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Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-05-26

frequently 80 without food or recrea-
ton to purchase new articles. Clothes
mean appearance and first Impressions,
which are necessary to getting a posi-
ton and often to keeping it. Indeed,
clothes to q saleswoman are part Of her
stock in trade.
The following budget was made after
interviewing many girls. Although some
can make their own clothes, it is often
difficult to do much dressmaking in a
rooming house, because Of the poor
light and lack of sewing machine and
other facilities, not to mention the
fact that after a long days work sew
ing is not the rest she needs. The
budget is for a who buys her
clothes in the cheapest market, and the
total is $130.
The clothing budget, itemized, is:
Once in two years, coat at SIG; suit,
500; wooden dress, $16; dress, $15;
pumps, S.; handbag, So; umbrella,
$1.50; white cloth skirt, 81; cloth
skirt, So.
Once every three years, home
made sweater, wool for which is So;
white gloves, $1.50.
The Clothes Budget
Average of supply which must be
bought each year: Summer dress, Sc;
winter hat, 81; summer hat, So; good
waist, 81; three wash waists, t~otaling
$2.9s; high shoes, So; low shoes, 81;
shoe repairs. IS; eight pairs cotton
stockings at fifty cents, 81; one pair
silk stockings, $3.50; two corsets at
Sl.50, So; n cotton petticoat, 81;
one Saline petticoat, $3.50; one sum-
mer n~ishtgown, $1.5O; one winter pet
ticoat, $3.50; two corset covers at
seventy five cents, $1.50; one combina-
ton, $l.5O; two union suits at $1.5O,
So; three shirts at thirty five cents,
81; alteration of garments, cleaning
and pressing. S.; leather gloves, $3.50;
summer gloves, 81 handkerchiefs, ST.;
neckwear. fifty cents rubbers, ST; mis-
%cellaneous wells, hair combs, belts,
kimonos, bed slippers, sewing materials,
etc., 1925.
Total for year, $50; for week, $2.5O
As can be seen, most of the clothes
are bought at the lowest possible mar
ket. Allowance is made for wearing
clothes more than one year, and the
supply of underclothcs which the girl
can buy in one year is only half or
one third of her total supply. White
gloves and silk stockings may seem an
extravaganza, but the maker of the
budget claims that an experienced work
ing woman is entitled to a pair of white
gloves in three years and a pair of 81. so
silk stockings a year.
There arc only one or two little items
which could be cut down and. which
mark the difference between extreme
economy and scrimping. And they
would reduce the yearly total only q few
dollars.
How, then, do the thousands of girls
n
The Washington times., 1919-11-04
PRESIDENT CANNOT
CAST BALLOT TODAY
Illness Prevents Voting at
Princeton, N. j., For First
Time in Seven Years.

For the first time during his ten
ancy of nearly seven years OF the
White House, President Wilson will
be forced today, on account of his ILL
ness, to stay away from the polls on
election day.
Each year on election day, the
Presidents special train has gone
from Washington to Princeton. N. j..
where the President has dutifully cast
his vote for the straight Democratic
ticket The President is keenly dis
appointed that he will be unable to
have his vote counted this year, but
&c showing great interest in the con-
test in the State of which he was
governor, and 1t is probable that DR..
Grayson will permit him to receive
the returns in his sick room.
The Presidents condition continues
to improve to the satisfaction of his
physicians. DR.. Grayson last night
would not prophesy as to when he
would permit his patient to leave his
bed, but indicated that his improve
ment has been so good in the past
few days that the time is not far off
when the President will be able to
sit up in chair for a short time
daily.
The President yesterday signed a
few bills and prepared some nomi-
nations to he sent to the Senate. The
nature of the bills and names OF the
nominees have not yet been made
public.
The Washington times., 1919-11-04
LOST BABES BODY
FOUND in WOODS
Two Year Old Girl Wandered
Away While Grandpar-
ents Picked Berries,

PROVIDENCE. r. l.. Nov, 4-Tno
body OF two-year-old EVELYN RocLar
OF Brooklyn, n. Y, has been dfscov
cred in the woods of West Greenwich
by two hunters.
The child has been missing sIpce
August 10. when her grandparents
Mr.. and Mrs. George Becker, took ber
with them berrying on their farm
Leaving the child at the edge OF the
berry patch. they occasionally called
to her and received her answcrine @
cry
When she finally failed to renIv
the were unable to find her. The
whole countryside Joined in a search
for the child. Her father, Anthony
Becker. of Brooklyn, was summoned
and his theory expressed to the DO
lice was that the little girl had been
kidnapped.
The body was found within a mile
Of the Becker farmhouse.
The Washington times., 1919-11-04

