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El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-11-13
Adoice To The LOoelOm


MARRYING A SECOND TINE
Dear Miss Fairfax:
/ an a Vidower. IS. and have
been going about with a girl OF
%, for several months, and we
have learned TO Ike one another.
When I told her I had been mar
ried she got so stunned about Il
that I could not persuade her 70
continue our friendship, ana so
we parted Since then have
had another similar experience
I am Of good appearance, earn
ing Sa5 a week. Have about
$500 saved and do not believe in
filtration. Carl.
Your being a widoWer won't count
against you with any girl who has
brains. You don't want to marry
some silly little goose who hasn't the
common sense to realize that II Is
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-11-13

Dear Miss Fairfax
I am 1s and reciprocate the
very sincere and deep love Of
young man five years my senior
Ny folks are very much against
him, as his financial cEcum-
stances are not up TO their ex-
pectations.
] have tried IN vain TO impress
upon them that money does not
matter when young folks are In
love. He Is very ambitious and
knows he viii make good
The arguments al home are so
bitter that have to take a defl-
mite step. 1 have considered leav-
ing my home and doing as my
heart dictates, but I am the main
support Of the family and knew
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-11-13

CAny reader can get the answer 70 any
question BY writing The Herald Informa-
lion Bureau. Frederic J. Haskiu. director.
Washington. D. c. This bureau cannot
give advice on legal. medical and financial
matters. Il does not attempt 20 settle
domestic troubles. nor % undertake ez-
haustive research on any subject Write
plainly and briefly Give full mama and
address and enclose two cents IN stamps
for return postage. All replies are sent
direct to inquirer.)
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-11-13

you as you are today she's. ularryins
not the lad who once loved some
ore else.
Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1920-08-16
ENCOURAGING YOUTHFUL
DELiNQUENTS.

Recently a man in nearby city
was fined for buying four stolen chick
ems from two fourteen year old boys.
The man who purchased them, a gro
Gerry store owner in the north end of
the city. did not know he was buy
ing stolen goods. 4 customer who
was present when the transaction was
made was appealed to by the shop
keeper. Did he know these 5oys2
The customer did. He also knew
that the parents Of the lads were poul-
try owners. He informed the store
keeper of this fact. Believing the
boys came to him with the property
Of their own which they wished to
dispose Of, he was quite willing to
aid them in the matter.
The store owner acted in good faith
He was unconscious of any wrong
doing. Had he been charged with re
ceiving stolen goods and tried before
a jnry there he undcnbt edly would
have been acquitted. He was not
found guilty in police court Of receiv-
lilS NLpltHs IliblfI - ne NdS iIitI
as an example to the other merchants
in the community who make Il prac-
tice of purchasing articles offered for
sale by children.
Merchants WHO buy from children
encourage them to steal In prac-
tically all cases whore transactions
of this nature are carried ont the
merchant makes no real effort to
discover If the youth has come by
his goods honestly The merchant is
given an opportunity to buy at n
cheap price and he takes advantage
OF it
Children would not become house
breakers and burglars if there was no
easy way to dispose of their plum Ter
Delinquent children are a menace to
the future Of a community. Those
who did in their delinquency. con.
sciously, are deserving of severe pun
ishment TO prevent spread of dis
ease the cause must first be remov-
ed
Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1920-08-16
ST. ACk { RS.

The war isn't over yet for draft
dodgers and slackers.
Counties and cities have published
the names of their boys who were
in the world war. The service tag
became an established institution dur
ing the war.
Uncle Sam is not going to forget
the men who Were of military age
but were too busy making money or
too coWardly to fight during the re
cent war. A nation wide drive 10
round up slackers and draft deserters
il being inaugurated by the war de-
pariment. Following the drive a list
containing the names of draft dodgers
will be published.
The average or normal American
citizen will probably ind it hard to
Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1920-08-16

believe that there were in the nlted
States during the war 1891 drali
deserters, according to present rec
ords,
Every means at the disposal of the
army will be brought into play to
bring about the arrest and trial Of
the slackers after the list has been
published the adWtant general mas
Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1920-08-16

work on the road two miles east OF
the - tracks. All concrete VIII b,
mixed at WOODS spur and carried IL
the place of construct, by cars over
Ia light railroad which has been lald
the entire distance, with two switch
lines one at The Dresden hill school
and one at the Clsuon farm.
After The first two miles of paving
are completed east ct the = tracks
work win begin at the Rock Island
tracks and completed east to The II
ut Woods spur.
The New Era company hats the
grad ug contract and is working ou
the road near Chauuahun
Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1920-08-16
LET BILL. DO 1T.

