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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1922-06-08
Whole Country Is Laughing at Gotham

in sackcloth and ashes as official
goat" for an error that had set pro
and even anti-SmOking women on the
warpath from the Battery. to the far
reaches of Harlem.
Mccoy, it was explained, was
charged with clipping the official city
record for resolutions and ordinances
that have been adopted and approved
by the mayor and sending them along
to the proper officials for enforcement.
He was still trying to explain how
the anti-smOking bill was sent along
when City Clerk Cruise rallied to his
support with a broadside against Com
missioner Enright's staff for failing to
examine the purported ordinance care
fully enough to see that it was not
properly stamped and Endorsed.
News that it was all mistake came
like a reprieve from the gallows to
proprietors of scores of places where
qualification of miladys passion for
the soothing weed was the chief source
of bread and butter revenues. Fashion
able smokeshOps for women had
sprung up in Fifth avenue, Broadway
and other advanced centers, while
Greenwich village had come to depend
largely on smoke rings to produce an
atmosphere of Bohemia.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1922-06-08
Woman u. S. Senator From Mississippi!

JACKSON, MISS.-"Nothing but my
j own death can take me out of this
race" That's the statement of Miss
Belle Kearney, woman candidate for
United States senator from Mississippi,
q state that bitterly fought the ma
tiOnal woman suffrage amendment to
the last ditch.
Political observers here say Miss
Kearney's chance Of winning is good
and that queer twist of politics may
cause Mississippi to send one of the
first women to the senate! Miss
Kearney repeatedly has defied mascu-
line elements that have sought her with
drawal from the senatorial campaign.
"After the bitter fights I have gone
through to gain state and national pro-
hibition and to win the ballot for WOm-
en-, | am not easily eliminated" she
says. "Men have been so in the habit
of eliminating or effacing women that
It's only natural for them to run true
to form. But they forget they are
faced by a new situation that looms
like stone wall-the acknowledgment
of women.
Gas a citizen Of Mississippi I shall
fight for my rights and the rights of
every women of the land if / have to
battle alone without a campaign man
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1922-06-08
Duel Of Artist and Author With Fists

GAN FRANCISCO.-Classic Carmel
~ the habitat of writer's, painters, and
other artistic folk, is a-buZz with Cos
SIP over the sensational tiStic battle
staged on a lonely bluff overlooking
the Pacific between Harry Leon Will
son, noted author, and Theodore NJ.
Criley, noted landscape artist.
The feud began with the community
production of "Pomander Walk" in
which Criley played the hero and Mrs.
Wilson portrayed the heroine. Wilson
Is said to have written Criley twenty
page letter of invective. Then he de-
parted for Honolulu TO put himself in
physical condition and notified Criley
of his intention.
For three months the author walked,
swan, and boxed. Then he returned.
The formal written challenge was sent
to Criley and was accepted. 1t is said
that Wilson weighed lS5 and Criley
145. Wilson is fifty-five years old and
Criley forty-five.
Wilson stripped to the waist. AS
soon as Criley stepped forward, after
having stripped off his coat, Wilson
rushed in and landed a terrific blow
on his opponents cheek. Both men
wore soft riding gloves, and the impact
of their punches tore the skin.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1922-06-08
Greeks Search for Sisters Murderer

and threatened to kill his sweetheart
unless she married him. Just then
other passersby frightened him away
A few minutes later he returned. He
had a gun and fired. The girl dropped
dead, shot through the heart.
when / heard about the death OF
Flora I vowed to devote the rest OF
my life to bringing him to JUSTICE
Houvouros said here. l had a gooo
little business in Chicago and was
making some money, and I had rela'
tives in West Virginia and Cleveland
who helped me. / came to New YorR
and to other cities where there were
Greek colonies and always asked
people to let me know if they hearo
anything about him.
"In 1913 I heard he was in New
York. When I got there they drafted
me into the army at Hoboken and sent
me to Camp Dix. I told the captain
of my company about it, and he USED
to let me have Saturdays and Sundays
off to look for Mavrogean in New
York. Finally I found him running
fruit stand near the ferry house In
Staten island and had him arrested
They turned him loose on bail and he
disappeared Now I've found him
again, this time he'll be punished, ]
hope"
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1922-06-08

