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The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1919-10-03
FIGHTING SOCIAL DISEASES

Insanity resulting from syphilis is
costing the United States many mil
lions of dollars yearly, and, of that
sum the State of Washington is pay
ing its part" says w. NJ. Van Patten,
of the United States Public Health
Service. This organization is cooper
ating with Washington State Health
department in the movement for the
control and prevention of venereal dis
eases in this state.
"There were 10000 insane persons
in the United States few years ago"
continues Major Van Patten. "The
number has probably increased slight
ly. Estimating the proportion of in
sanity due to syphilis as II per cent,
very conservative estimate, there
are 81 900 persons confined in various
mental hospitals of the country be-
cause of syphilis.
"Known authorities say it costs on
the average 1891 to care for each
syphilitic insane person from the on
set of the disease until death. If so,
the cost of caring for the 21,600 in
sane persons reaches the stupendous
total of Ss4 ,913, 920. Carry the figures
further and estimate the life expect
ancy' of each insane patient, the
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1919-10-03
ANIMALS CAN RIDE VIA. PARCEL
DIGIT

Fido, taby and all of the fowl and
domestic animal creation within
measurement restrictions, are now eli
gible to ride via. parcel post provid-
ing their destination can be reached
within AZ hours, if Geographic advices
received from Chicago last Saturday
are correct. Postmaster Carlisle of
Chicago has been notified of lowering
of the parcel post bars, but official
word has not yet been received in
Spokane. 1t is expected by mail within
a few days.
Up to the present time day-old
chicks and queen bees have been the
only members of the animal kingdom
allowed to be transported by parcel
post" said Postmaster Dana Child of
Spokane. "But if Chicago advices are
correct we shall soon be handling pets
and barnyard fowls in crates and
cages coming within the package size
prescribed by the government. No
tice of the change will probably come
by mail from the postmaster general
within few days"
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1919-10-03
POLITICAL PARAGRAPHS

The pro-German bugaboo has been
brought out again by Secretary Ba-
ker to scare congress to espousal of
his cause. This time he assures the
members of the house with great grav-
ity that if the American troops are
withdrawn from Russia the Huns will
gain control of that country. AS a
matter of fact, the Germans, in the
belief of congress, are beaten and
without power to harm any nation for
some time to come, and our troops
should be relieved from the duty of
fighting people with which we are
not at war.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1919-10-03
WHY LUMBER INDUSTRY INTER.
ESTS YOU

Last year the lumber industry in
Oregon and Washington cut total of
1918, 373,000 feet, with an approx
mate average value of $25 per M feet;
or an aggregate value of $182,834, 1926.
Fully sixty per cent of this money
was returned to the two states in the
form of payrolls and 25 per cent was
spent for material and supplies, in
Guiding machinery, wire rope equip
ment of all kinds, and other costs of
doing business. This item also COW
ers taxes and insurance paid and
freight. The remaining Is per cent
of the return pays for the logs and
provides whatever profits the mill
operators make.
About 10000 men are employed in
the lumber industry proper, which
includes logging as well as lumber
manufacturing, but does not include
such closely allied dependent indus
tries as wooden ship building, furni-
ture manufacturing, sash and door
manufacturing, and various wood
working activities; neither does it in
clude shingle manufacturing, in which
industry from $4,000 to 10000 more
men are employed.
From $85,0O0,O0O to $100,000,000
is invested in logging and mill equip
ment. These figures, of course, do
not include the value of standing tim
Der.
These few figures will give you
little idea of just what you have at
stake in our lumber industry whether
you are directly connected with it or
not, for any industry which furnishes
employment for upwards of 100000
men in a sparsely settled country di-
rectly effects the business prosperity
of all of us,
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1919-10-03

tens of thousands of men, women and
children large part of the year.
Loganberries are surprising hops
IN profits to growers and failures in
this crop are unknown. From $500 to
$1,000 an acre net to the grower is
the ordinary normal yield.
Any man can get into the business
from a quarter acre up, as it not a
business requiring vast expenditures
of capital to start.
The chance is here and millions are
at stake.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1919-10-03

amount that person would earn should
he not have become a care on the
state, and an economic loss of S45S,-
43S, 900 is suffered.
"Yet insanity is but a minor com
plication of syphilis, kidney trouble,
diseases of the liver, deafness, blind
ness and paralysis are other and more
usual results.
1.-THE remedy? Fight conditions
which lead to immortality and vice,
fight to control and prevent vencreal
diseases, throw aside the veil of false
modesty which has covered this sub
iect, aid in the campaign for free
venereal disease clinics and support
the state and federal government in
the never ceasing battle to wipe out
the social disease scourge."
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1919-10-03
MILLIONS IN BERRY CROPS

