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The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-04-07
DIVIDES FORTUNE
WITH EMPLOYEES

! Rochester, N. r., April 5-An-
lnouncement was mad here OF a gift
oy George Eastman, president Of the
Eastman Kodak company, to the older
empioyaS In that organization Of TO-
ooo OF It's common shareso having a
present market value of nearly $6,-
sVVV,oOO. This stock Is to be sold TO
such employees, at the par value OF
'sloV per share, on an eany payment
pan, n entire proceeds from such
sale. amounting to one million dollars.
TO go into a welfare fund to be created
for the benefit of all employees of the
company. Under this plan the partici-
paung employees are securing the
STOCK at o one-sixth of its value,
ana what they do pay goes into q
Tor their own benefit and the
beneflt OF their fellow workers.
The only stipulation made by Mr..
Eastman, except some details for the
carrying out of the plan, was that
n company itself should set aside a
like amount Of its common stock to
be sold at par (present market value
s5O per share) to the newer EN-
iployes as they become eligible through
length OF service.
AS Mr.. Eastman's offer has already
been accepted by the board of direc-
tors or the Eastman Kodak company
and concurred in by many of the
larger shareholders. the success OF
tthe plan by which the employees will
profit to an extent of nearly eleven
million dollars. is assured.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-04-07
DISTRESS N SERBIA
CAUSED BY FAMINE

Washington, April 6.-Serbfa has It's
fun share OF the distress, disease and
famine that is now the common lot
or most OF European countries. Re-
ports Of the pitiful plight OF the thou
sands of Serbians who have struggled
back to their own country from Bal
garia in the last few months trave
been received at'Arnerican Red Cross
headquarters from the Rid Cross
mission which is now al. Uskub.
Major d. j. Mccarthy. a physician
or Davenport, Ia. Is in charge of The
Jskub mission. Two of his assistants
are Major Robert c. Dennison. form
erly pastor of the United Cong~e-
gational church at New Haven, AMI
Major John W. rockingham Of
Brooklyn.
only the most rugged among The
refugees managed to get back TO
Serbia, according to reports. Manv
dropped by the wayside and died of
exhaustion and exposure. The Red
Cross mission ON its arrival In Uskub
found a large number OF the homeless
people in an old Turkish inn. part Of
which had been given over to horses
and oxen, Family belongings we're
found heaped on the floor with men.
ome and children, all weakened
from sickness and lack OF food, hud-
died about in An atmosphere Of filth
and desolation. The Red Cross work
ers assisted in getting the most seriou.
cases to the nearest hospital and then
served liberal quantities Of milk to the
women and children. the first real
nourishment many of them had had
In weeks.
DR.. Mccarthy obtained a disinfect-
ing plant left behind by the Germans
and a bath house from the local au-
thorities. The refugees are FIRST given
hot baths and later rubbed with kero,
sene, after which the Red Cross give
them fresh clothing.
1t is a Joy to see these unfortunate
people revel in the luxury or p-ing
clean" say the report. They stay
in the bathroom as long as possible.
After being cleaned up the families
are housed in separate rooms. and
given ratiCns of bread, rice and milk.
Mattresses and blankets are also
passed out to them. After a few days
rest they are started toward their
homes along the Albanian border.
While many of these refugees have
died OF starvation. being too far gone
when relief reached them. hundreds
have been saved and conditions which
threatened typhus and smallpox cpl
denies minimized."
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-04-07
TYPhUS IS RAGING N
EASTERN POLAND.

