Evening Star Newspaper, March 2, 1922, Page 6

iTHE EVENING STAR, ‘With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON,D. C. THURSDAY.......March 2, 1823 THEODORE W. NOYES.......Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company vania Ave. !but competent judges of Senate opinion belleve it will hold sufficiently intact te assure ratification of all the agree- ments, though-possibly with reserva- tions in some instances and perhaps by reduced margins. An encouraging feature of the Sen- ate situation is that even the strongest opponents of the treaties show no disposition to cause unnecessary de- lays or to resort to obstructive tactics. It is the right and duty of the Senate to study and debate the treaties thor- oughly, and, if it deems wise, to at 60 cents per month: daily only, 45 cents per | clarify them and safeguard American e né:"h:‘zfl“:‘g"'z: Sents per month. O |interests by the adoption of reserva- :‘.’:";,, Collection, 1s” made’by ea tions. And with this done it is the ‘month. r— duty of the Senate to vote for or Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. |[against ratification, with each senator Maryland and Virginia. the custodian of his own'conscience, &:g ::? Sunday..1 0c { uninfluenced by hope of personal ad- 8 v, oc | vantdge or consideration of party solidarity. Party lines were broken in the vote on the Yap treaty, but not disregarded to the extent that could be desired. There is no evidence that throughout the country public opinion is making a party issue of the treaties. So far as any general survey is trustworthy, public opinion seems to be overwhelm- ingly for them, without regard to party affiliation. The American peo- ple are eminently practical and en- dowed with common sense. They see in the agreements for limitation of naval armaments and adjustment of far eastern questions very great ma- terial benefits, got only to this coun- try, but to the world. They do not see in the treaties any menace to Americap institutions sufficiently seri- ous to outweigh these material bene- fits, and they feel that, should any attempt be made in the future to inter- pret fhe freafies to the disadvantage of the United States, whatever govern- ment may then be in power will be sufficiently patriotic and fully compe- tent ‘to look out for. American inter- ests. And, taking this practical- minded view of the situation, they want the Senate to ratify the treaties, not by abdicating but by meeting and discharging its constitutional duties. —————— The Navy and Peace. In an address, full of good sense and good feeling, delivered yesterday. at the opening session of the national convention of the National Rivers and Harbors Congress, Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt said, in dis- cussing the armament conference and its work: The conference will serve as a guide post for the future. hen friction arises—and we haven't reached the millennium yet—this conference will make the nations willing to meet together again face to face in open parley. The millegnialists did not approve The Evening Star, with the Sunday mor editlon, T defivered by Sartiees within mngl.t; Dail; d Datly oty Y- Discussion goes on in Congress over the enactment of remedial loan legis- lation. It is a subject that has aroused debate in the District at various times during the past twenty years. When the exactions and methods of loan sharks became a public scandal there ‘was organized effort to bring about g correction of their ways of doing busi- ness. A bill was introduced in Con- gress for this purpose, but it was amended 'to provide a rate of interest %0 low that the business of lending money in small sums on notes could not be honestly carried on at all. By amendment the law was also made to include pawnbrokers, whose business ‘was licensed and well regulated by the isiTict authorities, and against whose methods of doing business there had been no complaint. The law, instead of preVenting extortion and correcting 11 the abuses suffered by small bor- prs, merely drove the money lend- ers to Virginia, where they carried on their business, it is believed, in the old way. The legal interest was so low that the business could not be carried on by fair means in the District, and an incentive was given to lenders to operate outside the law and in ways in which the borrower had no protec- tion. The effect was also to drive the pawnbrokers out of business or out of the city, All these results were foreseen when the bill was amended to defeat the purpose for which it had been pre- pared and introduced. When President Taft signed the act, February 4, 1913, he said: i " _“I have