Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 44, Number 272, 29 August 1919 — Page 12

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, FRIDAY, AUG. 29, 1919.

EXPENSE MONEY FOR DELEGATES AT PARIS ASKED

Wilson Asks ongress for Additional $825,000 . to Pay Bills of Peace Commission. WASHINGTON, Aug. 29. President Wilson asked Congress for an additional appropriation of $825,000 for the expense of the American Peace Coramision in Paris from last July 1 to the end of this calendar year. The president said that up to July 1 the total cost for the commission had been $1,250,629 and he estimated that by the end of the year the total would reach $1,506,709. A part of this ha3 been appropriated. Among the largest items up to July 1 were included $14,914 for subsistence, $103,000 for salaries, and $105,000 for expenses of the commissions sent into other countries. President Wilson called attention to the fact that no action had been taken on the State Department's request for an additional appropriation of $5,000,000 for Its current expenses and said that as a result the department had found it to be necessary to draw its emergency fund. He asked that the $5,000,000 appropriation be made. MISUNDERSTANDING (Continued from Page One) young men not connected with the Malleable Co. Bricks, large stones, parts of unfinished lawnmowers stacked across the street, and other missies, were thrown and all the windows on the south and west Bides of the plant were demolished, except those protected by wirescreena. After the stone-throwing, the crowd again became restive, and after trying all the doors, the large north door of the plant was forced. There was much hesitancy here, but the men at last forced their way inside. Several shots were fired at pointblank range by the men inside, but no damage was done, and- they said later that the guns were loaded only with blanks. After the shooting they came forward with hands up, and a parley ensued. Officers Do Good Work Sheriff Carr and Assistant Chief of Police McNally took charge of the situation here, returning from the conference, and by their prompt and coolheaded action, secured an agrreement from the employes to let the men alone, provided they took the first train. out of town. After a long delay, during which the hundreds of people in front of the plant grew restive and sporadic, stonethrowing was resumed, the strikebreakers were marched to the station in the midst of a hollow square, followed by Jeers, shouts, and threats i f A'0,.tnCe .i ,u , I At the station there was a longj wait. The men were secluded in a I separate room, and many persons went home. When the train arrived, they were bundled aboard followed again by jeers and threats. After the train moved out, some of sh and rowi

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the hotter heads went to the Reliance plant and broke windows there. Militia Called. While the disturbance was at its height, a call was made upon Governor Goodrich by long distance telephone for etate militia, by Mayor Zimmerman and Chief of Police Gormon. The governor called Myron Malsby, captain of Company K here and head of the Cambridge City militia, instructing them to hold their commands in readiness for use. Two men were injured during the evening, one being struck on the head by a brick thrown by someone at the malleable building, and the other, whose name is said to be Frank Stitson, a strike breaker, suffering from bruises and other injuries when he was found in a box car at the station. One Arrest was Made. At both the Reliance and Maller.ble foundries practically every pane of glass in the windows and doors was broken, and the glass was scattered about the streets in front of both places. At the Malleable factory, a number of the window sashes were broken and a large number of castings, which had been piled in front of the F. and N. lawn mower works across the street, were scattered about the sidewalk, together with stones and pieces of bricks. Offices Are Damaged. The offices of the F. and N. and Malleable factories was also badly damaged, every window in the office being broken, and the glass scattered about the inside of the office. Several windows were also broken at the F. and N. Practically no damage was done to the Beebe Glove factory, which is located in the same building as the Malleable office. In addition to all of the windows, two doors were battered down at the Reliance foundry, and the glass scattered about. Pieces of castings from the lawn mower facotry were also found at the Reliance plant. A number of moulds which had already been made up inside the two foundries, were destroyed by the missiles hurled through the windows.

Acres of Beautiful Blooms Within 400 Miles of Pole London Tit-Bits That one should find sweet blossoms in the ice-bound, dreary wastes of the north polo seems incredible. It is, nevertheless, a fact that there the explorer has found many thousands of acres of buttercups, heather, biue-bells, dandelions and rhododendrons. It is a veritable garden on ton

of the earth, a land of exquisite beau-! skin which protects you from the oxyty at seasons, as well as of midnight i gen as long as it is unbroken.

sun. June brings the first warm, bright rays of the sun. The Eskimo housewife starts spring cleaning, and soon the flowers begin to show even up to the northern point of land in the world, r,S0 miles from the pole. A botanist has collected over 125 special of plants ana nowers on tne root or tne woriu. Ji.ven large, uencious inusntooms are there, while orange-colored lichens are in abundance. And, strange to say, all, with but a single exception, are perfectly odor less. Thousands and thousands of j CCres of flowers, and vet no perfume. SPEEDER IS ARRESTED; FINED $1 AND COSTS Lionel Maupin, driver of a delivery car, was arrested for speeding and fined $1 and costs in police court Friday by Mayor Zimmerman.

