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Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1920-03-29
ONE THING PUBLIC
LIBRARY BANISnES

The loud laugh speaks the
vacant mind" There are few
er such loud laughs in commu-
mites nourished by a public
library.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1920-03-29
CHARLES |. TATE
NAMED AS FOREMAN
OF GRAND INQUEST

Judge Moss Conducts Drawing
Today And Wiley II. Bates,
Colored, Annapolis, First OF
Race In Years, Among Those
Taken From Box
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1920-03-29
NOTICE

After being ont of the paper so long, the
public is thinking that we are not buying
the secondhand line any more, we are tax
ing great liberty to let the public know
that we are still buying Ladies and Men 5
clothing: mems, ladies shoes: furniture,
Kitchen utensils. mattings and rugs. Please
give us the first call. MRS. PAULINE
BLOOM, 90 Main street, Annapolis, Nd.
phoue C. 4 T. 501-R - or drop q postal.
p, S.-Please don't forget the number.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1920-03-29
Then 3.5O Beer Bill

The Senate will also deal this week
with the 31k per cent beer bill which
passed the House last week 1t is
more abstract than concrete in lit
aims. 1t can only become operative
if the United States Supreme Court
declares the prohibition amendment
or the VoIstead Act 10 be invalid.
While the vets are pinning their
hopes in the courts, they are at the
same time whistling to keep up their
courage. The bill is saloonless. but it
permits the delivery of beer to social
an dother clubs. Hence the thirsty,
including the poorer classes, for whom
such a strenuous fight was made last
week by Messrs. League, Curry, Di-
marco and others. can enjoy their bev-
erages in clubrooms.
The budget. it is expected. will
come out of the House Ways and
Means Committee tomorrow with a
favorable report. with amendments
prepared last week by the Governor
and which will largely take the place
of a supplemental budget. No oppo-
sition to it has yet developed in either
the House or Senate. whose members
have had ample time in which TO study
it. The Legislature can cut out or re-
duce items. but it cannot add 10 them
without providing revenue, from new
sources.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1920-03-29

..,,iatcd pres $ Dis
,,.s Of late news at
and abroad are pub
~, ,-s.d in The Capital.
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Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1920-03-19
EMPLOYEES FIX
WAGE SCHEDULE
Scheme of industrial Councils OF
Standard Oil Company
Is Adopted.
DEMOCRACY IN INDUSTRY"
Wage Increase and Shorter Work
Week Arranged Without Friction
Men Hereafter to Have Direct Voice
In Any Matters Affecting Them.

A wage increase of I'LL per cent
for 11.0O0 refinery workers is an
nounced by the Standard Oil company
of Indiana. COincidentally, all shift
men go from a seven-day week 10
six-day week, radical change in the
company's manufacturing policy. The
new schedule becomes effective on
March /, and it applies in retineries
at whiting, Ind. Wood River, H.;
Sugar Creek, Mo, and Casper and
Greybull, Wyo.
What is most significant Is the fact
that the new wage and hour schedule
was worked out by the employees
themselves, through the agency OF
their Industrial councils.
Last June as a step in democracy
in industry" the company established
an employees council system, drawn
up by w. l.. Mackenzie King, leader
of the Liberal party in Canada.
Through joint committees, on which
the men and management have equal
representation, the workers were Civ
VIl d uIICNL NOlCC III dbJu1NiiNiI "
wages and hours.
The process of gasoline manufac-
ture is such that re6neries must be
operated every hour of the day, every
day of the week. Up to 1915, shift
workers worked 12-hOur shifts seven
days a week. The company in that
year put in an eight-hour shift with
an increase, giving the men as much
pay for eight hours work as they had
been getting for 12, But the seven
day week was continued.
After the Industrial council syS
tenn was adopted Col. r. w. Stewart,
head of the board of directors, asked
the employees councils to work out
a scheme that would make six-day
week practicable.
The result is new schedule, which
gives all shift workers 80 consecutive
hours off each week. Under the old
plan the men worked SO hours
week; under the new they work 5O.4,
or a net reduction of SO hours
week. The IL IL per cent increase In
wages makes the pay for six days
equal to that received under the old
seven-day week.
A similar Increase of I'LL per cent
In hourly wages is also declared for
refinery workers other than shirt
men. Hours are not to be changed,
except that men working A hours a
week may increase 1t to 48 hours, II
they wish. This affects common la
borers, machinists, blacksmiths boiler
makers and others
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1920-03-19
The Food Draft
PROBLEM OF SENDING FOOD TO
EUROPE SOLVED
Plan as Suggested by Herbert Hoover
Aided by CO.OperatiOn of Banks
Affords Means of Feeding
Starving Nations

