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have had to keep to the paths in order to
make my way through upon horseback.
About year after setting out the ba-
nanas they are twenty or thirty feet
high and are ready to fruit. Each tree
bears but one bunch of bananas and
when this is taken off the tree is cut
down and the sprouts which have grown
up about its roots are left to produce the
next crop.
The cutting of the bananas is with a
sharp knife on the end of a POLE the cut
ters catching the bunch as IT falls. The
bananas are carefully handled. The piles,
which wait for the train, are laid on soft
beds of leaves, and the cars are padded
with leaves in order to keep the fruit
from being bruised
1t is a big task to start a banana plan
tation, and the plans must be carefully
made. The estate Is first surveyed and
paths and roads are laid out, the same
being connected by tramways and rail-
roads And then the farm settlements
have to be built and in each there must
be store. a carpenter shop and black
smith shop and also the stables and the
homes of the workmen. Some of the man.
ayers and overseers bring their wives
with them from the United States and
they must have comfortable homes
screened with wire netting.
Some of these houses here are beauti-
fully finished and well furnished They
have the latest magazines and papers.
and in some of them you will find many
novels, histories and scientific books
Many of the white employees have hob
bies. One may be an ornithologist, an
other bug-hunter and there are no end
of collectors Of orchids and other strange
flowers At the Virginia banana planta-
ton near here they have quite an aviary
containing many of the quaint birds OF
Guatemala. These include the wild tur-
key, which has a brilliant yellow color
the tuna with it's gorgeous plumage, and
the policeman-bird. which makes a terri.
BILE screeching il strangers come near the
house.
l do not know just how many thousand
acres are planted to bananas in Spanish
Honduras. but the Guatemala estates be-
longing to the United Fruit Company
cover tens Of thousands of acres, and
10000 acres are already in bearing. This
is divided up into banana farms of thou.
sand acres each. each farm having Sec
tons OF twenty acres each. Every farm
has its own manager, the account sheets
being kept separately SO that it is known
just what each section costs and what IL
is yielding from year to year. Indeed, a
as in our factories and machine shops al
home. The general manager of the plan
tation is Mr.. Victor NJ. Cutter, young
New Highlander, who came here few
years ago. just after graduating with
high honor at Dartmouth.
have been much interested during my
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The Height of Contempt.

nISCUSSING u customs difficulty. Col
- lector Loeb said in New York:
IF ours weren't such big and I'M
portant country, I suppose some tourists
would treat us as the Yankee automobil-
list treated Montenegro
This automobilist, after wransle
with the customs officers on the Monte
negro frontier, shouted:
Here. shut up the trunks. Put 'em
back on the car again! I'll not go through
you at ALI You're no country. You re
only a spot. l don't mind losing ten or
twelve minutes, and SO I'll go round
YOU"
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ions and cash to carry on the cutting.
The labor contracts are usually made dur
ing the Christmas holidays. the men be-
ing hired by the year. Six months wages
are usually paid in advance. One-half of
which is in goods and the other half cash.
The lumbermen are as dissipated as are
those of our own and other countries, and
they usually have a carouse before they
leave Belize. during which time the cash
disappears.
They now leave and go into the woods,
where they build camps of huts matched
with palm leaves, including a larger build
ing for the store and dwelling OF the
overseer The labor is divided into gangs.
each Of which has captain. The work
is done by the task. The best laborers
are out at daybreak, and a good man
can finish his task by II o'clock. He can
then spend the rest of his day in hunting
or fishing. or he can cut out of mahogany
paddles and other things for which there
is a ready market. The lumber camps
are not pious places. Many of the labor
ers are roughs and there are frequent
fights and considerable drunkenness
There are also bad women who follow the
camps, and the crowd is not a Sunday
school one. The Overseers live we'll
Each has his own boat. with from twelve
to twenty Indian rowers and his own
cook and Indian valet.
The green mahogany is not easy to fell.
and the bringing of a large tree to the
ground is a days task for two men. The
cutting is done about ten feet from the
base on account of the wide spurs which
project from the trunk and platform or
scaffold has to be erected where the
sawmen and axmen can stand
After the trees are felled roads have to
be made to the rivers and the streams on
the way must be bridged. Much Of the
wood is hauled upon rude trucks which
have wheels of solid wood sawed from
the end of a log and having iron boxes
fitted into the center. Much of the work
is done in the night by torchlights Of
pitchpine. All this Is in the dry season.
The rafting is done in the late summer or
fall and the camps break up about the
middle of December. After that the
laborers return to Belize and they then
receive the balance due them, which re-
suits in another great spree.
I understand there is a great deal of
mahogany yet uncut in Spanish Hon
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EOUR Great Banks, Known

