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French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1916-11-23
A. Garland and P. D. Heffner

w. A. Garland and +. u. Henner
The defendants above named will
take notice that an action entitled as
above has been commenced in the Su-
.perior court Of Henderson County,
North Carolina, to secure judgment
against the above named defendants in
the sun of $4,000 with interest and
cost, due by note; and the defendants
above named will further take notice
that they are required to appear at the
term of Superior Court for said coun-
ty to be held on the 9Th Monday before
the LIST Monday in March, 1917. at the
court house of said county in Hender-
sonville, North Carolina and answer or
demur to the complaint in SAID action
or the plaintiff will apply to the court
for the relief demanded in said COM
plant.
This Goth day of November 1916:
c.. M. PACE,
11-23-4tc Clerk Superior Coutr.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-01-17
SIGNS
IN TEN U. S. CITIES
More Railroads, More Fac
tories, More Money Pre-
dicted for 1916.
BUSINESS is PREPARING
FOR RECORD TRADE GAIN
Herbert Corey, in Tour of Ten
American Commercial Centers,
Finds Concerns Rushed.
TEN CITIES TELL OF
GOOD TIMES AHEAD

Ten barometric cities = Buff
falo. Cleveland. Pittsburgh, st.
Paul. Kansas City, Chicago, st.
Louis, Cincinnati, Baltimore and
Detroit-say that 1916 will be
our greatest trade year.
We will build more miles of
railroads and stories of sky
scrapers.
We will hire more men and pay
them better wages and work
longer hours.
Domestic orders are crowding
some manufacturers away from
war munitions
Europe's export trade has very
largely fallen into our hands.
The gold we get in return will
be largely employed in creative
work.
We can hold a great part of
that trade when the war is over
perhaps.
No check to prosperity is fear
ed while the war orders keep
coming in.
ness on safe and progressive
footing.
Almost every manufa curing
line is above normal and get
ting better.
North and south, east and west,
prosperity is here.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-01-17
BY HERBERT COREY.

CHICAGO. ILL.,, January 15.-Ten cities
say that 1916 will be the greatest year
in the history of American commerce.
Their men of affairs say we will sell
more goods, make larger profits. hire
more men, pay better wages than ever
before. Our banks will hold more
money We will build more miles of
railroads and more stories of skyscrap-
ers and more acres of six-rooms-and-
bath bungalows. We are being forced
to build an American merchant marine
in order to carry the export trade the
war had dumped into our laps. We can
hardly get rid of that export trade
while the war lasts. Given some COM
mon sense. and we should be able to
hold part of it through everlasting
time.
What is the black spot?" l asked.
at cannot all be good news. There
must be some danger hanging over the
horizon"
There is" the bankers and manu-.
facturers and experts on commerce told
me 1T is ftiie laborS 81 tuation- BY the
middle of 1916 we may not be able 10
hire enough men. We are not greatly
afraid of strikes. Wages will be so
high the men will not afford that lux
ury.
what will happen when the war
ends" -,
Nothing" said some. Business VIII
make an extra squirt said others. no
knows?' asked the third contingent.
Can we hold this nice new export
trade against European competition
when the fighting is over?'
we can if we try" was the tone OF
the reply. IF we will use our brains
Unless our domestic business swamps
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-01-17
CHURCH FACTIONS IN RIOT.
One Killed, Two May Die, Dozen
Seriously Hurt at du Pont, Pa.

SCRANTON, Pa. January 17.-Riot-
ing. which broke out between rival
factions at the Church of the Sacred
Heart Of Jesus. in du Pont, near here
yesterday, resulted in the death of one
man, the probable fatal injury OF two
others. and the serious injury of at
least a dozen more. Knives, revolvers
and clubs played a prominent part in
the riot. eleven state troopers beins
among the injured.
George Greizor, the dead man. was
shot through the thigh. the bullet sew
ering an artery: Trooper Ross Hume =
of Pottsvi1le, sustained fracture at
the base of the skull, and Joseph Tinh
of du Pont was shot through the luncs.
This church has been the scene OF
half A dozen riots in as many weeks.
one faction objecting to the authority
exercised by Bishop NJ. J. Hoban of tho
Catholic diocese of Scranton in namin =
a priest to take charge of the affairs Of
the church, and the other supporting
him.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-01-17
CALLS IT NO ARGUMENT.
Mrs. Guernsey Rejects Personal
Liberty" Plea Of LIQUOR Dealer.

