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Lift off Corns!
Doesn’t hurt a bit and Freezona
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V \ _
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A tiny bottle of “Freezone” costs
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you lift that bothersome corn or callus
/right off, root and all, without one bit
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Putting on Side.
Diner—How is it that the terrapin
on your bill of fare is always struck
out?
Qandid Waiter—That’s just a fancy
touch, sir. We never had a terrapin
In the joint.
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Stop a minute and think what it
means to say that “Green’s August
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all over the civilized world for more
than half a century.” No higher praise
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bo found for constipation, Intestinal
troubles, torpid liver and the depress
ed feeling that accompanies such dis
orders, It Is most valuable for In
digestion or nervous dyspepsia and
liver trouble, coming up of food, pal
\ {rttatlon of heart, and many other
symptoms. A few doses of August
Flower will relieve you. It Is a gentle
laxative. Ask your druggist. Sold In
all civilized countries.—Adv.
10,000 Dog Soldiers.
At the time of the signing of the
armistice there were 10,000 dogs em
ployed In various capacities along the
war fronts
Cuticura Comforts Baby’s 8kin
When red, rough and Itching with hot
baths of Cuticura Soap and touches of
Cuticura Ointment. Also make use
now and then of that exquisitely scent
ed dusting powder, Cuticura Talcum,
one of the indispensable Cuticnra
Toilet Trio.—-Adv.
On Land and Sea.
“What Is a revenue cutter, pa?”
"A revenue cutter is a coupon clip
per, my son.”
BITRO-PHOSPHATE
IS GOOD FOR THIN
NERVOUS PEOPLE
A French scientist has discovered an
organic phosphate which should be a
very effective remedy for weak nerves,
sleeplessness, thinness and lack of
strength, energy anil vigor.
Its substance is described by special
ists as identical in composition with
certain vital elements naturally found
in brain and nerve cells and one which
/when taken into the human system is
quickly converted into healthy living
tissue.
This phosphate is already widely
kno'wn among druggists in tills country
ts Bitro-Phosphate and some phy
lcians claim that through its use
trength. energy, vigor and nerve force
re frequently increased in two weeks’
me.
.Or. Frederick Kollo, Editor of New
ofk Physicians’ "Who’s Who,” says
• should be prescribed by every doctor
nd used In every hospital in the
nlted States. As there are a great
ariety of so-called phosphates, those
ho wish to test this substance should
e sure to get the genuine Bltro
hosphate.
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FLYING PARSON
CLOSECOHTEST
Maynard to Reach San Fran
cisco and Spatz to Land In
New York This Afternoon,
Completing First Lap.
Binghampton, N. Y., Oct. 13.—Major
Spatz arrived here from Rochester at
2:50 p. m. It was announced ho would
wait until between 4 and 4:30 before
leaving for Now York, arriving at
Roosevelt field after 5 p. m. A report
was received that Lieutenant Kiel had
been forced to return to Rochester.
Maynard alighted at San Francisco
at 1:13 p. m.
uincago, ±o.—
favorable weather over a large
part of the course, aviators today
continued the transcontinental con
test. The flyers battled with rain
in the east and high winds in the
west, while weather in the central
states was unsettled.
It is expected that the leaders in
the race will reach New York and
San Francisco, finishing the first
half of the contest, this afternoon.
Maj. Carl Spatz early in the day
wrested the lead from Capt. H. L.
Smith in the air race eastward, while
Lieut. E. C. Kiel is in second place, and
Captain Smith third. The three lead
ers spent the night at Bryan, Ohio, and
had reached Rochester, N. Y., this
afternoon.
Major Spatz and Lieutenant Kiel left
Rochester for Binghamton, N. Y., at
1:48 p. m.
Captain Smith lost his way in a
heavy rain storm seven miles south of
Cleveland and broke a strut and a pro
peller on his machine in making a
forced landing. Later he flew to the
landing field, and left there at 1:51 fbr
Buffalo in the face of a driving rain
and heavy winds.
DRAYTON AT SALT LAKE.
