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The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-03-20
To Tell of Trlp to Europe.

Conditions in Europe as he saw
Ithem will be described. by John
Stewart Bryan at meeting in the
University club this evening at $40
o'clock, Mr.. Bryan recently returned
from trip TO England and France.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-03-20
nr Ira NJ. hrr Dead

News has come 10 this city OF the
s1aafh last month OF influenza in
Florida OF Or, Ira NJ. Derr, n graduate
of The Medical College of Virginia.
z3r. Derr was a native of West Virginia
bat had many friends in this city.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-03-20

Louise Garnett, a young white
woman. was arrested yesterday af-
ternoon by Officer Wyatt of First
police station. on charge of run
ming a disorderly house at 116 North
Il Mentieth street.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-03-20
FUNERAL OF Mr.. ELLYSON
CONTINUED from Page one.)

iConthlueo From Page One.)
dition to the personal and efficient
relations which ! have had with him
land which have been SO pleasant, his
wife and my own wife are distantly
|related. Only on Monday of this week
/ received n very pleasant letter from
Mrs. Ellyson. thanking me for some
trifling courtesy | had been able to
render, and within fifteen minutes af-'
ter receipt of the letter ] heard of
Mr.. Eilyson's death. Virginia has suf-
fered a distinct loss and perhaps moro
people in Virginia Will mourn the
death of Mr.. Elyson than that of any
other man of whom / know
Was Energetic and Tirelcss
Samuel w. Bigger-clerk state cor
poration comlnission--'M Filyson
meant a great deal to the democratic
party. He was a hard and consistent
worker in it's behalf I had known
him for a good many years. He GER
tainly gave as much OF his time and
energy to the state as any man ! have
known.
state Labor Commissioner. John
Hirsch berg-"Mr Eilyson was one of
the most faithful workers in The DEM
ocratic party which the state has ever
had and he was an excellent business
man. lie was extremely charitable
but was equally modest and never let
his charity be known"
Second Auditor Roswell Page-''The
death of Mr.. Ellyson Is great loss
to this city. of which he was once
mayor. and of which for long time
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-03-20

The Rev. w ". Sawyer, pastor OF
the pinv33die NJ. +. church, died
suddenly las, night at his home al
I1iuwtdd court house.
M Mr.. Sawyer La survived by his wife
and several children. Funeral ar
arrangements have not yet been com
oletNd
Evening journal., 1919-03-01
Peoples Column
rHAr RANE1MAn.NnTH RILL.

To the Editor Of The Evening Journal
sSir: There is now under considsra
ton by Congress a measure purportinc
TO meet the needs OF the civilian Grip
ples of the country, and known as tht
Bankhead-Smith BILL This measure, II
my opinion. is faulty, and should moi
De passed in its present form. It does
nothing TO encourage some Of the es-
sential features Of the rehabilitation o.
HE disabled.
Find in any community the civilian
oripples who need aid 70 economic re-
adjustment, and there win be found a
group OF men who cannot take advan-
tage Of the best training in the world II
offered TO. them, for the reason that
they could not live during the period OF
training. Unless maintenance during
training is provided at the same time,
educational provision may be almost
futile.
Then the man who is prevented by
disability from going to work may need
attention other than educational. Ii
may be that he needs medical or sur
gical attention 20 correct his handicap
he may need social service to smooth
out personal difficulties. Either Of these
aids may solve his problem.
Most Important Of all is the oonvlc-
tion on the part OF those who have
been actually engaged in the training
Of civilian cripples. that there is needed
q special school for the disabled, where
there is a specially trained staff OF ad-
visers, teachers, etc, experienced In
dealing with men who have lost their
fight against the handicaps of physical
disahlement.
Experience. in the training OF the Sc
riously injured all points in this dl-
yecti0n. iiie f5ankhead-Smith bill does
not match dollar for dollar with The
States in the establishment Of facilities
of a broad scone, What 1t does is TO
encourage extension OF the vocational
Facilities Of The public schools, on the
contention that this viii solve the
problems Of the civilian cripple.
Not only Will this fail 10 meet the
requirements, but such action by The
national government will tend TO pre-
vent the individual States from dis
charging their clear responsibility to
provide for their civilian o-ipples COM
prehensive facilities for rehabilitation
This the States can and will do, IL not
led astray by ill-considered national
leadership.
II you believe the cripples Of the
state should be thoroughly cared for,
write your national Senators and Con- |
gressmen to oppose The Bankhead- |
Smith bin Is. 1922 and II. r. i2,Ss0l, /
and at the same time write your repre-
sentatiyes In the state Legislature de- /
manding we'll rounded provision for /
the civilian criplpes Of the community /
We want TO provide for disabled mon |
but we want to provide for them wise
ly. Such a provision IS not only sound |
frUm the Humanitarian aspect but
from the economic aspect is a saving to |
public funds rather than an expense.
DOUGLAS C. McMURTRlE,
President, Federation OF Association for
Cripples.
New York, February q, 1919.
Evening journal., 1919-03-01

