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Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1916-09-08
MOBILE
A Better Cotton Market
Than Ever!

In the DAYS before the war" and for many
years thereafter, nearly all the cotton from your
section came to Mobile. In those good old
days" Mobile had facilities equal to require
ments but no such facilities as it offers cotton
owners today. 1t had nc modern warehouses
like those operated by this Company, with IN
surance rates reduced to the minimum and with
an expert service always at the command OF the
cotton owners while holding or when selling.
And in those days neither Mobile ,or any
other market had the wonderful STA.~~ARD
Compress, which we are operating and which
reduces the size of the bale to the minimum and
standardizes its form, thus efecting big savings
in ocean freight rates and attracting buyers and
steamers to this port, with consequent increase
in price paid for cotton sold in this market.
Mobile is not only a better cotton market than
she has ever been before, but, with our ware
house facilities and our modern
Compress, she is destined to become one of the
best cotton markets in this country.
1t is good business to ship your cotton to us.
Advise us when to expect it.
When cotton is received, we issue to owners,
IN THEIR OWN NAME, NEGOTIABLE RE-
CEIPTS, showing weight and grade of each bale,
thereby giving OWNERS COMPLETE CON-
troll OF THEIR COTTON. With the Informal
ton on the face of these receipts, they are en-
abled to offer their cotton advantageously to
their local buyers and sell quickly when they
desire; or, returning the receipts to us, they can
instruct us to sell when prices obtainable are
satisfactory.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1916-12-07
ITALIANS AS FARMERS.

Opportunity is ever knocking. A
Nevada newspaper says that two
years ago two young Italians purchas-
ed farm on the Carson river, few
miles from Carson City, going into
debt Just $4,000 for the place. Last
season they raised hay and grain and
were able by peddling vegetables and
being careful to meet the first pay.
ment on the place. This year they
put all the available ground in pota.
toes and the yield has been good and
the price so high that when their
present crop is sold they will be able
TO pay the balance due on the farm.
Their crop this year will net them
over $4,000. They had the nerve and
were willing TO work. And while they
were doing that. how many smart
young men we're loafing and wonder.
Ing why there was no chance in this
wide world for them to make living
or do something for themselves.
There are successful Italian farm.
ers and orchardists In Montague
county, Texas. They are land owners
and among them are heavy taxpayers.
They came to America and began life
In the republic working as coal min.
ers. They saved their earnings. They
bought cheap land and today they are
Independent. There are hundreds OF
Italians In the lower Brazos valley
They are thrifty. Industrious, law
abiding and progressive. They dl
versify, they feed themselves. and a.
cotton growers they have been sue
cessful.-Fort Worth Record.
The Record might have added tina
Brazos county has the largest Italian
colony OF any county In Texas. NOR,
than three thousand. and that nine
tenths OF them are farmers. They ar,
all hard workers. are thrifty, homes,
nay their debts and as a class ar,
law'abiding and conform to all IN,
rules and regulations OF society. The,
are among our largest wealth produc
ers, expand the agricultural resource
OF the county and the returns from
their farms contribute largely to tn
volume Of retail business done I
Bryan.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1916-12-07

but the neighbors you know In your
own little town with welcome your
coming await. In the glittering
streets of the Offering town, with its
palace and pavement and wall in the
midst Of the throng, you will fire.
quently long for your own little town,
after all. You measure town, not
by money, or the miles its border az
tends; the best thing you can have,
wherever the town, are contentment,
enjoyment, and friends. II you'll live
and work and trade in your town IN
spite of the fact that it's small, you'll
find that the town-your own little
town-is the best kind Of a town after
all. '-Exchange.
This last sentence gives the secret
of making city out OF village
Work for your home town and spend
your money there.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1916-12-07
ISN'T IT THE TRUTH

II you meet a man who Is down IN
the mouth, who thinks that his town
is all wrong, just take him aside. or
out for ride. and hand him the
quaint little song:
There are fancier towns than your
own little town: there are towns that
are bigger than this. and the people
who live In the timer towns all the
city excitement miss. There are
things that you can see In the wealth.
lest town that you can't In the town
that Is small. and yet-up and down
there is no other town like your own
little town. after all. II may be the
street through the heart Of your town
isn't long, isn't wide. Isn't straight,
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1916-12-07

