davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
, 1920-09-22

filed by consignees are paid, but in some
Instances il is exceedingly doubtful that
the losses can be ascribed to depreda-
tons aboard ship judging by the condition
Of the packages which bear no signs of
having been tempered with. Some whole
sale theft must be going on in or around
those big packing houses, but however
that ma be, it certainly is discouraging
to take the trouble to import things, wait
months to get them and finally receive
empty boxes.
There is a sugar sale contest in town
it swould appear. Prices are vying
hard between the different groceries and
up to the present as low as II cents is
quoted for raw sugar for which the tood
Commission is still holding in force its
price OF "a cents a pound. The Food
Commission has always been a spectacle
OF criticism, but this sugar business
beats all and makes the Food Commission
lock as it were poking fun at itself. The
, 1920-09-22
Richmond Insane e LepeY AsyJuns.

Complaints are general as to shortages
of merchandise alleged as shipped from
different wholesale houses IN New York.
1t has reached the extent where, to all
accounts, hardly a single box Of goods
is received with contents mt ct and ome
merchants by recent importations report
up to 5000 worth of merchandise missing
from a single case. Of course the S. S.
Company is held responsible and claims
, 1920-09-22
Advertisement.

dds are requested for the following
supplies which are needed in the
administration of Richmond Insane
and T.eper Asylum for the month Of
October 1920. Delivery is to De made
by the merchant.
Bids should be addressed to Inspector,
Richmond Insane Asylum.
All supplies to be of best quality,
Flour SO lbs, Cornmeal 500 lbs; Rice
300 lbs, Oats $50 lbs, Sage 800 lbs;
Beef 400 lbs, Pork $50 lbs, Fish (salt)
224 lbs. Peas 200 lbs, Potatoes 500 lbs,
Lard rs lbs, Cooking butter Is los, Ia
BILE butter 80 lbs, Onions 50 lbs,
Tea Is lbs, Matches 2 gross, Soap 6
cases.
All bids should be received by Septem-
Der Goth, 1920.
C~hristiansted, St. Croix, V. / of u. S.
A., September 21st 1920.
H. =. HANSEN,
Inspector
Richmond Insane e LepeY Asylum,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-04-30

FURNISHED by Is. C. Christopher & Coz
Thicago, April 30.-Tribune: Fears of
financial loss and increasing labor troubles
make cash handlers and SPECTATORS
nervous and create bearish feeling, as in
the past they have checked bullish opera
lions and caused lower prices thru liquida-
ton. At present there is no pressure of the
cash grain to be cared for in a tight
money market eat the markets terminal.
Conditions are against new bullish op-
erations on large scale, but with May
corn, oats and barley congested. and hold
ers showing disposition to SELL the
shorts in May are in precarious position.
Eastern houses bought May oats and sold
July yesterday at Is cents difference.
Number 1 and ? White oats sold in the
sample market here at $1.0912@S1-10. a
new record.
Chicago is the highest barley market in
the country and grain is being attracted
here from all sections. The winter wheat
crop this year will be from $50 to 10000
600 bushels short of the normal pre-war
crop. according to estimates obtained yes
terday.
B. w. Snow estimates the seasonal de-
fcency based on prewar business at
about $50. 600, 900 bushels but says given a
normal supply of spring wheat we can
make our domestic requirements and ex-
port about 200 or 100000.
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HARMONY is G. 0. P. OBJECT

VIII Hays Now Expected To Be
Chairman of Chicago Convention.
Chicago, April 30.-With a view to
harmony, friends of VIII Hays, chair
man of the Republican national COM
mittee. were preparing today to launch
a campaign to have him selected tenn
porary chairman of the national con-
vention here in June, it was learned.
Back OF the movement. according to
the reports, was Victor Rosewater of
Nebraska and Fred Upham, treasurer
of the national committee.
By refraining from discussing policy
in regard to the League of Nations and
from playing favorites among the pres
idential candidates, it was said, Hays
won the confidence of leaders. and a
deadlock over the election of a tenn
porary chairman would probably mean
his election.
Republican headquarters here ad-
mitted today that Hays's name had
been mentioned for the craftsmanship.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-04-30

