The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 9, 1920, Page 4

Unanimous Opinion Of Seattle Chapter of National Engineers Baitor The Star: At the time the Everet: Good Roads con- you published a very q Eeee 5 -E9e32 ab Carlyon bill would undoubt- mean employment for many @ our members. Yet the senti of the members was over ‘bill, mainly on the ground at the bill in reality ise “bad measure in that it is im- to build roads that will up under traffic when con- ‘according to the inten- ae BY H. C. WITWER Copyright, 1920, by Doubleday, Page & Company (Continued From Our Last Lssue) Joo, I will never forget that game I live and neither will no body else which seen it, When I walk ont on the field to take my place on the mound, they was & roar went up from the crowd which must of been heard plainly in Australia. 1 am forced to wave my cap hithers and yon and bow to the rights and left, but with all that racket I am As cool aa $56 worth of fca The umpire yells the historically “Play ball! and we are off, amidst the most deathly silence. Liebold is the first guy up and his name’ might just as well of been “Beer™ because he onty hit 2.76 against me that day. The first one was a ball and the next three sent him back to the bench, his arms sore from wildly swingin’ at the air. Collins grins at me when he toes the plate and hollers: “Well, how's little Mary Pickford today?” Joe, that there rattled mo because how did he know I was tn the movies and before I could get set again he has hit one by dumb luck nd the boobs T got in back of me let him get to second. I get Weaver two strikes and a ball when he asks me how am I gettin’ along with Chaplin and beats out a fnfield hit. ‘The crowd is ali standin’ up yeilin’ and there I am with two on, only one out, and no less than Jackson before me He hollerg that Doug: las Fairbanks has been lookin’ for me all mornin’ and slam the first ‘one out to left field, but Duncan, which seems to be the only bail player back of me, spears ft for the second out Felsch prob'ly couldn't think of no crack to ;make ‘and I fan him before he knows what it's all sbout. T-got & reception when I) come in off the field, and, Moran | slaps me on the back and’ says if he had only had me before they} would of win the pennant’ {n. May: gnashin' his teeth like @ wildly man and when he can talk at all he claims he will begin by finin’ me $500 for gettin’ a bun on, and, Joe, 1 ain't had @ drink tn over @ year! Well, I found out that Gandll and the White Sox was all liars, and th camera men which was there wan takin’ pictures for a newa weekly and didn’t even know I was on earth, and Mr. Wright had no idea of takin’ a movin’ picture of me there, and I was crazy to bit Collins and ete. ’ Bo there you have the wtole tn side story, Joa, of that article in the papers which said that me and Col- line got in a fight durin’ the first game of the world's series and I was canned for insubordination and eto. Yours truly, ED HARMON (King @& the | Movies). P. 8-—-No doubt you seen how 1 pleaded with Moran to give me ont more chance, and how I went tn for the fourth game and shut the White Sox out, 1 to 0, in apite of the crewd makin’ madly efforts to an- sassinate me when I first come out. Let me know what you think of my first movie-—so far I hear it's rotte: HARMON, CHAPTER V Harmeny Hall Tn the midst of My Drawtn's Room, N. Y. FRIEND AND ETC, JOSEPTT: Joe, 1 am writin’ this underneath the greatest of difficulties, because we are doin’ nothin’ leas than movin’ and everything is in wfidly con- fusion. | 1 Jeanne and mty baby has already forth to my new home, but 7 was left flat here with the tnatruc- tions to come up with the motor lorries (Engitsh slang for truck, Joe! which is gonna try and move us Ao’ I can see that nothin’ In the line of house furnisbin's gets lost, strayed what's this and what's that, I'd run for congress and prob'ly get elected, C'mon—what d'ye wanna see mo about” Joe, he commence to tappin’ on hin desk with a lead's pencil, the while pullin’ idly at his whiskers, “I sent for you to tell you that you were notified 30 days ago that at the expiration of your present lease your rent would be increased to §260 a month. I'm willing to make it $230, if you pay the first your's rent in advance, That's the best I can dof “What's the worst you can do?” T