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The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1917-03-22
7 BIG STEP TOWARD MUNICIPAL
OWNERSHIP TAKEN

| OWNERSF1IF IAkEN
One of the biggest steps in munic-
ipal ownership ever discussed before
the city council has been referred to
Rodriguez and Buck, to be drawn up
into an enabling act to be presented
to the state legislature.
Alderman Rodriguez said the bill
would provide that:
l, The city should have the right to
operate all cold storage plants, de-
pots and public markets.
2, The city should purchase and
sell all foodstufs, meat, poultry,
eggs, etc.
3, The city should have the right
to operate coal and wood yards and
ice plants.
4, The city should own the milk
depOts and buy and sell all milk and
dairy products.
5, Bakeries, ice cream and candy
factories should be managed by city
and the products sold by city.
6, The city should have power to
erect and operate electric light, pow
er and gas plants and city may Dor
row money to aid IN the maintenance
of same.
This plan was outlined to 81 wom-
en- who met the subcommittee,
as representatives OF the Mothers
league of Chicago, to protest against
the high. cost of food.
Mrs. E. P. Sandberg acted as
spokesman. She asked:
What are we going to do about
the rising prices Milk is rising,
meats are going up, and, now that
summeris approaching, the price of
ice will be raised. We can't afford
to pay the price. What are you go
ing to do about it?"
In answer, Aid. Rodriguez told of
the enabling act for public owner
ship as a remedy for the high prices
of foUdstuffs.
-O-O
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1917-03-22

gests saving your dimes before the
wedding may count 'em out for your
carfare every morning after it!
Remember, son, that there is only
one sadder sight in nature than
wife without an allowance and that
is husband whose wife keeps him
on one.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1917-03-22
FIVE AMERICANS DROWNED IN
SINKING OF VlGILANCIA

Washington, March y. - Five
Americans died in the sinking of the
American steamer Vigilancia. The
consul at Plymouth reported the
death list to the state department to-
day as follows:
Third Officer NeiIs P. North; c. F.
AderhOld, assistant engineer Of Alfalfa,
Ala; Esphan Lopez, mess boy; F.
Brown, passenger; Joseph Siberia,
quarteTmaster.
-O-O-
22d ward Democratic organization
meets at YOndorf hall, North av. and
Halsted, s p. m.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-29
SANTA FEE NOTES

by Frances Jones. oil Grattan street,
Telephone between s and 10 a. m, $3.50;
other hours 4751 k-2.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-29
NEGROES NEED HELP
Colored Educator in Topeka Solicit
ing Funds for Industrial School

Rev. J. E. Boyd, colored, founder
of Texas Normal Industrial Institute
for Colored Youth, located in Dallas
county, Texas, is in the city soliciting
funds for the purpose of erecting two
new buildings that he says they are
badly in need of. He says that the
school is patterned after the Tuske-
gee Normal Industrial Institute,
founded by the late Booker I. Wash
ington. He claims that they have
more than eight hundred thousand
colored people in Texas and that the
youth of the race must be given an
industrial training, beyond all ques-
ton. Among other things he states:
There is no doubt but that the
colored youth of Texas need an in
mount necessity now, for they must
are not prepared, they can not render
the proficiency that is desired in these
modern times.
There is one fact that we can all
rejoice over and that is that less than
one per cent of the crime alleged to
be committed by our race is charged
to the intelligent, Christian negro.
And while we deplore that small pro-
portion, we are struggling to diminish
that minimum.
I'VE are here to enlist the co-opera-
ton of the good people of these parts
to come down in Texas and help US,
for we are in dire need of it, God
knows we are. We need the two
buildings that will cost at least fifty
thousand dollars"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-29
How's This?
Corns Lift Out
With Fingers No Pain!

