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'II 1 OF WORLD WIDE; INTEREST. 3) Cradle-Rocking Hand Rocked Police Department T1EMININE CHARLEY DAWES M0NTECIT0 HAS WIDOW COLONY Rich Unattached Matrons Dwell in Mansions JOLTS COAST CITY CRIME i i a yc ir wit i ft i ii ii ITT0ULD YOU PICK HOMELY VV OR PRETTY GIRL TO WED? Film Director, Judge and Oriental Prince Give Opinions as to Which is Best Mate BY KATHERIXE ALBERT Which make the best wives homely or beautiful women? No, I am not the inquiring photographer, but if you want to start a controversy to rival that of the League of Nations ask every man you know the above question. Nine times out ol ten the answer will be, "Homely ones, of course." That is be cause very few persons have thought about it. Just a minute( do they really? Well, think about it awhile and in the mean- time listen to what some authorities have to say about it Democratic Convention Put Woman in Position to Purge Seattle and She "Cleaned House" A. Y.

BY JAMES II. NEELY -Y. i (EXCLUSIVE DISPATCH SEATTLE, Aug. 2. Among other things the Democratic convention did, besides giving the cold shoulder to Messrs.

McAdoo, Bryan and Smith, was to give women a chance at the big executive jobs, for the first time in the political history of the United States. Unwittingly that convention was a record breaker in many ways, and it was due to accident that woman got her chance at political administration through it. Judge J. A. Summerfleld should When Mrs.

Not Important, Perhaps, But Pursue Various Hobbies? at Secluded Estates Most of Them Attractive and Sophisticated BY ALMA WIIITAKEU Thwe is something about the beautiful scenlo seclusion of Santa Barbara that has a peculiarly Irresistible appeal to charming and affluent widows. The wooded glens around Mon-teclto abound with lovely homes secluded from the vulgar highways, surrounded by trim and portly cypress hedges, over each of which some bereaved and lovely lady presides, attended by faithful retinues. Behold the lovely young Mrs. Agnes Wilder, for instance, whose papa was that famous Mr. Patton.

who cornered wheat, formerly of Evanston, 111., where she also has a gorgeous home. About 30, perhaps, certainly no more, a dainty, dashing blonde. Mrs. William Miller Graham, one of the most charming of the grass widows, Is turning her vast knowledge of art furniture, rare tapestry and lovely china to good account and has become a thoroughly feftlclent business woman. She has a quaint "store" in famous De la Guerra house, filled with priceless treasures and antiques, where she Is assisted by a tall, handsome son.

And together they work like Trojans, making other people's homes beautiful. To buy from such a distinguished saleslady must in Itself be worth the price. LOFTY ART STUDIO Mrs. Ralph E. Starkweather, known to the art world as Ann Starkweather, has built her a house ,900 feet above Santa Bar bara, with an ideal studio In the upper story.

Petite, vivacious, witty, a world sophisticate, traveled In many lands, she spends at least a third of the year In this retreat Tears ago her late husband made a bargain with her. She could pursue her art to her heart's content provided only that the entire proceeds therefrom should go to charity. Even Bince his death she has faithfully lived up to this covenant. And her lovely pastels and oil paintings fetch top prices In the connoisseur market. And there, on her Monteclto hill, which she bought years ago, she has built a dream-house, with bird fountains dotted down the wide, oak-wooded slopes, packed with treasured antiques from her other homes.

It is difficult to believe her the mother of a 21-year-old son, recently married and starting on a world honeymoon tour this week. Did secret service work In Los Ange.es during the war, drives her own Cadillac down that porilous mountain road and seems to be radiantly self-sufficient with never a possessive male to protect her. Don't believe she ever gives the trustees a moment's anxiety. Adelaide Is a dashing brunette of Diana proportions, who Is accounted one of tbe best-groomed and most suocessful dressers amongst this company of dazzling widows. Formerly of Chicago, this rose-garlanded, highly modern colonial "cottage," which to many of us would be a mansion, houses her for half the year.

Mrs. D. A. Conrad has a modern "cottage" too, in these exclusive precincts. She is the "artistic" type, blonde, graceful, winning, conservative.

DAUGHTER OR ARMOURS And there is the charming Mrs. Morse, daughter of the Cochrane Armours, who have a gorgeous place in She Is occupy- (Continued on Pnge 10, Column 6) to explain why the police did not apprehend the thugs and put a stop to robberies. He told her, she said, that many of the police were crooked and Inefficient. He added that there were 100 men of the 830 on the force who ought to be fired at once. "Why don't you fire them?" Mrs.

