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AERO MAKERS FEAR INDUSTRY WILL DIE ITnnufncturers Tell Hensons Why Congress Should Ex- pend $15,000,000. ECllOPE MORE LIBERAL Dip Appropriations by Eng-lan- Franco and Japan Cited. ' Unless reasonable Appropriations for the building of army airplanes are made tiy Congress the nlrcratt Industry of the United States will completely disappear, according to a statement Issued yester-da- y by the Manufacturers Aircraft As sociation, an organization representing the builders of airplanes In this country. , .... .. Un If . I ine manuiuciurcra iutub wui. t.mfc eost this country a billion dollars to crcato nn aircraft Industry when the war began. Unless some support In the shape of army orders Is given the In- dustry will disintegrate, leading the United States at the mercy in the air of any foreign Power which has preserved lts aircraft factories, It la declared. At .the same tlmo It Is pointed out that al- ready 90 per cent, of the Industry which sprang up under the needs of war has liquidated, and even now It would re- quire at least a year to equip Uie army air service with new planes. The statement of the association was made at this time to endeavor to secure the passage of the 116,000,000 emer- gency appropriation for the air service, nnd It U pointed out that Great Brit- ain has already appropriated 1330,000,-00- 0, France 220,000,000 and Japan more than 200,000,000 for this use. J The statement says: \The failure of Congress to make an emergency appropriation of llfi.000 000 for army aircraft construction deprives the nation of equipment for national defence which lo greatly needed at once, nnd virtually serves notice on ths alr-,ia- and i.lrplane engine industry of the United States to go out of business. \The Manufacturers Air Craft Asso- ciation reprcrented a capital investment of $100,000,000. The airplane and epalnc plants of Its twenty members, when the war ended, gave employment to upward of a quarter of a million persons. To- day 25 per cent, of the membership has disappeared, and the capital of the re- maining units lias been diverted so far ts to leave so meagre an establlsnment that, even were Congress to approve the emergency appropriation before the close of this session It would require at least twelva months for the army air service to obtain new equipment. \The status of the American airplane and engine business la Illustrated by the condition of the three largest members of the Manufacturers Aircraft Associa- tion. Tho Curtlss Aeroplane and Motor Corporation, which Includes nlso In the Curtlss group the Burgess Company of Marblehead. Mass., and the Curtlss En- gineering Company of Garden City. N. V., has diminished 80 to 95 per cent In Its production capacity. Whereas No- vember 11. 1919. 17,850 men were em- ployed, there are now only 780 on the rolls. The great North Elmwood street plant In Buffalo, which embraced 1.220,-00- 0 square feet, is Idle. The Austin, Niagara and Bradley street plants In BufTa'o have been abandoned. The plant at Hammondsport, N. T., has been closed. The Burgess plant is Inopera- tive. The Churchill street plant at Buf- falo Is working on engines and the plant of the Curtlsa Engineering Company Is engaged In commercial designing and construction. The L. W. P. Engineering Company at College Point. L. I., has laid off 90 rer cent, of the 2,200 arlcraft workers employed when tho armistice was signed. Fifty per cent, of this plant, which la one of the most complete airplane units In the country, has been diverted on long time contracts to cabinet work. Unless constructive action Is taken the remaining 60 per cent, which has been held open for aircraft development will also be diverted. The tVrlrht-Martl- n Aircraft Corpora tion, manufacturers of the Hlspano- - SuUa engine, on November 11. 1918. omninvi.it is.008 men. With the excep tion of a small engineering staff this number has been wiped out. The great plant at New Brunswick. N. X. has been nractlcnlly closed and the Govern ment owned plant at Long Island City has been completely closed. The aircraft manufacturers have watted for twelve months. One by one they have dismissed their skilled me- chanics and disbanded their technical staffs. They have dismantled their plants for aircraft production and have taken on the building of phonograph rases, furniture, automobile and tractor parts, sea sleds, toy airplanes and wheelbarrows. They have endeavored to cmmrclal types of air planes to a limited extent, but their assets being In fairly liquid rorm they have been under the constant temptv tlon to abandon aviation entirely. \If we who originated the practical airplane do not care to maintain or develop the art utwl this In the face of Intense aerial activity aornad we might as well as a nation relinquish all Idea of Initiative In either commercial or military aeronautics and trust to Great Britain to protect us In the air In the future. Just as we trusted to her and our other associates In the war with Germany.