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The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1920-02-06

here and there. Twas mud compared
to those of now, but Love oozed from
it anyhow; and in 1t was inscribed
bit of verse. the sweetest ever writ:
'IF you LOVE ME AS LOVE YOU
NO KNIFE CAN CUT OUR LOVE
IN TWO"
! married her, of course. you sayf
Oh, no; she picked another jay. Now
when see her with her brood, in petu-
liant maternal mood. no longer pert
but fat and plain. I'm glad he hacked
ou- love In twain.-Harlan Babcock
In Chicago Journal.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1920-02-06

If~ VALENTINES DAY will be
w W. a fateful one for me-" de-
W clred Peggy Candor to
- +Lvon 30 hos. to
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1920-02-06

BRAZIL, SOUTH AMERICA
Reliable information for those
desiring to locate there. Address
30S Berks Trust Bldg, Reading, PENN.
w. N. u, salt Lake City, No. $3.50.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-08-24
SCENES ARE ANNOUNCED
FOR PAGEANT PROGRAM
I'm Line of Duty" Will Depict
American Wars Since the
| Year 1848.

Announcement of the program of
the pageant which will be given at
the Sylvan theater to mark the be-
ginning of the annual encampment
of the Veterans of Foreign Wars in
this city September 10 has been made
by Mrs. Marie Moore Forrest. 1t has
been arranged with the aid of capt:
William H Santelmann. director OF
the Marine Band. who has consented
to serve as musical director of the
Pageant.
The pageant will be entitled I'm
Line of Duty" and will illustrate the
principal foreign wars and eXped1-
lions in which this country has taken
part during the last seventy-hve
years 1t will have eight episodes
and fifteen scenes.
The first scene will show "The Fail
of the Alamo" one of the incidents
of the Texas Mexican war, which VIII
be presented because of its bearing
on the war of 1S4S. The next VIII
show President Polk officiating at
the admission of Texas to the Union.
Admiral Dewey at Cavite. santiago
; after the surrender, the expedition to
Samoa in 1899. a Moro attack on a
United States sentry in the Philip
pines. the Boxer rebellion in emma
and the United States marines at
Santo Domingo will be the subjects
of succeeding scenes, followed by
"Pershing's Reserves" at the Mexican
border.
The war with Germany will be
illustrated in six scenes, beginning
with the indignation in the United
States resulting from the execution
of Edith Cavell. Lifeboat drill. sun
set and sunrise on a transport the
ST MihieI drive. gas alarm and
the return of the troops from abroad
will conclude the pageant.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-08-24
The Loafers

l ply my Tyre the whole day
long, and have since long ago,
and ship out bales of deathless
song at fifty cents a throw. And
if l faltered in my zeal the
sheriff would appear and
promptly place his large red seal
on all my worldly gear. And
when my harp gets smoking hot,
its cooling system clogged, to
some calm park or kindred spot
l oftentimes have logged; and
there the loafers always sit on
benches, day by day; they do not
toll, they do not knit, they never
strive for pay. l see the same
old musty groups by day, and
after dark; barred out from all
the city's coops, their home is in
the park. They seem to think
there's nothing wrong, they
burble and they laugh, until
some peeler comes along and
prods them with his staff. How
doth the seedy little shirk still
find existence nice, when men
who buckle down and work can
barely raise the price? How
doth the booty little bum con-
trive to stay on earth, when we
must toll and make things hum
to gain our board and berth? 1t
is a mystery, l wot, that needs
solution, much; and when my
ajr-cooled harp gets hot, l muse,
to beat the Dutch.
WALT MASON.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-08-24

Skaters Floral Designs Excel
in tasteful beauty. 900 14th. NJ. Z4le-
Advertisement.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-08-24

GUIDES Choice Flowers
for every occasion. Fresh cut, last
ing and fragrant. 1914 F.-Adver-
tiSement
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-08-24
WILL TAKE UP GAS RATES.
Utilities Commission to Hold Hear
ing Thursday Morning.

