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OFFICIALS FEAR FARMERS'REVOLT I Replies to Questionnaire Re garded as Threatening Economic Structure MIDDLEMAN'S PROFITS MATTER OF COMPLAINT WASHINGTON. Jan. 31—Indications o' a wld spread spIçU of unrest and dis satisfaction among the farmers of the country, so threatening as likely to disturb the existing economic stiuc turc, is considered by Governmcirt of tlclals to b: revealed In more than 40,000 replies to a questionnaire rote Id ly sent out by the Post Olllce Depart ment. The replies as thus far d'g sl-d were summarized in a report prepartxl by George 1. Wood, sup rnh'ndent of the Post Oflt'c D partmenl's division of rural mal's, and read to the Senate Post (•nice Committee yesterday by -Urnes 1. Hlakslee, Fourth Assistant Postmaster General. The views of the 40.000 or more farmers were obtained by the broadcasting of 210.000 copies of s questionnaire throughout the agricul tural stales asking for suggestions whereby the Post Office Dcpd'Tmeirl m'ght aid In eutlng down tne cost ot living. Answers to the questionnaires hare been com'ng in since the middle uf De cember at th' rate of a thousand a day aw as summarized by officiais, show the niojOr complalnls of the farmers in numerical order to be; Inability to obtain labor to work the farms, hired help and the farm er's chlldr n having been lu-ed to the city by higher wages and easi er living. H'gh profits taken by middlemen for the mere handling of food ip nod nets. k of proper sgencKs of contact between the farmer and the ulll Lae mate consumer. Many nf the replie*, said one official, who had look d over them, probably as many as fifty per cent. Indicate that the writers contempiate either leaving their fa-ms or curtailing acreage under cultivation because of one or more of tbe three major grievances and because of the grnw'rvv feei ng against non-pro due'ng city dwellers. Commont'ng on the r"plle*. .Assistant Postmaster-General Blakslee. said: ' Such a condition at a t'me when the predominant cry is for production ai*l ellll more production, cannot but con st! tute a grave nt nace." Before the Senate Committee, he char acterized the s'tuation as ''disquieting and port ntous of disastrous conse quences." This opln'on was expr ssed by Mr. Blaks'ee after a member of the Senate Commitlo had remarked that the replies seemed to have come "most ly from a bunch of Bolshevists.'' Excerpts from a number of t'ttepg, taken at random from the more than 4'i(in0 alerady on file at the post office department, thought among at Fast a considerable proportion of the farmers of New Eng land the Eastern agricultural section showed the trend of and the mtdd'e Western Stales. "The time Is very near." wrote a far mer at East Chatham. N. Y.. "when we farmers will haye to curtail nroduct'on and raise only what we need for our own use and lot the other fellows look out for themse'ves. Labor unions arc more to blame for the high prices than any one e'se. copie are trying lo gel y for what they don't earn." Wp'tlng from Qualmyo, Mo., another farmer said : "I almost four a famine. Farm help everywhere Is (locking to the city lured by short hours, high wages and th* promise of a good fine Some one, I fear. Is rolng lo suffer if th| s condition is not remedied shortly." Declaring that the whole Warn» fo the high cost of living rest* oft the middleman, another M'ssourl producer advocatod the establishment of mu nlelpal markets to be served by par col p ist direct. "I sell butler fo the dealer for 45 cents a