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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-15

worker by system Of long term
loans to acquire an urban plot and
build house upon it. 1t does not
mean subsidizing him, for any at
tempt of a democracy like ours to
subsidize the home builder would be
like attempting to subsidize itself !;
but the government can help by tax,
ing the home builder out of the
hands of the usurer through backing
an institution similar to the farm
loan bank, by making negotiable the
securities of the mutual building and
loan associations, by protecting resi-
Dental communities from industrial
encroachment, by establishing COM
munity centers and by improving
transportation facilities. Under
such system a man could buy his
own home by paying down only a
little mere than when he buys an
automobile.
eff he had to sell he could do so
with little loss-perhaps with a
profit. In short, he would be en-
abled through his earnings to ac-
quire negotiable equity in a dc
sirable home from which he could
travel readily to his work. A deli
mite proportion of the loan made t,
him would be amo, tized each year
and he would not be obliged to i'll
cur the expense of renewals of rirut
and second mortgages, with Incl
dental commissions, bonuses and
title searchings every two or three
years. AS is we'll known, the UNI
certainty and expense of placing
such loans has been one of the great
est deterrents to home ownership.
What is required is legislation that
will permit the rediscounting of real
estate mortgages at a minimum in
terest rate. And this is simply tax
ing the old real estate mortgage and
putting it into package that is
marketable.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-15
Seven Years i'm a Store

II have learned the ropes by &C
tua! experience" said Mrs. Malmo.
II have spent seven years in the
George A. Gray Company store, as
salesgirl and buyer and educational
director. I spent all my spare time
studying and took correspondence
courses on craftsmanship and store
management. When the Duluth
schools organized a practical course
in department store selling they
wanted some one to take care of the
practical work in the stores and to
find places for the graduates. Nj.
Gray suggested my name to them"
"Do you find that the Duluth
stores cooperate?"
"The stores there are all support
ing the school work very heartily.
They not only use our graduates,
but they send their girls and young
men to the classes on company time.
S. S. Kresge Company has d large
store there, and the manager is with
us heart and soul. He sends a large
representation from the store every
day to attend the classes or store
problems"
Mrs. Frederick Phillips has spent
three years in the personnel division
Of the John Wanamaker store in
Philadelphia. Mrs. Charlotte II
Benner is head of the department OF
craftsmanship in Julia Richmond high
school. Miss Mary Levy, of New
York is connected with the Lerner
Waist Shops.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-15
Cure for Unrest

"The moment worker makes up
his mind to turn his savings to the
ultimate acquisition of family abid-
ing place he not only frees himself
from the contagion of social unrest,
but he begins to extricate himself
from one of the most lamentable err
rors Of the present time. This is
the error that the people of the
United States as whole are max
ing to-day-the investment of their
large earningsx in consumable in
stead of in capFal commodities. Be-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-15

homestead laws that made America
what she is? 1t was those laws that
enabled us to win a worldwide rcpu-
tatton as a nation of hustlers. The
first generation of our hustlers were
not born; they were made. They
were born Observation-Disclosures
in Europe. They came over here
from Norway, Germany, Italy,
Greece, from overcrowded London.
They were a strange lot when they
arrived, but they were all going to
get dose of the same medicine, and
it was going to have the same effect
on them all. This sovereign stimu-
lator was called the homestead act.
Parties of immigrants came over
in answer to the urgent call from a
relative or friend who had come be-
FORE" They were stolid individuals
who landed and travelled out to the
home of the one who had sent for
them. Usually they quartered them
selves on this more fortunate person
and began to NOPE about among the
sights. Suddenly something awak-
ened in them something of which
they had never felt but the faintest
STRINGS in all their lives. 1t was
hope. They saw the door through
which the friend or relative had
passed to independence, and, more
to the point, they saw that the same
door was open to them. They moved
on out little further into the will
derness, took up lands Of their own,
struck down their roots, and before
long they. too, were ready to send to
Europe for relatives and friends to
come and behold their prosperity
and the new energy that character
lied their lives-to behold and to re-
peat the process.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-15
w To Be Good Clerk May Now Be Learned at Cole,

writer. One class was on textiles,
with Miss Jane Fales presiding.
Miss Fales passed around samples
of woolens and worsteds. Tho girls
fingered them while Miss Fales
traced the cloth from the back of
the sheep to the back Of a human.
what do you mean by f1eece?"
asked Mrs. Ella S. futile. 81 want
to know about this from the ground
up"
"Mrs. futile has been to China
and Japan and Australia and India
and the Dutch East Indies," some
one whispered. "She has made more
than twenty tours of the Orient"
Gust traveling?"
"No. Her husband was an exporter
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-15
Retailing Is Her Job

