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Expose of a Corporation Which Reaches Into the Pockets of Every Shoe Wearer. New York, Aug. 21. In a revelation of the history and methods of the Shoe Machinery Trust, which appears in the forthcoming September number of "Hampton's Magazine" Jud gon We'liver shows how thfs corporation, one of the most perfect ever designed, has manipulated the tariff Have to maintain high prices on footwear, and used the United States Patent Office to throttle, competition. In its sphere this corporation, Mr.

WelUver is as all powerful and arbitrary as the Standard Oil or the Beef Trust, and in some respects even more unique. After reciting the history of this trust a product of the brain of Sidney W. Winslow, which owns the machinery in, it is said, ninety eight per cent, of the shoe manufacturing concerns in the country Mr. Williver shows how the tariff has been used as follows: "When the Aldrich Payne bill was I don't see Magazines A extracting good teeth and money from gullible parsons all over this countryjby promising cheap painless dentistry. Most persons prefer painless dentistry to the other kind.

You will know how to look lor the right kind after reading Mr. McCardell's amazing and true account of methods now being employed. Mention the article to your own dentist after reading it. He will be very grateful to you. "The Czar of Footwear" Few Americans have ever heard of the great trust that levies its tax upon the footwear of the nation.

Judsoa WeUWt article in the September Hampton's is a fearless, straightforward account of the effect of the Shoe Machinery Trust upon the price of shoes, and of the Trust methods of ruining Independent manufacturers. "In Reno Riotous" Here at last Is a real, convincing story of the Johnson Jeffries fight, written by Harris Merton Lyoa, It is filled with personality, crowed with atmosphere and local color, and illustrated in the real way. Hotting has yet been published regarding this fasKKa meeting at Reno, that furnishes such delight fnl reading, sad draws such accurate conclusions concerning tie result. The article wBl be as welcome for its literary value, as for its professional interest Ever READINGTIMDS, READING, MONDAY, AUGUST 32, 1940. The Pqeb NzMmzi Barak i 1 't 1 Resources over two million dollars.

Collections and financial transactions for Corpora tions enacted; with efficiency and despatch Reserve Banks in all principal cities of the United States. We issue' Travelers' Checks for Tourists, GOOD all over the world. Our Savings Department Pays 3 Per Cent. Interest and has shown a marvelous growth in popularity. Private Safety.Boxes, in fire and burglar proof vaults, trom $1.50 a year up, according to size.

We solicit your banking business. CD. MOSER, Cashier SHOE MACHINERY TRUST UNDER FIRE Ssdd how all the live?" Gndoubtedly you You have probably stood aghast before some news stand and wondered what magazines to buy. There are a lot of magazines. Most of them are mighty good and most of them live because they are good.

But there's one magazine that not only lives but GROWS. There are fifteen or more good reasons for this in every issue. These reasons are its "unbeatable" features the special articles obtained at enormous cost the best fiction in the world and its powerful, sincere editorial purpose. It grows because it is the new type of magazine, which gives news and information as well as entertainment. It fearlessly, daringly goes to the heart of the big questions that affect the business welfare or the private happiness of every American man or woman, publishes the things live men and women want to know about, Jhe things they ought to know, about their country, their politics, their financiers, their employers.

It is the magazine that is giving to the country "Peary's Own Story," a $50,000 feature; it is the magazine that is publishing the First English translation in America of M. Rostand's world famous drama "Chantecler." It is "the Best Magazine in America" and it is called HAMPTON'S i September 15 Cents On Sale Now This September number is a typical issue of Hampton's. Every feature is a big one. It is actually stuffed with bisr. vital news information that vnn nuo ht tn tirW tw v.

I P13 things, stories that every member of your family will read with intense delight. Prove it to yourself. How many of the following articles and stories in the September Hampton's would you fike to read? i "The Tooth Tinker's" Here is an article, by Roy McCardell, that concerns every man, woman and child in America. It tells how Painless Parkers" everywhere are "Chantecler Hampton's has Chantecler." This announcement has been received with intense interest throughout the United States. Ever since Rostand's immortal play appeared in France, all America has waited for Gertrude Hall's English version.

