davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1923-12-19

the city. He asserted that many tour
lists preferred to camp out and that
the camp was a distinct asset to the
city. He also said that Potomac Park
had been found to be the logical site
for the camp.
James T. Lloyd, chairman Of the
law and legislation committee, In a
brief report told the chamber OF the
activities Of his committee. He urged
that the chamber reiterate its stand
on national representation for the
National Capital.
Held Dangerous Legislatfon.n
Commenting on representative
Cramton's proposal that Congress
should only contribute ss.00o.0e
yearly for the upkeep Of the District,
Mr.. Lloyd said that this was the most
dangerous legislation that had ever
been introduced and that such
District paying an abnormal amount
Of taxes.
Assistant Secretary Of Labor Hen
ming advised residents OF the District
of Columbia to be satisfied without
the vote" Bishop Freeman said the
national cathedral symbolizes more
important things than the commercial
or other interests of the District of
Columbia. Isaac Cans, president of
the organization presided.
Evening star., 1923-12-19

The family dollar expended for
food here bought considerably less
last month than during 1913, for
during the ten-year period food
costs in Washington increased So
per cent, within one point of the
record rise for the nation, indi-
Gated in New York and Providence.
r. /. An increase of 81 per cent
was shown for Baltimore. and
prices were not obtained for Nor
folk.
A downward trend in the gen.
eral level OF wholesale prices
which became evident in October
extended into November. the de-
partment announced. Lower prices
were reported for fuel and light
ing materials, building materials,
housefurnishing goods and certain
commodities classed as miscellane-
GUS. Butuminous coal, on an aver
age, was cheaper than in the pre-
ceding month. as were also coke,
gasoline and crude petroleum.
Reductions were also shown in pig
iron. cement, lumber, household
furniture. leather, rubber and
wood pulp.
In the group OF farm products
price declines among grains, cat
tie. hogs, hides and poultry were
Evening star., 1923-12-19
POLICE IN HOT DUEL
WITH BOOTLEGGERS
Mad Race Through Virginia
in Pursuit of Negroes
Proves Futile.

Racing madly through Virginia at
a speed of sixty miles an hour, three
Washington policemen engaged two
negro bootleggers in furious pistol
duel for ten minutes late last night
before the flying lawbreakers escaped
under cover OF a choking smoke
screen.
The policemen-R. B. Jenkins, NJ. A.
Rainey and Milton D. Smith-were
cruising on their motor cycles in the
vicinity of the bureau of engraving
and printing, on the lookout for an
automobile of expensive make which
had been stolen early in the evening
When car OF that make turned out
toward Virginia, the three policemen
gave chase. Apparently aware that
he was being followed, the chauffeur
of the automobile increased his speed.
but Policeman Smith managed to
shoot In .ront and signal the negro
to stop. With even greater speed, the
man responded by deliberately at
tempting to Sideswire the policeman
from the road.
Car Occupant Opens Fire.
simultaneously another negro in the
car opened fire with pistol, the blI-
lets whizzing just above the heads of
the pursuing officers. BY this ,Ime the
due!ists had crossed the Highway bridge
and were racing out Mii.t...y o q f
ward Arlington cemetery. Drawing
their weapUna. the officers etu...-a "a.
fire, but the pace of the machines was
SO terrific tha neither sid aim was
accurate enough to result in injury.
although the policemen SAID the bullets
came uncomtortably c.ose to their
heaus.
Evidently finding that e en- their own
mad pace was failing to oltdis ance
the Policemen. the boOtlesgers shot
dense clouds of choking smoke out OF
their machines exhaust completely oh
scuring the car and com gelllng the
officers to stop immediately So Sc
yerely were the eyes CT Police man Jen-
klns aTected thai he had to undergo
treatment at Emergency Hospita
MUSICIANS, however. said his eyes had
not been permanently injured.
Officers Without Clues.
Inquiry Ground the section of Ar
iington county in which the bootleg
gers disappeared failed TO disclose
either their identity or destinst tion
one IN H. asked If he had seen their
car. replied that he noticed some
thing like an express tram" flashing
down the road, "and that's all" 1t is
believed the negroes were carrying a
supply of high-gra Christmas liquor
to small Virginia cities and took des-
perate ch nces to save bo.h them
selves and their stock. Their car
showed Virginia license tags.
Evening star., 1923-12-19

