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Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-02-26
THOSE SHOE BILLS!
KEEP THEM DOWN

MIR. John Held, merchant, of Salt
Lake City. keeps an exact record of the
shoes he wears He writes, Two
pairs Of Neohn Soles hare worn for
me l9 months and / am On my feet
ninety per cent of the time
This is not an extraordinary exam
pie Of the money saving service that
people get from Ne6ain Soles- 1t is
typical Of the experience millions are
having These sdes do wear a very
long time and 50 help you keep shoe
bills down. They are scientifically
made SO they must wear
Get Ne5lin- soled shoes at Amos.
any good shoe store. Get them fox
your whole family in the styles you
prefer. And have these cost-savine
soles put on your worn shoes They
arc very comfortable and waterproof
as well as durable. They are made by
The Goodyear Tire &; Rubber Com
pany. Akron. Ohio, who also make
Wingfoot Heels. guaranteed to out
wear any other heels.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-02-26
IMMATURE ALMANAC.
STRIKE AGAINST MEAT TAX
Three Thousand I:mployces OF Paris
observation-disclosures out in
Unique PrOteht.
Bv Associated press1

PARIS. Feb. 25.-Thrce thousand
employees Of Paris slaughter houses
have struck. their demands being, FIRST,
the abolition of the tax on meat. and
second the prohibition of clandestine
markets by the insistence OF direc;
transfer of meat from Slaughter
houses TO retailers.
The workmcn declare the tax has
caused uncasincss in the trade. anc
that clandcstinc markets arc allowed
to violate the regulations as TO the
sale OF meat Should tho strike con-
tinuc Paris will be without meat in
few days.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-02-26

lice this week, and who wore the CroiN
dc Guorrc for his work In the trenches
OF France. Cotton related how another
private and himself had been surprised
by German raiding party, dressed az
French soldiers. The deception was
not discovered until the Germans were
almost upon the two Americans. Cot
ton knocked an automatic pistol from
tho lieutenant who led the party of
twelve and with his companion opencd
tire on the Germans. He casually re-
marked that they killed eight OF the
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-02-26
You're BiIiousl
Take Cascarets
Pleasant relief for liver and
bowels, and cost lOc a
box-no grippe!

Feel grand! Be efficient! Clean your
torpid liver and sluggish bowels with
good. harmless Cascarcts-thcy don't
Eiipc or sickcn. Give your .insidcs Il
good cleaning and rid yourself of head
aches, bilious spells, dizziness, sallow-
ness. bad breath, stomach sourness,
gases, etc. Cheer up. Get a l0-cent
box from any drug store Also best
cathartic for bilious. constipatcd chill
drcn--tastcs like candy, but never
falls. Cascarcts work while you sleep.
ADV.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-02-26
WARS COST s1,200,o0o,o0o
A YEAR FOR Is YEARS
Trenxury's Estimate Is Tint Liberty
bondholdcrs VIII Rcceivc $685.
OO.OO0 Interest Annually.

WASHINGTON. Feb. 25.-It will
cost the American people about $1,000
100000 a year for the next twenty
years to pay off the war debt. accord
on incomplete knowledge or precisely
OF what the final war debt will b..
This calculation is made the as
sumption that the net war debt. with
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-02-26
PENNSYLVANIA RATlFIES
Becomes Forty-Fifth American Com
monwcnlth to Help Hurry John
BnricycOrn.
tBv Associated Press.
styI- ia I'-,

HARRISBURG. PA. FEB. 25.--TIc
state Senate today passed finally the
House joint resolution, ratifyinS the
national prohibition amendment. The
vote was 30 to lS. Pennsylvania thus
becomes tho forty-nfth State TO ratify.
The House Of Representatives adopted
the resolution recently.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-02-26
HERE'S RELIEF
FOR YOUR COLD!
DR.. Kings New Discovery helps
to bring the desired
quick relief

1t holds a record Of fifty continuous
years Of rclieving-promptly and
pleasantly-the usual winter colds.
coughs. and bronchial attacks
l: holds following of armies of
regular users in whose family medi-
cine cabinets DR.. Kings New Discov-
cry is the watchword for cold and
cough correction.
Sold by druggists everywhere. Coo
and S12O.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-02-26
VIRGINIA "Y' WORKERS
ON VISIT TO CAMP LEE
Getting First-Hand Impressions of
Life i'm Camp Preparing for
Future Work.
DEsERTER is GIVEN SENTENCE
Californian Brought All Way Across
Continent to Stand Trial, and
Draws Two Years in Prison-Gcu-
oral Bundy Writes Own Story.
Especial to The Times Dispa,chl