EOUR Great Banks, Known
l as the big D's," and
Five Minor Institutions Have
Not Only Swallowed Most of
the Independent Financial
Concerns of Germany, But
Now Control Thousands of
Industrial Businesses as Well
Handful of Magnates in
Berlin Are Now Able to Die
tate to State, Municipalities
and Private Commensurate
Absolute Masters of Banks
With a Combined Capital of
More Than ST. 1000, ooo, ooo-
Rockefellerian Methods by
Which the Vast Monopoly
Has Been Built Up-Doing
Business Without Charge to
Kill Off Rival Banks-Con-
trolling Industries by Loans
Huge Trusts Being Formed
to Prevent Competition.
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pose their wills upon nnancial ana lndus-
trial Germany. Whole industries are al
ready under their thumbs while others are
being rapidly subjugated by methods that
are at last goading the suffering common
people Of the fatherland into action.
The Deutsche. Dresdener. Daermstaed-
ter and Disconto banks-known as the
Big Ds"-with five minor satellites, the
National Bank the Berliner Trading So
ciety. tho Bank of Commerce and Dis
count. the German Central Credit Bank
and the Schaafhausen Banking Union. are
the monopolists. They aim at complete
mastery of the money markets Of central
Europe; and SO far have found no rival
combination able TO oppose them.
Ter years ago these nine banks had no
claim at all to dictate to German finance
They were important central banks; but
they had to compete with great network
of powerful provincial banks. Now. after
a decade Of systematic Decentralization.
the big Ds'' and their satellites have
eaten up the provincial competitors, and
today a handful Of Berlin directors is able
to dictate to all financial Germany.
The bank trust 10 now In its last tri-
umphal stage. The banks which compose
IL are ceasing to compete among them.
selves; and thus gigantic monopoly u
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Hypocrites.

MAYOR LUNN of Schenectady was
A'A discussing a certain SNUG type of
undesrableS.
The motto of these chaps" he said,
seems to be
1T isn't what a man thinks. IL isn't
even what hc saws and does. It's what he
gets caught in
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stay in Central America in the handling
of the banana crop, and especially in
watching how the negroes transfer the
fruit from the cars to the ships. At Port
Lmon, Costa Rica. this is done by ma
chinery. The fruit is carried from the
plantation over the railroad I'm leaf-lined
cars to the side fthe ship as it lies at
the wharf. The tracks are SO laid that
the trainload Of bananas is parallel with
the steamer, and the fruit from half
dozen different cars can be transferred to
the ship at the same time.
The loading is by movable carriers
which run upon wheels. Each carrier is
a long belt about two feet i'm width. SO
arranged that one end of it rests over
the opening. into the hold, and the other
out on the wharf. This belt moves by
machinery. and the bananas thrown upon
1T by laborers, are carried into the hold
/ have seen four rivers of bananas thus
moving for hours. carrying fruit into
a ship.
The men are so trained that the stream
of fruit is continuous, the management
knowing just how many punches one man
can carry In an hour, and how long it
takes to unload each car
The ship upon which ] came here had
in its hold 5000 punches of bananas
bound for New Orleans. Each of those
punches had at least 40 individual ba-
nanas, and altogether they We're enough
to have given every man, woman and
child in New York, Boston, Chicago and
Philadelphia one banana and still left
some to spare.
At New Orleans the fruit is landed in
the same way, being there transferred 10
cold storage cars, which take il to all
parts Of the Mississippi basin. The ba-
nanas for the eastern part of the United
States usually go to the seaports of the
Atlantic.
This work of the Americans on the
banana plantations is series of object
lessons i'm sanitation. agriculture and
business management for the people of
Central America. Most of the estates
have large hospitals and the employees
are taught to take care of their health.
poles, the vegetation being cut away and
quitoes. The laborers are made to keep
themselves for tropical diseases. The
United Fruit Company has been fighting
the hookworm, and it has its doctors
giving medicines and treating the numer-
GUS natives among its employees who are
so afflicted. Every patient who comes to
the hospital on account of malaria or
other fevers or on account of wounds re-
ceived is treated also for hookworm.
am told that this is doing great good and
that an Increase in the working eff
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rRlvY COUNCILLOR HAvENsrElN,