Salt Lake City, Oct. 13.—Capt. H. C.
Drayton, piloting No. 47 in the trans
continental air race, landed at Buena
Vista field, near here, at 10:55 o'clock
thi3 morning, having traveled from
Rawlins, Wyo., since 8:07 this morning.
He was hot on the trail of Lieut D. W.
Mavnard.
—♦—
DONALDSON AT CHEYENNE.
Cheyenne, Wyo. Oct. 13.—Capt. J. O.
Donaldson, entry No. 50, unaccompa
nied, arrived here from the east at
9:30 and left the ground for Rawlins
at 10 o'clock. Captain Donaldson is
the fourth 'westbound aviator to roach
here. Lieut L. S. Webster, driving a
De Haviland left for the west at 9:28.
NO DEFINITE DECISION.
San Francisco, Oct 13.—"The air
derby probably will be a round trip.”
This statement was made today by
Maj. Gen. Charles J. Menoher, director
of air service, U. S. A.
Menoher said, however, that no def
inite decision had been made and that
he would consult with Colonel Arnold,
director of air service, western depart
ment, before making a positive an
nouncement.
Major General Menoher arrived here
today from the south.
Stir Up Tempest In Baltic Prov
inces By Attack on Letts
—Riga Believed
Captured.
London, Oct.13.—lit was staled in
apthoritatlve quarters here this after
noon that a German-Russian attack on
P.iga was carried out on Friday under
cover of a heavy bombardment by
German guns, forcing the Letts to
evacuate the city.
The reported capture of Riga is re
garded most seriously by military' ex
perts here. They say that between
these German-Russian troops and Pe
trograd there is no force that would
stop an advance upon that city. , from
which, once it was reached, it would
be difficult to dislodge them. It was
learned during tho afternoon that well
informed circles In London accepted the
capture of Riga as a fact. Their be
lief. it developed, was based on a pri
vate dispatch.
The Lettish legation here was with
out news of the latest developments
in Riga. Cable company advices re
ceived in New York today said com
munication with Riga and other Baltic
points had been cut.
It was stated at the legation that the
Esthonians were .ding two divisions
to aid the Letts a; ;ist the Germans.
The whereabout- f General Von'Der
Goltz continues to bo the subject of
contradictory rumors and estimates of
tho size of the army commanded by
Colonel Avaloff-Eermondt also show a
wide divergence.
It is recalled that General Count Kel
ler, commander of a large body of sol
diers ir. the Baltic provinces, which
-was recruited from German troops left
In Oourle.nd by tho allies at the time of
tho armistice, is a Baltic baron, former
ly a general in She Russian army. He
has established headquarters at Shavll,
whilo General Von Lor Colts lias his
headquarters at J.litau.
Combiny Two Forces.
Prince Peter Lieven. formerly of the
Russian foreign offleo is superintending
the coordination of tho forces com
manded by these two leaders, it being
intended in transfrr the occupation of
Lithuania and Com Land to a nominally
Russlau-I.lthuanian army composed in
part of German.: from tho ranks of
FIVE BANDITS ROC
TRAIN EXPRESS CAR
Escape With Valuable Packers
After Holdup Near Memphis
—Posses In Search.
Memphis. Term., Oct. 13.—Fivo men
who boarded a southbound passenger
train on the Yaioo & Mississippi Val
ley railroad as it was leaving the
yards here early today, held up the
express messenger nn^ his assistant,
, secured several packages and escaped
when the train was stopped at West
Junction in response to a telephone
message from a yard master who taw
the men board the train.
The messenger and his assistant
were found lying- on the floor bound.
One of the stolen packages was said
to have been shipped by a Memphis
jewelry concern.
Posses were organized quickly and
began a search of the surrounding
section
Genera! Von Der Goltz'3 troopa. This
move, it is said, led to the present hos
tilities.
Interest hero now is largely focussed
in the result obtained from the note
which thesupreme council of the peace
conference is reported to intend to send
to Berlin today, demanding the with
drawal of German troops from the Bal
tic provinces on pain of coercive meas
ures from the allies.
