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I 2 THE QGDEN STANDARD-EXAMINER MONDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 13, 1920. H
IPHR COSTS "
OVER DOUBLED
Cost of Living Survey By Na
tional Board Reveals Some
Interesting Figures
SEW YORK. Bept. 13. Reportl (
.i r.jrvcv of Hie covi of living 'OntraM-
with living coma of pre-war times
mail! public last night by trie National
Industrial Conference bonrd, show
that the increase In the tlx-year period
I ruling Jul) 1 has been 104 . per cent.
The lUniMT show an lm riaf of 19
' i el OVnl In the Ins: year mid 5 per
rtnt from March to Jul;, 1JO0
The survey thnnn I hut food Increas
a 1 r pf r ( rnt In the six-yenr period;
kl-.elter 38 per rent; clothing IS per
. nt, fuel, heut nml llfhl II p". cent,
mid sundries If per cent.
These percentage weie derived
liom figures obtained from retail deal
er in larger cities
Sugar climbed 812 per rni; pota
toes 368 per cent; flour 1 4 per cent.
. urn meal 133 per cent; rice 11 P'
em; bread 118 per rent, ham 112
per -nt. lambs 109 per cent; hens
t'7 per cent, and pork chops 101 per
tnU Detroit ehowr-d .m Increase In
food prices of 18S per cent, the highest
(he 39 cities In which figures were
collected, while I.os Angeles was Ion -I
l with 9& per cent.
Figures supplied by 381 real estate
b :(l and civic organic itlona In v ir
tually all cities of more than 60,000
five a rent Increase percentage of 58.
i:ighty-slx cities. Including New York.
I'hlcago. Phlludolphia. Duirolt and ls
knr..l.u uhr.u nrl Ini r.i)fl of infjii"
I than 5u per cent. Boston. St Lou Is,
Han Francisco nnd a number of other
smaller cities, showed less than SI pgr
i nt nnd In some the Ini r ase ran as
low as ten per cent.
Car fare increased in IJn citle und
remained unchanged In 33. Hard coal
prices Increased K1.4 to 85. i I". per cent;
oft coal 103.1 per cent and gas nnd
electricity, for domestic use, 15 per
rent.
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PRISONERS AT OMAHA
SAW WAY TO FREEDOM
H iiMaiia. Neb., Sept. II. Two
H oner. evraped from the Douglas coun-
H ty Jail last night by sawing the barn
Hj from an outside window and climbing
B IbWII some scaffolding used by work-
h men In repairing damage done during
H the riot of last Septcmbei 29. Th-
H eeoapod prisoners were Russell Bailey,
H south .Pie. iimnha. and Frank Belle)
H of Thurston. Neb. Hoth were bring
H held on charges of burglary.
H It ' II B. Kgnt, a prisoner held;
H In tonne, tlon with the finding of twlnj
H babies In a cintern here In July, dls-
H covered the eenpe and reported It to
B the
y. S. TURNS TO
MEXIGOfBH OIL
Immense Resources of South
Shown By Report of Fed
eral Department
WASHINGTON. Sept. 13 Mexico
promises to become the oil re, i voir
i th wr rn haniaphfre. the .ie.
Ipnrtment of commerce dei inre.i sun
Idav In a review of the petroleum In
'dustry in that country. With inrre.is
iel consumption In lift United States
I l-1 1 to exhaust producing fields hero
'within twenty or twentv-flve e:irs,
IfeXlCOi 'be statement and. "offers the
'most encouragement to the American
oil Industry, both for present produc
tion arul geogrn phlen I situation."
Kxhatistlon of fort per cent of the
producing fields of the I'nlted States,
'tbe department's review stated, has
caused Mexico to take second place In
oil production although only about
twelve per ent of the potential ca-
ptvClty Of Mexican wells Is being pro
Idured. exports from Mexico during the
f rsi six months of 1920 totalled o.
Inoti.OOO ha-rels. an Increase of 72 per
l . ni over 1919. At this rate total ex
. ports for the year are expected to
reach 135,000.000 barrels.
The review states that of the 231,-
.'.0 sniare miles of Mexl. an territory
j believed to contain oil deposits, not
'ir.ore than Joo m4uare miles are being
exploited. Curtailment .of production'
is ascribed to lack of transportation
'and storage facilities and to the un-J
titled political conditions.
