Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 46, Number 28, 11 December 1920 — Page 2

THti KlCHMOND PALLADIUM ANU StjN-TEUiiGRAM, iUCHMUXMD, iiSD.t daTUKUA, XC.111,.

INCREASING PRICES

I FOR FOOD IN BERLIN

GAUSEiVAQ STRIKES

SILK SWEATER IS AGAIN CHOICE FOR WEAR IN FLORIDA

; 1 (By Associated, Prea ; BERLIN, Dec jraduajly f Increasing prices for food in Berlin hare caused a corresponding increase In the demands of workmen for higher wages and strikes, or the threat of strikes, hang over virtually every business in the city. ' " . ' Approximately 1.000,500 persons are reported unemployed tn Germany,' the majority of them in reduced clreumStances, some fating starvation. yPour months ago 284,181 women were seeking employment, according to the labor ministry's estimate, and it was announced 300,000 persons shortly would be out ' of work or on shorttime, the latter being unable to earn enough to support themselves. ' Nearly every municipality in Germany is occupied, with the problem of providing work for unemployment and adjusting wage difficulties, in an effort to forestall the spread of strikes and farther discontent. ; ' Shops Well Stocked. ' i The meat shops. of Berlin are wellBtocked ' witjj v choice cuts and have targe supplies of imported cheese, oils, tickles and other viands but, as winter advances, prices continue to go

up and sales fall off: With nothing saved from summer wages, workmen are facing the problem of expenditures for fuel for heat and warm clothes" in addition to food and the fact that the pay of many falls short of meeting these expenses -has caused a spread of unrest. i Sporadic strikes already have occured, not only in Berlin,-but also in he provinces and, while there has teen no evidence that a general strike is probable; the situation is causing state and municipal governments much concern. Proprietors of food shops say prices are higher than they were a year ago when nothinz was being imported because a vigilant watch is kept on smuggling and -import duties, now ing paid, which are necessarily added to the retail price of commodities. As a. result, they say only the very well-to-do and foreigners are able to buy imported stuff?. . Cannot Afford Meat. . Meat at 26 marks a pound, sausages at "0 to 36 and cheese oS is still beyond the means of the average workman. Meat merchants say the average German can afford meat not oftener than once a week and he must tuv cuts of poorest quality. With wages for skilled tworkmen rsreing from 30 to 40" marks a day, t.nd forcomn-.on labor at 25 marks, the food experts estimate the minimum cost of existence in Berlin. For a f ingle man at H3 murks a week: for a man and wife. 216 marks a week: for man and wife and two children between seven and fourteen years, 296 marks. These prices have shown a gradual increase since February and it is expected will continue to rise durine the winter. While bread is still rationed, meat cards are no longer issued. It is said lliey are unnecessary because the people generally cannot buy meat at prevailing prices unless wages are preatly advanced. In spite of the well Mocked shops, the meat supply Is reported only half the amount on hand curing the same months before the var.

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(Continued from Page One) man. It is to be remembered also that he has a public following. He ranks with Wilson, Bryn, "General Wood and a few others as a roan whose guidance and counsel about public affairs large numbers of persons will accept on faith. It Not Inevitable. These things commend Hoover for thetfabinet. They do not make him inevitable. For no man is inevitable in the cabinet. Harding has the clearest possible right to name his own cabinet and to choose it on a basis of

J getting men who will work smoothly

with him, with the senate and congress, and with the leaders of Republican party. It is Harding's privilege to apply tests of personal judgment and personal comfort in selecting the members of the cabinet. Itg true he will be judged to-an extent, by the men he puts in his cabinet but he can choose between being judged at the beginning

j of his term and being judged at the

ena or it. . He can select men wno already have- big names and whose selection will give him a favorable momentum at the start, or he can select men who he is certain will make a good team, and then ask to be judged by their performance as a team at the end of four years. Teamwork Doubtful. In considering Hoover for the cabinet, the doubt that may be raised will rest on whether or not he is- a good man for team work. Those who raise this doubt say that Hoover made his career and his fame within his profession in situations which were one-

The silk sweater returns to favor ' .

again ana me reason u returns at this season when most of us are hunting for our -heaviest woolen sweater is because the southern season, that great American institution, is about to open. Silk sweaters will again reign as the fashionable wrap for the winter resort wear. Here is a very pretty model in fancy weave trimmed with the new woven trimming, "Toile de Tapis."

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PHTTVTATV PITV Tnd A "Titnnv I

Thicken Supper" will be given by the Todies' Aid society of the M. E. church Saturday evening at Methodist cottage. j Miss Mary Woodard was in Indian-

is polls Monday and Tuesday on busi' be??. The Ladies Aid society of the Christian church were entertained at the home of Mrs. Russell Brown Wednesday afternoon. Fifteen members were present. Officers elected for the coming year were: president, Mrs. C. B. Keene; vice president. Mrs. Benson; treasurer. Lucetta Mills; secretary, Mrs. C. G. Alexander. The local high school basketball team will play against the Williamsburg high school tema Saturday night at the K. of P. hall. Miss Anna Thomas left last week for Ixs Angeles, Calif., where she will make her home with Howard Purviance and family. LEWISBURG, O. Mrs. Caroline Bunger, widow of the late John Bunger, died at her home on North Greenville, street, early Tuesday morning Death resulted from a fractured hip which she received in a fall three weeks ago. . She was 87 years old. and was highly respected and esteemed by all who knew her. Funeral services were held Thursday afternoon from

Trinity Luteeran church, of which she

was a life-long member. Burial was 3n Roselawn cemetery.