MISSION TO
us. MISSING

The latest mystery: where are the
German and Austrian delegates to
the International Labor Conference
The State Department has infor-
nation that they have not yet sailed
from Holland, while other delegates
from continental Europe believe they
will show up in Washington at any
time.
Passports Not yised.
Their passports have not been vised
by any American consular agent. and
no port on this side of the Atlantic
has reported their arrival.
Under these conditions certain
delegates who were ready to fight
tooth and nail against their admis
sion to the conference are breathing
easier. and believe they do not in
tend to come.
Aside from the question of the Ger
man and Austrian delegates, how
ever, the international labor confer
ence is finding plenty of things to
row about.
lesLerudy tne ldDOr ueleRales IroH
Japan, France and South Africa were
admitted over the earnest protest OF
many laborites.
The Cuban delegate, who repre-.
sents the employer group in that re
public, was stripped OF voting power
because there was no labor repre-.
sentative in the delegation.
Fourteen nations in the conference
are represented only by governmen,
delegates. The laborites are fearful
that this preponderance OF officia
representatives will swing the bal
ance of power against their grour
whenever any test of strength comes
The Washington times., 1919-11-04
"Go and Sin No More"
N. Y. Woman Judge Tells
Modern '*Magdalene' .

NEW YORK, Nov. 4.-Jefferson
Market magistrates court was the
scene OF the newest of "triangles"-in
which all the principals were women.
There was the woman judge, the
woman prosecutor, and the woman
charged with "the oldest profession"
The spectators, men and women,
watched interestedly as these three
women settled judicially perhaps for
the first time a situation involving an
offense which, according to popular
belief, no woman can forgive in an
other.
The Judge spoke to the alleged
Magdalene in words inaudible to the
spectator. but her manner was un-
mistakable. She was administering
such a scolding as a mother would
give an erring daughter. The prose-
cutor nodded approvingly. Then,
audibly:
Discharged on probation"
The Judge was Mrs. Jean Hortenz
Norris, New York's first woman mag
istrate, appointed to fill a vacancy.
Her long experience as an attorney
enabled her TO observe all the niceties
Of judicial procedure.
A similar case was disposed OF in
the same way. Then two young girls
were arraigned for shoplifting. Their
sneers and fippant unrepentant air
invoked the sterner side OF Mrs. Nor
ris' nature. They were held to trial
in a higher court.
When court adjourned, the prose-
cutor-Miss Rose Rothenburg. assist
ant district attorney-said to news
paper men:
Her honor has great tact as well
as knowledge OF human nature, and
is aetuated by a spirit of helpfulness1 =
Mrs. Norris wore her abundant
brown hair in a becoming manner.
and from beneath her black magis-
terial robe peeped very modish black
silk stockings and patent leather
pumps.
The Washington times., 1919-11-04
President to Stay Out.

President Wilson not only will not
be a third-term candidate, according
to all indications, but he will not
enter the campaign evei to the ex-
tent of giving his backing to one OF
the aspirants. He will keep hands
or and will not consider goirg on
the stump in behalI of anyone.
This is partly because he would
not want to undergo the strain of
an arduous speaking trip, and partly
because he is tired of politics. and
when his duty to the country is done,
he desires rest and quiet.
McAdoo appears likely to so into
the campaign for nomination as a
business mans candidate" promis-
ing the nation a business admins
tration." The fact that McAdoo il
President Wilson's sonin-Iaw will
not figure. as far as the Democrats
are concerned. and there will be an ef-
fort TO avoid any semblance OF keep
ing the Presidency in the family" al
though political observers believe the
Republicans probably will use that
against him.
McAdoo Most Prominent.
Just at present, McAdoo really is
the most prominent of all the as
pirants for the Democratic candidacy,
as far as political talk in Washington
goes. Palmer comes next. 1t is be-
lieved by many. however. that the
Attorney General sacrificed the labor
vote when he caused the Indianapolis
injunction to be issued against the
striking miners.
Those who hold he would not be a
winner also claim that his fight
against the high cost Of living has
not added TO his strength. His popu-
larity was greatest when he started
that drive. but prices have not tum-
blcd 20 rapidly as many expected
them to.
To this Palmer's friends reply that
Congress has not yet given him all the
authority he wanted to put the
Profiteers out Of business, and that be-
The Washington times., 1919-11-04
NO OVERCOATS Is
new PARIS "CRISIS'
Cold Wave Adds Another
Hardship To List Of
City's Troubles.

