The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 12, 1922, Page 1

THE STAR IS ELECTED SEATTLE’S MOST POPULAR NEWSPAPER BY 15,000 PLURALITY COIN KILLS LITTLE GIRL! TOT SWALLOWS NICKEL, DIES! TE {WEATHER Tonight and Saturday, generally fair, gentle Maximumm, 60. Today southerly. ‘Temperature Last 6 Hours winds, mostly Minimum, 46, noon, 60. VOLUME 24. . 66. On the Issue Rntered as Hecond Class Matter May 8, Ot the Postoffice at Seattle, Wash, under the Act of Congress March 4, SFATTLE, WASH., FRIDAY, MAY 12, 1922. of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise The Seattle Star 9. Per Year, by Mall, #6 to $9 tm o | = ie 4 | fees =a ———— | Seattle Author Writes for Star e Greetings, Folks! Nowadays when a fellow reaches for his hind pocket, you can’t tell whether he is going to shoot yeu or pelsen you. What with all these dope investiga. | tions and everything, a person is almost afraid these days to take a/ little sniff of war rt Abdout thie time of the year be get ch ate souer ani an other. ees SAMUEL PEPYS BREW i Thureday, May 11 my wife to dinner aboard the Bay State with C. Gately, @nd found there several acquaint. @nces, and the dinner was most ex cellent and all the women did want to smuggle off Chow dogs, and tn deed they are cute beasts, but I did warn my wife against them, saying They May Have Chinese Cooties or Perchance Manchurian Earwigs. | And so to the Butler, and saw Bill Pigott and Bud McDermott and} others too numerous to mention, and danced several times none too ‘well, and drank « gallon of ginger al¢, which (s indeed a poor, weak beverage, but the best we could do, and wo to home all of us, very merry. eee ‘The circus is coming to town. Pop will make his annual excuse: “I don't care much for this sort of thing for myself, but the boy wanted to go.” eee Seattle girls refuse to marry widowers on the ground that they would rather tame their husbands themselves. eee The 1922 crop of earwigs has just made its appearance. Gosh! First it Was political candidates, now earwign and pretty soon we will have with us the birds who rock the boat. -- s—_—_——_ | If you haven't any regulation | earwig bait, try sprinkling the lawn with @ little home brew x but this The city Earwigs sleep all @oesn’t mean anything winter, council sleeps both winter and sum-| mer. eee POEMS OF PASSION Your teeth are like the stars, That make the evening bright; Your teeth are like the stars, For they all come out at night! eee Prosecuting Attorney Malcolm Douglas says that he will have the county grand jury probe all the charges against the police dry squad Officers. Is Malcolm trying to give the jur Ors life jobs? eee Silence {s golden in Everett, where ones measure speech and! by the length of the conversa- te chi tion. . “A sea lion measuring 9 feet 3 inches, and weigh- ing 831 pounds was killed yesterday by Captain Gunder- son and crew near Whidby island.”— News item, see | Bet that’s the fish that escaped from our line last Sunday ose Taxpayers’ sult filed to prevent city from turning dog pound over to humane society. Wonder if they will let the dogs intervene in the case? MORE POEMS OF PASSION Drop that lip-stlek; * * & START TODAY “The Color of Her Soul” An Absorbing Story of Love and Adventure in the South Seas BY S. B. H. HURST AUTHOR OF “COOMER ALI” H ibd a raft, but which he had since called many other less flattering names. He was a wiry young man, clad in about jtwenty per cent of a cotton undershirt and ontreg forty per cent of a pair of dungaree pants, no shoes or hat; and he languidly watched the sun-drenched water splashing} upon the rocks of the southwest corner of Pitcairn island, about twenty yards away thru a monocle that glittered among his alarming whiskers like a heliograph in a | forest. “Tam a poet,” he mused. “That is, a sort ‘of poet. No, that doesn’t describe me—it merely flatters. Iam really just a pounds of matter, energized by a quixotic! ‘sunbeam; and I am either forgotten by the 'gods, or ‘else the gods don’t know I am at) large in the cosmos. “This voyage proves it. To try to sail a thing like} this raft from Tahiti to Pitcairn was an elaborate| |form of suicide. They all told me that, and they were right. But I wanted to give the gods a chance to show their intentions. live or die. ! And what happened? I had the devil’s jown luck until last night, when that beastly squall) earried away my mast and everything. “Then I drifted to where I am.| fore, a crimin | But IN be hanged if I'l!) swim the he con but unl doth Involved. feased they were rest of the distance. I'll navigate thin raft to the shore, or burst. Hut| He eat down at his desk in a cold how, when I've even lost my paddle? | *weat. How could he propose to Jes. I'm thirsty, too, and a bit weak; and|*e now? i he had never seen a that bit of a stream wandering down | Per Didn't know | |the hillside among the orange-trees | that Ge ed it is positively maddening on earth had ¢ nt it on ‘But, somehow, I'm not a bit sorry | then George had come in, whi for what I have done; altho if people|t® break down and cry like a child] | knew why I ran away from England | When confronted with the note. they'd call me a ts of a fool. Yet| He had meant to pay the money any decent man would have done the | atk, he said. They all mean to do same. If I could only have aaid| that. He intended to pay the note good-by to Jessie—but that was im.