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Evening star., 1923-05-31
Wonderful Values in Fridays Sale
High-Grude Silks
::;S;: Eco :;;; T: ':':5; :s'S' $1.49 Yd.

Remnants from successful silk sale offering
choice of practically every staple and novelty silk in
all plain coors and lovely combinations bigger savings
than
Canton Crepe, Crepe de Chine, "ALLTYME" Knitted
Crepe Kordee Knitted Crepe Printed Crepe de Chine
Caravan Prints Brocaee Satin. Brocade Novelfies Bro
cade Canton Sports Silks Sports Sains Printed Fonlards
Paisley Crepe Chiffon Tafeta Costume Satin Chaneeabie
Tafeta Satin Messane, Satin Dnchesse Pharoah Novelty
Knitted CREPE, Flat Crepe. etc.
Widths 40 Just lengths dresses,
suits capes, jacquettes, sports skirts
Evening star., 1923-05-31
SOC and SIC Values
.20c Yard

Remnants of Cotton Canton Crepe. Printed Crepe
de Chine Printed Chiffon Wolfe Ratine, Check Can
ton Crepe. Plaid Voiles plain color silk,and cotton
Crepe de Chine, also White Goods. including Chiffon
Wolfe. Beach Cloth. Indian Head. Woven Corded Can,
Organdy; widths from sc to A inches; useful lengths
for
Evening star., 1923-05-31
Remnants of SOC Printed VOiLes
75c Table Da1,,ask, 49c

75c Table Danask, 49c.. :,
Remnants of 72-inch Mercerized Table Damask,
splendid wearing grade for general USE. Choice
~ to yards.
$1.98 Table Cloths, $l.59- 72x72 Hem
stitched Mercerized Damask Table Cloths, assorted
patterns. -->
Csc Toweling, Ioc Yard
800 yards of Importedi, Union Linen Crash, close
absorbent weave, for roller or tea towels.
l8c Muslin, I212c Yd.
Remnants of Yard-wide Unbeached Muslin, in
lengths from to yards.
Goidsnbsrs's-First Ylesr.
Evening star., 1923-05-31

S9c and 6oc Chemise, 4Sc-Envelope Che
mise, of good quality nainsook; tailored and
trimmed models; full cut sizes.
$l.98 Drawers, S125-Womens Nainsook
Drawers, circular style, trimmed with embroidery
lace; odd lots.
Women's Pajamas, 95c-Two-piece style,
suitable for small women and misses of good soft
finish pink muslin elastic or loose ankle
S298 Princess Slips, S2.48-Women's Pals
ley Princess Slips. beautiful quality and colorngs.
Sl.9S Gowns, Sl.S9-Novelty Nightsowns,
of orchid, blue and pink voile or batiste; pretty
trimmed; full cut sizes.
Goldenberg's-T Floor.
Evening star., 1923-05-31
75c Br0cade Canton Crepe
At 39C Yard
Subject to Slight Mil Impertections

Subject Slight Mil Imperectons
grade coed brocade and
select So inches
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-06-29
INVESTIGATE

Two city patrolmen have been
bourd over to the grand jury charged
with shooting with intend to kill, and
are now at liberty under heavy bond
for their appearance. They, are also
still functioning as representatives of
law and order and protectors OF the
life and safety of the public.
This paper has no grudge against
them or any city or county official,
neither is it trying to "get even" IN
any way; but it believes charge OF
so grave a nature deserves a complete
and thorough investigation. If side
stepped by those in immediate charge
of our police department 1t shoula pe
handled by the city council, whose
members are the representatives OF
the electors of the city. A thorough
and searching examination will harm
no one but will be to the best interest
of the Safety Department.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-06-29
PieCewOrk System
Is Again an Issue
(By Federated Press)

New York -Piecework is again the
issue in the conference being held
here between representatives of 35,-
900 shopmen of the New York Central
Railroad and officials of the company.
The conference was called to consider
demands for wage increases.
The piecework controversy has
been alive on this road ever since the
end of the government guarantee
period. The railroad has used every
kind of coercion to break down the
deepseated opposition of workers to
this demoralizing basis of payment.
Shops were closed down for months
until men were actually put out of
houses which they were buying be-
cause of inability to keep up pay
ment. The men were given to under
stand that there would be plenty of
work if they would accept piecework.
The road also leased shops to dummy
contractors in order to install this il
legal system.
The issue came before the labor
board after the Elkhart (Indiana)
shops had been placed on piecework
basis following an open poll in which
the method of voting the men
amounted to coercion. The board
after long delay ordered the road to
discontinue piecework in it's shops,
but on request allowed the company
go days of grace, probably in order
to allow further pressure on the mems
representatives at the present con-
ference.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-06-29
Slump Has Struck
Iron and Steel Mills

