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The sun., 1919-04-02
TAFT LANDS BROKE IN DETROIT
Mayor Cousens Cashes Check for
Former President.

pErRoIr, Mich. April 1.-Forner
President TAFT, who spoke at Kalamazoo
tonight on the League OF Nations ar
rived In Detroit this forenoon--''broke. p
He walked the nile and half 10 the
city Hall where Mayor CouIens cashed
q check for him. Il just ran out OF
change" he explained to newspa permen.
and knew the Mayor had lots Of It."
The former President will go from
Kalamazoo 70 Lansing. where he lie ex-
pectsd to speak before the state Legi5-
lature tomorrow.
The sun., 1919-04-02
HIT BY HARB0R STRIKE.
Meade Transfer Company Assigns
10 AID Creditors.

The Meade Transfer Company. truck
ers and transfer agents tor the Pennsyl-
vania, Long Island and Leh!gh Valley
Railroads. the principal offices OF which
are at Pier 8. North River yesterday
assigned for the benefit OF creditors to
Henry Herberman.
Charles F. Walden. president OF the
company, said that the assignment was
due to general business conditions and
moro particularly to the harbor strike.
The company was short OF ready cash
to meet high overhead expenses. The
business will be continued, he said.
The company was Incorporated In 1901
with a capital stock OF $4,000. Frank
Il. Stripe of go Broadway is attorney
for the assignee.
The sun., 1919-04-02
war Trade Board Lifts Embargo.

wAsaINoToN. April 1.-Restrictions
on the importation Of ferromsnganese
and spiegeleissn were removed to-day
by the War Trade Board. and these COM
modities may now be brought to tho
United States from Great Britain,
France. Italy. Belgium and Japan. or
from their possessions. colonies or do
nInions under general import licenses.
The sun., 1919-04-02
british steamer flowed to Port,

wnMIsoroN. N. c.. April 1.-The Brit
sd, steamship Korona. st. Thomas to
New York. with cargo and passengers
and disabled at sea. was towed here to-
day by the coast guard cutter Seminole.
with the food supply running short the
xkopona lap for days helpless IN q heavy
gsis With hinge seaf breaking over her.
The sun., 1919-04-02

4 SpoHessly
! Clean
4 The Restaurant
y maintains a pleas
4 ant atmosphere
8 that adds zest to
s the appetite.
q A menu that is I'M
& equalled for the price,
8 and food served so
8 that second visits are
\ inevitable, prevail.
d Situated, as it is,
81 on the eighth floor of
8 this store, the Res
81 taurant is in a loca-
b ton, adapted for the
q quick convenient ser
81 vice of our Gus
81 toners.
& A Luncheon
q for &c
q is served from 80
8 A. M. till 2 P. M.
81 To-day's Menu is as fol-
81 lows:
81 Shin Of Beet Soup a Fan
81 glaise or PURGE OF Yellow
81 Split Peas.
n (Choicc OF one Dish)
y Baked Sea Trout, Pro-
q vencale.
81 Boiled Cod Fish, Sauce
q Aurore.
81 Irish Stew, Dublin Style.
g Fricassee OF TurkcyWings
e with Rice.
y Roast Veal, Florentinc.
81 Egg Salad, Mayonnaise.
q Assorted Cold Cuts, Salad
y Surprise.
n American Vanilla or
q Chocolate Ice Cream with
q cake. or Coffee Eclair.
b Tea, Coffee, Milk, Butter
q milk.
81 Bread or Rolls and Butter
81 We also serve a luncheon
81 tor 49c
Il A la Carte Specialties all
81 day at very reasonable
n prices.
"a Take 35th street and
81 rear elevators to the
81 Restaurant.
q E.S-o Eighth Floor
The sun., 1919-04-02
Delahunty Il DispIensed.

las I have said BEFORE" lie declared
last night, the licensed men: that Is,
the engineers. masters. mates and pilots.
can win tire strike alone. II the lighter
captains want to go back TO work at
terms less satisfactory than the same
class Of employees are receiving from
the Railroad Administration and the
army and navy they are welcome to do
So"
The boa. owners look upon the matter
In different light. They are confident
that they will win over one Organization
after another until there is nobody hold
ing out except Mr.. Delahunty himself.
Things are looking better every day."
said Paul Donynge, counsel for the boat
owners.
Mr. Bonynge, although he had been
blacltlisted BY Mr.. Delahunty, partici-
pated yesterday in a meeting between
tho officials OF the Lighter Captains
Union and a committee representing the
private owners. The meeting was ar
ranged by T. V. OConnor, international
president of the Longshoremen's Asso-
citation.
The sun., 1919-04-02
Lack Of Fuel Holds Liners.

