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Evening star., 1919-04-20
IDLE, DUE TO CONTROVERSY.
Returned Soldiers Kept Out Of Jobs
in YOUNGSTOWN. Ohio.

Many returned soldiers. members of
building trade unions of Youngstown.
Ohio, are idle because of a contro-
versy that has arisen between the
building trades and the contractors
of that place. according to reports
received today at the Department of
Labor. The situation is further COM
plicated, the reports say. because of
the refusal of material dealers to
sell certain building material. Work
much needed is being held ND and the
program for immediate resumption of
building activity is seriously OBJ
structed. Commissioner Walter C.
Davidge has been assigned to inves-
tigate conditions.
a serious controversy threatens
production in the oil fields of Ged,
La according to telegram receiv-
ed by the Department today. 1t is
alleged that four oil companies are
discriminating against their union
employees by threat of discharge un-
less hey quit union mem bership and
join an organization promoted by the
companies.
CoIum Ssoner Joseph S. Myers has
been assigned to attempt an adjust
ment.
Evening star., 1919-04-20
FOREIGN TRAFFIC GAINS.
Both Exports and Imports Show
Increases During March,

Both exports and imports showed an
increase during March, according to
a statement issued by the bureau of
foreign and domestic commerce of the
Department of Commerce. Exports
for the month were $605,000, 900, as
compared with s5SS,000.000 in Febru-
ary and $523. 00O. 900 for March of the
previous year. For the nine months
ended with March the exports were
valued at s4.991. 100000, an increase
of approximately 100000, 900 over a
corresponding period for the previous
year.
Imports for March were $26s, 900, 900.
as against 1926. 200. 900 for February
of this year and $242.O0O,O00 for
March of last year. For the nine
months ended with March the value
of merchandise imported into this
country was $2.201. 100000, as com
pared with 100000 for a SINH
lar period of the preceding year.
Evening star., 1919-04-20
There is no better thought the vic

There is no better thought the vic
tory gardeners of Washington car
| keep before them this summer than
| that which a manufacturing concern
| in Pennsylvania a few weeks age
, printed on the pay envelopes of its
| employees. The message to the work
ers read:
THE war is won-but gardening Is
not done! Everywhere you look the
high cost of living greets you. Don't
forget that the vegetables you raise
yourself will taste much better than
those you buy-at a high price"
Save money for victory bonds and
have better food-thoSe are two good
reasons. But then here is another:
There is health in the garden. Here
is the testimony of one of the war
gardeners who titled his back yard
out on Columbia Heights last sum-
mer. When he started the work in
the spring he said he was all run
down and weighed only 135 pounds.
a!tnoIS! MS loEnlIi Hei3ht was iba.
But before the summer was over he
weight, and the health which he
found in the garden. he says. was
worth many times the value of the
vegetables he raised.
The best time for transplanting
your little plants from the hotbed.
cold frame or boxes in which you
have started them is on cloudy day
or just before nightfan. They are
not so likely to wilt. If the ground
is dry pour a little water in each hole
before the plant is put in.
Give beans good cultivation, but
do NOT cultivate Or hoe them when
the plants are wet with dew or rain,
because if any disease is present it
spreads more readily on wet plants.
Keep your garden working so hard
with vegetables that the weeds will
That is the best way to keep these
intruders out. Get ready before one
crop is mature to plant another in the
same row or alongside to occupy the
ground when the first crop comes OF.
Tomato and cabbage plants. when
transplanted, may be protected against
stih paper around the stems, with
part of the paper below the ground
SO that the little pests cannot get at
the plants.
AS soon as dwarf peas planted early
in the spring have received sufficient
cultivation succession crop of sweet
corn may be planted between the
rows. The peas will be harvested and
turned under to enrich the soil with
their humus by the time the corn is
ready for cultivation.
Your plants should not crowd each
other too much or there will not be
nourishment enough to go around;
and you will have better and bigger
crops If there is not too much COM
petition in the garden rows. Thin
your plants to these distances: Car
rots, 2 inches; endive, inches; kale,
s inches; kohl-rabi, 6 inches; lettuce,
s inches; parsley. 4 inches; radish, 2
inches; spinach, inches; turnips,
inches; beet, inches: parsnip.
inches; satisfy, 8 inches; onions,
inches. Ordinarily in thinning it Is
Evening star., 1919-04-20

The New York public service COM
mission has directed it's counsel to
take summary proceedings against
the New York Telephone Company to
prevent the raising of rates in various
na Of fba stofo
Evening star., 1919-04-20
, LANDS FOR SOLDIERS.
Proposal That Original Mt. Vernon
Tract Be Acquired by Government.

