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Evening star., 1915-05-25
Considered Most Feasible.

Another employe. writing in favor of
the same plan, says:
II favor the contributory plan be-
cause I consider it the most feasible at
this time, and the plan most likely, if
any, to be adopted by Congress. Civil
employees who have reached the age of
sixty-fve or seventy years probably
will never live to see the time when a
Congress could be Influenced to favor
a straight pension plan, however just
and desirable ii might be. Is it not
better, then, to plead and fight for that
which can most likely be obtained?'
Taking the other side of the ques-
ton, an employe has written:
Careful investigation and study of
the question of retirement will soon
convince the most skeptical that the
straight pension plan is the only feas-
ible proposition. England is about the
only country on earth that ever at
tempted a contributory plan, and no
corporation or business ever attempted
such thing.
"It is sure that in the event of the
establishment of the contributory plan
Evening star., 1915-05-25
Keen Wells to Hear DR.. Butler.

DR.. William K. Butler is to talk to
the National Society of Keep-Wells
Friday evening in the Parish Hall of
st. Johns Church, 10th street near H
street northwest. His subject will be
1.-The Well Eye" Any one may ask
questions after the lecture. All women
are invited to be present. No charge
is made for admission.
Evening star., 1915-05-25
Benefit Given for G. w. U. HOSPITAL

The Girl of My Dreams" was pre-
sented at the Columbia Theater last
night by the Columbia Musical Comedy
Company for the benefit of the George
Washington University Hospital. The
board of lady managers of the institu-
ton was in general charge of arrange
ments. Mrs. William Cline Borden,
wife of the dean Of the medical school
and officer of the board, was chairman
of the arrangements committee. Many
students and members of the faculty
attended the performance.
Evening star., 1915-05-25
School Opens Commencement Week

Commencement week was opened at
the Misses Ttmlow's school last even
ing with a musical. Monday evening
next the commencement exercises are
to be held with Rev. DR.. Charles Wood
Of the Church Of the Covenant and Miss
Elizabeth Timlow as the speakers.
Musical numbers are to be given bv
Miss Folger, Miss Warden, Miss Noun
tain and Anton Kaspar. Thursday
evening banquet. Is to be given and
Saturday afternoon the dansant is TO be
held from 8 to o'clock.
Evening star., 1915-05-25
House Robber Steals So.

An unidentified white man visited the
house of Daniel W. Bruce, 1904 South
Carolina avenue southeast, about 3:15
o'clock this morning, entered through
window that was unfastened and stole
81 from the pockets Of coat that had
been left in the parlor. Mrs. Bruce dis
covered the robber and frightened him
from the house.
Evening star., 1915-05-25

quite a large bureau would have to he
formed or created to handle the funds.
The salary attached to the position of
the head of such bureau would be large
and the position quite influential.
IN the event of straight pensions, a
few additional pay clerks might be re-
quired to handle the appropriation al
lotted for this purpoSe.
Evening star., 1915-05-25
Commissioner Brownlow to Speak.

Commissioner Louis Brownlow is to
deliver an address at a meeting Of the
Rhode Island Avenue Suburban Citizens
Association tomorrow night in the Sher-
wood Presbyterian Church. 22d street and
Rhode Island avenue northeast A spe-
cial program has been arranged and re-
freshments are to be served.
Evening star., 1915-05-25

Choice Evap. Peaches. &c: large cans
Cal. Peaches. loc: large cans Blue Bell
Tomatoes. il2c. Sugar Corn. Sc. f.. J.
Peas. sc: Peerless MIX. 3isc; Banjo
Brand Salmon. SC; 15c cans Tuna Fish.
1oc: Navy Beans. &c: Lima Beans, Sc;
Randalfs Grape Juice. qts., 25c; large
bots. Ginger Ale. 1i2c; all kinds Tea,
.ac: Wonder Coffee, 2oc: Fat Norway
Mackerel, &c and Zoe: Star of the East
Flour, $500 bbl.: 6 lbs, 25c. $1,000 or
ders delivered. 926 Pa ave. and all the
j. T. d. Pyles Stores
Evening star., 1915-05-25
Leo C. Merriweather Found Dead.

Leo c. Merriweather. colored, twenty
six years old, who was employed as
janitor of the Nantucket apartment
house. 14lS W street northwest, was
found dead In bed this morning His
wife reported his death to the police
Coroner Nevttt made an investigation
and concluded that death resulted from
natural causes.
Evening star., 1915-05-25
Charlie Chaplin daily. Virginia. eos ,tn

PaperhanglnE, Window Shades, Picture
Frames. Spelshouse. 1915 7th NV. Main
$500.
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x2N. CharI

$3.50, Charlottesville and Return,
May 81, Southern railway. Special train
leaves Washington $50 an. m.--Adver-
tisement.
Evening star., 1915-05-25

Stone 4 Fairfax Make Loans at 10
and lowest interest rates.
Evening star., 1915-05-25
CITY ITEMS.
BY Pop.

