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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-05-11
LIVE STOCK PRICES
nv Associated PreSS)

tBy Associated fIeSSt
INDIANAPOLIS, May 1o.-Hogs-
Receipts, 1000; higher. Cattle-Re-
ceipts, 1900 Calves-Receipts, 100;
lower. Sheep-Receipts, 100; steady;
HOGS.
Good mixed, 140 lbs. up. average,
$14.75@1525; assorted. 40 to 225 lbs,
average, $1525@ 15.35; assorted, 225
to 275 lbs average, s14.25@ 1900: fat
back pigs, $500 down. fat hogs,
under 14O lbs, SIS down; sows, &C
cording to quality, s11O0@12.35: sales
in truck market, SIS 00@ 1915; bulk
of sows. $11.75@ 1900; light pigs,
$14.75 down.
Best heavy, a year ago, S21OO; live
hogs, a year ago, 1880: most of sales
a year ago, S2075@ 21,00.
CATTLE.
Killing Steers-Extra good, 1900
lbs. and upward, s12.70@ 1900; good
to choice, 1850 lbs and upward, $12 so
G12S5: common to medium 1850 lbs.
S12.5O012.75 good to choice, LOO to
s1225@12.5O: good to choice. 100 to
1900 lbs. SIPS q 1880; common to
medium. 1850 lbs. $3.50; good to
choice, 1000 to 100 lbs, $11.25G
1925; common to medium, 1000 to
LILO lbs, $11.000 fair to good,
under / 900 lbs, $1,000 IL 90: good to
choice yearlings, s12.0OG 1880.
Hefers-Good to best, under 500 lbs.
and up. S11.0012.5 common to me-
dunn, 500 lbs. up, s1O.O@1O.75; good
10 best, under 500 lbs, S11.00Q 1900;
common TO medium, under 800 lbs,
$4,000 1850.
Cows.-Good to best, 1850 lbs. up
ward. 10000 11.50: common to medi-
um, 1850 lbs, $9.5O@1O.50; good to
best, under 1850 lbs, $9.50@11.00;
common to medium under 1850 lbs,
$9.0O610.OO; Gamers and cutters,
$5O007.75
BuIs.-Good to best, 1900 lbs, up
ward. S90O0950; good to choice, I'M
der 1900 lbs, $925610O0; fair to me-
dunn, under 1900 lbs. $S.50G9.00:
common to good bolognas, S7.5O0
$50
calves-Steady and lower; good to
400; common to medium veals, I'M
der 200 lbs, $9N11; good to choice
heavy calves, s9M10: common to me-
dunn heavy calves, $10S.
Stockers and Feeding CattIe-Good
to choice steers, 800 lbs. and up, $1,000
@11OO; common to fair steers, 500
lbs, and up, S9.50@10.00; good to
choice steers, under 800 lbs, $500
1000; common to fair steers, under
500 lbs. sSOOQ900; medium to good
heifers. s7Oo@SOO; medium to good
COWS, S600@7O0; good to choice milk
ers, $11OOO@135oO; fair to medium
mixers, $75.O0@100.00; springers.
S750@95O; stock calves, $50 to 400
lbs, S7.O0@10.50.
SHEEP AND LAMBS
Sheep-Receipts, 100; good to
choice clipped sheep. 5000; western
fed lambs, $500 q 1850; good to
choice lambs, s1S.O0G19,00; common
10 medium lambs, S12.00@1600;
bucks, per 100 lbs, $70O@S.00; shorn
lambs valued about $500 per 100 lbs.
lower than wool stock.
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(RY Associated PressO

CHICAGO, Ill.,, May II. GU. S. Blu
reau of Markets Reports)-Cattle -
Receipts 10000; market, slow. few
early sales steers about steady at
Mondays decline; she stock steady to
25 cents lower; good to best fat cows,
weak; most bulls steady; bids on
calves lower with supply liberal; pack
ers and feeders steady to lower.
Hogs-Receipts $4,000; generally Is
to 25 cents lower; light declining most,
top $500; bulk light $14@15.50; bulk
$50 lbs. and over, $13.9O@14.60; pigs,
25 cents lower; bulk 100 to 125 lbs,
$13.5O@14.25.
Sheep - Receipts, 1000; slow;
steady to lower; choice but wet wool
lambs $21.25; choice shorn lambs $40;
bulk $17.25@19.00; choice shorn ewes,
S125O
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Indiana Brevities

