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Evening star., 1932-06-17
WINCHESTER TEACHERS
MUST ANSWER SUIT
Ordered to File Special Grounds for
Demurrer in Pupils Claim for
$1,000 Damages.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
WINCHESTER, Va. June 17.-An
order entered in Circuit Court directs
R. A. Wall and r. E. Aylor instructor
and principal. respectively, of the
Stephens City High School, to file with
in 10 days their special grounds for a
demurrer in the suit of Emma Marie
Bledsoe against the school teachers for
$4,000 damages, the result of injuries
alleged to have been sustained by her
on the school grounds The Bledsoe
girl. a pupil, claims permanent injury,
having fallen over a strand of barbed
wire. Wall and Aylor were charged
with negligence in permitting the wire
to be erected.
Evening star., 1932-06-17
WILL AWARD CONTRACTS
Arlington to Provide for Water Ex-
tensions and Garbage Collection.

By staff Correspondent of The Star
ARLINGTON COUNTY COURT
HOUSE. Va. June 17.-Contracts for
water extensions and for countrywide
garbage and trash collection systems
are to be let at tomorrow's meeting Of
the County Board.
The contract for the former work will
be on the basis of the installation of all
water extensions for the balance Of the
calendar year. The work heretofore has
been done by county labor The garbage
and trash collection contracts will be
for the next fiscal year.
Montana labor news., 1932-09-08

In the fiscal year of 1921-ending June 80 Of that year
the Treasury refunded 2S,656,357.95. Mr.. Mellon
was in office for one-third of that period; but it is not
likely that he made a serious change in the policies of his
department until the new fiscal year began.
But in the fiscal year of 1922, with Mr.. Mellon in full
charge, refunds jumped to $182,372 ,OOO-using round
numbers. In 1923 they were $43O,5 ST. 900. In 1926
they were $513,358, 00O, 1000. That is the largest amount
refunded; but in the first threequarters of the fiscal
year of 1882, the nine months ending March 81, Uncle
Sam paid back s256,294 900. The word refund is
used to cover all kinds of repayment.
Perhaps a different comparison will be fairer. In the
fiscal year of 1921, refunds were 0.62 per cent of internal
revenue collections. The next year-the first full year
under Melon-they were nine times as much, 81 per
cent of collections. In 1926, refunds were Is per cent
of collections; and for the nine months ending March
81, 1882, refunds were a little over 20 per cent of col
wlections.
If refunds had been held down to $500, 900, 600 a year
after Mr.. Mellon took office-which is almost four times
the largest amount refunded in any year before he took
office-the Treasury would have saved enough to cover
the present deficit, with $126,000,0 900 to spare.
Senator Couzens of Michigan, one of the keenest
business men in the Senate, has repeatedly denounced the
Mellon regime. The figures quoted above show that his
criticisms were not without ample justification.
Montana labor news., 1932-09-08
so THIS is PROSPERITY COMING.

Unemployment in August was at the highest point
since depression began SAYS President Green of the
American Federation of Labor. Our preliminary esti-
mate for July based on government figures shows IL
400, 900 persons out of work in the United States, and
trade union figures for August show no Improvement. In
July layoffs for the summer dull season added more than
300, 900 to the army of unemployed.
With unemployment already more than double that
of last year, we face a winter of unrhlnkable suffering.
Between now and next January nearly two million per-
sons must count on losing their jobs i'll industry and agrl-
cultue-if layOffs are no more than normal. This Will
mean we'll over {, 100000 out of work next winter. Jobs
must be created by the million if we are to avoid an I'M
paralleled catastrophe. Even a substantial improvement
in industry could not do more than scratch the surface
of this problem.
Taking our union unemployment reports as an lndl-
Gator of business, the fact that unemployment stopped IN
creasing in August is encouraging. Up to August over
250,0 900 persons a month had been joining the Jobless
army. The check in this rise shows a distinct improve
ment over each Of the two previous depression summers,
when unemployment increased in August, but it does not
show any more jobs created. Normally industry begins
in August to prepare for the fall busy season, and work
es are taken back to their jobs. This year jobs have not
increased. Weighted figures from trade unions show
the following percentage Of membership unemployed
in the last four months: May, 228; June, 23.6; July,
25.4; first part of August preliminary, 254.
Care must be taken not to misinterpret these figures.
They do not show any relief from the unemployment
disaster that has overtaken us. They only show that for
one month it has stopped getting worse. Our present
unemployment problem, and that we must face for next
winter, is beyond anything we have yet known. We
can only meet it by taking immediate action to shorten
work hours, create jobs and get men back to work.
Our estimates Of the total number out of work in the
United States, based on government figures are: Janu-
airy, 10,304, 900; February, 10,533,000 March, .1O,477,-
600; April, 10,496, 900; May, 10,818,000; June, 11,023,-
900; July, 1w1,418,000 preliminary.
Montana labor news., 1932-09-08
NO VOTES FOR THE JOBLESS.

