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WILL PROSECUTE LI
ALLEGED TRUST
Jos. Kaufman Appointed as Special
Assistant U. S. Attorney to In- b<
vestigate Building Material , ti
Business. bl
oi
Washington, Oct. 30.?Appoint- se
ment of Jos. Kaufman as special as- tc
sistant to the district attorney at in
New York to conduct a Federal in-!
vestigation into the alleged combina-: a]
tions in the building materials mar-^ in
ket in that city, was announced to-, 01
day by Attorney General Palmer. ! ti
This is the Federal government's re
first step, in the direction of prosecu- m
tion of alleged violation of anti-trust;
laws among building material dealers. [ le
Department of justice officials said in- j 0(
formation gathered by the Uftited1 y<
States atcrney's office in New York! 0l
had disclosed evidence which they be-: 0(
lieved pointed to combinations in vio- j cc
iation of the Sherman law and that j 'jj
Mr. Kaufman's appointment had been Qi
lecommended by United States Attor- ]e
ney Caffey as a result of this evi-l
aence.
Mr. Kuafman will cooperate with|
the New York State executive com- hj
mittee which is conducting an inves- ^
tigation into the situation. ' ,
of
. SEES VIOLATION JU
OF ELECTION LAWS,1"
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Foot to Buy, Steal and Tear Up
Votes in New York City
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New York, Oct. 30.?Declaring he ti<
had good information that "all kinds ?
of violations of the law from mere w<
technalities to buying of votes, steal- ] es
ing of ballots and deliberate spoiling J lij
of ballots by election officials" would Sc
be resorted to in four congressional til
districtts here next TTuesday, Jules fo
J
Gerber executive secretary of the en
New York county organization of the mi
Socialist party today called upon At- th
torney General Palmer in a letter to
see that the election be carried on in G<
accordance with teh law." K re
"In the election of 1918,' he wiote ju:
"during the canvass of the votes on ce
the night of election day, the lights an
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EAGUE OF NATIONS COS'
$400,000 A MONTH
Th sum of $400,000 a monh v
i required to run the League of ^
ons next year, accroding to t
jdget approved by the Coun
[ the leage made public at Bn
ils. This budget will be present
? the League Assembly at its co
g session in Geneva.
After making appropriations a
^proving a vast outlay aggregj
Lg $3,750,000, of which $l,25i
ju will De spent oy tne interr
onal Laboto Bureau, the Cbun<
turned its discussion of ways a
eans of protecting minorities.
The organization period of t'
ague up to July last cost $1,25
)0 and for the second half of tl
jar the budget provides $2,50
3C|. The budget provides $30(
)0 for the permanent internatior
iurt and $200,000 yearly for t
aymertt on the hotel bought I
eneva, for headquarters of t
ague.
THE SUPREME TEST
ive no liking for jury duty h
rain been called to the attenti
: the public when four who ha
st been called before the Blac
sath Justice at Lewisham objei
[ to serving and two of them we
:cused because they were over t
:e limit of sixty years.
A collar with poison syringes h
en invented for sheep as a prote
)n against the sheep-killing coyo'
ire turned off and the polling pla
left in darkness and while t
jhts were out, ballots cast for t
cialist candidates were stolen, ai
ther substituted by others mark
r the Socialist candidates were st<
, and either substituted by othe
arked for the fusion candidate
e ballots were missing."
Anticipating a teply from Attorn*
;neral Palmer suggesting that
fer the matters 'to the courts
stice". Mr. Gerber said legal pr
edings after election are "costl
d lead to nothing.'
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continuing to <
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rS HOUSEWIFE PLACED IN RANK
OF EXPERT PROFESSIONAL
,-ilI Chicago, Oct. 28.?The housewife
la- had her day and was officially admit;he
ted to the ranks of the expert procil
fessions today at the breakfast of the
us- National Housemakers' Guild.
;ed "It is no worse to stay at home and
m- wash dishes that it is to pound a typewriter,"
Mrs. T. Vernette Morse, exend
cutive secretary of the guild, declared
at- "Home making is an expert profes0r
sion and the woman who stays at
la- home and keeps house should receive
as much honor and recognition as her
nd' sister in the business world or public
life."
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More than a half of the employes of
[jis the Waltham watch factory are wom0,
en, their small and agile hands being
)?- especially adapted to the delicate
lal ^,0^ required.