For many years before the country
went dry there was constant ho"I
going up from the good people be
cause the liquor laws were not com
piled with-saloons kept open on sun
dav, after hours, sold TO minors, etc,
But few formal complaints We're iodg-
ed, and if complaint was made the
matter was dropped there, and the
good citizens paid no further atteh'
ton to it. They expected someone
else to furnish all evidence and push
the prosecution. The liquor dealers
took advantage Of the condition ana
finally killed their own business ny
their infractions. A large percentage
added gambling in one form or ahoth
er, and those violations OF the law
We're treated like the violations oil
the jouor laws. and an indefinite
someone was supposed to furnish the
evidence and push the prosecution
and council and the police, ANA occa-
sionally some state or county official,
had to stand the cussing, and what
ever was done was done by them.
Now the good citizen had no more
right to expect or ask the mayor. coun-
Gil and police to do the sleuthing than
these men had to ask the reformers
to bring in the necessary evidence
The police had certain duties under
the ordinances as they then applied,
but those duties did not include
"gumshoeing," much as we all tried
to make them think it did
Conditions regarding the surrept-
tious selling Of hootch are much the
same--oniy worse. The iniractions
of the laws governing the sale Of
booze are state offenses, and must
be prosecuted like all state cases,
and it is a cnch the state officer is
not going to go into prosecution of
this kind without proper evidence to
back him up Nor, as a rule, and per
ticularly during a political campaign,
is he going to buy any galoshes to i
wear out sneaking around to get
the goods" on offenders. True there
is IA big appropriation available to en-
force prohibition, but the department
having the matter in charge is swamp
ed with the magnitude Of the job, |
and Ottawa's chances for getting
much action from that source soon
are very remote.
That hootch is being sold in Otta-
wa we all know, just as we know a
thousand other things we conldn't
prove to the satisfaction OF a jury
We all want to see the Illicit sale of
liquor stopped and the law enforced
but We want Bill to get the goods
on the iniractors. As Bill il not do
ing the job we want the mayor, the
council the cops anyone hut our.
selves to do the dirty work Now
someone has got to get the evidence
and file the complaint in order TO
start something" If you can make
good your assertion that one two,
five, six or a dozen soft drink par
Tors" are selling hootch in Ottawa,
you are the man whose duty it is to
get busy. 1t isn't Bits job, nor the
mayors job, nor the commissioners
job, nor even the cops job; it's your
job ii you are a good citizen and
want to see the law enforced
Get down to brass taCkg. Either
do your duty as good citizen, or quit
bowling because some other fellow
more conspicuous in the public eye
won't assume a burden that is no
more his than yourS-not as much so
il You really know what your state.
ments infer you know.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-11-26

liquidated at the end OF the year TO
pay the tax.
There is no doubt, therefore, that,
taking all Italian taxes together, Il
proportion can be classified as a bona
fide levy ON capital, particularly in
the upper schedule. the rest being
simply a tax on income.
Strictly speaking. however, even the
italian assessment Is not a levy on
capital. 1t is simply II measuring
down Of the value of paper money to-
ward the level of actual property val
ues. When the value of Italian money
approaches the actual value of gold. as
the value of English and American
money does, there will be no surplus
currency and credit TO slice off, and
it will he impossible TO continue the
capital levy unless the Government
desires to accept payment in houses
and lots, shares in industries, tithes of
farm products and other tangible
things. Such proposition would be
grotesque in these times OF intricate
commercial transactions carried
through by means Of money asa me-
dunn of exchange, although in the
days Of the Pharaohs the scheme met
certain degree OF success
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-11-26
HIGH CHRISTMAS CANDY.
Chance for the Authorities TO Help
Santa Claus n Little.

