The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 19, 1918, Page 5

EVERETT TRUE LANDLORD, I WANT A THROUGH THIS FRONT 1 WON'T HAVE TO THE HOSS FROM Back OF THS ANY MORE, WSL, THGN, LET'S SPLIT THE 1 DIFFEReNcS — eu PUT THE HOLS “THROUGH THE WALL AND COL DO THE REST}! STAR READERS SAY IPHONE SERVICE IS HARD ON BUSINESS ‘lelth and business both suffer fm Seattle because of demoralized telephone service. Letters continue pour in to The Star, pointing out Tidiculous inefficiency of the undér present management. Banks pharmacy, 2600 First has had two phones installed a pay phone and the other an business phone — accord plaint of ys during the pres he charges, the ordi. was out of order and all oceasions refused incoming calls over the ‘This #4 r F i & s ii i i manager repeatedly told that had been taken out. month,” says the phar Proprietor in his complaint “the phone company our phone and for of this money the ved service.” . Swift, now living in who was chief operator exchange in the East says the fault with here is that girls are without being given ining at the school the maintains. coming to Seattle, Mrs. she went to the school order to get acquainted with the Giferent exchange names and Toutine in. this city. Altho she had Deen learning but one day the com pany ordered her to an exchange as & full fledged operator, altho she GA not even know the names of the different exchanges from which calls were received. Another subscriber writes: “Your Ty i E i ? E ! i* : z cayggierz na Ment of all the city. “That a state of gross negligence and inefficiency is apparent cannot denied. ¥ “The remarkable growth of Seat te in the past year is partly re Monsible for the fact. The telephone company is unable to cope with the imerease of business and is sacri service which should be serve only in part everyone “Owing to the extreme pressure of War work which should give place to everything else, present operators seem indifferent to their responsl- bility in lending their co-operation. | the phur-| TTIE SI HOLE WALL oO BUSINESS OF BEING INTERESTED RLOEWHERE “it has been suggested that all the residence telephones be cut off during business hours in order to | sive precedence to war work. Visit ing over Ute phones at this time can just as well be done after basi- ness hours. “Another condition that should be adjusted is the matter of giving a decent wage to the operators on whom we are dependent for service. That you receive just what you pay for goes without saying. 1 | understand that the telephone girl get as low a pittance as $9 per week for work that requires great intelligence and patience, “In these days no girl can live on that. Hundreds of girla merely take this position as a makeshift | until they can get something else. | T am Informed that no sooner does }a new girl get broken in to the | work than she leaves to take up more remunerative wor] | “You cannot promote efficiency | and service with poor wages and no lincentive for promotion. The situa. | tion Is desperate and prompt relief should be given | “The money value of the time | wasted in these days of hurry and | conservation runs into the tens of | thousands of dollars daily. The telephone situation is approaching |hysteria. It requires drastic action. \I trust The Star has started some | thing which may avert what prow: ises to be a local calamity.” Great Lakes footba Fifth of a number of articles by Paul Parman, showing how H. P. Olcott, former all-Ameri- can center, and coach of the | (Special to The Star by N. FE. A.) Great Lakes football team, ATHENS, Oct. 19.