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CREAM
Live I'oultrj and Kl ?-
Heaningsen Produce Co.
TAt'OMt. WASH.
Write fur prices nntl tag*
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504 MAIN ST. PHONE 289
GRAZING LAND
See. a, township 12 N., range 5
W . 1 mile southeast of McCor
inick, Wn.; hill land, clay soil,
well watered, suitable for graa
ing purposes only; price $3.00
per acre; terms SSOO aash, bal
ance payable in six equal an
nual payments at 6 per cent.
Liberty Bonds taken at par.
Weyerhaeuser Timber Co.,
Tacoma Bldg., Taeoma
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Have Tour
CLEANING, PRESSING AND
REPAIRING
done by anion tailors at tlio
City Dye Works
101 W. Fourth Phone «84
WE CALL AND DELIVER
THE OXFORD BOWLING
ALLEY
There's where the Good fellows
Meet
Braeger's Place
"Home of the Rummy Club"
IIS WEST FOURTH ST.
Raw- Furs
RAW FURS ARB BRINGING
THK HIGHEST PRICKS
BVBR KNOWN TO
THK FUR TRADB
I am la the markst to buy
largo quantities of muskrats,
ooyotes, rabbit skins, mountain
beavers and all other Raw Furs.
Bead for price list and tags.
OSCAR GARD
fT Marts* Street Seattle. Wash.
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MONUMENTS
CALL ANDRBEE OUR
LARGE STOCK
or write for prices.
We Erect Monuments
Anywhere.
PUGET SOUND MARBLE
A GRANITE 00.
Established 1174
2006 Tint Ave., Seam*
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PARK HOTEL
H. C. Grlßth, Prop.
Corner Eighth and A Sts.. Tacoma
European plan. Everything new
and modern. SI.OO up.
Saipple room for salesmen.
NOTICE
Now Is the time of year to have
your roof put in condition for the
rainy season. We do 1 shop work of
all kinds, at 407 West Fourth St.
Phone S7OL.
J. H. OI.MSTKAD,
MJ Sherasaa St.
Office Hours: 9 a. m. to 5:30 p. m.
Phone 251
DR. MARK ROSLER
DENTIST
White House Olympla, Wash
JESSE T. MILLS
Prafeaaloaal Funeral Director ami
Fmbaliurr. I.ady AaalMuut.
Office: 414-16 Franklin Street.
Phone 212
Farmers
Bring in your live poultry,
dressed veal and pork.
We pay highest market
prices.
PALACE MARKET
127 East Fourth St. Olyinpia
L. P. Cole, Manager.
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THE WRONG END
With all due tespeet to the attorney general of the United States, we
cannot resist expression of 'be opinion that he is starting at the wrong
end of the game when he asks local committees to investigate and estab
lish a "fair price list." He there concerns himself with only retail priees
the final result of all the prices that have gone before —and glosses
over every factor upon which these prices are based, apparently acting
upon the assumption that everybody who had anything to do with the
article before it got to the retailer was a saint, and the retailer the sinner
If he would concern himself with the manufacture and wholesale price, if
he would and could see to it that the price of the article was right when
it reached the retailer, the retail price will take care of itself, for there
is competition In the retail market if there isn't anywhere else.
We think, therefore, that the local merchants who declined to serve
cn the so-called price-fixing committee here, were fully justified in their
action. The fact that they were to be members subjected them to some
unfavorable criticism to which they were honestly not entitled, for the
reasons just stated. The local merchant just now is at the mercy of the
manufacturer and wholesaler —if he wants to do business, he has got to
have goods, and to get the goods he has to pay whatever the manufacturer
and the wholesaler want to charge him. Time was when the manufacturer
and wholesaler were anxious to sell to him and made attractive price
inducements, enabling the merchant in turn to make special prices to his
customers; but that time is not the present. Now it is a case of taking
what he can get and being glad he can get it, at any price.
There may have been some profiteering by retailers in the big cities
during the war, but not in the smaller cities and towns, for here the
market is more limited, all transactions more personal and the lifetime
success of the merchant more directly dependent upon lv.s ability to
convince his customers that he is giving them a "square deal. Hence
the futility as well as the foolishness of this "hurrah" about the local
price-fixing committees, insofar as the smaller places are concerned at
least, while the manufacturer and the wholesaler are permitted to continue
on their merry, money-coining way, unhampered and, apparently, e\en
unsuspected.
SOMETHING WORTH NOTHING.
Generally, In all this fuss about the cost of living, the thing we think
of first when that phrase is spoken is foodstuffs, and clothing, shoes, and
such furnishings enter but incidentally in the discussion. Yet the survey
made by the United States department of labor and announced during the
past week showed that the cost of clothing and like necessaries of life had
increased four times as much as food, since December, nineteen seventeen.