Copenhagen, Friday, Oct. 10.—A
German telegram from MJlau. received
today says: »
Fighting by Lettish and Russian
troops between Mltau and Riga is con
tinuing. None of the troops subser- ■
vient to the German government is
taking part.”
A telegram from Koenigsburg, east
Prussia, reads as follows:
“The Russian Colonel Wirgolitsch,
commander of the Second west Russian
volunteer corps, has In Shavli pro
claimed the part of Lithuania occupied
by his troops as Russian territory. The
Lithuanian troops in Shavli have been
disarmed by the Russians and the Ger
mans co-operating with them.”
German troops under General von der
Goltz, together with Russians under
Colonel Avaloff Rermondt, attacked the
Letts 30 kilometers from Riga and oc
cupied Schlock, which is outside the
demarcation line, according to a report
issued by the Lettish bureau at Riga.
The report adds that the attack was
repulsed with sanguinary losses.
A state of seige has been proclaimed
at Riga, as a precautionary measure.
Reserves are being formed among those
who are unable to go to the front. Sol
diers who were starting toward the
front were pelted with flowers.
Fighting continues on the whole
front, it is said.
Lettish soldiers who have been fight
ing with the British and French at
Archangel have just arrived at Riga
by steamship an dhave been rushed to
the front.
According to a dispatch from Hels
ingfors, Russian newspapers report
that serious fighting has broken out
in Betrograd between adherents and
opponents of the soviet regime. The
“counter revolutionaries” have taken
possession of several important build
ings and government institutions it is
stated.
This announcement of the outbreak
of a serious revolt against the bol
shevists in Petrograd together with the
bomy outrages against the volshevist
leaders In Moscow, the second capital
Indicate serious internal opposition to
the bolshevists.
HARK! FANS YELL
PlAYERf FIXED”
Wild Wails Sent Up By Those
of the Empty Pockets—Ci
cotte and Others
Bought Up?
BY HENRY L. FARRELL.
United Press Staff Correspondent.
New York, Oct. 13.—The eighth
world series game Thursday blew out
the season's baseball lamp but it’s still
smoking—smoking wltlT the usual
bunch of rumors of "fixed playerB,”
“thrown games,” and. crookedness. Chi
cago fans are so strong .n circulating
rumors that Eddie Clcotte was bought
by a gambling bunch and that other
players were in on a deal tb throw
games that owner Comiskey is said
to have offered a reward of $20,000
for any evidence supporting the claim.
Cincinnati also was saturated with
rumors that Pat Duncan and Larry
Kopf had played "funny” in the sixth
game and that “Dutch” Ruether had
been "seen” by some one before he
made his second start and that the
loss of the seventh game was a fixed
deal to prolong the series and increase
the receipts for the clubs.
The real fans, who have weathered
such noise after each series, are not
disturbed. They are not questioning
the fidelity of any of the players and
the wall of the calamity howlers that
this year's post-season will end all
post-esason games for all time is pro
voking them to laughter. But the re
sult of this year’s experiment has
convinced them all that there will be
no more nine game series. Had the
usual seven game arrangement pre
vailed this year, the anvil chorus
wouldn't be so popular now.
TREATY GETS
FRENCH 0. K.
_ i
Paris, Oct. 13.—The French senate
unanimously ratified the peace treaty
this afternoon, 217 members voting. The
chamber of deputies voted ratification
last week.
Mall is being carried regularly by ala
plane between the Swiss cities of Berne,
I Zurich end lausanne.
i CLOSED SHOP ADD ME RIGHTS
i CHIEF ISSUES IN DISPUTE; BOTH I
! GROUPS LIKED TO Cl GROUND |
BY WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE.
(Copyright 1919, Wheeler Syndicate
Incorporated.)
Washington, Oct. 13.—Viewed super
ficially there seems to be nothing in
common between tho declaration of
principles made public by the Employ
ers' group and those announced from
the Labor group In tho industrial con
ference. The two documents seem to
be in perfect contrast.