"Chantecler" is the greatest romance of the world's greatest romanticist. No drama has quite such brilliant wit, such delightful slang, such a fascinating parody of human nature. To be up to the times is to know this charming play. "Peary's Own Story" No more interesting chapter in this wonderful narrative has yet appeared. In graphic language Commander Peary tells of the journey from the North Pole back to civilization.

He describes the fatigue and mental agony of the trip the tragic death of Prof. Ross Marvin; the last days of activity in the Far North, and his final return in the "ROOSEVELT." Every American should read this thrilling story of Commander Peary's triumph. Fully illustrated. "The Railroad Machine" Charles Edward Russell clearly states how and why the railroad rates of the Southern Pacific Railroad are excessive why this is, in some degree, the case of every railroad in the country; and how the cost of living is thereby increased. Mr.

Russell presents some very convincing facts and figures in this powerful article. Fiction in "HAMPTON'S'? for September No ether magazine publishes variety and quality of fiction that Hampton's does. Th world greatest story writers contribute their best, friction lovers can always be sure of finding their favorite writers on the Hampton's title page. For the September issue, Alice Brown has written" The House of the Bride Arthur Stringer gives The Mask of Flame as tae second in his new and thriHing "Adventurers of an Insomniac;" John Fleming Wilson contnbutes i "Things as They Are;" Mary Heaton Vorse provides "Remsen the peoe; and George Fitch has an irresistible motor boat story, "Extinguishing a Scorcher. An unusual number of illustrations accompany the stories.

Where can 15 cents buy more Li being considered, shoe manufacturers wanted tfi'e 18 per cent, duty on hides removed. At that time the duty on shoes was 25 per and on shoe machinery 60 per cent. The manufacturers of shoes finally got the hide duty removed by agreeing that the duty on shoes be reduced from 25 to 15 per cent "But the duty on shoe machinery was left at 60 per cent. "Any tyro in tariff could have figured out the result. American shoe machinery operated by cheap European labor makes shoes which are being brought here in larger quantities than ever.

If the American manu facturer could set shoe machinery atf reasonable competitive cost, instead; of at the monopoly royalties of the, trust, there would be no worry about Increasing importation of shoes, or the future of the American export business. vv "Unfortunately, that is not the way our tariff Is constructed. The farmer who produces the hide, the manufacturer who produces the shoe, the workman who does the work these all have their protection reduced; but the trust. With its: $18,000,000 of surplus and its untold millions of profits the trust has its 60 per cent, protection continued!" Even more amaslnf has been the clever use made of the Patent Office. Tying all manufacturers up with an Iron clad agreement4 not to use other machinery than that manufactured by It, the trust undertook to kill all possible competition at Its conception by using this department of the government.

"We are the 'Ingenious Yankees' who for years have taken the breath of the Old World," says Welliver. "A new people, face to face with new conditions, have invented short cuts. To overcome natural obstacles we have made the Ideal practical. Steamboats, railways, telegraphs, electric lights, aeroplanes, wooden nutmegs, and predlgested food, all have followed In the train of our national ingenuity. 5 "And, of course, hundreds of Inventive brains have turned toward the subject Of short cuts to shoes.

Solutions have been worked out and patents applied What's the use? Here sits a man in Massachusetts with so powerful a grip on the industry that, with the help of our Patent Of I flee In Washington he can make an myeuuuii yaiueiuBS unless ue uwjib il and sees profit in it for HIM." How this astonishing scheme Is worked is explained by Mr. thus: "American patent laws allow pat tents to be secured Without requiring that the article be promptly' put on the market. Other countries, require the article to be produced In one or two years, or the patent lapses. So, it is alleged the trust takes patents here and abroad; promptly manufactures and sells the new Invention abroad, and thus gives foreigners an advantage. And If an American goes abroad to buy machines and bring them home, he meets a' 60 per cent, tariff at our ports.

