davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The sun., 1919-04-03
Eighty-on one cents
difference

to be exact, Now the
point is -but then there
really isn't a point, it's
a tact-why are the
Sale" shoes at $6.75
more expensive than tn c
same shoes that can be
bought at this store reg
ularly tor $5.e4?
For several reasons. One
is that we sell tor cash
only and as a result can
afford-because we pay
cash-to sci! at lower
prices,
The sun., 1919-04-03
Terms of Settlement.

The terms of the settlement allow
captains OF covered barges and hand
winch lighters $25 a week. steam and
gas barges of less than fifteen tons
Se7. more than fifteen tons $50, with n
permanent board Of six members, three
from each side. to settle all future dir
ferences.
The hosting engineers will listen to-
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1919-11-13
O. E. SEARS LAND
COMPANY

n the people OF West exas could be
made TO realize the value OF the work done in
the development of this wonderful section by
the real estate men. they would instantly start
the erection Of a monument to them There
has not been single advancement made in the
history OF the unparalleled development OF
this immediate section. which includes the
finest rural schools, churches etc. with which
this section is more than blessed that cannot be
traoeable back to the work done by the real
estate firms of our city.
These things are Of the past and the truth of
these statements cannot meet fair denial. ! o.
day as in the past, for we have not yet entered
that state of commercial and agricultural ma
turity. the real estate on the grounds.
boosting. and pushing forward every interest
that is best for the quick and efficient develop
ment of country whose prospects were never
brighter than at the present time.
With these things that indirectly help every
commercial industry of our country, the real
estate firms are advocating division of many
of the larger land interests in section of
which there are numerous 1t is fact
country that unless many of these large acre
ages are ub-divided and in short time, they
will be one of the biggest factors of hindrance
to commercalism of the South Plains country.
This country as we have often said is entering
upon an era of intensive farming combined
with small herd Of cattle sheep Upon
the division Of these holdings Of which we have
mentioned is based the amount Of develop
ment we shall
In the firm of O. E. Sears Land Company
we give you fair example Of men who
backing this wonderful developing factor.
This firm comprises the personnel Of O. +.
Sears and W. B. Powell and are well known
over this section Of the State. Mr.. Sears NOV
ed from Whitewright to this country in 1917
and purchased twelve hundred and eight acres
of our land Since that time during the
time he has lived here he has actively engaged
in buying and selling lands in Lubbock, Terry,
Lynn Crosby and Hockey counties. Ii Is
fact worth knowing that in this time Mr. Sears
has sold more than one million dollars worth
Of South Plains property. This done with
out one dissatisfied customer.
W. b Powell is one Of the best known bus
mess men Of Lubbock, having moved here in
l902 Four years during the first entrance in
to our community he was employed his
fathers ranch north Of town In 1906 Mr..
Powell moved 10 town and engaged in the land
and abstract business which he has been fol-
lowing as a profession nearly fourteen years
September j st. 1919. the O. f. Sears Land
Company was formed and in the past two
month this enterprisng firm have sold more
than half a million dollars worth of property
These men are active live-wire real estate
dealers and know the value of real estate on
the South Plains They ever willing and
ready to show any man who might be interest
ed in this wonderful section the many farms.
ranches and other property they have listed.
Those who have property here and do not
wish to sell it should not list it with the O. f.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-21
What Women Are Doing in Other Lands

open to women Is agriculture. and
so far few Of them have shown any
desire to take up engineering.
"You cannot imagine how thirsty
the women are for education. There
is no such thing as compulsory school
ing. There are neither the build
ings to house the children nor suffi-
cient teachers to train them. Not
more than 70 per cent of the popula-
ton is actually being educated.
Teachers are needed badly. The most
they ever get in the way Of salary
is $50 month. and even that is con-
sidered quite unusual"
In the party which has reached
America is the Princess Tarahata,
daughter of the Sultan of Sulu, who
is power among the Moros. She is
studying in Urbana, ILL.,, along with
Miss Carmen Aguinaldo the daugh-
ter of General Aguinaldo, President
of the first Filipino Republic.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-21
The New Citiz en-