Lack OF proper coaling facilities due
to the strlke Is still causing sailing de-
lays to outgoing vesselr La Touraine,
due to sail yesterday. vas held over
until to-day. Frank p. Walsh. who is
booked to sail on the vessel. received
word of the delay with a thoughtful
frovu. He 10 chief counsel for the
strikers.
Among those detained when La
Touraine failed to put out was dele
cation representing. its speakers said,
20. 5000 Of persons Of Irish birth. or
descent. In America, bound for France
10 present to the Peace Conference a
demand for an Irish republic, About
$50 members OF Irish societies were at
the pier with hass awaiting the arrival
OF the delegates when the coal handlers,
Including many men Of Irish birth and
descent ceased working. Tie delegates,
former Governor Edward r. Dunno OF
Illinois, Frank p. Walsh, former chair
man OF the War Labor Board, and
Michael J. Ryan. lawyer of Philsdel-
ph.a. when they finally appeared were
received By tho representatives Of the
Irish societies with cheers.
Mr.. Dunno said the delegation would
go 10 Paris and ask the members Of the
Peace Conference TO allow the delegates
elected by the Irish Parliament TO APP
pear before the conference. Should the
request be refused the American dele
CATION viii ask that Il should be heard
! by tho conference. The delegation slept
aboard La Touraine last night and ca
poets TO get away this morning.
Representatives Of the marine organ.-
cations at Detroit, Toledo. Buffalo, Chi
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1919-02-14
CONGRESS WOULD ABOLISH
WEARING OF SERVICE STRIPES
Causes a Roar From Our Soldiers On
the Rhine-Men Declare They
Will Wear Them Anyway

A dispatch in the daily press from
Coblenz last Sunday states:
The usual quiet of the Rhine valley
was broken this morning by a great
roar of angry disapproval as the men
of the American army learned that
their service stripes might be stripped
from their sleeves. Yesterday after
noon a military wireless was picked
up with the news that the pending
army appropriation bill carries a
clause abolishing the service chevron,
and this morning this news was on the
army corps, division, regimental and
company bulletin boards.
They are using strong language.
They are charging it to politics. They
remark sarcastically that there are
more votes among the soldiers who
didn't come over than among those
who did. They recall having read
that more officers remained at home
than came to France.
l heard them say that no matter
what congress does they will never
take off their service stripes until
they take off their uniform. They are
proud of their service stripes and they
mean to keep them. The soldiers
hereabouts say that they feel sorry
for their comrades who did not get
a chance to fight. They say that they
had friends who did not get over, who
could have done as well as they. But
they say that does not alter the fact
that they are the lads who fought,
therefore the lads are entitled to be
recognized as those who fought.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1919-02-14
THE SYMPATHETIC STRIKE
PROVED A DISMAL FAILURE
Except the Shipyard Workers All Stri-
kers Went to Work In Seattle
Last Tuesday

The Seattle strike which the foreign
agitators and few impracticable en-
thusiasts thought would bring on a
nation wide strike movement and a
Russian revolution in the United Stat
escame to an end last Tuesday, or five
days after the sympathetic strike was
ordered. The firm stand of Mayor
Hansen and the sound second thought
of the conservative element among the
workingmen asserted itself.
American workingmen know they
can produce a revolution at the ballot
box, without riot, bloodshed and suf-
fering. The American workingman
is better off than are the working men
in the country where the loud mouthed
impractical foreign agitators hail
from. Such improvement as has
been made in this country has been
made at the ballot box. Taking into
account what has been done in the past
twenty years there is hope that still
further progress can be made in bet
tering the condition of all who have
to work without resort to force. Those
of US who work, and also think, know
that We do not need the advice of for
eigners. We do not need either Ger
man, Irish or Russians to tell us how
to run things in the United States. If
the workingmen get Together on an eff
fort to in some way curb the profiteer
the rich hog, the Echo will be only to
glad to lend it's assistance in every
way. Pass us up if you favor a rev.
olution. We are against the use of
force to change any law on the stat
ute books.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1919-02-14
REVERENCE FOR LAW