SHELBYVILLE- Furniture manu-
manufacturers of this city have met
to adopt plans for dealing with the
more than 1000 striking men from
II factories.
EVANSVILLE - Arthur Booth, a
member of the city council. was ar
rested and taken into custody as an
alleged member of whisky ring
He was released on 1000 bond.
BLOOMINGTON-F automobiles,
reach manned by three men, will leave
End go to every county and important
town in the state as an advertisin,
scheme of the coming centennial
celebration of Indiana University.
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LOCAL QUOTATIONS
FURNISHED by Whelan)
RllNlhG

Oats, 800; rye, $3.50: straw, per
ton, $500; new corn, $1.65 per bushel.
SELLING
Cottonseed Meal, per ton, $50: per
cwt.. s4.15; Oil Meal. per ton. $4,000;
cwt, s4.25; Tankage so per cent. $105
per ton; cwt., $5.35; Tankage 60 per
cent, Sis per ton; cwt.. $500; Quaker
Dairy Feed, per ton, $3.50; per cwt.,
$500; salt, per Dbl, $500; wheat bran,
per ton, $4,000; cwt., $315; pure wheat
middlings, per ton, $1,000; per cwt.,
$3.50.
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"CANTIGNY DAY., MAY %,
MAY BE CELEBRATED BY 1ST

movement has been launched in
several states to observe May IS ma
tlonally as "Cantigny day" Former
members of the first division are pre-
pairing elaborate celebrations.
May 2S will be the second anniver-
'sary OF the active participation of
American troops in the war There
had been few casualties before that
date in 1918, while the troops were
being trained in French warfare. But
1t was at Cantigny that American
troops made their first attack
The first division advanced along
a mile and a half front northwest of
Montdidier and took Cantigny and 200
prisoners.
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(By Associated Press)

EAST BUFFALO, N Y, May IL
Cattle-Receipts 600; handy, steady
heavy slow; calves, receipts 1000; IS
cents lower, S6015.
Hogs-Receipts 6.4O0; steady to 10
cents lower; heavies $15d15.50; mix
ed SIG; Workers SIG q 1915; light
Workers and pigs, SIG; roughs s12 SO;
stays $500.
Sheep and Lambs--Receipts, 5000;
slow, lower; lambs $8@19; yearlings,
$12G16,50; wethers $14G14.5O: ewes,
s6@13.50; mixed sheep $135O@14.OO.
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GASOLINE TO GO HIGHER

NEW YORK, May 1.-THE Stand
ard Oil company announced that the
price of gasoline to garages would be
advanced TO 80 cents a gallon, while
independent companies were reported
to be quoting gas" as high as 80 cents.
This would mean the retail price would
be at least "a cents.
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(By Associated PreSs)

CINCINNATI, O.. May 11.-Wheat
No. red. S311@3.12; No. red,
s3OS@310: other grades as to quail
ity, $2.9O@3O4. Corn-No. white,
S2.1O@213; No 3 white, $2.OS@21O;
No. 4 white, $2.O5@2.07. Corn-No. Y
yellow, s2O5@2.07; No. 3 yellow,
$2.O4@2O5; No. 4 yellow, s2.01@ FOB.
Corn-No.-2 mixed, $2.04 2.05. Oats,
s1.21@124; rye, s2.26@2.2s; hay,
S39.5O643.75.
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(By Associated Press)

