Back to Petticoats Again;
So Rules Milady America
FMINTNE America has issued
her dictum. The petticoat
rules again. No more abbreviated
skirt which more than half reveals
and discloses. No more ankle
length dress to supplement the
work of the street cleaning bureau.
Eight Inches above tho pa veronal
and a petticoat for safety. 80 an
nounced sensible Milady America,
or words to that effect.
Anyhow, that Is the way they will
wear them this fall. Not high! Not
low! Just medium length with a
petticoat beneath.
A blow, that, to Paris and Main
Street Paris declared for the
sweeping skirt and lost her stran
glehold on American fashion. Main
Street undertook a defense of the
ballet-length type and ridicule over
whelmed her. She Is out in the al
ley today trying to pull the scanty
length down over her exposed
knees.
No more bloomers to clamp an
Inch?or maybe less?above the
edge of an abbreviated skirt. "Darn
the unmentionables; we accept no
substitutes," was the rallying cry
mpt pypry designer who of
fered a compromise. Milady Amer
ica stuck to her guns, or her skirt
length, and won. Ii takes but a
glanco In the knitting mills to
prove It.
A booming season this?for petti
coats. Not the flannel ones mother
wore. Passe those, yea, these many
years. Cotton, or cotton and worst
ed, or all worsted go Into milady's
petticoat today.
The petticoat rules! Does it lead
to petticoat rule? Well, have it that
way If you will. What is an article
and an 'V between friends?
TARIFF CONGRESS
NOW IN SESSION
Nonpartisan in Character Is
First Meeting of Producers
in West to Consider the
Turiff Question.
Denver, Colo., Oct. 3.?John M.
Parker, Governor of Louisianna. a
Democrat, addressing the Western
Tariff Congress hero today, declared
"the tariff question is more important
than ever before in our history and
should not be made a football for
designing politicians." He charged
that "our law-makers overlook the
tact that the greatest assets ttiday
in America are our farmers and our
farming people," and declared him
self in lavor of a tariff that will pro
tect the American producers.
The-Governor suld in part: "I am
a protectionist. I believe in the
tariff and that It should be sd gra
duated that those engaged in pro
ducing food products from tho t>oil,
devoting their brain, und energy
to their work, are entitled to a rea
sonable profit and a comfortable liv
ing. I ?beticve with all my soul that
the American man on equal terms
can worif with anyone, biiiJie can
not possibly compete with those na
tions who wear practically no clothes,
whose wants are very limited, whose
only hopes are for an existence and
who have few ideals.
"To my mind, tho most valuable
possessions of America today ar*? lu-r
agriclturalist*. tho vast majority of
whom are law-abiding. God-fearing
citizens and In marked contrast to
the congested. money-mad popula
tion of many of our great cities.
"With the enormous mass of tax
free bonds, which have been issued
and largely purchased by the rich In
order to avoid all forms of taxation,
with the certainty thai capital is very
timid and not seeking investments,
and with the further certainty that
the burden of taxes, falling on the
shoulders of, the farmer, is almost
gresrtpr than he can bear and that
lots of them are surrendering their
farms and going to the city, it ap-i
peals to me that the tariff question J
is more important than ever before
in our history and should not .be i
made a football for designing polltl- j
cians.
"My experience as Food Adminls-1
trator for Louisiana during the war.
especially at a time and period when
we rationed In order to save food,
convinced me that but for* the pro
duction of cane sUKar in Louisiana |
and of beet *ugar In a number of
Western states, we would have gone
absolutely without this necessary 1
food product.
"We must remember that this in
dustry gives employment to thous
ands of people and millions of dol
lars of capital, a large part of which
;s expended In the purchase of mules
front Missouri, Tennessee. Kentucky
I "Buckwheat"
1
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Cakes
Pancake Syrup
Salt Mackerel
PHONES 607?698
i.
R. L. Garrett
and Illinois, of machinery purchased
from Pennsylvania and other states,
and of wagons, carts and farm uten- |
Bils purchase from all over the cen
tral West, and our labor was the
greatest consumer and best custom
er for the fat meats and crops of the
Western corn belt.
"When sugar was practically put t
out on the free list, tJ*?j;t> were 62
sugar mills between .New Orleans (
and the Gulf, and aft?*r the Wilson
Tariff Law, the number was reduced
to one and over one hundred million '
dollars practically wiped out at one
s'troke of the pen. It is a "human
impossibility for the sugar farmer,]
even with the most modern machin
ery and equipment, with the present j
high cost of labor and machinery, to'
come in compctiton with Cuba with
Its cheap labor.
"Our Jaw-makers overlook.the fact
that the greatest assets today in
America nro our farmers and our
farming people, as they have fur
Dished in both peace and war. the
able. virllt Amor leans who haVe bet* u
, the greatest blessing to the Nation."
W\?s||||S VISIT SWKDKN
Stockholm. Oct. 3 ?Sweden lus
li i ti l..?st to in- re ituval visitors
from lotelmu countrUs dtir!::: ;i\
W?*?'ks t!lia bUltllller thai! ? V?T b? fol'"
within Ttr^tToit a |?? rind, and tin* p? o
;?i?? tool* on tli* si- courteous atten
tions ;? p siun ot ^rowlr.u int.,r???t In
the c.tntry's tr.id?* and political
position i:i the north of Kurope.
