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The Washington times., 1922-10-10
BY CORDELL HULL,
Chairman Democratic National
COmmittee

While there are numerous issues
in this campaign. the dominant do.
mestic issue is taxation, both internal
and tariff. involving additional bur.
dens upon the people and the con.
tinuing increase in the cost Of liv.
ing.
From reports received at This head
quarters from every section of the
country, this is the issue that the
people are talking about and one
which they understand. This is true
Of women as well as men voters.
The women of the country know
that they will have to pay 81 ,0O0. 900.
600 more for their clothes under the
present Republican tariff than they
did under the late Democratic tariff,
ana they resent It,
Another vital economic issue that
stands out relates to the restora ton
Of sound reciprocal foreign markets
and trade conditions to permit a
ready sale at good prices of our sur.
plusVfeodstuffs. raw materials and
manufactures.
Food Prices Up.
The increase in the cost of living
under. the new tariff does not rest
upon mere assertion.
Increases in the prices Of many
articles Of food and clothing, coming
within three weeks after the pa ssage
OF the profiteers' tariff law. are
proof that this measures first effect
N@ ha l..
Republican managers and news.
papers are plainly worried by this
early result of their new tariff This
exOrbitant protection" to trusts and
monopolies. II was declared by Re
and other advocatts OF the Fordnay.
McCumber law. would be a swift and
certain recipe for "prosDerity."
There have been no increases in
wages and no recovery of business
from the panic that has harried
It for the last eighteen months. but
there are now undeniable advances
in the prices OF such neCessaries as
sugar. clothing. furniture. manu-.
faCture OF steel, drugs and medi.
Cines.
SCOTS al prosperity"
The only prosperity for which
The new tariff Is responsible is that
enjoyed by the sugar trust, the wool
trust, the steel trust. and the chemi.
cal trust, among others.
The law. with its rapaCious rates
of duty on every article that the
American people use. has given the
profiteers both an opportunity and
a pretext for the outrageous in
creases they are putting on food,
clothing, medicines and other re-
quisites.
Price marks on commodities are
corroborating Democratic charges
that the Fordney. ey.MCCumber law Is
just what II was designed to be-a
franchise given to trusts and mono
pohes to tax the public to the
amount of some $4,000, 100000 or
81 900, 100000 year on all that
they eat. wear and require for their
health. convenience and comfort.
These price marks are also so many
indictments of the Republicans who
forced the law to enactment in the
face Of popular disapproval and OBJ
lection.
Unable to combat the facts any
other way, Republican newspapers
Of high proteCtionist stripe are de-
nounCing importers and retailers for
boosting" prices. There is no word
OF condemnation in these organs for
the big monopolies which control the
The Washington times., 1922-10-10

Ezra Meeker, pioneer traveller
and historian of the Oregon
trail. visited the Woodland Golf
Club at Grand Island, Neb., and.
although only few weeks under
ninety-two, he is now golf devO-
tee, in which he finds his relax
alton. He lives at Puyallup,
Wash.
cinema activities are confined. indi
cate by their tense avidity that this
latest Cosmopolitan Production viii
rank as one of the best screen of
ferings of the season.
The Washington times., 1922-10-10
WORKERS. EDUCATION
URGED UPON UNIONS

Wider education Of working men
and women was urged by Spencer
Miller. jr.. secretary Of the Work
ers' Educational Bureau OF Ameri
ca. at meeting Of the Central
Labor Union last night in Musi-
clans Hall.
Miller has just returned from
Europe where he was delegate to
the international conference on
workers education. He reviewed
his experiences at the conference.
A discussion of the Washington
Trade Union College was made by
Frank Morrison, secretary Of the
American Federation of Labor.
The Washington times., 1922-10-10
'FROHMAN [AUDS
MOVIE FOLkF
BIC SPECTACLE
King of Legitimate Field En-
thraIIed by midsummer
Nights Dream"
BY GUY PRICE,