PARIS. Nov. 4.-Another "crisis, 4"
as the various shortages under whicn
Paris is suffering are called. this time
in overcoats, has been added to the
troubles of Paris. There is a grea;
lack Of either ready made or tailor
made overcoats, which the low tenn.
neratures of the last few DAYS make
essential.
The list OF these shortages, upon
which the daily papers offer com
ment. include COAL small change
sugar, lodgings, transportation and
milk, with an intermittent lack OF
butter. bottles and many less neces.
sary articles.
The Washington times., 1919-11-04
In Washington County.

On Sunday afternoon prior to the
strike, I went into the mine district
of Washington county, Pa
In my rounds I met young italian
miner who had given considerable
thought to the prospect of strike.
T 60 Cleveland, Detroit, work in
automobile shop" he said. "Others
like me, not married, will get jobs In
factories, but none of union miners
mine again until after strike"
The Italian said he would quit the
shop and return to the mine after the
strike.
Another Italian. man with a fam
lily, and naturalized, said that many
miners will return to their native
land should the strike continue Tor
an indefinite period.
Lots of my people going back to
old country" he said. They have
money. They are just waiting for
passports. 1t is going to be hard to
get miners if the strike comes and
miners go back home"
asked him If he voted for the
strike.
Union did," he answered. 81 am
for union"
When he told me there were ten In
his family, l asked il he was willing
to see his family suffer just because
he was not satisfied with his job.
He Gets Hurt BY the Strike.
"What you talk about|' he de-
manded, Don't you know / will hurt
lust as much as they will. IL you Set
hurt by strike, you won't hurt much
as | WILL
This miner has saved $500. He said
IL would keep his family from want
for some time.
II driven to il. the miner said he
would seek employment elsewhere.
He declared he would not do any
mining, however, so long as the strike
is on.
At Washington, the county capital.
! talked with young American
miner He is a college man, he told
me. He has worked in the mines and
glass factories there for several years,
alternating from one to the other.
81 expect to spend T." rest of my
life in the mines he told me-
BURY yourself in that black hole?"
l asked.
"Whv not?" he demanded. "It is
the freest work there is. After
finished my college course, l went TO
a business school, and then got a job
in an office. / got sick Of being
bossed and taking orders.
There is going TO be a strike, but
that does not worry me. ! Will go
back TO the glass works until it is
over and then go back TO mining"
This miner told me that miners, both
alien and American. like to hunt.
There is a scarcity OF miners each
year for the first two or three weeks
Of November, because SO many of
them leave the mines and start on
The Washington times., 1919-11-04
AUTO
TRUCKS FOR
j. s. # RAIL
MEN STRIKE

AS precaution against the pos
sible tie-up Of the railway transpor-
tation system of the country for want
Of coal Secretary Baker last week
called upon the Council of National
Defence for a statement regarding
the availability of motor transport
tonnage IN tie United States. Today
the report OF the council was pre-
sented to Mr.. Baker
Army Has 10000 Trucks.
Whereas the actual motor tonnage
is only a tiny fraction of the needs of
the nation in matters of transporta-
ton, it nevertheless will furnish, ac-
cording to the figures in Mr.. Bakers
possession, a partial stop gap in the
shortage of facilities.
The report shows there are 10000
available army motor trucks, and.
further, IT estimates that in addition
the Government can rely upon private
interests to furnish through the
methods of Communicating for public
use 1000 more trucks.
While il is not regarded possible
to use motor transport In substitution
for rail-borne freight to the extent
recently employed in Great Britain
during the strike of the railway
operatives, nevertheless the 100000
trucks of various sizes may be ex-
pected to relieve to a considerable ex-
tent the elimination of rail facilities.
Along with the report the council
furnished Mr.. Baker with its best
suggestions as to how the work of
mobilizing the motor transport IA
cilities could and should be accom-
plished
The Washington times., 1919-11-04
WALES WILL
ARRIVE HERE
ONARM|ST|CE
ANNIVERSARY

