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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-12-16
TARIFFS A RELIEF
FOR GRAIN GROWERS
House Members From Agricultural
States Form Committee to Formu-
late Legislation For Relief of
Farmers-Embargo Proposal and
Price Fixing Legislation Discarded.

Special to Times Republican.
Washington, Dec. 1e.-Menbers of
the house from agricultural states
met today and appointed a commit
tee Of nine members to draft a pro-
gram Of relief for the farmers for
presentation to the house next week.
Congressman Green, Of the Ninth
Iowa district. is the Iowa representa-
tive on the committee. The commit
tee will draft some emergency tariff
regulations which are expected to af-
ford the relief sought by the farm
ers. The proposed embargo of farm
products and price fixing legislation
were dismissed on the theory that
the president would veto any act
covering these features.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-12-16

cables had gone into the possession
Of their English competitors.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-12-16
Senate Committee to Continue Probe
BY ASSOcia ted Press

BY Associated Press.
Washington, Dec. 16.-Continuance
of the senate committee which has
been investigating the building situa-
ton, including housing conditions,
was authorized in a resolution
adopted today by the senate without
dissent. Employment of counsel to
aid the committee also was autho-
rized.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1920-01-01

road through the Island are grow
ing brighter.
Successful farming is accom-
plished by getting ready in the
winter, and going in the spring
and summer.
1t pays to advertise your farm
produce. One man ran ten-word
classified advertisement in five
papers and sold 800 bushel of al
falfa seed, at net profit of 500.
The advertising cost $3.50. Cheap
enough, wasn't it9
Ornamental shrubs and trees
may be planted in Western Wash
mgton during any month of the
year that they are dormant.
Beauty the home.
The Virgin Islands, part of the
West Indies group, formerly un-
der Danish rule, but recently pnr-
chased by the United States OF
America, will be under Prohibi-
ton after January l6, 1920.
Kentucky distillers are consider
ing shipping their whisky stocks
amounting to 100000 gallons
to Cuba. If that is done there
will be a big temptation to at
tempt to smuggle it back into the
United States.
The Mutual Business Club o.
Seattle, at their regular meeting
on Monday, December 90, passed
resolutions to Start the New Yeal
of 1920 in boosting Seattle t,
Eastern manufacturers, looking
iGSae securing of more factorie.
| f6E Seattle. On January 26th tht
Club viii hold a TRAVELLING
Man hight. with the view o
sending the advantages of Seattle
broadcast throughout the coun
Try. The new slogan for the Ciul
VIII be. Boost Seattle. "
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1920-01-01
PASSED AWAY
AFTER BRIEF ILLNESS

Mrs. Carrie NJ. COyne of Rock
Island, Ills, passed away at the
Providence hospital in Seattle on
Friday morning, Dee. II. Funeral
services were held at the Blitze
undertaking parlors On Sunday
afternoon at 230, Rev. Cleveland
Kleihauer of the University Chris
tan church, officiating; also the
ladies of the G. A. r., of which de-
ceased was a Past Department
President. She was also a member
of the Daughters of Veterans and
a Rebekah.
During the service Mr.. and Mrs.
Jay Thatcher sang q solo, Face
to Face, and Asleep in Jesus, -
faverite hymn.
Interment was in Washelli Gem
etery.
Carrie Bywater was born in
Utica, N. Y, Sept. "a, 1851. She
was q daughter of the late Rev.
J. C. Bywater, Baptist minister,
and Sarah Gates Bywater. She
was the widow of Jas. w. Coyne,
Mrs. Coyne arrived from Rock
Island on November 20, and was
taken suddenly sick in the auto
mobile on the way to the home OF
her niece. wife of DR.. G. +. Snyder
She gradually grew worse and
was taken to the hospital, where,
a short time later, she passed
away.
Mrs. Coyne came to the Coast to
make her home, and her sudden
taking away seemed doubly sad
She had planned to make her
home on the Island with her niece
Mrs. j. l.. MastersoD, whom she
had raised from a child, She had
anticipated being very happy ii
her new home, and her passing is
a great shock to the bereaved
family. Mrs. Coyne gave her lif,
in ministerng to others, having
cared for a brother-in-law for tn,
past several years, until he passed
away on Oct. 4th last. Then hei
work seemed done, and she came
to the Island expecting TO enjoy
much-needed rest. But she has
entered into an eternal rest.
Five nieces and a nephew sur
vive: Mrs. J, Lewis Masterson o.
Vashon Island; Mrs. Monroe
Beagles of Mexico, Mo-. Mrs. Gay
Hastings of Maryville, Mo; Mrs
Joseph Brown of Kansas City
Mo-, and Harry Hastings of Oma
ha, Neb.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1920-01-01
FOR RENT

