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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-12-03
women At THE BUREAU
ASK FOR MORE MONEY
Say Average Pay Is $1.75 Day, and
Bare Living Expenses
Take It All.

plea for better conditions among
the female workers at the bureau Of
engraving and printing. especially
among press feeders. in regard to
working hours and pay was presented
to The Star yesterday by committee
Of workers from the female workers
union. who asked that their names be
withheld. According to information
presented there the conditions are gen.
orally as follows:
The average girl or woman employed
as a press feeder receives a salary of
s1.75 a day. From this amount must
be deducted 81 for food and SO cents for
lodging. leaving 25 cents for other
necessities. In some cases women l1v-
ing alone can get room for as low as
$40 a month. but are compelled to do
their own washing. as we'll as their
own cooking. and often in their hurry
they eat ill-prepared breakfasts be-
fore going to work and suffer through the
day.
Many Of the female workers at the
bureau have dependents-some are
widows and have from two to seven
children to look after. They are COM
PEELED to scrape along with the barest
necessities and their condition of living
is said to be generally miserable. In
other cases women have mothers or
invalid fathers depending upon them
for support.
Have to Work Long Hours.
One of the workers said that al
though they are supposed to work
from until o'clock, they have been
working nine and ten hours a day for
the past year and have been getting
only straight pay for this overtime.
The work is said to be trying. the girls
and women being compelled to stand
throughout the day. In some cases,
particularly in the stamp-perforating
be hard upon the strongest of men.
Many Of the girls would like to go
to school and prepare for a betterment
Of their conditions, but cannot AFFORD
the cost Of tuition for courses they desire
to pursue.
The nrst organized attempt toward
getting better pay and general better
working conditions was made with the
sending of resolutions adopted by the
female workers at the bureau to the
recent convention of the American
Federation OF Labor at Baltimore. In
these resolutions they asked for 20
per cent increase in pay, az well as Tune
and half for overtime and double
time for Sunday work. These resolu-
tons were Endorsed by the federation,
and the local plate printers union mas
pled1ed its support to the woman work
ers.
Tho woman workers are appealing
for better conditions in line with the
general efforts to secure better pay for
all government employees.
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SENT TO AID THE DOLPHIN.
Fleet Tender Ontario to Assist Dis.
abled Dispatch Boat.

NORFOLK. Va. December THE
feet tender Ontario last night was sent
to the assistance of the naval dispatch
boat Dolphin. dsa bled in the Potomac
river. The Dolphin is reported Grip
pied by the. breaking of her steering
gear. and will be towed to the yard for
repairs.
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MR.. ARCHBoLD COMFORTABLE.
His Family Physicians Sanguine
That He Will Recover.

TARRYTOWN. N. Y. December q
The condition of John ID. Archbold.
who has been critically i'll at his home
here since an operation for appendi-
citis more than a week ago. late to-
night was reported to be about the
same. He is resting comfortably and,
it was said. no unfavorable symptom
had developed. Although 1t is admit
ted Mr. Archbold's condition IL serious.
his family physicians are sanguine that
he will recover.
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TENNIS ASSOCIATION
GIVES FIRST DINNER
H. E. Burton and Robert Candor Pre-
scented With Racquets for mo
Defeat" Seasons.

