HIGH COST HITS I ELECTION PLANS OF DEMOCRATS National Committee Wants Ten Mlliion Dollars for Campaign PARTY VICTORIES HIGH Desperate Efforts Are Being Made to Raise Huge Sum by Contributions Washing-ton, Sept. 2. Following on the recent embassy of National Chairman Cummings and bis aides J to many States of the West it will j be recalled Mr. Cummings went to the White House and poured into! the reluctant ear of the President a j dismal tale about the condition of | mind of the voters to the effect that : they were disaffected toward the j party in power, that they were hold- ! ins the Administration responsible, for the blunders of the war period, for extravagance, for high cost of j living, and so on. It was set forth j that the public was not overwhelm ingly enthusiastic about the fact the 1 President traveled in state to Paris : and elsewhere in Europe and ab sented himself from business at j home for about seven months, report of Mr. Cummings came the j Closely following the pessimistic | election in the llelm District in! Kentucky and the overturn of this | District by the victory of King j Swope, the Republican candidate, j This development along with others i which need not be enumerated in- i tensified the thickness of the gloom I which had settled over Democratic j headquarters and Administration j circles. Now in emphasis of the alarm al ready sounded by Mr. Cummings comes the announcement of William 1 1 Do You Want 1 | A Good Position? I In Kaufman's Underselling Store has a W number of good positions open for men [u fy and women in the following capacity: m Salesmen for men's clothing. |jj Salesmen for Men's furnish- S W ingSo - rQ [s Salesladies for knit underwear, sj S millinery, and shirt waists. Is Trimmers and makers for mil- li ji! linery. |ffl iy Man tailor, experienced in [U W men's and women's wear. [U W Women alteration hands. ||| ju Experienced people are desired. Per- hjj nj manent positions. New employes will Is Is receive the benefit of our life insurance IW W plan. Apply at once. tjjj] I 7v£ W£ W jl-t # *■§ £y£% £f| mm mfm mmm wmm wz/imt mmm mm f*£f £*w a>. r ,%■„ t 4-. TjTT j7*l i> '-f J, t f y£ A-% MW&ki fj 1 costs'us thousands of r|f| each year to put ourselves in \„ v : }| position to get our ideas of what W 'il T v fM quality ought to be into the big rj. wwAW M loaf,of HOLSUM . The finest material* money can buy— a model bakery maintained in spotlea* gjp cleanlincis—clean delivery in special waxed |||||r** << f 1 l|| wrappers —all of this quality cost us a lot OReS <M> of money, but only costs you the effort to -unit A nnh 4ffl, say. when you buy bread—'i want HQLSU/4 '' It has a wonderful flavor. toyOUTlg- I Schmidt's Bakery I ji HOhSU*y^^\ —4i-iioW TUESDAY EVENING, ID. Jamieson, Director of Finance of the Democratic National Committee, , that he has begun for the Commit ! tee the task of raising between $5,- (000,000 and $10,000,000 to elect a Democratic President in 1920. Mr. Jamieson will employ about 1,000 I persons and appeals for contribu : tions will be sent out to millions of ( men and women. ; To indicate more clearly the ex ! tent of the alarm which is felt by 1 the Administration's political chief- I tains and the remarkable nature of I their effort by the unprecedented use of funds to purchase an election it should be added that the Democratic Committee in addition to its other liberal otlice room in Washington has taken three entire floors of a prominent office building on New York Avenue within sight of the Treasury and within hearing of the White House. These offices are now being fitted up and will be filled with an army of employes. Desperate efforts are being made by the Democratic National Com mittee to raise funds. Mr. Jamieson states that there will be 12,000,000 women to be influenced in the next campaign and he admits that the cost has gone up. It took $1,100,000 to elect Presi dent Wilson and $2,500,000 to re elect him. The present appeal of the Democratic Director of Finance would, therefore, indicate that the longer the Democratic party re mains in power the more expensive it becomes for the party as well as for the country at large. Carnegie Inheritance Tax About $7,000,000 . Xen York. Sept. 2.