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Evening star., 1921-07-09
Fatigue

When worn from toiling in
the sun. from baling hay and
cutting ice, the rest that comes
when day is done is surely,
surely worth the price. l
labored hard and long this
week, l sprung new curves in
honest toll; the neighbors
heard my hinges creak as
though they needed castor oil.
The neighbors saw me hoe my
beans, and cultivate the grow
ing spuds, as they rolled by in
limousines, all dolled up in their
costly duds. The neighbors
rode along the shore and up
and down the asphalt pave, and
found all mortal things a bore,
as dour and dismal as the grave.
And when the evening came at
last it bored them so they had
to weep; they went to bed and
lay aghast, and cussed because
they couldn't sleep. And l,
fatigued by honest toll, found
peace and comfort in repose;
I'd left my trade mark on the
soil, out where the pallid pump
kin grows. Oh, had done the
best l could to show a line of
sterling worth; l felt l had
achieved some good to vindicate
my stay on earth. And that's
feeling most sublime for any
man to entertain, to know he
has not wasted time, or let a
day get by in vain. And so a
spirit calm was mine, when to
my couch night saw me creep;
there l indulged in ffty-nine
varieties of balmy sleep.
WALT MASON.
(Copyright BY George Matthew Adams)
Evening star., 1921-07-09
BANKERS "SLUR"
ROUSES MONDELL
Writes Hartman That House
Will Consider Tax Re-
vision Until August.

The House will finish consideration
Of the tax revision legislation not
later than the middle of August,
House Leader >Mondell said in max, max.
ing public his reply to letter from
]. w. Hartman of the Hartman Ma
tional Bank of New York. complain
ing that fully SO per cent of the bank 8
depOsitorS are clamoring to know
why Congress does not do something
with regard to reduction Of taxation.
Leader Mondell said that Congress
is making as rapid progress in that
direction as could be expected. :.
rs the inactivity of Congress the
result of natural ineptitude or fea-
ture of deliberate reconstruction
program" Mr.. Hartman asked
business can wosld. os ne he saded until
taxes are reduced The present stag
nation in trade is really q strike
against government confiscation. II
you realized how many people are
cursing out Congress. you might then
understand what Is to be expected at
Replies to "slur."
In his reply. Representative Mon
dell said he would pass over the
disparaging slur contained in your
inquiry because l realize that 1t has
become the habit of some who gen.
orally consider themselves bound by
the rules of ordinary courtesy to
forget their manners when making
inquiries with regard to Legislative
questions and conditions"
He then proceeded to review the
achievements of the special session
to date. substantially as outlined in
his public review issued last Saturday.
asserting that This Congress has
been as diligent, as painstaking and
as active as any Congress that has
ever met and it has a record of ac-
complishment which to this time is
unexcelled."
Mr.. Mondell's Comment.
Mr.. Mondell praised the work of the
ways and means committee in the
matter of the tariff and said that
tax legislation would be taken up
Immediately upon disposal of the
tariff
Il am fully aware Of the fact" he
said. that many people are i'm
patient because the Congress has not
within two and one-half months from
the beginning of the session disposed
Of all OF the great problems before it,
This Is not surprising or unusual 1t
has always been so. A complete tariff
revision Is stupendous task. This
Congress has progressed with the task
so Tar as rapidly as any Congress in
my recollection-more rapidly than in
most instances. The same committee
which revises the tariff deals with
revenue legislation: manifestly the
two matters cannot be considered at
the same time by the same people. nor
would 1t be practical to have two
separate bodies considering these in
timately related matters"
Evening star., 1921-07-09
THE WEATHER.

District of Columbia and Maryland,
local thunderShowers this afternoon
or tonight: not quite SO warm to-
night; tomorrow fair; gentle, variable
winds.
Virginia, partly cloudy tonight and
tomorrow; probably local thunder
showers: no change in temperature:
gentle, variable winds.
West Virginia, local thundershowers
this afternoon or tonight: tomorrow
fair; no change in temperature.
Records for Twenty-Four Hours.
Thermometers pm, 90; 8 pm., 81:
IL midnight, 81; am. II; am, 80.
2s.s2; IL midnight. 1884; 4 am, 2s.91;
8 am, 29s4.
Highest temperature. SO, occurred at
8 pm. yesterday. Lowest temperature,
1856. occurred at $50 am. today.
Temperature same date last year
Highest. SO; lowest, 81.
Condition Of the Water.
Temperature and condition Of water
at am: Great Falls-Temperature
80; condition, muddy.
Tide Tables.
FURNISHED by Urited States coast and
geodetic survey
Today-Low tide. sis am. and $50
p.m.; high tide, 11:0s am. and 11:43
Tomorrow-Low tide, GIT am. and
6:44 PM; high tide, - am. and 1903
pm.
The Sun and Moon.
Today-Sun rose, 1850 am; sun sets,
1896 pm.
Tomorrow-Sun rises, 4:51 a.m.: sun
sets, 7:35 pm.
Moon rises, s:43 a.m.: sets. 1929 pm.
Automobile lamps to be lighted one
half hour after sunset.
Up-RIver Waters.
HARPERS FERRY, w. Va. JuIv q
The Potomac and Shenandoah rivers
were both slightly muddy this morn
ing.
Weather In Various Cftiea.
Evening star., 1921-07-09
TWO GUILTY OF MURDER.
Wracks and Payne, Colored, Con-
victed Yesterday,

