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our business condition ~ sound and
believe that work, production, economy
and stnadiness will carry the Unit ed
States safely through the transition
from the unsettlements of war to the
prosperity Of pence.
The reaction from greatly advanced
prices, n step toward dcfigtiOn, has re-
Gently made such progress 10 some lines
IA 10 leave no doubt rs 20 its meaning,
according 10 Dun's Review Of business
conditions. No prediction II ventured,
however. as To the duration or extent
of the readlustment. With credit less
easy to negotiate, it is asserted buyers
are holding off from heavy purchasing
until there il some indication 10 SHOW
how far prices will fall. What commit
ments are taken arc limited in volume
TO immediate needs. -,
In discussing the situation the piblIca-
tion says in part.
"The compelling reasons for the re-
yersaI Of conditions, which ~ most
sharply defined IN retail channels, have
not been Of sudden development, but
for some time past have been manifested
in consumers increasing opposition 70
the extreme prices. in the accumulation
of some goods because Of the backward
Spring season, and in the financial pres
sure that has resulted partly from tho
serious congestion in transportation, which
is aggravated by the harbor trouble
a. New York City.
contributing cruises have appeared in
the narrowing Of the disproportion be-
tween merchandise exports and imports,
with rosales here Of some commodities
previously taken for foreign shipment,
and the curtailment Of manufacturing
from strikes and other drawbacks has
operated 10 diminish the public purchas-
ing power.
with such phases present, and with
bank loans less easy 10 negotiate and
credits subject to closer scrutiny, the
policy Of many buyers il more than
ever one Of limiting commitments TO
Immediate requirements, and Of defer
ring future engagements as far as pos
sible, in tho expectation that the price
declines will he extended"
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CLAIM WOOD ON bTH BALLOT.
Generals Managers Predict Lowdcn
Will Then be His Only Opponent. :

Chicago, ILL.,, May 22,-Whilc claims
are made by his managers AS to the num-
Der of votes General Leonard Wood will
get on the final ballot for the Presidential
nomination at the Republican National
Convention, they made the fat-footed
prediction today that he would be nominat-
ed on the fifth ballot, with more than the
493 votes required for 81 choice.
They say, however, Wood and Gov
ernor Lowden will be the two candidates
of thirteen or more whose names will be
presented to the convention on the first
ballot who will fight it out TO the finish.
In this their claims and those of the
Lowden men are the same, with the names
reversed. Lowden managers are privately
saying that Wood is the man they have
to beat, while the Wood supporters de-
clare the Illinois governor is the rival they
fear most. Neither give Senator johnson
or Herbert Hoover a chance after the first
two or three ballots.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-05-22
MANUFACTURERS To GO
BACK into POLITICS
Will Press Virtues of the Platform
for American Industries Before
Both Conventions.

New York, Nav 22.-The National
Association of Manufacturers is going
back into politics. This time 1t is to
exert its influence on parties and not on
candidates. To this end, j. Philip Bird,
general manager of the association,
has announced conventions will be
held in Chicago and in San Francisco
simultaneously with the Republican and
Democratic conventions for the purpose
of impressng upon them the virtues of
the Platform for American Industry,
which was adopted Tuesday last at the
annual meeting Of the manufacturers
IF American business has not the
right" said Mr. Bird, ITO say what it
thinks ought to be done in matters which
are the concern of every citizen we want
to find il out This thing is going to be
done in the open There is going 10 be
no slipping around and knocking on doors
and saying, Please, Mr.. Platform
Maker, here is something we think ought
to be considered by you, and then have
them say TO US this is all right for business
but not for politics whatever the hell
that may mean
I'VE have adopted our platform, and
what we propose 10 do now IS TO see what
the two great parties have TO say about il.
In Chicago we will open our convention
on the day the Republicans open theirs,
and we will continue in session until they
are through their work We will meet
if We have to put up tent or charter a
boat and 20 out on the lake In San
Francisco we will do the same thing, and
believe that no one will fail TO know that
we are there and understand what we are
doing
The purpose of the conventions. it
was SAID, is not 70 barter with the Re
publicans and Democrats. They can
take the manufacturers platform or
leave il as they choose.
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GOUG|NG OF PUBLIC
TAKEN UP BY SENATE
Income Tax Polls May be In
spected; Hoarding Now Be-
lievcd Checked.