—About $7,000,000 of the $20,000,000 left by the late An drew Carnegie will And its way to the United States Treasury as inheritance taxes, according to an estimate made by tax experts here. Some doubt regarding the income tax bequests made to Premier Lloyd George and other Britishers seems to exist. It is pointed out that if the principal from which the annuities are paid is sent to England, there will be, only the inheritance tax to pay here, whereas, if the annuity is paid from this side, the beneficiaries abroad are subject to American in come tax law. WAR VETERANS PLAN FOR FIRST STATE MEETINGS 270 American Legion Posts to Send Delegates Here Early Next Month j Posts of the American Legion in all j parts of the State are rapidly com ! pleting plans for the first State can | tonment to be held here October 2, 3 (and 4. Two hundred and seventy I posts are eligible for representation, i The sessions of the convention will be | held in the Penn-Harris Hotel. Governor William C. Sproul will of | ficially welcome the returned soldiers, I sailors and marines on behalf of the Commonwealth. The freedom of the j city of Harrisburg will be extended !by Mayor Daniel Kelster. Major Gen j eral William G. Price, Jr., command jer-in-chlef of the National Guard of j Pennsylvania, a member of the na i tional executive committee of the ; American Legion from Pennsylvania, who was present at the Paris caucus on March 17, 1919, when the American Legion was formed, will be one of the speakers. ! During the next week each of the | posts in the State will elect their j delegates to the State convention. I Each post is entitled to a delegate ! and an alternate, and an additional | delegate and alternate for each one I hundred members. Since its organi | /.ation in the latter part of May the ; legion has grown with leaps and I bounds, so that Pennsylvania stands to-day the second in Importance in j the States of the Union, being sur i passed only by New York. Tentative I'rogriini Announced The tentative program for the con \ention, as announced by Paul J. Mc- Gahan, the State publicity officer, has been arranged with the Idea of giv ing the delegates the utmost free dom of action. The morning of Thursday, October 2, will be given over tc registration and validation of credentials. The first session of the convention will be held in the after noon. A chairman and a secretary for the convention first will be chosen. I Then the program for the convention ! will be adopted and the various com | mittees named. An elaborate enter | tainment is planned for the evening. I On the morning of Friday, October 3, there will be a meeting of the I State executive committee and of the other committees of the convention. ! In the afternoon these committees will I report and their reports will be acted | upon. That night there will be an- I other entertainment. | Final reports will be submitted by I the committees on Saturday morning, | October 4. Then will follow the elec i lion of delegates, alternates and dele- I gates at large to the National con vention to be held at Minneapolis on ' November 10, 11 and 12. Stntc Delegates Apportioned I It has been officially announced that Pennsylvania will be entitled to four delegates and alternates to the I National convention under the con stitution and to one delegate and one | alternate for each one thousand mem ! berships paid up thirty days before the National convention. In addition to these delegates and alternates au | thorized by the constitution of the American Legion, a number of dele ! gates-at-large equal to twice the United States Senate and House of Representatives representation, is au thorized. But this latter class will not have any vote at the National convention. This insures, however, that Pennsylvania will have one of the principal delegates to the great Minneapolis assemblage, where the American Legion will officially be launched as the great body of veter ans of the war now reaching its con clusion. The direct result of the State con vention will be the elimination of the volunteer workers who have car ried the organization of the Ameri can Legion forward in this State. Their work having been completed to the point of making the convention possible, the first action will be to turn the convention over to the dele gates representing the membership at large. VYur Risk Insurance Favored Each past during the present week will receive a copy of a resolution adopted by the National executive committee on the- question of War Risk insurance. This is being sent out by G. Aertsen, Jr., the State sec tetary. Each post is requested to lake prompt action on this most im portant subject and to