There can bo no doubt of the militan
cy of the labor proposal. Its language
bristles with defiance. Labor stated Its
final terms and dvr-, in for a siege. It
would seem rthough tho first shot of
the emploj > a was a challenging
answer.
The pole .3 of variance, cf course,
are large)' points relating to the recog
nition of unions and matters growing
out of unions. Labor demands the
right to strike for any cause at any
time. Capital denies the right of the
sympathetic strike.
Capital demands tho open shop, ex
cept by entire agreement with the em
ployes. Labor demands tho closed
shop, or if the shop remains opor:,
Labor insists that negotiations shall be 1
with the union representatives through
collective bargaining.
As for collective bargaining, capital
demands that each establishment in an
industry should “develop contact and
full opportunity for interchange of
views between management and men
through individual or collective dealing
or a combination of both.”
Labor As “Human Element”
Labor contends that labor is not
a commodity but a human element in
industry and the point at which capital
leans furtherest to any labor demand
Is upon this contention. Labor asks for
equal share in boards of conciliation
and an Independent, self respecting
status in matters to be arbitrated.
Capital definitely declares that there
should be no “improper limitation or
impairment of the exercise by manage
ment if its essential function of judg
ment and direction in those matters,"
which being translated, seems to mean
that arbitration shall be resorted to
when, and only when capital feels that
the question at stake is arbitrable.
Labor always has contended that Its
unions had a different status from the
associations of capital, that labor
unions could not.be responsible, legally
or financially for their acts, as the
purpose of union is not to make profits
for itself but to better conditions for its
individual members.* In the declaration
of Friday, capital demands that labor
shall assume the same legal and finan
cial responsibility that a corporation
assumes which is trying to make
money for its stockholders.
The unions, according to the view of
labor, hold that contract between the
men and their masters shall be through
unions. Capital stands for the freedom
of contract, which If granted would
make hours of service and quality of
production of each worker subject to
an Individual contract.
Limiting 8trike».
Labor would put all employes,
whether working for private owners In
Industry or public utilities of the gov
ernment, In one category, giving all
men the right to strike if displeased
with their conditions of labor. The
employers’ declaration upholds the
right of workers in private industry to
strike but withholds it from workers in
public utilities - and workers for the
government. Labor always has con
tended against the vocational training
school and held that youth should be
trained in the shop. Capital makes a
strong demand for vocational training,
both In school and in the shop.
These contrasting demands of labor
and capital seem to produce a dead
lock, yet the declaration of the em
ployers carefully explains that these
tenets are only ‘‘a statement of prin
ciples.”
And the document issued by the em
ployers ends with a declaration that
“the problems are so serious and diffi
cult that such method must be worked
out by the individual establishments
in conjunction with their employes and
by industry as a whole.”
The crux of the whole difference
centers about the trades union and Its
relation to Industry. Eliminate the
union and Its contentions and one sees
a rather large area of agreement be
tween labor and capital In the two
statements. The employers’ declara
tion against limitation of production
would find no very active labor oppo
sition In America. Given satisfactory
hours, wages and environment in la
bor, limiting the product in so far as
it has been produced in American in
dustry would be eliminated. Only a
few trades practice this sabotage.
Under the head of "tho establish
ment of a productive unit” the declar
ation of the employers leave* the way
open for the establishment of shop
councils. It declares against indus
trial councils of the trade, but its dec
laration is not a fighting declaration.
And undoubtedly shop councils and
councils of a nation wide or regional
scope would be established in every
industry.
The Rockefeller resolution for shop
councils for the mutual discussion of
wages, hours, shop and living condi
tions upon a fraternal rather than a
paternal basis could be set up under
this clause of the declaration of the
employers, and it would be no trouble
to graft upon that councils in the
trade. That is a vital point, and it is
one where labor and capital and the
public easily may ra°et upon common
ground.
Scientifically devised safety machin
ery is specifically indorsed, which is a
step toward the recognition of the em
ployers' right to control shop condi
tions. The principle of the living wage
is accepted by the employers with j
practically no scruple. That is a vital
principle of agreement between capital
and labor and the employers specific
U!y declare for equal pay for men and
women in industry, doing the same
kind of work.