Special TO The Times Dispatch
CAMP LEE. VA, Feb. 25.-Thc Y. NJ.
g. a. secretaries in every Virginia town
VIII know from first-hand sources Of
information the conditions under which
INC soldiers OF Camp Lee actually live
from day to day. This is just advanc.
preparation for taking care Of the sol
diers when they return 10 civil life and
i"r serving them i'll the most satisgac-
tory manner.
Two hundred ~" secretaries are
making a visit TO Camp Lee to get
the desired atmosphere, and to rub
shoulders with the soldiers still in
camp. They are being CHARTERED in
two barracks, entirely devoted 10 their
use. They do all the detail work of
the barracks, sleep on army cots. under
army blankets and with real army
breezcs sweeping through the open
windows on cold nights The bakers
ana cooks school has put in a regular
mess OUTFIT and the secretaries are eat
ing army chow" and trying out "slum"
for dinners.
Perhaps all other States. whose men
are largely numbered among Camp Lee
plan II is the biggest step being
taken ia order to cope with the situa-
tion that confronts all community work
when the soldier returns home.
DISCHARGED MEN ARE
GETTING GOODI.Y SUMS
Some surprisingly large sums of
money are being paid out here to dis
charged men in order 10 take care Of
tHciT comm utation .DacE TO their homes.
one Pacific Coast man Is said to have
been the highest winner. when he drew
car fare at = cents a mile for the
trip of nearly 5000 miles TO his home
far UP in the Northwest coast. The
necessity of taking a round-a bout train
trip thus caused him 70 draw about
500 In train fare. in addition TO his
payment for wages.
Private Robert Jeffrey Fresno. CAL
Company 4. Twenty fourth Machine
Gun Com pany, Training Center Camp
years in the military prison at Fort
Jay. " y. for deserving his command
from June IS. 1918. until September
&c. when he was arrested AZ Fresno.
WAS BROUGHT ALL WAY
TO CAMP LEE FOR TRIAL
Although jeffrey was thus placed in
military custody all the way from the
Pacific Coast. the military rule re-
CURED that he he brought more than
300 miles TO Camp Lee in order to
stand trial. The entire trial proceed
nSS took place here as "A result since
his com mand was stationed at Camp
Lee at the time.
General Omar Bundy, camp coinman-
der. tells his own story Of his work
with the American cNpcditionary forces
in France III the current issue of n
weiiknown magazine. He relates
seas and gives a number of military
orders, which are reprinted in this
story for the first time and which. give
the reason for various trooD move
ments in tho big American offensive
James Cotton, negro of Winston
Salem. y. G.. was one of the wounded
men passing through the mastering Of
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-02-26

deductions for loans TO allies. will Ne
in the ncighborhood of SIS. 1000, 600, 600. 4
lnto'<t on this amount at the rate
year 10 hc raised by taxes. AID thsn
reraid Ia bondholders 80
In addition. about Sil7.000.000 would
have TO be provided every year asa
sinking fund TO redeem ali bonds H.,
twenty-five years. ~
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-02-26
The Weather
FURNISHED by U. s. Weather bureau.

FOrccnst; Sirginin
Colder and clearing
except snow In tho
IN q u II { n n, much
60 Il cr Wednesday,
night; Thursday fair
and cold.
North Carolina
Clearing and much
co Il or "Wednesday v,
with n cold wave Mt
night; Thursdny fair
and cold.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-02-26
Munich Quiet Again.

COPENHAGEN. Feb. 25.-The work
men OF Munich returned to work yes
terday and tho street cars wcro run
ming, according to dispatches received
tho state OF siege continues. In tho
Rulnr region work has been resumed
at Bulheim, where the militia is main
taining order.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-02-26
CoIorcd Girl Arrr.ted.

