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PAGE 8 Now That Fall Is Near —What About the Clothes You’ll Need? ‘The time for fall clothes Is not far off. But there's no need for you to worry about how you will be able buy “Credit Gladly” is the key to that situa. tion. Why pay the entire amount when you can pay a little Seececcccoes to yours out down and spread the balance over the weeks or months that follow? Bradbury Clothes for Men and Boys Bradbury Suits and Overcoata have that snap that up-todate men and young fellows want These garments are cut from high grade woclens in popular weaves and fabrics, tailored to give syle and satisfaction, and priced down to rock bottom. Come and pick out your size for Fall. TRANCES 209 Union St. 1332-34 Second Ave. Open Air Pigs Get Broken Arm Didn't Top Market Prices Worry Her at All MANCHESTER, Eng. Aug. 11.— MINNBAPOLIS, Minn. Aug. 11. Lord Hamilton of Dalzell, who raises| Tho Winifred Adams, aged 13, had Pediareed ples, does not believe in| broken her arm in a fall at recess, pigsties. Ali his pigs are reared in|ahe returned to school and finished the open a and they bring ‘high prices, | her examination paper. Organist Will Be Magicians May Be Barred in Egyp Given Knighthood CAIRO, Aug. Teaver ere wom LONDON, Aug. 11.—Sydhey Nich-|en have petitioned King Fuad to Olson, organist of Westminster Ab-lexpet from Egypt members of all Dey, is to be created a knight. culte that practice “rites of les of magic.” Prowning King & Co. Our Half-Y early Shirt Sale Continues to yield a first-class assortment of the finest and most durable shirt fabrics obtainable, in both the American and foreign markets, at prices ranging from $1.15 to $5.65. Colors and fit guaranteed. Knitted Neckwear, made from the finest strands of cobwebby 4 $2.65 silk. Specta). Special value in Vassar Athletic $1 .65 Union Butta Balance of our Straws will be sold Saturday at $1.35 Browning King & Co. 2nd at University St., Seattle | || Have You a Savings Are you one of the large percentage of home own- ers in Seattle? If not, the formation of a plan, a definite program of systematic saving, is essential for creating the funds with which to buy, or build a home. If you don’t start, you can’t finish. SAVI DEPARTMENT THE UNION NATIONAL BANK of Seattle BRANCH AT BALLARD BRANCH AT GEORGETOWN Open Saturday Evenings 6:00 to 8:00 EVERETT, “Aug 1 —Progress '» fight against the er, the socalled “apeechaneasuring” devices in stalled by the Puget Sound Tele phone Co., is expected to be made within the next few weeks, when two hearings on the Invention wilt be held, one by the Sw mish county tax equalization board, on August %, and the other by the state board of pub He utilities, September 6. The matter of the valuation of the telephone company, which has atop: ped the entire proceedings momen tarily, will be decided defintely at thene hearings, ‘The state board of public utilities halted a hearing Inst June on the telechronometer, until a valuation had been placed, declaring that telephone rates could not be fixed until the valuation was known, to provide a fair rate of return on the company's investment According to City Commisston- er T. A. Turner, of Everett, re sare now In the elty commis. hands, showing last year’s valuation for tax assess. ment purposes of the Puget Sound Telephone Co. to be but $111,000, while the company's own appraisal of its stock and equipment is $763,000, The law requires that the aasess. ment valuation be at leant 69 per cent of the real valuation. There fore, Turner says, an Investigation ts necessary to correctly determing the facts ‘The telephone company refuned to file a valuation with the county as. stonor for 1922, making it necessary | for the aseasor to fix hin own nsnens. ment valuation, which he estimated at $140,000 William Neal Winter, prest dent of the Puget Sound Tele phone Co, ix sald to have been voted a eife of $150,000 In stock and $50,000 in bonds of the com- pany, a» recent meeting of the company’s directors. } The tax equalization board wil! re. jquire Winter to show cause why the | tax asnenament valuation of the com jhearing, August 21 |} At the hearing before the state |board of pubile works. September # |a proper valuation wl be placed on the Puget Sound Telephone Co.'s holdings and the final rate fixed on telephone service And the whether Everett will be forced to ac cept the telechronometer, deapite vie orous protesta. Meanwhile, the tele chronometer. the cause of all the litt gation, continues to tick merrily away, playing havoc with family purse strings. " Stud ying More Fun ‘n’ Hookey Under New Plan BY JACK JUNGMEVER LO8 ANGELES, Aug. 11-—-Shades of ali hookey-playing rebels against painful education—can this be true? School aa much fun as swimmin’ and fishin’. Kide eager for examin ations. No nervousness, heartbreak or fear of failure. Joyous progress at twice the old speed. Dr. A. H., Sutherland has achieved this marvel on a wholesale scale in Loa Angeles grammar echools. Hi directorship of paychology and educational research bere, and 15 years’ connection with the Univer nity of Tilinots, Yale