the time the city was founded manu-
featuring of certain nature had
been encouraged to locate here.
Mr.. Stockman's report, which was
characterized by several speakers as
the finest that had ever been pre-
sented." was finally adopted and
thanks were extended to Mr.. Stock
man for Its preparation.
The recommendation OF the report
follows:
THE committee again urges that
the growth and expansion OF the
manufacturing establishments now
here should be encouraged by
this chamber and by the citizens OF
Washington in every proper way, and
also that every proper facility of the
Chamber of Commerce should ba
freely rendered every legitimate
manufacturing enterprise OF a nature
which will not reduce the standard
of our citizenship seeking a location
in or adjacent to Washington.
Among the other reports submit
ted to the chamber were: A letter
from the Police Association of the
District urging the chamber to sup
port the move for higher salaries for
police: retention OF the tourists
camp in Potomac Park, which is to
be closed on December 20, and re-
port on the Fitzgerald bill. providing
for compensation for workmen, which
has been disapproved by the body.
A. G. Seller. touring manager of the
American Automobile Association,
pointed out to the chamber the value
of the tourists camp to visitors to
Evening star., 1923-12-19
and Girl,
Victims of Will,
Sleep or, Floor

by the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, December 1s.-
Mrs Agnes Ballentine Stamford
and her daughter. Rosalind, who
came here from Los Angeles If
teen days ago, have been living
for two weeks in a bare apart
ment in fashionable Park avenue,
the mother sleeping on polished
floor and the daughter on ex-
celsior that was left when the
furnishings were taken away.
Mother and daughter. 1t was
learned, were the victims Of Pc
culiar circumstances. They were
invited here by the mothers sis-
ter, Mrs. Ellen Ballentine Roberts.
a widow, who died last July and
who left a will providing that her
sister and her neice be maintained
from the residue of her estate.
Mrs. Stamford believes her sis
ter overestimated her wealth,
however, for after the legacies
provided in the will were paid the
residue was virtually nil. The
residence was left to Mrs. Roberts
first husband, Lyman b. Kendall,
who sold 1t two weeks ago and
had the furnishings removed.
The New York Trust Company,
executors of the estate. have per-
mttted Mrs Stamford and her
daughter to remain in the house
until January 4. The mother ex-
planned today that she and her
daughter were vegetarians and
required but little money to eat.
Shakespeare's yearly income, to
ward the end Of his life. was equiva
ent to s25000 In modern money.
Evening star., 1923-12-19

Shakespeare's yearly income, to-
ward the end Of his life. was equiva-
lent to s25 600 in modern money.
Evening star., 1923-12-19
Food Prices Are on Upgrade,
Government Surrey Sho,vs

Food prices in washington are
st he upgrade.
nu4 ng the month from October
Is to November IL the average
family expenditure for food In the
Capital Increased slightly less than
half of / per cent. the Labor De-
partment announced today, along
with increases, in some cases
larger, in thirty-nine other cities.
The average family expenditure
for food decreased in ten cities.
while one city - Minneapolis -
showed no change during the
month.
Food prices here on November
16 were per cent above the prices
on the same date a year ago, the
statisticians of the Labor Depart
ment ascertained, with all the 9TH
er fifty cities In which prices were
obtained showing increases in the
cost Of food to the average family.
Evening star., 1923-12-19
BAZAAR WILL BE HELD
BY ST. GABRIEL'S CHURCH
Three-Day Entertainment a.
Georgia Avenue Market Will
End Tonight.

All details are in readiness for to-
nights bazaar at the Georgia Avenue
market. Georgia avenue and Rock
Creek Church road, when the three
day entertainment under the auspices
Of the workers OF ST. Gabriers Church
VIII be brought to a close.
Everything needed for the Christ
mas stocking and about the Christ
mas tree will be on hand. it was an
bounced today by the committee in
charge. Items ranging from dolls
for, little girls to house dresses for
their mothers o-I r-o-@
youngsters to kitchen utensils and
household equipnll... .o4 -. .,....-.
ups will be included in the sale.
The bazaar Is being held at this
time especially to allow friends and
members of the parish to make
Christmas purchases in a manner
which will put more cash into the
fund for the new church to be erect
ed facing on Grant Circle.
Members of the committee in
charge are as follows: Mrs E.. B.
Brown, Mrs. Charles Johnson, Mrs.
Fred Wiitberger. Mrs. Charles CORN
ley Mrs. James Dillon, Miss Helen
Iichaud. H. j. Beuchert and John
Ryan.
Evening star., 1923-12-19
Two Bibles Bring 1900.

When the library of Earl of Carys-
fort was sold at Sotheby's, London,
not long ago nineteen books were
sold at remarkable prices and among
these was Mazarn Bible that
changed hands a century ago at $3.50,
but which brought s47.soo at the SALE
Messrs. Rosenbach OF Philadelphia
were the purchasers, and a Latin Vul-
gate Bible (1462) brought $4,000.
The Book of st. Albans," one OF the
raest books in the English language
and the first of English sporting
works, was sold after a keen contest
for $4,000.
Evening star., 1923-12-19

more than offset by increases In.
cotton and cotton seed, eggs, SWEEP 4
potatoes and hay, resulting in 4
net increase of more than l peg
cent. ~
Comparing prices wholesale with
those of a year ago. the general
price level was found TO have de-
clined 2H2 per cent.
Evening star., 1923-12-19
Non. Christmas Geese Grow Old.

