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(Continued From Pan Ona.)
Meanwhile the Cox band in red uni-
forma paradod around the galleries its
musie mingling discordantly with that
of the official convention band which
was furiously playing “Yankee Doodle.*
It was one of the most turbulent scenes
since the convention opened. The great
pipe organ Joined in. The din was d-af-
ening and the war dance continued with
unabated fervor.
As the melee on the floor grew Cox’s
loyal red coated brans band (from Piqua.
Ohio) untied tself up among a mass of
spectators In tha gallery as it marcuul
The bandsmen became separated and
soon belated red-coated individuals sut-
rounded by a mass of bowlinf spectator
and were blowing fiercely into tubas
trombones and clairnets.
Pat O'Keefe Carrie* Flag.
Suddenly Pat O'Keefe of Texan ap-
peared in the middle aisle frantically
waring the rifantie Texan flag that he
hat carried to every Democratic conven-
tion in aeveral decade* that has namel
a successful nominee. After 20 minutes
the crowd's appetite for more balloting
asserted itself and the noise gradually
died away.
The McAdoo minute men swung into
action. A pretty brunette in a strik-
ing green costume was hoisted to tnc
shoulders of one of the Kansans where
she rode with the large yellow Kansas
banner held high above his head to
both hands.
Michigan suddenlv became the ecuur
of the demonstration. The Wolverines
elevated one of their members high
above their heads and with the state
standard as high as he could raise it
they engaged in a war dance which
started the enthusiasm off afresh.
After 15 minutes of near rioutous
work by the McAdoodlee the demon-
stration began to die down and Chait*
man Robinson pounded for order.
A Significant Change.
Changes on the 20th ballot were
■light but significant. Cox appeared
to bare reached hia main strength and
went back 21 votes. The Tennessee
delegation took ita support from him.
leaving him eight votes gave ten to
McAdoo and scattered the rest. There
were slight shifts elsewhere in the list.
After the 20th ballot it was learned
the Cox people had made several
advances toward making trades with
the coalition elements.
They were turned down in every in-
stance. When the officials attempted
to announce the result of the 20th bal-
lot they got only a. far as McAdoo’s
340 1-2 which was a gain of thirteen
over the previous ballot when the Mc-
Adoo crowd leaped to their feet and
launched another demonstration.
Talk of an adjournment until Mon-
day after one or two more ballots to-
night was growing among -dera of
the coalition opposition to Governor
Cog at 10 o'clock. Tho*; who were
standing pat with their favorite eons
as a means of blocking Cox were begin-
ning to feel that there was no chance
of putting over McAdoo hie closest
competitor. Cox leaders were getting
word from several delegates that if the
Ohio governor's managers could assure
them that they had enough rotes to nom-
inate with what the state in question
eould throw in they would go to Cox.
Motion to Adjourn Is Lost.
There was talk everywhere of the ap-
pearance of a dark horse and the word
generally passing about that an ad-
journment would eome before midnight
so that a new alignment be effected.
Delegate Speltaey of Connecticut
moved adjournment until 10 a. m. Mon-
day. Senator Harrison of Mississippi
demanded a yes or no roll call o. the
proposed adjournment which was or-
dered.
It was generally accepted that the
move by Spellacy who is a Palmer lead-
er was caused by gains of McAdoo and
fear of some of the Palmer followers
might slide to New fork. Rumors were
firing about the floor that Georgia’s
28 delegates who have voted solidly
with Palmer throughout were giving in-
dications of restiveness and might soon
be found in the McAdoo column.
In spite of the slight trepidation in
the Palmer camp with regard to Me-
Adao’a gains the defensive alliance
between the two eamps remained un-
broken and Cox had been able to make
no further progress in face of it.
The motion to adjourn was lost
Georgia Announces Shift.
The chairman of the Georgia delega-
tion just before the 21st ballot started
told newspapermen that Georgia ex i
peeled to cast her 28 votes for McAdoo
on the 21st ballot.
Senator Harrison of Mississippi
moved a recess until Monday at 10
o’clock. It was reported that the lead-
ers opposed to McAdoo had heard of the
impending Georgia vote and were mov-
ing to prevent further acces..ons to the
McAdoo strength. Harrison withdrew
his motion when he saw that it had
little cbanee to succeed.
On the 21st ballot Georgia steadfast
to Palmer for 20 ballots broke away
from the Pennsylvanian and leaped into
the McAdoo column. The McAdoo sup-
porters let loose a wild yell of joy.
