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The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1917-03-27

sons in wireless telegraphy. They h
in the United States army and navy
30
SEARS-ROEBUCK GIVE BONUS
Sears, RoebUck & Co. took them
selves out of the Marshall Field class
last week when they announced they
would pay a 10 per cent bonus. to all
employees receiving $1,000 or less and
who have been in their employee for
at least three months. Following is
the announcement sent to the en-
plOyes.
ION account of the continuance of
the unusual conditions governing the
present cost of everyday needs, we
viii on July 1 next allow to all en-
ployes whose salary is $1,000 per
year, or less, and who shall at that
time have been in our employ for at
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1917-03-27

least three months, a special COM
pensation of 10 per cent Of the total
Of the salary paid them for the said
three months.
This arrangement will hold good
for the above specified period only,
and, if circumstances require that
the time be extended, a further an
nouncement will be Sears,
Roebuck & Co."
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TUESDAY,.

Dr.. S. OZora Davis lectures on
Italy" at Stanford Park, Union av.
and 18th pl, 8 p. m.
34th ward branch Socialist party 7,
meets at 1850 Ogden aV.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1917-03-27

college, York. taking
Biography They have volunteered operators
in the United States army and navy in case of
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-04-20
ITO BE CONTINUED
MOLDS THAT FIT THE FEET
abIes Even the Badly Afflicted
to Walk With Ease.

Work of truly remarkable character
is being done by a shoemaker-an or
thopedic expert-of New York, in the
fitting of shoes to those who find diff
ficulty in walking in ordinary footgear,
says Popular Mechanics Magazine. For
ordinary cases a series of elmer foot
molds' has been prepared, in sizes to
fit various feet. These resemble or
binary insOles in general appearance,
but the upper surfaces are uneven,
having indentatiOns and projections
that insure a contact anatomically per-
feet for the sOles of the feet. The
edges are curved slightly upward.
When molds are found in which the
feet rest in comfort, supporting the
weight of the body in perfect llance,
these mOlds are worn inside shoes of
a suitable size. The feet then rest on
a sort of cup-shaped cushion and are
kept from pressing %unevenly against
hard, fiat surfaces such as are found
in ordinary shoes: In footwear thus
fitted, the weight of the body is equally
distributed to the parts of the feet
best able to sustain it, all of the foot
surface being used. A normal condi-
tion for the feet is thus made pos
sible, and the bones, muscles and liga-
ments are permitted to nov natural
ly. Some extraordinary cases have also
successfully fitted with footwear
after walking had become a burden
or a seeming impossibility.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-04-20

Were it not for the fact that glass
and hardware have taken such leaps
in prices Charles Cooper, a big col
ored fellow of Spokane, WASH, would
have the high cost of living eliminated
from life's worries, says the Spokane
Chronicle.
Cooper was arrested for larceny and
while confined in Jail heard that his
sweetheart had gone back on him. He
thereupOn smashed up a jelly glass
and ate it. The county doctor set
the date for his death as the glass
slowly ground into him. Dit Charles
only had a bad stoInactnache. Lp.er
he ate a hatpin, some safety pins and
other pieces of metal, according to the
disclosures of the X-ray.
Now he is out of Jail and on his
honeymoon trip.
After it seemed that Cooper had be-
come reconciled to a diet of bread and
potatoes he suddenly became rave
nous one day and ate a safety razor
blade, broken in small pieces. The
doctor told the coroner to be ready,
but Cooper fooled him again and was
reduced once more to meat and spuds
and bareback.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-04-20

