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The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-08-14

Two hundred and fifty flour mill
employees in five large mills at To-
peka went on a strike at noon the
other day. They demanded an g.
hour day and increases in pay ranging
from 81 TO $3.50 a day. The employ
ers say they have rejected the terms
and will continue to operate. although
two Of the mills are shut down TEN.
pOrarily.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-08-14

Beloit held a monster homecoming
celebration for the returned soldiers
OF Mitchell County the other day.
combining it with the opening day
Of the chautauQua and a postponed
Fourth of July celebration. An air.
plane flight and ball game between
Beloit and Esbon were features.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-08-14
Booze Filled His sausaoeS

Fl Paso, TeL-Lorenzo Hernandez
developed a brand new scheme OF
bootlegging. Inspectors tested sau-
sage he was bringing across the in
ternational boundary and found them
filled with alcohol
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-08-14
Arkansas Slayer Declared insane.

New Orleans, La--DT. F. A B1an-
chard, formerly OF Little Rock, Ark,
charged with the murder OF his broth
er-inIaw, DR.. Albert L. Peel, has been
declared insane by the court lunacy
commission
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-08-14

Oklahoma City, Ok-Pants come
high in Oklahoma James WiIkin col
lected s150.50 from Director General
Hines for a pair lost in a Pullman.
Wilkin failed to get $4,000 for mental
anguish.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-08-14
a Grand Jury Probes n. c. L.

Cleveland, GA comprehensive in
Vestigation into the high cost Of living
was launched here recently when fifty
men, engaged in various businesses
from selling eggs to dry cleaning, were
summoned to testify before 2 special
grand Jury.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-08-14
Tell of War on Bonds.

Neutrality-suspicious. L. Wilmeth, di-
rector of the bureau of engraving, is
to commemorate American valor in
the war against Germany on govern
ment securities.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-08-14

John Thomas Morton, a retired ne
gro minister, is dead at Atchison. He
founded the Ebenezer Baptist Church
there soon after he came to Atchison
from Canada and was for many years
principal of Lincoln school there. For
many years he was a clerk in the
Postoffice Department at Washington.
He lost his eyesight thirteen years
ago.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-08-14

A competitive flying exhibition by a
large number Of flyers is to be staged
In Kansas soon, il plans announced
by the Topeka aviation commission
are carried out. Several thousand
dollars In prizes will be offered, the
announcement stated. for the best
landing. take offs, parachute jumps,
speed, etc. The exhibition will In
clvde an itinerary OF the state.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-08-14

After being overseas from the time
the American troops fired the first
shot against the Germans until long
after the signing Of the armistice,
Afaj. Thomas ]. Dickson, senior chap
lain of the American Expeditfonary
Forces. Lawrence's fighting parson
has returned to his home there for a
short visit before leaving for Fort
Sill, Ok, where he has been assigned.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-08-14

A proposition to issue $185, 900 bonds
for the erection of a memorial hall in
honor Of soldiers, sailors and marines
who served in the World War was car
FLED at a special election in Atchison
County recently by 625 votes. 1t was
defeated by q large majority in the
rural districts, but a larger majority
in the city offset the rural vote. Work
on the building will begin this Fall.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-08-14

There were eleven fatal and All
non-fatal accidents in July in Kansas
industrial plants, according to the re-
port compiled by John Crawford,
state labor commissioner Fatal &C
cidents: Railroads, 8; coal mining,
4; meat packing. 2; metal mines, l.:
oil industries, 1; miscellaneous acct
dents, 2
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-08-14
Fourteen Die In Planes FaII.

Rome-A Capronf aiTplane, flying
from Venice to Milan recently with
fourteen persons on board, fell to the
ground from a height of one thousand
meters, near Verona. All of the crew
were killed.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-08-14
Drank WOOD Alcohol At Party

Grand Forks. N D-Three negroes
are dead and three others are in a
dangerous condition as the result oS
drinking wood alcohol at a birthday
party at Hannah, n. D.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-08-14
KILLED Rv souxsnir Grenade.

