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The Washington herald., 1916-12-04
IVAN DEVANTER" CHECK
ENSNARES POSSESSOR
Justice Denies knowledge of Man Held
for Police Investigation.

check bearing the signature Justice
Van Devanter," found in the possession
OF Frank Duncan, alias owen OMoore,
when he was arrested on a charge Of at
tempting to dispose Of automobile tires
said to have been stolen, caused the po-
lice Of the Sixth precinct to hold Duncan
yesterday pending investigation.
Duncan, who Is 43 years old and gives
st. Louis as his home was picked up at
First and G streets northwest Saturday
afternoon by Policeman Thomas Walsh.
Walsh said Duncan had offered an ex-
pensive set of tires for sale and subse-
quently had left them In barroom.
When Duncan returned for the tires
and was arrested Walsh declared he at
tempted to dispose of the Van Devan-
ter" check by trying to drop
1t on the ground. Duncan is said to have
told the police he met Justice Van De-
vanter In st. Louis
Justice Willis Van Devanter. at his
home. 1923 Sixteenth street northwest.
told The Washington Herald last night
he did not recall having met Frank Dun
can or Owen O'Moore; that he had not
been In st. Louis for six years. and that
he had never had an account at the Co
lumbia National Bank" on which the
check for $15 was drawn.
Duncan Is said to have given conflict
ing accounts of his movements. He has
been In Washington about a week, he
said
The Washington herald., 1916-12-04
BETTER Than CALOMEl
Thousands Have Discovered DR..
Edwards Olive Tablets are
q Harmless Substitute

DR.. Edwards Olive Tablets-the sub
stitute for calomel-are a mild but sure
laxative, and their effect on the liver is
almost instantaneous. They are the re-
suit Of DR.. Edwards determination not
to treat liver and bowel complaints with
calomel. His efforts to Danish it brought
out these little olive-colored tablets.
These pleasant little tablets do the
good that calomel does, but have no bad
after effects. They don't injure the
teeth like strong liquids or calomel.
They take hold of the trouble and
quickly correct it. Why cure the liver
at the expense of the teeth1 Calomel
sometimes plays havoc with the gums.
So do strong liquids. 1t is best not to
take calomel, but to let DR.. Edwards
Olive Tablets take its place.
Most headaches, "dullness" and that
lazy feeling come from constipation and
disordered liver. Take DR.. Edwards
Olive Tablets when you feel 'Ioggy" and
heavy" Note how they clear" clouded
brain and how they "perk up" the spir-
its. l0c and 25c box. All druggists
The Washington herald., 1916-12-04
MADE HUMAN DERELICT
BY U. 5. wage SYSTEM
Veteran Federal Employe Tells of
Nephew's Misfortunes.

How one man became a human derelict
"a victim Of the system of Inequalities
and poor pay in the government service
is told In the following letter relating ac-
tual experiences:
IT am and have been, Off and on, for
more than twenty-six years an employe
of the Government Printing once.
Something like sixteen years ago L
secured a place as an unskilled laborer
for a nephew of mine. He had recently
been married to a plain, honest country
girl whom had known for many years
out in the Middle West. The man, then
40 years old. was sober. Industrious and
honest. and from his modest earnings
had saved 800, which he deposited in q
bank in this city. He was sensitive and
high strung and a liberal provider For
a time he managed to keep his expenses
within his meager income. but as addi-
tions to his family soon began to appear
he found his income insufficient to meet
his expenses and he was compelled to
draw on his modest bank account until
he had nothing left. Yet demands con-
tinued to increase and he resorted to
the numerous ten percenters' who in
Tested the office at that time OF course
be because deeper and deeper in debt at
each recurring pay day.
After months of Intellectual struggle
promoted and given the place at $3.50
per day, for services for which his pre-
decessor had been paid $1.472 a year. He,
being already in debt and in the tolls
of the loan sharks and still unable to
meet the demands upon him, became
desperate, and, like many Others began
to indulge in drink. First only at rare
intervals and then not to what is usually
regarded as excess.
about this time his fourth child was
born, and. friend interceding for him,
his pay was raised to 1926 a day. Had
this been done in the start he could and
would have provided for himself and
his family. but being already in the
hands of ten percenters.' he was no bet
ter off than before. and each pay day
saw his earnings go to pay these shy
locks their percent, instead of to the
maintenance of his family. He simply
became exasperated and desperate. be-
took himself to drink. neglected his fam
lily, lost his job, and his family were
obliged to subsist on charity.
He is the logical victim Of a system Of
compensation handed out by the United
states government to its underpaid en-
ployes. He stands barred from REIN
statement under the civil service rules
through the working Of this system"
The Washington herald., 1916-12-04
EMPLOYED AS SERVANT,
ARRESTED FOR LARCENY

