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Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1915-10-14

w. A. Nichols writes from ST.
loan Springs, Ark: I'VE enjoy the
visits of the Reflector very much.
We are enjoying good health in this
fine climate and have had lovely
berries, delicious fruit and large
crops Of all Notwithstanding big
rains"
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1915-10-14

Tri-City Orchestra concert at Ii
theran church October rs. Admit
sion I5c and 25c. d6twi
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1915-10-14

The Tri-City orchestra will open
their concert season Monday even
ing, October 25, at the Lutheran
church. H. w. Steininger, director.
d6tw2t
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1915-10-14

Wanted, long job of shocking
corn with house and team furnish
ed. ]. H. LaClaire, r. 5, box IS.
13d2tw1t*
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1915-10-14

Roland Oliver is suffering froI
q fractured collar bone which h
received playing football.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1915-10-14

George F. Jones celebrated his
SOth birthday anniversary yester-
day with family dinner at his home
on East Fifth street. A number of
old friends and neighbors called TO
pay their respects and wish him
many more anniversaries.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1915-10-14

For sale, Excelsior twin, tw'
speed, motorcycle. good as new. Bar
gain II taken within next 80 days
See machine at Redman Garage.
7w2t-d3t'
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1915-10-14

Ernest Lair, driving a Ford,
ran down Lester Amess who was
riding a bicycle, breaking the back
wheel and bending the frame Of the
bicycle, last evening at Seventh and
Spruce streets. The boy was thrown
from the wheel but escaped injur-
les.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1915-10-14

Frances Short, who has been
I'll with typhoid fever for the past
three weeks is rapidly improving.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1915-10-14

County Superintendent w. o..
Steen is spending the week visiting
the rural schools Of the county.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1915-10-14

The city commissioners met in
regular session this morning and
besides the routine business, order
ed sidewalk in on the south side of
Sixth street between Brady and
Brown streets.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1915-10-14

Remember the date. Oct. 25. Tri
City Orchestra concert at the Luth
eran church. d6tw2
The Washington times., 1915-12-27
MORE PAY FOR MARINE BAND

The United States Marine Band is
an institution in Washington. Its
fame has spread beyond the borders
of this country, and is known
throughout America, for few visit
ors to the National Capital fail to
attend its summer concerts in the
open air, or it's winter concerts at
the Marine Barracks.
Increase of pay for the members
of this band is necessary if it is to
maintain it's high musical standards.
In his annual report Maj. Gen.
George Barnett, commandant of the
Marine Corps, tells why. Formerly
the bands members were permitted
to supplement their meager Govern
ment pay by playing at private func-
tions. But the unions have protest
ed successfully against this prac-
tice, and now it is hard to get mu-
sicians of merit to enlist in the or,
ganization.
The fact that the band is made up
of enlisted men has given it an ad-
vantage in the rendition of the sort
Of music other bands seldom at
tempt. Rehearsals may be had daily,
while members of private bands
must be paid for rehearsals, and the
rehearsals, accordingly, are not so
frequent. Out of the Marine Band
have come such musicians as Sousa,
Pryor, Herbert, and others of note.
Congress will earn the gratitude of
Washington, as we'll as of the nation,
by doing its share in helping the
band to maintain its best traditions.
The Washington times., 1915-12-27
INDUSTRY
IS GOOD AS SILK
Despite War Production in Unit
ed States Is Still in Excel
lent Shape.

The hosiery industry Of this Coun-
try is lin a rrctty sound and healthy
condition" says n special report II
today on tn" growth Of the industry
before and since the outhrC ak OF tho
WaT.
The report says since the war start
ed there has been a Sr"at incrcae IN
the hosiery production within the
United state end before the war
there had been steady bettcrment.
This nation likes to wear seamless
hosiery, according to the inVestiSa- :
ton If tho departments bureau OF
foreign and domestic comm cree.
hr!;iery manufactured here is seam
less the report says. Low cost oi
manufacture is the main reason for
it's position in the market"
The study just completed by the de-
partmont included seventy three
csta adjustments, located in sixteen
States. OF these mills fifty -five
eighteen had losses.
That Americans arc buying at nome
Ia indicated by figures showing that
since 1903 hosiery imports have fallen
off more than 20 per cent,
The report states that thor" are Cel e
clothing industry. which have th"I
effect on the manufacture" ana sale OF
hosiery. These evils arc cancellations
returns, and allowances. extra dating
and special discounts. They have bccr
prevalent for years, and as tim" Go">
on they are increasing rather thhl
diminishing. All hosiery manufacturer'
complain of the practices. but they
have never taken any positive steps t.
eliminate them the report states.
The Washington times., 1915-12-27
"NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS

Washington as a national bureau
of information is described in a cur
rent issue of the Survey Magazine.
Many of the facts described therein,
concerning the valuable information
to be had for the asking, or for the
payment of a nominal sum, through
the Agricultural or Interior Depart.
ments, through the Bureau of Edu-
cation, the Children's Bureau, and
through other departments and
bureaus, are familiar to those who
live in Washington. But they need
to be given all possible publicity be-
yond Washington's borders.
One phase Of the situation should
be impressed more fully upon ma
tional organizations whose main OBJ
ject is the spreading Of propaganda,
or the dissemination Of Information.
That is, that Washington, by virtue
of gaining this reputation as ma
tional question bureau, has drawn to
itself some of the foremost organ
izations of an informative character
in this country.
Here are the headquarters OF
such influential bodies as the Ma
tional Geographic Society, he
American Civic Association, the
Carnegie Institution, the Volta
Bureau, the American Institute o.
Architects, the American Peace So
ciety, the Chamber of Commerce OF
the United States, and many other
similar bodies. Washington is
being recognized as the appropriate
place for national headquarters"
and the civic and trade organiza-
tions of Washington do well to en-
phasize this point.
The Washington times., 1915-12-27

following that, drive his commerce
off the Seven Seas exactly as the
British have done with Germany.
That is all we need, but it is the very
least that we should have.
Either we want navy for exactly
that sort of life and death work, il
or whenever we must face it, or we
don't want any navy at all. We
don't need navy merely to beat up
Mexico or Haiti or some other half
civilized patch on the Western
Hemisphere. We need and must have,
and, if not from the Democratic
control of our Government, then
from some other, we shall have a
navy that can hold us safe from
wanton attack-this paper will not
mince the worldly Germany.
The Washington times., 1915-12-27

laughed. He told them that they
wouldn't have enough 'ars to go
around, and added that "in ten
years the country will he taking a
million cars a year"
Then everybody knew he was
wild.
He wasn't wild; but his facts were
or askew. He promised that the
country would, by 1918, take mil
lion cars in a year. He underesti-
mated the development Of the busi-
ness. The country will turn out a
million cars in 1916, and present in
dications in the business are that
they will all be sold.
The man who was the country's
most enthusiastic bull or the motor
industry underestimated hopelessly.
The same is true Of about every
thing in this country. A few years
ago it was positively announced on
the best authority that The limit of
wheat production had been reached.
It has doubled, approximately, stree
that time, yet the capacity to con-
sumo is such that prices are higher.
Go the rounds of industry and 1t
seems to be the rule that business
increases, not in the arithmetical
ratio Of population, but in some
thing like a geometric ratio. There
is a rule, not yet developed and
demonstrated by any scientist of
economics, that governs this de-
velopment. 1t ought to be worked
out by some present day Adam
Smith. 1t might enable people
without imaginations 10 apply plain
mathematics and get conception OF
the rate at which the world is going
forward.
The Washington times., 1915-12-27
ARMY LEAGUE URGES
CITIZEN SOLD|ERY
Compulsory Training for All
Young Men Suggested in
Resolutions.

Legislation by Congress providing for
compulsory enrolment for mllitery
training Of all young men of the ag"
of eighteen each year is urged in rcso-
lutions adopted by the Army League OF
the United States of which Robert
Shaw oliver, of Washington, is presi-
dent.
The enrolment of young men Of
eighteen will give the army a list OF
1896 900 men to draw from, based on CEN
sus returns Of 1910 Out of this number.
16I 900 each year will be urged to volun-
teer for military training. If this full
number does not volunteer. the legis-
lation urged by the Army League would
empower the Secretary OF War to fill
the required quota by conscription
Members of the organized militia would
be exempt.
In a statement accompanying the res
olutions. General oliver said
"A careful study of expert opinion
tense Of our overseas possessions, a
regular army of at least $4,000 men.
such force, when divided between the
Panama Canal zone, Alaska, the Phil
ippines, Hawaiian Islands, Porto Rico
and other navy bases. could hardly be
considered excessive even by the eX-
treme little army men,
The regular army at home would be
dlery. and. for that purpose, distributed
in number OF division districts. Every
branch of the mobile army constituting
division would be included In each
of these units. About 100 regulars would
be included in each district com
pletc division would be built up IN
three years 10y enlisting each year
about 100 young men IS years old In
each district. Twenty-Five districts would
then supply force of 10000
There woulG always be 10000 of the
reserve. This would mean the training
OF 161 900 men each year, with the colors
and in the schools. These men should
receive army pay for that number the
first year. two weeks the second and
third years. or thirteen months in all
"It is hoped that a sufficient number
would volunteer for active service, but
| failing that. the quota required would
| be filled from the enrolled list in each
district.
The legislation required is entirely
within the constitutional power of Con-
greSs.
THE census OF 1910 showed there were
! 996, 900 men of is in the United States.
SO that 1t seems reasonable to believe
that only comparatively few would have
| to he drawn for compulsory military
| service
The Washington times., 1915-12-27
THE MOTOR INDUSTRY MARVEL

