davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1915-11-28

you want to see the buying club idea
In its brightest glory. There are nearly
fifty clubs in the town, representing some
300 families, or l,5OO persons. In a sin
gle day one of the express agents was
showered with orders for lake fish to the
extent of ton and half The fisher
men up on Lake Erie who were trying to
sell their catches through some of the
transportation companies, We're swamped
with a surplus of orders several times dur
ing the season. But Fort Wayne's clubs
did not stop at fish and butter and eggs
they reached out into CALIFORNIA; fruit
valleys and imported prunes, peaches,
cherries, oranges, and all kinds of nuts
freshly packed by the producers own
hands. Even ripe olives and sun-dried
California figs and raisins travelled the
transcontinental route to the door-steps
of the Indiana club members.
Fifth Avenue Has Its Club
PERHAPS you think Fifth Avenue is
too snobbish to lift finger toward
cutting its living expenses. Decidedly
not. One of New York's largest buying
clubs is located on the fashionable prom
Evening star., 1915-11-28

enade. One day last spring three large
express wagon-loads of country produce
We're delivered at the headquarters of this
organization. Its members, most of them
workers in one of the citys most famous
shops, were simply receiving their week S
rations. Here is sample of what they
ordered in one week:
24O pounds country bacon.
80 pounds smoked hams.
500 dozen eggs (packed in 1-dozen
cartons for convenience).
300 pounds creamery butter Gn l.
pound cartons)
10 bushels apples.
The Combination Shipment
SOME of the farmers and growers who
cater to the buying club trade have
made great deal of money! in the last year
A man in Cattaraugus, New York, who
had been selling his few eggs to local mar
kets, got wind of the willingness of the
transportation companies to find markets
for country producers crops, and shipped
"a trial order to lower Broadway club
These city folk had never tasted such eggs
at anything like the price the upstate
man had quoted Keep us supplied
with your eggs every week. several big
clubs wrote him. To do which the Cat
tarangus man was hard pushed. But
finally, without dropping his standard of
qualityat all, he began to gather in the best
eggs of his neighbors, and thus was able
to supply the demand. In few months
his business grew to $4,000 month
Other keen producers have specialized
in what is called the combination ship
ment. You and your neighbors want
apples and potatoes, or tomatoes and
berries but you don't want to buy lot
at once. The farmers of Long Island lay
plans for just such people. They get up
neat hampers of assorted vegetables, suit
able for a small buying club. or even for
large family, and ship direct to your
doorstep for a stated price. One sue
cessful Maryland farmer sells soft-shell
crabs, eggs, and fresh vegetables in a
l5-pound package; another m New York
State has worked up hummng trade in
maple syrup and buckwheat hour-a gal
lon of the first with ten pounds of the
latter. There is more than one way to
swat the high cost of living
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SUNDAY MAGAZINE for November 1915
Swatting the High Cost of Living

AUR national bugaboo, the high cost
OF living, has not nearly so many
terrors for many persons in the big
cities of the country as it used to have
The buying clubs of New York, Chicago,
Philadelphia, and scores of other densely
populated towns, will tell you that BY
joining hands in filling their market bas-
kets direct from farmers fields and from
big creameries of the Middle West thou
sands of city consumers are now buying
fresh eggs, sound red apples, sweet but
ter, and vegeta bles with the bloom still on,
at prices twenty per cent. lower than ever
before. Cooperation, pure and simple,
has done the trick.
Neighborhood Clubs One Solution
TAKE the case of the neighborhood
club in certain prominent New York
suburb. Its hustling housewife members
have managed to reduce their butter bills
practically one fourth by dealing with
producers direct. Although the club
started with only three members, it has
now grown to immense size. and to-day
purchases butter in 2OO-pound lots, eggs
~ tliN oo-ioH'H tttSt WI ltt'll IsDNo tOLtH
a month";, and poultry by the hundred
weight The Christmas turkey order of
the club last December was nearly 900
pounds. Orders are placed with the pro-
ducers through the local express agent,
and shipments are made direct to the
home of the secretary of the organization.
In Chicago there is a buying club even
larger than this. Its four hundred men,
hcrs-all employees of Il nationally fa-
nous mercantile firm purchase more
than $1,000 worth of country produce
each week, \ paid secretary is employed
to attend to the immense supplies of pro-
visions shipped in. He divides according
to the order of each employee, and wraps
the package ready to be taken home
Honey. maple syrup, frogs legs, cherries,
crab-nieat, and other dclicacies have
proved popular, besides staples like eggs
butter, and dressed poultry. The heads
of the firm strongly encourage the idea
allowing the accounts of the club to be car
ried on the books of the firm. They rea-
son that it is worth something to them
rs an efficiency step toward the increased
welfare of their men.
Go to Fort Wayne, Indiana. though, if
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sds"? Because SO many people hare
scratched themselves on The bdrbed-
,rire fences in their haste to get out
AT Howard, Kansas, in the fall, they
~ hang the banners on the wall, and
make a loud and cheerful noise, nvit-
ing all the girls and boys, who've wandered
from the town afar to hitch their wagons
to star, to come back home and see the
folks, and swap some helpful yarns and
jokes.
Homecoming Weeks the big affair to
all the loyal people there. They get to-
gethef and arrange a program that is
weird and strange: they've an imported
tattooed man, and wonarous jugglers
from Japan, and side-show barkers raise
their yells, and Swiss bell-rngers ring
their bells, and rockets soar and whistles
screech-and John Munsinger makes
speech
A blthe and active man is he, although
his years tivescore and three-have
bleached his whiskers and his hair, and
made him like an easy-chair. iou'd think
him only half his age when he steps forth
upon the stage, his cheerful little spiel to
,speak in honor of the festive Week. He
.alks while of divers things; some reml-
niscences he springs; and then brings
forth round of cheers by daring men of
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equal years to run foot-race for prize
he'll take on any one his size. A fiddler
now begins to saw the strains of Turkey
in the Straw" and John Munsnger steps
jig-say, isn't that achievement blg5
When youths of eighty totter round all
tremblingly, as though they found the
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-04-06
HInA GAZING