"The Shoe Machinery Trust has plants at ter, England; Paris, France and one in Canada. There Is sharp competition in those countries with other shoe machine makers, and so shoe manufacturers are kept supplied with the latest devices. In this country, on the contrary, many devices are pat tented, but not produced for. long per iods. I have before me a list of thirty two patents owned by the trust, the application for which; in the Washington Patent Office were kept pending eight years or "How this helps suppress ing inventors is illustrated in the case of Merton D.

Phejan, Dorchester, Massachusetts, in 1906, applied for a patent 'on a lasting machine im In December, 1909, the Patent Office notived him that, his ap plication was charged with interfering with one filed by the trust. On hearing, Phelan won; but interference was then charged with another trust application. This had filed in 1898, and amended from year to year to keep it alive; the latest claims that were put in Interference with Phelan's application were put in this trust application by amendment of April 9, 1910! "The relations, between the trust's patent lawyers and the Shoe Machinery Division of the Patent Office, at Washington have at times been the subject of most caustic crlticisn. Elaborate dinners and extravagant entertainment for Patent Office people are recognized as regular parts of trust methods of dealing with the Patent Office. A former examiner in the Shoe Machinery.

Division of the Patent Office, Mr. Charles Mason, was hired away from the government by the trust, and is now Its chief technical expert In patent affairs. "In the newer and more honorable politlcalera now facing us, one of the many house cleaning jobs which will be undertaken with cheer and delight will be that of the Patent Office. This spectacle is worthy of your consideration and your "The very fact that a powerful trust can nurse its malicious delays along through the Patent Office year after year to the distress of inventors and loss of the public, is proof that a house cleaning is needed. If this story of the Shoe Machinery Trust does no more than' call your attention to the wretched operations of the patent laws, it will not have been, written in vain.

"Apropos of the advantages the foreign manufacturer is declared to get through the trust, there Is a little story about the war of competition In England. The United Company's British branch has not yet completely smothered competition in England, but it is doing its by familiar Standard Oil methods. An English company makes a screw wire machine which it sells so cheap that manufacturers prefer it to the Unlted's leased machines. Wherefore the United sells British shoemakers brass screw wire for twenty cents a pound and Iron Bcrew wire for nine cents. These prices are so low as to offset the cheaper cost of the British machine which uses the wire.

"The same wires that are sold in England by the trust for twenty and nine cents, respectively, are sold in America for fifty four and thirty two cents, according to statements published by a rival of the trust. He charges that this price cutting. in England is done purely for the. purpose of driving the British rival machine out of the market. "But there is no such competition as that In America.

The trust has no competition to fight FISH FOUGHT FIVE HOURS Tuna Finally Pulled Boatman Over bonrd and Swam Off With tlio Hook Avalon, Catallne Islands, Aug. 21. After fighting fishermen for five hours a big leaping tuna escaped Friday night with two gaffs sunk into its side. The fish was hooked by Ai C. Bro dle, of Los "Angeles, at 4.16 o'clock.

Brodie, an experienced soon brought it up near: his boat, but when his boatman tried to gaff it Is broke I side Club, away several times. Brodie brought the tuna up again and twice the boatman gaffed it. The Irfst time it lashed the water into foam and pulled the boatman overboard. At 9.30 o'clock it escaped with the hook, The tackle was ben and twisted, but did not break, c. Pfclicrofjf 1 ACADEMY OF MT6IC Tonight George Barr McCutcheon, when he wrote "Graus tark," had foresight to lay the scene of his romance amidst beautiful surroundings.

