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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-10-08
D. c. FIGHT
ON TUBERCULOSIS
Emil Ber|iner, Addressing
Convention, Says City Leads
the Nation.

The District of Columbia leads the
nation in the fight against tubercu-
losis, according to Emil Berliner,
president of the Washington Asso-
citation for the Prevention of Tuber-
culosis. who made the principal adj
dress last night before the conven-
ton of the north Atlantic tubercu-
losis conference. being held in Rich
mond, Va.
This city not only Is ahead of
other sections in this humanitarian
work. but it's achievements are far
in the lead of the rest of the coun-
try, Mr.. Berliner declared.
Submit Proof.
To prove his statement he furnish
ed statistics, which showed that
while in twenty distinctly white
states the death rate from tubercu
losis declined only two points in the
past seven years, the death rate from
this cause in Washington among the
whites declined forty two points in the
same period.
among the colored population of
Washington" Mr.. Berliner said, the
tuberculosis death rate declined 212
points in the same seven-year Pc
rlOU. IN Mary ldnu, uHueT Sl1Nlldr
conditions of races and climate, the
combined death rate during the cor
responding. period increased from
40 to 1914"
Spread of Hysienic knowledge.
These results Mr.. Berlner attri-
buted to the spreading during the
past dozen years of specific hygienic
knowledge among the school chill
dren of the District of Columbia.
He told how his association has con
| tinually distributed health rules and
| health rhymes among the young
sters of the city. thereby not only
! educating the children themselves,
| but also reaching their parents.
Besides this campaign for the bet
| terment of the citys health, he said
| that the local Sunday papers have
/ printed the various bulletins of his
association. and that the prominent
| toward the educating of the general
public of the~ty.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-10-08
PARK VIEW CITIZENS
TO TAKE UP MARKETING
Discussion of Woman Suffrage Also
to Come Before First Fall As
ISOLATION Meeting.

Marketing of farm products in the
city and discussion of how woman
suffrage was made 4 part of the United
States Constitution are subjects which
will share the interest of the Park View
Citizens Association, at its first regu-
lar fall meeting next Tuesday even
ing. at the Park View School, Newton
and Warder streets.
DR.. f. d. Ball. assistant secretary of
agriculture who will talk on 1.-THE
Getting Together of Farmers and City
Folks" will refer especially to the use
of the parcel post rs a food carrier. As
the community store at the Park View
School has been discontinued. though the
postal station there remains, this is
expected to have a peculiar interest for
members of the association.
How the Vote Was Won" will be
the subject of Miss Catherine Flani-
gan, who as national organizer of
the woman's party was most active
in working for the adoption of the
nineteenth amendment to the Con-
stitution In recognition of the new
status of women the Park View AS
ISOLATION has issued special invita-
tons to the women of the community
to attend the meetings.
Nominations for officers of the as
sociation will be made next Tuesday
night and the election will be held in
November. George E. Resell. presi-
dent of the association, will have
charge of the meeting.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-10-08
SURGEONS SEVER
'lNOTORINANiS LEG
BYLANTERNLIGHT|

NEW YORK, October S.-Physl-
clans working with the aid of one
pickering lantern early today
amputated the right leg of Henry
Helms, motorman, in order to
rescue him from the tangled
wreckage of two street cars tele-
scoped in a collision that caused
injuries to twenty other persons
Helms. who was pinioned under
the car when physicians arrived,
persuaded them to perform the
operation without an aneSlhetlc
in order to save time. Later, ms
other leg. badly mangled, was also
removed at a hospital. Helms and
the conductor. William WheraX,
who received a fractured skull are
said to have slight chances of re-
Covcry.
The accident happened when the
brakes failed to function on the
descent of a steep hill on AmSter-
dam avenue. Many of the pas
sengers, who became hysterical
when the car sped uncontrolled
down the hill. escaped injury by
budding together on the rear
platform.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-10-08
URGES BETTERPAY
FOR j. S. WORKERS
interior Department Official
Also Suggests Promotion
by Merit.

