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Evening star., 1923-09-23

There are three floors of such ma
chinery, every piece Of which lacks
the one or two parts needed to make
1t fit for spinning and weaving. The
lost parts are scattered over Russia
and to make new ones will take spe-
cial mechanics with special tools for
the purpose. The engineer who took
me through the works told me It
would take $4,000 to replace the
parts missing. He said they were
still hunting Russia for them. going
from town to town and warehouse to
warehouse in their efforts to trace
them
The same conditions prevail in all
of the mills and factories, save that
in some whole machines have been
taken away and the buildings practi-
cally ruined.
Nevertheless. Riga is beginning to
come back and some of the factories
will soon resume operations. Latvia
Is rising from the ashes. and is now
far better off than at the close of
the war. Its people have always been
famous as workers. Their chemical,
textile and metallurgical industries
were profitable. They not only paid
their own government expenses be-
fore the revolution, but contributed
an annual surplus to the Russian
treasury. They showed their ability
during the war when the farmers and
peasants, led by the students, drove
out the Germans and bolshviks. To-
day the country is slowly improving
and its money Is becoming stabilized.
1 drew 200 American dollars on my
letter of credit the other day and
| received $4,000 roubles in exchange.
The rate was $50 per dollar and re-
ceived notes of 500 roubies, the de-
nomination being printed in Lettfsh.
German and Russian. The value of
| the Latvian rouble is advancing, the
exports and imports are now, almost
balanced, and the republic is in q
healthy condition.
AS to Riga, it will probably regain
it's old place as a commercial and
| manufacturing center. During the
war it was ground between the upper
and neither millstones of Russia and
Germany. For three years 1t was
hemmed in by two great armies, each
bent on having the country as a. part
of its political possessions. Germany
had come from the south. goose-step-
ping along with machine guns, gas
cylinders. and other weapons of war,
until 1t was at the very gates of the
city. At the same time the bolshe-
viks, who had held Riga for six
months and stripped 1t bare, were
in the eastern half OF the country,
lighting the Letts at every step as
they were being driven back into
Russia. The Let's fought off the
Germans. and. held their own with
the Russians. although there were no
goods in the stores and the people
were practically starving. These con-
ditions continued until our relief
ships brought in their American -four
and gave them the first white bread
they had had for years.
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TO-DAY there is plenty of food in
Il Latvia There is no hunger in
Riga, and the. city is again on the
road to prosperity. 1t is zone of the
finest of all eastern Europe. Lying
on sandy plain. nine miles from
the great gulf into which pne comes
frouss4hen Baificew3zf zfnHth 3deeI3winR,
Evening star., 1923-09-23

society have been known to wear
lower evening gowns than the
debutante and the exposure of bone.
flesh and muscle that was common
place the year before the war
wherever women foregathered would
not convince the observer that. mod
esty in decolletage was a ruling
characteristic among US. The
beaches OF this season did not per-
suade one to change that opinion.
Trunks may have been worn. but they
were not seen. Sandals did the work
of stockings. Such costumes were
not the exception, but the rule. The
unclad "FoIly" girls of New York
would cause a yawn after the bathing
sights of August. Why, then. should
we cavll at a return to the low eve
ming gown? Certainly our grand
mothers did not,
To be practical. however: The re-
vived decolletage is sometimes
square. again 1t is U-shaped. It may
hang like an Arabs hood to reveal
brassiere bodice beneath OF metal
lace, or chiffon, or folded tulle. The
Evening star., 1923-09-23