door opened-a voice with a crisp ring
to ii that sounded always younger than
his years. What they heard the but
Ter say to him was disconcerting.
you're terribly wet, sir !"
Frederick turned on her husband a
look of despair. He's walked through
that rain! Do run down and send
him up to me. l Il imagine how he'll
look"
She was mistaken about that,
though. For once Frederick had over
estimated her powers, stimulated
though they were by the way she heard
her husband say:
"Praise heaven you can wear my
clothes. Run along upstairs and break
yourself gently to Freddy
She heard him come squudging up
the stairs and along the hall, and
then in her doorway she saw him. His
baggy gray tweed suit was dark with
water and toned down by Il liberal
stipple of mud spatters. Both his side
pockets had been, apparently, strained
to the utmost to accommodate what
bound notebooks, now far on the way
to their original pulp, and Topped de-
spondently outward. A melancholy
pool had already begun forming about
his feet. His face, above the dis
NAL wreck, beamed good-humored, in
nocent affection at her. 1t was Il
~big-featured, strong, rosy face, and the
unmistakable intellectual power of it,
which became apparent the moment
he got his faculties into action, had
a trick of hiding, at other times, behind
a mere robust simplicity.
Good gracious" he said. II didn't
know you were going to have a party.
/ thought it would just be the family.
SO instead of dressing, l thought I'd
walk. And then it came IN to rain,
so l took a street car-and got put
off. And here l am"
eyes, here you are" said Frederick.
Don't be impossible, Rod. Don't you
even know whose birthday party this
Isl"
He looked at her, frowned, then
laughed. He had a great, big laugh.
II thought it was one of the kids"
he said.
"Well, it isn't" she told him. cts
yours. And the people we're having
were asked to meet you. And you've
got just about eve minutes to get
into Martins other dress suit. I'll
send Walters to lay it out"
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-04-20
$4,000 900 is REQUIRED
Estimate Placed by Governor Dunno
for Improvement Of Leading High
ways Of Illinois.

Needed Improvement Of leading
roads of Illinois will require an outlay
of $129,O00,OO0, according to Governor
Dunno. Since the Tice law became
effective July !, 1913, Governor Dunno
says, the general assembly has appro-
priated a total of 100000. The
counties contribution makes a total of
$6,2O0,O0O available for the state-aid
roads to June 30, 1917. The state
highway commission, in estimating the
cost of the construction of the state
system at S129,OOO,OOO, averages this
outlay over twenty years.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-04-20
Uncle Sam Is Determined to Have Bet.
ter Rural Highways.

ing fund an amount sufficient to retire
The sinking fund is deposited with
banks and earns some interest. This
interest ordinarily is only 3 per cent,
whereas the county has to pay 5 or 6
plan is a much cheaper method Of rails
ing money for road Improvement, even
when the sinking fund earns interest
high as 4 per cent, and in the opin-
ion Of the road specialists of the de-
partment of agriculture, should be
utilized whenever it is possible to
market serial bonds.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-04-20
CHAPTER II.
What Happened to Frederica's Plan.

What Happened to Frederica's Plan.
At twenty-seven minutes after seven
that evening, FREDERICK Whitney was
about ten minutes before the hour at
which she had invited guests to dinner
hot quite near enough dressed to
prevent Il feeling that she had to
hurry. Ordinarily she didn't mind. To
Frederick at thirty, the job of being
II radiantly delightful object of regard
lacked the sporting interest of I'M
certainty-was almost too simple a
matter to bother about.
But tonight she wished she'd started
half an hour earlier. Even her hus-
band discovered it.. He brought in a
cigarette, and stood smiling down at
her with the complacent look that
characterizes Il married man of forty
when he finds himself dressed in eve
ming harness ten minutes before his
wife. She shot Il glance of rueful in
quiry at him, and asked him what time
it was.
"Sevcn twenty-five thirty-siX," he
told her. She made no comment ex-
cept with her eyebrows, but he must
have been looking at her, for he want
ed to know, good-humoredly, what all
the excitement was about.
"YOu could go down as you r
and not a man here tonight would
know the difference. And as for the
women-well, if they have something
on you for once, they'll be all the
better pleased"
Don't try to be knowing and philO-
sophical, and-Havelock Ellis, Martin
dear" she %admonished him, pending
a minute operation with an infinitesi-
NAL hairpin. ut isn't your lay Il bit.
Just concentrate your mind on one
thing, and that's being nice to Her
mione Woodruff, and on seeing that
Roddy is"
He asked, "Why RodneyY" in a tone
that matched hers; looked at her,
widened his eyes, said Huh" to him
self and, finally, shook his head.
Nothing to It," he pronounced.
She dispatched the maid with the
key to the wall safe in her husbands
room. "Why isn't there?' she demand
ed. Rodney won't look at young girls.
They bore him to death. But Her
mione can understand fully half the
things he talks about. She's got lots
of tact and skill. she's gOodIaokiEg
and no older than I and Tn tSo years
younger than Roddy. She'll appreci-
ate q real husband, after having been
married five years to John Woodruff.
And she's rich enough, now, so that
his wild-eyed way of practicing law
won't matter"
"All very nice and reasonable" he
conceded, 'but somehow the notion of
Rodney Aldrich trying to marry a
rich widow is one I'm not equal to-"
He looked at his watch again. "By the
way, didn't you say he was coming
early?'
She nodded. They heard, just then,
faint and far away, the ring of the
doorbell.
"Wait a second" he said. Lets
see If it's Roddy."
There was no mistaking the voice
they heard speaking the moment the
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-04-20
RAISE FUNDS FOR H W
Important Savings Effected by Issu'
ance Of Bonds on Deferred Serial
Retirement Plan.