To THE New York HERALD: The De-
partment OF Justice should investigate
the prices charged for candy at whole
sale and retail in New York city and
elsewhere.
Although the cost Of sugar has taken
tumble after tumble in the last few weeks
until it Is now being sold wholesale at
almost pre-war prices. yet Wholesale
candy manufacturers and retailers are
making the consumer pay as high as
$3.50 pound for standard makes.
Christmas In coming and practically
every home will be called upon to glad
den the hearts OF little ones with stock
ings filled with candy. 1t will be about
the only Christmas cheer entering many
homes this year. and II seems n pity that
the people should be soaked by candy
proatecrs when conditions do not war
rant a.
Investigator Riley seems TO have his
hands full with the restaurants and coal
barons II the department has Sam
Cntermyer. In heavens name send him
out with Instructions to see that the
people have cheaper candy for the chill
dren's Christmas this year--not mex,
Christmas. A MOTHER.
NEW YORK. November "a.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-11-26
MASTERS OF THE WORLD.
Small Nations Shed Light at Geneva
on Mr.. Wilson's Covenant.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: Certain
features OF Mr.. Wilson'S League OF Ma
tons which have been developed AT the
meeting OF the Assembly now in progress
at Geneva deserve more attention than
they have received.
Among the forty-two nations repre-
scented we find four or Ave new and
feeble tentative republics carved out of
Hungary, Germany and Russia. and with
them such nations as Liberia. Hayti,
Santo Domingo, Panama. Cuba, Near
aqua, together with several South Amer
fcan countries.
These small nations seem from the
press accounts to be in control of the
meeting and TO have taken charge of i'm
portant committees. 1t was bad enough
to contemplate the policies of the United
States being dictated by nine men, 'seven
of whom were Europeans, one a -Japa-
nese and only one an American but
when 1t comes to the Assembly, how
about the little fellows running the
world? In many cases a majority would
rule, and where the decision must be
unanimous the vote of a single one'could
DlOch dCllOn.
j wonder that any citizen of this coun-
try could ever be found who would be-
lieve that such a conglomeration. with
diverse and conflicting interests. was
ever a practicable scheme. Does 1t not
carry in II seeds OF dissolution?
Every patriot should give thanks that
a few wise men IN the Senate blocked
the insane game and saved us from aw-
full perils. And how sad is the thought
that SO many preachers and college pro-
fessors were gu;iible enough to take Mr..
Wilson's glittering words for the oracu-
lar utterances Of a divinely inspired
sagel
Fortunately the sober second thought
of our people spoke out in condemnation
of the nefarious scheme. F. II. BACON.
ST. LOUIS. No. November %.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-11-26
EVENTS TO-DAY.

Boy Scouts will visit the grave Of Theodore
Roosevelt under the leadership of Daniel Car
ter Beard, leaving the city at 4 A. NJ.
The Rev. Charles l.. Jefferson and Prof.
William Lyon Phelps win speak at n mass
meeting under the auspices OF the American
Mayflower Council, Carnegie Han. +. NJ.
The Sons OF the Revolution win celebrate
the evacuation Of New York by British
troops al the Plaza Hotel this evening.
There WIN be n public reception for Gen.
Bramwell Booth ut the Pennsylvania Station
40 L. NJ.
nual conference. rooms OF the Merchants
Association, Woolworth Building, 10 A. NJ.
and p. NJ.
Washington Heights Taxpayers Associa-
ton, meeting, 1886 Broadway, 7. NJ.
John A. Fitch and George Soule will speak
at meeting OF teachers, Civic Club. Il
West Twelfth street. this evening.
Central Federated Union, final meeting,
Labor Temple, Eighty fourth street, between
Second and Third avenues, p NJ.
Lincoln Steffens will lecture on THE Revo-
lutionary Movement In Europe" at Parkview
Palace, Fifth avenue and 10th street, $50
r. NJ.
West Point Alumni. smoker. Hotel Astor.
S 80 L. NJ.
Gen Robert Georges Nivelle and e. n
Spender will speak at Park Theatre under
the auspices Of the League for Political Edu-
cation, IL A. NJ.
"Nietzsche and Religion" lecture by Ey-
erett Dean Martin. Cooper Union. p. NJ.
Delta Alpha Fraternity. dance. Waldorf
Astoria. p. NJ.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-11-26
EASY BERTHS GONE.
An Explanation of Why Some Ameri-
can Shippers Are JObIess.