near the. dead-line for a self-supporting
| woman. In 1915 Massachusetts, found
half the women laundry workers OF the
i state receiving under Sc a week, and
the inquiries showed that decency and
comfort could hardly be maintained
for less than 'S8.77 ml9i6 and 1917 the
wage boards Of the Pacific Coast were
acting with special energy TO assure
women a proper. living wage. 1t Is a
/ truism that women, among whom are
so many temporary workers. cannot or
1 ganize in unions as can men. There
were 100000 working in 1910; we do
not wish to think OF even a small pro-
portion being sweated.
Where have wages stood during the
war in the active minlmum-wage
States2 Just as II broke out, Arizona
prescribed $40 a week as minimum for
most indoor occupations. AT the same
time California fixed $40 for women 10
mercantile establishments. California
was then demanding sS64 for women
in canneries; in Washington these wo-
men were required to be paid at least
$500, and In Oregon from SS25 10 Ss6i,
according TO locality. But the need for
advancing wages with the cost Of llv-
ing soon became plain. In April 1918,
California raised the wages In all can
neries TO at least $3.50 for forty-elght-
hour week-the old week having been
flfty-four hours. The minimum in gem
eral and professional offices was fixed
by California at 1888 O month, and
that for experienced women in even
unskilled or unclassifed occupations
was made 500. In the same month
Oregon forbade the employment OF wo-
men in Portland mercantile establish
ments az less than sif week, with
literally humane requirements as 70
hours and rest. Her minimum for eX-
perienced women In factories mot at
piece rates) was made Sii6i; In tele-
phone and telegraph offices, 1896 and !
$500 respectively. Onlce rates in Port |
land had to be at least Si8 a month. |
But Washington took the boldest step. |
Last September 10 provided that within |
two months no woman over eighteen |
"in any occupation, trade or industry |
throughout the State during the period |
OF the war" should be paid less than
1920 a week. This was deemed the |
least sum adequate 30 supply the
necessary cost Of living and TO mains
tain them IN health and comfort" We
know from the Consumers League in
vestigations that no small proportion
OF women wage earners In this State
receive not only less than 1920 not
only less than sii and $40, but less
than S9
II would probably be conservative TO
estimate an average rise Of 80 per cent.
In the cost of living TO the self-support-
ing woman in Eastern towns. One who
used to scrape through on 80 would
require by this estimate $3.50. It is
common knowledge that wages have
risen In no such proportion. The State
Industrial Commission says that of 90
500 factory women and 23,2OO store wo-
men less than 80 per cent. earn Sii a
week. Many girls live at home; but we
must think of those who do not. VIII
the minimum wage displace women by
men2 VIII It have any tendency TO
level wages down towards what It sets
as a minimum? The reports on its
workings in the West give an emphatic
no to these questions. &C..
Evening journal., 1919-03-01

We are spending sympathy on the
soldier out or employfHent:. Have we
none for the girl-worker trying to
make anisS wage cover $40 in living ex-
! ptnses? 2 There are far more women in
New York industry Than ever before,
and though returning men dlsplaee
many there will remain a high total
than before the war Their wages rose
/ phenomenally In. very few industries /;
in few they we're stationary: in the
great majority they rose. much less
than did the living costs. It Is TO meet
a plain demand that the movement at
Albany for minimum-wage legislation
shows growing strength. The bill in
troduced by the Democratic leader In
the Senate is to be made to conform
with the bin which a Republican is TO
introduce In the Assembly for the Wo-
mems Joint Legislative Conference.
Only one Eastern State Massachusetts,,
with the District Of Columbia, has yet
adopted the reform. There are four
Middle. Western States with minimum
wage laws-Wisconsln Nebraska, Kan
sas, and Minnesota. There is one South
ern State-zArkansasi and there are six
Western-California, Colorado, Utah,
Arizona, oregon and Washington. The
minimum wage IS ceasing to be an exc
pertinent. All but three Of the State
laws are half dozen years old. 1t is
now four years since the first careful
reports on their workings were pub
lished--a Federal report on the mini
mum wage in oregon department
stores and a Massachusetts, report on
that in brush factories.
Just before we declared war mini
mum-wage boards We're reaching the
stride Of determined, expert activity.
The early legislation was properly eau
ti0us and accompanied by thorough in
vestigation. In 1913 q ruling, In Ore
gon, following full inquiry, fixed the
wage OF experienced adults at se.64
week. It was this action which gave
birth 10 the Supreme Court case which
Felix Frankfurter fought 10 tri-
umphant conclusion for the principle.
In 1914 Washington fixed the minimum
for most OF tho women workers at
from $3.50 and SO for less skilled TO $40
for clerical and mercantile employees,
The same year special board made a
thorough investigation Of the Michigan
or nearly 10000 women in
Ntotibdttui dDOub % per ctht. ltctiNcu !
less than IS a week, and irregularity OF !
employment was the rule The investi-
gators concluded that a large fraction |
Of the wage-earners received less than |
a fair living wage, and that II would |
be better II the low-paylng industries
we're suppressed.
Similar reports in 1915 in Minnesota,
and Pennsylvania reached
he same conclusions. A California
inquiry among $4,000 workers in 1--WE
,ities showed that one-third were paid
less than 50 a week, though 50 was
Evening journal., 1919-03-01
The JelUeLs of the Table