In matter of tho eight-hour day th»re!
is a broad basis of agreement between
the declaration of labor and that of
capital. Labor calls it the eight-hour
day. Capital merely puts it different
ly in theso words: "Hours of work
should be fixed at a point consistent
with the health of the worker and his
right to an adequate period of rest,
recreation, home life and self develop
ment.”
And a special declaration is made
almost in the terms used by the labor
declaration against overtime and in fa
vor of “one day of rest in seven.”
How Situation Stands.
Hero then, is the situation; Labor de
mands the unfettered labor union as its
method of dealing with the employers.
Capital demands a responsible union,
an open shop and the right to deaf In
dependently with individuals. Capital
and labor agree on the right to strike
and !o lock up the plant. Hut capital
limits the strike to the strike for griev
ances and labor demands the right to
the sympathetic strike. Both denounc*
the blacklist.
It is upon those differences, which
do not touch directly wages, shop con
ditions or hours of service that labor
and capital In this conference are split
ting. Between the two stands the pub
lic group. This group has shown Itself
rather more inclined to favor labor
than capital.
Leaning Toward Labor.
Barring one or two members of the
public group, of which Judge Gary is a
type, there is considerable sentiment
among the members of the group rep
resenting the public in favor of the
trades union, not pernaps the trade
union carried to the ultimate which
Mr. Gomepr3 thinks is wise, but the
national trades union with certain
privileges In any industrial plant not
accorded to Individuals n the shop.
This feeling is among men of pawer
in the group, men who stand high in
the financial world and in the political
world. And these men, who are stron
men, will be found trying to harmonize
the dievergent views of the labor group
and the employers.
But each group must yield some
thing. Labor must come out of its
trench. Caj>ital must come out of Its
shell. There is a reason to believe
that of the two groups the employers
are least contentious. Their declara
tion is not without its reservations, it
seems to go further than It goes, and
it seems to stick harder than it does
stick. That is because it is defining
principles.
The labor declaration defines no
principles; It contends for certain
material things. During the adjourn
ment both sides may see the roily of
a finish fight. A finish fight would be
a loss to both sides. A compromise la
possible in which both sides may win.
TWO TOTS NEARER
TO DEATH TODAY
Science Wages Losing Fight—
Mother Refused Permission
to See Children She
Poisoned.
Pontiac, Mich., Oct. 13.—Mra. Hazel
Luikart, who gave her little girls poison
today waa found to be insane by an
Oakland county commission here. 8ho
will be taken to the hospital for the
insane at Iona, Monday
Chicago, Oct. 13.—Death stalked
nearer today to the two Luikart child
ren, of Detroit. Shirley and Edna, be
ing treated here for blcholoride of mer
cury poisoning .administered by tbelr
mother.
Science k> waging a losing light In
its efforts to save ttga lives of the
children, Dr. Thomas A. Carter, Chi
cago physician who is attending them
declared. Death is just around the
corner for both, he said.
“The progress of the mercuric poison
cannot now be stayed,” Dr Carter said.
"It will follow its cqurse as inevitably
as the rising of the sun.”
Edna, the younger sister, showed
slight improvement bet Dr. Carter de
clared the poison had a firm told on
the child’s body and she could not pos
sibly shake it off.
At the hospital, the father, Ray
Luikart, clung to his belief that Dr.
Carter would save the lives of his
children. The doctor has told him that
he holds out no hope.
In the hope of alleviating the mental
torture, Mrs. Luikart is suffering, her
husband wired Detroit asking that she
be permitted to come to Chicago.
Mrs. Luikart poisoned the babies be
cause they stood In the way of stage
ambitions. She is in jail.
—♦—
REQUEST REFUSED.
Detroit, Mich., Oct. 13.—Mrs. Hazei
Luikart, who poisoned her two little
girls, will not bo at their bedside in
Chicago when they die. Oakland coun
ty authorities today firmly refused to
assent to Dr. Carter’s lequest that the
mother bo called to their bedside.