Ohio moved a recess until 10 a. tn.
Monday. Harrison of Mississi.. i de-
manded the ayes and noes to determine
whether there should be a roll call.
Second Motion to Adjourn Lmt
On a viva voce vote the motion to ad-
journ was lost.
An absolute airtight defensive alliance
between the McAdoo. Palmer and scat-
tered forces against Governor Cox of
Ohio was meeting every test through the
21st ballot tonight. It was learned au-
thoritatively that this defensive alliance
at the start entered into during the
recesa thia evening ineluded an agree-
ment to continue to deadlock until mid
night and then adjourn until Monday.
The 22nd ballot was festured by the
Georgia delegates going back into the
Palmer fold after having flop.xd to Mc-
Adoo. Otherwise the change were un-
important. Two votes for President
Wilson were cast by Missouri delegates.
After the 22nd ballot Delegate Spel
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lacy Connecticut again moved an ad
journtnent until 10 p m. Monday and
the motion was carried by a viva voce
vote.
EARLY BALLOTING INDECISIVE.
Recess Is Called When Break Appears
Unlikely.
Auditorium San Francisco July 3.—
After taking fourteen ballots without
being able to nominate a candidate the
Democratic convention late tod.y re-
cessed until 8 o’clock this evening when
the balloting was to be res ..led.
On the sixteenth ballot the three
leaders had the following totals:
Cox 454 1-2; McAdoo 337; Palmer
164 1-2.
As Cox continued to gain in strength
I during the hours preceding the recess
the Palmer and McAdoo leuders looked
like men fighting with their backs to
the wall. Their expressions were wor-
ried and there were many conferences
beneath the stage and in the aisles.
Thomas J. Spellacy Connecticut one
of the Palmer leaders moved a recess
until 8 p. m. Senator Harris n Missis-
sippi demanded a roll call. On this
roll the motion carried 619 -o 455.
The vote against taking a recess was
considered the best indication of the
total Cox strength in the convention at
the time the roll was called. The Cox
leaders were bitterly opposed to a break
in the steady procession of roll calls
which had carried Cox up and up until
be passed McAdoo.
Palmer-McAdoo Men Force Reeess.
The recess move was made by the
Palmer and McAdoo strategists when
everything else apparently had failed to
halt the Ohio governor's advance.
In carrying the recess motion the
Palmer and McAdoo leaders demon-
strated they have the strength to stop
Cox if they work together. It was un-
derstood that immediately after the
recess the Palmer and McAdoo leaders
were going into conference U decide just
what to do to halt the Ohio governor.
When the convention reassembles at 8
o'clock it was expected the McAdoo-
Palmer chieftains would have decided
on the strategy to be used against Cox.
Again and again during the balloting
today. Tom Love C. C. Carlin T. J.
Spellacy and other leaders of the Mc-
Adoo men made desperate efforts to
persuade the Virginia delegates to throw
their votes fr Senator Gliss. Several
steadily for Senator Glass. Several
other deals were suggested and dis-
carded. Meanwhile the balloting went
rapidly ahead.
Supporters Stick Stubbornly.
Every time the roll was called there
were tense moments when the names
were called of the California. Texas
the Carolinas and other delegations in
which McAdoo had big blocks of votes
as it was feared they would go over to
Cox and start a veritable landslide to
him. The Pennsylvania and Georgia
delegations stood firmly for Palmer on
ballot after ballot. Carlin Palmer’s
manager said there was no danger of
them abandoning Palmer until he gave
them permission to do so and other
Palmer chiefs declared they didn’t care
how long the fight went on they t. Id
vote solidly for the attorney general to
the bitter end. McAdoo held the lead
until the twelfth ballot when winning
the lowa delegation and 30 additional
votes in Illinois Cox forged ahead.
When this became known to spectators
and delegates there was a great de .on-
stration in whiigi many states joined.
Several tin-es efforts were made by the
Cox rooters to precipitate a landslide.
They propped cheer leaders upon chairs
by the dalegates to conduct yells for
the Ohioan. Up in the gal'ery the
chant "We’ll nominate Cox. or know
the reason why” was started repeat-
edly.
The Palmer contingent principally in
Pennsylvania sat grimly and silently
through these affairs. Their pennants
were waved no longer their own cheer
leaders had disappeared and many of
them looked glum and Palmer’s strength
was cut into but they voted for the
attorney general consistently without
a sign of wavering.