Zoo chimpanzees have lived twenty
six Sc; rs. which revelation has
brought torth the announcement that
the ordinary barnyard goose lives
frequently to the age Of forty years
IL he lodges Christmas dinners. Ca
naries live to be twenty-four or
twenty-five years old often enough,
but a cat that reached the quarter
century mark Is an object for scien-
tific diversion. OF all living things
the tortoise is the longest lived One
lived ninety-two years. A queen ant
kept in captivity has lived as long as
fifteen years.
Evening star., 1923-12-19

All domestic pigeons are descended
from one species the Blue Rock.
There are now fifty different varieties
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Published Every Thursday by
THOMPSON PRINTING COMPANY
Belington, w. Va.
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FARMERS AND RAILROADS

The railroad owners have out a
book trying to convince the farmer
that as a general rule farmers are
not objecting to the present high
freight rates. But they'll have hard
time proving it. A farmer sells his
wheat at what it is worth at sea-
board, less the freight The freight
is taken out when the wheat is paid
for, and it's the same way with a
load of hogs, cattle, corn, wool, hay
and anything the man in the rural
districts produces. Mr.. Farmer pays
the freight, pays it in advance, and
every man in Belington knows this
to be the truth. Now, let the farmer
buy few implements of any kind.
The dealer adds the freight to the
cost of the implements, tacks on his
profit-and the farmer pays. No
business man pays any freight, for
when the goods are marked in his
store the freight is counted in and
added to the purchase price. That's
one reason the farmer objects to the
high freight rates-because he has to
pay the freight when he buys some
thing from somebody else.
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THE CHRONIC KNOCKER

You know them. Every town has
them, and Belington is no exception
to the rule We suppose that, like
tumble bugs, polecats and other such
creatures, in the inscrutable economy
of nature there is a place for the
chronic knockers. Perhaps they
serve a useful purpose as sort of
counter-irritant for the lack of act
i've interest in the affairs of their
town that is characteristic of thou
sands of supposedly good citizens"
The old fellow said of his dog, you
know, that it was good for him to
have certain amount of fleas, they
forgot to get lazy. The chronic
knocker is really to be pitied, rather
than blamed. He can't help it. His
character is warped and twisted SO
that everything in the world looks
crooked to him. He sees all public
matters as going wrong, and all pub
lie officials as "grafters". He simply
judges all other men by himself.
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THURSDAY, JULY 2eTH 1923
DO YOU DO IT?

Often you hear people say: "Oh,
this town will never amount to any
thing"
Why?
Is not the town favorably situated ?
Has it not good railroad facilities ?
Have we not everything here cal
culated to make good town?
Then why will it never amount to
anything?
The fault is in the people. They
won't let in. Just let some wide a.
wake man suggest or start something
for the good of the town and immed-
lately you hear the cry, it wont
pay. We can't do it, and at once
get out their hammer and begin to
pound the W. a. man for all that it is
worth. KnbckI Knock.! Knock!'-M
Some citizen is mentioned for a
place of honor. He has fair chance
of getting it and giving the town
some prominence A man doesn't
like him. He's not if his crowd Out
comes the hammer. Knock! Knock!
Knockll!
That's why the town will never
amount to anything. There are too
many individual hammers and Knock
Knock!l Knock!!!
Have you hammer in your closet (?
Then throw it away, and pick up a
trowel, which will spread hearty
cement that will link the people to-
gether. If you are getting along
well in the world we should all feel
justly proud of your success. Every
rich man makes it that much better
for the people, if he does not prove
to be a hog. Rich men with the
right kind of heart are a good
thing for any community. Don't
try to pull them down for your own
upbuilding.
Knock for the town. Hit licks
that viii do it good, and if you can
not strike yourself, keep your ham,
mer hid if it will persist in knocking
your town.
Do you do it?
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portant as this one might agree with
him. The truth of the matter is that
he is unfortunately wrong. True
enough there may not be any actual
state of war between nations at this
moment (there may be by morning)
but we find hotbed of trouble in the
Near East where only spark would
touch it off. In Europe we see
France holding the Ruhr section of
Germany by force of arms. Trains
and plants are being blown up; peo-
pie being killed and the Germans
still refusing to carry out the terms
demanded by the French. France
has gone so far now in this regard
that she cannot back out and if Ger
many were able she would strike
back. She may do that yet.
Il simply tell you this to show
that Europe has proved herself in
sincere regarding the Preparations
question. The Preparations Committee
had every opportunity, with an A
merican observer present, to win the
confidence of the United States but
the committee refused to make the
best of the opportunity and, instead
of gaining confidence, played politics.
The boosters of the World Club plan
( have urged and urged that the Unit
ed States take an active part in settl-
ing the affairs of Europe. How can
American help them until they first
show a willingness, at least, to be
fair and help themselves?
Europe must first learn to bury
the individual selfish interests of
each sountry for the general good of
Europe. Until she does this no one
can help her.
/ $50 kiddies, remember these points
when you hear this subject discussed
and take an interest in this big pro-
blem. Some day it will be solved
and it will be solved more rapidly if
the American people will continue to
have faith in the sound business Ad-
ministration now ruling at Washing
ton"
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UNCLE TED BEDTIME STORY
Continued from page one)