The question of rates to be charged
for gas during September and Octo-
Der will be taken up by the Public
Utilities Commission at hearing in
the board room of the District build
ing at 10 o'clock Thursday morning.
The Washington Gas Light Company
has asked continuation of the rate
of $1.25 per thousand cubic feet to
householders. but will present evil
dence to show that the rate should
be $1.32 or s1.35 under present con-
ditions in the oil and coal markets.
The Federation of Citizens Asso-
Citations, it is stated, will not oppose
extending the present rate for two
months. but will object to a further
increase at this time. The commits
sion will have only five days after
the hearing in which to reach de-
cision. since the present rates ex-
pire on September 1.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-08-24
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.

Surprises are promised by the en-
tertainment committee at the weekly
luncheon of the Kiwanis Club, to be
held Thursday at the Hotel Washing
ton Special boosters will be Max
Walton and Baker Weaver.
The Trinidad Citizens Association
will meet Friday night in the Manual
Training School, Sth and l streets
northeast.
The annual election of officers of the
Washington Gregg Shorthand Asso-
citation will take place Thursday
night at 7:30 o'clock at the Brentano
building, 18th and + streets.
All lovers of the "Square dance''
will have an opportunity to exhibit
their prowess tomorrow night. when
the Square Dance Club will hold an
excursion on the steamer Charles
Manchester.
A charter and bylaws will be
adopted and a program of activity
will be outlined at a meeting of the
housing group of the City Club at
7:30 o'clock this evening at the club
house, Farragut Square. H. Clifford
preside. All members of the club in
terested in housing have been invited
to attend.
Mrs. T. s. vandervcer of the st.
Adams Cathedral Guild will speak on
church embroidery and decoration at
TRANSPORTATION Hall, 14th and CAL
verton streets northwest, tonight. Her
audience will be the altar guild.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-08-24
AUTO RUNS INTO WAGON.
Then Crosses Sidewalk and Climbs
Bank-Driver Is Injured.

Joseph Miller, 667 South Carolina ave-
nue. southeast. owner and driver of an
automobile which struck the wagon of
Henry Proctor. colored, 3S9 Wade road,
Anacostia, near New Jersey avenue and
I'd street southeast about noon yester-
day. was thrown from his wagon by the
collision. He was taken to Casualty
Hospital.
After striking the wagon, it is
stated the automobile crossed the
sidewalk. went up an embankment
against fence and stopped against
a tree on it's return trip. Both vehicles
were badly damaged, the police re-
ported. Miller was arrested by Police
man Sanders and a park policeman.
He was charged with colliding and
driving an automobile while under
the influence of liquor. He was re-
leased on $340 collateral.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-08-24
DRIVE ON HIGH RATES..
Transfer Employees Would Protect
Public Against Excessive Charges.

A movement for the protection of
the public against excessive charges
by individual public expressmen and
baggage men will be taken up by the
Union Transfer Employees Union, in
conjunction with the appearance of
the Union Transfer Company before
the Public Utilities Commission Sep
TENDER 1 to request additional reve-
nue., it was announced today by Or
ganizer L. J. Sterne of the union
I'VE feel that the public should be
protected against the individual bag
gage carriers and so-called express
men," Mr.. Sterne declared. 1.-The
public should not be subjected to a
group of individually handling exactly
the same business ssas public utility
companies. and who are not bound to
any fixed charges by any regulation.
1T is the belief Of the union that
these men are in the same class as
individual hackers, and therefore
should come under the regulation of
the same authorities We will seek
to establish in Washington a series
of rates for the handling of baggage
and trunks by such men which will
compare with the schedule of the
hacking rates."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-08-24
WILL ADDRESS ARTS CLUB
Mrs. Renshaw to Speak When Mr..
and Mrs Smith Are Hosts

Maj. and Mrs. William Wolff Smith
will be hosts at the regular weekly
luncheon of the Arts Club Thursday
evening at o'clock. The guest of
honor will be Mrs. Anne T. Renshaw.
who until recently held the chair of
dramatic expression at the Pennsyl-
vania State University. and now is a
member of the faculty of George
Washington University. The subject
of her address will be: Public
Speaking and Its Relation to the
Arts"
Miss Doris Stowell will illustrate
the powers of the speaking voice in a
group of dramatic readings.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-08-24
SIX CAMPS REPRESENTED.