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 10.-Danicl
Frohman, veteran theatrical pro.
uucer, has great respect for the mo-
tlon picture industry. Mr.. Froh.
man s favorable opinion dates back
year when the film folk got behind
the first actors fund charity staged
an the west and rendered invaluable
service. This year7-last Saturday
night. to be exact-the movie mum
mers came through" again and today
the well-known eastern manager is
hurling superlatives of praise and
appreciation at them, collectively
and individually. The midsummer
Nights Dream" performance staged
In the spacious and picturesque
hollywood Bowl, is dramatic
memory of the 10000 who witnessed
1t. And it was staged almost solely
by picture people. Not so many
years ago the gentlemen and ladies
OF the legitimate stage looked with
derision upon the movies. That is
all changed now.
Larry Semon has published a
brochure on Taking The Slap Out
of Slapstick." The pplot moves along
right merrily.
Jimsey Mayo, wife Of the film
director. Reeves Eason. is suing for
divorce on the ground that her hus-
band became intoxicated and played
poker. Some of you will regret to
learn that the Easons do not live in
Hollywood.
The motion picture colony awaits
with unconcealed interest the west.
ern premiere in this city, October 13,
OF the internationally-talk photo
spectacle, when Knighthood Was
In Flower" starring the magnetic
Marion Davies. Hollywood and
Culver City, where most Of the
The Washington times., 1922-10-10

Reading, Pa.-'T was q nervous
wreck and could hardly do my
housework. always had to have
help or | would never have got it
done. Through the advice of friends
! have been taking Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound for my
nerves and Lydia E. Pinkham's
Blood Medicine for my blood and l
am feeling fine and doing my work
all alone. can recommend these
medicines to any one, for they GER
tainly helped me. l suffered for five
years and Lydia E. Pinkham's g med
icines pulled me through. - Mrs.
WALTER U. SToYER, 1918 Mulberry
St., Reading, Pa.
The Washington times., 1922-10-10

Larry Semon has published a
brochure on Taking The Slap Out
of Slapstick." The pplot moves along
right merrily.
Evening star., 1922-06-29
C[QUDBURST TRAPS
MANY MOTORISTS
Machines Blocked for Hours
When Frederick County
Streams Rise.
Special Dispatch to The star.


FREDERICK, Nd. June 2s.-Thou-
sands of dollars In damage re-
suited from a cloudburst in central
Frederick county yesterday. the flood
sweeping away bridges. fences. car
rying automobiles from the road and
depositing them on high land sever
al hundred yards away. The rain
fell in torrents for nearly two hours.
the central section of the country
being the most damaged. The water
height of about five feet within the
hour. Traffic on the state road near
Pearl, east of Frederick, was held up
for four or five hours. and several
Maryland state policemen were sta
toned on either side of the flooded
road to prevent automobtltStS from
being washed away.
At one time there were about one
hundred automobiles waiting to pass
through the flood. The heavier cars
were allowed to attempt 1T. The state
police report that several automo-
bfles were carried off the road into
adjoining fields. None Of the occu-
pants was injured. and the ma
chimes were gotten back to the road
when the flood subsided.
The rain was accompanied by a
severe thunderstorm. The home of
Mrs. John Phelps. near Pearl. was
struck by lightning and damaged
slightly, but not burned. Telephone
and telegraph communications were
badly interferred with, there being
but a single telegraph wire out of
the city until this morning.
Evening star., 1922-06-29
LABOR BOARD CITES
RAIL LEADERS ON
EVE OF BIG STRIKE.
Continued from First r.s..,