—When the jubl-| teaches his men the game. |lant Greeks are not rejoicing over ‘ ‘ | the victories of their armies in Mace- BY PAUL PURMAN | donia, they are discussing King Alex-| ‘There are two things which must It} accompany every kicking play In 'Greek King May Marry Native Gir! ander’s matrimonial quandaries. is known the king's affections have! game of football to make the kick been centered on a native Greek girl,| accomplish its purpose: the ability but the government fears such ®/ of the linemen to hold while the marriage. The fact that the public! kicker is getting the ball away and HOLD LINE, GE TTL TAR BY CONDO | DOINGS OF THE DUFFS—And Then Wilbur Spent the Evening in the SAY, WHY You SALUTE Me — SAY- DIONT You See THaT OFFICER GO BY 2 WHATS WRONG WITH)| A CONVENTION OF YOUR SALUTING FLIPPER 2 Fa lt players in » kicking play. Phot cessful kick, One man has broken the speed of the ends in getting down under the ball. The best pigekin booter in the world could kick all afternoon and lose out in the long run against a mediocre opponent he had this co-operation. ‘The kicker, whether he ix to punt or drop kick for a goal, must receive a long pase from the center, a pass which may be faulty on account of the distance it is tossed, straighten up, balance himself and get the ball unless SATURDAY, OCTOBER 19, 19 Yen = my ARMS TIRED FROM SLUTIN’ OFFICERS TOORY - WEY MUST BE ‘EM AROUND “THESE PARTS! o by K. P. Dorman. Passed by U. set properly before he can kick His line MUST hold while he is doing this, otherwise the kick may be blocked, entailing the loss of many yards. The ends must be down the field almost aa fast as the ball or the ground gained by the punt may be lost if a speedy man gets his hands on the ball The accompanying photograph shows how the line has held while the punter was getting away a suc thru, but he was too late to stop way ? BECAUSE I'M AN OFFICER - VIVE LA KETTLE GENERAL ~ ! BOY HOwDY - S. censor. the kick. be seen going down the field. Another thing about the kicking game. The men who are to do the kicking should practice punting and drop kicking for accuracy and dis tance every day. Charles Brickley perhaps the greatest of kickers the game has ever known, used to prac tice kicking for hours, using a small barn door as a target. cee Read Purman’s next football ar ticle in The Star Monday. desirous of obtaining the public's ex: | pression. has learned of these facts thru the press shows that the government is ’ {GERMAN LABORERS START OWN BANK | ameter EVERETT, Oct. 19.—Enoch Rag wungaacs. Soe oct een cmk’| shaw, who has coached Everett lished by the non-soctalist ‘trade | Di#h school football teams for the past 10 years with the loss of but unions of the Rhineiand-Westphal- | - 1. game, has enlisted in the army fan district to prevent the autocPats of high finance from “exploiting | the enormous capital of the labor- ling classes.” neers, assembled at Fort Douglas. | Utah. He expects to be called TODAY’S MARKET REPORT within 10 days. . . PORTLAND, Ore, Oct. 19. Nick Williams, prominent in North western league baseball circles as manager of the Portland Colts and — Vegetables end ¥ *- Dealers tor Freit | — 4 Spokane Indians, is just recovering en eT Se. S lfrom an attack of the Spanish in Poultry, Veal and fo. b. Reatle land will be attached to 40%rd engi. | jto The Star Will Gladly Publish The following letter has been received by Clifford J, Clark, 6 W. S4th st., from his son, Wagoner James B. Clark, statistical office, base section No. 4, of the Ameri- can forces in France | “Dear Dad: Tomorrow is my| birthday, and I shall have attained |to the age of discretion, according the sages. But I do not feel that way. Rather do I feel entirely irresponsible, even tho I am entire-| ly sober in a land of plenty “That France ts a land of want and hunger, I have failed to up to the present time. That de scription fits England more than rance. That all French women jare *beautiful is exaggeration, but | oh, boy! after England, to be where pretty girls are the rule in stead of the minority, is a great! thing! | “The weather here for the past! | week has been wonderful, tho we| have a good deal of rain. As a| - $18 | 39—___—____—_-— He)! fluenza at Camp Taylor, where he VEGETABLES | Springs —Under 2 tbs. . is stationed at the officers’ training Revte—Loea!, £.50 | 7 Ie. .ene over « school. His case was not very ser Loead $f | Gecse—Youne. live “3{ |fous, according to a letter received Local, per tb. . 