The difficulty Uncle sam has in get
ting adequately trained employees for
the government service, which is the
biggest business in the whole world
at the inadequate salaries Congress
allows, is emphasized by f. ]. Ayers.
chief clerk and superintendent of
buildings of the Department of the
Interior. in his annual report.
Throughout the entire government
Workshop there should be a higher
quality of service, he urges. and this
can in large measure be secured
by promoting employees as they prove
knowledge, integrity, adaptability
initiative and energy.
Discussing this situation and the
proposed reform. MIR. Ayers says, as
follows:
Not only this department. hut the
entire government service - the
largest of all business organiza-
tIons-is laboring under some OF The
most serious disadvantages the
greatest handicap being the impoSsi-
tility to secure efficient help without
adequate compensation. In the tech
meal and scientific branches men are
specially trained who render cXcep-
t'"nal service. but they are a class
devoted to duty, and compensation is
secondary consideration.
THE great body of government en-
ployes. who qualify through minor
civil service examinations. find the
environments of official life in Wash
ington novel and attractive. and at
first they enjoy freedom from re-
sponsibility- Gradually the laws,
rules and regulations covering their
work take away all incentive to think
or act independently. with the in
proverbial 'rut" Finally, having
grown old in the service, they be-
come dissatisfied. but are powerless
to better their condition.
This could and should be obviated
;, placing the whole government
service on par with the Army and
Navy. advancing in grade on merit
only. Along such lines. entrance
should be through rigid examination
to prove the fitness of the applicant
for definite lines of work incidental
to government business. in which they
at least, the rudiments of govern
ment activities. They should be ad-
vanced according to their knowl-
edge, integrity. adaptability, initi-
alive and energy.
"On the other hand. government
conditions and compensation should
be such as to afford its employees en-
couragement and opportunity to carve
enviable careers out of the honorable
discharge of their duties.
The strain the department labored
under during the late war brought
but more prominently than ever be-
fore tire splendid traits and fine quail
tiles of our people, and 1 take pleas
ure in saying that. given the oppor-
tunity and fair compensation which
should be afforded every earnest
worker, the employees of the Interior
Department. as a whole, are well
worthy of whatever favorable con-
sderation Congress may extend to
them"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-10-08
OUR HOUSING PROBLEM.
To the Editor of The Star:

1 heartily indorse the letter of Mrs.
E. Fl. Jones' in The Evening Star,
relative to the housing situation.
My own experience is that any one
going to a real estate office and ASK
ing to rent house is given loud
ha! ha. However, there are plenty OF
houses for sale, and most of them
vacant.
When Congress begins to put teeth
in the Ball rent law in December
(Which they will certainly do) it is
to be hoped that they will make the
law read that when any house held
for speculative prices is not soid
within a reasonable time control OF
such property should pass to the rent
commission.
Also, let me urge all occupants OF
rented property to join thler nelsh,
borhood citizens associations ana
work to put them on record uphold
ing the Ball law and the rent com
mission. q. NJ. kooChOuEi'
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-10-08
SEEK TO CONDEMN LAND.

The first petition for condemnation
of land. which contains the sigma
lures of j. Thilman Hendrick and
Miss Mabel Boardman, as District
commissioners, has been filed in the
District Supreme Court.
Commissioners seek to condemn a
tract lying west of Nichols avenue. in
the Barry Farm subdivision, beyond
Anacostia, for a new highway, and to
widen other streets in the vicinity.
Keep off the fire departments black
list Ask fire department for advice.
Fire prevention day Saturday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-10-08

Red Cross, and Miss Edith Chapman,
associate director of the departmer IT
of nursing Of the same division.
Miss Nellie f. Oxley, acting director
of the department of nursing, Poto-
mac Division. will leave Saturday for
St. Louis, Mo, to attend the confer
ence OF the American Child Hygiene
Association. October II to IA, during
which time she will make a study Of
nursing conditions in the southwest
ern division of the American Red
Cross.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-10-08

Oily rags or waste used in cleaning
or polishing should be burned at once
after using or kept in fireproof re-
ceptacle. Observe fire prevention day
Saturday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-10-08
AT RICHMOND MEETING.
Red Cross officials Take Part il
Conference.

Among those who are attending the
nationaI tuberculosis conference in
progress at Richmond. Va, yesterday
and today are Miss Ruth Jones. dI :
rector Of the bureau of community
study of the Potomac Division OF the
Arizona republican., 1920-06-11
BOOKLET DESCRIBES COTTON GROWING IN
 GLENDALE DISTRICT

