Labor Department Compiles Sta
tistics in Cities That Show
Expenditures.
FOOD AND RENT COME HIGH
The Lower Your Salary the Greater
Proportion of It You Spend for
Food and Shelter, Say In
vestigators.
Washington. —The lower your salary,
the creator percentage of it you spend
tor food and shelter, according to the j
latest government cost of living inves- .
I igat Inn.
Table complied by labor depart
n ont experts after study of hundreds
of family budgets show the actual cash
outlay for food and rent is greater in
families with the higher incomes, but
In (lie average family the expenditures !
for these necessities does not increase j
as fast as the income.
Tn Baltimore, for Instance, 13 fam- ‘
Hies with Incomes under .<900 averaged I
expenditures of $582.95 for food and
$120.-14 for rent. The average was 40.5
per cent of the total income for food
and 14.0 for rent. The families whose
Incomes were $2,50o or more, however,
average 13.5 per cent less for food in
comparison with total income and 11.5
less for rent.
Showing how much more cheaply
the higher-salaried families get off in
other cities are these differences:
Pittsburgh, food 15 per cent, rent 7.5
per cent; New York, food 0.7 per cent,
rent 7.7 per cent ; Boston, food 4.!)
per cent, rent 5.2 per cent; Syracuse,
food !.3 per cent, rent I'd per cent;
Scranton, food 5.7 per cent, rent 6.4
per cent.
How Spending Varies.
How families of varying incomes
spend them is indicated by tables
showing average expenditures of dif
ferent groups for Philadelphia and
Camden, N. .1. The table deals with
expenditures of 301 families of seven
different Income groups.
Four families whose Incomes were
under $900 a year averaged per year
foi food $305.40; clothing, $100.87;
rent. $176.25; fuel and light. $63.01;,
furniture, $15.22; miscellaneous,
$100.52. The average total expendi
ture per family was $821.26, and the
average number of persons per family
4.3. Throe families in this group re
ported surpluses which averaged $24.35
per family, while one bad a deficit of
$157.35.
Sevonty-flve families with Incomes
of $1,500, but under $1,800, reported
expenditures that averaged for food
$593.09; clothing, $273.53 ; rent, $200.94;
f'l'I nntl Iiirht. $75.00; furniture,
$70.02; miscellaneous, $1! 10.00. Total
expenditures per family averaged
$1,53.5.77 for mi average number of 4.7
persons per family. Sixty-two families
ended tlio year with an average sur
ph;s of $125.03. nine experienced an av
erage deficit of $103.81, while four hal
aneeii their I took s evenly.
Study Many Cities.
I'leven families with an income of
$2,500 or over averaged in their ex
penditures for food. $914.42; clothing,
$470.39; ront. $250.30; fuel and light,
$95.10; furniture, $127.33; miscellane
ous, $001.31. The total average ex
penditures per family was $2,527.89
for an average family of 7.0 persons.
All families reported a surplus. The
average surplus was $409.52.
Similar studies have been prepared
by the labor department for groups of
representative families in Baltimore,
South Sea Beauties Use
Chalk on Complexion
Philadelphia
tier on the Cue
world over” v
I! -v. I >r. A.
I’.i'id and pnw
is of “women the
re condemned by
I *• 1111: cm at the
Presbyterian ministerial confer
ence in the Witherspoon build
ing. Doctor Pohlinnn. who was
formerly an Afriean missionary,
said :
“In flieir desire to make their
fares attractive by paint and
powder women are the same tin*
world over. In Liberia they nse
white chalk on their binek faces.
Here they use red and pink.
What is tlie difference?"
Vision. Bridgeport, Buffalo. Chambers
mrLr Pa.: Dover, N. J.; Fall Itivcr,
dass.; Johnstown, N. Y.; Lawrence,
dass.; .Manchester, N. IT.; Newark,
< ,T.; New York city, Pittsburgh,
Nirtiand, Me.: Providence, it. I.; Itut
and. V;.: Scranton, Syracuse, Trenton,
Vestfiehl. Mass.; and Wilmington,
tel.
t anks Salvage
Immense
boty
German Guns Worth Many Mil- '
lions Are Found in Ar
gonne Forest.