cral years in handling Porto Rican
embroidery. And, speaking Of prof
iteering, she says that the little hand
hemstitched, hand tucked blouse
she can have made for rs cents in
Porto Rico, the material costing
her about 81, she has seen dupli-
Gated in New York for $l2.7o!
Just what line Of work she will
take up this fall Miss Ferguson has
not decided. She is not going back
to Porto Rico for a year or two.
1t is none too salubrious a climate
for a northerner steadily. H. vi.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-21
Ugh Cost of Living Locks the Door of FARMLAND

tired and wide gaps are to be seen
n the ranks that still bravely with
stand the onslaught of eager little
hands. And even these economies
will not avail, and if the Board of
Estimate and Apportionment does
not grant a sufficient amount to
adequately support the libraries
they will have to close Several of
the non-Carnegie branches have al
ready done so.
1t is quite impossible to secure
proper librarians at the present sal
AIRY schedule. These trained workers
with college education or the equiv
alent must-since they, too, must
live-seek other fields where thew
will receive better remuneration.
Of the eight hundred librarians at
present employed in our city libra
ries only two hundred are trained
workers who are remaining at their
posts from sheer love for their
work and high sense Of duty.
They are assisted by high school
students of seventeen and eighteen
years Of age. These students do
their best and get along fairly we'll
in the mechanical part Of the work,
filing, sorting, stamping, ETC., but
they are neither sufficiently edu-
Gated nor matured for the work
they are doing and the real spirit
is lacking-that spirit by which the
true custodian and lover Of books
reunites the knowledge and wisdom
Of the past with the eager young
minds of to-day.
Any one who doubts how severe
deprivation the threatened clos
ing Of the libraries would be should
visit some of those in the poorer
parts of the city. These places,
while they might TT appeal
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-21
An American Woman
In Porto Rico
. RACE j. FERGUSON was for
y six years supervisor Of home

As]AS4I L LAd C0O4N WAS IOT
" six years supervisor of home
economics for the public
schools of Porto Rico. She is in
New York at present working with
the National Women's Economic
Committee.
Her work among Porto Ricans
for several years has been entirely
for the lettering of working con-
dltions and fitting the people for
full citizenship. She has recently
returned to New York and is un-
decided as to what her next work
will be.
"There were two classes Of peo-
pie in Porto Rico when | first went
there" said Miss Ferguson last
week. "They were the well-to-do
class and the poems. Neither knew
much about work. My attempt in
everything did was to level these
two attitudes toward work as rep
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-21
Women in
The Professions

"Oh, we are not quite as anti
quated as the magazines MAKE us
out to be-" interpolated Miss lara,
the bright little critic teacher.
There are at least half dozen
women lawyers on the islands, any
number Of physicians and nurses,
Il good many pharmacists and a
large body of teachers. A school
Of Journalism is soon to be opened
in connection with the university
Gwen the mountain girls are going
in for nursing and doing very well,
too. The only course Of work not
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-21

sonality; Dress as an Index to the
Position of Women; Exercise: A
Most Neglected Habit, were among
the topics discussed. The confer
ence will continue until the end of
October.
DR.. Potter will address the con-
ference October IS on the Con
servation Of the Health of Women
In Marriage - Voluntary Parent
hood"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-21

School Work

One such visit would convince
the most doubling Thomas of the
valuable aid which the free libraries
and reading rooms are to educa
ton. Indeed, the most fitting
arrangement would be that thew
should come under the same head
ing as the schools, whose perfect
complement they are. Here the
child first learns, amid bright and
cheerful surroundings, to appreci-
ate, as he never can in the austere
commonplaces of the schoolroom,
the pleasure and benefit which he
Is deriving from his education.
Are we going to take all this
away from the children? Take it
from them BECAUSE they are in
articulate and powe, .ss to prevent
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-21

already straying to the shelves
where the fascinating fairy tales
are ranged and four-year-old viii
have gayly colored picture book
to beguile the time. Two youthful
"terrors' are behind her, already
scuffiing and fighting in exuber
ance of spirits, to stop at a glance
from the librarian, who can, at her
discretion, lock them out of this
paradise, where thrilling detective
stories and tales Of widest adven-
ture dwell. Behind them is an older
boy on crutches, a reminder of the
dreadful plague Of infantile paral
ysis, his thin face alert and eager,
a volume of Scott in either hand.
with we'll thumbed copy Of "Popu
lar Mechanics" thrown in for good
measure. So the line stretches
endlessly.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-21
Book as an Antidote
For Social Poisons

