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The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-14
Hubbard Bros. & Co.'s Letter

New York. November 13.-(Special.)-Ir face of disappointing advices from Liver pool our market was firm from start to finish. which was at the best prices This advance was based on tine activity in business as stated by the trade agen- cies, the approach of severe cold wave the increase in the consumption of cot ton and linters in American, all of which caused a.demand to cover 8 line of cot ton sold earlier in the week. Liverpool reported rather more cotton offering on the advance. which was natural for the south to do. The market as whole, after an advance of nearly 7hc from the bottom, is taking. as 1t were, an inven- tory of the factors on both sides. trying to decide whether or rot the changed condition of sentiment in general busi- ness will or will not bring new buyers. It is apparent that England is begin ming to need cotton. Does the south want to sell more than the spinners here and in England want to buy at these prices?
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Nex Orleans Rice Market

New Orleans, November 1S.-Rough rice continued quiet today and clean
 steady. Receipts, rough, 751S; millers.
 3seS; clean. 5b4S. Sales b0s3 pockets clean Honduras at 2M 05Mc; 1900 pock- eta Japan at 2A0a 15-16c. Quotations
 unchanged.
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New Orleans Cotton Market
New Orleans Cntfnn

New Orleans, November 13-Spot cotton steady, points up. Sales on the spot, 9S5 bales; to arrive. 200 Good ordinary, 9.4Sc; strict good ordinary, 9.99c; low mid ding, 10.62c; strict low midding, 11.07c; middling, 11.44c; strict middling, 11.69c;
 good middling. 12.01c; good middling 12SSc
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CONKEY SAYS:

DON'T worry-Why have canker-blnd birds In your flock? Use CONKEY'S CANKER SPECIAL and wipe out this disease. Kills the canker; saves the eye Dealers everywhere.
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feather ending in broad light stee' gray band edged with black flights black barred with graytsh white; tai blacl: barred with brown and ending il a broad black band with @ light gra. edge. The primary covefts where the. show are white. forming a broad whit band across the wing when folded. Full grown hens weigh from 12 to Is pounds males from 20 to 30 pounds.
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Coffee Market

New York, November 13.-The market for coffee futures was very quiet today, but prices ruled steady on some scattered covering for over the week end. After opening unchanged, March sold up to 674 during the morning. while May advanced to 6.S1. and the market closed steady at a net advance of 1 to points. Sales, 425O November. 6.6Sc; December. 6.68o; Jam uary 67Oc; February, 6.71c; March, 6.72c; April 677c; May, e.S1c; June, 6.S8c; July, 619c; August. 695c; September, 7c; Octo- ber, 7.05c.
 Spot quiet; Rio 7's. 7Hc: Santos As, 9asc. Cos and freight offers were reported about unchanged.
 The official cables reported no change in the Brazilian markets Brazilian port receipts, 75,000; Jundiahy. 47,000.
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Naval Stores

Savannah. November 13.-Turpentine firm, 54@54Mc; sales. 250; receipts, 491; shipments, 199; stock, 10,S71. Rosin firm; sales. 23S7; receipts, 24S9; shipments, 666; stock. 62.452. Quote, A. B, c, D, E, $5; F, $5@5.05; G. $5.1O @5.15; H, $5.15Q5.20; l, $5.15@5.25; K. s5.7o@; M, s6; N. $s.50; VIC. ss.6o; wv. s6SO@6.9O.
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weeks cracked corn. hulied oats ana whole wheat may be fed four times : day.
 When the poults begin to range wit the mother. hen, feeding is necessar.
 only twice a day, mornings and even
 ings, unless the range is limited an, they have but little opportunity to picl
 up their living. It is necessary to feet them in the evening after they hay
 ranged freely in order to keep then
 tame and easily approached Fresl
 water should be constantly accessible, Fattening for Market The best time for marketing turkeys is from two weeks before Thanksgiving
 until the Christmas holidays. Thil
 means that young turkeys should be fed an increased amount of corn from about November 1. It does not pay to fatten them in confinement They should be allowed their usual range and fed four times daily. It is espe
 cially important when fattening tur
 keys that the last feed at night, jus,
 before they go to roost, be abundant Whole corn is an ideal feed for fat tening them.
 The best price can be obtained usually in local markets if the birds ar. properly killed and nicely dressed They should be killed in the same man
 ner chicken Is killed-by sticking
 them with a knife and allowing them to bleed to death. They should be dry picked, leaving a few of the feath
 CTS on the extreme ends of the wings. Dry picking must be done as soon as the bird is killed.
 Select Small Birds for Table Large turkeys, weighing 20 pounds or over when dressed, are usually old ones. and are not as tender and delicate a. f flf, la hf,.ia To, t1fr n
 key to eat it Is wise. therefore. to sc feet one of medium weight The wine feathers also are an indication of thu | age of turkey. If the points of thes. feathers arc sharp 1t is a sign that the | turkey is young; if the points arc l rounded the bird is year old or more ! The breast bone in young turkeys l. | soft and tender, while in old birds Ii | is hard, firm bone. In the bronze va iiety the legs of the young fowl arc dark, almost black. while in old birds they are of pinkish shade.
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Wabash B. W. I44Oo S19s 30% 31ss
 Total sales for the day, 3.400 shares.
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Interior Cotton Market

