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The Washington times., 1919-09-05
The Cleveland Plan
How They Managed nre~Csnt Fare Fer Ysar Nov Fir,
Cent Fare.
By EARL GOODWIN.

Cleveland Ohio has ive-cent fare and has its street
system under such control that the fare goes up or down
IN accordance with the actual cost Of service Street rail-
way who wise enough to see that their popers
about to be taken from them and run for the benefit ii
the people who the streets are very much in favor of
the Cleveland plan NOW. few years ago they reved It
as something unholy
The plan, outlined BY the Bureau Of information and
Service supported BY the American Railway Association
perfectly feasible and deserves study as It has insured
fare Of less than five cents up until few months ago
The most interesting thing about it is that deyotees Of
vate ownership who spuned the plan until recently are
boosting it to the skies.
Here's the plan.
A revaluatiOn Of all properties was first made
Some lines valued at tfty-ive cents on each dol
lar Of their capitalization and another line new one
given valuation Of dollar for dollar as shown by
its capitalization Agreement then was reached to pay
the interest bonds per cent interest to the stock
holders, and to install flexible rate Of fare with the
understanding that it should be raised or lowered a.
necessity required. Private management Of the COM
pany continued and city street railway commissioner
named to act technical adviser to the mayor and
city council all street railway matters which they
might be interested Accounts of the company are open
to this commissioner at al times An income from the
lines goes into interest fund.- and this money
pended in the order Of operating expenses bond inter
est and interest stock "A limit was placed on main
tenance and operating expenses but these were made
somewhat flexible IN order to meet such extra expenses
may arise in bad weather, and forth When this
interest fund reaches $750000 fares 60 down. and when
it reaches $250000 fares rise.
Under this agreement all lines consolidated
and limit placed the interest that was to be
paid the stock, but limit the amount Of stock
which could be issued. This served a preventive
against the payment Of increased Of interest
stock and meant that if the management saw st to
issue more stock it simply would have to take less
interest on the entire amount of securities issued
The practical working out Of this plan was that
at the end Of the first six months the rate Of fare went
down. It never fell below three cents and until the
war started it never above three cents At present
however the fare is FIVE cents and charge made for
transfer
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DLEASE let me say for the
several thousandth time

DLEASE let me say for the
several thousandth time
this column is not a matri-
monial agency nor a medium Of in
PRODUCTION between young people.
Letters relating to love, mar
riage, and domestic subjects are
welcome. For instance, Mrs.
Smith reads a letter by Mrs. Jones
saying how unhappy she is because
Mr.. Jones Just won't hear the sub
ject of pocket money" broached.
Mrs. Smith remembers that Shis
cross was hers before she brought
Mr.. Smith to reason, and like a
pubic-spirited person she sits
down and writes a letter to Mrs.
Jones and relates what arguments
brought HER husband to terms.
In this column we treason
sweetly together-and sometimes,
not so sweetly. But we do not,
under any circumstances, turn
over the address Of "Blue Eyes" to
"Ex-Soldier Boy" This has been
stated innumerable times. Yet,
since a letter signed "Disappoint-
ed" was published in this column
on August %, nine young men
have written offering to marry
Disappointed"
One has sent a letter Of recon-
mendation, signed by his former
army chaplain, vouching for "the
good character and manliness Of
-" Another enclosed his
bank book, forgot his address.
which l am now asking for, as I
prefer to return his bank book to
him rather than to the bank.
These proposals have been de-
stroyed and ! hope the writers will
meet fine worthy girls who will
make them happy. The number Of
men who have written to "Disap-
pointed" proves conclusively that
girls of high ideals would be as
popular as the "vamp" type if
there was any way of discovering
them.
But like Wordsworth's heroine
who "dwelt among untrodden
ways" the very home-loving quail
ties Of such girls make them diff
cult to discover. And there is no
overlooking the young woman
whose personality has the hoarse
shrek of a "calliope"-the circus
steam piano-if you don't recall
that instrument of torture. She
is easy to find, and she has 'the
free-to-aIl smile" we've heard so
much about lately.
But girls like Disappointed" !"
and "GiTl From the Golden West"
are Well worth taking the time and
trouble to look for and incidentally
one is not apt to find them where
the jazz band blares loudest or in
the neighborhood Of Washington's
"great white way"
wish girls would find it in their
hearts to be kinder to soldier boys
who have genuinely suffered in the
war. These first years Of adjust
ment are doubly hard to men who
have lost sight, an arm, or a leg.
Of course, no one thinks Of them
but as heroes whom it is an honor
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What's Doing; Where; When
To-day.

