Evening Advocate, 1919-04-29

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THE EVEN
Official Qnm of The, J
G ADVQQ
ten's Protective Unfon of Newfoundland.
IN SOLITARY
The "Star" last night continues   interfere with the spontaneous ex- On another occasion, white Jn selves to-day.   And yet, this is the
to berate its fellow members of the   pression of pubfic opinion and they Heart's Content,  another   attempt man who prevented a Spring' elec-
fourth estate who are in Opposition,   crv halt t0 Pub,ic activities, when was made by Hon. R. A. Squire* to 'tton tn 1918, according to himself!!
and would   almost   persuade   the   public sentiment and public efforts ■ swing .a greit organization to ,.his It is strange that the jolts   he   has
unthinking that thc "Star" was the   aPPear t0 run counter to their   de- support.   But there WW absolutely experienced since thai* time   have
only champion the people had. The   si§ns-   Their schemes are so care' nothing doitig, and Brother Archi- not cured him of his way of taking
'News" and   the   "Telegram"   are   fully disguised and their activities bald is now wondering how it  was nimself seriously!   The "Star" also
are so cunningly camouflaged as to he allowed nimself to believe'.fiaT says that it knew there was going
deceive almost the very elect. They R. A. Sf haa any strengfh political- lo be.a Spring election this year.   It
manipulate   public   aspirations   in ly! is strange that Mr. Squires should
such manner that, while appearing The St john_s Commlttee had „ 'have'laid, when at.Heart's Content,
to sympathise with and   encourage meeting or two on the qaiet, to see that there was not   going to   be   a
expressed   public   sentiment,  they who would   retrieve   the,r   fallen Spring election.   The 'Star'   also
are really laying,traps and digging politica, fottuneSi    and    int0   one
posed to oppose  the   Government:   "itches to encompass the   destruc- one meeting there dropped a friend
tion of  popular   movements   with _r u_„  D   A   c—.i—      .u
" "Such men and such papers are   mhit.u t£JiAtkntlt„ th»m_»iw_c •• of Hon- R A. Squires,   who   ven-
taking thier licking lying down,
treating Mr. Squires and his "Star"
with what is usually called "silent
contempt." Just read a few paragraphs from the "Star" when it Is
referring to the 'Telegram,' 'News'
and other papers who   were   sup-
of thc type that keeps an
the ground to detect and to follow
such movements as promise to give
them success or to boost them into
powcr and place and prominence,
'i hey profit by public movements
which they neither inspire nor
direct; they do not give a lead to
popular thought neither do they
benefit the public with faithful advice, constant championship of
public interests and unfailing encouragement to popular aspirations.
"Their self-seeking constitutes
a drag on the chariot of public
progress. They enter popular
movements with intent to exploit
them to their own advantage. They
vhich they identify themselves."
But the joke is on the "Star"
when it takes to itself the sole job of
leading (!) pu61ic thought, for all
know that whetrthe public meetings were being held in St. John's,
uircd to suggest hi! name as a leader.
But the suggestion had an   icy
reception.
Then a few minutes after, in
rhe "Star" for nearly two weeks, wandered Dr. Mosdell, who, having
had not one political editbrial in sat down, put his feet on the table
its columns! And if rumour is to and lit a cigarette, said: "Well,
be believed, thii^was the time when boys, lhe first thing we must do is
Hon. R. A. Squires was lying low, io get a leader. I nominate Mr.
saying to himself "Be still, my heart, Squires"! But the silence grew ^b
stop thy beating,!' and steeling him- large that the Doctor felt very un-
self to say "This is so sudden," comfortable, and slowing sitting
when he thought the people would up straight in his chair, he. event-
tush to him offering the leadership ually vanished from the meeting,
of the Opposition. And so jn lonely spiendouri the
But the offer did not come. "Star", and its   master f!_*# them-
- ' a -•   * -  -       '	
says that it had prepared for an election by getting in a large stock of
paper last winter.
It is strange, very strange, in
view of this, that in mid-winter, the
"Star" should have'occasion to borrow from another newspaper office,
for almost a week, nearly a dozen
rolls of paper, when this particular paper had to be sawn in two
places to fit the Star's press, and
even then represented a substantial wastage!! Verily it is very
strange.
