Evening Star Newspaper, October 17, 1923, Page 4

7 r~4'—1' U. 5. FIRMS IN CHINA| + ASKPROTECTION Will Plead for More Soldiers and Gunboats to Guard Property. & BY JAMES L. BUTTS. By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News. Copyright, 102 SHANGHAI, October 17.—Strong rep- resentations are expected:to be made to Washington regarding adequate protection for foreign lives and prop- erty in China, extraterritorial rights of foreigners, tariff questions and of foreigners against the Chinese government by American chambers of commerce in China, which met in convention here Tues- day. The American organizations con- tend that the Chinese government's answer to the note of foreign powers over the Linching bandit outrage ignores the most important issue raised, viz.: the safety of foreigners and foreign property in China. They also declare that lives and property interests of forelgners have not been given any added security since the Linching fncident, but that, instead, the train outrage has been precursory of other outrages, which are even worse in their effect than the Lin- ching attack. List Banditry Cases. As proof of their contentions, the American trade organizations have compiled a list of twenty-nine sub- sequent instances of banditry, piracy and murders affecting foreigners and foreign property, Instances wherein American ships were fired on along the Yangstze river are stressed showing the inadequacy of the American naval patrol on the gstze to cope with the situation. Delegates united in nothing | | l claims to the convention are ing the belief that a definite, united action, bac v armed forces, will be suffic.ent to bring Chinese mili- tarists to their sonses In advocating an American military and in China to the full thorized under treaty ican chambers ¢ at that th Tient: increase in naval forces str commerce will 10 infantrymen n and 300 n inade- while X els com- the Americ tze river obsolete and the other at Py Northcliffe’s Brother LORD Brother of the Greatest Publisher Wive WoRLD 2 UTHERMERE, the entire Hulton Press. This will give control of er number of neWspaps brother owned. He mow directs more newspaper interests and circulation | than any other publisher in the world, | te Lord Northeliffe, who has {n conjunction with Lord Beaverbrook purchased for $27,300,000 THE EVENING STAR., WASHINGTON, D. €, \\'EDA\"ESDA\Y. OCTOBER 17, 1923. _—m | THE WEATHER |BERLIN LAUNCHES FIGHT For the District of Columbia—Fair tonight; tomorrow increasing cloudi- little change In temperatur gentle to moderate northeast and east winds. L For Maryland—Fair tonight; to- morrow increasing cloudiness; little change in temperature; moderate to tresh northeast and east winds on the coast. B For Virginia—Mostly cloudy to- night and tomorrew, probably show- ers In extreme southwest portion; little change in temperature; moder- ate to fresh northeast winds For West Virginia—Cloudy tonight, probably showers in extreme west portion; tomorrow unsettled, prob- ably showers; mild temperature. Records for Twenty-Four Hours. Thermometer—4 p.m., 66; 8 p.m., & 12 midnight, 62; 4 am., 49; 8 a.m., 5 noon, 8. Barometer—4 p.m., 30.18; 8 p.m. 12 midnight, 30.22; 4 a:m., 30.2 .m., 30.21; noon, 30.16. Highest temperature, at 4:30 p.m, October 1 Lowest temperature, 46.2, occurred 00 a.m. October 17. Departures. Accumulated excess of temperature since January 1, 1923, +193. Deficlency of temperature since October 1, 1923, —25. Accumulated deficiency of pr cipitation since January 1, 1923, —6.47 deficiency of precipitation since Oc- tober 1, 1923, —1.33. Temperature same date last year— Highest, 76; lowest, 62. Condition of the Water. Temperature and_condition of the water at 8 a.m.: Great Falls—Tem- perature, 61; condition, clear. Tide Tabies. (Furnished by United States coast and geodetic survey.) 66, occurred SERVICE WOMEN HEAR Plans care, who served were outlined at Women's Overseas Service League at ce Dodge Hotel last night by Ahern of the Vet- erans’ Bureau and Miss Lena Hitch- cock, national vice president of the league. Maj. Ahern stated that tiers were now at_least out of the 50.000 who served with the American expected, would be much larger when all returns are made, but that figure represented the number the G Maj. of orge OF PLANS FOR RELIEF Outline Is Given of Procedure for Admission to Home for Disabled. disabled a P. 2,100 women di forces. ‘The number, which, sald, had filed claims with the V' erans’ Bureau. the government for the American women during the world war meeting of the vbled | Today—Low tide, 8:28 a.m. and 8:53 p.m.; high tide, 1:41 am., and 2:18 :27 am., and 5 pm.; .m.,” and 