To the Editor of The Star:
A great deal has been written and
said about reclamation of land for SOL
diers' homes. No doubt there is lots
of land in the swamps that could be
isolation attached to such places
would not appeal to our soldiers after
their thrilling experiences overseas
And they, no doubt, have a prefer
ence as to what part of the country
they wish to reside in.
It's matter OF fact that large
tracts of land are owned by parties
who do not reside on it, and. under
present conditions. are not able to de-
velop it and would be glad to dispose
of it for the benefit of the soldiers
who desire to reside in rural districts.
Much of this land is in communities
where there are pretty good roads and
close to villages, cities, schools and
churches.
One representative not long ago
suggested government ownership of
Mount Vernon, which, ] think, was a
for some time been thinking of quite
another plan, that is the reclamation
of the estate which Washington own
ed. This splendid estate consisted of
5000 acres.
Have you ever paused to think,
when you visit Mount Vernon. what
the condition of this splendid estate"
is today? Or that there are other
things of much interest on the estate
that are being lost sight of-the old
mill dam, some of the timbers of
which are in good state of preser-
walton in the creek where the dam
was: the old mill race, the location of
the old mill and Washington's old mill
road, the double bitches terminal
ing near the old mill dam.
II we are interested in preserving a
few acres at Mount Vernon, why not
the whole estate?
And why not start right here with
the reclamation of this estate? I
should think many of our soldiers
would be proud to possess a few acres
of this estate. and would take great
deal of pride in the development OIL
their homes and the close proximity
to the city and good markets would
make it quite interesting. The crops
washington raised were principally
wheat and tobacco; the wheat was
ground on the estate and the products
were shipped to England.
Conditions have changed since then
Today the dairy business, fruit grow
ing and trucking are quite profitable,
and Strawberries, raspberries and
tame blackberries are quite profitable
Consequently it could be subdivided
In small tracts, and If an up-to-date
canning factory was established Oh
the estate trucking would lie quite
profitable, and If the products were
marketed in Washington the living
in Washington could be reduced rs
per cent and still leave a good margin
of profit to the producer. The i'm
proved condition of the TELEGRAPH
road, the new concrete road and the
new car line from Mount Vernon to
Camp Humphreys are recent develop
ments worthy of note.
Now, L do not wish to be misunder-
stood. 1t is not my suggestion to in
terfere with those who have a well
developed block in this estate, and
wish to remain there. but that portion
of it that is for sale and undeveioped
which a close investigation will show
is a considerable amount of it. Specu-
lative designs should not be indulged
in securing our soldiers homes
EDGAR WILSON.
Evening star., 1919-04-20

Serviceable pat
I e r n S , In all
sizes, for busi-
ness or " o r x
wear. Made to
wear.
Evening star., 1919-04-20

Tomato and cabbage plants. when
transplanted, may be protected against
cutworms by wrapping little cuffs of
stiff paper around the stems, with
part of the paper below the ground
SO that the little pests cannot get at
the plants.
Evening star., 1919-04-20

Give beans good cultivation. but
do not cultivate or hoe them when
the plants are wet with dew or rain,
because if any disease is present it
spreads more readily on wet plants.
Evening star., 1919-04-20
U. s. to Sell Bar Solder.

Government-owned bar solder to the
amount of $4,000 pounds is to be Of
fered at public sale. May /. The ma
terial is in warehouse in Baltimore.
Bids must be submitted in triplicate,
for opening May 1 at 10 o'clock am,
to surplus property division, Office
of director of storage. munitions
building, Washington. D. c. For bid
forms, etc, address zone surplus
property officer. 1923 Connecticut
avenue WASHINGTON. D. C.
Evening star., 1919-04-20
TO REPRESENT THE CAPITAL.
Commerce Chamber and Board of
Trade Delegates to Convention.