The Eagle is indeed gratiried by
the words OF commentator now COM
ing to II from every side relative to
the splendid telegraphic service from
the Associated Press now being fur
nished our readers. II is practically
the full afternoon report, giving the
leading state and worldwide happen
ings and served to Eagle readers n
whole night ahead of all other publ
cations. The people appreciate this
service and do not hesitate to tell us
so. So complete is our reports Of the
news of the day, several have said
they are going to discontinue their
state papers, as they could get the
same news in the Eagle and get II to-
day without having to wait over night
for the other papers to come from
distant cities.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1916-12-07
Little Benny's
Note Book
BY LEE PAPE.

This AFTERNOON Mrs Hews came to
see ma. Mrs. Hews being a fat lady
with gold glasses on her nose but not
erround her ears, and ma got all
dressed up and made me put on an
other collar and wash my hands and
face all over agen. and Wen Mrs
Hews came, her and ma went up In
the setting room, me following them,
and they started to taYk about wat
they was going to do in the church
fair, and after a vile sed, Hay, ma.
Is this your little boy, sed Mrs.
Hews. and ma sed, Yes. that Benny,
and Mrs. Hews sed, Dcer me, izent he
sweet.
Hay, ma, sed.
You may 90 out and play now, Ben.
NY, sed ma, and | sed, Jest wunted
to tell you about sumthing funny hap.
pened TO me.
Some other time. now go out and
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1916-12-07

Numbers OF the hens on exhibition
at the poultry show that have been
bred for egg production, would not
neglect their duty even when dressed
up for people to look at, and the pens
and coops were full OF eggs at the
close OF the first day OF the show.
That is one OF the strongest argu.
ments that could possibly be advanc.
cd In favor OF an annual poultry ex.
hibit II shows the farmers and town
people, too. that chickens can be bred
for egg production the same as cettle
for milk and butter. horses for draft
or racing, hogs for lard or meat pur.
poses, etc. Poultry should be one Of
the most profitable industries Of our
farms and the Eagle knows OF no bet.
ter way to stimulate and encourage
Il. than by the object lesson OF an an.
nual poultry show.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1916-12-07

No work ever done In Bryan. In
proportion TO the cost, has added as
much to the city's civic beauty and
ELECTED as much favorable comment
from both strangers and home people,
as the little Civic League Park. 1t Is
n little beauty and with its ornamen.
tai lights, attracts the attention Of
all. The Eagle urges the people of
Bryan to give the ladies' Of the Civic
League their cooperation and sup.
port. that they may keep the park IN
perfect condition, and also engage in
other work OF Identification.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1916-12-07
play like a good boy, sed ma.

play like a good boy, sed ma.
o, do let the little angel tell 1t, sed
Mrs. Hews, I'm sure its sumthing to
cunning for enything.
Its about blowing my nose, sed
was wawking along and all OF sud.
din | had to blow my nose fearse and
| dident have eny hankerchiff or eny.
thing, and II kepp getting verse and
verse and wat do you thiak | did?
Deer me, hevvins, sed Mrs Hews.
Never mind, never mind. for mer.
sey sakes go out and play, sed ma.
Yes nam, wat do you think did?
| sed.
Children shood be seen and not
herd, sed Mrs. Hews.
III give you 3 gesses wat did, III
give you eetch gesses, sed.
Now Benny. your farthir shall heer
OF this. sed ma.
I'm serprized. I'm serprized, sed Mrs.
Hews taking her gold glasses off OF
her nose and putting them on agen.
III tell you wat did, ! sed. found
bran new hankerchiff all folded NJ
on the pavement, wasent that lucky?
II serteny was, feered the werst
for PHYS sake get that child out OF
heer, sed Mrs. Iews.
Meening me, only I was jest COINS
out enyhow, so wat did care?
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1916-12-07

