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WOMEN, ARMED WITH TIE BALLOT,
TO TACKLE HIGH COST OF LIVING
National Consumers League Demands Remedial Legisla
ton and Is to Take Up Cooperative
Buying.

All this time our great statesmen
and politicians were too busy helping
to win the war to take any account
of the little housewives troubles, in
fact. it seemed as though they had no
particular way of knowing anything
about them. When in February, 1917.
President Wilson wrote the Federal
Trade Commission asking it to "inves-
tigate and report the facts relating to
the production, ownership. manufac-
ture, storage and distribution of food
stuffs' and stating that lit has been
alleged before committees of the Con-
gress, and elsewhere. that the course
of trade in important food products is
not free, but is restricted and con-
trolled by artificial and illegal means"
and that ''it is of the highest public
concern to ascertain the truth or
falsity of these allegations the
housewife again took courage At
last somebody had awakened to her
troubles. Although she had no reason
to feel entirely encouraged by a
promised Observation-Disclosures had
been so many Investigations and
nothing ever seemed to happen-yet
the personal interest in her by the
President surely would mean more
In an incredibly short time, on July
Continued on Third Page)
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w. S. S. RECORD
BY u. S. CLERKS
Heaviest Subscribers to
Securities of Govern
ment in Proportion
to T heir Incomes.

Government clerks in the District of
Columbia have subscribed more to
government loans. in proportion to
their incomes, than any other class
of people in the United States. SAYS
statement given out by the local
thrift and war savings stamp organi-
cation. This applies particularly to
the sale of thrift and war savings
stamps.
Paul r. Myers. chief clerk of the
Treasury Department, who is in
charge of the war savings stamp
campaign for that entire branch of
the government, reports that the totai
investment among employees there in
thrift and war savings stamps alone
amounts TO $24527249.
The campaign within the Treasury
Department is being conducted along
bureau lines, a chairman, appointed
by Mr. Myers. having charge of each
section. Two remarkable records
have been made by S. NJ Chase, au-
and Miss Annie Travis, in the Office
of the supervising architect. Mr..
Chases section has subscribed the
equivalent of an entire years pay
roll to the government loans, and
Miss Travis section. numbering 22O
persons. has invested $4,000 in thrift
and war savings stamps alone.
The Interior Department, Willis b.
Magruder chairman, leads the others.
with an investment Of $19O,59691 in
thrift and war savings stamps. The
Navy Department follows. with $751;
900 in thrift and war savings stamps,
and after it come the Department OF
Agriculture. A. Zappone chairman,
$6O,s37.26; the government printing
Office, Z. J. Wilbur chairman. $780,
900. and the Department of Com
merce. Charles B. Yeatman chairman,
s37.473.9l
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BY JESSIE r. HAvER,

Executive Secretary Of the Consumers'
tive Representative Of the National
COnsumers' League.
A MAN who recently returned
~ from an extended trip through
~ the middle west and the south
reports that the one big top
ic of conversation which overshadows
all else is THE High Cost of Living"
He says the league of nations is a
minor question in the face of this
puzzling and inexplicable situation
which we are facing in this country
today.
This is not news to the housekeeper'
for as far back as 1915 and 1916, when
prices first began their skyward climb.
the woman of moderate income and
little margin was beginning to won
der what had happened. When the
United States bureau of labor statis-
tics made an investigation of the cost
of living in the District Of Columbia
during the winter Of 1917 the agents
found easy access to the housewife.
who was only too eager to pour out
her troubles to the sympathetic ear
of what she thought was an infiuen-
tial government employe. who ought
to be able to do something. The in
vestigation in the District did lead to
further inquiries on this subject by
the Department of Labor in the ship
building centers of the country. and
as a result it was possible for the
government during the war to fix
wages at somewhere near the mini
existed.
Substitutes Take Jump. I
But with the apparent effort of the
government to fix adequate wages for
it's workingmen, and these wages
were in some instances reflected in
private employment the housewife
who was depending upon the same
allowance from her husbands salary
was left in a quandary. Sirloin steak
which cost 25 cents a pound in 1913,
cost A cents a pound in 1913; bacon
which cost 26 cents a pound in 1913,
cost 40 cents a pound in 1919. When
she was wondering what in the world
she could do to feed her family as she
thought they ought to be fed. Mr..
Hoover came along end suggested that
she buy rice and chickens instead of
meat. So she took a new start, but in
an Incredibly short time, almost be-
fore she had learned to cook Mr..
Hoover's new dishes, she found that
rice which used to cost cents pound
had gone up to 13. cents. and chickens
were as high as 40 and SO cents a
pound when they used to be 20 cents
= pound in 1919
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No Need to Destroy Constitution
to Obtain Industrial Democracy