The public will now look for a
manifesto from the Star, preceded
of course by a largely signed petition to Mr. Squires, asking him to
lead the Party,—if it can be ob- !<i_stiar
tained!    But signatures to
FINAL DUflP
NATIONS' LEAGUEI
AT VERSA
The Covenant Waa Adopted. ^ J?S^ ?,^Jf7i.
Without   Krista-i^iSd         AndW£l^?r?teld^
Without Amendment     I Reservoirs
  \___8_ULI___.  April  «.-Tha C«r-
1 man rtaliaalaa to the Peace Con** revs
PARIS. April St-HM ravtaad cor- _^_ _^ ^ ^ ^, .,.,,.„
enaat of th. League of NaUon. waa _ am&tomtHt**. -Ia* Immed,**-
adopted by tha plenary eeerton of tha ,_ m __ ___ ^ „,,^^ -n
Peaee Conference thla arternoon with ^^ to Mton.ob_.e_-to ihe tMM »»
out division and without amendment yiAtaatvoira. There .
Tho Covenant had   bean, moved by incwant
Preatdent Wllion.   In his speech ei-| , a_
plaining the revised Covenant ot the
Ireagne of Nations, the Preatdent aald
that -Sir Eric Drummond, of Great
Britain, had bean named aa the Brat
Secretary-Qaneral or the League. Sir
Brie Jamea Drummond haa bean
private secretary to A. J.' Balfour,
RnnWv Success
.sikaroRs.    Apiii   __9 -t_«
'to-day report .Va* Ftnniak
on 8ettrr*»3 cutAitteA *\tt
town of Lotlnanpollto on tV* WVtfe
Sea. The town ia an lmportaw. strategic point, being the Jawd-or. ot nvrat-
eroaa roada and the r-kiN-ajt *«.»»e«\
Petrograd and Munneti Ceost, wV.cV
la now closed to Uie BalsKeviti, 11 ts
assumed that the BaltVt.lX ioipcdo
„     _   .... • .     . boat floUlla at Loti*-rt.i>o.rto _l«
Jtarch  IMS.  to  J-^"^^ ~.ttht.«c«.l!rlwl.tttte.
British Foreign Secretary, since December 1916. Previously he had
aerveil b'ir Edward (now Viscount)
Oray in the same capacity while air'
Bdward waa Foreign Secretary. From
YOKOHAMA WAS
RAVAGED BY FIRE
LATEST
LONDON, April __?, (via    f.tu-
r's Tttawa Agencj)-TV*   Pet-
_ _ ier's list of hono« for    public
Two     Thousand     Bu__din_n.'services durinK *•» w« coMums
AreB ?UU(Ung8 the following «ward»: Viicoowtics
auisition of this sort will be as rare
as Chinamen with WhTsfcefSr^
Barons Burn ham and £ot-.cimetC,
„„„„„.„.  "TTT,    .....      ' Baronies Sir J. H. Roberts. Sit t\.
YOKOHAMA.    April     _8-A    large  T   „„_... Hod       Sjf T> *   S1cfc).
aecuon of Vokoha^a waa ravaged by    rt ,_,„_   T   H^^ane. T«t^y
Are today,   two   tw«rf building-, .^baroneties include Sir K. S.
including a parrot lUMaw *c- Anderson, Sir j.    H.   Cory.   Sir
Davison     Dalzicl,    Sir .   Charles
Chadewick Healey, Edward    Hul-
ton, newspaper proprietor W. ~
, Madge, Norman Moore, Sir J.
[Recs.   " 	
being burned. Firemen from
Toklo aided in checking the flames
before thay reached the foreign reti-
ENEMY PRISONERS
WILL GRADUALLY
BE RELEASED NOW
Kiel  Canal   Will be Litcrnationalized\
Hickman Co. Ships
'Barbara Barr" Here    "ailcd for Spnln ,vMh u and
  back to Barbados.   Captain nnd
>e new local-built schooner "Bar- are we"'
bara  Barr." Capt. Snelgrovo, arrived
here  today  from  Barbados, motasaes
laden  to Oeo.  M.   Barr.  after a  run
5 days.    She had    gales of wind
storms from the start and on this
maiden voyage  provod  a splon-
vessel In  a  "roughory"     and  a
staunch bad weather craft.    She was
16 days In the icc off this coaat and
tier  rudder  damaged    and    gaft
broken.   The rudder was skilfully repaired in a temporary way    by    the
PARIS. AprU ti— The Council of prisoners will be released gradually as earning the future status of the
Five at Its last meeUng Saturday, La Germany contributes to the work of Canal have not yet been settled but!