That the plea of personal liberty
is no argument for allowing the manu-
facture and sale of intoxicating liquors
was the assertion made by Mrs George
Thatcher Guernsey of Independence,
Kan, in an address Saturday evening at
the headquarters of the w. C. T. L., when
Chaplin Union rendered a reception
jointly to Mrs. Guernsey and the Young
Peoples branch of the w. c.. T. L. in
the District
Mrs. Helen Nelson DOGGY. former
president of Chaplin Union. presided as
chairman of the entertainment COM
mittee.
A program of music and literary
numbers was given, to which Mrs. Ger
trude Lyons, Mrs. Charles Brooks
Smith, Mrs. William II. Goodman, Miss
Ethel Coffin, Mrs Mabel Frost, Mrs
Charles p. Grandfield and Mrs. S. c.
Van Enron contributed. A quartet com
posed of Karl Lutz. George Hall,
Emory Long and Carol Thirst, accom-
panied by Mrs. L. C. Embrey, also aid
ed in entertaining
About l25 persons We're present Mrs
Francis st. Clair opened the meeting
The hostesses were Mrs. Belle Marshall
TRULY, Miss Gussie Nichols, Mrs s A.
King, Mrs. Phillip Steel. Mrs MILAN c.
Gates and Mrs Van Emon.-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-01-17
COLLEGE HALL BURNS.
Flames Destroy Building at Ches-
tertoWn. Md.

CHESTERTOWN. Md. January II
William Smith Hall, the main buildin <
of Washington College. was completely
wrecked by fire yesterday. So rapid y
did the flames spread that all the ar
chives. including many historic docu-
ments. some of them in the Handwriting
of George Washington, were burned.
The building cost $4,000 to erect.
William Smith Hall bore the name OF
the first president of Washington Col
elge. Rev. William Smith, afterwar nd
provost of the University of Pennsyl-
vana.
The college had its name bestowed nv
the legislature "in honorable and per
petual memory of his eXceliency, Gen.
Washington" who received from 1t the
degree of doctor of laws.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-01-17
WHAT WEAK women NEED
We Have 1t in a Remedy Con-
) tanning the Three Oldest
and Most Famous TONES
Known.

Vinol contains the three oldest
and most famous tonics known to
/ medicine. viZ.--the medicinal eX-
{ tractives of fresh cod livers. with
out oil. peptonate of iron and beef
peptone.
} That is why Vinol is such a won
J derful remedy for weak, run down
\ persons. feeble old people, delicate
( children. and to restore strength
after sickness. Read this testi-
{ mcny.
I Savannah, Ga. II was weak, ner-
7 vous, rundown. had no appetite.
} and could not sleep. I had tried
medicines without any benefit, and
J one day the nurse asked me to try
Vinol. I did so and it made me
feel like new woman. 1T has re-
stored my strength and / can do all
my own homework. ! would not
I take anything for the good Vinol
} has done me-" Sarah White.
} We return money in every such
J case where Vinol fails to benefit the
\ purchaser.
{ O'Donnell's Pharmacies. the Peo-
pies Drug Stores and other Wash
ington Drug Stores that display the
! Vinol sign
} p. SIN your own town. wherever
} you live, there is a Vinol Drug Store.
J Look for the sign.-Advertisem
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-01-17
Improved Labor Conditions
Compared With Generation
Ago Are Shown in Report