' Of the $350,000,000 estimated to be,
Invested In the Mexican oil industry,
..lout 70 per cent represents Amerl-1
ran capital, the review says. About 27 1
cent is Krltish and Dutch capital
land 3 per cent Mexican and other in-1
It crests. Twenty-seven companies are
gd ilng oil In Mexico, seventeen of
hl h are American owned, five Rpon-;
lah Mexican, three Dutch and two
British
The United States received 7 1 per
cent of the oil exported during the
I first alx months of 1920.
CHINATOWN SIGHTSEERS
SEE EXCITING DRUG RAID
i:w YORK Sept. 13. Throngs of
teeeri to "Chinatown" were pro-
ul -I thrills unexpected last night
when police raided an alleged opium'
den iii L'eyer street, hopping awaV
inors to gain entrance and pursuing
Inmates across roofs.
A truyfull of opium and pipes was
thrown Into the street from a win-'
dow, showering the crowd of onloolt-'
era. After detectives had battered'
(1uun the doors and seised a iuantlt
Of drugs and smoking paraphernalia.'
hey arrested three Chinese i
RIVER GIVES UP
BODY OF WOMAN
Body of Heiress Recovered By
Party on Potomac: Hus
band Is Held
V NSHINOT'N. Sept 13. L0en-
d fini the bed of the I'oi.imir after'
S fleet of tugs had churned up the
.iters, the body of Mrs Oeitrude VI- j
'ger Kuelilmg. heir-s t a part of ii
n llllon dollar estate In Detroit, wae
Ifound Sunday but her husband, Roy I
li. Kuehling. still was held penrlingi
the remuit of the Inquest.
On the body there were no marks In-1
dlcatlng that death had been laused
by any other means than drowning
KuSblfng was arrested Thursdax after
hud reported thai l I I Ife was
d owned while they were canoeing
w ednsedsy night:
The canoe capa'zed In relatively
shallow wnter, according to Kuehllng s
tcry. but he waa unable to save his
1 .te The police developed a case In
Whli i Kuehllng and hl wife, whom
IhS had married after she was divorced
fiom Oeorge Osgood of Detroit. Were
made to appear to have frequently
auarroled and to this was added the
daeleretlon Of nn attorney that he had
'been Instructed by Mrs. Kuehllng to
l egin a suit for divorce charging cru
elty. Mrs. ftuehllnaT! former husband.
m))0 la u Detroit re.il estate dealer,
fime to W:iahington last week to as
sist In the searrh for the body and as
he told the police, to aid In clearing
;p the ctiae.
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YARDSMEN'S STRIKE
NOT CALLED OFF,
ASSERTS CRUKAU
CIlICA(;i. Sept 13 John
Qrtrnau, preHident of the Chicago
Yardmen's association, one of the
unions which called the swltch
men'l ptrlke April 1, today de
nied wid. lv circulated reports that
the strike had been called off.
Strikers In other centers refused
to even take a voto on ending the
like Mr Orunau said, while the
men m the Chicago district voted
1 1,074 to 21 304 to remain out.
M r OniMU'g figures are disputed
by T J. MelsenhclOer. hond of
the yardmen In the Kansas City
district, who Is here. He paid the
Chicago majority in favor of re
maining on strike was 1.0R4. but
declined to say bn what informa
tion he based his figure?
WRIGLEYS
I tfS$ a Parage
I sf Before the War
I 6Sj( a Package
I 9 During the War
I 4P a packa8e NOW SSI
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I So Does the Price I
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HEART OF FUND I
SCANDAL IS OUT
G. 0. P. Freed of Everything
Except Violation of
Good Taste
By MARK SULLIVAN
iPelitical Correspondent for the New
York Evening Poit)
CHI AOO. Sept l.i The sfriii-orisi
comujl.tee efl hold other hearings
later on But everybody here believes
that the heart of whatever is in this'
Republican campaign fund scandal is1
now out. Your correspondent has
been at the hearings every day this 1
week nnd has scanned or read closely
all the testimony of proceeding days i
Based on this together with knowl
edge of the feelings of the officials and 1
newspaper mn who have participated
In the hearings, anyone who ap
proaches it free of partisan Interest
DUt conclude that the Republicans,
are exculpated wholly from Cox's
charged m the languace Lo which Cox
rande them. And are practically ex
culpated from evcr thinq except what
s hardlv more serious than a violation
of taate.
