Evening Star Newspaper, October 24, 1921, Page 5

Evening & Selmday- Star 60¢c a Month . Delivered by Regular' Carrier CALL MAIN 5000 and the service will start AT ONCE Where Your Dollars Count BEHREND’ § 720-22-24 Tth St. NW. Store Hours: Open 9:15 AM. Close 6 P.M. Basxgains such as these are to be had only on Tuesday and then only at Behrend’s . TUESDAY WONDER Women’s Plush Coatees Forget the price. The coats are good looking and good quality. Fashionable coatee style with big cape collar }nd nicely flowered Imed'. ) I $6.50 PLEATED PLAID SKIRTS Handsome assortment Rich Plaid Skirts, in popular blue, brown, tan, green. black and white colorings. 7 All the way up to garter top silk hose for ladies, in black. Termed second,~ quality, but we cannot find any faults. Seamed back and fashioned ankles. $1.98 IMPORTED LACE HOSE Beautiful Lace Hose, with lace pattern woven all- over hose, full fashioned and garter top, in black, white and cordovan. $1.50 Boys’ Heavy-Ribbed Union Suits Boys' Heavy Fleeced-lined Union one button down In Gray and Ecru. Suits. All sizes. Flat-lock seams, center. LADIES’ PINK KNIT BLOOMERS Good, closely-woven Flesh Bloomers. Elastic waist and knees. All sizes, full cut. $1.25 Men’s HeavyRibbed Shirts &Drawers Heavy Fleeced-lined Ribbed Shirts and Pants for men. All sizes to 46. Well made and reinforced seats. Stylish box-nmmimode\s-___——__3. E WOMEN’S SERGE JUMPER DRESSES with white silk embroideréd dots. Collarless styles with patent leather belts and pockets. Lot of Tricotine, Serge, Jersey and Velour §u|m$9 90 Remainders of lines that sold to $30.00. Principally ‘ e S P Y TAFFETA SILK FLOUNCE PETTICOATS $ 1 44 Scalloped flounce of splendid quality taffeta silk, plain colors, including plenty of black and ni o TUESDAY WONDER Blue, Black and Brown Serge Sleeveless Dresses.$2 99 [ WOMEN'S COAT SUITS—Worth to $30 89¢ Ladies’ Fiber Silk Hose *1.23 [ ] Baby’s L C V'S shoy Loats Warmly lined for winter 5 5 ° with big cape collar; beauti- fully silk embroidered. warm. Double-breasted styles, with high low collars. s4 9 Belts and pockets. 3 to 10 years. [ i ric trimmed. Loose or belted styles. Blue, brown, green, garnet and reindeer. 4 to 14 years. 9 BOYS’2-PANTS SUITS--Worth to$12.98 $ Handsome plaids, “checks and striped wool cloth Suits, for boys’ 7 to 16 years. New yoked back, with Py Shirts high-cut and long sleeves. TUESDAY WONDER wear and made of nice quality cream cashmere. Modeled BOYS’ & GIRLS’ CHINCHILLA COATS You've paid $5.98 for these exact coats. Extra GIRLS’ COATS WORTH TO $15.00 39 77 Every wanted new style in lot, including fur fab- [J inverted pleats or Norfolk styles. WITH 2 PAIRS OF PANTS. o i $4.00 Plaid Blankets A fortunate purchase of about 200 pairs of Heavy Plaid Blankets 98 bargain tomorrow only. No other ) make an equal distribution we 4 must limit to each customer not more than 2 pairs. No C. O. D., phone or mail orders. 50c 32-INCH DRESS GINGHAMS plaids, checks and plain, large overplaids—conservative c plaids and the wanted checks. —— 19c WHITE OUTING FLANNEL Soft for babies' clothes and diapers, as well as women’s nightgowns.. 27 inches wide and limit T 39¢ FINE COLORED STRIPE MADRAS These were bought from the mills in short lengths of 2 to 10 yards—but many pieces match. There's dresses or aprons. 32 inches wide and all fast colors. —_— . $1.50 ALL-WOOL SERGE Absolutely all wool, with a double warp and all c brown, navy, two shades of tan, gray, cardinal and wis- TUESDAY WONDER 19¢ Apron Gingh of this standard count cloth, in a big selection of all size blue checks; guaranteed absolutely c TUESDAY WONDER ehables us to offer this marvelous time can you buy such values. To Hundreds of styles, colors, colored combinations, in A remarkably heavy double-fleece quality. 