Snow capped mountains, green valleys, old world architecture, castles and throne rooms follow; each other in description after description, forming a heritable kaleidoscope of scenic grandeur. This is fortunate for the producer and scenic artist and Messrs. Baker Castle, the managers, have endeavored faithfully to compete with Mr.vMc Cutcheon's word pictures and with success. Nothing would be prettier than the view from the terrace of the Hotel Regengetz, with the picturesque city of Edelweiss nestling on the shores of a beautiful lake in the valley below. A broad boulevard leads up to a fine old castle on the heights beyond the and a ma jestic, snow capped peak pierces the distant sky.

When the twilight deepens it Is even more beautiful. The lights from the castle and the nearest lights of the city mingle with the long row of lamps that illuminate the royal boulevard, while the last rays of the sun gild the loft peak. It Is a triumph pf stage realism and never falls a hearty round of applause. The Princess' boudoir is an exact reproduction of a room in an old European palace. It Is dark in tone, with, mullloned windows overlooki ig the castle terrace, the bed alcove surmounted by the royal crest and a handsome portrait of Tetive's soldier father over the mantle.

It Is a beautiful interior, the rather sombre coloring by the feminine touches of its dainty occupant. The throne room is magnificent. Be ing a state apartment, it Is more brilliant In with heavy golden frieze and marble doors and throne On the central dlas Is the ancient throne of Graustark, surmounted by. a richly draped canopy and crest. The panels are of beautiful mural paintings of battle scenes, representing Graustark's past victories, and.

the artists have only caught that appearance of rich yellowness and age to be found only In the decorations of other centuries. PALACE THEATRE. Burtino and Levolo, who are the headliners for the entire week, commencing this afternoon, come very highly recommended as classy entertainers. The team will appear In a sensational wire equilibrist act and made a great hit in London, Berlin and Paris. The performers do some thrilling stunts in an act that is decidedly the real thing.

The Campbells are wnoderfully clever funmakers, who make their initial appearance here In a hodge podge of fun and music. The act is a scream from start to finish, and has lots of class. Connor and Morse are black face comedians, who are' a dead sure cure for the worst case of blues ever known. They tell stories, Sing and dance very pleasingly. Budd and Clare are eccentric comedians, ho give a European sketch that fairly sparkles with funny situa tions and smart dialogue.

THE ORPIIEUM. The initial performance of the second week's bill at the' Orpheum will I be given and, the list Of acts comprising the bill of this week will compare favorably with that of last week and vaudeville lovers are assured of a very pleasing afternoon or night's enter tainment. Topping the bill is the laughable absurdity entitled "A Country School'1 as presented by the Four Masons. There is plenty of comedy in this number to keep the audience good natured all the time, they occupy the Billy Barron, the well known German musical comedian, plays on a wide variety of instruments and plays on all of them well. Fern and VanDyke, in a novelty act, and Mich ael and Bradford, in good old coon shouting, complete the excellent bill The Orpheoscope, as usual, with two very interesting subjects will please lovers of motion pictures.

in 'the police net Caught After Chase After a hard fight and a chase the police succeeded, on Saturday even ing, In landing Harry Squint, better known as "Red," in a cell at police station. While the nominal charge is drunkenness and disorderly con duct, It is probable that several charges of highway robbery will be loged against him, for he, with a gang of his. comrades, is alleged to have held up people for money on the highways during" the past week, reports of which reached police station. One of the exploits of the gang is the holding up of a farmer at the Bin gaman street bridge last week and robbing him of some valuable papers and a small sum of money. The arrest was effected by Officers Humphreys and Lesher at Ninth and South streets.

Officers Humphreys was alone when he saw Squint, who was with his gang. He tried to take Squint, when the gang interfered and took the officer's mace away. About this time Officer Lesher appeared and helped Humphreys. The latter succeeded In freeing himself and started after Squint, who had taken to his heels, and, after a short chase, took him into custody. All the while he was held pending the arrival of the patrol wagon Squint put up a fight with the officers.