WEAPONS ABANDONED BY FOE
Teutons Left Artillery and Shells in
Mad Flight When Americans Ad
vanced—Forest Cleaned by
Doughboys.
v
l’aris.—Wnr booty valued at more «
than $f»,000,i)00. left by the < ioniums
in their (light from tin* Argonne for
est, tile scene of America's greatest
battle in the world war, lias beou col- (
lected by a force of negro soldiers who j ,
have been cleaning tip the famous bat- j (
tlefleld. Machine guns, rifles, muni
lions and wnr supplies of all kinds ,
have been collected in every wooded (
ravine, dugout and trench in tin* Ar- (
gonnc-Meuse sector, comprising 480 j
square miles. | ,
The American engineers moved up ,
to tin* battlefield soon after the arinis- ,
ti<*e was signed. For miles around
there was not a village or farm that |
was occupied.
Orders were issued to squads of i
American salvage engineers to pick up 1
very gun they found, broken or in
ervicenhle condition, as well ns all
• nr material, and place the supplies
long the nearest road for collection
:i army trucks. The colored fighters
eeeived instructions that whenever
icy came across an unexploded shell
hey were not to touch it, but to put
P a little stick beside It with a note
n that the munition salvagers could
nd it later.
The doughboys soon made the dls
overy that the Germans in their
ight abandoned hundreds of mnehlne
tins and even large pieces of artillery
bich the Yankees, In their hurry to
dvance, had failed to see.
Loaded in Box Cars.
One of the discoveries made by the
interieans who have completed the
ask of cleaning tip the battlefield was
he unusually large number of ntn
bine guns the Germans bad Installed
a the Argonne forest. No Information
vns secured as to the number the
nemy was able to save in his flight
ownrd the Rhine, hut thousands of
hese weapons were left behind. In
•no small sector of tin- battlefield sev
Tal hundred ears were loaded with
machine guns.
In one town located in the rear of
lit" battlefield there is a pile of brass
diell eases, abandoned by the Ger
mans, that would more than fill the
told of a large ocean freighter, if
v.as estimated that nearly 1,000,000
hell eases had been piled in that vil
nge. These have been purchased by
ho French government.
Salvage Work Expensive.
Kxperts with the American experti
ionary forces have estimated that tlie
'ankers had captured uoo p,.r cent
tore war booty In the Argonne forest
ban their records will show. This
.as <lue, it is s'tiid, to the rapidity of
In* American advance and to the
urry of the Germans to leave their
tigouts and weapons and surrender to
heir conquerors.
The work of cleaning up the Ar
mine battlefield, however, has been an !
xpensivo one, although vast qtianti- j
ies of copper, brass and steel have j
ten salvaged. It has cost more than i
2,000,000 to complete the task, but :
lit* work lias been a success financial- i
v, as the booty is worth more than j
wice that sum.
Soldier Beats Train.
Junction City, Kan.—Trains were
a. slow for a certain Kansas soldier .
ho has been away from his home at
dilina for two years. When he re-'
arned to Camp Funstnn the other day !
e received a pn^s ro spend Sunday
t Satina. Instead of waiting several i
ours for the next train to his home j
own. lu* hit tin highway and was for
ttnale in catching an automobile ride
o Abilene. His good luck did not
oresake him there, for he again took
o tli*' road and another motorcar •
ticked him up and landed him in Sn
ina about tin* time the train wu.
enving Junction City.
BRITAIN DEPORTING BOLSHEVISTS
1
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SJUX -v -S
About on" hundred holshevists wore removed from Brixton prison. Lon
don. for deportation to Utissia. They were placed In mototbusses and taken
to the embarkation port. The photograph shows a stnall crowd of relatives
and friends of the prisoners nalheritii; about the entrance to the prison as
the first tnotorbus was tilled tip.
RED ORGY OF MURDER1
City. Freed of Bolshevist Rule,
Reveals Terrible Story.
Men, Women and Children Killed
Without Trial, Many After
Horrible Torture.
I.otuion.—I'arm. 1 ho first <*ity of any
size retaken by Vdmiral Kolchak's
All-I’ussiun army from the bolshevik!,
offers a great study In “red” atrocities. ,
IVrm is virtually a slaughter house. ,
Hundreds of bodies of bolshevik! vic
tims already have been recovered, and
more are being found every day.