n NE is known by the sweater one
~ wears. There are aristocrats in
sweaters just as in people. True once
upon a time sweaters were, well, just
sweaters That, however, was before
a genius in the knitting industry had
vision, before it dreamed dreams,
which are no longer dreams but glori-
fed realities in the form of exclusive
knitted coat types which express con-
summate art and not mere manu-
facture.
The connoisseur in knitted outer
wear. looks for certain distinguishing
qualities in the sweater de luxe. 1t
must be full fashioned with tailor-fit-
ting sleeves, cuffs of cunning device
knitted in one piece with the sleeve;
the belt swung low into the fashion
able hip line effect.
The last word in the all-silk knitted
coat is color for the top with solid
white below the waist line. The illus
tration to the right tells the story.
The original model for this sketch
happened to be in the delectable new
shade of amberglow for the top, with
pure white for the lower portion. How
ever, many enhancing combinations
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1922-06-08

CHICAGO.-A seven years search
~ for the murderer Of his sister
ended when Peter HOuvouros, res
taurant owner of 2535 North KedZie
avenue, Chicago, found George Mavro-
gean, twenty-four years old, in New
York city, and caused his arrest. The
warrant was issued in 1918.
Seven years ago Houvouros' family
lived in the mountain village of Trippe,
nine miles from Sparta, Greece. Nav
rogean's family were neighbors. In
1912 Mavrogean wanted to marry
Houvouros sister, Flora. The girls
family opposed the match and made
arrangements to send her to America.
The day before she was to leave her
home she was walking on a country,
road with a girl friend. Mavrogean
has confessed that he met the girls
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1922-06-08

~ GOD taste directs (and fashion
~ approves) that women go about
the ordinary affairs of life, outside
their homes, in tailored clothes-the
sort of clothes that their wearers need
not have on their minds at all, after
they are once put on. 1t happens that
these, the least OstentatiOus of wom-
ems belongings, require the greatest
amount of care and work on the part
Of their designers and Makers and are
entitled to as much consideration on
the part of every woman who aspires
to dress correctly.
The utility suit is the mainstay of
the wardrobe, and must be made of
reliable goods. It achieves distinction,
not by differing in the style from
other suits, but by expert workman
ship and faultless tailoring. When
successfully made it is a masterpiece
In the art Of dress, and it is economy
to buy a good suit, even if one must
save in other directions, in order to
do so.
This spring has been unusually gen
erous in the variety and attractiveness
Of it's new "tailleurs," bringing two
and three piece suits, in old and new
favOrites among fabrics, and making
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1922-06-08

ager and without a campaign fund.-
Miss Kearney started her active
senatorial campaign as soon as it was
established that Senator John S. Will
liams would not run for reelection.
Having started her career as a
school-teacher, Miss Kearney early
turned to uplift work. She became one
of the best lecturers and organizers
of the Woman's Christian Temperance
Union. She also was an ardent suf-
frage worker. In the World war she
went to France at her own expense
and engaged in relief work.
While several other candidates may
enter the race, Miss Kearney's only
opponent now is ex-senator James K.
Vardaman.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1922-06-08

Toe to toe, the two nOtables stood,
exchanging punch for punch and ex-
acting blood for blood. The rules
provided that a knockdown constituted
round and three minutes should in
tervene between rounds.
Criley kept his feet. Wilson went
down four times. Until he could
barely lift himself to his elbow the
author made every effort to execute
the threat he had written to Criley
that he would make him pay and pay
and pay" When Wilson no longer
could gain his feet he turned to his
seconds weakly and said: II am sorry
to have brought you here for this"
The latest is that the fighters have
agreed to call the feud off and forget
1t.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1922-06-08