To THE New YORK HERALD: You
print letter from master mariner
saying that one hundred American ship
masters are out of work. and suggesting
that these men should be placed in jobs
now held by foreigners.
From personal experience let me say
that when times were good and the
Shipping Board was running it's YES
sells with ordinary Shipping Board
efficiency--that is. spending 33 1-3 per
cent of their time In port-tlle majority
sought after and obtained employment
on these vessels. The vessels owned by
private organizations and some few
Shipping Board ships. which were kept
hard running, necessarily had to be
manned by men with provisional mas
ters' tickets. To obtain these tickets il
was necessary for these men to have
fled their first intention papers, and the
majority are within very short time OF
obtaining fun naturalization. and ]
might also add that only n very small
percentage of our masters are OF Amer
lean birth.
1t hardly behooves the masters re-
ferred TO as being out Of work to ex-
pect the operators to fire out the men
who served faithfully when times were
good for the masters and hard for the
operators. and to replace the men with
those who had the sinecure Jobs until
lately. OPERATOR.
NEW York. November "a.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-11-26
Advanced LynchIng In Mississippi

Ordinarily a lynchlng mob in Mis-
sissippi or any of the other States
which compete In lawlessness takes
action at one OF three times: when
the accused is captured, when he is
being taken to Jail. or after he has
been jailed and awaits trial The
mob at Tylertown this week was of
more enterprising sort II broke
into the court room in which the ac-
cused was being tried, roped him.
dragged him through the streets and,
at the end of spectacular parade,
hanged and shot him.
Here was a case where there was
no danger OF the prisoners escape or
of legal delay. A special term of the
court had been convened to try the
prisoner for his crime, the penalty Of
which in Mississippi is death. We
read that not only the Judge but the
husband of the complaining witness
asked the mob 10 let the trial proceed.
Mobs, however are rarely interested
in the fact that Justice is going her
orderly way MS swiftly ms possible. II
usually does not matter to them that
the prisoner is likely to suffer capital
punishment, and that quickly.
In the lynching States lust for blood
Is the spirit Of the lawless.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-11-26
PUBLIC LECTURES TONIGHT.

"Woehler: or. From Death TO Life." by
Prof. Samuel G. schmucker. Stuyvesant High
School. Fifteenth street and First avenue.
"A New American Philosophy. "A New
Way 20 Put a Philosophy IN Practice BY
Mr.. Charles u. Isaacson, wadleigh High
School. 115th street. west OF Seventh avenue.
THE Efficient Citizen" by Samuel W.
Patterson, Public School "a. Forty-second
street and Third avenue.
Native Races and Slavery" by Mrs-
Helene Craven, Public School 65, Eighty
eighth street and First avenues illustrated.
Musical Significance: Hidden Meanings
and Messages" by Mrs. Mary Gregory MUIR
ray Public School 1872. 1920 street and wads-
worth avenue.
Burke. the Friend OF the American Colo
Mes" by Thomas McTiernan, Public School
1871. st. Nicholas avenue and 12Tth street.
1.-THE Pilgrim Fathers" by William Elliot
Griffis Public School II. Fordham street
near City Island avenue, City Island; Illus
trated.
'',rhe Face Of France" by Dr. Harry webb
Harrington. Public School IS, Anthony and
fremont avenues, The Bronx.
Merchant Adventures and tho Pilgrims
OF the Mayflower." by Mr. J. Wilder Fair
bank, New York Public Library. Woodstock
Branch, T59 East Tooth street; illustrated
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-11-26
Mr.. RockefeIIer's Latest GIFT.

OF all the groups of Rockefeller
philanthropies the beneficence last
announced has the most sentiment
about II. The Foundation concerns
itself with the general well being of
mankind; the Education Board, with
teaching; the Institute, with medical
research. The Laura Spelman Rookie
Teller Memorial aims to aid the chart
table objects TO which Mr.. RoCKEFEL-
LER's late wife was devoted. These
relate chiefly to the improvement of
the condition Of women and children ;
so Mr.. ROCKEFELLER adds to his great
organizations a fourth one which the
public will view with the most SYM
pathetic interest.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-11-26
THE BUSY MUD DIGGER.
Ii Is at Work on the Forty Foot ShiI
Channel In the North River.

