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“POLICE PURSES, REFUSE TO BUY,” URGES OFFICIAL Courage of Customen Only Way to Cut H. C. L-, Letter Declares Chicago A nation wide movement to police our own pocket book« and develop courage of the customer In front of the counter to refuse to buy an article which he cannot afford, was advocated today by Orrln C. Lester, vtce-dlrvctor of the savings division of the Treasury Department. Speak ing before the annual convention of tbs International Lyceum and Chau tauqua Association, In session here, Mr. I^ester said that the development of courage to refuse to buy and to do It with as much grace and praise as the clerk behind the counter names the pries, would make economy both (asbtonuble and respectable In Amer- if a . WOMEN DEMAND WARS SHALL END Peace League Means More to Them Than It Can Mean to Men. DR. SHAW’S STIRRING PLEA. (By the Lat* Or. Anna Howard Shaw.) S«>v«>n million one hundred II ioiihuiii I men who had laid down their lives In the great war. Think of It I Seven million, oue hundred thouxnnd young men had died on the Held of battle! What doea that mean to the women of the world? It means that seven million one hundred thousand women walked day by day with their face« toward an open (rave that they might give life to a son It meuns that seven million one hundred thousand little children lay In the arms of a mother whose love had made them face even the terrors of death that they might become the tuothera of men. It means that year after year these women had put up their lives Into the lives of tlielr sons until they had rear ed them to be men. For what? In the hope that these sons of theirs could give to the world the things for which women dream, the things for which women hope and pray and long. These v.cre the things that the women bail In their hearts when they gave birth to their sons. But who can estimate the value of seven million one hundred thousand dead sons of the women of the world? Who can estimate the price which the women have paid for this wat ; what It has coat them, not only In the death o f tlielr sons, because that Is a phase o f our war to which wc look. The Courage of Woman. We hear our orntors tell us o f the courage of our men. Ilow they went across the -on Very few of them re member to loll us of the courage of our women who also went in ”o«s the sen; of th.* wotnc:i who died n iiw i • “ It Is estimated." Mr. Lester said, “ that for moat incomes an average of 20 to 4 0 per cent may be allotted for food and from 10 to 20 per cent for clothing. Why abould not the people of not too small Incomes start a concerted effort to refuse to buy an article of food or clothing that costa more than a proper proportion o f the above percentages? A dollar Is only half aa large aa It was four and a bait yeara ago. We must either In crease the size of the dollar or adjust our wants to the size it now la. Merchant Co-operation "In a movement of this character, the people would be co-operating with the merchants In a most practical way. They would make It possible for the merchant to render the sort of serv ice that he desires to render to h.a cus tomer and which ho can only render as the customer exercises discretion and Intelligence In bis buying and buys only those things which bla income Justifies. "Goods were made to use, not to see. and when a people will not use them they will not sell. When they will not sell, they come down in price or go out of existence." In discussing thrift and the need for the vise use of money, Mr. Lester made espec.al appeal to the women of America. He said: "The government movement for sav ing, conducted through the medium of the sale and distribution of Thrift and War Savings Stamps and Treasury Savings Certificates, Is very closely con nected with the question of the high living cost The practical and lasting answer to this question lies more In education than In investlgat.on. The Federal Food Administration found that it# per cent of products consumed in this country passes through the bands of the women of this country. People 8uprema "A ll tha profiteers combined and all the combines together cannot defeat the people on this question when they get Interested enough and Information enough to act together. The thing I want to see in this connection la a Refuse to Buy' movement among the people of this country. A prominent produce dealer of San Francisco said the other day, ‘If the people should take it Into thetr heads to stop eating any one perishable food for five days, they could ruin the market.' "A Pacific Coast newspaper, dis cussing this statement editorially, put highest civilizations, the highest moral ! Us finger on the cost of living remedy the slek and wounded; the women and spiritual life of the people— If wo when it said: i t may be that profi who died In the hospitals, where tiie men limy not hare these In tlielr teering Is at the bo'tom of present terrible bombs came and drove them hearts as the mothers of men, then , high prices, but a man cannot profiteer almost to madness. They tell us women will cense to desire to be the if you refuse to buy his goods.’ nothing of the forty thousand English mother* of men. And why should 'Regardless of investigations and women who went to work hack of the tiiey not? Why should they not? criminal prosecutions, wa shall have trenches In Franc*. the problem of the high coat of living Paid a War Bet. They tell us nothing of the thou War bets are now being paid hy the I so long as wa have an extravagant and sands upon thousands upon thousands people who were wout to say, "You thoughtless consuming public." of women who not only tolled and can't beat Germany." Morgan J. j Mr. Lester concluded with an ap- worked and slaved In order that the O'Brien, former Judge of the Supreme | peal for the speeding up of produc war might be successful, hut we do court of New York, recently gave "the ; tion. the elimination of useless waste, not hear of the thousands of women, best dinner that money could buy" to ; consistent and rigid economy and sav i not alone In Armenia, not alone In Gen. Coletnuu Dupont and 26 of the ing and Investment of those savings in Montenegro, not alone lu Serbia, hut latter’s friends, because of a difference government savings securities and In Flanders, In Belgium, In Itumsnla, of opinion ss to German prowess. The Liberty Bonds. In Russia-the thousands of wotneu Justice thought the allies could not get who lie In grnves today, murdered, Into Solssons last year by a certain so horribly murdered that men dare date; the general was sure they could. not speak of It. They did ; and the outcome for which And yet we women are asked what Judge O'Brien paid a heavy bill, was we know about the League of Na railed the "Solssons dinner."—The For Infants and Children tions; asked what we can understand Outlook. about a League o f Nations. Oh men* In Use For Over 3 0 Years Many Customs and Traditions of tho the horrible deaths; the horrible live# Always bears University Are Likely to Seem of thousands upon thousands of wo the Tame to Thom. men today In all these nations, who Signature of must live, and who must look In the The returning hero, fresh from battle faces o f children unwelcomed, unde- fields, will no longer rush to the slred of little chlldreu—and know cricket fields and the river at Oxford that these are the result of war. And then ask women why they with the zest o f young barbarians at should he Interested In a league of their play, observes n writer In the Nation (London). To one who may peace? wear the ribbon of the Military Cross Women Suffer Moat From War. or the D. S. O., the position of his col If there Is nay body of citizens In lege boat In the eights can no longer the world who ought to he Interested seem the one matter of life and death, In a league to ultimately bring to the and even the halo of a goal shines world peace It la the mothers of men, with diminished glory. and the women who auffered ua only So, too, In lesser pursuits. How women can suffer In the war ami In ahall he dwell upon the squabbles of 1 devastated countries. compartments In ancient Greece, when And we call upon them, we women he himself has motored from Salonlkl j of the world call upon the men who to Athens In a day, and on to Sparta i have been fighting all these battles of In the next? Or what will he feel i (lie years, the men who have list when questioned on Ms fading mem a■ nilcs, and led Hrmles close to tlielr ories of the Irregular verbs? Probably deaths. most public school hoys are haunted We are now calling upon the men to old age hy a dream— a terrible of the world to In some way or an other flail a passage out of llie sea *t nightmare—of being “ put on" hy the death. We are asking them to form i old headmaster when they havo not The nallonhl Republican orgad* a league which will bring hope to the taken the trouble to prepare a line of Ization Is hacking this man In hi* the passage. It makes no difference women of the future. If women nisi race as governor of New Jersey,' to hear sons only that they may tile. that they arc more than 60 and the President Wilson’s state * He U ■ headmaster has long been dead. The If women may not have hope Newton A. K. Bugbee. candidate on the Republican ticket. Nation and aspirations for tlielr children, horror of the situation remains ap al Chairman W ill Hays has asked If women may not dream the dreams palling. and the dream Is fnr more New York Republicans to "lend • ;V-it have In them the hope of the frequent than any of Freud's Imag- helping hand.' 1 Inary perversions. CASTOR IA NATIONAL G.O.P. F a CKJ BUGBEE IN N. J. , S u r p r i s e S a l e in OMENS’ CUITS I n ff INTER ¿UITS 3 Oil W for one week beginning Thursday, Oct. 30, 1919 i Elegant Original Models-Exdusive Styles and best of materials, including Velvet Poi- ret twill, Silvertone, Navy Serge, Tricotine, Gabardine and mixtures. Our entire stock without reservation. O n e T h ir d O ff y ff* * 5* ^ S a le n #t. "X -’X -/X -:-X -X -> -X -X -X / -X "X -X -X X ",/ -X -X X ^ -W -W ^ 4 -> ^ Read our Advertisements INTRODUCES DRUG IN LUNGS French Physician’s Method of Admin istering Chloroform 8aid to Be Pronounced Success. A new method of administering chloroform, brought out In France by Dr. Gulsez, Is described In the Scten- tlfic American. The doctor no longer applies the drug by the usual com press or mask placed over the mouth, but Introduces the chloroform vapor directly Into the lungs through a tube running Into the windpipe. The tube method has already been employed In several hundred cases, and with great success. Besides being very useful for operations to be performed on the head and neck. It Is of great Interest because It never produces nausea. The effects of the new method will serve to explain the reasons why chlo- roforin operations always produced nausea when o|>erating by the former method, for It appears evident that the nausea was caused hy a part of the chloroform vapors being absorbed by the oesophagus and the stomach. j ! j A. F. L BACKS GOVERNMENT IN SAVINGS WORK American Federation o f L a b o r Will Reach 3,000,000 Wage Earners Washington, D. C.