conference principally on contracts
with the American Railway Express.
Conditions Impossible.
The strike situation, however. made
the meeting all the more important.
Rejection Of Jewelps ultimatum that
the roads ignore the Labor Boards
wage cut decisions and restore abol-
ished rules governing working con-
ditions. was certain. 1t was said. rail
officials declaring that JEWELS con.
ditions for averting a strike were
Impossible"
On the other hand. a conference be-
tween railroad executives and union
leaders was declared possible, not so
much In any hope of reaching an
agreement, but as q vehicle for car.
rying the disputes Immediately to the
Labor Board, which saved the nation
from a rail strike last October. BY
the formality of an announcement
that the roads and unions could roach
no agreement. the Labor Board. 1t
was pointed out, could take juris-
diction as it did in the threatened
strike Of the big four brotherhoods
last fall.
Another possibility was that the
board could similarly assume juris-
diction over situations growing out
of an actual strike on the grounds
that the strike would interrupt COM
merce.
Evening star., 1922-06-29
EASTERN ROADS TO RUN.
officials Declare Rolling Stock Re.
serve in Good Shape.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, June 2s.-Railroad Of
ficials and public officers have gone
ahead with plans to circumvent any
tying up of traffic and necessary food
supplies Of Greater New York.
Confidence was expressed at the Of
fees Of the eleven railroads entering
New York city that all traffic would
be moved and no food shortage would
result for the metropolis because Of
the strike. Rail executives also said
passenger schedules would not be in
terrupted. City authorities made plans
to supply New York with milk and
perishable foodstuffs by motor truck
if necessary. and the port Of New York
authority revived Its year-old organ
lied design to supply Greater New
York with fuel and foodstuffs in an
emergency. Twelve hours notice
would set the organization in motion,
1t is said.
Labor leaders estimated that more
than 125.00O workers would be in
volved in Greater New York in a
strike OF the car repairmen, mainte-
nance men and clerks.
Traffic managers of some Of the rail-
roads declared all of the roads had
a reserve supply Of engines and roll
ing stock which could be drawn upon
in an emergency, thus doing away
with the necessity of heavy repairs to
equipment for some time. Sufcient
Evening star., 1922-06-29
HALF or VOTES IN.
Tabulation Shows Unions Strong
for Strike If Action Is Joint.

By the Associated Press
DETROIT, Mich, June 2s.-Tabula-
tion of the national strike vote taken
by the United Brotherhood of Main
tenance OF Way Employees and Rail-
way Shop Laborers In protest against
a wage cut scheduled July l, con-
ttnued at the general headquarters Of
the organization here today, with in
dtcatlons that more than half tho
100000 ballots believed to have been
More than 100000 votes already
have been received here, and Of these
$4,000 were compiled In the last
two days the influx Of votes has con-
tinued to mount. the peak being
reached yesterday, when about 10000
were received.
Throughout the count, officials say.
the same thing has been evident
that the membership is overwhelm-
ingly in favor Of a strike, provided
other unions join in.
The exact vote. for and against the
strike has been withheld, pending the
arrival of E. F. Cradle, grand presi-
dent Of the organization. who has
been in Chicago comforting with other
union leaders
Representatives Of three railroads
operating car ferries on the great
lakes. met here today with represen-
tatives of the Lake Sailors, Marine
Firemen, Oilers. Water Tenders and
Coal Passers and the Marine Cooks
and Stewards unions to discuss a
wage adjustment for ferry employees,
who assert their wages have been cut
from $3.50 monthly to $S5 since 1921
The roads represented were the
Pere Marquette, Wabash and Grand
Trunk.
While no definite statement was
forthcoming, 1t was indicated the en-
ployes would seek a wage scale of
500 monthly.
EASTERN ROADS TO RuN
Evening star., 1922-06-29
PRESIDENT SEES PERIL.
Writes Hylan Government Alive to
Danger Of Food Embargo.

