The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 22, 1922, Page 5

ee Ve Ye re THE OLDEST OPTICAL FIRST AVENUE. ESTABLISHED Ol FIRSTAve-nesr MADISON 0 Mew » Men © Mi Mie tO eS AD Os jean Homes Bureau UNBAUM:BR FURNITURE CO. INC. SIXTH AVE. Sctween PIKE and PI ge SY HAVE y THAT c THERE Is 5S ONLY ONE MORE hoy be your last chance to secure a many suitable articles we are. uctions from regular prices LECTION TOMOR /—§ make delivery, meg Sra OU PURCHASED HRISTMAS GIFT? re a gift, one of offering at s MAKE Your a Early, DAY! YOUR SE. We will OPTICAL CO HOUSE ON 1906. SS ES |SENATORS ASK | OIL PROBE. WASHINGTON, Dec. 22—An tn- Voutixation will be started at ones by | | Senator La Follette and other sena-| | tors into the new contract of the Sin |clair Crude Ol Purchasing compen? | i government royalty oti from the rich Salt Creek field, adjoining the Tea Pot Dome reserve in Wyoming. The Sinclair interests recently obtained a contract to extract oll from the Tea Pot Dome and this | stirred up a storm of opposition tn the senate which has not yet sub- |nided. ‘The new contract ts to run | for a period of five years and covers jail th royalty off from the Sait | Creek field. | With its producing contract in the! {adjoining Tea Pot Dome, the Sinclair interests are now strongly entrenched | jin the government oll fields in | Wyoming, The contract will net the government in exceas of $13,000,000 over a period of five years, Does he-smoke? Give him cigats ~~ Cen to one he likes mild ones~give him MOZARTS Mild as a May Morning-and as fragrant ee de ah el ee ee aE SD DE CLD 80 AM AD, THE |GERMANY IN 1923]| « Many Germans Now Workers Are Eking Out Meager Living Wages Don't Compare With Food Prices ||Cannot Afford to Purchase Meat and Eggs BY MILTON BERLIN, De BRONNER There is a gray look of strain, of anxiety, of despair, of under-nouriwhment about the greater mass of Germans to day If one sting the simply examined a table upward trend of yclined to think comfortably Ul off Hut the take ag an example miners, because in many aspects they are the workmen In Germany falls down on Germany is “kaput 1921, the 90 marks per wages of coal moat important if the Job, In Janu the Ruhr valley got 68 shift « ven hour By ruary of getting 123,34, by by July, 268.98 When I was in Kane olis of the Ruhr they told me miners were 1,255.8 addition to 40 marks per day Jf the miner had a and another 40 marks per day for each child He a coal for a very low figure But from their miner his done miners in 1922 they May, 187 were 12 and n, the metrop: the other day, latest figures for per shift, in wife got hin how prices jumped pre-war & rd which cont 100 marka in Beans. pound— the mark much more now Pease, whict cowt 68 marks in Lard, pound, in Een, which vw Plennign ench, cost Let w op behind the scenes in the four-room fiat 6f Johan Schmidt and wife Berlin, Johan may be a mech drawing 8,500 marks per week. carpenter, § woodwork shoemaker, 00 0,166; builder, 2 7,000. Schmidt has finished his breakfast of two siices of dark bread with dripping, and cup of coffee without & real coffee bean In it He has wrapped his lunch of two aiices of bia bread with a plece of saunage and a gnarled apple and started away early, no he can walk to work. The shortest car rides now coset 30 marks. Mra. Schmidt, market basket on her arm, walks wn town to one of the big department stores. There ts ever-present in Mra. Schmidt's mind the fact that her husband ing between 1,000 and 1,500 marks per day. , Judge her frame of mind when ‘she beholds these prices for the day pfennigs in a October, cont 60 pfennigs, formerly pfennign per October cost 380 marke. ven 26 marks—when get them Marks Lean Macon (b) . ++ 1,160 Fat Bacon (ib) . 20, Saurage fb) . Wienerwurst (1b) Soft Cheese Ob) . Butter (ib) ..... “ 50 Margarine (b) . 600 Apricot Jam 0b) « 266 Prunes (ib) vee 950 Dried peas 200 to 360 Coffee (poor quality) ... . 2,800 Canned ,fruit sqe+ 200 to 400 Dried Herring, cach . as ue Potatoes @b) ... ‘ s Carrots (ib) . Cabbage (Ib) « ee Onions (ib, Chickens (Ib) . Veal (ib) asenbednes nes Beef (poor quality) (ib) 400 to Pork (Ib.) Sugar db) ° and soon to be rationed at three pounds per head per month at ..... +. 