at the dull opening OF today's stock market.
tomorrow's recess, with its attendant labor
uncertainties impelling further selling.
Crucible steel. minus its stock dividend
was the feature, falling 91s points to 40
Losses of 1 TO 21a points accompanied the
early dealings in American tobacco United
fruit, hide and leather preferred and Chan
dler motor Reading. Southern Pacific,
Baldwin locomotive and several of the oils
showed moderate improvement but United
States steel soon declined a substantial
fraction on renewed pressure.
Pooled stocks continued to be offered
during the morning but standard shares
indicated moderate support an early rally
in oils, steels, equipments and motors ex-
tended from l to points. Rails also i'm
proved on a demand for Reading, Southern
Pacific, Texas and Pacific and Chicago
Northwestern. Much IL not all of this gain
was cancelled before noon, when General
Motors, American Wooden, Corn Products
Industrial alcohol and oils were subjected
to greater pressure. Call money opened at
s per cent. but it was generally expected
that the rate would advance later. Liberty
3IS's at 9240 and first As at $3.50 were al
new low records.
Money became the overshadowing issue
later, call money raising TO II per cent
There had been irregular recoveries in
steel, equipments. motors and oils, but the
market soon lapsed into its previous state
of heaviness, shippings also reacting sharp
"
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JIMMY 0'MALLEY Wins
Boy of s Able Only to Move Heal
and Two Fingers Victor in Army
Essay Contest.

Chicago, April S0.-Jimmie O'Mal-
ley, age 16, able to move only two
fingers and his head because of pa
ralysis, today received the war de-
partment's silver cup for writing the
best essay on what the army has to
offer to young man."
The cup, together with another
from a local bank, a gold watch from
the Fort Sheridan Recall" 800
from the Knights of Columbus, were
presented by Colonel Jackson, a mem
Der of Mai Gen. Leonard Woods staff.
The presentation took place in the
Spa ulding school, where Jimmie and
400 other cripples, most of them like
O'Malley confined TO wheel chairs,
are educated.
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crease in domestic consumption as our
people relaxed from wartime economy
and swung to the other extreme. The
net result is greater shortages of
goods than at the end of the war;
Doctor Anderson declared bank ex-
pansion had been more a passive re-
suit than an active cause of the rising
prices"
Edwin Kemmerer, professor of eco
Monies and finance, Princeton uni
versity. after reviewing the two groups
of causes for initiation the country has
experienced, which he classified as
'non-war causes and war causes" he
said: I'VE won our independence
nearly a century and a half ago in
war financed predominately by paper
money initiation. we maintained the
union a half century ago by a war
financed extensively by paper money
initiation, we have just preserved our
political inheritance by a war fl
nanced in the United States largely by
deposit currency initiation and yet we
nearly all condemn initiation as a most
inequitable method of financing a war.
Treasury Helped Initiation"
THE great difficulty has been and L
fear will continue to be that financing
a war by initiation, with all it's Unjust
ice and with its necessary aftermath of
the less both politically and economi-
cally, during the war itself, the line
of least resistance"
Two mistaken policies in American
war financing are responsible for in
flation, according to DR.. Jacob H.
Hollander. professor of political econ
omy, Johns Hopkins university.
THE first" he said, consisted in is
suing bonds at artificially low interest
rates with the aid of cheap borrowing
facilities at the federal reserve banks
so that bond buyers found it easier to
obtain additional credit from the
banks to pay their bonds rather than
use their savings or such bank deposits
as they already had
The second, and more important
way in which the treasury contributed
to initiation was by continued adher-
ence, even after the armistice, to its
wartime practice of borrowing from
the banks by means of certificates of
Indebtedness"
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WAR FINANCED ON IMITATION
Bankers and Economists in SEES.
sion on ii. c. L.
Prices Won't Drop Until Trade
Balance Is Absorbed.

New York, April 3O.-Bankers. edu-
Gators and economists of the United
States and Europe discussed the facts
and causes of initiation and high
prices and their remedies at the semi
annual meeting of the academy of
political science which opened here
today.
DR.. B. NJ. Anderson, jr., of the Ma
tional Bank of Commerce in New
York, speaking at the forenoon ses-
sion, declared that the shortage of
goods and the attendant speculation
is the prime cause of present high
prices in this country.
when our enormous export bal
ance disappears and when our demo-
cratic markets are called upon to alb
sorb the three or four hundred million
dollars worth of goods per month
which they have not been absorbing,
we shall see lower prices" he de-
clared. The speaker said that in
creased production had been expected
when the five million men withdrawn
from industry for the army and navy
returned, but that it had not come.
Production Dropped in 1919.
an 1919 we produced less by at
least 10 per cent in physical units than
in 1917" he said Coupled with this
decreased production, due to the pro-
longed strain on our industrial sys-
tenn, came a great increase in our ex-
port balance of trade and great in
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-04-30
CONFESSION SAVED THEM.
Two Weeks Reprieve From Electric
Chair Granted by Governor.