Wilson Expresses No Preference.
Washington. D. C„ July 3.—ln a for-
mal statement issued at the White
House tonight Joseph P Tumulty sec-
retary to President Wilson denied that
the President had expressed any prefer-
ence among the candidates being voted
on at the San Fr-ncinco convention.
PRICES TO GO DOWN
Germany Expects Food Will Be High.
But Clothing Will Be Ixiwer.
Berlin July 3.—Germany antici-
pates an era of high food prices until
the next harvest In the meantime
however according to prominent mer-
chants the population can expect eome
reduction in articles of clothing and
shoes.
Although Germany has obtained a
tremendous food credit from America
and though this represents thousands
and thousands of pounds of food it is
estimated that an equal distribution
thereof would mean only three or four
pounds of flour and a few pounds of
butter and meat per persons. Prices
bare been going up since the Kapp
putsch. Meantime the German valuta
is improving so that the nation can
more readily buy on the foreign market
the foods and raw materials most
needed.
But in so far as foods and clothing
are concerned—aside from what the gov-
ernment sells at reduced prices—it is
is. in ted out that much thereof was pur
chased when the mark stood at 90 to
100 per dollar and the prices then made
are still being maintained even though
the mark stands at a less inflated point
now.
Storekeepers say that the situation is
touching their pocketbooks materially
and there is a prospect of a considerable
number of failures among concerns who
bought high and are still stocked up.
The public unlike in America isn’t tar-
ing to substitutes—say. foi instance
overalls—but has simply stopfssj buy-
ing. This is particularly true of the
foreigner. He bought freely when toe
valuta was in bis favor but be is find-
ing now that frequently the German
price is as high—or higher—than the
world market uriee.
Business men however look for an
adjustment before many mouths and
say that the present situation by and
targe will be merely a case of squeez
ing out some war profit:- from fat
"Schiebers” and Kriegsgewiunler.”
JAPAN SPENDS
MILLIONS FOR
GOODROADS
Island Empire Appropriates
$125000000 for Its
Highways.
FEW MOTORS IN USE
Despite Scarcity of Auto-
mobiles Roads Will Be
Vastly Improved.
„ . . By JUNTOS B. WOOD.
Special Correspondence to The San Antonio
Light and the Ch-mYn Daily News.
Tokyo Japan. May 18.—Japan with
only 10000 automobiles in the empire
has appropriated $125000000 as state
aid during the next ten years for build-
ing good roads. The comparatively
small number of cars now in Japan is
40 per cent more than there were a
year ago. Insistence on good roads has
increased in about the same proportion.
Imagine the United States appropriat-
ing at a rate of $12500 per automobile
for road work.
Good highways are needed of course
for many other things than automobile
touring but of the 72.000 miles of high-
way* on the islands satisfactory for
pedestrians small carts or ’rikishas few
outside of the largest cities can be used
for motor traveling.
From Tokyo to Kobe is a railroad
ride of 3i6 miles covered in less than
fourteen hours. Old Dutch writers tell
of the macadam causeway stretching
ween the two cities and known as
the Tokiado (eastern sea road.) It was
crowded with daimyos (nobles) and
their armed retainers merchants peas-
ants pack horses and all the heterogen-
eous assortment of a medieval highway
who stopped at the tea houses and
rested under the trees chatting and
leisurely making their way to Yeddo.
the old Tokyo of the Shoguns. The
trip consumed between thirteen and
fourteen days.
Need of New Bridges.
Recently the good roads boosters
under the auspices of the roads improve-
ment association made a demonstra-
tion trip in six automobiles over this
road. It required five days. At five
different places tbe railroad is using
the only substantial bridges. Pedes-
trians and carts must either ford or
cross on structures which will not hold
the weight of a car. It was necessary :
to load the automobiles on trains to (
make the crossings. Tb* prefectural j
government has now set aside $4000000 I
for the improvement of roads and con-
struction of bridges through this Hakone
district Highway bridges are to be
built across the mouth of Lake Hamana.
3000 ken (18000 feet) and over the’
Fuji kawa (Fugi River) Oi-gawa and
Tenryu-Gawa. It will be several years
before the automobile highway through
this picturesque and historical section is
completed.