Detective Sergeants Smith and WILEY
took Nellie Burton. q fourteen-yea old
colorcd gill into custody yesterday
evening on the charge OF running
away from home.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-02-26
WOMEN OF FRANCE
HANDLERS OF MONEY

Englishwomcn have always been
i9id hat ,heE - hays not shc GIsn mes
they have no cnicrprtsc and initiative.
Nearly every married Frcnch~ oman.
that is almost every srown-up French,
woman e1cc2! the nun. has money OF
her own. When 1t is spent she is
consulted. it is not. as in England. just
swallowed up in the family income. and
at or taken for granted. The French
woman. then. has opinions on the en-
ploymcnt OF money and learns about
il. The EnElishwoman ignorance OF
finance is The despair of trustees and
sometimes their temptation. She is
son. AS her husband happens TO smile
or Erumbl. while he signs her house
keeping check.
Ing has no enterprise. say her critics.
quite true. She hasn't the money tor
her rail fare TO apply for an ambi-
;ous job that, is jus, a little TOO good
20 after the job Cor which she is
little too good. Nothing venture Moth
H 1s ha nr IS ha SSdaa pasnr but With
her own cash than her fathers.
The nnnssimists who arc wondering
bcing dismissed from government Of
fees have forgotten all the little nest
eggs in government securities. 1t is
young women who have done war work
to lind their way into peace work The
initiative we Ma med them for lack
ing was there. the sclf-confidencc. The
power to pick and choose. But they
were. useless without the few dollars
which arc worth so much because they
re her very own.
They arc earned money, and. there
tore. talisman for earning more; n
symbol OF sclf-rcliance and. therefore.
an encouragement every time they
jingle In ones pocket They are more.
they are reminder that the girl has
her country and can. therefore. expect
TO help herself. Sixteen million people
now have stake in the fortunes of n
nation OF 100000. That nations
money won't go in ducks and brakes
Copyright. 1919.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-02-26
The Boon OF Regular Bowels

the health promoting properties OF
active bowels. these are yours when
you occasionally take DR.. Kings New
Life Pills Keep the stomach sweet,
the breath untainted, tho system
cleansed. Gentle but positive in ac-
ton. Sold everywhere. 25c.-Adv.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-02-26

You Can Get n Good Price
for that used car by advertising 1t in
Times Dispatch Want Ads. Call Ran
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-02-26
I.OcnI Rainfall.
LocnI Oh.cr,ntinn. u1 s mi

Temperature, 80; humidity, 95: wind
direction. north; wind velocity. miles
weather, raining.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-02-26
Local Temperature Ye,,erduy.

IL noon temperature. .......... 80
) +. NJ. temperature. ........... As
. r. NJ temperature. 30
Maximum temperature to +. NJ. 80
Minimum temperature to +. NJ 80
Mean temperature yesterday a
NorHial temperature for this date. -
Excess yesterday ..
Excess since March l..... -
Excess since January ! ..... 81
Local Rainfall.
Rainfall last twelve hours Is
talniail last tWenty-four hours. IS
Dchcicncy since March l......... l.O9
Ehccss since January l.......... .l6
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-02-26
BRITISH GIRLS DON'T ASK
THEIR DADS FOR MONEY
Women OF England Do Not Believe
1t Good Taste to Seek
Cash.
WAR WORKERS SAVE FUNDS
Moro Than 100000 Persons Have
Invested in John Bulls Securities
Since 1O14-Fcmininc Sex Now
After Peace Jobs.
nY +. n. GOOD,IAN.

LONDON. Feb 25.-Tncrc are sixteen
and quarter million people who have
Investments in British government Sc
curities and before the war there were
only about a third Of Il million. Nearly
sixteen million people have lent money
10 help on the war. Most OF them put
what they had in war loan. war bonds,
war savings certificates. because they
wanted to help. but that does not pre-
comfortable acknowledgment OF ones
good intentions.
Before tho war people who wanted
10 get per cent had TO take risks.
remember meeting Sir J. j. Thompson.
the world-rcnowned scientist. before
he was Sir j. j. or world-reno wncd
and he was writing IA letter to Il friend
who wanted his money to bring in .
per cent. lie said. IF want S per
cent l put El00 $500 in box and
take out E6 tS30) every year. find
ish girls who have saved $500 during
the war will get their per cent un-
less tho skies fall. and there are a
good many of them.
There arc also 4 million or so Of girls
who have taken low wage and spent
a good deal OF it in sending parcels
10 boys at the front or in German prs-
on camps and perhaps in four years
they have only saved 5000 or 800 or
even $40.
They are not counting on the interes,
from a tiny saving like this. But
these few dollars are a ncst-esc. and
Tho girl who has them is different
girl from the one who has to ask her
father for every penny You have
10 be English 20 know exactiy how
different
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-02-26
ENGLISH GIRLS SHORT
ON SPENDING NONE


