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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-17

Under the stress of war necessity
American railroads are making re-
markable showing. They have not
only succeeded in making one freight
car do the work of two, but they are
rendering douhle-quick service for
the government at time when the
country is developing an immense
volume of new traffic. In conse-
quence of the cooperation secured
by the Railway War Board in unit
ing 693 railroads in one system for
the period Of the war, the carriers
in the month of May showed a gain
(as compared with two years be-
fore) of traffic facilities equal to the
combined freight service of Great
Britain, France, Russia, Germany
and Austria. Freight blockadcs
which last winter were such fac
tor in advancing food prices have
Dben IdARtIN ltllcNtu' nSdiiSI u
shortage at the close of April Of
14S,267 cars, an excess at the open
ing of this month Of only 81 ,59l cars
was reported. Another achievement
Las been the welding together for
the first time on record Of 1,750,000
employes-from engine wipers TO
Iresidents-into one loyal army for
the promotion of the governments
service. Aside from the other bene-
fits growing out of this centralized
management for handling govern
ment work, it is evident that the
transportation industry to-day is
showing the greatest average eff
cheney ever achieved. These ar
rangements are of great assistance
in aiding the government to carry on
the war, and it may be doubted
whether the reforms will be aban-
doned after peace has been restored.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-17
Population of Greece

The present area of Greece, includ-
ing the territory and islands gained
during the Balkan wars of 1912, is
about 44,7O0 square miles and its popu-
lation approximately 100000. En-
bracing the eastern half of Old Greece,
the Athens consular district contains
$4,000 square miles and about l,750,000
inhabitants. Athens and Pireus to-
gether have a population of $4,000.
Ten cities within the district contain
10000 or more inhabitants Athens,
Piraus, Laurium, Volo, Trikkala, Lar
issa, Chalcis, Gambia, Mitylene and
SYRIA.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-17
THE REED-wHrrE CORPORATION.

Notice Is hereby given that spec
Meeting OF the stockholders o! Ibs
D-wHITE CORPORATION WI ~
held at the orlce OF the Corporation, 20
30 church Street, Borough Of Manhsu.
New York City. on October lst 1911, .
one o'clock p. NJ. for the purpose Of w..
ing upon a proposal that said Corpoii.ruyy
change its corporate name from Ins
REED WHITE CORPORATION, us pgS.
ent name. and assume instead thefG pryo
corporate name RUSSELL A. RE-"
INC"
Dated. September Il. 1911.
W. p. JESSCP, Sscretsl''
RUSSELL A. REED, President.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-17
FINANCIAL MEETINGS
Union Pacific Railroad Company.
ANNUAL MEETING.
1865 Broadway, New York, y. ].

155 BroadWay, View foTA, y. =.
August 10, 1917.
The annual meeting OF the stockhold.f'
OF Union Pacific Railroad Company VII ts
held al its Office at Salt Lake City, Utah.
on Tuesday, October 3. 1917, at Il oeloeA
noon, for the purposes OF clecting nfieea
directors OF the Company, considering az
acting upon a proposed Amendment OF w
bylaws changing the date OF holding SUI.
seduent annual meetings Of stockholders u
the second Tuesday OF APRIL IN each yea
and transsctlng such other business as in''
legally come before the meeting.
For the purposes OF the meeting tn'
books for the transfer OF stock both Pre,
ferr.d and Common will be closed a.
o'clock p. N on Monday, September ~.
1917. and will be reopened az 10 oe'oe
A. NJ. on wednesday, October 10 1917.
THOMAS PRICE, Secretary.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-17

With the enactment Of the FED
.oral Reserve law, however, the
whole money market machinery was
changed. Up to that time the New
York weekly bank statement was
the only index to money market con-
ditions. 1t was the habit of the
stock market to decline as surplus
reserves fell off and to advance on
the publication of an exceptionally
strong showing. A deficit in bank
reserves always caused commotion
and sometimes a semi-panic. The
thing now to watch is the weekly
showing of the Federal Reserve
banks, with their changes in the re-
serve account. The law requires all
Federal Reserve banks TO maintain
a reserve against deposits of 80 per
cent in gold or other lawful money.
The banks now show, however, more
than double that reserve, or about
so per cent. 1t is significant, too,
that the national banks have made
only slight use of the rediscount
facilities at their disposal. In the
five months that the United States
has been at war the rediscount
shown by all the Federal Reserve
banks has increased about $780,
100000.
The country bank has scarcely
been educated yet in the rediscount
privilege. Some interior banks for
years have made it a practice never
to rediscount their paper. Their
officers have boasted that they "never
borrowed a cent" Customs change.
however, and the time is near at
hand when no self-respecting banker
will advertise his narrowmindedness
by making such boast. He should
borrow literally at his Federal Re-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-17