the court and his decision threw a
scare into the Funkhouser mvestiga-
tors, for they are the most solicited"
His decision was understood to refer
to the morals men,. ..
If the morals investigators face the
same charges that the women of the
street must answer before Judge
Heap, their work is over. And Judge
Heap is expected to remain in the
morals court for some time
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MEN TO GET THE SAME SORT OF
TREATMENT AS WOMEN

The death knell'' of the double
standard in the morals court was
sounded by Judge Arnold Heap yes
terday when he announced that here
after all men who allowed themselves
to be 'lured" into hotels by women
would receive the same treatment as
the unfortunates themselves.
This was Judge Heaps first day in
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LEAVE ON MANOA
TO Be present
At CONVENTION

The following letter has been re-
cCived from Dr. Purley a. Baker. gen.
eral superintendent OF the Anti-Saloon
League of America. addressed to DR..
John W. Wadman the superintendent
II the local league. and indie ties the
trend OF the rapidly advancing tenn
perance movement on the mainland.
Governor Willis OF Ohio has ap-
pointed 90 delegates-at-larg 10 our ma
ton convention in Atlantic City. ]
am giving you this information sim.
ply so that if you feel il would be of
any influence to use with your COVER
nor, in case there is doubt in his mind
about making Ike appointment, you
can use it. ;> -. -. .:.-.. ~. ...... -.
Just as soon as the governor Of
your territory appoints the twenty"
win you kindly send ME their names
ard addresses. as we desire to get in
formation 10 them concerning the con-
ycntien at once =. a. <
The national convention referred to
is to he place in Atlantic City. y. j..
July Go, and Il is expected that at
least $4,000 delegates representing all
the states in the Onion, including the
territories OF Hawaii and Alaska, will
he present The convention, meeting
on the new Million Dollar Pier of At
lantic City, will be addressed by some
of the most noted speakers of Ameri.
ca, including former Secretary of Stote
VIM. j. Bryan. Congressman Hobson,
Senator Sheppard, Governors Patter.
son and IIanley, and Doctors Aked
and Hughes. III. ~. ..
National prohibition will be dis
cGsSad in all its bearings and plans
made to make America dry in 1920,
the three hundredth anniversary of
the landing of the Pilgrim Fathers on
Plymouth Rock. A delegation of 5000
will be appointed to visit Washington,
D. c., at the close ofsthe convention
and present "a monster petition to
President Wilson, praying for nation
al prohibition.
On the Manoa, Rev. d. G.. Peters and
Sam Kamaiopili of the, lend depart
ment took their departure as liaYaii's
delegates to this convention, and are
to be Joined by Hon. c. H. Dickey,
Prof Vaughan MacCaughey. Theo
Richards and W. Spencer Bowen, at
points on the mainl"nd, SO as to reach
Atlantic City in body at the opening
day OF the huge convention. ~.". q
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Cocklebur Farming
BY e BERT A. SMITH
Editor Of Autumn Leaves"

