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The Washington times., 1921-02-02
THAT CATERwAUL.

He sinks along the alley
And up the backyard fence,
And bout the time I hit the hay
His caterwauls commence;
I wish I had a brick or bomb,
A shotgun or a gst,
I'D make a mincemeat of old Tom-
That caterwauling cat.
I wish Some Ford would separate
This critter from his tall.
For every time I leave the gate
He jumps across my trail:
He visits days around the Mali
And nights he tries to tell
His travels In the csterwaul-
But J wish he were In Cleveland.
MILO u
The Washington times., 1921-02-02
RITING RABBITS.

Out GROUND fayetteville they hdoe
bred neD pdriety Of biting roo
bits. After being bitten tho oioner
of the rabbit proceeds to his phy-
sioian and Is furnished q prescr'p-
ton 1uhich too,tld make old ma"
Volstead happy for We.
BILL BAILEY.
The Washington times., 1921-02-02
Coal VS.. Oil for Railways.
BY K. c. B.

The average express locomotive consumes coal
at tho rate OF seventy pounds per mile. In re-
cent trial all-oil run, from Euston TO Blrming
ham, England thirty pounds of oil was used for
every seventy OF coal normally consumed by the
engine.
The Washington times., 1921-02-02
A HINT ON SKIRTS.
The attenuated and UNEMPLOYED
should wear them longer.
Neither has visible means of
support. Q. z. ID.
NOT A JUST DIVISION.

They say there are three wo-
men to one man in Washington,
but I know a little atSburn-haired
girl near Eighth and A streets
southeast who has good reason to
feel that there are six men to
one woman. BILLIE g.
The Washington times., 1921-02-02
LIVE AND LET LIVE

In a lunchroom opposite the CAPITAL
Traction barn, Eighth street south
east, I was recently served with soup.
coffec, pork and beans, bread. real
butter, and bread pudding. all for %
cents. The proprietor told me he
made living at those prices.
READER,
The Washington times., 1921-02-02

ments of the community, while OPP
posed to these groups, consolidated
by either real or fancied mutual in
terests, will be the world wide
groups of the wage workers and ac-
tual producing classes.
Speaking generally, men have al
ways been divided into two groups
the group which employs and
profits by the labor of other men,
and the group which pays other
men profits for the opportunity to
work.
In different periods of history this
fundamental group division has as
sumed different outward forms.
Sometimes the exploiting group
was military and ruled by the divine
right Of the biggest war club or the
longest and sharpest sword.
At other times the exploiting
group was clerical and took it's toll
in exchange for, promised escape
from the future punishments of an
alleged chronically infuriated Deity.
At other times the exploiting,
group took the form of commercial
and industrial masters who benevo.
lently dispensed work and wages to
the masses.
In our own day, fundamentally as
the result of more intelligence and
more knowledge and better COM
munication, but specifically as the
result of the bloody and detestable
war in which the exploiters have so
brutally slaughtered and tortured
and exploited the masses, the line of
cleavage between these two groups
has become far more clearly defined
and far wider than it ever was be-
fore.
Mr.. Shaw says that in Belfast, un-
der the compulsion of economic in
terests, the Carsonites will soon for
get such ancient incantations as
those which have long been made in
the names of the Pope and of King
William. And we will add that un-
der the same compulsion all of the
known incantations of politics and
of racial and religious hatreds will
soon become things of the past, as
much forgotten as the partisan cries
which rallied the factions of Athens
or the factions of Rome, and as little
regarded as the utterances of the
oracle at Delphi or the whisperings
Of the statue of Memnon.
The problems which this present
and the coming generation must face
and must solve, too, are not the
problems of diplomacy or of politics.
They are the problems of economic
justice, the homely problem of cut
ting the loaf Of bread into fair slices;
the problem of so regulating produc-
tion and distribution that the men
and women who make the wealth
which shelters and feeds and brings
comforts to all of us shall, at least,
have as just share Of shelter and
food and comforts as those who
merely exchange and distribute the
wealth produced.
These alone are the vital prob
lens of the new age into which man.
kind has been ushered through the
awful gates of war.
The problems of outworn diplom-
acy and politics, the problems which
took up the time of the conference
at Paris, the problems which occupy
all the time and the attention of the
majority Of rulers and so-called
statesmen, the problems of boun-
daries and indemnities, of curtailing
one peoples possessions and of aug
menting another peoples posses
sions-all these are not worth ten
minutes of a thinking mans time.
The Washington times., 1921-02-02
The Population Of London.