Rosie Burleigh. q. a colored domestic
was arrested yesterday by Lieut.. J. L
Sprinkle and Policeman w. NJ. Guilford
Of the Eighth precinct, on a charge of
grand larceny More than $500 worth Of
stolen property was recovered.
During the past month a colored woman
has been going about the city securing
employment as a domestic and giving a
false address. After working several
days she would ransack the house and
disappear. carrying off jewelry, clothes
and other valuables
Rosie, when found at her home, 1871
Thirty-seventh street northwest, admitted
she was the woman who robbed Miss
Adeline l. Patrick. a government clerk.
who lives with Mrs. Malcolm Hufty at
1875 Q street northwest of clothing and
jewelry valued at $342
The Washington herald., 1916-12-04
FAMILY OF FOUR LIVES
ON YEARLY PAY OF $500

Supporting family of four on a salary
Of $500 a year without an increase in four
teen years. is described briefly in the
following letter:
Editor of The Washington Herald:
l have been reading with great in
terest of your activity in behalf of the
wage earners in the employ Of the gov
ernment and trust that your effort may
result in securing by act of Congress the
advance in salary that the times call
for
Il have a daughter in one Of the de-
partments who has served faithfully for
fourteen years or more and is supporting
herself. father and mother and sister on
wage of only $500 year
Il can tell you of other equally touch
ing and pathetic cases.
FOR HIGHER WAGES"
The Washington herald., 1916-12-04
Text of Bill for So
A Day Minimum Wage

Following Is the text of the No
Ian y-minimum-wage bill
for government employees, which Is
on the calendar of the House of
Representatives. having been fav-
orably reported by the Committee
on Labor. 1t will come up for ac-
ton when the Labor Committee Is
reached on the call of committees,
or may be brought up under q
suspension of the rules on the
regular calendar suspension day,
or. II it is deemed important
enough. can be given a special rule
by the Committee on Rules or
steering committee of the House.
That would bring 1t Immediately
before the House.
BE 1t enacted by the Senate
and House of Representatives of
the United States of America in
Congress assembled, That after the
Beginning Of the first fiscal year
following the passage of this act,
the minimum compensation of any
person employed by the United
States. or by the government Of
the District of Columbia, shall be
not less than 50 per day; or, If
employed by the hour, not less
than 81 1-2 cents per hour; or II
employed by the month, not less
than $50 per month; or II employed
by the year, not less than A,0S0
per annum: Provided, that the
provisions of this act shall not
apply to persons enlisted in the
military branches of the govern
ment, nor to persons receiving
quarters and sustenance in ad-
dition to their compensation, nor
to persons holding appointments
as postmasters: Provided further.
That the provisions Of this act
shall apply only to those persons
who have been continuously in
the employment of the govern
ment OF the United States. or in
the employ OF the government OF
the District of Columbia, for a
period of not less than two years,
and who shall have attained the
age of 20 years.
Section =. That upon the passage
Of this act the heads of depart
ments, in which are employed per-
sons as defined in section one of
this bill. shall issue new appoint
ments at the increased rate OF
compensation herein provided"
The Washington herald., 1916-12-04
DEATHS REPORTED.

WHITE.
Nora q White. B years. st. Elizabeths Hosp.
Harry +. smith. 70. Nat. Homeo. Hosp
Chrstiana Haldeman 73 % st. NV
Katherine L. Jones' 70. IS T st. ne.
Emil o. Weber. 81. 1856 n. c. ave. ne
Benjamin A. Mullings. So l0T Ninth ct. NV.
Mary Savage. 4O PruTdence Hosp
Henricka Whitman. 50, Wash. Home Incurables
COLORED.
Alice Stewart. 80, Wash. Asylum Hosp
DeliA Scott, s. Dudley place w
Harry PeteTs. .. st. Eizabeth's Hosp.
VIM. Carroll. 81. st. Eizabeths Hosp.
John W. Mayo. 6. ls2 18th St nw
Richard Z. Hammond, So 1854 Ilth st. NV.
Catherine Brooks. CO. l743 10Th st. nw
Julia Dickenson, 81. Freedmen's Hosp
Thomas Henson. 10 days, 81 N street sw
Lake Superior is as large as Iceland.
The Washington herald., 1916-12-04
BIRTHS REPORTED.
WHITE.

