Hammond Times, Volume 15, Number 337, Hammond, Lake County, 12 April 1922 — Page 3

Wednesday. April 12. 1922

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"Dress on $87 a Year?"

Not We, Say Topeka Girls

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INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE) TOPEKA. Kan.. April Can a working girl clothe herself on $87.65 a year? It might be done In "Gopher Prairie," but not In Topeka. Topeka's working girls are still stamping a mean foot at the very thought that anyone couia make such a statement. i

But It was made and by a girl,'

too, -who, testifying ia the minimum

thirty-dollar ' yelled the

WHEN THE HOME TEAM PLAYS OUTA TOWN

"Imagine wearing a suit for three years:

Srtrlg. And so it went all down the line a coat every three years, at S-5, .four

cotton suits of underwear a year for

a iota, or ?b.U': two pairs or shoes

a year, at $ I per pair: two H hats

a year; two biouses a year, at Jo. 93

for both; a kimona, at 90 cents, etc

The Hit was complete, even cor

sets were included one pair a year

cis were auciuuea one pair a yea wage hearings before the Kansas of the $1 varity and styie of archi

v-ouri or industrial Relations, said that $87.55 would tuy everything, even to the feminine what nots that a girl would require in a year. The testimony caused a near riot, for 300 girls marched on the stores and demanded to see soma of the things that $37.55 would buy. HOSXEBY AT 25 CENTS For instance, there was the Item of stockings six pairs for a year, at twenty-five cents.

"Show us some of the twenty-flve cent hosiery," said the girls on their Investigation tour. They were decidedly cotton and nothing else.' "Not fit to wear," said the girls as

mey mrew mem down.

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The girls stormed through the

stores asking to see the various articles, and each and every one was spurned, with a toss of the head, the

flash of an-try eyes and decidedly uncomplimentary remarks. Much more was said in regard to testimony that sixty cents a day was

enough for food for a working girl.

"M'gosh, they think we're canaries:" exclaimed one robust girl.

"Try it for a week." In contradiction to this testimony was that of 'Miss Mary McFarland, of the "Welfare Division of the Court.

She thought six pairs of lisle hose, at sixty-ihrce cents a pair, the proper

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sted dress at 113.50. The girls saw the cotton drecse was what is known In home circles as a "bungalow apron." "Imagine parading downtown in cne of these,-' said a girl. "Think of it in a rainstorm:" The item for suits. In the list submitted before the Court as "O. K." for a working girl, was $30; but, the suit was to last three years, or $10 Per year on the suit question.

in proportion. Her idea of a kimona

was one of the $2.4 S variety. Miss McFarland advocates a mini

mum weekly wage of $16.93 for working girts, and it was to tear down her estimate that the Associated In-t dustries of the State, representing the employers, introduced th testimony that $57.35 will clothe a girl a whole year, even to handkerchiefs,

an umbrella and a pocketbook. But don't try to make aTopeka girl believe that:

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NEW CORK, April !. "The New ciatton to be held in Hot Springs ork Idea" or the 19.0 idea, or Arkansas, April 20 7 wi'l be one something : similar, has taken close of the most .Important national g'aho d of Ralph Margarine. He Is therings of the decade. National only 25 years old. for nnn (Mrn. 1 r , , j ,- . ,

wnicn pro-aoiy makes him more susceptible to environment. Anyhow, the other day, his wife, Helen, aged 23 had him up In police court, charged with striking her several times because she wouldn't put

paint and powder on her face when

.York are teeming with plans? for i making it as productive of tangible j resulas as the an erage convention ia - of fluent conversation. One of the principal features of the convention jWill be a discussion of the methods nf ffftinw o n.-n..l.l ...... i. ,

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for me to decide oft -hand'' aid .Mag- the World's Committee T W C A irt,'ft'. "M8t husband3 try held in Champrey. SwiUerland." in U V ff TOUS i ,9:'- Th9 Champrey resolutions and powder Thia is an extraordin- will be, introduced by Miss Charlotte Sr ,n ,n4Testlsatlon waa or- XK-en of England, executive aecredered. JaTlng the courtroom. Mar- tary of the World s Committee. A. r-?!r1W 7 ttvremark th"' Hoyden, England's noted J doesnt know enough woman , preacher and leader ofl wov P "Sht t0 gat her faC6"- Cduntess Helen Goblet D' AlPUI1Cllei j j vlella. of Belgium. Anne Lamb, who nas ,jone sucn g-eat work in India Because cf the acute and vital 'and .Tnrte. T-in--

proolsrr.s facing this generation. . Cleveland the first woman Judge of particularly perhaps. Its women and a Court of Common Pleas In this girls, the biennial convention of country, will be among the printhe Young Women's Christian Asso- ciple speakers. Miss Mabel Ciatty.

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EXEMPTIONS

This is the Month Yon

Must File Them With County Auditor. CROWN POINT, Ind.. Anfil 10.

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I ueorge si. Foland, countv auditor.

has announced that the time for fil

ing mortgage exemptions exnires

this month. Taxpayers who wish to

take advantage of the law which

grants deductions on mortgaged real estate are urged to file their state

ments early. The period for fllinsr

t n e a e exemptions extend from

March 1 to May 1.

