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Evening star., 1924-12-01

assistant and his countryman. Finally
lull came winging in from the
counters The first corners had been
served. / looked out. The dining
room was a sea OF seated figures
hurriedly and earnestly attacking
salami sandwiches, borscht with
| cream. dill pickles and smoked fish.
| 1 came back to the scraping trough.
I worried a half-eaten roll, some
| sandwich rims and few used paper
napkins down a two-inch hole In
| the trough to the garbage tub under
Meath. -
The muff1ed sound of chewing and
crunching and swallowing and tear
| ing of food became vibrating hum
that grew into a subdued but steady
| roar. The kitchen became palpitant
with the sound of il. The Chinese
idled. I idled. Twas the night be-
| fore Christmas, and at the zero hour.
and just before the battle mother all
| rolled in one. Then a chair scraped.
Then another chair scraped and an
other and another - Then came the
| loaded bus boys and the deluge.
Ten armloads of dishes came thun-
dering into the trough all at one time.
The trough is only Ave feet long and
to stack the scraped dishes in. The
other end was free for scraping and
, for the bus boys to dump their loads
of dishes, had to stand stopped over
the trough and could not lift my head
because the metal rack for dirty cups
and bowls came down shelf1ike to
within 10 inches Of the edge of the
trough.
To keep my nose from being
smeared with salami and herring
| sauce 1 had to keep the dishes down
to a certain level in the trough. I
don't like salami. 1 don't care much
for herring. And if 1 did. I wouldn't
want 1t smeared on my nose from a
dirty plate. So the dishes never gain
ed on me beyond certain point.
saw to that.
Wins Chinese Approval.
The Chinese anxiety, so manifest. at
the outset, gradually relaxed, and in
Its place grew up sort Of wonder
ing admiration. Before the first hour
had elapsed he was chuck1ing to him
self and singing praise Of me to his
countryman. He has never ceased to
marvel at the manner in which I as
sail the mountains of dirty tablegear.
Respect for my prodigious valor in
this direction is written all over him.
No noon hour goes by now that he
does not stop sousfng plates for a
moment to say to his countryman the
equivalent Of "Sufferin' snakes, lookit
this laa-ta-de-da knock hell out. OF
those dishes" He SchuclIes all
through those moments when loaded
bus boys come in so fast that It
seems as though nothing could save
US from being buried alive under a
we'll sumeared assortment:of cafeteria
crockery.
He knows that whatever may come
the scraping and stacking will go on
at q rate that will soon absorb the
momentary overflow. He helps me
carry the garbage out to tho can in
the alley. He invariably smuggles
some tid-bit out to me while / am
eating-some tid-bit that is prohib-
tied to the help" on account of the
small margin Of profit the manage
ment has In handling it. He says
goodbye to me- each day with, real
aorrow IN hts vnice. He=is= one or ths
=
Evening star., 1924-12-01

Before you isvest-investfsate.
Evening star., 1924-12-01
WASHES DISHES WHILE WOOING
EDITORS FOR CHANCE TO WRITE
Naneless Young Man Certain He Has Message to,
World-Scrdpes Herring of Plates So Well Chi.
nese Dish,Uasher Becomes Admirer

