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GIRL DOPE ADDICT IS RECLAIMED Wanda Hears How Struggle to Regain Womanhood Is Won By Wanda von Kettler Thin In the last story I shall tell of the Social Welfare league. ThN I* the story of u flnlahed un dertaking. This l« the story of Mildred, the girl victim of dop«* rings In Seattle. Mildred. Just about four yearn ago. km a Seattle high school girl who mu>l by thow,wkt knew her to be "young and lovely, with the hlu eel eye* and golden hair, and the ;Ave«trst mouth In the world." MII.DKKD SMOKKD -Jl ST H»K « V And on« night. Ju->t about (oar yean* ago. Mildred, with srven or eight high school boy* and girt*, went slumming In Seattle's Chinatown. The bunk* of smok ers awakened a youthful rurtos- Ity. And the bo>* and girl* stayed and -moked the pipes. That night marked the begin ning of Mildred'* life In the dope den*. Three yearn later a girl with tired eye* ami a pale, haggard ftwe. ap pealed to police for protection tell ing them that her Chinese huaband had threatened to kill her. Potk-e of ficiate notified the league. The girl «u found to be a ilavc to morphine and a worshiper of opium fume*. She had aunk to the lowest In vie*. That gtrt wan Mildred In fear of the threat of her Chinese ; husband ahe told thoae from whom ahe sought protection of the vice and ! misery of the life ahe lived. And ahe ■ tokl polk* and worker* of the league that all those boya and glrla who had been her comjianlons that night three year* before had become drug addicts who haunted the street* of underworld* all along tba Pacific CMUIt. WANTED TO Ql'IT; HAD NO KI NDS Mildred waited to break away from It all—from the miserable drug selling In the street.—lron, the drags themselves. Bui she had no one to help her—no one ta rare, she said—and the (Tate far the opium pipe had crown more virion* with every day She told Seattle polk-e her mother ' waa dead—that aha had one t-rother whose whereabout* aha did not know. Mildred awakened renewed war against dope ring* In Seattle. While police officiate hunted down the den*, the irtrl waa held for treat ment tn the county hospital. She re mained five weeks and was then re leased. Three, dajrWeiapsed when the gtrl. her face more drawn and hag gard than before, appeared at the police station. Tor Uod*i sake," she cried t» the officer In charge. "I'm W>*t again They gave me the treat meal—(hey thonghl I was cured—hot. my God, I've got to ( hare Awe." Back ahe was taken to the hos pital for five waeks more. Then came word that the !<«gue had found her brother In -New Tork state, where he lived Ignorant of hla sUfr » condition. MILDRED 18 CX'KKD: MiNH HER BROTHER Two week* later a Vhite girl, whose marriage to a ("hluewe husband had brew annulled, whose taste no longer craved fhe poison that had wrecked her yoath, boarded the train at Se attle to Join her brother In New Tork. Another pretty story, perhaps you'll say. Yea —but a true one. # And perhaps you'll say—a story one year old. Tea. A story one year old. But It takes Just about one year to be certain of a atory of this type. And the league la certain. Two weeka ago a letter from Mildred was received at the league headquarters. Mildred la no longer an addict to dope, I have told this atory of Mildred because of Ita bearing o% four addi tional phases In the work of the So cial Welfare league. It la the atory of a finished under taking. It Is the story of relatives located and giving aid. It Is the story of a girl. And the atory of dope. H WELFARE LEAGUE NEEDS CLOTHES TO KEEP POOR WARM Worker* of the Social Welfare league have asked that people who po*»e*s underclothes they do not wear to dig 'em out and let 'cm be distributed among thou" who have not enough clothing to keep them warm for the winter. Al*o. baby clothe* of all kinds are wanted by a hundred needy moth er*. Even piece* of cloth will be wel come, for mix women have donat ed their service* to the league and will make clothes for chil dren. And an automobile for Ju*t an hour or two a week. The league wants to borrow one to carry bun dle* of clothing to Seattle's poor. That * all. Thank you. Million&ir Club Is Entertained Seattle's MillionaJr club, an organ!