TICH pieces of radiant cut glass the jeIUels
"a that enhance the beauty of the toeI-sst table.
Flashing In the sunlight. IN any light,
fheg gicc brfniunce to the setting Of the painest
As rpAite tond toithont q ring, so b shs dai1-
tiest table the hddsoDteSt buffet china closet,
frightened 6y the toach Of spFendor UIch the inreSt
Dsent OF a fen dollars com supply
A 6oroifaI of diamonds, a pffchsrfM of lchat
looks IKE liquid sunbenms. handful of rogufsh
run6ocs as the cruet or the salt Is passed about!
But inst os fastidious taste demands that jeIceI
the smallest, shoutd be genuine, of good color
and finely cut the quality of the cut glass ddorning
the Uefi-drsssed table should be sterling.
Are you judge of qualities .. extsissss
IL invite here
not, invite you here
country this Wanauaker Store; with designs
served exclusively for
The frequently who knows what
look out for and TO look IN for IN judging values Of glass
plenty rs; critically inspect color cutting and design
and find fault An rigorous and fastidious
than ne has before him. with far deeper
erest in selling inferior tgass than he feel buying
no inferior cut-glass
The price, especially price asked in this Spring Sale
win sstonish him Not by its bisness either.
But the average person pretends to specialized knowl
edge of cutgassaybe does know that there is
grade grade of cass that there's shade upon
socaed white In fact all he usually that
pieces prettier than others.
Likewise he usually buys in hurry
But naturally he wants get his full worth
BY safe and instinct he Wanamakers and
though he bought in his sleep know he could buy
unworthy piece of glass that unfairly priced
During this Sale, with it's offering of $4,000
glassware piece selected him savings
third TO one-half regular price
Evening journal., 1919-03-01
IMPORTANCE OF
MINIMUM WAGE LAWS

Editor The Evening Journal.
NJ IS important for this republic that
fhe States create minimum wage com
missions because experience shows that
these commissions tend:
4. To tx the attention Of the public
on the worst paid industries.
?. To reduce preventable poverty by
making every industry pay its costs.
l3. To promate efficiency Of employ
.ers and employees. Employers have 10
improve their methods ia order TO pay
prescribed minimum wages and, as ia
Washington, d. c., a woman Of ordinary |
average ability must be worth SIC a |
week or quit. she finds it worth while |
TO Improve herself Not so for Sc or 81
a week.
4. To stabilize employment and re-
duce LABOR turnover. When employees
have TO be paid prescribed minimum
wage and waste involved in constant
changing becomes obvious TO every EN-
plOyer
s. To improve the public health. |
People whose wages are below the |
standards set by wage boards usually |
nave TOO little 10 eat, bad rooms and |
uncomfortable beds to sleep in, and in |
cessant worry. They are ready for
every disease that comes along.
6. To reduce the burden Of charity
in two ways; first by enabling en-
ployes 60 keep well and ne TO work.
and second by reducing the need of
doles for women and girls who now
work and whose wages have 20 be eked
out because they are underpaid. under
fed, ill-housed ill-clothed and therefore
socially subnormal
lt is especially important for our
country that the States create minimum
wage commissions at this time, when
women are daily displaced in the read
justment following the war, and re-
turning soldiers have TO find work. The
good effects of minimum wage COM
missions are continuing and cumulative.
They are needed now more than ever
Defore' Yours very truly,
tSlgnSL) FLORENCE KELLY.
secreta~ National Consumers League.
New York, February 81.
Evening journal., 1919-03-01
GET GET BACK YOUR pep
'aAsco-vN THE TAsrELEss con
LIVER AND IRON TONIC ,s
euARasrrEn TO DO 1T

