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AN
ADVOCATEOF
BUDGETPLAN
Mr.. Townsend Decries
"Feudalism" of Many
Wide-POwer Com
missions
ANTAGONIST RATHER
THAN COOPERATION
ipeeIal o The EvenIng Journal.

Special TO The Evening Journal.
HARRISBURG, Pa, Dec. 2-Gover-
nor John G.. Townsend. Jr.. OF Della
ware, addressed the annual conference
OF Governors Of the various states In
the Pennsylvania State Capitol. at
noon today.
"The Budget System in Public
Finances" was his subject, he being
an ardent advocate OF the budget sys-
tenn for State revenues and eXpendi-
lures.
NO system OF government can be
efficient unless 10 is directed by men
who are efficient" asserted Governor
Townsend, in urging efficiency In the
preparation OF the budget before its
submission and in expenditures under
it after it is adopted.
lie decried the latler-day creation
Of many commissions or bureaus by
most OF the States, which have dis
sipated administration responsibility.
Conferring on these commissions OF
extraordinary powers in some states,
has brought about a condition OF
State feudalism in which each COM
mission Is lord OF all IL surveys" Gov
ernOr Townsend asserted
Governor Townsend showed fh3t
these commissions In the variOus
States competing for appropriations
regardless Of each other, have tended
20 break down an efficient admins
tration Of State finances.
In his own state OF Delaware. Gov
ernor Townsend pointed out 20 dif-
ferent departments. bureaus, boards,
commissions and other administrative
agencies asked for and received ap-
propriations from the last Legisla-
lure, while Maryland had 100 OF such
agencies.
Governor Townsend in his speech
said:
"Tke wisdom Of the budget sys-
tenn in public finances is no longer
q debatable question. II is now ad-
mitted that in the administration of
Continued on Page NlneJ
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NAME DELEGATES TO
WATERWAY CONGRESS

Delegates 10 the sixteenth annual
convention OF the National Rivers and
Harbors Congress. which Will be held
In Washington, December 10 ~,
were announced today by the vii
mingiOn Chamber or Commeroc.
Mayor William G. Taylor viii head
the party, members Of which Will De
as follows: II. =. Brown, Henry II.
Bush. r. W. Backus, William n. Budi,
Walter Brinton, Major j. Danforln
Bush. William G.. Corey, Colonel
Alexis I. dupont, George A. Elliott, &.
ID Garretson, C. stuart Lee, former
Governor Charles r. Miller, q. y,
Purdy, w. r. Sellers, 5. X. smith, C.
W. sutton, Captain .horac Wilson, A
d. Warner, Jr., president OF the Cham
Der OF Commerce.
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tors OF all churches, asking that they
set aside next Sunday, December 3, as
tuberculosis Sunday" The letter
follows:
I'm connection with the tuberculosis
On risimas seal this year, We plan TO
continue the big educational cam
paign begun last year, and we are anx-
lous TO have what has always been
given us before, the assistance OF The
churches.
aside as Tuberculosis Sunday II
you have already made ARRANGEMENTS
for that Sunday, December ~ might
be used We would be deeply Obliged
II you would take up this great sub
ioct Of helping the SEX and put 10 on
CONTINUED on Page rwo.l
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MANUFACTURERS TAX

The ordinance imposing license
taxes on manufacturing concerns 10
Wilmington will be presented TO City
Council at its regular session tonight
and passed on FIRST and second read
ing A public hearing then will be
called.
40 the me.tlg Of Council in COM
briefly considered. 10 was decided TO
incorporate a provision similar 10 that
in previous license tax ordinances re-
quiring payment only for the prin-
cipal line OF business carried on in
any one place.
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MISTAKE SENDS HIM TO JAIL.