Delegations from the six local
camps of Spanish War Veterans will
attend the annual convention in St
Louis. September 1916. it was an.
nounced today. The District dele
gates will be headed by Capt Daniel
V. Chisholm, past national command
er. The local representatives will
leave over the Pennsylvania railroad
at 4:50 o'clock the afternoon of Sep
TENDER H.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-08-24
CRAFTSMEN END SESSION.
Printing House Association Mem
bers Leave for Homes.

After day spent visiting the govern
ment printing Office and bureau Of en-
craving and printing. the delegates to
the first annual convention Of the Inter-
national Association Of Printing House
Craftsmen left last night for their re-
spective homes
L. M. Augustine 81 Baltimore. Md,
was elected international secretary for
the ensuing year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-08-24

Birthday Congratulations
Say 1t With Flowers" Blackstone
18th and H-Advertisement.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-08-24
ASKS SUITS DISMISSAL.

Neglect and too much attention to
another woman is alleged in the an
swer which Mrs. Ellen Chavis has
filed to her husbands suit for divorce
now before the District Supreme
Court. She AYERS that the petitioner
Sidner Chavis, has never made proper
provision for herself and her children
and asks that his suit be dismissed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-08-24
ORGANIZATION ACTIVITIES.
TONIGHT.

Ladies' night of Washington Coun-
ell, knights of Columbus, at 5000
Georgia avenue, preceded by short
business session, s o'clock
Meeting of the housing group of the
City Club, Farragut square, 1880
o'clock.
Dance at Trinity Community House,
Sd and c streets, $50 o'clock.
Arizona republican., 1920-02-13
MOTHER CONFESSES SHE BEAT SUN FOUND
 DEAD FROM INJURIES
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RHINELANDER, Wis, Feb. F. Mrs. Stanley Blomski. mother of AL ban B1omSki, six-year boy who was found dead several weeks ago at the Blomski farm house at Sugar Camp has confessed to beating the boy with a heavy pocker and a razor strop. ac- cording to the office of District Attor- ney A. J. Omela.
 Mrs. Blomski is said to have signed an affidavit exonerating her husband of beating the boy.
 Both Mrs. Blomski and her husband were held for trial following a verdict by a coroner's jury, that the boys death was caused by beatings and neglect at the hands of his parents
 Questioned regarding a broken arm discovered by physicians who per formed an autosy on the body, she is alleged to have said that it was the result of one of her beatings and that the member had been broken and un- attended for nearly two months.
 Asked why she had not supplied the boy with shoes to withstand the severe piled: He wanted to wear shoes all summer so I punished him by not giv ing him any in the winter"
 The boys feet, it was brought out at the inquest, had been frozen when he was punished by being put out in a shed in below zero weather and made to stay there for some time.
 Mrs BIomslxi is said to have sworn as her reason for her treatment of the boy whom it is alleged she said she hated that he was not her husband s son. Blomski has renounced his wife, it is said.
Arizona republican., 1920-02-13
WILL "CONSIDER"
 ANY "FAIR" OFFER