Houston: Middling, 11.45c; Receipts.
 SIPS; shipments, 77S4; sales, 1127: stock. 1S3,49S.
 Memphis: Middling, 11.5oc; receipts, So5s; shipments. 2567; sales, 1000; stock,
 236,S14.
 Augusta: Middling, 11.50c; receipts. 1702; shipments. 775; sales. S51 stock, 174,146. St. Louis: Middling. 115sc; receipts, 2SS6; shipments, 4021; stock, 10,210. Cincinnati: Receipts, S14; shipments. S55; stock 9975
 Little Rock: Middling, 11.63c; re- ceipts. 174e; shipments, 1O71; sales. 1071; stock, 32,242. Dallas Middling, 11.10c. Montgomery: Middling, 11.SSc; sales. se. Total today: Receipts. 2s,411; ship
 ments, 17,023 stock 646,SS5.
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Select Small Birds for Table
Instances of Success With Poultry

In next weeks article MT. Michael K Boyer, practical poultryman, will tell how men who started in a small way achieved success in the poultry bust ness. He will cite several specific in stances that have come to his atten tion. The illustration by Louis Paul Graham will be of White Wyandottes
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Liverpool Cotton

New York, November 1S.-Mercantile paper, 3@3A per cent. Sterling: 60- day bills, $46515; cables $4.66. Francs: Demand, $5.97; cables, $5.96. Marks:
 Demand Sic; cables. S1hc. Lires: De-
 mand, $6.57; cables, $646 Rubles: De- mand, 32Ac cables, S3c. Bar silver. 50Ac; Mexican dollars, 38Mc; govern
 menr bonds steady. Railroad bonds strong
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English Money

London, November 13-Bar slver, 24 7-16 pence per ounce. Money, Az per cent. Discount rates: Short bills, 5ss@51s per cent. Three months, 5ss@51a per cent.
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Dry Goods Market

New York. November 13-Cotton goods and yarns quiet today, with prices very firm on many finished lines and easy on
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unfinished goods. Mems wear and dress goods firm. Burlaps strong; spot goods active. Knit goods active.
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Live Stock

Chicago, November 1S-Hogs: Receipts, 11OO0 market easy. Bulk. $6. 5O@7 .O5; light, $6.15@7 O5; mixed, s6 25@7 .25; heavy, 6.20Q7 30; rough, s6.2O@6. .45; pigs, $4aS.2O.
 Cattle: Receipts, 400 market steady. Native beef cattle, $601O.40; cows and heifers. $2.75QS 20; calves, s6. 75@10.S5
 Sheep Receipts, 5000; market strong. Wethers, s5.s5G6.25; ewes. ss.s5@5. 75: lambs, T@9.S0.
 St. Louis, November 13.-Hogs: Re ceipts. POO: market steady. Pigs and lights. $SQ6. .95; good heavy. $6.50@7 .05
 Cattle: Receipts, 400; market steady. Native beef steers, s750910. 40; yearlng steers and heifers. $S.5o@1o .35; cows, s6@ 7.50; stockers, s6G7.75 Texas and Indian steers. S. 2@8.50; cows and heifers, $40 $50; native calves, $6@10. 50.
 Sheep: Receipts, none; nominal. Year lings, $6.5Oa7 .25; lambs, $s@S.s5; sheep and ewes. $5. .50Q6. 25.
 Kansas City. November 13.-Hogs: Re ceipts. 1200; market higher. Bulk, $6.55@ 6.80; heavy, 6.40Q6 .85; light. $G.5Oq6. 75; pigs. 5.50@6. .25.
 Cattle: Receipts, 800; market steady. Prime fed steers, S. .25@10; dressed beef steers, s7.50Q9; southern steers. $5@7; cows, $4@6.75; heifers, $6@9; stockers and feeders $550Q7 50; bulls, $4 5G@5. H; calves, $e@10
 Sheep: Receipts, none; market steady. Lambs, $s.40@S .s5; yearlings. S6.s547 .25; wethers, $5.5OQ6. 25; ewes, $S@5.75
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Sugar Market