! per cent on the common stock, pSs
October l 20 stockholders OF record sep'e"
Der 20.
Canadian Cottons.-Regulsr quarterly az
dends Of l per cent on the common sh1 -,
per cent on the preferred stock. psysos W
Der 4 10 stockholders Of record September y
American Laundry Msehiney.-p i'le.,'
Of IL per cent on the common. stocS' 49,
bic December 3 20 stockholders Of resoiu
November q: also, regular quarterly CIV
dend of IL. per cent on the preferred s'os
payable October 10 20 stockholders o. re'0''
October g.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-17

"
n,n.. OF Economics. Politics and Sociology
College Of Wocs'srJ
OHa,Da, September &c.
The prime fact Of economic impor-
lance az 20 Canada is that in 1911 her
mon and boys outnumbered her women
and girls by 437,347. Her grown men
in a total population Of 7,2O6,643 out
numbered her grown women in the
ratio of 80 to II, or almost 2 to l.
IL follows, therefore, that, though
Canada has now in France over 3OO,ooo
soldiers, she still has not restored the
balance of the sexes, which is so highly
desirable for permanence of economic
conditions. In many parts of the Do
minion there is veritable famine Oh
women az wives, servants, clerks
teachers and nurses. Nine-tenths OF
Canada is still pioneer world.
At least one million square miles oil
the Dominion have good soils or other
resources and climates fit to live IN
Inhsbitable Canada has a density OF
seven persons to the square mile, and
is capable of supporting, according to
the customs of the inhabitable parts OF
the United States, at least fifty persons
comfortably.
The two great economic needs oil
Canada are, first, more population, and
second. more capital to exploit the re-
sources of this vast region.
The Loss in Man Power
Wherein lies the present discourage
ment of Canadians, for the war has al
ready, cost them somewhere about 40
900 dead and 100000 seriously wounded
and is depriving them of the economic
services of ever more and more SOL
Giers in France, and it has caused the
transfer of hundreds of millions oil
dollars of capital from investments OF
permanent productiveness to temporary
war uses. Canada is not discouraged
about the war; far from It. The Do
minion is immensely proud Of the fact
that to date over half million Of heI
men have been in uniform against the
Central Empires But Canada feels
bafled in her ambition to make rapid
and permanent progress, as in the re
cent peaceful past.
To understand this mood Of Cana
dams, which is not at all envy Of thell
American neighbors, it is helpful 70 OBJ
serve a few basic geographic and eco
nomic facts.
Upon the North American continent
economic development has proceeded il
the concentric rings Of what is little
more than a half-circle, with New Yorl
as its centre. The densest population
with the highest rating OF wealth Il
near the metropolis. Apparently there
is another centre in process of forma
ton at Chicago; but there are already
80 900 900 people within four hundred
miles of New York, while there are les:
than half that number within four hun
dred miles OF Chicago. Canada lies be
yond the ring around New York, anC
has no population centre of its own.
Depending on New York
The Dominion takes most of its
financial opinions from New York, JUS
as it takes most of its political opin
ions from London, and has no city
large enough to maintain itself alone
From east to west there are but seven
cities above $4,000 in population. These
are as follows:
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-17

To compare this situation with those
more familiar to us in the states, Ohio,
cities whose average population is
about the same as these: Cleveland,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-17
Monday, September II, 1917