John Walter Wracks and William
A; Payne. both colored. were convict
ed or murder In the second degree
Criminal Division 2. The men were
charged with murder in the first de-
gree in connection with the killing
Of Max Lieberman at his store, Della
ware avenue and N street southwest,
March last. Justice Bailey re-
manded the prisoners for sentence.
The minimum penalty under the law
Is twenty years in the penitentiary
The men are said to have entered
the store and asked for some article
and when the merchant had turned
his hack they shot him. Attorneys
Alfred ID. Smith and c. H. Gibson
represented the prisoners. while AS
sistant United States Attorney VAN
doren conducted the prosecution.
Evening star., 1921-07-09
FOUR OVERCOME BY HEAT.
Woman Found Unconsc1ous-Three
Men Go to Hospital.

Mrs. Mary Walker. colored, twenty
eight years old. 45s N street. was
found unconscious at 4th and X
streets about 12:45 o'clock this
morning. She was taken to Emer-
gency Hospital. where she was treat
ed for exhaustion, due to the heat.
Ernest Griffin, forty-seven years
old, 1900 Massachusetts, avenue, was
overcome by the heat last night
while on the steps leading to Con-
gressional Library. He was treated
at Casualty Hospital.
Samuel Waters, colored, was over
come by the heat yesterday while
working at a brick plant at Terra
Gotta. He was taken to Freedmen's
Hospital.
william Pencils, 1714 sth street
suffered an attack of heat prostration
in the public Comfort Station at
New York avenue and 9th street last
night. Physicians at Emergency
Hospital treated him.
Evening star., 1921-07-09
SUES ON PATENT.
Government Charged With In
fringing on Invention.

Charging infringement of his patent
rights, Robert Lee Wright of Los An
geles, Calf, has filed suit for injunc-
ton against John w. Weeks, Secre-
tary Of War, and Edwin DENLY. Secre-
tary of the Navy, in the District Su-
preme Court The inventor also asks
for a commission amounting to So
25O,O0O on a contract alleged to have
been made by the government with
the American Can Company OF New
Jersey. calling for 100000 shells or
projectiles said to involve his patent.
The contract price is said to be $l2a'-
00O. 900, and he asks per cent Mr.
Wright appears as his own counsel.
He seeks to prevent the manufacture
and use by the Army and Navy OF
shell pointers and projectile-carrying
explosives.
Evening star., 1921-07-09
FIRE DESTROYS TRUCKS,
Blaze at 615 D Street Does So, 900
DAMAGE

Fire in the building of the Thomas
Cusack Advertising Company, Sis d
street southwest, about 6:15 o'clock
yesterday afternoon. did $4,000 dam
age. The building. a three-story
brick structure, is owned by the n
Auth Provision Company
Two motor trucks were destroyed
and the building and contents dam
aged. Lieut.. c. C. WOLF of No 13
Engine Company cut his hand while
fighting the fire. He was treated at
Emergency Hospital.
An automobile belonging to H D.
Jenkins. 10 South Alaska avenue, Chi
cago. caught fire yesterday afternoon
in a garage at 1922 14th street. and
was damaged to the amount of $500.
H. D. Steinbeck. 432 NJ street, re-
ceived severe burns to his hands
while trying to extinguish the fire.
Evening star., 1921-07-09
BUY TRACT FOR SCHOOL.
Land Adjoining John Eaton School
Brings $4,000.

Purchase Of a tract of land adjoining
the John Eaton School was made yes
terday by the Commissioners. The prop
erty. which will be the site of the pro-
posed eight room addition to the school,
cost $4,000. 1t was bought from Peter
Bissett
The emergency school building pro-
gram recently approved by Congress
provided $4,000 for the purchase Of this
property.
Evening star., 1921-07-09
JUSTICE SPEEDILY METED.
Prisoner Arrested, Tried and Sen
fenced Within Month.

