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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-06-18
So qc So easy! Lader all these things delicate Lr smds
To wash silk undertakings

Just drop tablespoonful Of Lux
into half bowlful Of boiling or 0e,,
het water. Whisk into rich, creamy
lsther. Add cold water Ill luke
warm. Dip the garment through
the foamy lather many times
work it about in the suds-do not
rub. Rinse three times in clear,
lukewarm water. Squeeze the water
out-do not wiring. Dry in the
shade. When nearly dry, press with
a warm uon-neyer hot one.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-06-18
How to wash babies
woolens

To wash little woolens like new,
use two sablesPoonfuls of Lux to a
bowlful Of water. Dissolve in boiling
or o<ry hot water, whsk into thick
lathcr and add cold water to make
suds lukewarm. Pu, the woolens in
Then squeeze the suds through the
garments. Dc net RIB. Rinse three
times in water the same temperature
rs the water in which you washed
the garments, di,solving little Lux
in the last rinsing water. Squeeze
the water out. DO not ta01t. Dry
in moderate temperature. Press
with a warm iron.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-06-18
To wash collars and cuffs

Use tablespoonful of Lux to
every gallon of water. Dissolve in
very hot water and whisk into thick
lather. Let white linen or cotton
accessories soak for a few minutes.
Then dip them up and down in the
creamy lather. Do not rab. Press
the suds again and again through
very soiled spots. Put through three
hot rinse waters. Dry in the sun.
Wash Georgettes, silks and colors
as above but in lukewarm suds. Do
not soak. Rinse three times, in luke
warm water. Roll in towel to dry.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-06-18

whsk them up into the richest foamiest suds, that
gently free the drt For silks delicate coors you
simply add cold water until the suds are lukewarm
No ruinous rubbing of fine fabricsl No injury to
delicate bres coarsenng of texture The delicate
lustre Of your softest silks remains undmmed.
With Lux you just squeeze the delicate suds through
the fabrics again and again-rinse in clear water
once twice, three times-and the garment is SO fair
and fresh that you would never know it had
been washed.
Use Lux the moment thing becomes soied The
gentle Lux way of washing it fromsthe damage
little dirt does to fra things.
Lux rant hurt anything that pure mater alone econt
nyive
Get package of Lux today from your grocer,
druggist department store.-Lever Bros Co.,
Cambridge, Mass
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-06-18
The gentle Lur u,ay actually saues TIL

Z 7ES, there's te-tale yellowness on all the cob
n web threads. Your real Chantilly. Nearly
Il hundred years old and very precious! In
the old days who ever dreamed the time would
come when you could launder it3
Yet today you think nothing more of trusting
priceless lace bubbling Lux sus than you used to
think of washing gingharns!
You simply stir up bowlful of the richest ather
and toss in your finest, fmiest belongings without
qualm Fine laces, thinnest chifons, exquisite
table linens and woolens! Your daintiest curtains
will stay whole, your silks lustrous, your blankets
soft and woolly
Delicate Lux suds! If you have never used Lux,
you can't begin appreciate how pure, how cleans
ing they are
Lux comes in dainty, white fakes-pure and
transparent. They melt instantly in hot You
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1919-08-18
TO Drive Out Malaria

TO Drive Out Malaria
And Build Up The System
Take the Old Standard GROVES TASTE
LESS chill TONIC. You know what you
are taking, as the formula is printed on
every label, showing it is Quinine and
Iron in a tasteless form. The Quinine
drives out the malaria, the Iron builds up
the system. so cents.
For Sale at HOWeIPs Pharmacy.
los n. Jackson st. Americas, Ga.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1919-08-18
RIPPING RHYMES
BY WALT MASON.