Although shoes are high we have been fortunate in buying our high shoes early and at prices much below the present market. We offer values as follows: LADIES' BLACK KID POLISH, Military and r AA Louis heels, at tpD.UU LADIES' BROWN KID POLISH, Military and frf AA Louis heels, at 3)0.vU LADIES' GREY KID POLISH, Covered (T rn Louis heels, at yOjJ Ladies' Black and Brown Kid Polish, wave top, long C-i AAA vamp, leather covered Louis heel, all widths, at. . ?JU-UU

Misses' and Children's black and brown lace shoes, all leather, double tip . .$2.50 and 4.00 Biucher styles at Blighty last, Goodyear : 610 Main Street

LEATHER IS COMING DOWN! JOYFUL NEWS GIVEN BY HARRIS

Already hides are down ten cents a pound, and in the opinion of no less an authority than Mr. John B. Harris president of the Harris Abattoir company, there is every likelihood of a still further decline. He says there never . was any justification for the high mark reached not long ago, and while the embargo is partly responsible for the drop, the public's protest, in what amounted to almost a boycott of the market, had a big effect. "I don't know how or whyhigh prices, got to be so high," he says, ut I do know there was absolutely no necessity for it. Prices were abso lutely too high; there wasn't nearly i the value in a hide to justity tne price that was being asked. In my opinion, I think you will see hide prices go cheaper the world over as a result of increased production, and because the people are saving by refusing to buy leather, preferring to patch up what they have. When harness and shoes and other leather products get as high as they have become the people simply won't buy them." It will be three or four months, at least, Mr. Harris says, before the consumer can, receive any benefit from a declining market. It takes that long for the hide to pass from the farmer to the tanner, to the shoe manuafacturer, the wholesaler, the retailer, and eventually to the consumer. Shoes now on the market and in process of manufacture are made of high priced leather, nnd the consumer will have to foot th Dill. Cut Finger Harts Because Air Starts Oxidation (Book of Wonders). It hurts when you cut your finger or, rather, where you cut it because the place you have cut is exposed to the oxygen in the air. and as soon as it is so exposed a chemical action begins to take place, just as when you cut an apple and lay it aside you come ' back and find the cut surface all turn ed brown. If the apple could feel it would hurt also, because the chemical action is much the same. The apple has a skin which protects its inside from the oxygen in the air. and vou have also a What happens, oi course, 's i-us. When you cut your finger you sever the tiny little veins and nerves which are in your finger. They are spread i an over the bodv like a network under (ne skin, close to the surface in most i places. The nerves when cut send a! i qUjck message to the brain, with which ' ; they arc connected, telling that they are damaged, and the brain calls on the heart and other functions to get busy and repair the damage along the line. There may be some hurt while thi3 ! nrocess of repairing is going on. but j the principal part of your hurt, outside of what we call your felings, is due to the fact that the inside of you is thus exposed to the chemical action of the air. A successful experiment in peanut cultivation on the Euphrates river in Mesopotamia has been accomplished. H "Makes Life's Walk Easy"

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BERLIN IN THROES OF GAMBLING GRAZE; FORTUNES CHANGE HANDS

From the London Times BERLIN," The night life of Berlin has become proverbial." The word3 are taken from a well known guide to the capital published in 1914. It might have been supposed that the war with all its attendant losses and sobering influences would have done something to check the dissipation which the expression night-life implies. Since the catastrophe, however, especially since the armistice and the coming of the revolution, the pursuit of pleasure has gone on, if anything, at an accelerated pace. Berlin is today indeed unquestionably the greatest gaming city in Europe. Gaming clubs shoot up in all parts of Berlin like mushrooms In a meadowland. There are as many as sixty I was assured in the west alone, in the neighborhood of the Kurfurstendamm, and the newspapers are constantly publishing advertisements connected with gambling. Croupiers are offered situations, roulette- tables are offered for sale, and not the slightest secrecy is observed with regard to this demoralizing pursuit. The Largest Club The largest and most elegant gaming club is in Unter den Linden. Some five hundred persons gamble there every day and as much as $12,500 and more a night is spent on card money alone. Smaller club3 which are quite as smart in their ways are to be found in many of the streets in this locality as well as in the the neighborhood of the Zoo station. At the present moment more than $75,000 is said to be spent every night in card money alone in Berlin. Of course this implies enormous expense of other kinds connected with the gambling industry. The cashiers in the clubs earn on an average at least $125 an evening and the attendants not infrequently get $250 and more when it is a matter of special service, as, for example, getting a taxi. Of course, the attendants share with the motor car drivers. You can see a all times of the day crowds of taxis, which you seek for in vain elsewhere, standing in the neighborhood of the clubs, but they only consent to take you if you observe the prescribed diplomatic methods and do not engage thorn directly, hut. through the intervention of a charge d'affairs in the form of a liveried servant of the club. The external appearance of these loni:

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premises. Within the upholstering is sometimes very elegant, sometimes very modest, according to the locality. There Is, however, always an exremely good restaurant at which excellent dishes and wines can be obtained at extraordinarily moderate prices. Very often other comforts are provided. You can get a bath, be massaged, manicured, or have the attentions of a barber. The manicure is in particular demand by the nouveaux riches, who form a large portion of the frequenters of the clubs. The "Habitues" The habitues consist of the most motley company conceivable, both male and female, the shadiest elements of the German capita rubbing shoulders with people who pass for the most respectable. Thus there are well-to-do merchants and irreproachable physicians, lawyers; manufacturers and bank directors, high officials, and it is even whispered that judges and public prosecutors are to be found among the company. The clubs are supposed to close by midnight, when blinds and curtains are drawn as a concession to the conventions. Play goes on all night, however, and I have heard of one club in a suburb of Berlin which keeps open till 8 in the morning. For the rest, what one sees here is what one can see in any gambling hell anywhere :a crowd of people intent upon gain, utterly regardless of everything but the satisfaction of their desire. i And this is taking place not only in Berlin, but in Chemnitz, Crefeld, Essen, Breslau, Hamburg. Dresden in a word, everywhere in Germany, even is, as might be expected, the principal center is Berlin. Fabulous Winnings At the large clubs it is no unusual thing for a man to lose 4.000 ($20,000) in an evening, while a loss of 1,500 ($7,500) is quite common. .The people who are able to lose 500 (,500) are too numerous to attract attention. It is safe to say that in the smaller clubs an average loss of 150 ($750) per person takes place every night. The chances of winning are correspondingly great, but in the long run, of course, the bank makes the profits. The heaviest loss hitherto so far as known amounted to 37,500

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HONOR OF HOLDING PRINCE'S UMBRELLA FALLS TO OFFICIAL

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WORDS IMPORTANT "STAR-SPANGLED"

BANNER PROVES Boston Herald The Boston Herald in an editorial article, "A New Constellation." asked: "Who can say how much of the popui larity of Key's song has depended upon the compound adjective which ho used to describe our flag the 'starspangled' banner? If one has doubts about this, let hjm try to substitute rny other adjective which he can find in the dictionary, and see what they result will be." This is not too fanciful. Greater poets than Key knew the value of the, word "spangled" in connection with the stars. Shakespeare, Milton, Coleridge, not to mention lesser ones, Sylvester. Drommond. Bailey, Francis. What weakness, what power lurks in the choice of a word! A Frenchman named Albalat wrote that Chateaubriand, using the phrase, "the palpitation of the stars," only imitated a former expression, ' the sparkling (or scintillation) of the stars." For saying this M. Albalat was attacked by Remy de Gourmont. Millions of human beings have spoken of the stars. The com mon sensation awakened by the sight of them is that of light. Dictionaries of commonplace phrases and syn rnyms inform one that the stars shine, twinkle, glow, blaze, laugh, redden, pale; that they shed their rays: that ihey are like diamonds; that they even tremble; but the idea is always one of light. With Chateaubriand the idea is of life. The stars shine and tremble, "but like a diamond necklace on a bare neck; the world comes to life; the night is a woman asleep on the surface of the earth." And in like manner how free from commonplaces is Walt Whitman's spostrophe to a summer night which, eras: Night of south winds night of the larg? new stars! Still, nodding night mad, naked summer night. How tame, how ordinary the rtrst line would be if Whitman had written 'night of the few large stars.' And so Key builded better than h knew, when, acknowledging rhythuiio exigence, he hit upon "star-spangled." American bilk factories are now turning out products worth $50o,("JV 000 vearly, against $250,000,00 at the I commencement of the war. m m -Tonight MB m m m 8 PEOPLE m tenor itman him this time

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