Miss Helen A. Cohen is head of
the Research Division of the Ma
tional Garment Retailers. Associa-
ton. 1t is Miss Cohen's business
to know every phase Of retailing.
Il particularly like the angle of
approach at the Training School"
said Miss Cohen. ''It gives a grasp
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-15
By Rufus Steele

a MERICANS went to war to
~ keep the home fires burning.
L "a They go down to the days
work for the same reason.
Back Of most of their efforts, mental
or manual, concentrated or cursory,
is motive having to do with home
welfare and home preservation.
Home, Sweet Home" is the song of
songs in the heart of the American,
native born and adopted. And yet
over against all this is the stub
born and startling fact that the
home is steadily slipping further and
further away from us and that 60
per cent Of the people of the United
States are now tenants, who do not
own the quarters in which they live
This fact is not generally known,
but it is regarded as explaining in Il
measure things that are only too
we'll known. 1t has direct bear
ing, for instance, upon the high cost
of living. The high cost is due to
lack of production. Lack of produc-
ton is due to lack Of proper economic
and moral incentive to work.
Home an Inspiration
1t is estimated that one-third of
the productive energy of the United
States is latent to-day and that all
of this latency is to be found among
workers who are renters and know
not the inspiration Of man-siZed
battle for the upkeep and develop
ment of a home which they own:~-
I'm getting away from home own
ing we are getting away from the
principle on which the United States
rose to greatness" declares Frank
lin T. Miller, land if we are to pre-
sarve our greatness we must take a
direct route back to that principle"
Officially and unotficially Mr.. Mil
Ter, the specialist of the United
States Senate Committee on Recon
struction, has had more reason than
any other man, perhaps, to dig deep
into the home owning situation in
this coSntry and to analyze his find
irgs. -
Here it is in q NUTSHELL" he says. J
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-15

these have made the United States
what it is to-day.
Zone tide of immigration went out
through the Allegheny Pass and set
tied in the most inviting territory of
the South and Southwest. Another
tide, drawn by the Erie Canal, moved
to the North and the Northwest.
But whatever the direction, it was
the opportunity extended to the poor
man to strike his roots into the soil
and build up on a foundation of his
own that drew like a magnet and
that bred an energy and q zeal that
startled most of all the very men
who manifested it. In the home
stead laws, which were in their first
stage in 1841 and which were per.
fected in 1863, the homesteader saw
not the thing that was to throw half
the continent into development and
give it unlimited productive capac-
ity, but his individual opportunity
to lay a hearthstone that should be
not his landlords or his bankers
but his own.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-15

of household goods, and an importer
of embroideries, silks, porcelains
and Oriental art goods of all kinds
When he died Mrs. futile learned
the business from the ground up
and used to travel back and forth
settling his affairs"
When the class was dismissed
Mrs. futile was a little unwilling to
talk about herself at first.
Heard 1t i'm California
"How did | happen to come to
this summer course? They told me
about it at the University of Cali
fornia. want to teach the sales
girls to think. That is the reason
why they change jobs so often. They
don't think. 1t is the thought that
makes for the success or failure
Of ones life. A thought is as tangi-
BILE as-this desk. In fact, the desk
was thought before it could ever
be put together out of wood. If it
had not been a good thought it
could never have become good desk.
THAT is just what I want to do
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-15
MISS FRANCE VI.
1HA WOCHOS of MilaUaukee
and Miss HeLeM A. Cohen

with the salesgirls. 7 want them to
understand themselves and the goods
they are selling. When their
thoughts are right their actions
can't help being right"
The Misses Frances M. Wochos.
Margaret Fitzsimmons and Sophie
Serber were discussing the relative
merits Of Milwaukee, Highland
Park, near Chicago, and New York.
Miss Fitzsimmons is a native of
Milwaukee and is teaching in the
Deerfeld-S Shields High School at
Highland Park. Miss Wochos is a
Milwaukee teacher, and Miss Serber
teaches in the elementary schools of
New York City.
It's according to what you like
said Miss Fitzsimmons "Now, l like
green trees and brooks and flowers.
I like the other things, too, the thea
tiers, art galleries and the gay white
lights. But l can have both | am
in easy distance of Chicago and I
can go in for an evening of city life
every once in while. Chicago has
everything New York has"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-15
Populating the West

