The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 20, 1916, Page 1

GET A PINK! The Seattle Star NIGHT EDITION SEATTLE 18 THE HEALTHIEST CITY IN DETROIT AND THE BOSTON RED SOX ARE WORLD, ACCORDING TO THE UNITED : f ARE BAT “agi: - ANG ys : Seeiatmae a a b CENSUS ORT, AND WE WOULDN'T # CAN LEAGUE Tre. OUrone aioe Lue AMERI PRISE D i GBORGH SALISBURY, WEATHER THE PENNANT RACK, AN ‘eJ WILL, DETERMIN PROPHET, WAS JUST A WEE BIT RESPONSIBLE, SCORE OF TODAY'S OAM WILL ae Poon oe Tex om BECAUSE OF THE WEATHER HE DISHES OUT, TRE PINK nial +4 BE POUND IN THE ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT DARES _TO PRINT THE NEWS 1Y THE WAY, 18 FAIR FOR TODAY AND AY, WITH TEMPERATURE ABOUT NOR- Store Manager at Bon Marche Tells What Employers Look for When Fall Rush for Work Is On BY JACK JUNGMEYER Just plain lack of observation | Failure to note familiar things—mental slovenliness | These may be the bars between you and that position] you expect to get or didn’t, land | Hundreds of young applicants—school boys and girls who thought they had an education—are wondering w hy they are| being turned away from Seattle stores recruiting sales forces for the fall rush About 95 out every 100 such applicants don't pass the easiest d of entrance exams into the business world “The qualities we look for st and find least often,’ said George C. Pratt, sto’ anager of the Bon Marche, “are initiative and the sense of responsibility ‘AND THE MOST COMMON FAULT IS a AMAZING LACK OF OBSERVATION, AS SHOWN IN SOLICITATIONS FOR POSITIONS Manager Pratt has made employment a scientific study here and in Boston, T an application card is a blue print of the candidate's Lock at this card,” be indicat | lea filled in by @ girl of 2% who} | wants a position in our millinery department. An eighth-grade grad- vate, she has misspelled her own name, that of her native town and state and the prefix to her tele phone number. | She's Hopeless ch mental! slovenliness shows that she would hopeless as a saleswoman She wouldn't properly size up @ prospective customer. She'd prob- ably try to sell gaudy hats to wom EMPLOYERS HUNT FOR GIRL LIKE THIS She must be cheerful and help- ful in her own home. She must have a ready and a REAL smile, with wide sympa. thies. Pa has been trained to as responsibiiity—the re. sooreatel NOT the clinging-vine type of girl. Her powers of observation must have been sharpened. en who plainiy wanted modest A high school university }/0nes, or vice versa. She'd not note the condition of her stock education greatly increases her desirabili Personality and character, in the broad sense, are more valu- and she'd lose trade Her case is typical of hundreds who seek positions here and is VOLUME 19. 1a | | } | | Clean but and neat in appearance they indicate AINS BEA SEA 20, ONE CENT cana | Frogs Kept Him Awake; He Sues Owner of Pond OTTUMWA, Ia, Sept. 20. [| —Because bullfr made such nolse in a pond near his home that he lost sleep TYPES OF SUCCESSFUL | sacescints, DONT TAMPER -” WITHDRY LAW | SAYS M’BRIDE I] during the hot weather, |] Coming aut in steng Sere | Charlee H. Barton, retired || for the present prohibition law, alte, filed s 62000 in a formal statement issued |] G2Pita bgp A igo Eo a ga | Wednesday, Henry McBride, re- publican nominee for governor, shows the falsity of the charges Hugh grocer and postmaster, wealthy Riverview | Barton charges that the || made during the primary cam- | pata thet ie ates veel fy Me pond was constructed by |) | Bride not only deciares for the babe caer ghee Mie d — | Present law, but says that if it ven. Sa tenn grep my mle should be changed at all, it mere. | should only changed to | strengthen its means of enforce- | ment. le « *SON PAWN IN LOVE | ere’ bill and the hotel bill, both PAWN IN L | | SAYS WIFE of which measures are design His to modify the present law. stand on the prohibition q tion Is the most important fea- ture of his statement of prin- ° | | He declares against the brew- | ement in full follows: | Dry Law Ie Good | “From an/economic, as well a Pe 4 moral standpoint, our dry aw has been of great value to the Pe of this state. It should not be disturbed. I am opposed to the ; BREAK DOOR 0 legislature making any changes in lit, unless it be to strengthen the Two initiative measures, one! known as No. 18, or the hotel bill, | ~ and the other, as No. 24, or the| Henry Galvin, 21, was in the brewers’ bill. are before the peo- city jail Wednesday morning, |ple