Every now and then somebody
with a working memory turns Up
to remind the country of the
wonders of progress; % compare
yesterday with today, last year with
this year; to suggest, no matter
how modestly, that it requires a
good deal of imagination to glimpse
the possibilities of decade hence.
All the while, the man who is a
bull on his country and on twen-
tieth-century progress is commonly
viewed as dangerous speculator.
A leaf from the history of the
automobile industry, plucked from
the memory volume of New York
business man, will point this moral.
A few years ago the head of the
General Motors Company announced
that he planned to produce $1,000
automobiles in the succeeding year,
which was 1909. He had the facili
ties to do it; and the announcement
of such a huge production alright
ed most of the makers If cars, who
We're sure there would be an unsold
surplus. They calculated that if one
concern turned out 10000 cars there
would be no use for others doing any
business at all.
These fearful competitors wen. so
far as to call conference in the
effort to reach an agreement to re-
strict production. The. conference
developed that pretty nearly every,
body was planning a large increase
in production; the total figured
about 10000; and the scare in,
creased.
! The General Motors man only
The Washington times., 1915-12-27
Mysterious Man Hunt
For Local Boy Scouts

Bov Scouts of Washinctcn viii cuGag"
in man hunt on New Year Day. and
Zach little trooper has heen ordered to
''bc prepared with rope"
From the orders sent ont from head
quarters the whole affair seems 10 ne
shrouded in mystery. and few details
have been announced.
Every scout in the city has been cr-
dered to report at the terminus of the
Ninth street car line. Takoma Park. at
8 a. m. and he prepared to stay with
tho Khaki clad posse until s u. NJ. The
man hunt will start when the end of
the trail is reached" and the scouts
aurrrv is supposed to carry n lottPr OF
great Importance to them. Af'CU the
capture, should the scouts he fOrtuul'C
enough to effect one. q campfire will be
held and tho ljtt'C troopers viii be
duo STONED as to their observations alUns
the trail.
The Washington times., 1915-12-27
PAN-AMERICAN SCIENTISTS

Not long ago there sat in Wash
ington a congress of the fiscal ex-
perts of the Western Hemisphere,
called together to consider problems
peculiar to the New World, though
arising out of Old World conditions.
That gathering directed thought to
new interdependence of the Amer
icas among themselves, as we'll as
to a new set of circumstances diff
Terminating them from the older
continents.
The idea that the nations of the
Western Hemisphere have many
things peculiarly in common, and at
the same time are sharply to be dis
tinguished in interest and institu-
tions from the European system, has
been getting firmly established in
recent time. There was a long pc
riod when, despite the obvious SIM
iarities among all these new nations
engaged in the same democratic ex-
pertinent, their very newness COM
PEELED them to rely on Europe for
the means necessary to development.
Europe was the storehouse of sur
plus capital. The New World need
ed, and could only get it there.
So there developed an economic
dependence in place of a political
one; and probably every country in
Europe that had lost colonies in the
New World found at length that it
was better off as the economic
guardian than it had previously been
as the political. Thus America was
tied by new and more subtle bond
to the destinies of the mother con-
tinent. Inevitably, the commercial
intimacy was accompanied by a
steady development of intellectual
and social relationships which, be-
cause they were not marred by po-
litical differences, became the more
binding.
Europe's war rudely interfered
with these long established relation
ships. The Americas were thrown
as never before on their own re-
sources of both neighborship and
finance. The lesser countries have
been driven to the United States for
necessaries formerly obtained from
Europe; for credit, cash, and goods
Now, in the Pan-American Scientific
Congress, is seen the next evolution
of this new intimacy; it's projection
into the intellectual and scientific
field, where doubtless it will be
found to produce even more definite
sympathetic, and lasting intimacies
In this regard the scientific gather,
inc that opens today with delega
tions from a score and more OF
American nations, takes on an i'm
portance certainly not second tc
that of any Pan-American event OF
the past.
The Washington times., 1915-12-27
DECREASE IN PRICES
DURING PAST YEAR
Majority of Increases Were in
Farm Products and Food
Groups.