There are tens and hundreds of
thousands OF girls in England who
have beautiful homes and good food
and what English women reckon as
plcnt. Of pretty clothes and good
time altogether but never more than
ready ticltctcd and virtually owing for
railway fares and little presents and
tips and church collections and stamps.
| have known girls going out from a
luxurious homo 10 earn their living
feel suddenly rich because they had a
going without dinner and having half
a dollar more to spend.
This is not because the British father
is s,ingy. IL IL partly because he
spends a larger proportion OF his in
come on his home than almost any
man. with the result that neither he
nor his family have much pocket
money. And it is partly because Eng
lishwomen hate asking for money. IL
is one Of the forms their p!ide takes
some people think j, ugly form
and others admire IL.
astonishing. There was woman of
over thirty in North Country town
whose father died and left her about
$500 5000. After a time she told her
brother she wanted 800. lie said She
had better send her bills to him He
ever they had been. but he couldn't
bear letting her have that 500 of her
own. When she got II she felt rich.
and so does the girl who has that
earned and saved and can do what she
likes with.
Men viii say that she can't do any
thing With so little but buy gloves
IS seeking her fortune with il at this
The Washington herald., 1919-05-14
H|NDUBOLSHEV|K
PERIL TO JAPAN
Toxic S Spies Overrun India
In Effort to Learn
Leaders Purposes.

New York. May lS.-Japau IL SO
Sravely concerned at the rapid
spread of Bolshevism in India that
she has an army Of spies scattered
through the peninsula. making
notes of the progress of the new
political doctrine. according TO Tai
bot Mundy. traveller and writer.
who for many years has been in
close touch with affairs in Great
Eritain's Eastern Empire.
Mr.. Mundy. who formerly was in
the government service in India.
makes the interesting assertion that
the new political doctrine did not
originate in Russia. Switzerland or
New York. but had its inception in
the active brains Of a group of Hin
dus.
Japan, he says. is now alarmed by
the possibility of its spread from
India through Burmah INTO China.
'1f it ever does spread into China
tne emu ol JdpaneSe supremacy VIII
be in sight" said Mr.. Mundy today.
Japan sees the danger and has an
army of spies i'm India taking notes
and making detailed reports.
AT first the British government was
alarmed at the presence of these Jap
anese agents and made its displeas-
ure known to Toxic. The British have
since learned that there was little
to be feared from the japanese espi-
onage activities"
The Washington herald., 1919-05-14
SOLONS FALL
DURING FLIGHT
.achine Drops $50 Feet
With Pratt, Timberlake
And Hawley Aboard.

Representatives Pratt. Timber
ke and HawIey. members of the
ouse Ways and Means Committee,
Il flight over Washington in a
Irtin bomber piIoted by Col. r.
Hartz. commander of Boiling
cid. yesterday afternoon encount-
ed an air pocket that caused
cir plane to fall $50 feet to the
ound.
In spite of the jolt. the Repre-
ntatives expressed themselves as
eatly impressed by their aerial
perience.
Col. Hartz and his associates are
astructing a great field and develop
aviation on scientific and sensible
lncipIes." said Mr.. HawIey. 'Ibe-
ve ample funds for investigation
d experiment should be provided
4 opportunity offered for the broad
rCnStructional work that the Ma
Capital field may become the
equipped and greatest in the
rid"
representative Undertake, of Colo
10. described his first aerial flight
the most interesting experience Of
4 life
The Washington herald., 1919-05-14

| am in favor of the plan the
citizens OF the District of Co.
Iumbia arc preparing for pres
entation to Congress asking
representation in the Senate
and House of Representatives.
I am informed these same
citizens desire that the pres
cnt form of municipal govern
mcnt by commission be re-
tanned.
To my mind no tangible
reason has been presented
why Washingtonians should
not have the voting privilege
the same as their fellow
Americans in the States.
Washington has. a wonder
full citizenship. The people
here have been active in
Transforming the Capital from
the former mudhole into one
of the most beautiful cities
OF the world. They pay a
full measure OF taxes; have
furnished more than their
The Washington herald., 1919-05-14

sell liberty bonds they have
gone "ovcr the top" far
ahead of their allotments.
When / was a member of
the committee on the District
of Columbia the matter of
suffrage for this community
was frequently discussed but
it was never presented in con-
crete form.
1t is wonderful how Wash
ington has progressed even in
twenty years. A friend of
mine who served in Congress
about twenty-five years ago
informed me that 10 reach the
Capitol, unless he preferred to
walk, he had to embark on a
bobtail street car drawn BY
one old mule az Seventeenth
and Fl streets northwest, and
endure the agony of IS min
utes of slow and agonizing
travel.
l feel that we can safely
trust the ballot box in the
hands of our. District friends.
The Washington herald., 1919-05-14
AGENT
DEFINES POLICY
Bolshevik Envoy in Berlin
Says Russians Don't
Plan Aggression.

