The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 24, 1920, Page 1

Tonight moderate Maximum, yas IT SEEMS TO ME DA} aero aitad UNSHINE, roses, camp fir trout fishing brides and graduates tr June is the most wonderful harvest Month of the year. And of them all, the graduate is the happiest. because, for a brief pertod, the graduate wil} b fectly content with the past, the present and the king over the e‘tge of things eping thru the scholasti 1, with a mind of fine pre cepts, with a heart full of courage and a soul filled with faith, how wonderful is the graduate with the bit of scholastic dry class honors parchment, sun. and the world for & playfield On the th of life, of re mance, of adventure, of achieve ment; blue skies above, velvety greenery under foot, infinite moun tains, snow garbed and aloof on the far horizon, the triumphant strains of the varsity band, the adulation of admiring relatives, the congrat ulations of classmates and the af fable condescension of professors. human for a day—surely, it top note on the staff of life's har mony ND ali lives the rest of these who just now think of adventure and ro mance js just ahead, will look back thru the dull years wist fully, and find their onty thrill in the romantic memory of gradua tion time. Setence today has a theory that the human animal reaches perfec tion at the age of 12. and that from thence onward there is no increase in vital forees, but instead detert oration that becomes more progres- sive ax the years advance | Perhaps 12 is « bit young, but certainly the average high s¢hool Sraduate is at the height of his or ber physical and spiritual strength, and whatever the future may bring, it certainly will not bring joys as great as those of the school or college years, because the fresh sincere, uncontaminated power of enjoyment will be constantly de ereasing. No man ever felt pure 9 joy over the «r an adoring nation can their graduates, u as the boy of 10 feels with his first target rifle. Just as the widow never has the thrill of the tender bride, so the bride, no matter how tender her courtship, nor how romantic her marriage, never has quite th same pristine thrill aw she had in her gawky days, when cub made the world glorious for her FEW rare spirit cir youtht ig. and, in spirit, at can project them back to the tri umphs and jests of youth and feel & little of the old, glad thrill of per fect happiness, but these spirits are seldom found among cling love of least selves successful” men or brilliant women, and most t the uraged eynica ‘The the saints world is comprised of dis 1, xkeptical, roken-winded adults. and seers, the dis lusion tlosophers Es true not of every age, from man’s first birthdays, have trumpeted the great truth that heaven is within, and that joy of living comes from a state of mind, and from possexsions, achieve nor from victories. But mankind has never believed that “Except ye become a» little children, ye shall in no wise enter the kingdom of heaven.” Mankind haw insisted that to en. the kingdom of heaven tt had n hot ashes, or inflict tor tures on “infidels,” or pray big. empty prayers before a big, empty altar, or follow rigorously a multi tude of man-made prevepta. Mankind has never believed that the kingdom of God was within, and that anybody could merely open the doors of his heart and find a paradise there ‘June is the real month brings the eternal truth of “I the resurrection and the life” home pseudo not ments te to roll that® am % the young, and for a brief hour at the altar the bride catches a neart-thrilling glimpse of the great white throne of perfect love and a peace that paswith understanding, and the graduate, thrilling with sense of coming victory, and hal- lowed by a few ra of sincere striving after the true things of life, senses the heavenly spirit that breathes on little children at play, and that sometimes comes to make the death beds of vary old and people a glory But the rest of us fret our im- morta} souls worrying over the per manence of some cheap Job, or the state of our health, or the condi tion of Mary's Sunday shoes, or what the neighbors think of us And all the seers