\ SEIZURE OF COAL ORDERED. U. 8. to Take Colorado Llanlte for Use of Hailroada. Denver, Oct 29. The United States Ballroad Administration has Issued or- ders to all of the railroad companies In this State to confiscate all lignite coal In transit and to be mined In northern coal fields of Colorado the rest of, this week for emergency use of the railroads. The order does not affect companies operating in fields In the southern and western part of the State as bituminous and anthracite coal is mined in that region. Every coal company operating In the northern part of the State received thn ordei yesterday from Hale Holden. regional director of the middle Western region for the United Mates Railroad Administration. David W. Brown, president and gen- eral manager of the Rocky Mountain Fuel Company of penver, said confisca- tion of the lignite coal by the railroads was not out of the ordinary; that the railroads took the coal every year when they needed a supply to run trains. TURKEY'S FINANCES STRONG. Has One Gold Piece for Every Four In Paper. Bv tht Anactottd Frttt. Constantinople, Oct 29. Turkey's finances are In better shape, perhaps, than those of any country In Europe, according to reports. She has ons gold piece for every four In paper. It la claimed on good authority, and an effort Is being made to borrow $4,000,000, partly for the purpose of rtpatrtatlng 200,000 prisoners now In Egypt, India, Jlussla and Central Asia. These pris- oners are making dtspcrat efforts U reach their homes. MINERS WILL QUIT TO-MORR- NIGHT Continued from. Ftrtt race. meeting to be productive of Immediate results. 'There Is nothing that wo can do,' said Mr. 'Batty \I Imagine they are called together simply to meet any emergency that may arise.\ Nowhere here Is there an talk of nt taking over tho mines. Both operators nnd miners seem to think that such a step Is futile. If Washing- ton has plans, as has ,becn Indicated In the press despatches, nobody hero can imagine what plans would solve the , altuatlon. Union ofTlclals make tho assertion that they will shut off 76 per cent, of the bituminous coal production. In this j will be Included the most Important of u me noma The other 25 per cent, they say Is In local fields In the West and Far West, which produco almost exclusively for local domestic trade. The supply of the railroads, of the manufacturing centres nnd of the public untitles oi me East practically will be strangled. In tho most Important of all, the Pennsylvania field, the union men admit that they are only 50 per cent, organtied, but Insist that the un- organized miners will quit with them. Estimates here differ as to the amount ot coal now actually above ground. Railroads Holding; Coal. Operators believe that when the strike lias gone a single week the shortage of coal will be acutely felt. For the last two weeks. It was learned r, the railroads have been refusing to move coal mined In ths district They have let It accumulato In the cars. When their present short supplies of their own stations nre oxhausted they will exercise their rjght to commandeer this recently mined coal while technically In thelr possesslon In transit The situation has been aggravated greatly by the fact that despite the les- sons of last year and the year before the summer purchase of coal for winter stocks actually has been below normal. Howard Elliott was quoted as saying that publlo utilities, had accumulated a ninety day supply of coal. Tho state- ment was discredited generally both among the union men and the operators. In two weeks It Is predicted that the railroads will have to reduce service to si mere shadow. Beyond that time no ne here, on either side, professes to \see anything but disaster. Despite the fact that .both sides ad; inlt the gravity of the sltpatlon then is a suspicious unanimity ot hopefulnesi-amon- both.' This has given rlso one inoro to the talk among business met I hat tho strike Is a frameup that opei utors and miners have staged the oatth to scare the public Into paying hlg! prices, whereupon they expect to bring bout a settlement Officially this Is vigorously denied In both quarters. Tho miners continue to Insist that they are suffering from very real grievances; the perators In a statement made ty P. H. Penna, their spokesman In rerre Haute, insist tnat me strme is a \crime\ to be laid solely to the Impos sible demands of the miners' union. Still Ready to Negotiate. Tho union officials counter this with the, assertion that they are ready now ana always nave Deen to suDmu an oi their demands to negotiation and that they are ready to give and take, which. they say the operators are not and never have been. The mine workers' representatives,\ says their statement \are ready, they are willing and anxious to meet the coal operators for the purpose of negotiating an agreement and bring ing about a settlement of tho present unhappy situation. .They will respond at any time to a call for such a meeting and will honestly endeavor to work out a wage agreement upon a fair and equitable basts. Such agreement alonfl will put the mines in operation ana guarantee the nation an adequate sup ply of fuel.