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ARE BEGINNING TO STUDY THE QUESTION, But it was also apparent that they were beginning to think about it, and it ts safe to say that the influence of continual pounding on the fact that the country !s headed toward a stag- gering deficit unless Congress inter- venes, has inspired thought about the affairs of all the people in legin- lative quarters, where thought along that line has not been exercised heretofore, This is an encouraging sign—the first encouraging sign I have encoun- tered in Washington. The disposition totackle the one big question of the day—the qu tion of reducing the cost of Gov- ernment proportionately as the people have restricted themselve: to the purchase of absolute! sential articles and commoditiese— is spreading and will continue to spread. A few hard working committee members and students of the Govern- ment and its cost have been hammer- ing away at their fellows under cir- cumstances not only discouraging but disheartening. They profess to see signs of response to their efforts. The atmosphere {s changing in color from blue to pink under the influenge of growing curlosity and understanding. A numbet of House Democrats have decided to cut away from party lines in the consideration of methods of re- ducing Government expense and run the risk of antagonizing administra- tion departments, hecause they have come to understand that the livest question before their constituents is the question of economy in govern- ment. They have found that their constituents are beginning to clamor | about high taxes. | WANT SOMETHING TO SHOW CONSTITUENTS. | The Congress will soon be placed on record. Representatives who have left all the work of wrestling with | the Appropriation Bill to the few by reason of inclination, industry and habit of looking at the affairs cf the Nation rather than at the affairs of the 435 Congressional districts, are beginning to look for an issue to carry |back home and exhibit in the forth |coming election, for It is heard | whispers that the turnover in the next | House will probably be unprecedent- ed; that numerous members who | would ordinarily feel sure of re-elec- tion will encounter opposition from quarters which have never exhibited opposition before. The percentaag of Senators who % |'understand the Government and its Republican representatives when he | advocated wholes: workings and problems is high, be- cause the membership is compara- | tively small andthe actual toll is more evenly distributed, It is noticeable that recently on the floor of the Sen- ate Democratic members, in argu- ments over deficiency appropriations, have not hesitated to criticise projects of the Democratic Administration jwhich involve great expenditures. to be that the decided that drastic economy ssary, and it would be bad politics to allow the Republican majority to get away with all the credit for what- ever money saving measures are eventually adopted. A few days ago | set forth in articles how the estimate ppropriations for next, year carried demands for more than $10,000,000 for new jobs. | am sured by House members who familiar with the question th: $10,000,000 wi cut out— that not a dollar will be appropri- « ated for new jobs. ECONOMY IS ONLY SAFE PLAY JUST NOW, Representatives, whether they have given the matter serious thought o not, plainly of the |they are on safe ground in opposin which would add jonably safe to say that the taxpayers will be red the burden of carrying ad- jonal tax eaters. But wiping out appropriations for new jobs will be merely scratching the sur- face of the gigantic total of de: artmental and bureau estima’ jor expenses to be incurred next year, Thus far the outlook from actual accomplishment in eliminating de- mands of departments and bureaus is not heartening, but the greatest items are yet to be acted upon, and there is a prospect that the legislative, execu- tive and judicial appropriation alread reported will be materially redu beyond the 16 per cent, cut made L the committee before Congress gets through with it, Just at this time the problem of ridding the Government ser- vice of tens of thousands of undreds of millions of dollars is dominant in both Hou It has consumed hours in the Senate debates on the general deficiency bill this week. It was the outstanding feature of speeches in the House yesterday attending the presentation to the Committee of the Whole of th appropriation bill for the legi tive and judicial d The minority member of the sul committee of three of the Appropri: tions Committee which pared off §) 900,000 from this bill is Thom: Une ton Sisson of Mississippi. The bill ‘ , inegs. | fundamentals | Washington to