and saints and Christs somehow can't point out the way to heaven to our blind feet If it was harder to be happy a angels are happy; if it was unnat ural, expensive, to be attained by a university course, or a trip to some shrine, haif the world would gain happiness And thru the ages that hag been Weather threatening; we Temperature Last 59. unsettled and Friday, fair; terly winds. CONVICT RADER OF SLAYING HUSBAND Defendant, Locked in Jail, Is Now Facing Life Term | in Penitentiary Ingram ° Rader, wealthy fuel | contractor, who has been at lib erty on $20,000 bail since the slaying of his former employe, Bud Dean Curtis, spent today in @ county jail cell, despondent over the verdict of a jury convict ing him of murder in the second degree, and recommending the maximum penalty, life imprison. ment. Immediately after the verdict w } returned, at 9:15 laxt night, and r by Judge Calyin S Hall befo crowded courtroom, Rader was taken into custody by deputy sheriffs and escorted to jail Rader wil) ask for a new trial, He shot and killed Curtis fin Rader's wood camp, near Lake City, on April 3. after Curtis had acqused him of} breaking up his home and the two! had quarreled. NO TESTIMONY FROM DEFENSE Rader'’s jury retired at 3:15 yester-| day afternoon, without a word of tes | timony being uttered in hin defense. land deliberated five hours and a half | The unusual feature of Rader's trial was his total lack of defense | Even he did not take the stand to lexplain to the jury why he had killed Curtis, after eye witnesses of | the fint fight had thought the quat-( rel between the two men Was at jan end. } | Thomas D. Long. in his closing jargument to the jury, contended the killing was justifiable because Curtis |wax on Rader’s land,“and was a trespasser there. | Carmody answered this argument / by hammering home to the jury the fact that Curtis’ wife and baby were| jbeing virtually held by Rader on the| Property of the contractor and Curtia had a right to go there after them. Long contended Curtis’ asmnult upon Rader was unprovoked, and| that he knew he had no business | there ‘LONDONDERRY IS IN WAR'S GRIP Sinn Fein Said to Be Sen ing Reinforcements LONDON, June 24.—Several hundred additional troops have arrived at Londonderry with armored cars, machine guns and some heavy artillery, ac cording -to dispatches today | A trainload of physicians, nurses and medical supplies has left Dublin to aid in relieving ‘the hundreds of wounded filling Londonderry hospitals. At the Irish office it was stated that the situation tm the city hat | become quiet, altho fighting between | |the Sinn Femers and Unionists! |had occurred during the morning. | Military authorities have taken | measures to repleniah the food sup- | jply and strong patrols of soldiers jin the streets permitted citizens to purchase their immediate needs The known dead today stood with many of those at the hos mortally wounded Sniping from roofs continued day but most of the fighting wa personal encounters. Sev cases | were reported of Sinn Feiners tak. | tng shots at the British troops tt 12, pitals to- | they were few and not considere significant | Rumors were current that Sinn! Feiners were massing in the north |west to join in the Londonderry | fighting. Hundreds of heavily armed | unionists in the north also were re- ported preparing to come to the city Efforts of the military to clear the latreets were handicapped by orders \te shoot only in event of the gravest necessity. The food situation denper: | owing to inability of eitizens to reach | | the shope. { EASY SUMMER FOR PREACHER| | } FAIRFAX, Okla, June 24— | Rawther soft nowadays for Rev.) John Templin. His three sons are} visiting him. All being preachers, they are filling his pulpit alternately. ARARARRARAR nnn | thought the path of peace, and so the world has each year grown | more wick of soul and more sad of | enance New thought? Certainly not! | The oldest thought in the world. | runway, planse, as their backs came into Those who were there last! night are aware today that some lbeauties have dimples in their backs. In dainty, fluffy costumes, carry: | ing bouquets of longstemmed