Chicago, uL-Jean Mayhem, So, was
killed and two neighbors were serious
II injured by the explosion OF hand
grenade which his son, Anthony, had
brought from overseas as a war souv-
enfr
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-08-14

A general quarantine of all cattle
in Lyon and surrounding counties was
declared the other day by cattlemen,
who closed their meetings to inves-
ztgete the Texas fever menace. All
cattle VIII be quarantined until in
%peeted by authorized inspectors and
infected animals will be sprayed.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-08-14

William Heiniger and Clarence Eli
senbise were killed and Glen Emert
was injured severely when a south
bond Rock Island passenger train hit
a motor car at a crossing west OF
Sabetha.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-08-14
New Disesae Amono Horses.

Denver-A new disease among
horses which has killed $50 OF the ami
mails in the Arkansas Valley near La
mar, Col, is reported by the United
States Bureau OF Animal Industry.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-08-14
AIIn,., Hun Money In Erance NovE.

Paris.-The Journal Official pub
fishes a decree abrogating that Of
November Is, 1913, whereby German
bank notes and money were prohibit
ed from entering France
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-08-14
A RadicaI Riot In Triest

Triest-A group OF Bolszeviki ap-
peared CT the streets here the other
day and attempted TO start rIoting
The disturbers. however, were sooE
dispersed by the police
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-08-14
HILL ROUND UP
The PROFITEERS
Department Of Justice Agents
Will Seek Out Ali Hoard
ers of Necessities.
new LEGISLATION IS NEEDED
President Decides to Send Special
Message to Congress Wheat
Prices to be Maintained.

Washington.-TWo branches OF the
federal government-execut and jul
dicial-haYe acted in efforts to bring
about cut in the cost of living. Presi-
dent Wilson decided to send message
to congress recommending further
legislation to aid in reducing cost OF
food, and department of justice agents
were ordered to seek hoarders Of nee
essaries and profiteers. They are to
be prosecuted under the food control
act.
In addition, Director J. H. Barnes of
the grain corporation decided to main
tain the governments guarantee on
wheat at 1925 a bushel as a reserve
protection against a higher price lat
er."
At the conclusion of days activity
by the president, the subcommittee
of the cabinet, appointed by Attorney
General Palmer, and by the attorney
general himself announcements were
made of these immediate steps to be
taken and of the governments wheat
policy.
To Cut Flour Costs.
In lengthy statement showing why
the price Of wheat would rise but for
the government guarantee, Director
Barnes promised readjustment Of
flour prices at the expense Of the ma
tional treasury as authorized by con-
gress, if later developments indicated
a world price for wheat lower than the
guaranteed basis.
Immediate steps will be taken by
the grain corOoratiOD fo cell standard
export flour in every community Of
the country in carload lots at a price
not greater than $40 a barrel, Mr..
Barnes announced. This price. he
added, is lower by 81 a barrel than
any price ruling during the last four
months.
To Start Prosecutions.
The high cost of living was not dis
cussed at the regular Tuesday cabinet
meeting, but Attorney General Palmer
remained after the meeting to confer
with the president and presented
memoranda prepared by the sub-com-
mittee stating what the government
was doing and what it proposed doing
under existing laws and possible addi-
tionaI laws to cope with the situation.
The department of justice agents
throughout the country, the attorney
general said on leaving the president,
have been ordered to institute special
Investigations to find evidence of
boarding and pTofiteering as prohibited
under the Lever food control act and
prosecutions will be instituted without
delay.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-08-14
Enid. o. Votes citx InprDven,ents.