Throughout the whole central and
eastern Europe the food supply falls
into two classes-First, the ration is
sued by the government; second, the
illicit circulation of food among those
having sufficient money to pay the
exhOrDitant prices demanded, which
places it beyond the reach of the great
bulk of the population, as a single
ham will sell for $3.50.
There are three or four million
families in the United States with
family connections in the war
stricken countries of Europe, all of
whom are desirous of giving assist
ance to their relatives and friends.
Many have endeavored to perform
this service by purchasing food at
home for overseas shipment, and in
some cases the packing and shipping
charges added as much as 100 per
cent to the original cost; and there
was always an uncertainty of the
package arriving safely at it's des-
tination. To overcome the uncer-
tainty and heavy expenses attached
to this mode of relief the American
Food Administration, with Mr.. Her.
bert Hoover as chairman, was insti-
tuted. 1t furnishes a safe and easy
solution of the problem. The banks
throughout the country will receive
money in amounts of from $40 to $50
and issue Food Drafts" designating
the quantity and kind of food desired.
These drafts are sent direct to the
persons for whose relief they were
issued and upon being presented at
one of the food depots the bearer is
at once handed the articles called for.
The food is sold at actual factory
cost plus the cost Of transportation
and insurance, but should any profits
accrue they will be turned over to the
European Chidren's Fund.
The Newark Trust Company, which
is always among the leaders of every
philanthropic and charitable enter
prise in the city, has agreed to issue
these Good Drafts" absolutely with
out cost to the purchaser, and already
many of our citizens have availed
themselves of the opportunity to aid
relatives and friends on the other
side.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1920-03-19
COST OF LABOR TROUBLES
Hundreds of Millions Of Dollars Lost
to Britain Through Disturbances
In Year 1919.

The appalling cost of strikes and
lockouts is shown In British figures
for 1919.
An average Of about 5000, 900 work
ing days month were lost through
strikes and lockouts ia the rrst full
year Of peace.
Taking So as an average wage, this
means that British workers lost $780,
600 every working day last year, or
$50 OO0.O 900, through strikes and lock
outs.
Adding lost markets and untitled
contracts to actual loss Of products,
II is much greater.
A bright side of the 1919 record is
that largely by arbitration
Six million British working people
obtained increases in wages amount
ing to about $1OOO0,O00 a week, and
Five and one.half millions secured re-
ductions in hours totaling more than
100000 hours week.
Brighter still, for Britain, is the
ever-broadening conviction among
workers, employers and the public
that the machinery for settling dis
putes peaceably must be improved and
used.
Naturalization OF mines and rail
ways is the big labor fight for 1920,
1t is beginning now. But there Is no
talk of a strike. Leaders voluntarily
have pledged themselves first of all to
wage their campaign by methods that
do not incur such a terrible cost.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1920-03-19
Union That spites Itself.

In the fear that the bricklayers
might within a short time lay all the
bricks the world had to lay, they put
on artificial limitations. Today brick
laying is not only expensive, but the
bricklayers strike at the drop of a
hat. What has happened? Contrac-
tors, when they can possibly avoid it,
do not build houses of brick and
neither do they lay pavements OF
brick. Instead, they use REINFORCED
concrete, Samuel Crowther writes in
Worlds Work. In recent operation
at Youngstown, o., five men erected
three houses in two days. In that op-
Grafton the contractors put up a com
munity of 281 sOlidly built, attractive
" designed concrete houses, with sew
ers. streets and all that town should
have, In less than year and at no
time were more than 200 men EN-
ployed on the job
The Washington herald., 1920-06-28
.D0AK TO TALK
TO CITY CLUB
Trainmen Official Will Dis
cuss Present Railroad
CnSls. ,gA-i

W. y. Doak. vice president Of the
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen.
will address the City Club at its
weekly forum luncheon at 1880
o'clock Wednesday at the club-
house. Farragut square, on tho
acute railroad labor situation. 10
Doak returned to Washington
last night from Chicago. where he
went to confer with W. C. Lee.
president of the brotherhood. ana
other railroad workers leaders ON
the question of averting a nation-
wide strike.
Although his home is in Roam
oke, Va. Doak has spent the ma.
Jor part of the past few years in
Washington looking after the in
terests of railroad employees and
enlisting the support of Congress
and the White House at critical
moments. He is regarded as the
hrst lieutenant of Lee.
Following Mr.. Doak's address
there will be a general discussion
OF the railroad labor situation.
The Washington herald., 1920-06-28
CASUALTY FETE
YIELDSS8O9.12
Largest Amount Derived as
Yet from Any Benefit
In Campaign.