| have decided to rent my we'll
improved farm Of q acres for one
or more years to some reliable
party. Two comfortable dwelling
houses, small greenhouse, chicken
houses, large barn with hay fork,
room for 40 tons of hay and 20
head of stock; A springs, pasture
500 excellent bearing fruit trees,
consisting of apples, pears, prunes
and sour cherries. etc; about one
acre of black and loganberries
49, acres I'd years crop of straw
berries. This is one of the best
money-producing farms on the Is
land. Phone Black al, or call on
II. NJ. Winery. II
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1920-01-01

gathering was held on Sunday as
joint celebration of Christmas
and OF the wedding anniversary
of Mr.. and Mrs. Il. NJ. Jones OF
Vashon. Seventeen answered the
roll call. when the presents were
distributed from an illuminated
Christmas tree which occupied an
alcove in the parlor. Delicious re-
freshments We're served by the
hostess. after which the evening
hours sped all too swiftly with
vocal and instrumental music and
social "reminiscences. This was the
the first time since coming to the
Coast that as many Of the children
had been together, and the oeca-
sion was one to be remembered
Mrs. Jones two great grandchild-
rem we're present, little Alice and
Robert Mollett; two granddaugh.
ters, Mrs. J. V. Mollett and Mrs
Edw. Boekken, and husbands, OF
Tacoma; two daughters, Mrs. L
A. Powell Of Tacoma and Mrs. Jay
F. Wolff Of Minneapolis; foul
sons, w. w. and II. f. Jones Of
Arletta, X. Z. Jones Of Tacoma
and r. NJ. Jones of Vashon; tvs
daughters-in-law, Mrs. II. E.Jone'
and Mrs. r. NJ. Jones, aud aanoth
er granddaughter, Miss Beulaf
Jones of Camp Lewis.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1920-01-01
FoREGATHER IN TACOMA

A family reunion was held at
the home Of Mr.. and Mrs. R. E.
Jones, North Stevens St, Tacoma.
on Sunday, Dec. 2sth, in honor of
our mother, Mrs. 5. L. Jones, of
Arletta. who is now in her S3rd
year. -Four generations were rep
resented. all the children being
present except Tbos. F. Jones and
family. back IN Connecticut. The
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1920-01-01
ISLAND GRANGE

The Yashon Island Grange will
meet at /. O. o. F. hall at Center
ON Monday, Jan. ). r. |. Case
field worker, will be present and
viii take charge of the initiatory
work.
There will also be a meeting ii
the afternoon at the same place
for the benefit of members and
anyone else interested in tbs
Grange Warehouse Company
when Mr.. Case will explain tn,
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1920-01-01

There was a large congregation
at the Christmas service at Christ
Church last Sunday. An inspiring
sermon was preached by NJ. +. A.
Wollaston Of Seattle. A special
musical program was splendidly
rendered by the choir.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1920-01-01

benefits of the warehouse and an
swer any questions concerning
same. Mrs. u. A. Wise,
w. l..
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1920-01-01
Vashon-Maury Islands: The choicest
territory between Seattle and Tacoma.

1920.
Happy New Year to all
Start the new year right by
saving every week.
Have your name on your front
gate so that people will know who
lives on the place.
Prospects for a hard-surfaeed
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-03-11

to 529 mothers. There are now on the
list 35S mothers. But there is wait.
ing list containing the names Of 1lI6
families and no money to help them.
The Council is asked to appropriate
$2T0, ,4S0 for the current year. It is
argued by those asking for the money
that IL would be cheaper in the long run
to make the appropriation than TO pay
what it will cost to care FOR the children
who otherwise will have to be put in
the public institutions. The amount al
lowed by law is $50 month for a
mother with two children and $40 u
month additional for each additional
child.
The city now pays S4.25 week for
the care Of the dependent children in the
institutions that it patronizes. 1t is
asked to give the mothers a maximum of
1915 week, a sum which experience
has shown is large enough to enable the
mothers to keep their families together.
When the child is old enough to con
tribute to its support the payment by
the city will automatically stop.
The finance committee of the Council
has approved an appropriation of Sl2o,
900. Whether the Council thinks this is
all that can be spared remains to be
soon
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-03-11
THE TREATY IN OPERATION

