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DEMOCRATS SPLIT IN OPEN
ING CLASH, FIVE VOTING
WITH THE REPUBLICANS.
WASHINGTON, D. C.—Trouble
for the democratic party in congress
is promised by the passage of the‘
emergency tariff bill in the house and‘
by the prospect of its passage in th.e‘
senate. Reliance is placed on Presi
dent Wilson to veto the measure. }
Indications of the fight ahead over
tariff legislation were given in the sen-.
ate today, when several hours’ spirited
debate and two roll calls were requir
ed to effect the formal routine action
of referring to the finance committee
the emergency tariff bill passed last
week by the house. ‘
Democratic forces split in the open- |
ing clash, five minority members vot-‘
ing with the solid republican strcpgth‘
against a motion by Senator Hitch
cock, of Nebraska, acting democratic
leader, to refer the house bill to the
commerce instead of the fianance com
mittee.
Republicans Win Objective.
After defeat of the Hitchcock mo
tion and several democratic attacks on
the bill, parried by republican defense,
the senate voted unanimously to send
the bill to the finance committee.
Senator McCumber, of North Da
kota, acting chairman of the finance
committee, announced during the de
bate that the bill would be taken up
in committee early next month and
given “fair and adequate considera
tion."”
* The house bill was denounced as an
“embargo” bill and “suicidal” by Sen
ator Hitchcock, who charged that the
senate machinery was set to rush it
through. American commerce should
be aided, he contended, and not ham
pered by tariff barriers.
Senator McCumber denied that the
bil proposed embargoes, and was sup
ported by Senator Smoot, republican,
Utah. The North Dakota senator de
clared the measure gave practically no
protection to wheat and said that he
would not support the bill as drafted.
Senator Harrison, democrat, of Mis
sissippi, assailed thé bill as “the most
iniquitous piece of legislation the
country has ever seen.” He denounc
ed what he termed “republican hypo
crisy,” referring to republican cam
paign statements as to lowering the
cost ‘'of living. The tariff was design
ed to enhance. living costs, Senator
Harrison asserted, adding that the bill
was a sop to western farmers and
would not aid them. !
Appeal to Southern Democrats.
The framers of the measure who
are chiefly instrumental in offering
protection to the agricultural interests
cleverly interwove schedules which ap
pealed to southern members, the hum
ble peanut not being the least of these,
and democratic senators feel the press
ure that moved the house members.
Representative Clark, Forida, ad
mjtted he was as good a democrat as
any one, but peanuts and sea island
cotton happen to be raised in his dis
trict; therefore he could not oppose
the bill. Other democratic representa
tives made similar admissions.
Those democrats who have not been
brought in to line are confident the
president will veto the Fordney bill if
it passes the senate.
Opponents of the measure also point
out that the bill is in the interest of ag
ricultural interests and is class legis
lation. Senator Penrose is said to be
opposed to the Fordney measure on
the ground that piecemeal tariff leg
islation is unsound.
PROSPECT OF A DRINK
RESTORED MAN’S VOICE
Asked by a friend to take a drink,
George Smith, of Huntington, W. Va,,
who had been deaf and dumb for a
year, began talking excitedly and kept
it up for hours.
OF “ROCK AND RYE"
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Heart or Stomach.
Capatone is highly recommended
for headaches, reuralgia, - rheuma
tism, nervous headache, nervous
ness, lumbago, earache, and tooth
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Bugv a bottle for 30c or 60c, take
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results.
. Capatone is sold by all drug stores.
BEGIN THE NEW YEAR
with a
MODERN ‘' LOOSE. LEAF
BOOKKEEPING SYSTEM
THE NEWS PRINTING CO.
TROUBLE ALONG BORDER
Fair Shoppers Caught Trying to Smuggle Clothes From
Detroit to Windsor.
‘Review Declares Reasons For Situa
tion Due Largely to “Consumer’s
Strike;” Merchants Trying to Take
Their Profits, However.
WASHINGTON, D. C—No hope
of early relief from business de
pression is held out in the monthly
statement of the Federal Reserve
Board. Depression c¢xists in most
communities, the statement said, and
one of the basic causes, so far as the
board could determine, was a ‘“‘con
sumers’ strike’—an evident public de
termination “to wait for prices to
come down.”