Something is happening in Lewiston, Maine, which
should rouse indignant protest in every part OF the
United States. The board Of registration is striking
from the voting lists names of all persons who have re-
ceved municipal relief, together with their wives and de-
pendent parents. About 1000 persons in that one town
will be disfranchised if the scheme goes through.
The vicious, venomous injustice of such a trick needs
little comment. The scheme is as stupid as it is wicked.
In all modern history, the ballot has proved the best
safeguard against revolution. If men have a chance to
vote in a new regime, they will seldom resort to force to
overthrow the old one. But if men are disfranchised for
being out of jobs when there are no jobs to be had, if a
worker loses his ballot when he needs it most and has
nothing else on which to rely for help-what then?
The board Of registration in Lewiston is making Com
munists faster than a hundred missionaries from Moscow.
If the trick is put over in Maine, it will be tried elsewhere.
A hasty survey indicates that there are at least ten states
in which the old pauper laws make it possible to disfran-
chise the unemployed. Think of the most important cleo
ton in a dozen years being influenced by such tactics!
The Lewiston vote slashing is being done at the order
of Edward Parent, a Republican politician, who seems
to control the party's machinery in that section. Because
of this partisan tie-up, President Hoover has been asked
to r~epudiate such work. 1t is to be hoped that the re-
Spouse from the White House will be prompt and de-
cisive.
Montana labor news., 1932-09-08

and others got none of the government loan. 1t went to
the salaries of appointed politicians.
Such is life. 1t will be interesting to see how long the
American citizen will put up with such conditions. We
must say that he has learned the art of starving grace
fully, like a true gentleman.
The poor dumbbell of a German and En~glishman only
draws unemployment insurance while the intelligent
American stands in the bread line and watches the Amer
lean treasury be divided between railroads and banks.
What a triumph for American Education.
And speaking of Education. The editor has yet to
find a superintendent of schools that took a salary cut.
We had better look into this, for we think they are put
ting it over on the teachers and have formed a union of
their own. In one city visited they put the teachers on
half time, cut their salaries 40 per cent, did not cut the
superintendent salary and in addition gave him two
new assistants to handle the increased work of half-time
schools. What a system. This wasn't a union town, so
the teachers of Butte in saying their prayers should give
thanks for the unions of Butte and be thankful thew
aren't in other cities.
After they have said their prayers they had better or
ganize a union Of their own and bar all superintendent
and other officials.
The editor found teachers in many ~mid-western cities
organizing unions in order to protect what little they
have left.
And say, don't the curtains in the postoffice building
look nice and honey? We hear that they like the Judges
rug, too.
The Silver Bow County Taxpayers League should in
vestigate this. If contractors can live there why should
tax money be paid to rent space for offices now occupied
by the various departments?
We hear that the League is prospecting now that thew
have taken in" members from the Chance Choints' at
$500 per membership. What a racket, and | still edit
a Labor paper.
Montana labor news., 1932-09-08
JOBLESS BOYS TRAMP HIGHWAYS.