A young D.d,l loho toishes his name
, Wthheld. beos the attention Of Ne1u
York newspaper readers to his quite
remarkable experiences in his efforts
TO become q t1r'iter. He offers the
story OF Stru0ge against dishenrt-
entn0 odds, trritten By himself, to
justify his persistence.
Special Disnatrh 10 The Star.
NEW YORK, December IL want to
write. For 10 days now I have been
interviewing playwrights and poets
and columnists and publishers and
managing editors of newspapers and
literary and dramatic critics. want
to write. I want to make a living by
writing. Failing an opportunity to
secure a position where I can write
for a living, I want q position where
I can earn bare living at work that
will not wiring me so dry OF vitality
that / can't spend at least FIVE even
ings week in writing. 1 must write
I have something worth saying and
1 must somehow say It.
I want to write. Ten days ago
set out to get some sort of minor
position on the editorial staff Of a
New York newspaper. On the day I
set out 1 worked for three hours dur
ing the noon rush in a Jewish cafe
terra just off Broadway on Twenty
fifth street. Today I worked for the
same three hours in the same place
at the same task. Tomorrow I will do
likewise.
work at this cafeteria because
must eat. From IL in the morning
until 2 in the afternoon 1 stand at q
trough scraping herring scraps off
plates and sorting and stacking the
dirty dishes for the Chinese dish
washer.
Earns so Cents at Task.
Every day I eat Gargantuan meal
and get a huge 50-cent piece from the
cashier on my way out into the street.
Every day the coffee, spilled from the
dirty cups stacked in the rack over
my head, trickles down through two
rusty assures in the tin. Sometimes
1t strikes me Squarely on the back Of
the neck; sometimes just on the ear,
or grazing my cheek.
The Chinese dishwasher is courtesy
itself. At first he clearly felt misgiv-
ings rs to my fitness for the exact.
ing task of scraping and stacking the
tons Of dirty tableware rushed in by
frantic bus boys. A hitch in the
tumu1tous business Of sorting out the
that he would get snarled up in his
task: of keeping the herring counter
supplied with clean plates. My tor
toise-shell glasses and seraphically
studious expression deceived him.
His anxiety for the first half hour
worked with him was actually
agonizing. He teetered about dis
tractedly, chittering to himself and
to hts second cook countryman. The
rush hadn't yet started. but he could
hear the storm coming. The rumble
of plates at the counters out front
had begun to swell orninously. The
sharp cries Of hungry paatsmakers
imploring the counterhen for food
rose to a deafening din that ricochet-
ed across the table tops and bounded
into the kitchen from all angles.
Lull Before the Storm.
An occasional armful Of dishes
dribbled In. I sorted them mechnic-
ally and waited until another load
came. A pail of suppressed excit-
ment hung over the Chinese and his
Evening star., 1924-12-01
NapOIeOn's FrOck
Officially Valued
As "Old CIOthes''
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
PARIS, December 1.-Napoleon'
frock coat, worn during the re-
treat from Moscow, is one of the
most interesting exhibits in the
governments war museum at the
1nvalides, but in the government
inventory it is listed at the cur
rent price for secondhand gar
ments. Gen. Maruiaux, command
er of the Invalides, declares that
at auction it would bring millions
of francs. but it is put down in
the French assets at so francs, the
charge for similar hand-me-down
coats.
The price came to be known
through recent agitation by the
communists for the sale of all rel
les connected with wars SO as to
provide funds for the care of war
cripples.
Evening star., 1924-12-01

An occasional armful of dishes
dribbled In. I sorted them mechnic-
ally and waited until another load
came. A pail of suppressed excit-
ment hung over the Chinese and his
Evening star., 1924-12-01

the closing day was conducted on a
budget program" Mr.. Butler related.
Directly following the Cleveland
convention formal estimate was
made that a total expenditure of
100000 was necessary for the sue
cessful conduct of the campaign, this
amount including the campaign ex-
penseS of the senatorial and congress
sional committees, which in past
years have been financed independ-
emily.
Way Money Was Spent.
ut is with satisfaction l am able
to report that the actual eXpendi-
lures of the campaign were $685.
1924.
This amount was spent by the va
rious campaign divisions as set forth
in the following tabulation: Publicity
bureau, s741,27s.49; speakers bureau.
$366.442.7s; colored bureau, sS9,111.22;
research bureau, s4,S36.o4; women's
bureau, S64 1865; labor bureau. Sl01,-
1881; club bureau, S51,266.79; foreign
language bureau. s34,01725; caravan
tour. $33, ,470.s5; national contributors
committee, $144,990.62; farm section,
$16,03S.1O: commercial travellers bu-
reau, $1,263.34; service mems bureau,
$17,9S8.92; congressional committee,
s170,50 senatorial committee, $s7.-
900; state committees, s6s6.3O0; Wash
ington headquarters, s43,417.72, and
general administration, s410,04566.
'1nasmuch as the actual campaign
expenditures as already set forth
were only $3,063, ,952.74, the commit
tee has closed the campaign, not only
without a deficit, but with surplus
Of S355,364,55 available for the rou-
tine maintenance of the national
committee, thus making unnecessary
any new appeals for contributions for
a substantial period"
A table classifying the contributors
by the amounts given and listing the
total for each class, including funds
collected for State committees, was
appended by Mr.. Butler as follows:
Number of
Evening star., 1924-12-01

y 1t used to be the custom for the
village maidens in many parts of
En- ngland to wear white ribbons in
their hair on st. GATHERINGS day, No
vember 25, to show that they were
unwed, and not unwilling to be
courted. A similar custom still pre-
walls In France, where the young
women wear peculiarly shaped lace
bonnets or, ,this anniversary.
Milford chronicle., 1924-11-21
STATE CORN SHOW
IN LEWES JAN. 6-8
Vocational Teachers Met In Dover
Last Friday And Compiled
Rules Governing Contest.