\ The miners thus admit mat tneir strike strikes at the nation, though In the next sentence they endeavor to shift the responsibility for It to the operators. Incidentally they repudiate In tho state- ment any Inference that they are atmlng at Government control of the mines. \Nothing to It,\ said Ellis Searles, editor of the miners' union organ and frequently their spokesman. \Tou can't say we seek Government ownership or 'anything else except what's In the state- ment \We asserted.\ he quoted, \that the mine workers have no other purpose In view other than to secure a working wage agreement. All of their demands are Incorporated In the wage proposal submitted to the coal operators, and each and all ore subject to negotiation.\ Ad'rmice Assurance Ileum niJed. Nothing better Indicated i 'Irm at titude of the miners than tit liject of the afternoon meeting. It v. ,.h devoted almost exclusively to an umendment which took out of tho passage, .quoted abova tho word \action\ referring toa meeting with the operators which might end t'.ie strike, and the substitution therefor of the word \agreement\ In other words it will take more than a mere beginning of negotiations to end the strike. The miners are going to de mand definite assurance that they will get some of the things for which they aro going on strike before they call the strike on:. Possibility of a short strike was seen In the concluding phrase of Mr. Penna's statement In Terra Haute \Wo are holding ourselves In readi ness, he hjIJ, to resume negotiations with the miners or to submit all ot our matters to arbitration, conditioned only on the request that the strike order bo rescinded and the mines continued In operation, all of which Is In President Wilson s proposition.' The strikers, whatever the turn of events, say they will not submit to arbitration. John L. 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To arbitrate would mean the submission of tho questions Involved to outsldera who do not know the situa- tion and a settlement probably unsatis- factory to both sides.\ At the closo of the morning session and again Lewis made no at- tempt to disguise j lils satisfaction at what he termed the unanimous approval of hla policy by the rank and file of tho miners. The statement, despite the appointment of a committee to draw It Is almost exclusively of Lewis' author- ship. \Mother\ Jones to Take Tart. Emphasis was laid by 3wls and others on the fact thnt they have not re ceived a single official word from Wash ington. They say that even the Presi- dent's statement demanding that they stay at work camo to them only through the- - press, 'There jets not a single volco raised In defence of tha President at either of the meetings Every speaker who re- ferred to him either asserted that he had been misinformed or that his statement was a mere attempt to bolster up the operators side. \It was calculated to create resent- ment rather than to smooth things out,\ said Ellis Searles after the meeting. \Mother\ Jones, the famous woman strike agitator, arrived at tho national headquarters She tame from Gary, where all her agitation of the steel strikers had come to naught But she was still breathing fire. \Its going- - to be a great fight,\ she said. Asked If she expected .trouble, she re- plied: \You can't tell about that The boys have still got the stuff In them.\ She left for Pittsburg to agi- tate In that field. Lewis and the other leaders discount- ed the Importance of agitation, however. The unions have the key points of the Industry completely organized. They be- lieve that the union men will quit auto- matically on Friday night and tnat many of the others will follow them. Their position has been strengthened by prohibition. Since the coal towns went dry and many of them have been dry for months the miners have saved money. Each Individual has a more or less comfortable surplus. In addition, the local union treasuries aro full. The Illinois division alone boasts a fund ot more than $2,000,000. Other districts are not much behind It. Str.lke benefits are paid only where they are needed. The Individual funds of the men there- fore will have to become exhausted be- fore the local treasuries .are tapped. After the local treasuries, aro exhausted there Is still a fund of more than Sl,- - 500,000 In tho national treasury. Ever-Roaayocafiri- aa TORONTO, THE SUN, THURSDAY, BOOZE SCARCE, 2.75 IS PLENTY IN CITY Continued from Ftrit Pate. 2.75 beer, and the basis of their conten- tion will be that they will suffer to property loss because of the op- eration of an unconstitutional law. It will be recalled that the brewers wero tefused an Injunction by Judge Learned