ACTS OF VIRTUE
The truth Is. Will Hays, and who
ever other Republican officials were
responsible, are being penalized for
what (s essentially on their part an art
of virtue, or at the least an act of
prudence The system of both parties
in every' presidential campaign up to
'be present has been for the national
chairman, or some other party loader!
to go to rich men. with his hat in his
hand, and ak these men to contribute
large suma fifty thousand dollars, or
a hundred thousand dollars or evfn
more. That system was bad. that old
system was subject to charge? such as
'ox made of letting rich men buy an
underhold on the government
That relation was tainted with the i
atmosphere of obligation on the part of
the chairman and expectation of re-1
ward on the part of the contributor.
That relation was close to fitting tho
word "sinister." Both parties have al
ways recognized these obligations to I
blR contributors Wilson himself rec I
opnlzed them and paid them off with I
ambassadorships Thai. I say. was the
old system. This year Will Hays either
rirtttOUftly came to the conclusions that i
the system was bad. or prudently do I
elded that public opinion had become
critical of this method of finani ini;
campaigns Everybody knows perfect
ly well that the Republican campaign
this year could have been financed
"nil an lunui ,ip i im-
by this system Everybody knows that
Will Hays could hae gone along the
business streets of New Yorlt and I'reil
I'pham along the business streets of
( hiciigo. and In those two cities alone
could hove raised enough money to
run the campaign
EASY TO GET COIN
They could have raised it from fifty
or a hundred men. and the very small
ness of th BTOUP coupled with the bip
ness of the individual contribui ion,
wouid have constituted Just such a
sinister situation as Cox alleged about
this wholly different situation to get
av.ay from this old system Will Hays
planned an orpainzot Ion for raising his
campaign fund through lens of ihou
sands of small contributions. wlthOUl
allowing any one man to contribute
more than a thousand dollars. There
can be no doubt whatever that this
? stem is vastly more desirable gnd la
deglfned to prevent exactly what Cog
charged. The getting of an underhold
on the covernmeni b. any small roup
of men In a mere detail of pnitinc the
system into effect Will Hays did the
only thing that has Justified all th"
commotion that Cox staried He pu.
In charge of it one of these profession 1
si "drive' managers a man who had
rvperienre in raising monev this way'
foj- the Y M C. A . for ihe communitv
camp, for the Roosevelt memoripl snd
other causes It was in the methods of
this that the only things were (tone
that are questionable and it rir.ubtful
whether even thev are questionable
in anv respee' except taste
COLLECTING JARGON
In writing ihe literature for the drive
and in letters to his assistants through
out the country, he Introduced a pro
reeclongl money collecting Jargon that
included those phases which ar- now ,
practically the only things the Perao
crats have to fall back on to Justify
their Jibes at the Republicans. It was
he who kept boosting 'he figures fur
QtlOtas ne Knew mere van nu -j-n-tlon
of getting, ano h-d to be over
ruled. It was he who said Boys, get
the money." and told the local collec
tors to have "an insp. rational address"
delivered at ihe luncheons tendered
to the prorpertlve victims There wa
a faked uplift turn to It which was
very offensive to persons of any U--N
But It was exactly the same son of
thing which these collectors had
learned and practiced In other drives
The ribald politician" spoke of thc.
collectors as "Fred I'pham's Pfalm
singers" The only risk the Repub
hcans run. and it Is some risk. Is that
the public will now visit upon the Kr
publican party the accumulated resent
Iment against alx or seven year. of har
'rassraent from "drives" and profcloD
al " drive" managers The public has
become tired of this mixture o' niel
mony and salesmanship It Injured ir
reparably the Interchurch world move
ment. a movement which. If it anlma
tion had been more exclusively spirit
ual. might have had results beneficial
almost beyond the Imagination, but it
fell too much Into the hands of th ?e
drive managers who measured reault.t
fej the same standard as a traveling
salesman Of course. In a way tho
Republicans are saved by this same fa
miliarity of the public with drives
It enables the public to understand
pretty clearly Just hat has happened
in this case, snd to distinguish be
tween whet has happened and what
Cox charged had happened
MANY COUNTERATTACKS
I can't see that the Democrats have
got an'hlng out of this ep.sode ba
tree. There was constant whlpsawlng
'beck and forth between the Republican
members of he inveetigatine commit
tee and the Iemocratlc members and t
whenever the Democrats seemed to
bSVe. unearthed something that looked
bad tor the Republicans the Repub
:ran senators mere sble to counter
with something ths' looked juat as bad
for the Iemoerata. In fact, the Demo-j
crane national committee had devised'
0!rHEUMKMl I
TONIGHT TILL WEDNESDAY W SJ
Shows Start at 6:15 and 8:30 if I Ad M
I Two Big Br- I
ROY "HIRAM" CLAIR S W j k
MACK SENNETT'S I A
super-comedy j
A MATRIMONIAL HYSTERIA SWsK L MKB
PRICES 25c, 40c. 50c. A
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land installed a scheme much like this
and designed to raise just as much
j money. But after spending a lot of
money on It thev abandoned it.