pe ontes; in shorter, lower costumes) | that rounded curves, | favorite; On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise Mntered as Se Clans Matt * er May 2, 1899 At (he Postoffice at Seattle, under the Act of Congress Wash March 3 The Seattle Star 1879 Per Year, by Mall, $6 to 09 FINAL 2 1920. SE ATTL R WASH. THU IRE DAY, JUNE “TWO CENTS IN SEA‘ * * * Contest Judges Center on Seve Throngs Crowd Theatre for, Scott Fund Benefit at Which ‘Seattle Salesgirl Contestants Appear Choose Today by Personal Interviews, SAN JOS Beauties on Display for | Scott Fund: | Entrants to to the Zie fold Contest Greeted With Deafening Applause A cheering audience that filled even standing room in one of the city's largest theatres—Levy's Or pheum—last night beheld an en chanting spectacie And now we know why nowadays ®0 many men go shopping, and why #0 many more are going to acquire the habit } For the spectacle the audience saw | was not just one vision of beauty but 23 #uch visions, one after an-| other—Seattle’s loveliest salesgiris AUDIENCE THUNDERS ITS ACCLAIM One by one the beauties onto the sta a runway th: orchestra pit, stepped nd tripped out onto| extended out over the pirouette, and walke back to the stage again, where they stood in crekcent formation, while} the audience thundered its acctaim, These girls work in, stores, and one of them ix to be the Heattle) entry in the nation-wide Ziegfeld beauty contest. Ziegfeld is search: ing the country for the prettiest salesgirl in America, If she was not among thone 23 beautiful contestants whom the audience ewed last night, the winner will have to be a miracte. SEEMS FRIGHTENED AT cn OWN SHYNESS The first to step up on the way was a winsome little mins, | seemed frightened at her own shy- ness. But when the spectators com- menced their demonstration, she re- covered, smiled, and passed om and| off as the second beauty came from behind the wings. | run who | A beauty, of course, must have a| |face. But she must also have a back. As they came along down the | smiling, and turned in the} very center, where they were near- the audience, there was re ly a second wild burst of ap: eat pe that were daringly slashed to reveal slim, wellturned ankles; in costumes | were closely form fitting, and | drapes that clung tightly to they came before us round of ap. in h for a crashing Plause. HARD TO TELL WHO GOT THE MOST APPLAUSE Which got the most applause? Who can say? Who can tell whether | the applause meant for some was | not mistaken for that meant for an other? It is which was the! were, It was a} to show a bouquet | d the | uneasential they all collective display rather than a single flower. audiénce seemed to know it. They were not there merely to| show themselves off; th ame be cause The Star asked them to come, (Turn to Page 2, Column 8) | | | !naflonal sajesgiris’ beauty contest \“roo T |the men of the jury on the qui vive | to show your forehead. | trait might not do her justice. BY VOKUTHY FAY GOULD | It takes more than perfect features | to make a stage beauty, That was the verdict of the jury yesterday after hours spent over a big table spread with photographs of Reattle’s loveliest salesgirin—the 63/ entrants in The Star's search for a Seattle representative in the Ziegfeld Patterson, head department of painting at the Uni versity of Washington, was one judge who ought to know a Venus when he sees her. How he did squint at the noses in the photos, casting Ambrose of the one out becauxe the proportion was not what it should be in relation to the forehead; or putting one on the winning side (Clara Barth) because she has a straight Grecian profile good—the nose and all very nice.