Growing hordes of jobless boys are tramping the high
ways and riding freight trains throughout the United
States in search of work, according to a study by the
Children's Bureau of the Department of Labor.
The study covers boys under 81 years of age. Many
of them have attended college or high school. Local en-
ployers refuse to give them Jobs. Local authorities do
not institute public works to employ them. In many
instances support from the family provided by relief
agencies is wholly inadequate to feed all the children.
So the older boys take to the field in search of work.
The study points out that most of the communities
through which the boys pass are no longer able to meet
the needs of their own unemployed properly and SO al
low the transients to remain but "a hours. "Move on!
Move on!' cry the authorities in every town.
DR.. A. W.. McMillen, associate professor in the grad
uate school of social service administration at the Uni
versity of Chicago, who made the investigation on which
the Childrens Bureau based its study, concentrated his
efforts in the Southwest from March to June. He found
the boys had swarmed to that region to escape cold wea-
Their and to look for seasonal work in the cotton fields,
lettuce gardens and cantaloupe patches.
He found them hitch-hiking and riding freight cars,
cooking their crude meals in the "jjungles" about railroad
yards, sleeping on jail floors, and then moving on because
municipal authorities refused to help them.
Along the route of the Southern Pacific Railroad"
Professor McMillen said, many small towns in Texas,
New Mexico and Arizona reported the passing of about
200 men and boys daily during the winter and spring.
This railroad from September to April recorded almost.
$4,000 t~respassers elected on its $3.50 miles of track.
In the month Of May it was estimated that 1900 tran
sients per day rode the freights through Kansas City and
that from 20 to rs per cent of these were boys.
Boys from New England and the north central States
were found in Washington, D. c., and farther South.
During the six months ending in April in the District Of
Columbia, for instance, approximately 1900 boys were
known to be transients. In Memphis, Tenn, from Sep.
TENDER to March 5000 transient boys were on their way"
To remedy the situation Prof. McMilen recommended
that life in their home towns be made more attractive for
the boys by various sorts of community activities in vo-
catlonal education, recreation and gymnastics. To pro-
vide for the boys already on the road he urged a national
transient service fund to aid communities who are get
ting more than their normal share of vagrants' and
labor camps with forestry activities and similar work for
the transient jobless who have no homes.
Montana labor news., 1932-09-08
THE EDITORS S%CRATCH-PAD

Hello folks, the editor is back from a little vacation,
where he watched thousands of others walk the streets
wondering what the coming winter would bring. From
the looks of things we can expect very little improvement.
Stocks are going up as we'll as commodity prices, but
wages are still coming down and more men are being dis
charged. If you want to see prosperity, see the news
reels and read the Post and Standard-or shall we now
say the Post-Standard, or ~vice-versa.
Banks are still crashing with great rapidity. Within
the past few months scores have closed their doors. The
R. F. C. helps the stockholders but no one cares about the
investor.
Former Chairman Dawes resigned from the R. F. C.
as soon as he got 80 million for his Chicago banks. Chi
cago got some money for it's city relief but the teachers
Montana labor news., 1932-09-08

listeners in the Bronx were unable
to hear the speech, poor things,
when a power substation refused to
function.
They didn't miss a thing, take it
from us.
Chemists say gelatine aids the
body in assimilation of other foods.
What other foods? Coffee am?
Or thin vegetable stew?
According to the best authority,
the word "dole" has disappeared
from u beautiful language.
The best authority must be wrong
the dole has APPEARED for a
part of the population. Bankers are
getting theirs.
In spite of the depression, THE
WAGES OF SIN HAVE NOT BEEN
REDUCED, reads a Salvation Army
slogan.
Sticking by the Hoover agree
ment, what?
4 4 Il
IT'S A GREAT SYSTEM
Montana labor news., 1932-09-08
lisa GREAT SYSTEM!
(By JOHN PAINE, Federated Press.)

81 a see the people of our west
ern states, who are producers, re-
duced to the condition of serfs who
pay interest on public and private
debts to the money sharks of Wall
Street, New York, and T~hreadneedle
Street, London from a speech by
Gen. John A. Logan, republican
senator from Illinois, in the senate,
Jan. 10, 1874.
That old guy was some predicter!
A firm with good collateral may
borrow from the Reconstruction FL
name Corporation.
In other words, anybody can Dor
row from the government if he proves
he doesn't need the money.
Our Favorte Author.
Power and responsibility cannot
be separated politically or econom-
ically. If we delegate the paying
Of u taxes we shall find that we
have delegated the control of our
Coolidge.
Uh-huh. The control Of govern
ment has been delegated, and so
have the taxes.
The control to the bankers; the
taxes to the workers.
The rich get richer,
And the poor have taxes"
AL FRESCO MEALS IN ORDER.
headline.
That's no news to thousands Of
workers who have been eating thin
cabbage soup cooked alfresco lover
an open fire in Gods great outdoors)
in hundreds Of Hoovervilles.
Actually, going around with the
same color fingernails all the time
is positively depressing to your
friends from a Cutex ad.
So-o-o-o it's looking at your
friends fingernails that has caused
all this depression. You looked at
your friends nails, were depressed,
friends looked at yours, dis
covered they were black, not pink
or green or purple, and got de-
pressed. And so on, ad infinitum.
You're so depressed now that you
are chewing what's left of your
nails.
Even the power stations in the
East baked at broadcasting the
hooey Hoover blared in his accept
ance speech.
Seventy-five per cent Of the radio
Montana labor news., 1932-09-08
The Unemployed
(By Bertha Gerneaux Woods