OF Course. ConEer's Why Of Cleaning
your Carpets and Rugs is best. Very
moderate charges for cleaning and stor-
ing for summer. Phone W. 6SJ
Evening star., 1915-05-25

Hint for Suburban Lumber Buyers.
Patronize Eisinger Bros branch yard,
Bethesda. and save haul from town.
Evening star., 1915-05-25
A NERVE, TONIC.

IInrSf ards Acid Phosphate.
Recommended for relief of insomnia. impaired nerve
f,rc.. and fatigue. InviGoratrs the entire system
advertisement.
Evening star., 1915-05-25

Phone Your Want Ad to The Star.
Main 2440.
Evening star., 1915-05-25

kOdaks-Eastman Goods and Others.
Columbia Photo. Sup Co. 1434 N. Y. ave
Evening star., 1915-05-25
Stump Speech Amuses.

Flowers for Commencements
Guide will furnish choice flowers and
artistic floral decorations. 1914 f st
Advertisement
Evening star., 1915-05-25
smar,s Flower. for Memoria, Day.

Prices moderate. Order now j. IL
Small Il Sons, 18th & II, Washington
Waldorf-Astoria Il 1153 Broadway, n. Y
advertisement
Evening star., 1915-05-25
FISCAL FACTS REPORTS
FAST BEING RECEIVED
Work of Various Committees Will
Soon Be in Hand, It Is
Indicated.

Reports from the various subcommit
tees on facts of the joint citizens COM
mittee on fiscal relations between the
federal government and the District OF
Columbia, laid before the executive
committee at q meeting last night IN
the office OF Chairman Henry y. f. Mac
farland indicated that they would have
their work completed within a short
time. All the subcommittee reported
that they had their work well ad-
vanced
The committee on financial facts,
james F. oyster chairman. has sent the
executive committee reports for the
successive periods from 1890 to ISIS,
and the report for the period from 1878
to the present will soon be ready.
\ special subcommittee of the com
mittee on statistical facts. composed OF
Evan H. Tucker and Frank r. Leetch,
has completed a report involving a
great deal of work. on the estimates
for which appropriations have not been
made during the past fifteen years.
The subcommittee on assessments and
taxation, John Joy Edison chairman,
has prepared and distributed in this
city and in the principal cities of the
country among trust companies ana
OF her authorities, statistical blanks
which will bring ont valuable informa-
tion as to assessment and taxation
that will supplement the tables given
in the United States census reports.
Evening star., 1915-05-25
u Rbl. old-Trm. Flour. 3, 90, 4 Lbs. f

Drawing Books Schmidt. 1927 18th st
Evening star., 1915-05-25
Commissioners Send Facts.

The District Commissioners have sent
to the executive committee another IN
stallment OF facts in response TO the
request made by the executive commit
tee, the present tables covering data
asked from the engineer department as
to the highways and water ana sewer
system and other matters.
The United States census bureau has
sent to the executive committee copies
of all its bulletins on assessment ana
taxation and indebt edness. Other ma
teral is coming from different sources
under request of the executive COM
mittee.
A. NJ. Fisher the statistical expert. is
not only aiding the subcommittee. but
CO -ordinating the data coming from all
sources.
The finance committee. composed OF
the presidents of the different civic or
ganizations represented In the joint
citizens committee, is hard at work
and reported good results
Evening star., 1915-05-25
U. S. Clerks Favor Diverse
Plans, But Agree That Some
System Is Needed.
DESIRED THAT ALL CAST
BALLOTS ON PROPOSITION
Value of Concerted Action in Urging
Legislation Upon Congress
Is Emphasized.

