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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-07

found word for word. and her plan Of
government is strikingly similar. even
to such details as provision for CAPT.
tai which some day is to be built for
the purpose, as Washington was, but
in the central inland district, as
Washington was not
Emergencies due to national tenn
permanent exist. There are no parties
in Brazil. as we know them The
Latin American prefers personal lead
ership to abstract platforms. Thus
opens a fascinating field for the
student who would observe what fruit
two racial branches will bear after
being grated on the same constitu-
tional tree.
Enthusiastically, Brazil has beeu a
boom country, as growing countries
are apt to be, and each boonf-cof-
fee. diamonds, rubber, dye woods,
cotton and goid-added force to the
huge industrial SNOWFALL which is
rolling down to Rio from a hinter-
land of unknown wealth and re-
sources almost as limitless and di-
verse as those of the United States.
Note, too, on your map, that in all
this vast land there are no deserts
like those of Africa; that the mighty
Amazon has some 200 tributaries of
which half now are navigable, and
that the Amazon is but one among
the roster of Brazilian rivers. such
as the Negro. Madeira, the Parana
and the San Francisco"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-07
BRAZIL HAS GREAT
NATURAL WEALTH
Newcomer Among Republics
a Giant and Mixing
Pot of Races.

In connection with the visit to the
United States of the President-e1ec
of Brazil the National Geographic So
ciety has issued the following bulletin
concerning what it terms 1.-The giant
republic of South America:
"Giant-like, but far from sleeping.
our equatorial sister republic is as
large as the entire United States. ex-
cept for Alaska. It borders on every
South American country save Chile;
it has the longest river in the world /;
it has the oldest post-Columbian civ
ilization and is among the newest re-
publics of the western world; and
were it as densely peopled as Massa-
chusetts it's population, now about a
fourth of that of the United States,
would equal that of all Asia. Europe.
Africa and America together.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-07
A Racial Mixing Pot.

IF America is a melting pot Brazil
literally is a mixing pot, for there a
new racial experiment is in process
which would delight a Darwin could
he live for enough centuries to OBJ
serve 1.-THE experiment of literally
mixing ancient Portuguese and pre-
Columbian Indian stock with that Of
other European and North American
peoples. Thus Brazil has outdone our
political democracy in social democ-
racy which does not finch at the acid
test Of intermarriage.
Those who do their armchair travel
ing with only the fiction romancers for
guides, and SO conclude that Latin
America is an area of revolution and
transplanted aristocracy. should read
the history of that comparatively
peaceful. steady evolution OF the
brazilian republic, undisturbed by re-
volts or important civil wars Brazil
constitution is modelled after ours.
Sometimes whole passages Will be
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-07
Got Over His Marrying Craze

Howell-That fellow who just
passed is reformed man.
Powell-Is that SO?
Howell-Yes; / can remember when
he was arrested for bigamy and the
other day he was sued for breach of
promise.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-07
A Different Matter.

Young mani pray you. sir. give
me a moment Of your time
Banker-what is it you want;
money?
Young Man-No. only the hand of
your daughter.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-07

Belgian municipalities have been in
vited to furnish the necessary docu-
Inents to be used in the trial Of Ger
man officers who are alleged to have
committed atrocities during German oc-
cupation of Belgium.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-07
Below Par.

Fizzle-It's a funny thing. I can't
teach this old dog to do anything.
F'ribble-Well. you see. you've got
to know more'n a dog or you can't
learn 'em nothin.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-07

Demonstrations by the populace of
Rio Janeiro recently defeated an eff
fort by the proprietors Of coffee
houses to double the price of the ma
tional drink-coffee.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-12-22
FIRST week, 5 EGGS;
SECOND, 72;TAIRD,Io4
Hens Showed Steady Ess Gain for
Mrs. Pierce In Winter Weather.

