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USEFUL BUYING CAMPAIGN IS ON Christmas Shopping Takes on Practical Air Seattle stores are trying to direct the Christmas buying into “useful buying,” by heavily stocking stand @rd departments with necessary gifts, according to advices received by the retall trade bureau of the Chamber of Commerce yesterday Ready-to-wear, furniture and dress Foods departments have been stocked to meet the needs of all classes of buyers, with every size of pocket In accordance with the buy-carly campaign, stock In all departments are filled and the first rush of holl @ay buyers ts finding more than the usual Christmas variety. An imerease of 16 per cent tn Christmas buying over last year was predicted by Howard T, Lewts, pro- fessor of business administration at the University of Washington. Re tailors have prepared for even a greater increase than Is predicted Holiday garb, inside and out, has een donned by many of the leading stores, Huge Christmas trees, ever. green wreaths, mecha: 1 novelties and Imitless festoons of holly or co @ar are being used in the decoration plans. Seattle ttself will be dreased tn greens for the holidays by the Cham. Der of Commerce. Contractors will eet up the decorations duirng the Will Lecture on Ford and Unions John C. Kennedy, secretary of the farmeriabor party, will deliver an on “Will Henry Ford Make/ Unions Superflucus?” Sunday even- 8 o'clock in the Labor temple, and University, The be Seattle Labor College's Open | Admission is free. college welcomms visitors at classes in “Marxtan Economics,” ‘and “Evolution,” held at 3 and 4 in the afternoon. Aeronautical Body to Hear Lectures Maj. H. C. K. Muhlenberg, of the University of Washington, and P. G. general manager of the company, will speak Mr. D. M. Coats, of Chicago, has erentee a ie? bowen g rigid inner ich. in actual test, wi _ 00 times with: plone 0 your mileage fro miles without re- St. icago, introduced eve wher: ‘onderful tunity for interested, write him toda: Advertisement. 4 pt FOLEY'S HONEY TAR our Foley's Honey and Tar stood three generations priated ow wrapper th Medicine World lecture | stven under the auspices of | it the loss of | THE SEATTLE STAR '22-Year-Old Genius to Open Symphony Season The newest luminary stage of great sts will the Metropolitan the- wnber 3, in the person of Tescha Seidel, youthful sian genius, who will be soloist at the opening concert of the Seattle Civic Symphony orches (ra. The talented youth, only 22 years) old, will make haa Initial appearance | first concert of the Seattle in Seattle while the musical world | Symphony orchestra, Sunday, Deo, & is ringing with his praise, In the! potonaise—tugene Onestrt” short period since his professional Teohaikowsky debut has made a tour of most | *7™ph Mendelscoha of the m al ters of the world, | and has been p imed everywhere | jolinist r o! teat | ® violinist and artist of the first). Presto rank on the ;former members of the Theodore Thomas orchestra of Chicago, the Boston, Cincinnati, Detr . Brattle and other symphony organizationa. Season tickets are now on sale at | feattle Civic Symphony orchestra, Co, Martius Muste House, Monteltus Music House, Hopper-Kelly Co, “Ttallan’ ty (with orchestra) ndon, the goal of all violin. a ists, enthusiastically accorded him tribute, and lier | the erities deveting colu | unstinted praise to his In New York, Chicago and Bow ton critics were of one accord that Seidel was a brilliant con tribution to the musical wealth ef the world Tho special clement of Seidel's Playing, critics say, is his apparent mastery of technique and depth of interpretation. Difficult selections | are rendered without effort Well known numbers acquire new sig |mificance under bis magic bow, His/by the Seattle Civie Symphony or. |playing t* marked with stncerity|chestra to develop the musical life and absence of mannerisms, for this| of the city, tt has been decided by | gifted youth from the steppes takes | the management of the orchestra to his art seriously. extablish a reduced rate of admission Seidel will play the Tschalk- [to the coming series of five concerts owsky Concerto with orchestra | for puptis in Seattle» public schools. at his local appearance, and will | The season rate for the five concerts alse be heard in a group of /|to school etudents ts to be $2.60. violin solos with piano accom | ‘Tickets are on sale