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GIBBS PUTS | FUTURE UP TO AMERICA Lecturer Declares U. S. Can| Solve Great Problems of the World Responaibitity for a happy solution @f tho world’s greatest problem of Soday—that of economic adjustment @nd commercial prosperity —- was Placed squarely up to the United Btates by Sir Philip Gidds, renowned Journalist, who addressed a capacity Thursday night at the Ma onic temple under the auspices of | the Women’s University club. Formally stated, Sir Philip's subject | was “What America Means to the} World.” | Actually, {t was a challenge to America and Americans to take the| Dead in the economic restoration of ‘Russia. WS HARROWING URE OF RUSSIA > A harrowing picture of Russian @onditions was drawn by the speaker. Poverty, misery, death and despair Wnspeakable, he said, existed there, “In one room at a relief head quarters,” he said, “I saw 1,500 children huddled together, not a stitch of clothing on their shis- ering bodies, It was degrees © aero outside. What few rags the in my opinion, ts the ‘Key to the world’s recovery. Wheth er that key shall be turned is up " *to the United States, Here is my olution of the problem: “Let the United States, Great Britain, France and Germany go to Russia not later than Monday next, ‘Bnd give food to the starving thou Sands. They should help out not ently im the name of humanity and ‘Christ, but also out of selfinterest ‘They should feed the population Teconstruct the economic ‘life of Russia, and cive her credit” THREE DEMANDS IN RETURN In return for this, Sir Philip said, | Mhree things should be demanded. y, the speaker mala, ts a }menace to world economic peace) thru her ruinous pricecutting com-| ‘Petition in trade. He told of seeing razor of a quality that tn ied States would sell for $5, ® German shopkeeper was seli- for the equivalent of 18 cents Price cutting, he declared, will S80 long as the allies com-| Germany to pay “an enormous unscientific idemnity,” however the idemnity may be. Germany, said, is facing bankruptcy. FAILED TO GET AT ROOT, HE SAYS While the arms conference “sum- hopes that were dead,” after United States failed to partici- Pate in the league of nations, Gibbs » It abolished the AngloJapanese al BY RUTH ABELING NEW YORK, Feb, 17.—Etta Hein alone of 100 fat women members of Health Commissioner Copeland's re ducing squad is still reducing Dr. Copeland's reducing squad wan organized nearly a year ago. It start ed with a bang! And a chockling of happy femaies who rolled, kicked, bent and bridged, regularly, religious ly and hopefully, with perfect 36's as their objective kickers and the bridgers and the benders have dwindled ugtil today— Miss Heine ts the only one left of the squad who continues the exercis- ing and dieting and is thus reducing. Miss Heine, with her perseverance, has exercised and dieted away 25 pounds in 50 weeks! Her weight when she started to reduce was 212 pounds, Today it ts 187, it." she continues; “no dieting today and feasting tomorrow; no akipping tomorrow! “And bere'’s a little tip for the too fat hounekeeper—housekeeping is ex- jercise, and plenty of it, but it ixn't the sort that reduces flesh! I kept house for nine people for two years and didn't lose a pound until I start ed dieting and exercising. “Housework will not reduce flexh no matter how much you do! Miss Heine says it with conviction! And, having visioned her apart- Nance, he stated, and removed com- Petition between the navies of the ‘United States and Great Britain. But the question of economic world Peace, upon which, he declared, all ether peace depends, was not dealt ‘With. Another conference should be alled, Gibbs said, for this purpose. Raided Hotel Has Bird of an Alibi MONTREAL, Feb. 17. — When game officers swept thru this city’s lead hotels and seized 120 par tridges they met the alibi at three Places that guests had brought the | birds in to be cooked for them. This point will have to be threshed out. Hight places pleaded guilty to violat- ing the law. Organized Bandits Prey on Two Cities WASHINGTON, Feb. 17.