The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 23, 1920, Page 3

Better Have Green | Plates by March 1/5 Uniess the green supplants the) yellow on your license plate by March 1, you are subject to fine and | imprisonment. This is the edict of| County Auditor Norman M. Wardall. Old Heenses are yellow with biack jetters; 1920 licenses are in white! letters on green background. } It is easier to applaud than it Is to| win applause. CHARLES Optometrist and Mf Eyes Examined and G' SCHWARTZ Optician Pitted Prices Reasonable. 337 Epler Bik. S12 Second Ave. | Phone Main 2551. BLISS ©: A clean, healthy skin ts desired by every woman. BLISS NATIVE HERB ‘will quickly produce it. Sallow com- ixion is oanree by DISORDERED MACH. BILIO' ATION, TMP can te corrected Hach box renin a GUARANTEE 0. BL For sale by all leading druggists In boxes containing 200 by A Washington, D. C NATIVE) HERBS TABLETS | por ESS. CONSTI. | 2 BLOOD, RHEU-| "taking a etable remedy, 183 NATT BRB TABLETS. coupon, and is sealed with a blue neal bearing signature of ALONZO 88. pape imferior quality of gas was being | Chemist J. G. Priestley responded to Only Superfeature Pictures Are Shown Here You very decidedly have not seen the best comedy of this winter season unless you have seen the one now here— CONSTANCE TALMADGE IN “TWO WEEKS” A frothy bit of entertainment spiced up with some midnight bathing and a story that is different. WALLACE on the WURLITZER playing Harold Weeks’ new song, “Under Western Skies” S DECISION \uRY MAY FAIL INTWO WEEKS IN BISBEE CASE. Deputies Scouring Country to Find More Talesmen BY M. D. TRACY Terminated Within the next two weeks | public service commission will de-| TOMBSTONE, Ariz, Feb. 23-—The gide whether the Seattle Lighting | sheriff's office is making strenuous Co. may raise its gas rate in Seattle cfforts to bring in a large proportion Hearing on Rate Increase i the to of the talesmen drawn Saturday for the the Bisbee deportation and kidnap- from $1.25 per 1,000 cubic feet it was announced when tariff was concluded Saturday after-| It in realized by all sides that the noon at the Caamber of Commerce | jury situation ts serious, and the | assembly rooms. | jury Met in being rapidly exhausted. In response to the charge that an| Many prospective jurors were served by deputies Saturday ‘night when they visited dances given at out-of-the-way places, where ptos- pectors, farmers and cowboys gath- ered from the desert and ranges, Today every available deputy this defense by asserting that his sheriff is at work looking for men laboratory tests showed that the coal who have been drawn for jury duty used by the gas company revealed a —_ Census Is Answer higher percentage of heating units and lees ash than the same coal used | to Question Maze _WASHINGTON, D.C. Feb. 23 by the lighting company four years) One hundred per cent accura- ago. ley is the aim of 90,000 census title adopted for “Forest Protection | bureau workers, who are in the Week,” May 23-29, which will be de. served to patrons, the gas company jaetorney sought to prove that tf this true, It was because of the poor grade of coal obtainable. City Director Sam L. Rogers said avert forest fires today SPECIAL HOLIDAY BILL NOW PLAYING DOUGLAS MacLEAN 232 BRIMFUL OF JOY AND HAPPINESS S. CHAPLIN In His Fourth and Latest Million-Dollar Special “A Day’s Pleasure’ If the Rex Plays It, It’s Got to Be Good LL COME EARLY Playing Capacity This census will include the an- lawers to approximately three billion quest The per cegt of error in ensue reports hag been leas than one per cent “It has been found almost impos sible to get an absolutely perfect count,” said Director Rogers, “but every census bureau empoye is working this year to reduce the frac jtion of error to rack bottom mini mum.” Former census reports have proved that some factors which tend to cause error may be listed like this: A considerable portion of persons do not know their age. Perversity of human nature causes a few people to deliberately dodge the census enume T,.. to boast of the doubtful distinction that “you can't find me in the census.” A few criminals fear to be counted anp DORIS ae |. Thousands of persons always are | “out” when the enumerator calls, Jand data relating to them is fur nished by landiadier, friends and rel atives, who are forced to guess to some extent. ‘Taxicab Strike in Buenos Aires Ends BUENOS AIRES, Feb. 22.—The strike of taxicab chauffeurs ended | today in a victory for the employers err Byron on Land Charges| Carlos L. Byron, Portland lawyer convicted in the federal court here on charges of using the mails in t furtherance of a government land fraud scheme, was rearrested Sat urday on a telegraphic warrant from | Portland. Byron was convicted a r ago in Portland on charges sim to those on which he was tried here. His conviction was recently affirmed on appeal. PORTLA®D ELKS, 250 of them |were the guests of Seattle lodge No. 92, B. P.O. B., Saturday night. They will visit Vancouver Monday. —and— Nearly every man you meet knows a sure remedy for a cold, but he never tries it on himself home stretch of the 14th population | voted to educating the careless to count, THE SEATTLE STAR—MONDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1920. 