When 10 developed that the man
is now living with his wife and chill
dren and is properly providing for
them. the nOn-support order against
Joshua Laster, Negro, was revoked by
Judge Hastings, in Municipal Court
ihis morning. Joshua, however, was
sentenced TO be imprisoned for forty
eight hours for contempt Of court, in
being S25i in arrears on the order
against him.
ne was providing for his family, II
was not necessary 10 make payments
on ihc order through The non-support
office. as required.
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ROB TRAIN
OF MAIL AND ESCAPE

CHATTANOOGA. Tenn, Dec. p
UNITED Press -Four masked bandits
held up and robbed passenger train
No. on ihe Southern Railway at
Oneida, Tenn. early today, according
10 reports received here. The men
scaped The NAL and express cars
were looted The amour. OF loss was
not stated IN. lrst reports. The pos
Office at Oneida was also robbed, pre-
sumably by the same band.
Officers with bloOdhOunds have
been sent from here TO take up the
trail OF the robbers.
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people, that they
may see the neces-
sity for preventing
tuberculosis b y
buying Christmas
Seals and health
bonds during the
sale now under
way, the Delaware
Anti - tuberculosis
Society Is sending
lntforg IN fhn nae-
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eunINFRs PLAN PTLCRWACE.

Between 500 and GOO Delaware
Shrlners will go 10 Philadelphia on
Saturday TO participate IN the cleo
ton OF Lu Lu Temple. Most Of them
will be WilmingtOnians.
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SMILE AWHILE

WASHINGTON - Walter Cruso'
editor OF a church festival maya
xine, could call up spirits IN
church. Judqe Harrison ruled, but
when he extracied NOR man ~,
~ and shadow boxed on J. street
the Judge fined him for dr"nAe"
ness.
NFV ORLE ANS-Score another
..;at for Henry. A iitney collided
i,';sh n;sh Street ear, knocking the car
~ fbe track and iniuring two pas
senocrs. Jitney and chauffeur, un-
scratched.
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SUN AND TIDE.
LOST AND POUND

L OST-SAfALL WALLET CONTAIN
IL ing sum OF money. Reward n re-
turned 10 So ratnall St. nov30-3t
CONTINUED on Page Twelve.)
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ArnnkEn EnACIUREs ANIH.E.

AS tho result OF a TAI az Tue plant
of Inc Eastern Mall able Iron Com
many Yesterday afternoon, John
Schwcriicr. T0i King street, suffered
badly spralncd ankle. lie was re-
moved 10 The Homeopathic Hospital
In the police ambulance.
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To ONERHAuL sTEAMsHIP.

The steamship Chariot. which hail
from Newark. n. j., arrived at On
Harlan plant today for general over
hauling In the drydock.
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WANT Church in
HEALTH fight
Anti-Tuberculosis Society
Asks Pastors to Aid Cause
Next Sunday
CHRISTMAS SEAL
SALE GAINS EARLY

To have the lessons OF better health
i'm Delaware conveyed to the church
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TnnAYis IEMpEnATIlRE

At The Evening Journal Omce.
500 A. M.....i3 1900 p. MI
1000 A. MIS- 100 p. Mi
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A cheap. heallhrul rood. Clover
Dairy safe Mix. Phone i5i0.-Adv.
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s25 worth o. Records free Afford
Plano Co.. 2i0 W. 9,d St,-Adv.
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FIVE PERISH In
N. Y. APARTMENT FIRE

NEW YORK, Dec. 2.--tUnited Press)
Five lives were lost today in a flre
which swept through a Flfty-seventh
street apartment house. Flames leap
ed from cellar TO roof through an air
shaft, trapping the victims.
Police said the dead were. Mrs Bos-
well Reed, opera singer; Miss Mar
iorie Lescomb. actress; Or. r. NJ. Pot
ter. Mrs. Jennie Jenkins and one un-
Identified.
Glover Dairy Safe MIX makes robust
children. phone f5fO-Adv.
Evening journal., 1920-12-02
THE WEATHER

Fair tonight and Friday: colder to-
night, diminishing west and north
west winds.
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Gisss,sti9H 7ss's4%ss 1926
Non-Returnable
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1920-02-06
SCANDAL ATTENDS
DRAWING WhISKEY
FROM WAREHOUSES;
INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE


WASHINGTON, Feb. 5-Enormous
Withdrawals of whiskey from bonded
warehouses BY alleged "havoring eX-
tract" and hair tonic" manufacturers
upon such a scale that il may reach
the proportions of scandal. has led
TO a probe by Prohibition Commission
err Crane as TO the validity Of thous-
ands Of permits already granted by the
bureau.
The outcome OF the investigation
probably will be the revocation Of
large numbers of permit sissued by var
ious collectors to embryo establish
ments that have sprung up since ma,-
ional prohibition went into effect Some
of these establishments. with lurid sign
and stationery have been able 10 put
one over" on the enforcement officers
BY various methods OF evasions Most
OF the places being probed are said to
be factories in name only AMI exist
only a means through which the
prohibited alcohol can be secured.
Discovery OF rings" or bootleggers
in New York Cit, Philadelphia. Pitts
burgh. Chicago. Baltimore St Louis.
Cincinnati and a score Of other cities
or smaller sizes developed we'll organ
lied plots to obtain liquor by fraudu-
lent means. In scores OF cases onw
being investigated ii is probable that
ufacturers" as guarantee Of good
faith will be automatically forfeited
Making OF false affidavits is covered
by other penalties. including impris-
onment.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1920-02-06

take any interest in the local affairs.
The fact of il is the fabric of which
he map Of the United states Of America
is composed Of is so interviewer with
the warp of the old countries of Europe
that every attempt to interest those who
have charge Of our local affairs in any
thing that is beneficial has resulted in
fall and kick.
Soon after congress declared war
suggested to the postmaster that the
East Chicago Chamber of Commerce
start library for the boys in the army
and navy. this to be voluntary Sits ali
over the United States of money books.
etc
About a week after he informed me
that the boys did not need any thing to
read, to let them alone-a policy thai
was adhered to more or less in the post
office department and in our essential
industries as well. Chicago mas the
honor that this town might have had
It is history now as to what was hand
cd me for the part 1 played in getting
that treaty through that placed those
international slackers in the United
States army in 1918. And when 1 can
receive such letters as this from leaders
of our country: I wish sincerely to
thank you for the detail in which YOU
have written upon the very important
matters now so prominently occupying
the attention of the world and assure
you of my appreciation" why should
bow my knee in reverence to those who
are stealing. opening and holding UP my
mail ever since this nation entered that
war?
Yours truly,
OLNEY J. HUBBARD. $
East Chicago
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1920-02-06

Editor Times:
Mr.. F. L. Evans Of the East Chica 90
Chamber of Commerce wants to know
Why some people who seem TO take a
deep interest in the national and inter-
national affairs OF our country do not
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1920-02-06
I'm Motherhood

Fort Wayne, Ind.:-'B Being a 'Prescrip-
ton baby myself and hearing DR.. Pierce's
Favorite Prescription so highly recon-
mended by my mother decided to take it.
My health was splendid all during the time
and my suffering lasted less than an hour
and half My baby WAS IA ID. boy.
healthy and good natured as could be. He
Is now two wears old and has never known a
sick day My own health has greatly i'm
proved and l certainly appreciate the fact
that I owe a great deal 70 DR.. Pieroe's
Favorite Prescription. MRS. NORA
BARNES, 1921 Van Buren, St
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1920-02-06
Catarrh Is Real Enemy and
REQUIRES Vigorous Treatment

Throw these makeshItt remedies
TO the winds. and get on the right
treatment Get bottle of s. S s
today. and commence a treatment
that has been praised by sufferers
for nearly half a century.
s s s gets right at the source
Of CatArrh and gives satisfactory
results For special medical ad-
vice free regarding your own case.
address Medical Director, 81 Swift
laboratory, Atlanta. Ga.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1920-02-06
NEGLECTING THAT
COLD OR COUGH?
Why, when DIR. Kings New
Discovery so promptly
checks it

IT'S natural you don't want to be
careless and let that old cold or
cough drag on or that new at
tack develop seriously. Not when
YOU can get such a proved success
full remedy as DR.. Kings New Dis
covery.
Cold, cough. grippe, Group does
not resist this standard rellever
very long. Its quality is as high
today as 1t always has been-and
it's been growing steadily In popu-
larity for more than fifty years.
60c. and $1.20 bottle at all drug
gists. Give it a trial.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1920-02-06