for adoption or rejection at the} on an open charge, after Pa. | November election. These meas-| jures are in no sense a party ques troiman Ed Hagen had battered | ton | believe, however, this atate | In his door at the New Engiand [should remain in the dry column hotel, 219 First ave., and other (Continued on page 5) roomers had identified him ” | the fellow who jimmied into | other rooms in a futile attempt } to burgiarize them, at 4 a. m. | ©. M. Hansen, who, the police! jes. is a wealthy farmer, awoke} early in the morning to find a man ~ jin bie room. They grappled, bat jthe stranger got away Taff Hughes, night clerk, says he! saw Gaivin run up to his room, on MILDRED ME BOSTON, Sept. 20.—"1 want my husband back, in spite of the heart- Types of the John Hendrickson, 49, Newcastle, mental brightn was instantly killed when « pillar decision and sympathy. the third floor, He had registered |collapsed Tuesday morning in the/ache he has caused me,” says jan hour earlier. While Hughes |Newcastle mine and several tons| Mrs. Charles H. Gretter, wife of |rtood watch, Patrolman Hagen was | Of coal dropped on him the man who two weeks ago elop: summoned. Hendrickson had been a miner/ed with Mildred Merrill, his | He broke thru the door and|for more than 18 years. He was|yearold stenographer and found Galvin had not occupied the Working with two other miners in| sweetheart of his roldier-son able than mere previous experi. | Other establishments. bed, but had his coat and shoes off |a worked-out section of the mine 1 am convinced the “affair be ence in the working world. But They Quarrel at Home GUN SHORTAGE Lieut. Mason investigated gnd| ben the accident occurred ltween’ my son, Leslie, and Miss Again, applicants claim they found Galvin bad room at the He leaves a wife and eight chil-| Merrill was just a scheme design are tactful when they are con osc ig nder the name Mf R, | dren - ts my husband @d the girl to y quarre home; say = en ines is rent paid for | since {dispel my suspicions.” Mrs. Gret they. are checttul when whertanety | pLONOON, Sept. 20—Gen. |soveral days in savas ‘THREE KILLED. 11 ter Ie said to have stated {knows them as grouches; profess png dii eer se | 9 Gretter is alldgea to have enter ° hen it actu-| Chief o' e jerman genera CK! tained Miss Merrtil at hotel din Slit teeta tea 10 hentie tiene pew oe a sete hg os Gay Youth, Under HURT IN WRE | ner eo fore paid oe pane A GIRL 18 ID A iN officers, jeclaring te) e .. 4 ; attention when she visited the T0 SEE BIC SHOW HOME $0 aie WiLL, an IW Tie wastage of guns during recent | Arrest, Says Tiffany | KINGMAN, Ariz, Sept. 20,—|Gretter summer camp in the Maine BUSINESS WORLD. And most months had exceeded their Is Papa-in-Law Three persons were: Killed and 11 | Noods. Gretter is 45; Miss Mer PENDLETON Ore. Sept 20.—|¢™bloyers find out what her home pater engine: by eight a injured when the engine and four |"!!! 22 Menderiect and bowlegged cow-|"*COre ff! diing rapidly, Gen. Haig re- OAKLAND, Cal 0—Ar.|cOaches of westbound Santa Fe} | eet aes eplendoe of bairy|. Yow can't snap at your mother,| SING, cobs thet No Meademe eat for|train No. 3 jumped the rails on a| Bors, in all the eplen 4 Ylgrowl at your brother or sister, y the theft of an automobile robe, to |Sharp curve north of here before | Chaps and brass-stadded wristlets.| Shock your father and expect to A document captured by tne ee ee ee Te eee eee te laaylight today anc rolled down an| he Oe thronged Pendleton today, on the| strain success in the commercial | British in the re of Tiffany, New York jewele: embankment | eve of the annual “Round-up world, even if you should happen| earing Falkenhayn Clippings found in his pocket! The wreckage of the engine and Tomorrow the big show starts./( larg a position’ | See, Ee ee eh eee et a. attr’ ta Lon nn [coaches Waa eirewt & quarter. of 8 But today the lodging house keep- serve their supplie - i ae ee SIE AE Geach Utes joke | @rs had their innings. “Rooms for| Need Happy Frame of Mind = | The situation between the [Seles society by an plopement with | Die A ene On ee ind traveled | Rent” signs met the eye from ev.| “I would advise young men and| Ancre and the Somme under. |* social favorite Md by reason of Sine os the Talla aed area’ bel ery point of the compass. Beds|¥omen seeking positions to bold| went no change. last night. | silhouette dances.” performed by |® Conmverble «alince past the) CLEVELAND, ©, Sept. 20.