TOday.
Address-By the Rev. c. ". Norman,
Foundry n. 2. Church, D. m
Dsncs-Blue Triangle Recreation Csnter,
Twentieth and B streets northwest. 1880
,. m.
Dance-UndeF auspices OF Government
Recreation League Fort MyeF, Va & .. N.
Dance-Under auspices Of Government
Recreation League. QuantlLo. Va, .. m.
Moving Picturog-Blue Triangle Recrea-
ton Center. TWentieth and B streets north
west, p. m.
Danee-Central High School Community
Center, Thirteenth street and Florida
avenue northwest, $3.50 p. N.
Danee--Cslvert Club. II Dupont Circle
northwest, p, m.
Aeeting-William B. Cushing Camp No.
80, Sons Of Veterans, Pythian Temple, 8
p. m.
carnival-Petworth Woman'6 Club, ct
Eighth and shepherd streets, D. m
&sstiaS-WsGt Virginia Society," Thom-
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TODAY'S TOPIC
NO INTRODUCTIONS GIVEN

right one is wsiting-iust give
fate q little time.
DOes Net Want to EnteFtaln Hin
NlghtIy.
DEAR MISS FAIRFAX:
I have been going with a young
man for two years. We have al
ways had enjoyable times togeth-
er, going on picnics, excursions,
and theater parties and the like,
until here lately.
While ! was on my vacation he
called on another girl. He told
me he took her to the theater, on
a picnic. and called on her several
times. Since ! came home all he
wants to do is either 60 to the
movies or stay at home. He hasn't
asked me to 80 any place since
I've been back. What do you think
10 the cause Of this? What would
you advise me to do. / don't want
to sit home and entertain him
every night? thought maybe he
was tired OF my company, but he
insists on seeing me. Please ad-
wise me on this matter.
DOROTHY.
l do not want to misjudge you,
my dear Dorothy, but aren't you
more interested in the picnics, ex-
cursions, theater, and other places
Of amusement to which the young
man takes you than you are In the
young man himself?
Perhaps he has discovered this
and is trying you out, or he may
have decided to keep a bank ae-
count. II his presence actually
bores you, it as always possible to
have another engagement.
MY! What q Fortunate Young MAJ.
DEAR MISS FAIRFAX:
1 have read Revenues" letter
and the answers. am a man
twcnty-eight years OF age. I have
been in forty OF the forty-eight
States, Old Mexico. and France.
Have my own Cadillac automobile
and chauffeur, and have always had
all the money could spend.
There are plenty OF the "old-
fashioned" girls with the smile for
all, but they are not on the corner
of F street and Ninth, nor at the
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Beatrice Fairfax Writes THE Problems and the War Workers
Especially for Washington Women