pound" his letter said. " and the some butler sells to the consumer for 80 eents a pound. In Hie d stribut'on we lose nearly ha'f and we lose money on the butter at the first price. Such eon d'lions are causing the farm rs lo leave ihe farm by the thousands. Wo have reached a crisis. "You may ask what we wou'd do w'th the middle men. I will suggest that It be arranged for them to go on lh fa-m and help produce things I understand that they m'ghl not relist' ■work'ng fourteen hours a day. but if we get by the near future there will have* to be some useful work done by every one." Declaring that he works a 240 acre farm without help and that hundreds of other farmers are doing the same, a Revere, Mo,, man declared that ''the p'ace fo start to lower the cost of living Is to cut Ihe wages In the city, which P: have called our farm help (here. We need them on Ihe farm to help Increase production and then we can cut the cost of living." His return for last year averaged *1 a day for himself, a White Water. Mo . man said : "I hope soon to «ce the farmer and consumer gn'ng hand In hand. If not then I am qult'llng." *'I have Just lln'sheq figuring up what the eggs ponltey and cream that I sold last year brought me." another farmer said "and I will not bo In the business next year." The tendency away from the farm fo the city was b'amed by another mid dle Western farmer for the high cost of living. "I attribute It a great deal." he wrote 'to the good times in the eitles The young men can go to the city, and get big pay for eight hours' work, while farmers have to work fourteen lo six teen hours a day at hard manual la bor. All of the young men in this vl vcin'fy of any account go to th» c'tv and there are only a few old men left to farm." Declaring that while the farmer has to fake what the commission man and -etaller w'll pay him for his product, he is compelled tu pay whatever Hi" r asks for his clothes, farm mavhln ry xnd oth'r necessities, another far mer sa'd: • Farmers work from twe've lo six teen hour* a day. City labor works six lo eight hours a day. The city man makes two or three limes ns much as the farm-r. The farmer labors and *rodue* s, bul g* is a smaller return » no. here.- Jg oth ' r d he con & 'I WAS A CARTOONIST QY BIRTH BUT THE CLOTHES BUSINESS jTy / CAME FIRST ^ ^ si tL -W" jUU jrp- ! si 1 —^ I LOOK To •- flllA» 4 foAif rr. r u.l \ n li£ V V>A66lf KM) T **)5» LaowOA>/" ~ r f Me w M j t ÆS • y-U -f- r> ; /, I I T T l / 1 / il 1 , I wS j. - I rfi M m fi! C Owj VV / / lus.' < jlw& lNT 11 // ' j AU.lt» I n (bo Too ! T*i~* 1 IM4 1 I OV / 4 ai nno w M y b«!Tfriend i » / il r •I ; \\\ f 9 v:: ■ X\ • 2 ? },A ■ « AND AT A AT K MILIV 0AIRY HIRfcO B0WUNG FlREO \ Mc as I Know Mystlf * BY EARL Dl'UKOA. The artist who conceived and drew the above car toon, depicting various Jobs he has hold and relinquished. Is Earl Dumpson, 19 years old. a Negro, who Is head dl shwasher In the Hotel duPont. Slnei> the publication In Tho Journal of Dumpson's diamond hestudd if cartoon of Lem Price, escaped murderer, the Advocate, a news paper published In the interest of the Negro race, has st arted a movement designed to send him to the Drexel Art School in Philadelphia. Alt radians at the City Theatres /W: \ ■< à • ■ -r'l j J | \ lniul SNiu»,uue. j ' '■i i..*: • " * ■ m V k i : V I 4 ✓ ■5 -V . 3g » »V« ■A.'i * v < r-4. j[*v 'k ■ :v . . ' ■ Brk'f v ;ja . H.