The nation pays half the expense of
road improvement while the perfectural.
county municipal and township govern-
ments pay the remainder. An automo-
bile owner pays in Tokoyo district an
annual tax of $59 to the prefecture and
$75 to the municipality. So he is en-
titled to something in the way of roads.
A bill is before the diet to have the
state collect all the automobile taxes
and use them for road building.
Building Shorter Roads.
Work is going ahead on several
shorter stretches connecting cities. For
the twenty miles between Kobe and
Osaka. $7000000 has been set aside and
the work is to be completed in five
years. The eighteen miles between
Tokyo and Yokohama is to be finished
in three years at a cost of $7500000.
Next will follow the road between Osaka
and Kyoto at a cost of $2500000. It
will connect with the main Tokyo-
Kobe highway. From Tokyo north to
Nikko is 97 miles. This road requires
the erection of a bridge over the Tone-
gawa at a cost of $30000. It should
be finished next year when automobiles
may make the run from Yokohama
through Tokyo to Nikko and its temples
in three hours.
Military needs have been another
strong incentive to good roads. The
twenty-one mile road between Yokohama
and tbe naval station at Yokosuka
skirting the sea is delightful. This
road reaches Kamakura fourteen miles
from Yokohama the old Shogunate cap-
ital of th-. 12th century with ita colos-
sal Da’butsu and hoary temples. The
state nas offered tbe prefecture $lO.-
000000 to improve the other two roads
between Y'okohama and Kamakura but
so far the latter has not come forward
with an equal amount.
Spending Millions in Korea.
In Chosen (Korea) and Hokkaido
(Yezo) the northern island chiefly
visited to see the city of Hakodate and
tbe few surviving Ainos million* are
being expended for tbe construction of
new roads. The imperial government
builds them and the local governments
maintain them In four years $50000-
000 will have been spent for road build-
ing in Chosen. Much of this new high-
way can already be seen paralleling tbe
railroad from Antung on the north for
590 miles to Fuson on tbe southern tip
of tbe Korean peninsula. In all about
16000 miles of highway are being built
or modernised in Chosen.
Japan is hopefully building roads and
present and future owners of automo-
biles are equally hopeful of the use they
are to get out of them. Little thought
is given now to the continuous expendi-
ture and labor necessary to keep them
up.
Mort of the roads are macadam some
oiled and others having asphalt surfac-
ing. What Wil J happen to them when a
flock of car* such as may be seen on
Chicago boulevards on a fine Sunday
afternoon is turned loose on them is
difficult to imagine.
The government is going to profit by
the experience of other countries. N.
Kagami chief of the roads section home
affairs department has been selected to
make a tour of Eurotie and America to
learn their road administration and
road building methods. He is looking
forward to seeing Michigan Boulevard.
Fifth Avenue the Lincoln Highway and
other gigantic feats of road building
all of which be already knows by name.
No Great Accomplishment.
Artist—With one ntroke of my brush I
can cbMSO • smiting cbUU Into a weep-
ing one.
Friend tdryb ; —1 can do tho lime with
a broomstlek.
THE SAN ANTONIO LIGHT.
General Gorgas Dies in England
Ending Career as a Sanitarian
Famous Army Surgeon Was
Eminent in Hia Field
Achieving World Wide
Recognition by His Success
in Cleaning Up the Canal
Zone.
London July I.—Maj. General Wil-
liam C. Gorgas former surgeon gen-
eral of tbe United States military
forces died here lata today of Bright’s
disease. General Gorgas was in Eng-
land on a government assignment in
connection with sanitary work. He was
also commissioned with a scientific mis-
sion by the Rockefeller Institute.
General Gorgas had been ill for only
a short time. He was recently taken to
the Quean Alexandria Hospital where
his death was expected since early this
morning.
Mrs. Gorgas and General Noble his
associate were constantly in attendance
at his bedside.
Long accepted as one of the world’s
most accomplished surgeons and an au-
thority on military medicine and sur-
gery Maj. Gen. William C. Gorgas
acquired public recognition as such
through his achievement in rendering
tbe Panama Canal Zone a safe and
sanitary place for human occupation
defeating by the employment of his
science tbe malarial mosquito and there-
by making it possible for white men
to build tbe great canal. It was be
who drove forth tbe yellow fever men-
ace from Havana where tbe disease had
been a scourge for over a hundred
years; and under the encouragement of
the United States government and the
Rockefeller Foundation he conducted
similar campaigns in Central America
Peru and Ecuador.