"Thus the Dakotas, Minnesota,
Iowa, Nebraska-the West and the
Northwest-were populated. The
immigrants turned waste lands into
bearing farms; they increased the
taxpaying power; they founded fam
lilies and communities; the commune
ties grew into powerful states, and
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-15

ing and small enough so that you
can get out in the country and go to
the lakes for week ends. And, be-
sides, all my friends are in Mil
waukee."
Miss FitZsimmons would like to
be an educational director or buy
er.
"But have already gone pretty
far in teaching. l would have to
begin at the bottom in a department
store,' she said.
~ am going to ruin myself buy
ing after this" said Miss Wochos. 81
know what it is to show customers
one ribbon after another and then
have them say they don't want any
I thing to-day. Next time go into a
store as customer, I'll just buy the
first thing the salesgirl shows me-"
Miss Wochos is behind the ribbon
counter at one Of the leading Man
haitian stores. She spends two days
week getting actual sales expert
ence. All of the girls are getting the
practical side of retailing in this
way.
Miss Serber is interested in the
new continuation schools which will
be started under the Federal Smith
Hughes law.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-15
The Need of Shelter

Coming down to brass tacks,
food, clothing and shelter are the
triple necessities of existence. Shell
ter, usually mentioned last, is the
only stable and lasting element Of
the three, and it is the one that gives
stability to the individual. It's DOS.
session is a reservoir into which
goes his latent energy and from
which he draws his strength.
1T is an adage among old-fash-
Toned people that a mans widow and
children can get along if only he
leaves them home. A family with
out a home is like an army without
a base of operations. The energies
that a home calls forth are reg
lstered in the form of betterments
and improvements. When you see
rocks going into dry wells and ashes
going onto driveways you are watch
ing the development of hope, of Sc
curity and of wealth. You are wit
Messing the building up of the thing
that makes men true patriots-of
the thing for which they will fight to
the last devoted drop of blood.
at was homecoming that gave
the minute men to Lexington and
Concord. 1t was home owning that
kept the truck wagons crowding the
ammunition wagons on the roads
that led up to the French front
that saved France.
CHOW many of us have ESer
stopped to consider that it was the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-15

"The mutual building and loan as
sociations, whose usefulness to pro-
spective home owners will be so
greatly extended by the creation of
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-15
Education for Clerks

81 attended a conference at Os-
wego on the continuation schools.
1t seemed to me that the biggest op-
portunity for service was with the
girls in department stores. There
are more girls in department stores
who have not had high school edu-
cation than in any other field. These
continuation schools will give them
four to eight hours a week after
working hours. They will spend
half the time on cultural subjects,
English, civics and American his
tory, and the other half on practi-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-15
Saved From the Lenders

after couple Of generations, as
it developed, perplexities were to
arise. A series of difficulties, such
as farm mortgages and inadequate
transportation, were to bring their
complications but solution was
found for these in the form of the
farm loan bank, which is proving
second in Importance only to the
homestead act itself. The farm loan
bank provides a system of long term
banking, backed by the government,
which lifts the farmer out of the
clutches of the lenders who would
devour him.
ut is now proposed to aid the dis
tracted citizen of to-day by an ex-
tension of that same benefcent prin-
ciple which was given operation
through the homestead act and the
farm loan bank by the creation
through Federal statutes of home
loan bank. The aim is to enable the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-15

owns the house he lives in as of such
paramount Importance.
"Probably not" replied the con-
struction expert, "but in these times
most of US are learning new truths
and big truths every day. 1t is an
old saying that house has to fall on
some men before they get straight.
| am finding that a house has to fall
on most of us-a house of our own
before we will get as straight as
we ought to be.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-15