New York, November 13--Raw sugar firm; centrifugal, 6.01c; molasses, 4.24c; refined, steady. The market for sugar futures was easier, under liquidation and selling by Cuban interests, closing to 3 points lower. Sales, 2650 tons. Decem- ber s.S5c; March, 3.15c; May 3.2c; July, 3.31c.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-01-28
Why This Town Particularly?

In favor of State police many ex-
cellent arguments can he brought for
ward. The experience Of Pennsylvania
with its admirable troopers, Of Mas
sachusetts with its efficient detective
organization. of New York with the
excellent body of watershed guards
formed. equipped and maintained by
the city; these are examples that lmme-
diately come to mind. But what is the
particular occasion that leads the Re
publican captains at Albany to insist
so vehcmently that the State must es-
tablish an armed force TO supplement or
supersede the police Of this city?
ON what grounds, for instance, does
the Speaker of the Assembly justify
these observations
conditions could hardly he worse there.
I'm New York ethyl
~ believe they would be much improved
II the state steps in"
To what conditions does Mr.. SWEET
refer Can it he tn the fact that since
the present city was created despite
its vast population, its countless indus
tries. it has never needed a milltaman
to help it's police preserve order?
Does Mr.. SWEET have In mind that
the police of this town, In the ordinary
discharge of their duties, protected its
people through an deliberately planned
general strike OF street car men In VAN
WYCK's term. without for an instant
considering the possibility Of calling
out troops?
or has he drawn from the late sub
way strike and the excellent work done
! in it by our police the conviction thar
conditions would he much improved
| If the state steps in
| or Is the truth To be found in the
! fact that the respectable auspices I'M
der which the present agitation for 4
State police began have inspired hop,
and ambition among some Of our rura
/ friends that to-day they can accom-
plish what the late THOMAS &. PLAT
tried unsucceSsfully for years TO do
and under The guise Of policing th'
! state introduce into this city for
, eign body of policemen to remove from
! the citizens Of the town thai cuntro
over their domestic affairs which they
have long exercised and. in the main
exercised wth credit and success?
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Reply 20 Herr Riders Thoughts
Ipon Thinking aud Swaying.

TO THE EbIToR OF THE SUN--Sr: Herr
Ridder asserts that:
There is no reason, why this country
should be- swayed more by the people who
think a. England thinks than By those who
think AS Germany thinks.
There is. first. because more than four
hfths Of the people OF these United States
are OF non-G ermanic origin and have lit
tie ~ mpativ with 'u,r way ir'm,ti,J
thinks" and second, because probably
two-thirds OF our population are of purely
British descent. using the term British
in default OF a better TO include those Of
English, Scotch, Welsh and Irish ances-
try. 4 mixed people truly, but one in
the common heritage OF all that has made
the British Empire what IL Is, and the
United States what Ii shall be,
We are an English speaking people
Our language is English our literature,
our habits, customs. ways OF thinking,
our ideals are English, using the word
IN its broadcast sense, and We have adj
mitted To full communlunship with us the
aliens of other races upon condition that
they assimilate themselves 20 our ideals.
II they cannot, Il the melting put' does
not melt them. II Is high time for us Of
the great majority to ask ourselves
whether II he not eXpedient to close the
gates against the further influx OF aliens
who cannot live up Ia our ideals.
Should occasion arise we can deal with
the obviously naturalizod, hyphenated
pseudo Americans now here; but II may
be the time has come to stop any add
tional intrusion.
An AMERICAN or FIVE GENERATIONS.
NEW YoRK, January 20.
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hector OF interval revenue for the dis
trict in which the individual resides II he
has no other place OF business. otherwise
In the district in which he has hts prn-
cipal place Of business"
II will be seen that last years In
structions and regula tons misrepre-
sented the law. Under the law the clti-
zen has the right to make return and
pay the tax in the district where he
resides even II he has principal place
of business in another district.
Hut this year the Misrepresentation
is even more fragrant. Note the singu-
lar change in the character Of the mis-
representation. The attempt now is 30
steer the taxpayer in every case to the
district in which he resides. We quote
from Regulation 4 In the instructions
accompanying the revised Form 1,040
for 1915
- This return should be filed with the
collector OF internal revenue for the dis
trict in which the individual resides"
Possibly this regulation or instruc-
tion escapes description as "fraudu-
lent by its use of the advisory should
in place Of the mandatory shall" and
must" elsewhere employed. II Is not
for that reason less deceptive Few
taxpayers trying to find out from the
official instructions what the law re-
quires them to do will distinguish be-
tween should" and shall" And
the foregoing regulation, for some rea-
son known only TO the Commissioner Of
Internal Revenue and the approving
Secretary OF the Treasury, in applying
the SHOULD" entirely ignores and con
ceals from the intending taxpayer the
existence Of provision Of law which
gives him an alternative place of pay
ment and the legal right Of choice for
himself
A year ago THE Sun was impeled
to strong language in discussing this
absurdly drawn law and the violent at.
tempts Of the administrative officers 10
conStrue II 10 their real or fancied con
venience. We are sorry to observe that
! the disposition to legislnte in the bu'
reau persists even In n case like this
where the law is perfectly plain.
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TWO TELEPHONES.
Private American and an English
Government Owned Instrument

