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Evening star., 1919-01-23
Dirt Roads

The highway running east
and west is but a sad and sorry
Jest. In drouthy seasons it will
do; then motor cars along it
choo. and loaded teams climb Up
its hills, and -dislocate no poles
or thills. And this is why !
sometimes say the government
should do away with rain and
moisture OF that stamp, SO that
the road may not get damp. For
when the water drips and pelts,
that doggone highway simply
nlelts, like sugar in cup of tea,
andr there's no thoroughfare to
see. Some drowning mules we
may behold. and autos from the
oulverts rolled, and swearing
men who ply the jaw and say
there ought to be a law. We've
blown in millions more or less
to make that road big success.
We've graded and we've p1owed
and dragged, we've engineered
and cussed and Dragged, we've
foundered horses by the herd to
make the highway less absurd.
And when the weather's good
and dry it pleases the esthetic
eye; its scraped and manicured
so nice we think it's surely
worth the price; we bowl along
its dusty miles, Our faces
wreathed in beaming smiles.
Then Pluvius uncorks his trough,
it rains, and all the stuff is off.
| wonder if we'll ever rise, un-
swerving purpose in our eyes.
and build the kind Of roads that
last through vernal rain and
wintry blast?
WALT MASON.
Evening star., 1919-01-23
How to Show Appreciation.
70 the Editor of The Star.

10 the Editor OF Inc star.
Let every man, woman and child of
Washington do all they can to show
our returning boys that we appreci-
ate what they have done for u.s. This
cannot be done by staring at them
when you get on the same car with
them or going up to them on the
street and saying how sorry You are
for their losses. What our wounded
boys need is everything to make them
forget their losses as much as posi- =
BILE, and we can all help them in some
way. Don't be slow. Go and find out
what you can do, and do it. If you
have time visit the hospitals and
cheer them up. The boys did not
stand back; they went right in and
did their best Now it is up to us
to go right in and do everything that
each and every one of us can do to
help them. Nothing is too good for
our boys who have come back
wounded LOUISA X. HERZOG.
Evening star., 1919-01-23

| The Minnesota war workers will give
/ dance to Minnesota men in uniform
at $50 O'Clock Saturday night, at
/ Northeast Masonic Temple. 523 sth
street northeast. All Minnesotans are
invited.
bernard GinSburg has sued the Hotel
Lafayette Company to recover $4,000
manages for alleged personal injury.
Whlle guest of the hotel December
20. 1917. the plaintiff says, the door
TO the elevator was left open. and he
stepped into the open shaft and fell a
distance of twenty feet, sustaining
serious injury
An important business meeting of
the Washington branch of the Hadas-
san, a woman's Zionist organization,
VIII be held at $50 tonight at the Y.
NJ. H. A, l1th street and Pennsylvania
avenue. All members are urged to
attend.
William ZakaroyySki, 500 II street
northeast. who was injured in the
Eckington freight yard Tuesday aft
| efnoon while unloading coils of wire
pelohSlng to the Chesapeake and Po-
tomac Telephone Company. died at
Emergency Hospital yesterday Cor
oner hewitt held an inquest at the
lnofghe yesterday afternoon and the
Jury reached a verdict of accidental
dea til.
Mrs Amanda Dixon, coIored. sixty
tour years old. living at Glendale, a
subdivision beyond Benning. about
4;5u clock last night was assaulted
by an unidentified man while on her
way home. Her assailant, it is
thought. used club or piece of pipe
lnflcting severe scalp wound Mrs
Dixon was walking along path lead
ing from 44th street to her home. she
explained. when she was suddenly at
tacked, dealt one blow and knocked
down. Her screams frightened off
her aSsa liant.
Senior students of Central High
School defeated the Junior debating
team of the school yesterday in up
holding the affirmative of the uues-
ton. Resolved, that the government
should own and operate the railroads"
The winning team was composed of
Miss Mary Brown. James LIE Roy and
Robert Howard The negative was
argued by Charles Saltzman, George
Thomas and Ralph Temin
The Woman's Alliance OF All Souls
Unitarian Church will meet tomor-
row morning at II O'Clock in the lee
ture ROOM 14th and l. streets. Mrs.
Nanette B. Paul will speak on pal
estine Custom and Costume"
The Speech Clinic, conducted by
Miss Jennie Hedriek at the George
town University Hospital. has been
resumed since its suspension on ac-
count of influenza. The clinic is for
all forms of speech defects. Treat
ment. it is announced. is given on
! Tuesdays from 3 to 4 o'clock.
The Scottish ST. Andrews Society
will hold it's annual banquet on Burns
night, Saturday, at the Willard Hotel.
1t is to be the sixty-fourth anniver-
sary dinner of the society. Speakers
will include Representative ]. T. Hef-
lin. DR.. Henry Allen Tucker and 9TH
ers. Entertainment viii be furnished
by Scottish dancers and music.
The Catholic Womcn's War Relief
Service will meet tonight at it's club.
2i6S K street northwest, at O'Clock.
Evening star., 1919-01-23
TWO SECTIONS COMBINED.
Paper and Stationery Divisions
United by M. and M. Association

