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The Washington times., 1919-05-28
TAD. c. SOLDIERS
LAND At HODOKEN

HoBoKEN, N. J., Nay 2s.-Thsss
two officers and twelve men, All
Washingtonians. have arrived at this
port from France:
Major Alexander Johnston, Wifa,
Mrs. Lillian Johnston. 1913 Living
stone street; Lieut.. Charles A. ingram
Fourteenth street northwest: Privato
William A. Storey. sister, Mrs. Nil
dred c. Ketehum, Government H0tels
Private George A. King, father,
Richard King. 3S25 Olive avonu8
northwest; Sergt wesley L HuuE
wife. Mrs. Mamie Hunt, liza Staple
street; Private william White. wife,
Mrs. Gertrude WhItes 1914 SeVeng
teenth street northwest: Private
Stanley SamuelsOn, Seventh and Q
streets northwest; Sergt- Oliver ,.
Schmidt, mother, Mrs. Mary SchmidG
206 V street northwest: Sergt Elmer
p. Hardell, mother, Mrs. Leila Hard
ell. sos p street northwest: SeFgt.
Charles +. BOntz. mother. Mrs. Re-
gina. Bontz,. 500 North Carolina ave-
nue. southeast; Private George II.
Robertson, mother, Mrs. George Rob
ertson. 11-R street northwest; Cora
Raymond @. Eddy. mother, Mrs. Lilli-
an Eddy. 214 New Jersey avenue; and
Private George 7. Shannon, motheE.
Mrs. Cassie shannon, 3493 Holmead
place.
The Washington times., 1919-05-28
HUGELUXURF:TAX,,
!. REFUND ISuKELY

Internal revenue collectors today
are facing the problem. OF refunding
more than 81 100000 to taxpayers
when the luxury tax IS repealed IN
less Congress comes to their rescue by
setting the repeal date ten days or
TWO weeks after passage Of the re-
pealing act.
> It will take ten, days after the re-
pealer becomes a law to notify retail
ers to quit collecting the tax, officials
sSy. During that sine collections will
go on at the rate Of S1,615,3 S4 a week,
mostly in amounts under cents
The money, however, would be H.
legally in the hands of the retailers
and the Government, and So would in
yolve the necessity Of making refunds.
It Is estimated that 10000 600 per
sons would become entitled to refunds
before the work Of hating collections
could be completed. =. T" -
The Washington times., 1919-05-28
new
PENSION SYSTEM

In connection with contemplated
Legislation relative to the retirement
of superannuated Government en-
ployees, J. Erwin Latimer Of the o.
IS. Geological Survey, Department Of
the Interior, has submitted to mem
bers Of Congress and other interested
a plan whereby definite ages for re-
tirement are eliminated.
The plan as advocated by Mr.. Lati-
mer, under the contrihutory plan, is
based on the number Of years a Gov
eminent employee has served and not
merely on an age limit. Where an
employee has become superannuated,
is broken in health, or incapacitated
by any reason after he has reached
the age Of fifty years and after ten
years OF service, IT is proposed TO aB-
point a board OF review which will
pass on the merits Of each individual
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CONGRESSMAN, TO FIGHT
FOR LOW BANANA PRICES

Bring down the price Of bananas
the poor mans fruit.
This is the object OF a movement
started today by Congressman FitZ-
gerald of Massachusetts,.
With a shortage of practically every
other fruit, and consequently prohibi.
tive prices, Congressman Fitzgerald
stated that although there is a tire
mendous abundance" of bananas, they
are selling at So a hundredweight,
against 81 a hundredweight a few
years ago, thus forcing a retail price
Of from 80 to 60 cents a dozen, COM
pared with the former Is and 20
cents. The company which controls
the banana supply, Fitzgerald
claimed, is making 40 per cent on it's
capital, ian unconsciable profit"
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$45; 1000 ASKED IN THREE
SUITS AGAINST W. r. & E.