| When it was due, never thinking that | possible he bank would scrutinize the securt saw again that last morning| ties 4 it was no use trying to! jin Engiand, as he had seen it every |faise the m the bank would | day for five years. He was walking | Presecute, would never compound a} | about his room, trying to decide upon er was done. |the words with which he would tell man,” George had sobbed | Jessie how much he loved her—the ‘@ about hyself no much H it will affect Jessie that | words he should have spoken long be |fore, but which his very natural em-| bothers me.” | barrasament had inhibited. This time, | What do you mea: the man ver, he would speak. He would on the raft hed asked in a voice tell Jessie all about it that very in't recogniz@for his own. evening. | “Why,” George had faltered, “last A messenger-boy knocked on his| ight I asked Jessie if there was any door, with a note from a kindly | Understanding between you and her friend. It was a terrible thing to|And she laughed—sald she only read: the bank had discovered that | thought of you like a good old broth | the securities hypothecated by the|@t: and that you only liked her like | firm of which he was senior partner |# sister, or you would have proposed | | were forgeries. George and himself|!ong ago. So I asked her to marry Jwere the firm rge was (Turn to Page 13, Column 1) there | “| MUST HAVE MEN!” SAYS PRETTY PEGGY BY KENNETH CLARK ) Was highly indignant when she NEW YORK, May 12.—"I sim was told the motion picture thea ply cannot live without men,” ter owners had barred her from Peggy Hopkins Joyce, an indig- the films. nant, somewhat tearful, but alto- “American chivalry must tn gether stunning figure in Paris. deed be dead,” she exclaimed jan clothes, declared today upon I haye committed no crime. her arrival here aboard the Cun If anyone waa vile enough to ard liner Mauretania | link my name with men who “eggy brought a million dol | have committed crimes, then the larn’ worth of jewels with her, in blame {# theirs, not mine. It ia a little square handbag, which | Outrageous if things have come she clutched tightly as she | to such @ point.” walked down the gangplank. | But Peggy could not long hold Customa offic detained her | her indignant mood for there and she immediately summoned | Was much to talk about, par her lawyer | tieularly men Peggy, because of whom a “L must have men,” she sald, young Chilean shot and killed flashing the million-dollar smile Get a broomstick! . 2. Doe I is over at his Prosser ranch tak care of his prize bulls Job } Pies | A en t mayoralty eandl | ate et fon, Brown (Torn tn P age 9, Column 3) himself in Paris « fortnight ago, (Turn to Page 9, Column 4) E lay wetly upon what in a moment} of creative enthusiasm he had) few] Whether they wanted me to} MONEY-PIECE FATAL 10 Too Weak for An Operation, Girl is Victim of Ab- scess in Throat Fouryearold Rebecca Nah- miaf, daughter of Samuel Nah- EB. Alder st, died the result of swal- lowing a nickel, Four days ago the Mithe girl was running along the street | mear her home to buy her mother a loaf of bread. She had two nickels in her mouth. She swallowed one of them. It was removed at the city hos. pital, and Rebecca went home. Thursday night it was dis covered the nickel had caused an abscess in Rebecca's larynx. She was taken to the Ortho pedie hospital. Doctors refused to operate, saying she was too w She died Friday morning. The body was taken to Butter. worth's Undertaking establish. meant. \VIGE IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUND Spokane Grand Jury Scores Booze and Auto Rides SPOKAN | morality in schools and high schools of Spo kane was the charge embodied im the findings of the county grand jury, which has just filed its report in the superior court. Boose, roadhouses, unchaper- oned auto rides, style shows and fraternities are condemned in the report, which declares that the | parents of school children must | share in the blame. While de- | elaring that such conditions ex ist, the report maintains that the majority of school children above reproach. lows | “Immorality exists in the grade! and the high schools of this but the vast majority of school students are ch probl jating the contaminat ing © is a matter deserving serious and immediate consideration. | “The major factors contribut- ing to the present conditions are: “1. Actual indifference or lack of interest on the part of parents or guardians as to the where- abouts and conduct of children after school hours, “2. Lack of discipline in the hoola city © repre ne %. Automobile joy riding. “4, Entertainment at public dances, roadhouses, noodle joints and city parks unchaperoned. “a should be |had between superintendents, princt- pals and teachers, More direct mu pervision must be exercised over all pupils in school buildings, on the ounds and adjacent thereto, All in fractions of rules and of good con- duct should