A record for expedition in local
criminal prosecutions was established
yesterday The grand jury shortly
before noon reported two indictments
for grand larceny against Ralph
Evans, colored. The prisoner was ar
raigned before Chief Justice Mccoy
about o'clock in the afternoon, and
on pleading guilty was sentenced to
the penitentiary for five years. The
crimes-stealing three automobiles
were committed June II. and within
the month the prisoner will be at the
Lorton reformatory beginning his
sentence.
Evening star., 1921-07-09
ROCK CREEK PILGRIMAGE,
California State Society to, Visit
Joaquin Miller's Cabin.

The California State Association is to
hold pilgrimage to the log cabin
home of Joaquin Miller. the poet Of
the Sierras. tomorrow. in Rock Creek
Fark. at o'clock
Rev. E. NJ. Moss. chaplain Of the as
sociation. is to give the invocation
and Thomas F.. F'laerty will preside.
Senator Samuel NJ. Shortridge.
friend of the poet, will deliver the
principal address. Representative
Free also will speak. Miss Helen
Burkart will be the song leader and
John NJ. Kline will recite The Star
Spangled Banner" P. J. HaItigan,
reading clerk of the House of Repre-
sentatives. will recite Mr. Millers
roem, "Columbus'
Evening star., 1921-07-09
UNION SENDS DELEGATES.
Federal Employees to Be Represent.
ed in New Orleans Convention.

Delegates to the convention of the
National Federation of Federal En-
ployes. to be held in New Orleans
next September, were elected at a
meeting Of Federal Employees Union
No. last night. as follows:
w. j. Hendricks, George A. Hill. DR..
J: Franklin Meyer. James P. McKeon,
Mrs. A. G. Guthridge, Edward L.
Scheufier and l.. s. Mohler.
President Gompers of the American
Federation Of Labor is to address a
meeting Of branch presidents to be
held Monday night at 1923 New York
avenue. Senator Heflin is to address
a meeting of the union July % at the
New National Museum.
Evening star., 1921-07-09
68 STORES CLOSE.
All-Day Holidays on Saturday
Inaugurated.

Closing Of a number of department
stores and business houses today in
augurated the practice Of Saturday
all-day closing, which will continue
through this month and next.
The Merchants and Manufacturers
Association announced that 68 local
institutions had reported that they
would observe the practice.
Evening star., 1921-07-09
NAVAL MEN RESIGN,

The Secretary Of the Navy has ac-
cepted the designations Of Lieut.
William p. Gilmor, Naval Medical
Corps. at Norfolk; Lieut.. q. g.
Walter E. Brown, Naval Supply Corps
at Boston; Machinist John F. Broder-
SON on the S-4. Carpenter Thomas A
Clark on the Olympia and Pay Clerk
Peter Lott at Hampton Roads.
Evening star., 1921-07-09
CAPT. BUTLER TO COMMAND.

Capt Charles 8. J. Butler. Naval
Medical Corps, on duty at the naval
training station, Great Lakes, ILL.,, has
been ordered to this city for duty in
command of the Naval Medical School
at the foot of 23d street.
Evening star., 1921-07-09

Prices realized on Swift & Co. sales
Of carcass beef in Washington for week ending
Saturday. July 2, 1921. on shipments sold out,
ranged from 10 cents to 10 cents per pound.
and averaged 1880 cents per pound.-Adver-
tisement.
Evening star., 1921-07-09

George Warrington Council, A. A.
r. I. R., will meet tomorrow at 8
pm. at 31S Pennsylvania avenue
southeast.
Evening star., 1921-07-09
DETAILED TO SAN JUAN.

Lieut.. Commander Rufus King at
the Annapolis Naval Academy has
been detailed as district communica-
tion superintendent at San Juan, P. R.
Evening star., 1921-07-09
RELIEVED OF SEA DUTY.

Lieut.. Commander Robert p Cutler
Of the battleship Arkansas has been
assigned to duty at the naval gun fac
tory, Washington navy yard.
Evening star., 1921-07-09

The League of American Pen
Women will open it's clubhouse We'd
nesday evening at 1880 o'clock, when
Countess Hillyer de Caen Of Orleans.
France, will speak. Pen Women and
their friends invited.
Evening star., 1921-07-09
RESORTS.
COLONIAL BEACH. VA.
COLONIAL BEACH
HOTEL

The bsst place to spspd your, vaea.
tf0n. Music. dancing, salt water bath
dinners.
Frank D. Blaclistene, Owner. 3s.
Evening star., 1921-07-09
ORGANIZATION ACTIVITIES.
TODAY,

The Virginia Military Institute
Alumni Association will go to Mount
Vernon leaving on steamer Macales-
ter at 9:45. Return boat leaves at
5 o'clock.
Evening star., 1921-07-09

Flowers Are Cheer-BrinGers
to the shut-in. Shaffer, 900 14th ST.
Advertisement.
Evening star., 1921-07-09
vim, viEor and Vitality

. Hcrsford's Acid Phosphate
whets the appetite, aids digestion. quiet
nerves. induees sleep and restores strength
-AdvertiSement
Evening star., 1921-07-09
Chapter II, p. E. O. SiaterhOOd, will
give its annual picnic Wednesday.