Hand because the court could not see at tho time that they wero facing Irre- parable lops. Now, they maintain, thO' loss Is obvious If an Invalid act puts them out of business. They will demand that tho enforcement officers be re- strained from Interfering with the brew- ing, distribution or sale of 2.7S beer until the validity of tho Volstead act la settled. nritnnmnt Men Also Act. The third suit of this character Is ex- pected in tho United States District Court y on the part of tho Society of It will be a plea to restrain enforcement officials from In- terfering with their liquor selling busi- ness until the constitutionality of the Volstead act Is decided once and for all. In the meantime, until relief can bo had by Injunction proceedings. If suc- cessful, tho restaurant men will strictly observe tho law, according to Howard E. Taylor, their secretary. President Cav-ana- of the society sent out a request to the members yesterday morning that tho law be obeyed rigidly, pending de- cision by the courts. Tills would seem to be the attitude of tho vast majority of the members of the Itetall Liquor Dealers' Association, tho saloonkeepers. Thomas J. O'Connor, (Secretary of this body, said last evening that every momber had been\ Instructed to put under lock and key all reserve stocks of splrltbus liquors and to obey tho law as If he liked It. \I havobcen Informed, however,\ Mr. O'Connor said to Ths SUN, \that a num- ber of saloons aro selling 2.7G beer. This Is easily explained by the fact that on Monday additional deliveries of 2.7S were, made by the brewers nfter the President vetoed the Volstead bill. The brewers thought that the wartime en- forcement act was dead as far as beer was concerned anyway, and that their patrons would want more beer In a hurry. Then came the action of House and Senate overriding the veto and the saloonkeepers were caught with a sup- ply of beer not a large amount but a few barrels. Probably they were selling off this small supply but when that Is gone no more will be sold until the courts havo acted.\ Mr. O'Connor expressed tho opinion that 95 per cent, of the 4,000 saloons licensed in Manhattan, nnd 75 per cent cf the 8.000 licensed In Greater New York would keep their doors open trying to sell half per cent beer and lunch. No Profit Since July 1. \There Isn't a saloonkeeper that has made any mqney since July 1, except a few that have wilfully disobeyed the law, slid Mr. O Connor. \The few that have disobeyed the law are not countenanced by our association. The rest will try to keep open, standing the loss as best they can, until the courts rule on the validity of the Volstead act. As the proprietor of n large cafe, which maintains lodge and assembly rooms, and which, like every other decently run ratoon, maintains certain conveniences for the public which will be sadly missed It we close up, I would like to suggest that properly managed saloons are go ing to bo missed more than some people think.\ Daniel I.. Porter, supervising Internal Revenue agent for the Internal Revenue Department In these parts, and the offi cial directly responsible for the enforce ment of the Volstead act declined to talk for publication last evening, but It was apparent that he knew of the gen etat sale of 2,75 beer. He declined to say whether this would be stopped by means of raids and arrests, and there was an opinion offered that the policy of the department Is to stand by for twenty-fou- r hours or so to study the at titude of the publicans. It was lntl mated 'that the Internal Revenue en forcement officers don't want to be dras tic at the start ; that they will permit saloons a reasonable time to get rid of tho 2.75 beer, perhaps a day or two, and LONDON, ENGLAND Twenty years old, born at a dollar and not raised yet Extra Radio Blades, 6 for 40c, American Safety Razor Corporation Factories Brooklyn, N. Y. CANADA Restaurateurs. SafetyRazor OCTOBER 30, 1919. then. If tho sals goes on, will clap the law down hard, There was a story In circulation among saloon men that raids were to begin Bt once, and every time the phone rang In somo of the busier places, where customers were lined up threo or four deep, the boss mado one Jump to the phone box, suspecting a warning that the Federal cops were In motion. Repre-senatlv- of the Association Opposed to National Prohibitions leaned to the Idea that the officials would bo lenient at first lenient on the score of beer selling alone and that then troublo could be looked for. Wets to Aid, Enforcement. Ono of tho Interesting developments of the situation Is the policy agreed on by liquor Interests generally In case ao re- lief can bo had quickly from the Federal courts. This policy will bo to assist In law enforcement; to make liquor and beer so hard to get that the people themselves will become resentful and dissatisfied. An official of the Associa tion Opposed xo national Proh b tlons said frankly: \We hope that they will apply the law so hard that there won't be a drink left n the city, \i nai is reaiiy uie on y wav tn make the bulk of the peoplo understand how much of their liberty of action has been taken away from them. A lax en- forcement won't be to our Ilklnir at all. The people have got to bo awakened. The signs are mat me awakening Is ciming, and a mean, harsh enforcement ought to help a lot.