16 OF 37 LINES SHOW PROFIT Figures on “Muny Railroad Earnings Are Issued Of the 7 street car ines that go ® municipal rail va tem, 16 lines are operated at profit and 21 at a} Hammons, stati utilities depart » lines which ar s, according to felan for the pata re one-man cars, the ble cars and the Sum- care, Each of these lines 4 car mile profit of 10 cents The North Queen Anne line shows a profit of 2 cents a car mile, the West Queen Anne line a car mile profit of 6 cents, Eastlake 1 cent, 23rd ave, 3 cents, Broadway 6 cents, Capito! Hill twoman cars 4 cents, East Union and 26th ave. 3 cents, 19th ave. and Mount Baker cars, 7 cents, B. Madi json 6 cents, Sixth ave. N. W. 9 cents Wallingford 1 cent and Broadway one-man cars 6 cents. The heaviest loser of any car line In Seattle is the South Park branch the line losing 10 cents @ car mile every day, according to Hammons’ figures, Losses on other lines are |The Ballard North tine 5 cents a car mile, Ballard Beach 6 centa, B. Queen | Anne 2 cents, Kinnear Park § cents, | Fort Lawton 6 cents, Fauntleroy 4 cents, Alki 1 cent, South Park 6 cents, Division A 2 cents, Lake Bu rien 6 cents, 23d ave. shuttle # cents, Madrona 6 cents, Green Lake 4 conta, Phinney ave, 1 cent, Merid jan 1 cent, N, 40th #t. 7 cents, Yester | way cable 2 cents cents, and ferry RATIFY TREATY, HOOVER URGES Warns Against Judgment of | “Police Court Minds” BALTIMORE, Feb, 23.—Warning againat the judgment of “police court | minds,” Herbert Hoover, speaking at | Johns Hopkins university today, | alled upon senate factions to ratify Madison at. ¢ mit ave show James st, cable 3 9 conte. the peace treaty on the basis of mild |i) reservationieat proposals “It appears to many of us,” Hoo ver said, “that the most pract hope of imme * ratification lew the ‘leaser reservationiats’ accepting the proposals of the mild reservation | wt For my part, if the league cannot prove ite value under the latest pro- posals of the ‘mild reservationiats,’ it will never prove them under the pro posals of the jouwer = reeervation- iwta” In addition to speaking for treaty | ratification, Hoover called attention to the necessity for an immediate raine In the salaries of teachers and professors. Hoover declared against Injecting the treaty into the coming campaign, and pointed out that our policy un der the league, if it Is finally accept od, must still be worked out There are many, he maid, who believed thi country should #tay out of purely Buropean affairs. the covenant, was born in fire and suffering, a sense of wrong, the pas sions of revenge and fear that grow from them. Already many of its signatories are acknowledging it must be revised.” Hoover maid that if the new Euro- pean countries would survive, they must reintegrate much of thelr for mer economic relationships and free themselves from the burden of arma menta, SOVIET SEEKS AMERICA TRADE BY CARL D. GROAT (United Press Staff Correspondent) BERLIN, Feb. 19—(Delayed.)— Efforts of the Russian soviet govern ment to establish trade relations with the United States took a new turn here today, | thoritatively that Victor Kopp, the soviet agent, has attempted to feel} out American officials in Berlin on “The treaty, as distinguished from | when It was learned au-| -. SATISFACTORY OTTO F. KEGEL, President TERMS ALWAYS THE ROTE-RANKINCO. «PIKE ST. anp FIFTH AVE, in New O those in quest of Furniture which beautifies and adorns the home, The Grote-Rankin Co. presents a most inclusive collection of fine Fiber Furniture of pres- ent-day _ designs, beautifully executed, which affords unlimited opportunity for satisfactory selections. Especially worthy of note are the mod- erately priced beckoning Chairs and Rock- ers, the graceful Settees, the chic Maga- zine Stands, the charming Lamps, the con- venient Desks and Chairs, the Decorative Ferneries and Fern baskets, all conven- iently displayed on our first floor. A Recent Shipment and excellent quality Down Pillows. where they can be seen and selected. SILK COMFORTERS—A assortment of rich colorings in dainty figures. These are wool filled and priced $20.00, $25.00, $35.00 and $50.00 each. fully finished; The: Exchange Department Will Take Your Used Furniture When it has outlived its favor with you, credit- ing its intrinsic value to your account, that the * new purchases you plan to make this Spring will tax your purse the less. } An appraiser will call upon you at your || pleasure. Phone Main 7007, Exchange Depart- ment. the proposition Kopp has been in direct commu nication with American officials and| business men, it was learned, but ap: |parently his efforts have met with little auccens. The Americans, it was| id, assumed the attitude that they | |could express no opinion until they | were informed of the position of the j hington government with regard j}to Russian trade, The belief pre-| vailed that at present America is op posed to any negotiations to bring about trade with Russia, so far as| American representatives are con cerned Meantime, negotiations verween| Kopp and German business men are| proceeding. While the government was striving to conceal any part it | may have in the negotiations, it was) | understood they had at least tacit ap- | proval of the authorities, Announcement that a commisison | of German business men will go into Russia to investigate the feasibility | of trade relations was considered | likely. |that the government, urged by the insistence of business men, is pre- pared to back any plan which will enable Germany to secure control of Russian markets without clashing with the allies One report said Germany had re- supply raw materials to be manufac | tured in German plants for | Russia by British trading companies Allied officials here were keeping in ch touch with the Russian trade situation | |Deans of Women in | Chicago Convention CHICAGO, Feb, 23.