Speaking on "The Perpetuation of
our Political Institutions" Lincoln re-
ferred to what he called "the growing
disposition to substitute wild and fu-
rious passions in lieu of the sober
judgment of courts, and the worse
than savage mobs from the executive
ministers of justice" and then gave
voice to the following sentiment:
"Let reverence for the laws be
breathed by every American mother
to the lisping babe that prattles on her
lap; let it be taught in schools, in
seminaries and in colleges; let it be
written in primers, spelling books and
in almanacs; let it be preached from
the pulpits, proclaimed in legislative
halls, and enforced in courts of JUS
tice. And, in short, let it become the
political religion of the nation"
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1919-02-14
JOINT MEETING POSTPONED

The meeting of the Public Service
Commission with the city council and
representatives of the Tumwater Light
& Water Co., scheduled to come off on
Monday morning last, was postponed
indefinitely at the instance of the
Public Service Commission. AS no
reason was give it is supposed that it
was on account of the Seattle strike
and the possible interruption in the
train service. The lighting rate mat
ter is still in the air and will be until
further notice.
The members Of the Kumtux Club
will give a farewell party this after
noon in honor Of Mrs. L. o. Taylor
who will leave soon for Bend, Oregon,
to make her home.
In the raising Of money for the Ar
menian relief this city fell short of its
quota, $3.50 being collected. $500 was
the amount allotted for Leavenworth.
Chelan county, however, we are ad-
vised by the local chairman, Mrs. A.
G. McKeown, went over its quota. The
work was in charge of the Minute
Women, who worked untiringly but
were unable to arouse much enthu-
siasm. The local schools contributed
500.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1919-02-14
HIGHEST FARM WAGES IN HALF
CENTURY

Wages for farm labor in the United
States have more than doubled since
1902 and have increased 43 to "a per
cent for the different classes of hir
ings since 1916, or SO per cent for
farm labor in general. These COM
parsons are warranted by the results
of recent investigation made by the
bureau of crop estimates, United
States Department of Agriculture.
For 1918 the wage rate per month
with board was 1892, without board
S47.O7; per day in harvest with
board S2.65, without board 1922; per
day out of harvest with board $2.07,
without board $3.50. These are av-
erages for the United States. The
highest rates are in the far west, and
next below are those of the north
central states. The wage rates of the
south Atlantic states were lowest and
were a little below those of the south
central states, as state-group aver
ages. A record of SO years of farm
wages places 1918 at the top and far
above the highest rates of the half
century before 1916. Wage earnings
measured by purchasing power may
warrant a different statement.
While the wages of farm labor
have greatly increased in only two
years, and have doubled in sixteen
years, it is interesting to observe that
from the time of low water mark in
farm wages, 25 years ago in the great
industrial depression of 1893-1897, the
rates have increased from 165 to 229
per cent for the different classes of
hirings.
Day wages on farms increased in
greater degree than month wages did
during the last two years, and this is
true for the last sixteen years, except
for month wages with board. Wages
by the day for work outside of harvest
have advanced more strongly than for
harvest work. Apparently the pro-
curement of month labor is less of a
problem to the farmer than the find
ing of day labor, especially for work
outside of harvest.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1919-02-14
PRELIMINARY STEPS TO
BOY SCOUT ORGANIZATION
Action Taken Monday Evening By
Organization of the Service Club
to Stand Sponsor for Boy Scouts.

A meeting of thirty-odd represen-
tative citizens of Leavenworth was
held at the high school building Tues
day evening for the purpose of taking
steps to secure a Boy Scout organiza-
tion for Leavenworth. In order to Sc
cure permission from the government
for the scout organization, it is neces-
sary for some local organization to
stand sponsor for the boy scout COM
pany, which may consist of not more
than 80 boys. Mr.. A. H. Sylvester
and Mr.. A. J. Springer, of the forestry
office, were respectively elected tenn
porary chairman and secretary of the
meeting, and after the object of the
meeting was stated by the chairman
to be to promte manliness, respect for
authority, love of country and good
citizenship, along with all the civic
virtues, it was decided to form a local
organization and call it the Service
Club.
Mr.. Harry C. Blankenship was
named as scoutmaster, and the follow
ing were named as troop committee,
Geo. Woodruff, J. A. Hearst and A. S.
Jensen. Any youth over twelve years
old is eligible in the Boy Scout COM
pany. Application will be made at
once for permission to organize the
company. The government supplies
the khaki colored uniform at cost to
every scout.
Returning now to the Service Club,
which it was found necessary to or
ganize as preliminary step to the boy
Scouts, there is abundant work that
the club can do for the betterment of
Leavenworth, besides aiding the
Scouts. Among the activities which
might well engage the attention of the
club in the near future is town park,
street and road improvement, etc.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1919-02-14
SOLDIERS AND SAILORS SHOULD
COME FIRST