Tho population OF London today is some fifty
times greater than II was In tho reign of James T.
Now over 7,O0000o IL was then not more than
10000 when the successor OF the great Eliza
beth came TO the throna
The Washington times., 1921-02-02
AND THEY nm

He-1 can't determine whether kiss
ing is bad for one or not.
She-Lets put our heads together
and find out. O. DON'T
The Washington times., 1921-02-02
THE SWEETEST GIRL,

The girl l admire Is
Little Mary Runyons,
who always stays at home
After eating onions.
"SLIM" HENDRIX.
The Washington times., 1921-02-02
Mr.. B. Baer
PLEASE REMIT.

The diplomats have de-
cided to call the Peace Con-
ference of before they for
felt the deposit on the full
dress suits. Woody is writ
ing a book on peace. It's a
little premature, but Woody
wants to get out a million
copies so the boys can
carry 'em in their KNAPP
sacks in the next war.
England and France have
admitted America to the Big
Two. We're the silent
partner. Lend 'em money
and don't ask for 1t back.
We had to pay for admis-
sion into the last war, which
Is like giving the ether to
the surgeon. We hope the
next world war will not be
so private.
We loaned Europe our
mule to plow with. The
mule Is back home, but we
have to keep on sending his
oats to England and France.
The Secretary of the U. S.
Treasury should live in
Europe and spend his vaca-
tions In America. Be a neat
idea to print our next issue
of million dollar bills in
French. German or Chinese
so that the country which
borrows 1t can read it.
1t Is estimated by a sober
statistician that the world
owes us $4,000, ,O0O. 900. .00o,-
100000. That's. an extra in
ming amount. And we have
to wait some extra innings
before we get It.
We shouldn't criticize our
allies who fought to make
the world safe for borrow
ing. but we've purchased
enough mortgages on castles
In the air. Lloyd George
meets Clemencesu and says:
How much do we owe
American"
CLEMMY says "It's an
awful sum. Too big to
think about"
Lloyd chirps; "All right,
we won't"
This worldwide disarma-
ment thing means that
America will have to scrap
her adding machines. In
order to do business with
Europe this year, we will
have to call of last years
debts. II we want to trade
with 'om next year. we will
have to cancel this years
debts. That's n round robin
that is a cuckoo.
The Washington times., 1921-02-02
THE Public be Jammed" seems
to be the motto of the street rail-
ways Of Washington.
j. BACKENHEIMER

There was An old man from Chattem,
With whiskers so long he could piattem.
He went to the barber shop
And had 'em cut bang on.
And now you can't tell that he haddem-
There was an, old woman from Brooster,
Who was very much annoyed py ROOSTER
She cut of his head
Leaving him dead,
Anu Nv MARY.
The Washington times., 1921-02-02
STATES ARE NOTED FOR

Neutrality-suspicious. and booze.
r. w. =
when you send q contrib
To II. and s.
And hubby doesn't know,
And he picks up the paper
And says:
Heres a good one:"
And read. your contrib to yes
Amt II grand
ETA MoLoor.
The Washington times., 1921-02-02

To the New Orleans cakes are
known as "jelly beans" 1 wonoer
a. the "roll-top vamps' there are
called "jelly rollsT r,
The Washington times., 1921-02-02

HYMEN TASH, 11-year-old fan'
composes 130 words from the leu
tors in the word washington
The Washington times., 1921-02-02