Liberie says, agreed that the Oerman reconstruction exacted by the Treaty that an agreement has been reached
war prisoners shall be liberated after and ln proportion to this contribution 'on tho principle of Internationallza-
the signing of the Peace Treaty.   TlioThe newspaper says that details con-1 tion. *«
HowF. W. Woolworth
Started in Business
Began With $50 Saved, and Opened Store With $5 in Cash.
Frank W. Woolworth. founder
and proprietor of the large chain
of five and ten cent stores
throughout the country, whose
death is reported at Glen Cove,
L.I., was born on a farm near
Rodman, Jefferson County, N.Y.
on April 1, 1852. He entered
mercantile life as a clerk in a
store in 1873. ln 1875 he obtained employment with A. Bushnell
and Company, of Watertown,
S10 a week. Within a few weeks
his salary was reduced to $8. Two
years later he obtained a position
with Moore and Smith, at a
ary of $10 a weelc and again
w«s reduced, this time to $8^0.
He had married in the spring of
1876 Miss Jennie Creighton, of
Picton, Ontario, and supported
his wife    and    child    o "'
Moore an^Smith started a five
cent counter (h 1878, and young]
Woolworth was put in charge of
it. The venture proved a success,
nnd gave the future great merchant the idea on vhich he founded and built his fortune. He borrowed $350, to which he added his
own $50. which he had saved,
bought $322 worth of merchandise, and started a store if. Utica.
When he opened he had $5 in cash.
The store was a success at first,]
but trade ran down after
in 1879 Mr. Woofworth moved to
Lancaster. Penna.. where he,- open
ed anothor store. Business came
with a rush again, and .'other
stores were opened at Harris-
burg. York. Scranton, Reading
and Wilkesbarre, Penn. He took
into partnership his^brothe,' C. S.
Woolworth.
Five and ten cent store* were
now opened in Trenton and Newark, N.J., but all these ventures
ith varying success. Thcy
nourished at first, then trade
dropped off. The. count
flooded with five and    te
s and most of them p'erishpd
short while. It was rfot
til 1886, eight years after h« s
ed, that failure and Fra k
Woolworth parted com part,
good. '
To-day the F. W.. Woolworth
Company operates J,066 stores in
the United States and Canada
The Woolworth stores sell morc
than 40,000,000 tons of» candy]
yearly. Three large factories
working day and night, *re kepi
busy manufacturing pins for thel
Woolworth stores. Before tht
war these stores handled about
half of the world's output o.f
toys and Christmas trer* ornaments. In those days the F.. W
Woolworth Company ot this country and Canada kept several German towns in employn_jnt thc
year round making toys and other
goods. v
In 1912 the Woolworth    Building, the tallest business structure
the world,    was   opened.
monument or its kind
any American merchant has ever
erected. The Woolworth Building
is rifty-five storeys-—751 feet-
height, thc tallest habitable
ucture in the world. Thc Eiffel
Tower in Paris is the only struct-
in the world taller, being 985
feet, but it is not a building. The
building is a city of considerable]
by itself,   lt has a population
of several thousand tenants.   The
annual rent from offices is said
be $2,500,000.
Lime a Necessity
For Fruit
Ume Is a necessity for the production of first-rato fruit: Inside l.onln*
seldom receive a sufficient amount.
Blight dressings in alternate yeara
than allowing tbe soil ■■
borders to become deficient and then
applying huge doses. Heavy dressings sterilise the soli and neutraliao
value which It may
deficiency In the supply of]
lime Is usually the cause of peach)
and nectarines falling badly ln tt
stoning period. Give sufllcient wh(
lining to whiten the surface soil, at
fork lightly tn.