Despite the closing of many foreign
markets to American consumers and
the increased demand created for many
products of this country resultant from
the European war, wholesale prices in
the United states, as measured by the
aggregate value in exchange of $40 rep
resentative commodities, were nearly |
per cent lower in 1914 than in 1913 This
fact is set forth in a report published
today bv the Bureau of Labor Statis-
tics of the Department OF labor
In four groups comprised Of cloths
and clothing. fuel and lighting. metals
and metal products, and lumber and
building materials, more than half or
the commodities decreased In price
from 1913 to 1914. A majority OF the
articles which Increased In price be-
tween 1918 and 1914 belong to the farm
products and food groups.
OF the $40 series of prices obtained by
the bureau for the two years. 122 series
showed an increase between these
years. 1a showed a decrease. while no
change occurred in the case of a series.
Violent Fluctuations.
/ Tho report shows that violent tuctu-
ations took place during 1914 in the
prices of many commodities, particu-
larly food stuffs. Comparing the low
est with the highest average monthly
price within tho year for those articles
showing a net increase, IL is seen that
granulated sugar varied So per cent !,
rye. 70 per cent; opium, So per cent ::
alum. - per cent; glycerin. 81 per cent ::
wheat in Minneapolis. 36 pe- cent. con-
tract corn in Chicago. 50 per cent: and
oats. 81 per cent. OF the articles tor
which net decline in price for the
year is reported, cotton in New Or
leans shows variation of 20 per cent
between the highest and the lowest
average monthly price: crude petro-
leum. AZ per cent: cotton seed oil. 81
per cent: linsaed oil, % per cent; and
ingot copper, "a per cent.
The Washington times., 1915-12-27
Heart Disease Caused
Miss Wiggin's Death

\ certificate Of death due to heart
disease was issued this morning BY
Ccrnnc the sudden death Of Miss Lillian
WicGln. nftY-iive wears old. of East
Orange. y .I.. at the Hotel Buckingham,
Coron6r Novitt learned that Miss WiE-
gin came here 10 attend the recent sur
fraCr CONTENTION. and that she had been
stricken late yesterday sttsrnoaaA
The Washington times., 1915-12-27
Church Will Cremate
Evidences of Its Debt

.Nt a coronation service" next Sunday
papers representing liquidated debts will
be burned in Casket as a feature OF
tho jubilee services at Wesleyan Pcntc-
CoStal church, Large amounts were
fiven last night toward the liuuida-
tion Of the debt. A table was placed
in front of tho pulpit and after members
had placed their offerings upon il the
total Was SOL 65
The Rov. IT, Il. Hosley, pastor. spoke
Of tho progress made during tho thir-
teen years of his pastorate.
The Washington times., 1915-12-27

We have yet to see 4 better exam
pie of the irony of it than in the
case of the English inrkeeper to
whom has been awarded 500 and a
Humane Society medal for rescuing
seven persons from drowning. All
of them were of German origin, reg
istered aliens. And then % think Of
the millions of British soldiers who
are paid to see how many Germans
they can kill,
The Washington times., 1915-12-27
Tomorrow,