craftsmanship at the Training School
for Teachers of Retail Selling. They
are finding out how to sell goods in
order to teach selling themselves.
And they don't limit it to books,
either. They spend part of their
time in the big stores of New York
City getting actual experience. They
are learning to tell how much wool
is in wooden cloth by feeling it and
holdire it to the light. They are
learning to know the selling points
Of all sorts of articles, from a frying
pan to washing machine. They
are getting working knowledge of
the department store as a whole
organization. Above all, they are
watching, step by step. the process
Of learning in themselves, so that
they can train others.
1t was Mrs. Ina Winchell Stacy's
idea to have the course in the sum-
mer as we'll as during the regular
session. Mrs. Stacy's winning per
sonality may have had something
to do with the ready acceptance Of
the idea by the directors last winter
She says it was such a good bunch
that they simply had to follow it.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-15
New York Gets" You

"There is something about New
York that gets you," Miss Serber
insisted. "You may not like New
York at all when you first come here,
and, again, you may just like it in
a mild sort of way. Take it or leave
it, you know. But if you stay here
two years or SO you'll find that you
can't be satisfied anywhere else"
milwaukee is good enough for
me-" Miss Wochos put in. 1T is
large enough to give you city feel
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-15
you can't learn everything
there is to know about a
department store in six

weeks, but you can get
enough ideas to last a lifetime. At
least that is the experience of the
girls attending the new summer
classes in retail selling at New York
University
There are twenty young women
land one young man) in the classes,
and they come from almost as many
states. They are from Texas, Wis
consin, Minnesota, Kansas, Califor-
MIA, Utah, Illinois, Michigan, Con-
necticut and Tennessee.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-15

A MERICANS went to war to
"a keep the home fires burning.
L "a They go down to the days
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-15

MlSS $50 1I1E
as fitting herself
to t each girl
C ! e r KS cultural
subjects, as qOeU
as hOU to be-
come more eH-
cient s lie rs.
FeaO girl CLERKS,
she points out,
h 90 e e 0 e u u
high school edat-
cation
Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1920-02-15
HOSIERY SPECIALS
MEMS PANTS

In Blue Serge. Black. Grays aud Fancies
200 Pants Reduced to.............S BIS
500 Pants Reduced to........,.... SSS
GOO Pants Reduced Denominations. 40
500 Pants Reduced to.............. 6So
1000 Pant, Reduced to............. 105
9. 90 Pant, Reduced to............. 1000
1900 Pant. Reduced ,o............. 100
Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1920-02-15
BELTS
ONE. THIRD OFF ON ALL SWEATERS

NJ the leading color, and styles Mixed
Brown Light and Navy Blue, cold and
Black Jerseys. Button and pull-oyers, one
lot priced At So So.
Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1920-02-15

Single GRIP ......tsc.
Ivory Carriers ....2;r
Double GRIP .....3sc.
Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1920-02-15

wonder At regular this mehan
good Clothes that they depend the lowest
sale is Of a
shoulder Men have confidence Rubnt Togge merchandise and
the t a glad dvan
Of Il
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1920-12-30
AGENTS wANTED:-Gst il

AGENTS WANTED:-Gst into
Watkins 1877 products sell
TO every farmer. II YOU own auto
or team can give bond, write today
for information wehre you can get
territory for selling products Of larg
est institution Of kind in world.
Twenty million users. J. r. Watkins
Company, Dept. Ill, Winona, MINI.
l2-9-4tpd.) )
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1920-12-30
Notice To Creditors

All persons having claims against
the estate Of u. 7. Logan deceased
will please present same 10 Mary NJ.
Logan Adm. Of II. T. Logan property
verified and proven.
Present claims at the store q the
deceased and Anderson Bros.
All persons knowing themselves in
debted to the late II. T. Logan vii,
please come forward and settle sane
Indebtedness promptly.
Dec. 10, 1920.
Mary NJ. Logan, Adm.
Of II. +. Logan deceased.
l2-i6-3t.
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1920-12-30