TVn c-ur.trlf* in nil have s? "t
war vessels to Sweden, and ten dlf
f? rout ports, including Stockholm.]
Colli. nbur-:. ami Muiiiio. liav?? b??*n t
Tin* l". S. crulw r 1'ittsburu |
?i.s ju t !? t'L Stockholm. \\ !:? ? ii< <?f
f?? ? n i?:u t i.*!.;it? il in 11?? ? itw-iimriul
i?ii IN- t.M. |*r? -i?|. nt H?r*
?!. - T'.? i'. S. bi-.tti. North Pa*
?M.I si No W.\* ill >? (ili-'i \\ till**!
Gelfand's Relish
and Mayonnaise at all
good grocers.
Mannish Suits For Boys
Who Can't Be Fitted
Boys?we have tin- suits llial you have been
looking for. They are tailored just like Men's
Suits. The pants are lined through and through
and eaeli Suit lias two pair of pants. Ask for the
"XtragooD" Suits made hy the Edinheinier and
Stein of Chicago, makers of Hoys High Class Cloth
ing. These suits eost more hut they are worth
?iiore than they cost and they look good and hold
their shape.
$15, $19 and $22
Other lines ? 86.00; 87.50; 89.(10;
812.00; and 813.50
Spencer-Walker Co.
h e arret to the hoys
genuine REd DEVIL CH3
""thegood old reliable!
THROUGH twenty years of honest
household servicc Red Devil Lye has
earned the name of "the good old reliable."
It is the standard for good lye. It makes work easy
and insures healthic-r homes.
You always know the can by the blue label with the
?miling red devil in the lower left hand corner. Look
for It on your grocer's shelves; insist upon R-e-d
D-e-v-i-l, the name you have known for years;
don't be put off with cheap and wasteful brands.
Sprinkle It in unwholesome places and
its strength works quickly for you. It
cleanses, it purifies, it disinfects. It
lightens the hard tasks. Buy it by the
case; it's cheaper that way. In order
ing always remember the smiling red
devil, and the name "Red Devil Lye."
Write for Free Booklet
W? ahall b# glad to Nnd you oar fraa booklat
giving tha many um of Rad Davil Lya and
full diractiona for aach usa.
Vb. Sckield Mfg. Co., St Louis, Mo.
Sifter
Top
Some
Other Ute*
Cl?afts floor*.
Clean* pots and pan*.
Paalt paachet.
Makas lya hominy.
Pravants cloggad
plumbing.
Swaatana awill
lot hogn.
Claar.t milk cant,
bottlaa, churn*.
Ramovat paint
Brightant ailvarwara.
Ramovat oil anil
graaaa.
Dattroyt fly-aggt.
Ramovat tpott
from windows, ale.
Clatnt motor car
pant.
Softan* hardaat
watar.
Through a
Sieve Woven
Finer Than
Silk
Raw materials of which portland
cement is made come out of the
ground usually as solid rock.
They must first be crushed,
ground and reground until at least
85 per cent of the resulting powder
will shake through a sieve that will
actually hold water.
This sieve is considerably finer
than the finest silk fabric. It has
200 hair-like bronze wires to the
inch. That means 40,000 holes to
the square inch.
But the several crushings and
grindings necessary to reduce solid
rock to this extreme fineness are
only the beginning of cement
making. ?J
The powdered materials must then be sub
jected to intense heat for several hours in
huge rotary kilns. Here they are hall melted
and become a substance much harder than
the original rock?clinker, it is called.
Then the clinker must be crushed and
ground until at least 78 per cent of the result
ing product will pass through the sieve woven
finer than silk. This is pordand cement.
More than 80 power and fuel consuming
operations are necessary in cement making.
The electric power alone used in producing
a barrel of portland cement would, if pur
chased at usual household rates, cost $1.70.
Few manufactured products go through
so involved or complicated a process as port
land cement. And it sells for less per pound
than any comparable manufactured product.
PORTLAND CEMENT ASSOCIATION
111 West Washington Street
CHICAGO
qA National Organization
to Improve and Extend the Vies of Concrete
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Boston
Chicago
Denver
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Detroit
Helen*
ItulwiMpolu
Jacksonville
Kansas City
Los Angrles
Memphis
Milwaukee
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New York
Parkereburg
PhiUJelphia
Pittaburuh
Portland, Or**.
Salt Lakm City
San Fft
Stmk
S?. Louis
Vancouver, B.C.
Washington, D.C.
THE UNIVERSAL CAR
On Display At
ALBEMARLE DISTRICT FAIR
YOIJ can make two or threw trip* to town
in n I nrJ truck while vo'i haul '?ne load
with a teim
Se? our t-ord Truck exhibit and learn how
many hour* this unit can wve you m part of
your farm equipment
The body changes in the Ford car* add
especial intercut to thia year's exhibit Ap
pearance of the cars is improved and comfort
and utility added
The Fordaon with its many use* nnH new
modern tools for work with it will be ex
plained to you
Auto & Gas Engine Wks. Inc.
C. \V. GAITHEll, President
CARS - TRUCKS
TRACTOR,S
Famo and Lebanon Belle Flour
?r? ttwoluUly floor? of quality (old by th? leading irXr?r?
?OUtrlbuted By?
- A. F. TOXEY & COMPANY
W?Ur BUM*