In the garden of a seminary, where ;
holshevist chieftains were wont to j
hold their revels, the bodies of two
dozen schoolgirls already have been
recovered. These girls, ranging In age
from twelve to sixteen, were first at- j
tacked by “red” ofiieeis then when the
fiends had tired of their orgy the vie-.
tli!)'. were killed by heing tapped on1
the bend with a wooden mallet.
This seminary garden is one con
tinuous grave of naked bodies and
skeletons. ldentitiention of tile vic
tims u Impossible. A ltussian countess
and iter daughter were tied to posts
in ibis garden, stripped of their!
clothes, then killed by a succession of
dagger pricks all over their bodies. A .
dozen priests were crucified head
downward; two others were boiled In I
oii.
Hundreds of tlie upper classes of
tin' city, men. women and children,
sentenced to death without trial, were
taken to the edge of a swamp outside j
I lie city ttnd given their choice of tie*:- i
fng into the swamp or being shot ;
down where they stood. Many dashed
into the swamp, only to In* engulfed !
In the quicksands. The others were I
shot down at the edge of a ditch. Into '
which their bodies fell, and left un
covered during the entire winter,
SO. SHE TAKES AIR FLIGHT
\t!antic City Widow Goes Up 3,000 ■
Feet as Aviator Does
Stunt.
Atlantic City, N. Mrs. i(jn c.
A'ilcox, Who is eighty, the widow of Hti
irmy colonel, lives In a little cottage
">:lr ,h,‘ where airmen have neon
loing flaring exhibition performances
1’lie fascination tempted her until she !
■oiild stand it no longer and recently <
-he gave the most experienced aviation
fails at the air port a thrill by taking
1 ride with Kddie Stinson, who ascend
'd 3,000 feet.
"i want you to go ns high ns you
■an. she said to the daring flyer, “and
n" ,h‘“ *»unts I have seen you do
with others.’’
Stuck With Gum.
Malden. Mass.—A gum salesman
stuck several merchants with l.ooo
sticks of gum for which he promised
to supply vending machines. He didn’t.
Now the police are sticking on hi*
trail.
WHERE VOLCANO KILLED THOUSANDS OF PECPLF
TTT
illiw&l
Hiis is {he dog eutoher of ;i town in that part of Java that tuts devastated recently by the eruption of the vol*
'■at o of Kmhit. Some 15.000 persons are sahl to have lost their lives. The dog catcher in that region is important
because the natives are fond of roast canine flesh.
SEESNG BATTLEFIELDS ANfl RLEHEQ
AREAS OF FRANCE FOR FIRST TIME
Writer Describes Sensations Experienced at First Sight of Devas
tation Left in Wake of War—Admiration for the Wonderful
Spirit of the French People—Abandoned War
Material on All Sides.
By C. S. CLARK.
Paris. France.—Standing amid the
ruins of Fort Dmiamont, just beyond
Verdun, and surveying the spectacle
of ruined villages, the tortured earth,
the wasted and shell-torn regions—the
awful destruction and desolntton
stretching lengue after league in ev
ery direction—one does not feel that
the peace terms handed to the Ger
man delegation at Versailles are too
severe. One cannot look upon this
work of fiends and feel that any
punishment or any indemnities are
too great for the nnfion responsible
for the scenes that are everywhere
apparent throughout the northern
part of France and Belgium.
We followed the road taken by the
second and third American armies on
their way to the Argonne and »'bateau
Thierry sector--. Over hills, through
valleys and quaint villages runs the
road, .as straight as an arrow for over
n hundred kilometers, (about two kil
ometers to a mill1) bordered on both
sides by trees, which when their fo
liage is out, forms a complete arch
way of the road. So straight are the
roads constructed by the government
that frequent 1\ you can see the next
town at a distance of ten miles, usu
ally with the cathedral standing ap
parently at the head of the street.
Villages nestling on the hillsides or
perched on the crest of a hill, come
Into'view and disappear as we speed
along an almost perfect “rue na
tinnnlo” wlrch connects the principal
cities of France.
Scenes of Great Beauty.
occncb a r urcai ocduiy.