PITTSBURGH, May 11.-Hogs-Re-
ceipts, 5000; lower; heavies $1425@
1880; heavy Workers S15.5O615.75;
light Workers $15.OO@15.25; pigs S14
@14.75.
Sheep and Lambs Receipts 300
steady; top sheep s12; top lambs,
$3.50.
Calves Receipts 500; lower; top,
$3.50
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eph. Mr.. Wilson, the teacher of the
class, will tell how Joseph, a captive,
became the right hand man of Pha-
raOh.
TO HIKE SATURDAY.
Saturday afternoon the hike club
of the boys department of the "Y"
will go south of the city.
"Y" COMMITTEE TO MEET.
The Y. M. G. A. campaign commit
tee will meet with the two majors
who are to lead the activities of the
drive, Wednesday noon at the asso-
citation building. Five captains for
each major will be chosen.
CLINIC TREATS SO CASES
Thirtyeight cases are enrolled for
treatment and care by the Easthaven
clinic established for the treatment
of those affected with venereal dis
eases. Although the time has been
short for any noticeable improvement
in the patients, DR.. Smith, superin-
tendent of the hospital, is pleased
with the outlook
TO HOLD SERVICES
Special evangelistic services will be
conducted at the Third M. E. church
each evening this week by the pa stor,
the Rev. E. L. Gates. The meetings
will be conducted until May %, Pente-
costal Sunday. Everyone is invited
TICE WILL SPEAK
r. Soloman Tice, missionary to
Mexico. who is spending his furlough
in Indiana, will speak at Fountain
City Friends meeting next Sunday
morning and at New Garden meeting
Sunday night.
TO SHOW FILM
Mahlon Harvey, of the Friends For
ward Movement headquarters, will
show the Forward Movement film at
New Westville next Sunday night, 1t
was announced Tuesday.
TO REPRESENT X. OF c.
Frank Kiser and Arnold Kline, as
representatives of the Richmond
Knights Of Columbus, and John ].
Harrington, Jr,, as district deputy
will represent Richmond at the 10Th
annual state convention of the Knights
of Columbus at FIT. Wayne on May %,
"a. About $50 delegates will be pres
ent-
TEBBITS ARE HERE
Mr.. Charles Tebbits and Miss Edith
Tebbits. formerly of Richmond, now
Of Whittier, Calf. arrived in Rich
mond Tuesday for weeks stay.
They are on their way to California
following a visit with Walter Teb-
bits in New York City.
ROTARY AT LUNCH
Luncheon at the Westcott hotel in
stead of the Arlington was the sur
prise package for members of the Ro-
met at the postoff1ce and marched in
badly to the Westcott. Only short i'm
promptu talks were given.
BIBLE GLASS MEETS
The Perseverance Bible class of the
First Baptist church will meet at the
home of Mrs. Henry Ceilings, 937
South Tenth street, Wednesday at
2:3O p. m. A special program has
been prepared and all members are
urged to be present.
TO GIVE DEGREES
Whitewater Lodge No. Al, Of I. o.
o. F. will confer the first degree upon
a number of candidates Friday even
ing. Neophytes from Cambridge City
and Lynn will be among the number
that will receive the work.
AUTO HITS SUDHoFF BOY
Howard Sudhoff. IS. 800 North
Tenth street, escaped with a few cuts
and bruises when an automobile driven
by Joseph Mustard collided with the
bicycle on which he was riding, at
1880 p. M. Wednesday. at the alley
near the corner of Ninth and North c.
ST. MARY'S COMMENCEMENT
Commencement exercises for the 7
graduates from St. Mary's high school
will be held about June IS Eight
boys are to graduate from the eighth
grade.
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Tuesday, from Cleveland, where he at
tended sessions of the general national
committee meeting of the Inter
Church World Movement.
Levi T. Pennington, and DR.. William
V. Coffin, of Whittier, Calf, who ar
attending the committee meeting, will
return later in the week accompanied
by Charles E. Tebbits.
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CHICAGO. May 11.-Butter Market
Lower; creamery tirsts 4605715
Eggs-Receipts 45,534 cases; mar
ket lower; lowest 38Q39; firsts 41h @
Az
Live Poultry-Market higher; fowls
35, springs 81.
Potatoes-Market dull; receipts 30
cars; Northern Whites, sacked and
bulk, S7.35@ $50; Canadian s6.75@7;
new weak, unchanged.
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Prince Arsu-No-Hiya.

Prince Arsu-No-H iya, second son
of the emperor of Japan, recently
was graduated from the Central
military preparatory school in
Toxic and is ready for the next
step in the training, which the en-
peror hopes will eventually fit him
to help lead the japanese forces in
case of war.
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Parking Baby Buggies
Is Novel Suggestion
Concord. ". II. Monitor

'NUIlCUlU, N. II. NlOU1IOTT
A certain city council sitting in
solemn session was moved to shouts
of laughter when one of it's members
proposed that parking space for baby
buggies be reserved by the city near
the public markets and other longest
ed shopping districts But why is
such suggestion laughable?
Pushing baby buggy through the
crowds affords little pleasure to any
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BRINGING
UP
FATHER
BY
McMANUS

choice butchers, $11OO@12.O0; fair to
medium butchers, $10.0O@11.00; good
to choice heifers, $9O0@10.O0; fair to
good heifers, $9.00@1O.O0; choice fat
COWS, $9.00@10.00; fair to good fat
COWS, $6O0@7.50; bologna COWS, 5000
$500; butcher bulls, $9.00@11.00; bo-
logna bulls, $S.O0@9.O0; calves. $1,000
@1500.
Sheep-Market, steady; sheep, $500
$500; lambs $12.000D15.00.
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(Ry Associated PrcSs)

