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Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-04-22
WOMAN HELPS TO
FIGHT PROF|TEERS
Miss Edith Strauss Aiding Gov
ernment in Effort to Lower
Living Costs.

A most diplomatic person is Miss
Edith G. Strauss, who has recently been
appointed to one of The biggest jobs ever
handed a woman for the federal govern
ment in Washington. She is now director
of women's activities under the depart
ment of justice, with A. Mitchell Pal
mer, attorney-general, at its head. The
fight against the high cost Of living has
been placed in the hands of Howard
Figg, with Miss Strauss in charge of the
women's part. The Importance of this ap
pointment may be judged from the opinion
of Mr.. Palmer, who says that 80 per cent
of the money devoted to food and cloth
ing in this country is spent by women.
As her photograph will testify, Miss
Strauss is an attractive young woman
with exceedingly good taste in dress.
She does not advocate cheap garments
in her campaign to decrease costs. She
advises careful, deliberate choosing and
the purchasing of good, lasting materials.
When interviewed recently Miss Strauss
was diplomatic, refusing to place blame
for mounting prices on any class or in
dividual.
1--WE are all TO blame" she says. "It
comes right down to the individual"
Perhaps this diplomacy of hers was
acquired during her experience at the
Paris peace conference, where she held
confidential post in the research depart
ment of near eastern affairs with the
American peace mission.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-04-22
BOOKS FOR EVERYBODY;
PROGRAM Of LIBRARIANS
Conference at Atlantic City Hears
Henry Ridgely on Litera-
turc for Blind.

Library trustees Of Delaware, New
York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and
Maryland, endorsed the "Books for
Everybody" program of the American
Library Association at conference held
recently at Atlantic City. The delegates,
a majority of whom were appointed Of
ficially by the governor or by the State
Librarian of the various States, commended
the library extension movement which
will promote the establishment of public
Libraries for, the 6O,OOO,O0 Americans
now deprived of free library service.
Support for the plan to increase the
supply of literature In the new uniform
type for the blind WAS urged by Henry
Ridgely, trustee of the public library of
Dover, himself blind, who declared that q
great many sightless persons In the Unit
I'd States have exhausted the possibilities
Of the literature now in type for the blind
This feature and many Others embodied In
the enlarged program of the association
were approved by the adoption of the
following resolution: Resolved, that the
conference OF trustees of the Middle At
lantic States, endorse the enlarged pro-
gram as outlined by the executive COM
nittee of the American Library Associa-
ton and call upon the trustees and all
those interested in library work and COM
munity improvement to give it their
sctive support"
To the suggestion Of several delegates
that il may prove inadvisable to launch a
financial campaign at present, Al. L. A.
officials hastened to reply that the Books
Tor Everybody" fund OF $1,000, 900 will
not be obtained by spectacular, house-to-
house "drive" methods, but by direct
personal appeal to friends and groups of
friends of Libraries.
Among Delaware library leaders at
tending the conference were: Henry
Riduely Of Dover, and Henry p. Cannon
OF Bridgeville. Delegates from other
States were f. E. Croasdale, Jessie +.
Adams and Mrs. A. n Edicott Of At
lAntic City; Richard c. Jenl1inson and
John Cotton Dana of Newark, J. B. Hos
kins of Jersey City, y. j., Wesley III.
Woodbury. of Pottsville, II. S. Ehrhart OF
Hanover, Edward Lindsey Of Warren and
Thomas L. Montgomery and Robert P.
Bliss of Harrisburg, Pa, Edward L. Farr
of Wenonah, and Mrs. George NJ. Diven
Of Elmira, n Y. Mrs. NJ. A. Newell and
Thomas Cullen of Baltimore, Md. The
meeting WAS called by Miss Mary L.
Titcomb of the Washington County Free
Library, Hagerstown, Maryland, who is
regional director for the Middle Atlantic
States. The American Library Associa-
ton was represented by Carl Ell. Milan of
New York, director of the enlarged pro-
gram, and ]. Randolph Coolidge, Jr., Of
Boston, trustee of the Boston Athanaeum
and member of the Books for Every
body national advisory council.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-04-22
FOUND A WEARER IN
NEW REPUBLIC GIRL
Sweater Knit for Red Cross by
Miss Mary Peirce is Heard
From in Czecho- Slovakia.

