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Evening star., 1922-04-21
Special Dispatch to The Star.

PITTSBURGH. Pa, April 21.-
Girls who attend Pennsylvania
public schools can wear knfckers,
rouge, bobbed hair and all of the
other accompaniments of fapper-
dom. No less parsonage than the
superintendent of the state school
system, DR.. Thomas s. Ffnegan,
has placed the stamp of approval
upon them.
Young folks are better than
they ever were," he announced to-
day. "If all of these people who
fill the columns Of newspapers
with condemnation Of the boys and
girls Of today would only look
back a few years they would see
that our younger set is mild COM
pared to some they will remember.
Boys and girls today are high
spirited, frank and fearless. They
conceal nothing. but everything
they do-and more-has. been done
by young people of all ages.
"Why shouldn't they be frivol.
Evening star., 1922-04-21
HIS. 3-BY-6 MUSTACHE
"MALICIOUSLY SHORN,"
MAN SUES FOR $299.09
By the Associated Press.

By the Assoc!ated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, April 21.-In-
jured pride at the loss of priced
musiache. mot less than three
inches in width and six inches
from tip to tip" removed from the
plaintiff while he was asleep under
a lot towel in a barber shop, has
found outlet today in a suit for
s2sS.09 damages filed in San Fran
cisco justice court. The suit was
brought by James T. Mcguire of
Bakersfield Golf and Country Club.
against Henry Jacoby, barber.
Mcguire was said TO have
stopped in San Francisco barber
shop while en- route to a golf tour
nament at Byron Hot Springs.
seated himself in chair and fallen
asleep to awake to discover his
loss
The complainant set forth:
THAT as result of the said
mustache having been willfully
and maliciously shorn from the
face Of said plaintiff, said plaintiff
has materially decreased in his
personal appearance before the
public; his younger children are
not able to recognize him and the
plaintiff has extreme difficulty be-
ing recognized at banks, garages,
golf clubs and other places where
plaintiff has business" -
Evening star., 1922-04-21
PINS HOPE ON ECONOMICS.
Cooperative Alliance Urges Great
er Credit Concessions.

By the Associated Press.
GENOA, April 2o.-Albert Thomas.
director Of the international labor bu-
reau associated with the league of
nations, has submitted to the eco
nomic conference a resolution adopted
by the International Cooperative Al
lance. comprising 25.o00,00O families
of all countries, which declares that
the Genoa conference is proof that.
politics having failed. the reconstruc-
ton of the world can only be reached
through economic measures Of an in
ternational character
The resolution urges the concession
of credits to countries whose eco
nomics and production have been
damaged by reason of the war, and
proposes the formation of a world
organism, which, taking the place
of both creditors and debtors, should
insure punctuality in the continuance
OF payments. 1t. ends by claiming
that the alliance should be repre-
sented at the conference.
Evening star., 1922-04-21
IMAM OF MYSTERY'' DIES, TAKING
SECRETS OF SILENCE to- GRA We

however, say he was thought to
have lived as young man at
Watervliet, N. Y.
Romaine at first boarded at the
residence Of Mrs. Hill. living,
apparently, on remittances con-
tained in the unexplained letters
Then hope deserted him, or the
miser's passion seized him. or the
remittance0 were stopped-no
hoardings have been found-and
he went to live in the yard of a
Thunderbolt resident in a shed 30
small he could barely lie full
length to sleep. Here he lived for
years in an environment of direct
poverty, a queer old man to be
questioned and wondered about by
the curious. His clothing became
ragged. nondescript, and at times
was pieced out and patched with
crocus sacking. But he never
grew careless Of his secret and
when death placed the final seal
upon his lips Wednesday his mean
effects were found to include no
key to his locked past
The local authorities said they
would hold his body several days
in the hope that a relative, or some
one who knew him before his
tragedy, would solve the mystery
Of his life
Evening star., 1922-04-21
|D.A. R. W|LLPR0bE
SCHOOL HISTORIES
Patriotic Step Asked by
American Legion-Mem-
berS Ballot on Officers.

