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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-08
F ACT AND GOSSIP
IN MONEY NARTS
Greatest Annual Business Fact
in the United States is the
Size of Crops.
5y 8. C. FORBES.

NEW YORK, Aug. 8.--The follow
Ing article, which can at least be de-
scribed as timely, is part of longer
ore on Finance" in Hearsts Maya
zine for August. Those of us who
frequent the highways of finance be
come so accustomed to speaking of
millions and even billions that we are
apt TO lose all sense of proportion. |
have tried to convey some idea of
what the annual value of Americas
crops really means. for merely to
mention billions creates only a vague,
hewlldering feeling
What is the Iodestar Of American
finance and business Not politics. i'm
portant though they are at such times as
these, Not fail or rise in the cost of
living, fundamental as that s. Not heavy
exports Or light exports. dear money or
cheap money a gold inflow or a gold out
flow, an active iron market or an in
active iron market, advancing security
prices or falling security prices. scarcity
or abundance of labor-not one of these.
The greatest annual business fact in
the United States is the size of our crops
"'rbe farmer fs ,,,,,,.,, ,,,,..,--.,, 49, -
fnancier il, maxine. ~, ,,l,,,,;,,, --.,;.
I sneak of tbis nov, p ;-5i. ,l
must he Guided =, tt,;,, 80 - W.
ny what takes place on the field than on
the stump, more by the weather than the
mouthings of politicians. Said a financier
a" 'h'erhauohai banker of the first
o o,,ntl d director IN our principal railroad
"Prosperitv or danression doa,, ,9r+
depend upon how ballots are cast on
November ). CAPITAL is nrenared for
such legislative chances az ara 1i,,aI,,
so be introduced. Give MS bounteons
harvests, and 1918 will be fhe hest
year the country has ever knoun0
a,.,o4 49,. -, 70 We Nno"
narticinate r,,,s+ - +r1 - u oel 70
coneidera tnI,, in +ba -, 90 x-t ~
rates - II 0'e"'
. "Booms in securities are nor r,.de on
the floor of the New York stool r.
change They are made on tho co',r,-,,,s
fields and in its factories and forests No
one can hope to become-and continue
a successful investor until he grasns tho
overwhelming importance of Uatcbi,,,
a agricultural conditions have nra,oro9
some contrasts and COMPARISONS hatuyoo,,
the annual value of our farm, ,rod,,nt,
and other big financial items with Will,
the public are more or less fap,iIior
Some interesting calculations aaeiqnod 70
visualize the enormity of the sum ba,,o
also been made.
..,r,
me total value of our farm products
ms year, allowing for normal growth
9n ,I! approximate $4,000, 900, 000-ten
oI'ilou uoHarS or zen thousand millions.
",ren billion doIIors -,,o,,,.5 ... 81.
whole of N5onto+tr 80. .l!e
nll,.pr1,, n",ahce greater than Mr..
.,,1.-5 - 'o' '"ile' L" acres the area
~ o7o-o ~ '"is carpet Oh money would
,,,o7',,si., ~ ~ squdre DOCK OF land
MS 90 'lilsS eacn way.
'Ten billion do,Iors cola -,.-..,., ..,.- a.
trains each of On oor. $500 o nv ,"Ne ~
tent Of so OOo roI,r,5s ~ ~, ~ IL.e "a
from, ono ,oirt - o,,,tt,a- al ~ ''""i It
Ten hilton doIIans ~ a.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-08
The WEATHER
CONDITIONS

tions are that the Western disturbances
viii advance eastward, and be attended
by unsettled father and general rain
over practically all districts east of the
Mississippi river during the next thirty
six hours. Temperatures will not change
materially over the eastern half of the
country until FRIDAY
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-08
MINING STOCKS.

BOSTON. Aug. S.-Opening: Fruit 1874.
California and Arizona rs, Chino 34ls,
Shelters preferred 4994, Nevada ConsoH-
dated %, shannon nv, GirOux 81
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-08
METAL MARKET.

NEW DIRK, Aug, Sat the metal ex-
change trading was quiet. Copper spot,
August and September 1851 m17.25; Oc-
Iober, 1T12i2H 1870. Lead, 445m455:
spelter, 6sO@7OO; tin. 4515a4545
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-08
PORT RECEIPTS.