TWO points in the statement of the
l. supreme council on the worlds eco
nomic condition deserve attention on this
side of the ocean.
The first is the recommendation re-
garding disarmament. 1t is recon-
mendcd that armies everywhere be re-
duccd to peace footing limited to the
lowest possible figure compatible with
national security, and that the League
of Nations be invited to consider as soon
possible proposals to bring this about
This is significant because ;t indicates
Il disposition to use the machinery OF
the league and to carry out the provi-
sions of the covenant looking to gradual
reduction of armaments. The league is
in existence already in spite of the delay
of the United States in consenting to
enter it, and it is prepared to function
in Europe. The necessity for reduC-
tion in the expenses Of keeping up big
fighting machine is forcing the nations
to accept the league program whether
they feel like it or not. If they ask the
league to suggest plans for reduction in
armament the chances are that they will
accept the recommendations.
The second point is the declaration
that it is desirable in the interests of all
Of Europe that the total amount that
Germany is to be called upon to pay
should be fixed at the earliest possible
moment. The treaty leaves this amount
indefinite. A sum is fixed in the treaty
as Il preliminary payment. How much
more is to be exaCted will be fixed by a
commission before which the Germans
may state their case. The supreme
council apparently has decided that il
is important that excuse for irritation
in Germany over the uncertainty about
the size of the indemnity should be re-
moved.
The uncertainties in the treaty arc due
to the political cxigencics in the allied
nations. where, while the document was
in negotiation there was n wide demand
that Germany should be made to pay
enormous sums. But the peace com
missioncrs, with knowledge of what was
possible. provided Il way by which the
sums assessed could be adjusted to the
ability of Germany to pay. II is now
admitted that Europe is an economic en- q
tity and that the recovery of Germany
is as important to the rest Of Europe as
the recovery of France, Italy and Great
Britain.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-03-11

efforts to organize on his behalf, ex-
pressing the belief that emo man can
be so arrogant as to assume that he
can dictate the isshes to the American
people or to the great parties they
support"
This is not the language of super
cilious nonpartisanship. II is rather
an appeal to the American people to
employ with frankness and vigor those
agencies in our political system when
have heretofore, and in spite OF abuses,
served the nation so well.
Whether the country will respond to
Mr.. Hoover's repeated calls for a crys.
utilization of issues cannot be forcseen.
Most of the self -complacent prophets,
ubiquitous of yore in presidential years,
are in retirement.
But this fact is fast becoming palmer
as the time for decision draws nigh.
Mr.. Hoover is u man without party
mainly because the parties Nave failed
to clarity their stands on vital issues.
An independent" President is vir-
tually an impossibility in our govern
mental structure.
If either Democrats or Republicans
seek to nominate Mr.. Hoover they will
have to formulate political opinions
distinguishable by something more than
the infinitely small Emergencies be-
tween tweedledum and twccdIcdcc. III
Mr.. Hoover can institute this Sorcly
needed reform, the nation, restored to
political health. will be his debtor re-
gardlcss of whether or not he is plunged
in the fray.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-03-11
ANOTHER HALL MYSTERY

IN EVERY city there are laws for the
punishment of any ono who permits
Instructions in the immediate proximity
Of treplugs. In the city's contracts with
street cleaning companies it is explicitly
provided that snow must be cleared from
about the plugs and that fines will be
imposed If this is not done.
The officials of the fire bureau were
recently moved to complain bitterly be-
cause their men had been hampered by
the failure of the contractors to OBJ
serve this rule The fines provided for
In the contracts were rcmitted by Mr..
Winston. Why this was done no one
knows. The firemen do not know.
The new chief of the street cleaning
bureau seems to have been pretty eff
fectually gagged 1t may be proper to
remind the head Of the Department of
Public Works that the people would
rather know too much about their own
affairs than too little
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-03-11
UNDERWRITING THE PIPER