TO THE EoIToR or THE SuN-Str:
Sometimes one experience suggests an
other because the two are so different.
Last Monday night | talked over the
telephone from Boston TO San Francisco
some $500 milesA The talk was In con-
versational tone. I understood the man
IN San Francisco as easily as II he had
been beside me. and apparently he un-
derstood me as well as I understood him
! was reminded of my experience In
London some few years ago. I had an
American friend living in Dover, who
wished to talk with me on tho telephone.
| suppose the distance to be about sew
enty-nVe miles We were both expert
enccd Users OF the telephone. and talking
several hundred miles at home was no
novelty to either OF us. This Is how we
managed In England:
My friend telegraphed me one after
noon to be at he hotel telephone the
next morning at O'clock Accordingly
told the operator | was expecting call.
II was a very large hotel, and think
had two telephones. hotel OF the same
grade In America would have had one
I'm every room.
Presently the operator told me I was
wanted, and she handed me an instru-
ment OF type that had been used ex-
perimentally In America years before ana
had been abandoned Then by dint of
muth shouting and repetition, To which
anybody who wished could listen. we got
about like our local service thirty years
ago.
with Government ownership our SER
vice would probably be on par with
that OF London. S.
BosToN, January %.
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To THE EDITOR or THE suN-Sir: We
are eager to adopt your new national
air" "Amerika Ueber Allies" II rs a
splendid suggestion. 1t appeals to us pro-
Germans, SO let Us sing it in perfect har-
mony.
or course II YOU wish to aid US In
perfect tone production THE Sun must
give us u good example and not persist
IN singing pro- English dscords. Your
editorial" singing is French In enuncia-
tion and Russian in tone production and
feeling.
Your notes are often false, but yet you
sing with great expression and bias.
This naturally makes us pro-German
musical critics very sore and we long to
start something You know that we
all have our faults. and the pot must
not call the kettle black"
7 propose that Tue SUN and we pro-
Germans drop our pen war and become
Just and really neutral Let's sing Amer
ika Ceher Allies in a manner that Will
please all Americans.
our past efforts were more In the ma
ture OF cats sereuade
CHARLES \. GENRE.
SoUTH ORANGE, y. j.. January 26.
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turn OF better times. however sure, IL
still q prospect 10 the realization "
which sincere and intelligent effort
must he devoted.
There is call to-day for something
else than the stereotyped prattle Of
cheerfulness from Administration head
quarters at Washington which almost
denies the prevalence Of business strain
aud depression. II the country Is not
committed by some governmental folly
to courses which may raise interna-
tional issues Of disastrous gravity, we
have an outlook for almost unlmagi-
uahle betterment
In order to change business conditions
for the better. in order to enable all
interests to work together in the task
Of overcoming present difficulties. we
must accept them and try to understand
them: not deny their existence.
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The Bill TO Involve Our Government in
Serious Trouble.