—A gang | of bandits, apparently carefully or- ganized, is committing a series of bold hold in thie city and in Bal-| timore. The criminals never operate | in either city twice in succeasion. The leader of the gang seems to be a} well-educated and cultured man, PLENTY OF VARIETY AT PALACE HIP Spiced with color and variety, new show that opened for the half of the week at Loew's P; Hip theater yesterday found gener ous appreciation. ‘The bill as a whole moves at a lively tempo, being gi decided im petus in that direction by Raymond | and Lyte. Rose Lyte is a dainty | little lady who contributes no small decorative charm to the act, and with her agile partner she puts over some elever songs and dgnces. The musical teattre of the bin in provided by Lillian Boardman, well known as a child star of a well known musical revue, who grown “Marriage va. Divorce” ta un{ver. #2] in its appeal, being a delightdully humorous expone of the recklessneess of first love, the optimism of honey. moon days and the dangers of mat rimony. George Usher and pretty Luci Suki are the young couple in the act. Bryant and Stewart are “belies of the ball’ as far as applause and Jaughter accruing to their activities go. The Anselemiths have hit upon a novel and pictureaque method of pre senting their offering of thrilling wire, teeth and balancing feats. Eugene O'Brien is the star of the iided Lies.” Whistling, say some phyzictans,’ , Will help develop a robust physique, | Salvation Army | will 1, Bureau of Missing Relatives The Star invites its readers to use thie department os an sid in finding missing relatives or friends. The department is to help in iting those who have bees separated. friends are missing are invited to report the disappearance directly to The Star. Keaders who may know the whereabouts | of persons mentioned in this colamn an missing are requested also to report to The Star, Other newspapers are invited to reprodnce such items as will interest their communitirs. oe LEONARD 8, HARTLIN.— The is endeavoring to locate Leonard Spurgeon “Hartlin, whose mother is. very Hartlin, who is 32, last wrote to his mother from Port Orchard, and It is be lieved he may have come to Se- attie. cee PETE SODERBERG, et al—John Soderiand, Two Harbors, Minn., box 77, writes for information that put bim in touch with Pete Soderberg, Olaf Soderberg and Mag- nus Lindquist. . ° K. LARGE, —.Ruth Large, 16, is trying to find her father, whom she believes may be in Seattle, as he was Igat heard of here, “We have lost trace of each other, and I do so want to hear from him,” she writes. Her address is 212% Calliforniaet., Denver, Col eee MRS. FRANK PARKS AND MRS. EDWARD RAWLINGS.—Mra Alex Lewin, 9933 83rd ave., ton, Alberta, wishes to find Mrs. Frank Parks and Mrs. Edward Rawlings. Her last letter to them in Seattle was returned. cae 43. STANNIN . F. D. No. 1, box Wash. needs her band, J. J. Stanning, whose addres: has been unknown last two years. work enough to her two minor The Star. . ROBERT a. Stanning, Ellensburg, Mrs, Clar: lequately support children, she writes JOHN PEARSON. Stitwater, Minn, 27 John Pearson years ago, is sought by his brother-in-law, W. Oberg, who is now staying at the Omaha Seattle. Pearson is believed have come to Seattle, see to MRS. WM. G. BaXTEG.— Western Union holds a telegram regarding the death of @ relative, addressed to Mrs. Wm. G. Baxter, whom they cannot locate here. The message comes from Kansas City, Ma, But gradually the rollers and the! whose relatives or) Emon: | 107, | hue. | to her for the| She cannot secure | Last even at! hotel, THE SEATTLE STAR ment, an abode for nine people, neat- y kept, and tasted her coffee and coffee cake at a whiteclothed table in her dining room, when the wind | was blowing a snow-flecked gale out side, one agrees that Mist Heine has a right to her convictions, KEEPS HOM FOR FATHER She keeps house for her father and brothers, Her mother in dead “I have a dally routine,” mays Minn Heine, “when I get up in the morn ing I prepare breakfast for the fam fly, but I eat nothing myself. At noon [ ¢at nothing. Dinner is the only meal I do eat—but I drink plea. ty of water during the day. “For dinner I usually have clear broth; I take mine out of the kettle Only One Woman Left in Anti-Fat Army Rest All Found the Going Too Strong! Etta Heine triumphs in her battle with fat “Corn I eat occanionafty, bat fresh corn is fat-preducing than canned corn, so at this Ume of the year | eat no corn. “Yor my exercising T put on a reg-| ulation gym suit, bloomers and eweat jer no tight bands, no restrictions of any kind.” Pvery day, rain or «hine, Miss Heine gives 20 minutes to her exer clves, indoors when it's too stormy; pra when it tent. Mut I call it worth I" mays she. t band mmm gathering up the slack of her skirt band. “Just watch me keep on go ing down until this goes around me almost twice! wks | before I put the vegetables in for the | others, I eat a little