and other bie institutions, have given him national repute as scientist and educator With the reopening of grammar schools in a few days, he'll put his principles at work on a still broader scale. land. “And his lessons are fixed ac | cordingly. | | | | | | Dr. A. H. Sutherland fy able and himself determines when he ready for examination for higher levels. “Stress, fear, halflearning give way to joy, self-confidence and real mental development. There is no lagging, no malingering. On the contrary, hitherto backward pupils, largely #0 because misplaced, forge ahead on their own initiative RESULTS PROVE THEORY “Results spell genuine education The notion, fostered by our haphaz ard grade rating, that children must be forced and driven to study, is all wrong. “Fit the task, the problems, to their capacity, and they advane fully twice as fast aw the present grammar school average.” During the first 20-week expert ment in adjusted individual educa tion in Los Angel 97 pupils taken from the second to the fifth arades made average progress of 39 weekn, the slowest being 12, the highest 73 And this represented only half-time study Previous to that 5,000 misfit puptia had been put thru special adjuat ment rooms showing that 10 weeks’ training insured 4 year's advance, |pany should not be raised, at the| board wilt then Geetde | HOW HE DOES IT His ayntem, practiced tn expert mental classrooms, abolishes mass grading, adjuste the curriculum to} individual needs and permits prog | ress to pupils’ capacity “The child's mental age ta first determined,” explains Dr. Suther “He progresses just an fast as he! THE SEATTLE STAR aan it does look lke only the giant anchor on the bow of the Majestic, biggest passenger liner prehistoric monater or @ pre-prohibition dream, BY LANSING WARREN 108 ANGELES, Aug, 11.— Like the army claimed to be the original of Mark Twain's “Colonel Sellars,” claimants of many kinds ean be found to have “inspired” any work of fiction, according to “Major” Francis RB. EK. Wood- ward, who believes he supplied the facts for Kibert Hubbard's famous “Message to Garcia.” “I am not trying to discredit the} claim of Major Rowan of San Fran: | cinco, who wan recently decorated by | the war department aa the original} hero of the yarn,” said Woodward na | he related an account of which he/ said he haw reason to think ts the) true story of the tale Woodward ta at present head of| the Los Angeles Theater Owners’ ae sociation, with offices here, and ts known for his career tn the Cuban army He has tn his office documents STARWICH GETS VOTERS’ PRAISE Commended on- Record Mad in Economy j Commen@ing Sheriff Matt wich, the following statement received from “The Voters’ mation League” “This organization has noted with | |much satisfaction the management | and economy of your office, and we wish to compliment you on ft a} are among the exceptions tn ‘he county-city building who are not} spending every dollar they can ae-| ure. Keep up the good work, some} lot the may catch spirit.” “When the public first elected me it knew of my record for catching criminals over a period of a score of yearn,” sald Starwich. “My of flee maintained that record by rounding up the bank robbers who | committed the $25,000 daylight bank messenger robbery on Second ave, and catching the four soldier mur. derers of Karl Timba, the Tacoma | chauffeur, and numerous other rob 4 Star wan Infor: | others your ber rings. Not a man has escaped from the county fall, altho many attempts have been made, but all | of them have been nipped in the bud.” Ballard Elks to ° Stage Carnival Ballard Elks will hold their mid. | summer carnival Saturday night in| their new Ballard Elks’ home, when | their recently elected queen will be crowned. Mixs Gertrude ¥Follman succeeded In obtaining the most votes in the Elks’ popularity contest re- cently conducted in Ballard. She} will be present with Ballard Elk dete. | gates at the state convention of the! (em@nization next week | |Duncan Candidacy Filed at Olympia James Duncan's candidacy for the | United States senate on the farmer. }labor ticket was filed at Olympia |Thursday. Harry J, Vaughan, an-| jother farmer-laborite, filed for con gress from the Spokane district Empire Way Paving | Contract to Be Let} ‘The streeta ond sewers committee of the city council at thelr session | |Thursday afternoon directed the} board of public works to let a con tract for the paving of Empire way with but 6 per cont partial fatlures. Here's no yawning, spit-ball pelt Ing or morose idleness. In word, act and record, joyfully busy | Kohool kida bear out Dr. Sutherland's claims. Discipline isn’t needed, ‘The youngsters are too Interested in progress to “waste time,’ these |told the others the mame. | Two Different Men Claim Garcia Honor Phone Meter Clashes Due at Two Hearing NOT A PLESIOSAURUS— | HARDING PLAN |House to Get New _ AT MINES FAILS | Workers at Play as Troops Walk Sentry BY ©. ©, LYON WASHINGTON, Aug. 11.