They just won't let you put pep"
into your work or play. Sick head
ache comes from retaining waste
matter and impurities in the body.
Feel right for anXthlnq-make
the liver lively, the bowels function
regularly, with DR.. Kings New Life
Pills. Smoothly yet positively they
produce results that cleanse the
system and make the liver and
bowels respond to the demands of
a strong, healthy body. Still 25c.-
at all druggists. Try them tonight
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1920-02-06
When Nervous

Indianapolis, Ind. when I was very
nervous and had severe feminine trouble,
tried many remedies but did not get help.
retired physician of Decatur. Ill. recon-
mended DR.. Pierces Favorite Prescription.
/ used it and got the help needed and
finally I became relieved and cured. It
cured me 10 stay cured. MRS. W. M.
WOESSNER. 500 Grove ST.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1920-02-06

When you use moderated sprays,
atc1nixers and doucheS for pour
CatarTh, you may succeed IN TN
stoppSzx the choaed-up air pass
ages for the time being. but this
annoying condition returns, and
you have 10 DO the SANG thing
over and over again
Ca4arrh has never yet beer
cured By these local applications,
Have Won ever experienced any
real be1edt FROM such treatment:
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1920-02-06

proved % be Just what needed as have
never had any more womanly trouble. and
they also cured me OF the breadng-out On
my body. / cannot say enough IN praise of
DR.. Pierce's medicines since they did so
much for me"-MRS. GEO. FLENNER-
lO7 Coruna ST.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1920-02-06

1 DtCdIlb WEAK huQ
nervous, In fact, all
rundown in health.
In addition to this I
had a breaking-out all
over my body. l could
mot get anything that
did me any good until
my mother began CIV
ing NE DR.. Pierce's
Favorite Prescription
and his Golden Med
ical Discovery. They
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1920-02-06

Better call up The Times and
have it sent to your house every
night. Then you'll be sure it will
be there.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1920-02-06

Daintlness and simplicity are the domi
ant features that are emphasized in thii
delightful ncgligte Of crepe de Chine shown
q No. $3.50 1t is quite different from
most negligees. as it slips over the head
with the front and back In one piece. an,
does away with the very annoying front
losing that usually refuses TO stay closed
Separate pieces are set-iu at each sidf
to form the inverted plat. Ruffles o.
self material or lace are very dainty
The ladys and Miss oue-piece neglige'
No $500 is cut in sizes 16 years and 30
40 and A inches bust measure. Size -
requires 3ss yards 36-inch material, with
~ yards plating Tri"-
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1920-02-06
What a Well
Indiana Woman Says

Elkhart. Ind. When I was a girl Just
coming into womanhood suffered greatly.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1920-02-06

Advertise in The Times and ad
vertise again. Results come with
constant effort.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-10-14

like big base drum, only faster,
as though ne had been running 4
race. l believe he's nervous. l do
believe he is. Now stand up until
l tap you all over and find out
where the bad nerve is" And he
tried to stand Markie on his feet.
But Markie was stuck fast, the
chewing gum he had sat on holding
on to him like a cement sidewalk
sticks to the ground.
"Why I do believe he's paralyzed
surer said DR.. Mink giving him
quite pull.
"Ouch!' yelled Markie for every
hair was hurting like seventy, came
over his face. 81 think l have
found the trouble" he announced
learnedly. ''It's a strange diseas
called ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS But
1 think I can save his life if every
body does as | direct"
Copyright, 1920.)
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-10-14
THE DEUCE.

THE DEUCE.
The world again will be submerged in deuge
Life again will be destroyed
And a Noah will starth things going again
This straight from Karl Brandler- Bracht German
author of the book entitled The Deuge 1t Will Come Again
However, you need be hurry about building an ark
giving last 1t will happen
year 5000.
1t will take about that long for Germany pay debts
The reducing reduced Corsets are cheaper
There's hardly time tor the voters gete xctd
The New Yorker who divorced by his
eeds evening function evidently thought clothes
"soup-or hshial"
This is to notify the candy makers that sugar cheap
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-10-14
ofaBrida
(CoP.r1gH 1920 By The Neuspa Enterprise Asooaaoo

