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The Washington times., 1920-08-03


1t is a well-known rule, accepted
by Walker d. Kinds, former director
general OF railroads, that to add b
cents to a freight rate means an ad-
dition OF 25 cents to the cost of the
article of every day consumption
which must move by freight. Under
this rule, therefore, to add 81 $50 0OO,-
00o to transportation charges means
an increase of $1,000, 100000 in the
cost of goods transported. AS
it would not be accurate to add
the whole of the passenger fare in
crease in this sum, an allowance Will
be made for that.
With such an allowance, the per
capita cost of the increase would be
very close to s73 per year.
COSTS EACH FAMILY 81.
Statsticians are agreed that the
average family consists of five per-
sons, wherefore the average cost to
each family amounts to 1886 per year,
or 81 per day. All of the passenger
fare increase may not properly be
subtracted, however, as the increased
fares which travelling statesmen and
those working on expense account
for the producers of various com
modities must pay, will, of course, be
added to final selling prices as part
of the cost of production. For this
reason it will be seen that the cal
culation is not extreme, but is con-
servativc.
American business is built in
such a way that to increase the cost
of anything at the bottom means a
greatly magnifed increase at the top.
Here is the way it works in railroad
rates, so that an original scent cost
becomes a 25-cent cost:
A wool grower shears his sheep and
ships his wool to market. The buyer
in the primary market must pay
enough for that wool to cover the
cost Of the freight shipment. He then
sells to a wooden mill. II he paid 40
cents a pound for the wool and an adj
ditional amount in freight on the first
lap of the wool's journey he adds
what he thinks fair percentage Cor
perhaps something more), not just to
the amount he paid for the wool, but
to the amount paid for wool and
freight. Thus he makes the percent
age Of profit on the money he had tied
up in the freight rate.
When the wooden mill has spun the
goods up into cloth and sold IL, 1t
adds percentage of profit to the base
cost and the freight rate. Here. then,
we have profit figured on two freight
rates, compounded. The jobber or
wholesaler sells to a broker, the brok-
er to n retailer and each figures his
profit in the same way, constantly
compounding the ever-increasing item
OF freight charges. In many move
ments of wool there will be more rail-
road journeys than those just out
lined. for various brokers and dealers
and jobbers keep wool wandering over
the country in raw, partially finished
or finished condition Just as Mary kept
her little lamb wandering about.
COSTS ALWAYS ADDING.
Wool is just an example. Many
commodities go through many more
stages before reaching the consumer,
who finally has to pay for the whole
thing. Take coal. 1t is sold at the
mine. shipped, made into coke, the
coke used in steel mill, steel made
into bars for reinforcing concrete and
that sold, through dealers, to an ulti-
mate consumer who Is building ga
rage.
1t would take a skilled calculator
The Washington times., 1920-08-03
King of Movie Comedy Not
Home in Two Months, Says
Mildred Harris,

LOS ANGELES, Aug. mildred
Harris Chaplin yesterday filed suit
here for divorce from Charlie Chap
lin. She alleged cruelty.
Charlie Chaplin and Mildred Harris
were married at Los Angeles October
%, 1918, and announcement of the
event was made November Q, 1918.
1t had been kept a secret at the re-
quest of the bridegroom.
Mrs. Chaplin recently announced
she was thinking of suing for
divorce, saying her husband had not
been home in two months. When
questioned regarding his wife's state
ment, the comedian said: well, such
Is life in the great West"
After their marriage Chaplin and
his bride settled down in a Los
Angeles bungalow and lived together
for more than year. Then domestic
difficulties arose. Their family af-
for the prosperous motion picture
colony of Los Angeles.
Last March, when it was first re-
ported Miss Harris would institute
divorce proceedings. Chaplin is said
to have declared he would file a
counter suit.
Charlie Chaplin is ranked as one OF
the "big three" of motion picture
dom, the others being Mary Pickford
and her husband, Douglas Fairbanks.
He is one of the greatest money
makers in the film business. and was
the first screen actor to realize the
dramatic value of the custard pie.
His films have been shown in all
parts of the world
Before her marriage to the coined
ian Miss Harris was star in her
own right. She was brought forth
in number OF pictures by the
Universal Film Manufacturing Com
pany.
The Washington times., 1920-08-03
TIGERS" PAPER URGES
FRENCH OCCUPY RUHR

PARIS, Aug. 3--Former Premier
Clcmenceau's newspaper "L'Homme
Libre' today urged France to occupy
the Ruhr district (the chief coal
fields OF Prussia)- unless Germany
withdraws the Reichswchr from the
east Prussian frontier at Allenstein
at Allenstein without permission from
the allies, the German government
claiming the movement was ncces-
sary to protect east Prussia from
Russian invasion.
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SLKEN-MASKED BODY OF
WOMAN WASHED ASHORE
Corpse Cast Up by Sea Near Cliff
House Clad in Finest
Lingerie.