''The week before We tried Don Sung
We got 5 eggs from so hens. The
next week, from = 5O-cent package of
Don Sung, we got q eggs. and the
next week lO4. Some of our hens are
mere pullets and Don Sung has
started them lAying."1Mrs. B. F.
Pierce, r. F. d. ], Butler, Tenn.
Mrs. Pierce selected q severe time
for her test-the middle Of January.
Yet she started getting the egEs
promptly. Your hens can lay well, in
cold weather, and we'll. prove It.
Here's our offer:
Give your hens Don Sung and watch
results for one month. If you don't
find that it pays for itself and pays
you good profit besides, simply ten
US and your money will b promptly
refunded.
Don Sung Chinese for ege.hying)
works directly on the sgg.laying or.
cans, and is also . splendid tonic. It
is easily given in the feed. improves
the hens health, makes her stronger
and more active in any weather, and
starts her laying.
Try Don Sung for 80 days and If it
doesn't get you the eggs, no matter
how cold or wet the weather, your
money will be refunded by return
mail. Get Don Sung from your drug
gist or poultry remedy dealer or send
30 cents for . package by mail pre-
paid. Burrell- Digger Co., 284 Colum.
bia Bldg, Indianapolis, Ind.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-12-22
MuNDAY-THE ROCK ISLAND ARGUs-DEcEMBER %, 1919

third, getting 500. There were
also Is gold watches and 4 num-
Der Of handsome silver pencils CIV
en-, each member of the force re-
ceiving something. Ralph Wharf.
the vice president, made The pre-
sentation.
The menu for the banquet cen
tered around the item Roast
young turkey with cranberry sauce"
and more than the usual "fxings"
were in attendance. It was CEN
tainly accorded Justice.
Mcintyre In Chair.
William B. Mcintyre. omciated as
POSTMASTER end called upon the
following guests for talks: Major
Walter A. Rosenield. b. C. Utecht.
Senator Martin r. Carlson, F. W.
Bender, ]. Clinton Searle, George &.
Carter. c. 8. Goodwin, ]. A. McCul-
loch. F. C. Michael. John D. Day.
NJ. S. Heagy, H. Fl. cleveland, ]. l..
Vernon and d. NJ. Boone, secretary
:: inc Henderson, KY, Commercial
club.
At each place on the long tables
was q copy Of the latest issue of the
house organ of the Consumers
Service Station company, Lets
Co." the banquet number. 1t Is a
neat little paper. published by Harry
l.. Roberts, director of publicity.
The, cover. in green and white. with
the menu in the center was very
attractive, while inside the covers
| it Is rife with cartoons, drawings,
articles and pictures Of a pleasing
nature.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-12-22
CHRISTMAS GIVING HAS CHANGED
SINCE CRANDMA'S DAY. SHOPPING
TOUR IN ROCK ISLAND REVEALS

more elaborate gifts, such things
a. dress goods. not only in fancy
silks and crepes. but in substan-
tial WOODEN cloths. They are pur-
chasing sweaters. waists. negligees
even shoes and undergarments.
They are going heavy on gloves,
hose, Ties and ha1dkerchiefs.
They are purchasing linens, ia
BILE damasks. fine toweling, even
sheets and pillowcases.
Il suppose you don't have much
Christmas buying In this depart
ment." I said to the saleswoman in
the linen section Of one Of the
stores.
you tell 'em We do she re-
sponded. "all kinds Of it."
But these things make rather
practical presents, don't they?" 1
ventured. II suppose it's mostly
elderly. grandmotherish people
who buy them, though"
Don't you fool yourself. You'd
be- surprised. Young girls buy
them, and give them to each 9TH
er for their hope boxes"
Another demonstration of the
eternal feminine.
Buy the Best.
There has been lots Of buying,
too, Of fancier goods. Silver, jew
elry. leather goods. books and sta
tionery, as we'll as lots of toys, for
the kiddies still hold their own.
But salespeople consulted were
unanimous in the opinion that
when shoppers bought this line of
goods, they Stunned the cheap and
shoddy, and bought with an eye to
quality and durability. In spite Of
the clamor about the high cost of
living, people have money to spend,
not recklessly, but for the best.
.sYes, the human family Is getting
sensible and business-like. And
yet
A Shimmie Doll
Life, luckily, isn't quite Invested
of all its dear frivolities.
He was picking out present for
HER, and he was allured by the
shimmie dolls and the bathing
dolls and the cupid and kiss-me
dolls on the doll counter.
He picked out half q dozen that
he liked. but finally he simmered
the choice down to two or three
and then a little marcelled blond
beauty caught his eye and vamped
him, and his heart was hers.
How much is this one?" he ask.
ed Of the saleswoman.
The clerks cold eyes didn't
sympathize a bit. Twelve, seven.
ty-five," she said.
He let out little whistle. But
he pulled out his. bank roll. Il
looked rather thin after he. haG
peeled off the $12.75.
Then he picked up the little doll
and looked at it with pleased salts.
faction.
81 bet she likes this" he said.
l bet she does, too.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-12-22
Low PRICES OF
GOODS REASON
OF ARMY STORE
Net . Question Of Merely Dispss.
Ing Of Huse Supplies Of Sur.
plaS 6eOds.