At a meeting Of the State Corr
Growers Association in Dover las
Friday morning Lewes was selected
as the meeting place for the winter
gathering. Both Lewes and Laure
desired the corn show.
The State Corn Show attracts con-
siderable attention not only from the
standpoint of an exhibitor but also
from the judgers standpoint. Much
interest has been shown in recent
years by the vocational departments
and the Boys Corn Club in the COM
petitiVe judging work. Last year a
cup was awarded by the Dover Ro-
tary Club to the school team doing
the best judging at this show. Cup
was won last year by Lord Balti-
more school. The Dover Rotary Club
has announced that a similar cup
will be awarded again this year. In
addition to this a large cup has been
donated this year by the State
Bankers Association to the best
judging team.
At a meeting of Vocational Teach
ers in Dover yesterday afternoon
the following rules were drawn up
to govern this judging contest; each
team shall consist Of three represen-
tatives and two alternates from each
school; in order to retain peTma-
nent possession of the cup a school
must win the cup three times but
not necessarily in succession; a boy
shall not be allowed to judge on a
team if he has represented the school
on two previous winning teams,
Identification of members shall be
by numbers. Samples to be judged
shall consist of four samples of ten
ears each of yellow corn, four sam
pies of ten ears each of white corn,
five singles of white, and five singles
ears of yellow; first, second and
third places shall be made in each
class; fifteen minutes shall be al
lowed for each of the ten ear exhib-
it's and fifteen minutes for both of
the single exhibits, the scoring of the
teams will be based on go per cent
for placing and 40 per cent for rea-
sons; communications between
members of team shall disqualify
them from completing the contest;
III OIu6I " COupSl6 lO4 InC SuR SAS |
boy must be enrolled in Vocational |
Agriculture classes or must have
satisfactorily completed two years |
of such work, and must be still en-
rolled in high school.
It is expected that every high
school in the state that has de-
partment in vocational agriculture
will have a team in this competi-
ton. The show will be held January
6, Z and 8. A special program has
been arranged for the second day.
Prizes will be awarded to exhibi-
tors not only for all kinds of corn
exhibits but also for exhibits Of
winter wheat, soy beans, COW peas,
rye, buckwheat, crimson clover, red
clover, oats, field beans. Prizes will
be given for the best peck samples
Of the above and also for the best
sheaves or bundles, not less than six
inches in diameter.
Milford chronicle., 1924-11-21
Greenwood

Warner Nichols, colored, had his
house and contents burned to the
ground on Monday morning about
a. m. The farm is owned by Avery
Isaacs.
We were sorry to hear of the
death of Mrs. Robert Hamilton, Oi
near Hickman, who died at the hos
pital in Milford. Mrs. Hamilton lived
here for many years, and grew to
womanhood here. We always found
her to be a good Christian girl. She
leaves a husband, one child and sew
eral brothers and sisters to mourn
her loss.
Our junior orchestra will play at
Bridgeville two afternoons this week
at the farmers show. 4
Many gunners are taking advah-
tage of the cunning season, and a
number in this section have had eX-
cellent success.
The Greenwood High School Soc
Ger team defeated the Milton High
School team at Greenwood on Mon
day afternoon.
Betty Wiley who was hurt on cleo
ton day lis improving rapidly.
Mrs. A. M. Jones who was very i'll
at the last writing is improving
nicely.
Mrs. Mary Johnson who has been
ill for several weeks is improving
slowly.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. L. Lynch who
have been touring in different states
will be home after the 25th Of Mo-
Vember.
Mr.. and Mrs. Grover C. Wheatley
visited at the home of her sister,
Mrs. Lynn Mann on Saturday night. |
Rev. c. M. Adams has started his |
extra meetings at Bethel.
Rev. Dorsey Blake preached a
beautiful sermon in the Methodist
Protestant Church on Sunday even
ing. /
TIE first meeting of the P. +: A.
was held in the high school building
on Monday evening.
Rev. w. W. RaWlinson was called
to Delmar by Rev. George Cooke on
Sunday to help in an overflow meet
ing.
Lawrence Tatma1 and family are
making their home since their recent
8ra with Mrs. Tatman's parents, Mr..
and Mrs. A. N. Jones. They have not
decided just where they will live.
They had many things burned in the
fire.
Our shirt factory is running full
time.
Record Canning Company is still
putting up sweet potatoes.
Mr.. and Mrs. Emory Wiley were I
n Baltimore several days last week. g
Mrs. Jessie Mecarraher Of VIII
nington spent several days this b
week with Mrs. Emory Wiley. !
pay from ten to twenty cents q
ZACH for we'll made holly wreaths. Il
Iharles G. Jones, Milton, Della. "
Life Insurance. Chas. J. Holzmuel- d
er. Milford. f29-u p
Milford chronicle., 1924-11-21
Ocean View