Our returning soldiers and sailors
should not be treated as mendicants.
They are the ones who gave up jobs,
marched away to save the country and
offered their lives that the rest of us
might be saved. Nothing in this
country is too good for them. They
should have their old jobs back or be
given others. If there are not enough
jobs for everyone, the returning war
veterans should not be the ones to
suffer. They should be served first.
There are men who sought war work
as safe haven to escape military SER
vice. They made good money while
the boys were away. If anyone has
to go jobless for awhile it should be
the slackers.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1919-02-14
WILL PAVE HIGHWAY FROM
LEAVENWORTH TO WENATCHEE
County Plans Much Road WOrk-Will
Improve the Blewett Pass-No
Money For Scenic Highway.

County Commissioners Milham,
Long and Cadman returned this week
from Olympia where they spent sew
eral days going over the county road
situation with the state highway Com
missioner Allen and the joint road and
bridge committee of the senate and
house.
The plan as agreed upon provides
for the turning back to the county of
state road No. 10 from Wenatchee to
Chelan, the road going on the east
side of the river,utilizing the present
Is miles of the Sunset highway; the
building of road from Corbaley can
yon to a point opposite Chelan, where
state road will be built and the new
road tying up with the present state
road No. 10. The program provides
for the expenditure of about $4,000
this year and improving the road from
Chelan Falls, to Chelan by the state
and Federal government.
The program also includes paving
the Sunset Highway from Orondo to
Wenatchee on the Douglas county side
and from Wenatchee up to Peshastin,
where the Blewett pass road commen-
ces. About $4,000 is available for
this purpose. 1t is not likely that
there will be any money available for
the Scenic Highway. Highway COM
missioner Allen is opposed to spending
money on this road at the present time
and Chelan county is not disposed to
make an issue of this with the state
highway commissioner.
It seems reasonably certain accord
ing to the commissioners that the leg
islature will authorize the designation
of Blewett pass as a portion of the
Sunset Highway with total of S130-
000to be expended this year This
will cut down the steep grades this
side of the summit and widen the
road making it much easier and safer
for traffic. Besides the state money
which will be availablefor roads, the
county is also considering bond is
sue of approximately 100000 for
paving.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1919-02-14
PESHASTIN FRUIT GROWERS
ASSN HAD SUCCESSFUL YEAR
Shipt 216 Cars Fruit-Paid Its Men,
bers $3.50, ,000-Old Officers
Reelected

The Peshastin Fruit Growers Asso
citation has added another successful
year to its record, making final pay
ments on all apples handled this sea-
son by the last of January, and their
bookkkeeper, Miss Grace Lanphere,
will leave Wednesday for a well
earned vacation of six weeks with her
parents in California.
The association has this season
packed, warehoused and sold for its
stockholders 150,150 boxes of pears
and apples which have brought returns
of over $263,0O0, or making an aver
age of $1.7O per box net to the grower
after all selling and warehouse
charges are deducted. This average
covers all grades, including tumble
and windfalls. A large proportion of
this money was paid the growers in
October, November and December, the
balance in January.
The Association is highly pleased
with the service rendered by t. Great
Northern railway this season. There
were 261 cars shipped from Peshastin;
of this number the association shipt
ZIG cars. Probably at no other point
in the apple districts do the growers
so throrougly believe in organization
as at Peshastin, where they have been
doing business in this manner since
1912, and where they now own one of
the largest, if not the largest, and
best equipped frost proof packing
plant and storage houses in the north
west. The Northwestern Fruit Ex-
change has been the sales organiza-
ton of the association since 1912. The
growers feel that the past record of
the association, coupled with Skoo-
KUN advertising, justifies them in an
optimistic outlook of the future. Be
tween $4,000 and $4,000 worth of
supplies were handled this year for
the growers. The crop, especially OF
Jonathans, was light the past season,
but if normal this coming season the
association will handle at least fifty
per cent more tonnage on account OF
young orchards coming into bearing
NJ. w. Starks will remain president,
]. A. Wilson, vice president; Fred
Wright, secretary; j. A. Warman
treasurer. Other directors are A. G.
Stage and G. P. Fryberger. All OF
these men with the exception of Mr.
Wright and Mr.. Wilson, have been
with the association since its organ
ization. J. A. Warman, who has beer
manager for the past six years, will
continue to fill that position.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1919-02-14
INCOME TAX EXCESS PROFITS
GOVERNMENT WANTS MONEY
Return Form Due Between Feb. 15
and March 1st-Payment must Not
Be Made Later Than March Is.