mays, “Dispommens you™ he bawia) “And that’s just what will happen if you' don't make up your mind in 24 hours, 1 had a party looking at your apartment only yesterday, that wan willing to pay $300 a month for itr With that, Joe, he picks up the “phone and pays no further attention to me than if I was China and be was tho League of Nationa Well, Joe, my first iden wan to bust him fn the nose and be dono with it, but this guy wouldst only add it to my telephone bill in the shape of @ long distance call or the like, #o I went back upstairs to break the tough news to Jeanne “What then has kept you so long from home?” she sya, with @ pout which would make them magazine covers dames take ether, “Tryin’ to keep the home se long,” I says. “Our jovially landlord in at- temptin® to take the apartment away from us.” ‘What does Jeanne do, Joa, but jump up and clap her handa, the while grinnin’ from one ear te an- other. “Volla™ she mya “But that ts charmant!* | Hilt ah ‘LEAVE SEATTLE Artillery District to Be wo Wiped Out WASHINGTON, Oct. 9, — The North Pacific coast artillery district, with staff headquarters in Seattle, has been wiped out by the consolida- tion of the two Pacific coast districts into one, with headquarters at San Francisco, according ment by the war department ‘This means that Brig, Gen. Harry F. Hodges, commanding the Seattle istrict, and hiv staff will move to | California, where the general will be ) tillery dintrict. No troop changes or movements are involved in the transfer of Gen. Hodges and hin etaff, ‘Embryo Lawyers at \*U’ Plan Smoker Soon Bmokers are exnential in the edu. cation of lawyers, according to the versity Law amociation, which is planning one for the near future, At a meeting held on the campus thie week, Robert MacFarlane war elected president of the association Other officers chosen re: Robert Norton, vice president; Florence Schweitzer, secretary; Charles G. Moran, treasurer, and Wiliam Hynd- man, yell leader. U. of W. Freshmen Hold First Election University freshmen are all or ganized for campus politics now. At & meeting Friday, the following of ficers were elected: Joe Wolfe, president; Raymond Helly, vice president; Margaret Arinatrong, sec retary; Arthur Gerbel, treasurer; Clayton Rudberg, yell leader, and Stove Pigott, athletic manager, to announce | in charge of the new Ninth coat ar | { I like to fell into the baby’s ert, thing I have always tried to avold| Angora Grotto to “Charmant?” I hollers, | “What ‘ts Initiate 350 “Goats” they charmant about bein’ gave the bum's rust, when think of the repu- More than 600 mombers of Tacobat BLIND NEWSIES. OF STAR TO “SEE” PLAY AT WILKES Next Monday evening the blind Star newnles will be the guents of Manager John Cooke of the Wilkes theatre and the Wilkes players to see that big, mystifying offering, “A Voice tn the Dark.” The offering will have “an un usual appeal to the unfortunate newsles In that the hero of the play is also a blind who, thru the wonderful faculty of the blind in nbering voices, and the ability to detect and know certain persons by the sound of thelr footsteps, discovers the real criminal after a young and innocent girl hax been found guilty by circumstantial denoe presented by the city detectives: After the performance Manager Cooke will have a number of tuxt cabs waiting to escort the newsles home in style, newsboy Architecture Frosh Plan a Get-Together Freshman students in architecture at the university will hold a get-to- gether meeting and banquet on the campus next Thursday evening, ac- cording to an announcement by Ml mer Grandstag@, president of the Ateller club, architecture organiza- tion, Other officers of the club are Marshall Gill, vice premident; Rosalie Haas, secretary; Verle Annis, treas- urer, and Doris Siebert, librarian. Jewish “U” Society to Hold First Meeting The Menorah society, composed of Jewish atudents attending the unt Versity, will hold its fiewt meeting of the school year next Wednesday night in the Home Economics build. ing on the campun. Mushroom Exhibits on U. of W. Campus The University of Washington is staging a special mushroom exhibl tion in the forestry building-on the | SENTENCES TWO MEN TO DEATH Last of Til Taylor Slayers | Disposed of , for Workers’ College In the courses offered in the fil term of the Workers college, o ing tonight at the Labor