menace to the worlds progress.
America, if she remains true to
her ideas, must move forward to-
ward a sound industrial democ-
racy, as she has. for almost a CEN
tury and a half. steadily moved to-
ward the realization of political
democracy Bolshevism is not head
ed in that direction. 1t is not pro-
gressive, but reactionary; 1t looks
backward. not forward; it thinks
in terms of classes, and dreams of
class domination and autocratic
control by minorities.
Bolshevism Unamerican.
We in America do not fear boil
shevism, for we know that reVoiu-
lions never go backward. Our peo-
pie are not mad, and, when they
understand, they will not permit SO
reactionary a movement. even when
labeled progressive" to find per
manent lodgment among u.s. Inc
ten millions policyholders will say
no. The fifteen millions who have
Just bought liberty bonds will say
no, The millions who have their
little capital, the legitimate on
spring of their labor and thrift, IN
vested in safe securities when pro-
tect their future will say no. me
fathers and mothers who look with
pride upon virgin daughters and
sons trained to respect the sanctlty
of holy wedlock will say no.
They have watched the blood
stained madness of Russia, and
they will remember. They know
that there is in America no prole-
tariat, no fixed 'laboring class, no
rigid class called Capitalist We
are all, if worthy of our name. OF
the laboring class. and all eager to
lay aside that little hoard of sur
plus which will make US also capt.
talists We know that the dweller
in America, whether of native or
of foreign birth, who speaks in
terms of class, is not an American.
He is using words which indicate
a type of thought which does not
belong to America. A man who
hates the rich because they are
rich, or who despises the poor be-
cause they are poor. is not an
American. He who opposes the
legitimate ambitions of labor or of
capital is unamerican. He is
reactionary, and the reactionary
shall not enter into the political.
social and industrial republic which
we. the nation of many races are
building slowly, painfully. but pa
tientIy, making sure of each stone
as we raise it to it's place.
Genius" the French proverb says.
lis one long patience" and it will
require such genius to solve the
problem of perfecting society
based upon equal opportunity to
train and to use such talents as
each possesses, without the ex-
ploitation of the veal or the ham,
pering of the strong.
In the affairs of true republics
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CONGRESS TO GIVE RAILROADS
ATTENTION ON LING
Prospect of Definite Program for Return to Private
Ownership and Operation in Two Three
Notwithstanding July IS.
with the right of prescribing mini
mum as we'll as maximum rates.
Some Broad Provisions.