be dealt with. The more |xerious offenses should be reported ‘to the principal, whose first duty ts and administer disci pline promptly. If this arrangement bring desired results it ts co-operation to investigate does not recommended that at leart one juven- ile officer be assigned. At the pres- jent time little, 1f any, co-operation seema to exist between the public schools and the juvenile court. A very close relationship should exist, to the end that corrective action be | taken with all offenders Our information that high school fraternities foster an idea of class distinction at a period in the life of the student when the teaching should be along more democratic lines, Businoss houses should not be allowed to stage fash ion shows at high schools, thereby converting a public (Turn to Pake 9. Column 3) DEMPSEY SIGNS TO FIGHT CARP LONDON, May 12.--Jack Dempsey, world’s heavyweight champion, and Georges Carpentier, heavywelght champion of Europe, signed articles this afternc 0 fight in Burepe be fore June, 1923, according to an an nouncement made by Jack Kearns. manager, to Dempsey’s Presa. art of the grand jury report fol-| The} Indicates clearly | institut‘on {nto | | training school Friday night. Sixteen sweet girl graduates will be given their diplomag at the Seat tle General hospital graduation exer |clses in the First’ Methodist Episco- |pal church Friday night. | ‘The young women have completed |a four-year training course at the |hospital and are now ready to enter the field of nursing as professionals | heir graduation Friday night is Jone of the features of National Hos | pital day, being observed all over th ates on this 101st anniver United § Detalied plans for a Fine Arts building which promises to make Seattle the cultural center’ of the West are given in an article ap pearing in @ bulletin issued Friday by the pany. An art gallery, studios, store of distinctive character, rooms, @ mall theater and other auditoriums are to the building. It was announced at tho office {of the Metropolitan Building cofn, |pany that the structure will be be gun before many months, after the | trustees and regents of the Univer |sity have passed on the plans, The building will be six storles high, and be located probably on |the east side of Fifth ave, between University and Union sts, and will have a frontage of about 360 feet The cost is to be approximately $600,000. To quote from the bulletin, which s the official spokesman of the company “Some of the features that have be features of been suggested for the new build jing and that we think would be |very appropriate for it would be; an art gallery, a small theater a book store of a different charad lter than the usual commercial book |store, a library (particularly one containing books ¢ t and music), |tea rooms for men and women, and the United |women's clubs of various kinds, “As at present planned, there will Fine Arts Building to Be Erected Here Metropolitan Building com-| a book-! All-Women Club House to Go Up on 2nd Av 16 Sweet Girl Graduates UNIQUE | DRIVE PHONE CASE. CASE Hospital Day Celebrated LAUNCHED AT | T0 BE he ‘Democratic Club Everett to Be Erected in Seattle for the New Woman By Aileen ( Claire Plans for the erection of an “all-woman's clubhouse” on Seo- ond ave., at an estimated cost of $200,000 or more, were launched Thursday at » luncheon given by Mrs. re Landes, councilman- at the Waldorf hotel, to her campaign committee and of- ficers of the City Federation of Women’s Clubs. ‘The idea, which is, In @ way, an outgrowth of Mrs. Landes’ cam- paign, is absolutely unique, and was hatled by guests at the luncheon as one of the biggest steps forward ever taken by the new woman, The institution is to be demo- Miss Anne E. Fowler, one of the pretty nurses who will re-| ceive her graduate dipioma from the Seattle General hospital Jaary of the birthday Nightingale, the nursing methods. The graduates include Marjorte N. | Conner, Hope F. Doan, Leona L, Me of Florence | ploneer of modern | Allister, Elsie Lang, Olga Bergstrom, | Anne E. Fowler, Mary EB. Moody, | Florence H. Simpson, Donna N. Gib bons, Helen N. Collier, Goldie F.| Berry, rl Ayers, Violet V. Par sons 1 Kennedy, Catherine E Tappe and Ella ¥. McComb. Dr. D. A. Nicholson will deliver the | inraduation add be no offices in the building in the The | | commercial sense of the word. jee | voted to offices will be sound-proof | es that would ordinarily be de |studios, suitable for musicians, ar- | Usts, architects, house decorators | jand others engaged in artistic lines | of work, According to our present jarrangements, we do not expect to| have living quarters in the building, | |because of the difficulty of control ling the cooking arrangements, The studios will ve equipped, however, | with conveniences for light entertain- “If our company Arts building, perhaps the principal |thing about the whole enterprise will be the selection of the | |to supervise and manage it. In our] jopinion the person selected for this [ponition should have nothing short jof a national reputation, and perhaps jan international reputation in. the art world. It would have to be un derstood from the start that such a standard would be established in this building that it would not only be known as the art center of the| Northwest, but asx one of the out-/ standing art centers in the whole | world." | pro F builds the Fine right person | | ITEERON. ‘| MOTHERS’ DAY| YORK.