The receipts from the lawn fete
held on the Casualty Hospital
grounds last Friday and Saturday
were ssO9.12, the largest amount
derived thus far from any benefit
during the campaign of the institu-
tion to raise $4,000. according to
Miss Lillian l.. Rinker, superintend-
ent of the hospital.
Credit for the success of the afair
is due TO DR.. William T. Reeves.
captain of the team in charge of
the fete, who has worked unceRsing-
iy since the campaign started. He
was assisted by Mrs. NJ. A. Leese,
Mrs, II. b. Carson, Mrs. Arthur Cook,
Mrs. Jacobs. Mrs. Joseph Burnett.
Mrs. Guy Yost, and Mrs. J. Williams,
and the Misses Lillian and Mamie
Rinker. Frances Smith. Jeanette Nc
Twiggin. Marie Aldren, Argyle
Danks, Lucy Scaggs, Mrs. l. +.
Steuart, Clarence F. Donohoe. and
DR.. d. w. Higgins. Miss Lorraine
Leese and Arthur Cook, as suc-
tioneers, made the hit of the clos
ing evening.
At the meeting to be held tonight
at the office of Clarence +. Dono-
hoe 3l4 Pennsylvania avenue south
cost, there will be dancing and re-
freshments for the captains and
workers. 1t is expected that the
fund will pass the $4,000 mark
today.
The Washington herald., 1920-06-28
A LICKPENlNY LOVE

had a swelled head ever since that
hose-cart driver took you out to
a chop suey joint. No. he never
mentioned the Waldorf; but there's
a Fifth avenue address on his
card; and IL he buys the supper
you can bet your life there won't
be no pigtail on the waiter what
takes the order"
and a compound fracture" he
whispered. swiftly. "You are not
sorry that you pet me, are you.
dearest?'-
"Me?' said Violet. returning the
pressure. Sure not. i could
stand all day rubbering with you."
The climkx of the romatfce oc-
Cured a few days later. Perhaps
the reader will remember the in
tense excitement into which the
city was thrown when Eliza Jane.
a colored woman. was served with
a subpoena The Rubber Tribe
encamped on the spot. With his
own hands william Pry placed a
board upon two beer kegs in the
street opposite Eliza James resi-
dence. He and Violet sat there
The Washington herald., 1920-06-28
By o. HENRY

to see bit of q girl In . white
veil acquire license to 50 through
mans pockets while he sleeps.
But the hour for the wedding
came and went and the bride and
bridegroom came not. And I'M
patience gave way to alarm and
alarm brought about search. ana
they were not found. And then
two big policemen took . hand
and dragged out of the furious
mob of onlookers, crushed ana
trampled thing, with wedding
ring in It's vest pocket and a
shredded and hysterical woman
beating her way to the carpets
edge, ragged, bruised and OBJ
streperous.
william Pry and Violet sey-
mour. creatures of, habit, had
Joined In the seething game OF
the spectators, unable to resist
the overwhelming desire to gaze
upon themselves entering. as bride
and bridegroom. the rose-decked
church.
Rubber will out.
Copyright, 1920, by Wheeler Syndicate, Inc.)
The Washington herald., 1920-06-28
MEXICO TO RETURN
ALL CONFISCATIONS

The American consul at Mexico
City yesterday advised the State De-
partment that the Mexican treasury
has announced the disposal of all
confiscated properties.
Property confiscated by the Mexi-
can government will be returned to
the owners. excepting that of Vic
toriano Huerta. and his immediate
family. Felix Diaz. Francisco Villa,
j. NJ. Moyterena and Yugenio Pa
redes, as well as properties appro-
priated for public purposes, accord
ing to the advices.
1T was stated also that Mexico has
now under consideration the restor-
alton of banks to their normal func-
tions.
The Washington herald., 1920-06-28

come to the funeral and sit in
the same pew and cry over your
luck. Rubber will stretch.
The church was lighted. A
grosgrain carpet lay over the
asphalt to the edge of the side
walk. Bridesmaids were patting
one another's sashes awry and
speaking of the Brides freckles.
Coachmen tied white ribbons on
their whips and bewailed the space
OF time between drinks. The
minister was musing over his
possible fee, essaying conjecture.
whether. IL would suffice to pur-
chase new broadcloth suit for
himself and a photograph OF
Laura Jane Llbbey for his wife.
Yea, Cupid was in the air.
And outside the church, oh, my
brothers. surged and heaved the
rank and file OF the tribe OF RUB
berers. In two bodies they were,
with the grosgrain carpet and
cops with clubs between. They
crowded like cattle, they fought,
they pressed and surged ana
swayed and trampled one another
The Washington herald., 1920-06-28
MAIL ORDER PARTY
USES 100000 FUND
TO SENDLETTERS
CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE.


