The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 10, 1917, Page 7

willie Burke with Thomas Meighan in a story of man in the rough. FIFTH AT PIKE—— CONTINUOUS 1 TO 11 COLISEUM, ADMISSION %0—Children 180——Inclndes War Tax. TO OPERATE ON MKS. GERARD NEW YORK, Dec. 10-—-Guffertng from acute appendicitia, Mra Jas W. Gerard, wife of the former am [since then the government bas set the prices on munitions, and prot: |{] WESTERN PINE | LUMBER GOES TO 8-HOUR DAY, President Wilson's mediation com. | mission, which hy been in Seattle for the last several days, attempting an adjustment of the Jumber gon: | troversy in the Northwest after resting Monday, will begin ita ol ing work Tuesday The vote of the Western Pine) Manufacturers’ assoctation at Bpo kane Saturday to establish the eight hour day in all the camps and milla on Jan. 1, has been the mont satis factory Incident coourring since the mediation board began its trip, members of the commission ao: nounced today. Secretary of Labor Wilson, upon receipt of the action taken in Spo | kane, tmmediately wired President | | Wilson, in turn recelved a wire of congratulation from the execu tive | Altho It was not officially stated, | it is believed that the commi: pects a similar decision from the Went Coast Lumber Manufacturers association, and that such action will remove all obstacles blocking the government's immense war pro- gram by allowing all the milis and camps to begin work at full blast production of airplane spruce of the West Coast Lum facturers’ agsociation my the eight-hour day, but object strenuously to allowing the | Southern producers to operate on a }10. and li-hour day, owing to the cheapness of labor in the South SACRIFICE OF PRIDE IS NEED, _SAYS WILSON one great sacrifice that is difficult to get the employers and employes to make is that of their pride and prejudice, and tt is one of the great needs at pres- ent.” Secretary of Labor W. B. Wilson. who is to speak Monday night tn the | new Masonic temple, E. Pine st. and| Harvard ave, so declared in an ad dress under the auspices of the Cen tral Labor coune!! Sunday afternoon, in the Hippodrom i We hear on all sidew that this ts) & war of munition makers; that the | |toanufacturers are making enormous profits from the mrunitions sold to the goverrenent. It is known that | profiteering ran at full blast before this country entered the war. But} fteering te eliminated. | fons and eight nephews tn the coun try's service. He said that his grief would not be nearly so «reat, provid ing they are ever killed, if he can| feel that hiw country has done its| best to protect them at the front Put, on the other hand, he sald, his grief would be great if he knew that | the nation had been a slacker in sup- STAR—MONDAY, DEC. 10, 1917. PAGE 7 Secretary Wilson said he had three | ff HE ELECTRIC LOCOMOTIVE dashes madly around the circular track until one wonders how the engineer can POSSIBLY keep from getting dizzy—the mechanical rooster pecks corn with a steady regularity that is admirable—pianos are tink- ling, drums are beating—the toy soldiers are on parade. So many things are happening in the new Toy Section every minute that all the Dolls (and there surely IS a lot of them) are wide-cyed with amazement. What a source of happy anticipation it all is to the children—to say nothing of the grown-ups who know what Toys mean to the Children’s Christmas! Z> FREDERICK. &NELSONL bassador too rmany. will undergo porting the army | 8" operation uere today. E. P. Marsh, president of the Washington State Federation of La |bor, briefly reviewed the efforts of |the mediation comminaion. 'BEATON RESIGNS FROM DRAFT BOARD Claude J. Hunt, football conch at the University of Washington, has [been appointed secretary of local | board No. 3, of the select service ays jtem, to sucosed Welford Beaton, re nigned Beaton’s resignation was accepted |by Preaident Wilson upon recom- |mendation of Gov. Linter after he had «tated his financial condition was not such that he could devote —tn— h his time to the beard duties with- T. J. L. Kennedy, government at |torney, has also tendered his renig¢ fon because of the ruling if the| . w draft reg mma that he must perform his duties as government |appeal agent without the aid of —to— clerical assistance. Gov. Lister has withheld recom |mendations for the resignation, The Sea Master pj sis" amen After the initiation of the 1,100 }pplicants secured in a memberahip |drive which closed ‘Thursday night ana Proweuve Oraer at tien wit'to|f —. FREDERICK & NELSON FREDERICK & NELSON F REDERICK & NELSON the largest Elk lodge in the world, with a membership of about 6,200, Edgar C. Snyder, a lawyer, with J b oma offices in the Mutual Life building. school t or, who ecu A, Saas «ams: 70 POI ee 28) PLOTTERS F OILED) Penne Gar [inne coke | gad to the attorney-general of the United there city cha mes alon } ERTY — Roscoe Arbuckle Staton in the wult against the Pa | TRYING OUT _ [butter the timety