Hayes Robbins presented this after
noon at the meeting of the National
Civic Federation. at the New Villa I'd
the report Of the industrial economics
department of the federation, describ-
ing improvements in labor conditions
today as compared with those of a gen.
GRAFTON ago.
The review Of changes in wages,
hours of labor. organization and living
conditions signifies, according to the
report made by Mr.. Robbins, that the
workinsman of today has knowledge
and power to deal with injustices and
improve his material condition through
the industrial and political system
which affords the means of an increas-
Ing and broadening social welfare
The evidences of progress, great as
they are, co not imply, the report
states, final solution of any given
labor problem, Or that wages are high
enough. the working day short enough
the industrial field are not still far be-
low the modern standards of civiliza-
ton A large part of the high cost of
living is due to high standards of liv-
ing, said Mr.. Robbins; to the common
use of many comforts and conveniences
which were the luxuries of the wealthy
not many years ago: to better clothing
and. general change in working
sanitary tenements to the modern type
of cottage or fiat. with proper light and
ventilation and sanitary equipment.
Labor Papers in the U. S.
Mr.. Robbins stated In his report that
while there was not one labor paper in
the United States before 1925. today
there are more than five hundred; that
| there was no such thing as labor
law until 1896, while the 1914 digest
of labor laws fills 2.473 pages; that
today there are labor statistics bureaus
| in thirty-five states and bureaus with
powers of factory law enforcement in
| thirty-eight. He mentioned in par
ticular new workmens compensation
| laws and the way in which hardships
| due to unemployment from accidents,
| sickness or incapacity have been re-
| duced by legislation The lesseniny
| Importance of the strike and lockout
| were mentioned and the increasing re-
| sort to direct negotiation, media ton
and the trade agreement.
Statistics given by Mr.. Robbins in
Dictated an average wage increase dur
| ing the past forty years of about so
per cent, decrease of from 10 to 40
per cent in working hours and an
actual decrease in prices of many of
the necessities of life. even with the
abnormal prices of the past fifteen
years.
The report pointed out that the or
ganiZation of labor was under the ban
of law and that seventeen conspiracy
| trials took place before 1872 Most of
the labor activity prior to 1880 was
along communistic and political lines
| and was record of successive fail
ures. Mr.. Robbins said that not more
than half a dozen of the 10 natio~a
and international organizations which
| of Labor. with their 10000 members.
were even in existence as late as 1870.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-01-17
Central Abattoirs Suggested.

The remedy suggested by a well
known authority is that municipalities
provide central abattoirs at which an
efficient system of inspection shall be
maintained. Where private establish
ments are large enough and well
enough equipped from a sanitary stand
point to warrant separate inspection.
this might be permitted. but all should
be compelled to conduct their opera
tons under adequate inspection. The
sale of meats and meat-food products
which have not passed federal inspec-
ton, or an efficient state or municipal
inspection, should be prohibited
DR.. Smith thought the introduction of
federal inspection and the refrigerating
systems in meat preservation and
transportation had done more in the
last thirty years than any other mea s.
ure to maintain the quality of the
worlds meat supply. While evils exist.
he said they are chiefly local.
After stating that. on the whole. the
colo storage system had benefited the
worlds food supply, DIR. Smith added
mat there were several abuses incident
to the system. These. he said. are: The
introduction into cold storage of food
unht for consumption: the keeping of
1000 in cold storage for too long a
period OF time: the improper handling
OF food when removed from cold stor-
age. and the representation of storage
food as fresh.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-01-17
SETH Low SHOWS
THE NATIONS NEED
FORPREPAREDNESS
Continued from First Page.)

in support of the teachers retirement
bill; the government employees COM
mittee on welfare work and the COM
mittee concerning itself with the Ellen
Wilson Memorial homes. Work in every
department of the section has made, she
the most satisfactory progress.
Welcomed by Mr.. Mcfarland.
Henry B. F. mcfarland, in welcoming
the convention to Washington, said. in
part:
mo word Of welcome is needed from
Washington. You are in your own city,
in which you take the same vital inter-
est as we do who live here. in common
with all patriotic Americans. We can
only say that we are glad you are
here and we hope that you will return
as often as possible. This is the nat
ural meeting place for national organi-
cations. We thank you for all you
have done for our National Capital. and
count upon your cooperation in all
efforts to maintain its progress. 1t
shares, of course, in the beneficent re-
suits of all you have done and are do
ing for the material and spiritual well
fare of our country"
Mr.. Low said he favored the admins
tration defense program, not because
he though it Ideally perfect. but be-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-01-17

reported that they considered 1t a sue
cess. although employers were by no
means a unit on the question. some of
them saying the men, insisted upon
joining unions and presenting de-
mands in spite of the company's eff
forts to give them a share In the
extra gains of the business.
While great advances have been
made in industrial hygiene, much re-
mains to be accomplished. said Mr..
Coolidge. He pointed out the value of
keeping employees healthy. He said
American workmen insist on having a
part In lettering their own condition.
they they "distriust free lunches and
gratuities," and the purpose of well
fare work should be ito stimulate the
cooperation which will result in con-
tentment and dividends, both to en-
ployer and employed
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-01-17