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 3.-Clad in
underclothes OF finest silk, over
which an overcost was worn, and
with the head entirely covered with
a black mask made from a silk stock
ing, the body OF a woman was washed
ashore yesterday near the Clin
House.
Footprints in tho sand indicate
that the woman waded into the water
few hours before the body was
found.
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RAILROAD RAISES
co in EFFECT
AUCUST2O

II Is announced by Alfred r.
Thorn. general counsel for the
Association Of Railroad Execu-
tives, that the new schedule of
passenger rates will be put In
effect August 20 and the in
creased tariff on freight on
August IS.
The arrangement by which
Pullman charges nre Increased
and the higher rates charged on
excess baggage and milk will go
in force on August 20.
The Washington times., 1920-08-03

with a lot Of Mr.. Burroughs adding
and multiplying equipment to keep up
with the accumulating freight charges,
as a percentage of profit has been fig
ured on every lap in the movement by
freight. which resulted in bringing
out the piece of steel. Iron ore had
to be moved to the blast furnace,
foundry and to the forge, crucible
material and various other things to
CONTINUED on Page Is, Column 1.)
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POLES AND RUSSIANS
BOTH CLAIM SUCCESS

LONDON, Aug. 3.-Violent fighting
was still in progress between the
Poles and Russians northeast and
southeast of Warsaw today, with
both sides claiming success.
The Polish war office claimed the
Russian drive on Warsaw from the
north had begun to weaken, while
the Soviet war office at Moscow re-
ported the Poles were in retreat south
The Washington times., 1920-08-03
U.S.. Ownership Looms
FPubHc Finds Burden
OfIncreases Too Much
By HOMER JOSEPH DODGE.

More than 81 per day has been added to the cost OF
living of every American family by the increase in freight
and passenger rates granted by the Interstate Commerce
Commission to the railroads of the United States.
Figures compiled by tAs RnsAu of Railway Economics
which is maintained by the er estimate that the rate
increase will mean the collection Of 81 100000 in
transportation charges each year while traffic is at It's
The Washington times., 1920-08-03
by HARRY l.. ROGERS,
International News service.

DAYTON, Ohio, Aug. 3.--Mrs. Cox
wife of Gov. James NJ. Cox. Demo
cratic Presidential nominee, is going
into the movies.
She will not, however, be a competi
tor OF Mary Pickford. or other stars OF
filmdom. In fact, she will not be a
movie actress at all, but, nevertheless
she is entering the motion picture
game
Today professional camera man
gave Mrs. Cox her first lesson In the
operation of moving picture camera
1t was a regular, honest-to- goodness
movie camera, of the type used In
many studios throughout the United
States, and is now the property OF
Mrs. Cox
Mrs. Edward y. Mclean, wife OF the
publisher OF the Washington Post and
the Cincinnati Inquirer gave II to Mrs
Cox not long ago when she and the
governor were visiting in Cincinnati
Mrs. Mclean In an amateur photog
rapher OF note, and Is said to have
possessed at one time or another al
most every sort OF camera in exist
ance.
WILL FEATURE ANNE.
Mrs. Cox plans to make n number
OF pictures showing scenes at Trails
End, the Cox country place near Day
ton. Anne, her eight-months-oid
ls to be the leading lady"
In most OF them.
Governor Cox will spend the
The Washington times., 1920-08-03

WEATHER

Fair weather sad mod
crate Temperature ,onisht
Aad tomorrOw. Tess-
perature st b o'clock oI
degrees.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1920-04-20
CHAPTER III.
CRNAGORA'S GATE

In the narrow street of gayly paint
ed houses, overarched by cobalt-blue
sky, the two automobiles faced each
other, The chauffuer of the car. de-
scending called out volubly, signify
ing by gestures his demand that the
other MISUNDERSTANDING from
the blockade. There seemed no i'm
mediate likelihood of the demand be-
ing met, and a group of grave, state-
.ly Montenegrins formed to watch the
novel dispute. Automobiles are rare
near Antivari, except for those of-the
royal household: to- which neither of
these two belonged.
The girl on the wharf looked on
with no less amusement than the ma
tives, in spite of her owl doubtful
situation. The driver OF the second
car was 4 S%ervian, as unintelligble ito
her as to the American driver, and
the outcome promised interest. But
|Dupert cut short the argument, lean
ing back in his seat.
IT a%in'tSable to hope you'll UNDER.
stand what we call language in New
York; he observed composedly. "'But
I get you, all right! Go around,
yourself"
The blockade promised to endure.
but at this -juncture a oma leaned
from the door of. the Limousine a
handsome oma not fine of feature,
but highly colored and artificial as a
milliner's figurinc-and clothed like
one. f l&
Continued in tomorrow
Evenings Herald.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1920-04-20
AN AGE OF PAPER.