+. Years ago an old Iowa farmer was
plCwing his corn when he discovered
a strange new plant. At least 1t was
strange to him in that new prairie
land.
So he plowed around it carefully
and left it standing, curious to learn
what it might be and thinking per-
haps he had made valuable discoy-
cry. He cultivated 1t faithfully all
that season.
The plant proved to be cocklebur.
genus Xanthium In a few years his
farm was headquarters for cockleburs
and helped to seed the whole sur
rounding country with the noxious
pests. He had missed a splendid OPP
portunity to destroy a nuisance at its
source. The best time to rid farm
of cockleburs Is when there Is only one
such plant on the place.
Many a young man with his first
taste of drink or tobacco or profanity
or gambling experiences an entirely
new sensation He Is uncertain re-
garding its exact nature, but decides
to let the thing grow and see what
may come of it. Somewhat against
his higher instincts and with many
qualms of stomach and conscience he
cultivates the new sensation.
BY and by he discovers that he has
merely grown rank and evil habit.
His entire system is filed with 1t. He
is now headquarters for one or more
forms of vice and helps to contain
mate younger members OF the entire
community.
Like the manager Of "Cocklebur
Ranch he has made sad mistake.
The time to overcome evil habits Is
at the beginning they are few
in number and before their roots have
struck into the soil and before the
seeds are scattered far and wide
1t is good five years job to eradi-
cate cockleburs from farm when
they become well established. II is
the task of lifetime to root out evil
habits that have been cultivated and
encouraged for years.
Every young man who reads these
lines will say, What fool that old
farmer was, No need to say more.
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Saloons Closed.

Saloons Closed. ~
Just. before adjournment the New
York legislature voted TO levy an in
creased tax upon the liquor traffic un.
der which ii is feared" that 1850 sa.
Icons CT New York City may have to
close. Retail licenses are TO be made
higher by % per cent. .:> p"
And the New York Times. in com.
menting upon this act of the legisla-
ture. remarks: There is nothing
more absurd than the notion that the
closing of these saloons will injure
The working man or cause him to lose
his job, unless it be the idea that we
have no right to close a saloon any
way:
Personal Liberty Sacrificed. ....>>
Mayor Brown of Franklin. Pa. has
issued an edict against the use of
liquor which applies to all city en-
plCyes: We do not intend that the
money paid out by the city shall be
spent fer liquor when so many per-
sons have a hard time earning enough
to obtain bread Off will come the
head Of any city employe who pursues
this course, said the mayor. II am
not turning prohibiticnist," he explain
cd, i, simply wish TO guard against
the spending of the citys money for
liquor, when II ought to be used for
bread and ether necessities of life"
France Wholly Committed. -....
II seems that France having already
banished absinthe, is to take another
forward step and is following the ex-
ample of Russia in becoming a prohi-
B.tiCn nation The Petit Parisien says
II has been informed that the French
government will introduce bill pro-
hIbitinS absolutely the manufacture,
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Worlds Strides In Temperance

sale and transportation OF all alcoholic
drinks during the progress of the war,
Even beverages containing q slight
ln,portIan = alcohol. Il is Understood,
will be prohibited.
ua0I y G&,Sed.
The knights Templar OF Pennsyl
vaHia. it Is reported. at their annual
conclave, passed by big majority q
resolution which makes IL impossible
in the future for any one directly or
Indirectly connected with the liquor
traffic to join any Commentary in the
state.
College Men. 49,
Dartmouth College has lined up with
the intercollegiate movement now
making tremendous Roadway among
university men in favor CT national
prohibition. So have the state col
leges of the Dakotas and also the Uni.
versity of Beloit OF Wisconsin.
From Oxford, England, comes the
announcement that Jesus College has
decided to bar alcoholic beverages
while the war continues. Similar &c.
ton has been taken by Oriel it Is
expected that others will do likewise
and that the entire university soon
will bar alcoholic drinks.
Big Business.
Employees OF this company arc not
permitted to visit saloons during the
noon hour. Violations CT this order
will be at the employees risk. In
conspicuous. places about the Wiscon-
sin Steel Company's plant in Chica-
go this ruling WAS pasted the ether
morning. and 1T neon the horde OF
workers filed straight by the three sa-
Icons located near the companys
gate.
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FIRST METHODIST IPISrOPtL
cUURfH