People of a county intending to raise
funds for highway improvement would
do well to consider the advantages to
them of the deferred serial plan Over
the ordinary sinking-fund plan of re-
firing long-term bonds. Under the Sc
rial plan, a certain amount Of bonds
is retired each year and the bonds so
retired cease to be an interest charge
on the community. Under the sink
ing-fund plan none of the bonds is re-
tirable until the end of n definite
period, and the entire sum raised bears
interest for the entire life of the bond.
The county, therefore, pays interest
on the money so borrowed and in adj
ditiOn sets aside each year as a sink
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-04-20

tunctory cry all along. But at this
crisis his voice got a new urgency.
Come on now" he proclaimed, you'll
have to get inside!"
From the steps the ley arrivals
pushed, the conductor pushed, and the
sheeplike docility of an American
crowd helped him. Regretfully, with
the rest, Rose made her way to the
door.
Fare, please :" he said sharply as
she came along.
She told him she had paid her fare;
but for some reason he elected not
to believe her.
when did you pay?" he demanded.
"A block back" she said, when all
those other people got on"
You didn't pay it to me-" he said
truculently. Come alongi Pay your
fare or get off the carl"
Il paid it once" she said quietly,
"and I'm not going to pay 1t again."
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-04-20
PAYING FOR GOOD HIGHWAYS
Little Texas City Finds Merchants OF
Neighboring Towns Get Trade
on Account of Roads.

Two years ago ROckdale, Tex, voted
a bond issue for the construction of
good roads in that neighbOrhOOd. The
people Endorsed the bond issue, but
certain interests fought it in the courts
and the roads were never built. Now
the citizens are working to secure the
issuance of a much larger bond issue
for the same purpose.
Neighboring towns and precincts
have surrounded Rockdale with good
roads to such an extent that the
merchants of that little city are find
ing their trade leaving them to travel
the better roads. AS fol-
lows the flag, so does country trade
follow the better roads, and the mer-
chants of Rockdale know it-nOw.
Every community in Texas that has
spent money for improved highways
has made a good investment. The only
trouble has been that Texas bond is
sues for the building of roads have
left too much of the cost to be paid by
boys and girls now growing up and
far too little is being paid by the men
and women who are getting the larger
part of the value of these roads.
The United States good roads ex-
perts have found from their investi-
cations that it is not unusal for an in
vestment in better roads to return to
the taxpayers from so to 100 per cent
profit each year on the total cost of
the roads. With a profit so great on
their invested capital it would seem
the part of wisdom, and only fair, for
the bonds to be retired in a less period
than in the usual 20 or 80 years.
Houston Post.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-04-20

said, 'becnuse you did get off the car
on principle. But-well, really, unless
we could prove that | paid my fare,
they'd probably think the conductor
did exactly right. OF course he took
hold of me, but then-well, think what
| did to him"
He %grumbled that this was non
sense--the man had been guilty ut least
of excessive zeal-but he didn't urge
her, any further, to complain.
"There's another car coming" he
now announced, peering around the
end of the wall. "YOu will let me
pay your fare on it, won't you?"
She hesitated. The rain vas thin
ming. 81 would" she said, IF | honest
~ wouldn't rather walk. Thanks, really
very, very much, though. Don't you
miss it," She thrust out her hand.
"Good-by! !"
81 can't pretend to think you need
an escort to the elevated" he said. 81
saw what you did to the conductor.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-04-20
Ladies Barred.