OWN my home, and LIES a
pome, from outside to the cen
ter; I'm full, inside, of honest
pride; I'm sorry for the renter. |
own my shack both front and back,
the kitchen and the porches; and
here l sit and feel I'm 1t, and
smoke my fve-cent torches. The
tree and vine are strictly mine,
the concrete walks and hedges,
the elms and yews, old cans and
shoes, the ak and saw and wedges.
The house is old, the rooms are
cold, the roof is often leaking, and
in the night, when men sleep tight,
| hear the front gate creaking.
But it is mine, this shack of pine,
and there's no mortgage on it; and
here l sit and do my bit at writ
ing ode and sonnet. My house is
cheap; no footmen keep their yigils
in its Railways; no butler stern
with pomp to burn here combs his
auburn galways My house is punk,
the doors are shrunk, the windows
shake and rattle; and on the stairs
and under chairs the cats and rats
give battle. 1t isn't fine, but it
is mine; with smiles l bid you en-
ter; l am the king while here, by
jung; I'm sorry for the renter.
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members of the House did the same.
Even the appropriation bills were
killed in order to force an extra ses-
sion. When the extra session did
come the Republican majority in
both houses, aided by a few disgrun-
tied Democrats, Immediately began
to yowl upon the league of nations
and the treaty. The treaty had not
vet been signed and still they de-
bated it. They read the cables from
Paris printed in the morning papers
and then proceeded to thunder forth
at both ends of the Capitol. They
debated rumors, canards and fakes.
in the meantime prices were soar
ing. men were striking and people
were uncertain. War industries
were continuing not because the
products were needed, but merely to
keep the thousands of people Fusy.
Disturbances continued and Congress
still debated the league of nations.
Congress became wildly excited
about Shantung, Fiume and the man.
datory over Armenia, East Africa OF
some other spot on the map
All of this time Congress was jock
eying for the advantage in the presi-
Dental campaign of 1920. Then, fl
nally, when the matter was showed
up to President Wilson he went to
Congress with a message. Even so,
the jockeying for political advantage
continued.
Congress does nothing to meet OF
solve the present problems, because
Congress does not know what to do.
President Roosevelt took thinking
out of Congress several years ago
Taft followed his footsteps, and Presi
dent Wilson followed the trail, and
now when Congress ought to think,
should act, it does not seem to have
the capacity to do 50. Whether Con-
gress has or has not the capacity,
the fact is it does nothing except
to appoint committees to investigate.
If Congress would stabilize and
equalize, then the epople could do the
rest.
There are just two things wrong
outside of the inequalities of the bur-
dens. Things are high and things
are unbalanced because the produc-
tive forces of the country for almost
four years have been centered on
those things that have been destroy
ed in the war or that are nonsustain-
ing. Instead of making bales of hay
and bushels of grain, meat, wool
and pIows and mining machinery, we
ave been making shells, cannon,
.nuskets and poison gas and the coal
nd iron that We mine have gone into
hese things.
We have got to have mor@ produc-
ton of those things that men use
in times of peace, as well as in times
IF war.
We have to have more barrels OF
Jour. more coal cars, more hogs, NOR
ron for plows, bridges, locomotives
ard sta~l buildings; more lumber for
.ottaqes, more concrete for bunga-
lows. more shingles, more tiles, more
stoves, more sinks for the kitchen and
more bath tubs.
Production, that it what we need
and labor directing toward production
| is needed the more.
In order to have this transition
brought about quickly Congress
might have done a most valuable
service. 1t failed to do this service
because its ears were attuned only
| 70 the Paris wireless and its eyes saw
nothing beyond Paris except the pros
pect Of winning a national campaign
in 1920, with an occasional glance
at an Office for some constituent or
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1919-08-18
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The readers of this paper will
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to cure. Send for list of testimonials.
Address F. ]. CHENEY & CO, Toledo.
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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1919-08-18

a contract or building for a district.
In all of this tumble what are we
going to do this week, the next week
and the following week?
The things for US to do is to i'm
mediately cut out some of our ex-
travagant habits and then each one,
in what he is doing, seek to produce
a little more than he did last week.
Evening star., 1919-10-16
w. c. T. U. CONVENTION
OPENS WITH REPORTS
Addresses Mark This Afternoon
Session-Interesti
Program.