interterence ot | | tne 5 rHEATR: cific \¢ | | | | | Const Coal Co., and others, a os our country hero, the sweet young CRCN TATA ae one wine ° MO CT pa aggre we Sain ha * ivi case involving alleged coal!) Seene From “Alimony,” at the Liberty, Showing George Fischer }| VIE A ane NSO Pee, See ek eR STRAND — Madge Kennedy t frauds at Nome. “Nearly Married.” —Mary Pickford in “Rebeoss Sunnybrook Farm.” fe of shame misery lating the feats Helen Holmes, the daring Signal ac treas, writes from a hospital in Sac ramento that she thought it looked easy to hang by the hands from a NOW PLAYING bridge, while a train passed beneath and Josephine Whittell, Two Principals. LITTLE 14-year-old emu | A A Balboa actor, who knows how it feels, is planning the organiza |tion of an insurance company to | | protect actors against alimony fiends, He says if he can carry out Bhe tried it—result, two sprained) Dis plans he will have the biggest, | | CLES Sc Walam@. a e ankles and a wrenched back. ‘The| "chest insurance company in the . | : Uttle girl used the limb of an apple| Wr! gutting ¢ tree for the bridge, while her small = Pickford is seen in “Rebecea | “ee Of a schooner running scross ‘ brother played the train. The limb iss soeni-nig ogboonaery wee tee, | the wind, there ts something worth ; of Sunnybrook Farm,” at the Rex was rotten. t hae. te Ons gr ars Never has a star appeared in a more | 80M to see. = ee s s ‘ desirable, as well as suitable, char- | The actor who played the organ r . “se | In “IT Will Repay,” at the Clem SECOND BIG INSTALLMENT OF for the wedding in “Nearly Married,” | Scterization, | Known thruout | the | 1.6, Cortnne Griffith leads the onst starring vehicle of Madge Kennedy seer hey PO cc cniedy \'s Sweetheart,” | in this charming love story of fae IN at the rand, interpolated little perwon ‘to girigs Southland y wik 6 F : original “business” when he ragged] the national type of Rebecea, the lina ‘Dunn, Mulatie TTeneen, Sa q He. the Mendelssohn march wed-| litte country girl, who fought her | J. Forth. Maurice, and George eee } 4 c ding guests all swa in time and| battles alone and traveled a partic AT 0 99 é ¥ spoiled a number of feet of film, not|Uarly rough road leading to her] 4) i. cass A Bill Hart te shows THE F to speak of the director's temper: eae sc a UR in “The Disciple.” os, Billie Ritchie, the chap who Rillie Burke is playing at the Coli-| Conway Tearle, Wilfred Lucas, | r y Accompanied with Talks by Liewt. J. 8. Dagger scum, in a screen version. of her | Violet Homing and Florence Deshon | ltims that he was a Chaplinesque (ate 29th Battalion C. BE. F) From 0. Henry's Famous . performer before Charlie was heard reat singe euceses, “The ad of | are in Blackton’s version of the Par. . Story Promise,” which wie the soncticn | ker novel, “The Judgment House.” | 8 with William Fox. However romise,”” which was the sensation , E they don't: call Chaplin's asition Also ‘ “A Muntetpal Report” : of the season a few years ago. o> Ritchie stunts.” Teli bl a Oe Theda Bara is to be presented by eee very incident, every . ; id you read Samue e «| ox in a nine or ten-reel versic AEae ence aene every \ Did you rend Samuel Merwin's | in @ nine or ten-reel version of! Dougias Fairbanks plans to take batt ¢ gripping, plot ; novel, “Anthony, the Absolute,"|“Du Barry.” Charles Clary and!nig Arteraft. company to South brings one nearer to the which ran serially in McClure’s Mag- | Herschel! Mayall wil play prominent America for picture atmosphere goon highly - keyed, | arr ashing azine? A picturization of it, “The| parts in this production, after the first of the year. elima adiant @xam- r Between,” now p! © cee mn i s Ris at the dott Oday Door Between,” now playing at the reo inpcanaaal touch. Mission, is one of the best screen} Colin Chase, the handsome young es 23 s of the chap seen in a number of Para Guterson’s Augmented f mount-Moroseo pictures, is now with ag Fer Entire House ‘ PP pong ie harry tae oe “A Country Hero,” playing at the | Pox | ‘The American Bible society's plan feckday Matinces and ACTS Song, “A’ Woman's Bmile’ meen ” maneer an Aberty, introduces the newest vil ee to that ¢ soldier and sailor Balcony Tonight ehasecess rim) jorease in rates, it was brought out | blacksmith, Roscoe (“Fatty")| Nearly every motion picture fan | gets a Bible was indorsed in ay tele . ' that the Northy ern express com: | Arbuckle and also his rival, Cy }loves the “water stuff,” and when, | gram sent to Mrs. Charles H. Whar We pay the tax —And All Bell Ringers 4 panies’ revenues were increasing.|Kione, manager of the garage in the|as is the case in “The Sea Master,” | state man by John R. | ton WASHINGTON, Dec, 10.-At the | ‘phe decrease in revenue is confined | town of Jazzville, And how they ai t the Colonial, it is mighty rough | Mott, general s tary of the Inter, xpress company hearing for an in-|to Kastern territory, hate each other! Reason—the pretty | water, boiling half over the soudding national ¥. M. C. AL