Even with her mouth full of
hafrpins a woman 10 apt to
speak twice before she thinks
once. SOUTHERN SHORTY.
The Washington times., 1921-02-02

Europe wants the u. $.
to wipe the financial slate
clean and start over again.
A sponge is no check
The Washington times., 1921-02-02

See here, you told me your grand
f,tber was cited for daring deeds in
war. Just recently / learned that he
was shot as a deserter."
II still contend that he was
SIGHTED" HARPER'S FERRY.
JACK RIGGLES says the blue
birds are arriving in Prince
Georges, and hopes the weather
won't fool them.
The Washington times., 1921-02-02

Mrs. Black-Why do mosl A'''
paint the angels as blondes! a..
Mr.. Black-Search me, unies'
.,,.o most artists wives are bru-
peosuso SALLY.
nettes,
The Washington times., 1921-02-02

1t Is estimated by a sober
statistician that the world
owes us $4,000, 900. 900. .ooo,-
100000. That's. an extra in
ming amount. And we have
to wait some extra innings
before we get II.
The Washington times., 1921-02-02

CLEMMY says Its an
awful sum. Too big to
think about"
Lloyd chirps: "All right,
we won't"
The Washington times., 1921-02-02
sNAPS AND SPICES.

The man who fell in a barrel
-, wbiskey died In good spirits.
Most things 60 to the buyer
.,t coal goes to the cellar.
Every time you take the ieF's
boat It makes you cross
Many a man who went 10
cock fight lost his money on
fowl, II. ~
Evening star., 1921-05-14
LIBERTY BOND CLOSING PRICES

NEW YORK, May l4.-Iiber,v
bonds closed: 31as. $3.50; 1st IS. S7.o4
bid; I'd As, $3.50; 1st 4As. S762; I'd
AIS. $40: Sd AIS. 9o.70: 4th 4i.s
S'.42; Victory 3&s. ?1ss: Victory
i%as, 3..SS.
Evening star., 1921-05-14
WHEAT MARKET SLUMPS
ON 1921 CROP ESTIMATE

CHICAGO. May 14.-Government mt fig
ures on the 1921 yield of winter
wheat have done good deal this
week to put the wheat market on the
downgrade. Compared with week
ago, wheat prices this morning were
IL TO 5A lower. whereas corn was
up Is to /. and oats showed gains of
1s to IS. The provisions list was un-
changed TO so off.
Although the official forecast of win
ter wheat production this season prov
ed to be considerably under what the
majority of traders had looked for
the total. nevertheless. appeared suffi-
cient TO justify much of the heavy
selling done before the report was
issued. Tradition that this was
period which annually has been ad-
verse to the buying side tended also
to weaken the market. notwithstand-
duced by settlement of the German
reparations matter and by a state
ment of the Secretary of Agriculture
favoring general higher prices than
before the war. Meanwhile, reports
showing crop deterioration in the
failed to have any lasting
new effect. and on the other hand
the success of the emergency tariff
bill in the Senate and of the Tincher
bill in the House fairly counterbal-
anced each other as to immediate re-
suits on prices.
Big reductions in the visible supply
OF corn helped give firmness to corn
and oats.
Demand for provisions Jagged
Evening star., 1921-05-14
OUTLOOK FOR WHEAT.

CHICAGO. Nav 14.-According TO the
Modern Miller. winter wheat has lost
ground since the last government re-
ports were gathered. although gen.
cral prospects are still for a large
crop. In Oklahoma. deterioration has
heen most apparent. deterioration has
from dry weather have been serious.
Important areas in Kansas show ap
pearance OF wheat less promising. al
though the actual losses claimed are
not heavy. Crop in western Nebraska
is suffering from insult CI' nj IaoiS tTr'.
In Illinois. Indiana and Ohio appear
ance of wheat is not so favorable as
numerous fields have yellow tingc.
Variable weather checked propdga-
tion of Hessian fly. Conditions in the
ppring wheat belt have been favorabl
and appearance of crop reflects this
Growth Is early"
Evening star., 1921-05-14
MOST INDUSTRIES MARK TIME.
HOPING TRADE GAINS MAY STAY
Reports From Chief Centers Show No
Sudden Resumption of Normalcy. But
:, No Sharp Backsliding.