Richard P. and Mary Whitley. girl.
Martin T. and Lillian NJ. Webb girl
Joseph L. and BERTHE NJ TaIbert, boy.
Paul b. and Mae NJ. Tlnaga, girl.
Josiah and Maud Suit, girl.
Ely F. and Ida Shapiro, boy.
Charles E. and Bertha T. Sanford, kih,
Frederick VI. and Ruby Marks, boy.
Joseph and Pauline Hess. girl.
Harry l. and Nellie E. Howard, girl.
William r. and Emily s. X. Dooves, girl
COLORED.
Joseph and Mary Waters, girl.
Arthur and Edna Thomas, girl.
Joselh and Bessie Smith, boy.
Charles and Sadie Payne. boy.
George and Lula MCGOWAN. boy.
Alfred and Maria Lee. GIN.
John and Viola Hendersou. girl.
Richard and Susie Grimes, boy,
Charles II. and Anno1ean F1agg, boy.
The Washington herald., 1916-12-04
Saves Husband When Clothes Ignite

Altoona, Pa. Dec. 3.-Fred Stitzell, IS,
of Homers Gap. near here, can thank his
wife that he is living today. While burn
ing brush. his clothing caught fire. She
ran out. grabbed a piece of carpet, wrap
ped 1t around him and smothered out
the flames
The Washington herald., 1916-12-04
Annual Bath Suflices,
Says Students Father

Kansas City, Dec. 3.-one Kan
sas City father has filed his pro-
test with the Board Of Educa-
tion against school shower baths.
After his son had told him OF the
revels in the school bath room,
the father sent the following note
to the lads teacher:
Dear Teacher-My boy always
takes a bath in summer. He don't
take them in winter. don't
want him to take any more OF
those shower baths. He might get
sick. 1 know some people who
have caught diphtheria that way"
School officials have not decided
when the boy will have his second
shower.
The Washington herald., 1916-12-04

About 40 velocipedes left from last
year will be sold at exactly half price.
Slightly scratched. On sale on second
floor.
The Washington herald., 1916-12-04
Free Book Full of Facts
Never Before Put in Print

Don't keep on letting yourself set worse-don.,
spend cent on account Of your rupture until Won
get our free book Of advice. 'O
his remarkable book-cloth- bound, 6 paRes-x,m,
up all We have learned about rupture during fortv
years Of experience. You'll find it full of f.r+.
never before put in print.
1t shows Just why elastic and spring tru#es cana.
20 much misery and such a shameful waste of money
that the law should stop their sale ''
1t explains why operation is nearly ALWAYS a need
less gamble with death-and why If you do manag.
to live through it, you may have to keep on wearing
q truss.
1t exposes the humbug "appliances,' methods :"
''rlasterS," etc.
1t shows why sixty days trial is the only saf.
way to buy anything for rupture and how the
Cluthe Truss Is the only thing Of any kind that yo,
can GET on such a long trial because the univ
thing GOOD enough to STAND such a Thorough
day -after-dAy test. 0"sN
And 1t tells all about this famous Automatic
MaSaG1ng Truss-how simple it ls-how it ends con-
slant eIpense-how it has saved thousands from onsr.
uon-how you can get it on trial. and how Tttis Il
costs If YOU keep it.
Also glVe1 voluntary Inducements from over mn
beneited and cuTci peop'e O''''
MHte tor this hook today-dont put It otf-the
minute 1t takes to send for it may free yor fnnn,
trouble Tor he rest Of your life
simply use the coupon or Just say in a letter mr.
postal Send ne your book
The Washington herald., 1916-12-04
NATIONAL CEMETERY
HEADS GET ONLY SIS

Salaries OF superintendents Of national
C. AT .eries were fixed by Congress thirty
The Washington herald., 1916-12-04
Such Makeshifts Have Forced Thous
ands Into Risking Dangerous
OnerafiouS-