Ossining, N. Y, April 30.-Four
men who were to have been electro
cuted last night for the murder of a
ticket agent were granted a two weeks
reprieve by Governor Smith shortly
before they were to enter the electric
chair.
The reprieve was granted on rec
ommendation of Supreme Court JUS
tice Mitchell, who presided at the trial
following a confession made by Joseph
Milano, one of the quartet. in which
he assumed full responsibility for the
crime.
The confession made by Milano will
be used in an application for a new
trial for the other three men.
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MUST PAY BACK MILLION.
Had Been Collecting Taxes From In
dians-Supreme Court Makes Order.

Oklahoma City, April So.-More
than half the counties in the eastern
section of Oklahoma will have to pay
nearly 100000 back taxes to mem
bers of the five civilized Indian tribes
under a recent United States supreme
court decision, according to George
Broadwell, bond dealer, and plaintiff
for the Indians here.
The lands granted Indians were I'M
taxable, by terms of treaties, but after
the passage of the Curtis act in 1906
permitting Indians of less than half
blood to transact their own business
the state decided their property was
taxable.
The taxes were paid by the Indians
in four years, from 1908 thru 1911,
and the matter taken to the courts.
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sECY. WILSON INTO BREEcH.
Deadlocked Two Months Over Hard
Coal Wage Scale Committee Moves.

New York, April 80. = Deadlocked
after almost two months negotiations,
the sub-scale committee of operators
and miners of the anthracite coal in
dustry will leave here today to resume
their sessions in Washington with Sec
rotary of Labor w. B. Wilson.
The removal of the conference
which is attempting to draw a new
wage and working agreement for the
hard coal miners to the office of the
secretary of labor came at the re-
quest of Secretary Wilson.
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WAIT PSYCHOLOGICAL MOMENT

President Wilson Expected to Spring"
Treaty on Senate Again.
Washington, April 30.-Re-submis-
sion of the peace treaty to the senate
is being seriously considered" by
President Wilson, according to well
informed Democrats. They said the
pact is to be sent back at the ''psy-
Geological moment
Three dates have been suggested but
none have been decided on. They are:
When the senate takes up the peace
resolution. When the president re-
turns the resolution with his veto.
Just before congress recesses in June.
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New York Produce Market.

New York, April 30.-BUTTER-Marke
weak. Creamery higher than extras, 6613
@67c.
EGGs-Market irregular. Storage pack
ed, extra firsts, 4715@4Sc.
CHEESE-Market irregular State whole
milk, flats, held specials, white and color
ed. 30G31c.
POULTRY - Alive, steady; dressed,
steady.
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IRISH CONTINUE BATTLES.
Several Hurt in Third Demonstration
at NORWOOD Scrubs Jail.

at NORWOOD Scrubs Jail.
London. April 30.-Several persons
were injured in front of the Worm
wood Scrubs Jail last night when po-
lice dispersed Sim Fem and anti-Sinn
Fein demonstrators.
The Irish sympathizers started their
third protest demonstration against
the governments refusal to free hun
ger striking Sim Feiners, early in the
evening. A few minutes later, the
anti-Irish arrived and the fight was
on.
Clubs and stones were used freely
until mounted police cleared the COM
mons. Several women were among
the injured.
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TODAY'S MARKET REPORTS

Chicago, April 3o-wHEAT-wetw weather
likely to delay farm work led to upturns
in the price Of corn today. Bullish esti-
mates of the winter wheat crop together
with talk of possible return to war bread
tended also to lift the corn market. Open
ing quotations which ranged from Re to &c
higher. with May S1.731A to S174h and
July s1.627s TO $163h, were followed by
something of reaction, but then by a
fresh advance.
subsequently, month end covering on the
part of unlicensed shorts proved more than
an offset for the bearish influence of
stock market weakness, and rushed the
price of May delivery up swiftly at the
last Closing quotations were unsettled. &c
to size net higher. with May SLIT to SITS
and July S1.65 to $1.66.
OATS-oats had an upward slant with
corn. After opening unchanged to 2c
higher. including July at SS14c to SS12c.
the market sagged little and then hard
ened again.
PROVISIONS-Provisio averaged low
err
Chicago Grain and Provision Market.
(The range of prices on grain futures on
Chicago Board of Trade as reported by
Empire Commission Coz
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OUeraLL Drive
Is 100 Per Cent
At He rington