Suits for damages asgregatine
$4,000 have been fled in the Dis
trict Supreme Court by three persona
against the washington Railway and
Electric Company.
Jennie W. Coleman asks for $4,000.
She alleges she was injured seriously
in collision between cars on Fsbs
ruary q, last. at Georgia avenue and
Upshur street northwest, when she
was hurled from q seat IN q car.
Lula B. Renseh asks $4,000. She
says she sustained serious injuries
November 25, last, at Ninth and y
streets northwest when the car from
which she. was alighting suddenly
started. throwing her to the street.
William II. Robinson wants $40 0oo
on account OF injuries which he al
leges he received June %. last. when
a car upon which he was a passenger
eollided with another car on Portland
street southeast. Attorney o. II. o.
terman appears for the three plain
tits.
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need more FUNDS
FOR CLERKS PROBE

Congress viii be asked for addi-
tional funds to carry on the work of
the joint Congressional commission
on Reconsideration OF Federal en-
ployes' salaries.
The last Congress appropriated
$4,000 for the week, but this money
viii fan Short of covering expenses.
The committee already has re-
eefved the los, 900 duestionnaires from
the Federal employees in the District
and today are busy with a corps of
experts and employees filing, group
ing. and classifying them There is
said now to be a deficiency which is
being bridged temporarily by using
Borrowed" help from the depart
ments and such outside volunteer as
sistance as IS available.
The National CIVIL Service Reform
League is keenly interested in the
reclassificatfon- work and realizes the
big task the committee, is UP. against.
In the league publication, Good Gov
ernment, President Richard n. Dana,
OF, Boston, has the following to say
81 the. work OF the committee:
TIT has been q source OF astonish-
ment to many that the. new joint
committee on Feelassihcstion Of the
ciYA- Service has settled down with
hardly weeks delay to the daily
grind that mastering such q subject
entails. Chairman Jones, Secretary
Keating, and their four colleagues,
have resolved that they will make at
least a tangible beginning toward a
scientific civil service If it takes all
SIMMER All confidence and Go-opera-
don should be accorded them for re-
sisting the temptation to do the ira
ditionaI and expected thing-noth-
ing. Tackling the matter as they do
cannot help being beneficial whether
they succeed in completing the job or
not -
That Congress itself did not expect
much is seen in the fact that the ap-
propriation for the committee is only
SOS, 900, barely enough to pay the
salaries of the three members who
are not reelected to the present Con-
Eress- This deficiency is being
bridged temporarily by using TO the
utmost borrowed help from the de-
partments and such outside volunteer
assistance as is available. 1t is to be
hoped that a sufficient showing can
be made by the time Congress recon-
VeneS to make plain, the need for a
substantial appropriation wherewith
to employ expert talent. The commit
tee deserves every facility and every
chance to make q success"
The Washington times., 1919-05-28

ANDDELEGATE
FAVORED BY.
- - 3 = .sS.zs. o.. &C., $50.
SEN M NARY

Residents Of the District of Column
bias not only, should be allowed to
vote in the Presidential elections but
should be granted representation in
Congress in the opinion of Senator
Charles, L. McNary. of oregon, one Of
tks, progressive leaders.
Senator McNary said that while he
Was~ doubtful If the District should
at, this time be given a vote in the
Senate. at least it should be repre-
scented by. one or more delegates in
the House. If left to the determine
ton OF the country at large, Senator
MeNary said, there would be suf-
fEage. In the District,
~Not until the National Capital f.
represented on the floor OF Congress,
Senator McNary declared, viii the
District ever get real square deal"
ftOu Congress.
The Washington times., 1919-05-28

may be satisfactory to the employer
or classes OF employers and their en-
ployes.
This, II granted, would have the re-
suit OF enabling any central commit
tee entirely outside Of the industry Of
crafts affected debating the accept
ance or rejection of an agreement.
This, instead OF giving to the work
men in any individual plant or indus
try the right OF collective bargaining
with their employers, deprives them
Of that right and places them entirely
in the hands OF q central body.
This principle the citizens commit
tee Of the Winnipeg provincial and
federal governments agree cannot be
accepted"
The Washington times., 1919-05-28
.ARGO LODGE TO MEET
IN HONOR OF HERZ0G

Argo Lodge, No. Alb Independent
Order of B'nai Birth, will hold q
meeting in honor OF Sol Herzog
president of the District Grand
Lodge No. 5, tonight in the Jewish
Welfare Rooms, Eleventh and Penn
sylvania avenue.
Mr.. Herzog will address the meet
ing, and the Rev. DR.. Abram Simon
and Lyman N. Levy will talk. Music
for the occasion will be rendered by
the Young Mems Hebrew Association
Orchestra
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HARD ON JANfrORs.