That ther will be no general extern
sion of time beyond March 18th for
the filing of returns and for the pay
ment of income and excessive profits
taxes due on that date, is the de-
cision of Daniel C. Roper, commits
sioner of internal revenue. The an
nouncement was made toady by Col
lector David J. Williams, Immediately
following the approval by the senate
and house of the report of the con-
ferees on the new revenue bill.
"a financial emergency makes it
necessary to get the initial tax pay
ments in by March 15," says Commits
sioner Roper. "No other course is
possible. Some months ago, in the
emergency of financing the war, the
treasury issued certificates of indebt-
edness to an amount approximating
100000, maturing March Is. The
first payment of the income and eX-
cess profits tax for 1918 was planned
for that date, to meet this huge obli-
cation.
"The American people have proven
that there is no emergency too great
to be met and solved by cooperation.
This present situation is another
emergency which can be overcome by
cooperative effort. The bureau ex-
tends its every force toward this end,
and I am relying upon the people to
meet the situation whole-heartedly.
"The internal revenue bureau must
carry out the program prescribed in
the new law, which requires all re-
turns for 1918 to be filed on or before
March Is, 1919, and requires the first
quarterly payment or the entire pay
ment to be made on or before that
date.
"Every taxpayer who can possibly
do so is urged to make full payment
of his income tax on or before March
18th. The quarterly payment method
is intended for taxpayers whose fl
nancing of the tax at one time would
tend to upset local financial condi-
tions.
"The approval of the report of the
conferees by the senate and house of
representatives brings the new rev.
enue to the point where it may said to
be law. The internal revenue bureau
has been making preparations to col
lect the taxes which it provides, and
is now putting all of its efforts into
aiding the taxpayers to fulfill the
obligations imposed.
"The bureau has arranged to send
an advisory force of several thousands
of deputies and agents to assist tax
payers. These officers will be sta
toned at convenient points where they
may be consulted without charge.
Taxpayers should take the initiative
and get in touch with these revenue
men for any needed advice and assis-
tance in preparing returns.
''The forms for the tax returns are
being printed and all forms will be in
the hands of collectors between Feb
ruary IS and March 1st"
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1919-02-14
AND SAILORS ARE
LOYAL

The attempted organization of a
soldiers sailors and workmen's coun-
ell in Seattle is not making great
beadway. There isn't much incentive
or inducement for returning soldiers
in Joining a band of strikers. They
are looking for jobs. Naturally, after
working for over a year for thirty
dollars a month, five, seven and eight
dollars a day and up looks like pretty
good pay to them.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1919-02-14
GENERAL STRIKE? NO.

The propaganda for a countrywide
strike to force the demands of the
Seattle shipyard strikers is at least
piece of stupidity. It is not likely TO
get very far. A general strike against
whom? Against employers who are
not in any way responsible; against
employers who are fair, or against
the United States government
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1919-02-14

North Dakota is to have legalized
newspaper autocracy. County news
paper editors who have dared oppose
the will of the non-partisan league
chiefs are now due to get their pun
ishment. In each county the legisla-
ture is to create one official news
paper that is to publish all official
notices, advertisements and political
announcements.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1919-02-14

A lot of people are just now pro-
testing against the proposed legisla-
ton to increase the salaries of certain
state officials in evasion of certain
constitutional provisions.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1919-02-14

Money is being sent to America to
further bolshevism; to teach bolshe-
vism and to further the propaganda of
revolution. Who is getting this
money? It would be we'll for the
rank and file of laboring men to con-
slider this. Are some of your leaders
getting paid to lead you on to ruin?
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1919-02-14

Three million and half dollars is
to be spent in completion of the state
capitol buildings,