The fruit industry in Oregon and
Washington has at last been put on
a staple basis thru the development Of
frvi iuics. preserving, canning and
other packing industries which insure
a ready market for the growers pro-
ducts.
As usual, it took individual inltia-
tive and enterprise to bring this about
The pioneers in the fruit juice industry
in the northwest had the courage to
spend money advertising loganberry
Juice and apple juice. 1t was hard
null but the product was good and
the demand grew until this year the
public asked for more than could be
had.
The market has been created. Hun
dreds of thousands of dollars are be-
ing spent in advertising to tell the
world about our wonderful fruit pro-
ducts. The farmer is getting the di-
rect benefit from this campaign for
IL is making market for his berries
and other fruits and vegetables faster
than he can produce.
The pioneers in the manufacturing
end have created the market and the
question now is, will the growers fur
nish the raw material fast enough to
keep pace with the demand.
Every community should interest IT.
self in seeing that increased berry
acreage is put out, for this will mean
more juice factories, canneries, evapo-
rators, packing plants, etc. This in
dustrw will furnish healthy work for
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1919-10-03
WIND BLOWS FORTUNE AWAY

Saturdays windstorm caused dam
age of close to 100000 done in or
chards of Yakima district alone, with
a corresponding amount in the lower
valley. Some orchardists report half
the crop on the ground. Mob Hill sec
ton, where Jonathans are ripe for
picking, suffered much, with lesser
losses in Rome Beauties and Winesaps,
which were loading the trees heavily.
Apples worth $50 ton two days ago
are now on the ground as windfall
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1919-10-03

Private estimates of Washington
1919wheat crop have fixed the total
at 55,35O,0OO bushels, or about TO-
100000 more bushels than ever pro-
duced in the state. The estimated
value is well over S100,000,0O0
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1919-10-03

AS the result of the resignation of
Secretary of Commerce Redfield it is
gradually coming out that he was be-
ing undermined in his influence by
the efforts of Director of Railways
Hines, assisted by the presidents SON
in-law, ex-Secreary of the Treasury
McAdoo. He formed commission to
regulate steel prices, and after all his
pains Hines refused to abide by it..
Piqued by the president refusal to
take his part against the attitude of
a lesser official he quit
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1919-10-03

The use of the pro-German bugaboo
is popular. President Wilson has
utilized it on the stump in the west
to seriously assure his countrymen
that German influences are at work
to defeat the ratification of the
treaty as it stands. Representative
Helfin of Alabama followed the chief
executives appeal by another of his
own in the house in which he alleged
that pro-German influences are behind
the fight made by republican senators
and some of the democratic members
of that body to protect American
rights through amendments and res
ervations. Meanwhile the senate pro-
ceeds to read into the treaty that the
United States should be as influential
in it as Great Britain.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1919-10-03
PAGE THREE

eulls, worth only S12 to SIC ton.
The wind is reported to have been ex-
ceptionally severe in the Prosser and
Sunnyside districts.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1919-10-03

Experts at Anacortes announce that
unless the industry is restored by ar
tificial propagation, the salmon in
dustry will be wiped out altogether.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1919-10-03

Two hundred and twenty tons of
green pepers were produced in the
Yakima valley this summer.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1919-10-03

The Echo takes orders for anything
in the Rubber Stamp line. Careful
attention and prompt delivery. ha1tf"
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1919-10-03

Try Want AID in The Echo.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1919-10-03