platform, and consequently It had
become a mail order rarty1"
lars alone accusirting the vot
with the aims OF the "fcr;v-
The committee had already spent
100000, mostly for postage. he said
In reaffirming the platfprm Of
government ownership of railroads
coal, oil. and transportation in gen.
eral; increased taxes on idle lands
and the restoration of free speech
free assembly, and a free press
Prof. Stanley 1. Rypens, of the Uni
versity of Minnesota and chairman
of that State delegation, asserted
that during the war espionage had
been carried to such an extent that
the letters of the Third Assistan nj
Secretary of State had been opened,
contents copied and filed in WASH
inston. He said that he could prove
this. as he had unwillingly been a
party to this by being. connected
with the Intelligence Department
of the government.
Unlike the other conventions. the
incoming gathering of the Commit
tee OF Forty-eight will be for the
mass. Each State may have as
many delegates as the seating ar
rangements permit. although the
number of votes will be apportion-
ed along the same line as the old
parties. The hall engaged at the
Morrison Hotel will seat only 1 4Do
so the general public will be ex-
cluded. An effort. however. will
be made to transfer the convention
to the Auditorium. which will seat
In the neishborhood of 5000.
AS an Illustration of the mass
action, Cook County alone will
have representation of 200.
Every State In the Union, 1t was
said, win be represented
The Washington herald., 1920-06-28
FORMER RED CROSS
WOMEN TO ORGANIZE

Former volunteer workers of the
Red Cross of Washington will meet
tomorrow morning to effect a peace
time organization in the grill room
of the. Wardman Park Hotel at 1880
a. m. Mrs. Theodore w. Richards,
acting chairman of the District Red
Cross chapter reports local auxili-
aries are making babies layettes for
use overseas in response to a recent
call from the Red cross.
Thomas f. Green, director of the
speakers bureau. national head
quarters, Will be the guest of honor
and deliver the principal address at
the meeting tomorrow. Other speak
ers will include Mrs. Richards, Mrs,
A. o. Powell, Mrs. Ida NJ. Galloway,
MRS. Clara V. Chappell, Mrs. Allyn
n; capron. Mrs. Walter S. vfford and
Miss Inez Cadet.
The Washington herald., 1920-06-28
WOMEN ELATED
OVER MAIL POLL :
OF TENNESSEEANS
CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE.

CONTlNCED FROM PAGE ONE, Hr
have indorsed the ratification Of tn.
woman suffrage amendment, and
most of the leading nations of the
world have already secured this
measure of justice to their women.
We do not want to see America lar-
ging behind in this forward move-
ment.
The other arguments in behalf Of
this movement are too well known
to need to be repeated, but 1 feel
the early. just settlement of this
question will be of incalculable
value to this country during the
present period of readjustment and
reconstruction. -
"I earnestly urge your early fav-
orable action on the ratification
resolution"
Another letter from the AlI-Amer-
ican Farm Labor Cooperative Com
mission addressed to the farmer
members Of the legislature says:
Permit me to call to your atten-
tion the following resolution:
The All-American Farm Labor.
Cooperative Congress, in session In
Chicago February IL to Is, with 400
delegates present representing over
1000, 900 voters. by resolutions unan-
imously adopted. appeals to the leg-
islatures of all the States whicn
have not yet ratified the Federal
suffrage amendment to do so at the
earliest possible moment, in order to
insure the participation OF all the
women in the country in the coming
elections. p
AT this congress delegates were
present from every section of the
United States, including co-opera-
tive farm and labor organizations
of your State. The matter is now
before your legislature. and / ap-
peal to- you to vote for ratification
and to use your influence with your
fellow members to secure fayorahie
action"
The Washington herald., 1920-06-28
Rosie Was Beautiful, With the Calm Poise Of a
Lady Who Cooks Butter Cakes in a Window.