The first annual dinner Of the Wash
ington Tennis Association. held at the
New Ebbitt House last evening. was
featured by the appearance OF Fred
erick B. Alexander. former doubles
champion of the United States with
Harold H. Hackett. Mr.. Alexander
spoke of his experiences in foreign
lands. particularly OF his travels in
Switzerland and Australia, where he
played as a member OF the American
tennis team.
s. Wallis Merrihew. editor of Ameri-
can Lawn Tennis, told of the conduct of
tournaments. paying particular atten-
ton to the foot-fault rule. He cited an
instance concerning the game R. Lind
ley Murray played against Kumagae.
the Japanese player. Murray tired
rapidly after winning the first two sets,
he said. and in the last set frequently
transgressed the foot-fault rule. He
also spoke of the time wasted in re
turning ball in play.
Col William w. Harris touched on the
aspects of District tennis. and ma lie
comparison between Washington and
other cities. He said when the pro-
posed East Potomac Park project ma
terializes. the tennis players of wash
ington will be amply taken care of. He
said provisions for $500 players at one
time have been made in the plans for
the new East Potomac Park project.
Tells Of Washington's Fairgrounds.
Col. Charles w. Kutz. District Com
| missioner. who is a tennis player.
talked of the Fairgrounds in the Ma
| tional Capital and their relation to ten
mis-, saying that Washington had one
playground to every $4,000 citizens,
| while New York had a better ratio
| than this. affording one playground to
every $500 inhabitants.
r. l.. Thurston. superintendent OF
schools. spoke of the fine opportunities TO,
physical recreation offered by the many
tennis courts available for the younger
players. Supt. Thurston also spoke OF
the twelve tents courts which are a fea.
ture Of the new Central High School.
Paul 3. Williams, field secretary Of the
who is particularly interested in junior
| tennis. spoke on his favorite subject anc
emphasized the value of the junior play
| ers to the game.
| Abner Y Leech, Jr., Presides.
Abner Y. Leech. jr, president of TIL
| Washington Tennis Association. wa
POSTMASTER and presented the cups wol
by the various teams in the District. TIL
championship of the Washington Tenni
Association was won by the Dumbartol
Tennis Club the title of champion Of tn
Washington Suburban League being wo,
by the Racquet Club. The Petworth Clul
was in the runner-up position. Two ten
mis- rackets were presented to H. f. Bur
ton and Robert Candor for a no-defea
season.
Nearly 300 tennis players Of the Dis
trict attended the dinner.
Yesterday afternoon Mr.. Alexande
and Paul B. Williams were the guest
of A. Y. Leech at the Columbia Coun
try Club. Alexander played c. B. Doyle
the ranking player of the District. an
was beaten in straight sets, Ga. Go
Shortly afterward Connie Doyle ant
John NJ. Hancock defeated Louis j
| Doyle and Alexander in three sets a
g.. SO. Ga.
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LIQUOR SELLERS PUNISHED.
Jail Sentences and Fines Lot of Five
Men Convicted in Virginia.

NEWPORT NEWS. Va. December q
The first jury convictions in Virginia
under the new prohibition law were
made today, when four negroes and one
white man were found guilty of selling
liquor and fined from 800 to $500 and
sentenced to from one to three months
in Jail.
The state prohibition commissions r
had special counsel to aid the common
weaith's attorney in the prosecution.
One man out of the six tried was found
not guilty.
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The loan to the city of Bordeaux is
the fourth municipal loan arranged by
French cities in this country since the
war began. In September Kuhn, Loab
& Co. announced that arrangement had
been completed for loan Of $50, 900, 900
undertook similar liens on behalf of the
cities of Bordeaux. Lyon and Mar
seille. In the case of the latter three
cities il was stated that the total
amount would be $4,000, 900 The Paris
loan was for five years
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ISSUE OF NEW COINS HALTED.
Half Dollars and Quarters Delayed
Until Beginning of 1917.

Issuance of the new half-dollar coin,
designed by Adolph A. Weinman. de-
sgner of the new dime, and the new
quarter. designed by Hermon A Mac
Neil. both considered by experts as
coins of great beauty and quality. has
been ordered deferred by the Treasury
Department until the beginning of
1917
The extraordinary demand for small
coins-cents, nickels and dimes-is
oyertaxing the facilities of the mints.
and officials believed calls for the new
quarter and half dollar coins would
swamp the mints if they were issued
at this time.
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RUSSIANS IMPLICIT DEFEAT
UPON TURKS IN PERSIA

LONDON. December 2-Regardine on
erations in the Caucasus the Russian
official statement as received by Reu-
ter's Telegram Company says:
THE Russians operating near Sultan
abad Persia) between November %
and 81 made several attacks against
the enemy, mostly at night time, on
the right bank of the karasu. The
evening of the 27th we drove them in
disorder across the river, inficting
heavy losses"
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Insane Murderer Captured.

CAYUGA, Ind. December MARTIN
Rice, insane man. who last night shot
VermiIion county, when the latter at
to arrest him, was captured
today in the woods near his home here
He offered no resistance. Rice opened
fire on Jones when the latter answered
a summons by Rice's wife, who charged
her husband with threatening her life.
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WILL GET 5000, 900 IN q. S.
Bordeaux. France, City Council Ac.
cepts Offer of American Loan.