In defense of the Christian
Churches holding their own services
on Thanksgiving Day-an establish
ed costum for years, was a unioI
service, between the three churche!
at Ocean View, Methodist, Pres5y
terian and Christian, alternating be-
tween them.
as pastor of the Christian Church
spoke to Bro. Frye, pOstor of Metho-
dist Church, and his words were
That he and his official board had
discussed same and he said: We are
going to make our own arrange
ments.
This of course left us to do like
wise. Never in my whole life, as a
pastor or Christian worker, have l
seen such bitter feeling manifested
as here, between Christian churches
as our Methodist brethren and my
own. A thing unknown in the larger
cities; all communions meeting
around one table of love for one
common cause. To think of a Christ
dying for sinner big enough to meet
any kind of a man and then for pro-
fessed followers doing different.
Love your neighbors, love your enc
mics, ye are all one in Christ Jesus,
ring out the Christian virtues.
In behalf of the Christian Church
and its members and myself as pas
tor, we will at any time work to-
gether with any brethren for the
cause of Christ, civic betterment,
moral uplift and win souls to Christ.
May God bless the brethren to see
the error of their ways, and come
and be true followers Of the Word of
Truth.
Thanking you for this space, re-
main yours sincerely,
REV. W. L. DEFRIES,
Pastor Ocean Vie wand Millville
Christian Churches.
The Christian Churches of South
ern Delaware will meet Sunday next
at Ocean View.
Bible school 9:45 a. m.
Preaching at IL a. m. Subject
Flowers"
Christian Endeavor at GAS p. m.
Mrs. Ed. Long, leader.
Preaching at 1880 p. m. Subject
"Dry Bones"
Special Thanksgiving Day ser
vices at Ocean View Christian
Church at 10:30 a. m. on November
27th. Preaching by pastor. Follow
ing services all will go to Millville
for dinner together at the Church
Hall.
I pay from ten to twenty cents
each for well made holly wreaths.
Charles G. Jones, Milton, Della.
Milford chronicle., 1924-11-21
Slaughter Neck

The Slaughter Neck Community
Association will hold it's next meet
ing, Monday evening, November "a,
beginning promptly at 1880 p. m.
The program features mainly on
Safety Rules" and Thanksgiving.
After the entertainment there will
be a social hour during which many
Milford chronicle., 1924-11-21
Redden

There will be festival box and
shadow social held at McColley's
Church this Saturday evening, No
vember 22nd for the benefit of the
church. Every girl is invited to bring
a box and the boys are invited ia
bring fat pocketbooks. Everybody tn
vited. Come help a good cause,
Milford chronicle., 1924-11-21

things will be for sale.
The program consists of the play
let First Thanksgiving Day."
I pay from ten to twenty cents
each for well made holly wreaths.
Charles G. Jones, Milton, Della.
Milford chronicle., 1924-11-21

There are numerous great men,
but few that can avoid looking silly
when being photographed for the
movies.
Milford chronicle., 1924-11-21

Say it with wOrds-if you can
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-01-08
LARDNER GETS VOTE
IN PRESIDENT POLL
TWO FAVOR ROCKEFELLER
IN STRAW BALLOT. COOL
IDGE HAS A BIG LEAD.

Perhaps the belief that Lincoln's
ability as a humorist made him a
great president was the motive which
made a woman in Michigan vote for
Ring Lardner in Good Housekeeping S
presidential preferential poll among the
million and a quarter members of the
General Federation of Woman's clubs.
That seems to be as good a reason as
any other But just what made two
women vote for John D. Rockefeller
has not been possible to determine up
to the present. But two women did.
And that adds variety, if nothing else,
to the interesting results OF the poll
To date 81,303 ballots have been
tabulated OF this number 62,684
have been for republican candidates,
and 1884 for democrats. The
standing OF each candidate is as fol-
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-01-08
A CITY BLOCK IN
CONGRESS PLANNED
REPRESENTATIVE CLANCY
AIMS TO COMBAT CHANGERS
AND WIN POWER