The paper and stationery sections
of the Merchants and Manufacturers
Association We're combined at meet
ing yesterday afternoon and Charles
q. Stott was chosen chairman of the
section for 1919.
The membership committee of this
section, composed of Mr.. Stott, X. L.
Andrews and Milton Baum, will con-
duct a canvass to increase the size of
the paper section 100 per cent before
the annual meeting of the association
carly next month.
A number OF other sections of the
association will meet within the
next few days to elect chairmen and
when all the sections have met ar
rangements viii be made for the an
nual meeting, a which officers of the
association will be chosen
Evening star., 1919-01-23
STANDARDS FOR WORK
OF WOMEN PROPOSED
Consumers League Meeting Gives
Attention to Present Drift To-
ward Lower Level.

Wages of women in industry are go
ing back to pre-war basis, although
the cost of living has shown no signs
of dropping, according to Miss Paul
inc Goldmark of the woman's division
of the railroad administration Miss
Goldmark addressed meeting of the
Consumers Lea que of the District at
the home of it's president, Mrs. I,
Evcrit Macy. 1885 Massachusetts ave
rue, yesterday afternoon.
Miss Goldmark cited the cases OF
thousands of women who were en-
ployed in one of Americas big gas
mask factories at $40 week and
who now must seek peace-tim occu-
pations at much lower salaries. The
cost of living. she said. is still about
S3 per cent higher than it was before
the European war began.
Equal pay for women who do the
! work of men. an eighthour day and
the establishment of minimum wage
boards in all the states are standards
which women in industry should seek
to have established during the period
of reconstruction. Miss Goldmark be-
lieyeS.
Evening star., 1919-01-23
. To Determine Living Wage.

'Do not leave the wage question to
supply and demand" said Miss Cold
mark Find out what is Il living wage
for each community and see that the
workers get that wage.
Miss Goldmark cited the railroad ad-
ministration as one big agency which
insisted on women securing the same
wage as men when they did the same
work In October there We're i01, 900
women employed on the railroads of the
country" said Miss Goldmark.
Mrs Edward p Costigan of Colorado,
who recently returned from Europe,
gave vivid description of what the
women of France and England did be-
hind the lines while the men of their
countries were holding the Germans.
Evening star., 1919-01-23
Lieut.. Col. Gentry Transferred

Lieut.. Col. Ernest r. Gentry. Medi-
cal Corps, has been relieved from duty
in the Office of the Surgeon General OF
the Army in this city and detailed TO
command United States General Hos
uila1 No. 20. at Fort Smelling, MINI.
Evening star., 1919-01-23
War Risk Employees Organize.