Washington, May 22.-The Senate will
demand to see who has been prohteering
in necessaries and luxuries. Republican
Leader Lodge promised Senator Harris
Dem, Ga) Yesterday that his resolution
calling on the treasury for corporation
income and excess profit tax returns would
be taken up for action at once, and fnrther
declared that with certain amendments
he saw no reason why it should not pass
Senator Lodges promise of immediate
action followed Senator Harris's demand
that his resolution be taken from tho
finance committee, which had been
considering it for six months.
Attacks upon profiteers were also de-
livered in the House, Representative
King (Rep., ILL.,, introducing measure
to prohibit renewal of loans or redis-
counting of commodity notes, by Federal
Reserve Banks. Mr.. King declared such
action would prevent boarding and would
force present boarded stocks upon the
market.
Gov. Harding Of the Federal Reserve
Board thinks that the drop in prices
throughout the country came as result
of restriction of credit, and it will keep
up until the country is back upon a sound
basis. BY confining loans to essential
industries, and properly protecting non
essential enterprises, the banks of the
country can stop speculation and elini-
nate the boarding profitcer. That is what
is going on now.
"The condition resulting from the
lowering of prices is a healthy one,
said Gov. Harding yesterday. eve real
ize that the credit position is extended
and very considerably extended. From
April /, 1919. to April /, 1920, the ex-
pansion of bank credit was about 25 per
cent During the same time there has
been an advance in commodity prices of
about % per cent. This has been ac-
complished by decrease in production
of essential articles"
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-05-22
SUFFRAGE GOES OVER TO
JUNE IN LOUISIANA

Baton Rouge, La, May q Whether
Louisiana will be the thirty-sixth State
70 ratify the Federal suffrage amend
ment will not be established until early
in June
With no committees appointed in
either branch Of the General Assembly and
disposition shown 10 let suffrage take its
regular course before the committees, it
was agreed yesterday that it viii he at
least two weeks before vote can be
taken.
The end of the second week of the
Legislature finds a hull in suffrage Eff
forts of State Rights suffragist to draw
ratihcationists into JOINT debate ON
the suffrage subject again failed when
Mrs. Lydia w. Holmes, chairman Of
the ratification campaign, announced
that she would not accept the invitation
Of the House of Representatives to APP
pear before the House Tuesday after
noon in JOINT debate.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-05-22
WOULD REPOPULATE FAR S.
Michigan Organization Starts Campaign
10 Put Surplus Labor AT Work.

Traverse City. Mich. May - The
Western Michigan Development Bureau,
semi-offcial organization. launched a
campaign Yesterday 70 bring into pro-
duction a part of Michigan $4,000
abandoned farms In cooperation with
real estate firms and employment agen-
cies the plan calls for recruiting surplus
labor III industrial centres and placing
these men on fully equipped farms,
many Of which are il the truck and
fruit-growing sections Of the Lower
Peninsula.
The action was taken partly a. the
result Of q report last week Of the United
States Bureau Of Crop Estimates, which
placed idle acreage In this State az ,66s,-
900 There were 10, 600 vacant farmhouses
and IS, ,232 idle farms, 10000 OF which had
been abandoned this year owing 70 the
increasing cost Of operation and the high
wages being paid in industries, according
10 the report.
b. r Hendel Of Manistee, Secretary
OF the bureau, will direct the movement
10 repopulate the farms
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-05-22
MAJOR HUNT Is SILENT
ON BERGDOLL'S MISSION

New York, May 22.-Grover Cleve-
land Bergdoll, convicted draft evader,
who escaped yesterday from two nom
commissioned officers in Philadelphia,
was sent there ''to sign confidential in
structions," Major Henry ]. Hunt, com
manding the Fort Jay disciplinary bar
racks, In which Bergdoll was serving q
hve-vear term, announced last night.
HE left here under guard of two
non-commissionedo officers Thursday morn :
ing" Major Hunt said. philadelphia
was not his objective, but he had to stop
there TO sign certain confidential instruc-
tons, which | am not permitted to make
public al this time"
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-05-22
WILL II. HAYS PLEASE NOTE.
What Befell Circus Elephant for Getting
Gay With 4 Mule.