II those who arc ,v..r
rom the "Fiu,e pnsn,rn ona rundown
o.ner cause do not ob,ain or any
suenstf and vitality % st,an increased
c,alaSco-vln. ,1 me tastelcss cod l,y mking
refunded aud no questions assed Ssd' be
But there is really no need for t.,u
guarantee as Cbasco-Vin win inecsas,ss s,',s
your strength and vitality. eften ~
much az 100 per cent in two waets,
time. II you take II regularly, Fals
y after each msai and at bedtime
Don't put II of,
ChAsco-Vin viii also prevent tht
@yiu" or any serious illness II taker
at tfss frst sign OF cold. But you
must ~ quickly,
BoId in Wilmington by Miller Brus
Company, <6<-&os Market Strest
Evening journal., 1919-03-01

things, the interesting
things, the "plums" Of
opportunity, are arriv-
ing or are on the way
from so many direc-
tions that to write and
Evening journal., 1919-03-01

and pantry, at prices
20 per cent to so per
cent below regular.
You'll find, we hope,
numbers of dainty din
ner sets, attractive odd
pieces Of chinaware,
light cut-glass pieces
and fine examples of
the cut-glass of stand
ard w a n a m a k e r
quality.
But as frankly we
will tell you that the
demand for these goods
is running as strong as
the supply, and also
that we cannot promise
you or ourselves that
we can keep on dupli-
eating all of the very
much-wanted goods in
exactly the same style
and price.
Etched glass table
tumblers at 10c are an
example. They were
grabbed up = no other
way to put it - by the
boueskeepers as chill
dEen 90 Cor csnoy--
sSEea BON h8nos.
Others were ordered
and ultimately deliv-
cred, and just now we
have plenty of 'em
again. But for these
few days intervening
between the purchasing
of the last dozen and
the delivery of the next
crate there was what
the high school girl in
her paper on Shakes
peare called "the di-
vine hiatus"
Evening journal., 1919-03-01

Will still find on Thurs
day, and indeed for
some days thereafter,
a desirable quantity
and assortment of good
china and glassware
for table, china-closet
Evening journal., 1919-03-01

countants the town ever had, was con-
sclentlous, painslaking, and ever ready
to do what he could In the work as
signed him by Town Council Indeed
he looked after business with as much
interest and care as though It were his
own and gave more time TO town affairs
in his iS years OF. office than is little
known or appreciated. Ills record viii
be hard TO beat In parting with his
services Town Council has lost a good
and efficient member.
Evening journal., 1919-03-01
SPRLNGIIlNE is GROWING-I7zNE
The Spring Sale of Glass and China
GrolUs Bigger and Finer Right Under Your Eyes!

encountered in writing
to his mother.
He was one Of three
little brothers whose
mother was leaving
home for a short visit.
To stimulate CORES
pondence, M o t h e r
promised a dollar to
the boy from whom
she received the first
letter.
On reaching her des-
tination, a letter was
found awaiting her
from Thomas, her
youngest, telling her
how he missed her, how
we'll he was behaving,
how fair = to -,middling
the brothers were be-
having, and other in
teresting details. But
the closing paragraph
ran:
"PIedss ercnse so
many bLotts cumming
from sticking letter
under 1Criting pad.
You keep cumming
into the room all the
time 10 G1e I'm 1oTitin1
it,
"THOMAS.s
VOU keep coming in
Il and buying these
goods as fast as we can
write about them, or
faster, and the new
things themselves keep
coming in and selling
themselves as fast as
we write about them,
or faster.
To illustrate, here's
an i t e m that will
nightly interest forty
families, needing new
dinnerware, fond of
French china, and de-
sirous to save $40 to
$40 on the regular
prices:
Just arrived: 10
French dinner sets, ag-
gregGte UaLUe $4,000.
On sets IUith handsome
border patterns, speci-
ally priced SOS, the sdU-
ing is $50 each.
There is a saving of
$40 each on fine encrus-
Evening journal., 1919-03-01
Spirit of the
DeffnarUia Press
LOSES A GOOD Man,
from the Smyrna Times.

from the Smyrna Times.
In the defeat for reelection 20 Town
council OF Harry B. Grieves, long the
efficient secretary, clerk and chairman
Of Hhe Light and Water Committee.
smyrna Town Council has lost one OF
US most valuable and useful members.
Mnlie conservative, he was neverthe-
less one OF the best secretaries and ao-
Evening journal., 1919-03-01

n Their things be-
" ing equal, the
nearest date is the best
date to attend any Sale,
even q .Wanamaker
Sale.
At present the new
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American Dishes
n, the White House