Supporters of the various plans for
civil service retirement in the United
States are sending in by the hundreds
daily their answers to the questions
contained in The Star coupons.
In order to give all of the employees
an opportunity to register their views
in regard to this important question,
The Star will continue to publish daily
the voting coupons up to and including
May 81. All answers must be in the
hands of the civil service editor by
June l.
The friends of the so-called contribu-
tory plan. by which the employees and
the government will share equitably in
the establishment of Il pension fund
for superannuated and disabled en-
ployes. and the supporters of the
straight pension plan. have rallied in
great numbers to their respective
plans. 1t is the desire of The Star IN
conducting this poll to give the en-
ployes an opportunity to ascertain now
the majority of their number feel in
regard to these plans The value of
concerted action in urging legislation
upon Congress cannot be oVerstated.
1t is urged therefore that the vote on
these important questions represent as
nearly as possible the entire 10000 or
more civil service employees in the Dis
trict
The Star Takes No Stand
In this voting contest The Star has
taken no position for or against either
of the plans. The aim is to get the
expression of the employees them
selves on the question.
The civil service editor has received
many letters together with the voting
coupons, giving the reasons of the
employees for supporting one plan or
the other. Many of the employees,
while expressing preference for one
plan. declare that they would be glad
to have the other go into effect rather
than have none. The desire for some
kind of a retirement system is prac-
tically unanimous.
Said one of the employees:
II favor a contributory plan for sew
eral reasons: First-Those to be bene-
flied should contribute to it. Second
All money paid out by the government
comes in by taxation. True. Indirect
taxation, but the people pay it. There
are great many classes of people
whose yearly income is less than civil
service employees, and to compel them
by law to bear the expense of a re-
tirement system for the civil service
employees would be unjust. II ] stay in
the civil service 1t will be twenty-five
years before l will be old enough to
retire on the pension list. If a civil
pension is provided, however. | want
to see a fair law on an equitable
basis
Evening star., 1915-05-25

ARCADE BALLROOM. THIRD FLOOR, EVERY
Sat. even, by Prof. Archer; instruction, to 9;
dancing. TO 1870; class. Mon. and Fri, at
studio. 1927 10th NV. Private lessons, any
hour. Phone n. 67S6. Estab. 1900. OPEN
ALI, SUMMER. 29s
Evening star., 1915-05-25

6LOVER'S, 613 22nd. PH. w. 1923. PRIVATE
lessons any hour, Soc. Fox trot, waltz, one
step. hesitation. Boston. etc. Glass and dance.
Tres. Thurs. Sat even. Soc. Ladies free.
Evening star., 1915-05-25

DAVISON'S,mn nTsf. a2oM Mn.w. Fhgs; e 9ss,,
Reliable All dances taught correctly. Private any
hour Class dance Tues. eyes, Cool Elec fans
Evening star., 1915-05-25

SUMMER RATES-ALL BALLROOM DANCES.
PROF. WYNDHAM, NINE. BURSAY and MISS
MILLER. prof. teachers Prize dancing taught.
Evening star., 1915-05-25
DANCING.

NATIONAL RIFLES ARMORY.
Open for summer season; da ancing. $50 to
IL, Thurs. and Sat. Cooled by electric fan.
Evening star., 1915-05-25

WEIGHT REDUCING BY MACHINE.
No diet. exercise drugs
failure. Lady asst. Private
NuLIRR'S Belsseo Thsatar. Phone n 6S29-W.
Evening star., 1915-05-25

w NDI1NN bNO 1 II ENO,
Every modern dance taught correctly.
17l2 g st. NV. Phone II. 6O62.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1915-06-02

Southern Minnesota is prosper
Gus and Northern Minnesota Ian
cuisines. Minnesota will forge
ahead only as it's various sec
tons grow, develop and work in
unison. When Northern Mime
sofa is well developed, when ev-
cry acre there is producing grain,
live stock, dairy products, grass
es and timber, when every
swamp is drained and good roads
line each township like a check
er board, affording easy access
to the markets, then Southern
Minnesota too will be proper
tionately much better developed
and much further advanced.
Southern Minnesota will keep
step with the advance of North
ern Minnesota.
And this is equally true of the
cities and the country districts.
Upon the welfare Of the rural
districts depends the welfare of
the urban sections, and vice YER
sa. Cities cannot grow and pros
per, unless their natural trade
territory is prosperous, nor will
the rural communities develop
if the cities, the manufacturing
and consuming centers are unde-
veloped or stagnant.
1t should be clear, then, that
if we wish to see Minnesota
make the progress it's possibili-
ties offer we of Southern Min
nesota should join hands with
the people of Northern Mime
sofa and give them all possible
aid in their uphill fight. Prac-
tically the entire State can be
made as productive as the south
part is today, and it staggers the
imagination to attempt to rea-
lie the wealth the State will
then produce.
Petty jealousies and preju-
dices must be thrust aside, and
all must come to recognize that
in unity and cooperation alone
is there sufficient strength to
carry on and complete the work
of upbuilding Minnesota as a
State.-A. O. Moreaux, Editor
Luverne Herald.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1915-06-02
GOSSIP OF THE PRESS