2 p.m. The Sun-and Moon. Today—Sun rose, 6:18 am.; sets, 5.28 p.m. Tomorrow—Sun fises, 6:19 a.m. sets, 5:27 p.m. Moon rises, 1:45 p.m, Automobile lamps to one-half hour after sunset. Weather in Various Citles. Temperature. high tide; sun s H B e Stations. g LRt om0 rapiear Clear FoRgy Cloudy Clear, Clear Rain Cloudy Clear he % Baltimore Birmingha Rismarc Hoston Buftalo he i i . sun | Ments and other reparation purposes. be lighted|to fit its cloth by ruthless economy, | resumed, and Pt.cloudy | Soing through the forms of full bank- } FOR RESCUE OF FINANCES Slaughter of Ciphers on Paper Mark Sensational Feature of Currency Reform Undertaking. / BY SEYMOUR B. CONGER. By Cable to y u}: Sllc;;m.:,h'llll.fi!)hll Public BERLIN, October 17.— After long monthe of discussion Germany has launched its currency reform plan and a desperate race against time is now on to determine whether Ger- man government finances can be saved or the state must go into hope- less bankruptey. The sensational feature of the plan, from the popular viewpoint, is the contemplated slaughter of ciphers on the present paper mark currency. This remains legal tender, but the minister of finance has it in mind to knock off nine ciphers from the de- nominations, if mark exchange should be about where it is now when the smoke clears away, thus converting the present 1,000,000,000-mark note into a simple one-mark. The result of the reform plan de- pends on the government's ability to bring the budget into balance within the short period of grace allowed h_)‘l the new bank's loan of 1,200.000.000 of the new marke—roughly, $300,000,.- 000—to the treasury, and this, in turn, | depends mnot only on how quickly | and thoroughly the government's pro- gram of economy and gold collection of taxes can be put into operation, but also on the extent to which the treasury is drawn upon for coal pay- tax. Coxl Tax Receipts. those from the sal actual return to the federal gove ment from the income tax, of wh two-thirds go to the municipalities. The however, will outcome’ of ment, and reform pl Stresemann must or it is doomed in advance. Ve duarter of the loan to the fede. reasury is earmarked to be used secured bank, leaving 900,000, able 'to meet the ning expenses until the defieit be wiped out. The resumption of c deliverles to France and the allies the rate of specified by the entente—default which was Polncare’s reason entering the Ruhr—would entail, the present price of Ruhr coal, { monthly expenditure of 50,000,000 g | mark d this alone would consu one-third of Stresemann’s spend six months, le y reserve to Ty le bringing the ance. on w FOR JUVENILE WORK A Club Votes Support of Winter P: gram After Hearing Ad- dress on Plans. Must Use Strict Economy. If the cabinet fails to cut its coat by discharge of all superfluous offi- clals and employes, by elimination of the giant railway and postal deficits and by boosting the collection of taxes to the level of Its bills hefore |, 7 " O the $300,000,000 loan is exhausted.|’S"E dore then the new currency is lost, just as | tive Societ Rev. J. J. Dimon !‘P}:\."fl?“y as the pre.onlrpa‘ywr mark. | St. Andrew Church and chaplain e vicious process ol borrowing a “ivi ™ 2 from the Relchsbank and paying bills | L0¢ local Civitan Club, appealed with the printing press. which is to be abandonmed when the new bank izat comes Into operation, must then be|a if the rew currency moes the way of the old a shattered public confid nce will make it difficult to try another experiment without by the Juvenile Prot La Fayette Dr. vesterday Dimon read venile Protective Assoclation, total revenue by T¥pealing the coal Receipts from this tax were the largest individual item taken in by the government, the net revenue the last fiscal year being well ahead of tax and the states and | stand or fall on the the reparations settle- reach some accommodation with Poincare for payment of the reparation coal tirement of the government's un- indebtedness fo the Reichs- 00 marks avail= government's run- can 2,000,000 tons a month aving him into bal- CIVITAN CHAPLAIN PLEADS After outlining much of the work | the unqualified support of the organ- | ding the welfare society | a meeting of Civitan in the Hotel | communications from Miss Dorothy Allen of the Ju- GERMANS PLOT REVENGE; BAVARIA LEADS MOVE (Continued from First Page.) | empire above her ‘own battlements is still a matter of conjecture. But certainly Munich today, far more than Berlin, has definite ideas |both for herkelf ‘and for Germany. Munich and Bavaria have already told the world that they are a law only to themselves and von Kahr has already instituted the