Landes asked him. "And how did they get on the force in the first place?" "The whole trouble Is with the city Civil Service Commission and the executive powers," replied the Chief in substance. Nobody was present at the Interview excep Mrs. Landes and himself. "The Civil Service Commission puts on poor men and I am forced to keep them by my superiors." "Well, I must think this over," said Mrs.

Landes. "It's funny, though, that such conditions can exist." ORDERS 100 FIRED Two days later she called Severyns to her office again. She demanded that the 100 policemen he called crooked and inefficient be fired at once. Meantime, Severyns had been in consultation witn the politicians. "I can't do It, Mrs.

Landes, I'm afraid," he replied. "You must clean out your department at once," she replied. "I am Mayor for the time being and I am going to make this a decent town and stop daylight hold-ups." Severyns asked for a few days to consider. She denied him this and demanded immediate action. No sooner had -the Chief left her office than she wrote an order demanding that he dismiss the in-e indents.

Severyns replied that he would not and said she could remove him for "refusal to obey orders," Mrs. Landes took him at his word and removed him. She appointed Inspector J. T. Mason acting chief.

But Mason also refused to act. Then Mrs. Landea proclaimed herself in absolute control of the police department, and selected Capt' C. Bannick, in charge of an outlying precinct, as her aide. This occurred within five days after Mrs.

Landes had called Chief Severyns to her office the first time. The day she removed Severyns a wire came to a Seattle paper saying Mayor Brown was on his way home, and would reappoint Severyns at once and undo the work Mrs. Landes had started. MAYOR IX HOT WATER Mayor Brown left the Democratic convention fiat, before It had Margaret Landes Fired Seattle's ready to fall to pieces, a light coupe rattled down Broadway a day or two ago. It long since had lost its coating of paint Its windows rattled, its fenders shook.

Its wheels squeaked as It moved. Persons smiled as It clattered along the street. On the rear the owner had pronted with chalk: "Don't laugh, girls! You would look old, too, without paint." A window In a Main-street market is filled with delicious sausages imported from Vienna, kippered herring packed in Norway, sardines from the Mediterranean Sea, cheeses from Swita-erland, Austria and Germany, and other delicacies from Italy, Spain and France. Also there is a large platter laden with American pretzels large, well salted, crisp-looking pretzels. On a placard is this: "Backward, turn backward, Time in your flight, And bring me a stein again, drawn from 'the Give me a pretzel, limburger on rye, A dish of pig's knuckles and then let me die." And the old-timers pause, look, grin, and continue on their way down Main street: Modern customs change the lives of every race where clvi- Police Chief Interesting llzation advances.

Comes now Chief Black Eagle of the Winnabagos. Black Eagle has forsaken the reservation to paint pictures on stones and sell the stones for a quarter each. Seated in a tepee of canvas In the arcade of the Million-Dollar Theater, wearing his full regalia, the Indian labors hours each day putting strange designs on pieces of rock which appear to have come from the desert Although his headgear of eagle feathers appears to have been more intimately associated with turkeys than eagles while grow ing, it is large and wide and hot, but it attracts attention. It makes the perspiration roll down cheeks, but it does not dampen his ardor for accepting two-bit pieces ana painting. The stones sell, too.

Many persons go away from his tepee each day carrying four or five pounds of rock and wondering apparently, what they will do with It. Clip this out and send It to the old home back east: In the Los Angeles market places now the most luscious looking strawberries, red rasp berries, loganberries and black berries are selling for 10 cents a box Potatoes fresh from (Continued on Page 10, Column 4) When Gov. James F. Hlnkle left New Mexico to go to New York for the convention Mrs. Soledad Chacon, Secretary of State, automatically became acting Governor.

Lieut. -Gov. Jose Baca died suddenly a month before. Mrs." Chacon was the first woman to adt as the Governor of a State er Territory of the United States. However, her-reign In New Mexico was uneventful.

Both she and Gov, Hlnkle are up for re-election this fall and they long have been teammates In New Mexico politics. New Mexico gained nothing through having had a woman as its Execu tlve for three weeks. DIFFERENT IN SEATTLE But out hers In Seattle, where this is written, things were slightly different When Mayor Edwin J. Brown departed for New York as alternate delegate to the Democratic convention. Mrs.

Henry Landes, president of the City Coun. ell, became acting Mayor under the provisions of the city charter. Half a dozen daylight hold-ups ocurred on downtown streets the week of the Mayor's departure. Mrs. Landea called Chief of Police William B.