"There are great many people
who have given and are still trying
to give the wrong idea as to the
plan adopted by President Harding
and the Administration at Washing
ton toward European problems. Even
before Roland w. Boyden was ap-
pointed to go to Europe to repre-
sent America, simply as an observer
with the big Committee trying to
settle the reparations, these people
said that the present administration
was changing its stand regarding
taking part in European politics. Of
course, those who have studied the
situation know differently"
what does PREPARATION meant"
asked Jack.
Preparation, Jack, is making good
the damage and wrongs done. The
Preparations Committee is supposed
to decide how Germany shall make
good the many wrongs and iajuries
she did to the world during the Great
War. Not long ago Roland Boyden,
resigned his post as observer with
this committee. Never once has the
Harding administration changed it's
attitude against mixing in European
politics or getting tangled in agree
ments on the other side of the ocean.
There was only one reason why it
was thought wise and sensible to
have some one there to know what
was going on. 1t was business
reason. Any agreement that COM
! mittee might reach on the question
might, in some way, affect the Unit
ed States from an economic business
standpoint.
"All the way through, our Govern
ment at Washington has said that
I politics must be kept out Of the sub
ject or else no genuine result could
be obtained. But it was soon prov
ed that this could not be done. Eu-
rope today, as she always has been in
the past, is hotbed of jealousy and
distrust The various naSionalities
speaking different languages; her
crowded populations, and the century
old jealousies, all have practically
made it impossible up to now to bring
about any settlement on such vital
/ questions without bringing in politics
( Not long ago a man who has held
position at Geneva, Switzerland. in
connection with the League of Ma
tions or World club, returned to A
merica. He made several speeches
in which he said that for the first
time in 5000 years the world was at
peace and all because of the world
club. Some people who only read
the headlines of newspapers and who
do not go deep into questions as i'm
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To live longer and better make It q
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1t isn't much of a vacation for a
president when he has to stop and
make speech every few hours, and
know at the same time that the
crowd didn't pay to get in.
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There's a new $50 counterfeit bill
in circulation. But as far as we are
concerned we don't even know what
the genuine looks like.
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You can't always tell how much re-
hgion Belington man has by the
length of his face.
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Entered as second-class matter
June 10, 1912, at the postoffice at
Belington, w. Va, under the act of
March 8, 1879.
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Probe at Lawrence
Continued from Page One)

ternational Brotherhood of Electrical
Workers, were scheduled to meet for
the first time to consider a settlement
of their differences. Pickets were
Withdrawn for Boston exchanges,
pending an outcome of the confer
cnce.
Mayor Frank A. Manning Of Brock
ton notified Mayor Sullivan of Wor-
cester that he would take part in the
meeting in Worcester Wednesday to
consider plans for a settlement of the
strike. The mayors Of Providence
and Lawrence had previously eX-
pressed their intention Of taking part
in the conference.
Mayor James NJ. Curley of Boston
in his reply to the Worcester may
or's suggestion. said he considered
the present situation had become
more of a New England problem than
a state question and said he had for
warded Mayor Sullivan's letter to
Governor Cox with the request that
a conference of New England gov
errors be called to discuss the prob
dem.
Mayor Curleys letter said in part:
Il conferred with the Massachu-
sets representative of the New Eng
IanQ I6l6pIOQo q lSlCSiopA SOiii
pany early last week with a view to
arranging a conference where the
questions at issue might be discussed
with a view to ending the strike.
was informed by George H. Dresser
OF the company that the strike hav.
inr catered beyond the confines OF
Massa ehusetts he had no desire to
participate In any conference rela-
tive to a. settlement. r..
'Under the circumstances, since 1t
has become more than state mat
ter, and Is at present rather a New
England matter, it would appear to
me advisable that His Excellency
the Governor call conference of the
New England governors for the pur-
pose of considering an adjudication
Of existing differences and have ac-
cordingly taken the liberty of for
warding your letter to him with this
suggestion which I trust meets with
your approval"