The following table shows receipts at
the ports today, compared with the same
daY last year:
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-08
ATLANTA LIVE STOCK MARKET.

0sed heavy; sales 1880 barrels,
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-08
COTTON SEED OIL.

Closed barely steady Sales, 4775O b
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-08
CHICAGO CASH QUOTATIONS..

CHICAGO CAR LOTS.
Following are receipts for Thursday and
estima ed reCeints for Friday.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1912-02-14
Here's a Book
THE MARRIAGE PORTION. BY II.
A. Mitchell Keays. published by
Small, Maynard & Co., Boston)

1t is a favorite attitude-or is il only
habit of spcech?-to deprecate the sex
problem as the subject of novel and
play. To this a wise and well-known
literary critic has lately called a frank
right a bout-face" with the question.
What else in the world could be SO i'm
portant as the relations of men and
women to each other, and, therefore, so
worthy of continuous analytical discus
sion in the books that we read?' Such
a viewpoint as this is the one with
which to take up THE Marriage Por-
tion," a new novel, by II. A. Mitchell
Keays 1t is a serious book; a story,
but much more a study of men and
women and marriage. Unpleasant 1t Is
in some of its features, for of the three
married pairs most fully described, two
are mismated. and there is a deal of
very plain speaking. But the spirit of
the book is uplifting, the characters are
well chosen and well-drawn human
types, the contrasts are effective, and
the development of the situations re-
Veals fine ideal. Readers of Puritan
iCal mind will probably abandon the
book in the middle, but even they. In
the end, would have found their stand
ards upheld.
The narrative centers in a young wild
ow, Adela CleaVe, of whose experiences
the unlucky marriages of her friends
become a part. Through her is inter-
prete1 the wreck of Angus Kilburn
life, a man of fine intellectually, who
yet fell victim to a vulgar woman :
purely physical charms. and, by the
yoke he thus assumed, fell under dom
inatior of his own grosser nature
Through Adela. also. is wrought the
ultimate peace of Mary Skene, a passive
ly affeCtionate and dutiful young wife,
who really awakens to womanhcod only
through the love aroused by a man not
her IN sband. In this man himself the
author develops a theme which some
what recalls MaeterlnCks Norma
Wanna" Sensualist, INSCRIPTIONS, i'm
moral, selfish, and inconstant, Julian
Ware was yet capable of a love which
purified him and ennobled him to the
point of complete remuneration for the
sake of the woman. AS to Adela Cleave,
hers is a character in which the author
has recognized a most interesting mod
ern feminine type.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1912-02-14
DEVIOUS DIPLOMACY IN MEXICO.

Nothing is farther from the intentions of the
United States" than intervention in Mexico, accord
ing to statement issued by the State Department,
To be sure Nothing was farther from the in
tentions of the United States than to overawe Mexi-
co last year when the army was modified the
Rio Grande frontier. The army was sent there for
"maneuverS' don't you recollect? Didn't the Ad-
ministraton admit as much?
It's a curious diplomatic game have been
playing in Mexico. Everybody. knows that the pos
sibiliy of intervention has been at the top of the
Administrators mind for many months past We
were on the very verge of the precipice for weeks
If the Diaz regime had not collapsed and the Ma
dersts into control, it would have been almost
certain.
The United States may not fancy intervening;
but it will intervene rather than have England or
Germany do so. Mexico knows this, the American
people know it, the world knows it. Conditions are
so critical that day may bring forth conditions
pelling move.
Within the same hour that brought the State
Departments reinsurance, the cable from Berlin
carried announcement that the German foreign Of
fce investigating the murder OF a German citi-
zen in Mexico That sort of announcement means
nothing # it does not mean that Germany is pre-
pared to protect its people or to insist that the
United States shall do so.
Wherein conditions in Mexico are to be i'm
proved by assuring the turbulent factions there that
they need not fear American interference, at time
when is perfectly plain that America may be COM
PEELED to interfere almost at any moment, is not
obvious. A more frank and plain-spoken policy
would seem preferable. There would be vastly less
probability of any need arising for intervention if
this Government would let the Mexcans know that
intervention would be necessary if conditions be-
menacing as to require it for the protection
of foreigners and their interests.
The old-fashioned diplomacy that was Mortified
at thought of conveying direct, sQuare-toed, under
Standable statement of fact without equivocaon or
indirection is not the thing needed now This Mexico
situation needs to be handled frankly, openly, and in
broad daylight ReasSurng statements that the whole
world knows are not and cannot be true, are going
to make conditions worse rather than better
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1912-02-14
HIGHLANDS
CITIZENS IN FAVOR
OF ANACOSTIA PARK
Plan to Beautify Flats on
Eastern Branch In
dorSed.