Employees of the war risk bureau
met last night at the headquarters of
Federal Employees Union Local No. 2
and perfected an organization to
direct their appeal for the bonus.
George W. Batson was elected chair
man of the organization committee.
with Miss Esther Penn as secretary.
Other members of the committee are
Miss Mary Coleman, Mrs. Theresa
O'Brien and w. c. Lathrop.
Evening star., 1919-01-23
War Took 100000 Women's Lives

THE world does not realize" said
Mrs. Costigan, what women did in the
war Few people stop to think that
500, 600 women lost their lives in the war
OF course a large number of these were
Armenians. but the death toll extended
into the Inunition factories and other
places where women were taking the
places of men.
Mrs Costigan told of having seen
sixty mothers of nursing children work
ing in a munition factory, where their
little ones were cared for in a nursery.
II was this type Of sacrifice. without the
spectacular. that the women of France
and England made, she said.
Evening star., 1919-01-23
Cheer Your Sick Friends.

Send Guides beautiful. fresh-cut.
homegrown flowers. Prompt deliv-
cry 1914 F'.-Advertisement.
Evening star., 1919-01-23
Makes Comparison.

Further down in his letter this en-
ploye says that IF the government
couldn't afford to pay more, II all
employees who entered on the same
status were receiving no more. the
situation would present a different
aspect HardshipS are easier to put
up with provided the necessity for
them is apparent.
"As it is clerks in the war risk
bureau cannot fail to realize that the
raerest chance put them where they
are and that if the same chance had
placed them in another bureau they
might be doing work which is in no
way more arduous and yet be receiV-
ing several hundred dollars more a
year. in addition to which they would
be getting the s120 bonus authorized
last year, which is not given to them
now ="
Evening star., 1919-01-23
Wash. Dancing Academy

Modern ballroom dancing taught, also etne|
The largest staff of lady and gentleman feAcj
ers In Washington. The Soft-Shoe. FaDey q
clog Dancing q specislty. 63I y st. NV
vate lessons. Reasonable price. II Job. {
walk. we guarantee you to dance before Iee]
ing studio. Every night you get practaes eaa
Ing free. Main S46s.
Evening star., 1919-01-23
Future of War Risk Bureau.

81 don't think there is any question
of the fact that the war risk insurance
bureau will be a perma nent branch oi
the government. 1t will be paying al
lotments for long time to come. This
bureau has in the neighborhood OF four
teen thousand employees, and entrance
salaries there averaged $500 and $1,000.
Many Of the employees are still receiv-
ing 81, 900 and 81 100. 1t would look like
discrimination to leave the employees OF
this bureau out of the bonus"
The average salary for clerks in
the war risk insurance" writes an
empioye of that bureau, ''is SLIGO a
year. If this amount is enough TO live
on decentlE. why is a $240 bonus to be
given clerks in other bureaus where
the average salary is at least $500
higher already. If sI.100 is not
enough to live on, why doesn't the
war risk insurance bureau get the
benefit of the bonus granted?"
Evening star., 1919-01-23
employees WOULD
ALL SHARE BONUS
Federal Federation Plans
Vigorous Action in Behalf
of Overlooked.

The National Federation of Fedora
Employees will oppose vigorously the
plan to withhold the proposed s240 bonus
from hundreds of federal workers in
Washington because they are in bureaus
which were created after the United
States entered the war
JON 5. Beach, executive secretary OF
the fedora ton, said the orga ganizatior
will make every effort to have the bonus
measure so worded before it is finally
enacted that all government employees
in Washington will be treated alike.
p The bill has passed the House and is
pending in the Senate.
The first thought of ths ,mpioEeS
union will be to have the Senate raise
the bonus from $240 to $3.50. But if this
cannot be done. they viii fiht vigorously
10 have all bureaus included in what
ever bonus is granted,
Mr.. Beach said he realized that some
OF the war bureaus, such as the food
and fuel administrations, may be prac-
ticaliy out of existence before the bonus
would begin>o July /, but he pointed
to other new departments, notably the
war risk insurance bureau, which en-
pioy large forces and which are likely TO
he longer than July / in winding up
their affaiEs.
Evening star., 1919-01-23

Consult ShaHer About Flowers
for entertainments. Estimates. 0014tt
= Advertisement.
Evening star., 1919-01-23
fAC,ItH1ahs1h 4
[H.BRIEE LII