Kane. Pa, May % During a circus
parade here yesterday one of the eie.
phants. as if to relieve the monotony. flung
fls trunk in the mir and brought it down
with a resounding thuTnp on d mule at
tie curb quietly watching the sights
Although hltched 10 a delivery wagon
the mule wheeled about. touk arm, and
kicked tVice His hoofs caught the ele-
phant squaretr On the knees. The elephant
stopped for a instant but sought no
further interchanges with the mule and
finished the parade with deeided limp.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-05-22
DU PoNT BUYS ANOTHER HOTEL.
Gets the Woodstock With Entire Block
in Times Square Section.

New York, May 22.-The Woodstock
Hotel and adjacent Brownstone dwellings
on West Forty-third street yesterday
we're purchased by the Hotel Claridge
Company, representing the Boofner-du
Pont Hotel interests Acquisition Of the
property gives the new owners control
Of the entire block between Fortv-third
street and Forty-fourth street on Broad
way and extending 100 feet back on
Forty-third street The purchase price
was not made public
The company plans in tear down the
Brownstone dwellings and put up a new
structure on their site, connecting the
Woodstock with the enlarged Clardge
Hotel and making one immense hosiery,
the largest IN the Times Square section.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-05-22
$3.50 TO S5 FOR WHEAT
CANADA PREDICTION

Ottawa, Ont, May 22.-Canadian
wheat will sell this year at between 50. SO
and IS bushel, according TO DR. Robert
Magill, representing delegation of
dealers on the Winnipeg Grain Exchange
DIR. Magin pointed out that, in view of
the inability of Russia, Roumania, India
and Australia to export wheat this year,
and with the United States having
less excess wheat for export, the Cana
dians probably would get q record high
6gure for their crop.
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s12. 900 A WEEK FOR HOUSE.
Visitors to Chicago Convention up Against
the Profiteers.

Chicago, May 22.-That Republican
delegates and convention visitors who
cannot obtain accommodations in hotels
are up against profiteers is best known
to L. W. Henley, secretary Of the Con-
vention Committee.
One man with a fourteen-room house,
near Lincoln Park, has offered his house
for one week for $4,000 Others offer
to sacrifice rooms and apartments at
rates ranging from $1,000 to $1,000 q
week.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-05-22
IL FAT WOMEN SLENDERER.
Chicago Health Officers Class Loses
Average of 81 Pounds.

Chicago, May 22.-Seventeen women
in Health Commissioner John Dill Robert
sons reduction class closed a month
experiment yesterday with an average
loss of 1917 pounds.
Mrs. Susie Jones, 45-year-old house
wife, who weighed in on April 22 at
224 pounds, tipped the scale at a mere
20O12 leading the class with her net
loss of 2312 pounds. Other members
showed losses of IS, 16, 1512, II and 10,
ranging down to 2 pounds
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THOMPSON'S BODY FOUND.
Aviator Drowned in the Delaware River
on November "a.

The body Of Fred Thompson, naval
aircraft Inspector, who was drowned as
the result Of an accident while fying over
the Delaware river, November "a, last,
has been recovered IN the marshes near
Penn Grove. y J. Thompson was flying
with Lieutenant Robert Stocker, naval
pilot.
Stocker body was found several months
ago Thompson 3 home was at Dover, Me,
where his body is being forwarded by the
Navy Department
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-05-22
HAIRCuTS 81 WITH FREE SHAVE.
New York BARRIERS Raise Price and Dis
courage Home Work.

New York, May 22.-The much talked
OF dollar haircut has arrived Max H.
Hoke, who keeps barber shop in West
2Ist street, introduced the new price
yesterday.
But, while single hair trim costs
this much, 10 discourage the practice
of shaving at home you can get hair
cut with q shave for the same price
A shave at this shop is 40 cents and hair
cut is 90, providing you want them both
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-05-22
WOMEN FOR ARMY TRAINING.

Danville, Va, May ~ Among the
resolutions which were adopted BY the
Virginia Federation of Women's Clubs
was one indorsing universal military train
ing for all Americans between the ages Of
iS and II four months IN the year and SIX
months for unnaturalized residents They
also instructed their delegates to the con
vention of the General Federation Of
Women's Clubs, which meets in Des
MONIES next month TO fight against the
inclusion into membership of celored
women.
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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-11-15
School DAYS in China.