communicate with the Congressman and Senators from Pennsylvania relative to it. The letter is as follows: There has been introduced in Con gress a bill known as the Sweet bill, H. R. 8288, which amends the War Risk insurance act. This hill pro poses four changes of major import ance in the present law. These arc: (1) An increase in the period of automatic inturance. (This amend ment automatically insures any per ■on who entered the service prior to November 11, 1918, for 120 days after entrance in tne active service). (2) An increase in the basis of awards in compensation cases of $6,7, when disability is total and tempor ary, and to SIOO when the disability is total and permanent. 13) An increase in the class of beneficiaries of insurance to include uncles, aunts, nieces, nephews, broth ers-in-law, sisters-in-law, and persons in loco parentis. (4) The payment of converted in . urance, at the election of the insured, either in one lump sum, or in 36 or more instalments. It is believed by the National execu tive committee of the American Le gion. that the proposed amendments should pass and that In addition thereto the law should he amended as follows: tl) To permits lump sum payments lor term insurance as well as for eon verted Insurance, and to place term insurance exactly on the same basis, as to payments, as converted insur ance thus enabling a man who can not now afford to convert his insur ance to have the same advantage as the man who is able to immediately convert. It is requested that each'local post of the American Legion write its Congressman and also its United states Senator, urging the passage of the Sweet bill and also urging that the law be further amended so as to place term insurance exactly on the same basis, as to payments, as con verted insurance. Second Registration Day an Important Duty To-day is the second of the reg istration days and If you didn't reg ister last week this is the next to the last opportunity. Every citizen should be qualified to participate In the primary and general elections. Registration is an essential pre liminary. Go to your polling place during the hours fixed for day and evening. llutt MrNuil's Cnlti XaJLleta. Adv. N A Rrasnunc. TELEGKSFH LAWYER LURED TO HIS DEATH NOW IS THEORY Arrest Dealer in High Grade Liquor and Woman Who Was in Automobile Containing 150 Quarts of Whisky; Col ored Man Gives Evidence to Officers in Slaying Case Nashville, Tenn., Sept. 2.—Work ing on the theory that Robin J. Coop er, prominent attorney, whose body was found in a creek near his home Saturday was murdered by an illicit liquor dealer, police last night arrest ed J. E. Feuston, and Casey Jordan, a woman, who are being questioned in regard to the murder. Both are being held without bail, and are charged with violating the Reed amendment. Feuston is also accused of carrying a pistol. The arrests indicated that the police had abandoned abruptly the theory on which they said they had built up a case yesterday—that blackmailers had killed the young lawyer— and had returned to their original belief that bootleggers had lured Cooper from his home and put him to leath. According to the police, Feuston is a dealer in liquor of a high grade, and Is thought to have made dealings with members of the exclusive clubs. When arrested Feuston and the wo man were in an automobile contain ing, the police say, 150 quarts of whisky. Evidence that another automobile was involved in the tragedy was giv en the police by a negro farmer.' He said he was driving his team home Thursday night about 10 o'lock, the hour fixed as the time for the murder, when he saw some one slowly back an automobile off the road into the place where Cooper's automobile was found 33 hours later. Then a man leaped out of the ma |pr LUDENDORFF Tells His Own Story PUBLICSLEDGER Stating Sunday | 1 %( Even the German Empero - * | >- bowed to the will of Ludendorff, the ne f ? | 1 IJ $ m Bismarck. When the General cracked his wbijf I VyyyjL, (/ /\ the entire court performed: politicians schemed | 1 */ivwi^CC/S!