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FOUR EGGS FOR CENT
COST PRICE IN 1860
Department of Agriculture Re-
search Shows Low Quotations on
Foodstuffs in Bygone Years.

Department of Agriculture experts.
in hunting down data for q statistical
compilation of the price range on
agricultural products during the past
100 years, have come across some
aston shins exhibits of the lew cost of
foodstuffs in bygone years.
1t Is a matter of record that Caleb
Hitchcock, Il merchant of Perry
County, Ohio. purchased from Tolten
MajorS. Il farmer. 80 dozen eggs at
cents a dozen, and sold to him
two gallons Of whisky at % cents "a
gallon. But this happened in 1860.
The records further show that Hugh
Manney of Lake City. Miss. in 1915
sold 80 pounds of raw cotton at So
cents "a pound. In 1860 corn in
Minnesota sold for 80 cents a buShel,
and wheat for 20 cents "a bushel. In
1916 inrCheSter County, ILL.,, ham sold
for cents :. pound, beef 20 cents
I; pound and stove wood. 81 II cord.
In 1S4S in Charles County, Md, two
pounds Of chewing tobacco sold for
80 cents. In 1884 in Cleveland. Ohio.
corn sold for from / ) cents to 20 cents
q buShel and wheat from 80 cents TO
GO cents. During the same year in
Morgan County. H.. cows sold for
from SO to SO and live hogs at
cents pound.
Idleness travels so slowly that pow
N11-- L
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LATIN ARMAMENTS
MAY TROUBLE u. S.
Geneva Convention Might
Block Arms Shipments to
Overthrow Tyranny.
BY Consolidated Press.

Are the existing governments in
Latin America and elsewhere to re-
main permanently in power. or are
there some cases in which rebellion
will some day be justified, Yet with
America s power ranged on the side
Of dictatorship and tyranny?
This question, which has always
perpleXed international jurists, is not
only troubling the American delega-
ton to the Geneva conference on the
control of the traffic in arms, but 1t
may trouble the administration here
when the treaty now being drafted is
ultimately presented to the United
States Senate for ratification.
Broadly speaking, all governments
want to remain in power indefinitely
and all countries want to avoid inter
nal strife. but the expectation OF arms
TO troubled area sometimes means
successful revolution in n country IN
which progress has been blocked.
The United States Government.
through its delegation at Geneva, has
indicated a desire for n free hand, 50
that discretion might be used. but the
other delegations insist that arms be
exported only TO constituted govern
mentS or to governments that are rec
ocnized. In other words if the United
States wanted TO assist the Irish Ike
pubhcans in the event that they
should some day revolt againSt5rit
ish sovereignty, the American Govern
nlent would first have to recognize the
irish Republican regime before 1t
would be permissible for private firms
TO export munitions to revolutionistS.
Aid Sometimes Given.
Similarly in Latin America there
nave been cases in which the United
States found il expedient to withhold
all munitions from all warning fac
lions and there have been cases in
" HIGH. without recognizing a govern
hent. the embargo on arms has been
set down SO that a particular faction
gould be aided.
Under the proposed Geneva treaty
30 such choice could be made and the
american Government, in the past.
ronceivably would have had TO refuse
10 ship any arms into Mexico when
1he government Of Portirio Diaz was
in power and when certain other die
Tators had so far oyerreached them
selves as to cause nationwide dis
content and unrest.
The Department of State in the last
hundred years has always felt that ii
had the right to express its sympathy
with liberal movements i'll all parts of
the world. In some instances this has
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Killed Under Crate of China.

MONA, Italy, May Is CP).-cayal-
lero lTcrruccio Mangaroni founder
and director of an art china works al
Pczaro, was crushed to death when
case of china destined for an exhibit
ton at Mona fell upon him while be
ing placed OH II truck at the factory.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-05-15

During the last two years 2S men
have been hanged for murder in
California.
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Idleness travels so slowly that pov-
ertE soon oNertakeS ii.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-05-15

Hose. at almost incredible low price: evenly
woven and GRATEFULLY made. Full fashioned with
reinforced heel and toc--tha, kind that i practi-
cal Tor dancing well general wear. Silk
from top TO toe. many with coored straps al
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-05-15
Fountain Pens, Csc
Novelty Belts, SEC