An echo of the good done by Whining
ton Red Cross work in the remotest
corners of Europe has come back to the
city in the form OF letter from one OF the
baby republics. Czecho Slovakia, TO
Miss Mary Peirce, of 1927 Washington
street. The letter was written III Boheml-
An by SIX sisters, one of whom, or per-
haps all of whom, are wearing sweater,
knit by Miss Peirce, a teacher at School
No. 2, for the Red Cross.
Wilmington is a cosmopolitan city, but
one of the few languages not we'll repre-
sented here is Czech. George Nj. Pierce,
Miss Pierce's father, undertook to ind
someone who could translate the letter.
He asked an Italian, a Frenchman, q
Greek, Spaniard and Hebrew who
speaks a variety of languages, None OF
them could make it out. A Pole was able
10 read one sentence, My brothers are
still at war" At last Mr.. Pierce thought OF
Joseph F. Emory, of All Market street,
who has dealings with people OF many
nationalities and is an unusual lingnst
Mr.. Emery wrote out the following
translation.
al received a sweater and it contained
YOUR address and | take this means to
thank YOU. God bless YOU. Every time
| put it on |. think of you. May God
shower his blessings on you. 1t fits me
very nicely and all my girl friends are
Jealous of me. l wish you happy and
merry Easter"
Then followed the signatures OF the SIX
girls and the sentence "My brothers are
still at war" The post mark and stamp
are Czech, and the address is Al Florlan-
ska street, Lomnice, Tiebone, fezni,
Cechy. Miss Pierce will probably answer
the letter, in the hope that someone in the
Bohemian town will be able TO read Eng
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-04-22
TO STAGE PROTEST ON
ATTITUDE OF GOVERNOR
Women From Other Forty Seven
States to Join in Demonstra-
ton in Connecticut.

Forty-seven women from the other
forty-seven States of the Union will meet
in Connecticut May 3 to JON with the
president Of the Connecticut Woman SUI
frage Association, Miss Katharine Luding-
ton, in protest of the women OF the
country and the men and women of Con-
necticut against the refusal of Governor
Holcomb to call special session Of the
LEGISLATURE to act on the Federal Suffrage
Amendment.
The protest meetings will cover the
week OF May 3, and thirty or forty
throughout the State will be addressed by
groups of the forty-seven women, guests
of the Connecticut Woman Suffrage As
sociation The visitors selected are leaders
of the suffrage movement IN their own
States. Thirty of them will represent
States where women are now eligible to
vote In 1920, and the Others will represent
1000, 900 women IN the States where the
womens vote for the next President will
depend on ratification Of the Federal SUI
frage Amendment.
The primary purpose OF this protest
week will be to provide the governor with
proof Of the special emergency which he
has said he is ready TO receive. According
to plans announced by the Connecticut
Woman Suffrage Association, the women
will arrive in Hartford Monday, May 3,
when a reception viii be held. The fol-
lowing day In four groups Of twelve each
thev viii hold meetings In New Haven,
Bridgeport, Waterbury and Norwich. On
Wednesday in twelve groups of four each
and during the next three days they will
speak at meetings in the principal cities
and towns of the State. A motor corps
will be provided to make the tour of the
State.
On Saturday the flying squadron will
meet again in Hartford, and will ask for
a hearing before the governor on that day,
following which large mass meeting will
be held. Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait will
he the chief speaker.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-04-22
QUITS Y. w. C. A. BOARD.
Mrs. Finley Shepard Resigns on Account
of DisaQrcements.

Mrs. Finley Shepard, formerly Miss
Helen Gould. announced her resignation
from the national board Of the y. W. =. a.
because of the course of action OF the
convention at Cleveland, o., last week.
The action included the adoption, 0,
the ''solid ideal of the churches, and OF
a measure to have the association actually
work for the legislation to make the Ideal
a reality" he ideals" include:
Abolition of child labor, an eight-hour
wage as a minimum in every industry
old age pensions, relief from employment
one day in seven and a gradual reduction
of hours of labor TO the lowest practical
point.
The finance committee recommended
that S3. .OOO. 900 be raised in 1921 for cur
rent national work, and an effort to in
crease the present endowment fund OF
SI,6O0,0 900 to S10,00OO0O January /,
1925.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-04-22
MRS, DANIELS To HEAD
DELEGATION To GENEVA
Large Number of American Suf-
fragists to Attend Interna-
tional Gathering.