Warsaw, March 80 fby cable).-Pitt-
full tales of the distress and suffering
throughout eastern and southeastern
Poland were brought here today by
members of the American Red Cross
mission who have just returned from
an eight-day tour of inspection during
which they covered $500 miles n dis
tributes food. clothing and medicines
ia twenty cities and numerous vulaEes.
Everywhere they found typhus. the
ravages OF which had practically wiped
out whole towns. and in . great many
places smallpox and trachoma were
prevalent, epfdemics OF the latter dis
eases threatening because Of the man
ner In which sick and we'll are hcrded
together IN many homes.
In many of the isolated villages
starving peasants lined the roadside
and begged for food. For eek they
had been living on an Imitation bread
made from potato Feelings, dirty rye
and the bark Of trees, but when tl0
Red Cross arrived the supply Of those
ingredients had been exhausted. The
greatest suffering and d~estitution was
encountered In Pinsk. situated in the
unhealthy Pripet marshes TIVE hum
bred miles east of Warsaw. In four
years the population Of Pinsk has been
reduced from $4,000 to $4,000 and OF
the latter 500 are down with typhus.
lacking medical attendance n proper
nursing care. Disease and hunger wers
found In every house visited. An In
spection Of tho orphan asylum dis
closed sixty children afflicted with
typhus. Five Of sixteen occupants Of
one house succumbed to the disease in
one week.
The direst misery was located In =
little village In the Kowal district
about eight miles behind the Polish
lines. Practically every ons u the
40 persons remaining Of the original
population Of LOCO were dying Of star
walton or disease. In one matched hut
an eisht-year-old child was the only
member OF a family OF six not down
with typhus- At another hut 4 mother
was found nursing a baby that was
dying of smallpox. Among the places
visited by the Red Cross workers were
Brest- Litovsk, Kowel. Chelm, Wallet
mir. Welynskit, LumbomI ana Rava.
ruska.
As the members of the misaion were
the first Americans seen In those cities
and villages since the beginning OF the
war they were besieged by the natives
for news of relatives in the United
States. At Cheim there were 500 va
men whose husbands had emigrated to
America before the war. They had not
received any money from their bus
bands. and In many instances hi nor
heard from them in more than four
years. The offer of the Red Cross work.
ers to forward letters to the UnIpkd
States was accepted with great rejotc@
Ing. About a thousand of these letters
have been sent TO all parts of America
by the Red Cross.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-04-07

of them contracting the disease The
citizen OF means knew little of these
nurses until the epidemic when al
they were forced TO call on the visi.
tors-then they learned what a ris.
penser of blessings they are. They
work hand in hand with the doctor
carrying out his Instructions. The
nurses do not take a cent in pay
from the patients for their services
and this grants protection in time ni
Illness TO the poorest families.
The nurses are asking for A. few
IA from every citizen In Richmond
on Tuesday, A trick OF fate MAY
throw any passer-by who drops a
coin or bill into their boxes. In, a posi-.
ton where he may have to receive
care from the hands of these angels
of mercy" Give your money gladly
to take knowledge for preventing dis
ease into the homes OF the poor. There
are few which ran so high AS
that of the Instructive Visiting Nurse
association.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-04-07
Street CAR JOBS
NOT THE HARDEST

Testimony given by Miss Ethel NJ.
Smith. Of the Washington branch OF
the National Womah's Trades-Dnion
league at the recent hearing of he
case of the women street car conduc-
tors Of Cleveland before the National
War Labor board, at Washington-at
Wnich n decision was rendered favor
able to the women-threw interesting
Light on the greater h%ardships, as
com pared with street car work, of the
jobs typically considered women's
work. such as Mattresses, scrub
women, and laundry workers.
Miss Smiths testimony cited occu-
.pations usually considered suitable for
women which involve immeasurably
physical hardship and often
much more ~protracted hours than the
street car work. she stated hat a
waitress walks ten miles in d ten-hour
day and carries 1900 pounds of food
and dishes in that time. hat laundry
workers are subject to dangerous ex-
tremes OF temperature and must
handle heavy machinery: and that the
work of scrub woulen is much more
iahorious thar a conductors job on
the street cars.
The objection urged by certain op-
ponents of The employment of women
as conductors that such occupation
necessitated undesirahly early and late
looming and going from work, with the
accom- pa nying moral hazard, was met
by Miss Smith by calling. attention to
the fact that Mattresses and office
cleaners. telephone and teleSraphers
all max tho trip between Office and
home at precisely the same hours and
encounter all the moral hazard that
had been ascribef TO the street car
work.
a statement from Miss Mary Van
kieeck4 director nf Tho ANofaa4 ia In
dustry Service, United States Depart
ment of labor, introduced into The
testimony in behalf of the women on
expressed the opinion that
for the sake of the millions OF homes
in which the income is contributed
largely or wholly by women. the ops
~portunities for their employment must
not be restricted on the ground of pre-
venting competition with men. The
Woman in Industry service, as part f
the Department of labor, charged by
get of congress with the duty of ad-
vancing opportunities for profitable
employment of wage rne includ-
ing women, would be untrue to the
organic act of the department If II
failed to point u that refusal TO per-
init women to continue their employ
ment on the street cars OF Cleveland
would be contrary 10 this fundamcn-
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-04-07
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SHOE WORKERS ALSO
GET SHARES or PROFITS