New York-The inevitable slump
has struck iron and steel mills. inns
was expected, as the terrific pace the
mast two months was out of the quess-
ton. Mills are catching up on thef
orders, and conditions are brisk IN
this industry, but June will witness the Soa a
decline from the rate OF 5O,ooo,Ooo
tons a year, as was the case TWO
AS steel is a key industry it will be
we'll for labor to check up market
conditions with the demand for lmml-
grafton to supply a so-cailed lapor
shortage. LII ,+ool
It is significant that while steel i
was making its record production a
11w months ago it was shouting tne
ioudest about labor shortages. Mills
were running at capacity at that Tune,
and more steel ingots were produced
than at any time during the world
war or any other period IN American ca n
history. Garyism would create the e
impression that this record,breaklng
condition was normal, and that more
labor in this industry is necessary. :.
Now the production pendulum is
swinging toward normal business con
ditions, but the cry of "lapor short
age" will probably continue.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-06-29
Labor Difficulties
In British Shipyards
(By Federated Press1

Washington Labor difficulties
among the boilermakers are seriously
handicapping British shipyards, the
commerce department reports. The
railway shopmen have refused to ac-
cept proposed wage cuts, leaving the
issue up to the companies. The Dun
dee jute industry is facing another
lockout, while. no general trouble in
the coal industry is anticipated in the
near future.
Unemployment in Great Britain in
creased, according to the last report,
May FL, received by the commerce
department. On that date the total
number of unemployed was 1,207, ,000
an increase of $4,000 over the week
previous mainly due to the conditions
in Lancashire and Cheshire. Present
total unemployment represents a sub
stantial reduction from 1,485,800 un-
employed January 1.
Relief from the high cost of living
is shown by the index of wholesale
prices, which now stands at 1888, a
fall of 1.2 from the figure of month
ago. cit is decrease of 11.5 from the
January figure.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-06-29
Steady Increase
In Food Prices

Washington-Fifteen of the %
cities reporting food costs to the
United States bureau of labor statis-
tics show increases during the month
of April Is to May Is, last. Phila-
delphia led with A per cent increases,
followed by Baltimore, Bridgeport,
Butte, Cleveland Louisville, Norfolk,
and San Francisco, 1 per cent The
following cities increased less than
five-tenths of l per cent: Indianapolis,
Little Rock, New Haven, Omaha,
Pittsburgh, Providence, and Port
land, Maine.
For the year period, May Is, 1922,
to May Is, 1923, 21 of the 22 cities
reported these increases: Bridgeport,
8 per cent; Cleveland and Pittsburgh,
Z per cent; Boston and New Haven, 6
per cent; Manchester, Newark, Phila-
delphia, Providence, and Portland,
Me-, 5 per cent; Buffalo, Fall River
and Indianapolis, per cent; Balti-
more, Louisville and San Francisco,
3 per cent; Little Rock, per cent;
Butte, Memphis, Norfolk and Omaha,
! per cent. Richmond decreased less
than fve-tenths of / per cent.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-06-29
The Wheat Gamblers
Got Two Million
(By Federated Press)

Chicago-"For years every wheat
grower has been regularly victimized
and our great milling industry upset
by the bear raids by May squeezes,
by vicious short selling on huge
scale at the hands of big manipulators
who virtually have been in control of
the Chicago board of trade and have
used it unscrupulously to accomplish
their ends" said Senator Capper of
Kansas at the opening session of the
two-day national wheat conference in
this city.
Half dozen grain gamblers, he
said, pocketed something like $4,000
900 in "a hours, in the "May squeeze"
of a year ago, which was more than
all the farmers of Kansas made out
of their 1922 crop.
Continuing, he said:
"Federal regulations to prohibit
market manipulation as provided III
the Capper-Tincher law, recently sus-
tanned by the supreme court, un-
doubtedly were necessary. This law
does not in any way restrict the mar
ket except to eliminate the vicious
gambling and the violent fluctuations
in prices brought about by the gamb-
ling evil. The drop of 40 cents a
bushel in the famous May squeeze
a year ago was accomplished by this
gambling and market manipulating
element"
Another furry occurred when Ben
jamin C. Marsh of the Farmers Ma
tional council, Washington, D. c.,
said:
Gov J. A. O. Preuss, Minnesota,
urged study of the economic condi-
tions underlying the entire wheat
problem, while o. E. Bradley, presi-
dent American Farm bureau, called
upon all farm groups to organize in
one national body "to regulate pro-
duction and distribution and bring
about relief"
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-06-29
NEWARK. OHIO. FRIDAY. JUNE 20, ,o1
FACTS ABOUT BRITAIN'S
WAR DEBT