1 2 l/zc 10 yards to a custome plenty for men’s shirts, house dresses and children's shrunk and sponged ready for use. 36 inches wide, in About "1,000 yards to be cut from full pieces fast colors. Limit 10 yards to a customer. Meet Kansas, Senator Arthur Capper of | who has a very practical {of the industrial situation—producer consumer—whose interests he finds identical and interdependent. To start off with, Senator Capper figures out that the farmers are the one greatest and most essential fac- tor in production. Next he call# at- tentlon to the fact that the farmers are more than one-half of the entire consuming force in the country. So he views the farmers as at once ma- {Jority producers and majority con- sumers. His resolution has two parts: First —prompt lowering of freight rates, which at once reduce the increasing spread between the prices received by the farmer and the prices paid by the consumer. This he has already taken up with President Harding, as as a consequerfce of which the Presi- dent had a group of railway execu- tives in conference with himself and Chairman Cummins of the interstate commerce committee, and .discussed at a conference of the agricultural bloc in Congress. Second—legalizing co-operative bar- saining by the agricultural interests, at the same time loglcally reasoning that the farmers can never achieve a monopoly, which is the one reasonable objection to the formation of a farm- ers’ union. Senator Capper's Persomality. Senator Capper is a natural type of those boys who always keep their teachers worried to keep them busy |cheivous, but because they are a bun- dle of nervous energy, with fertile, imaginative minds, always keyed up to keep things going. Mr. Capper is in some respects like President Harding. He started in to carve out his career by sticking type and now owns not one but a whole string of papers. With training for vears as a practical, keen and re- Sourceful newspaper man, he came to the Senate—and' has kept it awake with a surprising number of timely and forward-looking proposals. ' He made himself a man to be reckoned with and one looked to for a practi- cal solution of current problems—es- pecially as regards the farmers, be- cause for a quarter of a century he has studied thelr problems and in- terests intensively.. Senator Capper is a live wire, a good fellow, a keen legisiator, al- ways up to something—pretty often succeeding—and tediously persistent. He is thoroughly human, one of the veople, and that explains why what- aver he starts generally awakes pub- lic interest. Some of his arguments are particularly refreshing because he thinks for himself and dossn’t have his ideas and utterances ready- made for him. He is decidedly origi- nal, practical. sincere and convineing. Farming Trust Not Sought. “Can the farmers organize a trust?” asks Senator Capper as a prelude to explaining why they cannot and do not want to, and to drive home the desirability of passing the Volstead- Capper bill as it passed the House, without the Senate judiciary commit- tee amendment—on which issue he is ready to take the mat in the Senate in a battle royal of those who think they have the best solution of the present economic ~and industrial crisis. He charges that the Senate takes away with one hand what the bill gives fariners with the other— the right to do business collectively on a par with other industries. On account of this attitude he has come to be called by his colleagues “the Sam Gompers of the farmer: “Give the people of Chicago 10-cent | milk,” said Illinois dairy farmers re-{ cently to the' clity disrtibuting organ- 1zation which sells thelr milk supply to the consumers, “or we will start a co-operative distributing company and do it ourselves.” Senator Capper cites this challenge as showing that the producer, who naturally wishes to sell more milk instead of less, has learned what many of our corpora- tions have not learned, with all their vaunted business acumen—that the producer and the consuger have a mutual live-and-let-live® interest. Then he mentions another instance to point a moral: N “During the time last year when milk in cities was higher than it ever was before in the United States milk sold for 12 cents a quart in Minneap- olis. Middle west cities were paying 16 cents and several big eastern cities from 18 to 20 and 21 cents. An or- ganization of Minnesota dairy farm- ers was responsible for this rela- tively low price in Minneapolis, and to bring it about sold their milk sup- ply for much less than 12 cents a iquart to the city distributing com- pany.” Discrimination Against Farmers. Describing the Senate judiclary com- mittee as a lawyer-like body, fearful that farmers would get a monopoly if given the clear legal right to market their products ‘co-operatively, he points out that the proposed