- station for the unemployed, was enter tained Saturday night with the moat complete program, preeentad at 9R Main Mt„ Hlnce the club wtm organ ised. Those who nMW'd were Krnest Kaxkoveky. vlollnlKt; Hilda Broahex, vocaliat: Mix* Anna Griffith, acenm parilHt; Mr*. 0. W. Klingberg, dra matic render; MrH. O, W. ilarton, vo calmt; June Hart men. accompanist, «nd B. B Ault, who delivered an ad drum The program wa* followed by a free lunch to the unemployed. WHIRLWIND DANCE Caird Leslie in his novel costume for the "Whirlwind," a dunee perfected this summer for Adolph Holm's class at the Cornish school, which, it is expected, \fr. Leslie will give this winter in New York. Mr. Leslie is a Seattle boy. LONG TERMS FOR SMUGGLERS U. S. Attorney Says He Will Seek. Maximum Terms Supplementing the announcement of Millard T. Hartson. collector of customs. that a war to the finish will ha carried on against hoojee and narcotic smugglers. Thomaa P. It* velle. new t.'nlted States attorney for the western dtatrict of Washington, declared Monday that he will aeek maximum prison sentence* In such case*. Revelle's new assistants will he John A. Prater, Judaon Faulkner. Charles Allen and Wallace W. Mount. The latter will have charge of the Tacoma office. Retiring assistant district attor neys are: Prank C. Reagan. George K. Mathieu, Charlotte Kotmttx and John M. Boyle. Jr. Reagan. It la an nounced. Win hold office until No vember 1. Stricken at Wheel, automobilist dies Funeral services wilt be held Tues day in tacoma for Guy S. Parson*. 1»I2 Ninth aye. W.. Seattle, who diet! of apoplexy Saturday white driving his automobile. Two travelers found the car stand ing by the roadside near Katonvllle. with Parsons unconscious at the wheel. They took Parsons to an Eatonvllte hoepit.il. where he died Parsons waa proprietor of the Par sona Glove Co., of Seattle and Ta coma. THE COIXICGE CU B H new sm.o©o building at Sixth ave. and Spring at. will be formally opened next month. 3,000 Slightly Imperfect g£ BLANKETS Direct From the Mill to Be Sold at Low Prices FOR USE AS SHEETS, TO PROTECT MATTRESSES, AS TABLE PADS ANQ ON IRONING BOARDS All have slight Imperfections, but none that will impair the wearing qualities of the blankets. » In Single, Three Quarter and Full Bed Sizes 50x72-Inch 54x72-Inch 54x74-Inch 58x76-Inch | CQ 64x76-Inch I 7Q_ 60x76-Inch 64x80-Inch - * "C SMILES KILLED SLUMP FOR HIM Schoenfeld of Standard Fur niture Knew How By E. P. Chalcraft llrrr'i a good Up for >«itf brlihl young man: If you hxil a >»h with Ihr Hi aitdard Kurniturr Co . .Second «f. ami fiw «!.. prarticr what Ihr Virginian told Trampan, ami "•milf. dern ya, •mile" Olve >m a l»rra*e of grinn. en filiade 'rm with ncnllee. anil >hmi In a chuckle or two for luck. If iltfr turn you down, Inugb. an I maybe they'll change their mint) and hit* you. That, at Inuit, l« th« Imp reunion I received from an ItUnrkv with rrraltlanf Herbert A. Rchoenfekl. "Onrr upon a time," aaM I. "w» »>ad a bunlnem* depression I'rteaa began to tumble from tbair war time peak. Everybody lr«t money. Homo merchant* quit. Othera re trenched In evory poaaihie way, bop mr to mii th-meHvr. at the as* penae of the community In (rnrnl You. undoubtadly. were caught In the avalanche of falling price*. How •In! you mwi the MtuationT' tkhoenfeld irlßntd. "I ran am war that que* lion wHIi ow word," he »»ld. "But you can't make an) thing ant of it." "Walt till I hear what that word la," .