NEW YORK. June 29.-President
Harding declared that the federal
government 'is not unmindful Of its
responsibilities" as regards a threat
ened food embargo in the event Of a
railroad strike, in a letter to Mayor
Hylan. The Presidents letter was in
response to one from the mayor, in
which the city's threatened difficulties
were set forth.
II have read with full appreciation
the gravity of the situation which you
portray in your letter" the President
wrote. Let me assure you that the
federal government is not unmindful
Of its responsibilities. 1 hope no sit
uation will develop which will be a
menace to the safety and the health
of the people of the city of New
York"
Evening star., 1922-06-29

not take the places or do the work
OF any railroad employees on strike
1 nconnection with the strike of the
shop crafts called for Saturday morn
ins, chief1 Of these brotherhoods ad-
vtsed the members OF their organiza-
tions today.
Brotherhood OF Locomotive Engineers,
and William g. Lee, president Of the
Brotherhood Of Trainmen, issued in.
!tructions to this effect to all mem
bers Of their organisations today.
In the absence from Cleveland Of w
8. Carter, president Of the Brotherh ,od
Of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen
ohicials at firemen's headquarters an
nounced they had agreed with Prssi-
dent Stone to send joint message OF
instructions to engineers and firemen.
Evening star., 1922-06-29
THREE AVIATORS KILLED.
Cadets Bodies Also Burned After
200-Foot Fall to Ground.

SAN ANTONIO. Tex, June 30
Three aviation cadets were killed
and their bodies burned when an air.
plane in which they had just taken
off at Brooks Field. fell from a height
OF 200 feet late yesterday.
The dead are: Waldren r. Farrell
twenty-four years old, Philadelphia,
pilot, killed instantly: William c. Nc
Coy, twenty-five years old, Nashville
Tenn; George c. Thompson, West
Philadelphia. Pa
Farrell and Mccoy are said to have
gone from their station at Kelly
Field to Brooks Field, where Thomp-
son had arrived from Carlstrom
Field. Fla, on his way to Kelly
Field
Evening star., 1922-06-29

skilled help to make minor repairs 1t
engine terminals would b available.
they said, to keep ali rolling stock
needed to move freight and passsn-
GERS on the road.
l. r. Loree. president Of the Dsle-
ware and Hudson, announced that his
road had f20 locomotives laid up IN
white lead for an emergency and
much rolling stock lying Idle be-
cause OF the coal strike.
Mr.. Loree, who Is chairman Of the
Eagtern Presidents Conference, which
embraces about forty roads east of
the Mississippi and north of the Ohio
rivers, characterized the threat of
strike by the shop workers as good
card playing"
Labor doesn't work Saturday after
noon." he said. Sunday Is not q
working day. Monday precedes the
Fourth of July. and the holiday is not
q working day either. It looks to me
as though the ieaderF. in calling 9
strike for Saturday. II their demands
are not met. are nguring 1t won't
cost them much to lie idle four days
when they would pretty much lie idle
anyway. It would be q fne way tc
hnd out what the other fellow has got
and to determine what measures the
strike might provoke"
Evening star., 1922-06-29
MINIMUM WAGE CUT.
Board to Hold Last Session on Mer
chants Plea Tonight.

The hnal session Of the minimum
wage board. now considering appli-
cations Of merchants for q reduction
of the minimum wage for female en-
ployes OF local department stores.
will be held tonight at 1880 o'clock.
The boards decision will. affect not
only the trained workers in the
stores. but also those in the learning
period" Of seven months, the rate
for whom during the first seven
months at present is $3.50 per week
Evening star., 1922-06-29

and for the last four. $3.50 per week
Employers are seeking q learning
period OF twelve months, with the
wage for the first four placed at $l2
and for the last four at $14 per week.
Employees are fighting q reduction
In any line every step OF the way,
presenting counter exhibits to offset
evidence Of the employers.
Evening star., 1922-06-29
WILL CONTINUE TO WORK.
By the Associated Presa.