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at
, SMALL PROFITS MADE
he
i ON FARMS REPORTS SHOW
| Washington, Oct. 30.?Comparaj
tively few farmers have made large j
[as profits these recent years of high!
prices, if figures brought out in a!
on !
survey of three localities by the Uni- j
ve ted States department of agriculture
can be taken as indicative of the '
:t- country as a whole.
ire The figures on farm profits, coverhe
ing seven years in two areas and five
years in a third were made public by
the department Monday. They show:
as That comparatively few of the far;C
mers in the groups studied have been
te. making large profits during the re?
cent years of compartively high
iC- prices.
he That their average return on inhe
vestment increased from about 4 per
nd cent in 1912 to 7 per cent in 19l8.
ed That most of the farmers are mak>1
ing less than S500 cash per year over
rs and above the things the farm furor
nshes toward the family living, which
however, constitute a very important
ey factor.
he These facts brought out in this reof
port are of special significance, since
e- they represent the jesults of continy,
uous studies of the same farms ex- i
tending over a longer period of time ]
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et them here at pr
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per ]
10 $2.80 to
ck of new merchandi:
a guaranteed reduction
lonths. The goods a
have visited our ston
le lines are still complet
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than do any other such investigation
thus far completed by the depart
ment.
Indicate Trend of Farm Returns.
Specialists of the office of fain
management and farm economics
who have conducted these investiga
tions, say that while the results wil
not justify making flat generaliza
tions as to what farm profits are fo
the country as a whole, they believ
they should have weight in the con
sideration of the general problem
as indicative of the trend of farn
returns in representative farming sec
tions.
The three groups of farm studie
are in Washington county, Ohio, (2!
farms,) hill country, 7 years, Clintoi
county Indiana (100 farms, corn bel
7 years), and Dane county, Wiscon
sin (69 farms, dairy region 5 years.]
Representatives of the departmen
visited these farms year after year
taking records covering the farm bus
iness under the following heads:
Distribution of farm area; eta]
yields; amount of work, stock and o:
other livestock; amount of labor us
ed; amount and distribution of tarn
capital; amount and distribution o
receipts and expenses; value of th
family living obtained from the farm
amounts of the more important prod
ucts sold and precies received.
From the figures tnus obtained tb
farm income (receipts less expenses
and the labor income (farm incom
less 5 per cent on investment) hav
teen computed for each farm an<
for each group of farms.
One Group Made $610 a Year.
The average farm income of h
twenty-five farmers visited Washing
ton county, Ohio, for the seven year
1912-18 was $610; the labor incom
$276; the return on investment, 4j
per cent. In addition to the farm in
come the farmers had food, fuel an<
house rent, estimated to be worth
on the average, $359 per year. Fo
1912 he farm income of these farm
averaged $456, and for 1918 the av
erage was $719. These farms are ii
a hilly secion, where he soil is not es
pecially fertile.
The one hundred farmers in Clin
ton county, Indiana, being on bettei
land than the Ohio farmers, made i
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of the season's
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of the price of ne
re moving fast and
; during the past 1
:e and we are addim
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s correspondingly better showing* in t
" Their farm incomes averaged $1,826 conr
for the seven years, 1910 and 1913- ^ea
per
18, and their labor incomes $558. Rett
! ove
I turn on capital was 5.7 and food, ^vc
fuel and house rent furnished by the the
1 farm $425. The arevage farm income fan
flioco forme inproocn^ frnm $1 9Q9
- ..iv*v?uvu wx 9 L'UII]
r in 1910 to $2,978 in 1918. to i
e The farm income of the sixty Wis- vest
. consin farms averaged $1,293 for the j;
i, six years, 1913-18, the labor income
m $408 and return on investment?de.
termined by deducting from the farm caSf
income the value of the farmer's la- in?
s bor?was 4.1 per cent. The average witl
5 farm income ranged from $1,079 in cre?
a 1913 to $1,990 in 1918. On most of in \
I these farms the principal source of chai
income is dairying. tun
I Some Had no Labor Income. larg
k Of the 185 farms in the three areas the
, none made a labor income of $1,000 ger,
for every year of the study, but eigh- thin
teen in the Indiana area and seven terr
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merchandise at rer
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irprise you ?
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per garment
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1 to our stock daily.
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Abbeville, South C<
;he Wisconsin area made labor inle
averaging more than $1000 per
r for the period. Four farmers (2
cent of the entire number) made
r SfiOft lnhrvr incnmp pvurv vpar.
iraging labor income and loss over
whole time, 15 per cent of the
ners failed to make any labor inie
at all. Ten per cent failed even
nake 5 per cent, interest on in;ment
in any year of the study,
epartemnt specialists point out
; though farm incomes in most
js showed a marked increase durthe
years 1916-18 as compared
i incomes for 1912-15, these inises
are more apparent than real,
iew of the decrease in the pursing
power of the dollar. The
lover for the recent years was
;er than for the earlier yearf, tarf
returns were relatively little lar,
if measured, in terms of the
gs it would buy rather than in
ns of dollars and cents.
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