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spevens Sern es mesa 24 a i a — The Seattle Star | OPPONENT VOLSTEAD j LIQUOR HOPE He’s Minister and; Enemy of Booze, | But Beer Crowd) Is Aiding Him GRANITE FALLS, Minn, Oct. 17.—The father of Amert- ca'’s prohibition law, opposed for reelection by a minister and lifelong fee of liquor who has the backing of the National As sociation Against the Prohibi- tien Amendment and = other “wets — Such is today’s strange para dox in the political campaign in the Seventh Minnesota congres- sional district. Congressman Andrew J. Volstead, author of the Voistead prohibition act, is’ back home here, making the hardest political campaign of his career. He seeks re-erection on his prohibt- tion record, against the Rev. 0. J. Kvale, who declares himself “drier than Volstead.” The fight has as#umed national! Representative A. J. Vol- interest. The nation's “dry” and] stead, prohibition law author “wet” organizations have both en- 4 . “es tered the campaign, for it is bound] (above), and Rev. O. J. Kvale,| who opposes! to have a tremendous effect upon | prohibitionist, the big effort to amend the dry aw | him, sd ngaing Uaht” wines ad beer KING ST. P. 0, TO BE ENLARGED «| ~ ef the Lutheran church at Ben- son, Minn, Rev, Kvale has nof raised the prohibition question, @id not seck “wet” support—but regardiess of his “dry” views, it has been thrust upon him, Volstead is chairman of the paw it erful judiciary committee of the wed : house of representatives, to which|$100,000 Addition Will Be ail bills for modification of the pro- ; hibition act would be referred. Vol Made at Terminal stead's ability to hold down consid- — | eration of wet measures fs a big) Construction of a $100,009 addition factor for yonnion, mrouath. to the King st. postoffice terminal | Defeat of Volet besides elim- ‘. Inating him, would improve chances | “**tion seemed assured nang en for fav@rable action toward amend. | lowing @ conference between J. ment. {ff the republicans retain con-|FPullenwider, special ‘péatoffice tn- en George 8. Graham, Philadel-|«pector; Postmaster Edgar Battle: ja, would become chairman of the . judi A | Assistant Postmaster C. M. Perkins ate ee wey 8) and L. C. Gilman, vice president of Would be “more amenable to rea- fon" than @ prohibitionist. the Northern Pacific. The present Should the democrats regain con-| structure is leaxed from the N. P. for ent ot ae See, onan Theme $41,000 a your. It ts estimated that vo rapa. ecaateeas iy cane the addition would run the rental up ipa & jon at put $91,000, ification amendments by the fudi-| °°, = wae my ashe Id be assured,| TWenty thousand additional square in either with Volstead re. | ttt of floor space fa provided tn the bed. pss) Association Against | Proposed plans, with two extra stories the Prohibition Amendment. for the parte! post section and one ‘Thus, the Rev. Kvale, ever @ | ft the rent of the bullding. fi St Specifications were to be submitted ae ‘Se ohne involuntarily“|¢o the postal officials Friday morn- “wet” organization, while the |'S. With the prospect that, At they | national organi tion of the An- | ®T° Sccepted, work will begin at once. tiSaloon league, which he has |*° that the addition may be complet- always supporte d, is fighting | *4 '% time for the Christmas rush. is is the third time the two/ Mumble Garb “dry” men have opposed each other Two years ago Kvaile defeated Vol Has the Call) BOSTON, Oct. 27—For once a stead for the republican nomination. The republican state organization | ‘ backed a contest, however, and Vol.|hUmbIS grorking man's garb out stead was declared nominated, jshone the evening garb of a Ches-| In the fall Kvale, running as the| ‘e'field in the Back Bay police stat-| farmer-labor candidate, lost to Vol-| 10% When @ question of bail came ‘ up for two men who had been ar. rested on the charge of drunken. stead by but 1,500 votes. | 1 geo celta 2 ng Gunning 9 ness. John Wetherhea, giving his t of t "| address as $18 Cambridge st., All tan oo iF cuneate a yo was taken into custody in the ‘All is “wet” t |vieinity of Copley square. A few Dot et apport that 19| “inutes later John Jaarforta, giv ing his address as 62 Gorham st.,/ Somerville, was brought tn. | therbee was in evening clothes. | Behind the Rev. Kvale, Since he fame to Benson from Wisconsin, five years ago, he has won | spread popularity thru his charit- able work, his adtivity during the| | Seven friends similarly dressed came | war and the prominent part he has|!n to bail him out. They could not | taken in public affairs at Benson. _|Talse the $27 needed. Even after a In the Lutheran church he has|lot of telephoning Wetherbee was been prominent since school days. j still there. In the meantime a He ts a member of the board of edu |friend of Jaarforta, in working | cation and the boaff of finance of | clothes, arrived at the station to go the Norwegian Lutheran church of bail. He pulled out a big roll of; America. | bills, paid the amount and went| For 23 years Kvale was pastor|away with his friend. ot Oxfordsville, Wis., near Madison. | - During this time he was a close friend of Senator Robert LaFollette, and gives the latter credit for much | of his political inspiration. Rev, Kvale and his wife have seven children, Jealous Countess ~ Poisons Guests ATHENS, Oct. 27, — Countess