at 26¢ Empire paniment. butlding. The 1922-1998 season of the Seattle nae er eeme Atos stay bed Oregon Gets Aid Civic Bymphony orchestra will com of U. S. on Roads Drise five concerts, at which will be presented artists of world renown, as | Well as local musictans of note. On |March 18, Caroline Lazzart, noted| PORTLAND, Ore, Nov, 26—Thru | Metropolitan Opera Co. contralto, will | agreement with the federal govern appear; Guiomar Novaes, Brazilian | mont yesterday, the Oregon highway Pianist, will be soloist for the Aprill|system henceforth will have the 29 concert, and Lols Cassil, winner | penefit of federal aid in the atate de © plano contest, will play | velopment of highways as integral a parts of the entire national highway The Seldel concert will usher in the | evatem. third season of the Seattle Civic) Under the agreement, 7 per cent Symphony orchestra, under the dl- | of Oregon's 40,000 miles of highways, rection of Madame Davenport Eng-! or 3,000 miles, will enjoy federal aid berg, conductor. The orchestra in-|O¢ this 3,000-mile total, 1,254 miles cludes 110 musicians, many of them ary in primary roads, 1,673 in sec al A Techatkowsky School Children to Get Reduced Rates | mnect with interstate junctures for |the extension of the national high. | way system, while second roads con. nect centers of population within the | tate, Relatives | Orphans’ Festival He readers to ese thie ‘2 en ld in =ns| Has Jazz Program | University of Washington students furnished o jase program Friday ,| Right at the Orphans’ festival, now being held in the ol Aretic Club butiding, 609 Third ave, The even- ing was entirely given over to the co eds and thelr cavaliers, who d rove dull care away with their dancing and lively jazm. Ae a special feature, the University quartet contributed generously of its own songs. The Orphans’ festival will continue thru Saturday. Lively patronage has practically assured the new buliding for the Sacred Heart, which ts the goal of the festival Good in Seattle Basing the opinion on the fact that they effected three real estate Hauger of Buffalo, N. ¥., has writ-|4¢0is this week, J. Hatupin Invest ten to The Star, avking that this ment Co. 216 Yale building, declares hewspaper assist her in finding her | business is good tn this city, The daughter, Lillian, who, she has been| concern sold # garage for $6,500, a informed, is in Seattle. Mrs. Hau-| 6Tocery store for $1,200 and a lot at ger's address is 37 Oakgrove ave.,| §5th ave, W. and Greenwood ave. for Brooklyn, , A ° $1,200. THANKSGIVING WEEK’S ATTRACTION METROPOLITAN COMMENCING SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 26 THE SENSATIONAL DRAMATIC HIT William A. Brady's World-Toured Wonder Play ROBERT ARMSTRONG PEGGY ALLENBY And New York Cast of Splendid Players “A GREAT PLAY FULL OF DRAMATIC PUNCHES” Plus Tax Seats $1.00 SEATS NOW ON SALE —— NEXT WEEK—— KOLB AND DILL offer you a treat In “NOW AND THEN” A Humorous Satire Based on the Volstead Act By AARON HOFFMAN (The Man Who Wrote “GIVE AND TAKE”) LAUGHS ||KOLB pol DILL’S || New Play MUSIC New Cast JAZZ New Music R RA , COMEDY oe irertins ew “A Foamy Argument on a Dry Subject” Prices—Nights: 50c, $1.00, $1.50, $2.00. Mat.: Wed., 0c, $1.00; Sat., Soe, $1.00, $1.50 614 Marton building, Sherman-Clay &| Following ts the program for the | Civte | As &@ part of the effort being made | ondary roads. The primary reads | Sashgiaianlinscnsnmnnnedeteiponainiasstadh LETTER TELLS OF KLANSMEN’S PLAN TO ATTEND CHURCH “Fifteen hundred members of the Ku Klux Kian will attend your services tomorrow evening Be prepared.” || This was the terse mensage received Saturday by Rev. || George V. MoClure, pastor of Columbla Congregational church, 50th ave. 8. and Ferdinand st, “1 don't know what I'm going to do,” Mr. McClure sald when asked if he would preach a spe otal sermon for the kiansmen. ‘Once Again! 