"Contemptible CUTTERS" says the
president of certain opposing sena-
tors. AS result, they are now ask
ing him whether he was quite as con-
temptible in quitting his fourteen
points which he declared after the
armistice that American soldiers had
fought to uphold. They are asking
him where are his freedom of the
SEAS" "self determination" and also
his "peace without annexations."
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1919-10-03

In resigning the office of civil SER
vice commissioner, Charles M. Gallo
way made the statement that his res
ignation was forced because | would
not cooperate with Postmaster Cen
eral Burleson in debauching the civil
service and making a sham of the
merit system Herman w. Craven,
the republican member, apd l, DEM
ocrat, were ousted form the commits
sion because we were not willing that
the commission should be a mere adj
iunct of the postoffice department and
subse1vient to it, especially with ref
erence to the examinations for presi-
Dental postmasters." Representative
Halvor Stevenson, chairman of the
house committe on postoffices and
post roads, has introduced a resolu-
ton providing for the nomination of
the three members of the civil service
commission by the supreme court OF
the United States in order that Post
master General Burleson my no Ion
ger connive at the defeat of the pur-
poses of the merit system.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1919-10-03

Representative Frederick w. Dali
linger, of Massachusetts,, has intro
duced bill in the house providing for
a restoration to the colors and gen.
eral amnesty to all soldiers and ma
rines who have been prosecuted, con-
victed and sentenced by court
tial. He does not include those who
would have been sentenced in a civil
court as of a felony. He would have
all others then honorably discharged
and given all forfeitures of pay. He
proposes that every right of citizen
ship be restored. A board of Glenn
ency is created to review all court
martial cases since April 6, 1917.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1919-10-03

All first-class mail matter depos-
tied in any postoffice for delivery
within the limits of that post post
office district will be carried hereafter
at the rate of one cent for each ounce
or fraction thereof, if a bill intro
duced by Representative Martin B.
Madden, of Illinois, republican men,
Der of the committee on post office
and post roads, is enacted into law.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-08-08
KEEP COOL AND STEADY.

These are irving times All the world is restless strlv
ing for something better striving sometimes without any very
definite oa1sve mainly protest against what Is be-
ieve - nstiee and oppression from men who seek to
carita she Desperate needs 81 all the people to their nd
vidual rro1t prophets arise among us promising
eFerthine %he IN nothing but make disturbance Let
keer cool
Protee-S abroad They found among manufactur
sx and wholesalers and retailers and The u
mate consumer the ultimate every time-and all OF
as consumers railroad magnates to pckand shovel
lahcrers Individual groups and then make unusual
demands and may happens create serous dsocaon
of day living All Of have To help pay the bill
The government appears to be dong everything hat can
be done poeer but the task will require time
Conditions which followed the cannot be overcome
in a day History Of other afterwar periods which
prone to forget shows like conditions with those confront
u.s. like disturbances On the whole fundamen
tally better off than in similar period in own national
history and better off than other nation today We shall
be able by patient and persistent effort to over
come the evils which distress
But the historical thoughess criminal individual who
seeks crock this critical time should be sterny
repressed Violence right will accomplish less good and
more harm than ordinarily; disorders will only postpone the
day of final reimbursement.
IF our government. which brought safely through the
pers cannot bring safely through present dan
keen ourselves steady steadnes to neghbor and
hold fast faith in the ultimate triumph of justice and
right II is the way ont Of our difficulties.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-08-08

Only few days ago. tho Repuoh-
49, engaged in trying TO discover
80 athtnR scandalous about the man
eGement OF the war departments
hudness were delighted by finding
several soldiers who deposed that
f,sey had assisted In burning about
lee American airplanes in France;
the soldiers giving the opinion that
5nome at ieast Of the machines were
spoevfceable. The anti administration
1net1onists Immediately jumped to the
alDa9Acy to bull the airplane market
III the United States and they con-
#o1Afuiated one another with great
warmth on having at last found
sGomething tangible to kick about
they were a triie premature Col
Mason NJ. Patrick. formerly a brI-
sSndisr general. In letter to Repre-
ontative Flood OF Virginia, shows
1T while the soldiers told the truth
Bn10ut what they actually observed
sES4Y went far astray In their opinions
: ~ airpianes destroyed were not
an1e. ~ Col. Patrick shows by the
|nrest evidence; they could not be
E1G ~ al In France for any price:
1 souid not be shipped back To the
okn1 States except through an out
~ Hundreds Of dollars for each
nfDe WITH the certainty that they
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-08-08