-Wholesale {have made preparations for Mothers’ | day by advancing the price of ear nations from four cents to 20 cents apiece, | NEW florists | |shares of stock at a par value of |to get cratic in every sense of the word, It will be representative of no one class or clique, but will stand in the fullest sense of the term for all the women of the city. A corporation will be formed, with $10, and the only requisite of mem bership will be the purchase of one or more of these shares. Holders of large blocks of stock will, of course, have more of a voice in the management of the institu tion than persons with but one or two shares—-but, aside from this, every stockholder will have equal privileges. Thus the wealthy society women, with possibly 100 shares of stock, will be on exactly the same plane in the club as the shop girl or the stenographer who has put $10 in the corpora- tion, The institution, as the idea was explained at the luncheon, will have |a hundred varied functions, but pri marily it is intended to give the women of the city an opportunity to realize to the greatest degree possible on their new part in civic and political life One of its principal aims fs to |provide the housewife, particularly the one with children, with a chance in closer touch with other women interested in the advance- ment of the city. For this reason an important place in the plans for the build- ing has been accorded a play- room and kindergarten, where mothers can leave their children when downtown, In addition the building will con- |tain offices for numerous women's organizations which could not afford to have separate buildings of their own, The following or were all said to b6 Intere plan: Grade Teachers’ club. Business and (Turn to Page 9, Column 5) ed in the A Big List of Seattle's most enticing bar- gains for Saturday's selling is in today’s Star. McCormick Rros., page Rrowning King & Co., page 2 GroteRankin Co. page 8 Southwick, MacDougall page 4 The Rhodes Co. page 5. Spelger & Hurlbut, page 5. Frederick & Nelson, page 7, Slogan page, page 8, Gately’s, page 9. The Bon Marche, Fahey-Brockman, Goodyear Raincoat, page 11, Cheasty's, page 12. Chatter of the Shops, Market ads, pages 16, 17. Tailored page 10, page 11, page 12. 14, 16, Ready Co. page 20, Look them over carefully, You'll find many an oppor tunity to save, izations | TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE e. wt Prepare to on Legality Telechronometer By S. B. _ B. Groff EVERETT, May 12.—Everet® citizens are sald to be ronometer and therefore the | contract is still legal, the | zens hold. City Attorney R. J. Faussett do clared he hud found additional dence Thursday, which he _ use against the phone company, | June 6, at the meeting of the board of public works. Faussett said the new evidence was of vital importance to citizen of Everett, but declined to. tell its nature. The tide of publlo sentiment | against the telechronometer is @p- parently increasing. A large mia- jority is opposing the device. Paid advertisements, however, @p> | Pear daily, stating that about 75 per cent of the phone users have saved money since the installation of the meters, and that new phones are being put in rapidly. Meanwhile petitions asking 1 moval of the meters are being elr- culated, and have been signed by scores, That the telechronometer has Practically put an end to mis sionary and charity work in Everett is the assertion of Mrs. E. T. Thompson, 2713 Wetmore ave., who also said that the re lief work for starving orphans in Siberia and Alaska has had to be dropped, becatise she was unable to use her phene to call members of the Methodist Two boxes of food and cloth- ing for Alaska were being made up when the meters were put in. The boxes have lain half full for over » month. “It is unreasonable, unjust,” she said, “I can't even call the grocer without going over the five minute limit. We used to have a 24-hour service. Now we have 3 a five-minute service." That phone is comirg out.” ‘William Neal Winter, president of the phone company, declared his operators were now able to handle | 600 per cent more calls a minute junder the new system than Seattle operators do. Out of 35 phone users, both bust. ness mien and housewives, ques tioned in a thoro house to house |canvass, 26 were decidedly against ;the new meter, Four were unde- |eided and five said they liked the | system. | Part of the 26 had saved a few jcents, but declared it was at the expense of robbing themselves of |convenient and reasonable use of | the folunhons): COAL STRIKERS BLOW UP MINE Shaft Wrecked by Blast of Dynamite PITTSBURG, May 12.—~Alleged i striking miners early today blew up the Peterman mine with a heavy charge of dynamite. Damage was estimated at $1,000 by J. H. Peterman, the owner, Seventy-five men, it is reported, marched on the mine and planted the dynamite, _. > ae)