concluded to sign this bill because its general purpose is one with which every good citizen must sympathize. It has been pressed upon Sympatiize jiias hees eas Apon of the terms of the conference call. at the rate of interest to whic i pawnbrokers are limited is too low, | [heY Wanted disarmament, and not a lrr;dbl’llllls is %rged as. ga" objection ’:”hmltzmon put to building in the in- the bill, not because of any sympathy - i with pawnbrokers, but because it is ::c" o]r f‘“"“my and. esighllshing pointed out that if the limitations of | Petter relations among the nations for the bill are 5o severe as to discour- | the future. - age the legitimate pawnbroking bus s 5 hess it will drive some pawnbrokers| Ihe President’s head was not in the hl:to vmnnlm -mi lgnrylnnd. where jclouds, and the conference when it they will ply their business without c itsic " any Hmitation, of wiil' induce others | ct took lta cue from him. It voted to live in the District and put the law |for the scrapping of a few ships, but at deflance. and so subject those who |not for the scrapping of human ne- e resort to them to an ex- tortion beyona the protection of the |ure- It recognized the fact that after Jaw altogether. I am not satisfied, |it had done its best in the interests however, that pawnbrokers with suf- |of peace there would be left in man- kind a good deal of “the old Adam, and that from time to time this spirit would be likely to manifest itself. Other conferences may be necessary ficient capital cannot do a legitimate business at the rate of 1 per cent a month. Companies of this kind seem to be successful in other cities. The subject is one in respect to which an ly be made. and if it turns out that 1 i ; per cent Is 00 great a restriction, (2N 83 the necessities arise they Congress in its wisdom may increase |Should,"and probably will, be met in the rate to 1% or 2 per cent.” . the spirit of the one just closed. What « President Taft did not sense all the j has been done once can be repeated. public disapproval of the 1 per cent But let us keep in mind the fact it ‘would prevent pawnbroking in the {Navy, and let us keep it in husky District, but that it would also defeat | condition against eventualities. It is the aim of regulating the lending of | not a burdensome charge upon us, and small sums of money on personal;certainly it is no menace to the peace notes. of the world. There are bills pending to correct Lame Fire Engines. prepared by the Commissioners, in 4 collaboration with numerous civic as-{ . . . soclations, provides that 2 per cent - i District government to skate on thin 1 {ice in the matter of fire as well as erest per month may be charged. It{ o ior it 4 man may be forgiven for contains various mrovisions which pro- | e i 1 % T TR 0 O8] e tect borrowers against the abuses| e T oP O i correct. ‘The District needs such legis. | "cc2Us¢ the District government can- lation. not expand in the same ratio as do the building, population and industry e n of the city. Here we have the fact Inauguration Weather. !that two of the big downtown fire en- ormal inauguration weather,” |8ines are out of commission for rea- mutters the man in the street a$ he experiment in legislation may proper- interest rate. It was not altogether that { that we still have a pretty husky the errors of the law of 1913. A bill Poverty and parsimony force the which the law of 1913 was planned to | DIStrict 18 exposed to many dangers sons not within the control of any mushes through the snow and sleet |Man, and because of the scantiness of covered pevements and crossings and | equipment in the fire department lit- contemplates that day. after tomorrow jtle engines from suburbs are brought will be March 4, though not Thaugura- | t0 town to take their places. Either tion day, happily. Then, if he is an | there is no reserve apparatus or there old-timer, his memory harks back to some bad weather of real inauguration | The chief of the fire department utters times. He recalls Harrison's, when it |2 lament, the District Commissioners rained torrentially; one of Cleveland's, {include items in, their budget and the when there was a near-blizzard, and | fire elarm sounds. the memorable inauguration of Taft, ! Accidents will happen, and they are when there was a terrific blizzard, |8 liable to happen tofire engines as with many intervening March 4s when | to other kinds of engines and to other bad weather ran true to form and date. | things. One of the first-class fire en- And so the man in the street comes |8ines in service in the section of high raturally to speculation as to whether | buiidings and dense population has not