NEW YORK.-Gotham has the I'M
AN easy consciousness that all the
country is laughing at it. Probably it
Is. There's reason. All of a sudden
the police discovered an ordinance
forbidding smoking in public by wom-
en-. They hustled out and made arrests.
The whole country gasped.
Police Commissioner Enright the
next day lifted the ban on smoking by
women in public as suddenly as he
clamped it down the night before when
ne learned that Alderman McGuinneSS'
nnti-smoking ordinance had never been
passed by the board of aldermen or
signed by Mayor Hylan.
Daniel w. f. Mccoy, an employee
In the city clerks office, was led forth
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1922-06-08

are available, remembering that White
is used always with the solid color,
Notice the exquisite hand-WrOught
braid up the fronts and about the
neck line. This is a French inspira-
ton. The stitch with welt rib for the
top is varied in the white portion with
a handsome block weave.
The other tuxedo model is one of
the new zephyr-weight Shetland wool
knitted coats attaining almost cobweb
delicacy in it's lacy openwork stitch
These semi-transparent effects are the
newest idea in sweaters. The master
touch is impaired in fitted cuff fas-
tened with crystal buttons to match
the shade of the coat.
Happy the possessor of either OF
these adorable garments, be it pure
silk of the new lightweight Shetland
wool, and twice blessed is she who can
afford them both, for fashion DEGREES
that the sweater be tuned to the cos
tune ensemble.
>G~<, &'.~ =
eprrnoHT " vfsTpN HENsovH us,losA.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1922-06-08
Too Familiar.

''This air is very familiar" said the
musician as gust Of wind whisked
his hat off.-BOston Transcript.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1922-06-08

charming departure in cOlors. In the
three-piece suits, a cape or coat &C.
companies a dress, usually with bod
ice of crepe in a color contrasting
with the skirt and coat.
Covert cloth is with us again in all
it's beautiful tan shades. Tweeds have
made a sensational success in spring
time colorings-heather mixtures in
blue, lavender, green, tan, and in
black and white mixtures. Tricotine and
poiret twill, in navy blue, still Guido
their rivals in popularity. Navy trico-
tine makes the suit at the left of the
two pictured. It's trim, straigls; lines
are representative, and it acquires dis
tinction by means of handsome en-
broidery in self color, on the coat. An
other suit which Slay be taken as
criterion of good style for tweeds and
homespuns appears at the right. 1t is
smartly simple, responds to the call
for long coats and adds to the cheerful
ness Of springtime by it's lovely shade
Of h1un
Evening journal., 1922-05-03
a NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. SCANDAL.

n ovE-LoRN and desperate young woman from
IL Lebanon Pa went Newark yesterday for the
avowed purpose of killing former soldier who is
student in the Rehabilitation Department Of the Uni
versity Of Delaware
Failing find him, because he had been warned OF
her coming she stood the front porch OF the Re-
Mobilization Building bullet into her own breast
and died almost instantly
In consequence, both the Rehabilitation Department
and the university received much publicity that is
as regrettable as it is undesirable
There are several the situation that are OF
a comforting nature. The girl in the case was not a
Newark girl or Delaware girl; the In the case
was not Newark man a Delaware man; no man
connected even remotely with either the University OF
Delaware or the Rehabilitation Department except the
one former colder for the Lebanon woman went
cunning had anything whatever to with the case nor
did any woman or girl connected with the Women's
College nave even the remotest connection with II.
Seemingly it was a sordd love affair which reflected
neither the spirit nor the practice OF Delaware College.
he women's College and the Rehabilitation Depart
ment It is unfortunate tragedy occurred, but
the public should not hold against men in the Re-
habitation Department in Newark, who rule
have comported themselves in which has
commended them to favorable regard of the COM
naunity We have no doubt that practically all Of the
students in the department keenly that such
one-nan woman scandal has broken to mar a rec
ord of which former service have every reason !
to be proud
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the committee service was believed to be en-
trey out of harmony his majority that the rule
was overstepped
Today, while seniority IS given great weight In ooth
Houses the chairmen selected by the membership
and the membership time displace the chair
man of any committee That IT has not been done Is
proof that it has not been thought advisable The log
rolling pickering Jealousy bipartisan combination
turmoil and trancency chairmenships which would
result If seniority ignored apparent to anyone
who will consider the subject
Committee chairmanshps would be cause OF con-
tenton at every reorganization and in process of ne
collation. throughout the sessions.
In making up the committees OF both Houses due
gard is had to capabilities of members and apportion-
ment by states sections that all as nearly
OF the government and even then little bargaining
is inescapable.
The influence seniority in the selection OF chair
manshlps is logically attributable the belief that
member who has had long service particular com
mtee' is highly specialized in the particular line OF
work with which the committee is entrusted. and his
long service TO the confidence which he
enjoys from the constituency which he represents.
The seniority rule may have disadvantages. but they
IRE not be compared with those which would prevail
inder free -for-ar rule
James Bryce author of the American Common
wealth." found careful study that the House Of
representatives compared very well with the House of
Commons in OF efficiency and that the United
states Senate transcribed the House OF Lords in
Ibility and efficiency,
Evening journal., 1922-05-03