TO THE New YORK HERALD: In this
open season for critics of all Govern
ments it scarcely seems worth while to
notice the small bore charge in Davey
Jones's letter in respect to the mud dig
ger Off Twenty-third street. North River,
but Davey's peace of mind Is worth the
little trouble involved in saying that. the
digger Is not Government operated but
is operated by a very competent dredg-
ing contractor, who is paid by the Gov
eminent so many cents cubic yard for
such mud as he removes. Davey Jones
might take up with the contractor the
formers objections to the Iatter's dig
ging water at mis- own expense.
The digging in question Is part of the
general plan to provide forty feet of
water in the main channels of this port
and along the fronts used by deep draft
steamships in the Chelsea section and
above. Davey Jones is entitled to his
opinion that such work is ''wilful waste
of money" but the balance of opinion
among those interested in the port and
familiar with it's needs will run strongly
against him.
Experience in the removal OF many
thousand yards of this mud shows that
it digs well and that depths are fairly
well maintained in that locality, the
work now in progress being original
dredging and not redredging. Your cor
respondent is the first to complain OF
the character OF this mud. which must
in any case be removed to provide forty
feet along that front, whether 1t digs
well or poorly OFFICIAL.
NEW YORK, November "a.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-11-26
As to the Next Mayor.

Local politicians who are trying to
draw the lighting lines of the next
Mayoralty campaign before the ink Is
dry on the national election returns
needn't 90 so fast. The municipal
election is sufficiently far off TO leave
plenty of chance, when the time comes
to consider the details of candidates
and alliances. Between now and then
many things may happen. One point,
however, may well be remembered all
through the approach to the Mayor
atty campaign, and this may be as
good time as any to suggest It. 1t
has TO do not merely with what hap
pened at the national polls but why 1t
happened.
No political judgment that is worth
a snap Of the fingers and no partisan
responsibility that carries any weight
deceives itself or wants to deceive
anybody as to the cause Of the colos-
sal and unprecedented vote given in
New York to the Republican national
ticket. Independent and Democratic
voters of New York State, New York
city and the five counties within the
city, who cast their ballots by the
hundreds of thousands for HARDING
and COOLIDGE, were not giving them a
vote Of confidence so much as they
We're giving vote of protest--a vote
Of protest against the incompetent,
laundering, wasteful dangerous man
agement of the business affairs of the
United States.
This is Democratic city. On
straight party lines it is overwhelm-
ingly Democratic. While waiting for
the Mayoralty situation to shape it
self Republicans who sincerely wish
this city to be redeemed from the
imiSmanagement and misgovernment
of HYLAN and Hylanism will not for
get the fact that large Democratic
support always has been, perhaps will
be for many years, necessary to the
success of any anti-Tammany ticket.
Independent Democrats and straight
out Democrats, anxious to redeem at
one and the same time their city and
their local party from the blight OF
HYLAN and Hylanlsm, will not forget
that the Republican vote of Greater
New York in cooperation with indie
pendents is similarly necessary to the
success Of any anti Tammany ticket
New York city can be salvaged as
the country was salvaged. But this
will not be achieved by Republicans
alternating the independent Democrats
and straight out Democrats who gave
the city to HARDING. 1t can be done,
It will be done, if Republicans and
Democrats devoted TO the public in
terest and the public needs above
everything else plan together and pull
together.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-11-26
WORLD INQUIRY INTO
INDUSTRY IS PLANNED
Action to Be Taken Under
Treaty of Versailles.
Special Despatch TO THE New YORK HERALD.
Wv hufk HtrhId Hureau,
Washington, ID. C., Nov. 25. {

A worldwide inquiry into industrial
production In its relation to cost Of living
and wages is to be undertaken by the In
ternational Labor Conference created I'M
der the Treaty OF Versailles.
The labor Office announces that the
purpose of the inquiry is to secure all
information necessary to an accurate
statement as to the condition of affairs
in regard TO prices and production. The
material will be useful. &c is believed, in
proving or dlsproving claims of a world
wide decline in the productivity of labor.
The Office will not make any more
original Investigations on its own ac-
count than are absolutely necessary. but
will make the utmost possible use Of data
collected by governments. scientific So
cleties and economic organizations OF all
kinds. II will undertake only such re
search work as is necessary to complete
existing collections of material.
Tho inquiry will include an examIna-
ton Of state Of affairs In regard to coal
and raw materials. transport conditions,
supplies Of machinery and tools ex-
change. credits, factors connected with
labor. psychological and moral factors