An exceptionally choice assortment
OF Narrow Belts i'll plain and perfo-
rated styles Solid colors and conbi-
nations to harmonic with sport and
street frockS or suits
Street Floor
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the national integration which has
been permitted to Poland, to many Of
the smaller tribes of Europe? Or will
Poland consent to q new partition that
Europe may have peace, France Sc.
curity and Britain markets?
We are to have peace in Europe
for q long period Of time-peace In
the sense Of an absence of fighting
but Of peace In the sense OF any recon-
Citation between the races who must
be rcconciled II peace Is to be real,
could find no real evidence: the most
one might detect was growing recog
milton that without such peace Europe
was in the end doomed, and the pres
ent recovery was comparable wholly
with that of q cancer patient, fatally
stricken. but. making q temporary re-
covery from the first but unsuccessful!
operation.
The Hindenburg election has been a
catastrophe because 1t has served to
stimulate every apprehension and
paralyze every effort at adjustment
based upon the assumption OF German
good faith and desire for peace. But
it does not in my judgment mean war
or even any immediate change In Ger
man domestic conditions. Germany is
helpless now; electing Hindenburg
does not give her single new re-
source; portions at least of the Rhine
land, perhaps all Of 1t, will be occupied
for 10 or Is years; her disarmament
performance will be much more closely
studied than before. Even the reac-
tionaries who mean to regain control
absolutely can appreciate that now
any coup d'etat would bring invasion
and ruin which would be charged to
them.
To sum up, then, should say that
as a result Of my journey l found
everywhere astonishing economic re.
covery. Everywhere the evidence that
men and women had gone back to
work: that the dangers Of social and
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likely for one decade, for two decades,
perhaps for q quarter Of q century.
But beyond that relatively limited pe.
riod what? There Is the great, the
outstanding question today.
Discounts Russ Menace,
Economically Europe is recovering
Islands for obvious reasons, France
faster than any continental nation.
The new states, and particularly Po-
land, Czechoslovakia and JuRoslayia.
are rapidly consolidating themselves
into prosperous and going nations.
The danger of bOlshevism-the boRey
OF many American observers of Euro
pean affairs at a distanceAdoes not
exist. The workingmen of Europe
experience has been. The red peril
may be written off now. Russia is a
danger only as she is able to throw
her army against her neighbors or in
trigue in few regions like Bulgaria.
the Near East and the center of Asia
In Poland, where. proximity might
seem to be a danger, there does not
exist even the smallest apprehension
of 'bolshevism as a domestic problem.
That phase is over.
Not Recovering Politically,
But politically, in the broadest sense
Europe Is not recovering because In
all the history Of modern Europe nc
solution has been found to the com
plicated question Of races. If France
were able to feel safe along the Rhine
she would certainly have as little con.
Germ for the Vistula as the British.
But she cannot feel safe, and indeed
she cannot be safe, II Germany raises
great armies and overwhelms Poland
and Czechoslovakia and annexes Aus
tria; yet. after all, can 65,000,0 900 peo
pie permanently consent to be par.
titioned, as they feel themselves to be
now, or prevented from completing
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War Ogres Lying Beneath
/ All Advance in Europe

