The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 25, 1922, Page 1

Eset at 1 ral ee, an ate ’ ber of shops in each city. Are Our Seattle Meat Prices Highest? Why? Portland Claims Lowest Retail Quotations of Coast Cities (EDITORIAL) The Star presents below a chart and accom- panying editorial that appeared this week on the first page of The News, ive afternoon paper. The Star would like to ask of Seattle meat dealers an explanation. WHY are Portland's prices lowest? ARE SEATTLE’S HIGHEST? If so, why? . ° ° (From the Portland News) Portland's progress- Portland has the lowest meat prices on the Pacific Coast. 5 Yesterday The News wired Seattle, San Francisco and Los Angeles for current retail meat prices. + Compare these prices with Portland prices in the appended table. The figures here given were obtained from a num- For instance, note that lamb chops in Les Angeles cost from 40 to 70 cents. The 70-cent quotation came from a fashionable meat shop, but lamb chops could not be obtained in Los Angeles under 40 cents, whereas the price of chops in Portland ranged from 25 to 32 cents. The extremely low cost of boiling beef in Portland is, as a matter of fact, a bad sign instead of a good one. If we had more old-fashioned cooks here and fewer “frying-pan wives,” the demand for expensive cuts would be less and the demand for cheaper cuts greater, and there would be. a a leveling of beef prices thruout. | YOU WILL HAVE TO HURRY IN YOUR NORTHWEST PRODUCTS SLOGANS; CONTEST CLOSES TUESD/; TWO SOLDIERS DIE FROM DOPE The Star Goes Into 11,727 More Homes Every Day Than Any Other Seattle Newspaper The Seattle Star Iii! Motered as Kecond Clase Matter May 8, 1899, at the Postoffice at Seattia, Was. untor the Act of Congress March $, 1879. Per Tear, by Mall, ii OM EDITION VOLUME 24 “24. NO. 1. <= SQUEEZING (EDITORIAL) The Star yesterday denounced the 12-hour day insti- tuted by the Crescent Boxboard plant, of Port Angeles, as “virtual human slavery.” A 12-hour day in such a plant, especially where much of the labor is monotonous, heavy lifting, is just that—galling, un-American, in- human. Consider the daily life of one of these $3.75-a-day employes. To get to work at 6 a. m., he and his wife must arise MOTHER SCORES SMOKE CRUSADE Home Brew | Howdy, men! Made up your mind where you are xving to camp this summer? Neither has my wife, eee ‘The film “Saturday Night” ts at the Strand this week. Sounds like geod, clean play, ee ‘ow don’t amy it is full of bathow. see « * e® in the tiniest residence in the 1d. It is only 49 by 87 Inches. | © mmy should feel right at home in | one mito . *- The new sed dollar with the flap | per face has arrived in Seattle. You ean almost hear the new “Goddess o ‘© your wife the next time! , our smoking in bed. whieh case we may get rid of some \t THEY PROBABLY MEAN SHIRTS ail t Portland ¢ Claim Price Is Denied tail meat prices on the Pacific coast was challenged Saturday by Seattle retail meat dealers. {fair because such high-priced meats total sales. |. Beattie retail tainly, are on a par. with those of} ¢ (for Augustine & Kyer, declared sociation ‘to Lowest Meat Portiand’s claim to the lowest re | Representative butchers and mer- | Blair, chamie. after reading the gthe S8/ and Minto chairmar of the published, revinwd Seurtle’s listed OF PASSION quotations downward in’ the major. | Committee. a widow. ity of instances. It was asserted} Mrs. Blair, who was one of = Ob, you kiddo! |that the priess published were only |tnothers who went before the weheoot | ee lthe top figures for first grade|board to fight the effort to ban teach | ‘Tommy Bonort, Seattle Italian, |Mmeats,: which. "it was said, is: un-jers who smoke from the new Roone: | elt high school constitute only a portion of |tered by Frank B. meat prices cer-|tendent of schools. Portland or any. other Coast city,” jeorge Hoefling, head meat cutter|of the Parent-Teacher “Tlehe charged. “The officers ved in Portland for ‘seven years|no longer represents the PT. been threatened. ouses quoted thr : Here's the real issue: prices accredited aid George Winkenberg, manaxer of he Co-Operative Food Products He revised all the Jona except lard pass on the right or but when this hap premine quate fore the high school teachers | | | characterized the| whole campaign #5 camouflage, fow Cooper, superin- “Cooper has pulled the wool over [the women’s eyes and gained control aseociation,” council | Ait ri ‘The grade a new raine in wrong of this ened be © for themselves | . T.