TOLEDO, O., May 11.-Cloverseed:
Prime cash, $4,000; Oct, $24.0O; Dec.
$2310.
Alsike: Prime cash. $22.75; Dec
$1,000,
Timothy: Prime cash. 1917, $5.45
1918, s5.45; 1919, $3.50; Mar, $685.;
May, $3.50; Sept. $5,771a; Oct. $3.50
Dec. 1855.
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DAYTON MARKET
Corrected by Mclean & Company
Dayton, o. Bell Phone, East %;

Home S1235.
DAYTON, O., May 11.-Hogs - Re-
ceipts, 8 cars: market steady; choice
heavies, S14.75@1500; butchers and
packers, $1475@15.0O; heavy York
ers, S1475@15.O0; light Workers,
$14.00@1450; pigs, $1,000 q 1300s
choice fat sows, S11.50@12.00; com
mon to fair sows, $11.00@11.50; stays,
$7.O0@9.00.
Cattle-Market, steady; fair to good
shippers, S120O@l3.0O; good TO
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LUTHERAN DRIVE is
TO BE FINISHED SUNDAY

st. Johns Lutheran church an
nounces an additional subscription Of
1888 in addition to the $685. sent in
two weeks ago in the Lutheran world
drive.
The campaign will not begin at the
First Lutheran church until June.
The Second Lutheran church will COM
plete its drive Sunday and will an
nOunce the results at that time.
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PRODUCE MARKET
(By Associated PresS)

(By Associated Press)
CINCINNATI, O., May 11-Butter
fat-Lower, Eggs - Steady; prime
firsts. Ale; firsts, 4Oc; seconds, 36c
Poultry-Steady; springers, 55c; hens
SAC. Turkeys, CSC
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(By Associated Press)

CHICAGO. May 11.-Wheat-No.
red, $295; No 2 hard, $3.O5.
Corn-No. 3 mixed, $2.07 EOS; NO.
2 yellow, $2.09@2.10.
Oats-No. 2 white, Lac G1.16; NO.
white, $1.12A @114la.
Pork-Nominal.
Lard-$20.S7.
Ribs-$17.75@1S.
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RITTER QUOTATIONS.

The wholesale price for creamery
butter is 62 cents pound. Butter
fats delivered in Richmond bring 60
cents a pound.
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LOCAL GRAIN MARKET

1898 for No. l red wheat; $3.50 for
No. 2; $2.S6 for No. 8; No. 4, $2.76.
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clover, $38@3S.5O.
(By Associated Press)

INDIANAPOLIS, May Inlay -
No. 1 timothy, $41@41.50; No. tim
othy, $40@4O50; No. l clover, $3.50
$4,000.
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There Is no substitute for thorough
going, ardent and sincere earnestness.
-Dickens.
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CHICAGO GRAIN RANGE
Furnished by e. w. WAGNER q co,

PIP Union National Bank bulId-
ing. Phone 1920.
CHICAGO, May II. - Following is
the range of futures on Chicago Board
Of Trade today.
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LIBERTY BONDS

10y ASSOcldIeu f'reSSb
NEW YORK, May 11.-Prices on
| Liberty bonds TODAY were.
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NEW YORK STOCKS

(Markets by E. w. Wagner & Co., 212
Union Bank Bldg.)
NEW YORK Mav1
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LOCAL HAY MARKET
Steady. No. ] timothy, S39.5O040;
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FRIENDS GET BACK FROM
MEETING IN CIEVEI ANN

Ross A. Hadley, general secretary of
the American Friends Board of For
eign Missions, returned to Richmond
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eph. Mr.. Wilson, the teacher of the
class, will tell how Joseph a captive,
became the right hand man of Pha-
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-05-14
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Sold only in original sealed pack.
ages. price thirty-five cents. At drug
stores everywhere
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in the commissioners meetings upon
several different occasions, the Hast
time the matter was brought up the
attorney for the library board ap-
peared before the mayor and com
missioners, and asked that the fund
ne restored which was denied by
them.
The mayor informed him at the
time that there was no fund upon
which they could draw, and he would
rot authorize ii If there was, with
that information the attorney for the
board went ahead and prepared his
case to file in court.
Just what course Of action will be
pursued In the case mas not been
dlvulged by the attorney for the IL
brary board, but it Is strongly inti-
mated that the public may expect
something sensational to develop
when the case is brought into court
which ii will be at once if the at
torney's statement Is correct.
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LIBRARY BOARD VA It
THEIR FUND PLA CED
BACK TO THEIR CREDIT