death penalty in order that his laws may be carricd out—death by the guilio- tine, Inasmuch as a rifle squad to the Bavarian mind seems too easy a way to die. Thus, even In the placid avenues of Munich, one Is reminded of the war zone In 1314, One weighs opinlons before giving them utterance, and even then one speaks guardedly and in_whispers. Bavaria today scarcely serfously considers herself a province in the German reich. Figuratively speaking, Bavarla has become an is- land—a self-sufficient island, respon- sible to no power on land or sea other than her own isolated self. And, Leing strong and sturdy and an al- most, if not entirely, self-supporting island, she has a certain amount of reason in her argument. Ludendorft in Munich. The outer world has heard much of von Kahr, the dictator; of Hitler, the saber rattler and his “army’ and all the world knows that Luden- dorff has sought refuge in Munich these last years, where, in what can almost be considered the cradle of European monarchy, he could plot and scheme. But all these men are really pup- pets today in monarchistic Bavaria. The man behind them—the strong man of central Europe anl possibly |of even wider spaces—is ex-Crown Prince Rupprecht, who can mount { the Bavarian throne any hour of any {day he chooses, but who refrains for the moment simply because he is the wisest. clearest thinker of them all. Such happens rarely in history. but in Rupprecht we again find an heir and pretender to a throne who is of greater, more dominating per- sonality than all thoso he would rul. This is_the more strange becaus. ! Rupprecht is of the house of Wittels- bach and most of his immediate pre- decessors have been either completely mad or so inclined toward music and other arts that they did not think much about the business of being kings. But Rupprecht of Wittelsbach fs perhaps 2 throwback to the sturdy margraves and palatine counts who a thousand years ago made the name of Wittelsbach the first in Bavaria. In matters of royal precedence the Wittelsbachs have always heid the Prussian Hohenzollerns in that con- tempt which ancient dynasties re- serve for comparative newcomers— and this latest Wittelsbach, now that a curse rests upon both their houses, m- ich an, | ral for oal at on for at a old me ing ith D To- ec- of of for| : in with the crowd & Rupprecht's erea- ture. Hitler is outsider with a gift of oratory wno will be used by Rup- precht when the time comes. Rupprecht Despises Lude: Ludendorff, supporter of monarchy, but of a Hou :nzollern monarchy, Rup- precht despises; but he s welcome to remain in Bavaria, where he comes under the watchful Wittelsbach eye. | Then, it he behaves, he may become useful, even though no love has been lost between these two men since the war, when, it is alleged, Ludendorfr, las supreme chief of the armies, placed i Rupprecht under the esplonage of se- lected Prussian officers attached to the prince’s staff and even caused let- ters, sent by Rupprecht to his futher, then Bavarian king, to be tampered with. Rupprecht now is fifties, good looking, married to a Luxemburg princess, who has sup- plied him with plenty of real money in addition to his general's pension, which is paid in marks. For the present he declines to talk about the “dynasty.” He is wise enough to know the time is not vet ripe and that the moment is not yet come. President Ebert in Berlin and King Rupprecht {n Bavaria would be too incongruous even for the German reich. Also the difficulties in the path are 6till 80 many and so great that Rupprecht can well afford not to as- sume responsibility vet awhile. And 80 he goes shooting on week days and to church on Sundays, shaking hands with the peasants in the friendliest fashion, and smiling in semi-deprecia- tion to ‘shouts of “Long live the king!"” “Watchful Waiting” Program. Taking the cue from Rupprecht, the general program in Munich has be- come “watchful waiting,” and in Munich they now give the Stresemann government only a few more weeks to live. Neither Rupprecht, any of the faithful Buvarian separation. Their aim more profound. It is simpl store the complete empire, with Ba- variz rather than Prussia at its head. They Pavaria self-supporting, as she ac- ually is, and now with the comple- tion of her new electric power plant she becomes almost independent in the matter of coal—that she can never he a really great power it detached from Germany. So for the moment, having declared her own law and stablished a dictatorship, is willing to wait. Even as I _have sald before, Ba- varia as a whole considers herself a detached sort of island. But Rup precht, who secretly guides the