Oh, do not pray for easy lives, pray
to be stronger men! Do not pray for
tasks equal to your powers. Pray for
powers equal to your tasks! Then the
doing Of your work shall be no mir
aele. But you shall be miracle
Every day you shall wonder at your
self, at the richness Of life which has
come to you by the grace Of God.
Phillips Brooks.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1916-12-07
COACH BIBLE RETURNS.
Finished Louisiana State Engage

Finished Louisiana State Engage
ment and Is Back at A. and M.
ID. X. Bible, freshman coach at A.
and NJ, who was called to Louisiana
State University as head football
mentor at mid-season, has returned
to College. When Mcdonnell resign
ed from Louisiana early In November
the Pellcans appealed to Bible to
come over and finish the season" for
them. Bible was granted leave from
A. and M. He made good at Louis
lana, grinding out victory over Mis-.
sissippi A. and M. and Mississippi
University and holding Rice and Tu-
lane to a tie each.
Bible will be in charge of the fresh.
man basket ball team. lie also takes
up his work as tutor and in the Y. M.
c. A. building.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1916-12-07

Hosiery makers say there is pos.
sibility Of shorter stockings on &C.
count of the present high prices.
Lord save US from a come.down with
the present altitude OF the skirt.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1916-12-07

Lest you forget, the Eagle once
more directs your attention to the in.
disputable fact that the school chill:
dren Of Bryan are entitled to better
High School building than the one
now serving as such.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1916-12-07

Colonel Roosevelt will visit the vol
canic ruins in the Fiji Islands. To ex.
press his fellow feeling for mountains
which have breathed up fire until at
last nobody's afraid OF em?"-Louis.
vile CourIer.Journal.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1916-12-07
YOUNG MEN LIVE
ON I CENTS A DAY
Students at Denton Normal Claim to
Have Solved the Problem-They
Keep Batch.

Denton, Texas, Dec. 7.-Still the
high cost of living Is being reduced.
Following the statement recently that
four young men students Of the North
Texas State Normal College are liv.
ing on an average expense of 10 cents
day each for food, now comes
crowd of four young men from the
same school who aver they are living
on II cents per day each.
All the young men are Catching"
and have been able to reduce their
expenses very materially while secur.
ing an education.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1916-12-07
CARLOAD OF LIVE QUAIL.
Six Thousand Mexican Birds Go 10
Pittsburu, Pa.

Palestine. Tex, Dec. "a carload
OF 5000 live quail en- route from Mex.
leo to Pittsburg, Pa. where they are
consigned to a country club, passed
through here today. II was said the
quail will be liberated on a Pittsburg
clubs preserve. several miles from
that city.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1916-12-07

Waiting across the Blue Danube
has become the latest fashionable
dance step with the Teuton armies
Kansas City Star.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1916-12-07
FROM OTHER VIEWPOINTS.

As Mr.. Hughes witnesses the pre-.
liminaries to scrappy session. he
may conclude that I, wasn't such n
great blunder. after all.-washlngion
Post.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1916-12-07

While the country Is undoubtedly
enjoying peace and plenty. It is going
to be no winter for eggnog. Wash.
ington Star.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1916-12-07

full! II can even lose an election for
the Republican party.-Charleston
News and Courier.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1916-12-07

Only one person in Indiana paying
tax on an income between 100000
and 100000 a year, And We In.
diananians are such deserving people.
too.-lndianapolis News.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1916-12-07

Just ring 430 and you can have q
Singer sewing machine in your homo
In short time. T. A. Satterwhite. II
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1916-12-07

II one American girl can fly Gee
miles without stopping, In an out.of.
date type Of airship. why can't the
combined allied aviators take run
over to Essen and put IL out Of bust.
ness'-Chicago Post.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1916-12-07
Advertising rates on application.