Binghan,pton, y. r. April 5-
Thirteen thousand workers employed
by the Erdicott Johnson company. the
worlds largest shoe manufacturing
concern, encountered a evere shock
when they went 10 work. Notices
posted all over the factory informed
employees that on January /. 1920
seven per cent will be deducted from
the corporations profits for the pre-
ferred stock and ten per cent for the
common stock after which the re-
naming profits will be equally divi-
ded between holders OF common stock
and employees who have been with the
concern since January :. 1919.
Further. the Officers nave agreed { O
forego any salaries. for the first year
to help swell the distributing fund.
which is to be a regular feature ia
the future, The corporation. recently
organized with a $35. 200, 900 capital,
did SIS, 600 600 business last year.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-04-07
GO STRAIGHT, EVEN IF
YOU SIARVE--0A|

New York, April My advice is.
go straight even IL o starNe."
John Day--"Motthaven Red--the
KING OF the safe breakers"-preached
thIs little sermon today when he was
sentenced to a year and two months
In sing Sing prison. He goes back
10 jail where he has spent nearly all
nus NE with every p~Soba biiity that
ne VIII die within a few months He
rs Ola, decrepit and according to
physicians. IL IL impossible for him TO
iise more than two OF Three months.
for the last twenty years Day. has
neen IN prison nearly continuously;
MS Younger years also saw him serving
several terms behind the bars.
There's nothing 10 it, Day said
"A big haul. q little fun and
ihen Inc penitentiary for nine or ten
years. I've spent most of my life
behind The bars and now I'm going
there 10 dieJs
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-04-07

lips and not her heart speaking.
1t is not the proverbial wedding OF
May and December, but is almost.
Now, | know that 1t sometimes
happens a man and woman can DO
happy together. regardless OF such
a difference in their ages, but
know. In ways that / cant express
on paper to you, 1t Is not that kind
OF happiness Doris is seeking. She
is looking merely to be relieved
from the pressure OF debts, and the
constant calls Of creditors. and to
assure herself and her mother an
easy, pleasant home. for the man
she IS TO marry has promised ,
take care of both of them. wish
you would write to Doris. 7 know
it is a delicate subject to mention
to her, but / am sure Doris will
live to regret what she is about to
do. unless she Is warned in time"
did write to Doris, at once. and
| tried to handle the matter tact
fully. | told her of a new word
that has been coined in the pic
%turesque, expressive vocabulary Of
the war, That word is-camou.
flage. and 1t means trying to paint
a false covering over what We are.
doing-to give another name to
things which we don't like to think
OF In their real colors. To carnou.
mage, Of course, means to Ne-and
some Of US are foolish enough to
think that we can even lie to our-
selves. I asked Doris II she ever
looked into the mirror Of her own
heart-and told herself that she
was marrying for real love. and ex.
pected to have real love In her fu.
ture life. I asked her II she knew
what love meant-if she knew 1t Is
the most priceless possession in the
world. and once that it IS gone out
OF our lives 1t is the hardest thing
in the world to get back.
/ had a long letter in return from
her. after q certain delay. and b.
fore ! had finished reading It,
knew that Doris would not marry
the man to whom she was engaged.
I had managed to arouse her, ia.
make her see, for the first time In
her life, herself-her true self.
And ! think also / had made her
glimpse something Of the emptiness
in her life. and the reason for It.
for three months later l heard tina.
she had opened a private Kinder
garten--the one thing in the world
for which she was fitted. for she
loved children. :
Her days Of camouaags we're end.
ed, She had gone owe the top
and won the hardest fight any Of
us ever have to face-the night with
that part Of ourselves which wants
the easiest road and the pleasant
travelling. and never stops to think
what we are bound to md at the
'end. and maybe. before we get to
the end 1lil
WF@It4IUM LNEHr Fr5aeMNA -
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-04-07