DETROIT, Mich, Feb. 12.-Any fair proposition put forward by President Wilson in the railway wage controversy will receive the serious consideration of officers of the Broth erhood of Maintenance of Way and Railway shop laborers, it was a1l nounced at headquarters here tonight. The statement was also attributed to President Allen E. Barker that a more conciliatory attitude would be adopted with President Wilson if the president reopened negotiations with the main tenance of way men. who have been ordered on strike next TAesday.
 Mr. Barker declined to say whether he would hold up the strike in event the president wished more time to con sider the matter He also declined to discuss a report that he had been asked if he would call off the strike if wage tribunal were appointed. No such proposal had yet been made, it was said.
 'If the railway mems demands are rejected" MT. Barker said. they will undoubtedly act as unit. Two of the brotherhoods have moved. I can not see how the other twelve can hang back. I believe the shop crafts will be the next to back us up.''
Arizona republican., 1920-02-13
COOPERATIVE PLAN
 0F BANKING URGED
 BY MANY SPEAKERS
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CHICAGO, Feb. 12 = Cooperative banking to keep the money of the farmers and working men within their own ranks was one of the wants which most of the speakers voiced today be- fore the American Farmer Labor Con- gress. Glenn E. Plumb, author of the Plumb plan for tri-partite control of railroads, discussed the sinister con- centration in the control of the coun- try's business"
 Discharge of the national debt by capital levy upon property may be necessary, MT. Plumb said in an ad- dress tonight.
 Our problem in meeting the ad mitted national indebtedness of S30,- 900, ,0o0, 000,'' he said, lis so to adjust the people owning 50 per cent of the wealth shall pay their percentage of this indebtedness. the 33 per cent of the people owning B per cent of the wealth shall pay the percentage due from them and that the 65 per cent of the people who own five per cent of the wealth shall not be required to pay more than their proportionate amount
 If we meet this indebtedness by tax on industry we distribute the lia- bility to each man in accordance with his, purchasing power When all is said and done we may be compelled to accept the solution already adopted in Germany, and now considered as inevitable in Great Britain-the dis charge of the entire national debt by placing a capital levy upon property.
 'I do not say that this is the method that must be adopted. But in our in terests we must study this question and determine upon the method which we unitedly recommend for the solu- tion of this problem.
 We are striving to escape from the duress imposed by a government of a, small group of dominant men, the speaker said, ito free ourselves from a monopoly and control of credit-to obtain for ourselves independence in many fields of endeavor from which we are now barred
Arizona republican., 1920-02-13
.L|TTLEPR0GRESS
 0N PEACE TREATY
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WASHINGTON. Feb 12.-Little progress was apparent today in nego- tiatiOnS over the new article 10 reser- vation to the peace treaty brought for ward yesterday by republican senators.
 In addition to it's failure to command the democratic support for which it's sponsors had hoped, it was said the new draft had been found unaccept- able to some reServationists on the re- publican side who threaten to join the irreconsilable opponents of ratification if the notifications proposed were made in the original republican reser- vation.
 A canvass of the 49 republicans is understood tc have shown that only about 30 could be counted on to vote for ratification with the changed res ervationS under which the United States would decline to guarantee the integrity of league members by force. economic boycott or amy other means" except when congress acted. Sixty four votes are necessary to ratify, and doubt was expressed generally whether 34 democrats could be induced to desert their party leader, Senator Hitchcock of Nebraska, who has de clared the revised draft would embody a surrender of the treaty's friends.
Arizona republican., 1920-02-13
EQUAL OPPORTUNITY HERITAGE OF FREE
 AMERICA HARDING