-A. community and gardens ‘ASKS 10-YEAR EUROPE TRUCE, Lloyd George will vidbacsl Plan to French the} ore counted upon French army a basis for the scheme © disappointed, for Poin agree to that. reductions he would care would nev |Says Husband Made! |Her Live With Man| high she objects to © Seattle only fo co a ben! pbs sig t t nly for their extra best |teachers are up for ‘The city planning to build 200 |" “gph the verane classif'cations. | salary, on the pret that oe “ don’t think Seattle retail me i ightweight, =~ street cars. In a should be paid much as ug’ « prices are higher t elxewhere,” | sehool instructors, I do not wish to ‘Calls It Camouflage Devised by Cooper to Cloak Move to Get New Raise for Teachers That the “smokeless-teacher” campaign, which went down | to defeat at Friday’s meeting of the school board, was simply) a “red herring” drawn across the trail to distract public at-| itention from efforts of Seattle teachers to get further in-| | creases in pay, was the charge made Saturday by Mrs. Edgar president of the Brighton Parent-Teacher association | ' | | | | | Liberty” drawling “Lis'en, Kid” ‘and !! : of gotcha.” | myself, “and” know conditions and represents Frank B. Cooper ECE resect ek or eee prices: there “This. ‘smoke campaign’ 4 ex- | XGNE, France, 2 Bot at that we're {Xo REASON actly what the name implies | Lioyd George, in his private confer of a mg a been mo a | just smoke. Nobody ever ex- lence with Premier Poincare, whick om Gove. fe a pee Be sagen eae sad pected it to ioe © yf wn ees [began here thie afternoon, will pro re *s | Portland:.must. have been obtained!” exeept to cause a lot of disturb | ; reg ee HIE John D. Rockefeller’s | co moe from some of:the shops along Yam-| ance, in‘the midst of which the |P%¢ & 10-year truce in Europe, | Geughter to merry group. — | hill st.; whieh corresponds to those! teachers’ salaries could he raised | was learned today. Peep. when they marry most ot |°f our public market. There cer) without anyone noticing it. | ‘The British premier has a plan for | are is. tainly is no reason for. prices here) «you know, whenever the picador| limitation of land armaments some: | them are grooms. | | being higher ‘than Portland or any| wishes ta drive hie lance he gett @ rashingt > ‘ re Jother Coast city, and { don't believe| Say). Tanfshigh gal yap yprr-ned similar to the Washington pro ‘ HERE, > gens OUR: they are—except in rentals and|}i, work while the red Tyg le dis ;Posals of Secretary of State Hughes “A meeting ¢ jens a nile the re¢ " hiewers or tee es tracting the attention of his victim. |concerning navies, which he will Edgemont - Thrall - a quoted today’s prices a5 | When « politician wishes to put over | urge upon Poincare if initial conver Bul! S00! i ‘ e something big he brings forth a false Male eat wits the: Géian ibe cnet Boiling beef, 7 to 12 cents: potlismue, and when Mr. Populace gets | uom® Which Geal with th has eS roast, $ to 15 cents; sirloin, 25 to conference are successful h ° +1 ain, 36 thru chasing the red rag he finds led for this 40 cents; lard, 12% cents; lamb/ tne tance in'hie shoulder | Britiet: experts who are here with evening, when chops, to 66 cents ‘The only!’ o Lloyd George, but not taking part in is will be made to veg ee ®/item on the list he pronounced cor:| ___The tem@gBer smoker! Politics 1144 conference, confirmed the fact ie + ah no ord. | rect was pork chops or +04 Lo mpl ha — that thé British premier has an am t verta | The “Pacific “Ment Co, quotea| mother cares whether » teacher | itious ncheme to promote European Exploding face cream starts ene e 0 » ace and reconstruction which is srehich barns, up the Dellar| Prices in general the emo as AU-| Gout want smoking in the class. [Peace and reconstruction which y Co. | "A. number of smaller retail! meat| Toot—but that has never even |“ yench experts said that if Lioyd | Sign in a a Ave. window back and won a ra LOS ANC 3, Cal. Feb, 25. Garment Shop. mappa on the differen Charging that esr Spottiswoode- Personally we never could under: 'OBENCHAIN nh nd its an established fact that | Aitken, veteran — motion picture stand why they don’t sell these one ado teacher's pay if! character actor, had forced her to man cars and equip all lines with CASE DRAGS wheat in the