Enlof Ok5 NoLes NEtJ I'M oFoNeH1eF1ts.
Enid, OLA bond issue OF ss15, 900
carried by a large majority at yestsr
days election Water works. & sew
age disposal plant. parks, Fairgrounds
and a convention hall are provided for
The new charter for city manager gov
eminent failed
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-08-14

Word was received at Fort Riley
that detachment of regular army en-
giReers will be sent there to construct
new bridge scross the Kansas River.
A dozen carloads Of army bridge ma
4erial originally intended for use in
France have been shipped to Fort
Riley and unloaded. The bridge will
link up two sections Of the reservation
divided by the river.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-08-14

Fire OF unknown origin entirely
consumed a 135-acre field of wheat in
shock belonging to Patrick A. Tobin
Of Salina. The field was in the north
east part of this county and was es-
timated at twenty bushels to the acre,
and was of unusual quality this year.
The loss exceeded $4,000.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-08-14

Walter A Johnson. general agent
for the National Cash Register Com
pany in Salina, was drowned while
swimming in the Smoky River six
miles east of Salina- He was with
party OF friends on an outing.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-08-14

An order granting the Hutchinson
antsrurban railway the authority to
charge Scent fare has been made
by the public utilities commission.
The order goes into effect at once.
Tho company had filed application to
charge seven cents.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-08-14

What is believed to have been a plot
by /. W. VS. caused the destruction of
threshing machine near Atchison
when 1t was wrecked by an explosion.
The machine belonged to Floyd Foster.
who was threshing wheat on the James
Moore farm
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-08-14

A severe windstoFm near Turon re-
esntly wrecked barns and tore many
wheat stacks to eces. No casual
ttas were reported.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-08-14

The recent slump in the live stock
market, together with the outbreak
of Texas fever among several herds
of cattle in Chase County and sur
rounding counties in the Flint Hills
grazing district, have caused an al
most complete letup in the shipping
Of grass cattle to the markets in
some sections there. Croker Broth
ers, who are the heaviest cattle hand
lers there, have sustained losses OF
forty steers as result of Texas fe-
yer, it is reported. All of the cattle
in Newman pasture on Camp Creek,
adjoining this county on the east,
have been placed under strict quar-
antine. Most of the cattle lost by
Croker Brothers are reported outside
of this county, but cattlemen are TAX
ing the matter very seriously and
many of them believe the disease will
mean still more losses to them.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-08-14

Intelligent cultivation, to keep the
present moisture in the ground, will
permit the corn in the eastern sec
ton of Kansas to develop with COM
paratively little rain, according to ].
c. Mohler, secretary of the state
board OF agriculture. Mr.. MOhler
stated that the recent rain would be
q big help to the crop in that section,
although it could have stood more
dry weather without being seriously
demaged. Reports received by Secre-
tary MohIer from Western Kansas
counties indicate that thousands Of
acres OF corn have been burned out
because of lack of rain since early
June, he stated.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-10-19
Mrs. Janet SimOns Harris,
Bradford, PENN,
Represents National Council Of
JequisH Women

until late in the evening this school
swarms, with eager little Italian
Jewish and Irish children who clam
or to be taught how to sing and
play any instrument. To them music
makes strong bid against baseball
and hide-and-seek after school hours.
Mrs. Anne Lockwood Fyffe, the d.
rector of music at the school, said
recently: "You cannot expect a
child to like music if you force her
first to pound out exercises and try
to understand maze of Symbols"
When mothers bring their five and
six-year-olds to study the piano
and violin the youngsters are nova
days taken to room which has no
piano or musical instrument of any
kind in it.. The teacher starts to ask
questions.
what are you thinking about,
Theresa?'
"The clock" Theresa answers.
"Can you sing me a little song
about the clock?" Theresa stops for
moment and then sings little
melody she makes up herself as she
goes along.
"Tick, took, tick, took; hear the
clock tick"
Angelo sings about a kite and
Katy makes up a melody for her
part. "Teacher" will hum a tune,
and then the children think up
words for it, or perhaps she will give
them line of poetry and ask them
to create their own little melody.
Let Technique
Come Last
AS they sing the children swing
their arms or dance in rhythmic
time. 1t is only after they really
acquire feeling for melody and
rhythm that they are taken to the
piano and shown how to pick out
their own tunes.
Long before they know that there
is such a thing as half, quarter and
eighth notes they can play little mel
odies in perfect rhythm.
It has not taken many Of the chill
dren long to discover that by using
black keys they play different tune
in different key. Transportation is
to them a natural thing, not the re-.
markable achievement music stu
dents conceive it to be.
~ believe the only way music
should be taught children is by ear.
A child must have feeling for
music without knowing exactly why.
You take baby, for instance. He
never finds out what his mother is
by learning to spell the word Moth
err Years before he knows there is
such thing as spelling he knows
how to use the word mother"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-10-19
Club for Washington
Business Women
Specialists and Professional
Government Women to
Join
NeW York Tribune