* SOME ELMINATED AS ATRICAL” Mrs. Edgar Ames, who chose the cast for the Naval Pageant that was | such a success two years ago, kept “That Miss Cinnamon has great style—individuality—like the duchess of Mariborough"; or “I'm very par- thal this petite type; a regular Venus! The head is charming, the hair brushed back as if showing her intelligence. On the stage you have ” This was! to Mins Kehoe's picture.) Or (putting one aside) “She's too ‘theatrical’; she's all made up; such curls and marcels! The regular;a stage and movie position baby Sete a NB cage the] with a Ziegfeld beauty show| ene. bent Zleetald busy tiejand the Mayflower movies. manner are best. Ziegfeld has a big | % . ; sign in the wings that any girt ap-| Z'op row, left to right—Misses | pearing in make-up will be instantly | Hazel Pomeroy, Hazel Elaine | |fired. A girl to succeed today can't! Miller, Clara Barth. Second, |be vulgar and petty; she must have |row—Misses Farol McPher- /taste and brains,” | M. L. Kirkpatrick, ot ‘he Bushnett| 70M, Betty Cinnamon, Cillia studio, would keep interpolating B. Kehoe. Below—Miss Louise | “Well, I wish you could see her color | Lough, ing. Real Irish, My judgment is | — ~ |spolled. The classic lines of the face their beatuy already had made them are one thing to judge from a photo: | remarkable from behind the counter. graph, but the personality and vivac:| 1, wag decided that before taking ity of each one impresses you #0 that! the momentous last vote, to luce you can often overlook a defect in| the seven to one winner—and it is beauty.” no secret the jury are as violently SEVEN ARE CHOSEN WITH divided among the seven as they GREATEST DIFFICULTY |were previously among the original It was with the greatest difficulty | bewildering 63, each lovely in a that severt were chosen for the final| Unique way—an interview would be elimination test, Even after all had | Necessary, agreed upon one set, Mr. Patterson) 80, at 3:30 this afternoon, by spe. went back lingeringly over the chairs | clal appointment, the seven will have overflowing with prints, hating to|a very critical going over, For Zieg discard this one and that, whose por-|feld has asked for only one, and it | will be @ very difficult thing to decide Apparently most of the girls could| which of the Seattle beauties should be recalled to mind by the judges, for | represent this city in the final com: One of these seven will rep- resent Seattle in the national |nery at Steen & Brogan’s salesgirls’ beauty contest for} parison with the winners picked by similar juries in 60 or more other American cities. | | MENTALITY IMPORTANT | IN WORK ON STAGE } Mentality is important For suc cons on the stage Means a 14-hour.a- day job. The candidate must be dignified. She can't be “mushy.” | A little presence and bearing, the know-how of wearing clothes—these are among the strongest characteris: ties of the really successful salesgirl. Even men admit that “feminine sloping shoulders, a lovely back and jong lines” are first aids to the suc-/ censful actress. | But the secret key to real success | is the dream of amounting to sonte- thing, that can be read in’ some! people's eyes. “Seeing the soul in the picture, as Mr. Kirkpatrick put it, and all the jury looked at the photograph of Hazel Miller. | “Maybe so," said the others, “but wait till we see them.” | The seven finally chosen, after} what all the jury agrees was the greatest difficulty, were: MISS HAZEL POMEROY, at the Jy counter of Pig'n Whistle | MISS FAROL M'PHERRON, jbakery at the Bon Marche. MISS CLARA BARTH, of | in mili} | MISS HAZEL MILLER, of the| sheet music department of the Mar- |ttus music house. { MISS BETTY CINNAMON, of the! |Bon Marche, | MISS CILLIA KEHOE, of Fraser Paterson's. MISS LOUISE LOUGH, of the Phinney ave. pharmacy, | NATIONAL LEAGNE | R. H. B.| Cincinnath ......ceeee r 7s 2 | At Philadelphia 6 S Sallee and Wingo; Smith, Gallia} and Wheat | R. H. BE. PURE J esis ves ongsies ae At Brooklyn su, 3 Adams, Meador, Ponder and Schmidt; Mamaux and Miller R. H. B.| | Chicago 1 6 3] At New York...... .8'20° 11 Vaughn, Martin, Bailey and | O'Farrell; Nehf and Snyder, R. H. B, At Boston . saebseases@ S01 ae St. Louis huteu SS Schupp, Goodwin and Clemoni McQuillan, Bayres and Gowdy, O'Neill. |N. ¥, HUNDREI WITNES SUICID Despondent Over Girl Leaps From W | in Doctor’s Offic SAN JOSE, Cal., J —Miss Clara Field, of Z. O. Field, weaithy ing contractor, suicide this afte leaping from a fou window of the G !bank building. | The building is situated busiest intersection in 4 hundreds of persons bedy hurtie thru the air | Miss Field, who was 96 9 old, had been in it some time. She jumped to her a window of a physician's The body struck the sid rowly missing pedestrians. apparently was instantaneou Miss Field was prominent ig Jose society circles. ‘Baby Cries? Leave Flat! * Dog? O. K. |Makes a Difference What Produces the Noise in Washington, D.C. WASHINGTON’ June 23.