Are We spending fortunes FOR
Amerlcanlzation? The ho,xs Of
Miss Alcott cast their perennial
spell over Jewish Beckie, Italian
Angelina and little Slovak Marv
The story of Meg, 10, Beth and
Amy, real American girls in the
best sort of American home. has
exerted a more potent influence
than all the lectures that ever were
delivered or all the patriotic litera-
ture that ever was distributed
are we afraid of Bolshev;sn?
The lad who reads Scott and Cooper,
Stevenson and Kipling, who enjoys
the boys school stories with their
traditional love of fair play. is
seven-fold armed against that IN
sidious propaganda
If the Battle of Waterloo vas
won on the Fairgrounds Of Eton.
the spirit that astonished the world
at St. Mihiel and Chateau Thierrv
may we'll have had its inception an
the free libraries of America!
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-21

1t? Are We going to deprive them
now, when their minds are plastic,
OF association with the collected
wisdom Of the ages and hand them
over fas will inevitably happen,
since they have the leisure hours
and the craving for recreation) to
more frequent contemplation of the
"Agonies of Alphonslne," the serial
thriller Of the screen, or tho SUP
gestive posturlng of the latest
"vamp"?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-21

resented by these two classes. The
wealthy people have had to learn
that there is no disgrace in work
ing, aud the poems have had to be
taught that work is dignitied and
only degrading when poorly done.
Business III Last
Thirteen Years
In tropical countries it is al
ways q matter Of education to get
the people to work enough for their
own good. 1t is easier for them to
be lazy, as there isn't so much SEEM
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-21
BY LILLIAN 8. SCHNEIDER

W r. 'ssa ', ,s.s',s.. in ., THE The
"Children's Bcokshop"
III Boston. 1t made one think cf
'''ef libraries, free libraries, which,
though they may not be so elabo-
'"*'y appointed as the charming
'4'i'z-hung 'bookshop,' are of
S''a'er Importance and further
''"cning in their influence. For
~'''e IS almost no doubt that the
''''ons Of the "bookshop," suppos-
Ns mat place were to close to-
-'''ow' would acquire a love for
eva reading and the culture to
'"''h 1t leads in their homes In the
''A Bay while the frequenters of
'4''e other libraries would lose with
'D' shutting of their doors their
'"S opportunity to enter and dwell
'He rich and wonderful world of
SIC imagination. And it is this very
'''pect that the children of our
'' are face to face with to-day.
Even Librarians
Must Eat
Inc high cost Of living, that grim
sa0st that haunts every highway
: oyway, has entered here, too.
.an, 0foer to economize, the story
r,.1 hour, beloved by the very
De lest ones, has already been aban-
,a "'u N many of the branch libra
hex hex No new copies of books have
sn' ~" bought this year, with the re-
t... mat the old favorites, torn and
~ s,.sred beyond redemption and the
''-pos' have been honorably re-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-21
The First
Suffrage Petition

In 1866 we find a record of politi
cal pressure in Parliament on behalf
Of parliamentary votes for women.
John Stuart Mill fathered the fight.
He offered the first suffrage petition
IN the House of Commons in 1866,
year after his election to that BODY.
The petition was received with con-
descensiOn. It's actual effect on the
House was nothing. Inspired by the
same leadership, in the next year, an
amendment to the governments re-
form bill favoring suffrage was pre-
sented and defeated, though the
minority vote was large enough to
lend encouragement to the movement
among women advocates and their
male sympathizers. This was the
first record of actual legislation ever
attempted in the cause.
The act of 1867 extended suffrage
to any man" (instead of male per-
son." as in the law Of 1892 who
fulfilled certain property require
mcnts. Considering themselves part
Of the race Of man and basing their
contention on law that in all acts
words importing masculine gender
shall be deemed to include females"
no less than 5,346 women in Man
chester, 1,34l in Stafford, 239 in
Edinburgh and hundreds of others
in other cities Of the empire secured
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-21
Filipino Women Who Hunger
and Thirst for Education
and Social Service

