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' Cost of Living:
Above : '.Reach of ,
4? French Workmen
I
Thousand Can No Longer
Afford Regular Meals
'j- Many. Take to Water -Aa
Beverage.
By I'nlTortal Harriet.
Paris, Oct 29. As result of the
. lit .,otrinB cost of living hundreds
f ".. thousands of Frenchmen are no
--longer, able to afford a .daily meal
, of meat or eggs, v" 7- ,
HI .M'lk a bread have also risen .mi
nt ,ul they are six times pre-war prices,
J! ;epite ill efforts by thex govern:
. .Sent ar "price cotitrol." .
', IS More; evolutionary yet, ' a large
11! i2fIrtt,?n of '"crimen have taken
, ,flrinkirig water because ordinary
;j; ff'iiff formerly far more plentiful
I!' '!" .wter, ii priced ' beyond
!J! 3M- means. ...
j. j" If the latest reports 08 experts are
l Correct and they are being daily
!!! MPPPorted by" fresh proof this win
;j, Mr wilt be the darkest for the French
I!! Iflfcopto. .since 19J4. , . ' ,
,T, tl Coal Prices High. J.
iJ.SNot only have the necessaries of
u, become scarce and high-priced,
U but wool and coal are practically un
IU !Btainabte by the ordinary man
w without bribery.
,! i I Coal is weighed by the pound
$ "where formerly it was weighed by
j; the ton. Wood, whjch before the
.,war Was ordered by the cord and
; hundredweights is now jealously
counted out by the log.
Sufficient ninncv tn hnu o m.J in
jmrnniu a poor restaurant 10 francs wHl
huy about 10 small logs, insufficient
v to heat a stnall apartment for one
!T. day. , , . , . . ,
g; Coal is striitly rationed at the
rate of 100 pounds per-nerson per
month. This tiny amount, insuffi
' cient for two days in a kitchen fire,
, f, is often unobtainable. ,1
" Electmc heat is imoossihle in most
Frer' homes for the reason that
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i rren
'! the Cr
tench electric, company refuse
. to supply the larger' meters necest
Rary. ' v i
JJ Spurred by the general outcry the
. government has instituted a com
g mittee to deal with the ' bounding
' cost of living.' A careful survey by
J'jj Universal Service of all the most
recent statistics regarding the cost
ti of living reveals the startling fact
that many" necessities have doubled
ii in price within the past three months.
NT . 1 . 1 1 r til
. HJr4.vui single instance na& uccn iounui
2it any article reduced n price.
-'The following table is illustrative
Sjof the aiiiaiing; rise in necessities ol
w, life In Pai;iSv since the armistice:
' t ?ttt.' Bria. Mnt. Milk. Kggs. Butter.
1 .10 I .0 .to $..05 t .5
. St""" .0 . .5 .. 1.99
yiii .5 s.oit .5 r.so - .5
. (My). 1.00 7.60 x 1.00 , ; .R6 i i.50
(Oct.). l.S 10.0(1 1.10 xl.05 1J.25
5J These prices arc for bread per loaf,
"meat and. butter .per pound, eggs
5:picce, milk per quart
, Mit Out of Sight. .
v j The 'table shows tlearly that the
J pi ice of bread is six times more than
m 1914 and 45 centimes more than
J It the armistice. v
Meat isiearly 18 times more than
5 In'. 1914, more than three times its
5JH!ce at the armistice and has dou-
j liled during thif last year.
!T,i.T9' Milk has risen nearly ix times its
i J?914 value and 20 centimes more
I than at the armistice, "having in
creased 10 centimes, or 2 cents, in
ihe last six mentis s. '
t-- f . I. ' aI
J--S85 nave risen more, man inirc
JJjnes since the armistice and 25
v limes above the cost before the war.
5' Butter "costs 14 times its-prewar
5 price and nearly" four times its cost
f 1918. ',
: -Man Finds Long Lost-
Daughter Is Working
In Factory With Him
t;
a
r
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a
her day by day, working in 1
' iictory, gave Ijjm a package
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Flint, Mich., Oct. 29. What would
man think if a young woman he
Considered attractive as he had seen
the same
e to man
Jsnd the address showed the young
woman was his daughter?
5! Jack Benjamin knows. The
J woman, Mrs. S. C. Diamond, was
li;8 fellow worker. few days ago
5 he (landed him a package to be
mailed, and this is his story:
5; "I glanced at, the address,, and
there was the name of the"woman
Z '(torn whom I had been divorced 30
Ji-ears before. Then I recalled the
Tiother with our 3-year-old daughter
"in her arms. - T "
"For a month L nothing.
J 'Then, one day when ' the girl was
1 passing the gate with a smile for me,
2!l called her back.
" Remember the. package 4 you
(-Rave me to maim 1 asKea. wen,
)5'.it was to my former wife.'":
J '0, "I have been trying - to induce
. - 1 1 i . 1 : 1 . t. ahuam
lEOOy to 0vc nis yuviiuKiuyii
J Jivith mine so I can send it to moth
ei," said Mrs. Diamond today. "I
ihink it would be just lovely.