Giulia Forostno, wife of an Italian diplomatic agent, sought unique re- venge for her husband's attentions to other women. She made up a Mat of 22 women whom she suspect €4 of having more than a friendly Interest in the count. Then she in vited of them to dinner. After feveral delicious courses hod bee! served the countess arose and stated | that the food was poisoned. Several | Of the guests became deathly sick | and a scene of wild hysteria. fol-| lowed. Some af the women ran hrieking for medical aid. An investignts followed, This re Vealed that the countess had actual I¥ poisoned the food, but had put in 80 jittle that none could be made Scientist Adds to Life of S wiss Butterflies | aus by M. Louts Dabtovchen. a Justice Day Associate Justice William R. Day Swiss scien ve prolonged the | has resigned from the United States lives of butterflies five or six times | supreme court, in order to give all | the normal period. A system of| his time to hie duties umpire in} Varying temperatures je the basis | finally settling ali war cloims with of his experimenta, ermany. loheer the } ant--inte | reatest periods in America's exist {Christian church ar | phane or | Pilgrims,” }tion . from SEATTLE, WASH., FRIDAY, OCTOBE R 27, 1 Says Americans Living Now Only for Stomach BY JOHN O'DONNELL and the crashing of old customs. | w More important, the preachers are of poorer quality than in former|\ days, | There was @ time when a host|say they can furnish It. would greet his Sunday guest With! have blackberries rips on the bush| cording to J. L. Brown, superintend NEW YORK, Oct Nicholson, novelist an says “America reached its #piritual peak at the time of the civil war For the past 60 years, Amer Spiritual qualities and idealiem stoadily degenerated | Yow, in a world grown gray with materialism, the younger peo: » have cracked the barriers of | yeaterye ar, have given sex virtue an indifferent status in their scheme} of things and have forced every tn. telligent observer of American life! Meredith 1 exnayist, | to the sober conclusion that the old oncept of marriage, the home, re ligion, sex standard are gone definitely and absolutely gone.” Nicholson's summary was given sadly, The enthusiastic gusto with| which an intellectual revolte ap plauds the passing of the mid-Vic laws was lacking in his state BEMOANS PASSING OF VICTORIAN DAYS “I am not at one with those who Passing of Victorian times," says Nicholson, “I think the happlest and most enlightened period in American life was the| Vietorian era. “True there might have been some hypocrisy and a reticenc which today would cause a smile, but the great bulk of the people led happler tives and—this in import. tually it was one of the| n those days respect for the for moral mpanied a spiritual a ude which came to a beautiful flowering In the civil war. ‘America’s participation in the world war awakened no such spirit- ual qualities in this pation as the civil war awakened. Out of our ex perience in the great war there has come but one great and splendid iden—the league of at lone. This was a wonderful and beautiful thing. Tt was imme tely dragged down and made the football of partisan politica, “Today Americans are the slaves of materialism. We are living for the stomach alone while the nation’s | ards ace }heart and soul is starving.” Do you think this letdown of! moral standardy by the so-called, younger generation is a passing definite change in our * he was asked, ctviliaation AMERICA DETERIORATED “The collapse of olf social taws| controlling sex relations {# the greatest social phenomenon In America since the landing of the the novelist replied. “We! must make up our minds that the old morality is gone; that the young People of both sexes are indifferent | to rules of any kind and that in Matters of sex they are rapidiy swinging toward a single standard.” “And will that single standard be the high one formerly demanded of women or the lower one of men?” “I had hoped you wouldn't ask that question,” Nicholsun smiled. “Certainly the young women of to day hold virtue more cheaply than did their mothers and grandmoth ers. Perhaps we may hold out this |hope—tt's an idealistic hope, per. haps—but the only I see. The realization that man’ example is having a bad effect on women may force men to change. “But the spiritual collapse, the de tertoration of America, is teen in other ways than sex, It fs shown in education, politics, the church. ‘Out tn Indiana, the quality of spoken English ts poorer today than at any time «ince the first settlers. |Our schools everywhere are littered with nonsense. People who think | that we are reaching @ higher level jot o vation are plain fools. presents the same situa another angie, Le pride does not express itself in a desire to see the native town or city well governed. Men would rather boast of the largest factoty than the best municipal government. As a result many cities are run by crooks. LINTELLI ‘T PEOPLE TOO CARELESS “So with the ‘churches. The Christian churches are putting up a| “Poll }fight to hold the marriage custom| and the Christian tradition, But} what is the situation? The Protes tant churchmen are frankly bewil-| dered by the whirl of new idens! | intelligent and society.” jing the wan invitation to hear some fine preacher, Now you are asked to go to the golf links, The