Will be Sent Away Charles Kounas, of Mahanoy City, has communicated with Chief of Police Levan relative to John Shersints, of that place, who is in custody. It is believed the man is demented. He had been in the St." Joseph hospital, from which he was discharged. On Friday Officer Zweizig found Shersints trying to get into a cellar and took him to police station. Kounas will come to Reading and take Sherslntz back to Mahanoy City.

Held for Court After hearings before Alderman Miller, on Saturday, Arthur Clem mens, aged 17 years, but who looks to be not more than 14, was remanded to jail to await trial at court on a charge of stealing a horse and carriage from lCeuben Forney, a farmer In Maldencreek township, and the looting of the bungalow of the Cliff In which case William Hayn'es the prosecutor. When confronted by the witnesses at the hearing the lad confessed hav, Ing taken the horse and carriage and to having assisted In looting the bungalow, In the later affair he said he had been helped by several boys from this city, but did not know their Have. you any fault to find with your Gas Lamps or appliances If they don't operate properly we can MAKE them do so. The fault must be within your own premises. Tell the inspector when he calls.

The Consumers Gas Co: names. The lad said he tried to get money to equip a camp. Arrested After Fight Edward "Ted" O'Leary was arrested by Constable Lewis, on Alderman Hiester's warrant, charged with assault and battery on oath of William Brady, who is confined to the St. Joseph hospital suffering from bruises received by being kicked in the stomach. The quarrel took place on North Fourth street Saturday afternoon.

O'Leary was lodged in the station house in default of bail. Created Disturbance Detective Marts served Alderman Bruce's warrant on Edward Olseil at police station, charged with assault and battery, on oath of Milton Ey rich. Olsen was arrested by Officer Frankkowiak at the Terry House for creating a disturbance. Show Case Broken Edward Pennypacker was arrested by Constable Kreider, on Alderman Kreider's warrant, charged with larceny and malicious mischief, on oath of Paul Wenrlch. The young man was locked up at police station.

The allegations are that Pennypacker broke a glass In a show case. THE SOLILOQUY OF A ROAMER By Ira.C. Ludwick. I crave, no more, the maiden fair. With winning smiles, and debonair; Nor do I seek the life so wild, Usually predominant In every "child.

Tes! 'tis to laugh, I 111 agree, But I advise you to wait and see; Similar lines I've written before, Yet I'll feel better with these few more. For quite on a wild career, I've had my, happy as well as sad year; N'er stopping to think of years to come, But kept on going, and going some. I left my parents, true, good and kind, For different company to seek and The first I now know is God's own treasure, The latter is sorrow, filled to the measure. My success was good, more often bad, At times I was happy; invariably sad; Tou may ask why; really want to know What caused this career, and my acting so. 'Twas the story of a boy, fair looking and bad, With girls for his company, few other friends had, And Just at an age, when success shining bright, Would certainly have been his, had he done right.

The time for a change has come at last, 1 To try and do right, and live down the past, And grasp opportunities whenever they're good, And hold on tight, as a sane man WOUld. The future, of course, must bring what, it will, My longing for roaming I must lnev itably kill; Start life anew, be good and be. kind, And my reward, I am sure, won't be hard to find. HAY STACK BURNS Consumed From the Inside by Smokeless Fire That Was Mysteriously Started Jacob Strunk, a farmer of Oley township, sustained a rather severe Ions in one of his crops, this summer, under most peculiar circumstances. The hay crop was unusually fine this year and he gathered many loads of it and piled it in a great stack near the barn.

Several weeks passed and the stack 'seemed to decrease in size, but there was nothing to indicate that any of It had been carried away. Another week and the pile was still smaller and so it continued to dimin ish until It was less than a quarter its original size. Utterly nonplussed in his effort to solve the mystery, Mr. Strunk finally decided to remove what was left of his hay stack Into the barn for more safe keeping, and when he undertook this the whole thing was made clear. Nothing but a mere shell of hay was left, the entire interior being a smoul dering pile of ashes.