CHICAGO, May 2S.-Oak Park JAM
tors are chagrined. A new wage
scale gives school teachers almost as
much money as they get.
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ABORLEGISLATION
BOOKEDFORS SENATE

Labor legislation will shortly take
up much of the interests of the
Senate.
Today Senator Kenyon of Iowa,
newly named chairman Of the Senate
Committee on Education and Labor,
is making plans for carrying through
in the Senate a program Of labor
legislation which will have wide
scope. r.---- -- 49,.
One OF the FIRST labor questions
which will be dealt with is that OF
making anseight-hour day by legisla-
ton A bill providing Tor an eight
hour day has already been introduced
by Senator Moses Of New Hampshire
and referred to the Committee on
Education and Labor. 1t is proposed
as soon as the minority members Of
the committee are named and elected
to begin work on the consideration
Of this bill.
The Washington times., 1919-05-28

ations Committee, probably will re-
port the deficiency bill today or to-
morrow. 1t carries a number Of ap-
propriations for the District Of Co
lumbia-
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Premier DIseusses situation.

Questioned in Commons last night,
Premier Borden said law, and order
must be maintained at all costs, that
postal employees and other civil serv-
Ice employees on strike IN. Winnipeg
and elsewhere could not be permitted
to dislocate the public service and
must resume work or be dismissed.
Collective bargaining, he said, which
was the basis of the Winnipeg trou-
bic, could not be unreseTvedly ac-
cepted until it's full meaning has been
defined. The governments permanent
policy, he stated, depends on the find
ings fthe commission now probing
relations between capital and labor.
In Winnipeg, according to informa-
ton available here, the strikers are
holding out for collective bargaining.
A citizens committee Is maintaining
order, but IS denounced by strikers
as a union Of capitalists. Striking
postal, government telephone, and
civic employees have been discharged,
and the striking firemen replaced by
permanent employees who must sign
an agreement not to engage in SYM
pathy strikes or cease work without
thirty days notice, after arbitration.
Mail deliveries in Winnipeg are be-
ing resumed.
The Washington times., 1919-05-28
STRIKE PERIL STILL
GROWS IN CANADA

OTTAWA, May 2s-Industrial un-
rest continued in many parts OF Can
ada today with many strikes In prog
ress and others threatened.
According to reports received here,
the situation is as follows:
winnlpeg-General strike situation
unrelIeYed.
Toronto-Forty-flve thousand men
threaten TO strike Friday unless
elght-hour day granted.
Strikes ara said to
have practically tied up the city.
Calgary Fifteen hundred men re-
ported out.
Lethbridge-M Mine workers struck.
Brandon-Strikers claim to have
paralyzed the city.
Ottawa-Small strike OF machin-
lists. partially settled.
Montreal--L,abor men talking about
a vote on general strike.
At Regina, Saskatoon, Moosejaw,
In Sask-, there is much general strike
talk.
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Hearings Scheduled Soon.

Hearings will be held in which
parties representing employers and
employees will be called upon to
testify and there viii be a general
investigation Of the needs of legisla-
ton for labor at the present time.
Sentiment toward an eight-hour
day is too indefinite in the Senate
now to warrant any prediction by
those who favor it, but they are POSI-
tive that after sufficient evidence has
been given to the Senate that the
bill will meet with favorable consid-
Grafton.
Establishment Of a Federal Indus
trial Relations Commission is also
advocated by Senator Kenyon, and
he has presented a bill providing for
such a commission. Senator Kenyon
proposes to urge the Senate to create
such a commission as a permanent
Government body, to act as arbiter in
labor disputes and to iron out diff
culties between employers and en-
pIoyes.
The method of operation of the
wartime Industrial Labor Board would
be followed, and the powers Of the
commission would be strictly defined.
giving rather wider powers for the
adjustment of labor troubles than
any Government board has had to this
time.
Housing Commission Planned.
Another bill. in the interests of la
Dor. which Senator Kenyon has Ill
ready proposed is for the establish
ment of a homes and housing cOmnIis-
sion by the Federal Government.
This bill would provide for a COM
mission to study and investigate
,.o,,,, ~ wbfcb the Govarument might
aid In the construction of homes for
those engaged in the industrial pur-
suits. This bill already has the SUP
port Of employers who maintain that
II would do much to stabilize labor
conditions and would prevent the
large labor turnover that now con-
Germs factories.
Extension of Federal vocational
training to those injured in industrial
pursuits Is also proposed by Senator
Kenyon.
The daily Alaska citizen., 1919-07-19
A QUIET BORDER.
(N. \. GlObc.)