roast beef [never any fried meate—and no fat | producing vegetables, which means | that I have either cabbage, carrots or nome form of lettuce. The only kind of bread I ever eat Is rye broad, | | and that cannot be fresh. My demert | in always a fruit. “Mut.” rays Mine Hetne, “when I began to have to put pleats in the barids of my skirts pastry didn’t myself reducing I wouldn't stop! EATS NO CANDY BUT SOUR DROorS | “I eat no candy except once tn a while a few nour drops.” continuing he story of the figure reclaimed;| “never eat any peas or beans or po | tatoes, never take any sugar in my coftes and never cat dressings with : oll in them. Farm Bro ught Back to Life by This Woman | Mrs. N. C. Dresback | MUSKOGHR, Okla, Feb. 17—It }was an old cotton plantation—run | down, and about ready to pass out. | And then, along came Mra. N. C. | Dreaback—just one of the 224 wom jen in Oklahoma who are credited with being farmers and farm mana gers. But she was just the one this farm | needed! | Today St fa a fruit, chicken, hog, |bee and dairy products farm. Incl | dent y some cotton is rained. Mrs, Dresback is the manager, She supervises each branch of work and even tends to the sales end of the business: Fiverything is modern — chicken hour hog pens, barns, ete One of the prize possessions ts a herd of purebred Berkshire swine | believed to be the largest in the coun. try. These have brought many first prizes home from county fairs, Mrs. Dresback’s pet hobby is rais- ing baby chicks. season ehe | sold over 8,000. She also boasts a prize herd of Hoistein cattle, “Changing this farm from failure to success was simply a business propo sition,” says Mrs. Dresback “1 aim to prove conclusively that |Oklahorna is not dependent on cot j ton to become famous agriculturally | “It hasn't been just luck We |have carried on many experiments in farm activities to determine the most profitable sources of income.” Last n P.M. Troy of Otympia declares exercises today and forgetting them | ™*an anything to me! When I eaw that the announcement that he will be a candidate for the supreme bench at the fall election is meorrect says he has not yet decided whether Or not to enter the race, “ee That ho & Grammer wil operate his newly purchased spruce mill and | railroad right-of-way on the Olympic A Was the message brought t Angeles citizens by Kenneth |C. Kerr, editor of the Railway and Marine News of Seattle “ee Request for exhibitions of the notable collection of sliden of the Olympic mountains and forest re serve continue to pour in on Super visor Ft. ©. Fromme. A showing wiil |be made February fore the Seattle Physical Educational | noctety. eee A wubnnit of the Snohominh coun: ty branch of the Washington Educa tional association will be held in the Snohomish high school building Sat | urday One hundred twenty teachern are included in the county organiza tion and are expected to attend. eee The high schoo! radio club at Fn- nmclaw has established a wireless ra. | dio wtation and ia able to communi jeate with other amateurs in the dis | trict. . . President Henry Suszato of the | University of Washington will be the |guest of the university alumni in ellingham February 23. eee The town of Chinook, on the Co. |lumbia river side of Pacific county | will publicly de its recently | completed gym m Saturday. | TOMORROW |] Pork Chops, Potatoes O'Brien, Bread and Bu‘ter— 25c IN THE FOLLOWING COLEGROVE’S RESTAURANTS EGYPTIAN KITCHEN 1624 Third Ave, AUTO KITCH Pike and Broadway SPECIALTY YOO! for 110 Pike St, i He} 28 in Seattle be-| JUDGES URGE SPANKING LAW Say It Would Take Glamor| from Criminal Deeds By Wanda von Kettler “Quention” in dead. ‘Ten years ago, then a 6-yearcld sorrel colt, frisky a white question mark on his fore. head, he was brought to 9 ate tion at N. 39th st. and Linden ave. to draw fire hose in the service of the city. One month ago, mid to be tired and too enfeebled to continue work, Question, who had made hun dreds of friends among the school “Many young men, members of abi and the residents of Linden Gangs, take jail sentences very light-| ive wan relieved of his work on the |ly, for when they are releaned they | none wagon. Yeaterday he died. He | tell wondrous stories to their ehuma, sie enacalad”: ithe ether land are honored as heroes,” sayw ga Frcing od Magintrate T.H. Brunton of York | Jeounty police court. “After good, | | wound spanking from the broad hand | of & policeman, with a courtroom full lof people to look on, their gangs would not be inclined to