INTERESTING is the recent dispatch from Washing
ton, which, in telling of the work of beautfyng and
redecorating the White House, states that:
"A set of china has been added 20 the
collection of former Presidents.
"StTan0e to say, it is the only set since Wash
ington's time that is made in America It Il
heavy IN FURNISHED gold and blue enamel and IN
the center IN embossed gold is the seal of the
United States"
Of certainty America has made tremendou,
strides of late in the art of potteryaking The
most striking proof of this is the exceptionally fine col
lection of
American Dishes In Wanantuker's
We speak chiefly of dinner SETS of which there is fine
selection in domestic semporceains priced $3.50 10 $50
the kind that ordinarily sell for one-thrd to oneh as much
again - 1'
These stocks being replenshed constantly Just az this
moment OF writing industrious hands opening uo
eases containing new consignment representing especially
good values, prices $3.50. SIS and $3s set
Ehcr oesorshons good-loohing border asttevus 80
ses o. 20 conventional 6egns With hans1es Of n eod W
tae So5 erSos ana hsnaee' gold n lae
grace. ~ S'''~
Taken all IN all, it's not merely interesting but
A Cosmopolitan Avenue of Dinner Sets
which occupies the of the China Store in the form d
one long, continuous counter full of
entire selection of dinner of French and japanese c
and American and English porcelain of League of
Nations in dishesi Va
Each set is reduced from 20 50 per cent below y,vrI.,
price Fourth stnuD
Evening journal., 1919-03-01

print even a brief, up
to-date survey of what
the Sale contains pre-
sents something of the
same puzzling prob
lem that the little boy
Evening journal., 1919-03-01

TITO show how It
grows, a child
makes a pencil
mark on the door-post,
or it's done for him.
But it would turn a
white door-post quite
black with markings if
we were to thus record
every step ahead in its
growth that t h j 8
Spring Sale of China
and Glassware h a s
taken since it started, a
fortnight ago.
And it would have
to be a very high door
post indeedi nan,gs
Ss@ ? Y
II HE Sale grows
l. over night, not
merely in its attend
ance, as more and more
housewives r e a ze
their need of new table
furnishings, but in its
preparation and equip
ment, which, instead of
dwindling as March
marches in, are ready
TO march abreast with
March demandsi 4
1t could almost be
said, indeed, that the
sale grows from min
ute to minute.
Faster than these
words can be written
and printed off for you,
the great stocks flow
out to the people in a
stream of rapid selling,
but other great stocks
flow in.
Stocks of new, fresh,
fine china from the fao
tories of France and of
Japan; stocks of high
grade porcelains from
the potteries of Eng
land, and from our
own excellent and for
ward-moving Ameri-
can potteries; q
Stocks of the beauti-
full, light-cut table
glassware, which peo-
pie literally snatch up
as fast as we can bring
it in;
And such stocks of
beautiful, rich cut
crystal as we absolute
ly know cannot be
matched in the three
points of quantity,
quality and price, in
any retail-selling es-
tablishment in t h e
land. .
A FTER its first
N dozen days of ex-
istence, the ordinary
sale (and we dislike to
say it, but sales ordi-
narily are ordinary is
sparring for time if
not actually gasping
its last breath.
This Sale is so fresh
and fine, so sound in
wind and limb, so
with its big
shat oGe would
tninil today It's opening
day, and in fact, every
day is an opening day
and brings new oppor-
tunities.
It was planned for
service, not as a fitful
fever of selling.
Frankly, we will tell
you, that if you can't
conveniently visit the
Sale today, or next
Monday, or even next
Evening journal., 1919-03-01

ted gold sets specially
priced SI35, and on
sets decorated in en-
crusted gold in uUider
bands and specially
priced $500.
Evening journal., 1919-03-01
Note These Sale Prices, Please 7

Berry dishes, 81 20 IS.
Celery trays, 81 to $3.50
Sugar and cream sets, S3/to IS.
Bonbon dishes, si.2s TO %.
Fern dishes, S5.7S
Deep, round, footed orange
bowls, $6.7s.
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Berry bowls, So to $3.50.
Water jugs, y3.7S to $3.50.
z-handled dishes, 81 to s5.7s.
Footed nut dishes, $2.25 to
S3.75.
Flower vases, 81 to $50.
Oval orange bowls, 81
r, Chestnutl
Evening journal., 1919-03-01
Decent Wages for Women

lFrom the New York Evening Post.)-