des- jes of his country, knows better. Rupprecht has traveled widely, a man of great education, an a complished linguist, has talked and d widely, S0 he realizes that, after . Bavaria is not an island He. perhaps better than any in the world, appreciates the in that_French army beyond Rhine. Thus Bavaria halts at a cer tain point, but from the certain point she has mo intention ceding, and even the French find it an almost impo force her. in his early von Kahr nor are cager for al one quite realize—even with | Bavaria | | foree | the | KING DAVID LODGE PAID Warm Welcome in Brookland for Mark F. Finley by Flour- ishing Body. King David Lodge No. 28, F. A. A. M, meeting In Masonic Temple, Brookland, was the recipient last evening of an annual visitation from the Grand Master of Masons of the District of Columbia, accompanied by the other officers of the Grand Lodg With a membershin of more than 40 the majority of whom were presen an_ exceptionally warm welcom xtended Grand Master Mark F. Fin ley and those accompanying him, the sentiment being voiced by Elmer W. Reese, master of Kind David Lodge. Commendation of the lodge for its progress during the year was ex- pressed by the grand master. The latter explained the plans for ti participation of the local Mason, bodies in the mammoth George Wash- ington Memorial dedication cer. In Alexandria, November 1. 1 lodges are to assemb) s nd proceed to the Virginia special train, in chargs of 2. Dunkum, grand marshal of the Grand Lodge. The speakers, it was announced, Will be Chief Justi Taft and Bishop James E. Freeman of the Episcopal diocese of Washing- ton, who is chaplain of Temple- o 0. 32, The grand visitation this even 8 o'clock will be to East Gate 0. 34, in its new building, not !yet dedicated, on Rhode Island avenue northeast. CALHOUNS SHOW STUART SWORD AT SCOTTISH FETE Mrs. C. C. Calhoun, president of » Woman's Universal Alliance; and "apt. Calhoun returned to Washing- this week from Red Sprin where representative of ottish societies of Americ ered as guests of Dr. C. G president of Flora Macdonald College, for_a patriotic celebration. Thousands of persons of Scottish descent, from North Carolina and the country at large, were present and witnessed a colorful pageant. Capt. nd Mrs. Calhoun had been Invited to bear the sword of Charles Edward Stuart, known as “the Claymore,” to the scenme of the celebration. It now is on exhibition at the headquarters here of the Universal Alliance. Mrs. Calhoun was one of the xpeak- d she discussed the part women v in bringing hout betrzr nding betw can inderst Great Value Charleston. .. Cloudy o Rain Rain Ptclondy Pr.cioudy Coudy Ciear” 1 Cloods Clear P cloudy Ptcinudy Cloudy Miss Hitchcock explained the method of obtaining entrance to the National, Sanatorium for Disabled Volunteey Soldiers, at Danville, TIL, which, it was recently announced by the Secretary of War. disabled service women will be admitted. Among the conditions for admission are the followi The applicant need ouly have been honorabiy dis- charged from the Army, Navy or Marine Corps to be eligible, in case { Louissille .. 9. I Cloudy there is disability; the disability need | Miami. Fl Cloudy have becn incurred in service Rein | and may be the result of old age Clear ! ruptey. which What a task confronts Chancellor|civic club was detailed. The club Stresemann and the cabinet, even|voted its support and committees with all the dictatorial powers con- | will be appointed to assist in a bet- ferred by the cnabling act just{terment campalgn th 3 passed, may be realized from figures| Clarence Harding was in the furnished by the chancellor's news-|ch u the ciub would paper organ to the effect that gov- | send to the In- ernment expenditures have lately | te held |been running at the rate of 1.600.- | Nov a been 1000000 gold marks a month. while | changed snflict with_the Tecelpts,” as is known, have been|annual m Civitan Club, varely 2 pe oun Lo off, chi ) L com- elv 2 per cent of that amount Leonard Ruoff, cha n of a com- | Kindly, BAvACAT, son of none other Waste of Resistance. O s on she Proposed bond | than Crown Prince Rupprecht him- £ Tosime, Miabn f She Gkgeiasiil n the District, reported action| % . Commanding _general of the 'rennwntkd by the waste of p: one unfi the work The gan American speaking, China on a peto with e obol best suited of the American or- expected to be that bus particularly g in_central - it can com- . it is im- otection be tection. it will be an cnly be afforded by st n of from Yangstze river : vrotect American livea' and property at noints up the river end which will act as convoy: to American shi MAYFLOWER