\ Tho Volstead act literally became law at 3 'AO P. M. on Turaday. Major Por ter did not get mis information officially until yesterday afternoon, when Com- missioner Roper Informed Mm from Washington. In the meantime, of course. many of Porter's agents had been snoop ing arouna ana naa iounu tnat the town was about as wet as ever up to yester day morning. On Tuesday night whiskey and other kinds of hard liquor were be ing sold as openly as ever in the num erous places that have made a practice of the business. Late on Tuesday night and early yesterday morning there were more Intoxicated persons trying to navi gate under difficulties than have been seen In the streets for a long time. When morning came, however, and saloons re- opened for business, the proprietors lock ed up the booze and hid tho key from themselves. They continued, as has been' stated, to draw beer. Many ot them have laid In a supply ot half per cent and there was a lot of bitter Jesting about this despised fluid among proprietors and patrons. In ono saloon In Sixth avenue which enjoys what Is known as a neighborhood trade, the boss, while drawing 2.75 for his patrons, offered them at the same time, a sample of the new half per cent \How do you like that, hey?\ he Jibed. \Think you'll want much of that stuff In your system?\ \Dalir\ Beer Not Popular. And tho patrons pretty generally agreed that about a thimbleful would do. Over In Brooklyn and Queens, saloons seemed to be dying hard. There was more kick left In them than Manhattan places could show. Here and there across tho Eaist River It was still pos sible up to last night to' get a drink of whiskey. The belief was, however. that Brooklyn nnd Querns will be as dry y as Manhattan Was yester day, only a few taking a chance even on the sale of beer. Revenue Agent c c c Mueller, In charge of the Brooklyn dis- trict, sent a squad df men to Major Porter's office In tho Customs House to get Instructions about enforcement There was an opinion tn liquor selling circles that tho Internal Revenue De- partment hasn't enough officers ns yet to make absolute enforcement possible. Information wan nlso obtainable that there aro stilt In bond some 60,000,000 gallons of whiskey, and that the tax of 16.40 a gallon has been paid on only 10,000',000 gallons of this stock. Tho Association Opposed to National Prohibitions received from Its chief counsel, States Senator Jo- seph W. Bailey of Washington, yester- day on opinion that Jho Volstead act Is unconstitutional. Mr. Bailey states that Presldont Wilson's objection to tho bill Is absolutely unanswerable and that the enactment Is \Immoral and hypocriti- cal.\ \The truth Is,\ wired Mr. Bailey, \Congress seized upon tha war as a more pretext to do what Us dullest member understood It could not do ex- cept upon that pretext. I have never believed that the wartime prohibition act was constitutional, and I do not be- hove that the Supremo Court of the United States will ever hold that It Is.\ 'Wo one claims that Congress has any express power to prohibit the manufac- ture and solo of liquor In the several States, and It can exercise that power only, If at all, In executing rome power which has been expressly granted by the Constitution. The only expressly granted power from which Congress could have derived the power to pass the wartime prohibition law was tho jkjwci to declare war, which carried with U tho further power to 'Pass all laws nec- essary and proper' lo tho successful prosecution of that war. \There Is one aspect of this matter which many leading prohibitionists have overlooked, and 1 warn them that It will return to plague' them. Some of tho men to whom I now refer nro very ear- nestly defending, the right of private property, and well they may do so in these days when tha,t right ts denied by vastly a larger number of men In this country than Is commonly supposed. Unfortunately, howovcr, many of these national prohibitionists seem to care nothing about the right of private prop- erty except for their private right to their own property. They forget that to-d- there nro hundreds of millions of dollars Invested In whiskeys, wines and beers which It was perfectly lawful for those who own them to sell when they bought them for the purpose of selling them.