The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 21, 1918, Page 7

MEN TEACHERS ARE FAVORED IN BOARD DECISION Higher salaries for men than for Women doing the same kind of work was adopted by the Seattle school | board Monday evening, as a war Ume measure to hold men in structors Tt granted increases in ealaries by & fystem of bonuses botn to male high school and male grade school teachers, and created two new classes of grade school teachers, with higher salaries than paid heretofore, Of $1,260 and $1,520, respectively All male high school instructors receiving $1,660 or less, which ox cludes heads of departments, are to receive bonuses of $25 a month or $300 « year, Grade teachers are to repeive varying bonuses, from $216 a year for those of the lowest or $840 clam to $60 for those of the $1,260 clans, while the highest class gets no bonus. Tota! increases will amount to $300,000 for the year 1918-1919, Mrs. Harper Protests The principle of discrimination be tween men and women teachers wi adopted over the protest of Mra, W. P. Harper, woman representative on “Girl With Smile” Had to Hide Tears Before Audience Mins Gertio De Milt To be advertised as “The Girl HANSON ISSUES ULTIMATUM FOR BETTER SERVICE The city council In committee meeting was scheduled to take up again Tuesday afternoon the question of service by and relict uget Sound Traction, Light & or the pur chase of the lines, as suggested Counciiman Thomson, last live up to its franchise obliga tlons was sent President A. W. Leonard Monday afternoon by Mayor Hanson, In point-blank language, the may | OF told the traction company that he | would demand adequate service. The mayor wrote as follows “I desire to ask you when we may expect decent wervice on our street car lines, Conditions are | your company apparently leffort, at least meeting with no suc conn, in taking care of the people. “When your franchises were grant ed, your company agreed to give the people of Seattle adequate service. You have not only failed in giving such service, but are still dilatory and delinquent in carrying out oth er franchise obligations, which the | REDERICK&NELSON —where will our. Red Cross dollars —millions of sweaters, mufflers, socks and other comforts for our soldiers and sailors. —rest houses at the cantonments. —cheer and hot drinks en route to the battle line. —help, advice and financial assistance rendered dependent families at home. —canteens behind the front, serving a million meals monthly to French and American soldiers. —warehouses crammed with hospital and other badly-needed supplies, all along the French and Italian lines. men, port which go? —institutions for the care of com sumptives, for the care of children, and the re-education of maimed —supply organizations reaching thirty- five hundred hospitals, —gangs of workers restoring devas- — tated farms and villages, —the whole served by a-motor trans ~ employs hundreds of , trucks and, outside of the equipment of the army, is the greatest system — of its kind in the world. Truly, the Red Cross is the greatest Mother in the world. She is calling today I the board. Director Judge Richard . * Winsor was unable to attend, pi.| With the Smile,” and then, just #* nighest court of our state haa decid to all of her sons and daughters to sustain her in her she was ready to go on with her act, eee eo NB SS ECRE TER p FRASER SRIF eRe | SECOND AT SKNECA—Continueus 11 to 11 Admission 260-—Children 16c You hear the Red Cress call. | ANSWER. Money grows by saving but that process would br slower if money did now also grow by working. Money fs an effective worker because it never rests. Start saving now and watch your money work Second at Madison. rector FE, Shorrock introduced the resolution and was supparted by President George A. Spencer and Di. rector Nathan Eckstein, Superintendent Frank B. Cooper Opposed the divcrimination tn a state ment submitted to the board. The majority members of the board base their adoption of higher salaries for men on the rates of pay now offered men in her lines of occupation, higher than for women, and on the increase in the cost of living, which has affected men to a to receive the news that her brother had been killed In action in France, | Was the trying lot that fell to Mins Gertie De Milt one evening, a few Weeks ago, while playing in the Bast. Mins De Milt is at the Palace Hip the first half of this week in a singing and dancing number. ‘The signal for my act had just been given, when a messenger rushed in back #tage and handed me a tele gram," said Miss De Milt, “I read that my brother, Theodore, a private in the Canadian army, had been erro ee because Killed. 