mum as we'll as maximum rates.
Some Broad Provisions.
Provisions also will be written into
the law seeking to protect and en-
courage inland water transportation.
co-ordinating the same with rail
transportation, with through routes
and bills of lading and point rates.
Also there will be legislative ar
rangement for pooling of equipment
and joint use of terminals. The fed
eral government will maintain a
strict control over the issuance of
securities.
There is every indication that the
much discussed long and short haul
proposition, commonly known as the
fourth section. will not be enacted,
at least in any very rigid form. The
fight being made. especially by con-
gressional delegations from the south
Atlantic and gulf states, for differ
entail rates, which will force dis
trfbution of commerce through the
southern ports instead of having 1t
congested in a couple Of center At
lantic ports, as was emphasized dur
ing the war emergency, will be given
careful study. 1t is probable that
the subject will be placed under con-
troll Of the Interstate Commerce Com
mission. under some amendment to
the existing car service act, with In
creased power over the use, control
and exchange of equipment.
Hearings to Start July Is.
The hearings that start July Is will
be held in both morning and after
noon sessions, with view to closing
them at the earliest date practicable.
1t is likely that the hearings will run
over a period Of a month at least, as
there are many parties who desire to
be heard.
Advocates Of probably a half dozen
concrete plans which they desire to
lay before the committee will be no
titled to present witnesses. These
plans are sponsored by the railway
executives. by the Railway Investors
League, OF which Davies Warfield is
the head; include the program pro-
posed by the Investors League of
New York and Massachusetts. the
Plumb plan proposed by the railroad
brotherhoods. the plan outlined by
Director General Mines in his recent
testimony before the Senate commit
tee on interstate commerce and the
plan on the main features of which
the Chamber Of Commerce of the
United States is now taking a refer
endum.
All Of these proposed measures are
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-06
BY DIR. ROBERT NJ. McELROY,
Educational Director OF the National
Security League.

~ NE of the dreams of Utopia
is that "a person may
is that "a person may have
~ by asking for it," No
government can secure
for every one everything he wants:
but every successful government
must secure to every honest, TOT
NAL citizen a fair chance to earn
contentment. The government
owes no man a living; but it owes
to every man and every woman
opportunities for earning a COM
Portable livelihood by the expendi
ture of reasonable amount of
time, care and energy. The gov
eminent that fails to secure that
is tempting fate.
Schemes for holding in common
land and the products of labor have
always failed. and will always fail
to insure this fair chance in life, for
they disregard the stubborn fact
that most men need the spur of
necessity to make them productive;
and the comforts of life depend
upon the amount of production.
Lessen Essential Production.
Anything which lessons the pro-
duction of the means of subsis-
tence makes it harder for the in
dividual to live in comfort; and
anything which increases such pro-
duction renders his struggle for ex-
istence correspondingly easy. His
tory has shown by countless ex-
periments that schemes of COM
munism (Which is not profit shar-
ing) always tend to lessen produc-
ton, aid to increase discomfort.
The Virginia colony tried this ex-
pertinent in the first year Of her
history. All land and the fruits OF
the earth were to be held IN COM
mon and enjoyed alike by all. The
experiment produced tho starving
time" which CAPT. John Smith
checked by a Proclamation which
said: You must obey this now for
law Ono matter what the charter
says about a common store). that
he that will not work shall not eat
The authors of the Russian soviet
constitution. in the clause. he
shall not eat who does not work"
have adopted this same striking
phrase, but have shrewdly neglected
to tell it's history.
Private Ownership Solution.
The heresy persisted. with its at
tendant, the gaunt wolf of starva-
ton, until Sir Thomas Dale intro
duced a system Of private owner
ship, allotting to each settler three
acres of cleared ground which he
was to cultivate himself and from
which he must pay every year two
and a half barrels Of corn into the
public treasury. This began the
system of individual tenure in Viz
ginia and in America. and with it
came the end of starving times.
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Executive Secretary OF the Consumers'
League of the District and Legisla-
tive Representative of the National
Consumers League.
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Getting Jobs for Soldiers.