Job OF the kind he most wants.
We shall have with us for many
years the manned veterans OF the
great wa But there viii be COM
paratively few who are helpless. The
new idea has changed all that--and
1t is one achievement for which COM
Ing generations will give due praise
to the able and t~ireless men and wo-
men working under the direction ~
the surgeon-general who have brougnt
those things to pass.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-04-07
The Girl WhoTricdto Ca11ouf7ase
Copyright. 1918. by The Bell Syndicate. Incl
BY MA" SUNDAY
tW!fe OF the Famous EVANGELISM

r COULD almost see the pretty
blonde head of Doris through
the pages OF the girlish. COS
sipy letter that her chum had writ
ten me. | couldn't repress a smil,
as | tried TO picture the expression
on the piquant face Of Doris IL she
could look over my shoulder and
read what | was reading about her
Her engagement had just been
announced in the little town. OF
which her family was one of the
principal households. At least. they
a been financially and socially 40,
until the sudden death of Doris
father a few years before. which
had brought the discovery that his
business was on the verge of bank.
ruptcy. The result was, although
Doris and her mother we're able to
keep something out Of the wreck.
1t was really just sufficient to cover
their expenses with the utmost
economy, and the gay parties and
elaborate entertainments, for which
they had been noted, became a
thing Of the past.
"They couldn't even afford a
maid. or even a f1ivver," as Doris
expressed it aptly. IL inelegantly,
and, as neither mother nor daugh.
ter had ever been reared with any
Idea OF making their own way In
the world, they had tried to fight
the unequal battle with genteel pow
erty. OF course, they felt their po-
sitions keenly, particularly as they
had to refuse more and moro invi.
tations to social engagements, or
entertain in return.
And now, the news OF tho engage
ment Of Doris TO a man twice her
age, but worth a comfortable for
tune. had just been announced. He
was a good business man, and a
good enough man in most other
ways. There had never been any
umo about him, no scandal Of
dark doings In bis life. He. was
the typical successful small town
business man, who had remained a
bachelor, principally because he
had been too much occupied with
making money to have time for
women in his life. This was the
man, nearing nifty, and badness,
and a pronounced -bay window"
whom pretty, blonde. girlish Doris,
hardly twenty-five, was to marry.
II know she does not love the
aaan. wrote her friend TO me
frankly. Il can't conceive Of two
more opposite persons marrying.
She is taking him for a husband
because financially she and her
mother are almost desperate. She
tells me that she admlres her fance
that she thinks he is the most
%u1asterfui and Interesting maj she
has ever met. and SO on. But there
is a laok in her eyes. as she says 1t,
which makes me know 1t ID her
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-04-07

American Red Cross headquarters
had officially denied a story printed
recently under a Paris date to the
effect that it had agreed TO accept
$500, 600 from the Russian Eol-
sheviki Red Cross TO help defray the
expense of relief work among the Rus
sian prisoners in German camps. The
statement says the American REQ
Cross has had no relations of any kind
with any Bolsheviki organization.
The American Red Cross alone. the
statement continues, is providing the
none and supplies for the special
REQ Cross mission which has bean
sent to Germany to relieve the dis
tress of Russian prisoners in that
country.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-04-07
fMaysville Rullettn.l

II any Republican opponent Of tbs
league of n~ations wants to measure
the sincerity OF his objections. let
him retire TO a quiet place and ask
himself the question, What would =
have said il my own party, instead Of
President Wilson, had been the author
OF the proposal"
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-04-07

tai purpose OF the department as de-
fined by congress. A favorable de-
cision on this case viii give women
freedom to contribute their best ener-
sies TO the Industries of the nation in
peace, as they have done in war
h War Labor boards decision
was to the effect that the wotnen con-
d~uctors had the right to retain their
fobS 4
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-04-07
tEx-J. s. SENATOR LEA. LEADER
OF PLAN TO KIDNAP THE
KAISER

IN his attempt to kidnap the kaiser
Atorn the castle of Count Won Bent
iinck iast January. he was acconpa-
MED 10y a numbe of officers. The
party crossed the Holland border in
automobiles. n after succeeding in
passing The guards, entered the man
sion. In preparing to search for the
kaiser. a number of Holland guards
appeared, n the American party re-
tired.
Copyright. Underwood & underwood
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-04-07

cleveland Plain DeaIer)
In Hollend a useful gum or paste
il being made from garlic. When
the government begins putting that
kind on the backs of postage stamps,
then watch out,
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-04-07
fAdusr County News.l

Don't get respondent when you see
Inc nice homes other folks have. A
i1t OK them are not paid for.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-04-07

tNew YORK World.)
The verdict in the O'Leary case can
probably puzzle no one more than the
chief defendant himself in trying to
understand why he ever ran away.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-10-31
FOR SALE
TO RENT
TO EXCHANGE
VISION SIN LAND.