— Resolutions be ' ing distributed by the American Fed j eration of Labor to more than 22,00# j local unions and th'w-.gh them to ; over 3,000,C0o wage earners affiliated j with the organization, contain hearty approval of the 3overnment‘s 191# thrift campaign. Believing that W-.r avings Stamps | offer a safe, sound and guaranteed | method for investment o ' savings, the t annual conventlcm of the Federation, assembled at Atlantic City, declared : that It was as essential to stimulate thrift and sating In time of peace as j in time of war. The adoption of the resolution by I the certral body -f organized trade Good Players. unionism followed similar action by The boys had been playing ball all j several State Fede.-ations of Labor. the morning on the vacant lot next ; The text of the resolution, known as door. Often there were many argu- j No. 171, Is as follows: ments but always they were settled j "Whareas, The war so happily and the gnme progressed. At noon i ended has required ou" people to de mother reproached Tom for his part I velop thrift sad saving which to In them. “ What would you think If some degree has stimulated freedom mother would quarrel with her friends of action and independence on tho as you do?" she asked. part of some wage earners; and “ But you can’t, ’cause you women | "Whereas, It is essential to stim aren't good players.” Tom explained ulate thrift and saving in time o f carefully. “ When you get mad over peace as In time of war; and something you Just resign. A good : "Whereas, The Inangurstlon of tho player quarrels It out and then goes > national system of War Savings and back to the gnme like we fellows did ' Thrift Stamps has afforded to some this morning.” of small earnings a safe, sound and And the mother had no answer. j guaranteed method of Government in vestment of their bard earned say A Solemn Thought. ings; therefore, be it “ Just think of it. my friend,” said ! Resolved. That this convention 4m the everlasting worrier. "In the arc approve of the continuation and exten tic regions the nights are sometimes sion of the War Savings and T h rift six months long.” Stamps Institution, or the subetitutlon “ Well, what of It?" asked his friend of a National Savings Institution skin as he adjusted his flu mask and a j in character and method, which shall smile at tbe same time. prove helpful to safeguard the earn “ Just Imagine the consternation of | ings of the tolling masses o f our a poor Eskimo wife when her husband country.” calls up to tell her he will be away a l l . Thomas E. Burke, general se retary- night to ait up with a tick friend.“ treasurer of the United Statee Associ of Plumbers and Steam Fitters WROTE MESSAGES W ITH DYE ation of the United States and Canada, bas promised his assistance In the work Material for Invisible Writing Used by of forming War Savings Societies, German Spy Was Obtained From and has invoked aid from other union Silk Hosiery. officials. Mr. Burke in assuring the Govern A cleverly designed method of out- ment of his cooperation, said in part: wttiing the government officials and "The labor organizations an# fra furnishing Information te the enemy ternal societies are a very fine medium was revealed In the early days of the through which to educate the peo war by the arrest of a man In Pater ple of the necessity and usefulness of son, N. J., by naval intelligence offi supporting our government and at tha cers. same time helping themselves. The man. held as an alleged spy In "One of the unique features ex a Jail In Brooklyn, Is said to have plained to me was that it is the In come from Holland and to have been tention of our government to make employed In a silk dyeing establish War Savings Stamps and Th rift ment In Paterson. His unique method Stamps a permanent institution. Such o f sending messages to Germany action would he a very progressive called for the use of silk hosiery o f a one, and I believe would be heartily peculiar dye. It Is said that he had acclaimed by all our citlsens. especially received a dozen pairs of these seeks the workers, because It would be in from German agents In Holland and keeping with the great cooperative and that hls method was to soak them In democratic spirit that now prevails water and use the coloring matter throughout our great country. which they gave forth as a writing j “ From a psychological standpoint. fluid. As this dried It became invisible It would be considered by the mass of until brought out by a special process, the people, especially the wage earn which, however, the federal agents are •rs. a great opportunity to partici said to have worked out. pate In such a great function of They, In turn. In learning the secret, government. It would bring the peo opened hls letters and changed the ple and the Government eloeer to contents sad forwarded the letters. gether, which Is greatly nee led lib The Information thus received by the these unrestful times.” Germans proved of little use Jo them.