These picturesque villages, with
their houses of cement or stucco, red
dled roofs, upon a background of
green, present si scene that would
enrapture the heart of an artist. The
rotors of the srenery and the sky in
France arc incomparable.
Fussing through Clave, Menus and
Montmirail toward citations, there
are acres of farm land on both sides
of tlie roadway. Hundreds of acres
are under cultivation anti one won
ders where the men and women who
till the land come from, for often
there are no houses in sight for many
miles.
At the inn of the “Gallant of (lie
Green Castle" in Montmirail, we
stopped for the night. The inn had
not been heated for months and. of
course, the bedding was very damp.
Otherwise our rooms were most home
like and we spent a comfortable night.
While the dew was still upon the
grass we speeded toward St. Mene
hould ann Verdun. Soon we came to
within siulit of the llrst grave—it
was that of on aviator—In the center
of a wheat field. The soldier had
been burled where lie fell. We pass
ed hundreds of such graves during
the next few hours.
The roadway was becoming more
uneven where the shell holes had not
been filled tip, and we found it neces
sary to reduce our speed. Entire vil
lages were deserted, and gaping shell
holes m the houses, the shuttered roofs
Yankee Horseshoer Found
Shell Had Spoiled Horse
Joseph Wolfe, son of Council
man George Wolfe, of St. Clair,
Fit., recently returned from
France, had one of the oddest
experiences of the war, its his
comrades tell it.
Wolfe is an expert horseshoer,
and while putting a shoe on a
horse in France, he was aston
ished when the animal collapsed
on to him. Looking to see what
was the matter, Wolfe saw that
a shell had taken the horse's
head off, cutting it as clean as
if done by a knife.
•and the devastation needed no expla
nation. We passed abandoned air
planes, army trucks, camions and guns
of every description.
We passed numerous German pris
on camps. Eight hundred thousand
prisoners are being utilized wherever i
possible in repairing the buildings,
roadways <ond the part of the dam
age they have done.
The Debris of War.
Nearing Verdun we came upon
many storehouses filled with ammu
nition—shells, hand grenades, and j
other war material—that has never ;
been removed from the containers. !
What to do with the tons and tons
of this ammunition is one of the af
ter-wnr problems.
Miles and miles of narrow-gauge
railroad lines were constructed over
which the ammunition and supplies
were sent to the front. These rail-,
road tracks, for many miles, art still
undisturbed.
Not a single entire house remains
standing In Verdun, at one time the
home of 2.",000 civilians. Where once
there were homes is now only a nmun
tain of stones, brick, rubbish and gap
ing wails. The fort is intact—at no
point did tin* German guns penetrate
the walls. We walked through four
miles of tunnels under the forts, in
which tin* Inhabitants lived with the
soldiers during a part of the time
the city was under tire.
Fort Donnmont, ten miles beyond
Verdun, is merely a heap of stones
and debris, entirely surrounded for
mill's by torn and tortured earth re
sembling a plowed field, excepting for
tin* the craters made by exploding
shells. Here were the hones and
skulls of dead Germans, empty shells.
! helmets and gas masks. Some of the
; dugonts remain in the hillsides. This
(is a most desolate spot on the earth
(c.cepting possibly "No Man's Land"
between <'ballons and Helms.
Iteluetnntly we retraced our steps
and returned to So*. Monehotild. Here
we found an inn where we put up for
the night.
Bright and early with the sun at
our hacks we started on a 70-mile ride
to IP inis. By noon it was snowing
hard. The road between (.'ballons
1 and Heims had not been put in
as good repair as in some other sec
tions. Shell holes forced us to pro
. coed cautiously.
Desolation Everywnere.
Wo followed the Hindenburg line, i
| whirl) we crossed mid recrossed sev
1 eral times during the morning. Miles
of bnrbed-wire entanglements, dug- j
outs, trenches nnd abandoned huts
stretched along the roadway. No
Man's land stretched before us for
miles. We reached Fort de la Pom- \
pelle shortly nftt-r noon. The fort had ;
been leveled to the ground, but we
were able to proceed TO feet below the
ground and along the tunnels lead- j
! ing to No Man’s land. The bones of j
! dead bodies and horses are still un- !
buried. Here we found abandoned 1
tanks and guns.