When Mrs. Josephus Daniels, as official
representative Of the United States st the
conference of the international Suffrage
Alliance in Geneva, sails on the ROYAL
George May 10, she viii have a delegate
body representative Of fifteen States Of
the Union as her convoy. Mrs. Carrie
Chapman Gait, International President,
will be in command.
The Swiss Federal authorities have
expedited all arrangements for the meet
in the Hotel de Ia paix, Geneva, June u
II This will he the first post war in
ternational Suffrage Congress, with twenty
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-04-22
six nations present by delegate.

six nations present by delegates.
Each affiliated branch Of the Interna-
tional Woman Suffrage Alliance has n
right 10 twenty-four delegates and alter
mates. The National American Woman
Suffrage Association announces. hat it's
delegates will be as follows:
Mrs. Jacob Baur, Chicago; Mrs. Dcsha
Breckinbridge, Lexington; Mrs. w. T..
Barkley, Lincoln, Neb.; Mrs. Hasey
Wilson, New York; Mrs Charles r
Spencer. Topeka, Kan. Mrs. Helen Ring
Robinson, Denver; Miss Dorothy Rehfeld,
Aberdeen, s X. Mrs. II o Garvey, Kansas;
Mrs. J. Hamilton Lewis, Chicago; Miss
Julia Lathrop, Washington, ID. G.; Dr.
Marion Horton, Windsor, Vt, and Mrs.
Maud Nathan, New York.
The alternates are: Mrs. J. G.. Munro.
Boston; Miss Frances Healey, Hampton
Falls, n. H.; Mrs. Helen Lippincott,
Riverton, n. J.; Miss G. v Burgbardt
Des Moines; Mrs j. NJ McCown, En-
poria, Kan. Miss Estelle Crane, PloinfieId,
n. j.; Miss Florence Halsey, New Jersey;
Mrs. Writ Dexter, Boston; Mrs Adolph
T. Rocquet, New Orleans Mrs. Martin
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-04-22
Women G.. O. p. Delegates.

Mrs. South, of Frankfort, KY, and
Mrs. Fosseen, of Fergus Falls, Mimi,
nave been elected by their respective
States as delegates-at-large to the Re
publican national convention. Mrs. South
a daughter of Frank o. Bradley, at one
lime governor and afterwards United
states Senator from Kentucky. She is
hartman of the women's division of the
Republican national committee. Mrs.
Fosseen will be one of Minnesota's big
-Four" at the convention.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-04-22
ACTIVITIES OF WOMEN IN AFFAIRS OF THE WORLD

Strand, Chicago Heights, no Miss Alcyon
Robinson, Denver, Mrs. Arthur kycrson.
Chicago and Mrs. Stanley Mccormick of
New York. Firt Corresponding Secretary
of the international Alliance,
Miss Marjorie Shuicr viii be the press
representative II the American contingent.
The following visitors vii attend
Mrs Eric Stafford, Lexington Mrs Jane
Manner and Miss Ruth CTaneton, New
York, Miss Dcna A. Rcbfsld, South Da-
kota; Mrs. Mary y. Cranr, New Jerseyi
Miss g. B. Wilkinson. Lincoln, Neb.
Headquarters will be NJ the Hotel De 10
Paix, Quai du Mont Blanc, Geneva.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-04-22

LADIES
Do not snap and pull out
your hoiy. Use q Herpi-
eide Comb. An large
teeth, No rough edges,
~ sJtoyD corners.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-04-22
Homeliest Woman.

Mrs Mary Bevan, recently awarded a
$4,000 prize as the homeliest OF her
sex in England, has Just arrived. in
will make her fortune. She had no Diff
cultv in winning a husband amid all the
keen competition in England, where the
women so greatly outnumber the men as
10 cause alarm for the future of the race
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-04-22

In China there is a very strange pro-
fession for women 1t as carried on by
elderly ladies, who go the round of the
best houses, announcing their coming by
beating drum, and offering their services
10 arnuse the lady OF the house. This offer
accepted. they SIT down and tell the latest
scandals and the newest stories and bits of
gossip, and are rewarded at the rate of a
few pennies per hour.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-04-22

Send 10 cents in stamps or coin today for
sample and booklet on The Care Of the
Hair Address: The Herpicide Co..
Dept 1924. Detroit. u. S. A
Sold by Drug and Department Stores.
Applications at the Better Barber Shops.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-04-22

He,rseide (Tay) So~p
produces a rzch creamy
iofher and ieoDes fbe hoD
light and fluffy. Bess f.
the hmr, fine forfhe bark
exceUens for the ,7uyxaSA
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-04-22

Miss Lois Fox, American war worker
and known as the "Ukelele girl" Of The
A. y. r., attracted attention a. partici-
pant in the famous annual Brittany fash
ion parade N which a representative ~
every village MARCHES. The soldiers ~
France, recognizing her AZ the parade AZ
on American, picked her up and carried
her to the nearest elevation where she
sang some 81 her famous character songs
including negro melodies.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-09-18
MINERS IN FULL
SWING MONDAY