Our teacher. who had n face as
stern as that of magistrate and a
character as gentle as that of IL sage.
had great knowledge OF books but
very little practical sense. He al
WAYS had a pair Of big horn spec
tacles. not to aid his sight. but to
add TO the dignity OF his venerable
prerogative. He sat gravely on a
STRAIGHTFORWARD chair by a big square
table. with his right elbow resting on
the table. In the right hand he held
a tobacco pipe. and in the left, a
bunch OF reedAicks. He would call
us to recite our lessons thrice a day,
and would give US lash OF reed
sticks whenever we forgot a SEN
tence. And he would swing one Of
his feet over his knee and waggle it
necessarily during the whole recital.
he liked to make us study hard
While he enjoyed being lazy. In the
afternoon. after he had given us
some characters to write or trace, he
would so to his room adjoining the
school and take nap, and we would
DO all kinds of tricks to disturb him
When we heard him snoring, we
would catch u fly and take off it's
wings, and one of us would sneak
into his room quietly and put the fly
on his face. 1t would run around
and make him itch. This was a most
successful trick. We never got
caught. for we brought book along,
and II he woke up before we could
get away, then We pretended to ask
about lessons.-Moon Kwan, in Asia
Magazine.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-11-15
Cattle.
Chicago Live Stock.

Chicago, NOV. 10,
Cattle-Reccipts $4,000: market un-
evenly lower on practically all kinds:
few early sales; good yearlinss and
choice long fed cattle steady. quail
~ average lower: bulk native steers
$50 TO 1850: some choice long fed
steers sold at 17.e0: few prime held
higher: butcher cows mostly 800 10
7.75: Gamers largely $50 to as:
bulk stockers and feeders 25 to 90
cents lower: bulk bologna bulls SOC
tc SIS: calves steady TO lower; re-
ceipts include 1000 westerns and Ca
nadians.
Hogs-Receipts $4,000; market OPP
ening - to % cents higher: later 10
to Is cents higher: top early 1928,
practical top 1913; bulk Of sales 1880
to 1910: pigs % to 80 cents higher:
bulk desirable 100 to 100 ID. hogs
1915 to, 1900.
Sheep-Receipts $1,000; fat lambs
Is to % cents lower: choice fed west
ern lambs 1850. bulk natives 1850 to
l2.4o; fat sheep slow. weak, choice
light ewes 5.7a; bulk natives 800 to
$50: feeders steady; top feeder
lambs 1900.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-11-15
TO PREVENT BLoCkADEs.
Government Will Keep Some Roads
Clear of Snow,

For two or three months each
winter the northern state highways
have been impa ssable. Or nearly So
by drifted snow. and the hundreds of
millions of dollars invested in them
bring no return to the taxpayers
during the time the roads can not
he used. With n view to remedying
this condition. the bureau of public
roads OF the department OF agricul-
turc has been making this summer
a study Of the situation with re-
gard to snow removal in the states
east of the Mississippi and north of
the Potomac. An engineer of tho
bureau has conferred with the high
way commissioners In the states in
this territory, and reports that def
mite plans have been made In New
Jersey Pennsylvania. Michigan, In
diana. and Illinois which will result
IN the main trunk lines being kept
open all winter. In some states
notably In Ohio. snow removal Is tho
duty of the counties. and while the
state highway department Is prepar
ed TO assist the counties in every
way and is urging the necessity Of
the work. It is not empowered to In
itiate the work.
In some states snow fences will be
placed for the winter fifty feet from
the highway. to stop tho snow be-
fore Il reaches the road. These
fences" which arc made of Stats.
are tipped backward until they form
u decided angle and then are hraccd
like hillhoards. In the spring the sec
tons are unbolted from the stakes
and stored by the state highway
comroissic.cr until winter. This type
OF fence has been used by many rail-
roads In the past during the months
Of snow and has proved very effec-
tive as snow guard to the roadhed.
In other localities snow p'ows,
either horse or motor drawn viii
keep the state highways clear One
OF tho most efficient type Of high
way snow ,plow has broad blade,
which removes the snow, attached to
the front of n motor truck. 4 second
truck chained TO the first pulls
while the first pushes the blade.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-11-15