amend- ment “would deny to any body of farmers engaged in co-operative mar- keting the legal standing that the Sherman anti-trust law freely gives to any corporation, including indus- trial corporations with more than 100,000 stockholders” He -also em- phasizes that this legal standing is granted to farm co-operative associa- tions by wirtually every other civilized nation without question, and that both national political party conven- tions and national platforms pledged this to the country at the last presi- dential election. “Strange, isn't it Senator Capper queries, “that a corporation with many thousands of stockholders may freely und legally go about its busi- ness, but that the Rock Hill Farmers' Co-operative Soclety, for instance, of not to exceed a few score members, may not do business free from the possibility of legal attack under the present divided interpretation of the Clayton anti-trust law, which was passed to remedy this very defect?’ Then the fighting spirit of Capper shows itself: “I call it not only strange but wrong and vastly harm- ful to the general welfare. big corporation,” he continues his argument, “have the right to act to- gether, why should this right be denied to a group of farmers in a lit- tle community who band themselves or products? “In the Volstead-Capper bdill, as passed in the House, the farmers of | the United States are not asking for class legislation, but for a chance to world of business, which is, when ydu come down to rock bottom, largely dependent upon the farm producer. Unless the farmers get this chance both they and the natlonal welfare will suffer. “Farming is the only business in this country that buys at retall and sells at wholesale; that pays whatever is_asked when it buys and lcmru whatever is offered when it sells. Other organisations take the farmers’ products from him at their own price and then obtain for them the highest price the public ca#n be made to pay. The Farmer’s Handieap. “The American farmer is an ef- ficient producer. He leads the world in producing the greatest quantity of foodstuffs per man. But with the help of his boys and his family he is earning only from 5 to 15 cents an hour because, as an individual, he can never be an efficient salesman of his own products unless the clear legal right to market his commodities col- lectively shall be established for him law. This is the only way he an instrument o . —not that,they are bad or even mis- | “If thousands of stockholders in a together to market a certain product | exist and do business in an organized| | solution for the pro and con of the|j v | I " Interests of Producer and Consumer. busine 'When he gets it he will shorten the process of distribution by organization, ‘and, through eliminat- ng all unessential.middlemen, will greatly lessen the cost of marketing :o his own and the consumers’ advan- age. “The farmers of Ameflica can never perfect an ‘oppressive monopoly, Senator Capper insists, because: farmer cannot shut down. He must always keep his farm busy or taxes or the sheriff will ‘get’ him. The mo- ment the price of a single farm prod- uct makes that.product the most prof- itable men on 4,000,000 farms will be busy growing it, or trying to grow it. An immediate increase_gf production will then take place d will lev the prices. This is economic law. The senator, then: quotes a recent|lations between the allied countries witness before’the joint congressional commission on agricultural inquiry who in discussing the agricultural monopoly possibility put it this way: Suppose all the wheat producers on the milllon wheat farms in the coun- try should combine to boost prices. There are three or four million other farmers in the country who could and would produce wheat. Furthermore, the dairy farmers of the east are the wheat growers' greatest customers. If wheat got too high the dairy farm- ers would cut down on cows and go to raising wheat. - In other words, he insists, there {s no possibility of or: ganizing 4,000,000 farmers of every kind and class, including groups nat- urally opposed to one another, as wheat raisers and-dairymen would be, into an oppressive trust. Where Farmers Are Most Prosperous “In Wisconsin,”, Senator Capper coptinues, “state laws are favorable to farmer co-operative socleties, and