Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-06-20
SUNDAY. JUNE 20, 1920.

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Reduction OF wholesale prices of shoes
by Chicago dealers is an effort to relieve
the consumer which thus far seems boot
( less.
There is every reason to believe that il
few hundred thousand dollars had been
bid for the Republican vice presidential
nomination, it would have been knocked
down to the bidder.
Chicago lost 1865 of its enumerated
population in transmission of the figures
to Washington. Likely the Census De-
partment deducted this number as being
transient convention population.
In view of other wheel Journeys he has
made, and the delivery of bicycle at the
White House, it may be assumed that Mr.
Wilson contemplatcs this method of loco
motion for triumphal tour of the world
after next March d.
measure of strike, Mr.. Gompers did pro-
test against the raise OF salary that the a.
r. OF l.. forced upon him. However, this
is not likely TO serve as n precedent in
future wage adjustments OF organized labor.
Judging from good deal of tho political
talk we see, the only really decent citizens
and Trustworthy friends this country has
left are those citizens who never have in
vested dollar in anything. since the saloons
closed and are consistent in the habit OF
spending more than they earn
That committee OF the women's bureau
OF the Democratic National Committee which
is going TO the San Francisco convention to
try to force into the platform fifteen planks
the women have agreed upon, from the ma
ture OF these panks evidently think they
are going to a Socialist convention
Women in divorce cases before judge
at Springfield, Ohio, appeared clothed in so
little beyond their own &onsciQt,s nnoccncy
as to evoke a stern whining from the bench
that they must get more on or get out
Mayhap they went hoping that, reports to
the contrary, justice really wasn't blind.
after all.
Il Postmaster-G eneral Burleson has dis
8 missed an employee who criticized the adj
ministration Of the department. ii he in
4 tends to exclude from the service all Amer
leans who criticize it, he will have to RELY
& entirely on infants of such tender years and
q limited information as 10 be incapable of
4 conversation.
B Probably there will be no expressed com
plant against the rule of the Y w G. A.
\, that women over thirty are not to be re-
. garded as young, and are not TO live in the
H associations new Rockefeller Hotel. New
] York. Who can claim knowledge of a
woman over thirty who has not a son with
b 1rrepressibe, undcniable and obvious
b whskers?
8# DR.. a. l.. Logan, addressing the Allied
3. Medical Association of America. in conyen-
IL ZION at New York, announced the possi-
b blilty OF the race Of man attaining the age
IA OF 1,ooO years through proper care and
II dieting. He advocated methods of life
similar to those followed 10y Old Testament
characters Impossible. doctor In those
a days they drank strong drink and had mural
II wives. The present age accents the teach.
ings OF the Bible. but with many inter.
f pretative reservations
A third-party ticket never has been af
f1rmatively successful at the pOIls I'm, ms,
|& as the Progrcssiycs defeated MIR. Taft {,
io1Z, inc combination Of radicals and The
b dissatisfied elements may defeat Mr.. Hard
ling IN 1920. There is every indication nov
that on July 10 there will be born an ar
ganization destined. not to party greatness
but to be an aggressive fighting force en-
bodying the popular disgust over the boss
ridden Chicago convention and the boss
dictated platform.
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Mrs. Frederick Tail, chairman Of tho Fl
nance committee OF the Illinois Democrat
|#ssWoman's Committee, having reached III
~ conclusion from her researches that IN
donkey emblem was wished on the Demo
s6cratic party Just after the War Between tn
States. is taking thousands Of little silve
boosters to the San Francisco conventio
r IN an effort to have the rooster substitut
o.