The Minnesota war workers will give
a dance to Minnesota men in uniform
at $50 O'Clock Saturday night, at
Northeast Masonic Temple. 523 sth
street northeast. All Minnesotans are
invited
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-05-13
MIDDLE CLASS WOES.

citizen who calls himself member of that debat-
able institution the american middle class is full of in
dgnatiOn as he considers its wrongs and msfortunes 1t
is the most numerous class in the country he says and in
many respect the most important Yet has long been
and still is placed between the upper and neither mill
stone" of capital and labor.
1t is less fortunate than labor For labor, being or
ganized can deal with capital equal terms, and even
dictate to it, Whereas the middle class in its relations
with capital is unOrganized and helpless and in its rela
lions with capital unorganzed and helpless and in its
relations with labor it is dsregarded and yrannized over
"The mdde-class man is merely one of very numer-
and unOrganized and unorganzabe class cog in the
industrial or economic machine or scarcely that as even
the smallest cog in machine that cannot be misplaced
without injury to the running of the whole machine
whereas the Of the middle class drop out be
dropped out without the slightest jar to the great
machine in which nevertheless he pIays needed and
important part. To him the law of supply and demand
applies in all its rigor and strngency He may be dis
charged preemporly with without may suit
his employer and he has redress while the lowest and
nost rdimenay member Of the labor class may be kept
III his place by his union on peril of strike.
"And while the middle class man has set scale of
wages no number of hours he work. the lowest
ber of the labor class has his scale and works only
tain and constantly decreasing number of hours at usually
an increasing wage And even unsled labor during the
past four five years has made wages that place fna
ciay far above the average Of the middle class whose
wage has known no increase but whose living expenses
have mounted higher and higher each year"
These are in the main, real grievances, every n-I
telgent American whatever his "class" must admit But
the complaner ignores very important fact which
makes the situation Of the American mdde-cass member
immensely better than that of his brethren in European
countries It is the fact that all classes in this coun
try are still fluid and that bis is the most fluid of ALL
Generally speaking, any member of may move down
into The abong class up into the capital classaccOrd
ing to his will on ability,
The much-enved capital class has no walls around
itmen from the middle class and also from the labor
ing class breaking into it all the time In fact the
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-05-13
BUSINESS WITH MEXICO.

Mexico may not recognize the Monroe Doctrine but
if the proposed program of mutual business excursions
goes planned the chances are that before long Mex
leo may remember that she has our face before
Just by way of aside that is thing which makes it
hard for MeXcans and other people to understand
Americans. We face BEFORE and usually look
where we going go when are looking and behave
In straightforward manner generally discOncerting
to the craftier Latin.
But to resume-fifty members of the Chamber of
Commerce of San Antonio, Texas, have Just returned
from visit far south as Mexico City, They were re-
ceived everywhere into the utmost courtesy and saw neh
er brigand nor william
They were entertained by the federation of the
Chambers of Commerce of Mexico saw endless interest
ing and beautiful things and came back convinced that
business can 60 with Mexico in a satisfactory
manner
Dallas and Chicago have already been in touch with
Mexican business men, and excursion by the New York
Chamber is now under discussion
President Halle of the San Antonio Chamber of Com
merce reports that industries being resumed generally
and that the governors of the various Mexican states
through which they passed men Of education ability
and progressive character.
The chances are that if the business men in Mexico
and the United States really get together those who
hope to create political chasm will have very little sue
cess.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-05-13
RIPPING RHYMES
BY Walt Mason
THE WIND.

I'm often weary of the wind | sometimes think it
should be timed (the British word for "canned) it's
hard to and gay with all your whsker blown
away, by winds resistess famed sometimes sit be-
meath tree and take book to comfort me- and count
on happy hours III doze and read and cad and doze in
hale the fragrance of the rose and other moral flowers
And then there comes a roaring wind, shot from some
cavern of the Ind, which blows me from my chair: my
treasured volume disappears and dust is blown into my
eais and sandbus in my hair Sometimes take off hat
and shoes and lay me down to have snooze as peaceful
IS clam and then wind sweeps through the shack and
I'll the tmbers grOan and crack and doors begin to slam
Last eve set out cabbage plants; wholesome task like
ths enchans The sane and normal guy and in the fore
Of this day the wind blew all those plants away
wept to them fly. hear the ladies crying "Ratsw
when they're deprived Of costly hats by waywad wanton
blast and men forget goodom and swear when lids are
soaring everywhere, and wigs are flying past
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-05-13
HOW
RHEUMATISM .
BEGINS