Wisconsln farmers are uniformly more prosperous than those of other agricultural farmer co-operative. cheese factories did a business of $3,359,000 last year on a paid-up capital of only $1,320. “The public eventually shares in such cheapened products. Repeated- ly witnesses before the agricultyral inquiry commission which is maing co-operative marketing its main rec- ommendation testifled that they con- sider the Volstead-Capper farmers’ national co-operative marketing bill the most important measure before *Bmgress, so far as rellef for farmers and the restoring of this fundamen- tal industry to a permanent basis is concerned. ~ J. D. Miller, representing the national milk producers, was one who gave such testimony. “The decline of American agricul- ture,” Senator Capper .points outy “began before Roosevelt's time. He vigorously sought a means to stem it with hf; country-life inquiry. The after-war years have only made its alarming weakness more apparent to the nation. The history, of farm co- perative enterprise in rope proves all our barriers.to voluntary co- operation should be. removed. Con- zress should remove every obstacle in_the way of co-operative market- ing. Instead of hampering this nat- ural development, the nation should give it a helping hand—for its own salvation and the life and fertility of its soil depends upon it.” Woodward & Brown Upright. Haines Bros. Upright Heinekamp Upright. . .. Aeolian Kring Player ..... Guild Upright. . .. Ivers & Pond Upright...... Story & Clark Player .. Story & Clark Player James M. Upright. Story & Clark® l’hy_er Story & Clark Player Wisconsin's | [ FOR CO-OPERATIVE MARKETING |GEN. PERSHING'S ACTION | AND REDUCING FREIGHT RATES Senator Capper Advocates the L;galizing of Association Bargaining by Farmers in j bonds of sympathy between Britain |vear after year unheeding the ad- 'DELIGHTS SCANDINAVIA Decoration’ of British Unknown Hero’s Tomb Proof of U. S. Friendliness. - BY HAL OFLAHERTY. By Cable to The Btar and Chicago Daily News. Copyright, 1921. HELS!N&FORS, Finland, October 22. —The decoration of an unknown British soldiers tomb by Gen. Persh- ing, with accompanying ceremonies, has'left a tremendous impression upon the people in the Scandinavian coun- tries and northern Europe generally, Nothing else that has happened since the United States entered the war has been 80 convincing of the friend- liness of the great western de- mocracles. All publications of every shade of opinion, including the *red” organs published in Russia, devote unusual space to the events in London, ac- knowledging editorially that the and the United States have been ce- mented more firmly by Gen. Persh- ing’s visit than by anything else that could have occurred. Many people in northern Europe have long held the view that the re- l \ ' could not survive the trade warfare and other disturbances after the war. Such opinions were sent out regu- larly from Germany by a ceaseless propaganda attempting to prove tha the trend of International develop- ments was leading inevitably to a conflict between the western powers. By the simple act of the recognition of unknown warriors these illusions have been largely dispelled. TRAIN CALLED ‘HIGHBALL’ ROAMS NORTH WOODS Iron Range Night Local Drops Fishermen Anywhere and Lets Crew Dig Potatoes. DULUTH, Minn., October 24.—There is a tramp train on th® Duluth and Iron Range railroad running up into the north woods that has gone on for vance of progress. The train is known as the Highball. She makes her nightly flight into the north woods for the accommodation of lumberjacks, sportive fishermen, hunt- ers and seekers of work, picking up as a side issue a parcel of hogs or & herd of sheep. The Highball is composed of box cars, one wooden passenger coach, a combination smoker and baggage car and then a caboose, the latter serving also as a sleeping car. So the Highball wends her merry way almost unheedful of a schedule, tor she will drop off a fisherman or | a hunter in any hour in the dead of night at any place he chooses to se- lect, station or no station: or one of the crew may wish to dig a bushel of potatoes growing in the field near the tracks. The Highball waits. Or it may stop at a little cottage just around a curve, where a little woman is nursing back to health a husband with a cough. The Highball stops while the crew takes up a collection | of butter, eggs and potatoes gathered | along the right of way. Truly, the Highball is unique as a | train running in this advanced age. | UBER ZION SCH OOLCHfLDRE}V NOW BELIEVE - IMPLICITLY THE WORLD IS/ FLAT By the Assoclated Press. % ZION, IiL, October 24.