despite the obvious menace to her
such union.
France, beaten upon by this British
proposition, asks the obvious Ques-
ton: Suppose 1 abandon Poland and
Czechoslovakia, with whom I am In
alliance; suppose l surrender the OBJ
vious value of their strong armies,
which would march with mine in case
Of German aggression, how shall
then be sure that Germany would not
attack me, ultimately? Where is my
certainty of security IL / leave the
Middle Rhine, as well?''
To all of which the British reply:
You must, because it is the only
hope, and we believe the Germans
mean to keep the peace in the West.
We will even underwrite the bar
gain" Underwrite 1t with what,
with how many divisions" the French
reply. But the British refuse such
underwriting. believing that this
means hostile alliance against Ger
many, challenge which the Ger
mans will take up. Moreover. from
Poland comes the clear message to
France, Abandon us II you will, but
we shall fight. and If we fight, what
of peace and what of your security in
the face of the victorious Germany
which has destroyed us?"
There as plainly as / can put it is
the situation as 1 found 1t in London.
in Berlin, in Warsaw and in Paris
Everywhere the same passionate de-
sire for peace, the same vivid recol-
lection of recent wounds still only
partially healed. the same intellectual
appreciation of the fact that for all
concerned, for all Europe engaged or
neutral, new struggle would mean
ultimate and utter ruin: yet at the
same time the total inability to find a
means OF using the universal desire
for peace as a force to remove the
obstacles which all see with absolute
charity. but from totally different
points of view.
The Impossible Question.
Can England trade, France be
safe, Germany attain that position
commensurate with her population,
resources and national will, Poland
and Czechoslovakia retain their terri
torial integrity and economic indie.
pendence, all at the same time? No,
obviously no. Can England, in the
interest-the imperious interests-of
her existence persuade France to
trust Germany, Poland to sacrifice her
national territory, Czechoslovakia to
allow German territory practically to
surround her, prevail upon Germany
to adopt policies and methods which
would reassure her neighbors, even
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gave a talk on State work. e. j.
Murphy, Washington, D. c., spoke on
interior and exterior painting. and
p. r. Wagner, pastor Baptist Church
of Rockville, entertained in charming
manner. The next meeting of the
club will be held May IA, at the home
Of Mrs. w. e. Davis.
SOrOptimist Club. - Mime. Clara
Guthrie d'Arcis, president of the
World Union of Women for Interna-
tional Concord and delegate from
Switzerland to the international coun-
Wednesday at the Lafayette Hotel.
Nine. d'Arcis has been invited by
Lady Aberdeen to deliver the address
on Peace" on the program OF the
quinquennial, May IL. -
Mile. Sanua, delegate from France
to the quinQuennial and member Of the
9Soroptimist Club of Paris, brought
greetings from her country and the
Partisan Soroptimists.
DIR. Valeria Parker, chairman of the
American Hygiene Association and
president of the New York Soroptimist
Club, invited the members to the social
hygiene meeting Of the quinquennial
to be held tonight.
Miss Caroline King, associate edi-
tor of the Curtis Publishing Co. and a
member Of the Philadelphia Sorop'
timist Club. was alsoaa a guest. Other
guests Of honor included Mile. Romnici
ano of Rumania, Mrs. David Allen
Campbell. director of the department
of music for the quinquennial; Mrs.
William Atherton de Puy, past presi
dent of the National League Of Ameri
can Pen Women.
Mrs. Lucy Dickinson Marx sang
the national anthem of each of the
countries represented. Mrs. Georgia
y Bowen Accompanied her at the piano
Mrs. Ethel knight Pollard, president
of the club. presided.
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BROTHERHOOD OFFICERS
SCORED AT CONVENTION
Six Directors Of Rail Clerks Union
Reprimanded for Part in Suit
Against Grand President.
By tho Associated Press.

By tho Associated Press
KANSAS CITY, May Six di-
rectors of the Brotherhood Of Rail-
way Clsrks were reprimanded by
vote OF the brotherhood convention
here today for participating In a suit
70 prevent the grand president, E.
II. Fitzgerald. from organizing an
investment company i'm connection
with the brotherhood bank in Clrs
cinnati.
Those reprimanded were GeorEe
Levi, Cincinnati, grand secretary
treasurer; II. L. Stevens, Salt Lake
City, chairman of the grand execu-
tive board; John Brodi, Vancouver.
British Columbia; J. c. Cox, RicH-
mond. Va; J. ]. Hugh. Atlanta, Ga.
and f. o. Mullalley, Newcastle, Pa.
The convention yesterday sustained
the executive board in reprimandina
Fitzgerald for attempting TO organic,
the investment company.
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NEWS OF THE CLUBS
CONTINUED from Fifteenth Page }

can was hostess at the previous
meeting of the club. Mrs. r. H.
Wilcox introduced Miss Celeste
Heiges, who gave talk on interior
decorating. Mrs. Roy Pierce and Mrs.
Preston Goulder were guests.
Washington Chapter OF tlie'-Mary
Baldwin Alumnae held it's Spring
meeting at the home OF Miss Ella
Moore, 1880 Thirty first street. Miss
Margaret w. Daniel gave an account
OF the national conference of the
chairmen of the alumnae campaign
in behalf of the Mary Baldwin Col
lege. which was held in Staunton, Va,
April 81.
The Home Demonstration Club of
Cabin John, Md, met with that same
club from Poolesville, Md, Thursday,
at the home of Miss Blanche Corwin,
county demonstrator, in Rockville.
Luncheon was served after which
Miss v. NJ. Kellar, State leader, exten-
sion service, University of Maryland,
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domestic disturbances, Bolshevistic
outbreaks, had disappeared. that
everywhere there was the same pas
sionate longing for peace and horror
of war born Of immediate and per-
sonal experience and agony, but that
underneath all there was unmistak-
ably that immemorial clash of fears
and hopes and racial and national ne
cessities which has brought Europe
to so many wars, and, in the, distant
future. seems, today likely to bring it
to still another.
tCopyrighf 1921
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MISS IRENE SANDERSON, Z,
Chairman OF the committee. of the
Teachers Union, which gave . card
party ut the College WOmen's Club
yesterday afternoon to raise funds for
of the child labor amendment to the
Constitution. Several hundred persons
attended. More than so prizes, donated
by Washington merchants, were dis.
tributed to winners. The Teachers
Union is one of the % organizations
working for the child labor amend.
ment..
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at the cost of abandoning national
convictions? No, obviously no. again.
But is the alternative a new war?
Certainly not new war in any pres
ent time. Europe, in the judgment
of the wisest men with whom talked,
is entering a period Of peace. just as
she did after the Napoleonic wars and
just as she did after the wars of Louis
XIV. Exhaustion and all its attending
circumstances make war totally un-
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About That Word, obey