Sable I. Sails
The Sable I. Capt. Murley, sailed for
North Sydney al 8 a-m. to-day taking
a few hundred barrels of frelgh
theifollowing passengers: John Marshall, Chas. Payne. Mlsa H. Button,
Misses Nan, Bride, ami Ftalnan Sutton, j
._    . _ Mrs. A. Parks. Mr. T. Williams, Mlaa
cost was $14,000,000, every,cent of B. Guest, O. D. Matthews. J. Garland.
which came from the profits madelCapt.   Rabut.   F. 0.   Fheebe,   !
en the sale of articles costing but]Brookes, J. F. Finn, wm, Bailey, Mr.
five and ten cents.   The building C. McK. Harvey, Misaea May Hlckey.]
is no doubt the greatest commer!K. Cleary, M. Crowley, and K. Burke.
 . .  ., ___, Oswald  Stoll     „ .j	
eph Daniels, the American Secretary ,        w  m chari,ies," P
°,ih!.N._?'anaMrsDanlel8arri,red,fessors   Israel   Collacz,   Willi
Pro-
No Differences
The Asquith Is due
The A.  V. Conrad i.
Thc lilucnose ts In
The  Brunett C.  Is at  the Azores.
The Vogue is at Cape Broyle.
The Nina Lee Is at SL John's.
The  Ruth Hickman'   Is    at    South
Thc Joan Hickman is at Calais.
fessors .
Ridgelay, and Lieut. Col. F.
Towle. Williflm Garthwaite is also given a baronetcy for public
services in developing rations between these countries, also special
war services to the Admiralty.
PARIS.   April   __.—No credence i_
given at American headquarters to the
•. 'Statement that Nelson Page, the Am-
Spain.|crlcan Ambassador to Italy, ls coming'     TERRE HAUNTE   April
- Paris on account of differences with  MUitia   h„d   ,0  be   __A  „
e President o*
r tho Fiumc question.
t Is declared that nothing ls known of  pfjonc" s't'rikc.
t growing out of a telc-
To Try Ex-Kaiser
i  Swyers   I
captain's suparvislon.
id tho vessel, by good seamanship, to Oporto,
(eelved no further damage. i    The Louli
Since leaving here the vessel    was °      ~
.  Pcrnam. loaded tobacco at Bahla.        Iveati   'I he   AuVUL'aU
ARCHANGEL,  April   28.—Am-
  *erican    tropps    withdrawing    are
PARIS. April JS-At todays picn- being repiaced by Russians school-
-y session of the Peace    Confercncj e(j by Britjsh „nd Amcncan    offi-
, thc Council of Poor    presented    tho  cers
: text of a peace treaty provision   for 0	
;Jjj*J^^JJL^TLJE^™_     BUENOS AIRES,   April
j"For  «
We Announce
Our First Showing
OF
Spring Hats
FOR
Ladies9 and Children
San Francisco, April 28.—Severe earthquake shock occurred at
Sal Salvador, Central America, to-
||l Regrets Omission From the   ay     !_e " S0	
Covenant j . ROME,  April    28.—Parliament
  [is to meet Tuesday to vote confi-
Aprll 28—Baron    Makino. dence in the Cabinet and the dele-
Japancsc delegation, gates to Paris.   The "Messagero"
the  plenary sessions ggy8: "Let US. not talk of getting
I the omission from Fuimc through act of Parliament.
the League of Nn- V. e must get Fiume at the dirct-
equaitty   clause. tion of the Peace Conference.
added, waa obliged to  r
r original position on this
' Variety and Value"
JAPAN AND HER
RACIAL CLAUSE
of  five    judge. Machin        on    German
tenco against   n- Ludenbo/      d Sankelara, at Ros-
and the sanctity ^ ^_ ^- wrec-ed _d _„.____
resisted, the Port Prefect   boarding to deliver thc ships to the United States. • •
VICTORIA, April    28—Federal
Public Works   advocated   before
Mathers Commission as to the cure   '
for labor unrest.    Labor   leaders
[suggest expropriating the C. P.R.
Rome.  April   38—American   Ambus-  at   the  actual  amount   of     invest-
sudor Page haa left Italy for Paris.   [ ment Start.
Page Leaves for Paris
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