Observation-Disclosures OF
city bloc to combat the class efforts
of the farm bloc is the aim of Repre-
sentative Clancy, of Michigan. Mr.
Clancy lives in Detroit, which has a
large labor population, and believes
the time has come to organize the
food consumers against the food pro-
ducers if the former are not to be
gouged.
The movement is significant, be
cause the granger movement in the
middle west is being attacked on the
ground it is entering into an unnatu-
raj alliance with labor, in which labor
will be made the victim.
The purpose of the farm bloc, Mr..
Clancy asserts, is to raise the price OF
food and reduce the price of labor.
That is the logical outcome of the
movement, he thinks, because the
farmer is a capitalist and an employer.
The city dweller. Mr.. Clancy as
serts. is the inevitable victim of class
movement headed by rural jewellers,
and if the farm bloc proposes to work
out its purposes by class movement
the city dweller must protect himself.
Mr.. Clancy is working out his or
ganization quietly and hopes soon to
have it perfected so as to hold the
balance of power in congress.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-01-08
EXTEND A WILD, WET
WELCOME TO NEW YEAR
Jewellers FILL THE CHICA-
GO CAFES AND BAPTISE
THE ADVENT OF 1924.
EVERY TABLE WAS RESERVED
New Year Welcomed With Remark
able Flourishes, Bearing out Pre-
dictions of Hotel Keepers. Crowds
Throng Cafes and Resorts.

CHICAGO-Predictions by hoteI
keepers, cafe proprietors and managers
of roadhouses that the New Year rev
elry this year would be staged with re-
markable fourishes were borne out
by early bulletins from numerous re-
sorts. The blizzard descending upon
the city and territory early in the after
noon FASTENED the arrival of the mer-
rymakers, who came early. prepared
to make night of it.
Practically every table in all the
resorts had been reserved thousands
OF them, at an average of 81 a plate
The jewellers brought in ample sup
plies of their own to supplement the
heavy stocks laid in by the resorts
and the new year was baptized. There
was no shortage of liquor, such as it
was, for the alert bootlegger was al
ways within easy call of the walters
at the resorts.
The prohibition law was c1everly
sidestepped by thousands of the mer-
rymakers, who classed their hip pocket
product as medicine" and took a lib
eral tablespoonful every few minutes.
doctors orders" they said
The crowds were fairly orderly, eX-
cepting in the roadhouses, where the
rougher element cut loose and made
bedlam OF the occasion. In the more
respectable places the old scenes OF
scantily dressed girls plunging into
the fountains and whooping it up
with the gold fish, or hanging by their
feet to the straps in the street cars
were missing this year, but it was a
very, very wet celebration.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-01-08
SAVANNAH FAST
IN SERVING DRINKS
ATLANTA, HOWEVER, DOES
NOT CONCEDE LEADERSHIP
TO THE PORT CITY.

ATLANTA-Atlantians are re-
senting the statement OF Icy Einstein,
United States dry agent, giving many
other southern cities leadership over
the state capital in the promptness of
quenching thirsts Federal prohibition
agents, on the other hand, deny Elm
STEMS statement that a total stranger
can rustic up a drink within II min
utes after he registers at hotel here.
Savannah is made the leading city,
being given credit for quenching a
thirst in four minutes, eastern or
standard time.
The complete time tables on hospi-
tally issued by Einstein follows: Chi
cago p minutes; New Orleans IS
seconds; Los Angeles 50 minutes;
San Francisco I minutes, Washington
2 hours, minutes congressman
probably excepted; Detroit 3 min
utes; New York minutes, 10 seconds;
Savannah minutes; Boston II min
utes: Pittsburg IA minutes; Atlanta II
minutes: Baltimore 18 minutes, 10
seconds; St. Louis p minutes; Gin
cinnatti % minutes; Cleveland %
minutes; Minneapolis p minutes.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-01-08
WOMEN REVEL IN PARIS.

PARIS-COmparing the cost Of llv-
ing of the year before the war and to-
day statistics show that the price OF
champagne has increased less than
any other French article.
The cost of this wine has only
doubled, whereas everything else, food
stuffs, rent, taxes and amusements,
have tripled quadrupled, quintrupled
and in some cases advanced 10 times
With champagne costing SIS a bottle
Paris tonight celebrated New Years
eve wildly and wetly, American and
English visitors being chiefly in evil
dence.
Although only a week ago Christmas
eve was celebrated until daybreak
most OF the jewellers had recovered
enough to commence all over again
tonight.
The restaurants are all crowded, and
tables were reserved weeks ago. Pre-
miums of thousands of francs are not
able to get an entry into Maxim's S,
Ciro's, the Cafe de Paris, Larue's,
Pai1lard's and the leading Montmartre
establishments
A feature Of the celebration was the
great number of women who appeared
bare legged The demand for high
priced gossamer flesh colored stock
ings has been so heavy during the
last few weeks that three factories
producing them have been unable to
supply the demand, and hundreds of
chic wealthy women preferred to go
hoseless rather than to wear thicker
stockings or hose in colors not a ia
mode. A new liquid talcum which
dries instantly is rubbed over the legs,
producing a dazzling whiteness.
Shingled haired beauties also ap-
peared Ell masse tonight, 9 women
out of 10 having their pates closely
cropped like men.