for three days and nights. Then
Ii occurred to a detective to ope
the door and serve the subpoena.
He sent for kinetoscope and
did so.
Two souls with such congenial
tastes could not long remain
apart. As policeman drove
them away with his night stick
that evening they plighted their
troth. The seeds of love had been
wen sown. and had grown up,
hardy and vigorous. into a-let
us call 1t a rubber plant.
The wedding of William Pry
and Violet Seymour was set for
June 10. The Big Church In the
Middle OF the Block was banked
high with flowers. The populous
tribe OF Rubberers the world over
Is rampant over weddings. They
are the pessimists of the pews.
They are the guyers of the groom
and the banterers of the bride.
They come to laugh at your mar
riage, and should you escape
from Hymen's tower on the back
of deaths pale steed they will
The Washington herald., 1920-06-28
Lady's Legs Given
Survey in Court;
Trial is Stopped

Paterson. y. J., June PA pair
of legs was subjected to careful ex-
animation during trial of $4,000
damage suit in court here.
Mrs. Mary Costa sued her land
lord for $4,000 damages. She al
legged that while hanging out
clothes from the second story of the
house the line broke and she was
thrown to the yard seriously in
'juring her right leg so that now 1t
Is shorted than the left.
DR.. Andrew T. Mcbride, testifying
for the defense, said he was unable
to detect a difference in the length
of Mrs. Costa's legs.
Judge Silzer stopped the trial
long enough for County Physician
Armstrong and DR.. Jacob Roewe to
retire to an adjoining room to
measure the plaintiffs legs. They
reported one shorter than the other.
The Washington herald., 1920-06-28

veit, 2131 r street northwest.
Tea Will be served.
The central executive committee
OF the A. w. L. is composed of the
national officers of the organiza-
ton and the presidents of the vari-
Gus units of the Legion. 1t is earn
estly hoped that each member will
be present at this meeting, or in
case this Is impossible that she will
send a representative, as business
OF extreme Importance to the, Le-
gion will come before the COM
mittee.
Mr.. and Mrs. Simon Snyder an
nounce the engagement of their
daughter. Mary Dorothea, to. Max
well M. Mincosky, of this city.
Mrs. Charles w. Russell is back
in the city, having gone to warren
ton, Va, to attend the ceremonies
OF the unveiling of the monument
to her brother. Col. John 8. Mosby.
one of the greatest heroes of the
civil war. Mrs. Russell was accom-
panied by her son, JohneMosby Rus
sell. OF New York city,
The Washington herald., 1920-06-28
GERMAN ARMY
KNOT YIELDING
Resignation of Minister ol
Defense Gessler Favor
able to Entente.
by s. b. CONGER.
(washington Herald-Public Ledger
Service. Special Cable Dispatch.)

| BY 8. b. CONGER.
Cwsshington HeraId-PubIic Ledger
Service. Special Cable DIspatch.)
! Berlin, June 27.-First fruits Of
the entente notes demanding reduc-
tion of the German army to 100000
men and abandonment of the securi-
ties police. suggesting that the blue
clad ''schutzmanne" of the ordinary
| police force be intrusted to the Com
munists and SpartaSists was the
| tend of his resignation by the min
lister of defense. Herr Gessler.. The
minister informed Chancellor Fehren-
bach. when asked to enter the new
cabinet. that he could undertake the
duties of the ONCE only IL the pro-
posed reduction of the army be
abandoned.
| Gessler agreed to remain as min
| lister of defense until the result OF
IGermanys protests against a reduc-
tion OF the army are known.
| Considered Impossible.
The reduction is absolutely i'm
possible" was the minister's reply,
when asked about the governments s
attitude. The assertion OF such
absolute impossibility" probably
will be the issue of the first reply
to the entente.
, The press bureau of the ministry
of defense is circulating as an argu-
ment against the reduction. reports
of open drilling by Spartacan asso-
Citations in Berlin. Leipzig and else
where throughout Germany. ad-
mittedly without arms and under
the guise of athletic training. but
as yet no steps have been taken to
arrest the participants or repress
what is ostensibly a dangerous mill
tary conspiracy.
The German newspapers discuss
the demand for the reduction of the
army and abolition OF the security
police with gravity. They say that
the policemen, mild ma nnered and
iHofensive, 'ns compared with his
pre-war autocratic demeanor, should
be sent to Paris as an exhibit for
the entente experts who believe that
would meet the necessities of the
situation.
Stronger Police Possible.
1t might be possible to recruit
more vigorous and forcible type of
policeman than those now compos-
ing the force. but the morale of the
blue coats is gone. absolutely, and
f, the prestige OF the force has disap-
pesred entirely in revolutionary
Germany.
Anyone who saw the blue clad
policeman plodding around in patrols
lof six during the March disorders
iconscientously avoiding all danger
spots and refraining from anything
resembling interference with the
,disorderly crowds, knows that moth
ing valuable can be built on the
basis of the present organization.
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