full waste of woman's best emotions.
She can't take any love simply, can't
accept it naturally, as her mother
did"
you've omitted one type of new
woman from your count, Chrys."
Name it.
''The so-called 'vamp, / replied.
Never saw one," Chrys scoffed.
81 have. Our neighbour l said
bitterly.
"Of course. l forgot about Kath-
erine-she'd be good example if
she had any brains. But she doesn't
care about any man-she can't love,
l mean. She's vanity and egotism
and she merely wants man to say
to her, Pretty! Prettyp"
Exactly She's perfectly I'M
scrupulousW | raved. without
judgment or generosity"
Jane Lorimer, what's the matter
with you? Is it possible that you're
jealous of an inferior creature like
=" Chrys paused. "That doesn't
sound very nice, does it? My dear,
| see why you've been moping late
ly. It's perfectly absurdp'
"She's destructivew l walled. "Be-
yond any woman l ever saw! And
Bob" | stopped suddenly. | had
never discussed my domestic diff
culties with my sister-in-law. But
that morning my hurt was deep and
l ragged:
"When a woman accuses a man
of disloyalty, he flies into tenn
per, if he is guilty. But if he is
not guilty, he kisses her and calls
her a little sillyl Well, Chrys, Bob
doesn't call me silly any more"
Ito Be Continued.)
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ADVENTURES
or THE TWINS
b. Olive Roberts Bsrtoa7
DR.. MINK IN VESTIGATES.

nR MINK looked at Markie Musk
- rats tongue when the little
chap said he couldn't go up front
and recite his piece. Mr.. Scribble
Scratch, the fairyman schoolmaster,
had told him to, you know, because
the five school board gentlemen, Mr.
Owl, Judge Crow, and all the 9TH
ers were visiting the Meadow Grove
school
Markie had long red tongue and
Mink looked it all over very care
fully. ''It looks very Clean" he
nodded wisely "extra clean, as
though he'd brushed it with a tooth
brush"
Markie blushed to the tip of his
nose, for he knew why his tongue
was clean. But when DR.. Mink saw
him blushing, he said hastily
"Why, / believe the child has a
fever! He's so redr' And he stuck
a great thermometer into Markie's
mouth.
After a few minutes he took il
out. mo, he hasn't any fever at
ALL" he exclaimed. ellis tempera
ture is only hundred and twenty
five. Now, little boy, let me fee
your pulse" So Markie stuck out
a paw which DR.. Mink took hold of
and then he started to count on his
watch.
my goodnessp he cried after Z
few seconds. "His heart is beating
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-10-14
THE BOOK OF DEBORAH.
Is Bob Guilty of Any Act of Disloy-
atty to Jane?


The poor girl is finding out a
god deal about the high cost of low
ing" said Chrys, when | told her
how bravely Deborah Burns had
turned away from her great tempta-
ton
at isn't as if Deb were a little
saint like you, Jane. You manage
somehow to keep up with all the new
philosophers, without getting a bit
upsetw
so do you, Chrys!"
We're older than Deb. You're
happily married-and L"
You're a feminist" / interrupt
ed. For you, equal right in love,
or no love at ALP | almost STAN
mered, for l had had it on MY ton
CUES end to say that she was an in
corrigible cynic about love.
Between US, we girls represent
the three emotional condition of
the modern woman, | should say"
unused Chrys. 81 myself do not be-
lieve that any human love lasts very
long-except that of the mother for
the child-'
very advanced notion, | suppose,
but OF course don't follow you,
Chrys."
"Few do. Now you, Jane, keep
all the old-fashioned faith in the
love-me-forever theory, in spite of
the revelations you're always get
ting from some new novel. But poor
Deb! What a price SHIT paysl She's
so young-to be simply pushed in
one direction by eroticism-and
then held to the most rigid conven-
lions by-by her bringing up. l sup
pose"
You're wrong there, Chrys. Deb
is stabilized by instincts all women
possess-only some refuse to ust
them"
Maybe. At nay rate, she's only
one of many lovely and loveable
girls who are torn between two opin-
ions today, who are trying to find
some level ground upon which to
build their happiness. l say that
modern love is expensive in its aw-
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-10-14

There's hardly time for the voters to get excitd.