look out for their in- | jterests; the extravagant side of gov- | opinion that} Copyrisi | UMMER fashions 4 iS are very forceful this Year in their appeal for early con- sideration, and there is wisdom in hearkening to |. Sewing is a Pledsant pastime these days, while in the warm weather it be- comes a real task. As for the sort of frocks and clothes one needs for such potential wear, it is safe to pre- sume on a few prac- teal frocks, at least two dressy frocks and @n evening frock, for one of limited socig! life, such as the giri who goes to business, For wear at the office she has found in past seasons delightful sat- isfaction in the attrac- tive gingham frocks that all society adopt- ed for morning wear. One always felt neat and smart in them, and they appeared the same. So gingham, though having been !popular long enough to pass out of the mode, is difficult to relin- quish, The coming |summer. will find it exploited in novel ways to lend new spice, and one pretty Suggestion I am offer. ing to-day. The model is a trig little suit which many women will like who consid- er suits are the most becoming things they wear, They are cer- tainly smart ‘looking and give a more “dressed” appearance in summer than a® frock. In my design the skirt 1s composed of a bias checked gingham with a narrow fold of white linen finishing the bottom edge, while the jacket, on the contrary, makes linen to as- sume th® more important role, with | trimmings of gingham, Narrow folds | of it edge the revers, cut in a becom- was presented for debate by Willlam | R. Wood of Indiana. PLEADS FOR THE UNORGANIZED HUNDRED MILLION. Mr. Sisson spoke for an hour and a half. He is a Thomas Jefferson: Andrew Jackson-William J, Bryan- Woodrow Wilson Democrat. He frankly stated on the floor in the course of his speech that he delieved | that when Democrats are in power they should turn all Republicans out and vice versa, He is against civil service, and he declared it the great factor ‘in keeping the Government payroll obese to the point of unhealth- But he got right down to several times and earned applause from Democratic and le reductions in the Government payroll. “On o1 hand we hi country,” sai si few thousanal millionaires who are organized. On the other hand we have some 4 000,000 workmen and working women who are organ- ized, In between we have the great one hundred million strong._ “The organized millionaires and or- | ganized labor keep people here in ernment always has eloquent and, forceful pleaders, But the great in- | articulate mass afd the economy side of government never have anybody hanging around thegebdmmittee rooms of Congress, “The time has come when every mem Congress should or- ganize himself into a committee of one to represent the hundred million and the economy side of government.” This sentiment brought loud ap- plause. One of those who registered interest and apnroval was “Uncle Joe” Cannon of Miinots, ‘Wa id Mr. Sisson, wilful, appalling w: The rules of war are one thing, and they applied during tho war to our ex- penses of government. The rules of peace are another thing. We are at peace, and the thing for us get back to the rules se and the expenditures of | More applause at this—and hearty applause, too. Warming evidence that the House of Representatives has be- «un to share with The Evening World the conviction that the war is over, and that the deficit should fol- low the army {nto demobilization, Mr. Sisson told of an experience he and his two fellow members of the sub-committee had tn visiting a bu- reau of one of the Government depart- ments a few weeks ago, They passed through five rooms full of clerks, h» said, on their way to the office of the bureau chief. Half the clerks were doing nothing. When they reached the office of the bureau chief and gave thelr names a uniformed attendant slipped out and Congressman Sisson followed him to the door and saw him running into and out of offices along the hallway until he was lost to view And when we went back through that bureau,” he sald, “every clerk and stenographer «was the personfication of feverish industry, He rted that the Govern- ment is carrying an excess load of clerks, and. that the working force could be cut down 50 per “cet. without impairing the efficiency of the bureaus. He made the point that a surplus of clerks k wag draw with thi the appropriations part: “We must have courage in this matter,” said Mr. Sisson, “Til say, frankly, that tt was a doggone sight joasier for me to jump on the Taft nt and into vide small New and Origina Fashion Designs 6 ——By Mildred Lodewick: 1920, by The Pres Publishing Co. A Charming and Distinctive Design CHIC AND IN THE LATEST MODE. _— |ago—-is of interest. | dition to $100,000 in.prior. deficiency | appropriatione | Good wanted to know why s For Smart Women 1? va Demearencctnnress (The New York Brening World.) ‘| taker JOHNS TON How “Bab” Tamed a CHAPTER XIV. (Continued. PH? Let's cut out the merry jest and get gown, 66 to business,” said Bar- + ‘ara. “What sort of a deal can we make?” “You say,” sald Barbara, ‘Then I suggest that you be re- imbursed for the money you expended buying that property, putting up the fences and signs, and hiring the guards, In return, it would be no more than right that you pay Mrs. Wilkes for the vegetables you have “Stand a loss when I was looking for a profit? 