Careful investigation of all history
text books in use in the public schools
of the United States will be made
by the committee on patriotic educa-
tion of the Daughters of the Amer
lean Revolution. "Muzzey's Ameri-
can History" the use of which in the
Washington high schools has been
attacked by the Piney Branch Cit
liens Association. will be among the
books Investigated
The investigation Of the histories is
provided for in a resolution adopted
unanimously at today's session Of the
thirty-drst Continental Congress at
Memorial Continental Hall. The reso-
luton which was introduced by the
Indiana state delegation, pointed out
that the American Legion has
brought our attention to numerous
assertions. In late histories written
for use in our public schools, THAT
convey many misleading statements"
Immoral Movies Scored.
Resolutions also were adopted by
the congress pledging to urge the
various chapters of the society to
study forestry and to have each
daughter plant a tree and the chap
ters to conduct tree drives" and in
dorsing the proposed restoration of
Sulgrave Manor, the ancestral home
Of the family of George Washington,
in England. The Maryland state dele
cation has pledged $1,000 to the fund
for restoring Sulgrave Manor, and
has requested that other state dele
cations pledge like sums.
The society also voted to cooperate
with the American Legion and the
National Education Association dur
ing education week"
Protest against "lewd and immoral
motion pictures was made at today's
session in a resolution which will be
acted upon tomorrow. The resolution
also protests against all jokes thrown
on moving picture screens which are
designed to belittle members of Con-
gress. The resolution declared that
a large portion of the films now be-
ing manufactured are unfit to be seen
by the public.
Voting Strength, 1870.
A supplemental report submitted by
Mrs Livingston L. Hunter, chairman
Of the credentials committee, showed
that the voting strength of the
thirty-first congress is 1870. or 163
more than last year.
Mrs. Janet Richards read a COM
munication from Mrs. Warren G.
Harding, wife of the President. in
dorsing the proposed Caroline Scott
Harrison memorial. A rising vote
of thanks was extended to Mrs. Her
bert NJ. Lord and Mrs. Luther Der
went. chairmen Of the committees
Arlington cemetery and Mount YER
non, respectively.
Delegates are busy today voting
for the candidates nominated at last
nights session to fill the seven
vacancies in the office of vice presi-
dents general. The results of the bal
loting will not be known until the
Evening star., 1922-04-21
"Dignity'' Is Sighted,
Beauty Contestants
Withdraw From, Race

by the Associated Press.
BERKELEY, Calif., April c1.-
All bets have been called on In
the University of California
cO-ed beauty contest. because
the contestants were not treat
ed with "proper dignity" nc
cording to press reports emanat-
ing from the campus here.
The contest had been conduct
ed by the Pictorial. n university
publication. hut the editor an
nOunced today that the winners
photograph would not adOrn the
next issue. NJ had been planned.
Miss Lucy Stcbbins, dean of
women, was quoted a. saying
that there had been q meeting
of the twelve final beauty can
didates, who had objected to
shavfnE their names jOstled
commonly toward the success of
nm advertising scheme.o
Miss Nardfne Barbe, q grad
uate student from Paris, was
said to have been the winner.
Evening star., 1922-04-21
KILLS MOTHER WITH GUN.
Frightened by Accident, Bo.
Shoots Father and Self.

REDFIELD. 8. D.. April 21.-Mrs.
]. E. Scermerhorn was shot and kill
ed last night when small-caliber
rifle in the hands of her son Elmer,
thirteen, Is believed to have been ac-
cidentally discharged. Fearing he
would be punished, according to Coro-
ner A. D. Coleman of Redfield, Elmer
shot his father in the jaw and then
inflicted a wound in his own forehead
which physicians say may prove fatal.
Evening star., 1922-04-21
ENJOYS From Berlin
Submit to Being Kept
From Russian ParieyS
By the Associated Press.

GENOA. April 21-The German
the condition that the German dele
gates be barred from participating
in the further discussion Of the Rus
sian controversy, by the conference.
the Russo-German treaty signed at
Rapallo being allowed, to stand.
Arrangements were made to pre-
sent the note at noon today to
Premier Facta of Italy, as president
Of the conference and also as the first
signer of the protest received by the
Germans.
The German note is longer than
that from the allies. and begins by
acknowledging with painful sur
prise" the protest received. which is
considered undeseryed. The note then
repeats what DR.. Rathenau, German
foreign minister, has stated on sew
eral occasions-that negotiations for
the conclusion of the Russo-German
treaty had begun long ago. were
known to have been in progress by
all the European governments, and
lately had been suspended out of
Difference to the conference.
But the exclusion of Germany from
the negotiations held by the allies
with the Russians at the Villa de
Albertis gave to the German deiega-
tion the impression that the allies
were trying to conclude arrangements
with the soviet government without
German participation, perhaps to Ger
many's detriment.
AT a certain moment, perhaps
through misunderstanding. the Ger
man delegation received the impress
sion that the allies were about to
conclude an agreement with the Rus
slams. therefore the Russo-German
negotiations were resumed, and re-
suited in the signing of the treaty a,
Rapallo Easter Sunday.
See No Bad Faith.
The German delegation believes tha,
that treaty does not violate the spirf,
of the conference, and indeed con.
tributes to its supreme aim-pacifica.
ton of the world and the reconstruc.
ton Of Europe.
The note admits that after the con-
clusion of this treaty. the German
delegation has no reason to partici-
pate in the work of the first commits.
sion dealing with Russian affairs
but says it will willingly participate
in the other work of the same COM
mission dealing with European and
German interests.
The delay in delivering the note was
due chiefly to differences of opinion
among the Germans themselves as to
the best attitude to take, some fear
ing the repercussion it might have In
French quarters, as the French dele
gates had kept themselves severely
Evening star., 1922-04-21
KING ON WAY TO GENOA.
italian Ruler to Arrive Tomorrow
to Visit Economic Farley.