While we are discussing pro-
jects for identifying the city
let us not forget that perennial,
though unbidden, guest which is
the surest indication of spring
and of eternal optimism, the
dandelion. "Swat the dandelion"
and keep on swatting it. Get
each dandelion out with the
roots and inject a small amount
of a solution of sodium chloride
in water. Some say that it helps
to curse the ground in which it
grew as it's hold on life is as long
as the woes of the prophets and
the patriarchs. Swat the dande-
lion.-New Ulm Review.
Granville Pease, who has
spent a winter in California and
knows, say that state isn't all
sunshine and pleasures. When
it's cold there, and the chilly
season freezes you to the mar
row, you are cold clear through,
and need a fire to get warm by
when there is an absence of the
homelike glow of the coal CRATE.
-Brainerd Dispatch.
The state agricultural society
has appropriated $4,000 for au-
tomobile racing and S348.5O for
prizes for corn exhibits. Why
the cambridge North
Star.
That the district judges of
Minnesota are underpaid, not
overpaid, as was the ridiculous
assertion of a legislator during
the last session, is strikingly
evidenced in the report that
Governor Hammond offered a
judgeship to four of the leading
attorneys of Winona, and all re-
fused because they could not af-
ford to drop their practice for
the salary paid. A similar honor
was refused during Eberhart's
administration by ST. Cloud
lawyer for the same reason
Bemidji Pioneer.
A Joliet, ILL.,, paper reports the
birth Of a five-pound boy weigh
ing nine pounds. He was prob
ably born at 6 O'Clock at mid
night, and the scales probably
were not available until the ar
rival Of the 8 o'clock train, which
gets in at 2.-Wabasha Herald.
early Chickens Advised"
reads headline in the Minneap-
oils Tribune. We were always
under the impression that late
chickens were the ones who
needed advice. Prison Mirror.
The st. Peter Free Press has
become a special pleader for
Senator Clapp That paper
thinks his boiling the Taft tick
ct ought not to bar him. Of
course not, but if nominated he
has set a precedent which might
be turned against him most ef-
fectively by the Taft element.
Madison Press.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1915-06-02
1T COULD NOT BE DONE.

Somebody said it couldn't be done,
But he. with a chuckle, replied,
That maybe it couldn't but he wouldn't
be one
, Who would say so till he'd tried.
So he buckled right in with the trace
Of a grin
On his face. If he worried, he hid it.
He started to sing as he tackled the
thing
That couldn't be done, and he did it.
Somebody scoffed: 20, you'll never do
that
At least, no one has ever done it,"
But he took off his coat and he took
off his hat,
And the first thing we knew, he'd be-
gun it.
With the lift of his chin and the bit
of a grin,
Without any doubling or quiddit.
he started to sing, as he tackled the
thing
! That couldn't be done, and he did it.
There are thousands to tell you it can
not be done,
/, There are thousands to prophesy fail
ure;
There are thousands to point out to
you one by one
The dangers that wait to asSail you;
But just buckle in with the bit of grin,
Then take off your coat and go to it.
Just start in to sing as you tackle the
thing
That Scannot be done" and you'll do it.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1915-06-02

The Minneapolis Tribune says
the Torpedo hit Nebraskan in
opinion of Captain Probably
if it had hit him at any other
point the result wouldn't have
been so disastrous.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1915-06-02

The modest friend who offers
to lend you a couple of dollars
when you are broke is far more
worthy of your praise than the
hero of a hundred battles.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1915-06-02

"Some day-in the distant
millennium" says T. Christensen
of Dawson, politics will be ban
ished with the other sins of hui
mainly" We have Ted's word
for it! Colt sci dank!
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1915-06-02

A Woman's Club speaker tells
of northern Minnesota men go
ing insane for lack of COM
panions. Why didn't they hold
on just a little while longer !?
Didn't they know that a bevy
of the states wisest would be
in their midst early in June?
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1915-06-02