Wearing elastic and spring trusses
year after year Is almost sure to
shorten your life.
You can't make them hold, even
when drawn so tight you can scarcely
stand to keep them on.
They usually let you get worse all
the time-that's why every year they
are forcing thousands Of people into
undergoing operation.
They are simply a crime-squeeze
the rupture, often causing strangula-
press against the spinal column at
the back-make life miserable for
nearly everybody who wears them.
The Plain Truth Is This
You can't possibly get wELL-can't even keep
from getting WORSE-mless your rupture "a CON
stantIy HELD IN PLACE. Just % = BROKEN
BONE can't KNIT unless held securely To-
GETHER
And tust As a RANDAGE or sPIINT is the only
way q BROKEN BONE can 'bs held the
RIGHT KIND OF TRUSS is the ONLY thing in
the world that can keep q RUPTURE from coming
out and growing worse
You'u feel like a NEW PERSON from the day
you put THAT kind Of truss.
ind such a sURETo-HoLD truss at any drug
store.
Yet it's easy enough to get And you can TEST
70 frIt- By sixty days trial-without having to risk
q sugie cont
rs the an US CLUTHE Truss OF Cluths AUTO
NATIC MASSAGER-absolutely GUARANTEED
70 hold and won't cost you a cent II It doesn't.
Tts utterly different nom everything else for
rrrtUra that It has received EIGHTEEN SEP
ARA PATENTS.
Mads On an entirely NEW PRINCIPLE. In
s+artI and automatically PROTECTS YOU
AGAINST EVERY STRAIN 50 your rupture can't
Tossi5ly BE forced cut sELF-REGULATTNG.
sELF-ADJUSTING. Far MORE than tust a truss.
In ADDITION 10 constant HOLDING. it pro-
viies the ONLY WAY EVER DISCOVERED FOR
OVERCOMING THE WEAKNESS which Is the
real CAUSE Of rupture.
Just HOW 1t does thAt-entirely AUTOMATI-
CALLY-and how it has thus completely cured hun
dreds and hundreds Of people whose cases seemed
almost hopelsSs-is all explained in the free book
which the coupon below will bring y0u.
No Belt-No Leg-Sraps-No Springs
The Guthe Truss does away with the curse Of
belts leg straps. and springs. Thousands say it is
comfortable as their clothing. 1t is water proof
viii hold IN the bath AlSo fion-uanoS and
The Washington herald., 1916-12-04
No BeIt-No Leg-Sraps-No Springs

The Cluthe Truss does away with the curse Of
belts leg straps and springs. Thousands say it is
win hold IN the bath. Also perspiration-proos and
easily kept clean.
The Washington herald., 1916-12-04
Rupture's Worst Enemv
Make This 6O-Day Test
You Won't Have To Risk a PENNY

We don't ask you to trust to q mere tryon tn.
way you have to do at q drug store
Wen make a Cluthe Automatic MassaRinR Trus
especlaiy .or your case-Inake it to your Measure
and LET YOU TRY 1T SIXTY DAYS
We practically LEND it to you that long JUST
FOR TEST. -e 'O0A
IL 1t doesn't keep your rupture from coming out
or Oother1ng you in any way. matter how hard
you work strain-h It doesn't prnye evprv cIain1
We mako-then you can send it back and II won't
cost you . penny - WIN
The Washington herald., 1916-12-04

Highest grade velocipede; frame all
tubing: strongly built but light; / N
inch rubber tire-s3.00 to $500 below
the usual price; look. examine and COM
uare with others.
The Washington herald., 1916-12-04
DOLL BABY CARRIAGES.

Natural Reed Doll Baby Carriages;
S-inch rubber-tire wheels, reed hood;
body and hood lined with i'm S2.9S
Large size, shapely Doll Carriages;
sDI.n spllt reed ~ natural $40
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1916-09-21
Mother

The other day % girls-some mere
children-were arrested in a raid on
a Minneapolis hotel The girls were
taken 20 the jan and were sitting in
group I'm the matron's quarters.
when Mrs Sarah schaeffer. police ma
tron, walked I'm.
All OF the unfortunate girls looked
at her and she al them and she won
dercd what 20 say-what would help
those girls most Finally she thought
II all out and decided.
Girls" she spoke softly and kind
ly II want each one OF you 20 sit
down for FIVE minutes. and THINK
OF YOUR MOTHER"
The % girls looked startled then
frightened. and without one excep-
ton, their heads went down on arms
that were folded. or 10 hands that
tried TO shield their faces.
Before a minute OF the i've given %
thoughts OF mother had passed one
little girl--she had but recently come
from her home IN a nearby town
broke into tears. In an instaH, sObs
echoed and re-echoed throughout the
room. Bfore the Eve minutes we're
up every girl was crying.
Then they looked up. Lips that had
been rouged trembled; eyes that bad
been cleaning with laughter few
hours before now were tear-stalnod
Faces OF the older girls grew less hard
Twenty-three girls had for nve min
utes excluded the world from their
thoughts and given that time 10 the
one being in all the world Who loves
them MOTHER
"In those five minutes many good
resolutions were formed" said Mrs
Schaeffer. "and a great many Of them
will be lived up to-"
That brings one to the opinion that
this little old world OF ours would pe
a much better enc u each and all ~
us gave hve minutes TO thoughts OF
mother oftener than we do snd cs-
pecIally so II when tempted 70 do
wrong we centered our minds for q
few brief minutes on mothers face
and mothers love.
Sin and crime would In large
measure vanish, broken hearted girls
would not be on our streets and IN our
reform schools; boys wouldn't be 90
ing to the bad. our jalls and penltsn
tiarios would pc qepopulated and
MOTHER WOULD BE HAPPIERt
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1916-09-21
Henry Ford for Wilson