1t is a question Of getting the
army goods TO the masses at low
prices rather than merely dispos,ng
OF the supplies.
This policy OF the war depart
uent was outlined by Colonel Ba..-
lard Lyerly, IN charge OF the army
retail store 1T the Billy Sunday ia
bernacle to an Argus reporter To-
day.
You know the government could
close .up this store by tonight with
all the goods entirely sold out
Colonel Lyerly said.
There are any number OF biz
concerns which would buy US out
outright at the figures We arc
charging IL We would give them the
slightest opportunity. But it is no.
question Of selling these sup.
plies and getting rid Of them. II
Is selling them to the right people
mean the persons the government
intends should get them direct. II
is the masses who are to benefi,
through these stores, and natur.
. ally the Dig oners must be reject
ed. We are here to sell direct to
the people. and not through middle.
men.
We move . lot Of goods in a day
and the people are approaching
more and more what values they
!; are receiving. We expect more
food and articles soon and will add
them to our lists a. soon-as they
arrive"
! Tho army store il generally well
i crowded and q large number oil
/ people make purchases daily. There
Is no confusion, the sales being
cared for with . system that makes
TO- speed and the majority Of the
daily customers have been fami!.
iarized with the plan through sew
eral visits to the tabernacle.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-12-22
BANQUET GIVEN
FOR EMPLOYEES
IN CLUB HALL
Trade Extension Force Of ConSum.
ere Service Stations Company
Have Crest Tine.

Had much more explosive cheer
and good fellowship been turned
loose at the gathering Of Clan Go
Gas" Saturday evening in the Rock
Island club, the roof would have
probably been missing when the
Sabbath morning dawned. For with
nearly two hundred Of the hard
working employees Of the Consum-
ers' Service Stations company
spending an evening Of relaxation
together, all the proper ingredients
for pep seemed to be collected In
that spot.
The banquet hall on the second
floor OF the club had been decor
ated for the occasion, in the pre-
dominating colors of red and green
Festooned over the walls and CELL
ing and chandeliers we're stream
ers and plumes In these colors, In
an effect at once artistic and sym.
bolts of the Yule season. The Ia
bles were tastefully decorated with
ferns and red and green center.
pieces. However the great achieve
ment Of Joe Tuckis. the florist and
decorator, was the giant Christ.
mas tree. which was arrayed in q
wonderful and glittering raiment o.
ornaments, all colors and descrip.
tons. It stood on the platform il
the west end Of the hall, WHERE
also Robinson's orchestra Of color
ed falkland artists held forth dur
ing the meal.
+, And with all this Christmas dec
GRAFTON, the things which went with
| it were not lacking, for every mem
ber Of the force received q gift
The affair was given by the com
pany. for its field force-men VII,
take the place Of salesmen, undel
the system by which the bushes.
is conducted. All other employs
were also guests, however. Las
October . similar affair was held
called the first trade extension
banquet" At that time a contes
concerning volume of business dom
in his territory by each member o
the field force, were inaugurated, t,
close up early this month. Sat
urday night the results were an
nounced and the prizes were award
ed as Christmas gifts. The tw,
men who were highest in the con
ftest. E. S. Meyer and ]. C. Kelley
each received $500 in cash. ].
LaShonse came next. receiving $25(
and G. F. Burnmeister receives
800. These were from the regu
lar workers. There was a simila
competition among the district man
ayers. c. v. Heisler receiving frs
place and $500, J. T. Skinner secon'
and $3.50, and L. c. Clausenbere
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-12-22
PUBLIC AUCTION

The undersigned will expose to
public sale the premises known
and described as
Lot Is, block 3, Sinnett's addi-
ttion to the city of Rock Island, be-
ing house numbers 447 and 449
44th street.
The sales will take place at the
court house at 10 o'clock on Satur-
day morning, Dec. ~, 1919.
Theterms will be cash in hand,
and subject to approval by the
probate court.
DR.. A. M. BEAL. Moline.
GEORGE W. GAMBLE. Moline.
Executors Of the Last VIII and
Testament Of Georgia M. Heck,
Deceased.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-12-22
BIZ NARGARET JANE.