Under the auspices of tbe British gov-
ernment he went to South Africa in
IHI3. to introduce sanitation into the
Rand and subsequently he received high
honors at the hands of his colleagues in
London ami also a degree from Ox-
ford University.
F ought Plagues Ten Years.
For th* past decade his services were
devoted to battling against plague and
pestilence in many parts of the world
whither he went at the instance of those
who had heard of his victories over dis-
eaw. He was prominent in the re-
duction of the medical staff of tbe Amer-
ican Expeditionary Force in France. He
became a commander of the I*egion of
Honor and was knighted by King
George or Englund.
It took nine year* to clean up the
Isthmus but a* a proof that his en-
deavor was sure ’ssful he was aiqminted
a major gcnernl in the United States
Army and the i»ost of surgeon general
BUSY LIBRARIAN HAS TO BE
‘WALKING ENCYCLOPEDIA’ FOR
THOUSANDS OF THE CURIOUS
Staff Has to Answer All Sorts of Questions as well as
Smooth Out Misunderstandings and Keep the
Stream of Books Going In and Out.
“What arc the latest adventurea of
Woodrow WiUon?”
“Do you spell ninety with or without
an v’?’ —this over tbe telephone.
“Will you please-ma'am look and see
if Mrs. X is at the jxjpular shelf?
has on a blue dress and a black hat?”
This likewise over the telephone.
The time was Tuesday morning. The
place was the Carnegie Library and the
questioners men women and children
talking over the deak and the telephone
if the public has a haxy picture of a
librarian as a quiet voiced creature
moving serenely from book shelf to
book shelf dipping into this master*
pieces or skimming through that deli-
cious bit of fiction pausing at long
intervals to give out a l>ook to an occa-
sional borrower the x»ublic will have to
readjust its pictures. The only detail
which exists in real life is the quiet
voice. For the inquiring borrowing cit-
kens of San Antonio keep the libra-
rian- dashing busily from one task to
another.
An average of 1000 people a day pass
through the Public Library here. And
in addition there are scores more who
telephone their wants in. Those wants
as numerous and varied as the people
telephoning.
Who Introduced lee Cream.
They want to know who first intro-
duced ice cream. They want to know
if the library has a book on Japanese
architecture. They want to know how
to spell a certain word. They want to
see a map of all the railroads from San
Antonio to Canada. When that is
brought out they want to see another of
all the roads from here to South Ameri-
ca and are astonished to find out that
there isn’t any road from here to South
America.
The librarian has to be an encyclo-
pedia of general information for the
task which occasioned her employment
—aiding the borrowers to find the books
they desire—is secondary to the num-
erous additional on^s piled od.
A day in the library is like a tour
of th* human mind. Tuesday it began
with the small boy who wanted Wood-
row Wilson’s latest adventures. “Prob-
ably taking his temperature” the libra-
rian whispered in an aside to ber help-
er. Hut to the little boy she patiently
explained that the library did not pos-
sess such a book but referred him to
certain volumes the President has writ-
ten if the Wilson handiwork was de-
sired.
Pushing the small inquirer was a mtn
who wanted to know if tb*y had a book
on rabbit raising. It was out the li-
brarian explaining that never a week
went by that someone didn’t come io
for one of the books on the same sub-
ject.
A little lady with a wedding ring thot
still shone its newness came Id for
''some books on housekeeping and cook-
ing” and went happily out with three
oil related to her problem.
Cookbooks Greatly In Demand.
“We have to watch our cookbooks
though.” was the librarian’s comment
os she backed shyly out. °We have had
any number stolen from th* shelves. We
find it very hard to keep supplied.”
In the same way they find it bard
to keep the table given over to geologi-
cal and petroleum study supplied with
literature. For th« “oil hounds” arc
pron* to walk out with some pamphlet.
Always on the alert the librarians put
a table out in the reading room stock-
WM. C. GORGAS.
in 1914. He wax also made a mem-
ber of tbe Isthmian Commission.
It was General Gorgas who first an-
nounced the elaborate system that had
been devised for the reconstruction of
soldiers maimed in the war including
many measures such as the building of
orthopaedic hospitals behind tbe lines
in the fighting area of France and
the erection of reconstruction hospitals
at the bases at home.
Retired From the Amy.