'Ho-Ho-Hum | LOS ANGWLIOA, Cal, 26 | Gossip hes Chartie Chaplin engaged aguin—this time to Pola Negrt, the fawcinating Polish picture star. Chaplin will not deny ft and Miss Negri will not disousn tt. | And gossip, which seema to have |forgotten about Pesgy Joyee, Claire Windsor, Mao Collins and What's Nov. ever ‘I won't say yes, and I can't ray | no—think of the position that would jon the rumor. | Sell Property for tie TaN | Delinquent Taxes |v. lviewers and that's sale of approximately about it, except of county and city prop-| Chaplin hag been very attentive overy of delinquent taxen, |ainee the arrival of the charming In the |forelan sereen celebrity property | meeting was anything but the casual greeting of strangers and the report has gone about that Chaplin's trip abroad brought him « very pleasant acquaintance, And Chaplin has been Mins Neert's escort at all of the social functions tn the film colony \ataoe her arrival Naval Arms Treaty Won't Be Quashed WASHINGTON, Nov. 25-—The work accomplished by the disarma not wee inter all there ts Auction 2,700 pare J erty, for r will be held next Saturday past week, 900 ploces of scheduled for the forced sale have been redeemed by owners \Light Earnings in Tacoma on Boom TACOMA, Nov, 26.—-With the $1, 000,000 mark passed tn the first 10 montha of 1922, earnings of the Ta jeoma lighting department are ox-| | pected to paas the $1,250,000 mark be- fore the end of the year 7-Story Building for Seattle Firm Construction of « $200,000 office building of seven stories at the northwest corner of Fourth ave. and Pine st. by the Eastern Outfitting | Co, following transfer of the proper ty to A. Shemaneki, head of the | Baxtern Outfitting Co., from the Bow |ton Drug Co., for # 99-year period by the naval limitation treaty, will not be undone, it was declared em. phatioally at the White House today on the authority of President Hard ing. ‘This wtatement was taken to be « @irect indication that if France re Jecta the naval treaty, the pact will be rewritten as between the remain ing powers, the United States, Great Britain; Japan, and porsibly Italy STARTING TOMORROW | OVERTURE—CONCERT ORCHESTRA AESOP'S FABLES—TOPICS OF DAY JUGGLELAND A Novelty Production THE LES GELLIS Partian Entertainers | “FLIRTATION” A Comedy of Youth Sprinkled With Music With Jack Debell & Jean Waters and Splendid Cast LITTLE BILLY Vaudeville’s Tintest Headliner Assisted by Ervin B. Plummer af the Piano a7 CLAUDE AND FANNIE “| SIGNOR FRISCOE The Popular Phonograph Artist a eeeeeeeetibsenteneneienenennestirne ‘| ALMA NEILSON “BOHEMIA” Assisted by D. B. Ely and Harry Howe Maurice Rubens at the Piano THE PATHE NEWS Hor Name, has Bo more proof than/| | place her in,” was Chaplin's remark | ‘Their! | ment conference here, as represented | ‘HEAR AMERICA AT CONCLAVE LAUBAN Nov. %.- Washburn , Amertoan ar |dor to Rome, who is sitting in | American observer at the Turko- Allies peace parley, served notice on the conference today that the United States demands the open door policy and commercial equality tn all terri torial eettiements of the present con clave ‘The conference arrived openly at | tte first agreement today | Commission No, 1, one of three | nub-divistons of the conclave, agreed upon establishment of a demilitar | tne4 zone 90 kilometers on either & of the Turkish frontier from th Miack sea to the Aegean. Bulgaria lin provided with an outlet to the | latter waters. |Huge Steel Merger Announced in East NEW YORK, Nov, 2%-—-As a result of @ merger, in which the Bethichem ateel corporation absorb- | ed the Midvale Steel and Ordnance company, the former company to day becomes the most important competitor of the United States steel lecorporation. Announcement of the |merger was made by Eugene G. | Grace, president of the Bethlehem, and W. E. Corey, president of | Midvale. | ‘The consolidation will give Beth Jehem an annual capacity of 7,600, 000 tons. Denies Report of Packing Merger WASHINGTON, Nov. 25.—Thom- as B. Wilse eaident of Wilson & Co,, who | cling in the South, today authorized his Washington office to deny reports that his com pany waa contemplating @ merger with another packing concern. Reports to this effect were re- colved recently by government offi. cinls. Mchard 4 A FIR COMPANY If GIVEN 10 DAYS Must Have Answer Ready Within That Time Introduction of evidence in mappert ot the federal trate commission's charge of conspiracy on the part of the Dougias Fir & xplottation Co. |to fix lumber prices and obstruct | competition wae conclufed Priday. ‘The company was given « continu- anos of 10 dayn in which to prepare |!ts anewer and gather counter evt- | dence, Its representatives sought | first to have the date for the re | sumption of the hearing set for & \time previous to January 15. The |novernment held that the evidenos, | having been taken from the reepond- ont’s files, was not new to repre nentatives of the company and 10 | Gnyn, therefore, dhould be eufficlent } | Greveure arrived in the city yester- | ime to examine into ft. day, planning to rest, after his trav-| ‘The trial will reopen tn Seattle | ele and concerts in the East, before| witt then be carried to Portland his presentation in Meany hall Tues. | | j | | He e’s H ere; and Co-eds AreHappy At inst. | ‘The man whose name hae been on every University of Washing | ton co-eds tongue for the past | two months has arrived in Beat tle | The gtrie have talked about htm, written about him, raved about him verbally and in the proverbial black and white, Because of them he has ‘ome to Beattie, Um—scandal . it not so. No scandal at all. louis Graveure, world-famed Belgian baritone, who has been declared the greatest baritone of the nage by erities of both Ku repe and America, several months ago accepted the invita tion of the University of Wash ington Wome: jeague to visit Seattle this fall and to be pre- sented in concert held under the league aunplees. oe day night. He is making his home, | 82 7rasctsco, where hearings be during his stay in Seattle, at the|*lready been held. Washington hotel, where last night | —————————————— Gincuswed music, the Western! ais ts the first visit ountry, and his favorite outdoor | sport with « few friends. | has made to Seattle, tho he tm afraid,” he said tn speaking |to the Pacific coast five times, of advance reports that have dealt | ing in California and once in with his coming to Seattle, “that land. He ts an enthusiast for the lieve been heralded as an advocator | Weat, tho his own home needs to be of jazz, Well, I'm not that exactly. |!n New York, near the Eastern @imq | Personally, I detest jazz, I never go | ters and not #o far from Eurepe, near it, But I think this: E | It was paid that Graveure came to kind of music has tts place. terests many people who might not concert that he might rest. But stop long enough to listen to real, | has discovered that Seattle has thy good music. In this way it serves | “most beautiful golf links” he |as a stepping stone. Those people, | “ever had occasion to observe,” |belng interested in one type of har-|he admits he's « golf hound. mony, might some day chance to| Ah, yes, even these famous ‘near the better, and might lke it."Ihave their faults, bank itself. 47 | 1,000 Matinee Seats Reserved at 25¢ ights,15¢,25¢,50¢,75e,$1;Matinoes,1Scto 500 PALACEHIP “THEATRE | ! [CONTINUOUS Daicy | *°l!! TODAY UNTIL FRIDAY VARIETIES IK y ry \ | ©, has been extens On Monday, November 27th We Will Be at Dour Serbdice in Our New Bome OR several months past, the First National Bank has been planning and working to provide a bet- ter place for the transaction of its banking busi- ness, for the benefit of its customers, the public and the Now we are glad to be able to announce the opening of our new, larger, more convenient, and more up-to-date quarters in the building At the Northeast Corner of Second Avenue and Columbia Street That building, formerly occupied by another bank, ively remodeled for our use. In our new location and with our fine new equipment, we will be bet- ter prepared than ever to conserve and further the in- terests of our ¢ ustomers, to expedite their commercial banking transactions, to safeguard their savings, and to give the people of Seattle and vicinity an all round bank- ing and trust service. We are going to have room for a great many new customers, to whom we will extend the same cordial greeting as to our old customers, and we will continue to offer there the same efficient service which has won and held business fo: r us during the past forty years. May we have the pleasure of serving you in our new home? \ rmony Dispensers, OL FROLICS” 2— MUDGE MORTON TRIO Purveyors ef Melody‘ Maud Chester HACKETT & BEACH a— in “LINE'S BUSY" Aatirising the phone service 4 TH America’s * EL J. MOORE im “SOMETHING NEWr The First National Bank The First Nationa | Bank, the oldest national bank in the city, has always done its best to co-operate fully with the business interests of Seattle. To its merchants, manufacturers, exporters and importers, to its professional people and householders, employers and workers, men and women, it has rendered sound and dependable banking service. It is now entering upon what it be lieves will be a larger sphere of usefulness to this community, and it seeks the confidence and co-operation of the public to that end.