1 started to faint, but when port families. The high nd ¥ my music started, I came to and can ie abinsed er pay fOr went on, keeping the smile I am al j necessitated to hold and at- ways supposed to wear, I don't to [tract the best male instructors, It is/ this day know how the audience re- claimed. ceived my work, but I have a feeling Calls It Step Back 6 dd to me.” Mrs. Harper deciared that the Pm i hr were Mate vy crimination is 4 step backward, the principle of equal pay for the sexes having long been established. Many women instructors have dependents,» mimate scares amet | WINS SEATTLE obtain and retain men and women of the ability needed, says Superintend- ent Cooper, but should be equal for men and women doing the same work Cyril Maude, the eminent English The majority members admit that! ®¢tor, needs no introduction to Be Manual training, home economica|#tre last night, and which will con and special teachers and industrial, “nue for three more evening per shopkeepers were also granted bo.|formances and a Wednesday mat nuses. The basic salaries, bonuses | Mt Is new here and total salaries for the various! 4 '4ree audience was kept in rare clamnen of grade teachers will be as £01 humor by “Grumpy” last night . | “Grumpy” fs an eccentric old chap. 960 1.195) Dict of “Grumpy” Hiterally hangs by 1,020 11648 hair. This hair, ted to a camelia 1080 worn in the button hole of 1140 +*Grumpy's” nephew, is the clue to 1200 zgi the thief of a very valuable dia L300 “tog | mond, which makes pousible the hap- 1300 of mid nephew and haa raised as children. which is the submarine which sank! «ives it life and reatigm. He puts the Lusitania, according to German into it just the right spice, the wit, advices, entered a Cartagena port in the eceentricity, the mannerisms, the @ damaged condition May 15. lovable qualities of the gruff, but ‘There is a posibility that the orig-|Wholehearted English gentleman inal U-39 has been out of service His work takes rank with the high for some time, and that her number) est on the English stage. she said. | The pay of instructors should be | their action ia more or less of an ex, 2tule. “Grumpy,” the play in which periment and may need revising. | he appeared at the Metropolitan the $ 840 who, with a heart of gold, likes to 900 tog: But on & gruff deportment. The U-39 IS DAMAGED “Grumpy” ie a character that will MADRID, May %1.—The U.ad,| live—as long a» Maude plays it. He has been taken by a new boat Maude’s supporting company is splendid. *Galli-Curci to : | Sing in Seattle on Friday Night rr | | Amelita Galll-Curel, coloratura soprano, will appear at the Metro politan theatre in concert on Fi night, May 24, under the auspices of the Ladies’ Musical club. It will be her first appearance in Seattle 4 ure binding on your “Your letter of April carefully considered and I desire to say that you come to Seattle asking for mercy and at the same time with veiled threats as to what you will do in the way of service in case your demands aré not granted. | “The Ume has gone by when your company can terrorize or intimidate the offictaly of Seattle. “As the executive officer of the city, I now make the request that you at once comply with your fran chine provisions without further de- lay or equivocation.” | goceeccocoocccoooocooccs Far and Near } News by Telegraph and Telephone 3 eee Mise Linette A. Graham, 31, Holly- wood apartments, 118 John st. was badly scalded Sunday, when she | fainted tn @ bathtub, with the hot | water faucet running. She ts in the | Swedish hospital Nanomse- Wellington Coal Co. has purchased properties of Nanoose Col- Heries, Ltd. University of Washington annual art exhibit will be given on campus Wednenday. Bids for sercen wagon service be | tween postoffice and terminal station ‘have been called for by Postmaster | Battle Automobile roads in Rainier Na- tional park will be open to Nisqually glacier by next Sunday. Funeral services for Mrs. J. C. Haines will be held Tuesday, at 430 >. m., at Bonney-Wateon chapel, L. A. Rees, reported killed with the Canadian overseas servicg two years ago, is alive, and wishes n@wold star on University of Washington service flag for him, University of Washington, 100 stuflents will attend officers’ training camp at Presidio this suzn- mer. Tuesday, at 6:30 p. m., Seattle Bar amociation will hold its monthly din- ner. Condemnation sults to acquire for. tification sites on Grays harbor and Willapa harbor have been filed by United States District Attorney Saunders 1. Boak, head consul of Wood- men of the World, will be guest at joint meeting of local camps at W. O. W. ball, Tuesday evening. Under University of Washington campus Y. W. C. 