We would like to suggest to
some of these erstwhile (and
all-the-while) DIRECTORS that
they set the too-proud-to-fght
theory up against the big stick
policy and see how they meas
ure up in fair and square COM
harrison.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1915-06-02

w. j. Bryan will be the only
member of the official family
who will not be invited to the
wedding of Miss Genevieve
Clark Amt them Champ Clarks
the meanies, and amt they got
terrible good memories?
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1915-06-02
WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH
MINNESOTA?
THERE are so many reasons
why the people of Mime
sofa should be of good


cheer, that it is a pretty
good idea to chuck or choke the
chump who continually cries out
calamity.
The howl of hard times and
"overbearing burdens" has lit
tie right to a seat in the par
quet of state that is as pros
porous as a plum pudding.
Take care of the 'taters, and
the taxes will take care of them
selves.
Remember that it is easier to
get public economy than it is
good seed corn; there always is
an abundance of officeseekers,
but it will take hard work to
make that Clover forty" pay
dividends.
A perfect politician is Cor
would be) pleasing spectacle,
but politicians are a drug on the
market which can hardly be
said of butter and eggs.
Ours is a plea for the farm
and the farmer, but you horny
handed sons of toll and the cata-
logue houses have your impor-
tant duties to perform for the
vindication of your chosen pro-
fession and the reputation of
the commonwealth that keeps
up your schools.
In the evening by the glow Of
your Preside Gan electric lamp
will do just as welD, roast the
legislatures that have gone and
the legislatures that are to
come: settle the war from d
strictly neutral standpoint by
putting all the blame on Ger
many and drink; quaf a glass
of hard cider to the success of
the new county option law; and
then go to bed.
Next morning when the sun
has made Murphy's hill look
like the center of a seed cata-
logue watermelon, and the roost-
ers are sending up the riot call,
and your old friend, the meadow
lark is making Caruso sound like
a foghorn, arise and go forth to
greet the Guernseys and pull a
few weeds from the strawber-
ry patch, before eating your
breakfast of hickory-smoked
ham, errorless eggs, buckwheat,
smeared with clover honey pan
cakes, and coffee containing
cream that would make a city
man think he had gone color
blind.
After this you will be ready,
and willing, to extract a few
stumps, or break up another lit
tie patch of land for flax.
When night comes, you will
be as tired as the belle OF the
ball the next morning after the
firemen's dance, when mother
asks her to wipe the dishes, but
you will be happy just the same
and you will love the good old
North Star state just a little
bit more than you did the day
before, and while you may again
pull out your old apple-wood pipe
and once more roast the tar out
of statesmen real or Roosevelt
tian, you would, if anyone were
to PROFOUND the question:
whats the matter with Min
nesota? reply with some as
perity (meaning snap and Wig
orr:
Nothing, sir-you the think
ing of Kansas. "-Ferman A.
Wilson, Editor of the Bemidji
Sentinel.
A UNITED MINNESOTA
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1915-06-02
WEDNESDAY, JUNE End, 1915.
Proven to hare the Largest
Circulation of any Paper
in Redwood County
ADVERTISING RATE CARD

Display per Inch Column Measure
Space less than 80 inches-12 to 15c
Space over that amount. go. 12c
Other than ordinary display, addition
al charge for extra composition.
Reasonable discount to large yearly
contractors.
READING NOTICES
Local advertising, per line. ~. &C
All church notices and entertainments
where an admission is charged will
be classed as local advertising.
Church notices and lodge announce
ments PERTAINING to services and
meetings will be donated.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1915-06-02

Colonel Roosevelt says "War
is not Hellw Have worsted VIM.
Barnes in the recent discussion,
it would appear as though the
Colonel aims to start something
with one William Tecumseh
Sherman.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1915-06-02

The Morton Enterprise says,
eve shall continue to conduct
a dry newspaper" Brother Ru-
hey is too modest-we have
found his sheet very spicy, and
anything but dry at various
times in the past.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1915-06-02

The Village Philosopher quer-
les; why should the corset be
a subject for so much agitation
when it is a mere matter of
FORM" What can the V. P. ex-
pect of a matter of so much
stress and strain, and one so
close to the human heart?
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1915-06-02
A UNITED MINNESOTA

nesota is one. We are all
= members Of one body. The
welfare Of the weakest and the
welfare Of the most powerful
are inseparably bound together.
Minnesota cannot flourish if
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1915-06-02

Last week the Fairmont Sen
tinel said Jim Tawney was not
a "sycophantic lunkhead;" this
week the Ada Herald says he is
not of a "hypocratic nature. :
Say, boys, just for change sup
pose you tell us what Jim is
in plain, understandable Ameri-
caniSe.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1915-06-02

The weather man has evident
ly been reading the Minneap-
oils Journals signed editorials
by country editors, on united
Minnesota. He is treating all
sections alike and consistently
throwing wet blanket over ev-
erything.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1915-06-02

mar has grown considerable
brazen during the last few
months he is apt to be a bit
fused by this united gaze of
the populace.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1915-06-02

Eugene V. Debs will speak at
Granite Falls, June Z. Will
someone please page Mary FL
len Lease? Redwood Falls needs
a counter attraction.