public dances. But II Revenue
would like to meet some OF them, ]
would say Join some OF the nice
clubs, go TO some or the dances at
the better hotels, and he viii ind
the old-fashioned sweet girls. Please
do not think there are none OF the
old-fashioned girls who got TO the
public dances. for I know quite. =
few that have been
Sometimes get in my car and
drive down F street and pick up
girls. and there are plenty OF them
waiting to be picked up. don't
quarrel with their type, however, aS
have deliberately sought them.
HAPPY.
Testimony Of q Sailor.
DEAR MISS FAIRFAX:
I have been very interested In
the man that calls himself 'Reve-
nue." and also the young lady,
Miss D. c."
Miss Fairfax. ! think Miss D. c.
is right as to what she told this
fellow Revenue" I imagine he is
the sort that expects to walk Ninth
street and pick up a nice girl for q
companion. The reason he has not
found one Is he has not looked in
the proper places for them.
I don't mean to say that ] am a
sissy. have just been discharged
from the United States navy, and
have knocked about nearly all over
the world with the OUTFIT, and have
also fought in the ring for navy
honors.
II is often said that It IL hard for
a sailor to meet a nice girl but
don't believe it. I have served q
hitch in the navy and have met as
many nice girls as ever wanted to
meet. but not like these Ninth street
kind.
Please tell Miss D. c. that I think
she has written the best article I
have read SO far, and please write
some more. AN EX-GOB.
A valuable sugEestioa.
DEAR MISS FAIRFAX:
read your articles with much in
terest, and also the letters OF war
workers and others. Much is said
about this girl and that young man;
their strong points and their weak
points. Now, my idea OF an attrac-
tive person Is an intelligent person
one with ideas and the ability to
express them in correct English. II
young people would spend less time
In dance halls and more time in
storing their minds with good
thoughts, they would have fewer
things to regret when old age comes
upon them. They would agree with
Aristotle that education is an oFna-
ment in prosperity and a. refuge in
advsrsity.
II young people would read with
pencil in hand, noting down i'm
portant ideas and expressions, their
minds would soon be storehousss
Of great value and Il would be a
pleasure to talk with them: an
evening spent in their company
would not be wasted, and they
would always be In good company
even when alone. c. F. W.
This, like the advice OF the lady
who said she was never lonely, be-
cause she turned 20 books and
found delightful people always
ready 10 entertain her, Is . highly
valuable suggestion. Perhaps some
Of our correspondents will write
and tell as about books they found
especially helpful
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son School, Twelfth and L streets north
west, 8 .. m.
Meeting-Washington Writers League
Public Library. ,. m.
Concert-Unlted States SoIdisrT HON,
Band, bGndstand, Soldiers Home, 6 D. NJ
fom0EPoW.
ExcurGion-Plate PriuterS' IIsien Lea
No. 2, TO Chesapeake Beach.
PieAie-Arkansas State Society. at Grea
Falls, Va. special train from GeoFEeteWI
Bridge station At D. m
ConcsFt-Unlted States MaFins Rand
The Ellipse, ,. m.
Danee-Fort Washington, under diree
ton OF the Government Rsereation League
8 p. m.
bance-centTal High School Cornpaunit,
Center. Thirteenth street and Fiorida ave
nue. northwest, $3.50 p. m
Boat Trtp-DoWn Potonaae PfVaP uade
direction ot 6OvoEnmAnt RScFenfina taaEie
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to know, but these boys are ab-
normally sensitive, bear in mind.
They dislike the consideration that
their infunities demand. After a
while time-that all-healing un-
guent-will work miracles, but
now they want-help.
A Soldiers Letter.
DEAR MISS FAIRFAX:
For several years the writer has
been interested in your daily talks
and advice, and the time has ar
rived when I. too, seek your ad-
vice and, I suppose, sympathy.
The great war did not end with
out visiting its tragedy on me. I
lost an eye in the service of my
country, and now I feel that am
an outcast. Some of my friends
say that am too sensitive about II,
but when 1 see that am Stunned,
bitter thoughts run through my
mind.
have been going with a young
lady who has gradually become In
different to me, and ] believe she
feels ashamed Of me. She wrote me
upward of fifty letters, and the
most recent ones are cold and un-
feeling and now for several weeks
she has not written at all.
have been too. proud to ask the
reason why because my conclu-
sions are as above stated. wish
you would tell me what can be
done, ir anything.
FoRLoRN.
Your friends are right, you are
sensitive-morbidly sensitive, / am
afraid. Perhaps can answer you
best by telling you of something
/ saw in New York two or three
weeks ago. Some one was leading
a blind young soldier across Fifth
avenue during the rush hour, and
when the crowd recognized his in
trinity, every vehicle stopped till
he had crossed and off came every
hat. The attendant told the SOL
der, he turned and saluted. don't
believe there were many dry eyes
in the crowd.
The girl you speak Of lust isn't
worthy Of you. l am sure the
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E. ". OYSTER, the eminent pro-
hibitiOnist, was buying cider q few
days ago.
MAYO DUDLEY wants to know II
you cork the bottle after the yeast
Is dropped In or notl
ED McoUADE bought a pair Of tea
houses. the other day, but sold one
right away. Not that he likes tea so
much, but he's q shark on real es-
tate.
JOHN EDWARDS, our popular
broker. is doing a lot Of fixing up in
his office.
ED STOCK has q swell lot Of mel
ons out to his place on the Bradley
Hills frontier, but he's got six less
than he had since .Theo. Tfller, the
writer, and ye ed. visited the Stock
farm this week.
CHARLIE EVANS, the welI-knoWn
detective, is looking happy these
days.
CHARLIE ROGERS is ditto.
KENNETH L FRYE called on US
the other day. He's doing we'll.
Ye Ed was out gas stoVing at
CHARLIE RAYS place Of business
yesterday.
AVON d. NEVIUS, the handsome
but hard-shelled bachelor, has sue
cumbed. At home notices sent later.
FRANK HOGAN has been giving
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Some one left IL Croix Dc GuefEs
In san KAPLAE'S taxicab about
ten days agO. Sam drives for tie
Congressional Auto Co. and has
been looking for the owner q
that cross without any luck
Whoever lest it can have Il by
Identifying IL / have Il now, and
Sam Is willing that / should hand
It ever to tie solder Who oNnsIL
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lecture on J. Skelt Williams this past
few days.
J. L JOHNS uses some Of "a
schWartz's real estate and insuranes
stationery to send as soms cigar
store coupons to be turned into
smokes for soldiers.
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DON'T GIVE UP-KEEP HOPPING ALONG.
(Contfnued Fyom First Column)