Tem is one by Professor Trevor K eaid of the university on “Bvotuti which will be conducted from 4 6 on Sundays, Beginning at Pclock on Sundays, James F wilt give a course in “Ma | Beonorien.” At 7 o'clock on Sunday Ming Adella Parker will conduct = “Cur Laffenbean, alias John Fathe, the| rent Topies Discussion,” and at & lant two men to be tried in connec: | o'clock Dr. De Man will give tion with the murder of Til M. Tay-| course on Kart Marx and the L jor, Umatilla county sheriff. | Movement. Clanses are open to al Judge Phelps decreed the men bie si hang December 3. The case will be appealed, i PENDLETON, Oct. %-—-Superior G. W. Phelps imponed the death sentence Friday on Elvin D. Kerby, aliag Jim Kirby, and John SUPERIOR, Wis —Troop A. Wis consin cavalry, called to fight forest fires in Pattison Park district. Poison Plot Probe Is Ordered Dropped| 108 ANGELES, Oct. 9-The al- leged attempt to poison Anita Bald- win, California heiress, by means of bamboo splinters tied with | thongs of skin in her food, wax considered # cloned incident today. | According to friends of Mims Bald. | win that was the way she desired to have it considered. Neither she nor her secretary, her doctor nor! others close to her would discuss the matter further. Sheriff Cline late yesterday 4-| rected m deputy sheriff who had been aseigned to investigate, to| couse work on the, case, Seattle Timberman Heads Coast Loggers VANCOUVER, B. C, Oct, 9— George W. Johnson, of the Ad-| miralty Logging company, Seattle, | wan named president of the Pacific | Logking Congress at ite closing ees- sion here yesterday. Resolutions were adopted by the congress asking that the schools of forestry should be given greater financial support. 1108 Breeéwey New classes in ballroom dancing from the first week in October for children adults, begin= | pers and adv 2 4 lasers. Hallet technique, em! eG Bras, Adagio Pe e jor stole on the ways, unieas it's me WR, Joe, they-are pitchin Cicotte and in that case it don’t make no against us and he starts .in by difference. It's castly enough to re fannin’ Rath and makin’ Daubert) piace a husband, Joe, but Looey the pop out to right field. Heinle Groh| 14 antics Wke\our parlor set is as laughs at him and tripled, whilst! rire as a hen with a toothache and the crowd goes crazy and I come up| must be watched like a young tnfant University campus for those who are unacquainted with the real. mush- room. . The exhibition will be open from 1 to 6 p. m. Sunday and from 9 a m. to 5 p. th. Monday ‘and’ Tueaday, Both poisonous and edible mush- tation I have got to uphold here and/ Grotto of Tacoma will arrive in Seat-| there! D'ye realize how tough it Is/ tie next Tuesday night, when An-| to find a apartment in this New| gora Grotto No. 82 of Seattle will York burg now, bey? The chances | initiate 360 trembling neophytes into @ will be under canvas In Cen-| the mysteries of the Mywtic Order Park before the week ts out! of Vetled Prophets of the Enchanted | plan made mandatory by Eee id breasts tie $30,000,000 expenditure r complete the'1,516 miles of pav- ET cate oe toe 1, ‘This money tan legally be ex- engineering plans. It is im-| to even estimate how great “higher than at any time . The cement people To hesitation tn saying that Price will be higher than at pres-| they pointing to the fact that it has not increased in prupor- to other construction materials Experien heavier and more costly type cf i is required than was Practice even two years ago. it be ‘the height of folly to build ‘Surfmces in accord with specifi- that all engineers know tobe ite for the traffic to be car- The bill provides that every is to be made to complete the within six years. This that: the highway board will expe! one member out of the five con- ting the board is an engineer. A of the board might ‘his one ‘engineer re- even t appoint vengineer tothe board except his Judgment.) It is utter folly to large sums of the state‘ funds it first providing the hichway with sufficient funds tke the needed surveys and re-| of grades and alignment that Fe essential before a lasting rurface in be laid. One of the most fre eausesi of pavement failure is to settlement of the sub-grade; settlement being directly tracable ‘worlcand poor planning, for the engineer is in no way re- Before undertaking an exten- road bullding