One Christmas when you were q
little tot. your great Aunt Saman-
tina gave your mother an ornate
vase for = Christmas present-do
you remember? As you think OF
tho object now, you know that it
was a nature fake from start to
finish. For the quasi-artist who
made It. twined it with q wreath Of
bas-relief foliage such as never
was on land or sea, and the cupid
under the arbor of pallid roses that
embsllished it looked painfully
Respondent. as cupids should never
, be.
Yet you thought 1t lovely. and
| the entire family stood around it
In admiring wonderment.
Mother set it up on the mantel-
piece, and there it stayed for a
while. though its generous proper
lions almost hid the mantel clock.
Then 1t was decided that it would
be set on" better on top of the
organ.
So it was transferred to the top
OF the organ, where it spoiled the
view Of the enlarged portraits Of
Grandfather and Grandmother
Jenkins back of it. The organ was
not quite the place for it. :
Finally mother filled it with ap-
pie blossoms, made by Cousin Syl-
via, out Of pink tissue paper, and
placed it on the whatnot. and the
baby knocked it off. breaking q
chunk out Of tie Inflated cupid
and sending him to a violent death.
Then mother wept. for fear OF
what Aunt Samantha would think
when she came to visit. Luckily
the old lady, died before she got
around to another visit. and the
luckless vase was put away in the
attic, where the roses faded, the
unidentified foliage withered, and
the little cupid was buried in dust
and cobwebs
So, this .spasser on domestic
tranQuilit' It its way into the
limbo of relics, and is nc
more, e. the memory of a
little TOT own up.
Til. we Changed.
All this is merely by way OF con.
trast. to point out the difference In
modern Christmas giving. People
no longer embarrass their rela.
tives with gifts of useless bric-a'
brac, statuets, ornamental bau'
bles and frivolities. They are com.
bining common sense with a pre-
serving recognition of artistic val
ues and Of the fitness Of things.
The big revelation of the shop.
ping centers is that people are
shopping early. shopping much
and, above all. shopping in a prac'
tical way. These are the things
they are buying. a tour of the Rocl
Island stores revealed:
They are getting, among the
Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1919-07-05

longer will have large interests and freight payments to make to Europe. Prices are higher in Europe than in the United States, and hence no in flux of cheap goods is to be expected. Further issues of bonds or treasury certificates by our Government and loans placed by European countries in this country will tend to further in crease our present credit structure. Against any considerable reduction in bank credit the whole business com- munity would rise in arms.
 Cost and Supply of Building Materials p IA. Government restrictions and decreased demand reduced the pro- duction of most building materials in 1918. This reduction necessitated the operation of plants below their normal capacity and increased the proportion that fixed charges bear to total costs.
 15. Curtailed production during the war resulted in low stocks of many building materials at the signing of the armistice.
 16. As a result of the increased cost of living and of competition with esential war industries for labor, the wages of workmen in the building ma terials industries were raised. In some industries, largely because of abnormal labor turnover, the efficien- cy of labor was reduced and labor costs mounted out of proportion to ther csts.
 IT. Cost of raw materials, trans
Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1919-07-05
SUMMARY OF GOV.
 ECONOMIC REPORT
Continued from Page 3