Dispatches received today in review
of business conditions during the
week. and in forecast of the coming
week. have for their dominant note
realization that the Iookcd-for breath
/ jn- space in the countryS progress
toward prosperity has come. and that
il is not as bad as expected. Most in
dustrics are marking time. dispatches
from the chief centers indicate. with
the expectation that gains already
made during the past few months VIII
he held. Nothing on the horizon indi-
Gates overnight resumption of normal
conditions. and at the same time there
IL no indication of further backSlld-
ing.
May is month. in normal times. of
quietude in the business world. Sales
generally fail off Il bit: buyers feel out
tine market for better values; labor.
too. is restless. And this year May is
running true to form.
Among &ll the influences tending TO
make this May quiet month Is the
labor situation. and chief of the un-
settled factors in the world of labor.
perhaps is the building situation.
','he shortage in construction work
since America entered the war is eStl-
mated at $4,000. 100000.
The number of persons dependent
mated at 2OO0O,000. Yet there has
been no general whole e-heartcd going
I" work on the staggering job of
making good the shortage.
Labor Fighting Wage Cuts.
Indications are that there will not
b. until wages in the building trades
come down. In many cities. such as
Philadelphia. Chicago. Cleveland and
other large ccnters. la Dor in the build
ing trades is out on strike against
proposed wage cuts.
In others. such as Pittsburgh. where
plates Il plan for erecting 900 build
ings. the work to go to the lowest
bidder. there are unmiStakable signs
that labor will fiCei a cut in pay.
Ranking the obstruction industry
in point of numbers involved is agri-
oulture. Here. again. the outlook is
regarded somewhat less optimistically
than Americas millions of farmers
would like to regard it.
Bumper Wheat Prospects.
Kansas City reports prospects for a
bumper wheat yield, with harvest
time but thirty days away-and with
much of last years grain still on
hand. An outlet must be found abroad.
il is felt. for the American farmer,
but high transportation charges mill
tate against any solution. Fort Worth
reports the farmers getting ready for
a big harvest. San Francisco tells of
the troubles of her fruit and vege-
table raisers. who are now seeking a
Evening star., 1921-05-14
FOREIGN BONDS.
Quotations furnished by W. B. Hibbs 4 Co.

The first river tunnel constructed in
America was completed In Chicago in
1865
Evening star., 1921-05-14
WAGE CUT AVERAGE
GA PER CT. IN 1920
Plants Employing 100000
Workers Fall rs Per Cent
in Numbers.