02 | Hene- Tight, live . ss. 24} from him by Judge McCredie. ¢ Leal, sa feavy, live... ieade ae ° teen teks a Sie pa al cs ogre Re et | NEW YORK, oO 1 While the . ; 2 79 — Lal a oF 27| NEW . Oc " Mes Stade tne Dressed +... +--+ 32@ .33 | influenza epidemic has canceled Local, out § | Pork—cood’ Block hoi aa ou 3 | Berk—Gond, i |most of the football games set for Tee ott. per ee eee To | Beet—Country, per Tb, no | Saturday, several tilts will be run| per tb. ... iz@ 116] * — — —8 | off, with the game between the Mereredish—icai, per tb...) is@ (17 Felting Prices to Retailers for | Washington and Jefferson reprenen Uettece—Locai. per dor. heads 75@ 85 | Batter, Eggs and Cheese - Local teat, per crate ....-. 80 38 | 3§—_——_—__-_—_—_—__« | tatives and Camp Sherman at Onione—Waiin Walln yeliow Danver. | Batter— tracting the most attention of the ol 4. liam browa’ ‘coh teenth | T2CRl, city creamery, me, tn * fans. n brown, owt. 3. 7 cartons... ‘. 66%@ .66| "Te mouth is scheduled to meet Peasst Batter Pe sos: 19%@ 21) Leal city creamery, pikes, | erate 1.25@1.75 parchment wrapped “¢ 45| Norwich in what should be a good vee A6@ AT | tocal er 64 | practice session for the former ag: | p + 3.75@2.00 ¢2 | Kregation Ke Wash. me, owt. 2.8 60 . |” Pittsburg will meet the Detroit bunches .26@ .20 PE Lotsccohesisgsess 25 | naval training station team in Pitts: eanerh—Local, pert veces 04] Washington Young America.. .23@ .36| nave! ‘ Sanash—incal, per Tb. ‘ Weihingien ereoms brick 3} | burg. Meenas, bor bez Oregon Y. A. A 23@ 25| Other Eastern games of import Local, per Washington triplet 34/\ ance are the melees, scheduled be Aopen — wae Oregon ‘triplets 320 34) tween Brown university and Rhode Wash. Alexander rn sit —____.-jj| Island State, and Bucknell and Vocal Gravenstein Country Hay and Grain | | Penn, State E. Wash. Jonathans .. paid wholesale) 1] oe juaternain, per i —lncal, per erate Wash. common . Wash. Burre! Gen Cal. seodiens, bo: Grapes — * Hi Wish: Concorde, per box. 850 90 ’ zw, » lady Vingers, jug .2.35@2.60 Roney. ‘seh. Tokay, 4-bekt. ert. 75@2.00 New , cane 24 combs 7.00@7.25 damon «7.00 @7. Cal. Valencian, box 11.60@12.00 B. Wash . . 1.50@2.00 . Waah 250@2.00 Local liailan + 86 @1.00 NUTS vit Per ™. .., ‘ew Per t TACOMA, Oct. 19.-Frank Farmer, former light heavyweight champion of the Pacific coast, who fell before the pile driving left of K. 0, Kru vouky of San Francisco, sets forth the claim that the Golden Gate SS $2.00 | battler hit him low in the first bt = ay £9.00 | ound, which weakened him, and Clipped Barley Corn Seratch Food . .00@81.00| shows a welt left on his body as | Dairy Chop. A Cottanaced M «$0.00 | proof of the statement. 47.00| Chet McIntyre, Farmer's manager, jeal—Per ton - 9.600600 | who was in the Kapowsin logger's | Kaw Mash Beef Seraps—Per owt. Wood Mea) |... ‘ | eorner during the fight with the A ae | Californian knockout artist, re | Ground Harley Francisco story | gudtates the San that Kruvosky used tea lead in the tapings. Onte—Minnenotn Tacal i bt general rule, we can figure on six days of rain and one day of show-| ors a week. | “You will explain to mother thaf I am busy over here and will be! unable to write as often as I have} been doing in the past. I am splendid condition, living like al king, and altogether am quite con- | tent.” | WRITES IN HOSPITAL C. H. Burkman, 619 Nob Hill, joined the Canadians in 1915. He was wounded on ‘the eighth of August, at Amiens, when every other member of hia platoon was killed, While in the hospital he wrote a poem which later appeared in “The Listening Post,"” published by the British expeditionary forces Pay Checks Cashed While enjeying » cool of cards or pocket billiards stalre TORREY & SEARS’ BILLIARD PARLOR 1430 Ord, Corner Srd and Pike Counter Laneh Barber Shep Beft Drinks Main 819 Card Tables From Sammies | China, Interesting Communications The poem follows When I think of the man I might have been, And the things I have left undone The wasted years, the profitless life, The honors I might have won; | When I think of the girl I loved and lost, And the happiness that might have been ours O, God! it hurts with a stinging pain Thru the long, dark, dreary hours. A Knight of the Road, King Wan derlust— A dreamer, idle and free; But the dreams are those of what might have been If the future we only could see. And I'll go thru life with @ song on my lips, With a goodfellowship grip of the hand; But in my heart there will be the ache For the Home in the Distant Land. ha world, nearly the longest canal in from Petrograc to} 4,500 miles. The Norwegian mile is the long- est—12,182 yards. The shortest 1s| the Chinese—some 600 yards, Rus: the LETTERS FROM SOLDIERS | DOBIE’S MEN PLAY TODAY YORK, Oct. 19.