and they stood in the street ard
looked up at the 81" like children
when they saw it for the first time.
They felt the cold, too, and had to
lay ASIDE all the pretty things they
brought from home with them. Get
ting into short skirts seemed rather
queer, as they were brought up to
think them rather shocking.
They looked like the denizens of
another world as they tripped into
the reception room Of the Students
Club in native costume. They might
have been dressed for an Elizabeth
an ball-one in black, one in old
rose, one in smoke gray, all with
tight, transparent bodices of pine
apple fibre richly embroidered, wide
Medici collars, voluminous sleeves
and long, pointed trains.
Women's Clubs
For Suffrage
Speaking of the modern Filipino
woman, Miss Tirona said: ~ do
not think our women will ever be az
go-ahead or as aggressive as Amer
leans. They are naturally retir
ing, but they have taken immense
strides within recent years. They
have now reached the stage of po-
lltlcal awakening, and all the wom-
ems clubs are concentrating on suf-
frage. 1t is likely that before very
long they will demand the vote. 1t
takes time to spread propaganda Of
this kind in the Philippines. There
are so many tribes. There are
the pagan and Mahometan Moros
who are difficult to reach, and there
arc the mountain people. And then,
Of course. we have any number Of
dialects on the islands,"
The problems Of her countrymen
are, after all, pretty much the same
as those of the American. The
filiplnos are worried now over the
high cost Of living and strikes, said
Miss Tirona. Rice, their staple
food, became SO high in price that
the government had to take things
in hand, check its export and stand
ardize the price. The peso fifty
cents) goes as far as the American
dollar, she declared.
During the war the women of
tn" philippines had a part in the
foot aid Red Cross campaigns. 1t
was then, according to the three
visitors, that Filipino women learned
how to organize. Their most infu-
entail body is the Woman's Club of
Manila. 1t has branches all over
the island working for woman
suffrage.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-21
The Native Girl
Makes Good

Another thing that makes for
the superiority of native girls in
their work is the attitude toward
their jobs. Every year large num-
bers of American girls go to Porto
Rico to teach school. They are in
the governments employ. Only in
rare cases do they stay longer than
two years, and usually one year is all
they care to work. They are out
mainly for adventure and the work
does not mean to them what it does
to the native teachers.
"Or the other hand, the native
girls intend to make their careers
right there in Porto Rico. 1t is
their lifework and they are striv-
ing to make good. Of course, they
make better teachers than the girls
who are out for a lark and are
teaching on the side in order to
make expenses. I've no doubt many
IF these American girls are good
,chool teachers and work here with
he same devotion that the Porto
2ican girls show in Porto Rico. But
hey are as rule poorer teachers
u Porto Rico"
Besides her work in home eco
omics, Miss Ferguson has repre-
ented large business firm for sew
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-21
New York Bewildering
At First

No American girl need get it into
her head that she is away ahead of
those Filipino sisters of hers. with
their master of arts degrees. their
SLOW, sweet accents and the quaint
costume which they have discarded
since landing in this country. In
fact, they are extremely modern
young women with surprising
amount Of information at their
anger ends and undoubted charm of
manner.
True, New York disconnected
sAem little at first and they found
II nard to get used to the rush and
noise The subway bewildered them
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-21
National
Dr. Schumacher Frau Gierke Frau Margaret Benin

the greatest potentiahties in the
world to-day for making things
fairer for the women who seek
equal opportunity and equal stand
ards Of all sorts with men, accord
ing to Dr. Potter. 1t is her belief
that women physicians are among
the leaders of women in broad
mindedness and fairness. Their
contribution to other women and
their work with the leaders in other
lines ought to be the beginning of
new growth.
The meetings of the international
conference were convened last Mon
day. Only invited guests are at
tending them. Health and Per-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-21