Pood, so this survey revealed, had increased twenty per cent during that
period, but these other items had gone up eighty per cent.
So when we tackle the food question and' make all the hue and cry
about it, we are really attacking only the least offending feature of the
situation. It 1b bad enough, but the other is so much worse that it ought
to receive greater attention. Strangely enough, while the lower house
of congress this week directed the federal trade commission to probe the
high price of shoes and the reasons therefor, it refused to instruct the
commission to investigate the clothing situation. Eventually, that may
come.
FIFTEEN THOUSAND DOLLARS.
A ransom of fifteen thousand dollars has been paid and the two
rescued aviators are, as this Is written, leading another "punitive expedi
tion" into Mexico after some more bandits, while the state department has
informed Carranza that the United States will expect "adequate relief."
And memory runs back a few short years to another "punitive* expedition"
and to the fact that we did not "get Villa" and prompts the wonder whether
that hasn't something to do with the present deplorable situation.
Certainly, we have been doing a lot of "horsing around" with respect
to Mexico and the spectacle 'of the government of the United States paying
a ransom for two of its soldiers is not at all pleasing. These comments, of
course, touch only the surface of our Mexican relations —we do not assume
to be familiar with all itß intricacies —but somehow or another it seems to
us that it is about time that we not only "get" Villa, and these bandits and
the others who have murdered and raped our citizens, but "get" the whole
darn shootin' match of 'em, from Carranza down.
There is some satisfaction in knowing in this connection, that the
war department has a considerable body of troops strung all along the
Mexican boarder and has concentrated a tremendous amount of -supplies.
THE COMMENT OF AN OBSERVER.
William Allen White, the famous Kansas editor, life-long Republican
until he became a Progressive party leader, contributes to a recent issue
of the Saturday Evening Post an enlightening article on President Wilson's
participation in the peace conference, what appears to us to be the most
frank, honest and reasonable discussion of that situation that has been
published. It is neither blindly nnd wholly lauding the president, nor
kiindly and wholly blatherskiting him. Carefully he points .out the
v.ith some of the things he did and his manner 1 of doing them, but he says
president's own limitations, temperamental and otherwise, and takes issue
in the closing paragraphs:
"Americans always must read with pride that their president more
than any other man in the world is responsible for Riving the world its
first draft of a real League of Nations. If he had not come to Europe the
; idea would have been abandoned. Clemenceau publicly declared in Jan
i uary that he was for the old-fashioned idea of the balance of power. The
! British understanding to which he referred seemed to imply that Great
! Britain also favored a balance of power. Italy and Japan had no other
■ thought. The League of Nations before President Wilson came to Europe
was a pacifist's dream —iridescent but also evanescent. He made it real.
For it he gave everything—even his good name. He sacrificed profoundly
for the idea, and saved it to the world. He could not have done this by
'delegating his power. His influence from Washington would have been
negligible. But in Paris—grotesque figure though he was in European
eyes—he was powerful. His words had weight. They prevailed. They
have made a world league for peace and not for war one of the inevitable
things which humanity will bring into being by the very act of longing
i for it.
"It matters little what, happens right now to the idea of the League of
Nations. Time is long, and the deep aspirations of men will wait. Rut
our American democracy may be honestly proud that it has raised up one
v»-ho put into the hearts of all the world, because we sat him high where
he could speak to ali the world, the aspiration of our hearts for the coming
of a peace of good will among men of good will."
Getting people together—that's what counts these days, more even
than ever before, and it has always been essential to proper understanding.
Such picnics as those at Yelm and Rochester last week, of the Grange this
week, and the school clubs next week, are right in line with the need o f
the day, albeit they rnry not seem of importance for other than mere social
gatherings. What's the matter with having a real county picnic here in
Olympia. with the city as the host and everybody else as guests?
THE WASHINGTON STANDARD, OLYMPIA, "WASTE, FRIDAY, AUGUST 22. 1919
IF BETTMAN IS ON THE LABEL, YOU'RE SAFE
CLOTHCRAFT CLOTHES
When you buy your clothes here you can do so with the absolute certainty
of getting the lowest price th.it can be obtained anywhere.
Hart Schaffner & Marx and
Clothcraft Clothes
offer unusual values and yet sell at a very modest price. The tailoring,
styles and fabrics are unexcelled and the n ear is guaranteed.
Bettman's
EVERYTHING TO WEAR FOR MEN AND BOY
WHAT HAPPENED IN OLYMPIA AND
STATE TWENTY-FIVE YEARS ABO
From The Washington Standard for
Friday Evening August 24, 1804.
Vol. XXXIV. No. 40.