In furtherance Of its campaign for
obtaining employment for discharged
soldiers and sailors. the War Depart
ment has organized a special infor-
nation bureau to which ex-service
mon may apply directly for informa-
ton on any point in which they are
interested.
This Information bureau is under
the direction Of Col Arthur Woods.
assistant to the Secretary OF War.
Inquiries directed to Col. Woods Are
forwarded to the proper bureau.
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The plan of industry IN common
was patiently tried in New Eng
land also. in the early days. but was
soon abandoned. for this COM
munitie was found to breed much
confusion and discomfort.
for the yung men, that were most
able and fitte did repine
that they should spend their time
and strength to worke for other
mems wives and children" Accord
ingly, Gov. Bradford assigned to
each family a parcel of land.
This" he says, had very good
SUCCESSION it made all hands very
Industrious. so as much more corne
was planted then other waise would
have BEEN"
Again and again the communistic
heresy has reappeared in expert
ments, always monotously repeat
ing the first failures. From the
days Of Emerson's and Hawthorne's
Brook Farm experiment in 1871.
Utopian dreams of societies based
upon the communistic theory was
tried in so many centers in this
a man you meet but has a draft of
a new community in his pocket
Passing of the Dream.
The dream passed. however. and
the ancient law, lin the sweat of
thy brow shalt thou eat bread
was re-enacted by a people who at
last, after many lessons, had
learned it's wisdom. We know now
that any man who seeks to nullify
that law is unsocial. He denies the
fundamental basis upon which hu-
man society rests. We know also
that the economic burdens which
bear SO heavily upon those who car
ry forward the labor of the world
will not be lightened by new ex-
periments in communism. a delu-
sion which has so often proved but
an easy hiding place for those who
wish to live upon the fruits of other
mems toll.
Those who dream today of an
eternal plenty without the hard
struggle for production are simply
dreaming. When the awakening
comes, we shall see, as has every
generation, that mans share in the
means of subsistence, in the Gre
ated wealth of the world, still de-
ponds and must always depend
upon his capacity to produce, his
thrift to keep, his brains to or
ganize.
So God Made the World.
The lazy, unframed and the in
competent must still hold their an
cient, humble place at the foot OF
the ladder, while those with energy.
habits of thrift. trained minds and
courageous hearts will still climb
aloft, and occupy the high places.
God made the world so, and no laws
which can be made by man can
alter it.
Work is the symbol of worthy
citizenship in free state. in free
world. Utopia can be realized only
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COMING WEEK TO SEE
BIG FIGHT LAUNCHED
Contest Between President and Senate
Over League Of Nations Promises
Interesting Doings

| instance in the sundry civil bill of
the Item of $3.50, 900 for clerical force
/ Tor the State Department which the
, House resisted. The House conferees
| hnaily had to explain their yielding
| on this item by admitting that the
acting Secretary of State had said
that unless the sum were forthcom-
ing the passport bureau would close
GOWN and no passports to Europe
could be issued. AS passports are alb
solutely required and will be for
many months. no business man could
send his agent abroad
But this was only one Of many
scores of like instances where the
Senate had to provide the actual
slnews for necessary government
work
But the House leaders found cause
Tor self-congratulat ton in the total
savings. which
SAVED A BILLION Leader Mondell
AND A QUARTER. estimated at ST.
100000 900. That
is to say, in passing the bills which.
cratic Congress had failed of enact
ment, the republicans passed bills
carrying $3.50. 900, 900 less than those
of the other session. Mr. Mondell ex-
planned the saving to be S343, 900, 900
on the Army s211. O00.Oo0 on the Navy.
s241.000,000 on the sundry civil and
$3.50. 100000 on the bill to carry on the
government railways. Three immense
deficiency bills were necessary to
provide for the democratic "econo-
mics" of the past year or So
Prohibition legislation will occupy
the House Immediately upon recon-
vening. There
DRY LAWS TO GO are pending
ON BOOKS TO STAY. the double
header bill
providing for the enforcement of
wartime prohibition and the enabling
act to carry out the mandate of the con-
stitutional amendment which becomes
effective next January, when the whole
country goes dry for ever and ever be-
yond peradventure or possibility of re-
turn to former custom.
From time to time the question is
heard, will not a reaction set in and
public sentiment demand a change?
The answer to that is how are you
going to react from the Constitution
of the United States?" It is incon-
ceivable that three-fourths of the
states will ever consent to change the
The wise old owls in Congress-, even
those who personally enjoy their
nip" and privately bewail its pass
ing. say that the drought is here to
stay. The only possibility of the
"wets" ever having a look in again
will be in epacting regulations per-
hitting the use of drinks of a low
alcoholic percentage.
But right here it is pointed out that
the vets are starting off at a disad-
vantage. In the flush of prohibition
sentiment which now prevails
throughout the country the drys are
proposing to enact regulations of the
most stringent kind. The vets think
that they are SO stringent that the
country will react" and cause their
repeal But the drys know that once
a prohibition law is on the statute
books it is mighty hard to change it
in the interest of liquor That has
been the experience in the states.
They are putting on the books the
kind of law they want. and will tell
the vets that the burden of effectinr
change is upon them.
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n
~ ceive the earnest. concen-
trated attention of congress
sional leaders as soon as they
return to the Capitol after the weeks
recess. with the prospect that within
two or. three months a definite pro-
gram affecting the return of the rail-
roads to private ownership and OPP
ration, with federal safeguards, will
be recommended to the House.
Chairman John J. Esch Of the COM
mittee on interstate and foreign COM
merce, which is studying the various
bills and recommendations with re-
gard to the railroad and general
TRANSPORTATION problems. says that
hearings will be started on July IS.
and that they probably will continue
for more than a month.
1t is already practically assured that
the railroads will be returned to prt-
waite ownership, operation and con-
troll lust as soon as it is practicable.
It is certain that Congress will in
sist upon federal regulation of rates,
which authority will continue with
the Interstate Commerce Commission.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-06
BY WILL p. KENNEDY.