first-rate men |of our colleges are not in the theo: logical schoo! They are taking coring and law “Can you suggest a way out?" “We haven't enough facts to make new rules, The realistic nov elists are gathering data on con temporary life but we must walt until more facts are presented, We must stop the careless attitude of people toward politics ong GARLAND GETS |More Berries Ripen in Seattle Summer needed of Be jattle's wonderful 2 NEW MATES Man Who Spurned Million Is Platonic Lover NORTH CARVE Neighbors of Charles ( young millionaire who recently gave away his fortune because he had not It, have Just penetrated the myntery of Mary Wren Garland's eparture for Europe. Garland now him in his “chicken coop’ house on his little farm near here, hey are Mins Alice Edgerton, blonde and petite, and Miss Dorts Ben- son, 20-year-old ward of the Garland family, who frankly confeased a year ago that, tho she loved Garland, she believed her love was “hopeless,” She in also blonde, but stock and sturdy ‘Those two girls, working side by stde upon the farm, share the intellectual comradeship with the young hermit. heir, who says hin recent love for Lillian Conrad, his former “soul- mate,” ts dead, For the present, he adda, bis love for woman, as he un- derstood It a year ago, in cloned and platonic love has taken tts place. Khaki-clad Miss Edgerton was dis- | wered by « reporter wielding @ hoe In the potato field, She anid: }has two new soulmates Itving with | “1 arn staying here because T af-| |mire Charles Gartand and believe his theories should be carried out.” Min experimenting together with Garland in & “platonic love colony” and are supplying for him the mental stimu. lus which he says he needs to replace the Inspiration of ils discarded “soul- | mate,” Lillian Conrad, CHINESE WILL W. W. Husband, commissioner general of immigration, who was on his way south Friday after a twoday visit In Seattle, haa prom lsed to exert his infiuence as soon as he returns to Washington to modify exteting Interpretations of the Immigration law so as to make them les onerous in thelr applica tion to Chinese passing thru this port ‘This action was pledged an the result of representations made to Husband by the China club and by Lew G. Kay, the Intter reprenent- hinese of Seattle, who told him that the Chinese mer chants were boycotting Seattle be. cause of the humiliating treatment they received at the hands of im- migration officers. Husband said he would try to arrange to have all Chinese ex amined aboard the ships on which they arrive and that, when this was possible, the visitors will be per mitted to awalt the examine m at hotels instead of in the detention ation. Husband also said he would take steps to bring about the construction of a new immigra tion station here, granting of a sufficiently long lease |to justify the erection of a new building. Joker in Dresses Spends Time in Jail BIRMINGHAM, Eng. Oct. 27 Dressing in women's clothes “as a Edgerton and Miss Benson are | FARE BETTER) by urging the! Joke,” Albert Preston was arrested | and put in jail Extra Special for Saturday For these One-strap Soft Black Kid House Slippe -flexible soles. Palatine ave, 510 12th ave, 8. W., Next Tuesday at 1 p.m. |Seattle Retailers Hear Alvin E. Dodd No Car Relief for at Least Six Weeks | Altho the American Rallway asso: Mrs. M,| ciation has ordered all empty freight Methods to be o tle merch pe bankruptey | pletion of the Denny in hard times were outlined b A | carn to be hauled Wert at once, Iii, noaa, manager of the deartment | Fifth aves, ik, and) will be six or more weeks before Pa | o¢ domestic dintribution of the U, 8,| Seattle Real ed retail merchants Thursday noon|of that body at the L. C. t the New |Dodd also explained charts that | was All three| from the present car shortage, ac | i project cago, Milwaukee & St, Paul ratlway. ® period of 110 yearn TACOMA PEOPLE Sending for Book Maps of ‘the GEORGE KINNEAR COMPANY Absolute Auction Sale WHY? rr Because they know Barry & Austin; they know we mean what we say; they know that bargains will be secured by those who attend the sale and buy. ‘ They know us, because we conducted a sale in Tacoma three months ago, and those who bought secured bargains, and many have told us that they resold and made substantial profits. They know that every lot put up will be sold to the highest bidder, without upset price; and they know, when we state that the owners will not bid, directly or indirectly, that such is the case. They also know in Tacoma that Seattle is on the eve of a great real estate revival; and they know that Seattle lots to- day, at 30, 40 or 50 cents on the dollar, are a sure bet, real money-makers, They also know that the real estate market in Tacoma is bet- ter than in several years; and they know that before long Seattle will wake up to the fact that Seattle’s market is on the rise, That’s Why Tacoma People Are Coming to the AUCTION SALE IN FINE ARTS HALL, 1213 FOURTH AVENUE MR. AND MRS, SEATTLE— Are you going to let this unusual opportunity to buy a lot, for a home or for investment, at the Kinnear sale, at your own price and on easy terms, get away from you? Every line of business in Seattle is improving, and when such is the case, it inevitably follows that real estate becomes active. 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