The average decrease in pay per
employe in leading industrial plants
throughout the country during the
ing to the results of a general sur
vey of tn. labor field just announced
by the Federal Reserve Board.
general survey of plants which a
year ago employed 100000 workers.
the board declared, showed a de-
cline in the numbers employed of
- Per cent. The reduction in the
weeki? ray ro'! was found to be
even greater. amounting to 29.S per
c=Rt. which the board asserted indi-
cate1 that wage rates have on the
average been somewhat reduced.
Tie Ih luiry covered establishments
reporting l,3o3.792 employees April /
with total weekly pay roll of S36.-
7.6.2S0, as compared with 1.737,111
employees and a total pay roll of
$52,2Ss,463 April !, 1920.
Longer Hours and Overtime.
To some extent reduction in the
pay roll was attributed to the fact
ttSt last yea" many plants were
working longer korrs and often over
time. Supplementary information,
however. the be ard declared. indi-
Gated that actual rates paid have
been reduced. especially in the case
Of unskilled labor. In some instances.
particularly in the southeast. the
board added. unskilled labor has been
reduced fully so per cent in wages.
In three OF the federal reserve dis
tIicts. however, increases in the
average pay of workers was reported.
board said. there had been an in
crease in the average compensation
of employees. in the former Ga per
cent and in the latter of 1873 per
cent. coupled with decreases of en-
pIoyment of IS.S per cent and So
per cent. respectively. In New YORK
there was an average increase in pay
Of 0.5 per cent and decrease in
employment of ISL per cent.
Cities showing Decreases.
Decreases in number OF workers
and in average pay for the other
districts We're: Boston. 17.5 per cent
and g. per cent. respectively: Phil
Cleveland. 1873 and 1S.2 per cent;
Richmond. - and IL per cent; At
lanta.. 357 and 2i.1 per cent: Chi
cago, 32.9 and 5.5 per cent: ST. Louis.
21.9 and l7.6 per cent: Minneapolis.
2a7 and 5.s per cent. and Kansas
city. 52.5 and 81 per cent.
Reductions in the number on the
pay roll were made in all the indus
tries covered in the survey. except
oil. the board continued. the reduc-
tion being smallest for public utili-
ties with 81 per cent and largest
for the rubber industry with 81 per
cent. Among the highest percent
ages of reductions in employment
were $50 per cent for the automo-
lille industry, 6G.4 per cent for build
. ing industry. and 41.5 per cent for
iron and steel
Decreases in the average earnings
per employe varied from "a per cent
IN the boot and shoe industry TO 40 per
cent in the rubber industry.
Evening star., 1921-05-14

reduction of freight rates to stimu-
late buying in the east.
Thirty-fve million persons in the
United States find their prosperity
Immediately tied up with the farmers.
Thus in the two NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
ture and construCtion-J5.O0 900 900 per-
sons are facing period of further
stabilizat ton.
Many AuEur Short Spell.
1t is but natural. therefore, that the
manufacturing sections of the mid
die west and the east should expert
through which they are now passing.
There are many auguries, however.
that 1t will be shorter than most men
imagine. For instance, the railroads
are picking up in most gratifying
manner. the latest report of car load
lngS showing increase of more
than 1900 for the week-the fourth
consecutive increase. by the way.
much of which is due to increased de-
mand for bituminous coal. The latter
factor is helping make prosperity
brighter for Pittsburgh, where many
mines are working at a pace unat
tanned before this year. filling the
northwest's orders for shipment by
way of the lakes. There will be sew
eral months of this activity Withou:
doubt and its effect will be to make
that section generally more prosper
Gus.
Price Drift Downward.
Prices drift slowly downward.
The retailers of the country are here
IN Washington to deny that they
are not debating along with the pro-
duccr and the jobber.
New England reports excellent
malntena nee of the volume of retail
trade with activity not so great in
manufacturing lines. The shoe bust
EesS is quiet, but the wool busi-
ness good. as in the business of
makers of fine cotton goods. New
York is experiencing the usual May
advent of out-of-town buyers but
they all want bargains The Broad
way retailer incide ntally is finding
that it pays to cut his profit to the
bone.
Labor Situation Sore Spot.
Those who aren't cutting. aren't
selling. those who are cutting are
re-ordering.
Philadelphia regards it's labor sit
uation as the big sore spot on it's
body commercial. The city of Broth
erly Love is particularly bedeviled by
un 1rotherly disputes between en-
ployer and employe in many lines
Money is easier and credit not hard
10 obtain. generally speaking. for the
man VINO really needs it and has
collateral of real merit. Few others
need apply to most of the banks
At the present only one federal re-
serve bank. that at Dallas. maintains
rediscount rate higher than 61a
per cent. the latest cut being an
nounced by st. Paul.
Evening star., 1921-05-14
COTTON WEIGHTS GIVEN.

NEW ORLEANS. May 1i.-Secretary
Hester Of the New Orleans Cotton
Exchange has issued a statement of
weights of 6.390.737 bales of cotton
handled at outports and across the
Mississippi. Ohio and Potomac rivers
overland to American manufacturers
outside tn. cotton belt during months
of August to April, inclusive.
Evening star., 1921-05-14

High. Low. Last.
Call Money!. 612 6i2 6l2
HOURLY SALES OF STOCKS.
IL ann. 22s 300 II m. ...... 2sO 800
Evening star., 1921-05-14
TODAY'S BOND PRICES.