By the Associated Press.
GENOA, April 21.-King Victor
Emmanuel will arrive in Genoa to-
morrow on the dreadnaught Conte d.
CSvour to visit the economic confer,
encs. He will receive the authoritieA
at the projects palace and give q
luncheon aboard the dreadnaught
Dante Alighieri, to which all the dele
cations have been invited.
1t Is not yet known whether the
Russian delegates have accepted the
invitation to the luncheon. which has
created q delicate position for them.
The Italian communists are urging
them to abstain from meeting the
king. maintaining this would produce
a bad impression among the Italian
communist masses, which conceivs
aomn1n nism as anti-mouarchical. =
Evening star., 1922-04-21
S1,OOQ,o)D IS VOTED
FOR FLOOD CONTROL
Congress Acts Within Hour oi
Approval by Weeks and
Dawes.

The sum of one million dollars for
control of food waters of the Missis-
sippi river. now at the highest stages
in years, was made available by a
resolution rushed through the Senate
and House today within an hour after
the proposal made by southern mem
bers had been approved by Secretary
Weeks and Director Dawes of the
budget.
In presenting the resolution in the
House Chairman Madden of the ap-
propriations committee explained that
nearly 100000 was carried in the
pending Army bill to be handled by
the Mississippi river commission un-
der the flood control. This fund would
not be available until after July 1.
but Mr.. Madden declared an emer-
gency existed and that without imme-
diate help there was danger of tre-
mendous loss of life and property
damage, for otherwise the food wa
ters might overrun the levees and ex-
tend to the valley.
Secretary Weeks, in letter to
Congress urging immediate consider
dLlOH OI the TelleI TeSOlulIOI, Sdiu lilC
flood stage was extreme and that the
water was higher at places than ever
known before, that along, stretches
of twenty miles it was'above the
levees.
The loss of life, should the levees
be unable to stand the strain much
longer and break would be incalcu-
liable and would result in great ma
tional disaster, Secretary Weeks said.
Chairman Madden said the resolu-
ton made no drain upon the federal
Treasury, as it merely authorized the
use at this time of part of the appro-
priation soon to be available, and
which would be deducted later from
the bills total.
Good headway has been made. he
declared, in constructing levees so as to
prevent frequent flood disasters. With
out the work already accomplished the
water now, he said. would be raging
through the valley. causing great loss OF
life.
More Riffs Threaten.
In requesting the application for use
by the Mississippi River Commission in
protecting dikes and levees. Secretary
Weeks wrote chairmen Of the Senate
and House committees that great dam
age already had been done and that
more riffs in the leyees would occur
unless preventive steps were taken i'm
medtately.
The Mississippi is in extreme
Hood" said Secretary Weeks. the
water being higher at many places
than ever known before. and the con-
dition is such that the levees pro-
tecting extensive tracts Of the states
of Illinois. Missouri, Arkansas. Ken
lucky, Tennessee. Mississippi and
Louisiana are seriously threatened.
The water Of the river is above
the tops Of the levees in some places
for twenty miles at a stretch, and 1t
watchfulness on the part OF the peo-
pie that these levees are not over
topped. or preached. The loss Of life
and property. should a break in the
levees occur. would be incalculable
and would amount to q national dis
aster.
1.-THE funds under the control Of the
CONTINUED on Page 2. Column L.
Evening star., 1922-04-21
WEATHER.