There was no flame, but from some cause, possibly spontaneous comous tion, the hay stack had gradually consumed Itself, starting from the centre and eating outward and upward, the hay settled over the hot ashes, until nothing was left but a thin shell. In a few days more this, too, would have been consumed. It was an unusual experience and in relating it to neighbors Mr. Strunk admitted that it was something entirely new to him, which he was not able to explain. 1EL1JATES ARE OFF Yesterday the Reading delegates of the Fraternal Order of Moose left for Baltimore, where they will attend the sesisons of the grand lodge which convenes today.

They are Fred Roland, E. H. Spears, H. E. Newklrk.

W. Woods, Warren S. Buckwaltcr and Uriah Q. Miller. 1 AMUSEMENTS.

Academy of Music TONIGHT GEORGE BARR McCUTCHEON'S Orauslark (A Love Behind a Throne.) PRICES 25c, 36c, 60c, 76c, $1.00. Sale of seats now.open. Palace Theatre Aft 8c 10c Evg 5c, 10c, 15c. Classy Vaudev.ilhi Pictures 2 Great Bills each Week 2 Acts Tueg. and Wed.

Burtino Levc lo, wire equilibrists. The Camp 1" bells, Fun and Music. Connor Morse, Black Face Comedy. Budd Clare, Eccentric Comedy. 3 SHOWS 2.30, 7.30, 0.15.

4 MASONS 1 Fern Van DrkeMichaeI Bradford Billy Barron Admission 5c 10c. Reserved Seat, 15c. RUBBER GOODS! Our rubber goods give unbounded satisfaction because we purchase direct of the most reliable manufacturers. You will find them perfectly made. Our stock includes all.

sickroom, bath and nursery necessaries and our prices "are 'only consistent with the dependable: quality of the goods. Our will gladly show you bur entire line, even though you do not care to purchase." RASER'S DRUG STORE. SIXTH AND WALNUT STREETS. LAKE SIDE GRAPE JUICE a great health drink. Sisto, the best neutralizer for perspiration odors.

Toilet articles, 'cigars, at RAUDENBUSH'S CLEAN BILL GIVEN TO SHERMAN AND CURTIS fiore Investigators Exonerate Them at the Senator's Request McAlester, Aug. 21. Before leaving yesterday for Paxton, Illinois, where he Is to Senatr Gore left with the Burke investigating Imittec a. written statement expressing regret that he had been rorced to mention the names of Vice President Sherman and Senator Curtis in his testi mony, and requesting "that the comr mittee. at.

the earliest practical moment make an authoritative finding and statement to the effect that no evidence has been presented, tending to establish any improper conduct on the I art of either Vioe President Sherman or United States Senator Curtis respecting the subject of this investiga tion." E. d. Million, a banker of McAlester, who was in Washington during the last session of Congress representing settlers and towns in the segregated coal lands district and urging the sale of the surface of the coal and asphalt lands, corroborated before the Burke committee yesterday J. F. McMurray's testimony that Senator Gore received McMurray cordially In the Senator's office about the middle of June, more than a month after Jake Hamon, representing McMurray, Is alleged to have offered Gore a bribe of $25,000 or $50.

000. Million testified that the Senatoi greeted McMurray as "Mac." THE READ ALLEY'S COMET, French Expert Says It's the Ono Recently1 Spotted by Taunton Observer Paris, 21. Colonel Marchand the hero of Fashoda and a noted as tronomer, never believed that tlw comet which made its appearance in June was Halley's comet, which hr believes is not due until September. The Gaulois is trying to identify th comet which Metcalf, of Taunton, recently discovered and whlct has since been observed at Paris, Lyons and Marseilles as really th cor.t of Halley. STRIKE A BONANZA TO BERLI! Swamped With Order From New York, ork Overtime Berlin, Aug.

21. Owing to th' strike of the cloakmakers In Nev York, German manufacturers ar swamped with orders from New Yorl and are working overtime. Many New York buyers arrived In May and June and placed large or ders. They have not returned and are placing fresh orders..