United) iv, with a millionaire Santa Bar , 4 Spottiswoode- motorcycles with side cars. ~ + Beattie schools ratea Param Mrw. Marion Sr | aiastags eee 108 ANGELES) Cal, Feb. 23—|, “y nye say! nea ey ‘es - a Aitken today filed sensational coun The markaman jumped about a foot The state expeetx to complete ite ly detparetit’ he of giano3?, a /teF charges in the divorce action Each time the gun exploded; ngainst Madalynne Obenchain, |“00ty nae eenitlendance of { |instituted by her husband But once his jump was all in vain, | charged with complicity in the mur in Q r Bo 0 Be ? lary was! Mrs. Spottiswoode-Aitken assert The dern thing wasn't loaded. der of John Belton Kennedy, by Wed- | 92). 1915 with an attendance of 42,988, 04 that she had been cocrced into ee nesday, it nnounced today by Tht aisha thay dttandikan living with the man in order. that Plan of congressmen to award Dept Prosecuting Attorney Asa seuides ae oie ry tha pea her husband might extort money edals to soldiers refusing bonus has | Keyes. ist went up 155 per cent, And, in|ffom him been defeated.. Probably on account y tie Jury will visit the Lone ee en ee the otanding with’ the ‘ of the metal shortage ily Beverly ©o' Fd beeen axed oo * ‘ q * vprgrt 1 ihe msiroe the mouth of Banta |S8Ke commision had fallen off to Believe Shaving a “oe ‘ on, where Cha se i ; ® Monica canyon, where Chari Brush Killed Man CAND) IVY CLUB The cootie who is always | |” throwing lighted cigaret stubs into the office waste-paper | | . | basket, il * —— * at a k t “Cargo of Fooze is Seized Off Bos- » fi The } Ve were at the Seattle Art Club's § annual pall last night and v determine whether some of the young dancers were going to, or com: | ing from, bed. | SAN FRANCISCO, Feb, 2 hala | Pyvron, star witn for the state “Do Star want ads pay? Say, they pay better dividends than the most A lot of visitors were dressed as | inst Roscoe ("Fatty”) Arbuckle, |] optinistic oll stock salesman ever promised. Smockery? Yes, by Tam! ed of manslaughter, who was|| ‘phie was the enthusiastic statement of B, M, Szymkowlak, 5208-8 . i¢ 1 » awk liocated in New Orleans yesterday,|| pavenna ave. who dropped into Tho Star office today to pay a 15-cent 3 “Mommer, momumer, why does that | oi) not return to San Franciseo to'| want ad bil en ee a lteatify at Arbuckle'’s third trial, ac zymkowlak, who is a forestry student at the University of Wash ~ has a widowed mother to td cording to word the district attor ingtu: anted a floor scraped this week. Looking around, the eb petites sd ney’s office received toda ext offer he could get was 10 cents a foot—which he considered rather ) He: Are you married? said that her testimony. giv-|] nigh | 4 my busines: previous trials and hearings, | So he put a want ad in The Star He: yusiness? be read into the record if nec One insertion did the busines ind he placed the job at four cents Pedy: and that her absence would|| 4 foot instead of 10—making a net saving of 60 per cent Thomas A. Edison says he expects not prevent Arbuckle going to trial “And all for 15 cents.” (Turn to Last Page, Column 7) 4 | | Summar, leading state's | be asked to illustrate how he # |acene of the mu we couldn't Girl Won't Return witne A. had in this. uw the Te er officers have Arthur Burch to the | er. | «’ announcement | dence would be Attorney Jud} ’s counsel, stated require ar he says bore Following Ke hat the state's ¢ completed Wednes t. Rush, Madalynn hat once started, it ‘rom 10 days to three w ent defense testimony are not of us or with us. “A couple of month, would for Fatty’s Trial gain March 13, “Now about the part the PT. We old Parent fought in vain during the last year against Superintendent Cooper injecting into our association officers who ago Mr. Coop (Turn to Last Page, Column 4) | Says Star Want Ads Pay Better Than Oil ALBANY, Ore., Feb. 95.