Severyns on the carpet I i S- -A Los Angeles does not go as far as Paris in affording strange names for restaurants, but it offers some that are at least unusual. While the French capital has its "Dead Rat," Internationally known, and Its Moulin Rouge, the City of the Angels offers a "Madhouse Lunch." It has the "Bull Pen Inn" on, Hope street, Barbecue Pit" on Cahuenga avenue. Then there are the "Cat and Fiddle," "Dinty Moore's Cabin," "King Tut Cafe," "Sip and Bite," "Pig'n Whistle" and "The Poodle Dog." Then there are "The Red Lantern," "The Red Feather Tavern," "The Golden Goose" and the "Speedball Lunch Room." If the person harboring a hunger craves something oriental there are the "Ichifuji Rest," "The Indian Village," "Turkish Village" and If he wishes to dine where a name suggests the "grub" of early days, there are "The Gold Nugget Cafe." "T-Bone Riley's" and "The Lucky Stop." If his appetite suggests a bird for dinner there are "The Eagle Cafe," "The Blackbird Cafe," "The Bluebird Cafe" and "Canary Cottage." If a Bohemian setting Is sought, there are the "Bohemian Grill," "Dahomey Cafe" and "The Bean Pot." Once upon a time there Fly Pot." It quit. Not, enough customers dropped In. A little sermon In the psychol-1 ogy of advertising is being; preached at a stall In the Grand Central Market.

On the count-; er is a sign wnicn DON'T STEAL THE GARLIC "Does anyone ever steal the salesgirl was asked. "Certainly not," she replied. Then why the sign?" "Well, now, think a moment Suppose tomorrow morning your wife tells you to bring home a little gariio. lou instantly wonder where in the Sam Hill you buy it Then' the sign pops into your mind Don't Steal the Get it?" Old, decrepit, battered, almost Americans FAMILIAR CORNERS ABOUT TOWN rLWLE YOU KINOW W. Hopper Lytoll, the Vacation Plutocrat BY LEE SniPPEY Persons who have a rooted conviction that rolling stones gather no long green, must be puzzled by the case of W.

Hopper Lytell, for the farther from home "Whopper" gets the richer he becomes. If he could only take a trip clear around the world, he certainly would distance the Rothschilds at Honolulu, the Morgans at Toklo and the Rockefellers by the time he reached Singapore. Whopper la in short, a typical young man out on vacation, eager to Invest all his savings in good Impressions. As soon as he boards the train which yanks him away from home he acting. He assumes the role of the Prlnca of Goodfellows.

and from then till the last minute of his vacation de fends his imaginary title with a readiness and assiduity which would be positively shocking to Jack Dempsey. RACK TO WORK TO REST Whopper isn't one of those who take vacations for rest He rests all year to take his vacation. And trains for it. He gets his lines perfectly and he la his own Peggy Hamilton. He poses himself habitually so as to show off his apparel to best advantage.

Clothes are. as Whopper pute It his "specialty." He clerks in a gents' furnishing shop back home. But as soon as he boards that train he quits clerking and becomes a Junior partner. When the train has clicked off 200 miles he has risen to the senior partnership. Five hundred miles from home he automatically becomes the whole works in the shop; 1000 miles from home he also becomes the principal owner of Important clothing factories and woolen mills, and at the 1500-mile limit, he begins thinking (out loud) of establishing a chain of classy shops for men In London, Los Angeles and the principal Intermediate points.

Back home. Whop never yet has (Continued on Page 10, Column 5) taking their departure to more lucrative fields leaving the beginnings of the town they had started to the mercy of the fierce mountain lion, or the prowling coyote. Downlville was Just suc'i a camp as this, and here lived Juanita. daughter, it is said oC a haughty Spanish hidalgo who had alienated hlmaer? f'ora family and friends by his marriage with a daughter of the people. The Fourth of July.

1850. was a day long to be remembered. In the mining camps there were no proceslons of patrlotio citizens, no silken banners fluttering proudly in the breeze; no militia, brave in gold lace and braea buttons, no martial music but there was plenty of oratory, of a kind, plenty of noise and fire water for all who cared to Imbibe. The celebration of the nation's birth sometimes began a week In advance. Hastily constructed grog shanties were put up to augment the regular quota of drink emporiums where whisky and other potent drinks were dispensed.

On that week all work was suspended. The miners cooked beans enough to last them during the celebration and laid In an extra supply of drinks. Coffee was laid aside In favor of booze which they drank from (Continued on Page 15, Column know something about it He see enough in the divorce courts. h-ban Bey Gotsha. an Albanian Prince and a Mohammedan, give an oriental slant to the question.