Mrs. Hilo (Sunday afternoOn)-
George, dear, can't you arrange to ac-
company me to church tonight?
HilO-Awful sorry, but l promised
Rounder to accompany him to a sacred
concert tonight.
Mrs. Hilo-Oh, very well. I'll go
there with you.
Hilo-But, my dear, Ter believe nc
aides are admitted.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-04-20
Quite Appropriate,

ern skyscraper a beehive Rather
good. eh?"
"The term certainly is applicable to
the particular building in which Beet
um and Skinnum have their Offices"
answered the melancholy man. Il was
hedly stung there"
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-04-20
A Woman's Theory.

ut was my painful duty to decline
nm offer of marriage from Professor
Brainard last night" said the young
widow.
Indeed" said her lady friend. "Why
did you refuse him? He is considered
the most eminent mathematician Of
the age"
eyes, and that is just why refused
him." said the y. W. "He would be al
ways trying to mathematically demon
strate the errors in my dressmaker's
bills"
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-04-20
THE BIG STEP

Most romantic fiction ends
with the hero and heroine about
to marry and live happy "er
after" The author of this un-
usual serial begins his story
with marriage and carries the
romance for II period of several
years into the realm Of double
harness." Taking II couple from
the Well-to-do scale of the
Middle West social scheme, Mr..
Webster uses them to bring out
some of the important problems
confronting II great many young
men and ONE who enter III"
bonds of matrimony in these
days of equal suffrage, of Wonl-
en- who'd rather work down
town than stay ut home, and of
new complications in the bust
ness of raising a family. "lhc
Real Adventure" is thoroughly
alive With action. You will en-
joy the story not only for its ro-
nance but for the element in it
that will make you think-and
ponder the Intimate happenings
in your own family and in the
families of your noighborS.
TIE EDITOR.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-04-20
The Wrong Fluid.

doctor, my druggist wouldn't fill
his prescription. He referred me to a
garage"
Let me see that paper. Hum. 1t
calls for ten gallons of gasoline. You
got the order intended for my chauf-
feur."
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-04-20
As II Should Be.

mo-" said the tooth carpenter, ut
would simply be a waste of good
money for me to advertise in the news
papers"
GLOW can you say that?" asked the
persistent solicitor.
Because" explained the mar with
the tools of torture, my work speaks
for itself through the mouths Of
Others"
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-04-20
Feed Cow Economically,

The only way to feed a COW econom-
ically is to feed her literally so she
has the raw material to make into milk.
Then if she does not deliver the goods,
she should be sent to the butcher.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-04-20
Choice Of Evils.

Waggs-I had no idea you were SC
gallant, old chap.
Naggs-Why, what do you mean?
Waggs-I saw you give up your seat
in a crowded car to a homely oma
list night.
Naggs-Oh, that wasn't gallantry; it
was self-defense. Rather than have
stand on them myself.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-04-20
keepina Goats.

A small flock of goats on many
farms would pay as well as other farm
stock. Goats are healthy animals and
free from disease, and are cheaply
kept on what most of the other farm
stock would refuse to eat.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-04-20
Wasn't Necessary.

The MaidI suppose you carefully
weigh your words when writing a
poem?
The Poet-No; the clerk at the stamp
| window does that after it is written.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-04-20

During 1915 the total road and
bridge expenditures in the United
States amounted to about $2S2,OOO,O0O,
Of which probably not over $15,OOO,O00
represented the value of the statute
and convict labor.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-04-20
That and That.

A wise old owl lived in an oak;
The more he saw. the less he spoke;
The less he spoke. the more he heard:
Why can't we all be like that bird?
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-04-20
Clean Milk Products.

Milk and its products not only must
be clean, but must look clean, if the
customer is to have satisfaction, and if
the trade is to be kept and developed.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-04-20

"She doesn't know where the baby
gets its bad temper.
"That's strange. Most young moth
ers can place that sort of responsible
ity in a jiffy."
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-04-20
Multiplicity of Roles.