SOCIETY HEARS TALK ON EURGPE Dr. Huddle S;ez;lge;'. ;!nd Tribute Is Paid Late Algernon A. Asvinwall. to the|may yet succeed—when Germany does revert to monarchy or empire—in keeping the Hohenzollerns in second rank. Rupprecht a Heal German. As compared with the stiff, arro- gant Prussians of pre-war days, the Bavarians were held to be tranquil, beer-loving souls, quite willing to keep the peace. With the war one got_another view of this peaceful, kindly Bavarian. He was then best joi s Clacianati. Cleveland Denver Detroit Another dispateh by Mr. Wil- liamw, disclosing the Bavarian at- titude on reparations, will be printed temorrow. Chevy Chase Home Two Blocks From Connecticut Ave. \ Miller-built -Home, practically new, containing 9 rooms, 2 baths (1 built- in shower), 5 bedrocoms— everything ultra modern. Needless to expatiate on Miller construction. Large lot, beautifully set with shrubbery, on one of the prettiest streets in Chevy Chase. Garage. Can be bought RIGHT. W. C. & A. N. MILLER 1119 17th St. M. 179 25 MAKE FULL CLASS. Huron, 5. D. Jacksonville. o Kansas City. imme Los Angeles. Clear, four to six suitab oraft, will School Accountant’s Ruling Af- fects Teachers’ Pay. Twenty-five pupils, as a daily aver: age, constitute a full class under the law, Maj. Raymond O. Wilmarth, chief f the school system, told cing principals at a meeting n in the Franklin tion was important in as well as sickness; admission does ‘i"lo;l"udy not necessitate permanent residence. Qlooty. Miss Hitchcock said she was ar- i ranging from her home, at 1755 N | Clear street northwest, for helping all service women in or near Washing- ton who may be eligible for entrance 3 e to the home. i SR 70 66 o L) 4 52 8 FOREIGN. .. Greenwich time, today.) Temperature. Weather. .48 Cle: o od until the Commis- | 3¢1f a 5 a 8] Glonete had taken. e B At | 6th German Army, fighting the al- resistance, and a large part of that | * Oliver Hoyem zave o’ temart of |lies to a standstiil’ on the battl expenditurs will have been eliminated | work accomplished by the citizenship|¢f the Somme. Compared with the by the end of this month, when the | training committee of the elub. and {imperial crown prince, Rupprecht printing presses aro supposed to cease | was tendered w vote of thanks for|Was & real general, and much of the manufacturing paper marks and | pig untiring efforts. § ampalign of frightfulness” launch-that the school law requires a class governmental borrowings f{rom the e i ed in the German army is credited | must have its full quota before the Reichsbank are to end. Some of it e e in his name. teacher can receive the $3 u day ses- GERMAN REVOLT BACKED. will remain for months and the na- | But today in Munich, where he has |gsional pas Soviet Leader Says Its Failure € B 81 80 Pittahurgh. . . Me. Bchool. ‘The qu NEW 0. R. C. COMMISSIONS. | Commissions in the Officers Reserve | {Pokane o Corps of the Artmiy have been lssued by | WASH:. - the War Department to the following- | named residents of this city: ! Albert L. Barrows, 1701 Massachusetts javenue, as major of infantry; Harry M. { Horton. "1503° Connecticut _avenue. s | Lo onte’; £ 4 major in the air service; William McA. | Pleova. Austria. .. Bonis Murphee, Walter Reed General Hospital, | Copenhagen, Denmark. Y oty as capt in the Me dministrative | stockholm, Eweden S o Corps: mer MeD. Kintz, 214 10th st Gibral . e southeast, as captain in the air servic Horta Irvin G. Menikheim, the Kingman, as captain of infantry; George K. Lngle- hart, U. S. Patent Office, as first lleu- C tenant of infantry: John G. Mathes, 3820 | 1llinois avenue, as first lieutenant in the | Quartermaster Corps; Dabney H. Maur; jr., 2325 19th_street, as second lieuten- ant in the field artillery; Walter H. Young. 1620 ewton street, as second ! licutenant of infantr: Sta y H R 1635 Connecticut avenue, #S| Corn and northern wheat second licutenant in the Quartermaster ! ares 00 50 42 16 't.cloudy Qoudy - Pt clou Clear “Furope o of an address by Huddle. chaplain Columbia Society seendants, befor, to Day" was the theme Rev. Dr. Joha T. of the District of of Mayflower De- the members of that ored tion at a meeting at the Col- lege Women's Club, 1822 I street northwdst, last night Tribu Algernion A. Aspinwall, | forme he society, who dled last June. was read by Thomas 8. Hopkins and a similar tribute was pald to Dr. Willlam S. Washburn, who also died last June, by C: B, Kee present governor of £octety All who ship in the soc of twenty-four fa over on the @ tion probably will have to drag along placed his private palace on sale to & | Thrift practices in schools were under a heavy aftermath of