WOMAN’ SBUREAU
AT WASHINGTON
ISSUES REPORT
A study of their own collective
experience demonstrates that, so far
as the workers at the Bryn Mawr
Summer School for Women in In
dustry are representative, the bur
den. of family support borne by wo
men constitutes, generally speaking,
so large a proportion of their actual
earnings that it determines the eco
nomic position of the worker in a
very important way. A report on
this study, which was made under
the direction of Professor Amy Hew
es, has just been issued in bulletin
form by Women’s Bureau of the U.
S. Department of Labor.
Of the 101 women students from
mills and factories thruout the coun
try at the school during the summer
of 1924, nearly one-fifth were the
sole supporters of other persons. A
majority of the women with total de
pendents were at least 25 years old,
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tout two of those who had not reach
ed their 25th birthdays were the
sole supporters of two other per
sons, while another girl under 30
supported three persons besides her
self. About (half the workers who
■boarded away from home still contri
buted to the support of their famil
ies.
Probably at least one-half of all
■the women had the problem of family
support in some degree since more
than two-fifths definitely contributed
to the family income, probably in ex
cess of the cost of their own main
tenance. This had to be met from
wages that were not, except in a
ifew bases, at high rates, and from
earnings that were frequently^ inter
rupted by periods of unemployment.
However, the Bryn Mawr Summer
School students did not include many
representatives of the hardest press
ed workers, since they were at least,
so situated that—(their maintenance
toeing covered by scholarships—they
could not spare two months away
from their employment and forfeit
their earnings for that time. Tlhere
ifore it is reasonable "‘'to assume, the
report points out, that the share in
family support of women workers
in general is an even heavier bur
den than that carried by the Bryn
■Mawr group.
A characteristic probably more
i common in the dependents* of women
i than in those of men is also empha
sized in this study. Whereas the de
pendents of men are usually their
i children, who will one day be self
! supporting oy even contribute to the
| support of the parents, the depend
1 ents of women are more frequently
j th older parents, who will never be
■self-supporting again, who become
; increasingly dependent, and who
; usually fall to the care of the un
! married daughters.
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Palm Beach will have a sixty mil
lion dollar fireproof hotel to replace
the famous Breakers, destroyed by
j fire last year.
A zinc mine near Benton, Wis., won
by Martin Dunn in a poker game and
! sold for a few dollars before ore was
i struck, has yielded more than §500,
j 000.
Good program at the Liberty.
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Soft Drinks and Candies
CARD TABLES
Phone Madison 54
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Next Door to Liberty Theatre
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NEWS OF GOOD
FORTUNE CAUSE
LOSING GAME
GERMAN CHEF, UNABLE TO
MAKE CAFE PAY, DOES THE
DISAPPEARING ACT
BERLIN, Jan. 27. (£>)—'While
studying a complicated position in
his game with Torre, the young Mex
ican expert, in the recent interna
tional chess tournament at Moscow,
Dr. Emanuel Lasker, the veteran
German master, was handed a tele
gram informing him that his drama,
“Days of Mankind,” had been ac
cepted for production by the Lessing
Theatr.
Dr. Lasker looked away from the
board distractedly, indicating that
for the moment human emotion had
conquered cold logic. He presently
resumed his game but made a move
which lost it for him. That was his
first defeat in the Moscow tourna
ment and helped to cheat him of the
first prize which needed only that
one game and an additional half
point to draw with the ultimate win
ner.
Dr. Lasker’s drama was written
in collaboration with his brother Dr.
Berthold Lasker. The play is of
deep philosophical and symbolic sig
nificance, its theme being redemption
from rationalism and riding logic thru
the emotional powers of mysticism.
Dr. Lasker is an active member
of the Kent Society and frequently
lectures on philosophy before Ger
man educational societies.
Driven to despair because menus
which once tickled the palates of
kings, 'failed to appeal to the people
of Pressburg, Czechoslovakia, where
j he conducted a cafe, Alois Boza has
disappeared and police fear he has
killed himself.
Boza was once a chef in the kit
chens of Edward VII of England,
Franz Josef I of Austria and Peter
I of Serbia. Though he received
large salaries for his services in
royal courts,’ he became poor in his
old age. Numerous creditors who
banked him In the cafe venture have
asked the police of central European
countries to hunt for him.