J. L. Wilson wants promotion He
says he will not be a candidate for
re-election to the lower house, but
will submit his claims to the legisla
ture for senatorial honors.
The vote on the woman suffrage
amendment to the state constitu
tion, stoog, in the New York consti
tutional convention the other day, 93
for to 85 against.
A playful cow derailed a freight
train on the Seattle, Lake Shore &
Eastern railway near Seattle Monday,
by which a brakeman and the fireman
lost their lives.
Lynching in Oregon —W. S.
Thompson was taken from the county
jail at Lake View, Oregon, Monday
night by masked men and hung. He
was confined on a charge of assault
with a dangerous weapon.
If you want to see a busy scene,
go to Capitol hill and witness the
process of grading for the new state
building.
The street preacher promises to
tell his hearers, tomorrow evening,
where hell is located and its dimen
sions.
Excavation Begun—Monday even
ing Martin Welch, who has the con
tract for the Capitol excavation, ar
rived with his procession of wagons
and scrapers and took up their quart
ers at Fr.rquhar's barn on Jefferson
street. They left Tacoma at 7 a. m.
and made the trip in 12 hours, with
a stoppage of. one hour at noon for
lunch. The outfit consists of 13 men,
14 scrapers, 8 wagons, a buggy team
and saddle horse. Mr. W. began
operations Tuesday with a force of
25 men. The contract calls for mov
ing 8,000 yards of earth and 80
stumps.
Hop-picking will soon begin.
Olynipia University opens its first
term on September 18th.
It is a happy school raarm who has
her school engaged.
The camp meeting at Little Rock
closed Sunday evening.
The roof of the Williams block is
receiving n coat of coal-tar.
Men are engaged in putting the
roof on the new sawmill at the foot
of Jefferson street.
A partial eclipse of the moon will
occur on September 14 and 15. visible
in all parts of America.
Mr. James of Mound Prairie is said
to be an heir of a large estate which
awaits distribution in England.
It revives the spirit of olden days
to hear the machinery running in the
Olympia sawmill and the pipe factory.
The contractor on the capitol ex
cavation is able to hire all the labor
ers he wants at $1.50 per day to work
10 hours.
The New Park Band, under the
leadership of Professor Harris, gave
an excellent open-air concert in the
bandstand last Saturday evening.
A bicycle tournament ic to be held
in this city September Bth. Delega
tions are expected from Portland,
Tacoma. Seattle and other cities.
A hopeful young man from abroad
inquires if he had better come to
Olympia and begin the study of law.
Yes, we answer, come by all means.
There are only about 46 lawyers here
now, and any day when the tide Is
coming in they can be seen in squads
fishing from Long Bridge to get a
mess for dinner.
Miss Maggie Becse, a sister of Mrs.
Frank Littlejohn, fell from the bridge
near the Port Townsend Southern
depot Sunday evening and was quite
severely stunned, for she remained
unconscious about half an hour after
she fell.
The engagement of Miss Elizabeth
M. McDowell of this city to Dr. Ira
M. Price of Chicago was announced
this week by her sister, Mrs. F. W.
Bateson.
Linias La Fountain and Cora Day
ton, both of this city, obtained a mar
riage license in Tacoma Tuesday.
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Shoes Jj]
School or Sunday School
«u.
Good Shoes f fl
J'bwUls
and Good Service
Buster Brown Shoe Store
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GOING UP
y
Contrary to expectations, shoes are again advancing
in price. Thanks to an error on the part of the manufac
turer, wc received several times the number of shoes that
we had ordered. As these were bought at the old price,
we find ourselves in the fortunate position of being able'
to offer reliable footwear at considerably less than the
present market value. All styles, from the trimmest Eng
lish shape to the broad toe army last.
GOTTFELD'S
211 EAST FOURTH STREET
How Much Should I Fay?
wfc. at A&Y there g a tnid-road between extravagance
\sA ~24/ «y and thrift. Let us advise you how to buy
TOY &F r 'S ht - FRANK C. HART & SONS, Tacoma.
TO Established 1889
A big crowd of Knights of Colum
bus from Shelton were the guests of
the members of the local Council at
their annua) picnic at Hicks lake last
Sunday. Everybody had a jolly time,
the afternoon being spent in playing
various games and indulging in ath
letic contests and water sports, prizes
for which wore donated by Olympia
and Shelton merchants.
Mrs. Eagle Freshwater and two
children plan to leave Sunday on a
two months' Eastern trip, visiting her
old home near Clarksville, Tenn., and
her husband's parents in Delaware,
Ohio.
James Parker Browner of this city
and Jennie M. Connelly of San Fran
cisco obtained a marriage license here
Tuesday.