By the Associated Presa
LEVELAND. Ohio. June 2s.-En-
gineers. hremen and trainnnen members
Of the railroad brotherhoods, with head
quarters in this city, will continue to
perform their regular duties and will
Evening star., 1922-06-29
TALCUMS

2sc Johnson's Baby Taloum. ...Hc
25c B. & B. Talcum. .2Ic
Soc Squibbs Violet or
Carnation Tale. .z3c
$lO0 Houbigant's Ideal or
Ouelque Fleur Tale. .......... SOC
$l.2s Coty's L'Origan Tale. .....S1.I0
$1.O0 Tn Air Embaume Tale -. .75c
25c Pompeian Taleum. m.......... .19c
25c Babcock's Corylopsis Talcum, I7c
25c Babcock's Butterfly Tale. .1Sc
25c Mennen's Talcum. m.......... .z1c
25c Mavis Talcum. m......I9 .I9c
Evening star., 1922-01-02
Dopey Dan Tabs a Few Beats From
the Heart of the Nation
BY w. n. CLAGETT.

of garden in tho front of his h-me.
Every summer morning a wee mite
of girl used to come to that garden,
hang over the iron railing and for
ne rly an hour do nothing but smile
- e never missed dayl
Curious to know Just what pleased
her most, went up to her one morn
ing and nearly fell dumb-struck to
find she was blind-stone blind!
!" What is 1t, Missy, that makes you
10 happyT 1 asked in a voice that
choked in my throat. The fragrance
ers, she timidly replied as she clung
to the fence. How good God is to
let me enjoy it,
well, friend. for nearly two months
I could think of nothing else but the
poor little waif. her ragged slip of
a dress. the thin, pinched toes peep
ing through badly worn shoes, but
with 1t all the wonderful soul! The
scene stayed before me night and day.
l couldn't sleep. Then, In utter des-
peration. I took a vow to myself
never again to complain. and to the
best Of my knowledge I've stuck to my
word! When Jim gets the shock he'll
come through o. K."
And SO 1t goes. folks! There's a
mess O. Jims tangoin' through our
fair land today. but don't be one OF
them! Cut out the self stuff and figure
eho Diossih % 1>o peoPio oH uou green
earth, as a whole, have more to be
grateful for at this glorious period
Of 1922. than our'n! Mebbe all things
haven't broke your way, but think
of the thousands of little blind girls
and others who find time to smile
when they might well be a-weepin' Come,
now. 'fess up, folks, old 1921 wasn't
sich a bad twelvemonth after all
was 1t? Here's wishin' 1t bon voyage
and hopin' its successor will turn out
as well! thank you.
nOpI,Y DAN
Evening star., 1922-01-02

movement, in which the commission
has offered $500 in prizes for a
monograph on specified historical
topics and periods. will be one of the
principal details Of business at the
meeting.
Reports from New York that Ad.
miral w. s. Benson and Prof. Henry
Jones Ford Of Princeton University
"felt warmly" on some matters re-
garding the handling of publicity
were discounted at the session by
specific statements by both. who
professed to be in absolute harmony
with the work Of the commission and
it's publicity committee.
Those attending the session were
Admiral Benson, Prof. Ford, Maurice
Francis Egan. former minister to
Denmark; Hannis Taylor. former min
lister to Spain: Prof. Charles H. Nc
Carthy of Catholic University; Prof
George HeImann Derry of Union Cofs
lege. Supreme Secretary William J
Mckinley, Supreme Treasurer d. j.
Callahan and Supreme Knight James
A. Flaherty.
Evening star., 1922-01-02