Noon prices reported to The Star over direct
New York Washington wire by Redmond Co.
Evening star., 1921-05-14
Bid and Asked Prices
BONDS

American Tel. and TeI........ lois
American Tel. and Tel. rfs..... - y
Capital Traction .............. ~. ~
Washington Gas .............. ll T.
Norfolk and Wash. Steamboat. 1SJ 49,.
Washing on Rwy. and Eiec. com. - II
Washington Rwy. and Elec. pfd. I'll d: .
Na>h.-Na Rwy. pfd. ) .....
Evening star., 1921-05-14
Washington Stock Exchange;

SALES.
capital Traction--15 at IS.
Washington Railway pfd-J at "-:
AFTER CALL.
Metropolitau HALLWAY 5s-Sl 600 at a2'2.
Washington Gas 1i.s tnote)-Sl'Wp al
1OIas
I.anston Monotype--lO at -.
Washington Railway pfd.--:' at G.7s, II
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1921-09-30
CHANGES MADE IN
HIGH SCHOOL HOURS
Seven Glass Periods of Fifty
Minutes Each.

one Of the most important changes
iu the administration of the Hammond
tlgn school year is the change in the
tine schedule. The six daily periods
~ one hour each are gone. and instead
We have seven class hours of nifty
minute each, with i've minutes for
passing as before. school begins at
: $50 as usual. but closes at 500. in
.,.ad OF $3.50. a great gain or n small
one. according to whether you are only
r. nrst hair freshmen or a last-helr
sen or.
The luncheon period is thirty min
4tes III length, but does not occur in
the middle Of fourth period as hitherto.
Half of the school enrolment has n
l,acteon period from 1915 to 11:45
aid then goes directly to fourth period
classes. The other hals has fourth
1er.od from 1I:45 10 1906 and 80 min
rtes for luncheon. Fortunately at this
time these 20 minutes between the two
luncheon periods gives the cafeteria
ass stants time 10 clear the tables
and arrange the food for the second
group. The arrangement is very much
better in many ways. An unbroken
recitation period IS Of greater advan-
tase both to the teacher and the pupil
T}e twenty minute period makes the
luncheon work very much easier for
the cafeteria management.
rhe attempt to have twenty minute
supervised study l.2riods in each class
has been abandoned. since il did not
-npear to work out satisfactorily IN
s.ead. for those who are taking a res
t.r four-subject program. an extra
seily period of forty-fve minutes is
loovided. which viii tighten home
work" Those students carrying la
r"ratory or extra subjects viii still
ave two regular study periods during
Aool hours. The system. az It now
rfds. is the one in use in NOSE high
S nrols of first ci'sn RANK belon5ins
tine NOT h Central Association
the extra study period after regular
la.- for backward Students viii be
sinued as the eighth assembly"
a.d Il viii extend from $3.50 to 1:15.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1921-09-30

attended BY Miss Isabella Hillbrich and
John keilman. niece and brother OF the
bride. Ethel Wolf Of Hammond acted
as flower girl. The bride wore a very
beautiful dress Of white embroidered
net. Her veil was caught up with
pearl beads and brides roses. She
carried a beautiful shower bouquet Of
brides roses. The bridesmaid wore
a pretty dress Of gray embroidered
georgette and a hat to match. She
carried a bouquet of pint roses. The
flower girl was p~rettly dressed in yell
low georgette and carried a beautiful
sasket Of roses. After the ceremony
a delicious wedding dinner was served
at which was very PRETTY decorated.
In the evening the young couple left
on a short motor honeymoon trip. Hr.
and Mrs. Turner are popular young
people. they have the best wishes of
their host OF friends.
Gerlach Bros. are putting UP a large
barn.