BORDEAUX, December after
hearing a report from Mayor Charles
Cruet. the city council has decided to
accept the offer of a group of Ameri-
can bankers of a loan of $4,000, 900.
The loan will run for three years.
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DENTAL WEEK OPENS MONDAY
Seventeen Hundred Students to
Parade in Chicago.

CHICAGO. December IS Seventeen
hundred dental students from North
western University. the Chicago College
of Dental Surgery and Illinois Univer-
sity will parade through the city Mon
day to a downtown mass meeting, at
which Dental week, proclaimed by May
or Thompson will formally be opened
Arrangements have been made to pre-
sent %. 900 tooth brushes to needy school
children and dentists will hold public
clinics for instruction in the care of
teeth.
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Mexican Convention Hats Business

OUERETARO. Mexico. December g.
Many of the delegates to the constitu-
tionad convention left here today to
spend Sunday at their homes. 1t is ex-
pected that the real work of revising
the Mexican constitution will not be-
gin until next week.
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Rhodes Scholarship for Indiana Boy

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. December q
Joseph c. Little of Liberty. Ind,
senior in Earlham College at Richmond.
Ind has been awarded the Rhodes
scholarship for Indiana, 1t was an
nounced here today. Little has taken
an active interest in athletics while at
Earlham. The examination for the
scholarship was held several months
ago.
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Turks Increase War Budget.

AMSTERDAM. December .. via Lon
don.-A Constantinople dispatch says
the Turkish chamber of deputies has
accepted a proposal to increase this
years budget for the war ministry by
100000 pounds.
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Russ Fail to Advance.

BERLIN. December 2. by wireless to
Sayville.-The Russians attempted to
advance yesterday near Smorgon and
south of Pinsk, the war office announces
Their efforts were without success.
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DELEGATES ON THE WAY
TO ANNUAL CONVENTION
National Rivers and Harbors Con-
gress Will Meet in Wash
ington Wednesday.

Delegations from the west and south
western part of the United States were
last night reported to be on their way to
Washington to attend the eighteenth an
nual convention of the National Rivers
and Harbors Congress. to be held here at
the New Willard Hotel Wednesday.
Thursday and Friday. The COM
ing convention. according to a
statement issued last night at
the Colorado building headquarters of
the congress. will be one of the largest in
its history. and will >be composed Of rep
resentative men from all parts of the
country. 1t will urge policy of de-
velopment of national waterways for
freight transportation and for national
defense"
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List Of Speakers.

The statement says. in part:
National men. including Vice Presi-
dent Marshall Secretary of War Baker,
Senators Fletcher of Florida. Lewis of
Illinois and Senator-elect Watson of
Indiana. Representatives Henry and
Mott, John n. Cole Of Massachusetts,
former Gov. MacCorkle of West Vir-
ginia. Albert Bettinger of Cincinnati.
Joy Morton of Chicago, Edmund w.
TAYLOR Of Kentucky, J. S. Daugherty
of Texas. Theodore Brent of New Or
leans. e. L. Wallace of st. Louis and
Irving c. Norwood of Iowa, will discuss
the commercial value of waterways.
Additional Features.
Admiral w. s. Benson, Gen. William
NJ. Black and Lieut. Col. Henry Jervey
will demonstrate the military values
of waterways: State Engineer Williams
will discuss the barge canal system
of New York. Other features to be
announced will be added to the pro-
gram"
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1916-10-26
NOXIOUS WEEDS

The people in the older sections of
the state are displaying interest in the
spread of nOxious weeds. Many fields
are entirely overrun. These fields con-
stitute a menace to the entire neigh
borhoOd. We have weed laws, and
they are not enforced. They will not
be enforced as long as enforcement de-
ponds on the activity Of local officials.
We have seen something of the ef-
feet of local control in the matter of
highways. Some excellent bits Of
road have been constructed under To-
cal supervision. But these are excep-
tional and it is unanimous verdict of
those who have studied the ques.
ton that on a large scale roads can be
built and maintained successfully only
where general control is substituted
for local. If a comprehensive plan for
weed eradication is to be adopted the
work must be placed in the hands of
general officers who are not hedged
about by local influences.
Aside from the legislative phases of
the subject, we have the practical side.
Weedy farms can be cleaned up only
by the adoption of better farming
methods by the individual. In the
general scheme raising of live stock
will be one of the most important fac
tors,
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1916-10-26
CRIMINAL hEEDLESSNESS