The first edition of the Weekly Jazz
having sold out SO quickly and the
demand for more being so pressing
we feel that instead of weekly jazz
we shall issue a semi-weekly jazz
Wen see how the dose takes. and
II Cliff We'll will tell his distributors
not to put the Jazz under the counter
when thousands call for 1t, we shall
be satisfied that we have done the
populace good turn.
For instance, friend of ourn went
out the other day to get copy OF
the first issue, but he couldn't And
one. He went to a place where we
hang out. and where the Jazz is in
sight while We are there, and couldn't
get a copy That was a mean trick,
for the man in making his returns
sent back six Jazzez and wanted his
money back. because he says nobody
wants it.
If Cliff will ony insist that his
menials put the Jazz WHARF it can
be saw. and let ever one who wants a
copy get it, he will be making more
money than he can count in one game
of penuckle. or whatever that pastime
rooms at the jefferson instead of one
at a time.
We will he like the railroad men
and say that if the Jazz is not placed
in a conspicuous place among the sal
able and portable places we viii not
let anybody handle 1t but Levy.
And speaking about Levy that re-
minds us that we saw Kelly Jacobs
coming down the street the other day
with bouquet in his bouunier, with
a red shaded kimonaish looking shirt
waste and a two-flfty Panama. BY
consulting our barometer we found
that it meant there would be a decid-
ed fall in temperature and that last
years kimonas that were selling for
four forty would pretty soon be mark
ed down to two-twenty.
The styles, however. we have been
informed by the young man .whc
cleans out our hat every year for the
past decade, will be blue overalls
in honor of the railroad strike.
SO far as we are concerned the rail
! road strike won't interfere with our
travel. And we get our watermelons
and SIGH from Hanover gentle
man. that cost Just as much as II
| there were no strike.
The ony thing we object to Is
/ helping to pay Tom Morton's prince
| ly salary, when he forgot to phone US
all about that meeting OF Gus Royals
club when we set up the greater part
of the night to walt for him. He must
keep late hours, or such.
II this strike keeps up much
| longer, we will be able to buy sec
! ond hand railroad passes from Sam
| Bachrack, or Sam Steiner Of some o.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-08-08
THE WEEKLY JAZZ
Blue Pencilled by the Man About Town

Shirt Waist club. He was seen en-
was around here. He would give us
one.
It's a good thing they amt making
beer now, for none of the old scouts
would sell Louie Wendenburg a
schooner, for it is rumored he went
dry
bot of Budd on hand and have Louie
as a guest for the evening Anyway.
Reverting to buttermilk. how would
nice piece of sweet potato pie at
five cents per. and ar schooner of
Al buttermilk at five cents per
schooner go in this hot weather?
We withdraw this question, for 1t
is a foolish one.
There Amt any more fve-cent pie
and buttermilk amt like it used to
be, at five cents per small glass.
If a man makes his own pie. how
can he charge you for the middle
mans profit? We pause for reply.
IF ham is sixty cents pound at
the stockyard, and bread is five cents
a slice at the mill, and egges are sixty
cents a dozen at the barnyard. how
much would a cheese sandwich cost
The landlord had our front fence
painted, ard now we are looking for
Bill Toler to tell us the nationality
Of the finger prints on the nice new
wall paper in the front hallway.
Lee Roden Is still member Of the
Shirt Waste club. He was seen en-
tering Harry Pollard's private ONCE.
Now look out for a big real estate
deal on Chamberlayne avenue. As
Mister Roden succeeded In getting
that 100000 per annum, what is he
goner do with all OF it
Ask c. c. Jones and T. r. Morton
and John Moore and Harvey Atkinson
and Joe Powers and Billy Workman
and Joe Nunnally but don't men
ton II to Jesse Ladd.
We herewith put in a bid for sl0o
worth for a good crossing near ouI
domicile.
If this gets by good, we will appear
again on Monday.
Fl T.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-08-08
WET CHALMERS" BUSY OVER PRIMARY RESULTS