While on duty in France General
Gorgas reached the age limit and at the
conclusion of the war he retired from
the service. He became chief of tbe
yellow fever commission of tbe Rocke-
feller Foundation and accomplished
much in tbnt capacity io Central and
South America.
Last month King George conferred on
him the decoration of Knight Com-
mander of the Older of Saint Michael
and Saint George.
Genera! Gorgas was born in Mobile
Ala. October 3 1854—the son of a
general of the Confederacy. He was an
alumnus of tho University of tbe South
having been graduated in 1875. The be-
ginning of his career in the army was
marked by his appointment as a surgeon
in 1880.
Itavas while en route to South Africa
to carry out seo.uel of his sanitary
program there that he was taken ill
whereafter he remained in England un-
til his death.
ing it with all manner of bulletins on
oil formations and kindred subjects re-
lating to oil. which were supplied by
the state government. In similar man-
ner the wants of the public are an*
ticipated. It a famous lecturer or au-
thor conies to town the library habitue*
find that a table of books and articles
on the speaker is in place at the library.
In the spring the table had all manner
of literature on gardening displayed
there.
Club women and school children have
found the library and the librarians in-
dispensable to their work. One of tbe
assistants was using her spare time
Tuesday looking up reference books for
three debates one topic being "Congress
Should Prohibit Strike*;” "The Illiter-
acy Test Should Be Abolished” was an-
other and a third was "Resolved It Is
the Duty of This Nation to Intervene
in Mexico.” Debaters on both sides had
pleaded for aid and information for
them was being compiled.
Amaze an Englishman.
While she was at this an English-
man walked into the library asking if
someone could give him the address
of a certain manufacturer and exporter
in London. To bis amazement they
could and did.
A business man further down the desk
was waitin’ his turn to ask if any infor-
mation was available on the advertising
policy of Marshal Field and one of the
assistants was detailed to aid him in
ascertaining through a glance at cer-
tain books.
Occasionally absurd mix-ups come
about. The other day a middle-aged
woman shoved three books across the
counter. The librarian checked them
up and informed the borrower that they
were al) overdue and the fine of nine
cents bad to be paid before she could
get any more out.
“I won't do it!” flared the woman.
"That's the way Carnegie got hia
money taxing us i»or people.” It wax
patiently explained that Mr. Carnegie
had nothing to do with the fines. That
he had donated the building to San An-
tonio that the city kept it up and that
the demand for the books was greater
than the supply and to keep them in cir-
culation it was necessary to limit the
time each book might be kept out. fin-
ing for overtime. Somewhat mollified
but still muttering tMC woman reluct-
antly paid the fine grabbing the penny
handed back with a gesture of outraged
dignity.
Reservation Fee Causes Trouble.
More generous wa* the attitude of a
man who was told that the book he
wanted was not in but might be re-
served for a penny. He wanted three
and when he had filled out the three
cards handed him he shoved three pen-
nie« across the desk saying that he was
giad to give the money to the library.
Reacting from this unusual experience
the librarian confided that the reserva-
tion fee is the cause of much diwastls-
faction.
"Do they never use their brains?”
asked the librarian. "It seems to me
the feeblest intelligence could see that
this is a postal card which we have
printed at the expense of the library
and the penny we ask is to buy tbe
stamp!”
Before she eould explain or exclaim
further someone came in to ask just
exactly how shepherd* cared for their
flocks another wanted some books on
dreams and other* wanted fiction and
books on writing stories or motion plays.
There was a regular line-up but after
they had moved off satisfied the libra-
rian turned to comment on tbe requests.
"Since the war we have been literally
swamped by request* for dream books
and any other information possible on
spirit visitations and similar things.
Freud’s books are seldom on tbe shelves
now and all our literature on religion
and phychical research has been in al-
most constant circulation for months
past.
Budding' Authors Ara Numerous.
"The requests for books on how to
write short stories and motion pictures
are almost daily affairs. Han Antonio
must be full of budding authors! The
motion pictures bring another kind of
request too. I don't think that a film
is ever shown in this town that some-
body doesn't como in to get the story
of the play from our shelves. We spend
all sorts of time explaining that few of
the pictures are screened from books.”
But in the midst of her talk came de-
mands for books on automobile storage
batteries a^l ignition a book of Spanish
legends "can you tell me where to find
ail the amendments to the constitution?"
a request for a book on pantomimes
both ancient and modern and something
about the life of Charles M. Schwab.