ingly necessary work to be done,
and the climate makes for indo-
lence.
Only in the last twelve or thir-
teen years have women Uttered the
business world in Porto Rico. One
OF the first women who worked
there went from the United States
thirteen years ago. Now it is al
most as usual there for girls and
young women to go to work as it
is for them to do so here.
Teaching and stenography are
the principal lines of endeavor. And
the native girls make the most sat
isfactory workers in both fields,
as rule. For one thing all of the
native girls speak English and South
American Spanish. 1t is absolutely
necessary for the stenographers to
have two languages. English is
taught in the public schools, but the
Spanish is necessary for doing bust
ness, since so many of the firms
have to deal with South America.
The Porto Rican girl is brought up
bi-linguist, and too few of our
American girls realize the advan-
tage this gives any one in the bust
ness world.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-21

own case, my grandfather was a
my father was, my brother
is, and my little niece is beginning
to show ambitions toward studying
medicine.
"The people of Holland are DEM
ocratic, but very conservative.
There is much difference here. You
would not care to visit Holland un-
less you did not mind going slowly
and had much patience.
Suffrage has at last been given
to the women of Holland. 1t is the
movement of the whole world-to
put women on an even footing with
men. This conference of women
physicians ought to be another step
toward further advancement"
A Purist
In English
DR.. Potter speaks English more
correctly than most interviewers.
She has less accent than the average
New Yorker has dialect. The thing
that marks her speech as that of a
foreigner IS it's accuracy and her
proper pronunciation of English
vowels. She does not have to feel
for the right word, either.
In her work she has specialized
in neurology. She is y member of
one of the polyclinics in Utrecht,
and in this work examines both men
and women. She says the men
who come to the clinic do not object
to taking prescriptions and treat
ment from a woman
The woman physician Is one of
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-21
Even in
Africa

At the present time there are
thirteen foreign countries in which
women may vote in municipal or
other local elections, and twenty
countries or states, including the
United Kingdom, where women nav
vote for members of the provincial.
state or national legislative body.
Three more-Sweden, Holland and
trance-are considering the accord
Of full voting and otlice-ho!dlng
rights to women. The Union Of
South Africa did still better, as dur
4Ag the present year the Union Par
lament authorized the full voting
privilege. Bills had been introduced
IN 1912, 1914, 1917 and 1918, and
each time saw a dwindling Of oopo-
sltion, until on April /, 1919, the
women Won out. The same process
ii persistent effort and decreasing
opposition has been characteristic Of
the movement in each country con-
cerned with it.
Whether the Emancipation" bill
passes the British Parliament soon
or not, its certain passage seems in
ne with the trend of the equal
rights movement of the last sixty
years.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-21
Business Ii, Last
Thirteen Years

flowers. Just watch the line form
ing any day before the reading
room Is open.
A little mother" may come first
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-21

with baby, one of the patient
babies of the poor, in her arms,
four year-old clinging to her skirt.
The eyes Of the 'little mother" are
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-21
By ISHBEL ROSS

rSHE great adventure Of coming
TO the United States from their
i home in the Pacific. together
nth the pleasant prospect of long
..urse of study, has deeply stirred
no three dainty young Filipinos
rho arrived recently in New York
.rd are staying at the Students
r,ub Of the School of Social Science,
II Gramercy Park. Although they
.ssm almost too tenderly nurtured
md exotic for the hard round of
..,,dv and Summing that is ahead
4, them, they are passionately eager
to learn.
aEducation." they eXclaim. at is
.be cry Of the modern Filipino wom-
en- They cannot have enough of
!. and we are here to learn what
ve can that we may go back and
spread American teaching among
our people. Social service work is
me Of the greatest needs, and it is
almost an unknown quantity among
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-21
4 Dutch Doctor
Who Has Arriued
DR. ADA POTTER, Of Utrecht,
~ Holland, was one of the first

the international Conference of
Women Physicians co arrive in New
YORK. Quiet, gentle person that she
is, she seemed distinctively alone in
the deep corridors Of the Waldorf.
eve have had general co-educa-
ton in Holland for many years."
she said in even toned, pure English.
"Women enter the professions and