Efforts are being made to reduce the
number of motor accidents at railroad
grade crossings and it is hoped that
many lives may be saved and many
accidents averted. The Northern Pa.
cifc railway has begun crusade
reaching the entire length of it's line
A statement has been prepared and
sent to all secretaries of state who are
requested to include one of the state.
ments with every license tag issued.
Statistics show that last year in the
nation 997 persons we're killed and
1893 injured at grade crossings. No
matter how many signs, notices,
whistles, gates and fagmen there may
be of no avail unless motorists and
the general public cooperate and heed
some of them.
Observations were made to note the
care or lack of it which motorists used
and out of $4,000 instances over half
looked neither way when passing over
a grade crossing, eight per cent look
ed one way only and TIA drivers stop.
ped their machines first.
Draw your own conclusions.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1916-10-26
COMMUNITY LOYALTY

Have you ever stopped to consider
the fact that loyalty to community in
terests is the highest type or patrlO-
tism? Show us the man who is loyal
and true to every interest of his own
community and we will show you in
that same individual man in whom
his country can repose absolute conf
dence in any emergency that calls for
his allegiance.
On the other hand, the man who is
careless and uncOncerned for the in
terests of his community is more than
apt to display the same spirit of in
difference toward his government or
his state should any serious danger
threaten either.
One of the most commendable traits
Of the old Scottish highlanders was
their loyalty to their own clan. Good
or bad, right or wrong, the clan has
their first allegiance. The life and
cheerfully placed at the disposal OF
the clan.
Try to imagine an entire state
composed of innumerable communities
welded and cemmted into symmetr
cal whole, each striving to excel the
others, but each, from it's own local
loyalty, developing broader and deep
er loyalty that reaches out and EN-
braces the whole.
Utopia, you say? By no means,
merely what could and would be the
result if we could only be brought to
see that we owe allegiance to our own
people, but that the prosperity of 9TH
ers is in no wise a detriment to us,
but rather help; that if each COM
munity would develop itself to the ut
most-physically, mentally and moral
]y-none would need be envious of
others, neither would any need be
aught to detract from another's in
terests.
Let us develop community loyalty to
the full-the highest possible form of
patriotism.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1916-10-26
SPECULATION

When the grain market is active, as
It has been for this season, the ten.
dency to speculate is strong. Great
fluctuations in prices create the posi-
bility of large profits, and though the
possibility of equally large losses is
equally present, mans natural Opti-
mism leads him to look on the more
cheerful side, and the matter of posi-
Bile losses is usually given but slight
consideration. In most neighbOrhoods
there are persons who have made win.
nings on the recent advance in wheat
prices, and reports of these are passed
around until the speculation fever be-
comes quite prevalent. AS to wheth-
er to buy or sell, how much, and at
what price, it is scarcely the function
of newspaper to advise the individ-
ual, but one feature which cannot be
too strongly emphasized is that the
man who cannot afford to lose cannot
afford to speculate.
Whatever We may think of the
ethics of market speculation, whether
we regard it as legitimate business or
as mere gambling, as business prop
ositiOn it is something which one can
afford, and which another cannot. The
man who has his debts paid, the needs
of his business and his family provid
ed for, and a comfortable balance in
his bank may without imperiling the
welfare of his family or the security
of his business, take a chance on the
grain market, just as he may take a
chance on the turn of card His loss
if he loses, will entail suffering on no
one But the man who has actual
need for all his funds shows poor
judgment if he risks any part of his
possessions in speculation, ever
though there is the possibility of large
profits.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1916-10-26
CORN, OATS, WHEAT FOR FEED