"When father and mother were
'divorced he was railroad conductor
J and away from home a great deal."
The daughter, hopes, to affect a
, 'reconciliation as a sort of Christmas
? affair. '
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Mullen Denies That
He Slated Nebraska .
Tor Republican Vote
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1
Arthur ' F; Mullenl , former demo
cratic national committeeman tor
Nebraska, contradicts the statement
Jtha he told Mark Sullivan, politi-
cal writer, or anyone else, that he
" i Would concede Nebraska to Harding
Jnd the republican ticket.
"I was at dinner several weeks
I ago with Mr. Sullivan and we dis-
cussed the Nebraska situation," said
Mr. Mullen. "I don't doubt that the
I German vote will go largely to the
republican side of the contest, but
' 1 am also convinced that those votes
;witl be more than offset by the en
h'stment of the church people to the
! democratic ticket As a matter of
fact, I regard Nebraska as a doubt
'k fut state in the national contest."
,0 5 ' Mr. Mullen admits that the demo
crats are making M strong' bid, for
Iflie church vote on the league , of
'nations issue . , ,
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5! For cleaning automobiles-in ga
rages a machine has been invented
ItJiat generates steam, which is said
, ;to be more effective than gasoline,
Jess' hazardous-and less expensive.
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'Pussyfoot' Johnson
Is Given Newv Name
By Mayor of Newark
Newark, N. J.. Oct. ', 29.l-"The
standard encyclopedia Vn alcholic
problems" is the new cognomen for
11114111 rusayiuvi; jviiiiauii,
passed on him by Mayor "Gillen of
Newark. . ;
Writing to Johnson in response to
request from ' the ."dry", agitator
for information of the effect' of pro
hibition in Newark, the. mayor ad-
dressed him 'as the above. The
mayor Jeclared that "five times as
much whisky and other high alcoi
( t ,! a I. .IJ !.i t
none (leverages are Dcing $oia in
Jlewark since the days of prohibi
tion; druj; addicts are more numer
ous, drunkenness is more common
p.nd prohibition has disturbed the"
moral, industrial and commercial in
terests here and has created a condi
tion of unrest." kl ,
; Mr. Johnson, who received the let
ter in Scotland, forwarded the letter
to the head of the law-enforcement
division of the New Jersey Anti
Saloon league, saying:
.- "Dear Wilson: What is this roos-tei-driving
at, anyhow?" -v '-
High Cost of Wives :
' Causes Much Unrest
Among Men of Burma
New York, Oct." 29. The high
cost yf wives is creating a great
amount of unrest in the Cbin Hill
regions of Burma. Widespread agi
tation is going on there for a sweeping-
reduction in Jhe lpricc of "bet
ter halves." ' ' '
This is the information given by
the Rev. J. Herbert Cope, repre-
Modern Noah's Ark',
Filled With Animals, !
Arrives at New York
New York', wn.' 29. A modern
scnting the Baptist Foreign Mission
society in Burma, in a letter written
to the society in New York and re
ceived nere tc.iay. ji
y It is the iiistom here tor 1he'
groom to pay a certain sum to hie j
future father-in-law, which is sup- j
posed to compensate the latter for
loss of his daughter's labor,", Rev.! Noah's ark docked here today when
Copes writes Men have bettt de-1 the . Australian and United States
manding morcxand more, iwtil now j lino freighter,- Bellebuckle, arrived
a young man who ttiiifies acquires 'with 4,001) ' specimens of 'animals,
a debt whiehhe isS'ears in liquidnt-j birds and reptiles, recruited for the
ing. And if J while slow hi paying f rt Bron?. Ziio during the last two years
his wife, ythev. husband incurs theMy"Dr. Ellis' Stanley Josephs in the
anger of .her father, she is promptly j centra! and northern parts ofAus
called home and, ii some cases, j tra!;a: - ' - ', .
sold to another man." ! A F.nala, a roly-polv armful 'of
gray tur, that looks like a tiddy
bear, the first to be brought to this
fOnntry, was one of the prize speci
mens, fir. Josephs said it eats only
the leaves of the Eucalyptus tree,
and nearly a ton of these leaves
were brought along from Australia.
The real belle -of the party, how
ever, was a spotted (finale dassarus.
another Antipodean' novelty. She
carried nine young in her pouch.
Soon after the ship left Sydney
several members of the crew and
officers were stricken with tropical
fever, which Dr. Josephs said was
brought aboard by the animals. Wil
liam Powers of Chelsea, Mass.,
ship's cook, died. - -
Louisiana Chief Scored1 f : ,j,
vFor His Cotton Actio
Fort Worth,. Tex., Oct. 29. In
statement issued here today I'rcsi
dent D. E. Lyday 'of the Texai
Farmers' union Renounced the re
ceut request of Governor' Parker O'
Louisiana that all cotton gins clos
for a month hi order to raise tin,,
price "of the staple. ; . !.
"Such a policy woula mean finan
cial ruin for T exas farmers," said
Mr. Lyday. "We still have 1.500.000
bales of cotton to gather, while in
Louisiana most of ,lhe crop has been
picked, I understand." j
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