PORTLAND, Me, Feb. 12.-Presi- dent Lincoln was believer in oppor- tunity as the highest offering of free America, Senator Warren G. Harding of Ohio, a candidate for the republican nomination for president, said in an address tonght at a banquet of the Lincoln club.
 Tt was Linco1n's belief" said Sena- tor Harding, that every American should have a fair start and an un- fettered chance in the race for life. That was the doctrine of Jefferson in his proclaimed equal rights, that was the policy of Hamilton who demanded a government strong enough to guar antee them, that was the square deaF of Theodore Roosevelt. That was the Golden Rule fo the man of Nazareth
 Tt is Americas supreme offering today-equal opportunity to all men and reward as they merit it."
Arizona republican., 1920-02-13
PAYNE ID SUCCEED
 LANE AS SECRETARY
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 WASHINGTON. Feb. 12.-John Bar ton Payne, chairman of the shipping board and formerly general counsel of the railroad administration, will be- come secretary of the interior March 1, succeeding Franklin K. Lane, whose resignation becomes effective on that date.
 While White House officials de- clined confirmation it was understood that former Senator John Franklin Shafroth of Colorado had been offered the place to be vacated by MT. Payne.
 Chairman Payne said tonight that he would accept the appointment to the cabinet because it was the wish of the president, but my heart is in the shipping board
 Mir Payne said he would ask the president that he be permitted to stay on at the board for a few weeks to enable him to leave a comparatively clean slate for his successor by dis posing of the immediate business be- fore the board, including the sale of the former German passenger ships and the reorganization policy now be- ing effected
 Representatives of the national coun- cil of shipyard and navy-yard workers of the United States called upon Chair man Payne today asking that the board discontinue the cancellation of ship building contracts in order to encour- age ship building in America. In reply the chairman stated that the board would complete it's program of con- tracts let before the armistice with such cancellations as it considered nec- essary and would grant allowances which would enable the shipbuilders to complete vessels for their own ac- count
Arizona republican., 1920-02-13
VICTORY CONVENTION
 IF SUFFRACE ORDER
 WILL START. TODAY
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CHICAGO, Feb. 12.-Six conferences, attended by 2.060 delegates and alter mates representing y-sman voters of the north. south. east and west, were held today. preliminary to the open- ing tomorrow of what is expected to be the final convention of the national American Woman Suffrage associa- tion and the initial congress of the league of women voters.
 The purpose of the conferences was the formulation Of a legislative pro gram, and the topics discussed today were: American citizenship. pro lection of women in industry. "chlId welfare" flood supply and demand" social hygiene" and 'unification of laws concerning women" The result ing program adopted by each coafer- ence will be presented to the conven- ton of the league of women voters al the Monday session for consideration.
 The session tomorrow will be. the formal opening of the convention and Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt president Of the association. will deliver her an nual address. The victory convention. which ends 90 years efforts to procure votes for the women of America will close Saturday evening with ratifi- cation banquet. On Sunday memorial services will be held for pr. Anna Howard Shaw. The sessions will con- tinue until next Wednesday night
 Before the convention and congress closes, Mrs. Catt predicted several states would have ratified the suffrage amendment.
 The dissolution of the suffrage as sociation does not mean that the work of obtaining the necessary six states. as 30 have now ratified, would be stopped or diminished. Our headquar- ters will remain in tact until the S6 states are secured. We expect Ari- zoHa. New Mexico and Oklahoma to Tatify before the convention closes. and Delaware, West Virginia and Connecti- cut are our hope for the additional three states" said Mrs. Catt
 Lobbying for various republican can didates for president was carried on today, while the democrats also had workers among the women. The ad- vertisements of two presidential can didates are prominently displayed as advertisements in the official program handed out
 Chairman Will H. Hays of the re- publican national committee sent a statement to the women in which he pointed to the passage of the equal suffrage amendmen< in congress by a repu blican@ n jority.
Arizona republican., 1920-02-13
PLOT 0F LABOR
 CH|EFSCHARGED
 BY P0|NDEXTER
Senator Alleges Political Plan of Labor Cloaks Sinister Movement" for Its Leaders to Set Up Gov ernment within Govern ment
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UTICA, N. Y., Feb. Exchanges that behind the announced plan of the American Federation of Labor to ob- tain the election of a congress and a president favorable to it's policies ex- isted a sinister movement of a small coterie of labor leaders, who have grown powerful by the contributions they have levied upon labor, to set up "a government within government were made here tonight by United States Senator Miles Poindexter of Washington, in an address before the Utica republican club.
 ''The farmers and laboring men of America" he asserted, have in every crisis been the great bulwark of our free institutions, and they will not fol- low the mistaken leadership which V ould place the government under the despotic control of government within the government ? This government within the govern ment' is not ruled by labor, but is an aGtocracy of a few leaders who would not only impose their will upon labor itself, but would extend it, not only by the ballot but by strikes and starvation of the entire people of the United visible government againAt which the people protested in 1912.
 Rule of Any Class a Menace
 There is no question of the right of the American Federation of Labor to secure control of congress and of the presidency by way of the ballot box, II it can do so in accordance with the proclamation it has just issued. It will be an evil for the United States and most of all for lahor itself, if any class in this nation, whether employers or employees in industry, capital or labor, should succeed in any such pro- gram; but that is one of the perils which the nation must face as the price of free government"
 MT. Gompers curses congress-" he continued but is not specific in his complaints. On the contrary the an nouncement states that all of the es- sential legislation in labor's bill of grievances of 1906 was enacted This states that the free in sritutions of the country are menaced,' but the only specific reference is to the proposed aRti-strike legislation. The right to throttle the transportation of the nation on which the lives of the people depend is not one of our free institutions