for the long term refunding of war
debts so that they could "get theirs
first!
The American debt commission,
consisting of three members of Mr.
Harding's cabinet and two machine
Republican Congressman, completely
ignored the instructions of the stat
ute appointing them to office. They
accepted a refunding proposal to run
62 years instead of 25,. and agreed
upon interest rates of per cent for
the first ten years and 3h per cent
thereafter. Following several con-
ferences with big bankers, President
Harding urged Congress to accept
this "refunding" scheme, in plain yio-
lation of the terms of the Liberty
Loan act and the statute creating the
debt Commission. Mr.. Harding did
not wait to propose such a settlement
to the new Congress elected last No
vember. Instead he insisted htat the
present "lame duck" Congress repu-
dated by the people last November,
sanction this scheme, and by dint Of
great machine pressure has finally
forced it through both houses.
IL 10 1WCll W lOOh d SIC IlOISc III Lilc
mouth. This one will not bear inspec-
ton. AS every independent senator
in Congress has already pointed out,
the American people will lose ap-
proximately siXty-nine million dollars
year for ten years and about forty
six million dollars year thereafter
on the difference between the interest
rate on our Liberty Loans and the low
rates granted to Great Britain by this
"refunding" bill. AS Senator Reed
rightly declared:
This amounts to- a practical
cancellation of the British debt.
If Britain were to pay us Az per
cent for 62 years and we were
then to cancel this debt, we would
have more money in actual dol
lars than we have under this 3
per cent arrangement.
The Engineers Journal does not
censure the astute British financiers
and international bankers for driving
a slick bargain with Uncle Sam. 1t
was tremendously to their profit to
do so. But we do censure an Ameri-
can administration which engineered
this deal at the expense of the tax
payers, carried on the debt negotia-
tions in absolute secercy, urged Con-
gress to ratify the agreement under
the specious plea that We ought to
be exceedingly generous with our late
ally-thes very ally which got huge
slices of Africa, Syria, Mesopotamia
and whatever else she wanted at the
Peace Conference, and then prattled
about "recommitting the English
speaking world to the validity of con-
tract" while it openly violated the
very contract with the American peo-
pie under which these debts were in
Cured. We agree thoroughly with
Senator Borah that an adjustment of
the foreign debts, regardless of the
gain or loss involved, should be hand
led only in connection with a con-
structive economic program for
Europe, in which the common people
and not the international bankers will
be the first benefactors.-Loc
Engineers Journal.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-06-29