idolize or Jenvy them.” | Magistrate Brunton, who tn hin own court has put his idea into prac | ee, says no young man spanked in hls court ha» ever returned on an jother charge. He orders thh spank: | yy ling for all classes of offenses. TORONTO, Ont, Canada, Feb. 17, Several Canadian judgea propose & national spanking law=-not merely | for juveniles, but for all males torus lthan 26 years old, Not the prinon | flogwing, but punishment by hand, | | with the young man sprawling acrows | the knees of a burly constable before |the entire court, immediately after jHentence Is panned was “out hopaes from No. 9 @ has remained, when, staggering just a moment, the old horse fell dead on the pavement | Kiddies of the John Day school near Linden ave, are asking today about Question, and are being told their friend is gone. They have anked about him each day for a lonx, | long time. Bome of them occasion Jly visited hin stall, { ‘Ve wag much a gentle old boy,”| Hi. Shaffer, Quention’s driver for | five yearn, tells us, “We never used The praction was originated by! 4 whip on him once in his life. Some: | Judge B. Coataworth of Toronto, ho | times he'd bluff us—lay his earn back | |reports results justifying a federal and show hin teeth. ‘fut he never | investigation with a view to extend: | went further. What's more,” Shaf ing the form of punishment to all | fer continued, “he was the bent old | Geurte "in the \sountey, faithful servant we've ever had. He'd go thru the mouth of hell for the wervies. “Ho didn’t Uke the iden of the new horse taking his place,” his driver! | | Windmill tn the ponseasion of one family more than a century «till |standa in Brixton, Jondon. Question, the Faithful, Has Gone Away Forever and trong, with | his | tho not in nervios, | BODY FOUND IN ISLAND GRAY i ns is ns ‘ explains. “He used to try crowding | Discovery May Explain into his old etal, and would gaz Strange Disturbance resentfully when that new horse waa a being harnessed for practice.” ‘ + Question has been replaced by «| CLINTON, Iowa, Feb. 17—Ciinton big bay of 7 years, named Duke hunters have recalled an incident “Call it ‘repiace,’” says Shaffer, | during the first week in October last who perhaps grieves more than @DY | ye4, which, they believe, may be other over the lows of his friend “Duke's all right, but there isn’t any | Connected with the burial of ® worm an discovered recently in a ehallow horse that's going to ‘replace’ Ques tion with the station boys and the | grave on Big inland in the Missinaippt While the hunters were youngsters for a mighty long time.” e | carnped on the Illinois shore, a email launch towing houseboats Roulette Dancing paseed. On board one of the boats Is Latest Craze’ y woinan was screaming in agony, RERLIN, Feb. 17—Roulette dan- he hunters eaid. and later sounds cing has become a craze here. Th | trom the boats, including curses, in floor is divided into tiny squares, 4 Gicated that a general fight was numbered, While the musicians play proyrens. the lights are turned out and an in Now you've got him, shoot him,” dicator is spun over &@ large BUM line woman screamed. One of the bered dial. When the lights £0 OM | boats then was cast loose, but the again the couple on the square Cor! jaunch picked up the drifting boat responding with the number at which | ang the flotilla proceeded to the Iowa the indicator stops gets @ prize. =| shore, near the place where the lone - lly grave was found more than a |year later. Four men landed, but British Get Greek |the woman was not seen by the Clin bd { h tern. Trade in Tobacco 5, ie sr the condition of the ATHENS, Feb, 17—Negotiations | woman's body, the coroner was un- are now under way by which British able to determine whether death had interests will get a monopoly of the | been due to violence. A number of Greek tobacco business for 50 years. | very small bones found in the grave In return for this concession the | were believed to have been those of Greek government will have the sup-|an infant. To reach the grave from port of British capitalints in arrang:|the land side, it was necessary to ing a loan, wade three miles thru a ewamp. river. two GREAT 100,000 SALE We're nearing the top, but not yet over— $100,000 must be raised, and no stone will be left unturned to accomplish our purpose. | | Men’s Department as $50.00, reduced to | 50 Men's Overcoats, reduced to. . reduced TO. cecsccsccccece 40 Men's High-Grade Dress Suits reduced to.... 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