Address. The Musical Thought Of shake
speare, Frank T.. Marshall before RGad
ers club, ComstOCk Studio, S p. m,
Tea dansant. benefit of Working Bows Home
by board Of managers, PLAYHOUSE in NJ
street, near Connecticut avenue northwest
to y. IN.
Annual meeting. American Negro Academv.
y. NJ. c. A. Twelfth street branch. 1C "a
a. M and 40 y. IN.
Annual meeting, American Association for
labor Legislation, Shoreham, 10 a. m
Fifteenth annual Christmas Cntertainmen,
Washington Railwav and Electric empIoves
National Theater. y. m.
Meeting. Central High School Alumni $50
citation, in school, p. m.
Annual meeting. American Society Of Intor-
national Law, Pan-American Union p IN.
zens' Association, Matthew G. Emery
School. 1880 p m.
Convention, American civic ASsoCia tion. New
Willard. 10 a m.
convention. International Congress Of Ameri-
Canists. New National Museum. 10 a IN.
Masonic Acacia, no. Is: Hiram. No. TO- spc
cial Almss Temple. Mystic shrine. clec-
tion: Electa, No. .. Bethlehem. No. :,
Friendship. No. IL ST. Johns Lodge, No.
1s, Eastern Star.
odd Fellows .washinston, No s; Golden
stuart No 7. Encampment election
knights of Pythias-Webstcr. No. ! EN-
relsor. No. IA Capital, No. =; Myrtle,
No. Is. election.
ROYAL ArCanum--O Oriental Council
Daughters of Iibertv--Hope Council, No. |,
Christmas tree celebration.
Now York Avenue Presbyterian Church. "A
PerpleNing situation" presented by G. r..
Society Of the church, SP M
The Washington times., 1915-12-27
Madame Mountford
AT Terminal Y. M. c. A.

Madame Lydia Won Finklestein Mount
ford. OF Palestine delivered an address
before the Terminal Y. NJ. G. A. yestcr-
day afternoon. Madame MountfOrd.
who is y recognized authority on Rih-
liCal history. spoke on The First
Christmas" and exhibited n Collect'c3
The address was part Of q special
Christmas program, during which music
was rendered by the Terminal Y. NJ g.
A. Orchestra
The Washington times., 1915-12-27
One Year Ago Today in the War

President Wilson'S protesting British interference with
American shipping
Russia claimed in the Car
pahans.
Germany Informed the United States American consus
in Belgium distaseul Germany and be with
The Washington times., 1915-12-27
WHAT'S ON PROGRAM
IN CAPITAL TODAY
Today.

concert nited States Marine Band Orchr,
ua marine Barracks, 2:3o p m
"eetlng. MD lty Citizens Association, 1909
second an-American Scientific Congress
Fan American Union. 10 a m
Meeting Lincoln Womans Relief. Corps,
usual place. 7:3O y. M fS'
Mssonic-c'rand Lodge, st. Johns dav con-
munlcaton, election of officers: board Of
directors of Masonic and Eastern star
Home Temple. No. 10. Eastern Star.
oid Fcllo"s-tnion, No. II; Beacon. No Is;
tangdon. No. IS, election; Esther Re-
bekah Lodge, No ..
knights of Pythias-Dccatur, No. >; Calan-
the, No II, election
Royal Recommendation Council Christ.
mas tree celebration
National tnion-Scott Council, Federal Coun-
Gil, Northeast council
Meeting, art section OF Twentieth Century
Club. at home of Mrs. Ward 1863 CoIum-
uta road. p. m.
The Washington times., 1915-12-27

The public, heartily tired OF the
squabblings and chickering's of the
past two years, will enthusiastically
welcome peace in the baseball world.
Next spring "Play bali" will be
sounded in all it's old glory unmarried
by the discords that have intruded
on the game in the last two years.
For which all will give Ieep thanks,
The Washington times., 1915-12-27

In his speech at the opening OF
the reichstag, President Kaempf
said the Germans have held all the
territory they have conquered"
Conquered, Herr Kaempf, is an
ugly word, particularly so on ac-
count of the German CLAIM they ere
defending themselves and only oc-
cupying such territory as proves
strategically necessary.
The Washington times., 1915-12-27
Amusements,

National Sybil, p m.
Belasco-"The Hawk" $50 n m.
Polrs-"Under Cover" @:l5 and S,1s n J.,
Keith s Vaudeville. @:15 and SIS n m.
Cssino-"Thc Revolt" SIS u m
Gayetl -Hurlesquc, 2:15 and S:l5 m.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-10-16

and went off after Mrs. Wojciz. He
caught her and she was thrown into
a patrol wagon. >..-.
Handman, too, although he had
said and done nothing throughout the
whole affair, was slammed into the
wagon and taken to the Shakespeare
av. station. Here he was kept until
booked and released on bonds. Then
he hurried to the hospital.
Mrs. Wojciz, like Handman, was
not a striker and knew little of the
labor troubles, was also locked up,
charged with disorderly conduct.
She was released on bonds sup