tor in the campaign had no relation
whatever to prohibition. incidents OF
the contest for the house of dele
gates two years ago having been up
permost in the discussions on the
stump and in the streets.
The successful aspirant for the house
la Hanover King William district lis an
out and out supG orter of the plan for
strict enforcement of the prohibition
law. In Albemarle. normally wet,
one OF the two successful candidates
for the house is strongly in favor of
the prohibition department In
Louisa, where Mr.. Gordon was re-
himself opposed to the prohibition
department. his long record as a dry
gave him marked advantage over
his opponent whose views were less
well known.
so 1T goes throughout the state.
The effort to make capital out of the
results for those who would like TO
see all bars let down and liquor ad-
mttted to the state over every ave-
nue. of traffic is sadly strained. But,
Just RS a drowning man will grab at a
straw, so doomed business holds
with the strength of despair to any
thing that appears at all like thread
of hope
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-08-08
Brunswick Stew
(Covington virginian.)


Now that the ides of August drift
around and corn and tomatoes and
old time butter beans and fat young
pullets and tender young squirrel are
simply running into the pot, the same
old question Of how brunswick ste"
o. 'ginated is again being asked.
Brunswick stew had its origin
through the sheer laziness OF two or
party Of hunters who annually went
camping in Brunswick county, Vir-
e MIA, nearly a century ago. Each
day two of the party remained IN
camp and broiled the chickens and
Squirrels, roased the ears of corn.
stewed the tomatoes and boiled the
butter beans. When the turn OF the
lazy pair came they dumped every
thing in the pot together, got drunk
and spent the day drinking juleps
and playing draw poker while the
pot boiled and boiled and boiled. Re-
turning to the camp that night the
hunters were at first Disguised with
the performance of their comrades.
But they were so hungry one of them
showed a dfbper into what he called
the mess" and filled deep tureen-
A dash of salt and pepper, and my.
no longer were the lazy ones damned!
They became heroes. fro. Brunswick
stew besame famous, and the story
OF how 1t originated spread all over
the state. and then into the Caroli-
mas and Georgia and Alabama and
Mississippi, ending with an abrupt
stop against the State Line OF Louis
lana. where you can get a fight any
day by merely suggesting that any
thing coming out OF q pot ts better
tn N Creole Gumbo..
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-08-08
ADDED TESTIMONY THAT
RAISER BADLY INFORMED

Berlin, Aug. Germany might
still be monarchy had the high com
mand told the. ex-kaiser the truth OF
the army's attitude on November 8,
1918, "a day before the German revo-
lutionl instead Of the following day.
according to Prince Max of Baden,
former imperial chancellor. who
makes public a dialogue he had with
the kaiser over>the telephone. The
prince writes:
THE kaiser was awfully badly in
formed. He promised military action
against the rebellious elements in Ber-
lin, he refused to consider my pro-
posals for his abdication.
IF he had been letter informed he
certainly would have offered to abdi-
cate: then the majority socialists
would have been able to keep the
workmen on their jobs in the fac
tories and the uproar on November 8
would have been confined to the radi-
calls, and the Berlin troops would have
been more relia BILE"
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-08-08
THOSE WASTED" AIRPLANES.

would not bring enough to pay the
cost. When these things had been
ascertained beyond all doubt. the
planes were stripped of every disable
part and what was left of them was
destroyed,
The FIRST account of the burning
caused quite an outburst: indeed
some of the more excitable ragged
nightly And Gutzon Borglum, who
tried TO stir up a scandal in the air
craft service eighteen months ago
promptly bobbed up with photo
graphs OF what he said were parts OF
the destroyed planes; but he could
not say whether the parts belonged
to planes which might have been
used, so he faded cut of the lmelight
again after more than year Of OBJ
iivion
Colonel Patrick's statement can
hardly be questioned. fortified as II Is
by the records II the Republicans
will just stick to their self-appointed
job OF Investigating everything. they
VIII demonstrate finally that the war
was pretty well handled by Americans
as Americans. without regard to
party affiliations.