Unsettled this afternoon and tonight;
tomorrow fair; rising temperature to-
morrow.
Temperature for twenty-four hours
ended at pm. today: Highest. 81, at
4 pm. yesterday; lowest, 35, at $50
am. toGay. Full report on page z.
Evening star., 1922-04-21

CONTINUED on Page 2, Column
Evening star., 1922-04-21

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All rights of publication Of special
dispatches herein are also reserved.
The Colville examiner. [volume] (Colville, Wash.) 1907-1948, 1922-03-25
Came Season Fixed
for Stevens County
The Fishing Season Will
Open April Is and Close
October 81

The Stevens county game COM
mission has established the following
open season on game animals, birds
and fish for the year 1922:
Deer, Oct. 1 to Nov. Is, limit one
male deer; bear, Sept. to April
80; blue grouse and native pheasants,
Sept. IS to Nov. Is; Chinese pheas-
ants, Oct. to Is; Hungarian pheas-
ants, Oct. 1 to Nov. Is. The season
is closed on all other upland birds.
Bag limit is five birds per day,
either straight or mixed bag, and
possession limited to five birds at
any one time.
Ducks, geese, brant, rail coot (mud
hen) Oct. 1 to Dec. 81. Daily bag
limit of ducks Except wood ducks
or elder ducks), 20 in the aggregate
of all kinds. Daily bag limit of geese
or brant, eight in the aggregate.
Daily bag limit rail or coot, twenty
in aggregate. Hours of shooting are
one-half hour before sunrise to sun
set.
Trout, bass, perch, sunfish, catfish,
whitefish, crappie, Dream, pike, April
Is to Oct. 81. Daily creel limit 80
fish, or 20 pounds and one game
fish. Weekly creel limit is fixed at
80 pounds and one game fish. The
closed season on game fish is Nov.
1 to April Ia.
The Stevens county seasons have
been approved by j. w. Kinney, state
supervisor of game and fish, and
will be vigorously enforced, accord
ing to L. S. HARRISON, county game
warden. The Stevens county game
commissioners are A. F. Strobe,
Chewelah; J. C. Wilson, Kettle Falls;
Fl. T. Wentz, Colville.
The Colville examiner. [volume] (Colville, Wash.) 1907-1948, 1922-03-25
Magazine Solicitors
Try the Back Doors

Quite a commotion was caused in
Colville this week at some of the
homes, when magazine solicitors who
hit town Wednesday or Thursday
used some very crude methods of
salesmanship trying to solicit sub
scriptions for some publication.
The solicitors, two in number, apply
to the back door of the home and in
very imposing manner ask the lady
to vote for them in some kind of
voting scheme to try to help put the
solicitor through school. In most
cases they have way of trying to
force entrance in the house, generally
starting at the back door.
The sheriff's office was notified by
some of the ladies who were annoy
ed, and upon investigation found the
visitors had boarded the northbound
train Thursday noon. No doubt the
towns north of here are receiving
pleasant calls from the solicitors.
For the benefit of the public it
might be stated that most of these
schemes are fraudulent, and a ruse
worked out by schemers to sell sub
scriptions to cheap magazines which
in most cases are never filled. The
solicitor buys what is called a sheet
writer's list Of paid subscription re-
ceipts at very low figure and sell
dom pays more than 6 cents each
for them and then plays his "educa-
tion" stunt to sell his siX-cent sub
scription for a dollar, in most cases.
If Mrs. Housewife fails to fall for
the dollar idea he brings forth
or a less figure. And in a great
many instances she feels that she
likes to help the youth toward gain
ing an education and produces the
amount asked for, and is duped, for
if she gets the magazine she has
been cheated, and many never re-
ceive the magazine at all.
There are many good things offer
ed to the housewife by courteous
sales people, but in most cases they
do not try to force an entrance into
the homes, and never try to gain an
entrance by way of the back door,
A real salesman who has a PROPOSE
ton that he is proud to show will
call at the front door and tell you
what he has in a polite manner.
The Colville examiner. [volume] (Colville, Wash.) 1907-1948, 1922-03-25
Alabama Minstrels
Staged Last Night

The minstrel show which was
staged at the Colville theater last
night under the auspices of the
Modern Woodmen was a success in
every respect. The show which has
been under the direction of Miss Eva
C. Mills, who spent considerable
time in drilling the participants in
the art of negro dialect.
The cast consisted of about so
people and the rendition of the pro-
gram was well relished by large
and appreciative audience, and con-
sisted of negro minstrels, dancing,
vaudeville, monologues, dialogues
and clogg dancing by Clark Peters,
who gave some of the real jig
dances.
Members of the show were: Misses
Virginia Noble, Cleo Scholes, Neva
Miller, Minnie Eager, velma Foster,
Thees Johnson, Luella Droz, Emma
Hoffstetter, Gladys Casey, Florence
Ehmke, Edna Johnson, Eunice Set
ger, Irene Gammage, Harry
Eslick, Wilbur Copp, John Huggins,
L. Thurber, B. Casey, Jesse Casey,
Don H. Phillips, Merle Starr, osee
Noble Jr., Clark Peters, Charles Will
bur, Hubert Page, Fay Baker, Earl
Droz, Jones Tracy, Edwin johnson,
Charles VanTuyle, Adolph Naff, Bob
Fay.
The Colville examiner. [volume] (Colville, Wash.) 1907-1948, 1922-03-25
New Dairy Business
Northwest of City