PRIvY COUNCILLOR HAVENSTEIN,
President Of the Imperial Bank, who
has warned the big ID" banks that
they are In danger Of failing. be-
cause Of their policy Of trying 10
control thousands OF Industrial con-
Germs.
finds il impossible to deal with any other
Big D." German industry sroans under
the tyranny. and the injury caused to
municipal finance is SO great that the
large cities. led by Frankfurt-on- Main.
now propose to start municipal bank Of
their own in order to make them, In fu-
ture. independent Of the bank trust.
The Big Dr. banks stick at nothing in
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chief of the handful Of men who,
sitting in Berlin, control not only
lions Of Germany. but thousands of
Industrial concerns as well.
mands a right to watch the firms books
and to control its operations.
That means that a director of the bank
is given a seat on the aufsichtsrat, the
council of supervision of the firm The
firm undertakes to do all its business
through the bank. The firm or company
remains nominal proprietor of the bust
ness, but in reality it is only in the po-
sition of a manager ON behalf of the
bank. Its main function is to see that
the bank as the real capitalist. and de
facto owner. gets high steady rate Of
interest on it's investment. In order to
enlarge this sphere of work a Big D.
bank makes a system of watching out for
young companies with good prospects
which are in temporary difficulties. 1t
gets theme out of their difficulties by
advancing money, and at the same time
gets them into its power. Every one Of
the big D. banks has seats on the SUI
pervision councils of hundreds of indus
trial undertakings. and the result is that
these undertakings are managed exclu-
SItEiS III the lHteTeStS VI tie DdhhS anu
not at all in their own interests.
Complaint is heard that this form of
bank monopoly Is injuring German in
dustry. Great undertakings are no long
er run by their founders or by technical
experts. but by financiers who live hum
dreds of miles away and know nothing
of the business. A banker who has never
seen coal or iron mine directs from "A
distance the great metallurgical industries
of Westphalia and Slesia, and in his
own interests overridden the decisions of
experts on the spot.
i
The bank monopoly has the further ef-
feet Of pushing German industry into the
trust system. The banks forbid competi-
ton between Industries which they con-
troll. Two Big d. banks gain control
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Turned Down.

GA apt retorti" said Senator du Pont
i'm a tariff argument. las apt
retort as the pert young girls.
This young girl repulsed very haushtily
the proffered attentions of young man.
He. wounded to the quick exclaimed:
'Ah. well. you're as full of airs as
hand organ
she tossed her head.
Maybe | am. she said. but. all the
same, | don't go with a crank.
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No Indulgence.

MFRS. ALEC TWEEDIE of the
Iva Eugenics Education Society Of Lon
don, said at reception in New York:
"Eugenics will save the son from pay
ing for the sins of his father. Eugenics
shows us that there has been no escape
heretofore from these penalties. In the
matter Of eugenics it Is not as it was
with Spence.
Let bygones be bygones. Spence in
diligently said Of his old debts. as he
started In to make some new ones"
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The Lazy Genius.