II gives Us a honey close up" Of
two figures ia the late Presidential
campaign 10 learn that our towns
man. Lewis Hopper has hshed many
a day with Jimmy Cox, and that
Miss Allie Arnold. Of Lancaster and
Colorado Springs has visited the
family Of Governor Coolidge.
The Sunday Supplement Of the
C,u.os-sCuuGi contained story
featuring the work Of the Louisville
artist, Harvey Joiner, who speci-
allies in painting beechwood scenes.
Mr. joiner is first cousin u our
townsman. George W. Smith, Sr.,
who though not a painter, Is lover
with much knowledge Of the green
growing things Of the out-of-doors.
The many friends of MIR. and Mrs.
Burt Bray field will be happy to know
that Mrs. Brayfeld successfully un-
derwent an operation at the Boyle
County Hospital. on leaving the hos
pital. after several days in Lancas-
ter, she proceeded TO Carlisle to join
her littl daughter at the home Of a
sister to complete her recovery. All
will be glad TO welcome this pleas
ant lady among us again.
Mr. Brayheld continues at their
rooms at the home Of Mr.. W. l..
Lawson. on Lexington street.
Miss Carrie Belle Romans, the at
tTactive daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs.
". J. Romans, entertained with a
delightful dinner party Tuesday eve
ming in honor Of Miss Stillwell, Of
Lexington. The beautiful home on
Richmond avenue was decorated
With cel ar. holly. ferns and Christ
mas bells. The table had for IL
center piece q cat glass dish filled
with fruit surrounded with holly.
4 delicious menu was served. Gov
ers were laid for the following
Misses Stiilwell. Christine Sanders.
Mary Davis, Bernice Champ, Mary
Owsley, Carre Belle Romans. Messrs
Amos rarks, Of Alabama. Harry
Rice. Of Richmond. Holbert Basin,
Clayton Morrow. Burton Stapp and
Irvine stapp.
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1920-12-30

Mr. Clay Kaufman is at home
from Covington and Is spending the
holidays with his mother. Mrs. Emma
Kaufman.
Mr. Joe Iaseldcn. MIR. and Mrs.
Irwin Fickeisen. Of Crab Orchard
Springs. have been recent visitors in
Lancaster.
Ar James Pierce came up from
junction City last Saturday and
spent that day and Sunday with hts
home folks.
Mr. and Mr. Ike Dunn and chill
dren. o. Lexington. have been guests
~ Mr and MIR u Gulley. on Rich
mond avenue.
Mr. and Mrs u T. Hughes and
.aug ter Miss Margaret. Of Louis
VILE. are guests u Mr.. and Mrs
] W Miller.
Or Milton Elliott % Danville. tas
been spending few days with his
parents. Dr and Mrs. W McElliott
on Maple avenue.
Rev. and Mrs. Clarence strother
and little son. James Russell are
spending the holidays with his par
ents In Campbellsburg.
Miss Helen Robinson. Mr.. and
Mrs Rober, Henry. who have been
guests o. Mr.. J. c. Robinson. have
returned to Lexington.
Miss Nellie Scott Is proving a valu.
aide assistant in the office Of County
CLERK Bourne. she having assumed
her duties several weeks ago.
Mr. Marshall Scott. ~. Garrard
county farmer, and Miss Bella
Moore. "a. Boyle county were mar
red 10 Danvillc the pas, week
Mrs Carrie Belle Romans will en-
terrain this evening with a dinner
rarity az her home on Richmond
avenue About twelve guests will
be present
Mr. and Mr.. John Brown. Of
Louisville. are spending the luleaide
season with Mrs. Browns parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. J. G.. Burnside ON the
Richmond road.
Master Clay Kaufman Shackel-
ford and little Miss Mary Shackel.
ford. who have been guests of their
grandmother. Mrs. Emma Kaufman
have returned TO Richmond
Mr. j. T.. Dlekerson, Mr.. W. A.
Dickerson. Mr.. X. l.. Brown. Miss
Minnie Brown and Miss Eliza Ison
attended the funeral Of little Alice
Lowry Poore at wilmore Sunday.
Mr.. San Walter. Of Saint Louis.
NO. is visiting his sisters. Misses
Walter. He represents large drug
firm in St Louis and has a large
Western territory which he covers
regularly.