Subscribers will confer a favor on
the management by telephoning the
office promptly when carriers fail to
deliver the paper, or when change OF
residence ocurs.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1916-12-07

Isn't the power Of money wonder.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1916-12-07

One Of the morals Of the campaign:
When in California be sure to call on
Hiram Johnson. Savannah News.
Evening star., 1916-09-10
Who Does the Most Business?
By B. C. FORBES

the American dollar is fast replacing it..
Before the war, money was cheaper in
London than in New York. To-day New
York rates are lower. Hence hundreds Of
millions of money for settling inter
national dealings are borrowed here in
stead Of in London, and increased de-
posits, consequently, are carried here.
One national bank alone has over $780,
OO0,0O0 of foreign deposits, and the Guar
anty Trust Company has scores of mil
lions. New York has become interna-
tional banker for the world.
The exchange banker has to gauge the
Evening star., 1916-09-10

w You do not know him, have
w never heard of him.
Yet his annual transactions are eight
times the total income of the billion-dollar
Steel Trust, six times the revenue of
the United States government, twice the
gross receipts of all our railroads, nearly
twice the total money in circulation in the
country, six times the national debt, fully
as much as our combined exports and inn
ports of merchandise, greater than all the
wages and salaries paid in America in a
year, ten times the estimated wealth of
John D. Rockefeller, and several times the
gold carried by the central banks of
England, Russia, France, and Germany.
The quiet, unassuming, little-known
man who handles this unimaginable
amount Of business is Max May, head Of
the Guaranty Trust Company's foreign
exchange department.
His transactions last year totaled
sc, ,403, 168, ,S48. In other words, he did
$21 ,343 1896 worth of business every work.
ing day.
Yet thirty years ago Max May, dis
couraged and disgusted with America
after stay of three disheartening months.
was ready to step on board German
bound steamer. The young immigrant
acknowledged himself failurel A friend
stopped him the night before he was due
to sail.
To-day Max May is the highest salaried
banker in his line in the whole world, lives
on Riverside Drive, and drives his power
full automobile through New York's traffic
to his Office every morning-aas nerve
bracer,' he says.
What does his S6,4O3, 1863, ,S4S worth of
business represent? What does he do?
Whom does he deal with?
The foreign exchange banker is the
man who makes international trade
possible.
If a Brazilian wants to sell coffee to an
American or a French importer, or an
Argentine exporter has hides to send to
London, or Japanese silk-grower finds
a buyer for his product here, or Chilian
mine-owner contracts to supply an English
manufacturer with copper, or South
American rubber-grower desires to ship
cargo to Europe or the United States
no matter what the international sale, it
has to be financed, and the business Of the
foreign exchange banker is to advance
funds to the seller, take as security the
shipping documents giving title to the
merchandise, and collect the amount in
volved from the buyer.
English money-sterling to be
the international banking medium; now
Evening star., 1916-09-10

newspaper men that Max May is the only
man who can answer. ten telephones at
one time! He does practically all his busi-
ness over the telephone.
His Uncanny Memory
HIS memory is so abnormal as to be
uncanny. He carries practically every
detail Of his billions of business in his
head. He never has to consult books. to
recall the credit standing of any of the
thousands of people and firms and cor
porations with which he deals.
He has invented his own system of
figuring. Calculations that would take
the ordinary banker half an hour to figure,
Mr.. May does in his head; and when real
puzzlers come along he simply jots down
a few figures on his pad of blotting paper
and presto! he has the answer.
The wizard who has so sgnally facil-
itated the growth of Americas foreign
trade from three billions before the war
to six billions last fiscal year, landed in
this country from Germany thirty-three
years ago, could not get job in any New
York bank, went to Chicago, was given
SIS week as man-of-all-work in private
banking house. He baked when his en-
ployer wanted him to sleep in the office
as night watchman and shifted to
wholesale boot and shoe store. Then.
finding his disagreeable surroundings in
tolerable, he took train to New York.
bound for home.
aHello, have you just landed from Ger
many?" Fatherland acquaintance asked
him when he arrived in New York.
"No; am going back tomorrow, he
replied
His friend took him home, gave him a
good dinner and good advice-and sent
him back to Chicago 1to fight it out"
For months the embryonic banker
wrestled with boxes and trucks in a
wholesale mems furnishings store. His
pay was SIS week, and his board and room
cost him $8. His cash reserve was nearing
zero before he got job with seed COM
pany at $12. But he browsed round
among the financial institutions until
finally brother German, August Blum,
took him into the foreign exchange de-
partment of the Union National Bank, at
SIS week.
After eight years he was called to open
foreign exchange department for the
Atlas National Bank, and four years later
Tin 1896 was made exchange manager
Of the important Union National Bank.
When the great First National Bank Of
Chicago absorbed the Union, May was
taken over as assistant exchange manager,
and later became head of that important
department. Here his work began to at
tract national attention, and before long
John w. Castles, then president Of the
Guaranty Trust Company, induced May
Tin 1909 to come to New York. When
Castles went to the Union Trust Company
he asked May to come along; but when
the Guaranty directors got wind Of it they
made May vice-president with a salary
greater than that Of most bank presidents.
And he earns for his institution more
than most bank presidents!
Evening star., 1916-09-10

