARDNER world, On the one hand, take the lost jewels of a noble Spanish family take a Southern feud between American families; introduce on the other in Pictures—Here 25c In a 4-part Vitagraph feature, “The Strange Story of Sylv Gray. 3 OTHER PICTURES Including a comedy, educa- tional and another drama. MURTAGH Will interpret these pictures che Wurlitzey ¥ ppe-Jones Unit thestra »AIN 6767 a gallant young Ameri can and a perfectly adorable Spanish princess who most urgently needs to be saved from the wicked plots of an evil duke—and one has at a glance the elements of a truly unusual entertainment, “The Ghost Breaker.” ISA, ITALY This shows the wonderful “leaning; tower” and other monuments of this beautiful Italian city. Boxes and Loges COMEDY. UP TO OUR USUAL HIGH STANDARD on First at Pike