—The were as pearls, beyond price, and|UP to themselves the mirror of Kiinor British enterprises were | U/khtle-clad misses before the win-)scene of th K before they jtirst broadside of a campaign to| beanery managers moved into the|their home conduct and to remem-| succes: pestle dows of an exclusive seminary tr ha throw the labor yote of the country Rockefeller class overnight ber that 2 HAPPY: FRAME OF —-—— the glare of the spotlight of the to the support of President Wilson ors arrived from San Francisco, Se-| ™@nship MRS. HUGHES WILL ing the Adamson eight-hour law. | attle, Portland, Spokane, Boise and Both home and schools might — TRIPLE FOE was fired today by officials of the many ‘whales cites “inty ow raftably “devote wore ettor to! GEE HER OLD NURSE POLICE RECOVER | |four railroad brotherhoods, A bul sand are expected. Pullmans dis-|¥®Fd inculcating a sense of letin sent out by W. G. Lee, presi-| Gov. Alexander of Idaho and |SPonsipility into youngsters who | AREST, Sept. 20.—Ruma. dent of the Brotherhood of Train Jov. Alexander of Idaho and| ¥#nt to or must go into the busi SHEBOYGAD S, Wis Sept. 20 nian bats ve won a victory over men, reads Gov. Withycombe of Oregon are, ness world Into La Follette’s progressive ter: | the main Bulgar rman and “Surely it is the duty of not only due tomorrow. Other distinguished ‘They should be taught that the/ritory, Chas. BE. Hugh carried Turkish forces in » near En- our own members, but all persons Vlaltors will be Senator Chamber-| Store, the office, the shop are for|his sermon on a reunited repub- | gea, Dpbrudja, it was officially an- who work for a living, to support lain, Representatives McArthur, the first two or three years a con-/lcan part ¥ Pal av a + hug. | OUnced today. The fighting Is con- our friends, and, if possible, defeat nott and Hawley, and a number tinuation of school, a working lab-| Mrs. Hughes was expectantly hort Pe Neon iy b ar a. a tinuing our enemies at the coming election = lager Neri oratory where studiousness is to be| waiting today for the stop in Mil-/ting during the early hours Wed Therefore it is urgently requested further developed, instead of a|waukee tonight. For in Milwaukee|mesday by outo thieves, and by 9 HE’S FOR TRAININ that the position taken by President mere job to be held down at so/there resides E. Sarah Williama,|®- ™. the en clerk was able to G Wilson and both branches of con WE TRAVEL AT HOME much per week who nursed Mrs. Hughes as a/Cll up thre depressed owners |p 5 gress be not forgotten, and that all Then that great disparity be-|baby. “Mrs. Williams ts married | 404 report, “We've got youP car PORTLAND, Sept. 20.—The Unit. Members use every honorable WHILE WORLD FIGHTS txcen the number of young people | and lives in Milwaukee now | None other than Logan Billings: | 44 states should adopt @ universal Means to retain in office, regardless who apply for positions and the ley called up bh ected 1 A. viitary training system similar to Of Partisan beliefs, those who have . few who are qualified to land will m, to announce that three fellows Sweden's, with the women learning Proven thelr loyalty to our cause.” CHICAGO, Sept. 20.—Americans| be materially reduced le WILL SPEAK Jhad jumped into his Ford, stand. | PeCden®: wien ne oie ta the Ge ceding Amerie Him, see Ing in front of the Planters hotel, | oiinion of Samfuel Hill, personal | Sota ree ap ty <r aeeaall HERE FOR WILSON °°) v7,"" friend of King Albert of Belgium | 000 ords saw them, tried to catch the car, \ The many millions spent yea Senator James Hamilton |but it got away after a quic “rade opportunities with Japan in traveling in # are being Persons wishing to get a | Lewis will speak in Seattle | spurt sid unele Re wage aes Obert tor «pent right here In our own Ameri letter into the interior of A September 29, in the interests | Hight hours Inter, Rillingsley’s the Ualiee Malden Brie uvect acaih ca,” said L Miln, passenger and ka before the big freeze are ad of President Wilson, it has been |car, with the floor littered with {1 ) should be intelligently. grasp traffic manager of the Rock Island vised by Superintendent of announced by the state demo- |cigarets, was found, abandoned, on “1%, fate — railroad Malls Whiting to get busy, The ratio cbmentites, th ave. N. Bi, near 86th st t BERLIN, Sept. 20.