We are suffering from nervous
prosperity. The whole nation has it,
but the intensity of the disease is
governed by the size of your pocket
book. You may see the worst victims
every morning in the long line OF
limousines winding down Fifth Ave
rue. You see it later in Wall Street.
1t appears behind the plate glass
partitions in the banks where an
officer in charge of the loan account
is trying to get a large borrower at
5 per cent to feel pleasant about
paying 6. In the uptown hotels the
victim is represented by the manu-
facturer, whose war profits are re-
fected by the expensive jewels worn
by his wife and daughters.
Those thus afflicted will work up
a dangerous blood pressure as soon
as some one mentions the excess
profits tax. and attempts to justify
the government demand for a fifty
fifty" participation in large incomes.
The ailment is largely a product of
European war conditions, for it was
unknown in the days when men
thought in millions and had not be-
gun TO figure in billions. 1t took
three years of war profits to develop
the disease, whose ravages appear
everywhere, with the chief distress
at centres of war order activity.
The most hopeless cases are repre-
scented in the contingent that has
journeyed to Washington TO make
the committees apply the rule Of
reason" to the industries of the East
and West. Great Britain had the
infection in the early stages of the
war. but the trouble was as unlike
that seen here as the American tenn
permanent is unlike the British.
Everywhere there has been fussing
and Tuning when it comes to in
creasing the government tax on war
profits. In the final reckoning, how
ever, the government always wins
out in the presence of vital need.
But the test is full of human in
terest, for the millionaire manufact-
urer gets red in the face when you
talk of separating him from the
generous profits cleared on the lucra-
tive "hurry-up contracts" Of 1916.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-17

Nothing is quite so disturbing to
the Wall Street imagination as 6 per
cent money rate, except a rate still
higher. Two or three per cent has
been so long the rule that the 6 per
cent quotation causes uneasiness,
even in quarters that are supposed
to be familiar with the heavy de-
mands of a September market. The
situation this month is eXtraordi-
nary, in that the banks have not only
S2OO,0OO,O00 or 300,000,0OO of quar-
terly dividend and interest payments
to provide for, but, in addition, the
Forthcoming government loan. Such
a combined demand a few years ago
would have sent the market into a
spasm. But with the rediscount
facilities of the Federal Reserve
system at hand the situation is al.
together different. The position OF
the Federal Reserve banks is sc
strong that it would be possible fol-
the national banks to add six billion
dollars to their loan account should
the situation call for such eXpan.
sion. But the need will not arise, as
the very fact that such accommoda-
ton is instantly available will make
it easy for the banks to handle the
situation without difficulty. 1t is
only when borrowers feel that there
is danger of not being able to secure
accommodation that they scramble to
secure more than they need.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-17
What the West
Thinks of Some
Uncertainties
Price Fixing Bothers 1t, but
Record Crops Are a
Consolation
By Archer Wall Douglas

From many quarters comes the story
OF farmers holding wheat. For time
it was because Of the uncertainty as to
the government minimum on the 1917
crop. When that decision came it was
not to their liking. Yet it has hap
pened recently in several sections Of
Southeastern Missouri and Southern
Illinois that farmers have sold their
wheat crop for more than the market
value Of their entire farm. In these
same sections there has been only one
generally good crop in the last four
years. In the Ozark regions last spring
there were farmers who had not raised
even seed corn and did not possess tho
wherewithal to purchase it.
Bound up in this problem there are
three things to note in passing that
at present are very much occupying
the minds of the many. II price fixing
works we'll now why should it not be-
como a government function in future
to the extent Of regulating undue ex-
tortion, excess and speculation in all
the necessities of life? The prescribed
price Of food products are the minimum
limit Fixed prices on other necessities
are the maximum. Sales will unques-
tionably be made at less. Unless the
government is willing to guarantee
prices on coal and other raw materials,
as on wheat, it cannot be otherwise.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-17
Peoples Belief Strengthened