There seems little inclination on the part of the Villa faction to strike back at the Am erican guard along the Mexican border, and little likelihood that President Carranza will make serious protest against the fleeing inva- sion of Mexican soil and sovereignty. The revolution against Carranza and the case made out against his government begins to look in themselves too important to be set lightly aside. The federal government is go- ing to have it's hands full with domestic affairs, and will be glad enough to let the incident pass with no more than formal memorandum of dissent, especially since the effect of the protested violation seems to have been the ut ter rout of Villas forces
 Certainly nobody in Mexico wants us to intervene, unless perhaps the alien residents, Americans living i'll Santa Cruz and other cities to the south are prone to write letters of appeal to citizens of the United States ask ing that a settlement be made-even at the cost of a military expedition. The appeal Is natural and often sincere, a humanitarian de- mand for a cessation of guerilla warfare and logical demand for the salvation of proper ty. Bloodshed and the destruction of property are without doubt illogical, but it is more im- possible for the United States to prevent them everywhere Mexico may not be our equal in culture or morals, but she is, after all, sov- ereign state, with a right to conduct her own future-so long as she keeps her bullets at home.
 An absentee government is the worst in the world When one nation sets out to de- eide for another how it shall live and whom it shall follow the absentee system begins to function in it's least approved fashion. Only those who are willing to live inn Mexico have a right to intervene in her quarrels.
The daily Alaska citizen., 1919-07-19

In the United States several important bodies have passed resolutions calling on con- gress to recognize the independence of Ire land. and these would be grave if it were like ly that congress would take such step Ac- tion by this government in recognition of the alera government would mean war between the British empire and the United States, ull- less the British government itself had already recognized Irish independence.
 It is probable that the American Icdcra- ton of labor and other important organiza- tions including the New York City board of aldermen, passed their resolutions knowing that they would be ignored by con- gress, but for the purpose of agitating the question in Britain and bring pressure to bear on the British people to settle the Irish ques- ton. It is admitted that deadlock in the question cannot be continued indefinitely without serious results.
 De Valera says Ireland is practically united in the matter Yet but a few days have elapsed since Sir Edward Carson de- nounced the representatives of IrishAmerican societies for visiting Ireland and accusing them of stirring up greater unrest and incit- ing laWlesSness among the Sim Fein element. From all available information received from the troubled little island, Ireland is as hope lessy internally divided now as it ever was in the past Irish factions apparently can find no common bond of understanding as a me- dium of bringing about solution. The U'I- sterites say they will use force to prevent even home rule from being established, and the Sim I|einers threaten armed revolution to bring about absolute Independence.
 It is perhaps natural that there should be some American sympathy for Irish demands for freedom of government and national eN
 stcnCe, but there could be no formal rccogni- tion of Irish independence by the American government in defiance of British sentiment in support of the political unity of the British islcs unless the United States were prepared to free Ireland by force of arms as it freed Cuba from Spain. Irish sympathizers and agitators would be wise to keep this fact in mind.
The daily Alaska citizen., 1919-07-19
DANIELS WIRES
 TO COMMANDER
 OF NEW FLEET

WASHINGTON, July 1S.-(P) See retary of Navy Josephus Daniels sent a lengthy telegram to Admiral Hugh Rodman, commander of the new Pa cific fleet, tonight in which he ask ed the commander to extend to the officers and men of the fleet his wishes for a safe and pleasant jour ney Besides bidding Godspeed to the officers and men of the fleet, the telegram drew vivid comparison of this fleet and the one which sailed around the world eleven years ago.
 The vessels sail tomorrow on their long journey to the Pacific coast, making the trip by way of the Pana- ma canal It is expected the first stop on the western shore of Ameri- ca will be made at San Francisco.
The daily Alaska citizen., 1919-07-19
COAST WORKERS ORDERED TO GO
 BACK TO WORK