The Chamber Of Commerce and
Board of Trade of Washington is to
be we'll represented at the annual
convention of the United States
Chamber of Commerce. in st. Louis
from April 2S to May 1.
The delegates from the local cham
Der will be former Representative
James T. Lloyd of Missouri, now a
resident of the District and John
Barrett, director general of the Pan
American Union.
The Board of Trade will send Dis
trict Attorney John E. Laskey. w. w
Everett, a department store man, and
Charles w. Bohannon.
Evening star., 1919-04-20

center of the punches that have come
up together
, Do you know the soy bean? It is
full of protein which is the food ele
ment of lean meat, and is short in
starch and sugar. So it is a good food
for people with certain diseases which
are made worse by starchy foods or
sweets.
If you use nitrate of soda to he
along your growing plants, be care
and do not let it touch the plants
when they are wet. Mix it with
sifted coal ashes or dry earth and
then scatter it sparngly along the
rows. 1t makes good rich foliage
and is good for many plants excep;
that peas and beans do not need it
unless the ground is very poor.
Another way to use nitrate of soda
is to dissolve one teaSpoonful in two
gallons of water and pour it along
the side of the rows but not on the
plants.
Peas will not do we'll during hot
start and are vigorous when hot
weather comes. They should be well
cultivated or hoed to keep up a rapid
growth for they do not recover
readily II they become Stunted.
Even after spinach plants send up
seed stalks the leaves on these stalks
may be picked and cooked A few
plants should be allowed to go to
seed for your next crop. In fact. it
is good habit to raise a lot of your
own seed. You can pick out good
healthy plants for this purpose and
then you know what the quality will
be
Cutworms are more likely to be
found in a garden plot which has
heen unused or has been in grass for
a year or more. There are several
ways to fight them. One is with
poison bran mash, which you can
make with a pound of bran and one
half ounce of powdered white arsen-
ic. Then stir two or three table
spoonfuls of molasses in a little
water and mix this in the bran and
arsenic. Chop an orange or lemon and
mix it in. Then add enough water
to make a thick mash. This is
poisonous and must be kept where
children cannot get it. Scatter little
Jumps of this over the garden for
the cutworms to eat.
Evening star., 1919-04-20

better to pull out the plants in the
center of the punches that have come
up together
Evening star., 1919-04-20
Home Is Non-Sectarian.

The home is non-sectarian in char
acter and cares for all waits and
foundlings who may be intrusted to
it's care. Many foundlings brought to
the institution have been placed in
private homes Two former occupants
of the home are now in the American
Army of occupation in Germany, and
one of them recently wrote to Mrs
Simon Wolf a member of the board
of trustees, praising his early educa-
ton and the careful treatment he re-
ceived in the Home for Foundlings.
Many children are yearly sent to
the home by the District board of
children'S guardians, and in other
ways uncared-for founjlings and
waits go there. A school based on the
Montessori system of child education
has been established at the summer
home, and the children are carefully
taught in the most modern methods
of child education.
Contributions may be sent to John
B. Larner, care Washington Loan and
Trust Company, or to Charles E.
Howe, treasurer. American Security
and Trust Company.
Evening star., 1919-04-20
Go to Country in Summer.

Since it's organization in 1870 the home
has cared for more than 1000 infants.
At present fifty infants under five years
are in the home. In the summer months
the children are moved to the summer
home of the organization. near Bethes-
GA, Md. to escape the heat of the city.
This summer home is in urgent need of
immediate repairs in order that the
children may be placed in the country
when hot weather begins. Unless they
are removed to the country. physicians
of the hospital believe that conditions
in the city home would result in sick
ness and possible mortality.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-10-11
BRITISH LABOR UNIONS
WANT EVERYTHING
Naturalization of Mines, the, First Step
In Matchmaking All Industries
Hard Fight Ahead.

LONDON. Oct 1.-THE agitation for
naturalization of mines, which now con
fronts the cabinet, is admitted in labor
circles to. be step toward nationalist
ton of all industry.
The naturalization of mines" saws the
Herald. the labor organ, lis the question
Immediately at issue. but is, of course, a
precursor to complete policy of national
zation of industry Here is the battle
joined"
On neither side is there any doubt that
the fight will be stern. The Herald recog-
nizing this, says: The possessing class,
the class which lives on labor of others,
has everything at stake and will shrink
from nothing in an attempt to Illustrate
the movement
Representing the Standardization
view, the Telegraph does not expect the
miners to be converted from their pres
ent opinion, although it sees some little
hope in the appeal to other trade union
lists. 1t adds: The prospect is thee re-
verse of attractive 1t means renewed
trouble, anxiety and unrest, and that at a
time when the nation can least afford il. =
The special Trades Union Congress
which will consider Premier Lloyd George S
reply to the deputation yesterday will con-
vene on Oct. % The premier informed
d deputation yesterday that the govern
ment was unable to adopt the proposals
made by the coal commission headed by
Sir John Sankey, and the miners are great
Iy dissatisfied Frank Hodges, secretary
of the Miners federation, said after the
conference, 'The governments attitude
has created a very grave situation" The
utterances of other labor men show they
universally share this view.
1t is becoming increasingly evident that
apart from arguments claiming that ma
tionalization would be a benefit to the
community, there is strong feeling
among workers that the present system of
private ownership carries with it. indie
feasible injustice to the miners
Mr.. Lloyd George yesterday conceded
that the demand for naturalization had
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-10-11
Autumn.