GLENDALE, Ariz., June 1t-As n result of the widespread inquiry con- corning the growing of long staple cot ton in the Salt River Valley, the Glen dale District Commercial club has is- sued a folder descriptive of the long staple industry in the Glendale dig trict. Extracts from this pamphlet are herewith reproduced:
 The Glendale district embraces ap- proNimately 10000 of the most fertile acres in the western hemisphere. Here only is found the rich Glendale Loess soil, composed of silt, 40 per cent, and sandy loam, built up by ages of over- sflow to a depth of more than 100 feet.
 High in lime. potash, and phos- ephoric acid content the latter element sexistiug in the remarkable proportion -of 22 per cent, commercial fertilizer sis little needed. With crop rotation sthe richness of the soilewill last for aages.
 The Valley of the Nile is this dis strict's only rival, and the Glendale dis strict has many advantages over the sNile country in the growing of long sstaple cotton. For instance. seed of sthe Pima, or Arizona Egyptian, long ~staple cotton is absolutely pure; here sno pest of consequence has found ~ledEment; there the pink boil worm k Fa cons tant menace. Here land values
 
 siand values range from $500 to S1,o0o per acre
 Experts in the grading of cotton, eafter exhaustive tests and comparisons. 5have declared the long staple variety sgrown in the Salt River valley to be sthe finest in the world: the local cot ston has a longer staple is stronger: salso smoother and f1atter than any of 1the other varieties.
 Many ranchers of the Glendale dis strict averaged three-quarters of a bale a1o the acre in 1919, while several grew Sa bale and a half. and as high as two 4bales to the acre were obtained. \ Average cost of blowing, discing. zplanting. irrigating. cnltivating. picking sand ginnng an acre of long staple cot ston the Glendale district in 1919 was ss s2. .50: the average price received was eS2is cents per pond pound. Today it s6s quoted at $1.25 per pound"
 Raymond Dyas, secretary or the ~ zHflendale Commercial club. states that 9as a result of satisfactory conditions Blast season and the outlook for a slorosperous 1920 season, cotton grow sfrs of the Glendale district this season sslave increased their acreage 50 to 6O
Arizona republican., 1920-06-11
Valley Garden Spot
GLENDALE. ARIZONA 1Ffer< Rancher md Eome<eekc


 Offers Rancher and Homeseekcr Fertile "Glendale Loess" soil. Unfailing irrigation supply. Freedom from waterIogged lands. Heavy yields of long staple cotton. Ideal garden land for cantaloupes and lettuce
 N1oney-making possibilities in poul- try.
 Potato land that yields nao pounds to the acre.
 Heavily producing grain lands Ideal climatic conditions. Comparative absence of storms winds and frost.
 Purest domestic water supply in the valley.
 Highly rated school facilities. Hunicipally owned public utilities. Interurban electric street car service. Moderately priced building sites. A rapidly growing community. A progressive and prosperous citi- zenry.
 TO PIERCE LEATHER To put a hole in leather belt heat a hat-pin until it is red hot A hole then may be pierced through the strap with if. without difficulty.
Arizona republican., 1920-06-11

per cent over last season. Crop condi- tions at this time are S5 per cent Of normal and rapidly approaching nor mai Many fields are two feet high. Most fields show a perfect stand, de- spite replanting made necessary by a late spring. Crop conditions coupled with the outlook for a strong market portend most prosperous season for the local cotton growers.
Arizona republican., 1920-06-11
Martha

Martha Irepczak and Herbert fleming.
 MILWAUKEE- Miss Martha Trep- czyks father was patient at the county hospital Herbert Henning forger under five years, sentence a, the house Of correction. was brought in for treatment When the girl calico on her father she was introduced 10 Henning in the next cot Now Hen ming has escaped from his cot and Martha is missing. Police believe they have eloped. Rewards have been of fered and police are searching three states for the couple
 Arrangements have been completed for the Tansporta tion Of 20O0 Jews rom Poland to the United States
Arizona republican., 1920-06-11
sHE Took rHEM

pictures or not" said the young N man. They seem rather indisunc
Arizona republican., 1920-06-11
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'But you must remember madam. said the willy photographer that yonr face is not at all plain '- i5ostqp Transcript.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1920-12-23
WILLOW SPRINGS

Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Bennett spent
last week at Darlington.
Mrs. Armstrong returned to her
home near Darlington last Saturday,
after a two weeks visit with her
daughter Mrs. Frank Kelley.
Miss Ruth Walker of the Platte
vile Normal arrived home Friday for
two weeks vacation.
Mrs Charles Collicutt and son Earl
of Madison are here to spend Xmas
with her sons Homer and Harry and
other relatives.
Mike Lynch visited Mr. Stone Mon
day afternoon.
The Silo Filler Co. and their fam
lilies had very enjoyable time at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Ed. Stone last
Monday evening.
Miss Marjorie Parkinson attended
the play given by the High School at
Mineral Point Friday night.
Charles Walker and daughter
Ruth spent Sunday p. m. with Mrs.
Charles Johnston and daughter Hell
en-.
The program given by the pupils
of Miss Thompson at Mt Gillead
school Friday evening was thorough
Iy enjoyed by all present.
Mr.. and Mrs. Will James spent
Sunday evening at Con Dunn's.
Mrs. Allan Godfrey and son Mar
vim visited over Sunday with her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs Thomas Sleep
in Mineral Point.
Mrs Alvin Davisson and son Frank
visited Mr.. and Mrs Hans Larson
Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Mike Schofield and
Mr.. and Mrs. Jack Sleep of Darling
ton are spending this week with Mr..
and Mrs. Henry Bennett.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Bracken and
daughter Dorothy and Mrs. Joseph
Benson will spend Christmas with Mr.
and Mrs. Guy Beach and daughter at
Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Woolrich and
daughters, Misses Eta Brownell and
Alice Lindholm, Morris Lindholm,
Willis Thompson and Stone Bros. at
tended the entertainment and box
social given by pupils of Miss Leila
Whitford at Prairie Chicken school
Friday night.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1920-12-23
TIE MARKETS.

FLOUR-Hard spring wheat-Bakers
patent, $8.50@8.75; first clears, $70O@7.25;
second clears, $6.50q6.75; special mill
brands, in SO Id cotton sacks, $S.50Q9.O0;
warehouse delivery, s9.25@9.5O. Soft win
ter wheat-Short patent, $9.OO@9.25. Hard
winter Wheat-Kansas short patent, $8O0W
S.25; first clears, $675Q7.00. Rye flour
White patent, s8.25Q8.5O; dark, $7.25@750
HAY-No. l timothy, $28.C0@2900; stand
ard and No. l light clover mixed, $2700W
$500; No timothy and No 1 clover
mixed, $25.o0@26.OO; No. 8 timothy, $4,000
2400.
CATTLE-Choice to prime steers, 1920
014OO; good to choice steers, $10.00Q12Oo;
fair to good steers. s7.5Oq10.0O; year
lings, fair to choice, $8.0GQH25; good to
prime cows, $6.OO09.00; fair to good heif-
ers. 81. 5061O.25; fair Ia good cows, s4.509
700: Gamers, 81. 75Q3.25; cutters, $3.40@4.50;
bologna bulls, S5.O0Q6.25; veal calves, $3.50
@10O0
HOGS-Choice light butchers, SS.65@9.20;
medium VT. butchers, s8.7O@920; heavy
butchers. 27O-350 lbs $8.55@915; fair to
fancy light s8.60a9.25; heavy packing,
IS 35GS.9O; rough packing, $S.00@8.40; pigs.
$80O69.25.
SHEEP Native lambs, $SO0010 70;
fer western lambs, $8.50Q10.50; feeding
lambs, So. 50a10.25; wethers, $4.0OG600, y
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1920-12-23
BITS OF NEWS IN GENERAL

Albania was elected a member Of
the League of Nations by the assembly
of the league at Geneva.
Everything to wear, according to
Chicago merchants, is 80 per cent
cheaper this year than in 1919.
Attorney General Palmer at Wash
ington ruled that maker has right to
keep and consume cider, even after it
becomes hard.
The negro population of Chicago in
creased 65,49i in the last decade and
now is 109,594, the census bureau an
nounced at Washington.
The chamber Of deputies at Paris
voted confidence in the government,
1913 to 65, after discussing the resig-
nation Of Andre Lefeyre, the war min
lister.
The government has brought suit
at New York against John D. Rookie
Teller for 1922, 678, charging his income
tax report was incorrect, misleading
and false"
The chief Of police of Shanghai has
issued an edict threatening with ar
rest all Chinese women who ape for
eign fashions that expose the ankles
and bare arms.
Charles Sumner Burch, bishop Of the
New York diocese of the Episcopal
church, died suddenly at his home.
Heart disease is thought to have
caused his death.
-Four more nations we're made men,
bers of the League of Nations by the
assembly of the league at Geneva.
They were Bulgaria, Costa Rica, Fin
land and Luxembourg
Two men who had been held in Gus
tody by the military at Cashel police
barracks, Ireland, four days were shot
dead. No details of the killing of the
don.
William Jennings Bryan, former sec
rotary Of state under President Will
son, was called into consultation by
President-elect Harding at Marion, O.,
regarding the plan for an association
of nations.
The President is without power I'M
der existing laws Ito shut out wheat
imports" but he apparently has GER
tain powers under the Lever act to
stop future trading in wheat" the fed
eral trade commission at Washington
says in special report.
John f. Nugent of Boise, Idaho, was
nominated by President Wilson at
Washington to be a member of the
federal trade commission. The nom
ination was Immediately confirmed by
the senate. Senator Nugent's term as
senator expires March 3.
Wage reductions averaging about 80
per cent under the union scale prevail
ing in the mems clothing industry since
November, 1919, were announced by
the Clothing Manufacturers associa
ton at New York. Approximately 3d.
600 clothing workers in New York are
affected.
Authority was granted by the interS
state commerce commission at Wash
ington for permanent consolidation of
the transportation business and prop
critics Of the Adams, American, Wells
Fargo & Co. and Southern express
companies into the American Railway
Express company.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1920-12-23
Ask Time on Naval Base.
TAILORs ACT TO CUT PRICES
St. Louis Association Opens Four Co.
operative Shops to Lower Cost
of Clothing.