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Pat Barrett, who works in street clothes and no makeup, is a good comedian, A comedy skit, featuring Alexander Gaden, former movie star, was well Uked Joe Roberts, banjo player, always popular with Seattle audiences; Shanley and Furnes, in a patter act, |and Rose and Ellis, expert barrell yortising Co. and table jumpers, complete a bill of variety. Complete records of all alien en- emy property will be kept in King county in the future in accordance with special rules adopted by the judges of the court. of an auto driven by Diller hotel Retail trade bureau of Chamber of | Commerce will hear President A. J Rhodes in address on “Retailer and His Problem,” Thursday, at 6:50 p. m. Home-made brandy and beer were! seized by a dry squad Monday night, at home of C, O. Gill, 2429 W. Boston A. Arnevick, t Precinct No. 51, Minute Men, will hold open meeting for men Tuesday night, at Swedish church, corner 65th st. and Second ave. N. W. At British-American Relief associa. | tion meeting, Wednesday, May 22, Seret. Maj. C. H. Smith, British army, will speak on his war experi | ences. LAquor law violators parted from) | $550 in fines in Judge John Gordon's | | police court Monday. 4. Rothschild Monday night report- |e4 to the police the theft of a quan: | tity of valuable jewelry from his suite in the McKay apartments. | | Oscar Bergstrom, 307 Eastlake ave., lis in the city hospital with a frac tured skull. He was struck, Monday | afternoon, in front of the Skinner & addy shipyard, by an auto driven by W. Holman, 804 16th ave, N, 1, Botsford Tyler Co. of Portland, ad-) | vertisers, and the Constantine Ad of Seattle, have com. bined. JANESVILLE — Citizens raided Milton Junction high schoo! and selz- ed all German text books because the school board refused to stop teaching German language EDWARDSVILLE—Rev. John D. 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NA—At a state-wide confer- ‘00d administrators, a wheat- less diet for Montana until July 1 was proposed in resolution passed Monday. EVERETT—Following an iliness months, Mrs, William H. ife of the manager of the ueser mills, died here Mon- day evening, To secure eligibles for postinaster at Kirkland, civil service examina. tion is announced for June 12, 1918, in federal building here. Funeral services for Mrs, J. ©. Haines will be held Tuesday at 4:30 versity of Washington afternoon, WASHINGTON, May 21.—The breach between President Wilson Skagit Flow Is Low and senate forces demanding a sena- When Cedar Is H: igh torial aircraft investigation opened The record of flow of the Skagit | again today, following futile efforts river, kept by the government since | to agree on a compromise that would _ OF HIS U. S. CITIZEN Frederick Klemm, one time 1909, amply justifies the Installation | stick. of a power plant at the lower dam) Efforts to adjust the differences site to generate 50,000 horse power, | have not been abandoned, but the ber of the German army, was there is little | Heved of oitizenship privileges | speaking disparagingly of the Cross and war activities of the Un wineer Dimock, in a | compromisers admit ‘The | hope. Senator declares City EF) statement prepared by him. Skagit's lowest flow comes in the McKellar, leader in the middle of winter, when Cedar river | compromise movement, and author ed Cushman, court, Monday. flows high, he says, so that plants‘at of a committee report favoring the the two points would work well to: Chamberlain resolution with amend- gether, while the steam plant of the | ments, gave notice he will call up the city furnishes ample emergency te- | resolution Wednesday. serve Indications are that a straightout fense. the Puget Sound navy States, by Judge Edward — United States Klemm appeared in his He was form@ly | whether th CONTROVERSY IS President's ‘iew that appotntawat RENEWED TODAY | iit wasnt cede eta ing the aircraft service make less any senate probe. RELIEVES HERR KLEMM