Congress will ever take the prelim-|been restored to duty since the great inary step looking to a constitutional |storm and tragedy. Many of the city's change which might cast presidential | fire engines. hose wagons and the like inaugurals in a season where there |Were damaged during that trying time. was at least an even break in the |Amnother of the big downtown engines chances of a salubrious day appearing j became disabled while answering a on the calendar—and not with long |fire call. The chief says that this odds against such a contingency as|leaves but two big, strong, up-to-date experience has shown March 4 toengir present. {great values and high fire risks. To It is recalled that after the great |take the places of the disabled engines blizzard which raged when President | two small engines are called on to Taft was inaugurated there was alcome in from Anacostia and Brook- notable spurt of energy in Congress:land, presumably because they are _attending a proposal to bring about'a+newer and have more power than any ! *change in the date of inaugurals. One | others that could be called for. It is Numerous streets of Washington D. C., are greatly admired. Others would have thought it was to be done !hnvyd that the evil spirit which in- out of hand. But it was not: nothfig I spires and presides over large and dis- finally died of inanition. | have thé grace to take a vacation till —_—— the two engines aré repaired. provides a problem in the immediate In spite of the technieal references vicinity as important as that of [t an excess tax, nobody is found excessive. -, —_————— are merely mired. solve the rent situation by making the kousing supply equal to the demand. 3 Yap Treaty Ratified. Smuggling has called attention to a The Yap treaty with Japan having |gyle of “one-way traffic” that needs amendment or reservation and by a; comfortable margin over the nece!-l now comes up for consideration, with; As the President recommends, let its supporters in a position of distinct | “immigration join wherever practical Yap lineup will be unbroken when it {our flag, under which citizenship is b proportion of but talk and talk—and the p.roject astrous fires will stay its hand and The water supply- from Great Falls —————e———————— Muscle Shoals. iwilllnz to admit that his profits are Builders are doing all they can to || smagping v caid aseni Been ratified by the Senate '“h““t‘oflklal discouragement. sary two-thirds, the four-power treaty {Immigration and Merchant Marine. advantage. It does not follow that the |in siding the merchaat marine of -headed ‘moted by American is not enough to meet requirements. | es for service in the district of for America be transported in Ameri- can ships. PR This has a higher value than that of transportation money. In the days of unrestricted immigra- tion, when Tom, Dick and Harry pessed through the gates with but for- mal inspection, the charge was frerly made and supported that steamship companies not under American owner- ship or control made a special busi- ness of this traffic; that, with many devices, they drummed up custom in Europe and dumped many undesira- bles on our shores without a thought or care as to the harm that might result to our institutions. Steamship companies of American ownership and control may be relied upon not to indulge in any such prac- tice; to bear in mind, as other Ameri- can enterprises do, general American interests along with their own; to aid the government to the extent of their power, since the government is aiding them, in keeping out of the country persons whose presence would maRe for agitation and disorder. American interests are best pro- hands, end “wherever practical”—to employ the President's phrase—should be placed and kept in such hands. If we watch all the corners we shall be & winner among the nations. ———————— Mr. McAdoo’s Change of Base. The change of residence from New York to California announced by for- mer Secretary McAdoo will occasion a good deal of speculation, principally oI a political character. Like this: Does it mean the retire- ment of Mr. McAdoo from the presi- dential fleld? considered in connection with the dem- !oerutic nomination in 1924? He, of course, loses his New York identity. The calculation will be that in surrendering his New York citizen- ship he has surrendered any claim he might have had and have advanced to New York support in the next demo- cratic national convention. A kindred calculation will be that he is acquiring his California citizen- ship too late to make it available for service at the convention two years hence. He will have been a Cali- fornian too short a time at that