a woman thrusts a worn pair OF boots
at me, there man holds up table,
cloth, while at my next step l am
| accosted by a peddler with antique
jewelry or secondhand clothes. One
woman followed me trying to sell a
pair of boys trousers-what could I
do with a pair of boys trousers?-and
another begged me to buy a gold in
laid cigarette case which may have
belonged to a Baltic baron whose es-
tate is now farmed by these peasants"
I spent some time outside the mar,
ket, making my way through a street
ZOE feet wide and a thousand feet
long, packed with buyers and sellers,
could not make my way without ,
showing, but / kept. begging pardon
in my few words of Lettish and was
greeted only with smiles. In the
midst of the crowd were men, women
and children sitting on the cobbles
with their wares before them, Some
of the articles were made in the
homes of the sellers. 1 priced some
black leather caps of the softest and
shiniest kid such as would cost at
least SIS in any United States store.
The amount asked was 80 cents, and
the man told me he made the caps in
his home.
Next to this peddler was one Of the
nioneer farmers who had come in from
the country. He was sitting in the
gutter with two poorly clad little
girls OF five or six years beside him.
Each was putting on a new pair of
shoes. 1 imagine the purchase was 7
the event of their lives. asked the
man what the shoes cost He replied,
Eighty cents pair" 1t is about
one-third what the price would be In
our stores. 60.
spent some time going from booth
to booth of the great bazaar inside
the fence. Here everything under
the sun is offered for sale. but the
bulk of the goods is secondhand. The
booths consist of long sheds ten feet
high, built back to back. There
are lon grows devoted to leather
goods, and -Smong them shoes OF
every description, from the wooden
soled clog to the high-heeled tan
shoe At for a lady. This is the
land of leather and of good leather
workers, and the prices were exceed4
lh61J iO". SO" bOOA
boots for SIS pair and was offered
thigh boots at least three feet long
for $40. In the United States such
boots would have sold. for not less
than s40.
In the metal bazaar found all sorts
Of old junk, from broken hooks, nails
and locks to every kind of machine.
One booth sold only second hand
sewing machines. Many were Singers
and most were run by the hand and
not by the foot.
remember two little children who
had toys for sale. Their wares were
spread out on table not much larger
than page Of this newspaper, ands
evidently had been made in their
homes. Their stock consisted of a
half dozen little clay birds with tail
whistles, and several roosters with
red combs. real bird feathers, and big.
glossy tails. l asked the price Of
the little. pinchfaced merchants It
was only Is marks. or about Z cents.
bought two and gave them back to
the girl. Her smile was worth twice
the price,
| Copyright, 1929. Carpenters World Trsyeissg
Evening star., 1923-09-23

to take photographs and look at the
factories.
The Dvina is almost mile wide
where it runs through Riga. The
railway trains come down to- the
81 ips, and goods are unloaded direct
ly from the ships to the ears. At one
wharf they were taking OFF, 100 loco
motives for Soviet Russia, hosting
them by cranes from the ships deck
to the cars on the railroad.
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a LITTLE farther on were large
"A grain elevators, cold storage
buildings, and the desolate factories
which were in operation when Russia
was a prosperous empire.
The most striking of these was the
Provodnik Rubber Plant which was
famous all over Europe. When the
war began it had capital OF 9.000.-
900 gold dollars and was making $21,-
100000 worth or goods per annuu.
In 1914 tit manufactured $4,000, geo
Evening star., 1923-09-23

river winding through it.. its towers
and domes may be seen, far out to
sea and long before one comes in by
rail. The city consists. of the old
town which. hugs the right bank of
the Dvina, the st. Petersburg suburb
with its fashionable dwellings, the
Moscow. suburb where the Jews
live. and the Mitau suburb on the
left bank of the river. l am
living in the old town. in a
hotel facing the opera house ana
looking out on the wide park that
runs through the city. The park has
the place of the old walls Of the Mid
die Ages. The city was born several
hundred years before Columbus dis
covered America, 1t had an exist
ence when Genghfs Khan captured
Peking and four or FIVE hundred years
before Shakespeare acted his plays for
Queen Elizabeth. 1t has risen and
fallen. passing through war after
e.. lx,tts ne q N ffs n n g. lrxrawy<
Evening star., 1923-09-23
Gateway Russia Is Rising From Its Ashes