Mrs. Jean McCloud has purchased
the 80-acre tract of land known as
the Hanna place and added it to her
holdings north of town and has taken
as a partner Robt. Skeels who will
run a dairy farm upon the ranch.
Mr.. Skeels will move upon the
Hanna place about the first of April
and will have about 20 purebred
Jersey cows and will start dairy
route. Some of his cows are prize
winners and all are good mixers and
have obtained high milk test.
Mr.. Skeels moved here about
year ago from Addy and has been
making good with his cows. Mrs.
McCloud, since adding the Hanna
ranch to her holdings, has about $50
acres of land suitable for this line
of business. The name Of the ranch
will be Jersey Maid Dairy Farms.
The Colville examiner. [volume] (Colville, Wash.) 1907-1948, 1922-03-25
Patient II Years Old
Has Appendix Removed

E. B. Newand, residing on the
Heineman place near Addy, who was
operated for appendicitis last week,
is getting along nicely, and was able
to leave Mt. Carmel hospital this
week. He is II years of age. DR..
w. A. Olds, who performed the op-
Grafton, reports Mr.. Newland the old
est patient he ever had for such an
operation, and medical records indi-
cate that few men of such age ever
have occasion to have an appendix
removed.
The Colville examiner. [volume] (Colville, Wash.) 1907-1948, 1922-03-25
Former COlville Girl
COmpetes for Prize

A native daughter Of Colville is
one of the 40 successful contestants
for the $4,000. in prizes being of
fered by the Chicago Daily News
for senario writing. Mrs. M. l..
Strauss of Chicago, known by early
Colville residents as Celeste Barman,
daughter of David Barman and niece
of Sig Dilsheimer, has entered the
contest, and the following article re-
garding her appeared in the Chicago
Daily News March 18:
"When she was a girl in Portland,
Ore, Celeste Barman determined to
be a professional woman, pianist,
an interior decorator, a painter, or
linguist; many professions appealed.
But the highly specialized post of an
author did not occur to her.
Nevertheless, when one of The
Daily News Investigators, detailed to
get facts on the forty persons whose
stories are in the final running for
the thirty-one prizes offered in The
Daily News 100000 scenario con-
test, brought this same Celeste Bar
man an announcement today, she, as
a woman, found that the profession
of authorship was, after all, the one
nearest home. Her story is one of
the forty which the judges are now
re-reading.
"She is Mrs. M. E. Strauss now
and for the greater part of each day
she helps her husband direct his
cloak and suitmaking shop at 10
South Market street.
"When Mr.. Strauss enlisted in the
army in June, 1917, his wife sat
down at his desk at the garment
factory and remained there until he
came back two years later. The
best managed years the firm ever
had,' says Mr.. Strauss.
4 got my first desire to write
when I saw the announcement of the
$4,000 contest in The Daily News
late last SUMNER says Mrs. Strauss,
whose writing name, however, will
be Celeste Barman. Until that mo-
ment 1 had about given up all hopes
of professional life. I was not dis
contented. Far from it. I enjoy
keeping in touch with my husbands
business, but in the back of my mind
there rankled that old thought that
l had wanted to be so many different
things and had turned out to be a
sort of professional Jack-of-All-
Trades. So this news that my story
is being even considered among the
final forty is exceedingly exciting
to me.
To-day I start writing more
scenarios. won't let it interfere
with my interest in the business She
smiled reassuringly at her husband
at this. To-day 1 begin with some
real basis for confidence in the belief
that I can write. I followed the ad-
vice given by D. w. Griffith in the
columns of The Daily News and
wrote about the life I know, the
people l saw and the actions l OBJ
served
ain other parts of the United
States other Investigators are work.
ing to establish the authenticity of
each claim for authorship as it is
made in the list Of the forty best
manuscripts which the judges have
sent to the Daily News.
GAS rapidly as they substantiate
the facts they send to the Daily
News their reports for publication.
"By this method the identities OF
the thirty-one prize winners will be
available at the moment the judges
determine which stories have won.
This is likely to occur any day. 1t
is certain to be before March 81, ac-
The Colville examiner. [volume] (Colville, Wash.) 1907-1948, 1922-03-25

The Ladies' Improvement club held
a card party at the home of Mrs. H..
o. Bair. There were 20 tables and
prizes were given, which were fur
nished by the members. Refresh
ments were served.