Corner ReretaDiu and, Victoria
streets Edwin Z Brace. pastor. Tn"
regular Sunday services are al FOL
lows: -.
The regular Sunday services. OF the
church are as follows:
sunday school at 9:s5 a. II. lii.
Public worship nj II a. NJ.
Epworth League at $50 y. M. ~
Evening service - i:39 p. m.
Sunday school, 9:45; Mrs. Q. IT,
Walker. superintendent Glasses for
all. Good music A warm welcome
10 everybody.
Morning worship. II o'clock; sermon
by the pastor.
Epwerth League viii meet in the
chapel at $50 a special invitation
is extended 10 all the young people of
the church and congregation.
Evening service. at z 90. Sermon by
Professor Haford. " p
Z Strangers and visitors are cordially
invited to all the services and priyi.
leges of our church. II you have come
for few weeks visit and have no
other preference, come and visit us.
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NEW NATIONAL
BODY WILLARD
in WAR RELIEF
Senator EIihu Root Heads New
COMMITTEE of Mercy" Re- +.
Gently Organized in N. 7.

Information has reached Honolulu
OF the launching in New York City OF
d new organization for raising funds
for war relief. The organization is
known as the Committee OF Mercy"
and has as Is president Senator Eli
tu Root.
The vice.presidents OF the organiza.
ton are Charles w. Eliot. Mrs j. Bor.
cen Hartman. Miss Katherine n, Da.
Wis and Hon. John Purroy Mitchell. all
Of whom are we'll known throughout
America. August Belmont is treasur.
err
The finance committee Is headed by
Frederick ~. Allen Norman Hapgood
is chairman Of the states commit se
and john Moffat Is chairman Of the
publicity ccTmittee William II, HamY
ilton is secretary OF the organization.
The Star. Bulletin has received the
following letter from Vice-Pre5ident
Mrs. Harr man:
"The Committee OF Mercy Is endeay-
oring to relieve the suffering caused
the women and children by the groat
war.
'aThe American people have res.
pended nobly TO meet the sad plight
Of the Belgian people. Belgium Is
still I'm need Of assistance from Amer
lea II her civil population is to be fed;
hut Poland and Serbia are In even
worse straits. In Serbia typhus Is
prevalent. and summer will bring the
danger of cholera Unless checked
these epidemics may sweep over En-
rope, making mere terrible the scourge
of war. Russian Poland west OF the
German lines 10 veritable desert Is
land on which are some 100000 OF
people absolutely without food.
"Thts means that large sums OF
money must be collected; and we call
en- you to assist US in making our
part of the work successful. which Is
raising funds sufficient to meet these
conditions of suffering.
"a pledge of stated sum each
month win help to place the work Of
relief on more assured basis. But
the immediate need is for generous
contributions up to the limit of the
means Of each warm-hearted Ameri'
can"
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cENIRlL rNION CHURCH

Rev Doremns Scunder. y. T.. minis
ter. Rev Amos A. EbersoIe. associate
minister
Rev. Dorcmus Scudder, d. D., minis
ser: Rev. Amos a Ebersole, associate
minister.
800 a. fiible School voluntary
study period by classes.
9:45 a. m.-Bible School. Mr.. A. f.
Larimer. acting superintendent.
1900 a. Morning Worship: ser.
mon BIZ the minister, -Four Cardinal
Christian Factors, ~. Vision"
There viii be no eyer.D.s scrEices IL
this church during the sunlmer
months. The congregation will unite
with the other churches Of the town
at the evening hour.
A cordial invitation 10 these serv-
ices is extended TO all, especially
strangers and visitors in town: a.,
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new TEACHER IS
ORGANISE FOR
SUMMER MONTHS

Miss Gertrude Marion Knowles OF
Concord, Massachusetts,. who has come
to Honolulu to take a position In the
girls department of Kamehameha
schools. will serve as organist at Cen
trail Union church during the summer
months.
Although but a y0ung girl, Miss
Knowles is an accomplished musician
OF great promise. During her high
school course she won a scholarship
in the New England Conservatory OF
Music, where she afterwards studied
the organ under Mr. Robinson, one OF
Boston's foremost musicians, and the
piano under Alfred De Voto.
Miss Knowles reached Honolulu on
the Mongolia last week, and win take
up her duties as organist this Sunday
morning. She Is the sister Of Mrs.
Earl G. Bartlett of Haiku, Maui.
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EARLY NOTICES FOR II.
CHURCHES REQUESTED