CTS paper is briefly summarized in the following paragraphs:
 9. Prices are not going to fall much, if at all. We are on a per manently higher price level, and busi- ness men should go ahead on that basis.
 10. The general level of prices is dependent upon the volume and rapa- dity of turnover of the circulating medium in relation to the business to be transacted thereby. If the number of dollars circulated by cash or by check doubles, while the number of goods and services exchanged there by remains constant, prices will about double.
 II. The great price changes of his tory have come about in just this way. The price revolution of the sixteenth century was a result of the great in- fiux of gold and silver from Ameri- can mines. A similar increase in prices all over the world occurred be- tween 1896 and 1914, following the discovery oS rich new gold fields, and the introduction of cheaper methods of mining.
 12. The present rise in prices has resulted from the great extension of credits by the countries at war, and a more economical use of gold reserves as a basis of credit, and not from any great increase in the gold supply of the world. In the United States, how ever, the supply of gold has been greatly increased because of our large excess of exports of commodities, and our present gold reserves would per init of a much greater expansion of credits than exists now.
 13. There is a litle likelihood of a fall in prices in the United States. The gold reserve, which is now the basis of our currency, is not likely to leave the banks and return to general circulation, since this is contrary to monetary experience. No great out flow of gold is to be expected through international trade, since our exports are likely to exceed our imports in the reconstruction period, and we no
Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1919-07-05

portation, fuel, taxes, sales, and oth- CT items that make up total costs have all increased.
 IS. The increased cost of building material as whole must generally be considered in the light of curtailed production, low stocks, increased costs of labor, transportation, fuel, and plant maintenance.
 19. Past experience has shown that prices of building materials fluc- tuate less rapidly than the prices of raw materials used in manufacturing industries, such as metal ores, etc., and than the prices of commodities that are consumed from day to day, such as food and textiles. Building materials are not likely to respond rapidly to any but a market reduction in the general prive level.
 20. A marked reduction in the price of building materials is depen- dent upon the reduction of the items mentioned under IS. It is not to be expected that wages, the largest single item in costs, will be reduced in advance of a reduction of the cost of living. In view of the mounting operating expenses of the railroads it is not likely that transportation charges, a very large element in the cost of building materials, will be low cred. Wit tn ehamtinenance of the general prive level the price of build ing materials as a whole can not well fall.
Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1919-07-05
AFTER-THF-WAR PROBLEM
 SOLVED BY THE PEOPLE

There is need to-day of a great many manufactured articles, of goods which we were not able to manufac- ture during the war. Two years have entirely depleted the surplus stock in nearly every line except war muni, tions.
 Then, Government economists through the medium of the Depart ment of Labor, state frankly that the American people are in an excellent position to buy. Wages were high during the war and means of eXpendi- ture were limited.
 To-day we have the proper condi. tions for demand that will lead to large production, the revival of bus mess and the end of any serious un- employment. As a result of which Roger w. Babson, Director General of the Information and Education Ser vice of the Department of Labor, is urging the people to buy now in order that business may receive this needed stimulus.
 MT. Babson asks pointedly: "What are you doing, MT. Manufacturer; what are you doing, MT. Merchant; and you, MT. Everyday Working man?" He then urges them to get together, to cooperate, to keep in dustry going.
 He admonishes them to adjust their business, to adjust themselves to the after-the-war conditions. He urges them to renew buying, to renew sell ing, renew producing on the new peace-time basis, and thus create jobs for our returned fighters.
 He says: "You who have work, you who have money, BUY NOW-for your plant, your store, your own little home. Get going. Full speed ahead BUY NOWw
Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1919-07-05

21. The index number for lumber and building materials (not including metal products) was in April, 1919, 1894; for building materials, including iron and steel production, 189; for commodities other than building ma terials, 211; for all commodities, 203; for farm products, 228 (100-July 1, 1913-June 30, 1914.)
 22. Building materials are relati- vely low in price.
 The Wage Rate of Building Trades.
 men and the Cost of Living.
 23. The union wage rate of build ing tradesmen in Al large cities in the United States increased 28.5 from 1914 to 1918. Unskilled labor build ing laborers, hod carriers, and helpers enjoyed, as a rule, far greater in- creases than skilled labor.
 "A. Union wage rates are mini mum wage rates. In 1918, as a re- suit of a general shortage of labor many building tradesmen were paid hourly wages in excess of the union wage rates. Overtime and bonuses further increased their earnings.
 25. The cost of living for workers in the shipbuilding districts rose 5S- 86 per cent from December, 1914, to December, 1918, according to reports of the Bureau of Labor statistics The cost of living for the whole coun- try increased 65-70 per cent from July 1914 to November, 1918, according to estimates by the National Industrial