II you have from sl.70o to $4,000 to
pay down. we will sell you so or 100
acres from our large tract OF land In
south central Wisconsin, build you n
new house. new barn. put down a well.
furnish you with s or L. milk cows:
you pay for these by turning in one
half your cream check, and give you
ten years time to pay out on your
land. No stumps to pull. You start
right in TO make money and pay for
this new home OF your own. Prices
from s55 to sT5 per acre. Write for
our plan, We stay with you. The
Peddie Land Company. Inc. owners.
iO5 Mullin Building, Cedar Rapids.
Iowa
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-10-31
CASTORIA
For Infants and Children
In Use For Over 80 Years
Always bears ~ -
u*n. ;ss :. &M4zzzzss
ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS FOR
PUBLIC IMPROVEMENT.
Sanitary Sewer construetio.

va Sanitary Sewer Construction
Public notice is hereby given that
sealed proposals will be received at
I the office Of the city clerk Of the city
OF Marshalltown, Iowa, until o'clock
a. M, on the 18th day Of November,
1913, for the furnishing Of labor and
material for the following sanitary
sewer construction, to be located upon
the following streets and parts OF
streets, the course thereof being DIS fol-
lows, to-wit:
Extending from the 1amphole In the
center line of North Second avenue,
/ eighty-four. $50 feet south Of the CEN
tier line Of Riverside street: thence
inortherly along the center line OF
North Scond avenue, eighty -four (SD
feet to nanhole in the center line Of
4 Riverside street; thence westerly along
the center line Of Riverside street, four
hundrd forty (440) feet to a manhole
in the center line Of North First ave-
nue.: thence soQtherly along center line
of North First avenue, two hundred
seventy-seven (277) feet to a lamphole.
And also, extending from the present
manhole In the center line of North
Fourth street, forty and five-tenths
(4O.5) feet south of the north line OF
Hughes street; thence northerly along
the center line of North Fourth street,
five hundred (500) feet to manhole.
All Of said sewer shall be constructed
4 in accordance with the plans and spec
ifications therefor, heretofore approx
ed and adopted by the mayor and city
council Of the city Of Marshalltown.
Iowa., and now on file in the office Of
the city clerk; and the same shall be
constructed OF eig1t-inch vitrified sew
ef pipe, The sewer on North Second
avenue, Riverside street and North
First avenue shall have twelve SER
vice la.erals, to be built Of six-inch
vitrified sewer pipe, to be located as
shown on the plans, and shall extend
from the center line of main sewer
10 d point ri i,i.en feet t,nt, ana shall
be laid at a 3 per- cent grade, and at
an anglo with the main sewer Of sixty
degrees; In connection Herewith, two
gmanhoIes and one lamphole shall be
built at the location as shown on said
plans. The sewer on North Fourth
street and Hughes street shall be con-
structed Of eight Inch yitrified sewer
pipe, with seventeen service laterals,
to be Constructed of six-inch vitrified
sewer pipe-said laterals shall be To-
Gated as shown on the plans, and shall
extend floId the center line of the
main seWsr TO q point eighteen feet out,
and shall be constructed at an angle Of
sisssy dagrees with the main sewer.
T and shall be laid at q per cent grade.
and a rnanhole shall be constructed at
= station &, al shown on the plans.
That said work Of improvement shall
z he commented en- or before the s1akh
day Of November, 1919, and be fully
completed On or before the 1st day Of
DscSnhsr, NJ. W
Ths IolloNins y ~ approximate -
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-10-31

Pat Grove, internationally known
len years ago as the kidnaper Of Ed
ward Cudahy. son Of the Chicago
packing king, will 60 to work in onc
of three Washington banks which
have each offered him job. /
1 With a $50, 900 reward on his head.
Grove eluded the police for six years.
finally giving himself up in 1906.
Since that time he has devoted him.
self to the rescue Of erring men and
the education Of children. His case
was, presented to the Washington
banks BY DR.. e. E. budding, presi-
dent Of the Children's Relief society,
and every banker to whom he told
the story offered Grove . Job.