—Zion schools, of which Wilbur Glenn Voliva, the overseer of the colony, is president, have adopted his new theories of a flat. world and the absence of gravita- tion, and the 1,000 grade and high school -puplls believe them implicitly, { according to their teachers. | The public school thaintained by the state board of education and at- tended by the children of non-mem- bers of Voliva’s Christian-Catholic Apestolic church still teaches, how- ever, that the world s a globe mov- ing through limitless space, and that it was the attraction of gravity{ which caused the apple to fall on Isaac Newton's head. At the Zion schools the new course of study teaches that: The earth is a flat circular world, with a north pole in the exact center, no south pole, and surrounded by a wall of ice which keeps venturesome mariners from falling off the rim. That the earth has no motion, but remains stationary in space. That the sun is not millions of miles in diameter and 91,000,000 miles away, but is really a littie orb 32 miles across and only 3,000 miles from the earth. That the law of gravitation is a fallacy and when objects are thrown into the air they continue to rise until the force which propelled them is expended, and then fall back to earth because they are heavier than air. A standard map of the world, on Christopher's projection, is used in {he achools to demonstrate the flat orld theory. This map, which is used by navigators and scientists in making time and longitude calcula- tions, differs from the usual Mer- cator's projection familiar in other schools, in that it shows the earth as\it would look to an observer directly above the north pole, with} the continents and seas projected on | a flat plane. As a result the north pole is in the center, and instead of | a south pole the antarctic regions ! are indicated by a white ring about | the outer circumference of the circ This ring, according to Voliva ice barrier which keeps from falling off the edge of this flat| world. s | Miss Mary Thompson, principal of the Zion school system and an ar-| dent believer in the Voliva theories. has propounded a question which s believes will trip scientists and navi gators. “Navigators on a globular earth would find on a flat earth the tropic of Capricorn would be much larger than the tropic of Cancer, and would take much longer to sail around, be- cause on a flat earth Cancer would be neater the center, or north pole Why don’t some of the globular earth believers try sailing around the two tropics and find _out whether they or_we are correct?” Miss Eva Baker, teacher of geog- raphy, demonstrates to her class that the sun is only a tiny orb a few thousand miles away, Instead of an orb millions of miles in diameter and 91,000,000 miles from the earth. I the sun was so large, she savs, it would light up all the world, instead | of confining its hottest rays to a! 3,000-mile_wide belt between the two tropics. Voliva himself, in a rece: sermon at Shiloh Tabernacle. said| God certainly would not have made | a sun to light the world and then| Dplaced it so far away. “A man would be a fool,” the over- seer added, “to build a house in Zion ' qHI\ITII\N AND DOMINICAN and place his parlor light in Kenosha, Wis.” Miss Thompson, principal of the schools, says the children prefer their new flat world to the old-fashioned ;’;flln?l‘ one in which Columbus be- eve i ] CONDITIONS BESCRIBED Gen. Barnett Tells of the Work of | Marines in Islands, 1914 { to 1920. Maj. Gen. George Barnett, who was commandant of the Marine Corps from February, 1914, to June 30, 1920 today reviewed before the special Senate committee investigating con- ditions in Haiti and Santo Domingo | various details of his investigations | of the conduct of the marines in| Haiti. He emphasized that his rec- | ommendation upon the court-martial | proceeding of two marines charged . with the first executlon of natives was submitted to Secretary of the Navy Danfels in the fall of 1917, it