lrEyHERE is every evidence that the Dennison Blue
IL sky" bill will soon become law.
The bill is designed tighten State laws prohibit
ing the sale OF wildcat securities.
II has passed the House without roll call
Representative Dennison oRepublcan). of Illinois Is
the author OF the bill which specifically prohibits the
shipment from one another OF securities OF
character prohibited in the latter, State
I'm principle the bill simply supplements existing
State laws" declares Mr. Dennison. "and provides for
Federal cooperation with the in suppressing
recognized national evil to the extent OF forbddng the
use of Federal interstate commerce agencies for the
purpose OF evading and violating the State laws"
The bill cannot too speedily become law The mill
lions Of dollars which the American public includ-
ing that part Is annually swndled is appalling. Hun
dreds disposed of to gulble purchasers
which are worth no more than the ornamental paper
on which they written
the public buncoed and the other cooquail
ism that "a sucker is born every minute"
The sharpers who deal in these bogus securities find
their richest pckings, naturally, from among those
least able stand incurred and after these
dupes have been stung once twice they look with
suspicion any security, however g-edged it may be-
The resulting tendency is money boarding spend
thrftiness neither which good for the community.
Not now perhaps, but not long after the Dennison
bill has become a law it will be realized that It's i'm
portance justlnes II being considered OF the
major pieces legislation put through by
the Republican party
Evening journal., 1922-05-03
TOO MUCH ndoHN BULL

ADY AsToR would do well to conhne her speeches
IL to other than political subjects When she re-
nounoed her American citizenship and took up her
abode in England she forfeited her privilege of advs-
ing her former fellowczens the conduct OF their
government
When the distinguished visitor came to our shores
to renew old acquaintance. it expected that we
should her life abroad her experiences in the
House of Commons and perhaps Of England's part in
the affairs OF world. But instead every time Lady
Astor has appeared In public has taken occasion to
urge the United States join the League of Nations,
send delegates Genoa, and otherwise to conform its
policies to the nternationalst viewpoint Her nus
band likewise is addressing audiences in much the
vein.
This country, wimingtonians know, has been sur
feited with British lecturers who come here with no
other purpose view than TO mould American senti-
ment according the British plan Now we have the
remarkable spectacle of former American and his
wife neither OF whom considered the United states
good enough place live in, and both OF whom Of
hcias of the British government the of the House
Of Lords and the other the House of Commons. co
ing back here and telling what attitude towards
The rest of the world must be-
II il were not for the personal beauty and grace Of
Lady Astor the performance OF this pair would receive
he Reputation that they merit
Evening journal., 1922-05-03
TIE SENIORITY RULE

A Deawareans aware. metropolitan !
N papers have attacked the seniority rule in Con-
gress in application committee chairmsnships
For the most part this attack from the Demo-
cratic press whose party Of control which is
opposed anything that transpres under Republican
control
There have been, however, Of non-Demo-
cratic papers which criticized the seniority
Unfortunately the criticism is carping rather than
constructive.
In a recent editorial the New York Journal of Com
merce which labels itself independent" but which is
consistently metropolitan, discovers the British
House of Commons be "a efficiency in COM
parison with legislative bodies" and declares
IF there Is above all others differ
ence it absurd rule of seniority by which
leadership in both Houses our Congress is awarded
according TO length of service and ability
power Of initiative the individual Senator or
Representative keep his fences
or in proper repair in his home district
tight and he will slowly but surely a position
Of dominance power the counsels OF Congress-
not in the affairs Of the country at large"
No offered for the seniority rule but
thought of: First each committee select
its own chairman second. the chairmen be appointed
by the presiding officer of the respective houses When
the latter rule followed in the House years
it rise to the of cannonism. yet even at
that time the appointment of charmen governed
almost wholly by the seniority rule. 1t only when
Evening journal., 1922-05-03