tween the two cases mas Deen created
in the public mind, which may forget
after a time that necessity, not choice,
made the distinction.
Lastly, the great masses of the peo-
pie are profoundly sure that the high
cost of necessities is due to manipula-
ton and speculation, and not to nat
ural causes. The reductions brought
about by government Intervention nat
urally strengthen this belief. All these
things are likely TO have profound
influence in the matter OF the extern
sion of government control N many
directions when the present crisis IS
passed.
Soil and climatic conditions are most
favorable in practically all sections OF
the West and Central West for fall
planting for next years crop. winter
wheat In especial will have an acre
age Of Unprecedented proportions. The
only thing the farmers seem to lack Is
labor. and that cannot be created over
night. II Is complex problem, for the
simple reason that there is no avail
able source Of supply Of any moment
TO draw upon. The average city bred
man, even if he be husky and willing,
would be merely cumberer OF the
ground for long time. As a matter OF
fact, he is not willing and will not go:
There is much going on in the way or
labor-saving tractors, but that leaves
the small farm still untouched.
BUYERS Pick and Choose
In the world of distribution in bust
ness life there is but little reflection
of the hating and uncertainty that
mark the manufacturing purchasing
phase in metals. 1t is true that
buyers. both dealers and consumers, are
picking and choosing in purchases, be-
cause Of the element of the chance of
still higher prices is no longer such a
potent factor, and speculation is en-
tirely absent. But such picking and
choosing relate mostly to very high
priced articles and things of luxury.
Yet there is qualification to this, for
in a little Missouri town of 5000 peo-
pie, where | spent day last week, the
leading jeweller was doing "a land of
fee business" Employment is general
I'd the crops were never so good. So
nothing else matters much.
The story of Kansas is one much in
point. In late July hot winds and
drouth did not seem to have left them
anything but two-thirds of wheat crop.
Then the rains came. and stayed until
the sandy beds of mythical rivers were
roaring streams. Indian corn, all with
cred and dried up, came to life, tassel-
ling and silking and making a crop.
Such things were never known before
of Indian corn. but only of the sorghum
grains. which seem to have the power
of resurrection. So the shipping of
starving cattle to market has stopped,
for there are pastures and rough forage
and food of all kinds in abundance;
also, the corn crop will be more than
last year. And business came back with
q rush.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-17
Canada Thinks With London
And Borrows From New York
IIn,; She Becomes Self-Conscious and SelfRellant
Saws Economist, There Will Be Little Real
Progress in the Dominion

nv william " Chancellor. head OF tho pepsn-
n,nt Of Economics. Politics ana Soe'o'o'
College 81 Woos'erJ
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-03-14

improvements thereon, IN the City
of Alexandria, Virginia, bounded and
described as follows, to-wit:-
1. Beginning on the west side
OF Fairfax Street, so feet south OF,
King Street, and running thence
north on Fairfax Street 40 feet more
or less, to the line of the property
adjoining on the north; thence west
parallel to King Street 40 feet;
thence south parallel to . Fairfax
Street 40 feet; more or less, the
length of the first line; and thence
east in a direct line 40 feet to the
beginning, with all appurtenances. /.
2. Beginning at the intersection ot
the south side of King Street with
the west side of Fairfax Street, and
running thence west on King Street
40 feet; therce south parallel to Fair
fax Street 81 feet 6 inches; thence
east in a direct line 40 feet to Fair
fax Street; and thence north on
Fairfax Street 81 feet 6 inches to
the beginning, with all rights and ap-
! purterances to the same belonging.
Terms of Sale:-Cash. Convey
ancing at the cost of the purchasr
C. S. TAYLOR BURKE,
63-td. Trustee
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-03-14
HILLSyILLE TRAGEDIES.

Five years ago today. in the little
H., m1:nin village o. Hi'!sv:lle, Car
roll county, Va, occurred the cour.
house tragedy which caused the death
af &c court ohctrs. member 81
ne ny and %"rng girl spectator.
AMI !, right abo"r t5c legal tA '.@tioG
Of Two members Of i.e Allen family
and The imprison 49,. for long ttrms
Of fcIlr oLrcr mH:n.''"S of the (" n.
in the shooting there were killed
Circuit Judge Thornton L. Massie,
Commemorative Attorney W. NJ.
Foster ard a young girl who had just
left the witness stand and was watch
ing the proceedings. Floyd Alien was
being tried for minor offense. The
sensational trials that followed the
shooting finally fixed the main guilt
or Floyd Allen and his son Claude,
both of whom died in the electric
chair at the State Penitentiary.
After chase that led detectives
halfway across the continent, al! of
the principals in the shooting were
rounded up and sentenced. In the pen
itentiary now are Sidna Allen. serv-
ing So year term; Fr;el Allen, serv-
ing Is years; Wesley Edwards, serv-
inc % years, and Sidna Edwards.
serving Is years.
The murders in the Hillsyille court
ropr, caused the greatest&sensation
throughout the state, but there was
doubtless more excitement in Alexan-
G:ia than anywhere else in the COM
u.onweal.h from the fact that Judge
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-03-14