SAN FRANCISCO. July IS (P)- The electrical brotherhood issued an order this evening directing the striking telephone workers on the Pa cific coast to return to work on Mon day morning. The order states that this resumption of work is only pend ing an adjustment of the strikers demands by the wire control board. Unless some agreeable settlement of the differences can be made within a reasonable time by the board it is claimed the workers will again be directed to walk out.
 TOLD NOT TO OBEY
 The local strike committee, which is directing the strike now on by the coast telephone and electrical workers, sent telegrams this evening to all the local unions asking them not to heed the order put out direct ing the workers to return to work on Monday morning.
 The committee states in the tele- grams that it is believed the order was issued by the international of ficcrs without d sufficient investga- ton into the situation being made The committee does not think the higher officers have found that the workers interests have been proper ly safeguarded and it is therefore, advising the unions not to take any definite action until some agreement has been reached with the wire con lroI board.
The daily Alaska citizen., 1919-07-19
IF BRITAIN HAD DONE, TT.
(Springfield Republican, )

Germany accepts the obligation to pay
 for all damages sustained by the civil popu-
 lations in the occupied parts of Belgium and
 France, inasmuch as she brot upon them the
 terrors of war by breach of international law thru the violation of Belgian neutrality.
 This is quoted from the text of the Ger man counter-proposals to the peace confer ence. It is Germany's official confession of the incaluabe wrong she did to Belgium, not only but to France in attacking them.
 If Britain had done such thing and confessed it, is there anyone not British sub ect who would not agree that nothing short of the dsmemberment and the destruction of the British empire would be the punishment to fit such crime? It would be generally ad- mtted that, having borne as sacred trust the interests of civilization, the British empire af- ter so monstrous an offense against interna- tional morality and humanity was no longer entitled to the confidence of mankind and had forfeited its high place in the family of na- tions"
The daily Alaska citizen., 1919-07-19
SEPARATION IS
 NOT APPROVED
GERMAN NATIONAL. ASSEMBLY, REJECTS PROPOSAL MADE BY
 THE SOCIALISTS

WEIMAR July IS,r(P)-In today's session of the national assembly, a proposal introduced by the radical socialist members was considered and finally rejected The resolution call ed for the complete separation of the church and the state but it did not receive the support of the more con servative members of the assembly and, sO failed to be adopted.
 The socialists have long been agi- tating the question of this separation claiming the church and state should never be united. Having only min ority in the assembly, however, the socialists could not succeed in getting their motion passed
The daily Alaska citizen., 1919-07-19
SEVEN BODIES
 ARE RECOVERED

BLUEFIELD, July 1S.- (P) The death list of the recent explosion in the Tazewell mine now stands at twenty-one persons. Seven bodies workers and it is thot the others will be recovered shortly.
 Two hundred of the miners who were trapped in the workings by the explosion were rescued after being confined several hours. The total of twenty-one dead is based upon the number of miners now missing and not accounted for.
The daily Alaska citizen., 1919-07-19
RECOGNITION OF IRELAND.

Ramon de Valera, president of the so- called Irish republic, may be right in saying that the whole world will be forced to recos- nize Ireland as a separate nation and as hay ing an independent government from Great Britain, but if this is to be done it will proba- ply be after England has made such recogni- ton.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1919-03-20
WHY WOMEN DREAD
OLD AGE

Don't worry about old age Don't worry
about being in other peoples way when
you are getting on in years. Keep your
body in good condition and you can be as
hale and hearty in your old days as you
were when kid, and every one will be
glad to see you
The kidneys and bladder are the causes
Of senile Affections. Keep them clean and
in proper working condition. Drive the
poisonous wastes from the system and
avoid uric acid accumulations. Take GOLD
MEDAL HARLEM Oil Capsules periodical
ly and you will find that the system viii
always be in perfect working order Your
spirits will be enlivened your muscles
made strong and your face have once
more the look of youth and health.
New life, fresh strength and health will
come as you continue this treatment. When
your first vigor has been restored continue
for awhile taking a capsule or two each
day. They viii keep you in condition and
prevent return of your troubles.
There is only one guaranteed brand of
HARLEM Oil Capsules, GOLD MEDAL.
There are many fakes on the market Be
sure you get the Original GOLD MEDAL
Imported HARLEM Oil Capsules They are
the only relia bic. For sale by all first-class
druggists.-Adv.