Berlin, April 10 (by maiD D.-Thc
foreign policy of the Russian Boil
sheviki is simply to live and let
live" according to NJ. Makowski,
their secret agent in Berlin.
The Bolsheviki want to be left
alone to work out communism in
Russia. he declared. They do not
want to invade other countries, and,
he claimed, are fighting only a de-
fensive war. The communist move
ment, he said. is considered strong
enough in other countries to fight
for itself without the aid of the
Russians.
Only the Anglo-Saxon countries
can Withstand the Bolshevik move
ment in the next decade, is the be-
lief of Makowski; Great Britain will
have her Bolshevill troubles. and
only America is free from BoIshc-
vism. She. too. Makowski averred.
will reach the same end-com-
munism-by a different route.
Makowski believes the allied and
central powers will soon make
known their willingness to make
peace. They have high respect for
the powers of William Bullitt, whom
President Wilson sent to Moscow.
The Bolsheviki say Bullitt's was the
first mission to meet them in an
open manner. and that all the others
have tried underhand methods Of
conspiracy and bribery.
The Washington herald., 1919-05-14
SEEKS
COURT RULING
Miss Alice Wood Brings
Action Against Board
Of Education.

The long drawn out dispute be-
tween the High School Teachers
Union. as represented by Miss Alice
l.. Wood. the teacher who was sus-
pended on March 20 last for a Pc
riod of one week. and the Board of
Education. will be heard before
Justice Stafford in the District Su-
preme Court on May %.
That date was set yesterday after
the filing of petition for a writ of
mandamus by Attorney Paul Z. Lesh
on behalf of Miss Wood
The petition asks that the action
of the board in suspcnding Miss
Wood for an alleged discussion of
Bolshevism in the Western High
School classroom be set aside. The
Board of Education has been noti-
fed to appear and explain why Miss
Woods prayers should not be grant,
ed.
Miss Wood also asks that she be
returned to her former status as a
teacher and that the Board of Edu-
cation pay her a whole months SAL
airy instead of just three weeks
salary for the month of March.
She criticises the action of the
board in suspendinG her without a
formal trial as Illegal and contrary to
accepted practices. rules and regula-
tions governing the conduct of the
local schools.
After Miss Wood had gone through
her suspension and returned to her
class. the High School Teachers I'm
ion took up her case and engaged in
a lively controversy with the Board of
Education for several weeks in an
effort to have the case reopened and
decided OH its merits.
Failing in this. threat was made
10 take the matter into the courts, but
the board stood firm and refused to
listen. Now the whole matter will be
aired publicly and the board will have
to put on record the entire history
of the case. much of which it has kept
under cover during the controversy.
The Washington herald., 1919-05-14
BERLIN TO VETO
TREATY UNLESS
IT IS AMENDED
Premier Scheidemann Tells
Reporters Delegates Will
Be So Instructed.
I'VE WILL NOT FIGHT"
Assembly Informed
Faith in Entente Topples
To Its Fall.

Basle. May I3.-The Berlin CORES
pondent OF the National zeitunE re-
ported today that Chancellor Scheide-
mann had Informed journalists that
The German government will order its
delegates not to sign the peace terms
In their present form.
This peace is not acceptabIe,"
Chancellor Scheidemann declared YES
terday in a speech before the ma
tional assembly.
With this utterance the audience
rose TO its feet and cheered enthu-
siasticaIly for several minutes.
Opposed TO Fighting.
I'VE are willing to sign a peace. but
only a peace we can fulfill; one that
Will leave US to work OF and nav
on what is just" said Scheidemann.
We will not fight We want peace
We see. with a shudder. what brutal
militarism leads TO. from the example
set by the entente"
We want TO save the naked life OF
the country and the people. We are
unable TO compare the peace terms
with Wilson's program. The world is
shorn Of Illusion and Wilson's picture
as bringer OF peace has failed.
According to the terms, Germany
has ceased to exist abroad Who, as
an honest man, is able TO sign the
treaty as il now stands: None,
We want TO negotiate. but millions
IN all countries already are crying
aloud their murder plans II this
treaty be signed, not only viii Ger
many's cadayer be lying on the battle
field of Versailles. but il will also 10,
Joined by that OF the independcncy Of
free nations and their faith in the
ideals of the entente"
Scheidemann's speech was applaud
ed throughout. except by the Radicals.