-I éM - v i I 'A Js - St r : » * ■: k 9 V * V * f r m 1 ■it > i f 4 » A Jf i . Vi 0 - IM - mßm Warn S?.. mà W' * V 9Sf. gk r h ; ?. & mw 'i* -, tl i U|H-ii>iig al mi* I'Ujuuu*! ruuruai'y •THF IETTFR OF THE LAW " I lone) Barrvmcve. a member of the beslknown a7dTfler family of Amcr Iran aelnr* and ^tresses, vvho i* here in Wtlm'nglon playing an engagement at the Playhouse In "The Letter of ' the Law." will conclude his local pre j tentation with this evenings perform ance. only the highest express'ons and Words nf praise can be used fo express the real art (hail the actor employs in his expression of Mouzon. the*unserup uious magistrate of the courts of Franc«. Doris Rankin, the star's wife, Is also his leading lady, "SUNSHINE." The cnmb'nallon of the sittrartlveness anq melody of "Sunshine" and IL* pos sibilities and It* presentation of Rich ard Oarle have helped mutually to put both play and star befo-e the Amer ican public. Richard Oarle. vvho Is nl -cady famous .as a com-d'an. has won his best fame In "SimsWno" He has pul Into the clever lines of William Cary Duncan his Inimitable personality l.ha't Is further enhanced by his own witticisms and sayings fh-ough which he has vvon the copulation as one of America's foremost comedians. "Sunshine" has already cnloyed 72 weeks of popularity through the larger cille* of Ihe East, and Is now ready sinner and the farmer will absolutely have to deal direct with one another. •ehe mIdd'-man wants a larger prop' 'ban we are getting wh'le at the same •lime Hie farmer does Ihe hard vvo~k." Declaring that "great, evil* confront us today and hypoer'sy ts In full «wav " a letter from a Hagerstown Md.. far mer read: 'To reduce the cost of my foodstuffs to Ihe consumer you must first furnish me with lt-st class labor at reasonable wages, and. second you must ellm'nate thousands of m'dd'emen vvho »re robb'mr the people vvho'esale." "The price of ev-ryth'n« Ihe farmer has lo buy is st'll goimr up and the nuantity vve can ra'se nrd put on the markrt is steadily go'nr down." a M's sourl farmer wrote. "1 am a small farmer and don't do much else.. We arc all loyal eit'zens, but there Is an awful uneasiness." ''If you could reduce the cost of Rv 'ng." another farmer said "curta'I th' Toss'b'lltics wh'ch are now afford *d I capital to hoard and prntVeer under I fake leg'slat'on—then efforts will pro-Jls duee results." 4 ç ■ / ^ / p / 4 A J 1 * r The Missing Link %\\\\\\\\\\\\\\»<v\\\\\v\\\\\\vv\\\>k\\\YV\\\\\\\\\\\\\V s'VXXXNXVXNXXVvXXXVVVXXN.XXXXNXNXVVVXXXXXXXVN.XXVXVNXVvVVSN V. TFKCAnmCK Y \ « g WEEK OF FEBRUARY 2 y, y y -J y y The Season's Sensation y y y \ y TARZAN y y y 5 I for It* entrane* to New York. There 1 Is only one production and one com pany. and that is the one <o appear In Wilmington at Mi.. Playhouse. Monday. Tuesday and Wednesday, lebruary . J ax u « "SHAVINGS." Yankee wll and humor Is the keen est and dryest of all Amerlo n humors. Joseph C. Lincoln, Ihe author of the Gape Cod stories. Is the keenest writer of this humor, and in his book. "Shav ings." he has Laken M. at Its best. Shavings" has been arranged for presentation on the siege, and It will come to Ihe Playhouse for three days, beginning Thirsday. February 5, with » matinee on Saturday. Edward Ellis Is seen In the title role of the production. •'DERE MARLE.