Hazleton, Pa, Sept. 1S-Fu11 re-
sumption of operations in the anthra-
cite coal region is expected on Mon
day as a result of the telegram re-
ceived from Secretary of Labor Will
son by the policy committee of United
Mine Workers promising to consider
the claims of the miners if they re-
turned to work. Chairman Thomas
kennedy of the policy committee, an
nounced that the committee would
Immediately proceed to prepare its
case to be placed before the labor
department as soon as the wage nego-
Gatons are renewed.
Union leaders said they did not
anticipate any difficulty in getting the
men back to work next week pro-
viding there was discrimination
against the ''vacationists'' by the
operators.
The indications were, however,
that some of the local unions would
refuse to obey the proclamation to
return. The first group of miners to
balk was at HARDWOOD where it was
voted yesterday to prolong the ''vaca-
ton
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-09-18
AMERICANS In
BUENOS AIRES
KICK ON TAXES

BuenoS Aires, Sept. 1S.-Protest
against the assessment of the United
States income and excess profits tax
upon American citizens and business
firms residing and operating abroad
Is voiced in a resolution adopted by
the Chamber of Commerce of the
United States in Argentina and sent
to the government at Washington
Amendment to the law is asked on
the ground that it is proving an OBJ
sion of United States foreign com
merce.
Collection Of the tax rot only in
creases the heavy expenses of Amer
leans residing abroad, but constitutes
a serious handicap to them in trade
since no such tax is collected from
the nationals of other countries It
Is further pointed out that American
citizens and business houses must pay
heavy taxes levied by the country
in which they are located and are
thus taxed twice without representa-
ton either in the government of that
country or their own.
Already the assessment of the ex-
cess profits and income tax has
atlng abroad to change their iden-
tity by organizing as concerns of the
countries where they conduct bust
ness it is asserted, thus causing a
serious loss to the prestige of Amer
lean commerce in foreign markets -
1t is contended that when the rela-
tive high cost of living and other dis
advantages incurred by foreign resi-
dence are considered, incomes abroa d
that appear large are not really so
IN comparison with those paid in the
United States, and the collection OF
the tax upon them tends to make for
elgn residence and business opera
ton financially disadvantageous
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-09-18
ITALY KICKS ON
TELEGRAPH AND
POSTAL SERVICE

Rome, Sept. 1S.-Comp1aint that
the government postal and telegraph
service is poor is cryStalized in a
statement by Professor Ugo Ancona,
member of the recent Italian cabinet,
who declares that the Ministry OF
Posts and Telegraphs must be abot.
ished and organized anew. The
Professor suggests also that subsid-
larry branches of the Ministry, except
the savings banks, be given over to
private enterprise.
7. Professor Ancona charges that the
Ministry is a hopeless maid of all
work. which tries to operate the
postal service, telegraphs, te1eph ones,
teries and that it does all of these
services poorly. The public is rapid
ly learning to send parcels by pri-
vate firms since of those confided to
the state more than 30 per cent dc
not arrive, while 80 per cent of those
received are without their contents,
says the Professor. He charges al
so that the Ministry of Posts is enor-
mous1y overstaffed with about g.
900 employees, some OF whom are
terribly underpaid," and that both
discipline and organization are sad
ly wanting.
The Ministry had q deficiet equiv
a1ent to s13,000,000 in its budget for
last year owing to greatly increased
operating expenses and wages. The
&ehciet is expected to reach $780,
Gee, SEQ for the current year.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-09-18

has made the money-getting labors
of the Republicans the subject of in
vestigation by a senatorial committee.
Gov. Cox charged that at a Chi
cago meeting quotas were levied to-
falling $8,145, 900 on fifty-one cities
alone. The printed official docu-
ments gives support to this charge,
but even stronger substantiation of
it has come from witnesses at the
Senate hearings. Harry M. Blair,
Chief of Staff for Treasurer Upham
has admitted that quotas were fixed
for fifty-four cities, three more than
were contained in the list cited by
Governor Cox. Other field men en-
ployed under Blair in the work of
"gold-digging," have admitted to the
Committe having knowledge of those
quota lists, the very existence. of
which was denied by Republican
CAMPAIGN directors when Governor
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-09-18

c-simile5- of some documents
which figured in the Republican fund
raising campaign are presented here
with. They are extracts from the
documents used by Governor Cox
to make good his charge in his Pitts
burg speech that the Republican
party was raising a fund of $4,000
900 to buy the Presidency.
All of the documents were prepared
and issued from Republican head
quarters and as such are official. The
fac-similes of the printed extracts are
from the Official Bulletin" issued
from the office of Republican Treas
urer Fred w. Upham and are marked
confidential and exclusive"
The widespread publicity given to
Governor Cox's charges of a stupen-
dous campaign fund has robbed the
documents of much of their conf
Dental and exclusive character and
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-09-18
GERMAN LEADER
FAILS TO PRAISE
RUSSIAN SOVIET