“The request seems based on senti
ment rather than on any beneficial ef
fect It might have on the children,”
Prosecutor Gillspio r.aid. *T do not
care to take responsibility for the
shock on the mother when she finds
the children will die. She thinks now
they will live.”
Muyor Couscns today sought to
change the attitude of tho authorities
in;l enable the mother to visit her lit
tle ones.
The sanity of Mrr,. Ltiikart wan in
quired into today by a special com
mission. Transfer to the state hos
pital for the insane was oeked on the
ground that the Jail ct Pontine, where
she is ltckt, is not fitted for prisons
mentally ill.
Palestine Is being prepared W-> receive
f.OM.'/O of ;'V
DECLARE COAL
STRIKE WILL
Operators and Miner Represen
tatives Adjourn In Deadlock
—390,000 Men In Central
Field Affected.
Philadelphia, Pa., Oct, 13.—The con
ference of bituminous coal miners amt
operators of the central eompetit.ve
field in session here considering de
mands of the miners for a 60 per cent
increase in wages and a reduction in
working hours disagreed today and
will adjourn.
A subcommittee that had been con
sidering the demands, finding that it
could not agree, reported the dead
locked condition to the general con
ference, which began sessions here
yesterday and recommended final ad
journment.
Unless something happens in the
meantime to prevent it, leaders of the
mine workers say the strike threatened
for November 1. will take place.
Operators have declared they cannot
concede either of the demands of the
workers.
The mines affected are In western
Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and
Illinois. More than 300,000 men are in
volved.
REPORTED LOST
Unconfirmed Dispatch Tells of
Disaster to British Ship Ex
ceeding In Casualties Sink
ing of Titanic.
Archangel, Friday, Oct. 13.—
Two thousand lives have been lost
in the wreck of an unnamed Brit
ish ship on the Norwegian coast,
according to a wireless dispatch
received here from Helsingfors.
If the loss of life in the wreck
reported in the foregoing dispatch
is as large as inditated, the disas
ter will mark a new record in tha
annals of the sea. It would seem
probable the ship which was
wrecked was a military transport
bringing British soldiers from
Archangel, from which port Great
Britain has been embarking large
numbers of men during the last
month.
It Is known that troop ships have
sailed quite recently from Archangel.
Copenhagen advices received yesterday
stating that Lettish soldiers who have
been on the Archangel front havo just
landed at Riga and have been rushed
to the front south of that city to
meet the onslaughts of German and
Russian forces. "1
Greater Than Titanic. »
The largest recorded loss of life in a
marine accident occurred when the Ti
tanic was sunk after coUlding with an
iceberg south of Newfoundland, on
April 14, 1912, the list of deaths show
ing 1,503 names. The Lusitania, sunk
by a German submarine. May 7, 1915,
carried down with her more than 1,200
of her passengers and crew. When the
Empress of Ireland was sent to the
bottom in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, on
May 30, 1914, the loss of life was 1,027.
One thousand died when the Japanese
steamer Klkermaru sank in Australian
waters on September 28, 1912.
USE PEPPER;
SEIZE LOOT
OF $11,000
Cleveland, O., Oct. 13.—Six robbers
this morning held up the paymaster of
the Samuel Emerson Go., in the lobby
ot the Euclid Avenue Building and
after throwing pepper into his face,
escaped in an automobile with $11,000
which the paymaster carried in a
money bag.
lOSTjP.000
Accountant Makes Charge of
Enormous War Over Pay
ment to Hammond Steel
Car Company.
Washington. Oct. 13.—Over payment
of $1,832,000 by the government on a
claim of $3,000,000 brought by the Steel
Car Company, Hammond, Ind., on an
ordinance contract, was charged by !>.
J. Blakely, an accountant, before the
House ways and means committee on
expenditures today. Blakey claimed
that Col. E. L. Hughes, in charge of
ordnance work in the Chicago district
had refused to consider his audit of the,
account. He charged that $l,300,00ftf
was overpaid on a gun carriage con-1
tract and the balance on salvage work.