honor has increased enormously.
Here was something which many a
woman felt she could not swear to
do, and she has asked not to be com
PEELED to do so. VIII she make any
the worse wife for that2
The men, If you viii recall, went
on generation after generation,
''to forsalke all others and to cleave
only unto her." when many of them
knew that they had not the slight
est intention Of abiding by thfs- and
it appears not to have troubled
their consciences very much.
Most women obey their husbands
in the essential things, If the man is
at all worthy of an intelligent wife S
obedience, she gives it to him with
her whole heart. In spite Of all our
talk we still strive to please the men
we marry and usually we love them
very much.
We may dress to suit ourselves
and bob our hair If the notion strikes
us, but these paltry things cannot
be cited as rebellious acts because
even though we be wives, we are
still individuals and deserve some
personal privileges as such.
Lots not worry about whether
wives obey their husbands. Let's
concentrate for a while upon the
effort to make manageable couples
understand the sacredness of those
other words which read, Gin sickness
and in health, until death us do
part"
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willingly listen to applause.
But at the same time the State
treasury toys with a succulent sur
plus State officials refuse to accept
Julietta-Marion County's insane
hospital-or its inmates, pleading
lack of funds.
With tears in their eyes and
throaty sobs they begged Marion
county officials not to be so cruel
and inhuman as to discontinue
maintenance of Julietta at county
expense. Care Of the insane, they
admitted. was properly a State
duty, but they shrank from shout
dering the burden because of the
expense.
Why should the scrawny Ma
rion County treasury bear the
charge Of providing for the 254
unfortunate insane patients 1t
now has on its hands while the
fat State treasury Tolls at ease?
Reducing State expenditures to
the minimum, consistent with
proper administration of public af-
fairs, Is laudable. But If a sur
plus is accumulated by curtailing
necessary expenditures and proper
humanitarian functions, the saw.
ing is not real economy. Such a
surplus is only campaign thunder.
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a EVEN years after, 26,903 World War
n Veterans are still pricing glory in gov
nment hospitals.
And that apparently is where they have
lade mistake. They should have got we'll
oner.
Sc slow have they been about it that an
hpatient nation has now closed upon them
e door of opportunity. Unless Congress
doses to modify it's present position, no vet
aans, however needful of it, can henceforth
4 given vocational training by the Veterans
zlreau
q The bureau was ordered to close it's train
Rg application lists, June 80, this year There
Pre 18,401 veterans still in training at that
Ane. Congress ordered that their training
completed by June 30, 1926
Y Veterans in hospitals and unable to make
3pication or take training were thus auto
htically cut off from rehabilitation How
G,ny of the 26,903 men in hospitals will ever
q able to take training no one can tell The
{ mber beyond doubt, however, will run into
veral thousand
FRANK l. hIneS, nead OF the Veterans
lreau will go before Congress this winter to
SIX modification which will allow him to con-
niue special training classes.
OF all the wreckage left behind by the
Aar, these men most need help and Congress
PROFESSIONALLY will be moved Will the men
~ in hospitals be given the same opportunity
Il complete rehabilitation they would have
M two or three years ago9
4 The man in Walter Reed Hospital who has
sAdergone three dozen operations that his face
aPy not brighten peaceful people, is wonder
Ag.
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inflated Values