time to appeal to the state for support on the score of his residence. But there is a set-off to these two isuggestions. The gossip connecting Mr. McAdoo with a second effort to secure his party's presidential nomi- nation does not assign him to any state, but takes into account his pub- lic services and the extraordinary strength he showed at San Francisco two years ago. He did not then com- mand the support of New York, his then place of residence. Neverthe- less, as a national « ity, he was a power in t' e In an intervi s nizing the publi- .iterest in the sub- ject, discusses picasantly and says it is the practice of law, and not poli- |tics, that explains the change of base. He likes California, as all do who visit the state, and simply wants to live there. —————————— Congress is appreciative of the fact i that the proud distinction of being the 2rapiml of a great nation does not auto- matically provide funds for the opera- tion of a large and growing munici- pality. ¢ ———————— A report that Lloyd George contem- plates quitting office does not occupy as much space in print as descriptions lot the wedding in the royal family, but the average Englishman regards it as more important if less enter- taining. —_—————————— This city has a remagkably large number of banks, but has been ex- ceedingly fortunate so far in not get- ting so far along as various big towns in the direction of flimsy finance. —_—————— Advocates of light wines are en- couraging hopes in old John Barley- icorn of being able to hide behind the skirts of Aunt Grapejuice. —_——————— SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. ‘The Deeper Perception. There's nothing like a mother’s love. | Al other pow'r it ranks above. It works with magic passing strange To bring about a subtle change. A freckle-faced, red-headed boy A mother looks upon with joy. 4 And when she makes him wash his face, . Through soapsuds scattered ‘round the place, iHe seems, unto her gaze so proud, 1A cherub looking through a cloud. And should he weep or merely yell, A beauteous anthem seenis to swell To charm her ear. The neighbors say, “I wish that imp would move away!" Put who are neighbors, anyhow, That they should try to make a row? A mother's love knows things, no doubt, That common people can’t find out. And so, oh, boy, it's up to you iTo grow to manhood fine and true, | And prove, some day, at Duty's call, | A mother’s love knew best of all. cAdoo, recog. Laws and Customs. “Do you eapprove of votes for Sorghum. giving women @ voice in making the ilaws. Only they don’t show the dis- position to reciprocate that I hoped ifor. They ought to let men make a i few suggestions about the fashions.” Jud Tunkins says a friend in need | cgrries & snow shovel these days. Acclimatizations. When winter comes in bitter glee, ‘With further snowstorms slated, I hope a snowbird I shall be If I'm reincarnated. I Retribution. “Did you lyrich the man who stole Your automobile?” “No,” replied Plute Pete. iaway. 'Unpunished?” 'No, sir. If that bunch of pernick: ety junk treats him the way it has me he’s havin® punl*ment enough.” “He got ‘De man dat shouts de loudest at a campmeetin’,, said Uncle - Eben, ~‘often loses his vaice by de time hody asks | bulld & Is he no longer to be| wa; ‘| Heral ' THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. G, THURSDAY Law Barring Alley DWellings Presents an Urgént Problem CONDITION, not a theory, con- fronts the ‘alley dwellers in the District of Columbia—and ‘ the District. Under existing law the use of bulldings situated in the alleys in the National Capital must be discontinued next July. The most recent police census of the alley dwellings shows that 9,000 persons live in the alleys—7,000 colored and 2,000 white. But it has been estimated by Rev. J. Milton Waldron, head of the Emergency Housing Assoclation, a worker among the alley dwellers for the ,last fourteen years, that a total of 14,000 people have their sleeping quarters in_the alleys. Mr. Waldron points out that the police census was taken at an hour when thousands of the alley dwellers were out of the alleys, at work. Unless the law be changed, there- fore, four months from the present time it will be unlawful to inhabit! the alley dwellings. Between 9,000 and 14,000 persons now living in these alleys will be thrown out upon | the rest of the city. They must:find places to live in houses that front on streets, or they must leave Washing- ton. * K Kk This s a pretty big order for Washington to take care of, In view of the congestion already existing in the city, a congestion that reached its high mark guring the war, but which still continues to