The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 12, 1920, Page 28

00 Men Want His Job * * * * * All the Merry Widows Smile at Abe Olson He’s Alimony Cashier Abe Olson —Lyene Dale Photo. the court, next to Chief Depaty county |in County Clerk Percy F. Thomas’ and | office. ‘The greatest defight Oteon has in . | his officta! duties ts checking up bud ding young lawyern All the papers handied in superior court percolate thru the county clerk's office and +} most of them come to the window where Olson and Wiliam T. Hatt, bis principal asistant, are led. Olson today ranks as the lead ing authority om legal papers tn the court house, When lawyers are Ppuraled they come to Olson for ad vice and he ts credited with never having been stumped. The mort desperate and difficult of Olson's many duties ia, that of exacting the county's due from the tight hands of lawyers. Olson handles it fx up to him to make a barrister’ Ute a burden by demanding payment for all legal papers filed. tea LF ig ‘thy ALSO CUSTODIAN OF “WET” EXHIBITS HF i hibits, both wet and dry, are stored. i ie | Job. 4 iH : 1 8 itl Ht x4 A z cf ; f i Third ave. and Yesler way was con- sidered the latest thing in munictpal structures. Some of the queries are | Up-to-date, tho, and Olson refers to a few good example. One was a letter from a mother tn | Michigan. Hler Gaughter was about |to marry a man from Seattle whe |claimed to be divereed from his wife. “But we have onty bts word.” she wrote. “He says in the West a man’s | word is all the proof, but in the : H if ! tk if it i | | ; i i i | i } i ters of this kind.” | BUT OTHER FELLOW | HAD BAD RECORD Investigation showed that the mother’s susptetons were graundiens and Olsan wrote back that the man had really been divorced. Another was from a girl tn Ptfia- delphia. She was going to marry a Seattle man, who been di vorced. She wished to know the grounds of his divorce. “1 do not want to go Into this mar ttage blindly,” the girl wrote. Olson Jones Is Always Right || «'fe for desertion | “Probably ruined a nice Mttle mar |= * Olson, “but we are bound to ell the® truth.” with the is ions, py Rom gg banks, its share to the financing enterprises. Today move than ever before it is in a position to continue tts service, If your banking foreign connections, com) our services to you. BANK OF BABES STARVE | Plague | the money for the caunty clerk and Olson atvo cares for the clerks ‘There is a perpetual pungent easence | iacutng from this vault, and tt is| another reasan why so many court | house habitues envy Olson and his | As a final iitte @nty, Oton answers most of the querulons iet- that were filed away back tn the days when the ald police station at | enuff out the Fast we take no man’s word on mat-| fesuurces and constant contact privileged in the past fo, Saeee wi Tequirementsare such as to demand resources adequate to meet the needs of a rapidly expanding business, well established ive trade and credit information and a thoroughly equipped, well balanced organization, we cordially offer CALIFORNIA. N.A — A NATIONAL BAN HE SEAT UPSTAIRS aaa (SAVES YOU Aa MONEY 4 T IN BOX CARS and Famine Sweep- ing Budapest eh & NSN and stuff t car house I stood 2 " pneumonia that he coul hand family Iike all oth: ronen, about 40 from the city of Budapest riean Child Fund gives the meal a day of soup and ™ and bread, while the American Fed Cross finds olothing for the most needy but this te ike eweeping back a river "© matter how large and good your @ are, they are never enough to stem the to: ny | You feed 1,000 children @ day, yet! 1,000 still stand ov je with teare in thelr eyes and oe in their stomachs. You put shoes and stock ings on 100 pair of bare feet, but there are no shirts for bare litte backe, | | ‘There t never food ¢nough, cloth. Grant ing enough, medicine enough, work | enough—anything enough In one freight car lives = al from Flume. A father and two lit- tle gtrie are trying to “stick it out”| since the mother leet the battle with | cold and hunger and closed her tired eyes forever, She was buried from the freight car shanty | Tt w& tragic that these children, | lalready infected with the dread white plague, cannot get enough thot. } ‘The father, formerty @ railway | executive, tries to care for his babies | and to teach them at night He works for $1.60 — day, and ts too dog-| tired at night to help them much. | With only a fretght car to call| “home.” no mother for his children | and no adequate work and he ts fast| joatng beart. He i but one ef the thousands who lift their hands to Amertea for aid | Sure Death to Corns “Getelt” Makes ‘Tam Lose Their Grip Painiessly and Lat OF ‘The Gret thing “ets It” dose when ® lands on & corn of callus te | Men’s Department We are show- ing many new patterns in new . Spring Models. Weinvitean early inspec- Then it shrivels in * the corm or callus and loosens IL E