plan, it is essen that the powere of the highway be enlarged and provisjon for strengthening the hand of Bighway scommissioner. Until highway board alone has the to designate the route and to all details of construction, ig bound to be much waste of road funds thru barrel” politica. In opposing the Carlyon bit, points are far outweighed by | *' engineering features; it is a Measure, not a road building a It puts a great sum of public’s money out on the cqnn- and invites the road com ir machinery men to step up and themselves, with the only re next, bein’ shifted to the clean-up! position by Moran. Well, Joe, Schalk | is catchin’ for the White Sox, and he starts right In on me., He claims | that Theda Bara has been hangin’ | mornin’ askin’ where she can find me and it must be great to be a| movie star and I certainty am ldcky | and etc. = ae oe Srey One Be Se mostly because it was a mile over my head, but hearin’ {t called a “jstrike I caught the second one on ithe nose and it come down in Shan | tung for the first bounce, scorin’ Groh and placin’ me on first. ‘Well, whilst I am on: first, Jos| Chick Gandil commence to tell me) I oughta have mare sense than to try and act in a movie whilst a im-/ world's series game is goin’ hirp what he ‘means, ‘at all the camera takin’ my picture. how all the White Sox knows !t and/ the company which is makin’ the picture has paid nearly half a mil- Hon dollars for the privilege ‘of spoil- :| in’ this game because half the White; In It, too, and | 7,| the papers was full of It and ete. | Sox players was acti Joe, I seen in a flash it was up to me to make good in this first picture | of mine and as long as the company | bas it all fixed to take the thing in this game I should worry. Just then, Joe, Roush singied and I start down for second. Well, I seen Collins grin- nin’ at me and I figured if he ts in | the movin’ picture, too, then he ts right Into him and let him have a) Collins whilst the crowd jmmediately becomes 40,000 ravin's maniacs, most of which won't be satisfied till they have teaf me limb to limb. Joe, I am chased from the game and the police have to take me off © has shown that a Of the field and at that a coupia| bottles englished off of them and bounced on my shoulders, Moran is eS striction that they spend the money on the surfacing of five primary highways, and stipulates that they must spend the pile within six years {if possible! This ts one step better than the present system, to be sure, as at present the public road money is mainly done up in some forty small packages, and each of these "| Packages appropriated by the legin- , the public has a slim chance of see- ing where the money goes. For in. (stance, money has been spent to | grade roads and build bridges up on ; top of the Cascades. Now the grades are grown over with brush and cov- fered with Inndstides. The bridges Provide fine places for the chép- munks to sun themselves during the month or two that the district is free from snow. In the end the taxpayer foots the bill for the chipmunks’ sun porch. | VI. Good rond enthusiasts, efvic bodies and the legislators are urged to get back of a constructive road building plan, a plan that will insure the @arly construction of the trunk highway system and the network of connecting roads that are so vital to the development of the state. This plan the American Association, of Engineers will have ready for the legislature's consideration. Cured His RUPTURE I was badly ruptured while lifting a trunk several years ago. Doctors \tin I have nothing to| , but will give full information about bow you may find a complete ton, to me, ugene M, Pullen, Carpe: 990-G Marcellus Avenue, M maanuan’ . J. Better cut out thi; and show it to any others who are rup- | tured—-you may save @ life or at| least stop the misery of rupture and he worry and danger of an opera- I t u } | the villain second baseman which is| ..