\ SALOON MEN RETAIN HOPE AND LICENSES State Officials Expect Few to Ask Rebates. Sptctat Dupatch to Tun Sex, Ai.bant, Oct. 29. There are more than 3,100 saloon licenses In New York city worth (375 each, which are valueless now that war time prohibition Is to be enforced, but State Excise Department officials do not believe that any of them will bo surrendered. They think owners of the liquor tlx certificates will gamble in the hope that the dry ban will be lifted by Presidential decree and that they will thereupon be allowed to sell a a and a liquor until tho Federal prohibition amendment takes effect, January 16. , State Excise Commissioner Herbert Slsson Issued orders to-d- that no nore Btate licenses shall be Issued except to pharmacists \until such time as the President of tho United States, by pro- clamation, suspends tho operation of ths Federal war time prohibition act now In encct. FLAMES ADVANCE ON. 21 BURIED MINERS Heat Repels Rescuers in Ohio Coal Mine. Amstkrdam, Ohio, Oct 29. With flames spreading back townrd the twenty-- one miners trapped In tho north pas-sag- o of the No. 2 mine of tho Youghlogh-cn- y and Ohio Coal Company, mlno of- ficials felt no hope for the men. Rescuo parties formed from other work- men wero able to remain In tho mlno only a few minutes because ot tho In- tense heat and smoke. Four American born workmen were reported to bo among the miners en- tombed when nn electric genera'tor op- erating a fan exploded and set fire td the wood brnccs, according to company officials. The flames stnrtcd. 200 feet from the elevator rhnft. Partly stiff iiml his clothing nnd hands burned, i trip driver emerged from tho mint! He re- lated how ho lay on the floor of\ n initio car and his mule pulled hthi\ to the shaft. Ho said that the other miners had started back In the burning pas-sag- A huge wator tank was emptied Into the shaft by a company of the Steuben-vlll- e fire department, which arrived here ht to help light the fire. MAKE IRELAND LIKE DOMINION. IS PLEA Sir Horace Plunkett Stays \Prussianism\ Must Go. London, Oct. 29. Sir Horace Plunkett In an address before the National Liberal Club to-d- declared that the path of wisdom for the Government was to make to the Irish people an offer of tho fullest of He ad- vocated giving to Ireland the status of a dominion with cortaln rcrervatlons covering the problem of na- tional defence, leaving It to the Irish people to settle their Internal difficulties themselves. Sir Horace, who was chairman of tho Dublin convention which endeavored to reach a solution of tho Irish question, said nothing had been done for Ireland by the British Government except \coercion more coercion and more coer- cion.\ British democracy was nearly as exhausted ns the Irish, he said. The speaker said the British must im- mediately substitute civil management for \Prussianism\ in Ireland, withdraw ing tho army, which must never be re- employed to support any political system In any part of Ireland. \The relations of the different parts of Ireland cannot be settled by tho Brit- ish Parliament,\ he declared, \where the Irish minority Is fully represented, while tho Irish majority Is hardly rep- resented.\ the war the war WRKjLEYS 5 5 5 package before package during package NOW THE FLAVOR LASTS SO DOES THE PRICE! 4- - Attrxrtlon Are BeraM Sqiusra, BrosawaTi TV Sell Dependable MerchandUt at Prices Lower Than Any Other Store,but for Cash On fy Store hours 9 to 5 :30 m Headlines in fashion Above all else, beyond all else, does woman love her hats. You can add up the sum of her happiness by the number of bandboxes stack- ed on her shelves. 1 You can almost tell how she's go- ing to vote by the tilt of her newest' Parisian toque. Talk of Tarns a Our French millinery salons arc a winter para- dise of velvets, satins, and feathers. There is one nanngtamot DiacKveivet, traced stamly with em- broidery of silver and silk. It's a curved and tilted marvel, priced, including the war tax, at $52.95. A French, descendant M \I \Another small black vef \Vet shape, all impetuous,,, 'Sparkle and dash, has em'--\ broidery in bright reds' and golds and greens, and two slim ornaments thrust in with piquant carelessness. $47.45, in- cluding the war tax. Silver Stars There is a large shape of velvet, embroidered over brim and crown with little stars of silver thread : and faced with an aston- ishing cloth of purple tinged silver. $36.45, in- - ' eluding the war tax. You would love the Hermance model, too, its crown made of soft sable.squirrel and its French brim of black lace. At one side, airily poised, is a cluster of lace petals, $89.50. French editions of smartness are seen in many please-do-wcar-m- e models. There is one lovely one in velvet, toned between jade and emerald green. No trimming de- tracts from its vivid color, but, thrown over it and flowing all around it, is a black veil bordered with M tulle. $43.25, including war tax. An inspiration in green is a worsted toque slashed with silver and budding in the front with saucy flowers of silver. $48.85. Chapeaux la Marquise are our wonder hats at. $8.50. Variedjmodels, in x styles and materials in- numerable. Among this collection arc hats for a life time of smart occa- sions. Next time our theme will be suits 3 t