exist. In the House and Senate identical bills have been introduced to extend the time in which the alley buildings may be used as dwellings. The day for vacating them is fixed two years following the date of the proclama- tion by the President of the treaty ot peace between the United States and Germany, or November 14, 1923. Two other bills have been intro-! duced in the Senate, however, which | deal with the matter in a different | way. Senator Myers has offered a bill | which repeals outright the law pro- viding for the evacuation of the alley dwellings. Senator Jones of Wash- ington has offered a bill which au- thorizes the District to issue bonds up to $6,000.000, with which,to con- struct sanitary, modest dwellings, suitable for housing the alley dwell- ers. These buildings are to be rented at reasonable rates—$10 to $13 a month—or_to be sold reasonable figures to the persons living in them. * %k ¥ The proponents of the Jones bill, which represents the views of the Emergency Housing Assoclation, con- tend that it will cost the government | and the District nothing; that in! twenty-five years it will be possible! to pay off the entire bonded indebted- ness through the returns on the houses. There is a strong disposition among EDITORIAL DIGEST Nothing for the Bonus. The cheerful optimism of the pa- | | thetic creature who, if he/had zome ham, would have some ham and| eggs if he had somes eggs. seems Ito have come immediately and simul- taneously to a dozen or more edi-| torial minds when they grasped the full significance of the President's letter to the chairman of the House | ways and means committee on | financing the soldier bonus. Trans- lating a bit, the Baltimore News “"'I | dependent) puts it thus: “If it were possible to devise some suitable taxes we would have the bonus—it we had any money to pay the taxes after they were devised.” : Judging by editorial commen(.! resident Harding's attitude, that if T ovas to be a soldier bonus it should be met by a sales tax, gave aid and comfort to the opponents | of th~ bonus, without noticeably en-! thusin.; the advocates of _lhe aa'lesl tax. There are a few writers v\.hn strongly support both, more Who fecl that if we must have a bonus the sales tax is the proper method ! of raising the money, and many who are unalterably opposed both to the jbonus and the proposed means o paying it Political { York Post combination jamese Twins,” the New ndependent) calls this of bonus and sales tax apable of sustaining life on Qox\:: Recount. elther twin has at dif | erent times been called upon t s fuse vitality into the other. 1 Harding has certainly not relieved the situation in Congress by his po- sition is evident to most newspaper observers, and the anxious doubt as %0 whether or not he will veto @ i{bonus measure which provides the {revenue from some source other than {the sales tax leaves congressmen { floundering, the Indianapolis News | (independent) notes, for, according to jthe Brooklyn KEagle (independent democratic), they are “frankly afraid” of the sales tax; “it is llable to pro- duce a magnificent explosion, “just now they are busy figuring out whether they will lose more votes by being for a bonus to be paid by a sales tax than they would lose If they stand against the sales tax and let the bonus policy slide into the dis- eard. Popular sentiment against the bonus Is coming out more sharply in reply to American Legion Commander Mac- {Nider's ‘demand for,immediate bonus legislation, in which, as the New York Tribune (republican) sees it, he “prandishes a pair of pistols; one he points at Congress and the other at President Harding.” There is little eympathy in the press with Mac- der's stand. As the Rochester Her 21d (independent) asserts, “the le- ision does not include and so cannot |represent half the total number of veterans, and the demand for the bonus is not the demand of the en- tire leglon membership.” The Char- lotte (N. C.) News democratic) sums up the ggneral attitude when it says et (%t people of America could be made to believe that this bonus | Would be the best, the most accepta. ble and the final test of their sense of gratitude to their soldiers, we don't believe they would count the cost.” “The assumption that the United { States is financially and economicall unable to finance the bonus is false, declures the Chicago Tribune (inde- pendent republican); “we can and we | will_finance 1t ‘rom_ the present } uproar “one might be led to the error | of thinking that an overwhelming | majority of the people were opposed to the proposal.” but the Manchester Union (independent republican) is jconvinced that such is not