Hugo Ballin, the motion-picture director and the husband -of a beautiful woman, should have at opinion. And Dick Ferris well, he' had some experience with, wives. So there you are. Now, let's get a consensus of opinion on this thing. I put the question to Hugo Ballin.

"Do beautiful or homely women make the best wives?" It was an unfair question. I admit. His wife, Mabel Ballin, was sitting right there. What could the poor man say? I was all ready to put him down on the side of beautiful women and call It an Interview when he surprised me by saying, "Ch. that's easy.

Neither." "Neither?" BEAUTY AS HANDICAP "No, good husbands make the best wives. It Is wrong that beautiful women do not make good wives," he continued. "The reason that most people think this way is because the husbands of beautiful women have made them think so." "How do you make that out?" I questioned. "When a man marries a beautiful woman he immediately say to himself, 'My wife is very beautiful. Other men will make love to her.

She may be lie is immediately suspicious and the most casual glance will be interpreted as an intrigue. "Beautiful women are Invariably more sweet tempered than homely ones. They are not Jealous of their husbands. They are sure of holding them. Homely women need a lot of clothes and fixing up.

Beautiful women do not have to have all that. And while we are on the subject It is not true that beautiful women have all the good things of the world. A homely woman can 'get away with' much more than a beautiful one can. Men are not suspicious of homely women. And therefore they make the better adventuresses.

Beautiful women are made timid by being sought after. "I have noticed that, contrary general opinion, a pretty woman has a harder time in the courts than a homely one. Juries have been so often condemned for acquitting beautiful women that when one comes upon the stand they are at once prejudiced against her and are afraid that if they acquit her they will be accused of having been "vamped. Beauty 1 a signal for men to be wary. HOMELY ONES VAMP "No matter how much brains beautiful woman has she has a harder time getting a responalble position.

Men think at once that because of her face she has no brains and they promptly hire a homely girl because she looks intelligent. Beautiful women are never the real adventuresses. Just aa your sleek-haired, black-gowned cigarette-smoking females are never the real vamps. Men think they are too quick to be taken In by beauty and they let the lesa good looking ones 'do' them, i "And on the same line, beautiful women can do work which men never can. The emotional arts are best done by women.

I had rather have a woman cut one of my pictures than a man. She will get 'the feel' of the thing when a man can't." "Hurrah!" I said, "then I can put you down on the side of beautiful women?" "Well, a beautiful woman ha made my best wife, I'm prejudiced. However, there Is one thing I must say. Every wife to be a good wife must be a good cook." "TV live at a hotel," ald Mrs. Ballin.

I asked the question wf Prince Shaban, "Which make the best wives. homely or beautiful women?" He laughed and ahrugged rt Mohammedan shoulder. makes no difference. Women make good wives only when they are rforced to do so. The women In this country are too free ever to be good wive.

In my country the only man a woman ever knows beside her father and her brothers is her husband. People do not marry out of their caste, there, and the woman does not arrange her own marriage. It is arranged for her by her father or her brother. She hardly know her husband until is married, but as she knows no other man, she Is bound to make a good wlrfe. "Then your women do not marry for love?" I questioned.

ASKS WHAT LOVE IS "For. love? Love? What love, then? Love of women is r. Love of a child duty. Love of country is selfishness and love of a god is fear. This talk of love tires me.

The other day a man told that to make a woman love you. you must do little thing for h'erhelp hfr with her dress, pick up everything drop. (Contlnned on Page 10, Colamsi 1 passed the fortieth ballot. On his arrival he reinstated Severyns. But he found his hands full trying to explain to the people of Seattle, and he's still trying to ex plain.

Mrs. Landea, a motherly woman about 45 years of age, says she Is more surprised than anybody else at the turn of affairs after Brown's departure for New York. "I was elected to the Council two years ago," she said recently, as sne sat at her desk piled high with opclal papers In the City Hall. "Dozens of friends came to me and asked me to run and repre-( Continued on Page 10, Column 2) American Problems As Seen by Honesty Is Rated 99.81 THE HANGING OF JU ANITA How a Drink-Crazed Mob in a Mining Camp Back in the Fifties Dispensed Justice BY B. O.

ROUSSEAU Away back In the strenuous '60s when California was still In embryo, a pretty little Mexican woman, known only as Juanita, was hanged by a drink-crazed mob at Downlville, a mountain town nestling In the heart of the snowy Sierras. time comes that they cannot American Million Cars Are Bought on Time And Bad Debts Are Almost Nil BY EDWARD P. ROBERTS A 'million Americans are today buying automobiles on the installment plan and are proving, Incidentally, that the average citizen of United States is an honest man, for in this vast business. Involving In the neighborhood of a million dollars In credit yearly, bad debts are almost unknown. America is a nation on wheels, riding to Its work and pleasure In 88 per cent of all the motor-driven vehicles in the world, and the Installment plan Is one of the biggest factors that has brought about this condition.