--Offle figures complied by the United States | geological survey show the fi ro of | President Harding's 1 coal production under military | | tal | an to increans ection | Various coal producing states are| spending thousands of dollara a day! maintaining troops in the coal fields But while the soldiers walk sentry at the mines, the etriking miners, ac cording to reports received here, wit on their front porches and play cards. The official government figures |ahow that during the firet week aft-| er the president “invited” the coal| | operators to reopen their mines under |ntate and federal protection, actually te a] wan produced in the big coal | states of Ohio, Indiana and Iilinois| than before the invitation was ts. sued The ranks of the striking miners in Illinois, Indiana and Ohio are still! characterized in the government re porta as 100 per cent” solid. Total production for the week ending July 29 was 3,900,000, a» | ngalnet 3,700,000 tons the week | before, but the increase of 200,000 tons, according to the govern: ment, was due “partly to more men at work in Pennsylvania, partly to improved ear supply in Southern West Virginia,’ and partly to heavier shipments from Alabama and the Far West.” During the week of June 19-24 total production was 5,563,000 tons. “There ts no indication of in- creased production in response to the invitation to reopen mines in any of the strongly organized districts,” the government report declares. “Normal production at this sea non, including anthracite, is from 9,500,000 to 12,000000 tons & week,” the government state ment continues. 1t ts plain that the Harding plan won't produce more coal, and that relies which unquestionably prove [the country, with a present demand that he saw nervice there. ‘The story ls an involved one,” said today, later admitted used my story “1 nt to me |where I delivered my message jarmy, Maceo, rela was known. “Later 1 was captured by the natives and reported dead. But 1 escaped, tho IT had been sen tenced to death, and got back to New York sbosrd a British steamer. That's briefly the stery my Cuban adventures. “When I got back to New York T met Jack Munson, « newspaper man, who was then working on the New introduced Elbert Hubbard and several) Jother newspaper men. “We spent an evening together tn and! I told a lot of things that happened to me when I York Recorder. me to and he an obscure French over a little ‘red ink’ restaurant was In Cuba “Hubbard mld at the time that he/| to write something about but I thought nothing about It as he was the same as any other news- was going jit, paper man to me then.” Woodward said that when “The Message to Garcia” was published he recognized many of the details of the story as stmilar fo those he had recounted, but that he was not sure but what the story was paper work of fic- tion entirely, “I met Hubbard again, how ever,” Woodward id, “and asked him about ‘The Message to Garcia.’ “That was your story; Hub- bard said. ‘I had forgotten your name, but i was from what you told me that I wrote the story.’ ” Major Woodward exhibited a num ber of papers and letters to confirm hin service in Cuba. ‘Of course,” enid Woodward, don't know about tt vhat Hubbard «aid to me in Chicago He said, “That was your atory.’” {MASCOT | They call him Dumbbell, The eye of the eel becomes en- lurged during the mating season, Ul he “but it in a fact that my experiences were similar to those re lated by Hubbard, and that Hqbbard| that he had to Cuba carrying mos. sages from Thomas Estrada Parma and others at the time, and made my |way from Santiago into the interior and ltater became a member of the Cuban 1 knew Generals Gomes and) who were prominent before T He may have Rut that's but this parrot was the only mascot that es- caped the order to get rid of ail pets\being displayed at the Fine Arts So. when the Atlantic fleet came home. for at lenst 9,000,000 tons 2 week, muat be rationed with a weekly #up- ply of 4,000,000 tons or leas. Unbalanced Woman Upsets Marriage NEW YORK, Aug. 11—Sensation, al details of a society wedding which was almost wrecked by an insane bridesmaid bave just be- come known here. According to the} story as told, the final words of the ceremony were being spoken when the bridesmaid went into a frenzy Bhe tore the bride's vell off and @tamped it under foot, Then she struck the bridegroom. Seized by several attendants, the girl waa! overcome, but not until the wedding had been delayed half an hour, She is now under private observation for her reyes Shot Hubby Trees Ambush Is Charge MUNICH, Aug. 11—Frau Eliz beth Koehler, of Traunstein, young widow of a rich Bavarian landowe r, has been arrested on the charge f shooting her husband from am- bush ana robbing his estate. Princess Mary ane “Ma’am” to Friends | LONDON, Aug. 11. Acquaint-/ ances and leas intimate friends will | now use the Victorian term of "Ma‘am” in addressing Princess Mary. Married women of the royal family are no atyled. Wanted Quiet Room! Jumps Out Window MIDDLESPORO, Eng. Aug. 11 Vivian Withy, a consulting engi neer, applied for a quiet room at ithe local hotel. Then he undressed | as It fo retire and threw bhimaeit| out of the windo Train Derailed by Large Cattle Herd EDINBURG, Aug. 11.