With representation from all of the
twenty unions in the district. the
morning session of the first day Of
the forty-ffth annual convention Of
the Woman's Christian Temperance
Union was opened today at the Mount
Vernon Place NJ. Z. Church South 9Th
street and Massachusetts avenue. Mrs.
Emma Stamford Shelton, president of
the union. presided.
After song service and prayer and
the reading of reports by officers of
the union the address Of welcome was
delivered by Rev. Clovis G. Chappelle,
d. D.
Miss Claire Luro Lusby spoke in re-
sponse to DR.. Chappelle. Greetings
from the missionary society were ex-
tended by Mrs. T. A. Groover, presi-
dent. The annual address of the presi-
dent of the w. c. T. U. of the District
of Columbia was delivered by Mrs.
Shelton.
Conservation service, led by Mrs.
Fred Beall and Mrs. Benjamin Platt.
followed with an address on the
jubilee campaign fund by Mrs. The
resa A. Williams.
At the afternoon session there will
be speeches by Representative Louis
w. Fairfield of Indiana and William
Mather Lewis, director of savings di-
vision, Treasury Department. Mrs.
NJ. c. Hull will read "America's 8
Creed and Mrs. Nellie H. Bradley
will render Your Flag and My Flag"
"AmericaniZation Demonstration" also
will be given by Miss Elizabeth E.
Reiss and Mrs. ]. A. Cunningham
The early session will be called to
order tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock.
Evening star., 1919-10-16
DRIVE TO AID SIBLEY
HOSPITAL is LAUNCHED

A new operating table is wanted for
Sibley Hospital and the Woman's
Guild of the hospital at a meeting to-
day In Rust Hall. adjoining the in
stitution. launched a campaign to Sc
cure the necessary funds.
Each Methodist church in the Dis
trlct was given a pennant for use in
the campaign in it's respective con-
gregation. The funds thus derived
Will be gathered together at grand
rally to be held November 19. Miss
Mary H. France. membership secre-
tary, outlined plans for this work.
Rev. E. Holmes Lamar, chaplain, U.
s. A, made a brief address, in which
he told of his work among the Amer
lean soldiers in France and also at
Walter Reed Hospital. He told of the
formation of an Army church in
france which many of the soldiers
joined. AS each joined. his name was
forwarded to the pastor of his home
church, and later replies were re-
cefVed telling of the welcome await
ing the boys by their homo church
upon their return.
Evening star., 1919-10-16
WILLIAM S. CROWN DIES.
Identified With Meat Industry.
Witnessed Lincoln Assassination.

William S. Crown, lifelong resident
of this city, died suddenly Friday
at his home. 5O7 Rhode Island avenue
northeast. He had been in poor health
for the past three years. but his ILL
ness was not considered serious.
Mr.. Crown was born here, January
%. 1S43. He served throughout the
civil war as foreman for his uncle,
William E. Homemiller, who at that
time had the contract for supplying
the Union Army with dressed meats.
AT the end of the war Mr.. Crown en-
tered business for himself. and Ior
years was one of Washington's lead
ing butchers. At the time of his death
he was considered the oldest butcher
living.
He was also one of the few living
persons, who was present at Ford's
Theater. the night President Lincoln
was assassinated. He took an interest
in civic affairs here and was always
able to relate many interesting stories
of the growth and development of the
capital.
Surviving him are his wifeh three
sons, two daughters, and nine grand
children. Funeral services were held
Monday. with interment in Mount
Oltvet cemetery
Evening star., 1919-10-16
victim IN AIR DERBY
WAS FORMER D. c. MAN
Lieut.. French Kirby Was Son Of
Employe Of Government
Printing Office.

Lieut.. French Kirby. former Wash
ington business man. was a victim IN
the transcontinental air derby. hav-
ing been killed late yesterday when
his machine crashed to earth near
Castle Rock. Utah. His passenger.
injured, dying a few minutes after the
fall.
Lieut.. Kirby was the son Of Samuel
G. Kirby, 1347 Parkwood street, an
employe of the government print
ing ONCE. He was twenty nine years
old and is survived by a wife and one
child.
For several years Lieut.. Kirby was
in the real estate business in Wash
ington with John w. Childress. and
when Mr.. Childress went to Alexan-
dria, Va. to take charge of the Elmer
son Pump and Valve Company's inter-
ests there young Mr.. Kirby went with
him, moving his family to that town.
In October. 1917. Lieut.. Kirby en-
tered the service. getting his first
training at the Georgia Technical Col
lege in Atlanta. In the meantime his
wife and child went to Detroit to live
while he was in the Army. Lieut.
Kirby received his commission and
was sent to France. but did not reach
the front until the day the armistice
with the 1st Air Squadron and made
officia1 photographers.
Lieut.. Kirby returned to this coun-
try in May, 1919. and has spent most
of his time in Garden iCty. making
several short trips to Washington to
visit relatives and friends.
Evening star., 1919-10-16