the case. So, “faced with a deflnite public de- mand for the soldier bonus,” the San Francisco Examiner (independent), in common with all the Hearst papers, holds that “Congress should turn its attention to the sensible, simple, ep' fective sales tax,” because it is “fair ito all” the “honmest way, the safest! and the only way,” the Duluth d (independent) adds, “that can { be taken without imperiling the busi- ness revival” The debt to the man | who fought “is mot more a debt of the rich than of the poor,” and its payment “should be borp by. every body.” a universal assessment which the Philadelphia Bulletin (indefend- ent republican) thinks only a sales tax can provide. However, -as the EIl .Paso. Times (democratic) emphasizes, “all rup- porters of the sales tax for the bonus are not necessarily believers.in the wisdom of bonus législation,” and ac- cordingly we find a mass of editorial opinion_which holds, with the Green Bay (Wis.) - Press-Gazette _(inde- pendent), for instance, that thespro- posal is merely *caterlng . to the American Leglon” for. far.'ag the best way s {stands at the top Ly | motormen { Harvard University, is a director of | | of the Nation members of the Senate District com- | mittes, Which recently held a hearing on the Jomes bill, to take a stand against further postponement of the operation of the original act for the discontinuance of the use of the al- leys as dwellings. The original act was approved September 14, 1914. Then the war came along, and thou- | sands of people came to Washington. | A law was passed extending the time in which the alley dwellings! might continue to be used. In fact, it was extended twice. But now,: the senators believe, the time for post- poning this clean-up is passed. It has been strongly urged that the alley! dwellings, in which men, women and children live as close together as sar- dines in a box, are breeders of dis- case, unsanitary. These alleys con-| tain slim conditions worse than can | be found in New York and London. | * K ok ¥ The supporters of the Jones billl argue that it would be little short of a crime to turn these alley dwellers out of their homes next July, without | making some provision for them.| These people, they say, have nowhere to go outside of Washington. Mary- land and Virginia do not want them. Their work i8 here and they are need- ed here. But the suggestion has been made by some members of the Senate com- mittee that if the government under- takes to house these people, they may reach the conclusion thtt tiie govern- ment will look out for them in the fu- ture; that there is no need for them to | help themselves. Still other members | of the committee believe that if the! alleys are closed, and these people are | thrown on their own resources, the will solve the problem either by find ing other dwellings here or moving to other places, ~ £ K K X It appears that corporations are in the process of formation to provide houses for these people after they are turned out of the alleys. ut the rep- resentatives of the Emergency Hous- ing Assoclation contend that if the| alley people were at the mercy of these private corporations, they would | be forced to pay more for dwellings than they can afford; that it would result in similar congestion of dwell- ings now found ih the alleys, with un- sanitary conditions. o The way to put an end to the slum conditions in the alleys is to put an end to them, in the opinion of Senator | Jones and other senators. His con- | ention is that if the law Is extended | .gain until November 14, 1923, when | that date rolls around, the same sit-| uation that presents itself today will be found to exist then—that the alle dwellers will be still in the alleys, and there will be nowhere for them'to go. He is anxious that steps will be taken without further delay to close the alley dwellings. of the column falls on everybody equal- according to his capacity to pay. measured by his consumption and t of his family the Syracuse | Herald (independent) ¥s. It isy “right_to the point,” the Lansing | State Journal (independent) contends, for it is a democratic measure. To the St. Joseph News-Press (independent) and the Salt Lake Deseret®News (in- ependent) it seems, as the latter s s fair a method as any yet his levy puts it, * proposed. Business and* Psychology. Fifteen vears ago, when the late Hugo Mucnsterberg announced that his psychological tests would reveal ignate capacity, or the lack of it, for certain jobs there was much scoffing among business men. Today Amer- | ica’s leading psycholol ganized the ¢ tion for the general sale of just such tests. This corporation will guaran- tee to