The American people are not pawn
brokers. In fact they are exceedingly
generous with their friends. But with
all our philanthropy, the workers who
pay tariff and excise taxes in order
to run the government may well feel
amazed at the liberality of the last
session of Congress in more than can
ceiling the British debt for the sake
of the interest charges, and laying
upon the American people burden
which Senator Reed asserts will east
ly total a billion dollars by the time
this "refunding" is complete.
The facts in the case are SO plain
and simple that any one not a diplo-
mat can readily understand them.
Great Britain was at war. Her for
eign trade, her colonial possessions,
her very existence as great empire
were at stake. She borrowed money
from ]. P. Morgan & Company and
other American bankers to the limit
of her credit. We are advised by a
former high official of the State De-
partment that the firm of Morgan
held up every bank in Wall Street
for the last penny that the British
government could borrow even at
high rates Of interest. Whether the
American people knew it or not, we
declared war on Germany partly in
consequence of the tremendous in
fiuence of these international bankers.
Our first act after declaring was was
to grant huge credits to our new al
lies. Seven days after entering the
war, Congress passed the original
Liberty Loan act to provide money
for the purchase of bonds of the al
lied governments bearing the same
rate of interest and containing es-
sentially the same terms and condi-
tions as those of the United States" J"
Pursuant to this authority Congress
lent our late allies some ten billions
of dollars, much of it at per cent
interest, and none of it bearing a
lower rate than Az per cent. This
money did not groW-on trees. 1t came
out of the pockets of the American
people by dint of repeated Liberty
Loan drives and high taxation.
Great Britain's total war debt to
us amounts to some $4,600,000, 900, in
cluding overdue interest. She is the
only one of our foreign debtors which
has made any pretense of paying
either principal or interest. She re-
Gently sent commission to the
United States to arrange for refund
ing" this gigantic debt. The United
States Congress selected Commits
sion to negotiate with the British
financiers under the specific instruc-
tions that in no case should less than
Az per cent interest be accepted, or
the maturity of the bonds extended
beyond 25 years from date. The
chairman of the Commission was Sec
retary of the Treasury Mellon, one of
the richest and most influential bank
ers in America, the last man in the
nation except j. p. Morgan himself
who should have been trusted with
negotiations affecting the interna-
tional bankers.
For mark this important fact: The
international bankers who lent cOlOs-
sal fortunes to Britain and France at
high rates of interest during the first
three years of the war have clamOred
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-06-29
THEY ARE
BOUQUETS AND BRICKBATS ARE
DISTRIBUTED
COmrendatiOn and Criticism of Our
Public Servants Bestowed as
Deemed Just By Leaders
Hired Man
BOYS, WE'RE WITH YOU

No body of men in Newark works
harder or more faithfully than do
Uncle Sans letter carriers. Through
winters coolest blasts and summers
fiercest heat they daily travel many
miles, often starting from the office
with load of fifty pounds or more.
1t anyone thinks this job is a snap,
he should try it during this scorching
weather.
Postmaster Corne has the power to
give the boys a half holiday on Satur-
day afternoons, and will probably do
so if it meets the approval of the pub
lie. There should be no kicks. 1t will
inconvenience nobody; the post office
will be open as usual and the evening
mail will be taken up as usual. When
you see Postmaster Corne tell him
it's O. K.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-06-29
Harding is Invited
To Sightseeing Trip
(By Federated Press)

Observation-Disclosures farmers
of Yakima Valley, Wash, have sent
a special invitation to President Har-
ding through the Farmers National
council, to take a sightseeing trip
through the northwest, personally
conducted by them. They do not
promise him the equal of the pleas
ures in store for him on his Alaskan
junket-in fact, their program doesn't
sound pleasant at all.
Here are a few of the sights the
Yakima farmers want the president
to view:
Widows and orphans of farmers
driven to suicide
Farmers wives in insane asylums.
Aged farmers and their wives,
without homes and penniless.
Men and women who have spent a
lifetime reclaiming land in the desert
now on the verge of losing everything
The president is asked to include
in his party the former members of
his federal reserve board and the
leading lights of Wall street so that
they may share with him the view
of these living exhibits of the ruin
caused by defation of the currency.
"We also ask you," they say in
their invitation, "to have the farmers
and their wives between the ages of
sixty and seventy, who are unable to
make living off the farm, assembled
so that you can decide whether it is
best to put them back on their farms
and help them make living or to
build almshouses for them
"You and your friends, on your
long trip up the ocean and back, will
have plenty of time to solve these
problems and to think over the con-
dition of the American farmers"
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-06-29
MAYOR DON'T KNOW

Mayor Orr, in response to an in
quiry, said the other day that he
really didn't know whether or not the
offense for which two members OF
the city police force are bound over
to the grand jury on charges of a
criminal nature, would be investi-
gaed or not, as the matter was en-
tirely in the hands of the safety di-
rector and chief of police and would
hS disposed of as they thought proper.
50 if the matter continues to be
ignored by the police department you
know who is responsible.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-06-29
CAUGHT AT IT
"PENNSY" PAYS $4,000, 900 BACK
TO GOVERNMENT
An Answer to the Story That Uncle
Sam Wrecked" the Roads Dur
ing War-Other Millions
Covered Up