The prince of Wales, will ARRIVE
In Washington on November II, the
anniversary Of the signing of the
armistice, It was learned today.
The prince will be a guest at the
Belmont House In Washington, the
State Department determined today
after the medical advisers Of the
President gave an opinion that TIE
Chief Executive was not well enough
to have the Prince as his guest
To Visit Mount Vernon.
One OF the events of the princes
visit to Washington will be an in
vestfture. Many former British SOL
diers. now resident in the United
States. and American soldiers who
served with the British army will be
decorated by the prince.
state dinners and other social func-
tfons are being arranged for the royal
visitor, but Il Is planned to curtail his
social program t. some extent be-
cause of the illness Of the President
The prince viii visit Mt. Vernon and
Fay his respects to the memory OF
George Washington.
The Washington times., 1919-11-04
Reds MENACE ARMY
OF GEN. YUDENITCH
polsheviks Take Gatchina and
Luga in March on
Petrograd.

LONDON. Nov. 4.-The advancing
IsOisheyik army, southwest Of Petro-
s-7-ad. has captured Gatchina and
Iu-a. and the position OF General
eral Iudenitch's white" army has be-
come precaTious. according 10 advices
fIoun Helsingfors today.
One unconhrmed report said that
Gene raj Yudenitch's army was nearly
surrounded.
news agency correspondent at
the Finnish capital reported that Cen
era! Yudenitch's forces were retreat
ing, falling back TO a line nine miles
west Of the positions held Thursday.
The Washington times., 1919-11-04
GRENADE BANKSTO0
MUCH LIKE BOMBS
Penny Savers Scrapped for
Fear They Would Fall In
Hands Of Reds.

ST. LOUIS, Nov. 4.-The War De-
partment found recently it had a sur.
plus of thousands of hand grenades
1t was decided to remove the ex-
pIosives and convert the grenades
into savings banks for public use
Thirty thousand of the grenade banks
were shipped to Marvi T.. Singleton
Chief of the st. Louis Ordnance Dis
trict OF the United States army.
Suddenly there came an order for
the Ordnance Department to com
mandeer the banks, dlsmantle and
sell them for scrap iron.
Fear that the grenades might fall
into the hands of Bolshcviki, and be
reconverted into bombs, caused the
War Department to order the gren-
ade banks destroyed.
The Washington times., 1919-11-04
ANCLO-AMERICAN
NAVY PACT URGED
Baron Fisher Advocates ALI
ance To Prevent Other
Navies Adding.

LONDON Nov. "A desire to
cvert -the insanity and wickedness
OF building a British navy against
-. United States" was the chief
ason given today by Baron Fisher.
former first sea lord of the admiralty,
for publishing his memoirs
Baron Fisher advocates the es-
"a blishment Of an Anglo-Saxon union.
as proposed by the late Theodore
Roosevelt so that the United States
and British nayies could say to the
other nayies of the world. III you
build any more ships we shall fight
and destroy you"
Baron Fishers writings on naval
matters since the armistice was
Slg1led have stirred England greatly.
The Washington times., 1919-11-04
BY GEORGE r. HOLMES,
/. N. s. Staff Correspondent.

Il. N. -. SIa11 SOrreSpOnoenl-
NEW YORK, Nov. 4-The end Of
the national coal strike in four weeks
was seen here today by James Lord.
president Of the miners department
of the American Federation Of Labor,
after a conference with Samuel
Gompers.
"The strike, think, will be over
in about four weeks" he said. 81
can't see how the operators will let
the strike run, because Garfield has
nailed down the prices of coal, which
eliminates their chance to clean UP
by profteering.
Injunctions Futile.
"The element OF uncertainty in the
strike has been eliminated by DIR.
GarfieId's fixing OF prices. don't
believe that the Government can
smash the strike by injunctions. and
am dubious of President Wilson's
outside commission to settle II. IL
will be settled by a conference be-
tween the miners and the operators.
THE miners are entirely prepared,
however, to stay out indefinitely. Be
tween sos 600, 900 and $4,000 600 are
behind them. They are deterpoined to
get their rights this time. All this
talk of radicalism and aliens has
| antagonized them. Outside OF very
| few radicals, every man in the or
ganized labor movement lie standing
squarely behind Samuel Gompers.
sIf any rioting comes out of this
| strike, IL will be the fault Of the
| operators. Riots and disorder are
easy to create. I've seen them
planned and carried out under my
very nose.
Thugs Stir Up Trouble.
THE parades of gunmen. thugs.
and militia through the streets OF
mining towns are in themselves
enough to create antagonism. Thugs
have been hired to deliberately in
suit the miners women, so as TO pro-
woke outbursts. / have steadfastly
counseled the men TO preserve peace
in spite OF all provocations, but some
OF these things make me forget
4 peace"
Samuel Gompers, president OF the
American Federation OF Labor.
planned to return to Washington this
afternoon. He voted today.
The Washington times., 1919-11-04
PALMER MAY
ASK COURT TO
lift BAN TO
AID PARLEYS