select scientifically from a host of applicahts the man or woman best fitted for a particular vacancy. Prof. Muensterberg made the point | that quick or slow reactions are a; matter of temperament, and. sincei or telephone operators | must react quickly to be successful, employers can save money and | workers can avoid failure by testing fitness for particular positions. The relative speed with which different ! individuals identify lights, words or sounds provided an exact index of their | reaction time. Prof. R. M ciated with Prof. Yerkes. who was asso- | Muensterberg at the new corporation. He s a me&ber | Research Council and during the war had a great deal to do with devising the Army intelli- gence tests which proved so helpful | in assigning enlisted men to duty.| It was the immediate practical su: cess of these tests that #spired their turther development.—Brooklyn Daily | Eagle (independent democratic). i The Correct U;;g: of “You-All.” Will fiction writers ever learn that southern people use the expression ou-all” in a restxicted sense and that it is nmever with us a_slipshod | phrase conveying singular and plural | meanings _indlscriminately? The | ond person singular. t on when the hospitable plurality is in- tended. And yet story writers who are toj the manor born and who attempt 10} put conversation into the mouths of southern characters customarily ie- nore this fine distinction in the use! of “you-all.” “You-all” is not bad usage, the purists to the contrary notwitjstand- ing. It has a nice shade of meaning which s not to be found in the color- less “you) At the present time its circulation is confined to the south, but it will soon be accepted by all English scholars. It possesses an honorable lineage, and this fact, cou- pled with the discriminate meaning which it conveys, will win for it uni- versal recognition.—Asheville Times (independent). Some patriotism is only skin deep, gnd some goes clear to the bone.— altimore Sun. - What a pity it is not as easy to raise the bonus s a row about it —Greenville Piedmont. Now they are enforcing prohibi- tion with airplanes. Stick to the cel- lar, boys, stick to the cellar.—Syra- cuse Herald. The jitney is the one gentleman among the pedestrian’s. enemfes. It always rattles before it strike! —Rochester Times-Tnion. s Reports received from time to time that man has conquered the air are still unconfirmed.—Tbe Detroit News. “Russian Landlords Hacked Small Hits,” says a headline. 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Thank the Buyer of Our Silk and Domestic Dept. for These .Extraordinary Values $1.00 Silk Poplin, 8 shades to $1.19 to $1.50 Yard-Wide Satins. . ... ...89¢c $1.89 to $2.69 Charmeuse and Silk Crepe . $1.39 $1.25 Silk Mixture Drapery Cloth. . .. ... .39 69c Silk and Linen Pongees. ... .........29c 50c & 69c Plaid Dress Goods, double width . . 29¢ 39c White Crepe for muslin underwear. . . . . 18¢ 25c¢ Yard-Wide Percale Remnants. . . . .....9¢ 5,000 Yards Unbleached Cotton Remnants . . 634c 35c to 50c Yard-Wide Figured 12%c Plain White & Flowered Curtain-Swiss.834c $1.39 Marseilles l?attem Crochet Spreads. . $1.15 $3.50 Colored Patterns Printed Bedspreads . $2.39 select from. . .39¢ $2.00 to $3.50 GIRLS’ DRESSES $3.00 and $3.50 Finest Silk Crepe Meteor. $1.99 Ginghem 3 enrs—Dresses and Middies ‘White and Blue $1.49 Pretty shade of Dark Rlae pluin White or Bed aud ¥ trimmed Middy, made of quality jean, in N i o 1 Voiles. . . .. .29c EXTRAORDINARY HOSE VALUES LADIES’ THREAD SILK 3250 Ladies’ Coldover-Top HOSE A wonderful value in Thread Silk Hose, in Black, Sand, Beaver, Nude and two shades of Gray; seamed back and with two extra seams, as in full-fashioned reinforced garter .op. High- spliced heels. Pleated Skirts The Prettiest Hats in The demand for these “wonder” Skirts will sell the before mnoon. advice is come early. Pretty Black, Blue and Brown striped patterns, in fashion- able baox - pleated styles. Limit, one skirt to customer. No Mail, C. 0. D. or Phone Orders A Hax of crowns. 5 dninty pokes, pretty shades of periwinkle, “carmine, sand, black, navy, brown,’ ete. 50c F Trimmings. ..... GLOVE-SILK HOSE Ladies’ extra quality glove silk hose, with colored tops of green, purple, blue, orange and pink. All way up silk and finished with the fashionable pointex heel. 4,98 1.45 Women’s Envelope with shirred fronts and_eatstitched, in pink and blue col orings. $1.50 Undermuslins glorious s with tra g moshroom _shapes, turpans and marrow-brim hats 's ‘popular materials, and jad this _spring’ medallion trimmed Gowns, 4 Petticonts blousex, in c. flesh and white. lower ( © gmsm—— e o ds,‘Gripfi Headaches from (ol