Some still regard civilization as in
the iron age. Others believe that we
have achieved a separate, distinct era
under the shaping influence of coal.
The present season of shortage raises
the question whether we should not
do we'll to look upon ours as the age
OF paper.
Without paper the ancients did
very we'll, even At a stage when iron
had become indispensable to them.
With but a small supply of paper
made from waste linen and cotton,
eked out with parchments from the
backs of sheep. men managed until
well after the product of the coal
mines had set railroads and facto-
ries in their way Of development
Nowadays we find it hard to under.
stand how the men of even 100 year.
g did up parcels and kindled fires
to say nothing of. getting the daily
news.
Paper has become the common con.
tainer, whether of good or informa-
ton. The requirement has outruu
the supply to such an extent that nc.
cording to present report an Ohio
firm has taken to the desperate ex.
pedient Of manufacturing paper on,
Of domestic refuse. In Esthonia
where doubtless novel and progress.
i've ideas abound, they have ~resorted
to pulling the paper money. Boil.
shevik fand other. which has lately
constituted the chief product of East.
ern Europe.
Reckless issue of paper none,
and, other forms Of sheer waste in the
consumption of SO deficient and al
important a commodity ought to be
discouraged. Waste paper ought
moreover, to be retrieved, so war a.
possible. for a return to the pull
mill. Until the discovery OF an eco,
nomical process. of making pape,
from the fiber Of decidious plants. tn,
decreased supply Of pulpwood ma,
otherwise cause the public real ant
various privations.
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dRam}@|E
Folks :
zp
E29azH6nez1
GENEROUS LIFE.

| have known the green trees and,
the Skies overhead
h blossoms OF spring and the
fragrance they shed:
nave known the blue sea,~and the
mountains afar s
And the song OF the pines and the
light Of a star
And should I pass now, I could say
with a smile
That my pilgrimage here has been
much worth my while.
I have known the warm .handclasp
of friends who were true
l have shared in their pleasures and
wept with them, too;
I have heard the gay laughter which
sweeps away ARE
And none OF the comEades I've made
could / spare;
And should this be ali could say
That life is worth while just such
friendships TO know. Il
I have builded al home where we've
loved and been glad,
4 have known fhes rich joy Of d gfri
] and . lad;
i have had their catexses through
81 storm and through shine.
watched them grow lovely and
Claimed them as mine:
And / think assI hold them II night
on my Knee
That lie has been g~lorio1sly geners
u ito me-,
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1920-04-20
4 ~6EMoCRATIC ARMY.

The New York SUI suggests edi-
torially. that the government organ
izc ten military schools. similar to
West Point for the purpose OF train
ing prospective officers for the United
States army, and a similar number
of schools to provide naval officers.
The idea of the Sun is probably i'm
practicable, but the theory is funda-
mentally sound. II we are to have
a truly democratic army there must
he an equalization of opportunity for
rising to its higher ranks.
In the army there cannot and
should not, be equality between Of
ficers and men, out there can, and
should be an equal opportunity for
all to become officers. This ideal
was almost, but not quite, realized
during the recent war in the later Of
ficers' training camps in which the
greater part of the personnel came
from the ranks.
For what inequalities existed the
army was not responsible. They
were due to the inequalities in the
amount and quality of the education
which had been received by the men
before they entered the service. War
today is a highly technical science,
and it is impossible for a man to
acquire sufficient knowledge of tbs
fundamentals of military art to be-
come e a moderately competent
officer in the least technical branch
of the science without at least a fair
education.
II the government then would re-
guire all men who wish to adopt a
military career to enter the ranks at
an carly age. give them all an edu-
cation corresponding roughly to the
last two years of high school, and
Then select those who showed tho
greatest ability for further training
with a Wow to appointment as Off.
,"rs We should have something more
.sear.y approximating pure democ-
9,n:e.
.tis would he brought about in
- ".a::.;, 1t. would give every mar
nc;iiti an equal part as seems pos
..u. aIi@cr III" present conditions,
Il ia wgHla compel every prospec-
,c officer to put in a period OF
isicc in tho ranks I,cforc he at.
5g ned his commission.
Thai the latter requirement. means
:nufh nearly every man who served
in. t,1r recent war will agree. If would
give the officer a knowledge anG
sympathetic understanding of the
needs and feelings of the men ir
the ranks which is now sometimes
lacking, and toy the lack of which
is due much of class ill feeling
which is too often manifest, both ir
the ranks of the army itself and ir
civil life where the army is con
cerned. 50
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1920-04-20
\ NEW LAW SCHOOL.