Harrington, Kan, April so. = Rock
Island employees have Joined the over
alls crusade, 100 per cent strong.
From superintendent office force
down to the call boys, everybody is
wearing them. The young women
CLERKS took a united stand in favor
of ginghams, after giving due con-
sideration to "overettes."
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FACE ACUTE WHEAT SHORTAGE
It's Increase Per Man Wanted, Not
Increase Per Acre.

st. Paul, Mimi, April 3O.-Wheat at
SIS or Sc a bushel and bread at 25
cents a loaf is within the bounds of
probabilities, Dean R. w. Thatcher of
the University of Minnesota's agricul-
tural department declared today.
The shortage of farm labor, accord
ing to Thatcher, is responsible for the
threatened condition.
I'VE must increase the production
per man, rather than the production
per acre" he said. while the ma
tions of the world recognize a stand
ard eight hour day, American this year
possibly faces a shortage of three
quarters of billion bushels of wheat.
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WEATHER
Confined from Page One,

Confined from Page One.I
in the United States. The temperature
at Prince Albert, Canada, was rs de-
grees.
Extremes for this date were 90 in
1890 and 81 in 1907. At 3 o'clock
this afternoon the wind was blowing
Il miles an hour from the north.
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Kansas City Grain and Produce Market

Kansas City, April 30.-WHEAT-Cash !:
Market unchanged. No. hard. 2.s7d2 92 !;
No. .. 81. s4G2.91; No. red, S2.S4; No. ,,
$2S3@2S4.
CORN-Market 1c higher. No. 2 mixed.
$17O@171; No. 5, S1.69; No. 2 white, S1.73@
la; No. 8. $1.70@L72; No. yellow, S1.75@
176: No. 3, $175.
OATS-Market lie higher. No. white,
$1071s No. mixed. $1.O5@1.07; No. red,
81. esq LOG.
RYE-S2.05.
KAFIR AND MILO MAIZE-S2.3 asa 245.
HAY-Market unchanged.
SHORTS-$2 90d3.00.
BRAN-S2. 606265.
WHEAT-Receipts Sc cars.
EGGS-Current receipts roc lower per
case, $11.30; firsts. 214c lower, 4Oc.
BUTTER-Market unchanged.
POULTRY-Market unchanged.
POTATOES-Market steady, $1,000 I.75
CORN-Close: May. $1.66k; July,
$162sz September, $1.55iS.
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He Sold $1,000
Check for 500
Arrived in Il. c. Too Late for Bank.
Victim on Time at Cashiers Win
dow, But Too Late to Collect.

Kansas City. Mo-. April 30.-"Here
hold this baby. But, it was check
this time
A merchandise auctioneer." styling
himself ID. B. Ward" hypothecated a
check for $1,000 for $50 with Christie
pher Babbitt of Reindeer, Tex. al
Union station last night.
Ward" had arrived too late to go to
the bank and was to motor to a hotel
with his grips. then return and re-
claim the check
Police said Wards" last victim re-
ceiYed a check for $500 for $50
signed by the same firm of M. NJ
Mumm company"
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Chicago Llyestock Market.

aOOO Beef steers, weak to lower; early
sales, S11 OO613.00; butcher stock. mostly
25c lower, with best dullest; Gamers and
calves, weak; must vealers, $12.5o@ 1925 :;
HOGS-Receipts 1900. Market steady
to 2Oc lower. Lights, declining most: top,
$500: bulk lights. s15. 25@15.5O; bulk $50
pounds and over, $13.s5@14.oo: pigs, lower.
SHEEP-Receipts 5000. Firsts sales.
steady; prime 81 pound shorn lambs, $3.50
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New York Sugar Market

New York April 30.-SUGAR-Raw
firm: centrifugal. 1886: refined, firm; fine
graduated, 17.50@23.O0.
Futures were easier under liquidation
and at midday were to Is points below
the finals of last night
Sugar futures closed steady. Sales. .
$50 tons May, 1890: July, 1915; Septem-
Der, 1925; January, 1910.
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IT'S MOVING DAY FOR CHI.
But They Are Moving Into Storage
Warehouses, Not Homes.