—A bride and groom living in a fashionable apartment house here came near be- ing thrown into the street, on the grounds that they had violated the rules of the house. They were | charged with having a baby on the premises. “Bo-0-0-0! Yowl-Ll!, bo bo bo-ool- ool," or something that sounded like |the crying of a baby kept coming thru the transom of their apart- ment, but the nolse-maker was in a far-off room from the hall and thru the cement walls of the adjoining apartments it resembled a baby, as much as do the crying cats on a back-yard fence in the middle of a dark night So the apartment manager notified Mr. and Mrs, Newly-Weds they would have to move, that they were maintaining a nuisance in the apart- ment, to-wit, a baby. The bride and groom denied they | were maintaining a nuisance in the ‘form of a baby, declaring that it was a dog that did the howling. ‘The landiord thereupon was satis- fied that the rules had not been vio- lated, and the newly-weds were al lowed to stay. There ts no objec- tion on the part of any of the land lords here to dogs. Oh, Freckles! Don’t Forget the Big Day $20 for the kid with the most freckles. Free admission for the next 15 most freckled kids to see Freckle-Faced Wesley Barry in “Don't Ever Marry,” at the Lib- erty. A parade with a» fine band playing “Freckles. The winner crowned Freckle-Faced King,” by Mayor Caldwell, The crown will be fur. nished by Hazen J. Titus. This, in brief, is the program for the big freckle-faced contest to held Saturday morning. Don't forget the hour, boys. Show up in front of the Liberty theatre at 10 a.m. All kids, between the ages of 7 and 14 are eligible to compete, Cor on, Freckles. There's bound to be a big time. Atlantic City is Shriners’ Choice PORTLAND, Ore., June 24.—The 1921 convention of the Mystic Shrine will be held in Atlantic City, N. J., the imperial council, in ses- sion here today, decided. Esten A. Fletcher, of* Rochester, was elected imperial outer guard by the imperial representa- tives of tseM yastic Shrine, in annual session here late yesterday. Fletcher, in the regular order of procedure, will eventually become imperial potentate. bel FINDS MISSIN WIFE IN Joseph , Grass. Body Found in After searching for two Joseph Grass, boilermaker, | missing wife Thursday jin the county morgue. Her — was found floating face in Beacon hill. reservoir, ferson park golf links, | evening. Dozens of people Mocked #6 |morgue Thursday morning in- ‘tempt to identify Mrs, Grass, |home was at 1308% Denny | When the worried husband nized his wife, he was ov: grief. Morgue attendants attempt to press him for a of explanation for the tragedy, | assumed the 55-year-old committed suicide. Bhe left, besides her three sons, Joe, Jay and |and one daughter, Mrs, Charles, Grass was formerly |Skinner-Eddy —_ shipyard. lyears ago he was an un candidate for constable, WOMAN KNOGKI DOWN BY Al Mrs. L. M. Waldron T; to City Hospital Struck down by an auto by Mrs. Edna W. Farnsworth, president of the Union c & Supply company, during the hour today, Mrs, lL. M. 26, an employe of Proctor & G in the Marion building, was tabi to the city hospital, Ets = suffering from slight the brain. Mrs, Waldron was cro t corner at Second ave. and Ui st, about 12:40 o'clock, when accident happened. Policeman L. Norton, in charge of traffic 4 the corner, said Mrs. Waldron lated the traffic rules in i Mrs. Farnsworth lives at 803 | Prospect st. «ig Judges of the carfare letter |test have awarded the five prizes 4 | $10 each to the following: Cecil L, Nelson, 317 N. 84th J. M, Dean, 611 N. 48th at, Chas. McDuffee, 143 E. 6lst at, Geo. R. Wardley, 3425 34th ave. fi Wm. 8. Thyng, 1348 E. 62nd . ‘The winning letters complied the regulations—did not the word limit. Nearly every of opinion ts represented these five. Checks were mailed today t winners.