The state board of administration
has begun its conferences with the
heads of the various state educational
institutions with a view to preparing
a budget for the next biennial period.
At this time therefore il seems
proper to point out what has been
Of the crying needs of the state
university for some time past. name
ly a new aw school business ade-
quate to take care of the needs of
the institution.
For many years the law depart
ment of the state university was
housed in the two top floors of a
downtown office bnildins. Then
when the war reduced the number
Of students in the department it was
transferred to the university cam
3sgpus, and at present we understand
that the classes are scattered among
number of the buildings on the
university campus.
In the past there have been other
needs at the university which have
been felt to be more pressing than
this one, and this fact, coupled with
the need of economy in expenditures
has prevented the erection of a suit
able building. 1t would now seem,
however, that the time has come
when attention should be given TO
this matter and a suitable building
ereeted.2on the university campus.
The law college has always been
sone Of the most important depart
sn,ants of the university. Its stand.
xariss have been high, and it has re-
$i:ciyed due recognition throughout
fiies country. Without doubt economy
is needed in making Sthe financial
@plans for the university but surely
would be false economy to allow
Stite present handicap t one OF the
ntdst fHHportant departments Of the
{atess leading edn~cational institution
MHfo eOntinuc.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1920-04-20

along, Will add m important incre-
nasnt 70 the totai, Nv large holdovsr
from 1914 will still further increase
the Available supply. 1t would take
9 crop 4aamity. therefore. to bring
the next wheat harvest below the
point Of sufficiency. ".
The outlook forfother staple food
stuffs depends perhaps. even more
than in,the case % wheat on economic
factors. The winter wheat acreage,
it has been notea, attained a sufftci-
ent total to provide an average crop
with tolerably good growth. and the
fall IN It's prospective yield results
from theS harm done the plant in a
severe winter. The economic TROUBLES
have affected 1t only in a secondary
degree. Corn and live stock are likely
to feelstmore severely the Influences.
that retard pro%duction-in N. general.
They, like the lines of industrial pro
duction. may suffer from lack of raw
material, lack OF hands and the I'M
certainties of transportation, finance
and like contributory activities.
One of the chief raw materials of
meat production is corn. Foremost
among the raw materials that go Into
the production Of corn, in turn. stand
fertilizers For several years the
farmers have had to get along WITH
out the German supply of one of the
trinity OF fertilizer chemicals, potash.
1T remains most doubtful whether
they have obtained any better supply
Of potash for this years soil prepare
ton than in five years preceding.
Both Germany and France, the latter
through the recovery of her lost prov
inces, have potash from
which to ship, but neither has pro-
crossed far enough toward.>normar-
ity to effect the shipments that might
be desired.
Shortage of potash initiates against
a heavy corn-crop. So does the high
cost of other fertilizer elements. The
difficulties and delays attendant on
freight shipments make the supply
still less dependable. Help on the
farms does not seem to have grown
any more abundant or any better in
quality thar it was a year ago.. An
Impoverished soil and the high cost
of crop raising will work to limit the
corn crop to the more productive
acreage. Such limitation will oper-
ate to reduce the total bushels of
corn. LESS corn in turn must mean
less of the corn derivatives, beef and
pork.
For h benefit of themselves and
of the whole country the farmers
must stand on their guard against
the tendency to suppose that the rails
ing of all foodstuffs this year is likely
to be overdone or Improbable.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1920-04-20