| worth. of tires, 100000 goloshes,
and quantities OF linoleum, rubber
betting, and everything that we make
at Akron today. The factory had
been extended when the war broke
out and it was then employing many
thousands Of hands. Today half of
it's windows are. out. it's walls are
/ falling into the river. Much OF the
machinery has been removed and the
rest is on a fast way to ruin. 1 un-
derstand a movement is on foot to
repair II, but vast sum will be re-
quired to put 1t back to its former
prosperity.
Coming back to the city I motored
about through the streets which are
lined with four and fiye story build
ings, shopped in Kalk Strasse, visited
the University of Riga, went into
some of the great churches, and on
my way to the hotel went in the
Louise Market.
Yes, the louse market! That is
what every one calls it 1t makes me
itch to think of 1t. Whether I am
| inhabited or not I do not know. I
have visited markets and bazaars all
| over the world. I have ridden my
donkey through the streets of Cairo
and brushed the motley crowd in the
/ bazaars of Stamboul and. Damascus
I have shopped in the cave-like
| booths of Tunis and Tripoli, and
dickered for silks and Jewels with
the Hindoos in Delhi and the Bur-
mese girls in Rangoon. know we'll
the Ginga of Toxic and the markets
in the Chinese city Of Peking. 1 have
! been in the village crowds of the
widest Africa, but nowhere have I
felt In greater danger than in the
louise market of Riga. 1t recalls the
chapter in Exodus where Aaron
smote the dust of the earth and every
grain sprouted forth legs and a
mouth to soften Pharaoh's heart and
afffict his people.
1 don't know where the name
"louse market" came from. I sup
pose it is from the poor peasants
who infest the place. buying and SELL
} ing secondhand goods. Its situation
is not far from the walls and within
q short walk of the principal hotel.
Here. in a space covering four or FIVE
acres, surrounded by high board
fence, are long rows of little booths
facing streets which, run lengthwise
from one end of 1t to the other. The
crowd not only fills the inclosure,
but it overfiows the streets adjoining,
making motley. dirty throng such
as you will find nowhere except In
east Europe.
1t is a somber crowd. Most of the
people wear black homespuns, the
women having short, dark skirts and
| waists, with dark shawls as head
gear. Some. have on coats like the
| men, and some of the richer peas
ant women have mems hats on their
heads. The men wear long coats and
many have boots which reach their
knees, into which their trousers are
tucked. Every man wears a cap and
not few. overcoats. The faces OF
all are bronzed with out-of door
work and their hands are red and
rough.
a S l move through the crowd see
"A that every one inside the market
and out is carrying something. either
an article which he has. bought or,
more often. somethind for sale. Here
Evening star., 1923-09-23

with Drecoll OF Paris. On a black
frock there is a deep yoke formed of
bands. of rhinestones reaching down.
neck The short sleeve is suggested
by the same treatment. The velvet
of the frock does not extend higher
than the, bust, so a double piece of
flesh colored net is placed under part
of the rhinestone verticals.
Evening star., 1923-09-23

Shrove Tuesday, at which there is a
great drinking bout
The chief asset of Riga is it's excel
lent harbor which is open most sli the
year round. The ships come into the
gulf and go up the Dvina river right
into the city, and land their goods at
the wharves. The surface of navi-
gable water is more than 1000 acres
and its ouays are eight miles in
length. The accommodations are
such that 400, carloads of freight can
be handled each day. and trains
carrying goods OF all kinds move
back and forth between here and
Russia.
1t was in company with one of the
marine officers that I was taken
around the harbor this afternoon.
We had a gasoline launch with the
red and white striped flag of Latvia
at Its stern. and chusged along from
Lquaysto~ uuayssstopp pping-noSe and then
Evening star., 1923-09-23
TWO LAYERS

and the ends are tied loosely over the
skin. Chanel cuts her frocks down in
front and ties the collar band there.
Jenny and Lapvin do the opposite.
There are decorative and plain bands;
there are narrow fur ones, especially of
white ermine or rabbit on black rabbit.
X X X y
T ANVIN gives hint to the econo-
IL mist in a fitted yoke above a
boat shaped line, it's top extending to
base of neck; above this yoke one
can attach the Chinese collar across
back or front with ends looped and
Evening star., 1923-09-23

hanging. We have such a variety of
worth while frocks with the bateau
neckline that 1t is comforting to feel
there is a way to rescue them from
oblivion.
In evening gowns there is a change
from the high decolletage that ex-
tends over the shoulder. Gowns are
actually low this season. There's a
definite return to the formal deco1-
letage that formerly ruled. might
frocks. Americans contend that 1t is
too low for conservative women.
Maybe! Yet the older women in our
Evening star., 1923-09-23

edge of the opening is often deco
rated with metal lace or applied
flowers, or Persian embroidery. One
thing is assured: The evening neck
line is highly decorative and con-
spicuous. The influence OF the Italian
Renaissance has disappeared.
The woman who likes to oompro-
mise has an excellent chance in the
glittering treatment OF an evening
gown designed by Madeleine. who is
Evening star., 1923-09-23
by FRANK c. CARPENTER:
RIGA, L4atvia.