—The loss of The tourist thruout the! fast launch is scheduled to sail His Washington dates start | J. H. McDiarmid, 6500 life in the Bohemian flood result West at any time| down the Yukon October 1. at Spokane, Sept. 26, in North | nve., president of the rs ing from the breaking of the White The Princess Sophia ie the Yakima September 27, in Taco yele club, discovered tate | Lines Fur Coat pes} opeciey Pose tel wine is country will last vessel sailing for the North tem 2. ay that his auto had been % Py dreds of persons are x, anc dare tcavel thru the Unit| which will make connections. 1: | Me and Everett Gentamber GB. | irene coo in front of the Metre With Flag; Fined | js tearoa their bodies wilt be found more than foreign coun-| leaves Victoria, B. C., Septem. Atanas politan theatre inside the houses floating down ries ber 23. tly Wednesday morning, Offi BOSTON, Sept 20.— stream or entangled in floating de — : — cer Thomas Hartnett, at Ge Pankus Brown, a tailor and bris GERALD SUES T0 town, reec the car an@ ar a United States citizen for Between 200 and 300 bodies al Ch Gi ] N N ar rN d » The reated R #e, 17, and Randolph several years, xanilies the a have been froorerse ? a Rose, 16. flag 80 much, he told the survivors are withou ‘ood, and ata a + stolen fre aco! that when he wanted to asty relief measures are being the Queen s Guests, Says Novelist To recover the price of a 50 day Lt tae ne overs ty Sergt make a fur coat eapecially taken . diamond, Clarence Gerald Fat H. G. Cinnamon at Fourth ave attractive he caused his as. ‘TR reason for the break in the LONDON, Sept. 20—The any review any woman whose | known cafe proprietor, brought and Pike st, early Wednesday, A sistant to use a silk flag for danf®is not yet known here ntily dressed girls of the ‘degree of nudity’ has appre- |wuit in superior court Wednesday |Shotgun was under the seat. The lining. | London musig halls approach clably exceeded that which against William H. 4 race M.| thieves couldn't be located | meant no Insult to the PASTOR DROPS DEAD | no nearer a state of nudity was insisted on by the late Klepper, his wife, of 2830 dave. flag,” Brown pleaded, when than some of the women who Queen Victoria at her own din 8 } ld alleges he delivered the charged with misuse of the : Sa: 3 . Hi used to dine with Queen Vic. | ner table and which is visible lajamond at Klepper’s special re GREECE SENDS NOTE national emblem. “I want MARSHFIELD, Sept, 20.—The | toria, wrote Arnold Bennett, in nightly in the drawing rooms quest. He asks a judgment for ed to make the coat look body of Dr. J. V. Milligan, of Port: | the Westminster Gazette today, of London,” wrote the novelist. $359 and 6 per cent Miterest since i nice and | used the pretti land, wes sent to that city today replying to Gen. Smith-Dorrien Gen. Smith-Dorrien complain. — January 1, 1915 LONDON 0.—Greece has est thing | could find. That for interment, Dr. Milligan, super and an anonymous writer who ed that the appearance of sent an urge to rmany flag boat me ai lot of intendent of Presbyterian Sunday complained about the “parade scantily dressed women in re. SIR RABINDRATH TAGORE, demanding the elease of the money. schools in the Synod of Oregon, | of women in all degrees of views had an evil effect upon Hindu poet, will speak to the boys | Greek troops removed from Kavala The court ordered him died of heart failure in the lobby nudity on the stage.” British soldiers on leave of ab- |of the Juvenile Industrial schoo}, sald a Reuter dispatch from Ath-|{ fined $50. of a hotel here, A widow sur-| “| have not yet observed in | sence from the trench jon Mercer island, shortly, 18 today. jvives him, | 4 SENATOR STUNG’ Ase ae LL WILSON MANARRESTED, HES BELIEVED TO BE INSANE PITTSBURG, Pa., Sept. 20.—Morris Diamond, 62, of Bay City, Mich., was held for examination by alienists at the Central police court today following his arrest for writing threatening letters to President Wilson. Diamond admitted, when arraigned, that he had written several letters in which he told the president that he intended to kill him. “But I didn’t want to do it,” he said, “Mysterious voices from the air and weather — bureau officials at Washington and Colum- bus sent me spirit messages that it yas my duty. I heeded them. sir tien, whe. grrectab: Dimeiaa on Sct S| GMTH SCORES CHURCH TODAY AS BEING Monday, declared he believed Dia- Denominationalism, with its mond insane, The accused w refused audience with the presi overlapping activities, and drift toward narrow commer. dent in 1915, when he sought to ask the chief executive to fhterest cialization must