-..,,d he faithful; because peltght
woula W conid a for faith. Michael
Warren vou no question . trusting.
there "s s;n,se,f, rupert of kwer New
s"tha automobile race-track,
aork =" rorowned for caustic Tongue
t ~ nncertain temper, was astidi21s-
anu ~ IN honor to the point OF IDelng
~ y darn. Since Michael could NOT
cnmc to her, suppose sheSwents'o 3, ~
chael? 10 idea i q IN
reality and life. After all, eanGe .sne
,ncant to give all her ilIe y lsaas
Balsic, why should she n9Lsso . ...a I
brayely and frankly WY sn ny -
she risk losing SO H1ucn ~ af"'s ~
co TSsna %aa telephone in the,
ROOM: Delight went to fhe in nstfs
mcnt. arn MI
,rouded with, hotels that catch Stthe
An,erican eve. At the first hazard
sha fomnd the house where Rupert
was STAYING. Or rather, had been
~ am desolated to inform madame
hat he left an hour ago, the girl
was told
much longer" she eNciall.eu'
MADAME. he awaited the
Ing NJ his automobile, which was ex-
, nect ed to require until tomorrow.
But it was brought to him this AFTER
noon. by a miracle of achievement
,%whereupon he left at nee"
Can you tell me wherex
route to. Italy. 1 believe, to Bari"
Reluctantly she hung up the =
ceiver and turned away. But her1de-
termination was fixed. aroused by the
contradiction. She would try y the
! other means. first. She would engage
her aunt and uncle to remain on the
IContinent until Michael was able~to
ioin- them. II they refused, she
would overtake Rupert by train and
claim his protection to Montenegro.
Once there, Michael would send ms
|Deople to meet her and take her to
his house. She would telegraph her
Coming to him.
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MademoiselIe being out, madame

49, rWs.g...f+T. -H.. s#.s -.|.r. -H"
Mademoiselle being out, madame re-
IT,"
IA telegram for me?"
ssy medemoiselie.. o,,
Deiisnt hurried upstairs nerNous's
Inpatient. X
W., "kfIen me- ner nlece' p.us
envetoPe. ~ nand. Sne was a iarse,
anllaDle woman with the PINK nues
Sotn - Much n1asSase anu iulAish.
1patninF useo 70 Keep lei welsh.
ml.nin the lin1lts oy rash.
W, ~ uec,aenta pr1lo,spe :, VA va
oou.lsn.ai o1ncial: the, t1oloer ol 'he
uir1.e ., bcautiul Forms.
~ aear, ! tnouEnt oesI 70 OPP"
- ~. W. ~ eApla,neu. ~ ~ pe' -
81; .nucn 1st.er 10 pe prepared lor
49, oht;s Isppo hans !. anu NY =
49, 49,. ,In ;no .'ways YEA IN miiI III Ia =,
T Ds,i1hts .t - Efo oM,ts , .Gr Inc me D chif-
DelisnI n.ooa qulte sIil'. ing GILL
lom .tluII sl'pping from ner I'm.
Micnaei-. ~ artlculatea
h.A 10 1ro.' l..eutensnt balslc. ~
nashn nau .nc n,slortuMe 10 oreak n;s 10
ahNle. HIS morse zen with nlm' IL
R,t =, aUn see: ~ Is no.nans serious
Iu. ., course II the mar
81
~. ~ 50
some waan. ~ ~ .a.nol .aasei ,Ur
soine weeks. and you know our
t u'''e e, mast De PACK IN New YORK oS
.ns "i'oentn
Inere was a furtive relief mingled
with her agitation, which the girl
was acute not to translate. Mrs.
warren hailed any circumstance that
aeferred her niece's> wedding with the
distrusted foreigner.
Delight automatically picked up
me 1aiien hear Of ~rose-coloredl chif-
Ton not looking at her aunt. It
seemedft her that all day she had
peen travelling toward this moment.
sne saw quite clearly the conse-
auences she would be taken home
fto America, since her uncle's pres
ence was required there and a-youne
e,rl could not remaiR- in France
alone; once IN New York, there
Would pc the old battle to recon-
mence the tricks Of chahce to reck-
jill WllH dnQ Inc sO1nlC1lIfV m 1rh a al
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1920-04-20

Last Meek's xoSernmentr report on
llacaAL6fxi eonditioi, o. winter wheat
sSHtiTe auestion of the outlook FOR
Mn pfS4nGtion 81 foodstuffs as !
AsS1fsAghAst in5itself need cause no
skencsfn. with regard to the
M supply IA proposed. II
~ plantink mainfasns ~
+ eae1ition Il shouid yjeld
T EaSAndSust isssthAn Ire half-
81 alSll4lesyHhAe recent syeara
lI1l & Nd nsrIaai.
Nhetss hsns4 A ZONES
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1920-04-20
CHAPTER III

THE CONVENT OF DELIUHT.5
Delight Warren stopped Ia fh4]
pleasant krench SUNSHINE, laughing
vent garden. and the. nun oppostte
sclasped the pair Of shearn with which
she = been cutting roses befors the