1 can't seem to be able to see it.” tate your terms, then,” said Cyrus Welch. “They're easily stated. I want a profit, but that ain't all [ want. And you can send word to Mrs. G, William Wilkes that I refuse to dea//with any understudies. If Mrs. G. William Wilkes wants to settle things, Mra G, William Wilkes will have to come “> ing fashion, and top the big patch pockets, A feature of note is the line of large flat peart or gingham-cov- ered buttons whioh close the jacket up the centre front. At the back an inverted plait lets out at the waist- line to relieve the extreme plain- ness. Administration than it is for me t jump on the Wilson Administration. “And safer,” put in Representativ Martin Madden of Mlinois, Republi- can, and advocate of economy in Government. “And safer,” agreed Mr. Sisson, “Is there any man in office, in- ducted by civil service, who cannot b dropped if his position is abolished asked Mr. Madden, “I do not think there Mr, Sisson, “Then,” said Mr. thing for us to do is al tions and do it now.” With reference to Mr, Madden's Proposal, testimony given by United States Civil Service Commissioner George R. Wales before a sub-com- mittee of the House Appropriations Committee, J. W. Good, chairman, on Dec. 29, 1919—-a month and a half} The commission | was demanding a $35,000 deficiency appropriation—which they got—in ad- is" replied Madden, “the bolish the posi- in addition to their regular appropriation for the current fecal year of $291,020. The $35,000 was wanted for clerk hire. Chairman many clerks were needed in the Civil Ser- vice Commission when, apparently, the number of civil service Govern- | ment employees was being rapidly reduced, Mr, Wales explained that a civil service employee who is dropped re- tains his status for one year and is a preference man indefinitely with the right of reinstatement. But he ad- mitted, with all the status and prefer- ence men awaiting reinstatement, the Civil Service Commission keeps right on examining applicants and certify- ing them for jobs, “because,” he ex- plained, “the departments come to us and demand so many men of certain qualifications, Mr. Good declared that the Government clerical i only 80 per cent. efficient, at a iberal estimate, and that 25,000 clerks could be dropped anv day without injury to the public service. Then he quoted these stgtling fig- ures, which I have not seen publishe: er the armistice wa signed there were 190,350 ci service clerks in the employ of th War Department, 22,287 of them Washington, taking care of the rmy of a simila accounts o' numbei rmy. armistice was jgned 108,104 civil service clerks were in the employ of the navy, 11.443 of them in ‘Vashington, taking care of the accounts of 101,791 enlisted men, 1.06 clerks for every man in the navy. At this writing the percentage of clerks to enlisted men in the army and navy has not been materially changed. —_ COHEN NO HERO TO WIFE. Alimony, She Scoffe at “Ouvalry Wo To his wife Morris Cohen is no hero even if he did get his knee hurt “while serving the cavalry.” She—Mrs, Fan- nie Cohen, No. 441 Vermont Street, Brooklyn, applied to Justice Callaghan, of the Brooklyn Supreme Court to-da: for $50 a week alimony and $250 coun- sel fees pending trial of her separation suit, Cohen mentioned the knee as a ason why he could not work hard. He also said she left him because he wouldn't give her $1,000 and a sealskin coat. jsion to cross to this restaurant herself and see me and settle ‘em.” “It would be rather—er—embarrass- in’ for her to do that.” “Yeh? She embarrassed me once, if L remember ishtly. A little of that embarrassment stuff might do her good. Them's my terms, Mr. Cyrus Weich,®ar you can tell her 80.” ‘If she comes down here she'll be guilty of trespass gettin’ out of her place.” “TN fix that, all right! I'l tell the judge that I gave her permission.” Cyrus Welch sighed and left. Jus- tin Garrett came in shor after that and Barbara reported. “She is a woman with considerable false pride and [ imagine. she will not come to see you,” Garret sald. “You leave it