| Sonne spike me and etc, so I bounced left to the jaw and out goes Mister | baby. I wilt tefl you how ft come to that pass that Iam movin’, Joa York with Jeanne to become a sec ond Geraldine — Fairbanks movies. Undoubtleasly, you rémem- ber I told you we had signed a lease with a huge and famously company which guarantees us almost nearly ‘as much aalary as Columbus wouldst get now If he could come to life and go to work somewhere as a judge of real estate, Well, Joa, of the first thing that greets my eyes when we get tack to my’ Mat is a offictal munique from the landlord sayin’ he basemen! office without po more further ado. 1 am forced to say, Joe, that this muy didn’t leap up off his chair and try to kins me or nothin’ like that Instead, he merely flicks cofdly nod jn my direction and says “T've been expecting to, nqp you for he laM week, Mr. Harmon. (ave you been out of town?” Jot, "can you imagine that? Have I been oufa town—after what I done in the world’s series! “Are you tryin’ to kid me?” 1 hollers, in « terrible rage. “Why, you old poob, I just come back from bein’ the bright, shinin’ star of the world’s series, which you prob’ly don’t even know what that is, hey? “World's series of seers. “Parcheest, you idlotical hick? 1 yells, furiousty with anger. “If 1 knowed as little as you do about what he CHIROP GFethods and ideals, you 1| DR.B. J. | Davenport, Iowa, and on Chir who will conduct \ : Mornings j 10 A. M. to Noon HOTEL WASHINGTON Ball Room Three lectures Sunday WHAT IS If you desire to be fully informed on its idea, HEAR President of the Palmer School of Chiropractic, World’s Foremost Authority FREE LECTURES OCTOBER 10 TO 16, INCLUSIVE 10 a. m., 2 p. m. and 8 p. m. All lectures start exactly on the scheduled hours. PUBLIC CORDIALLY INVITED Ttealm, in a glittering ceremonial at) “Edouard? butts tn Jeanné, very| the Metropolitn theatre, mudden and with the first traces of wifely anger commencin’ to show in| Way, does be? I growls, them baby's blue eyes of hera “How| “For weeks I have had talk and often have I tell you not to holler at | letters with Monsieur Charles Prunty Jeanne? Now you will at’énce make |“nd bow all is settled,” she goes on. apologize, oul?” “It is away up on the Hudson River | “Oul in right" IT mya, tryin’ to/and—" kine the approachin’ battle away and missin’ it from here to Russia. “I'm sorry and etc. but—" ‘way up an the Spee anaiey | Tryin’ to interrupt your wife] '“Non, non, mbnf’ she says. “Our whilst she is talkin’, Joe, is the same|siorious and magnifique chateau de | an tryin’ to halt Niagara Falls with |!uxe! Twenty rooms, seven baths, | “Who goes therer* garage stables—well, you shall then “If you will then be quiet,”\ ahe|s¢e for yourself, mon Edouard. And! butts in, “I will explain all J am|the-amount? Poof—it ia nothing! | happy we must to leave here, be | But thirty-five thousand dollars. We cause now Jeanne can have her own| il! hurry up there now and you chateau somewhere out tn- those|shall give Monsieur Charles Prunty beautiful country and live like a lady and not like one mariine in those box|herself pay the other half” he you call Mata! Tiens—Jeanne te not ~—who's Chariés Prunty and wha! Verne, I at least have plenty of the sweet, fresh air and—" “T'll any you was havin’ plenty of fresh alr when I took you away from the mason de Verne, all right!” I says. “On account of the root havin’ just been blowed off by a coupla white bangs” “Qu'importe?" she says, shrugsin’® | them sfioulders of hers which {s the same as my head, bein’ ivory. “That was Je guerre, But before that—aht it was magnifique!’ L have never ||. ge: been content to live/the way I have || « since | come to the Etats Unia, but I may nothing bedause you were not a rich man, mon Edouard. But now we bave beancoup france and you are nO donger, those ball player, Jeanne will have you home all the time aed then there in littl Weel son. 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Dexter Horton Trust and Savings Bank : Second Avenue and Evenings. Cherry Street 8:15 to 10 P, MM. Arcade Building (Monday to Friday, Inclusive) at Hotel Washington at Combined resources Dexter Horton Trust and Savings Bank and Dexter Horton National Bank exceed $24,000,000.00 | ZNO. & UNIVERSITY | ’ “Fifteen ‘drys’ on’ a poor ‘wet’s’ chest! Yo ho, for a bottle of hootch !” ~ If you want a:lot of fun at the expense of: bootleggers and the stuff that both cheers and inebriates, come and see this. new Paramount comedy.. ‘First time in hes ‘ (Bryant PENED | JONES” Nothing daunts this bootlegger—with two precious bottles of Scotch, he ar- rives in town and starts for his friend’s , 10 What happens then is a prohibition tragedy. HANK MANN in ~ “The Bashful Black- OAR RRR INRA BHR PS aR cer aha SD arabipib ds