Just how a factor was what I went to Alfred H. Bwayne, vice-president of the General Motors Corporation, to find out. In addition to being vice-president to General Motors, Mr. Swayne Is chairman of the board tf the General Motors Acceptance Corporation, an organization which handles the sales on time payments all the parent body cars. "How many automobiles are sold th Installment plan 7" was my first question.

r.ILLIOX AVD HALF TTRXOYER "Nobody knows the exact figure," replied Mr. Swayne promptly. "However, I can estimate of the money involved and you can arrive at a figure for yourself which I think will be approximately correct. Selling automobiles on- the Installment plan is a comparatively new development in the industry, but it has grown with such tremendous ra pidity that there, has not been time to compile exact statistics in re gard to it. The actual yearly turn over in the automobile industry for cars and trucks is something more than 81,600,000,000, exclusive of spare parts, and the amount of that business which Is done on time would be at least 40 per cent As a matter of fact, over 60 per cent of all cars sold today are purchased on the installment plan.

The total amount Involved would be somewhere between and $1,000,000,000 yearly, and as the very great majority of cars bought on Installments is in the $1000 or under class, you can estimate for yourself about the number of automobile buyers who are1 interested." "Somewhere about a million, then," I hazarded. MILLION' BUYERS "It would be roughly about that number," aMented Mr. Swayne. "As a matter of fact our own customers number between 200,000 and 300,000, and as we do about a third of the entire volume I should say about a million would be a fairly accurate guess; but as the business' is growing, what would be a good guess today would not be a sood guess tomorrow." "How about bad debts?" I asked. "I sunnose you have tn deal with number of optimists who find when give you a falrthe meet their installments." "On the contrary," replied Mr.

Swayne, "the very least of our troubles Is with regard to bad debts. The truth of the matter Is that the average American is honest and will meet his obligations promptly if he feels that he has had a square deal for his money and has not been oversold Into buying something which he cannot afford. I don't believe there Is a business In the world which shows a more favorable record in regard to bad debts than the automobile industry. Our 4otal loss for our own company last year through bad debts was only two-hundredth of 1 per cent Of course, there are a very great number of small companies scattered all over the country whose records are not available, but an effort was made some time ago by the National Automobile Chamber of Commerce to get as complete statistics as possible and they obtained fairly complete returns from practically all the large financing companies in the country. These returns showed that the total losses for thirty-five Arms during 1923 were only nineteen hundredths of 1 per cent" "Is it not true that the installment plan has been criticised on the ground that it Is rather an Insidious form in credit inflation and that it Induces men to Indulge in luxuries which their financial standing doe not Justify? ACTOS NOT LUXURIES "I know that that criticism has been made." replied Mr.

Swayne. "but It would take very little reflection to realize how baseless it is. (Continued ou Page 10, Column 2) Juanita, hitherto the pet and plaything of the rough miners of the camp, had committed murder when she stabbed to the heart Joseph Augustus Cannon, a well-known miner of the camp when he attempted to force his attentions upon her. In those wild days there fwere few women In the camps and those mostly Mexicans, some of them a rough in their manner and speech as the men. There was a strong prejudice against the Mexicans by the Americans who made it plainly known they regarded their alien brothers aa rank intruders, and made laws, some Just many unjust against them.

WILD MIXING CAMP Downlville was in those days one of the wildest, maddest mining camps in the State. Money, the actual coin of the realm, was scarce, but g(lld dust was plentiful and paid for everything from drinks to clothing and groceries. The men who peopled the camp were a miscellaneous collection from every quarter of the globe. Most of the mining camps were temporary affairs, a collection of dirty tents for the mont part, the rudimentary beginnings of a town one day. the next day deserted, iron v.

4ph rAu Annrm an A windows, the red shlrted miners Sketch by A. C. Bingham Verse by C. D. Moyer PACIFIC ELECTRIC TERMINAL am the center of the web; Thru me, the counlleu thousand ebb and flow, must come and go.

My network reaches from the mountains to the beaches; Crowded shuttles, weaving in and out. To all the country round about. Convey their loads of human freight; And as this great community embraces New and thickly peopled places in its straining bands. My giant mesh expands to meet the need And feed the cities' hungry, humming wheels of industry..