Thanks to a new discovery made from a
Japanese product your foot troubles can be
quickly ended.
Ice-Mint, as this new preparation is
called, is said to shrivel up hard corns, soft
corns corns between the toes so that
they can be lifted out easily with the
fingers. It's wonderful. Think of it:
only a touch or two of Ice-Mint and real
foot-joy is yours.
There is not one bit of pain or soreness
when applying it or afterwards and it
doesn't even irritate the skin.
If your feet are inclined to swell or puff,
or If you have cracked or bleeding toes
it will draw the Inflammation right out
and quickly heal the sore and tender places.
1t is the real Japanese secret of fine,
healthy, little feet and is greatly appre-
ciated by women who wear high heel shoes
and by men who have to stand on their
feet ali day. Try it. Just ask in any drug
store for a small jar of Ice-Mint and learn
for yourself what solid foot comfort really
is. There is nothing like it.-Advertise-
ment.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-29

Miss Rebeth Roehr of Cleburne. Texas,
will spend the next two weeks as the guest
of Mr.. and Mrs. George Smelser and
Miss Una Mccoy who has made her home
with her aunt, Mrs. L. Litchenstern, 435
Chandler street, will leave Saturday for
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. A. Mccoy.
Mrs Arthur Joyce entertained Thursday
afternoon at her home in West Eleventh
Her guests for the afternoon were: Mrs
Harry Houston, Mrs. Halter, Mrs. G. G.
M Matt Es Mrs w u n Nei Mrs Mrs q
Simmonds, Mrs. Luther Phillips, Mrs. Will
liam Finch, Mrs. De Jean and Mrs. Elmer
Harris. Mrs. c. A. Matting1ey, Republican
avenue, will entertain in three weeks.
Miss Helen Etzel has returned to her
home, Branner street after spending three
weeks in Offerle, Kan, visiting her uncle,
Mr.. Burkhart.
Mr. and Mrs. H. V. Hankin have returned
to their home in Usage City after visiting
Mr.. and Mrs. George Magee, 615 Branner
Mrs J. L. Cook, East Sixth avenue,
spent Friday with friends in st. Joseph,
Mrs Louise L. Gill, Klein street, is suf-
fering as the result of badly burned
right hand. She is improving as well as
The Dorcas society of the Third Chris
tan church met Thursday afternoon with
Mrs. o. d. johnson, 419 Lime street. The
place of meeting of the society next week
will be announced later.
Mrs. Ernest Gustin of Pueblo Colo, is
visiting her sister, MIS-. L. l.. Gill, Klein
street.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Pomeroy, 40S Pop
lar street, are the parents of a son, born
Thursday morning Mrs Pomeroy before
her marriage was Miss Ada Owens.
Mrs Il. A. Peters and Mrs. Robert Hun
ter of Williamstown, Kan, were guests
Thursday of Mrs W. Webb, 623 Lime
street.
Mrs. James Luke of Eskridge. who has
been visiting her daughter, Mrs. /. L.
Morris. Kansas avenue, has left for ten
days visit in Hutchinson and Syracuse,
Kan.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-29

stay in Colorado. Mr.. Forbes will
proceed with the Sections to Ogden,
Utah, and will drive alone from there
to Sacramento, Cal
Social and Personal.
Mr.. and Mrs. Guy Peck and their
young son have gone to La Fargo,
Wis, for a vacation trip.
Aaron Sheetz, who has been in
local hospital for several weeks, was
brought home Wednesday. His con-
dition is slightly improved. Mr.. Sheetz
is suffering from a nervous break
down.
Dave Wallace, who is spending his
vacation on a farm in Wisconsin,
writes in Wanting the superiority OF
Wisconsin weather tc that of northern
Shawnee county. 1t is cool where he
is staying near La Fargo.
William Kirkwood, of Elmont, was
in North Topeka today on business.
New potatoes are beginning to APP
pear in the market. The price, &C
cording to retail grocers, is not ex-
pected to go below 81 or $2.25 a bush
ell. The low mark will be reached In
a few weeks. All growers who have
the capital and can possibly hold on
are leaving their tubers in the ground
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-29

contracts for the future delivery of
wheat, unless they have the actual
wheat on hand at the time the con-
tract is made. Thus if a miller con-
tracts to deliver flour he must have
on hand the wheat from which the
flour is to be made.
ITO operate under such conditions"
according to David Page, of the Page
Milling company, mills must have a
large storing capacity, and a large
ready capital. THE mills are wait
ing on the government and the food
administrator ne said. But the ex-
pectation that the appointment of a
food dictator will cause an immedi-
ate fall in prices is largely a fiction.
When the new wheat crop is market
ed, according to present indications,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-29
OAKLAND NOTES

Notes and personals from Oakland,
Nv Frances Jones, 211 Grattan street,
Telephone between and 10 a. H., $3.50 ;
other hours. 4.51 K-2
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-29
E. R. STONE is DEAD
Former Topelxan's Body Brought
From Cal. to Chanute for Burial.