The plan submitted to Congress by the
Commissioners, in which recommends
ton is made for the purchase Of
strip of land along the shore of the
Eastern branch, between Anacostia and
me District line, with the object in
way, has found universal Endorsement
III hanule Highlands. Members of the
handle Highlands Citizens Association
at meeting last night expressed senti-
bill. WV "a '"'
IN response 10 a request of the ASSOC
CiatoIl tne commissioners have ordered
mat pennsylvania avenue between Fiji
.eeh sa ana seventeenth streets be re-
surfaced. Or. b. T. Woodward, the
president of the association, congratu-
lated the members on having obtained
these improvements.
The association was also informed
the Commissioners will have the deem
ravine along the cast side of Pennsyi-
vania avenue between Minnesota ave.
nue. and the Baltimore and Ohio rail-
road tracks filled in with ashes. Rob-
crt +. Bradbury will have several
high bilIboards removed from the spot
also TO add to the improvement
DIR. Woodward invited attention 10
the bill introduced by Senator Page 10
provide $4,000 for the extension of Penn
sylvania avenue from Bowen road TO
the District line. The association, he
stated, has Endorsed this measure be-
fore, and letter was again sent
urging favorable recommendation by
the Commissioners. 1t was reported,
however. that they have made an ad-
verse report on it.
The Anacostia Citizens Association
on request, will cooperate with the
Randle Highlands organization in hav-
ing Minnesota avenue built to proDcr
grade, and the granolithic sidewalk Je-
Gently laid on the south side widered
c. A. Barker told the members that in
the much-pared District bill two items
for street improvements in Randle
Highlands, one for $40 Cor Minnesota
Second street, have been allowed to re-
main.
DR.. woodward commended that the
association hold an open meeting in tho
spring, when prominent speakers will
be invited to make addresses. lie was
empowered to name the committee OF
arrangements for such a meeting.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1912-02-14
COMES TO DEFENSE
OF DIRECTOR DURAND

To the Editor Of THE TIMES:
The worst feature about such letters
as those sent to you by CLERK" and
"Ex- Clerk" relative to the Census Bu-
reau, is that they will be believed by
portion of the public. when, as a matter
of fact, they are only unworthy attacks
upon a gentleman who is in nowise to
blame.
Both of these letters place the blame
for conditions at the Census Office upon
the director, E. Dana Durand, when no
more efficient, honest. conscientious Of
fetal occupies a position in Govern
ment service. The blame is wholly with
Congress, who, penny wise and pound
foolish, refused to appropriate 5000 TO
complete a $l5,OOO,OOO task, and ninety
nine out of every 100 of the dismissed
clerks, instead of placing the blame
where it belongs, will probably go home
and influence all the votes possible for
another equally wise Congress.
These temporary clerks have known
since they were appointed that their
tenure of office was only temporary,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1912-02-14

