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Show WASHINGTON. D. C, May 13. The same day that the esteemed press carries car-ries double column headlines about tho 10 per cent profits of the wool trust, there is a parallel column item to the effect that Mitchell Palmer's Department Depart-ment of Justic (so-called) agents have captured a profiteering seller of club sandwiches. The "Committee of Forty-Eight" has actually called a convention. The dates are July 10, 12 and 13. The place, Chicago. . The other conventions will be over, and the "Forty-Eightcrs" are going to have the last word. "Will HI Johnson be their candidate?" candi-date?" If you want my personal opinion, I would say No. I like Hi, and am for him as far as he goes, or as far as he will be permitted to go, but it is my guess that the old guard will throw him into the road and that the third party crowd will not take him in because be-cause he has not declared for government govern-ment ownership of railroads. However, It is anybody's guess. t "If all the money -available in the New York market and throughout the state wore put forward tomorrow, it would be impossible to build oven in a year, utilizing every to build oven in a ahd material available, houses enough to take caro of tho shortage." Tho above statement is made offi-cilly offi-cilly by the Housing Committee of the Reconstruction Commission of the state of New York. It was made to the governor March 2G, 1920, by Dr. Felix Adler and a score of the most prominent men in New York. '"' 'It is a pleasure to record anything, constructive done by Congress even a small obvious humane thing like tho passage of the civil service retirement retire-ment bill. This will result in the immediate im-mediate retirement of 700 aged men and women, poor old creatures who have been going through the motions of working for the government in order or-der that they might have a little money to keep the wolf from the door. Some of these are so feeble that they have had to be brought to their offices in wheelchairs. Those who have given 30 years' work to the government are retired re-tired on $720 a year. |