Holms, a city of 125,000 before the
war, with many fine public buildings,
including the cathedral, now has less
than a dozen buildings standing and it
population of 7,000 people. Refugees
are just beginning to come back, and
a few shops are being opened. The
I beautiful cathedral with its wonderful
stained glass windows where kings
have been blessed. Is a mass of ruins
| with nothing but the walls standing.
German prisoners were removing the
stones, bricks and mortar from where
the roof had fallen to the auditorium
, below. It was estimated that It
j would take a hundred prlsongrs weeks
*o remove the debris.
German prisoners are being used to
j repair the parts of the buildings
that can be nsed ns temporary quar
ters and In rebuilding the sewers ant!
water systems. It was here we saw
Germans hitched to wagons taking the
I’ktce of the horses they have kilted
or stolen.
Work of Fiends.
Tlie members of our party shud
uered ns we waited on the spectacle
of this ruined city. Could thi* Ik* the
nrk of men or of fiends? Can such
wounds be healed? Can the Germans
who inflicted this destruction ever ob
tain forgiveness?
To those in America whose only In
terest in war lias been a desire to get
over lierp “before everything is all
cleaned up. I enn send the message
that they need not fret if they are
delayed a year or two. Their chil
dren's children will still look upon the
ruins of invaded France.
With the sun of spring but a few
days old. it already begins to smell
Imd in western Belgium and north
eastern France. Bones r.f men and
horses are all about unhurled, Great
piles of ammunition and lines of
trenches lie just ns if the trnojts had
marched away yesterday. No prog
ress has been made in the restora
t'on of homes, factories or stores.
Mile after mile we sped through
wrecked towns and villages in which
civilian residents are just being per
mitted to return.
Vicious Desecration.
We stopped at a once famous coun
try villa. The beautiful home had
been occupied by German officers.
W hen we went from room to room and
found filthy pictures and obscene
poems .scribbled and scrawled upon
the wails, when we found priceless
tapestries with spikes deliberately
driven through them, when we found
statuary deliberately knocked about
with rifle butts and everything raov<
able carried away, we wondered what
sort of men had dwelt therein.
•lust ns it seemed our hearts could
aland no more, we came upon a little
group of laughing, kissing country
folks—one of our party caught enough
of the conversation to learn that mam
ma goat had just successfully increas
ed the population with a baby goat—
am! France could even smile with s<»
little assistance.
We returned with Increased admi
ration of the French nation and a
greater appreciation of the hardships
that had been endured so heroically. 1
Martyrdom of France.
No more pregnant emotion eon grip
tin* human soul than those inspired by
the scene we had beheld. Here men
fought for empire and left their murk
on nature. These ruined villages, this
tortured earth, this awful desolation
-stretching for miles in every direc
tion - unite in showing what men will
do when they put on the livery of im
perial militarism.
We know now what France has
suffered, and we know that all she has
lo«t is a loss to the whole world. Her
awful martyrdom, lier heroic endur
ance. her indomitable fortitude cry
aiotid front these heaps of stone which
were once peaceful homes or the cen
ters of industrial prosperity, now
stilled for a brief time only. In this
war the spirit of evil sat upon the
throne and sent his slaves to chal
lenge civilization. In the providence
of God tlie end was certain. That end
wo saw on the battlefield, for there
despotism died and the new Justice
for France and for the cause of right
was born.
Wo returned' to Paris through Cha
teau Thierry with the conviction that
not a tenth of the devastation, de- i
structlon and looting has ever been
told or ever can be.
I have since read the ponce terms
with a new understanding and 1 do
not wonder at their severity.
SPIDERS CUT IN UN CABLES
Insects Interfere With Telegraphic
Work in South America by Caus
ing Short Circuit.
Buenos Aires—Spider wehs nre
working havoc with land ends of en
tile comnnintention from Argentina,
Brazil and parts of Chile to the Tjitt
ed States, ns well ns interferin': with
Interior telegraphic routes in South
America. •
The ground spider spins n heavy
weh which the wind sometimes wraps
around tlie wires. These masses be*.
‘come very damp during n humid spell
nnd short circuits are caused.
; Largo forces of linemen are follow
ing the wires across the pampas and
the mountains, removing the uccuma
; lotions.