—Constructive work among college women was the general topic for discussion at the meeting of the Association of Deans of Women of State Universities, who convened here today | | BREMERTON —Chief Boatewain's | Mate Charles B. Gill is In the brig of |U. 8. & New York Monday. Mess |Cook George L. Dudley in hospital Gill, drunk, shot Dudley on U. 8. 8. Arkansas, CONV ERSATION/ AL RU SSI AN in! now taught at the ¥, M, C, A. school! err There were many indications | “ fused an offer from British firms to pxport to |' |All the children are hungry. Jined for rickets, famine edema, tu No Food for Tots Who! Are Merely Hungry, as: Starving Only Are Fed berculosis. His weight Against his age and height on tables scientifically setting forth just what he should weigh. His general con dition is noted; the extent of emaci ation, his.apparent reserve strength. He is questioned as to just what food he gets at home, and the nu tritive value estimated. On the basie of this showing, and not on the basis of any gnawing hunger pangs, it {s determined whether or not the child may be given food. Heartless? Seemingly so, and yet absolutely necessary if the available | food supplies are to be eked out so as to save the greatest possible number of lives. The rule is not "Feed the hungry”; it is: “Feed only the starving!” Children come day by day to the canteens, hungry, hungrier, but still not hungry enough to be given a ration card, After a time, however after it may be a week or two weeks or three—they qualify. At last, they are starving—they may have food! But the coldly ectentific weighing of ench child's condition does not end with his admission to the food |line, His improvement {is watched and his gains in weight and strength carefully checked. After a period of feeding, when it ts found the supplementary meal has built up a certain reserve of vitality, his card is withdrawn, When he ap- pears next day he is denied admit tance. He is again out of the starv- ing line; he is merely hungry. Some other child, who has been hungry, ‘but is now starving, has his place, ‘True, failure to get his extra food may mean that with in the next week or two he will BY HARRY B. HUNT WASHINGTON, Feb. %3.—If four children came to your door ’ “We're hungry,” and you only had two slices of bread in your house, what would you do? Why, you'd break the slices in two nd give each child half a slice, of You wouldn't etop to deter mine which child hungriest which in greatest need of food Yet that last is exactly what the American Relief Administration has in distributing food to the jhungry children of Europe, accord ling to Dr. Vernon Kellogg. No child is entitled to food simply be. cause it is hungry. If all the hun gry were fed, the food supplies in hand would quickly be exhausted. Food, under the restrictions neces y to make most effective such Hef as is possible with the money in the Buropean Children's Fund, is only for the starving. The determi nation of which child to feed, then, and which to turn away still hun gry, becomes a matter for cold, scl entific calculation All the children that crowd around the child feeding canteens main tained by the Children’s Fund, are hungry. That is why they are there If they were not hungry they would not stand patiently in the long ‘ines shivering as the winter winds cut thru their scant clothing. Serving at each of the canteens where the children come for food are volunteer physicians. A child without a food card comes up. His pleas for just a bite—a bowl of soup, a piece of bread—are wholly disre- garded. Of course he's hungry But course! was to do MUST he have food to live? 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Among the dependable Garden that we recommend are: Hoes, priced . Rakes priced ¢, 95¢, Spades with long or short handles Spading Forks ... Shovels, with long handles Weedere, 20€@ Weeding Forks, 15¢ Troweis, ‘186, 20¢, Pruning Shears..75¢ to $1.75 Hedge Shears |the relief already received and that |he will be back again within the line of actual starvation. But’ until he is back below that line again he “a have the bowl of soup or - of sweetened cocoa and slice of bread to which he had become ac- jcustomed. Food is only for the starving! London Celebrates American Holi LONDON, Feb. 23.—Lord |Sir Edward Cooper today at a Washington's Birthday at the Mansion House, m J. W. Davis being the guest of The anniversary falling this year a Sunday an official banquet not possible on the actual date. 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