NeD York Tribune
Washington Bureau
PREPARATIONS are under way
- for the organization of a Wash
ington branch Of the Federation Of
Business and Professional Women's
Clubs, according to Miss Mary
O'Toole, president Of q tri-state
branch of that organization, who
has just returned from the St. Louis
convention. She is a we'll known
local attorney and director in a
Washington bank, chosen to head
the Delaware, Maryland and District
CT Columbia sections of the fedora
ton until permanent officers are
chosen this month.
Prior to this October meeting Of
the tri-state district the business
and professional women of this
city are to be called into session
to form a local club. An effort is
to be made to attract the special
lists and other professional women
attached to the government bureaus
here. The physicians of the Chill
dren's Bureau, the nurses and school
teachers are all to be interested, as
we'll as the general business and
professional women outside the
government connections The bust
ness and professional women organ
lied by the local Y w. C. A. into
a club now having the largest men,
bership Of it's kind in town are ex-
pected to aid the proposed local
branch. This club has already been
affiliated with the Federation of
Business and Professional Women's
Clubs.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-10-19
Programme OF
Education

1.-THE leading national organiza-
tions of women are eagerly looking
forward to the possibilities Of this
gathering," said DR.. Anna L.
Brown, chairman Of the programme
committee Of the conference, last
week. at is believed that some
common ground of understanding
may be reached whereby an educa-
tional programme may be drafted"
simultaneously with the confer
ence of delegates from women's ma
tional organizations, the social hy-
giene committee of the League Of
Women Voters is meeting here. It's
purpose is to take advantage of the
open meetings of the women ply
sicians also, and the conferences on
detail of its own work are being
held in the evenings. Headquar-
tiers is the Park Avenue Hotel.
Dr.. Valera Parker is national
chairman of the Social Hygiene
Committee of the League OF Wom-
en- Voters. Women from fifteen
states will attend this conference to
study detail on programme OF
legislation which can be adopted
uniformly in the various states.
This programme will have to be
passed upon by the next national
meeting of the League of Women
Voters.
I'VE recognize clearly" said DR..
Parker last week, that immortality
cannot be suppressed entirely by
legislation. But it is known that
the law reflects public opinion in
its formulation and the degree OF
its enforcement"
These final meetings Of the cons
ference of women physicians and
the extent to which the delegates
of America s vast organizations of
women take hold of their findings
will determine whether women are
ready to face physical fact about
J themselves and their daughters
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-10-19
A Leader
Starts Reforms

When, on October 6, the new eight
hour schedule went into effect, she
and her board had the distinction
of making the Presbyterian Hos
pital the first in the history of
Eastern nursing institutions to eff
feet this reform. AS a member
Of the United Hospital Fund, which
supports the free ward work in
forty-six non-municipal hospitals Of
the city, and a leader in hospital
management and organization, the
Presbyterian Hospital has taken a
step significant to the profession.
BY the reform the nurses Of the
Presbyterian have gained one and
one-half hours a day Of day duty
and three hours every night Of
night duty. So, along with other
women, nurses are becoming people.
The new plan Of hours affects
100 young women, all students in
Cuc OCIlOO4 vi 1NOISlIlt, Vi tuC liOo-
pital. In their training to become
hospital administrators, public health
workers, social workers, private
nurses, they receive all their prac-
teal work through the channels Of
the hospital, in the wards, on out
side cases, through every agency
with which the hospital has to do.
The work is naturally absorbing,
as class work and study must sup
plement the practical work, and un-
der the old system of nine and one
half hours for the day shift and
eleven hours for the night shift
the pressure was felt to be rather
too intense. The nurses health re-
manned good, for they worked on
regular schedule and kept fit and
we'll, but the hospital management
wanted more leisure for the girls
on the modern theory that shorter
hours not only make an individual
worker happier but improve his
work and keep the standards of eff
ficiency hoisted high.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-10-19
Greenwich House Music
School Teachers Mel.
ody and Rhythm Be-
fore Any Technique
Lessons by Experts
For a Quarter
Dancing Is a First Step
Toward Singing or
Musical Composition
~ OWN in Greenwich Village. at
"a Barrow Street, there are