(By Bertha Gerneaux Woods)
Lord, help us who still live in nor
NAL ways,
Whose weeks are made of pleasant,
busy days,
To be more swift in sharing as we
can
This boon of work-to give some
downcast mar
A broken chair to mend, a lawn to
NOV.
Such terrors stalk beside them as
they go
From door to door, and find no
opening way,
No hint of promise for the coming
day.
Such spectres of grim want for
those whose veal
Is in their helpless hands! o Jesus
deal
With them through US. Thy blessed
name we bear.
Oh, make us culver with them-make
us CARE
AS if their grief were ours, and
ours their need;
Nor once let US repulse them, lest,
indeed,
We fail to recognize myself, thy
touch,
Or miss the meaning of thine
"Inasmuch."
Montana labor news., 1932-09-08
DEFICITS AND MR.. MELONS REFUNDS.

On March 81 Of this year, the U. S. Treasury had a de-
ficit of $2,7 1888, 900, 900. Uncle Sam was that much "in
the red"
On the same day, official figures showed that since
Andrew w. Mellon took office in 1921 the u. S. Treas
ury had refunded, that is, paid back, internal revenue
taxes to the amount of So, 989, 1861
Practically all these refunds were of income, inheri-
lance and corporation taxes, and the vast majority of the
dollars paid back went to the wealthy.
Some refunds there must be in any fair taxing system.
Evening star., 1932-10-02
French Designers Favor
Variety in Waistlines

decidedly of this season. Undyed seal
is a favorite Lelong trimming, mark
ing the continued favor of this good
old-time fur.
ROLERO jackets and barrel muffs are
- shown with trimly-cut long coats
in a new light seal brown shade.
Lelong shows great variety IN his
choice of evening fabrics, which range
from marquisette to the new velvets
and woolens BY his designing ne
makes dull velvet, the new lightweight
sort of this season, appear perfect
fabric. This he exploits in ice blue and
light vermilion tones as well as IN
darker colors.
Jean Charles Worth, who also caters
to the needs of the American woman,
is in favor of belts placed where the
natural waist line is defined, and he
advocates the evening skirt OF gore0
and circular sweep.
Colored velvets took an important
place in the Worth collection, and an
interesting fine cotton velour of un-
usual pliability was fabric Of interest
in both evening and daytime costumes.
Beautiful colors have always been q
feature Of any collection shown at this
house. This season is no exception.
All the fuchsia shades, a rich deep
burgundy, dregs-of-wine, deep green,
brown and blue are given Importance.
Worth was one of the first designers
to give brown its impetus as high style
for all occasions.
AN evening dress that has proved
- successful with American buyers y
Evening star., 1932-10-02

~ ONE belts are placed at the nor
NAL waist line, or slightly above
1t, in contrast to the belt at the
~ hips, which goes to prove the
difference of opinion among de-
signers as to the whereabouts of the
waist line.
On this one point fashion, of such
vital importance to most women, there
is sufficient variety of opinion to please
every one. While this is interesting it
makes the choosing of Winter ward
robe difficult, for on the placing of the
belt depends the other features of the
costume.
whether we follow the lines Of the
Empire or Directoire periods, or
whether we swing back to the Middle
Ages, when the girdle was worn around
the hips, the lines of the entire dress
should balance It is well to bear this
in mind in selecting clothes this Fall.
7 UCIEN LELONG, a designer who
visits this country frequently to
study the dress requirements of Ameri-
can life, favors the natural or slightly
rising waist line. He marks 1t by belts,
either wide or narrow, and indents his
slender princess silhouette for the eve
ming where the waist line normally IS.
Evening models by Lelong. with
their wrapped circular skirts falling to
within an inch of the floor, are charm-
ing. and his street clothes are practical
and wearable. Goats follow the outline
of the figure and are belted. The plac..
ing Of fur trimmings gtves%an air OF
newness, making plain, rIactacai coat
Evening star., 1932-10-02
All-Stases Society to
Give Halloween Ball