Now, this is not intended to be
written in fault-fnding spirit at all
but simply to help find the reason
why the patronage of Alexandra
stores is not greater than it is, con-
sidering the population. 1t cannot be
on account of the stocks, nor the way
the stores are conducted, for they
line up admirably with those OF
forty-fcur States that the writer mas
visited. Give them the chance at the
business and you will find everything
you can ask. for or they will get it II
it is on earth! Let US have "Alexan-
drians for Alexandria" not ina self
ish way, ignoring the just claims OF
others but in the just way forgetting
the selfish claims of others. Every
vacant storeroom in Alexandria is in
directly an increase in the cost of liv'
ing of every citizen, whether he
owns his own house, rents from
others or boards. It cannot BIZ
evaded as it is bound to reach hin
either in increased taxes, rent o,
rates of board Let us get togethe1
to keep our business men busy ant
prosperous and by doing the fai
thing in helping them at same time
help ourselves.
A New AleXandrian
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-03-14
AUCTION SALE
of


Southwest Corner of King and
Fairfax Streets
Pursuant to the terms OF deed OF
trust bearing date on March l, 1913,
and duly recorded among the land
records of the City of Alexandria,
Virginia, in Decd Book No. 90, page
243, given by C. C. Leadbeater and
others to the undersigned, to secure
the payment Of certain Indebtedness
therein set forth, default having beer
made in the payment Of one OF tn;
notes secured by said deed OF trust
and at the request of the holder, puf
suant to said deed of trust, will otfel
for sale at public auction, at the Roya
Street entrance to the Market build
ing in the City of Alexandria. Vlr
GINA, at IL o'clock Noon, on thurs
! dav, March 80. 1917, all those lot
of ground, with the buildings ant
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-03-14
THE DRINKING FOUNTAIN.

As will be seen by the proceed
mos of the City Council last night
considerable time was devoted to the
discussion concerning the drinking
fountain at the intersection OF Cam
eron and Royal streets. Residents OF
the neighborhood recently sent pc
t;tion to the city fathers asking
that what they termed nuisance,
he done away with by the removal OF
the fountain to some other site. 1t
was alleged that water from the toun-
tain kept the intersection in an I'M
SLIGHTLY condition, while during cold
weather tho space was veneered with
ice rendering walking difficult ana
risky. In the meantime a resolution
was presented in council providing Tor
the removal of the fountain to the
southern portion, of the market en-
closure. Later petition from stall
renters in the market asking the re-
tention of the fountain in its present
place was presented to Council.
The Daughters of the American
Revolution, under whose auspices the
fountain was erected, they having
subscribed and collected the necessary
funds, were grieved to realize that
after all their labors, the fountain
should Be termed nuisance. rhey
determined to come to the rescue >snd
last night a delegation from that
organization appeared before a'joint
meeting of the City Council and pro-
tested against the removal Of the
fountain.
Mrs. W. J. Morton, in short but
forcible address, refuted the allega-
tions that the fountain was neces-
sarilv a nuisance and insisted upon
its retention at the spot where it was
erected and dedicated five years ago.
Council subsequently requested the
city engineer to make an investlga-
ton Of the conditions at the :runtain.
for the purpose Of ascertaining il
steps can not be taken to keep the
fountain in rGnnng order.
It has been alleged that much Of
the trouble at :he fountain is caused
by rlischievous boys who make the
intersection a playground. Also that
the pipes intended to carry off the
overflow water arc not adequate for
the purpose. We see no good reason
WHY both cannot he remedied. There
is no reason why boys should be
allowed to make the intersection OF
the streets playground. If their
parents fail to keep them away from
the fountain, the police station IS
but square away. and the officers
could take care of them.
It is the coarensus OF opinion that
the fountain s'1n'd remalr where IT.
is, and that proacr steps Be taken to
safeguard it &ad keep : m proper
condition " the city authorities,
which we trust will be done