to me, Justin. I know women. She'll come to see me, all right “What are you going to do when she does?” “I'm not tellin’,” she said, smiling at him. “You just wait and see!” Three more days passed. The restaurant was doing a flourishing business, and the cabaret was a suc- cess. The better women of the town were getting into the habit of spend- ing an hour there in the evening, eat- ing and dancing and listening to the music, Jones was improving in his music, and even had sent to the’ city for some new stuff. eorge Scrim was jubilant over the receipts, and waa not being annoyed as before, the nov- elty of the cashier's cage having worn off. Pendieton Pete had wolfed for an hour or so, and then had subsided. Shorty Dodd was building himself invo @ man. And then there came an afternoon when Mrs. G. William Wilkes left her house and walked to the boundary line. “I am going dowt ee this Murphy person,” deputy on guard. “I hi this land see hi You may follow and as ain t truth of the statement, if you iike.” Mrs. G. William Wilkes had been in P prison for eight dayg al- together. The confinement and’ the uncertainty regarding what was being said about the affair had told on her, She walked slowly down the hill now, like a person resigned to the guillotin Her head was held high, and she looked straight ah: But there was an expression in her tace that seemed to say that her cross was almost too much to bear. Ineffable sadness und woe were there! Mrs. Wilkes the street ahead of her, like a prairie fire before a raging wind, ran the intelligence that Mrs. G. Wilkes finally had left her prison and was going to make terms with her conqueror. She was like the ancient and prou pooh, Pong to bend the knee to the commander of superior and success- ful arms. Had she worn the chains of captivity she would have ap. peared much the same, The chains were there, though invisible, Pendleton Pete heard the rumor, verified it by a glance up the side of the hill, and then rushed across the street to Carry the news to Barbara. “She's min’ he gasped. “By gosh, she's comin’! I wish Slim Bur- ton had stayed in town long enough to see this. It's goin’ to be good, I reckon!"” “You got out of here, Pet Bar- bara commanded, “And. you, George Serim, retire to the kitchen until I call you in here again, You can play checkers with Shorty Dodd, or somethin’ like that. This here is my personal business.” And then Barbara Murphy smiled at herself in one of the mirrors, and Jeane across the counter, w ing. I 1 of the restaurant, gave a sigh that s ned to come from the bottom of ler heart, put one hand to her breast as if to still the fluttering there, and then turned and entered the plac Just inside the door she stopped again Barb; Murphy was behind the counter, leaning over it, ding a newspaper. Mrs, Wilkes took an- other step and cleared bh throat, Barbara Murphy looked up and met her eyes. “Well, madam?” she askad. I have come to talk busness with into the town to she told the ve her permis- to CHAPTER XY, RS, G. WILLIAM made a dramatic She hesitated just entrance. in front observed. Down}! William } WILKES | M‘ CULLEYR Jf Wild, Wild West Town. (Copyright, 1019, by W. J. Watt and Company.) SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS. 5 ‘who I 5 ‘shorty ‘Deda tho "wown’ bum, nt job as soctetg” leader, qpeniy tneuita “Bab.” Tue fe emer ‘Mrs. Wilkes is thus tnade virtually © prisoner, you,” Mre. Wilkes said, sighing agate ‘ake a chair at this table rH come right around ed end of the unter,” Barbara said, A Mrs Wilkes was glad to sit down. for her knees were trembling. he fanned herself vigorously while Bar- bara walkd around the end of the, | counter and tried to assemble her old: ume severity of manner, but failed: “Well?” Barbara asked, sittt across from her. “You know the object of my visit,” Mrs. Wilkes said, “You have liberately purchased property that entirely surrounds my residence. No- body but an outsider would have done it, of course, without seeing me about ‘the matter first. However, that does not enter into the subject, “It sure doesn't,” Barbara suid, “You did it, of course, to make «& profit,” Mrs, Wilkes went on. “You knew that I was rich and would be compelled to buy, Ordinarily, I would refuse to victimized, and would sh up my place and go to Los Angeles for a season, or to Denver, where [ have many influential friends.” “I never heard of anybody in Den-~ ver ‘havin’ influence, but we'll let it pass,” Barbara said. * “But I love my homé," Mrs. Wilkes sald, touching her eyes with a lace handkerchief, “and I have made ce! tain plans for the social season here. So I am willing to compromise in some manner.” “Yeh? You condescend to do that much, do you? It ain't