** The famous book of letters, entitled, •Dere Mable," have been dramatized and will form the attraction at fhe Pt y bons as a musical comedy, begin ning Thursday. F'b-uary 12. Louis Bcnnison porlraps the role of Bill. SENNETT GIBES LEAVE TOD\Y. Mack Scnnetl's girls must speed on Ihclp visit to o'her cities and will con clude their Wilmington engagement at the 0't pen today, when they will s'ng. dance and pose for the last limes be fore the audiences in this city. These girls are scheduled and due hack In the studios at a certain and early date, and in order to'be on lime are obl'ged to limit their engagement hex*? lo one week only. and have enjoyed their visit Immensely and have admired Mark Sennett's taste In his selection of b"autles to repre sent him end his standard of comedy and beauty on ilhe stage. known collaborators on plays in this country, p-at wrote "The Walk-'^ffs" for the stage presentation. Its success known lo everyone, Wllmtng'onlons Wilmington "TITE WALK-OFFS." May Allison, who is rem^mbTed hap pily by many patrons for the entertainment and laughs sh« ifford*»d In "Fair and Warmer," recently shown at the theraher. Is returning the fl-sf three days of next week, In her newest vehicle which bears Hie title nf "The Walk-Offs." Frrtiny and Frederic Hoti'on, the h^st May Allison will b« particularly charming in this play that scores so ciety and Idleness. It is cleverly writ ten, cleverly enacted ■ nd most cleverly presented society girl nf today, who I* sensitive as well as Independent, and added to these has a d'sposM'm to spite, the Iltflv blonde star will be In a fitting role. In tho role nf a modu HAWTHORNE OF TTIF IT S. A." Wallace He'd will he the «Car of the whole week, heginn'ng Monday ol the Matestle Theatre, when he make* hi* appftiraneo In '•Hawthorne of the H. S. A." It will be of Interest to know that In this play In Its lec-'t'molo form. Doug's* Fairbanks made his first great success *s a star. K Is a capital romane.» of two young Amerleian chaps who grew t'rer) of be ing taw ele-ts »nq n n borrowed money and In a ren'eq nraeh'pe make a tour of Europe. They (and ip Mpnfe flarfo vvl'h lust one franc anq h-esk lh« bank. The play Is rhiwk full of spirit nnd gingery happenings. AT HE GkhmrK. Tarzan the missing 1'nk, will be one Of the fe-ifuees of o elevcr b'H a* the Garrick Thcat'e next week. This I« one nf the rovslerles tint Wllm'ng fon will hove a chance lo wnxNe vv'fh. VX CÆ.sr.'«V s^T .7 eoTeS ! offering; SI and M ndv Stcbb o-» "»v ■ 1 num's o-Ie+nal ''nuhe«;" Mney. Amcrlcon-Chlnesc sf-ars; den and Daley, two Baeo tvvlr-s. vvho were bu'U for laugh ing purploscs; Rieha-d Venrlnor' and Co. navcl'y enl„»rfa'ner»; Ben Smllh, a clever comedian, etc. Chong and Shel- I n'ffv elrls; the -a RFcri.An rmt." Tod'y will be the la«! shovvhie of Elsie .Innls In "A Regular Girl," which I I- Ends Torrght DON'T MISS THIS LAST OPO.TTUNITY SEE Mack SemrU's Bathing Beauties IN PERSON. In Conjunction With the Showing of • ^ anker Doodle in Berli n QUEEN Next Week's Attractions Best Photoplays AT WILMINGTON'S THEATRES of the BETTER KIND UEEJN '■J THEATRE THEATRE MON., TUES. & WED. ALL WEEK, BEG. MON., A Double B1I That Will Make New Records. Another Screen Classic. Fewer and Belter Pictures. I WALLACE REID May Allison The Beautiful, in Hawthorne of the U. S. A. Flic Walk-Offs M A rparkling comedy of Î New York Society Life, from ; Oliver Morosco's stage sue- of James B. Fagan's celc A smashing picturization You I ked May AIK- ! ; braled play cess. son in "Fair and Warmer" \ AND and you will be delighted with her newest p'eture. Larry Senion j Li a Comedy That's a Winner, "BETWEEN THE ACTS. THURS., FRI. & SAT., TOO MUCH JOHNSON. • I ♦ ♦ • * I I [ I fll tuil Sj Funds Will Be Used to Se cure Quarters For Organization ACCUSED OF ISSUING WORTHLESS CHECKS providing the Walter L. Fox Post Amer, i nn I M on g.f iI„>\« n «viiK loan Lag on, of this town with