RIGA, IatVia.
~ AN you imagine Pittsburgh
without volume of smoke
or flame rolling forth from
@ it's myriad stacks, every fac
tory and foundry standing idle, with
the glass and, often the framework
torn from the windows, all the ma
chinery taken away, and the walls,
once covered with electrical appH-
ances, steam pipes or asbestos,
stripped as bare as board? Can you
imagine the floors torn up or great
holes cut in them to facilitate the
easy removal of the machinery, and
in some cases the walls blown out for
that purpose? You must add the alb
sence of the workmen. Let every
foreman and hand in the rolling mills,
glass works and other industrial es-
) stablishments be wiped out, a labor
army of a quarter of a million taken
away, and all the other surroundings
made as desolate, almost, as was
Sodom when birthstone rained from
the skies and Lot and his wife fed
the city. If you can imagine all this,
you may have a fair picture of the in
dustrial Riga which lies all around
me.
Ten years ago this city was as big
as Pittsburgh. 1t had about 100000
people and it manufactured for Rus
sia- Situated on the Dvina river,
with deep water out to the Baltic, IL
was the chief western port of the en-
pire, having about the same relation
as that of Hamburg to Germany. Its
excellent harbor made it a manufac-
turing center, and it was the cheap
est place to handle the raw materials
and save freight into the interior.
The town had more than three hun
dred factories, ranging in size from
the Provodnik, which employed 20,-
0o0 hands, down to machine shops.
These factories were practically
ruined during the war. Many of them
were battered to pieces, but the walls
of most were left standing, the ma
chinery in whole or part being carried
away. For instance. 1 went through
a textile mill today which, prior to
the war, had $4,000 spindles and kept
10000 hands working two shifts a
day. 1t had three floors and its hun
dreds of windows blazed forth at
night, while during the day its white
smokestacks could be seen far and
wide over the country. When the
world war began the czar, fearing the
Germans would take Riga, gave or
ders that, all factories be so injured
that they would be of no use to the
invaders. The orders were that
experts should go through the vari-
GUS establishments and disable every
bit of machinery. They took out q
nut here and a cylinder there and
shipped these parts off to Russia.
Gripping the mills so that none was
able to run. This textile mill was so
treated that. every one Of its $4,000
spindles seems in perfect order, but
they are dead as far as any active
use is concerned, and this is SO
throughout the mill.
X F.* X
r COULD see nothing wrong as 1
went through the plant The. ma
chinery Is in place, the brass fittings
are shining. everything is oiled and
we'll cleaned, and the whole appears
to have only stopped for the day. and
Evening star., 1923-09-23

Revealed in Famous
arke-In ndustnap Prospect .
Evening star., 1923-09-23
PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICE
BY WILLIAM BRADY, M. D.,
Noted Physician and author.

kifk in the region Of the ileo-caecal
valve (where the small intestine emp,
ties into large intestine) is sometimes
the cause of this trouble, 1 mention
these pathological factors reluctantly.
They need not be considered where
the heartburn or waterbrash is
transient.
The main thing to be overcome
when one wishes to relieve heart
burn is the acidity; obviously this
calls for alkalis. Were it not for the
fact that sodium bicarbonate (sale-
ratus, soda) gives rise to considerable
gas carbon dioxide, carbonic acid
gas) when 1t reacts with acid, this
familiar home remedy would be ideal
Milk of magnesia Is rather more
agreeable to take and does not give
rise to gas itself. though it is some
what more laxative in effect than
soda. If soda is taken for heartburn,
anywhere from a pinch to a small.
spoonful may be taken. The dose OF
milk Of magnesia is about a table,
spoonful. 80
In all eases of heartburn or water
brash, whether trivial or serious. re-.
verse peristalsis or balky peristalsis
(onward wave movements in the ALI
mentary tracD. is about as important
as the acidity itself in producing the
symptom. Harsh physics may in
crease this backfire and aggravate
the very discomfort they purport to
relieve.
Evening star., 1923-09-23
NIumpE.