at all neces - sary, if you don't feel like it,” Bar- bara told her. “How much do you want for the property?" Mrs. Wilkes asked sud- denly. “What property?” “All of it—the lots to the south, east, and north, and the strip in front of my house. What did you have to pay for it?” “[ got it all for $35,” Barbara told her. “And the other expenses have been about a hundred, as near as | can tell, without lookin’ at my books “That is a hundred and thirty-five. Young woman, I'll give you a hun- dred and fifty, though it is more than the property is worth. I could havo purchased it any time for leas: than half that.” “Well, why didn’t you? It looks like @ good investment to me," said Bar- bara, smiling a Dit. “I did not see the need.” “In other words, you thought you could keep your coin in the bank, w the land for nothin’, and get away with it.” “Do you accept Wilkes asked. iy price for that property is more than that,” Well, how much?" “Two thousand dollars,” Barbar said. : “Preposterous!” I could buy aeres and acres around here for that, young woman.” “Maybe so. But not t lar lots," Barbara inf [don’t relish the way my offer? Mr ose parti d her, “Ay a say ‘your woman,’ either You're in trowb’ this minute beeause you got ‘free. remember that! Two thousand is price for that land, and she's goin go up every sing’ ! And. tho suards will stay right there too!” “It is a crime, but I suppose [ shail have to pay it.’ I shall consult with Mr. Welch.” “It might be three thousand by tho time you get through consultin’ wit that skinflint!” “You are determined to hold me iy, T see. I suppose I shal! have to ps itt ust a minute! my price for th didn’t say I was ready to sell, did 1 “You mean you'll not? You're get jing your big profit, aren't you? Isn'c | that what you want “It is not—all. I want to get |square with you. You said som | pretty bad things about me, and yd [knew they weren't true, didn't yo | You shof off your face about aracter, and it's as good as youry and maybe better. If you want t | buy that land for two thousand dol |!ars, you've got to do certain oth things.” ) “What | asked. | “You've got to square me with this | town, that’s what. You've got tosac i cept me as a social equal.” “My dear young woman. “It'll be a come-down for me, ut Why, you small-town hic! 'm friends with people who wouldn't ‘ook twice at you. Back home people respect me who would laugh at you and the poor bluff you're throwin’ Wait a minute! You get hot around the collar and 4eave here now, and | you'll never get that land! It'll y od to listen t6 some of this 1" —— “I'm doin’ the talkin’ to-day, You'll give a luncheon in my honor at that house of yours, and you'll invite all your friends—if they'll honor you by | attendin.” [understand some of ther jare mighty sore at you just now That'll be the firat thing! Ii ar- range that nobody will be pinched for trespass when you gwe the party |And after that, you'll give your friends a luncheon here in iny restau- rant, It'll be an expensive luncheon, and ['ll see that you get your money's |worth. And T'll hetp wait on the tables—and after I've done that I'l sit right down and eat with you like I was one of the crowd. And if there {is as much as a funny look or silly |erack, the deal'll be off.. You get me? | You do those things and then I'll eell you that land for two thousand dol- ars—and let it be a lesson (Do Not Miss To-Marow's Amusing ent.) 1 said that wa property—but are they?" Mrs. Wilk: Opening prices were little changed from Thursday's close. Steel common was off 3-8 at 98148. The lower priced rails were still active with Southern Railway off 1-8 at 237-8 while St Paul common was up 1-4 at 331 New Haven was unchanged at 311-8, Among the higher priced rails Can adian Pacific was still in demand. General Motors was firm at 238 3-4, up 11-4. Pan-American was off, clos- ing 1 point to 84. CURB EASTER. General Motors 241-40 Inter. “He's trying to make people think he was hurt in the war,” said Mrs. Cohen. “The fact Is he was kicked by a horse bet the wir, ape t never asked for that money and goat.” gision was reserved, 4 Petroleum 60; Retail Candy, 14a 15; Simms 365, off 1-8; White 29 a 291-2; Gengrat Asphalt, 85 a 87; Carib, 301-2, |e 18. DIVIDENDS, Cincinnati,, New Orleans & Texas | Pacific Railway veular~ quarterly 11-4 per cent. on preferred, payable March 1, Dy, 4.92, wp 2; rch 80K0, off 6 y May 3 July 82.10, up 1; O« 8 bond bree ent bon ff National Bank of Com nero ie Ronaldson entered the employ of the’ | nk in July, 1918, in the bond depart- ment. He was made assistant mj nager of the department in June, 1919." y. Sylvester MacDermott and Harvey A Strong have been appointed asaletame [panates of the department, nager of