Autumn, opposite of springtime,
Greets our land from shore to shore;
Autumn, with fruit-scented breezes,
Promising abundant store.
Graimfelds bending with their burdens
Wait the reaper's ready stroke,
And the CHEEKY squirrel chatters
From the acorn-laden oak.
True, the autumn full of grandeur,
Scenes that we appreciate;
True, the many-tinted WOODLAND!
Every eye will fascinate;
True that many, many blessings
Cluster round the autumn time;
True, it seems serene, majestic, .,
God-ordained, and hence sublime.
Yet through these scenes of beauty
Sounds gentle voice and low
Yes, tits well that we enjoy it,
Soon viii come the winters snow.
These bright leaves within the woodland
To be lifeless have begun;
Drooping, dropping, dying, dying,
Falling downward one by one.
Winter stealthily approaches.
And his hand has touched the trees
Though they now may blush in brightness
Yet they seem but i'll at ease
Soon his grip, so unrelenting,
Will be on us everyone;
Death time of the year to nature,
When his blasts DEFY the sun
Autumn is a great reminder,
As in life we linger here,
That as surely as the springtime
Comes the autumn of our year;
Comes the death time OF our bodies;
When they must be laid aside:
Bdnished all of shrewd deception,
Danish vanity and pride.
Shall we then, o shall we truly
Meet deaths cold unhinchmgly?
Shall we go to dwell in rapture
On and on eternally?
Shall we in endless springtime
Live in glory. houndless, free?
W we ask, but it is for us
To decide how that shall be.
AS man soweth so man reapeth,
tremendous truth is this
Wicked seed brings forth but sadness,
Righteous seed brings only bliss
. may we. both young and older,
Careful be good seed to SOW,
BYE and bye to reap rich harvests-
Not the worthless weeds OF woe
Then. when autumn's days come DER us
And our locks are silver white,
Ard orr pathway leads directly
To the chill of winters night,
With serene and cheerful manner
May we spend our autumn tide:
Rire and ready fit for Heaven
When from earthly scenes We glide
Fl. H. RICE.
Hinsdale, n. TT.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-10-11

a ransom of $500 for each member of the
party before they were released
While chaotic conditions obtain in Mex
leo, Mr. Chamberlain said, he was of the
opinion that the situation was not hope
less He said he had a possible solution
to the problem but that it would not
"countenance the backing by the United
States of any of the dominant class in
Mexico for that class is universally cor
rupt. ! hold a brief not for any special
interest," he said, mot, even for the
Americans murdered or despoiled in Mexi-
co, nor for the. millions who starye under
perennial oppression but for the right
that hes in every man to revolt against
outrage wherever he finds it
The former consul general would not
say what his solution is other than to
say that it embodied the idea of the
United States sending Mexico IAN ulti-
matum without recourse to arms and
that in it lay the possibility of establish
ing once for all such conditions as ex-
list in Cuba and the Philippines He de-
clared that the Latin ''incrustation' had
been the "damnation of Mexico" that
over and over again the 100000 or 4,000,-
600 Latins had used the ignorant popu-
lace of l2,000,000 Indians in sort OF
game of leap-frog to vault from the bent
back of the peon into the saddle of gov
ernment.'
I'VE are at grips with past masters
in the Turkish art of procrastination,
said Mr. Chamberlain. Left to themselves
the present Mexican authorities will no
more than they have during the past
two years take step toward a rapproch-
ment with the United States, nor will
they stop the murder of American citizens
nor relinquish a stranging grip on for
eign=owned propertie-, nor snbjngate com
pletely the innumerable bands Of outlaws
which almost daily give the lie to govern
ment claims of pacification.
'The present government has tried tc
establish popular illusion that it stands
by Madero's altruistic principles. Moth
ing could be furthur from the truth. Ma
dero never had chance to institute any
factor of government whatever During
his brief tenure of power he was the most
bewidered and Intellectual mortal OF
earth. The present rulers of his unhappy
country have profted by his ineptitudt
only to the extent of holding up his mop
erative dogmas as a screen to a govern
ment that stands by the grace of banditry
! pillage, international affronts, racehatreC
and the major tenets of Bolshevism. A
it's heart is eating the same cancer tina
has brought death to everyone of its lons
! line of predecessors, graft on such a scal
as is beyond the conception of the Anglo
Saxon mind"
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-10-11
Bring Your
Prescriptions
Here