A POPULAR novelist was talking at
\ the Century Club in New York about
a lazy genius.
He is laziness personified.'' said he.
Talk about genius being perspiration in
stead of respiration! Why, when this
genius awoke one morning and found him.
self famous. do you know what he did?'
mo: what?" enviously asked sonne-
teer
"Hc turned over and went to sleep
again.
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. REPRESENTATIVE LONGWORTH at
N dinner in Cincinnati said of de-
feated candidate for Congress-:
well, after all. it's a great consolation
for "A mans conscience to tell him, when
he is left. that he Is right
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Company that the land may be used
for banana plantations. The mahog
any is SO valuable that it sells by the
good income. have been in the ma
hogany country off and on ever since
| left Panama. and I learn that valu-
able timber is being taken from the
northern part of the Panama republic.
I found them exploiting the forests in
Costa Rlca and Nicaragua. and am told
that many mahogany camps are now
working in both British and Spanish
Honduras. There are American lum-
bermen sending mahogany to Panama
all along the west coasts of Central
America. The logs are sent over the
isthmus by rail. and thence shipped to
Europe or the United States. The trees
they are now cutting here still lie in
the clearing. but they will be taken
by train to Port Barrios. and thence
shipped.
The mahogany of this part of the world
is the real article. We have a so-calIed
mahogany in the Philippines. and there
are false mahoganes in Nigeria. Ceylon.
Madeira and California. The true ma
hogany, the wood which makes the
finest furniture on earth. comes from
this region. 1t is found in the lowlands
along the east coast from Mexico
to Panama and also in Colombia
and Venezuela and in the islands of the
Caribbean sea. The trees are magnifi-
cent l have seen some one hundred
feet high and thirty-six feet in circum-
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being evolved. On one hand the trust
forming banks have eaten up all outsid-
ers and thus doubled their capital every
few years, on the other hand they have
begun a series of deals between them
selves to limit competition. The result Is
that an industrial undertaking which
dares to defy one of the Big Ds'' usually
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Germany and the universally of trading
on credit make it easy for the monopo-
lists to enforce their own terms Small
industrial firms are helped out with
loans, and as the security often does not
cover the loan the Big D. bank de-
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ERMANY is at the
mercy of a gigantic
bank trust. State,
municipalities a II d
private businesses
of all kinds are in
its grip. Controll-
ing banks with a
capital OF hundreds
of millions. a few
men possessed OF
sinister powers sit
in Berlin and inn
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t|[|tN Mahogany
s Y G55L&Nb8

THE King of Furniture
! Woods and How 1t Is
Cut in the Central American
Forests - The Mahogany
Hunters and Their Lumber
Camps Where the Trees
Grow and How They Are
Handled-Some New Bana-
ma Plantations - Handling
the Fruit-Some Object Les
sons Given by American
Planters-Central American
Cattle, and How They May
Reduce Our Meat Prices
The Guatemalan Plow.
Copyright. 1912. by Frank G.. Carpenter)
PORT BARRIOS. Guatemala.
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Pfussiau minister OF finance. who u
trying to check the growth Of the
bsnk monopoly In Germany and who
In fearful Of the Increasing power
Of the "Big ID" banks.
bly, 1t is shown in their highly unfrendly
attitude toward German imperial and
Prussian finance and toward municipal
loans. The low quotation of German
rentes il largely ascribed to the unfriend-
ly attitude OF the banks. For floating mu-
nicipal loans the banks demand exorbi-
tant terms.
dustries are entirely under the thumb of
the banks. The dearness of money in
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w Rl1E you from
the edge of Ma
N o & a n V l. a n d j..
This NJ o I a s u a
valley, which lies
at the foot of the
Ct u a I e m a | d
mountains, back
OF Port Barrios.
has hundreds of
mahogany trees,
which are being
cut down by the
L nj [ @ d + rui t
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ial Correspondence Of The Star.
BERLIN, December 81, 1911.
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Copyright. 1912. by Frank G.. Carpenter
PORT BARRIOS, Guatemala
The Washington times., 1913-11-29
McAdoo Tells Banks
Outlook Is Bright

There is no need for the banks Of the
country to restrict credits or stop the
extending of usual accommodations to
customers. according to Secretary of
the Treasury McAdoo.
In a statement the Secretary says the
new law would impose no hardships
that the resources of the Treasury
would be at the disposal of the banks
in putting it into effect. The banks,
he said. can proceed with perfect safety
to grant accommodations. He would
consider. he said, a proposal from. any
bank for an extension of the time limit
of payments Of the crop moving loan.
The Washington times., 1913-11-29

relieves all tension upon the muscles
and enables them to expand without
painful strain upon the ligaments.
Thus there is avoided nervous spells;
the tendency TO nausea or morning
sickness is counteracted, and a bright,
happy disposition is preserved that .e-
fleets wonderfully upon the character
and temperament Of the little one soon
TO come. You can obtain a bottle OF
Mothers Friend" at any drug store a {
sl.00. IT preserves the mothers health.
enables her TO make a complete recoy-
cry, and thus with renewed strength
she will eagerly devote herself To the
10 the welfare OF the child. Write to
the Bradield Regulator Co., 2s9 Lamar
Bldg. Atlanta, Ga. for their valuable
and instructive book of guidance for
expectant mothers.-Adyt
The Washington times., 1913-11-29
SEEK SAN|TAR|UM TO
FIGHT WHITE PLAGUE
Montgomery County Social Ser
vice League Tries to Raise
$4,000 Fund.