f1ciently through its sales organiza-
tion and refrigerating equipment. The
net result is the lowering of selling
costs. more direct marketing from
producer to consumer and a better
service to the public.
This statement we stand ready to
prove to any impartial tribunal, 1t
is silly for the trade commission to
say that our statement that Swift &
Co, does not handle coffee. rice or
cereals proves that we have agreed
with other packers to divide the f1eld.
There is no ground for the claim that
nate the wholesale grocery trade.
Swift & Co.'S sales of grocery products
amount to only little over l per cent
of the total wholesale grocery busi-
ness. The five large packers together
handle not to exceed per cent. The
trade commissions figures showing
the percentage of poultry, butter and
eggs handled by the large packers are
greatly exaggerated.
I'VE have issued figures based on
the Department of Agriculture re-
ports showing that Swift & Co. ham
dies only about s per cent of the to-
tai quantity of these products sold in
the United States. There Is no COM
bination or agreement with other
packers in the handling of these
products or to divide territory in their
purchase or sale. 1 believe that the
public is beginning to learn that 1t
cannot rely on the prejudiced and SEN
sational charges made by the Federal
Trade Commission and that this COM
is doing the country posi-
tive injury by stirring up discomfort
and misunderstanding"
Evening star., 1919-10-16
FURTHER PROGRESS MADE
ON RAIL BILL BY SENATE
Committee Accepts Amendments to
Encourage Water Traffic
Facilities.

In further progress on the railroad
bill the Senate interstate commerce
committee today agreed to amend
ments offered by Senator Ransdell.
democrat. Of Louisiana, providing for
encouragement of water transporta-
tion facilities The new federal trans
portation board would be given au-
thority to encourage development OF
water lines for their coordination
with rail routes.
Action on adjustment of finances
between the railroads and the gov
ernment upon termination of govern
ment control was deferred until to-
morrow.
Consideration of the anti-strike pro-
vision also was postponed. Senator
Robinson, democrat, of Arkansas, who
is redrafting the anti-strike section,
is making provision for a number of
regional boards to consider wage and
working conditions of railroad en-
ployes, to provide for prompt and sat
isfactory settlement of all disputes by
impartial federal tribunals, so that the
anti-strike penalties will be justified
to prevent hardship upon the public
by a transportation tie-up.
Evening star., 1919-10-16

a E tContinued from First Page,
eHeE provided II also was agreed and
emfFstood that the granting of such
= HGht requires corporate RESPONSE
HHE on the part of the organizations
p Aormed.
n Enployers of this type believe that
II would be more economical in the
Edng run to recognize labor unions or
kny. other trade organizations, provided
the Individual workers could be held
responsible for contracts made and
agreements signed by their repre-
Sentatives for them That's the crux
of the trouble. And, while IL looks
Ike a controversy over language or
phraseology. il Is actually an issue Of
Justice-shall workmen have the right
To associate as they please without CO.
ercion or influence or interference by
employers. and when once they are
organized and employers do recognize
them. can they be held responsible
collectively for the sum total of their
Individual actions? Labor will prob
able get it's right to organize. but not
without pledge TO accept RESPONSE
bility for its organized actions.
= Copyright. 1872
Evening star., 1919-10-16
TO BACK ANY RAISE FOR
POLICEMEN AND FIREMEN

The joint congressional commission
on reclassification Of salaries in the
District will concur in any action that
Congress may take to raise the pay
of District policemen and firemen.
The reclassification commission is
working hand in glove with the
House District committee In the mat
ter OF these two branches of District
service, and in all likelihood will ac-
cept whatever action Congress shall
take as final
This does not mean, however that
the eclassificationists will discon-
t1nue their work as far as 1t effects
the local police and flremen. These
branches of service will be classified
by the commission along with the
remainder of the 100000 federal and
District employees working in the Ma
tional Capital.
Evening star., 1919-10-16
LINES TO BE ADJUSTED
BY CITIZEN ASSOCIATIONS