Ten cities were selected for a test
tour because of their special signifi-
canoe. Between them they tap every
important section east of the Rocky
mountains. and touch every barometric
trade Buffalo reports for the manu-
featuring district of the northeast
cleveland. with its satellites, Ashta-
bula and conneaut. is q great lake port
rs well as manufacturing center. Pitts
burEh sends steel to Europe's warning
millions. ST. Paul is the portal throue h
" hIch flows the commerce of the in
cOuceivably rich northwest. The men
Of the southwest think OF Kansas City
when they are ready to buy. St Louis
sends south and west, and in good
times is the gate for the rich Mexican
market. CINCINNATI and Baltimore serve
the new south. Detroit furnishes the
worlds most common costly luxury.
Chicago is the gateway of the west.
Run a line through those names on the
map. The Irregular wedge outlined
covers the productive center of the
eastern half of the United States
In every city some industrial feather
shows how the trade wind blows. Chi
Cages buns lodging houses are not so
crowded as usual II has become diff
cult to avoid work. Pittsburgh has
bailed her overnight DRINKS out at the
morning police court. in order to put
them at work. Clothing manufacture
ers report business good. The. man who
| is out of A. Job makes bis old clothes do.
Makers OF household goods report biz
busine6s. When there is n doubt as to
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-01-17
MINISTER'S VISIT POSTPONED
Chinese Statesman Calls Off Trip at
Suggestion of japan.

PEKING. January 17.-Eki Hioki, the
Japanese minister at Picking, has ad-
vised Lu Cheng-Hsiang. the Chinese
foreign minister, that the Japanese i'm
perial court could not receive Chow
Tsu-Chi. the Chinese minister of agri-
culture ard commerce, as had been
planned. and he suggested that the min
lister make a later visit to Japan.
The request for a postponement of
the minister's trip is generally regard
ed in the Chinese capital as indicative
OF Japan's unwilIingness to recognize
the Chinese monarchy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-01-17
To Name Pan-American Committee.

At a meeting yesterday afternoon of
the board of directors of the National
Council of Women at the Raleigh
Hotel, it was decided to appoint pan
American committee after Mrs. Kate
Waller Barrett and Mrs. John Hays
Hammond have outlined the scope of
work. Mrs. John Hays Hammond was
elected chairman of that committee and
Mrs Barrett chairman of the commit
tee on immigration and emigration. Mrs.
Phillip North Moore, newly installed
president of the council. presided. The
session adjourned to meet next May in
New York city.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-01-17
DENIES RUSSIANS MISTREATED
State Department Receives Assur.
ances Regarding Hopewell Situation

Secretary Lansing has delivered to
the Russian ambassador here, the as
surance recently given the State De-
partment by Gov. Stuart of Virginia
that Russians were not being mistreat-
ed by state milifiamen enforcing order
at Hopewell since the recent disastrous
fire. The ambassador had inquired, on
an appeal from the Russian colony at
Hopewell, sent after the wounding of a
Russian by a militiaman trying to ar
rest him.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-01-17
Louis A. Coolidge Declares
Leaders of Organized Labor
Oppose rofit-Sharing Plan

Louis A. Coolidge, former assista Mt
secretary of the Treasury, now an Off
cial of the United Shoe Machinery Com
pany and a member of the executive
committee on the part of employers of
the National Civic Federation, deliy-
cred an address today at the conven-
ton of the federation at the New Will
lard Hotel, in which he said that rem
resentative leaders of organized labor
oppose the general theory and practice
of profit sharing between employer and
employe.
The European war stimulated the
work of the welfare department of the
federation, said Mr.. Coolidge. who is
chairman of that depa rtment of the
federation Manufacturers of arms and
other war supplies called upon the fed
Grafton, he stated, for advice in the
construction of their new plants He
cited one large arms company with
10000 new employees which had con-
suited the welfare department for ad-
vice as to building homes for its army
of workers. He said the company was
building homes which would be rented
cheaply and which could be bought on
easy terms by the employees to take
care of 5000 families.
Dormitories for Woman Employees.
Ten dormitories, each to accommo-
date more than 100 girls, were being
built for part of the $4,000 woman en-
ployes. Mr.. Coolidge reported that. as
one result of the war. requests had
come from European belligerents for
advice about the occupational training
of women who have gone into the mu.
milton plants abroad to take European
mems places.
Mr.. Coolidge told of an investiga-
ton into plans embodying the idea OF
extra payments to labor. Representa-
tive leaders of organized labor, he de-
clared, are Unanimous in opposing the
general theory and practice of prof,
sharing" He said organized labor
holds that the employers real inter-
est lies in the alleged usefulness of
profit sharing as means to weaken
and disrupt the trade unions.
Employers Not q Unit.
About one-tfiird of the companies
which have psofit-sharing. he stated.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-01-17