The Pennsylvania Railroad has been
compelled to disgorge $90,O00,000 ex-
pended on its property during the
period of federal operation. 1t has
agreed to turn over to the govern
ment securities of that par value,
upon which interest of per cent is
to be paid.
After more than two years of back
ing and filling, the Pennsy manage
ment has admitted that it "feathered
its nest to that extent, at least, when
the government was footing the car
rier's bill and it's officers had their
arms to the elbows in Uncle Sans
pocket.
This settlement is a convincing ans
wer to the claim put forward by the
Pennsylvania and other roads that the
government wrecked" the roads dur
ing the war.
Officials of the Pennsy made des-
perate effort to offset the govern
ment's claim with huge charges for
undermaintenance of roadway and
structures and equipment
AS long ago as June /, 1921, Presi-
dent Samuel Rea, testifying before
the Senate committee on interstate
commerce, told tale of woe about
how the railroads had been under
maintained and under-equipped dur
ing the period of federal control. Here
are Rea's exact words:
"Our estimate for undermainte-
nance of roadway and structures is in
the neighborhood of $40,000,000.
GAS to the maintenance of equip
ment, the final estimate is not yet
completed, but, due to the policy of
the director general several months
before the end of federal control, or
dering severe retrenchments in main
tenance expenses, no doubt under
maintenance will be found in equip
ment."
President Rea just ahead of of this
statement, had complained bitterly
because the government was not set
tling railroad claims. He wanted the
transportation law amended to COM
pei the government to make imme-
diate payment of sums alleged to be
due the Pennsy and other carriers.
Senator La Toilette and other pro-
gressives blocked this scheme and
saved the government, as this settle
ment proves, large sum of money.
Instead of the government owing
the Pennsy the scores of millions
claimed by President Rea, the settle
ment shows that the government was
the creditor to the extent of at least
$90,000,00O.
Early in Federal control officials of
the railroad administration denounced
the officials Of the Pennsy for pad
ding payrolls and otherwise unneces-
sarily increasing expenses.
Former Director General Nc
Adoo, testifying before Senate
committee, declared that he was
compelled to abolish piecework
without adequate study of the
subject because it was impossible
tos keep the Pennsy honest in la
Dor expenditures.
So interested were Pennsy officials
in fattening their own property that
Director McAdoo, after repeated re-
primands and warnings, dropped
President Rea from active service
with railroad operation. Ever since
Rea has been denouncing the admins
tration for Starving" and otherwise
misusing the railroads.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-06-29

WashingtOn-"Disregard for human
life engendered by the war has left
its impress in the countries most di-
rectly affected in general disinclina-
tion on the part of employers and
workers to provide or use protective
measures against accidents says the
bureau of labor statistics in the cur
rent issue of its monthly labor review.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-06-29
cOMMENDABLE PROMPTNESS

Almost before the rain had ceased
last Saturday evening members OF the
citv street cleaning department aided
bv a couple of city tractors, buckled
into the fallen trees and tangle OF
wires which marked the passage OF
tbe storm on Granville street, and by
hard work succeeded in stralgntenlng
things out by midnight: The depart
ments prompt and efficient acton de-
serves commentator.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-06-29
Cotton Oil Refineries Closing

New Orleans = Approximately 400
workmen have been thrown out of
employment by the closing of the
American Cotton Oil Co.'S refinery
and fertilizer plant at Gretna, La.
Twelve other plants scattered
throughout the south will also close,
due to the scarcity of cotton.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-06-29
Bad Conditions at Ellis Island

New York-Immigration officials
at Ellis Island admit the truth of
statements made in tho British house
of commons that $50 persons of vari-
Gus races have been compelled to
sleep in one room on the island. They
make the excuse that there is no way
of avoiding such herding unless a
gigantic" building can be erected.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-06-29
Garment Workers Win Strike

San Francisco-The strike of the
International Ladies Garment Work
ers has been settled, after lasting for
more than three months. The strik-
ers won all demands, having signed
an agreement good for year, grant
ing a 48-hour week, seven holidays,
and a minimum wage scale of from
$21 to $40 a week.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-06-29
Expect 1000 Immigrants

New Orleans-Employers of labor
are awaiting the arrival of one thous-
and immigrants who are expected to
arrive in this port July 1 from Italy,
Greece and Poland. These immi-
grants will be hired at starvation
wages to offset the migration of Ne
groes to the north, caused by the
fearful labor conditions here.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-06-29
Revised Liability Law

Austin, Texas-The new state COM
pensation law, passed by the last
Legislature, is now in operation. I'm
der the act a mans life is valued at
$1,000, as against $5,400 under the old
law. Formerly injured workmen
were entitled to receive reasonable
medicine and hospital service for two
weeks. This has been changed to four
weeks.