birds choose their mates-the day on which Roman
youths and maidens made choice of their "steadies"
for the coming year, now consecrated anew, though
no one seems to know just why, by that Christian
martyr good St. Valentine.
Expressing his sentiments in terms of orchids,
valued at an omelette apiece il is the archer whose
heart bleeds most perhaps closely followed as conf
panions in misery, by postoffce burden bearers,
whose ideal of perfect joy would be land and time
in which festivals we're unknown.
Celluloid and the three-color process, supple
mented by satin wrought out in wonderful designs,
undoubtedly display the wealth and ingenuity with
which we Americans embeIlish everything we touch.
And yet there must ever be lingering fondness,
after ALL for the simpler designs of the simpler days,
when the sentiments seemed more genuine because
the setting was less pretentous.
We are all for the old-fashioned kind with the
lace paper on them if such are yet to be found in
this degenerate age.
The young woman who gave the first impetus
to this American form of the valentine has long since
entered into rest and sweet rest it must be unless
is disturbed by the modern Celebrations. The eX-
IRENE dimensions in those good old days were about
like those Of postal card but all heaven and earth
were compressed into the meaning which one could
read between the lines of Roses are red and vioets
blue" Half the happiness of the world dates from
the day when AS sure as the vine grows round the
stump" came, scented and sincere, through the mails.
Evil marplots, even in those elder days, placed
an occasional fly in the ointment by circulating the
anonymous comics" But under the crude carica-
lures there were perhaps some homey truths which
self-suffciency and vaingory needed, and the most
complasant of us saw ourself little more truly as
we are.
Commercialzed to the point where dollars are
invested in the DlissiveS which stood for dimes,
the roseate glamour has to large extent passed
away 1t has gone the way of the hoopskirt and the
polonaise. The Old Sweetheart feels a strange
thrill when she comes across one of those humber
offerings, tucked away perhaps in plush album or
following in the family Bible. Rich as they are, the
art works of this Valentine day but gewgaws and
it is in the language o! the long ago that the good
saint whispers:
so sad strange.
The days that more
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1912-02-14
ARMY.


Major WILLIAM p. PENCE. Coast
Artillery Corps. from Coast Artil-
lery School. Fort Monroe. Va, to
Fort Howard. Nd.
Major EDWIN LANDON. Coast Artil
lery Corps, from duty as assistant
coast defense officer. eastern di-
vision. to Fort Wadsworth. n. Y.
Major JAMES NJ. WILLIAMS, Coast
Artillery Corps. from Fort Hamil-
ton. n. Y. to Governors Island, n.
Y.
Captain ROBERT II. C, KELTON,
quartermaster, from quartermaster's
department, assigned to the Seventh
Company, Coast Artillery Corps.
Captain HARRY j. WILBUR. Coast
Artillery Cops, from the l59th Com
Coast Artillery Corps.
Lieutenant Colonel HARRY l.. HAW-
THORNE, Coast Artillery Corps, to
artillery district of Manila bay.
Lieutenant Colonel JOHN d. BAR
RETTE, Coast Artillery Corps, from
duty as coast defense officer, East
ern division. to Fort Howard, Md,
and assume command of that post
and of the artillery district Of Bal
tiInore.
Lieutenant Colonel RICHMOND p.
DAVIS, Coast Artillery Corps, from
general staff corps, this city, to
Fort II. G. Wright. n. Y, and as
~. sumo command of that post and of
the artillery district of New Lon
don.
Major GEORGE BLAKFLY, Coast Ar
tillery Corps, from duty as acting
inspector general, Western division,
10 Fort RoseCrans, Cal, and assume
command OF that post and OF the
artillery district Of San Diego,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1912-02-14
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY IA, 1912.
AN IDEA WORTH BORROWING.

The paddock taken off public school build
ing in Kansas City few evenings ago. Mothers
and fathers and children were invited to spend the
evening there.
There was music in one room. In another stories
we're read for the entertainment of the children,
while a member of the board of education talked on
the reciprocal duties of teachers and parents else
where.
Throughout the country cities waking up to
the fact that great deal can be done for the inn
provement of the men and women of the next gen.
Grafton by very simple methods
To quarrel with picture shows and other places
of amusement which the young seek does little good
unless some better form of diversion is supplied
To crtcise the method of training given in the
average home is not so effcacious as to demonstrate
tc the ignorant how to do better.
To complain of the evils of the dance hall does
not accomplish much the furnishing of sub
stitute.
Where better can such things be taught than
in a school and to what better school build
ings be put than in their utilization for uplifting
grown people as we'll as young people?
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1912-02-14
CONDITIONS
IN CENSUS BUREAU
TO the Editor Of THE TIMES:

- '''S A%dlNoI Ol
Census Clerk" noted the fact that \
clerk dare not have a bottle of milk de-
nNered at his desk, nor to purchase q
piece of pie until after the bell rings,
put these are but few of the tyrannies
brought about by an all wise, very impor-
tant 90 new chief clerk, who evidently
ung a new order across the director
desk Tor approval, every day, he might
pc charged with dereliction of duty.
what do you think of such orders as
these' to a force of clerks, the equal
or any in the city m ability, honesty,
taithfulness, and loyalty:
All sick and annual leave taken viii be
charged to leave without pay.
NO annual leave win be granted in the flu
the chief clerk with a reason why leave IL
desired. I.ooks like butting into a mans
personal aftairs)
No clerk shall be allowed the use OF the
telephone unless he be a chief OF division or
mas a phone on his desk. either for outgoing
or incoming calls. except In extreme cases
OF sickness or death. or unless called up by
Senator or Congressman.
no clerk shall be permitted TO have any
bundles delivered at the Bureau.
NO clerk shall DO allowed to see a visitor
except IN the chief clerks office.
No clerk may have milk delivered at his
or her desk. tBut a dozen lunch stands do
business inside the building from 1890 10 1 100
each day, la county fair).
The clerks are wondering now II Il
VIII not, be the next order OF things that
they VIII be required to account for
their time outside OF the building. and
they cannot understand why there
should be this treatment of clerks as
compared to clerks in other bureaus.
AN INTERESTED OUTSIDER.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1912-02-14
LIFE LONG REPUBLICAN
WILL DESERT TAFT
To the Editor Of THE TIMES:

To the Editor OF THE TIMES:
] think that there comes time when
every man is justified in expressing him
self, and think the time has come
have been a lifelong Republican and
would like to continue one, but II have
to have William ii. Taft thrust on me
TO support, 1 am done with the party,
and there are millions more just like
me. l read what they say about Taft
being able to carry Ohio. 1 do not be-
iieve the Democratic party could name
a man that could not beat him in Ohio
He Is the most unpopular President in
Ohio that comes within my recollection,
and / voted for Grant and from him
down to Taft. You ask a man in Ohio
what he thinks of Taft's Administration
and you are as likely to get a sneer of
disgust as words In the first place,
when / voted for Taft / did 1t under
protest. thought there were better
men to choose, but l had confidence in
Roosevelt's choice and l wanted to see
his principles carried out, but what a
sad failure. He Is a very large man,
but he Is too small for the job, and what
the Republican party demands now Is
tried leader, and there Is Just one
man that can win and that is Roose-
party yet and he will not in this, the
darkest hour of the Republican party.
II Taft is nominated there will be more
Socialis. votes cast than Republican,
and the party will sound their own
doom. He is the only man whom the
in fear for they realize that with him
against them, many Democratic mem
Der will be lost in the next election.
ONLY ONE OF THE VOTERS.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1912-02-14
WHENCE CAME MASS
OF THREATENING VAPOR
To the Editor Of THE TIMES:

To the Editor OF THE TIMES:
A, Nh attributes the deluge to the
cooling down of the fiery, steaming
ball' Uhe earth), and to the consequent
precipitation Of the immense mass of
threatening vapors encircllng the
earth"
Nearly everyone is familiar with the
theory that originally the earth was a
ball of fire or a molten mass, and in
that state was giving off gases. 1t is
improbable that at that period there
was any water upon the earth. There
was, of course, no animal or vegetable
life. Whence, then, A. Nh, came
that immense mass of threatening
Vapors?"
Again will A. Nh kindly substitute
for the word "subsided' in his story
Of the flood a scientific account of what
became of that vast body of water COM
pletely covering that erstwhile fiery,
stoaming ball" to the depth OF some
ave and one-half miles, the height of the
highest mountain top?
1t did not return to the circumambient
air, evidently. because A. Mn as
sided. for the frst time, the glorious
sun broke through the clouds" Incl
dentally. he tells us that until that
time no creature on earth had seen the
sun. the moon, or the stars, because of
that almost impenetrable mass of
clouds" II the conditions were such
as to produce the deluge, the almost
should be cut out There was Nubian
darkness everywhere. and that story OF
the beautiful place-paradIse-whe God
put Adam and Eve: also that other
story OF Ewes fig leaf garment, and the
reason why she became the first dress
maker, and many other biblical stories
are myths. Furthermore. would not A.
Mis- antedilIVian conditions some
what interfere with agriculture and its
pursuits? Yet Abel was a shepherd
and Cain a husbandman. ]. B S.