unem- Uyndicate which intends lo use It as |indorsed by the tupervising principals, ployment - charges and food relief an office building, Rupprecht has re- ! Aiss Jessic La Salle was asked to send | throughout the winter. On the other lapsed to the quiet, dignified Bavarian | tne rprincip notification of he side of the ledger, great hopes are i gentleman who greets his followers fplans for educational measurements | placed on the colléction of taxes on Means Attack on Russia. Nith a quite unkingly shake of the|so they may know what steps to a gold basls, now coming into effect. | PRETROGRAD. October hand and who answers cries of “Un- | take in preparing the children for the The influence of this will. however. | vieff, chairman of the ex ser Koenig!” with a kindly, negative | pevchological tests. i Statior show in the total revenue with dis- | mitte third internationale, | smile.. But out in the Nymphenberg | London, ngpo[nun{t slowness, just as the full|told <ers’ meeting here that if | Palace in the eml-nr:na of )lunli;i’\; s;;;d effect - of governmental economies|the Ge: » revolution were crushed | in his shooting lodge up in A~ ' 2 St ot be gamiutered bh the balance n revolution were crushed | in his ghooting Jodge W0, 18 ilng |3 @3- @S DL DL D LD LR LDLDLDLD& sheet immediately after the ax e before Russia her- | the strings that make his® puppets e to swung. dance. s To add to the difficulty of Strese- Von Kahr, an ancient provincial mann's task, the government has just politician of sufficient character and sacrificed about 15 per cent of apparent honesty to make him solid £ was invad In view of this. he emphasizea the importance of a world-wide union of | its peasants and workingmen SOUTH AMERICA. For week ending October 15, 1923. Mean. Depart. Avg.Depart. from pre. from . normal. cip. Borm. Degs. 1n. Io. 13 40 ible are are to mem descendants Forty-one but all Chtef Jus- = adsworth, v =5 T . are members of An .Open Letter to Prohibition Commissioner Haynes PROPOS of the message to the American people adopted at the Citizenship Conference, we quote from a message of the American Merchants which should be of great interest to you, Mr. Haynes, the Citizenship Conference and any other body of pub- lic officials actively engaged in the enforcement of the ; L Eighteenth Amendment: Vel Es Bl T Wise Broihers Nursery Milk Best for Babies By Every Test —Cleanliness —Butterfat Content —Uniformity Produced under conditions of exceptional cleanliness, in operation with DR. J. KELLEY, Wise Brothers ery Milk is specially formulated to agree with the delicate di- gestive organisms of babies. It is as nearly identical as possible with human milk in the percen- tage and physical character of its butterfat content, and is al- ways the same. Just Phone West 183 —for dependable delivery service. nization. of the local society are Keene, governor; Frank H. , deputy governor; John Balch ary: Thomas Whitte { Dr. Huddle, cha Robbins, his- | She Was Dead. Prom Oar Nary M “Red” Herring was on leave, ing some soup- teacher How vou like Herring asked i hav- nd-fish with his third- the but I don't § know how “Wh r. gramm: Zonna o | H.rring, whece is your na'am, over a year orrice-aA SecoND FLo0R | i H ns0sarr MAYBE IT’S ONLY A SHADE! ! prepared to faraish window shades | pering and decorating by pro- en reasonable. Amendinent of the Constitu tion of tiie United States can never be enforced and the merchants of this country, who are anxious to carry on their trades legitimately and obey the laws of this country, will be justified in carrying a bitter feeling against an ad- ministration responsible for this practice. The remedy lies in the crea- tion of stores for the exclusive handling and sale of liquor un- der government supervision, control and direction, thus tak- ing away from the unscrupu- lous druggists the weapon which they have successfully wielded against honest busi- ness. The business of 800,000 retail merchants in the United States engaged in the sale of cigars, stationery, novelties, drugs, etc., is seriously menaced by the competition of drug stores engaged in the sale of liquor on prescription. An investiga- tion will definitely convince any public official of the seri- ous harm done to legitimate merchants by the present prac- tice of allowing the sale of liquor to continue in drug stores. In no other country where Prohibition exists is the distribution * of liquor done through the medium of drug stores. If this situation is per- mitted to exist the letter and spirit of the Eighteenth sielent work CORNELL WALL PAPER C Ti4 13th N.W. 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