u you want them filled with the pu1bst
and freshest drugs, and with the great
est care and accuracy-flled precisely
as your physician orders them filfed,
to produce the exact. effects he desires.
We are proud Of the record we have
made In our prescription department.
And yet we I'LL prescriptions at very
reasonable prices, and I'LL them quickly,
too.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-10-11

BOUGHT 100000
POUNDS OF CANDY
American Soldiers Did Not Like the
Brand = Belgian Government Has
Purchased s14,oO0,ooo Supplies from
Americans.

WITH AMERICAN FORCES IN GER
MANY, Sept. Is Correspondence of The
Associated Press Twelve hundred mo-
tor trucks abandoned by the German
army IN the area taken over by the Amer
leans as part of the armistiee material
were sold recently to syndicate of Ger
man automobile dealers. This deal viz
tually completes the work of the Coblenz
branch of the United States liquidation
commission which has been under the di-
rection of Junius G.. Adams, of Ashville
\. C., special commissioner of the Ameri-
can army of occupation
Continuation of disposal of surplus army
material IN occupied Germany will here.
after be under direction of general sales
board of the American forces in Germany
Of which Lieut. Col. T. H. Kruttschnitt
has been appointed as chief The army
board will be under the supervision of the
liquidation commission with headquarters
] IN Paris until the final stocks are sold.
The sale of surplus property of the
American army at the Antwerp base
which also has been completed brought
to the government sl4,000,000. most Of
/ the goods disposed of to the Belgian gov
eminent, bringing better price thar
could have been obtained in the United
States
BY the sale of part of surplus stocks
| Of the American forces in Germany. mucl
OF which was sold to German civilians
The sum of S1l.0o0.000 was realized Anon.
the material sold recently to German deal
ers was 100000 pounds of candy of {
kind not particularly in demand anon,
| the American soldiers
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-10-11
LETS ASK ALLIES AID.
Their Forces Have Been Attacked by
the Germans

PARIS, Oct. Herman troops at
tackled Lettish forces on Oct. s. accord
ing to protest received by the peace
conference from the Lettish govern
ment The allies are asked to take de-
eisive action against this violation of
the peace treaty" and to compel Ger
many to comply with the terms of the
Versailles pact. 1t is claimed German
troops in Letsia are threatening the
world and uniting with pro German
Russians !"
The Lettish government declares it
will obstinately defend its independ-
ence.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-10-11

been plank in the labor platform for
years and that the deputation which called
upon him today was acting, not from
any selfish interest but with desire to
benefit society as a whole. The govern
ment, however, felt, he said, that nation
allZation was not a step which was III
the interest of the state.
At the close of the conference the depu-
tation promised to report rs result to
members of the various unions on Oct.
=, and that subsequent action would be
left to the parliamentary committee which
was appointed at the Trades Union Con
gress recently held at Glasgow. 1t is un-
derstood that in the view OF tie depufa-
ton the premier's statement was most
UNSATISFACTORY, one delegate charac.eriz
ing 1t as positively disheartening.
During the Middle Ages and in tbc
Renaissance period brides wore crimson
70 the exclusion of all other co1ors
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-10-11
MANY ARRESTS BY JAPS.
Forced Shop Owners of Korea to Open
Their Closed Shops.

SEOUL, Korea, Oct. associated
Press) MANY arrests were made to-
day-the anniversary of the inaugura-
ton of japanese rule in Korea. All
shops which were closed by their own
ers were forclbly opened by the au-
thorities. In view of rumors that out
breaks might occur in the city, the
streets were heavily guarded.