Manufacturing activities ¢ontinued
to fall off during November the board
said. A wave of “reduction sales” by
retailers has not, it added, resulted in
increased buying which would cause a
resumption of production in many
lines a “corresponding decline in the
buying lower” reflected in the decreas
ed volume of trade of all kinds also
was noted. <
“It is impossible,” the board con
tinued, “to estimate the extent to
which the completion of the re-adjust
ment process may involve further
slackening of employment and the in
crease of commercial embarrassment.
A $20,000 SABLE
MRS. DECKERMAN, WEALTHY
NEW YORK WOMAN, IS VIC
TIM. THIEF ESCAPES.
NEW YORK, N. Y.—The theft of
a sable coat valued at $20,000 from the
limousine of Mrs. W. R. Deckerman,
of 998 Fifth avenue, which was stand
ing in front of Tiffany’s, came to light
today. The coat had been in storage
in a fur dealer’s shop, and Mrs. Deck
erman had gone to get it for winter
use and placed it in the rear of the car,
with her chauffeur to guard it.
Mrs. Deckerman said. today that af
ter she brought the coat from the Fifth
avenue store, where it had been stor
ed, she left it in the back of her limou
sine. Her chauffeur, who was stand
ing on the sidewalk, was instructed to
guard the coat, and a lap robe was
thrown over it. Mrs. Deckerman then
went into Tiffany’s to do some shop
ping.
Guardian’s Attention Difected.
A man came along a minute later,
the chauffeur said, and engaged him
in conversation about the crowds and
Fifth avenue traffic. He told the driv
er that he was a stranger in town. A
short time later a second man came
along and acted as if he was mentally
unbalanced. The chauffeur at once for
got about the car and the $20,000 coat
in listening to and watching the sec
ond man.
In the meantime the first man slipp
er around the limousine and, opening
the door, pulled out the coat.
Since the theft Mrs. Deckerman has
offered two rewards; first one of $5OO,
and now has increased it to $l,OOO.
The game worked by the two thieves
is one of the oldest, and heretofore it
has always been looked upon as dan
égerous in such thoroughfares as Fifth
avenue.
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WORLD’'S RICHEST
Lolita Armor Victim of Cupid. Was
Long Under Treatment of World’s
Most Famous Specialist.
J. Ogden Armour has announced the
engagement of his daughter, Lolita,
to John J. Mitchell, Jr, son of a
wealthy Chicago banker. Miss Ar
mour is probably the wealthiest heiress
in the world, being sole heir to the
Armour millions. She is a healthy, vi
vacious girl, despite great handicaps
which she mastered when a child.
Mies Armour made her advent on
earth prematurely and was consigned
to an incubator. There was also a con
genital dislocation of the hips. All that
science and money could accomplish
was at the service of the baby, It was
carefully nursed and thrived. Then in
childhood Dr. Lorenz, a famous Vien
na specialist, made two special trips
to the Armour home in Chicago and
by a series of deft operations reset and
straightened the dislocated hips. Miss
Armour grew up with hardly a trace
of her pre-natal trouble.
All the extreme depths of the ocean
are near land or shallow water.
IS A POWERFUL ANTISEPTIC
AND PAIN KILLER, CURES IN
FECTED CUTS,OED SORES,
TEETER EIC. RELELIEVES
SPRAINS, NEURALGIA, RHEU
MATISM.
“Stores generally are reducing stock
and making no attempt to replenish
them. Outstanding orders are declin
ing and retailers are ordering only
what is needed to meet day-to-day
requirements.
~ “While prices are slowly declining
it is still felt that present declines
have not paralleled declines in whole
sale prices. ‘Shoppers’ are confining
buying to necessities and staples with
the result that the volume of trade
has fallen off.”
The board attempted no ‘forecast of
future conditions in individual lines.
Lumber manufacturers reported drop
ping orders despite paring of price
lists and likewise disclosed, in some
icases, no more than half time opera
tion of mills. The shoe leather indus
try has been likewise affected although
iits orders were somewhat larger for
iimmcdxate delivery to fill current re
‘quirements. No indication of a revival
in the silk industry was seen, and
‘while makers of men’s cothing have
announced reductions to stimulate
sales few orders have been placed so
far, the board said.
Prices for women’s wear have not
declined along with reductions of 35
to 50 per cent in men’s clothing. The
‘board said, as there is no surplus stock.
OLD-TIME MISSION ADOPTS A
PLAN TO CARE FOR WOMEN
AND LITTLE CHILDREN.