having been stated that the Secre tary’s attention had not been directcd to it until a year later. ‘4 was startled by the disclosure shown in the evidence and particu- larly by the pleas of the counsel for the accused to the effect that the court should not judge the two marines harshly, because they were following general custom, and he had seen many | similar cases of exceution without | trial,” the general asserted. H¢ asserted that the execution of the natives by order of Louis A Brokaw, a_marine. i tenant in the gendarmes, was lllegal and that the privates should have re- fused to carry it out. NICARAGUA EXTENDS MARTIAL LAW PERIOD serving as lie| I Government Offilals Hear Effort Will Be Made to Create Serious Revolution Next Month. MANAGUA, Nicaragua. October 23. —The government yesterday issued a proclamation declaring martial law | to continue throughout the country for another sixty-day period and pro- claiming that a state of war exists in five northwestern department, three of which border on Honduras. Government officials have informa- tion that after the present small at- tacks across the Honduran boundary have harassed Nicaragua, a large and serious revolutionary movemept is planned for November. Financfal measures to meet the military situ tion are being arranged. and 1 troops are now in the field, mo: the movements. —_— PARIS LOSES STUDENTS. ! Living Costs Cut Number From 12,000 to 7,000 in Latin Quarter. PARIS, October 4—The Latin quar- SOME 'RARE OPPORTUNITIES In New and Used Pianos and Players But Only While They Last Some Used and Slightly Used Instru- ment$ On Sale $75 75 $75 $175 $198 $107 $239 $519 $525 surr $179 5498 $507 Vhtvflcphfimwudnmnmfi-- within one year from date of purchase fGnabe’” 1330 G St. N.W. In Our Great Clean-Sweep Sale Don’t neglect to read the two #olid columns of splendid bargains listed below. They tell their own story. We have nothing to add. Prices speak for themselves, and the stock is going fast—but you must act—quickly. On sale Tuesday and Wed- nesday. 'Story Player ...... Ackerman Upright. . ... Technola Upright. . ... A B. Story Story !b or calomel. 1 v | stron; along the Honduran border, to repel | E Some Used and Slightly Used Instru- ments On Sale Milton Upright. ...... Brown & Simp- son Upright.. .. Berkley Knabe Angelus Player ........ Billings & Co. New England Upright. ...... Player ...... Player ........ Player ........ ter is alarmed because the high cost of living is_reducing its student population, which last year dropped from 12,000 to 7.000. A student's expenses, those of his vacation, are a year. it is estimated, becoming _increasingly to spend 30,000 or 40,000 francs in four or five years for the university eduea tion of their son. including 000 francs rents are ¥ reluctant doctor 1o every 500 people war, and the newspapers suggest that a red tion in their ranks and those of t one lawyers might prove beneficial. COLCATES RIBBON DENTAL CREAM Large Size 25¢ Medium Size 10¢ Refreshing as the Morning — “Colgate’s in Time Saved Mine” Good Teeth Good Health Better Than Calomel Thousands Have Discovered Dr. Edwards’ Olive Tablets are a Harmless Substitute. Dr. Edwards’ Olive Tablets—thc substitute for jomel—are a mild ut sure laxative, and their effect on the liver is almost instantaneous. These little olive-colored tabiets are the result of Dr. Edwards’ de- termination not to treat liver and bowel complaints with calomel. The pleasant little tablets do the good that calomel does, but have 'no bad after effects. They don't e strong liquids They take hold of the trouble and quickly correct it Why cure the liver at the expensc of the teeth? Calomel sometimes plays havoc with the gums. So dc¢ uids. It is best not ¢ take calomel. Let Dr Edwards Olive Tablets take its place. Headaches, “dullness” and tha lazy feeling come from constipa tion and a disordered I Dr. Edwards’ Olive Tablets when vou feel “logy” and “heav > They ‘clear” clouded brain and *| spirits. 15c and 30c. injure the teeth li 2 htRtRtRtR AR ARt tR R AR R AR AR ARt AR th A o] $156 $75 $120 $439 599 $100 k $505 5210 8219 5695 $510 $513 & Clark Chase & Clark & Clark arerooms, lit. H/AWilliams, Pees Every instrument in this store, whether mew or used, positively protected by written guarantee for from 1 to 10 years,