Sam Gompers has been at the bat
two days hand running in his vocal
game of putting all the crimes, evils
and hardships of mankind up to the
money power" If Lenine's Soviet
Government is recognized by the
Genoa conference Sam Gompers says
it will be simply another audacious
conspiracy of predatory interna-
tional finance hungry for loot in
Russia" But Sam Gompers does not
stop to explain why Russian Soviet
ism IS more abhorrent to him than II
is 10 the capitalism it has pillaged
and destroyed all over Russia.
Sam Gompers doec not want to go
into that. What he does want TO do
is to tune up for his annual cam
paign of bidding for labor union
votes for reelection as president of
the American Federation of Labor.
With the same purpose and in the
same spirit Sam Gompers declares
the financial interests Of this country
"concocted the industrial depression
to enslave American workmen." If
this were not so. Sam Gompers de-
mands, how could the financial pow
ers ignore the fact that widespread
unemployment cuts down the coun-
try's buying power2
But when Sam Gompers and other
professional labor union politicians
resist the inevitable deflation OF sky
high war costs they contribute moth
q a..
problem; they make for unemploy-
ment and for a weakened buying
power in the national markets.
Sam Gompers has the brains TO
know. and II he were not always bid
ding against other agitators for
labor union votes 10 re-elect him TO
the presidency of his federation he
might have the honesty to say, that
what creates unemployment is high
production cost that makes II i'm
Evening journal., 1922-05-03
WEDNESDAY, MAY ), 1922
w11MnNcroN,s 1Ee1s1A11vE RnrREsENrAroN.

WILMINGTON'S LEGISLATIVE REPRESENTATION
VF Wilmington is to obtain increased representation IN
the Legislature 1t must hght for It, and carry that
nght lines into the rural districts
which. after ALL will decide just what city shall
have in Senate and in the House of Repre-
sentatives.
Our legislative delegation at present is two members
Of and ve members Of the House or total
Of only seven in membership OF ifty-two, and that,
too in face the fact that city has substantially
fifty per cent OF the population OF the entire State.
At the conference in the Mayors office yesterday
afternoon the OF opinion that the repre-
sentaon should be increased nve in the Senate and
ten in the House, or a total OF fifteen.
have doubt that the people Of Wilmington will
be substantially unit in support OF the increase; and
the missionary bring into being be done
in the rural districts.
Even with such increase which would make the
membership OF the Legislature 60. representation
still would be only 25 per cent against SO cent
OF the population.
Evening journal., 1922-05-03
THINK FREBUG Is
WORKING In CHESTER

CHESTER. Pa, May 3.-With the
discovery of a mysterious fire in the
home OF Miss Edith King, Twenty
fourth and Madison streets. result
ing in the narrow escape OF Mrs.
King and Mr.. and Mrs. John Nc
Clurg, fire officials began a strict in
vestigation to determine If a firebug
is working in Chester.
On Saturday morning fire OF mys-
terious origin ruined the Lincoln
Republic Building. imperiling 20
lives. Monday morning the store and
home of George Fontaine, Gil Cen
tral avenue, was destroyed. and an
s-year-old girl was burned to death.
The cause OF this fire could not be
determined.
Several weeks ago all the chickens
owned by Mrs. King were killed. but
none was carried away. Her home
was entered by a burglar last winter
Evening journal., 1922-05-03
With the Photographer,

In that made and signed under the very ewes NJ
the Genoa conference the Rapao treaty between Ger
many and Russia is surprise In other sense Is II
surprise. Every move on the political chessboard of
made for this very thins.-New York Herald
When President Harding became for tho o,oo = Ms,
class lecturer he did fail to deliver soma 900 Ss
blows for law enforcement He told his bearor. ~
Washington that thing that as the countrg 4. -
tempt for law by in high places That ougbt - ~
pondered II the leading executives in Industry ~ ~
lawyers doctors merchants bankers in fact everyh o5
who influences the minds OF others would become r
tant advocates of respect for law the United state
would be safer, stronger and better nation-south
Bend Tribune.