Continued First COumn)
II You ask any Failure what it that started him
down hill he viii tell you that he got discouraged
II YOU ask drmkard why he started drinking, in
ninety cases out of hundred he viii ten you that luck
against him
There is no handicap too great to be overcome
Socrates was umdersized and ugly, but he to Be
called by Cicero ''the Father Of Philosophy"
Milton was blind and Dante was invalid Pope and
Aesop were hunchbacks.
There are thousands Of and women who have made
life worth while for themselves and for others despite phy
cal defects and in the face of seemingly great disadvantages
You can overcome almost any handicap Men who have
come back from the with missing legs shattered
or sight forever gone teaching lesson Of courage
and showing how ashamed should be to fater stop
when we have all that nature gave as to work with.
Sergeant Gray showed the right spirit he was bound
to win. he wouldn't Be discouraged.
Initiate him Don't give up Keep hopping along.
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The reason he hasn't been men
toned before is because he has Just
arrived from Wilmington. But Il
there ever is a prize offered for the
landsOmest drug clerk, c. HAR-
RELL, Of Liggett's, 18th St and Pa.
We, viii take it. C. l. s.
"A Friend and Customer" nomi-
rates for Handsome Drug Clerk the
following trio:
DR.. C. E. Wiernick, Thompso,,s
Willie Fields.
Manager Hickman, Drug Store
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HEARD AND SEEN

z. ". OYSTER, the eminent pro-
hibidOnist, was buying cider q few
days ago.
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Don't Give Up-Keep Hopping
Along
Along

One-Legged Sergeant Harry Gray Shows You How to
Win Whatever Race You Are In.
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MAYO DUDLEY wants to know II
you cork the bottle after the yeast
Is dropped In or notl
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1919-02-18

W. I. HUNT & co.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1919-02-18
SHELBURNE
How to Make Bright Tobacco

There is always room at the top
and high prices for bright tobacco.
This is the year to make a bright
crop; to do this we must have early
plants. One bag of our Tobacco
Plant Food, sowed over a bed nine
feet wide and 200 feet long, and
raked in with small hand rake,
will give you strong, healthy plants
two to three weeks sooner
Two hundred pounds of our Gem
Bright Leaf Tobacco Grower, drilled
in or by the side of the row, will
give your tobacco a start and make
an early, fine, bright crop, and pay
on any land.
The highest average crop sold on
our floor this season was the crop
of j. C. Gragg & Mcintyre, who used
our Gem Tobacco Fertilizer. This
crop sold on our last sale at an av-
erage of 1885, including all grades.
We sell only the V. C. Fertilizers,
made by the Virginia Carolina Chem
zeal Company, the largest manufac-
turers of Fertilizers in the world,
men that L have known all my life
and can vouch for.
Many people have tried this Fer
tilizer in this section and continue
to use it. Last season Mike Thorn
ton burnt and sowed bed on the
Clay farm without fertilizer; Robert
Stivers and Waller Rodes prepared
one, using our Fertilizer; both beds
same size and sowed on the same
day. They tell me they had plants
from two to three weeks sooner, and
furnished Thornton and others with
plants. Beds should be rolled or
tramped, possibly several times ear
ly in the season. Crops should be
rotated. Tobacco cures brighter
following corn than any other crop.
viii ship direct to any parties
wishing to use it.
SILAS SHELBURNE.
(Adv.) Lexington, Ky
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MONTGOMERY SOLDIER
LOSES LEG IN ACTION

Word has been received here that
William Mcclure, formerly of Mont
gonery county, had been wounded
so severely by machine gun fire on
October s, that it was necessity to
amputate his leg. He has been IN a
hospital in France until recently,
when he was brought to this country
and is now in a military hospital in
New York. Mr.. Mcclure went into
action October 6, and was wounded
two days later. His parents, Mr..
and Mrs. J. E. Mcclure, formerly
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DIES IN CLARK