Just as these demands were met a wom-
an came up asking how to use the
Readers' Guide to the Magazines which
she held in her hand.
As varied and numerous as these re-
quests arc they are just a little over
one-fourth of the calls made. More
than 70 per cent of all the borrowers
who come into the library want fiction.
In addition to all those who borrow-
on cards are the hundreds who use the
reading rooms.
“We do not need calendars to tell uv
when winter comes" said one of the
assistants with a little smile. "Ag
soon as it gets too cold for them to sit
on the park benches they drift in here
to keep warm and read.”
REDUCED FREIGHT
RATES
On household goods in our poo) cars.
Phone Crockett 914.
Scobey Fireproof Storage Co.—(Adv.)
If It
Cost a
Lot to
Keep
Cool —
a man might
be excused
from buying
a Palm Beach Suit
—but
as a matter of fact
it’s actually cheaper
to be comfortable
for Palm Beach clothes
are only .
$14.70 upward
fraiHlm
"ifu ipa"
SW\SS AWAIT TOURISTS
TO ENLIVEN BUSINESS;
AMERICANS IN DEMAND
The Country It Full of Ho-
tels Ea^rly Awaiting
Travelers.
BY PAUL SCOTT MOWRER.
Zurich Switzerland—Although the
war caused Switzerland a certain num-
ber of aerious economic difficulties it
seems on the whole to have left the
country in excellent condition.
Ita industries have prospered and net
1 income* have more than doubled. The
resource* of the banks have nearly
doubled and investments abroad hqve
increased. Tbe peasants in particular
have bettered their condition returns
on farm investments having risen from
3.75 per cent to 9.50 per cent. Tbe
mobilization for aelf-defenae which
Switzerland felt obliged to maintain
throughout the war caused a sharp in-
crease iu the national debt aud tbe
state railways for tbe first time were
run at a deficit but the people iu a
recent referendum voted to tax them-
selves to pay off these new debts with-
in a few years.
The per capita wealth of Switzerland
in 1013 was $1135 as against $1877 iu
the Unijed States; yet at peeseut the
per capita debt here is only $62 as
against $270 in the United States.
To Develop Water Power.
Tbe difficulties which the country
has bad and is still having to obtain
coal for ita industries and railways is
stimulating projects for the increased
utilization of water power which is
abundant Coal delivered at the fron-
tier now costa $4B a ton. Switzerland
is not a country of great natural re-
sources but the thrift and industry of
its unusually intelligent people bare
STORE CLOSED TOMORROW. JULY STH.
JULY 4 1920.
nevertheless made it one of
iest small countries in the world.
The one dark spot is the prese ■
plight of the Swiss hotel industry whu®
has been developed to a high point. N<M
only are tlie towns and eltlea filing
with good hotels but the mouutaßß
and lakesides are covered with then
It is estimated that foreign tourtota be-
fore the war brought $100000000 iuto
the country every year. A large part
of this went to the hotels. The war
stopped travel. Some of tbe hotels iu
the larger cities did well catering io
citizens of the central empires w'ho
came here to escape food restrictions
but most of them began to stand empty.
It was expected that with the end of
the war travel would be resumed. Still
not only are passport restrictions aud
frontier examinations still onerous but
tbe question of exchange has arisen. T he
Swiss franc has maintained its value
while the money of neighboring coun-
tries has collapsed.
Rely on English and Americans.
About the only tourists who can
still afford to travel in Switzerland
where the cost of living has increased
about two and a half times are the
English and Americans. A good many
English have already found their way
back to this favorite vacation ground
and Americans are expected this sum-
mer. This will help tbe first class ho-
tels but tbe second class establishments
which are numerous and which were
formerly patronized >rgely by Germans
seem destined still to stand vacant.
As a result of this situation 1 be-
lieve there are few hotels at present
which are not heavily mortgaged to tha
bauks. The government has come to
their aid in maintaining a moratoriui®
against the foreclosure of mortgai^H
and they are also aiding one another.
the end most of them expect to'fiM
through but doubtless a number of tM
second-class establishments are doomom
to change bands.
Suffered At Night.
A prominent Texas woman xul
agony at night with indigestion and
would lie awake for hours. Fowler's
Stomach Wafers gave her instant re-
lief as soon as she tried them. For
indigestion sour stomach gaa and
other digestive disordera they can't be
beat. Sold by all druggist!—(Adv.)
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