190 Eggs (each) 68 Bread (ib) .. + 165 Mra, Schmidt doesn’t buy any meat. She can't afford it; nor eran. She buys bread, potatoes, dried WHAT'S IN THE AIR PROGRAM FOR FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2% 2p. m; 6:30 p. m; 6 p 600 400 700 700 KDZE—1040 to 11 a. m.; 12:30 1:30 p, m.; 3:20 to $30 p. m.; Ta6 to $:15 p. m KIR—5 to 640 p. m; 845 to 915 p.m OORE xii: THEATRE = A 2S VAUDEVILLES*" v8 DELIGHT’ Assisted by Stewart and Olive “MALLIA-BART COMP. “HAVLEN | _ THE ALLEN ad ee i | QUIXEY RUSSELL | FOUR WALTER NEWMAN C0. TUSCANO BROTHERS a BILLY DALE & Company Matinees 2:30 Nights 7 and 9 JAN RUBINI _ Dave Thursby ~ Bobby Lehman “JOE WESTON GRACE ELIN Nelson's Pat! . PANTAGESCOPE BITS AND PIECES _ General Admission: Mutinees 250 Nights 400 SEATTLE “sue «JURY ACQUITS 115} STAR Look Undernourished | fish, a little and some dried thinks #he will “shop apparel But she ing ten do not to the fluctua fo you go In show windows lieplay pr owin, tion In the mark and say that in window No, 14 you maw sult No. 10 that you liked And then you get the price for that day Mr Schmidt prioe Men's ov Men’: ulte Men's «ik Men's Bocks In the women's 4 can get a bi k a J} 9 ; & woolen phison Gifts” Perce Cookle Cutters B5c Vegetable Brushes Tie Erg Cutters $1.50 “see notes the following 40,000 marks 000 marks from 6 to 9,600 60 marks 1,000 marks |f| outa. shirta 700 to Fancy Pencils 75¢ sartment whe +e Bagby Baby Garters 75c at ywher o'9,9 © anywhere ~ kings from Toy Boxes 85c chiefs from ** ” Crumb Trays $1.50 6,600 to 7,900 and handk midt sees several things eoeee but--the coal bin | . . . ® and briquettes, made out of Fairy Fuel, 50c¢ to 85e 987 marks for “es ee sho must buy coal. Clothes Line Sets $1.00 Tape Measure hand painted, 60 she would tike empty coal dust, ni cont 200 pounds TOMORTOW: More problems | raised by the falling mark. | *“e #* Soapy Su Dolls $1.00 eee Baby Combs of French Ivory 7be “eee AUBURN WOMAN) ;Farm Love Triangle Aired in| Court A fury in Superior Judge Bruce Hiake’s court Thursday acquitted Mra, Etta Whistler, a rancher of Pa 4 cifle City, of a charge of alienating 9] Sewing Kit affections of Dennis Waldron, a of leather, $1.75 hand. Mra, Ada Waldron asked |}| eeee 5.000 damagen for the alleged . | alienation of her husband's affections Feather Dusters in colors, $1.60 pair es e* Coat Hangers for Infants, $1.00 eee Toilet Sets for Infants, $1.75 oe a Card Table Styptic Pencils 75c osee Sponge Dolls $1.00 eens Jumping Ropes 75¢ “eee | Whistler denied on the stand that Waldron occupied a room in her |f| home after he had denerted hin wife. | Waldron, who worked on the Whist- |]| |ler-ranch, slept in the barn, accord- jing to Mra, Whistler's testimony, | ‘The real cause of Waldron’s deser- |} tion of his wife and thelr atx chfl- @ren was Mra Waldron, said Mra J] Whistler. i Numbers 760 More than 20 residents of Auburn, |f/ me ne ee neighbors of the Waldrons and Mrn.|}| Women’s Hose Whistler, testified at the trial HT} of silk with ribbed tops—$1,50 ‘CHAMBER ASKS\|_ Steak Sets of Sterling Silver, $7.75 “ses Gift Certifieates for any amount “ee Glove Bonds for any amount “eee Camisole Tops 160 and $1.00 “eee Corset Covers semimade, $1.25 *# ee Corsages hand-made 60c to $10.00 “eee nish Laces @ yard, $1.95 eeee Perfume, Burners priced at $10.00 *_* ef Manicure Sets $1.26 to 00 see Fancy Soxp 260e to 5 a box “eee Perfume Atomizers Tbe to $6.00 ‘CONSULAR AID.CLAIM ACTION Maintenance of ade quate Ameri IS ILLEGAL can diplomatic and consular serv |thru appropriation of sufficient |funda by congress and support of| Attion of the civil service commis- the proposed program of the state|sion in reinstating W. EB. Worsham, former eity detective, was declared illegal 18 a notice served upon the department to increase itx foree to care for expanding foreign trade, commission by the corporation coun- wel's office Thursday. Was supported in « renolution adopt- The notice declares that, since at ea yesterday by the Chamber of Commerce board of trustees, The jchamber’s foreign trade department|eng girst hearing on the Worsham presented the messure whieh OUt-| cass the commission had denied his lines yaluable wervices rendered to} appeal for reinstatement, either a re- shippers thru American consulates! nearing or a reinstatement of Wor- jand declares that adequate funds _ are necensary to care for increasing | |foreign trade. The resolution says: Im the interest of expansion and, ‘protection of international com- |merce, the Chamber of Commerce | favors the appropriation by congress jof adequate funds for the support | {of American diplomatic and con-| jsular services and the carrying out | of @ proposed program of the state | department for enlarging forces and! increasing services and protectien to| jAmerican business men engaged in foreign trade.” | HARTFORD, Conn-—Radio ama- teurs in Switzerland hear messages sent out from Herbert Hoover, Jr.'s, amateur radio station at Washing ton, D.C, is report from American Radio Relay wague. | LONDON.