«aid I. "Juki what did you doT* "Ju*t *mlled." XchomleM r» piled. And did. "Aa a matter of bookkeeping." ha continued preneiyly, "there wan a trig xlump in price* in our line, and we did Like heavy loaaea. But It waa a natural reaction from the war time condition*, and thoae loaaea had THE SEATTLE STAR AZTEC STORY EXCITES U' But Savants Say Wickersham Will Have to Prove Theory Wna the I'uget Hound country once Inhabited by an ancient people closely akin to the Aiteca and the Natch**? line* Tiioomn iflWr the »lte of a pre historic city, otic l ' uit< *eat of gov ernment of a hitherto unknown clvl- Ileal lon T Wo* I here commerce be tweeu tht Pacific Nurthwrat and the Mississippi valley cenlurlea before dlatance «.is at i at naught by mod ern transportation method*? The** were the miration* heard on the campus of the I'nlveralty of Washington today, following the pub lication In Maturday'* Htar of the amnalng atory of llarry Wickersham. plollcoi engineer. Who l>ol|rVe-i lie illie discovered unmlatakable truer* „t a primitive civilisation I hut dwelt In Western Washington thouwtnda of yaars ago SAVANTS INTKRKMTKD. HIT NOT KNTIII SIASTIt' Mavants at the unlveralty were deeply Intereateil in the report, but their opinion* were divided. Some were willing to admit the possibility of Wlrkorsham's theory: other* <tl* ml»*ed u with polite Incredulity Hut all of them aald that they were "from Missouri." and that VVlckeraham would have to present more evidence than he has If he wanln the scientific world to agree with him. I'rof. Trevor KI lira id was part leu laly mtere*te<l In the atory. Imau>r while living aouth of Olymplu. a* a I'H. he found mound* almllar to thoae on the Nlaciually flata whlrh Wickersham discovered. "Some of the moat eminent geolo glata In the worhl have examined these mound*." he det-lared. "but no one has ever been able to icrount for them *.ttl*faetorll>. The only expla nation that I have aver heard nd vanced was that they were brought almut by the formation of 'moullns ' I*hat ta, that stretuns. cutting their way thru the glacier which once cov ered thla entire region, carried debris [to the bottom, thua forming mound* which remained on the ground when | the glacier receded. THKOKI IN>KNNT HOI J): NOT KIOIIT STKKTI'KK "Thla. however, dm no' hold wa ter Had thr mounda been formed In this way. they would have been of different structure, and It Is Impo* *ibl# to coni-etve of no many of them being formed eo rloao together. "It would be extremely Interesting If It should develop that theoe are burial mounda but no evidence haa been presented In aupport of such a theory. If. aa Mr. Wickersham thinks, an Astec race built three mounda, surely we would find carved structures and Inscriptions such u abound In Mexico "No; Interesting as the theory Is. ! am afraid tt remains to be proved that these mound* are of human or igin. Because, if they were of hu man origin, there would certainly be some trace left behind. "As to >lr. Wickers ham's theory thai there ww once ocmmunlratlon i between Ante and America—thla Is undoubtedly true, as It has been pret ty well established that the Ameri can Indiana are of Astatic origin. Hut Mr. Wickersham a colony, real or imaginary, was not here when the two continents were Joined together —aa it Is estimated that that con dltlon existed about 4.0M.«00 years to tie rockone.l with. "Ho we just took them and amlied "Now what I have t«M you Is true, hut u Is IhU: we 4o net iwognlte any slump In hu*liw*« and we da not admit we lost an) money. Mo far as we are ran rami there were no 'hard limes.' Business depressions do. not Mist—far us. "We believe in smiling, and we practice It. And we have found that It psys. There ta a great deal In tha attitude of mind. y<*u know. We have proved that pracUcal optimism returns real dividend*. "in proof of that, let me tell you that we have today a bigger orgnnl cation than ever liefore in the his tory of the house.