\ ABROAD legislation will re-
ceive the earnest. concen-
trated attention of congress
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through labor. and labor of the head
is no less labor than is labor of the
hand, a fact which the reactionary
experimenters of Russia have over
looked in preparing the laws for
citizenship in the Republic of the
Soviets of Workers. Soldiers and
Peasants Deputies"
All honest labor is honorable.
Unproductiveness alone is dishon-
orable. for it partakeS of the ma
ture of crime, the crime of living
upon the toll of our fellow men.
The future will have little patience
with the merely ornamental ne
ment in society. those who feel
that the curse of Cain" has been
so lifted as to leave them free from
the obligation to add to the worlds
means of subsistence.
The Problem of Today.
The worlds greatest problem to-
day is not political. In the demo-
cratic countries we have real. po-
litical democracy, however imper-
leCl IL IIdy De NO IldII " Ho ChlCi .
the protected silence of his voting
booth and marks the ballot, GER
tain that it will count as much as
that of any other citizen, can doubt
that fact. Political democracy is
no longer the goal of the strug-
Cling millions who dwell in our
free republic. Our eyes are now
ioh NH-o
call industrial democracy, or in
the terms of the Presidents mes
sage of May 20. 1919, The de-
mocratization of industry"
In so far as this looks to the
improvement of the conditions of
labor, to the freeing of men and
women from burdens which can be
struggle to realize it. Free govern
ment must think in terms of the
masses of humanity. Free govern
ment must desire to give every one
a fair and equal chance. 1t can
know nothing of classes. special
privileges or group consciousness.
The language of freedom has no
such terms.
Cannot Reverse Nature.
But even free government cannot
reverse the decree of nature. 1t
cannot make philosophers Of those
who are mentally defective: it can
not make champion pugiliSts of
cripples, or orators of those born
without proper organs of speech. 1t
cannot make masters of industry
of incompetency. or efficient lVad-
ers of those who have not the gifts
to lead. These matters are deter
mined by powers which the most
beneficent government cannot over
rule.
The sane among us know that
industrial democracy cannot be Sc
cured by the murder of talent, by
an arbitrary dictatorship built upon
force, by a national or an interna-
tional career of crime such as that
which has made bolshevlsm a