The law provides that any person

who-owns real estate that n.i.

for taxation, and Is indebted in any

sum secured by a morto-a irn on f h

real estate, may have the amount of

$1,000 deducted from the assessed

valuation ,-f the property. State

ments regarding deduction must be

sworn to. Mr. Poland pointed out.

and must be filed with the county

auditor. A oenaltv of not ihxn

10 or more than $500 and impris

onment in the county jail of not

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more than six months, may bo im

posed for making a false statement.

woidlers nf the civil wir und widows of clvU war veterans are entitled to an exenviUjn of $1,000 tn

personal property and real esta. If they are sevr'uiy years cf age or

mere In the case of soldiers, and s'xty years or more In the case cf widows and if thr assessed valuation J not $5,0-" vr .iiore.

ELECTRIC LIGHTS

FOOL HENS INTO TRIPLE WORK l INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICEl MEDINA, O., April George Burr,

poultry man, has devised a novel ipm -VirViu a arm. a 1 1 1 H

Into increased egg production. The walking sticks.

use of electric lights In his her

nery, declares Burr, has results in the tripling of the number J

eggs he receives daily.

"Electric lights fooled the berf

into triple work," states Burr, allow th chickens a sleeping pe iod, then turn on the lights la ti

middle cf the night. The herl

think it is daytime and are thi fooled into laying twice a day." From the same number of her:

tsu rr says ne collected 3.489 ectH

in January, as against 1,154 in th

same month of 1321.

A new industry, the manufactur

of canes, is growing In Paraguay

Many fine woods of that countr

are suitable for the malcinsr o

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Creneral Secretary, In the opening address, "Facing the Present." win

outline the place of the Y. W. C. A.

in modern community life. There

ib mree groups witnin the convention; the National Student Assembly, the Industrial Assembly and the World Service council, which

will hcid sectional meetings to dis cuss specific lines of work.

Women will scorn the one-time envied "Mrs." and cling to their maiden names If debates mean anything which of course they den t. Heywood Broun won the debate with Arthur Somers Roche, novelist.

the other night. Mr. Broun, whose wife is "Miss Ruth Hale." contending that such was the proper way, and Mr. Roche insisting that "Mrs.

Arthur Somers Roche", has the only right idea. The debate was staged by the Lucy Stone League, which Is organized to do away with the sign vt woman's boundage.

inrough the merging. Instruction and opportunity for work in tho fine arts may be given which will push our city into first place in the whole world for the development of artist s earning and skill. "We hope New York may become to the artistic world what Florence was in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries." Gen. Charles H. Sherrill of New York University, said in discussing the plan.

New Tork Is seen as the art center of the world in the plan of the-

.academy! of Design and New York University. An affiliation between these two institutions has just been announced, and it is expected that

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One of the islands in New Tork harbor, there is a daily ceremony whlch Is Just as impressive as any big one I have ever experienced. In

an institution of some sort there, ! lives an old man who u -nri--

every skipper who passes. He drags through his day somehow until fl va

o'clock arrives. Then he picks hi3 laborious way over a stony point to the edge of the water. There he takes his stand and tenderly unfolds a tiny American flag the kind that little children have on holidays. As boats steam out of the harbor, to Fall River, Maine, New

Haven, he soberly waves his banner back andorth. and every ship thun ders its salute. He stands at attention rjntil Uhe last one has passed and then picks his way back across the stones, smiling happily.

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Walsh's speech was an argument for the establishment of a minimum wage for unskilled workers on the roads. uion th k.i. .t.-t

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"iner scales might be graded up-

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se on which a family can support jtself decenr.ly. This is wbat has had .to be done In other Industries." ! Walah cited th packing Industry and the steel business. He said

JU56 armour told hln it cost the packeis $15,000,000 ;.o establish "Uf, SCal8 bUt that "-Mr- Armour said it was worth it."

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nolding her under the power of hit hypnotic eyes is the complaint mad In Rrnclrtnrt fsaa nnlioa k-

Clair Beauclair of that city. She

says tnat under his spell sho has developed a dual nrRanalitv. TTn.

der his influence she sleeBa for

long: periods.

ITEGER. Pianos and

Player Pianos of

Beautiful Tone. Artistic

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anteed Reliability are Recommended and Sold on Terms to Suit Your Convenience J.M. Wilcockson Music Co. 577 Sooth Hohman Street I Opposite Parthenon Theatre

Hammond, Ind.

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More than 10,ti00.000 books were issued for home use in the last year in the circulation department nr

the New York public library, an In

crease of half a million over last

year. In November and Decemh--

10,000 persons called at the main library at Forty-second street for reference purpose daily. LUCY JEANNE PRICE.

CALLS WAGE COT. SIMPLY INFANTICIDE

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CHICAGO. April 12. Reduction j

or me wages or unskilled laborers on the railroad would be "an act of wholesale" infanticide," Frank P. Walsh, noted labor attorney, declared in an impassioned plea be

fore the United States labor board

yesterday. "These men cannot support their families now on the wages they are receiving," he asserted.

Sale 'of Easter . Apparel

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to inauRMrate a new department

for the gathering and present ition of complete news of wcuer.'s ll-?,n, flctiv'ties. Miss Rumsfielwill be the editor of this new de partmenc

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