ade quale quarters members of the o-gan-; Izallon together w th public spirited ■ citizens have docMrd to give a benelll dance and bv-aar In the State Armory on the e'en ng of February 12 I,In coins birthday An excutlve commit lee has been appointed eonutetlng of | Captain John P. I.eFevre, H n ^elph i.ol. W Ilham It Denney and Mr*. Il I. Ileers to arrange for the affair. The committee have deeded to make It a K' nt county affair ami all American Le gion Posts in the county will be asked i to take part In the evening's fcgtlvi- j Des. I Wh'le the main evenl will be the ball, there will also be other kinds amusement*. Including short comedy i sketcJies by local art's!*. A luncheon In connection with the evening's enter talnment will also be served. Dover merchants are taking hold ofjj, the affair and are eonlr'butlng for the bazaar to be held in connection with the ball. The committee 1s also antirl- ! pnl'ng the presence of several dlslln gulshed visitors who w'll be called I A den E Carton a young ho/ was (rraign d b-fore Magistrate E. F Wood voshrday charged with carrying a re volver and was held In MOO ball fori the F<*ruary Kent County Court of General Se-ssions It Is likely (hat the t parties g Hing the revolver will havel to answer a ehange for selling (Irearms j to a m'nor, Chargetl with forg'ng the name nf h's father, Ernest Craig to n ciieck for ♦ 16 50, whleh vnas offered to a Dover merchant, Clar nee Craig Negro, Is b • ng hokl In the K^nty County Jail In default nf fjoo hall for Uie Februars term of the Court of General Sessions Louis Mehr, elalm'ng to be from Penn sylvnnla and ehare d with Issuing thro. worthless cheeks some month* ago h> Louis Gross, a Junk dealer, has been h-oiighl here on requisll'ons psp*rs 'com PhMade'phis to await tria' at lh Special to The Evening Journal. DOVER. Jan II.—With the view of upon lo make short addresses. auclleooei all has delight* d kv ge 'hrougtioul 'The week at the Victoria Theatre. Tlie p-og-am at the Vlrforta Theatre •ek will feature William Far in a new William F"x photoplay next •mm Wolves of the Nlghtt," In which the "Sam«on of the Screen" w'll be seen In whad In advance report says Is one of the finest porlrapals of h's career. The story a* outlined In ad vanee nollees received here, eel'mlnly ?>'«•« dra - mjtle actlon - ictoriA 1 ■ LAST DAY ELSIE JAMS Regular Girl A 1 Next Week, William Farnnni WOT VTS OF THE NIGHT." A story of deep wrong righted by a strong man after suffering all the tortures of Hades. • • Ji February term of lh; Kent Count' Courts. TTif checks which were on 'he Fir mer's National n ■ ,,r Euphrats Pa , were for Unfit, nr,i and *vn) The checks were for scv nl carloads of run, »• d other Ji nk only one of which however. Oro** shipped Mehr who Is a '•dapper" young man claim to have a wife and e.ghl ch.t dr n. 11 «TTC ,* « rvt"n Itluu. Itl. A. U '„ININ V ];| 'S, / i A-rt no im inn .1 l' ' .1 V„i ARx id 1/ oU lUUUS Special to The Even'ng Jntt-nnl OEftRfiETi AVN, Jan. .11.—The Wo man s AuxIII* y of Trinity parish, will k„i.i „ . . . . hold a lea in the parish house next Wednesday afternoon from 4 to 7 "'rh! funeral of M _ nMtv nvk r,,n *' of Mr * - 1 n ok Plls **,„ nf hnnl(> 1>r nr e N j ar ,. (l . n ynn wa< n K |Uon on Thursday Interment was ln Elklon e. niderv. At the pll j,|| P „„p. ,, t the md e«late of the tale Onra" W'dwn lh, of Klkton. ho)l1 veste- dnv thi house on M'srtx sl-ee|. was bousM hv /.bidon p 0W ell for St inn A u-w double dwell, | nv on Orange «tree|_ went to Edward \y Tavtor. of Flktofi fo* flfi'A