ROCKVILLE, Md. Nov. 2s.-The So
cial Service League of Montgomery
county is engaged in an effort to estab-
hsh in this county sanitarium for
the treatment and care Of INDECENT pei
sons, both white and colored. affected
with tuberculosis. Subscription papers
are being circulated throughout the
county in an effort TO raise s2.Ooo. which
is estimated as sufficient to establish a
simple and inexpensive institution of the
Kind II is hoped TO make the pro-
posed sanitarium partially self-support-
ing by producing milk. eggs and vege-
tables, the idea being to have the pa
tients work as their condition permits.
An effort was made by the league
some time ago TO establish such an in
stitution on the almshouse farm, but OBJ
lection of nearby residents prevented.
Among the out-of-the-county couples
married in Rockville within the last few
days were George Everett Ficklin and
Miss Margaret Petrie, both of Washing
ton: Smith Shipley and Miss Gertrude
4. Wrenn, both of New York city. and
Dorrance d. Zinn. of Delta. Pa. and
Miss Emma Marsh. of Milton, Pa
Cases have been disposed of in the
circuit court here as follows: Melville
Burdette, disorderly conduct. not guilty;
William Jackson, statutory taking. not
guilty; James Simms, larceny. three
months in house of correction; Samuel
Prather and MiIlard Warren, violation
of local option law, not guilty: Bert
Brown, larceny, not guilty; Joseph and
Nelson Lomax, assault $50 and costs
each.
John Leroy Griffith and Miss Emma
Deal, both of Manassas, Va, and John
Dover Damron and Miss Mary Gather
Inc Brush, both of Rock Fish, Va, were
married here Thursday evening by the
Rev. o. w. Barnes, pastor Of the
Christian Church, the ceremonies taking
place at the minister's home.
The county public school commission
ers have received the resignation of
Prof. Samuel d. Gray as principal of
the agricultural departments of the high
schools at Sandy Spring and Brooke
vile.
The Washington times., 1913-11-29
THE WASHINGTON TIMES. SATURDAY. NOVEMBER %, 1918

tricts. the shortening of the ballot and
the developments of the seal govern
ments with view to the promotion
of purity. democracy and efficiency in
government.
The territorial legislature has recon-
mended the creation of a park to in
clude Kilanea. the largest active vol
cano of the islands, and its neighborins
extinct craters
Governor Frear calls attention to the
fact that the Democrats had plurality
in an election last April to fill a va
cancy in the territorial legislature.
The Washington times., 1913-11-29
Read What a FeW Fasteners SQu---

~ Thank You for Saving Me From
a Surgical Operntfon"' "Noted Doc
tors Said Operation Was Only
Hope"
SAYS well known resident Of Washington
ID. C:
Mr.. George II. Mayr-I have suffered for
three years constantly every day with q mis-
erabie feeling In the left side. and was treat
ed by what they call the best doctors and
which ] know made some wonderful currs
OF two friends OF mine. but gave me no relief.
Three weeks szo Thursday they sent for a
surgeon 10 oPerBte ne. He was to be at
my house at s o'clock. He failed TO come at
the appointed time. snd ] left the house. I
read OF your trestment and SEN Gni goi a
hottie and took il. nere- saw no gall
stones. / haven't any. Jui whatever was
there has disappeared and I feel as well as
ever did in my life and have not lad TO lie
down any day for three weeks. ! am NttIe
aged. SO they say. s!ItV-threa years Old.
feel well as ever did in my Lfr am
well known in the city OF Washington.
(SiG1edD WH. Il. LACY.
The Washington times., 1913-11-29
HAWAII TAKES LONG
LEGISLATIVE STEPS
Laws Provide Direct Ballots,
EIections-At-La Civil
Service. and Such Measures

With the recent creation Of a public
utilities commission. the regulation nf
all utilities, direct ballot system. and
the Inauguration of a civil service of
merit system in the territorial employ
mert. the Territory of Hawaii made
rapid steps forward last year. accord
inc to the annual report of Governor
Frear.
The last Hawaiian legislature pro-
hibited contributions bv corporations
for political purposes. 1t provided for
separate territorial and local elections
eIdctiCf.s at large instead OF by dis