Boza, a swine-herder on his father’s
farm in Serbia, started as a cu1!nary
artist in Belgrade and Vienna res
taurants. His fame as a fish cook
spread over the continent.
Discharged fijom the army, in
whiah he had been a cook, in 1919,
he set up in business for himself.
He tried futilely for six years to make
his cafe pay.
One morning passersby found a
sign hanging on the cafe door. It
read: “Those whom relished my
food are gone. I must go, too.”
Germany is experiencing an inunda
tion of Russian kultur. Special ef
forts are being made by Russian
leaders to show Germany and the
world that development of art, mu
sic, education, science and even
sport has made great progress under
the soviet regime.
The kultur series was opened in
Berlin by a three-weeks’ engage
ment of the Moscow art studio which
demonstrated Dantschenke’s ideas
about opera. A little later Profes
sor Semaschko, Russian commissar
of health, addressed numerous med
ical societies on the progress of pub
lic health work in his country.
More recently A. Lunacharsky, com
missar for education, has com© to
Berlin to get in touch with leaders
of German education and introduced
himself to the German theater as a
dramatist. Two of his plays -were
given during his visit.
In soviet circles it is admitted that
these visits are directed toward ad
Second Cook On Starr
Is Back on the Job
Cassa Haya, second cook on the
Steamer Starr, who was relieved on
the last trip to the westward by
Andy Goosoff, is back on the job
again following a trip to the An
chorage hospital wher© he under
went treatment for a few days. He
returns feeling fine and dandy. Cas
sa is a brother to T. Haya, first cook
on the vessel.
DYKEMAN TAKES EXAMS.
Arrivals in Seward last week from
(Seattle report that Roe Dykeman,
.former purser on th© steamer Starr,
is now undergoing a government ex
amination from which he anticipates
emerging in possession of a ship cap
tain’s papers.
Floating Dock on Beach;
Is Receiving Overhauling
The float for small boats, which
until about a week ago was moor
ed alongside of the Seward wharf,
and which was at that time floated
over to the beach for general over
hauling, was reported floating about
on 'this- morning’s tide free from
any shore lines. This wa3 remedied
very shortly.
Work on repairing the big fioat
has been delayed ow7ing to the ie
cent heavy surf and yesterday's
southwestei.
vertising Russia ast a cultural state.
Hand in hand with the movement in
Germany go international contests
and celebrations in Russia, such as
the jubilee exercises at the Moscow
Academy of Arts and Science, the
international chess tournament and
automobile endurance races.
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METHOD OF
MAIL ORDER
MERCHANDIZING
Mail order concerns de
mand cash in advance. They won’t
take a chance. They won’t trust you.
They are the “fair weather friends” of
merchandising.
If a local dealer treated you in
same manner you would be madder than
a wet hen. But he doesn’t. If you desire
credit and are worthy of it, he will extend it
gladly. Then why not
Favor Dealers Who Will Favor You
Spot cash trading is of course the best
policy of purchasing. There are, however, times when
even those well heeled financially must resort to “credit”
buying. You may see the time when it will not be convenient for
you to “come across” with the cash. And when that time comes
the local merchant is the only one who will “accommodate” you. The mail
order house would turn you down cold. They want your business only when
they have your money in hand.
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Unless you trade with home dealers when you have the
ready cash—don't ask for a “credit lift” in a pinch. It’s not just. It’s
net even common decency to expect your home town dealer to bear
the burden of your bills—when you refuse to do business with him when you
‘ can do it on a spot cash basis.
By every reason of right your local merchants are entitled
to your patronage—every penny of it. They cater to your best inter
ests with the best brands of merchandise. Their quality standards are the
highest. Their lines are fresh—clean—right up to date in every particular.
Their prices mark the extreme limit of economical buying. They deal fairly.
Every dollar you spend with them buys actual value. None of it goes for ex
orbitant mail order expenses—costly catalogues—high salaried office workers. They don't
attempt to lead you on with merchandising “lures”—with low prices on one or a few articles—
then high prices on all other goods.
They want your business. They will do everything within
their means to earn your patronage. They must handle your account
with care. They can’t stand to lose trade—because their field is limited.
Even if they were inclined (which they are not) to employ underhanded methods, they couldn’t
afford to—because it would kill them commercially.
Turn trade to the dealer who in turn will treat you right. Put your con
fidence in merchants who have confidence in you.
The Calumet Baking Powder Company
paid for the preparation of this article.