Warehouses, Not Homes.
Chicago, April 3O.-Chicago broke
up housekeeping today. Instead of the
usual May 1 move from one home to
another, tho, the majority of families
stored their furnishings, according to
W. C. Reebie, head of one of Chi
Cages largest storage houses.
The high rentals being charged and
scarcity of residences has caused
thousands of families to store their
goods" Reebie said. People who are
putting furnishings in storage are
moving into furnished flats and no.
tells" he added.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-04-30

II you use Red Cross Ball Blue in
your laundry. you will not be trou
bled by those tiny rust spots. often
caused by inferior bluing. Try it and
Observation-Disclosures.
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st. Louis Bakers Hike Prices.

st. LOUIS BAKERS Hike ErlceS.
st. Louis. April 30.-Lncreases in
the prices of bakery goods, including
bread. of from rs to 100 per cent will
become effective here tomorrow. the
Master Bakers association announced
to-day
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New YORK Libertv Bond Marked.

New York. April 3o.-Prices liberty bonds
IL :45 a. m: 31A's. 92.32; first AS, $3.50
second As, s5.32: first AIS. s5.Ss: second
AIS, S5.32; third AVS. s99S: fourth AIS,
S5.s4; Victory 3s4's, $3.50; Victory 4s4 5,
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St. Louis Dailies Hike Price.

ing and evening st. Louis newspapers
will increase street prices from to 3
cents week days and from to 10 cents
for Sunday editions, they announced
todaV
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Kansas civ Iirestock Market.

Kansas City, April 3o.-HoGs-Re Receipts
2.4OO. Lights and mediums, steady: top,
and mediums. $14.O0@146o; bulk heavies,
$13.506114.00.
steers on sale; southern steers, steady !;
top, s1150; bulk of sales. $10.25@1050:
yearlings, steady TO 25c lower; top, 1915 !;
bulk of sales, 1.50Q 1900; other stock,
steady; top veal, $3.50.
SHEEP-Receipts 1000. Market slow.
Wool lambs, 5000; Texas wethers, I'M
sold
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New York, April ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
tile paper, 6a4@z peh cent. Exchange
weak. Sterlingg. GO day bills 80; COM
mercial, 60 day bills on banks SO; COM
mercial, 90 day bills, 31Sh; demand
3.s3A cables, 3.s4. Francs, demand, 1910;
cables, 1866 Belgian francs demand
1852; cables, 1850. Marks, demand, La
cables, 175. Government bonds, weak
railroad bonds. heavy. Time loans, strong
60 days and 6 months, SIC.
Call money, strong; high, 10; low, s;
ruling rate. S; closing bid IA: offered al
Is; last loan. 10. Bank aeceptances,
per cent.
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New York Cotton Market
New York. April 3O.-COTTON-Spot
quiet; middling, Alps.
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DAILY WEATHER REPORT.

Furnished by the weather bureau Office.
Topeka, Kan, for the twenty -four hours
ending at a. m. Friday.
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New Orleans Cotton Market.
New Orleans, April 30.-COTTON-Spo
quiet and unchanged. Middling, 41.25
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Kansas City Livestock Market.

(The following sales we're made this morn
ing at the Stock Yards. Kansas City and
rect to the State journal by Clay Robin
son & Co., live stock commission mer-
chants.)
Kansas City, April 3o.-CATTLE-Re-
ceipts 1900 head. Market steady.
HOGS-Receipts 2400 head. Market
steady. Bulk of sales, 1375@14.50; top,
$1465.
SHEEP-Receipts 1000 head. Market
steady.
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Kansas City Grain Market.
(The range of prices on grain futures on
Kansas city Board of Trade as reported
by Empire Commission COD
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New York Stock Market.
Wall St, New York, April 30.-STOCKS-
The trend of prices was downward again
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Security

The earnings since organization, after
deducting depreciation, taxes, etc., have
been three times amount of interest re-
quirements of this issue. Net assets over
two times amount of this issue of stock
This stock is preferred as to dividends,
assets and redemption privilege over
common stock.
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Topeka Poultry and EGGS.
FURNISHED by the Topeka Packing Col
Topeka, Kan, April so.
Old ROSTERS, 15c; young ROSTERS, 13c
hens all sizes 2Sc
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CHOICE PACKING STOCK. 10000 %
Cannot use rough unfinished hogs for
packing purposes. Will have to buy At
| stock prices.
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Purpose

Proceeds of this issue will be applied
to add to equipment, warehouse and
storage room at Topeka, Manhattan and
Atchison.