The economic objections to the ship
purchase bill which Mr.. WILSON wants
to force through Congress may not he
clearly understood by everybody. but
It requires no great information about
the intensity of the war spirit in En-
rope or about our foreign relations Of
the past few years to realize that the
United States could not become in
volvcd in hoStllities with England
without having to reckon with all her
allies. on the international law that
governs seizures at sea, or at least
upon the Interpretation of the law, 1t
is a foregone conclusion that England
and France would stand together. 1t
is equally certain that the binding obli-
CATION Of the Anglo-Japanese treaty as
II affects common interests In Asia
would bring Japan into conflict. As
to Russia our relations with her are
still strained rather fine. and I. is a
fact 10 remember that in her war with
japan Russia went to the extreme IN
defining and dealing with contrahanI I.
II would he stretching the truth t.
describe russian feeling toward the
United States MS friendly.
The folly. the madness, Of embarking
unon amy unnecessary and un-Americar
policy that might in it's workings blow
our neutrality sky high aud emhroil u
moi only with one great Power hut Will
four great Powers Is manifest to til,
plaincS understanding.
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DRIVING BUSINESS AWAY.
Is This a Satisfactory Way TO Aid the
Unemployed?

To THE EDITOR or THE SUN-Sir. As
lifelong resident in the city OF New
York and one very much Interested in It's
welfare let me thank YOU for your article
entitled Driving Away business
II Is strange that in days when every
man is interested in giving work TO the
unemployed It should not occur to any
one that the way to give employment IS
to encourage people to build and TO extend
their businesses, whatever they may he.
That. and that only, Is the way to give
work TO the unemployed
piling taxes on the people and harasslug
them In every way Is u queer sort Of an
incentive 10 extending business The Won
der is that 80 many people are stlll in
business In this city,
Other towns, especially the smaller
towns, are Offering land free OF tax for a
number of years 30 induce people to build
factories within their bounds. New York
city seems to pride itself upon inventug
laws and ordinances that would drive
away what business we now have,
Capital Ia expected to help labor. Can
labor never understand that the bigation
Is reciprocal, and that labor should help
capital # II wishes truly to help Itself.
and that an injustice or an INJURY 20
either is an injury 10 both?
KNICk
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Deceptive Income Tax Regulations.

Income tax returns are due March !,
At the near approach Of the annual pc
riod OF mathematical pcrpleXity and
moral evaporation which the wonder
ful Mr. CoRDEIL HULL Of Carthage, Ten
nessee. devised for the chastisement II
Just and unjust alike we are again
amazed at the performances of the bu-
reau officials. They persist in their eff
forts to compel the taxpayer To obey
certain regulations of their own max
ing, not only absolutely without legal
force but also without any basis in the
law which the Congress enacted: for
example, even with regard to so simple
and primary matter as the place
where the taxpayer shall file his return
and pay his tax.
According to the law itself the clti-
zen may choose between the internal
revenue district in which he resides
and votes and the internal revenue dis
trict in which is situated his principal
place Of business. The option Is the
taxpayers. II IS for him to decide. No
official of the internal revenue service
Is empowered To decide for him, The
act Of October 3. 1913, provides as fol
lows in paragraph u Of Section .
"On or before the first day Of March
1914, aud tho first day of March in eacl
year thereafter, a true and accurate re-
! turn, under oath or affirmation, shall be
made nv each person OF lawful age, eX,
cept as hereinafter provided subteol tC
| the taN imposed by this section, and hav
| ing net income OF $4,000 or over fol
! the taxable year. to the collector of in
! terual revenue for the district IN which
| such perS pu resides or hdS his principe
! plrcc Of business, or, no the case 81
person residing in = fore'su country, II
| the place where his principal business II
carried on within the United States
This choice Of the district is u rgh
of the taxpayer under the law. 1t T.
outside Of ana therefore Unaffected by
the authority granted to the Commits
s0nrr Of Internal Revenue to prescribe
with the approval Of the Secretary e
the Treasury the form in which tn,
return shall be made,
Last year the Commissioner Of Inter
nal Revenue attempted, in the instruc
lions accompanying Form $40, to MAKE
the taxpayer think that lie was not fret
to choose between the district OF resi-
dcnce ana the district Of business in
tercSt, The regulation steered him :,
The business district, Here Is the lie
ccptive and unwurranted text of In
slructlon OF last year;
This return shan be flied with the col
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Veto for the Immigration Bill.

President WILSON'S veto of the immi-
grafton bill was foreshAdOwed in his
writings ana ny mis- attitude through
out the time it WAS pending in the Con
gress ON the same grounds President
TAFT vetoed practically the same bill,
although neither he nor his successor
was unaware Of the numerous desirable
provisions Of each measure.
II Is unlikely that the bill can pass
over the veto. Ii should not. II
should he killed and another drawn I"
replace it, and this should be complied
for the benefit of America as distin-
guished from the Hon. SAMUEL Com
PtRs. without the litcracy test, and
without reference 10 constitutional
psychopathic inferlority."