st. Louis, Dec. 20.-Substantial re-
duction in clothing prices will be eff
fected through the operation of the
four cooperative shops, just opened
here by the Master Tailors' associa-
ton of st. Louis, according to Samuel
L. Fox, president. The reductions will
average $40 to $15 on suits ranging
in price from $40 to $75, Mr.. Fox as
serted. Under the cooperative plan,
contract tailors who formerly made up
clothing after the garments were cut
out are eliminated and skilled labor
is employed. Mr.. Fox emphasized that
the plan is not, as contended by labor
unions, method Of fighting organized
labor and establishing the open shop,
asserting the union wage scale is being
paid in every instance. Union jour-
neymen tailOrs, however, are fighting
the system.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1920-12-23

See what Sari saw in the Virgin of
STEAMBOAT Friday and Saturday.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1920-12-23
NEGRO SAVED FROM MOB
Black Spirited Away From <Independ-
ence, Kan, as Military Takes
CHARGE

independence, Kan. Dec. 2O.-Two
companies of state guards arrived here
from Lawrence and took charge of In
dependence. Shortly after a. M, be-
fore the city stirred, Noble Green, a
negro, whose arrest two days ago as
the slayer Of a white merchant caused
threats of lynching and brought about
a race clash, was spirited away from
the city Jail and rushed from the town
in an automobile. Green was in Gus
tody of officers from Nowata, Kan.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1920-12-23
WOULD PUT TAX
On BANK DEPOSITS
Treadway Offers II Making
Levy of "a of | Per Cent.
FARMER RELIEF CONSIDERED
Members OF House Name Committee
to Consider Aid to Growers-TeIe-
graph Situation Receives At
tention of Committee.

Washington, Dec. 1S.-A tax Of one
fourth of one per cent on all bank de-
posits is proposed in a bill introduced
by Representative Treadway Of Massa-
chusetts, Republican member Of the
house ways and means committee.
Mr.. TreadWay estimated that such
a tax would net a revenue of approx
mately $1,0OO,GOOOOO annually.
Tariff Is Discussed.
Discussion of proposed emergency
tariff legislation to check imports and
the decline in prices of wheat ana
wool, with the possibility Of it's ex-
tension to cover scores of other COM
modities, was the purpose of a joint
conference of members of the senate
finance and the house ways and means
committee.
Although members of the two COM
mittees appeared to be divided as to
how far the tariff program should eX-
tend, with some advocating the entire
Wiping out Of the free list of the I'm
derW0Od tariff act, Chairman FOrdney
of the ways and means committee said
he favored rushing through the emer-
gency protection for wheat and wool
and d few other commodities and let
ting other tariff matters go over for
further consideration.
Consider Farmer Relief.
While the finance committees were
considering the question Of checking
price declines through a tariff en-
barge, the formation Of a policy for
dealing with all pending farmer relief
legislation was to be undertaken by
special committee appointed by mem
berS Of the house who banded together
for concerted action to aid the farm
ers.
To deal with the situation arising
from the refusal of the Western Union
Telegraph company to accept from
members of congress messages to be
charged to government account, Rep
resentative Ireland of Illinois, chair
man of the house accounts commit
tee, has introduced a bill to authorize
local pOstmasters to pay bills present
ed by managers of telegraph COM
panies for messages accepted from
government officials. The postmaster
general would reimburse the postmas-
tiers.
Ask Time on Naval Base.
Extension of time for reporting on
an investigation of sites for a new
Pacific coast naval base until Janu-
arg 81 is to be asked by the senate
committee charged with the work, it
was announced by the chairman, Sen
ator Ball (Rep.) of Delaware. A re-