The excruciating agOnies Of rhcuma.
fism are usually the result Of failure OF
the kidneys to expel pOisons frow the
system. II the irritation of these uric
acid crystals is allowed To continue. in
eUrahle bladder or kidney iiecesg may
result. Attend to it at once. Don't
resort TO temporary relief. The sick
kidneys must be restored to health by
the use OF some sterling remedy which
will prevent a return Of the disease.
Get some GOLD MEDAL Haarlem
Oil Capsules Immediately They have
brought back the joys of life to count
less thousands Of sufferers from rheu-
matism, lame back, lumbagO, sciatica,
gall stones, gravel and other affections
Of the kidneys, liver, stomach, bladder
and allied organs.
They will attack the pOisons at once.
clear out the kidneys and urinary tract
and the soothing healing oils and herbs
will restore the inHamed tissues and
organs to normal health.
All others are limitations. Ask for
GOLD MEDAL and be sure the name
GOLD MEDAL is on the bO' a Three
sizes, at all good druggists. y
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-05-13
THE PROMOTERS WIFE
BY JANE PHELPS

Neil knew she would disapprove Of
his actions. He had known that father
and mother had worried over our ex-
ifevaganee. and they really were far
less worldly than his aunt in many
WAYS She accepted the extravaganza,
our mode of living without question.
That nephew Of hers could be dishon-
est she never would have believed. And
she would have been shocked to know
he visited another woman without me.
and would have argued with him mad
she known It.
~ do hope We shall Neil all 10 our
selves, = remarked to aunt SIS we drove
down town. $50 often he has people
he knows lunch with him. -
We mnstn Z be selfish dear Bah. A
big business man ike Neil often has 20
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-05-13

tives.
Mr. and Mrs. Shearer Of Goldendale.
Wash, arrived Saturday afternoon for
visit with their daughter, Mrs Ed
Mettler. The trip was made in their
new Dodge.
Mrs. John Parsons left for Portland
/ Monday morning. She viii cable tick.
cts for her brother and daughter to
come from Switzerland. War conditions
have prevented her sending for them
heretofore. She has not seen her dauph-
ter for seven years
/ Miss Clara Doelfler. the efficient
teacher Of the Oaksdalc school. came
back from Sublimity Sunday after a
weekend visit with home folks.
Mrs. II. B. EARLY left Monday for
Portland with her small son to consult n
specialist regarding her son who UNDER
went two operations at Rosebrg. Ore.
few weeks ago.
John Zimmerman and wife and
daughter. Edna. returned from ALBANY
on sundays train.
Miss june Kubn came up from Cor.
Wallis Friday and returned Yesterday 10
finish the school year She will gradu.
ate in home economies IN June. Miss
hubn in talented Young lady and
she is well worthy of the honor. Ssou
10 be bestowed upon her.
Mr. and Mrs. Kubin received a ,ele.
gram recently of the safe arrival from
overseas Of their son. Sergeant Otto
kubin lie arrived in New York las,
Monday. Sergeant Kubin was mor.
Der Of the aviation ecrps and has seen
service for ever two years going. 70
France Ia August. 1917. He has had
many thrilling adventures and his home
folks anxiously await his Homecoming.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-05-13
MEHAMA NEWS NOTES.

Capital journal Special scrvice.)
Mehame, Or, May 13.-Ed Mettler of
Mebama, while working at Cramer S
camp above Mill City, got painfully
hurt saturday The men were being
pulled up the hill on boards hauled by
the dinkey engine, when he fell off and
was run over by the eontrivanee.. His
buck and legs were badly bruised and
lacerated and he is under the doctor S
care.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed TAYLOR and son lnv.
tufed to Maeleay Sunday to visit rela.