CossackS, goodiy number of drums
were strung along back of the grue-
some path of the fleeing Frenchmen.
In the rear guard, which was COM
manded by the gallant Marshal Ney,
was shipper drummer boy of about
II years. rhe constant lighting and
burden of keeping the human wolves
off the rear of the army WAS terrific.
and only the inspired drumming of
the boy and his childish Long Live
France!" saved them from succumb-
ing time after time.
During the brave stand or when
Ney halted his men and turned back
upon their tormenters. young France
would sound the charge with such
a SCATTERING roll of enthusiasm that
the grenadiers wadcd back thru the
SHOWS and scattered the Cossacks
like chaff. Turning to flee to the
refuge of the main body, some stall
wart would throw the boy astride Of
his shoulders and bear him off the
field
From this point of vantage the
drummer would beat the retreat and
shout back street gamin epithets at
the Russians. When they came to a
river he was not at n loss for cross
Ing. Simply mounting his drum and
padding, he went across in comfort.
French archives are full of such
heroism, and the drummer boys be
came the most popular and fetcd
members of the French army, barr
ing, of course the Marshals
Our civil war too saw the drum
mcr boy. but he was passing even
then. Toward the last of the con
flict he had begun to go out. The
bugle did the business better, and so
the boy heroes had to go.
Men who have marched and
charged to the cheering music OF
brass bands and to the silver notes Of
the bugle say that nothing can touch
for inspiration the old time drum
They say that when the rhythm, the
: volume and the thrill Of the rafting
drum once permeated the blood Of
tho old soldiers they were practically
invincible and that with such martial
incentive to insure them they would
walk straight into the mouths of
guns.--New York Herald.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-11-15
Probate Notice.

Office Of the clerk of the district
court, state of Iowa, Marshall county,
ss. District court. October term, A. d.
1920.
To whom 1t may concern:
You and each Of you are hereby
notified to appear at the courthouse
in M9rshalltown, Iowa, in said county,
at 8 o'clock q. M. on the 10th day of
December, 1920. to attend the proof
of and probating an instrument in
writing purporting to be the last will
and testament Of Ethel B. Switzer
late Of Marshall county, Iowa, de-
ceased, at which time and place you
Will appear and show cause. if any,
why said will should not be admitted
to probate.
In testimony whereof, have here
to subscribed my name and affixed
the seal OF tho district court, this 18th
day Of November. A. D. 1920. G. w.
Gilbert, clerk Of the district court,
by Lewis D. Wick, deputy.
rSeal.1
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-11-15
Chinese PoIiteness.

A Chinese author sent a manuscript
to a locN editor, who returned it with
this firm but polite note of refusal:
We, have read the manuscript with
Infinite delight. BY the sacred ashes
of our ancestors we swear that we
have never before reveled in SO thrill
ing masterpiece. If we printed it
we should henceforth be obliged to
take 1t as a model, as a standard Of
quality and achievement, and hence
forth never print anything inferior
to it.
AS it would be impossible to find
it's equal In 10000 years, and we hive
to go to press with our poor, unin-
spired paper once day. we are com
PEELED, tho shaken with sorrow and
blinded with tears at the necessity,
to return thy divine manuscript, and
for doing SO we ask a thousand par
dons."
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-11-15
Passinoiof the Drummer Boy.

The drums and drummer boys, who
for so many campaigns were the OBJ
jects Of much sentiment, are gone.
Where not so many years ago the
rafting snare drums sounded the re-
treat and the charges. now the bugle,
with it's more penetrating and COM
manding voice, rules. the field. AS
battles became larger and wider in
their scope it was found that drums
could not be heard above the roar
Of the battle to any distance, and
consequently they were given up.
The little drummer boy was the
most touching figure In the wars in
which he took part. Chosen for his
diminutive stature, he frequently was
of tender years. and always in the
fiction of war he was pictured as a
sweet faced cherub, wounded ter
ribly. beating the charge to the last
While this aspect of the appeal to
sentiment became so common as to
appear ridiculous. it originally sprans
from true premise. The little
drummer boys, almost without ex-
ception, were brave little fellows
Many gallant youth did give his
| life and many a heroic deed was per-
formed by the little salamanders.
They We're the favorites of the men
| and the pets of the regiment; moth
| ing was too good for them, and on
wet or cold nights they never suf-
! fered for warmth. If they sank tc
sleep unblanketed some powerful
| trooper was sure to spread over them
| his own covering.
| The most thrilling tales of the little
| drummcrs come from Napoleon's
campaigns.
Oh the retreat from Russia. when
/ grown men died by the hundreds
| from the ravages of the cold and the