TIME piper is sometimes late in ar
4 riving with his bill. But he always
has TO be paid and there is no repara
lions commission to soften his demands
Ii the Board OF Education were better
aware of this and il the teachers in tn"
boys schools we're disposed to think Of
causes while they complain about Of
fects there would be more of logic and
patience apparent on both sides Of the
discussion relative to school salaries.
Wages are shamcfully low IT, tho
schools. Other cities that pay n lower
tax than ours pay better salaries to their
teaching stats. The impoverishmput Of
the public educational system was in
evitable under fagrantly wasteful pO.
litical system which most people aC-
cepted until recently without complaint.
Money that should have been reserved
for the schools has been diverted in q
hundred ways.
( Where it has gone is suggested in the
current astonishing reports Of waste in
the upkeep of small city park. An
army of political fayoritcs had to be
sustained. Contractors had to grow
rich. Public work had to cost about
twice what it. was worth, Generations
Of graft have had the inevitable effect.
The piper has arrived with his bill.
The Board of Education faces very
real difficulties. The teachers have un-
derstandabIc grievances But it is not
possible to applaud attitudes of martyr
dom on either side without first asking
what those Immediately concerned ever
did TO avert difficulties that everybody
should have fOresccn, Did the gentle
men in the Board Of Education ever
strive for better political standards at
City Hall? Did the teachers ever in
ierest themselves in the affairs Of mu
nicipal government, or did they, too.
feel that politics was none Of their busi.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-03-11
IN THE RIGHT PLACE

CIFFORD PINCHOT is an expert
NJ forester. He has devoted more time
to the study of forest conservation than
TO any other subject. 1t was his dom
inant interest for many years.
Governor Sproul. who has taken Mr..
Pinchot from the forestry commission
and made him state forester. has done
well. The gossips say that the action of
the Governor is due to his desire to at
tnch the Progressive Republicans in the
state to him through the influence of
Mr.. Pinchot: but he denies that there
was any politics in the appointment.
Until evidence is offered to prove the
contrary, it will be best to assume that
the compelling reason behind the APP
pointment is the desire Of the Governor
to put the work of forest conservation
ia the hands of a man about whose in
terest in the subject there is no doubt
Mr.. Pinchot is now in the right place.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-03-11
MONEY FOR THE MOTHERS

OUCH objections as were at first raised
~ to the law providing for the pay.
ment of a fixed sum to mothers for the
support of children who would other
wise have to be cared for in a public
institution have ceased. All the char
liable institutions in the city now in .
slorse the plan. Its social benefits are
evident to any one who is at all familiar
with the workings of the public institu-
riions. As matter of public policy, II
IS better to preserve q home than to
permit it TO be broken up, 1t benefits
both the mother and the children.
The state makes an appropriation di-
Nided among the counties each county,
however, must appropriate sum equal
20 that set apart by the stats The sum
invaluable for this city under this plan
a. not big enough to meet the needs of
fhe situation. Since the plan was put
into effect in 1918 help has been given
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-03-11
A FoUR-YEAR PROGRAM FOR
PHILADELPHIA

Things on which the people expect
tho new administration TO concen-
trate Its attention:
The Deldpdre river bridge.
A drydook big enough TO dcCommo-
date the largest ships.
Development Of The rapid transit sys-
TEN.
A contention hall.
A building for the Free Library.
An Art Museum.
Enlargement Of the ,cdtcr supply.
Homes to, accommodate the popala-
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-03-11

Herbert Hoover Snys hc would
rather be right than President some
what more convincingly, perhaps, than
it ever has been said before; and he is
a bold man who will declare that he may
not be both
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-03-11

After having examined a score or
so of fashion "ad" illustrations, we mr..
rive at the conclusion that it is no longer
possible to refer slangily to a debutante
as being no slouch.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-03-11

President Wilson is temperament
ally inclined to the belief that half
loaf is an insult to II hungry man, and
that the bread, anyhow. is Liable to give
him a fatal attack Of Indigestion.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-03-11

The plight of British art con
noisspur in this city suggests the thought
that there are those in Washington on
the extreme ends of the treaty tanglc
who suffer from INSTRUMENTATION Of time
and place.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-03-11