cease, and one big, broad church bent on himself in Diamond's claim to property in Bay City. evangeliging the masses must take its place. A government grant, under which Diamond's parents got the land in 1835, was declared invalid years ago, when a grant dat- ed 1832, giving title to others, wa This was the declaration of Rev. Robert Asa Smith, retir- ing moderator of the Seattle Presbytery, and pastor of Cen- tral Presbyterian church, in a sustained in a court action. Then began a series of letters that grew increasingly threatening. Diamond has spent 30 years of his life in penitentiaries in service of sen- tences for forgery, his captor said. sermon before members of the Seattle Presbytery at Bethany church Tuesday night. Clabaugh, federal investigator in| “Denominationalism has the national blackmaoiling syndi-|the church a great institution for cate case, is on his way to Washing-| gathering money,” he said, “and is ton for a conference that may un-ja sin as it exists tod: It has cover dozens more suspected of ex-|lost sight of its commission to tortion |preach salvation to all the people, W. C. Woodward, for whom the| Today the church is subject to police have been searching since/ crossfire as deadening in effect as Saturday, gave himself up, on ad-|that on European battlefields, Ine vice of C. E. Erbstein, his lawyer.| dividuals have become selfish. “IL have done nothing,” he said to, “The overlappings of church ate BY BADGER GANG: CHICAGO, Sept. 20.—Hinton G. jthe district attorney, “but if the/tivities is distressing—what would | govern pment Wants me, here I am.”| you say if a city tried to maintain | He was released on $3,000 bail five policemen on every beat? James Finan, a New York detec-|Churches in the smaller districts tive, said today evidence that the/and in the cities as well must be syndicate had attempted to black-|combined. The world is not be mail a United States senator in tha) lieving today, because there is dis |East out of $20,000 had been col- junion among us.” lected, but that rosecution was| Statistics were cited, showing given up when the senator refused that 260 Presbyterian churches in sto become a witness in the case. for state did not receive a single LOVE SUIT FOR [pew member by ecto aaa $10,000 FAILS terian church, Ee number received—319, O. Forbes, superintends Ps Of missions for the Presbys |terian synod, was elected modem ator to succeed Dr. Smith, Atter.two days’ trial, Superior Pies, Leads Cities Judge Frater granted a nonsuit Wednesday, dismissing the case in| .Of Nation, Being which Robert Acton, 106 Blewett} A tt, sought to recover $10,000 heart} Healthiest by Far balm from George Keating, wealthy Olympia mining operator, for the} Health authoriti: In every alleged alienation of Mrs. Acton’s| city in the country are looking affections with envious eyes on Seattl Practically the only showing| made of any familiarity between| @@ath rate record of 7.4 Keating and Mrs. Acton was the) thousand, the lowest in the testimony of Acton, who said he| United States, following the had seen the mirring operator clasp| her in his arms and plant a kiss on her lips at the conclusion of an auto| ride. Keating was not required to pre- publication of federal census statistics, It was pointed out that Seat. tle’s rate has lowered during the last few years, while the sent his defense, the court holding] population increased. Spokane there was insufficient evidence| is the second healthiest city, against him to warrant further with a rate of 8.1 and Portland lit | third, with a rate of 8.4. Man Tells Seattle Judges He’s Not Dead, Tho Will Was Probated Here Arthur George of Edmonton, Alberta, was here Wednesday trying to convince the nine judges of superior court that igation Learning of hite |Rceorge hurried to Seattle | “filed a complaint Wednesday in an attempt to have himself officially brought to life. he Is not dead. “During my absence,” the There was, admittedly, some complaint reads, “my wife had doubt. me declared dead, altho she A year ago Mrs. Anna G. knew, or could have found out, that | was alive, “Solemnly, | declare | never George, his wife, from whom he had separated nine years before, had his “will” probat- was dead, and am not now.” ed, giving her possession of George and his wife, he said, $700 worth of West Seattle parted on June 22, 1906, with property. ; the understanding that he was She died soon after | to peturn in ten years. madd in Seattle, had the —