NEW -YORK, N. Y.—At the old
Bowery Mission, for more than four
decades the leading lower East Side
haven for destitute drunkards, lecture
classes in elementary sociology and
philosophy and educational work
among the ghetto’s women and chil
dren are taking the place or supple
menting the work done there hereto
fore for men without homes or food.
“Flops and eats,” as shelter and food
are referred to by the old time deni
zens of the bowery, are no longer to
be the chief solace afforded to “hop
heads” and “bums” by this famous
old institution. . > :
Directors of the famous place have
acknowledged time ‘for more than
feeding and sheltering from night to
night a horde of “floaters” and “boes.”‘
Since its establishment 41 years ago
Bowery Mission workers have been
rushed with seemingly ceaseless ef
forts to find food and sleeping room
for long lines of those classed-as down
and out. Now, they say, the advent
of prohibition has brought opportuni
ty to lift their heads.
John G. Hallimond, Mission superin®
tendent, and Anson C. Baker, secre
tary, outlined the new situation.‘
“There’s still plenty of ‘hootch’ on the
Bowery,” they said, ‘“and plenty of |
drinkers to care for. But it’s harder to
get than it used to be.
“We have almost as many men to
look after as ever. When the saloon
went it did not take with it drugs and
the like. But a far greater percentage
of them are sober—clear-eyed and
clear-brained. We are increasing our
educational work among the old tim
ers whose heads used to be so steeped
in liquor that they could retain noth
ing but the address of the Mission.
~ “We now have more opportunity to
look around, a chance for educational
work among women and to start at
the bottom with the rising generation.”
Sixty-year old “Christian John”
‘Wentz, a follower of the Mission for
‘half his life and still hanging on, added
his word to that of Mr. Hallimond and
' Mr. DBaker.
" “The bum business is dead,” he said.
“But if a guy had told me ten years
ago that the day would come when
‘there wasn’t enough boes and cokies
on the Bowery to keep this place busy,
and that the Mission would decide to
go to taking care of women and chil
dren, I’d have said he’d been ‘coking’
himself, or hitting the pipe.”
Chinese Pigtails Used
For Straining Soup
New Industry Revealed Through the
Commerce Commission.
WASHINGTON, D. C.—Establish
ment of carload rates on Chinese pig
tails pressed into cloth from Houston,
Texas, to various parts of the coun
try was asked of the interstate com
merce commission by the Oriental
Manufacturing company of Houston.
Clifford Thorne, of Chicago, repre
senting the applicant, told the com
mission that the pigtails pressed into
cloth were used for filtration, straining
soups and similar purposes.
Mr. Throne explained that prior to
the war European supplies of goat and
camel hair were drawn on for filter
purposes, but that when this source
was cut off the industry he represent
ed turned to China, where the fall of
the Manchu dynasty was followed by
abolishment of the edict directing Chi
nese subjects to wear queues.
The Houston company, which is
'%oined by the Southern Cotton Oil
rushers’ Association, chief users of
haircloth filters, in the petition has ac
cumulated 800,000 pounds of Chinese
hair, the equivalent of the former pig
taids of 2,400,000 Chinese, and now
seeks carload rates to move it north.
LONGEST PENDULUM.
The longest pendulum ever made
‘was 377 feet in length and was swung
from the second platiorm of the Eiffel
tower.
“How I Cleared the Mill of Rats,” By
J. Puocker; R 1.
“As night watchman I believe I
have seen more rats than any man.
Dogs wouldn’t go near them. Got $1
package of RAT-SNAP, inside of six
weeks cleared them all out. Killed
them by the score every night. Guess
the rest were scared away. I'll never
be without RAT-SNAP.” Three sizes,
25¢, 50c, $l.OO. Sold and guaranteed by
Dawson Hardware Co. and Crouch
Bros.
A coal mine owned by South Dako
ta ships 200 tons of coal daily.
THE DAWSON NEWS
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FORMER MONK, PRIEST
20 YEARS, MARRIES
JAS. C. BIDDLE ACCEPTED THE
WORDS OF ST. PAUL AND
TOOK A WIFE.
i Two years after he had left a Trap
pist monk’s cell at the Abbey of Geth
semane in which, as Father Alberic,
he had spent 20 years of his life, Jas.
Cornell Biddle, scion of of one ’of
Philadelphia’s oldest and wealthiest
families, was married in Washigton to
Miss Mary Lena Gaines, of Warren
ton, Va., daughter of one of the Old
Dominion’s first families. The bride is
48 years old and the groom is 52. They
met a year ago, one year after Mr.