—-Anthrax contracted from a shaving brush is believed today to h caused the death yesterday of Rev, W. J. Bow eized and destroyed pastor of the Free Methodist shipment of brushes has been | | | | | 25 25, SATTLE, WASH., SATURDAY, FEBRUARY DOLLARS OUT OF SOULS by 5 or earlier, in the cold, pre-dawn. He hurries away with his hastily packed lunch bucket before his children are awake. He drudges thru the tedious hours, his muscles sod- den from overuse, his brain fatigued. Only those who have overworked at uninspiring manual labor for longer hours than the human frame ig designed to labor, can comprehend the dreary hopelessness of the task. Slavery! And then he drags himself home to a Jate dinner, after which he is fit for nothing but to get to bed for 1922. TWO CENTS IN | SEAT — much-needed rest. No chance for play with the kiddies. N movie with the wife, for an evening at the lodge. time nor strength either for a bit of home ga No opportunity for reading. Such a man is not a gvod father or husband; he can’t be. Nor a good citizen. He is only a serf. A company that persists in maintaining a slave pro- ” gram like that is ATTACKING THE PUBLIC WEL- FARE at the roots and, incidentally, is riding for a hard fall for its own prosperity. 4 BUBBLE! BUBBLE! Here Is Archie Green,| 15-Year-Old Purple Bubble Auspices Messenger Bey Ball To Raise Funds Who Is_ | D FATH One Of The | Beneficiaries | PROB , )I Of The To Be Given Tonight At The Armory! Under Elks’ For The Boys’ Club, Where Archie Lives. Nope, Those the tragedy. : The two men, James L. Aren't |private in the 2ist infantry, and Wil liam L. Dodds, private in the jinfantry, died Thursday night, their deaths were kept secret unt Saturday. Purple Bubbles on Archie's Face. The mer, both of whom were the guardhouse, were found dying They're their cell Thursday, Pulmotors |rushed to the fort in an effort to 7 Jresuscitate them, but all {failed and they never recovered o | sciousness. Even before the men were dead a Freckles. —Photo by Price & Carter, Star Staff Photographers | TAYLOR STORY Bad Weather for Wedding | of Princess LONDON, Not to Hang Him Feb, 25. rain were predicted for Princess 8 a ; now an” | DETROIT, Feb, | Fields, who claims of the slaying of ¥ Los Angeles mo Ma cial forecaster, Wedding gueste who have pro- "s wedding day by the offi ie director, BRANDED FAKE: Detroit Forger Begs Police | | { know details Hiam D. Taylor, | today declared he had not told half of the cured gorgeous costumes for gy hf SES ee ELA INS ot| what promises to be the most Taylor's murder until I am prom colorful pageant of modern times [ised by Prosecutor Lee Woolwine ywncas y the announce that he will not hang me,” Fields de- | ment that a storm, with | clar ' snow and drizztes, will «trike ‘He apparently broke down while London next Monday or Tuesday police quizzed him regurding defects | The royal wedding will be in |in his original story, | Westminster Abbey next Tues Police were still skeptical of Melds*| day |self-proclaimed knowledge of how} A magnificent semi-private dis» | Taylor was slain, play of part of the wedding gifts | Fields then admitted that two of received by the princess w | the names he had given the police as} y jay in Buckingham pal j accomplices in the nurder were Jewels valued at more t imaginary One of them was that of | $5,000,000 were on display and |& famous picture star, these were only a smali part of He said he would not divulge any the total gifts which havé t that he will not hang room at the with r received. A spacious palace Was crowded eral of the st n | further information until ustanteot | ements made by | treasures. Diamonds, sapphires, | Fields have proved unfoundod. 1 emeralds, pearls, silver and gold In fact, his story has not been; articles and priceless antiques | borne out_in the most important par- | vied for attention ticulars and statements which did Countlesa tiaras, neckleta, | check with the evidence were minor bracelets and brooches have been [matters which anyone acquainted | sent from every land, King | with the inside affairs of the Los| George gave the princess three | Angeles drug ring might be able to magnificent pieces with sap- | make, without having any definite} phires and diamonds intermim | knowledge of Taylor's murderer led. Queen Mary gave a brooch, | Authorities here have come to the a huge sapphire surrounded by {belief that Fields, who is diamonds. The prince of Wales | sentence on a charge of forgery, sent a sapphire and diamond | framed t ory in order to be taken bracelet. Queen Alexandra's gift to Los Angeles, where he could be was a necklace of pearls and | freed on a writ and it would be emeralds, The duke of York-and | possible to return him to Detroit for | Princes Henry and George gave | his prison sentence. Fields has embellished each day and | which, if true, portance. “famous film. actress" a sapphire, and diamond ring. | tte Mabel Normand Is Now Recovering |: ES, eb. 25.