That SO popnlous and busy a state
as Pennsylvania should have q forest
reserve OF more than million and n
quarter acres is evidence that we are
still young and tlourishing country.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-03-11
HOWDOES 1T America" '. President IT.. Is Handicapped
When Dealing win Foreign
- NlAE ICO. Prenie Lacks Authority

Turkish Rockefeller, worth or some
day will be, 500, 1000, 900.
q q q
A NEW Turkey evidently, one made
"A entirely safe for democracy. For
democracy is surely safe where young
American, soldier or sailor, may stand
upon the stringpicce Of a wharf and
"pick up the daughter of Rockefeller
worth 500. 600, 900. and where a casual
romance like that may end in the
complete disappearance Of the young
lady.
No excess of wells, no prisonlike
harcm, nor overvigorous il too eff =
cient marriage system, but an up- to-
date facility in morals and manners.
such as should make one feel kindly to-
ward the new Turkey.
IT the story were not true one would
think 1t had been put forth to make
america repent of her decision not to
take mandate for Constantinople.
Iwhere odr young sailors and soldiers
might meet with an easy disregard Of
form the fair free daughters of Turkish
RockefcllcrS worth 500, 200, 900.
q q q
ERANCE, so it is proposed, will tax
= the American tourist.
1t will take from him one half of
what it costs him to sojourn there. on
the theory that living upon dollars
which are worth fifteen francs instead
OF the former five francs he will be
aole TO spare seven and half of those
francs for France and still be better
OF than he used to be when the old rate
of exchange prevailed.
Besides, France has to think Of tho
effect upon her own people of a host of
Americans spending francs that only
cost him seven cents! Why
And the effect was bad enough when
the American was dispensing francs that
cost him twenty cents and when the
midinettes of Paris looked at any man
who wore no whiskcrs, affected a loose
coat and hat with a fiat brim and
murmured "Vous svez Pair richie"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-03-11

When the Penn Memorial Bridge
becomes Il fact, some of these Noah :
Ark ferryboatS might be utilized ms
swimming pools for small boys of differ
ent neighborhoods.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-03-11
What Do You KnoiU?
QUIZ

QOIZ
/. What are COOLERS?
2. What American state leads in the
production of tin?
8. When did the French and Indian
war end?
4. What is the smallest in area of the
South American republics?
s. Who wrote the narrative poem
Aurora Leigh?
g. What god in Greek mythology cor
responded to the Vulcan of the
Romans?
7. What is the meaning of the word
recrudescence?
s. What color is ecru?
8. What Is "reclame"?
10. Who was Felicen Rops?
Answers to Yesterdays Quiz
1. The British captured Jerusalem from
the Turks on December 10, 1917.
?. Wolfgang was the first name of
Mozart, the composer.
3. Photography is spirit-writing.
4. Iowa lies between the Missouri and
the Mississippi rivers.
8. The Senate rejected treaty pro-
yiding for the acquisition of Santo
Domingo by the United States
during the administration of
President Grant.
8. John Hay, the noted American
statesman and diplomatist, wrote
the poem Jim Bludso."
7. A feme-covert in law is a married
woman.
9. The word lichen should be pro.
nounced with the "ch" as tx" and
the 81" long as in pine.
3. Two fabrics of animal origin are
wool and silk
10. The Venus dc Milo was discovered
in the island of Melos, one of the
Cyclades of Greece.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-03-11

High school men at the Board of
Education meeting may have been
stirred by injustice, but robody Gun ac-
cuse them Of being OvergaIant.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-03-11

What the municipality demands of
director Of public works is that he
shall know the difference between u
political machine and street cleaning
d, a fhiup
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-03-11

Admiral Sims should not be too
harsh with Secretary Daniels. Perhaps
the secretary's idea was to keep the navy
out of the war.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-03-11

Now that the Sims grill is over, it
would seem that it was Daniels who was
done TO a turn.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-03-11

And those who are
For II Won't debating the treaty
haven't even the
consolation of saying, 1T viii be- all the
same a hundred years from now"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-03-11
Looking Ahead

One doesn't need to
Looking Ahead be- much of II prophet
to see Hog Island
as one of the largest and best equipped
terminals in the world nor particularly
clever to note as one of the details that
IA large portion of its coal supply is
shipped direct from the anthracite re-
gions by way Of the SchuyIkill canal.