—~ Dashing miles an hour into a herd of the Edinburg-London express was derailed near Goswick. Seven coaches left the track \Soused Parson | hs Taken by Brother | LONDON, Aug. 11.—Rev Alfred | Freeman, who came to London and | “went on a tear,” after taking sev eral drinks of rum, has been turned | over to his brother. Will Not Reduce | Australia Wages bo cown, S8YDN 8 W., Aug. 1 The Ja hlia t has announced its intention to do everything possible to promote business without lower jing wages They Had a Habit of Robbing Store | MEXICO CITY, Aug. 11.—For the Isixth time tn two months burglars | entered a leading store in the busi- | ness center and got away with a of loot |large amount Death Threats Are | Given to Kreisler | NA, Aug. 11 Fritz Kretaler, violinist, has received letters threatening him } nous several death since he returned here to do relief work Regular Insect ; Convention Here |} NEW YORK, Aug. 11.—The New York telephone book contains the | names of Messrs, Bugg, Fly, Roach | and Beetle. WATER COLOR paintings by Bd. gar Forkner, Seattle artist, are now . eloty gallery, | Mann was sinted for the speakership | FRIDAY, AUGUST 11, 1 Leader in Any Ca BY LHO K. BACK utterances @id not sati WASHINGTON, Aug. patriota, and Tegardless of who wins in No con. | time esis | Soo ber cont shelved. The war over, congressmen | | recall Mann's exceptional abllit | parliamentarian and legislative vember, primary election tests thus far bave demonstrated that the house of representatives will be dominated by new bosses. | There wilt be a new shuffling | of dent Sidney Nicholas Kepresentative Minnesota, and of the cards and » new deal, | worth, of Ohio, also are ment) Congressional idols not already [for speaker. But Anderson i will be forgotten and Lon pulled from their pedestals by voters in the primaries likely will be dragged down by their assock- ates after they come back here. There will be a determined fight againat the reelection of Represen tative Frederick H. Gillett, of Massa chusetts, as speaker of the houne, even tho republicans continue con | trol of the house One of the complaints againat Gil lett is that he has been too close to LEAVING TONIGHT the “Old Guard oligarchy.” Jim” Mann, of Dilinots, floor leaa- | The Monkey Hippod. er of the republicans when democrate | AND controled the house, is now being | TOM MOORE groomed for the job by hin friends. | In “From the Ground Up | may be selected floor wader to coed Representative Mondell, w | seeking the senate from Wyom! Should the democrats win, a dates for speaker will include sentative Finis Garrett, of T ner, and John Garner, bed ‘Texas. PALACE HIP ‘= HERE SATURDAY four years ago, but some of his war. | Lopas Oriental String TARIFF BILL | creme Sine DEADLOCKED exo 100% Senate Fails to Keep Party | Campaign Promise Leather Shoe: For Men, Wor BY LEO R BACK and Children WASHINGTON, Aug. 11—Con- greasmen returning Aug. 15 from their six weeks’ vacation, hope- ful that the senate will have the tariff bill ready for them, can return to their districts for an- other prolonged stay. ‘The bill will not be ready. Indications are that the bill will be a part of the uncompleted legiaia tion when the November elections occur. | ised In the 1970 party | plat as legisiation necessary to restore business to normalcy, two years may elapse before the bill is finally submitted to Prest- dent Harding for his signature. ‘The measure now before the sen- ate has slight resemblance to the bill approved by the house a year ago. This will make reconsideration by the house difficult and slow. Senate tariff authors have not had everything thelr way, however, as a coalition of democratic and repubil- can senators haa demonstrated the DIN will areatly boost the cost of liv.) ing. As matters now stand the tariff is calculated to make trouble for the G. 0. P. Its failure to become « jaw will be reflected in November, | politictans predict. Politics and politicians have been so active in the preparation of the bill that the movement is gTowing to take the tariff out of polities entirely and put the whole thing Into the hands of a Ron-partisan commission. Men's black and kid aod calf high and shoes, Goodyear solee— $4, $5, $6 $6.50, $7 Gyro Club Chooses Delegates to Meet Delegates chosen Thursday night to represent Seattle at the district convention of International Gyro clubs, at Nanaimo, B. C, Saturday, include Stanley Bolosver, Harold Weeks, Walter P. Bhiel, Glen South.) wick and Franklin Sly, Three hundred years ago spectacles were $75 a pair and the service poor. Today you have the Columbian Optical Service and glasses at a price any purse can afford. Conscientious Personal Service Columbian Optical Company 1315 Fourth Ave. Main 1941 YOU HAVE A BOILER LIKE THIS IN YOUR COAL SHORTAGE Best authorities predict a coal shortage even though the miners res' at once. A water heater such this will insure your hav ing hot water econ ally. We have only a carl at this special p $22.50; $7.50 down $3.00 a month, or 8 cent discount for cas with order, Installed usual, SEATTLE LIGHTING COMPANY 1308 Fourth Ave. Main 6767 THE GAS CO. 2

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