Brunswick, Germany, Sept. IS
August Merges, a German communist
leader who has just returned from
Moscow, says that "bolshevism as
practiced in Russia is not Simon pure
unadulterated communism. The cost
of living there is excessively high;
paper money is wiped out with paper
money and people generally have the
blues"
Merges, a little hunchbacked jour
neyman tailor, who staged the COM
munist revolt in Brunswick in 1919,
warns his comrades against settling
in Russia.
Politics in Russia are controlled
by the communist party, which counts
100000 members, several hundred
thousands of whom are office seek
ers and political hangers-on who are
not to be trusted" Merges declared
in an address on his Russian discov-
cries.
He declared that the Russian sys-
tenn was not suited to Germany, be-
cause of its rigid centraliza ton COM
bined with a tedious bureaucracy,
and its imitation of capitalistic meth
DDS. He told the Moscow reds, he
said, that the German communists
did not propose to take orders from
them.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-09-18
also the founder of the BigMBrother
movement, according to Sthe an
nouncement.
DISCOVER WAY
TO DODGE TAXES

Gui1dford, Eng, Sept 1S.-A novel
way of avoiding payment of local
taxation has been discovered by sew
eral large families of gypsies in an
and thus are liable to house duty.
There is regulation, however.
that if the wheels on a permane
caravan home are turned COMPLETE.
round once every year the owner is
absolved from duty. Consequently
when the tax collector calls at the
camp there is a general wheel turn
ing. Every caravan simultaneously
moves forward about two yards-and
the gypsies can live duty free for
another wear.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-09-18
And Baclsache Stopped After Short
Treatment with FRUIT

Moretown, Vermont, March 9th 1918.
ST am warranted in having the
strongest faith in 'Fruit-a-tives' after
receiving such wonderful benefits
from them. Foryca-s, was sufferer
with Kidney and Liver Complaints.
My back ached; my liver was
sluggish and my whole system
seemed out of order.
tFruit-a-tivcs' was the only remedy
to help me. They strengthened the
kidneys, made my bowels move
regularly and freed me of all the
distress caused from the kidney
trouble, constipation and indigestion.
A few weeks treatment with
sFruit-a-tives' made me feel as if I
had new lease on life, and 1 am glad
to make known the great value OF
these Fruit Liver Tablets.
MOSES MURPHY.
5Oc. a box, for $3.50, trial size Csc.
At dealers or from FRUIT-A-TIVEs,
Limited. OGDENSBURG, N. Y.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-09-18

Cox's charges were first made.
David S. Blossom, a Republican
fund raiser of Cleveland, Ohio, in his
testimony before the Committee ad-
mitted that the quota" to be raised
in Cuyahoga County, which includes
Cleveland, was 100000, the amount
named in the list from which Govern
or Cox quoted. John A Kelly, state
director of Embarrassing in Ohio, teS-
tilted that the quota for Hamilton
County (Cincinnat) was originally
fixed at 100000 but was later seal
ed to $260,000, the latter sum being
the amount in the list used by Gov
ernor Cox.
AS admissions of the facts substan-
tiating Governor Cox's charges or a
huge G. o. P. campaign fund have
been wrung day by day from re1uct-
ant witnesses by the questioning of
the Democratic members of the Sen
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-09-18

ate committee, confirmation or the
quota figures used by Governor Cox
has come from Hamilton S. Kean, Re-
publican National Committeeman
from New Jersey has admitted that the
figure of 100000 for Newark is cor
rect, as is also that of $4,000 for
Jersey City.
Among the extracts from the ar
chives of the Republican committee
is one showing Senator Harding's ap-
prevail of Treasurer Upham's work in
campaign fund raising. Others show
his field men, urging them on to new
and greater efforts in .tgold digging"
The famous exhortation, which has
for it's central theme the fervent ex-
hortation, t'But, boys get the money!
among these. For this MESA ge
Mr.. Blair chose the sententious cap
ton "Step on IT,