OWN In Greenwich Village, al
"a Barrow Street, there are
some very eager children
looking to the foremost musicians In
New York City to help them get the
musical education they would rather
have than anything else in the world
In announcing their plans for the
fall season last week the Greenwich
House Music School also stated that
Ossip Gabrilowitsch, Nine. Louise
Homer, Walter Damrosch and other
leading musicians are backing this
institution.
The average age Of the pupils in
the school ranges from five to fifty.
Old men and women, as we'll as the
children, are clamoring for some
sort of musical education, and this
year the enrolment of the school has
already exceeded, in the first two
or three weeks, 800.
Mrs. Thomas A. Edison, Mrs.
Walter Lewisohn, Mrs. Elisha P.
Cronkhite, Mrs. V. G.. Simkhovitch
and Mrs. W. L. Mcfarland are on
the executive committee, working
with the musicians to make this sea-
son one which will really give the
children and their parents all that
they now are asking for.
The school is an outgrowth Of the
need Of the children on the lower
West Side. 1t is not run as a charity
institution. Lessons cost rs cents
apiece, and 10 cents when class in
struction is given. Five or six diff
ferent nationalities are represented
in the enrolment for this year.
A scene like the following Is typi-
cal Of daily happenings at the Green
wich House Music School:
"You tell me you teach Tony to
play piano. Why you make him wave
his arms and legs?
A little Italian woman stood in
the door of one Of the music school
rooms, watching with puzzled eyes
a group Of little urchins taking their
Emusic lesson" She was quite in
dignant to see her Tony pirouetting
like an Isadora Duncan dancer in
stead Of practising do-re-me-fa-so on
the piano keys, as she had expected
Jaw, gwan, ma, I can do it on the
piano, too," Tony fastened to reas-
sure her. He swung himself up to
the stool and proceeded to pick out
the tune he had been singing while
he danced. ri made It up all my
self, that's the incest part Of it," he
announced proudly.
Music,
A Game
Tony Is one of the children In the
music school. From early morning
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-10-19
The New
Schedule

On account of the lack of space to
house the extra nurses that an eight
hour schedule would naturally call
for, the Presbyterian Hospital could
not until this fall undertake the new
system. But this fall found the hos
pital with additional space for the
proper care and housing of the extra
forces, and the figuring and calculat-
ing began. 1t was found that fifteen
extra students would make up the
hours lost by the new plan. These
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-10-19

just been granted to student
nurses in the Presbyterian
Hospital, New York, does not sound
revolutionary in the face Of present
industrial demands for five and six
hour days, but ask any undergrad
uate nurse what eight hours day
sounds like to her and she will
probably answer "Utopia!"
For illness is a despot, and ever
since the first woman nursed the
first patient long, arduous hours
have been the first axiom of the
nursing profession. Eight hours a
day, then--or eight hours night
is almost a cataclysmic reform in
the world Of nursing.
Anna Caroline Maxwell, director
of the School Of Nursing of the
Presbyterian Hospital, and the Of
ficers of the hospital have long
wanted to give their student nurses
more leisure, more time for study,
rest. shopping. They have felt that
the personal lives of nurses were
being sacrificed rather too much to
their profession.