! WHITEWATER, Ind. The bazaar

which the ladies of the Christian church were to give Friday night, Dec. 17. in the basement of the new church, will be Thursday night, Dec. 16, in the

Masonic hall. Mr. and Mrs. Hadaway. who have been visiing with Mr. and Mrs. William Henry and son have returned to iheir home in Water Valley, Miss. MILTON, Ind. Dr. Squier, who has been honorably discharged as captain lrom the medical department of the United States army, has accepted a position as physician in charge of the Glen Miller Sanitarium at Richmond. " LEWISBURG. O. Justice Archer, son of V. J. Archer, had the misfortune Wednesday morning to cut the knuckle of the Index finger of the left hand very badly while beheading a chicken for the noon day meal. A part of the knuckle joint being entirely cut away by the mis-strroke. History records that when the Athenians were voting on osthacising some man in public life against whom public sentiment had developed, or been organized, the votes were written on oyster-shells. These shells may have been, the original ballots for elections. ' - " " HOW HE ENDED KIDNEY TBOIBLB "I had a severe attack of kidney trouble and for three weeks couldnot pt out of doora and scarcely out of bed." writes C. E. Brewer. Village Springs. Ala. "Could not bend over at all without the moat excruciating: pains. I purchased a bottle of Foley Kidney Pills. Was relieved after first few doses and continued their use until completely cured. I consider Foley Kidney Pills the beat kidney remedy in the world. No recurrence of my tro'ubie.'A; a- kuken:& Co.; 30 Main. Mvr Uacmen U a - "'

Fourteen designs for fabrics, cretonnes, and decorative silks by Miss Elmira Kempton, a Richmond artist, have been accepted at the competitive exhibition of the Art Alliance of America now being held in New York City. It is considered a very high honor to have designs approved by the judges for this exhibit as they are very critical. They include such men as the buyers for designs for Marshall Fienl's and other leading stores of the country as well as leading silk manufacturers. At the exhibition of American art now hanging in the Art Institute Gallery in Chicago, is a picture, "The Portuguese Village" painted by Randolph Coates, formerly of Richmond. Mr. Coates also has two pictures at the Cincinnati exhibit of the Duveneck club now being held at the Art Museum in Cincinnati. Mr. Henschel, whose batiks are con

sidered the finest in the country, will have some batiks and pottery at the Arts a?.d Crafts exhibit to be held in the Public Art gallery here in February. Mr. Henschel who has attracted no little attention by his work in pottery and tatiks is with the Rookwood pottery at present.

man jobs such jobs as managing a mine in ' Asia with coolie labor, and the board of directors 5.000 miles away in London. But it ought also to be said and remembered that, the biggest job of Hoover's .career, the Belgian relief, involved the most difficult and embarrassing kind of give-and-take in personal relations. It involved :, diplomacy with the German government and with other governments at a time when . the German government was arrogant and the other governments were suspicious. I suspect though, there is some truth in the notion that Hoover is best adapted to a one-man job. He sets a pace that others find it hard to follow, and plunging ahead like a spirited horse, is impatient of any ties that harness him to others. Also, he has a temperament that is sometimes inclined to varying moods. His methods of getting results are individual to himself and frequently temperamental. Has Peculiar Methods. George Creel, who worked with Hoover a good deal during the war. says after Hoover has gone carefully through all the minute preparations for an enterprise, he then goes into the final putting it over in the same way that George's mother crosses a street stands timourously on the curb until the traffic is thickest, and then shuts her eyes and plunges "across That sort of thing, though brilliantly

t successful in individual enterprises, j might easily make demands for toler- . ance, on a group composed of more j evenly gaited men. i Also, Hoover in the cabinet would I fret under the necessity of political I expediencies. Even legitimate politi

cal expediencies. Every admmistra tion and every cabinet must take account of the public's moods and of the

! party's fortunes. Hoover wouldn't

know how to do this, and might take an attitude of scorning to' do it if he knew how. Some of these traits might well make Hoover uncomfortable in a normal cabinet job. y Ideal for New Place There is, however, one possible cablnet'job in which Hoover ought to be perfectly comfortable, and in which Harding could get the assets of Hoover's ability and bis public following wiwthout any handicaps. If there should be a reorganization of the cabinet such as has been suggested in Senator Medill; McCormick's bill and in various other projects, there will be a new cabinet office to be known as the department of public works. That is a department which will include all the construction and engineering functions of the government, which are

now distributed among half a dozen t other departments, the bureau of publie roads and the forest service "from '

the department of agriculture, the;

board of engineers for rivers and harbors from the department of war, the bureau of mines from the department of the interior, the construction of post offices and other public buildings, the management of the national parks, and nearly a score of other engineering and construction activities. Office ia Apart. -If the government were thus recognized and everybody admits it ought to be if the office of department of public works were created as a new

cabinet- position, then Hoover would' be an ideal man for that job. It would largely be a thing apart from the rest of the cabinet. . The nature of the office would more or less Insulate it from politics. Hoover would know, and everybody else would know, that little or nothing was expected from him in the way of the necessary compromises of collective cabinet or party policy. If Harding wants Hoover In his cabinet, the way to bring it about would be to effect this reorganization of the departments and put Hoover in charge of the new post.

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