—-A. Stulginsk! elected | president of Lithuania, according to |dispatch from Riga, | One swallow eats about 6,999 fies [in a day } is DAYS TILL fe Taliging CHILDREN’S Q Pll CHAIRS Reduced to 39c 18 inches high; painted weil made, Limited quantity. red; PYREX CASSEROLES With Heavy Nickel-plated Frame c Very THE KIDDIES «KNOW THAT SANTAG D FOR CURISTAAS TIME 16 RIPET ANID 60 THEY AGK,CAN HE COME THZOUSA “THE RADIATOR PIPE amc / rt : {Man Likes Shopping, * . With Wife | | Jones and his’ wife had been | shopping. | | “Well,” spoke Mrs, Jones, “you | didn't complain about escorting me | from store to store and carrying the |bundies, as you usually do, How, does it happen?” “Oh, I'm in good spirits today, have a reason, My dental work | was completed this morning, and I jfecl more relieved than I have in many months. It makes me espe- | clally appreciate the Yuletide season, I guess, when realizing that I'm fixed up now for @ long time to come. My dentists? The Pioneers, | of course-—Dre. Danford and Child. ers, in thé Collins building, at See ond and James, That's one reason for my satisfaction, I know their work is well done and that it will last, What's more, I find it fen’t high priced, And that's something to be appreciated at this time of year."—Advertisement, oven. A Beautiful Selection Priced to Sell at $4.9 and Creamers, Crumb Scrapers a items of hollow ware. Regularly sells at $3.50 Size,7 inches; guaranteed not to break in the sham would be null and void. Worsham was dismissed from the force last April for alleged impli tion In a@ violation of the narcotics jaw. New evidence presented at a hearing held on Tuesday of this week cleared Worsham, in the opinion of the commissioners, and he was re- | stored to his position on the city po- | Nee force, WASHINGTON, — Senator Reed, Pennsylvania, decorated with dis- tinguished service medal by Secre- tary Weeks at service medal cere. mony here Thursday. : VALUES FOR THE RHODES co. % aa seers Last-Minute Gift Suggestions For the Busy Christmas Shopper Boys’ Belts with Initial buckles $1.00 “eee Boys’ Toques of wool and in colors $1.00 eee Boys’ ’Kerchiefs $1.00 a Men’s Combination 3 r Arm Band Sete $1.00 a* Suspenders silk lisle ribbed-—$1.00 “eee Men's ’Kerchiefs Initialed or plain 4 for $1.00 3 for $1.00 2 for $1.00 eee Men’s Ties 4bc to $3.50 **** Smoking Jackets Priced at $10.00 eee Boys’ Indian Suits $1.25 to $3.26 re Cowboy Suits $2.35 and $3.50 se @ Wool Middies for girls $3.60 to $7.95 “ese Wool Scarfs $3.26 to $5.75 “ve * Agate Jewelry $3.00 to $6.00 ene Ash Trays Tbe to $2.95 “ese Girls’ Bathrobes $1.50 to $4.95 sees Children’s Sox three-quarter Mercerized Lisle Sox—50c, 65¢ box of OSSINING, N. ¥.—Leonard K 98, said to have riding record of 600,000 miles as result of living and commyting daily to New for 68 years, died bere at his 1525 Rallrond Ave. “Oldest and Most SEATTLE’S MAIN FLOOR TOYLARD TOYLAND OFFERS UNUSUAI THE LATE SHOPPERS A LARGE ASSORTMENT OF BOOKS FOR THE LIT- TLE FOLKS specially priced. Included are Mother Goose Rhymes, Nursery Tales, Kitten Series, Painting Books and many others. P Regular 25c values, special at...........15¢ a Regular 50c values, special at...........29¢ / | Regular 75c values, special at...........49¢ JUST RECEIVED A Late Shipment 6f DOLLS which we have quickly. Valués priced to sell up to $4.50 for 224nch dolla, jointed, mohair wigs, eyelashes and closing eyes. Some 15-in, dolls, ‘Low Priced at prettily dressed, with bonnet, stockings and shoes. RUGBY FOOTBALLS BALLS Underpriced at $2.49 Good leather covers, with tested bladder, A gift that is sure to please the boy. § lS of , GIFT SILVER Bread ‘Trays, Sandwich Plates, Vases, Sugar nd many other 7-PIECE GRAPE CUT WATER SETS Pitcher with six thin blown tumblers, cut in the nifty grape design, ROBESON SHUREDGE POCKET KNIVES The right gift for lad or dad, at prices to suit any person or purse, Some excellent values, at prices rai 50c to ing from— $2.50