Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-09-19

Murphy has got to answer for that out,
rage. But I am still a Tammany Demo
crat, Tammany district leader, and
will be on the job election day for the
Honestly selected candidates of my
party"
What has happened to Charles F. Muir
ply is the inevitable volution of a politi-
cal BOSS. Nineteen years in the saddle
at the Fourteenth street wigwam has
made Mr.. Murphy somewhat arrogant
and exceedingly careless. He has been
weakened by the fawning Of sycophants,
/ too much terrapin at the uptown cateries
and the soft cushions of many limou-
sines; in short, he forgot that his power
came from the district leaders and he
was caught mapping.
There is an Italian American shoe shin
Ing parlOr near the Pennsylvania station
that is always crowded. was surprised
to hear the bootblacks talking to each
other in English, contrary to the custom
Of most of such stands where the
"asides' of the workers are uttered in
Italian.
yes, it is a novelty said the pro-
prietor of the parlor. but l ordered it
so, not word Of Italian is spoken in
this shop. American customers hearing
the bootblacks jabbering in q foreign
tongue are apt to think they are being
talked about. That is the principal rea-
son for the rule I have made of no
Italian spoken in working hours" But
The boys are beneftted-they learn to
speak English sooner.
wonder if the average American
woman knows the story Of the hair net.
Before the war hair nets were supposed
to come from Germany and it had been
4 monopoly bottled up in China. Then
came a study of the business by Ameri-
can overseas traders and its reorganiza-
ton upon international lines.
Hair nets pass through many hands
before reaching the fingers which deftly
put them In place on riladys pretty
head" said one familiar with the bust
ness. Their raw product base is the
combings from the heads of Chinese
women. Chinese go from house to house
In China buying up these combings and
stuffng them into their capacious peck
cts. There are hundreds Of these human
hair collectors At the end of each dav
the collector sells the combings to s
dealer who sells the purchases of num-
Der Of such collectors to g wholesaler.
THE wholesaler bslesthe hair into
800 pound lots and sells them to an
American export and import house
which ships the baled hair to New York
city. Here the hair is washed by an
acid process. dyed into different colors
and then. strange to relate, the hair is
shipped back to China. Again the hair
IL resdistributed into other Chinese
homes. the domiciles Of the workers. A
trained Chinese woman worker can make
from nine TO eleven hair nets a day
"The next step in the collection again
of the hair made into hair nets That
collector also stuffs them into his
pockets takes them to dealer who
turns them over - a wholesaler That
wholesaler passes them on TO an Amer
lean export and import house and the
hair for the third time starts upon an
5000 mile jurney which ends in New
York city now the hair net center Of
the world. Here the hair nets are in
spected by Federal authorities and
fumigated for possible impurities. The
hair nets them are carefully examined
for breakage, sorted as TO color, wrapped
separately in paper, placed in envelopes
and sent out into the home market where
each hair net retails for about 10 cents"