- HE highest priced property ever sold IN
"a indianapolis, city Of $4,000 people,
s the northwest corner of Meridian and
ashington Sts., at $4,000 front foot, with
d 120-foot depth. And yet forty-foot front in
Mana, Fla. with depth of only eighty feet),
old at 81, 100000, which is nearly $4,000
foot, or more than is paid for the choice
ground ia New York, Chicago or Boston. Such
Ridiculous imitation leads the Wall Street Jour
M to observe:
"a ga former western farm mortgage dealer
ssrote from Miami to Chicago relative as fol-
lows,
"'Conditions here for common people not
owning property are rapidly growing worse.
There are anywhere from 5000 to 10000 real
state statesmen and few are buying. Several
'bf the real estate offices are trying to sell out
lJthers say they think things will be better
/ when the winter comes.
Ell am only guessing, but believe there
re at least 1000 real estate Offices in Miami
\ nd many Of them are desperate They will
Z irly pull you into the office If you stop to
ook at their signs.
"a few men selling big stuff have made
honey The last big sale have heard of was
a0x8O feet in the business center of Miami for
\ 5O0,0O0 That looks like Chicago prices In
side the loop.
"'The railroad and express companies are
~ fearful jam and the situation does not i'm
prove. The docks are piled up with all kinds
hi goods VET hui1dinp material is scarce T saw
big lumber yard that did not have over four
y five cars Of odd sizes of lumber.
Concrete building blocks sell for IS
: ents each and common flooring is $75 per
thousand. Eggs are rs to IS cents dozen,
Epples cents each, grapefruit Is cents and
Areen at that.
"'October they commence to raise rents,
SSlt my guess is that we will soon see the end
3 the Florida boom'''
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! PADL0CKS AND
| PROHIBITION

HUGUsT Bremen, prosecut-
al ing attorney Of Lake
Ill County, has filed abatement
suits against twenty-three soft
drink parlors in Gary and will
seek to slap padlocks on them for
liquor violations. He has launched
a campaign to dry up Indiana's
steel district.
The paddock has recently come
into prominence as a prohibition
weapon. In some instances it is
perhaps effective. 1t may restrain
some hotels, restaurants and some
legitimate business from engaging
in booze selling as a sideline.
1t doesn't even temporarily in
convenience the small fry who sell
moonshine from behind a thin
screen Of pop bottles. When one
place is closed the proprietor
moves around the corner and is
open for business again in a half
hour.
For several months the Federal
District Attorney in New York
has been theoretically padloclxing
Broadway. There is no visible
evidence that the tongues Of
Gotham are parched and cracked
as result.
fragrant violations of the dry
law, wherever encountered. should
be suppressed OF course. But a
lot of the activity against half
pint offenders is merely mis-
directed effort. More can be ac-
complished in the way Of enforce
ment by campaigning against the
larger sources of supply.
Success or failure Of national
prohibition will not be determined
in less than twenty-five years" the
Rev. Milo ]. Smith Of Indianapo-
lis told his fellow churchmen in
convention at Oklahoma City,
Wednesday. mo law can be en-
forced without public sentiment
and that is the way the prohibition
law is falling down."
The prohibition problem Is not
the camouflaged soft drink parlor,
but its customers. If the sources
Of supply Of potable liquor are
stopped up by aggressive pursuit
Of manufacturers and wholesalers
and the retail customers have to
resort to wood alcohol and fusel
81 they will soon voluntarily pad
lock their thirsts. Prohibition
will then be Joined by temperance.
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RIGHT HERE
IN INDIANA
BY GAYLORD NELSON

That was an increase of 1884
over the previous fiscal year.
The license fees collected
amounted to $4,643.549. a gain of
a half million dollars over the year
before.
Motor vehicles, through license
fees and gas tax. pay to the State
Of Indiana an immense sum OF
money. They are the geese that
lay the golden eggs. AS sources
of revenue they are equally pro-
ductive In other States. Every
where they are more than paying
their way.
In fourteen States of the Md
die West. including Indiana, Ohio
and Illinois, 5000 miles of new
roads are under construction this
year. About one-third Of the mile
age Is in concrete or hard surface
pavement. The cost of the 5000
miles will aggregate s94,000,0OO.
These fourteen States have re-
ceived in automobile taxes so
far this year $4,000, 000-e33,-
000,00 in excess Of their road ex-
penditures.
A pedestrian, with a growing
automobile crouching on his chest
or chasing him up a tree, regards
the motor vehicle as a nuisance.
1t is a noisy playmate and an IN
welcome bed-fellow. but as
source of revenue 1t is unrivalled.
1t has built, is building and will
build more mile Of improved high
way in the United States than
any other human invention.