///m as never before; spies deepened their intrigues. | | I M\ Naturally, there can be but ONE authentic | | p German war story, the | I Frank Confession of Ludendorff 1 From his own mind (the only mind side" story of the spiderlike German | that KNOWS) and a mass of records propaganda, of the Mexican intrigue— smuggled into Sweden, Ludendorff and reveals who finally ordered unre | HIMSELF has compiled a story that stricted U-boat warfare. § 1 will run serially for ten weeks in the Without these articles your knowledge of the i Public Ledger. war will be but half complete. If you do not receive 1 Ludendorff'confesses the ghastly er- Lcd " r reg "' ar ' y ' ,end thh 1 1 ror of Verdun, the terrific effectiveness I = of Haig's campaign on the Somme, the = = 11 *1 r • * t"% . Inclosed find $2.00 for ten weeks' daily and Sunday = = appalling loss 01 men in the Rumanian subscription to the Public Ledger—including all Luden- = 1 "victory" and his failure to realize Amer- insti " lments ' a " supplemenl * c °'° r ■"•| s= ica's strength. Name = Moreover, he gives the amazing " jp- { Address j chine, the negro said, walked to an other automobile parked nearby, turned on the lights and sped away. The first automobile was left with lights burning, the negro said. U. S. Army Flyer Wins International Aero Derby Vow York, Sept. 2.—Lieutenant B. A . May nurd of the United States army air service, won nie International Aero Derby between Mineola, N. Y. ami Toronto, covering the l.OftO-mile round trip course in 45>,i minutes ac cording to an official announcement made here by the Contest Committee of the American Flying Club. Lieut. H. 11. George, whose living time was 52094 minutes, finished sec ond. Leiut. D. Gish was third, with a flying time of $524 1 j minutes. The contest committee said that the winners in the reiiabilitv test would be announced next Thursday. The three aviators finishing first in the Acre Derby were armv pilots, who made the (light in Do liaviland ma chines. equipped with 400-horsepower Liberty motors. The planes were en tered in order to test the reliability of the American-made armv machines There were llfty-two airmen enter ed in the aero race. Of these, twenty eight finished the round trip and three made second starts.. Although several of the planes were wrecked either in landing or getting off, only one pilot suffered an injury in the international flight. JAPAN (IIOTS SI RS Tokio, Sept. 2. German subma rines allotted to Japan have safely arrived at Yokohama where they are 'open to public inspection. Many States Represented at Roosevelt Memorial Meeting j New Y'ork. Sept. 2.—A conference under the auspices of the Roosevelt Memorial Association will be held in the Hotel Waldorf-Astoria to-morrow, at which delegates from Connecticut. New York State. New Jersey, Pennsyl- j vanlu, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia. l West Virginia and the District of Co lumbia. will perfect plans for the cam- • paing to be conducted in the week of October 20-27. The Roosevelt Memorial Association will raise $5,000,000 by popular sub (scription throughout the United States I to erect u monument to the late Then-, Idore Roosevelt at Washington, and to establish a park In his honor at Oyster! i Bay. Germans Pay France For Berlin Murder I'nriM, Sept. —Germany has pal.l ■France an indemnity of l,000 ( u00{ .francs for the murder of Serjeant ' i Paul Mannheim, who was killed in the! streets 1 Berlin by a German In July., ; The French government will make a, Finds Unexpected Sometimes Happens "I suffered for 10 years with stom- ' ach trouble and doctored away a! lot of money before I found a modi- | I cine that was a real benefit to me. | i Since taking one dose of Mayr's i j Wonderful Remedy 14 weeks ago. I ! have had more real joy of living j | than 1 had in 10 years before." It i is a simple, harmless preparation j j that removes the catarrhal mucus | from the intestinal tract and allays ! the inflammation which causes prac- I tlcally all stomach, liver and intesti , nal ailments, including appendicitis, j j One dose will convince or money re- ' funded. H. O. Kennedy, Clark's 2 i I drug stores and druggists every-1 where. SEPTEMBER 2, 1919. gift of this amount to the Interna ticna! I ted Cross. France originally claimed the pay ment by Germany of 100.000 francs for the fami'y of Sergeant Mannheim and nn indemnity of 1,000,000 francs. Germany readily agreed to pay the former sum, but at first declared she would not meet the demand for the indemnity. Practical, a stylish, good^feeling^ walking lj/ inch military heel. Made up in to Mail Vt Order" pSOMR'S FRIEND j Expectant IIA Speedy Recovery mTj'iyJ' At All OruatlAta ' j | Special ilwltlfl on Mothirltood tad Baby, Tree I jBRADFIKLD REGULATOR CO. DEPT. 5-D, ATLANTA. GA 5
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