In an experiment at the Wisconsin
experiment station three lots of heif-
ers weighing about $50 pounds were
fed equal amounts of nutrients. For
one lot the nutrients were wholly
from the wheat plant, another from
| oats and the third from corn. All lots
grew at about normal rate, but after
few months it became easily observ-
able that the wheat lot was not so
| we'll nourished as the others. This
| was evident from the appearance of
the coat. The corn and oat fed lots
| bred earlier than the wheat fed one,
showing that the latter were depressed
in some degree. The corn fed lot pro-
duced calves which were of normal
size and full of vigor. The oat lot
produced calves which were of about
normal size, but with very low vigor,
while those from the wheat lot were
about half as large as the normal calf
at birth and were dead or ready to die
when born. When half the roughage
of the wheat lot was replaced with al
falfa hay the calves were normal.
! No reasons have yet been worked
out as to why these foods should &C,
so differently, but it is important to
know how they affect animals.-North
Dakota Experiment Station.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1916-10-26

neighbor makes it store up light for
them to sit and read at night; he
makes it haul and pillow and dig and
shear the sheep and feed the pig; and
when the water trough it dry he shifts
belt and lets it fly. My neighbours
folks just laugh and sin, they don't do
one la boriOus thing.
Now mel never was a shirk.
think farms the place to work. We
chop the wood with might and main
in mud and slush and sleet and rain.
We milk the COWS the good old way,
and wash the clothes the livelong day,
and sew and churn to beat the band,
and pump the water up by hand. We
lack the electric lights and such but
we don't miss 'em over-much; for
when we're through the work and fed,
we're all so tired we 90 to bed.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1916-10-26
"sOME" YIELD FOR A 1916 CROP

H. H. McCumber OF MarstOnmoOr
threshed IS bushels of Grimm alfalfa
seed from 16 acres in 1916. He says:
"Only three pounds of seed was
used per acre making alfalfa seeding
as cheap as seeding wheat for next
years crop. This seed was raised
from seed that was grown on the farm
on an acre now three years old. The
seed was sOWn broadcast With an
Eureka Weeder and seeder and inocu-
lated with the government liquid bac.
terra.
Compare this crop with any other
crop With all other crops the land
must be plowed and sown each year
with chance of getting one crop
from each sowing. If you SOW gen.
uine Grimm alfalfa properly the one
seeding will be sufficient for almost
an unlimited term of years if it is left
in the proper condition in the fall,
namely, not cut nor pastured too close
nor stock allowed on it during the
winter.
I'VE all remember the soil blowing
of last spring. Put your land in al
falfa and the wind will have no effect
on your fields.
"You put more fertility in your land
than would be possible any other way,
and with no expense-not even labor.
In addition to the seed crop a crop
of hay was cut from it's field June 20
Sow alfalfa but be sure you get
genuine, dry land grown Grimm seed,
grown in your locality, as near as pos
sible."
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1916-10-26
MARKET DAY

Please, sir, | wish a spool Of beans
And seven pints of silk;
Then wrap NE up bag of pins,
And half square of milk.
I'll take an ell of sausages,
And thirteen gross of cream,
A can of freshly Numbered eggs;
Of doughnuts just a ream.
Oh let me have a sheet of soap,
And eighty grains of tea,
With twenty pecks of apple pie,
AS homeless as can be.
l want a dozen honey, ripe,
And half foot of cheese,
Then give me, sir, a yard of oil
Wrapped up in paper, please.
A box OF sugar vinegar,
A drachm of lettuce, too,
And with a cask of butter scotch
think that this will do.
Please send my purchase quickly, sir
live upon the Hill,
An acre and ton away
And charge it on the bill.
Abbie Farwell Brown.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1916-10-26
THE REPORTER At THE BANQUET


Here l must sit by the hour,
Harking to speeches that bore,
Gosh, but my temper gets sour,
Wish l could sneak to the door.
Friends, we have with US tonight"
(Hear that dull POSTMASTER drooD
Zone who will give us delight"
Zone who's an ass and fOOD.
Now he is off on a speech,
Good for a Wearisome SPELL
If he keeps on l shall screech.
Why don't they give him the bell?
Stories of lineage old,
Jokes of the hoariest age,
Phrases all covered with mold,
Thoughts in a tottering stage.
These are the things must hear,
These are my crosses to bear,
This they call "mirth and good cheer,
Lord, give me air, give me air!
Heavens, I'm glad l got out;
Why, was going insane.
l would have persisted, no doubt,
But for the bubbling champagne.
Back to the shop l must 60,
Where l shall sit down and write.
"Humor and wit were aglow,
1t was scintillant night"
Berton Braley.