The various committees in charge of
the All-States Societies Halloween
ball to be held Monday, October 81,
in the ball room of the Willard Hotel,
are completing their plans rapidly. All
the members of the various State So
cieties will be invited to participate
in making this affair a brilliant one
and reservations for boxes and tickets
may be made through the secretary,
Miss Eleanor Harvey.
The newly elected president of the
society is Mr.. Elmer E. Field and the
National Advisory Council includes Mrs
M. c. Hankins, Alabama; Mr.. Hugh
Brewster, Arkansas Mr. Thomas Wa
terman, California; Mr.. Clarence
Clough, Connecticut; Miss Elizabeth
Groves, Delaware; Mr. H. H. Kendrick,
Florida Mrs. Kathleen Turner, Georgia;
Miss Irene Bradley, Idaho; Miss Lola
Williams, Kansas: Mr.. @. B. Likens,
Kentucky; Mrs. Myrtle Alter, Louisi-
ana Miss Rose Dugan, Maine; Miss
Bessie Warren, Maryland; Miss Bar
bara Butler, Massachusetts,; Miss Lii
liam Chenoweth, Mississippi; Miss Eliza
beth McGerr, Nebraska; Mr.. Walter
Browne, New Hampshire; Mr. Richard
Holman, New York; Miss Kathryn Nc
Ken1e, North Carolina; Mr.. Alan
Gray, North Dakota; Mrs. Roy Haynes
Ohio; Mr. A. c.. Epps, Oklahoma; Miss
Marie Puhr, South Dakota; Col Cloyd
Byars, Southern Society; Mr.. Morgan
Sanders, Texas; Mrs. Richard Allen,
Virginia, and Miss Dorothy Thomas
Rhode Island.
Membership in the society is open to
members Of all State societies.
Evening star., 1932-10-02
Trousseaux and Hope Chests
BY EMILY POST,
Famous Authority on Etiquette.

ner napkins. lunch napkins. breakfast
napkins, tea napkins, cocktail napkins.
Under Service" write pantry towels,
kitchen towels, kitchen cloths, roller
towels and dust cloths. AT the bottom
of the page add bed. bath and table
linen for one maid or for whatever size
household you expect to have.
IRON this whole catalogue you esti-
L mate your own items For exam
pie, beginning at the top of the page in
the space below Sheets" you write
one of many varieties; linen, percale or
silk; double or single; upper ones, under
ones ornamented or plain; mono
grammed or initiated As to quantity,
this is solely qeustion of how you in
tend to employ the items in your linen
closet Shall each fresh sheet serve first
for an upper, and then as an under?
Or are upper sheets and under ones to
be of two varieties? To be changed
how often?
Much as you may like two fresh
sheets every day, this will mean IA
sheets week for each bed, total sup
ply of about three times this quantity
On the other hand, the minimum OF
one fresh upper sheet q week would
Only lOtU 1Ol CdSAl bCd.
The most typical sheet allowance
(vhen the upper sheet also serves as
lower) is sheets for each bed and
four slips for each pillow. This would
allow fresh top sheet and fresh pillow
case on Wednesday and on Saturday
for each bed and each pillow. In ad-
dition to a minimum requirement for
each bed, you should have at very least
two sheets and four pillowcaSes extra in
case of illness-uAless you have plenty
of guest-room linen.
The number of napkins varies in
the same way from one week for
each member of the family, with ex-
ira ones for company, to fresh one
at every meal for each person. Count
towels and services equipment exactly
the same way. Remember, in count
ing to allow for those in the clothes
hamper as well as those in use or
waiting on the shelves-and above all,
count company! Napkins and towels.
sheets and pillowcases, too, gather
in the clothes basket in direct proper
tion to the gathering Of friends in your
house.
A ND now, marking! Face towels
( hand towels, sheets, pillow cases
and napkins without marking are ex-
actly like q street dress worn without
gloves, and the question Of marking is
rather serious, because expensive when
beautifully done.
If your purse Is deep, then mark them
with monograms or initials in full.
Otherwise, on napkins, a single Old
English initial, five-eights of an inch
high, makes the best effect at least
cost. For sheets and pillowcases
there are many single letter designs
to choose from, wherever linen Is sold.
italian linen napkins and all varieties
Of towels are very good looking when
cross stitched in q color-which any
woman should be able to do easily,
herself. Cross-stitch letters look best
when very small-still easier to do!
There are several varieties of machine
marking, which, when well done. look
well on some things. Also there are
letters which one may buy and sew
on. The best of these, however, cost
almost as much as the hand en-
broidery they simulate.
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