Henry Ford. Detroit manufacturer
and peace advocate. has announced
his decision TO support President VIII
son for reelection. Mr.. Ford has been
a lifelong Republican
In an interview in San Francisco.
made public by the Democratic ma
tional committee, Mr., Ford said:
because of the many good things
President Wilson has done l think he
should be commended and heartily ap-
preciated. Every neighbor you meet
Will tell you the good things in the ad-
ministration of President Wilson.
Il feel just as these people do about
what he has done and realize keenly
that his great neutrality policy during
the European war has had the patent
successful result of keeping this coun-
try at peace.
"rhe efforts OF his opponents To try
and make political capital because OF
President Wilson's determination not
TO measure swords with poor deluded
Mexico have already ended I'm distinct
failure"
Mr.. Ford was Michigan's favorite
son for the Republican Presidential
nomination at Chicago last June. and
the thirty votes OF that state were cast
for him on the first ballot.
United States Senator william Al
den Smith had entered the Republican
primaries and his friends had expect
ed him to get Michigan's delegation.
But on primary day Mr.. Ford swept
the Wolverine state, although he in
sisted from the start that he was not
candidate. He refused to do any
thing to help the Ford boom.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1916-09-21
BENEFITS Of Prohibition

Fifty per cent reduction OF crime
and 75 per cent reduction in drunken
ness in West Virginia in the two years
Of the enforcement OF the statewide
prohibition law Is claimed I'm a state
ment issued by Fred o. Blue. state tax
commissioner and ex-oficio commits
siOner OF prohibition.
His claims are based on figures re
ceived in official reports from the
mayors oaice Of more than 50 munie-
Qualities Of the state, covering the
number OF arrests made I'm each for
each OF the last three years. The total
number OF arrests IN the 30 munich
palitles for the year ending June 30.
1914. are: Wet" year 1857: total for
year ending June 30. 1915, the FIRST
dry" year. 1856; total for year end
INK June 30. 1916. second dry" year.
1857.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1916-09-21
NAVY Makes MorId.s Record.

record In naval gunnery for the
whole world has been made by the
superdreadnaught Pennsylvania, the
Navy department announced recently.
Credit for the feat is given to the bat
tleship's twelve fourteen-inch rifles.
mounted as a main battery in four
turrets, which on a simultaneous dis
charge In a recent trial registered FIVE
hits on a small target eleven miles
away. At that distance target Is not
visible to the men who aim the guns
Records OF tho highest scores ever
made under similar circumstances
have been searched, but none equal
ling that Of the Pennsylvania has been
found
The Pennsylvania Is the first vessel
TO have its entire main battery mount
ed three guns TO a turret. and her per
Torrance is declared by ordnance and
construction officers TO be the final
answer to critics opposing the three
gun turret
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1916-09-21
The Trnfh Hurts

The Republican press Of the state IL
trying vainly To- show that Hatfield IS
not such a bad sort Of q fellow after
All and that the Democrats should no.
saw ~ msuy meat things about him
The fact OF the matter ls that tho
truth about Hatfield as Il is being
published in the Democratic papers of
the state is starting 10 out through and
tho Republican press 10 ondeavorlnr
~ ccuntcv-aot the eject.
The Democrats are going after na:-
aeic aud liathelfism from the start
to the hnish OF the campaign. and n
the people % West Virginia vote for
Hathelda Candidate and suffer the
consequences. they cannot say that
they were not told very plainly what
they might expect BY such action
There is small possibility. b0weycf. VI
Robinson being elected Cgrnweli is
maklne new friends every day, and
once ho sets out on the road and tells
Tho people what be- knows about Hat
heidism in a clean. STRAIGHTFORWARD
manner. he viii continue 20 get host
of new supporters every day Of the
campaign Logan Democrat