William b. Cushing Camp, No. 80,
S. of w., and the ladies of the w. b.
Cushing Auxiliary, No. 4. will meet
Tuesday at $3.50 pm, at the Thomson
School.
Evening star., 1921-07-09

The Ohio Girls Club will meet at
1883 Columbia road at 3 o'clock, for
picnic in Rock Creek Park. All
Ohioans invited
Evening star., 1921-07-09

ations VIII hold a special meeting
Tuesday at Sis pm, in the board
room of the District building.
Evening star., 1921-07-09

The picnic arranged for today by
the Arkansas State Society has been
postponed.
Evening star., 1921-07-09
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.

The Wanderluaterx' hike for t0mOr-
row will start at Nichols avenue and
Portland street. Congress Heights, at
2:30 pm. Mr.. Hall will lead.
Evening star., 1921-07-09

The College WOmen's Club will
give garden party July Is from
1880 to 10 pm.
Evening star., 1921-07-09

Copyright by George Matthew Adams.)
The Penn's Grove record., 1921-08-12
WITH TRACTORS
Many Old Machines In Corn Belt Still
Giving Good Service

Giving Good Service
An Investigation recently conducted
into the value of the tractors and the
extent of their use in the great farm
ing regions by the United States Blu
reau of Publics Roads disclosed the
fact that of more than 1900 farmers
in the corn belt and Northern Great
Plains States who purchased tractors
four or more years ago, 81 per cent.
still use their first machines or others
which they have since purchased.
Nearly half Of those who have bought
their second machines have changed
their opinions as to the best size for
their purpose.
A summary of the replies from l.
219 men who are still operating the
same farms or similar farms showed
that in 1920 534, or "A per cent. owned
their first machines and used them for
field work; 446, or 81 per cent. had
replaced their old tractors with new
ones which were used for field work,
and 239, or 10 per cent, did not use
tractors for field work.
About one-half of the machines pur-
chased in 1916 and 1917, one-third of
those purchased in 1914 and 1915, and
onc-fourth of those purchased in 1913
or earlier were still being used for field
work. The men who had disposed of
their early machines paid on the aver
age $500 for them, kept them a little
more than three years and received
$40 for them. Thus the average an
nual depreciation was a little more
than $3.50.
The Dakota farmers received an
average of $500 for the old machines
which they had Enthusiastically
more than was received for old ma
chimes in any of the other States. This
greater sale value was due, in part,
to the fact that most of the early
tractors in North Dakota and South
Dakota were larger and more eXpen-
sive than the other States.
The tractor operator has evidently
been responsible for the success OF
failure of these early tractors. Only
II per cent. of the early tractors
which were still in use for field work
in 1920 had been operated by hired
help, and only II per cent. of the men
who had replaced their first tractors
with others depended on hired help,
while 25 per cent. of the men who had
discontinued the use of tractors for
field work had allowed the machines
to be operated by hired help.
At the time oc making their early
reports 81 per cent. of these men be-
lieved their tractors would be profit
able investments. Eighty-two per
cent. of those who used their first ma
chimes for field work in 1920 still con-
sidered that they were profitable, and
SO per cent. stated that they intended
to buy others when the ones they were
using wore out.
In many cases the first tractors evi-
IDENTIFY were not the sizes best suited
to the needs of these farmers. In all,
512 Of the men reporting had bought
their second tractors, either to replace
or supplement their first mes. Of
these 268, OF 50 per cent, purchased
the same size as they first owned; 1876
purchased smaller sizes. Four hun
dred and twenty-nine of the men who
We're still using their first tractors
stated that they intended to buy
others when their first ones 7 worn
out.
The Penn's Grove record., 1921-08-12
FOOD FACTS
The Human Body Needs Iron