There goes a broken-down actor"
HAS he played many parts?"
ooh, yes. In his transforming days
he was the mob in Julius Caesar"
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-04-20

This bluff young man sur
priSes his %Schelning sister with
the smart way in which he
eludes her trap to marry him
off-rcad it in the next Install
ment.
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-04-20

Cholly-So she threw you over?
Willie-Yes. Said she thought
wouldn't be the kind that would stick.
Cholly-Why didn't she recommend
you to some other girl who wanted that
kind?
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-04-20
Then in the Doorway She Saw Him.

l haven't the least doubt you could
have thrown him off the car. But
Td-really like it very much if you
would let me walk along with YOU"
why" she said, "of course. Ia
like it, too. Come ulOng!"
New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-04-20
Be REGULAR.

Be regular In time of milking
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-10-05

d f Justice We will take this principle also as basis f m
we do and expect thereby that we will compel England
rs the kind of peace foundations for sea
and that for future the military acts of begerens against
trails will not carried the extremes they have been for ~
ries because of Engands superior This new orr
civilized warfare we bring under the term freedom of seas
Howegs justification Of the unlimited submarine warns
that Secretary of State Lansing in note to Count B
at first said merchant SHIPS cOud not De armed ana then changed
On page 100 Howeg says: "And in discussing the m
Of the legal position of the submarine warship cite her. ~
statements of the authority international law Prof
Doctor Nemeyer who sad There be absolutely question n
that the submarine is permitted 1t is means of sima,
every other one The fghtfuness of the weapon was nev
ground condemnation. This in which everything ~
mitted which is not forbidden"
"Gern,any VIII Break the Entente"
adds that his statements shall the that Ger
many the hard relentless battle with the greatest D
sbity and confidence of final victory which will break the
strctve tendencies and guarantee peace which Co.
many needs for her future existence.
On page 1913 he decares "A food prices in England have
creased on the per price, they examp m
sideraby higher England than in Germany worldwide c
failure Canada and Argentina made the importation food M
England difficult
Admiral olweg has a theory the German fleet h
played prominent role in the although of the time h
been huggng the coasts of the Faheand He declares that M
fleet has had distance effect the Allies control of high
On page 1877 he says:
"What mean by fernwrkung' distance efectl
will show here by example The English and French attack
Constannope failed 1t at least be doubted whether
that time when the connection between Germany and Turkey was
established strong English naval unit would have brought
the attack The necessity of not Withdrawing the Eng
h battleshps from the North Sea prevented England from
using powerful unit at Constannope To this extent
the German battle fleet not without influence the
for the defender of Constantnope That is distance effect"
On page 1877 oweg decares England not only make
money today by but she is losing The universal military ser
which she forced introduce in order to hold the other
by the tongue draws from her industry and thereby her omme
35O0000 wormen Coal expectation has decreased During
months from January November 1916 450OOO tons less
coal exported than in 1915 In order produce enough
England herself the nation compelled by the munitions o
tion law to put miners to work"
On page 223 the author declares
hat is therefore the great and important role which sub
marines in this playing They serving pave the
way in the future for the freedom Of the seas"
adds that the submarines will thread which holds
the English Damoce sword weak powers and that
eternity the gruesome hands" of English deposm will be driver
from the
CONTINUED TOMORROW
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-10-05

der Crosse Spanish territorial waters by English cruiser Hghyer
(b) Destruction of German Dresden Chlan waters by
British cruiser Glasgow Attack of British warshps Ger
man ship Pakas in Norwegian waters.
ninth. England armed her merchant ships for attack.
Tenth Use of neutral flags and by British merchantmen
in violation of Articles II and III of the Paris declaration"
On 1884, after discussing the question of whether the Eng
h blockade has been effective arguing that England by seng
neutral ships with food the uppoon that the food
20 Germany had violated the principles of the freedom of the
he
eve conclude from these facts that Germans
consider freed from the uncomfortable conditions
London declaration and conduct the interests
prescribe We have already partially done this nasmuch fol-
lowed the English extending
This has been nconvenent for the neu affected they
protested against it. We however, consider that they will
henceorh respect proposals just they have the past
cepted English interests England demanded from
assist her because England fighting neutras