™ Hchoenfeld turned hork to his desk with a grin, and I left— amlllng. ago, itir** bffof« rn«n appeared on thr oarlh." I'IMIKKHMOIt NI'IKK rKMVKN KVKN MOKK INCItKIH MH H l'mf< ssor l,osllc Hpier W"« even morp Incredulous. "To put It charitably." ho said, j "Mr. Wickershain's theory Is hlstor j ically improbable. In the first place, j consider the Instance between I'uget i ■mind nnd the homes of the Nahhe* nml the Aitwa. The Nilchu wore J.&00 mil'" from here, thr A«l"ln dou bin (lint distance. In all the Inter veiling miles brlwfra here and Iho*' l*v countrh s thorw I* not the slight • it trin-e of either Ar<'■< or Naichog < ulture which make* the story very hard to believe In Itself "Ilia theory about head deforma lion la not scientifically accurate. Thers are three well defim-d and in dependent areas where head defor mation ha* iieen practiced the l"aclf to,Northweat, thr Ixiwer Mississippi and Yuoatau, Thr natives of all ; three of 111 mm* region* bound their heads but to way that thla provm a relationship la an absurd aa It would j be lo hold that, because both cut! 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Outfit consists of: || c S..H s am -—-""One Kitchen Broom [I - I"'* "" V" * J'9s X -OnelO-qu.rtG.lvaniMdP.il , I "I IH' 5 S —Good Scrubbing Bru.h fl *!" e "} |? . O J, —Can Old Dutch ClcnMr | I lU-gallon size at $3.65 union stwsbt —baukmknt J1 II F T^botvMarch^M hOl irth ru>QR store Hours—9 A. M. to 5:30 P. M. 11 I their hnir, the Kuropean la related to I <ha Zulu. HCIKNTINTS IN'TKHKNTH) IN NPITK OK IHII HTM "However, even tho hla deduction* mre not aound. Mr Wickersham haa undoubtedly made an Interesting find, and ar ten I lata will look Into hla claim*. "If the mound* that ha hoa found urn of the i«rill type aa ihosn in lha Mississippi valley, the discovery will he one of the most Important of Ita kind ever made In thla rountry lie '*u» never before has (Uiy one Intl mated that 'mound' builders' ever lived on thla roast, "There ara, you know, three kind* of mounds flrat, the natural ones; second, those formed a* effigies or for domiciliary purposes, and. third, thoae reaulllnK from the raving In of earth-covered houaea. If these mound* prove to be In the flrat claaa, the dlac®very wMI have little Im portune*—except from a atrlrtly geological viewpoint: but. If the)- be long to either of the other two typea, the dlacovery will l>e of trememloua I Import a noc." STUDENTS STICK BETTER AT "U" Fewer Withdrawals This Quarter Than in Past IVwor «tUfloTitir ars drojuiln* out of lbs Kutr- unU'orslly this qusrtvr than In lh»- |utst, anrordiruc to rati* mutes of admlnistrHtlon officials. I'artly aocountad for by th" smallor '•nrollmont, tho dorr»*so in withdraw ala Is also duo to tlis hltftior sr-holastic roqulrotnt-nts for <-Miriui<. and to tho lilnh f<-»H which tniiltf tho finanrlul loos Kront»r If tho vtudonta fail to tho quartar, I Now rNtulaUoria for on Irani.- nnd for staying In tho nnivorslty aro rx iwftod to rodu<« tho ntjmhor drop pin* om IWoro graduation, accord Inr to K B. Htavons, rxocutlvo ooo ri-tary. Itoqulromonts for r»iidmlNKion ars hi*ho r than at any other university. To ha eligible for re admission, tho student must make a grade of C or iiUtvx In Iwo-thlrds of hla hours. C Is one grade above the passing grade, I). Of each 100 entering freshmen, 4* NEARLY A SUICIDE ' ALL SHE FORGOT WAS THE POISON Mm Muri. m-von. „ „ J for Fr«.l FrMorieluwoT, 2sr nw " Fftllowlnf % quarrot with k Tpptoynr *h#» nnnouncM H«na** h,.„ roffw sn<i Hfm w*» rushsd »Mln<#r hf/apltnl. that ah< furt-t.ii» n t„ [Kilson In tho fottm. drop out before the second yttr of the romalnlng 62, 17 fall to m for ihs junior ysar and ]« , in the final year. Only 25 or 2 ( the 100 are finally graduated. New Revenue Chief Takes Over Offict — . Bums Poo, newly ..ppointcd •*. lector of internal revenue for the d» trlct of and Alaska, to take the oath of office In TactXH Monday, f'oe will t-u'eeed Uavid l William*. *•