STAR _ suitable for Confirmation wear. Gente” fer Corns looked the divorce up and found the|ing it off 't man had been divorced by his first \ TO | a when I answered that letter,” | FOR MEN The great National Game has no more ardent admirers among the Boys of Seattle than has this Great Upstairs Clothes Shop. Here you will find the Garments which are making a “Home Run Hit” with the young fans of the city---and Mothers too are enthusiastic over the remarkable “Score” which we have made | against the continuous rising cost of Boys’ Clothing. We Urge Mothers to Choose for the Boys Now because at the present moment we have no less than 5,000 gar- ments from which they can easily find just the style and fabric they fancy, because in comparison with the ever rising cost of Clothing we were never able to show better value than we do today and because with Easter and Confirmation Services just ‘round the corner you will surely want your Boy to look his best. BOYS’ SUITS AND OVERCOATS $7.50 to $27.50 including a wide range of the popular Wool Fabrics and Mix- tures and a beautiful lot of Blue Serges, Cheviots and Flannels Clothes Shop FOURTH AND PIKE FOR BOYS ANTI-SALOON LEAGUE PROBE NOW INVESTIGATING FUNDS BY JAMES HENLE @ loon as a center of unrest and from ALBANY, N. ¥, March Li--Where | other sources inspired purely by com- jo AnthGaloan league funds come | mercial motives from? Charges made by politicians whore What's tte payroll? food faith has been vigorously as Wl money it raters be weet to eaiiel by league officials, are now spread prohibition in foreign coun-| being backed up by clergymen. tries? . . Investigators of the aftatrs of the ME SAYS IT'S MERCENARY; lemene eine probed ‘by the Nee PASTOR “QUITS IN DISGUST” York state assunbly, promise start-| Rev, William H. Freeman, pastor ling developments, Answers to the Of the Presbyterian church of Car questions and others are liste, N. Y¥., has vol 4 his testi mony In the Investigation. He drew $30 as a worker in the Anti-Saloon league caune, but says he quit in disruat” because he discov ered that the league was mercenary was more Interested in itself, with its salaried than in fishing the sought. It has been charged that churches were “worked” for money; that the Anti-@aloon league “used religion as a cloak for further char ague inclu oft-drink manufactur local, national and | CHEW A FEW—PUT STOMACH IN ORDER! At once! Relieves Indigestion, Heartburn, Gases, Dyspepsia, | caused by Acidity, Hurry! Buy a box at any drug store, Eat meals without fear of upsetting stomach. Read ‘‘Common Sense Rules Regarding Stomach” in package. K Harmless—Splendid! | It ts waid that 19 or more clergy men will add their evidence to that presented by Rey. Mr, Freeman. Hoe described a meeting of league delegates in tho offices of Superin- tendent William H. Andersor, New York City, in December, | “I expected to find the men gath- ered there rejoicing i our victory,” “but instead they | were all depressed at the prospect of jloring their lucrative jobs. Finally, |Mr. Anderson cheered them up by |saying that there would be more | work than ever in enforcing the new | laws. They talked immediately of new money-raising campaigns.” In instructions handed to workers, detatled ruleq were given for deliver ehureh Addre a One part of said Mr. Freeman. ing | the secr tions filppantly termed tion rue instruo “coin-secra Se “wet” sentiment, as recent legislation in eNw Jersey and New York and elections in Massachusetts prove. Anti-Saloon league officials insist | that if the league is discredited and loverthrown the way will be cleared jin the Rast for the entering wedge of an anti-prohibition movement which may overthrow the results of dry” victories thruout the country. Rastern states contain strong Superintendent Anderson has made light of the assault launched against the money-getting and money-spend- ing methods of tho league, together | with its political tactics, by Assembly- man Louis A. Cuvillier. denunciation of the socialists expell- ed from the New York legislature, Gespite the fact that in 1917 he at- 4 Cuvillier has been. vehement in his} tempted to obtain the socialist nom. ination, after that party adopted its anti-war platform. league opposed Sweet's election, altho other temperance organizations, such as the W. C. T. U., supported him. Nor do league offictals much fear! Superintendent Anderson, in hig the influence of Speaker Sweet of the |answer to the hurled at the New York assembly, who was prom |league, accuses Governor Altred BE, inent in the movement to bar mem-/ Smith of “violating the spirit, if not bers of the socialist party from the/the letter, of his oath,” and chalk state legislature, He is accused of |lenges him to a series of public de “double crossing” by the league. The! bates on the Anti-Saloon league. Girls! 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