Coming down in the elevator at
the New Willard Hotel last night !
heard one rooster" say to another.
We'll, Jim how'd the old year treat
your" "Buml" snapped back the per-
son addressed, with a ugly scowl on
his face. ''More'n bumi I've got
absolutely nothing to be thankful for!
Business on the fritz, family all sick.
me away from home and everything
putridr'
Squintin' over in the direction of
the grumbler, I found him to be a
great big. robust, well dressed. com
Portable iookin' partridge" health
ier'n all get out and bejewelled in
the bargain! Gored by the selfish
ree-nark I tossed him a look that
with anybody but Jeems-but not
himl He didn't make a move to
field it, let 1t go right through his
legs, where his friend picked 1t up
and waved me the wait sign!
"Jim's a bit self-centered" says
the stranger to me as we both watch :
ed him beat 1t through the doors for
taxi.
"And then some" chirps 1, with a
wink In my eye-piece.
WELL" continued the stranger,
he'll get over it in time! 1 re-
member. it wasn't SO many moons
back when l used to grumble just
about like Jim! But thank the Lord,
1 remember, too. how l was made
to see my miserable selfishness!"
DO tell" says l. as l squatted on
the settee!
Il was living in New York city,
went on the stranger, "a man in the
house next to mine was a bug over
flowers and after many vain attempts
managed to cultivate a little patch
Evening star., 1922-01-02
D. c. FIRE HORSE GOING.
Arrival of New Trucks Leaves But
Three Of Old Style in Service.

The Washington fire department will
be completely motorized during 1922 If
Congress allows the sum asked for by
the Commissioners for new engines in
the budget for the next fiscal year.
The arrival last week of three mor-
motor engines and three motor hose
carriages leaves only three companies
still using horses. Chief Watson an
nounced.
The new apparatus which has reached
the city from the factory will be
assigned to company IL, Brookland; /;
company 26. Langdon, and company 10,
Anacostia.
This leaves only company %. at Ben
ming: company l9. Randle Highlands.
and truck II, Tenieytown, to be motor
iZed.
An official of the department explain
ed that even with these companies
motorized, it would b.. necessary
to- retain some horse-drawn apparatus
for time for reserve duty, since there
would be no extra motor apparatus 10
fill in for apparatus out of order.
Evening star., 1922-01-02
TALK OF PLAN TO PRINT
TRUE AMERICAN HISTORY
x. Of G. Representatives Aim to
Present Narratives Free From
Propaganda.

Plans for the compilation of
American historical data were under
discussion Saturday at the first "plen-
ary meeting Of the American history
commission of the Knights Of
Columbus at the Willard Hotel, with
Edward A. McSweeney of Boston
presiding.
make research into data for the pur-
pose of presenting historical works
in this country under pure American
auspices without any propaganda
shading"
One monograph on THE Monroe
Doctrine" by Thomas II. Mahony of
Boston, has already been issued and
others are scheduled to follow during
the coming year. Discussion of the
Program of the organizations history
Evening star., 1922-01-02
APPEALS TO POLES IN U. S.
| TO RAISE $3.50, 900 FUND
Committee of Nationals Seeks to
Repatriate Orphans From ST.
IBERIA to Home Land.

The Polish national committee. with
headquarters in Chicago, has appealed
| to all Poles in the United States to
| conduct campaign to raise $250.0O0
| for the repatriation Of 400 Polish
| orphans. The campaign began last
I week and will end January Is.
Shortly after the armistice was
! signed these 400 orphans were found
! destitute in Siberia. They were
brought to the United States and dis
| tributed among Polish people in some
| of the larger cities. who, for long
| time. provided them with education
| and subsistence. But the expense for
| the upkeep of these children in
| CT leased rapidly. and ii was decided TO
| send them to Poland, buy a building
! for a home and let the people of
| Poland contribute toward their sup
! port. To this end. the committee
| points out. it is necessary that funds
| be secured to cover transportation
! and other expenses
The Polish Club of Washington
representing all the Poles in the city
and vicinity. has appointed BENJAMIN
kowalski. /. Jawney Mrs. Josenh
/ Staniszewski. Miss Mary Choda anie-
wicz and Albert kubeldzis to take
charge of the local campaign
The Nile is almost as long as the Mis-
sissippi and Missouri rivers combined
Evening star., 1922-01-02
ASSIGNED TO PORTO RICO.

Lieut.. Col. Harry w. Gregg. In
fantry. at Camp Knox, KY. has been
assigned to the e5th Infantry. and will
join that regiment in Porto Rico.