Mumps. 9
l. If a child has had munps cam
he get the disease again?
.. How long does mumps last?
8. Must the neck be Kept wrapped,
while the swelling is visible?
4. Can child go out # wrapped
warmly and the weather is good
G. NJ. -
Answer. Yes; a second or third
attack is not very rare.
9. Ten days in the average case.
g.. 1t is unnecessary to keep any-
thing on the neck except for relief
of pain. go
A. The patient may and should go
out of doors, provided his condition
does not require rest and he does not
go in contact with persons who have
not had mumps. ii
fCopyrirht 1921
Evening star., 1923-09-23

T COULD see nothing wrong as
went through the plant. The. ma
chinery Is in place. the brass fittings
are shining. everything, is oiled and
we'll cleaned, and the whole appears
to have only stopped for the day, and
Eo1 e-ready -f6r-runnings gstomosropa.
Evening star., 1923-09-23

RIGA, IatVla.
AN you imagine Pittsburgh
without q volume of smoke
or flame rolling forth from
ifa myriad stackS averu fac.
Evening star., 1923-09-23

TO-DAY there is plenty of food in
l. Latvia. There is no hunger in
Riga, and the. city is again on the
road to prosperity. 1t Is zone of the
finest of all eastern Europe. Lying
on a sandy plain. nine miles from
the great gulf into which one comes
800 -. rss yrsf
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1923-08-30
/. LIBERTY PROGRAM
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Friday and Sat.-Thomas Meighan,
supported by Theodore Roberts and
Pauline Stark in eff You Believe 1t,
It's So" Also Reginald Denny in
new series of "The Leather Push
ers." Also Pathe Review.
Sunday = Wallace Reid in" Clar-
ence." Also a Century comedy and
International News.
Monday & Tues.7Mrs. Rogers will
hold her semi-annual Fashion Show
on Monday night only. She will have
a special program of songs, dances
and musical numbers. The regular
program of pictures will also be given
consisting of Elsie Ferguson in s'The
Outcast," and "The Steeplechaser,"
a comedy.
Wed. & Thurs.-Bebe Daniels, in
"The Worlds Applause" a comedy
Of love and the blasting notoriety of
the worlds applause. Also Pathe
Review and cartoon comedy of Fe-
Tx the cat.
Coming-"To Have and To Hold"
Tom Mix in Trailing"
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1923-08-30

than it does today. Parking STRIPS
vacant lots and street curbs are over
grown with a riot of weeds and the
residential districts presents anything
but a pleasing appearance.
The city has announced that plans
have been made for cutting the weeds
along the parking strips and owners
have been requested to cut the weeds
on vacant lots. This call should be
needed.
The canal banks through the city
are an abomination and should not be
tolerated in their present condition.
They are rankly overgrown with nox-
ious weeds, chiefly Russian thistle,
which is not only serious field and
garden pest but is undoubtedly repon-
ible for much of Kennewick's hay
fever.
The canal banks should be kept free
of weeds. If to require the Columbia
Irrigation district to cut weeds is
placing too great a burden on the
farmers some other means should be
devised. This work might be done
and the cost spread on the irrigation
maintenance rolls against the city lot
owners. If it cannot be done this way,
if the city can't do it at public ex-
pense, why can't the Commercial club,
the Woman's club or the Business
Girls club organize weed-cutting day
and do the job with volunteer help.
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yiv.eious Engine.

engineer was giving evidence In
. case in which farmer was suing a
-.,1way company for damages result
Inc from the death Of COW. which
IA been run into by a train.
The farmers lawyer was hecklins
81. engineer, and kept revertlng to
his his pet question. which was:
aEow, tell me. was the COW on the
track?"
,rd answered the question:
awelI, If you want me TO tell the
-, truth. the cow was bathing in
.hs stream the other side Of the track.
n,+ tbe engine saw her. leaped of
The rails. dashed over the bank, and,
lending right on top of the cow,
strangled her to death without a
word."-Milwaukee Journal
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1923-08-30

THAT Time Table the Courier-Re-
porter got out sure done some good,
as it informed some people that the
railroads run through the town. Am
glad that couple people are going
to take one of the trains soon and it
would be good idea to mail one of
those cards to several others here.
Bert Plowman.