Biddle renounced his vows of celibacy
and left the monastery.
The future home of Mr. and Mrs.
Biddle, in contrast to the bare cell
‘and austere surroundings which fram
ed his life for 20 years, will be “Para
dise,” one of the colonial show places
of Virginia, near Warrenton, which
has been in the bride’s family for gen
erations. :
A Primitive Life.
The Trappist monastery at Geth
semane, Ky., 48 miles from Louisville,
stands on a knoll with broad acres of
farming land surrounding it. There
Mr. Biddle, as Father Alberic, per
formed a certain amount of manual
labor every day, in addition to his
studies and his time devoted to pray
er and meditation. The Trappist or
der is one of the most ritualistic and
strictest in observance of any of the
‘monastic brotherhoods. Life at the
’Abbey of Gethsemane is primitive in
its disregard of physical comforts. On
entering the order members pledge
themselves to a life of perpetual science
seclusion, penitence and prayer. Graves
for the members are ready and mark
ed, and the daily thought of death is a
‘tenet of the creed.
| May Take Up Ministry.
Mr. Biddle said that he entered the
Catholic church when he was-about 21
and went to Gethsemane when he was
30 to study the work of ' the early
Christian writers. He said that he was
influenced in particular by the writings
of St. Paul and became convinced that
celibacy was not obligatory on the
church. |
Studies Psychology
Of Jewelry Sales
Lapidary Says Purchase of Engage
ment Ring G_ives Material For Mar
riage Life Forecast.
NEW YORK, N. Y.—There is no
business that furnishes a better oppor
tunity to study human psychology
than that of selling jewelry, according
to William Barthman, who for more
than a quarter of a century has had
a shop in Maiden Lane, the diamond
center of (America.
“One can invariably forecast the
married life of a couple by their atti
tude when they come in to buy the
engagement ring,” he said today.
“It is easy to tell which will domi
nate after the wedding ceremony from
their actions during the purchase. If
she makes the selection and fixes the
price you may depend_ upon it that
she will make most of the decisions
after they are married, and vice versa.
It is also possible to tell whether she
will be thrifty or a spendthrift.”
Barthman cited an instance of a
young couple who came in to buy a
diamond solitaire. The youth very del
icately let his sweetheart understand
that he did not ‘feel able to pay more
than $4OO or $5OO. But every ring she
decided upon was valued at $1,200 to
$1,500. They finally compromised on
one costing about $9OO, about twice
what he had intended to pay.
~ “And if I had been that young man
I would have been tempted to call it
off right there,” the gray-haired jew
eler declared.
Barthman was asked how the aver
age young man determines the size
of the engagement ring.
“Well, a few of them bring their
fiances right in to try it on,” he re
plied. “Some obtain from us a card
board arrangement to fix the size.
Others knot a string about her fin
ger, or try one of the rings she already
has on one of their fingers.- But the
great majority just guess at it—and
usually guess wrong. Most of those
who guess select a ring too large, prob
ably assuming they will be on the safe
side when it comes to readjusting it.
But it is just as easy to make a ring
larger as it is to make it smaller.”
What does the average young man
buy his sweetheart, in the way of jew
elry and what does the average mar
ried man buy his wife?
Barthman said that gold or silver
meshbags are the most popular gift
during the courtship period, with gold
bracelets and pearl opera glasses run
ning a close second. After marriage
‘the woman usually demands a pearl
‘necklace or a diamond and platinum
bracelet, and gets it.
Gifts for children are generally in
'the form of a ring, bracelet or pin.
| When women make gifts to men
'they generally select a scarf pin or a
'gold fountain pen. .
’ “It’s interesting to watch the devel
opment of a young couple’s courtship
annid marriage,” Barthman said. “A
young man will come in and bay some
small present, such as a brooch, cost
ing $l5 or $2O. A few months later
he will make a little more expensive
gift. Then, as birthdays and Christ
mas arrive, he increases the value of
his gifts until finally the engagement
ring is bought. Next is the wedding
ring. After this there is a cessation of
three or four years. They are spending
all their money furnishing a home and
[making a start. If he is successful in
ibusiness this period wiill be followed
by one of far more expensive pres
'ents.”
Barthman said the expected slump
in jewelry sales, looked for long ago,
ihad not vet become apparent.
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