They didn't seem to have gotten a
j manager as good as the Republican got
I or as bad The truth Is. I think that
Jin their hearts the Democratic leaders
! suspect there isn't much in the scan
dal. but are anxious to go on for the
Mke of such material as they may get
for local use In cities and communities.
Whenever they can show that an un
popular man In any city is a contrib
utor or collector of money for the ki
publicans they like to bring it out for,
local effect In fact, for all of thlH'
week the Investigation has been I
mere battle for headlines; scmetlmes, J
I am sorry 'o say. a fight to bring!
about t ppearances likely to mislead the
public. The committee ir going to ad
Journ for some time. My guess Is they'
would like to adjourn for good. But
that ihe Democratic minority want tho
Republicans to mak the move o quit 1
While- the Republic." r.s fet r to mak '
thet move lest the Democrats claim :
there was more they could haV 8
bronchi out if the Repub I.e.. nr. had HO
topped 'he whole thing had bCCOmf
full of the pettiest kind of polities
I doubt very much If this campaign
fund hcandal can be kept r.llve by Cox
to the end of 'he campaign in the
role of n major issue which for some
time it haa hid
(Copyright, 1920. by the New York
Evening Post.)
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Iii theory, Sn article lost in the j
wash is valued by the laundry at
22 times the cost of washing and
ironing It.
SPANISH FARMERS
ARE EVICTED FROM
I DUKE'S HOLDINGS
GRENADA, Spain. Bepi 1 1
Six thousand farmers assembled
here tod i t" 'ipport the tenants
of the Duke of Wellington In their
protect against the action of the
duke's steward in ejecting them
from the farms that their families
had worked for a century.
A resolution was adopted In
forming the duke that the action
of'hl steward mennt ruin to the
Inhabitants or twenty v illages and
hamlets.
Another resolution jiropoard
that the duke should renounce
property rights granted him fam
ily by the Corte of Cadl-s after
the peninsular war of 180S-1MI
hihI asked the government to nc- ,
nulre the proprrty by redemption.
The ffiaai meeting, which waa held
In a bull ring, was extremely
stormy.
NEGRO TAKEN FROM JAIL;
SHOT BL MISSISSIPPI MOB
Mi:i:IDlAN. Mlae., Sept. 13. Will
Echela, negro, recently convirtsd of
the niuidcr of Henry YV Da via an
r.ged night watchman at u lumber
i ..( waa taken from Jail at juitinan
Sunday by u small party of meti, car-j
rled two miles into the country, andj
aot to death. Ech'els wa arntencedj
lo be hanged last Friday but his exe- j
rutlon waa atayed by an appeal to the
Nlsslaa.ppl supreme court
University of Utah
To Open September 27 f
.-ALT LAICS, Sept 13 "Tha -T
i of the ita,-- orn determined
to maintain the educational supre
mocy of this state. Never before ha pft
I there been such an Interest manlfstert
In higher education there la a new ; By-
: dlsatlon among the people of ou: f.
i state of the power of trained Intclll "f
; gence '' This statement was made b cf
, Prealdent John A NVidtoe. of the UW
I veraily of Ctah. In speaking of the Jp"
I preparation being mad- at the state X 1
ipr'ltnilon for the opening. Septembet --ga
departmei ts of microscopic
j anatomy, commercial engineering and JBal
'nursing have eeii organised at the
iinlver'l'v In addition, there will be Tanas
re v ,,.'iti s offered In practically
l ever) department. The faculty haa j
In i lin i .mm il tiv '.ii i ml .letalled 1
j plana have been ma Je tor art unusual- ,
Ti i -1 o 1 1 f . . r v ea r have alBlSaafc -
til II ;fe,
J g. i .aBaS
Slimmer - Iut' v-Aiitmt J7. J
r "in hi- er.nlua "sn
if the eiui of every quartan al .
Kootbili 'ill be -he first 1 I Ivltjr -
enK.igeil In after tpe opening of MChOflH
"t itea.
The R. O. T. C stable are being gH
structed. rs'siiring mounted wort for
R 0 t C atudenta ----t--.
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