--Mabel vering rapidly from Hotty attack of influenza and will| Start Search Now with soon be able to leave her bed, the 1 Sask mannett stodion, who'are 41:2 for Two Sisters, rect touch with th ctress’ Altadena LOS ANGEL 8, Cal, Feb. home by private wire, announced to-| country-wide search is now on a guy |the two sisters named by Harry Mise Dale Fuller, former member | Fields, under arrest in Detroit, of Mabel's company in the Keystone |companions of the dope days, is reported dying of double} whom Fields claims murdered Wil pneumonia resulting from influenza, awaiting has im. | story given new evidence | would be of major im His latest story connect the actual murder party, officials stated. N as | peddier (Lurn to Last Page, Column 3) Not Old Man, Says RASLE, man of laughing, terview with an American news- paper correspondent, © livery ig to marry rmick finally was brought to directors’ » corporation here, and con- sented to be interviewed by the in the United Press, The o has ne His mann ure, He smiled fondly as he spoke of his young “Miss McCormick is a real out- door girl," he said the open air, animals, “why, “She is not like the regular so- {tation treaty and the treaty Umiting ciety girl, She does not care for /the use of submarines and poison dancing or teas, or going around | gas. like thi This leaves only the Chinese cus+ Tt was curious that ‘sEng- | toms treaty to be acted on by the lish was most fluent when he |committee. ‘That will be done next was speaking of Mathilde, | week after ator Pomerene, Ohig, “I think our marriag@ will be | has expressed his views upon it. some time in the summer," he The ding-Brandegee - Lod g@ said, “Probably here, I expect | compromise reservation to the four her to arrive with her father, A"—with a Tn bo WEATHER Tonight and Sunday, cloudy, with fresh easterly winds, ‘Tomperature Last 24 Hours Maximum, 48. Today noon, 47. rain; of Mathilde Switzerland, —"You can say that I'm not an old rrespondent found Os- er a robust, stocky man, with a well-knit figure, supported upon slightly curved cavalry legs. tly brushed black hair, sprinkled slightly with gray, a close-cropped black mustache, r is trained cavalry Oser’s English is better than that of many native Ch Attired in blue serge suit, off by lavender spats, the horse- man presented quite a stylish fig- she would rather live here than anywhere else, on deck when she ar- court of inquiry had been by Colone! Charles to determine the nurcotics were smuggled in- the prisone Altho the findings of the board are being kept secret, it is hint | { ed that of an international dope | which has pushed one of ‘te | Fiance tacles into the heart of the tary reservation, in spite of the | most vigilant precautions, An analysis of the morphine jin the men’s stomachs is being to determine whether the dope was _ jadulterated or whether the men de librately took an overdose in an ef — fort to commit suicide, Feb, The military apthorities are erating with state and federal ¢ jcials in the investigation, and a Bi jare expected. In the event any sok _ |diers are found to be implicated in |the smuggling they will be tried by general court martial, which would |have the authority to impose 1§ |years’ imprisonment. ‘Twiddy was charged with desertion jand had been tried by general court imartial. He was awaiting sentence Jat the time of his death. Dodds was charged with stealing pistols and wag also awaiting sentence of a general court martial, Twiddy’s home was int ‘ampbell, Tex., while Dodds’ home was in Denver, Colo. Both are said to have been addicted to the use of narcotics, PACT FAVORED IN COMMITTEE WASHINGTON, Feb, The sen- ate foreign relations committee to ' ordered favorable reports to the ate on the four-power Pacifie | treaty, the supplementary greaty ex cluding the Japanese homeland from the four-power pact, the navai limk stable proprietor Mathilde Me- room of a He and that of a well officer. AgOaNs. set “she ld countryside— the power treaty was adopted 10 to $ and all other proposed reservations were voted down, The vote on reporting the treaty to the senate also was 10 to 3. RAD MAN ROBS ’ ID SUPREME JUDGE _ WASHINGTON, Feb, 25.—The si preme court is the most powerful le) @ |gal tribunal in the country, But 79 ‘auto thieves have stolen the $3,000 © electric coupe of Associate Justice Wiliam R. Day, decisive gesture— Minimum, 39.