An effort to adjust the boundary
lines between the citizens associa-
tions of the city will be made at
conference in the board room Of the
District building tonight.
The conference has been called by q
special subcommittee of the central
committee which is planning a city,
wide membership drive for the citi-
zens' associations next month The
presidents of all the associations have
been asked to attend the meeting to-
night.
The central committee in charge Of
the membership drive felt that the
first step should be to endeavor to
settle definitely disputes which have
long existed between a number of ad-
Joining associations as to where juris-
diction ends.
Thomas ]. Donovan is chairman of
the special subcommittee on boundary
disputes.
Evening star., 1919-10-16
SIX MONTHS SUGAR
EMBARGO PROPOSED

An embargo against the export of
sugar for the next six months. under
penalty OF ten years imprisonment
and $4,000 fine, was proposed today
by bin introduced by Representa-
tive Dallinger, republican. Massa-
chusetts, He also introduced resolu-
tions calling on the War and Navy
departments to report the quantities
of sugar held by them.
Mr.. Dallinger said that II the de-
partment's reports showed any sur
plus he would propose that they be
placed on the market.
AN export embargo" said Dallin-
ger in a statement would increase
by many million pounds the supply
available Tor our own people"
Evening star., 1919-10-16
DRY ENFORCEMENT BILL
SENT TO WHITE HOUSE

The prohibition enforcement bill. to
carry out the wartime prohibition
act and also the constitutional
amendment when it becomes effective
next year, was sent to the White
House today for approval, having been
signed by the Speaker of the House
and Vice President.
The President has ten days, exclu-
sive Of Sundays, in which to sign a
bill op to return it to Congress with
his veto. If he has taken no action
on the measure at the conclusion of
the ten days 1t automatically be-
cmeS a law.
Evening star., 1919-10-16
L. F. Swift Answers Charges
of U. S. Trade Commission
and CriticiseS That Body

Special Dispatch TO The Star
CHICAGO, Ill. October 16.-Louis F.
Swift. president of Swift G. Co.. today
answered charges made against his
company in part four of the Federal
Trade Commission report. He said:
THE packing industry is again put
in a wrong light by the latest install
ment of che series OF attempts on the
part of the Federal Trade Commission
to scare the American people into the
belief that the large packers are get
ting control of the food supply of
the country. In the first place the
packers do not control anything
Swift & Co. is in active competition
with all other packers in the pur-
chase and sale of every product
bought and sold. The charge that the
five packers have divided the field
each specializing on certain lines, is
absurd. Swift & Co. handles only such
products as logically result from be-
ing in the packing business and such
other products as can be handled ef-
Evening star., 1919-10-16

mobilization OF three classes of SOL
diers has been ordered, it is an
nounced in a telegram received here
from Kovno. Russian troops under
command of Col. Vierkolitch have
been concentrated in Lithuania, and
with the help Of Germans have oc-
cupied telegraph and telephone sta
tions and converted schools into bar
racks.
The Lithuanian flag has everywhere
been replaced by the Russian colors. Col
Nierkolitch has issued proclama-
tion saying if the Lithuanians volun-
tarily reunite with old Russia self
government will be given Lithuania
under Russian sovereignty. The
proclamation says that, on the other
hand. if the Lithuanians resist the
Russians they will be regarded as
traitors"
Evening star., 1919-10-16
HOUSE CONCURS IN RENT
AMENDMENT CORRECTION

The so-called Ball amendment to
the anti-profteering bill aimed to
prevent profiteering in rents in the
District of Columbia was sent on its
way to enactment today, when the
House concurred in a joint resolution
already adopted by the Senate max
ing a correction in this measure.
The bill as it passed the House pro-
vided that moneys collected should be
deposited in the treasury of the Dis
trict of Columbia AS the District has
no treasury, the language of the bill
was corrected to read, in the Treasury
of the United States to the credit Of
the District of Columbia
Evening star., 1919-10-16
PAN-HELLENIC PARLEY OPENS
College Fraternity Women Holding
Three. Day Session.

The National Pan-Hellenic Confer
ence opened it's three-day session to-
day at the New Willard. Mrs. Mary
C. Love Collins Of Lexington. KY.
presided. This conference is COM
posed of representatives from all the
women's college fraternities.
A feature of the session will be the
interfraternity luncheon to be held
Saturday at the Wardman Park Inn.
Reservations for this gathering
should be made with Mrs. c. A Bur-
meister, 1902 Lamont street, or by
calling Columbia 61S6-W. Men and
women prominent in educational
work will speak. and a large attend
ance of out-of-town guests as we'll as
local college fraternity women are
expected.