That there will be something do
ing IL the case of the city versus tie
library board within few days, has
been attested by none other than the
attorney for the board, who states
that he has everything prepared TO
file in the courts, to compel the
mayor and board Of city commission
ors to refund approximately $4,000
that was transferred from the library
fund last January, to another depict.
ed fund of the city, which the chair
man of the library board alleges they
knew nothing about, and had roceiv-
ed no notification to that effect
The matter has been threshed out
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SON WHO BEATS HIS
A GED FATHER IS IN
THE CO j n TY JAIL

John Mason, aged about 93 years,
who lives a few miles southeast Of
the city in the Mary Niblack school
district, was arrested Thursday after
noon, and lodged in the county Jail
charged with numerically beating his
aged father the day before.
The complaint was sworn out before
Justice Butcher, and Mason was ar.
rested by Deputy Sheriffs Gaines
and Whitson Thursday afternoon.
The officers who made the arrest
were unable to give details but it is
alleged that family affairs are re-
sponsble for the deed of the son IN
beating up his father.
The father, w. II. Mason, is about
70 years of age. and his face and
body showed the effects of rough
treatment
The case will be heard before the
trial court as soon as the date Us
fixed by the county attorney, in the
meantime Mason is in Jail to await
such action.
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Comes now, Albert s. Burleson,
chief manager on the part Of the
government for the telegraph and
telephones, which he seized as war
necessity after the war was over.
and solemnly tells the congress OF
these United States that mis- (Bur.
lesons) administration of the same
had caused a slight loss Of sl40. 900.
600 in few months and will they
now please come across with the
necessary coin of the realm to pay
the loss--and then he would make
II worse by charging that the com.
panies themselves took a loss before
the government control. All we care
10 say about the loss of the lines
while the owners run them is that
the current stock quotations of Am.
erican Telephone and Telegraph Com.
pany, indicated not only a very heal.
thy condition but a regular dividend
as well. What we want to say about
them while the government run them.
IL that If the same ideas were carried
out In all public utilities, with the
Burleson type Of management. the
losses would, after while, eat up
the national wealth-provided that
could be done.-Durant News.
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TO PROVE FRIENDSHIP.

The Christian Science Monitor.
| would give you a rose' to prove
beauty,
A pearl to prove endurance,
A bird to prove lightness ard
speed,
A violet TO prove fragrance.
But to prove friendship l would
bring a task.
1t would be difficult and dark.
Encompassed with thick fog and
heavy morass.
With false lights and traitorous
tongues;
| would obscure the light above
it, and the reason for it,
Would withdraw the evidences of
good,
The value of success.
You should not be alone, but lied to
and whispered round,
should heed nothing, but wait in
silence,
Nor should answer if you should
call.
After cold negligence and the seven
thunders,
Should you declare, "I am thy
friend-I believe"
/ would not heed you.
If you stood firm and the waters
bore you not away.
Them might, uncertainty, give
ear.
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names as members. OF course Ger.
tam of the rich merchants Joined
eager, If possible, thereby to take
away the popular reproach that had
been fastened upon them And the
stenosraphers of today who have
pledged themselves to make their own
hats and dresses had their precursors
in the damsels of the league. who
searched out old spinning wheels
from their mothers garrets, and set
themselves to learn anew the house
hold craft Of still earlier times. Spin.
ning'Dees came into vogue. Spinning
schools were started in every town.
Fer true. the young women of the
day were ready to leave off playing
the harpsichord and spinet for the
sake of showing their skill at the
more prosaic instrument OF industry.
And all this activity in Massachu.
setts so aroused the women of the
neighboring state of Connecticut that
they. on their part, eager to stay the
outflow of money so greatly needed
in the country, adopted a resolution
that, for the space Of eight months,
they would not buy any gauze. any
ribbons, any laces, any feathers, any
beaver hats, silks, muslins, or
chintzes.' They also pledged them
selves to dress their persons in the
plainest manner and to avoid all
unnecessary expense"
Probably these absentions, and all
the league activities, did their part in
alleviating the burdens of trying
time. They could hardly have been
cure for the trouble, however. If
they had been, we should have had
no such opportunity, as now,, to see
history in the act of repeating itself.
Christian Science Monitor.