GOOD, not medicine, is the best
source of iron for the human body
declared Dir. Florence PoWdermaker.
nutrition specialist of the State Agri-
cultural College, who points out that
iron is al essential part of the body.
There has been little real knowledge
among people Of the Importance Of
iron-containing foods in our everyday
diet or even of the foods that are rich
in iron, for except in a conspicuous
case of anemia, we have taken for
granted that our food contained
enough iron. Scientific studies of typ
zeal American diets, however, show
that the amount of iron in the aver
age diet is just on the border line Of
u needs-allowing no surplus. And
when it is remembered that the body
cannot store iron, as it does some
other food constituents, and that the
need for a supply is a constant one,
the importance of this fact must not
be overlooked.
Food iron is probably assimilated
better and is more easily utilized for
growth and building of the red blood
cells than is the medicinal organic
iron. Even when medicinal iron Is
taken its beneficial effect is in proper
ton to the amount of iron in the food.
What are the foods rich in iron?
They are easily obtainable and some
of them, at least, should be an i'm
portant part of every well regulated
diet-eggs (the iron is found in the
yolk), spinach and other greens, whole
cereals, oatmeal, dried peas and beans,
lean meat, nuts, prunes and dates.
There is practically no iron in white
flour and other patent cereals, fats,
oils, sugars and starches.
Iron found in meat is not as well
utilized as that of eggs and greens.
Remember also that if there are di-
gestive difficulties OF poor absorption
of food, a lack of iron in the body may
result. Milk is not among the foods
| rich in iron, although what is present
is believed to be very well utilized.
Baby Feeding Problem
There is a reserve supply of iron in
| the body of the young of all animals
that depend on milk alone during their
/ early life. The amount is highest at
birth and does not increase during the
nursing period, although there is a
large increase in size and weight Of
-
the body.
The lessons to be drawn are obvious
First, the mothers diet should be rich
in iron so that she may provide her
baby with the surplus without draw
ing on her own supply. In the second
place, milk should not be the only
source of food for the child after nine
months or a year, because by that
time the reserve iron will be used up
and must be supplemented by food
iron. 1t should also be remembered
that modified cows milk contains less
ron than mothers milk, so that physi-
eians usually recommend supplement
:ng the artificially fed baby's diet
18th certain of the iron-rich foods,
~,oh as eoos, much earlier than if it
were nursed.
The Penn's Grove record., 1921-08-12

Cross, and Raymond Z. White, repre-
senting the New Jersey Chapter Of the
American Legion. The work Will be
directly in charge of Mr.. McEYoy.
The campaign will open August 10
m Trenton, continuing in that city for
a week. The squadron will then visit
Camden for one week and expects to
arrive in Newark about the first week
in September. After visiting these
cities the squadron will 90 to other
sections of the state and remain in
those sections until all examinations
are made and claims adjusted.
The Penn's Grove record., 1921-08-12


The Story OF
Our States
sy JONATHAN BRACE
a777@ RKANSAS
..... ! 4. "a. J. }. !: 8. g.. !: !: !. !"
SaA5A ~ "a was nam
M !. NWM ed after the
NS1 azA river which
Isl SH flows diagOn-
Wy gHSHW ally through
M@SE/H this state and
O is one of the
chief tributaries of the Missis-
sippi. 1t is said that the early
settlers found in this territory,
an Indian tribe named Arkansas,
but the actual meaning of the
word is not known. 1t probably
has some relation to the word
Kansas. There has been much
confusion as TO the correct pro
mnciation of Arkansas. 70 re-
move this as far as possible a
resolution was passed by the
. state senate in 1881 which Speci'
. fed that the IN pronunciation
|. was 'Ar-kan-saW."
! Originally Arkansas was a
. part of the Louisiana Purchase.
Its first settlement was made by
the French about 1853. Except
for the few years during which
by secret treaty it was coded to
Spain. it remained under French
rule, until purchased by the Uni
ted States in 1903. For nearly
ten years after this, it was a
part of Louisiana territory. With
the admission of the State OF
Louisiana in 1912 this northern
section was formed into the Mis-
souri, territory. In 1919 there
was another partition and Ar
kansas territory was created,
which included the present state
and what later was called Indian
territory.
Due to the reports of an early
explorer named Pike, who visited
this region in 1906, the incOr-
rect idea was generally accepted
that most of the eXpanse of
plains east of the Rockies was
. a vast desert. This idea per-
sisted to such an extent that as
late as 1850 the western plains
We're called in the school geOg-
raphies THE Great American
Desert" Adventurous settlers,
especially from the South, found
conditions in Arkansas quite 9th
erwise, however, and by 1888
Arkansas was admitted as the
twenty-fifth state of the Union
with an area of $3.50 square
miles.
The natural resources of the
state are considerable. There
are the mineral springs of me-
dicinal value, which have been
placed under governmental con
troll at Hot Springs.
% by Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate.)