Word has been received in Topeka
of the death of E. r. Stone. which
occurred suddenly at his home in Pas
adena, Cal. He was buried June 70
from the home of his daughter. Mrs.
c. E. Conklin of Chanute. He is sur
vived by his wife, who was formerly
Mrs. Emma White of Topeka, by two
sons, Lon Stone and Vinton Stone of
Coffeyville- and by a daughter, Mrs.
Conklin.
The Stone family at one time lived
near Topeka Mr.. Stone built the old
stone mansion west of Washburn col
lege, which was known, before its de-
struction by fire a few years ago, as
stones Folly" The family moved
from Topeka to Pasadena. Mr.. Stone
was 81 years old at the time of his
death.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-29
North Side News

According to the opinion of local
millers, the governments action in
stopping all dealing in futures will
seriously affect the milling industry
when the new wheat crop is harvest
ed. The trend of prices of grain and
flour, however, will be downward in
the near future.
At the present time, grain men and
farmers are prevented by the gov
ernment's act in advising restrictions
on the board of trade, from making
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-29

Mrs Edward Breen and children of
Chicago and Miss Mary Howe of Polk
street, were guests Thursday of Mrs. y.
NJ Keats. AFTER avenue.
Mrs Robert Hunter has returned to her
home in Williamstown after visiting her
sister Mrs. f. A Peters. Michigan avenue.
Mrs. John Mccall of st. Louis. Mo-, and
Mrs Tessie Daniel of Topeka, were din
ner guests. Wednesday of Mrs. c. j. Dorei
and family, Winfield avenue.
Mr. and Mrs c. Poort Miss Pearl Poort
and Miss Edna Polk were Wednesday dim
ner guests of Mrs. Trowbridge and daugh-
ter Zelma Trowbridge, of High street
Perry Stevens and George Kelley of
Vinland, Kan. spent Thursday with Mr..
and Mrs: w. g; Barker. Michigan avenue
Miss Zelma Trowbridge. High street, is
spending a few days as the guest of the c.
Poort family, Michigan avenue.
Miss Estella Smith entertained the Nau
titus club Thursday afternoon with the
following her guests Mrs. J. G.. WEIGH,
Mrs C J. Dorei, Mrs. A. F. Vickland,
Mrs. 1. E. Lewis, Mrs. Paul Pease, Mrs.
W X Pease. Mrs Dickinson, Mrs John
Smith, Mrs Larson. Miss Lorena Reed of
Salina and Miss Ollie and Miss Ellen Dorei.
The next meeting will be with Mrs. Wick
land at her home in Brooks avenue.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-29

The G. G. f. club will meet Saturday
evening with Mr.. and Mrs. William But
Ter. 610 Monroe street.
George Wood has gone to Chicago on a
business trip.
Mrs. Edward Ash and children of Kansas
City, were guests recently of Mrs. Mary
Norwood.
Edison Mckee and Archie Miller have
been promoted from work in the round
house to firemen switch engines.
Mrs. George Hopkins has returned to
her home after spending some time in
California. Mrs. William Butler and daugh-
ter, Miss Maude returned Friday after
noon, from California. Mrs. Hopkins &C
companied them as far as Texas, where
Mrs Butler and daughter have spent the
past few days.
Owen Gish is newly appointed material
inspector in the machine shops.
L. E. futile, who has been working in the
water service department of the machine
shops, has been transferred to the loco
motive machine shops
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there will be a marked drop in price. .

there will be a marked drop in price"
In a cavein near Onaga Thursday,
where a new bridge is being built. a
workman was buried in the dirst that
was being excavated. After strenuous
efforts on the part of comrades he
was dug out, still alive but rather
groggy and with a broken rib. He
was brought to Topeka on the Union
Pacific motor and taken from here
to Kansas City.
T. M. Forbes, D. L. Button and Ell
gin Button left Topeka Thursday noon
for an overland trip thru the west.
Their car will accompany that of w.
z. Section, who is driving to Portland,
Oregon. Mr.. Button and his son will
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-29
EAST SIDE NOTES

Notes and personals from East Side
by Frances Jones, 21f Grattan street.
Telephone between 8 and 10 a. m, $3.50;
other hours, 4751 K-2.
Evening star., 1917-12-14
Haul the Freight Promptly.