Attorney General Palmer
will ask that the temporary
injunction against the United
Mine Workers be vacated at
the hearing in Indianapolis
Saturday, according to re-
ports current today.
This action viii be taken on
the strength of pledges re-
ceived from operators and Of
icials of the union that they
will proceed Immediately to
negotiate regarding their diff
ferences.
"We are willing to arbi-
trate," said one of the nm
ers' officials in Washington
today. "0ur only stipulation
will be that a time limit be
placed on negotiations, so
that we will be able to tell
our men that the arbitration
means something more than
delay"
The Washington times., 1919-11-04
;0AL STRIKE WILL END In FOUR WEEK
SAYS Mine CHIEF OF The A. F. OF
RED CROSS WORKER
IS REBUFFED BY
PRO-CERMANS

One of the Red Cross workers
reported that in canvassing the
block on Twentieth street be-
tween M and N streets yester-
day she met with what appar-
emily were violent pro- German
sentiments and was insulted by
the occupants of a house whom
she asked to join. She was OBJ
hged to leave in tears. The Wal
ter Reed boys have volunteered
to see that there are no recur-
rences and to support the cause
by their presence.
The Washington times., 1919-11-04
LUNCH CARTS OK.
If KEPT MOVING
Movement May Be Limited to
Six Inches, Hart Tells
Vendors.

so long as you keep your lunch
carts moving, whether within six
inches or six feet when not making
sales you are within the law"
This was the Statement of Assist
ant Corporation Counsel Ringgold
Hart, made this morning to owners
OF lunch-carts, seven OF whose VEN
dors were charged with occupying
the street with their carts for a
longer length of time than necessary
to make a sale.
The defendants. who were repre-
sented by James NJ. Proctor, L. S.
Brashears, and James Q'Shea, were
allowed to forfeit 81 collateral in each
case. The forfeiture of collateral, il
was explained, did not carry a record
of conviction.
The seven vendors were arrested In
front of various Government build.
ings few days ago by Policemen
Grove and Mccarthy. The policemen
were instructed by Mr.. Hart that as
long as the lunch carts were kept
moving there was no violation OF the
law.
The request OF the Central Labor
Union to the District CommisN oners
for public hearing to determine the
question of selling lunch boxes on
streets, was denied today
Following a meeting of the com
mission, Daniel z. Gsrges, secretary
was directed to reply to the request
TAKE BELL-ANs BEFORE MEALS and
see how fine good digestion makes you feel
The Washington times., 1919-11-04
MINERS READY TO
NEGOTIATE CLAIMS

Striking coal miners stand ready 90
negotiate their contentious. IL the op-
orators will put down q negotiable
counter proposition to the demands
of the miners. IL was made known to-
day by Edgar Wallace and Walter ].
James. the two Representatives OF the
United Mine Workers in Washington.
The miners will rescino the
strike order. and the men will 20
back to work." said Mr.. wallace, ''if
the operators will present a counter
proposition But the miners will not
The Washington times., 1919-11-04

fore the convention assemblies he will
stand out as the strong man Of the
results" n''
Great interest is manifested :, q.
issues which will be put forward e..
the 1920 campaign. Taking IL sn,
granted that the treaty will have baor
Continued on Page .. Column :,
The Washington times., 1919-11-04
May Lift Wartime
Dry Act Tomorrow

The wartime prohibition act is
to be lifted by the President in a
few days and possibly tomorrow,
according to reports current at
the Capitol.
Certain Congressman point out
that prompt lifting Of the ban is
imperative if banks in some of the
larger cities are to be protected
on loans aggregating millions Sc
cured by intoxicating liquors In
Government warehouses.