To create business Of this magnitude
has involved tremendous study, incessant
work and almost superhuman ability.
Mr.. Mays day begins at 4:3O, summer
and winter. Before coming to his desk he
must needs have studied the effect of the
worlds happenings as reported in the
morning newspapers. Nothing can hap
pen anywhere on the globe, be it to
agriculture, industry, finance, or politics,
without having an effect upon the inter-
national exchanges, for they are the most
sensitive organs in the whole body eco
nomic.
To give him vim for his days tasks, Mr..
May mounts horse at five o'clock every
morning and rides for two hours. Then
he carefully scans several newspapers.
There is a saying among the financial
newspaper men that Max May is the only
man who can answer ten telephones at
one time! He does practically all his busi-
ness over the telephone.
Evening star., 1916-09-10

He does more business annually than
any other man in america. Who is
he? You haze three guesses. Wrong,
,orong. and ,orong again. His name is
Max May and you neuer heard of him.
always fuctuating value Of the currency
OF each country as compared with the
value Of the currency in every other coun-
try. He has to buy and sell international
checks drawn in every part Of the globe
and payable anywhere from the Arctic to
the Antarctic.
Often he has to send gold across the
seas. At other times he has to bring gold
here. Max May imported $S5 100000
last year,
He is the man who has to settle the in
ternational balance sheet. (The cash
alone, paid into Max Mays department
last year reached 81, ,377, ,S79, ,7O7)
And-this is vital-he must know the
trustworthiness and standing of every
concern with which he deals, whether in
the United States or the remote noun
tains Of South America or the interior Of
China or the center of Africa.
1t takes knowledge as we'll as courage
to pass on credits footing up to six thou
sand million dollars in one year. Upon
Max Mays shoulders falls that RESPONSE
bility. Not dollars worth of inter-
national checks is bought without his
o. K. No manufacturer or merchant or
importer can figure in the six thousand
millions until he is satisfied the party is
safe and solid.
A Banker "by Intuition"
MAX MAY is the best banker By
intuition in America" declared one
high authority.
@If were asked my reasons for stop
ping dealings with concern, often could
not tell-could not give any concrete
facts Mr.. May told me. sBut some
how manage to scent danger ahead
His losses, therefore, are, in comparison
with his turnover, infinitesimal. His
profits are known to eclipse those of any
other exchange expert.
Twelve years ago, when he came to the
Guaranty Trust, there were eight men in
the exchange department. To-day there
are l25.
Evening star., 1916-09-10
MAGAZINE SECTION for September 10, 1915

NV THO is the man who does the
Nv most business in America?
w You do not know him, have
w never heard of him.
Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1916-07-19
DRESS REFORM
STRIKES SWARTHMORE
Ultra Modes Forbidden

An example of the wave of
dress reform that is advocated
by many club women throughout
the country, is the recent action
of Swarthmore College in mail
ing letters to the parents of stu
dents enrolled for the coming
term, forbidding gowns Of the
ultra fashionable style the COL
lege campus. The edict is hand
ed out by Dean Josephine Heeter;
Emma Bancroft, head of the
household arrangements commit
tee, has been appointed guardian
of the properties. Skirts cannot
pass more than one inch above
the shoe tops, and she who wears
a low neck gown or one of an ex-
IRENE style will not be accepted
as lone Of Swarthmore."