—Coach crack Annapolis gridiron eleven will swing into action Satur NEW Dobie's day, meeting the navy pay station team from Princeton. The are expected to cop the game with much trouble from the Jersey service men. middies out The University of Oregon and the Oregon State college will meet twice in The first is scheduled for November 9, Eu gene, and the other game one week later, on November 16, in Corvallis. This is the first time in the his tory of the two Oregon institutions that they will play each other twice in one season, November. game at CAMP LEWIS, Oct. 19.—The Camp Lewis football team will swing into action Sunday, when they take on the fast Foundation shipbuilding team of Portland, Ore. The soldiers lineup {s still uncertain, and no an nouncement of the final lineup will be made until game time, according to Lieut. Kineholz, who is in charge of the team for the first game. Lyle Rigbee, a member of the Duthie shipyard baseball crew for the past two years, and formerly quarterback on the University of Oregon gridiron squad, may break into the game at left halfback —THE— BANK OF CALIFORNIA NATIONAL A°LOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO A NATIONAL BANK SEATTLE BRANCH Cor. 2nd Ave. and © KE + Wagner, Geo, T. White, Asst. Manager. G. L. Wakeman, Asst. Manager. Thoroughness Characterizes our every transaction, tomers are accorded every cour- texy consistent with sound busi- ness judgment. 4% Wald on Savings Accounts Accounts Subject to Check Are Cordially Invited. * Peoples Savings Bank SECOND AVE. AND PIKE 8ST, methods in and our cus- > On the right an end may | PAGE & BY ALLMAN “oa CONGRATULATIONS OLD MAN! AND WHO WAS “TWAT GREAT PERSONAGE WITH ALL YouR SALUTING AND GREETINGS 2 See The New America Juvenile Models They carry the same equipment as the larger Wheels— Frame Pump, Tools and Bag, Bell, Stand, Rubber Grip and Mud Guards, Ask Us About Our $2 a Week BICYCLES FOR BOYS AND GIRLS MEN AND WOMEN Mercer Cycle Co. “THE BICYCLE HOUSE” 1110 Pike St. Elliott 1150 TELEPHONE OPERATORS WANTED Telephone operating effers many advantages te young women who are seeking employment at » good salary with opportunities for advancement. Good Pay A good salary from the start. Regular and frequent increases, Permanent Position ‘Work is steady and permanent. Many opportunities for advancement, Interesting Work Pleasant, clean, fascinating. Associates carefully selected. Pleasant Surroundings * Light and well ventilated offices. Comfortable lunch and recreation rooma, Special Advantages Annual vacation with pay. Sick Benefits, Death Benefita, Pensions, without cost. Good Character and Good Health are required. Young women between the ages of 18 and 26 are preferred. Previous expe rience is not necessary. Our employment office is located on the First Floor, 1115 Fourth Ave., between Spring and Seneca, and ts open from 8:30 A. M. to 5:30 P. M. We frivite you to call at this office and meet the School Principal, who will gmdly discuss the matter personally with you. A ap pointment may be made by calling Elliott 12000. The Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company 1115 FOURTH AVENUE First Floor REAL PAINLESS DENTISTS In order to introduce our new (whales bone) plate, which ts the lightest and strongest plate known, covers very lite tle of the roof of the mouth; you cam bite corn off the cob, All work marenseet, for 15 years. Have impression taken in the morning d get teethesame day, Kxaminat id advice f: All work guarhnteed for fifteen years. Have impression taken in the Morning and Ket tecth same day, | I:xamination and advice free. Call and See Samples of te and Bridge Werk. We Stan@ ‘Tent of Time. Most of our present patronage is recommended by our customers, whose work ts still giving good satisfaction. Ask our custom- ere who have tested our work. en coming to our office, be sure you are im the right place. Bring this ad with you. Sundays From 9 to 12 for Working People OHIO CUT-RATE DENTISTS Opposite |g02 UNIVERSITY ST. Fraser-Paterson Oa