As we go to press we learn thai
Mr.. Andy Hampton, aged so years,
died at his home in Clark County,
this morning of the infirmities Incl
dent to his advanced age. Deceased
is survived by his wife and many
other relatives. He was one Of the
richest men in Clark county, leaving
an estate mostly in land in this and
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on : : a Gay Il Ii1n I ioox possible.
That's what told myself
when they began talking about
Liberty Bonds and Thrift Stamps.
am patriotic. wanted to help
win the war, but it seemed impos-
sible to stretch our wages beyond
the food and clothes and coal.
The missus agreed with me but
we kept thinking about it and
talking about it and finally we be-
gan to figure. Well, it's a long
story and l can't remember 1t all.
1t just semed to happen. First I
cut out the Sunday cigar and
later the old pipe. Mother gave
cup a feather she wanted, forgot
the movies and cut down on the
food trimmin's. The kids went
barefoot a little longer.
I'VE plunged and bought First
Liberty Loan Bond and paid for
1t, So a week. We didn't miss a
week. I'll never forget the fam
lily jubilee when / brought home
that beautiful $50 bond. The
youngsters jumped up and down
and Ma and were some proud.
THAT was the beginning. The
four of US had got the bug. We
haven't missed an issue. We now
own $3.50 worth of those bonds
and are paying on our fourth one.
Think Of me clipping coupons!
II don't seem real. OF course, we
have been in a terrible war, but II
1t has taught many people how to
save as it has US, it has done a
wonderful thing. We're going to
keep right on and | hope thereu
be more bonds and stamps. We
sort of need something 10 force us
TO save even now and the thought
that we are helping Uncle Sam
helps push"
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lived near Camargo, but moved to
Woodford county several months
ago. He is grandson of William
Sledd and a nephew of Miss Georgia
Sledd, school superintendent of this
County.
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NOTICE

We have passed examinations at
the Kentucky Agricultural Expert
ment College, as required by law, for
the testing of cream, and milk, and
are, therefore, duly qualified and Ii
censed to operate cream buying
station.
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Some Crop Averages Monday and Tuesday

Mcdonald & Curtis, 332290 10 s. - 1888
Crockett & Robinson, 5000 ID $500. GILT
Byrd & Gopher, 3O85 lbs. ..-.-... TAG
C. L. Cartmell, 1915 fbs .............. COST
Spratt & Spratt, 1856 lbs. .... 1884
Hardwick & Foley, 374O TBS. ...-... 51.56
John McVey, 1875 lbs. ..-.... 66.25
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Hardwick & Alexander, 1906 II IS. $50. go
Ramsey & Willoughby, 1920 lbs. 1914
Thompson & Cline, 1880 lbs. .... $3.50
Pieratt & Son, 2040 TBS. . 1890
Prewitt & Chandler, 1900 TBS. - 7766
White & Eastin, 229O TBS. .--.-.---- 6537
Whitsett & Lykins, 1890 lbs. ... 67S3
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MILLWORKER TELLS
THE 1919 VERSION OF
BREAD UPON WATERS
THINK OF NE CLIPPING co.,
PoNs," HE SAYS. ait DOESN'T
SEEM REAL"

- n Asst thy bread upon
! !; ! s ! ! ! I: :: :: :
~ <&<H the waters. for thou
: FGW ~ shalt find 1t after
4&GA--S2Y many days"
EAt-1tSS Millions of Amerl-
xrV#kS ~ ans can today testi-
~XkHyEY fy to the truth Of
this promise. They
have learned that the principle is
operative now as well as then.
Millions who never had a savings
account have been induced by patriot
ism to save their pennies and their
dollars. AS a result they now own
government securities and belong to
the coupon clipping class. A start
toward financial independence has al
most miraculously come from some
thing that all their lives they have
been throwing away. They have
learned the possibilities of thrift and
are better citizens.
A typical experience was told the
other day by day laborer in a
Youngstown manufacturing plant.
Here is his story practically in his
own words:
up to two years ago | didn't
have and | never hoped to have a
cent saved. With a wife and two
kids and little home to keep up
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Old papers for sale. Apply to
this office.
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The ladies Of the Christian church
viii serve dinner at Ringo's Cafe
Friday and Saturday, and Sunday
Supper. Splendid menu.
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1919-11-13
EDWARD I. BURKE
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Tribune Block Bismarck. N. D.
Sensible View Of Heath.

II a sound mind and rational habits
10 so much to keep the body sound,
and. IL nature unaided cnn cure most
ii our c,lr,,ble ills, life Is fairer deal
iOs all of us than 1t has sometimes
seemed. OF course. 1t Is not SO easy
rs 1t sounds TO put fear and worry,
narrowing love affairs and destructive
.''l'o.i"lls-lhatred and envy-put Of
mind. But IL this is done we must do
1t ourselves. Doctors cannot do 1t for
us. ana realization that the matter OF
health is largely In our own hands
must contribute to the wlser ordering
of lifc.--Chicago Daily News.