{: Owing to the growing number
. of churches and religious institu-
= tions which desire to be repre-
= sented on the special page devot-
q ed to churches each Saturday,
:: and the consequent larger ;
:: amount of preparation necessary,
. the Star-Bulletin finds 1t neces- ;
= sary to request that notices be I
. sent earlier in the week. 1t has
q been customary to receive no !;
!: tees up to Friday evening. but ,
= it is now desired to have all such :
!; matter In on Thursday evening.
!: Pastors and other church Off
= GERS who cannot at times give :
= their Sunday programs thus far :
!. in advance are requested to send !
J: in a note with information as to ;
!: when their programs will be !
!: ready. Address all communica- /;
!; tions, Church Page News, Star :
!: Bulletin" Cooperation will Sc :
!: cure the best results and insure
= the accurate publication OF
!: church news and notes.
3 q a q n n q q = q = q = q q . /!
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EPISCOPAL CHURCHES

St Andrews Cathedral - Emma
street, near Beretania. RI. Rev. H. B.
Restarick. bishop; Rev. Canon VIM.
Ault, vicar. Sunday SCI vices. I and II
a. m. and 1880 y. m. Sunday school
9:45 q. M Hawaiian congregations
Rev. Leopold Knoll, pastor. Sunday
services, s:f5 a. m +. - -
81. Elements Cburch-Corner Wild
or avenue and Maxiki street. Sunday
services: Holy communion. Z a. m
Morning prayer and service, IL a. m
Evening prayer, 1880 p. m.
IT. Marks MlssiOs - Kapahulu
road. Rev. Leopold Knoll, priest In
charge. Services: Holy Communion,
tirst Wednesday each month, 10 a. m
and 1880 p. m. Sunday school every
Sunday at 10 a. m.
Holy Communion first Sunday-of the
month.
st. EIizabeth's Church-Iocated
corner King street and Pua lane
Rev. W. Msrrif. priest-in-charge Sun
day services: Holy Communion at z
a. m, on second, fourth and fifth Sun.
days; IL a. m. on first and third. Eve.
ming prayer and address at p. m
Korean services at $50 a. m. and
s: IS p. m. rs
Epiphany Mission, Kaimuki 10th
and Palolo. The Rev. F. A. Sayior
In charge.
:, Miss Flora Tewksbury, organist.
Services: Holy Communion. 1880 O.
%.
Sunday School. 10 a. m.
Morning service and sermon. IL .
a.
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Service, iinliIono|u|u, lIuIrhq5

June 27--Guy IT. futile.
July Admiral G., B. T. Moore
JGly IS-W. n. harrington.
July 25-Pres. A. +. Griffiths,
August f-Rey. Henry p. Judd
August s-ReV. J. l.. -Hopwood
August l5-Rey John p Erdman.
August 22-Dr. J. w. WsdmaIl 3. J.
August 29-Dr W. II. Fry.
Tomorrow morning Minister Peters
will preach from the subject. The
Essential Nature OF Man and Some
Duties in the Light of that Nature"
At the evening meeting he will preach
the baccalaureate sermon for the
graduating class Of the Mckinley High
school This will be his last service
before sailing for the states on Tues.
day. 49,.
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REORGANIZED CHURCH or JESUS
CHRIST OF LATTER DAY ).

Located on King street near Thorn.
as Square.
Services win be held on Sunday as
follows:
9:f5; a. m, Sunday school.
II a. m, preaching, Hawaiian serT.
Ice. .
s p. M. lions Religio Literary So
ciety's meeting.
7:Se p. m. preaching. English sery.
Ice.
Visitors are invited to attend any
OF the services held In this church
and welcome will be extended to
those who come.
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FIRST CHURCH or CHRIST.
SCIRNT1ST

All services held in the Odd Fell
lows building, Fort street.
Sunday school at 9:55 a. m, for
young people under 20 years.
Lesson subject, June %: Christian
Science"
Wednesday evening testimonial
meetings at 8 p. m.
Free reading room, Pantheon build
ing. room 2. open daily except Sun.
days and legal holidays from 10 a. m.
to 3 p. m.
All are cordially invited.
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Lincoln-Lee Legion.

Lincoln-Lee Legion. r. ....... :.
The Lincoln-Lee Legion movement
grows There are more than 5000
members now enrolled. These boys
and girls, ranging in age from II to
Is, have ali signed the pledge, deliber.
atively binding themselves to abstain
from the use of alcoholic drinks. They
are wearing the little campaign button
i'm white, red and biue and bearing
the sign of the engraved cross. One
Of the school principals of Maui, In
writing the office for more pledges,
states that his pupils, having signed
the pledge themselves, are now seek.
ing to persuade others to do so in their
own homes, including the older mem.
bers of their families and even their
parents.