The FVnnsvlvama fjetil and Power Company, of McCalls Ferry. Pa . have assumed all the debts and obligations 0 f the town of R'slna Sun. for llgh'ng p neposes, amn.int'ng to about fS.OOO, win new supply the town with electric of'current. >|rs. Mary A Denny, se"d 00 years. widow of James Dennv, of Elktnn d'ed a t her home In PMIsdelph'a. on Wed Inesday. She leaves four sons; Frank Denny of E" Ion, lla-ry F. fi nny of Washington. D. C. C C. Denny and HnmH Dennv of Ph'ladelphla. and four, daughters. Mrs Jennie C. Temlln-'on nf Troy. N. Y.. Mrs F.fhe SreaVman. Phil-j adelph'a, Mrs. Louisa Millier. Marble-i head. Mass., and Miss Ada Denny The funeral was held In Elktnn yesterday morn ng and inle m nt made In the Presbyterian cemetery. - The war* » srtleles: will sell 'umlture and ma ehlnery for the coming l"o weeks at.d .petal workers aru under tivorabl* W : n ln-s»c le ruling ^ g » l; g K . -„«w* w |W»3BireSS*5R5»KS- ,v s PLAYHOUSE 3& MON MATINEE WEDNESDAY Alexander Jchn*lone Presents America's Great Pvlusical CcmeJy Cckûiedian J RICHARD ÀJ > _ S *5 y y ' I i », L* In the mest h'iP'nnt nrf'cal arc:e»a of h's distinguished career <>' 1 Gunshin % o : r.' I Music by Alexander Johnstone Book Cl LjtÎ-s by Wm. Cary Dune«? Eroadwr.v Cost, Chirrs and Symphony Orchestra < ■ i Î; % THE PRINCIPALS GERTRUDE ALEXANDER CHRIS TINE, FRANCIS DE SORIA.'KVAL TER M.CULLOUCII, ROSITA MANTILLA. CAROLINE AN DREWS, MILTON DAWSON, GENE RICHARDS AND THE MARVELOUS MURDCCKS PRICES— Evening». 50c to $2.00. P : S Wednesday Popular Maline«, 50c U> $1.09. h 4 ' % t. * 4 a i i Matinee Saturday 3 D c£ s THURSDAY Henry W. Ravage Offer» The Can«. ''lod Cornedv •» i I t j I ■ : a ■ i Frcm Joseph Lincoln'» Best Book Dramatized by Pauline Phelps and Marian Short WITH A GREAT CAST i i| dan Moo pc« Vivian Tobin lilllian Kolb Eleanor Martin din*. Dow dark George Neville Smart Sage Dudley Clt xnenta Dr* cry Tin—sford •Lines Bradbury Doim'o* MnePlierson Miielxell Harris H Shrv'ur-;" Lrat Week. He Says: 1 / "it s iinny; it s tender, and it's true, old hrax '.tbin!,» now and Ü.cn. yoc'rc lai.^,!. ng. Gtcrgc f.!. Cohan Saw * • It tu£* at the The rest of the time 4 > • x FRTCES— Eve«., fCc lo C2. Sat Mat, EOc to $1.C0 COÎrliriv» —3Zays L'cg. THURS., 12 MATINEE SATURDAY 4 fl 61 >! I o % m 4 . ; 4 big fîAIîC KLk'tV musical production Based on the famous Books hr the Author H tinsel# \ PASSENGER TRAIN BITS AUTO TRUCK Special In The Evening Journal. in,I.MAH. Jan. 31.—'The automobil« truck of the Kills and Watson bakery, driven by Albert Smith, was atruek by the locomotive of a northbound pas senger l aln «I the Slate street croso hig '' ar,y 1,1,8 morning, and was wrerl ed. Smith was raught under tho wreckage and seriously injured. Tho Crossing watchman Is reported to have llulmllted h: , negligence. SMALLPOX PREVENTS (AGE (itMEM _ SEAFORD, Jan, 31.—The hasketbail scheduled here tonight between the boys' and girls' teams of Gcorge low „ an(l soaPor.! High school were called off last night by 4hn hoard of 1 h ! Pallh , owln * at I Ironrotown, where It is reported »malt pox prevail, ' P " ■ - ! | [ 1 , j | ( r f :& Wm T flrandt's "Red Fog" Liquid Eau de Mascaro »-o ^ pr>'|>RrR||r»n f«f EYEBROWS AND LASHES Brlaca out n.Hr full Will n r •pi.rxmn foi» too hiso PATCHES Ol «RAY HAIR. «£V*7v v. 1 ;:; jt. hair specialty CO, -• CAST l.'ST ST- maw « ..«« wt.-iir aa Ci f P «P®« I» PLAYHOUSE LAST TIME TONIGHT John D. Williams Presents Lion. I Berrymore In the Brilliant Drama, THE LETTER of THE LAW ("LA ROBE ROUGE") By Eugene Brieux. PRICES—50c to $2.