greater still in the numbers slaugh-.
tered in those slaughter houses that
operate without inspection of any kind.
The question of what becomes of the
meats and products derived from the
diseased and unfit animals slaughtered
in the latter class of houses is a serious
one. indeed
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-01-17
Busy Making Money.

know perfectly we'll this sounds like
the prospectus of a boom. 1t is hard
to maintain a cold and detached atti-
Jude. When one visits ten cities-cities
selected as test tubes in which to ex-
anime the culture of prosperity-and
finds every One-So busy making money
they hardly have time to cheer 1t is
difficult 10 worry because the United
states now has more gold than Eng
land. There may be the kernel of dis
aster in that fact. Then there may
not be.
see so:and-so," my friends told me
in Kansas City. He invented the wet
blanket process. He will furnish the
dark lining to this silver cloud
This prize, pessimist is the president
of q national bank. The worst he
could find to say of the situation is
that the farmer is a creature of lin
tied outlook.
The trouble is" said he. the farm
err has no imagination. The only thing
he can think of to do with his money
is to buy another automobile.
Part of today's and tomorrow's pros
perity is the product of hard times
Part is the child of the war. The two
wears Immediately preceding the out
break in Europe were rather dolorous
here. Merchants sold their shelves
bare Creditors pressed for payment
Factories ran on part time and their
owners sat under the willow tree.
Most people wore old clothes and cut
domestic costs. This carping co-opera :
lion produced = condition which was
most unpleasant for the moment, but
which was the best possible founda =
tion for good times. Then the war
came.
1T was a combination of tariff wall
and forced draught," said one man
our factories began to start up on
munitions The money they spent for
wages and materials was spent again
for food and clothes Our farmers had
had the two best crops in their recol
lection and got prices for their stuff
that were positively sinful Before We
knew IL We were running on full
steam. Today factories in many lines
are booking orders months ahead. They
are getting out of the war lines to at
tend to their domestic business The
merchant who can get his full order
filled il happy"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-01-17
Extent of Workmen's Gain.

The extent to which the workmen
gain from the compensation law he
continued. may be illustrated by the
fact that it is reported that the net
ployers' liability in Massachusetts in
1911 were estimated at less than $780,
900, of which a large proportion prob
ably went to their attorneys; whereas
under the workmen's compensation law
in 1913 S1,677.3S0 was paid out in &C
tual losses to wage learners"
In discussing the comparative merits
of elective and compulsory compensa-
ton laws Mr.. Belmont said that
wherever the law is voluntary or cleo
tive the schedule is apt to be reason
able, because otherwise the employer
will not elect to go under the act; also
the New York state schedule is more
eXorbitant than any other in the entire
world.
He drew attention to the fact that
| many of the specific schedules in the
payments in case of certain definite in
juries are not equitable.
For instance he said, "the loss of a
first finger may be a very serious thing
to an engraver, whereas to a stevedore
| it may really not reduce his earning
capacity at all. In all the foreign laws
the compensation in such cases is A
proportion of the reduction in earning
capacity resulting from such injury. 1t
may be that the foreign rule is the bet
ter. Those who have studied this sub
ject most thoroughly favor especially
the foreign rule"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-01-17
Accidentally Overcome by Gas.

Mrs. Catherine Mcmahon, seventy-two
years old. 1903 9th street northwest, was
accidentally overcome by gas in her
room yesterday afternoon. The gas had
escaped from small stove in her room.
and she was unconscious when found.
She was taken to Emergency Hospital
where it was stated this afternoon she
probably would recover.