z
Complaint that merchants Of this city
are not prompt in hauling goods from
the freight yards and steamboat wharves
has been voiced in connection with the
present congestion. Appeal is made to
all consignees Of goods sent by rail or
water to use the utmost diligence in get
ting them out of cars and sheds. It is
true that there is hauling difficulty
owing to the shortage Of labor and just
at this time hauling is hard on account
Of the snow. Yet instances are cited Of
freight lying for days in the yards wait
ing for attention. occupying space and
in some cases holding cars that are press
ingly needed. II every person in Wash
ington who receives goods by freight
will Immediately upon receipt Of infor-
nation Of arrival take steps to have it
hauled with the least possible delay the
local congestion will be materially re-
lieved, if not wholly cured. This Is a
matter in which cooperation ID neces-
sary and the interests Of any one indi-
vidual are affected by those Of others.
II the hauling facilities are inadequate
at present those concerned should get
together to increase them, either by
adding to the equipment or lengthening
the hours Of service.
Evening star., 1917-12-14
Housing of Woman Workers.

In dealing with the problem of hous-
ing the young women who are coming
into Washington to work for the gov
ernment the chief care, of course, is
to see that they are given comfortable
homes with every safeguard for their
protection from annoyance. Several
agencies are at work on this line, one
of them the woman's committee of the
Council of National Defense, which held
a meeting yesterday to deal with the
question. The plan has been started
whereby houses are taken by respon-
sible, capable people and operated as
homes for the governments woman war
workers. A small fund is requisite to
guarantee for the first month of the
establishments, which it is expected will
be self-supporting Contributions for
this fund, which will probably be only
. security deposit and later. returned in
full to the donors, are. asked as asmeas-i
ure of public welfare. A central bu-
seau of registration is proposed at which
the newcomers may be guided and ad.
yised. This work is worthy of the full
est support. Washington has been ma.
ligned in some of the reports circulated
about living conditions here since the
war pressure began, and it is most de-
sirable to correct as quickly as possible
the unfortunate conditions that prevail,
due simply to the suddenness with which
the new population flowed into the city.
That conditions are not worse is in all
the circumstances matter for congrat-
ulation. That they will be rapidly i'm
proved is assured by the energy with
which the public-spirited women who
have taken this matter in hand are
pressing their enterprise of providing
every one of Uncle Sans workers with
a suitable habitation while on duty
here.
Evening star., 1917-12-14

been especially neglectful since the be
ginning Of the European hostilities
Suggestions that they conveyed warn
ing to us were poohpoohed. Il was moi
our funeral, and nobody need be, o,
should become, uneasy.
Finally, however. the storm broke
We entered tho war, and preparation
began. That they were feverish and in
some things i'll directed was in the very
nature Of things. There was too much
hurry and scurry. The effort was te
build Rome in a day. OF course, the
thing was impossible. STime was abso-
lutely necessary. Men and arms of the
number and quality required could not
be supplied in a jiffy.
A popular exclamation is, eve have
been at4war eight months, and yet moth
ing has been done!" That is a very
short time, taken in connection with
the business in hand. We are engaged
in world war, the like of which the
world has never known before. We are
called upon for services the like of
which we have never before faced.
We are not a military nation
in the European sense of the term, but
just beginning to become one. We are
learning our trade; and there are Eu-
ropean soldiers over here among our in
structoos.
There never was The slightest justif-
cation for expecting us to get into ac-
tion as promptly and effectively as
France, Germany, Austria, Italy and
Russia, all military nations. did. They
had only to beat the long rcll, and their
men, trained and long equipped, fell in.
The business was familiar to them. We
could not possibly have copied the
promptness of their procedure.
But, while all this is true, the inquiry
begun should be made thorough-not
for carping purposes, but for purposes
of instruction. It may be that we have
long journey to go. In that. event it
behooves us to make our provisions with
all the light available, to undertake
nothing beyond our powers, and to exc
cute all our undertakings with all the
means we possess.
Evening star., 1917-12-14

elected to ofiee, and particularly legis-
lative ofice. have frequently to deal with
business questions, and business men
consequently with politicians.
Henceforth-at least for time-there
should be small cause for this complaint.
Necessities produced by the war are
bringing politicians and business men
together. They are frequently in con-
ference. The politicians are getting an
insight into how business is conducted,
and business men how politics is con-
Quoted There has never before been
so thorough an interchange of informa-
tion, condolences and views between rep
resentative men of those two walks. The
politician who is not learning a good
deal about the business world, or the
business man who is not familiarizing
himself with the political world, is not
up to snuff. The opportunities are nu-
merous.
At later day-at the close of the war
this may serve larger and broader
purpose than now. Then, a period of
world reconstruction will begin. Busl-
ness questions will be very much in evl-
dence. All the great nations will hurry
for business advantages. Production
and distribution under the new order
will be, must be, the study of both the
business and the political world The
race may not be so much to the swift
as to the thorough; but there will be
no disadvantage in a good start.
We should strivvto make such start.
Our business foes will be worthy of our
steel The legislator must do his best
in framing laws to suit. The business
man must do his best in assisting, as he
must assist, the legislator with that work.
They must understand each other, and
pull together to the same end--the Sc
curing for America all she is entitled
to by reason Of her size, her resources
and what she stands for in the world
equation It viii be a task which only
knowledge and diligence can accom-
plish. + -
Evening star., 1917-12-14
washington,s 100000.

Results of the police census taken No
veuberI are now announced, revealing
the rapid growth of the District since
the beginning Of the war. The census
disclosed population as on that date of
9as947, an increase since the last police
census, taken in 1915, of 3S,I9s, gain
of more than 1917 per cent. It is
estimated that since the census was
taken hast month at least 5000 more peo.
pie have come to Washington for serv.
ice, making a population at this date
Of over 100000. In the two-year period
since the last police census was taken
the white population has increased BY
s4,38e, gain Of about 1928 per cent
while the colored population has in.
creased by $500, or gain Of about a.7s
per cent. The eolored population ia now
25.9 per cent of the total, as against ZIG
per cent in 1915.
In the conditions Washington's pcpu
lation is likely to grow steadily through
out the period of the war. 1t is not
however, by any means assured that i,
will be depleted after peace is restored
After the civil war this eity's popuia
ton grew steadily on the basis Of thu
gains incidental to the war work od
thu government, the District moro thar
doubling its population In less than Z
decade. Washington's 100000 mark 4,
By no means out Of range today.
Evening star., 1917-12-14
A British Civil Service hint.

In his annual report Commissioner
Tallman of the land Office notes the
difficulty of maintaining an adequate
and efficient force of clerks owing to
the transfers effected to secure better
pay in other branches of the public
service. He proposes, therefore, the
equalization of the pay of government
employees for certain classes and grades
of work, as a means OF insuring stabil-
ity of the forces of the respective de-
partments and bureaus. This is a seri-
Gus problem that affects every branch
of the government.
In this connection the British civil
service system may be cited. That organi-
xation consists of series of what may be
styled water-tight compartments. When
a clerk is assigned to the service through
an examination which determines his
adaptability and fitness he remains in
the class to which he is originally ap-
pointed unless he can, in competitive
examination later, gain promotion to
q higher grade. But within his "com-
partmeata he is granted periodical in
creases of pay. Thus, for instance, a
clerk enters what may be styled the first
grade of clerical positions, starting at a
thousand dollars year. He automatic
ally is promoted every two years until
he gets, say, 81 500. That is the limit
of his possible compensation in that
grade or compartment. Unless he Sc
cures his transfer to another grade he
remains until his retirement at the max
imum salary which he can ultimately
reach in that grade. This insures a
stable force, for there can be transfers
from one branch Of the government to
smother only zthrough competitive ex-
aininations in which the clerk in the
service must meet applicants from out
side.
Such an organization depends for its
successful operation upon a retirement
system. In the British civil service re.
tirement at the public expense is uni
versal. 1t is an inducement for those
who enter the civil ranks to remain.
Thus the British civil system is not
continually changing in personnel
through dissatisfactions and disappoint-
ments and complicating shifts, because
there is premium upon fidelity to a
certain task or line of work.
Expedients to meet emergencies in
the American government service have
necessarily disrupted the organization
somewhat lately, but a fundamental
fauit nevertheless remains in the sys-
tenn and is accountable for the lack of
stability of which Commissioner Tall
man now complains First of all is the
poor pay, relatively the poorest pay
given by any large employer. in the
United States. Secondly is the lack of
any form Of superannuation guarantee,
which makes the public service, despite
The security granted by the civil service
law, one of uncertain tenure In any re-
organization effected in consequence of
the move to place the clerks on more
adequate pay basis the advantages Of
the British system of regular promotion
and assured retirement within well de-
fined limitations Of employment should
be considered.