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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-03-17
FINANCIAL NEWS
STOCKS ARE ACCUMULATED IN N. Y;
GOOD GAINS RECORDED THROUGH LIST
Changes in Political Situation in Europe Regarded
Bullish-Marine Issues in Scant Supply
and Advance Easily
High Points in TOday's Financial NeUs

Stocks Accumulation stocks brought about
Independent
actual deposits shoUn York
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MONEY.LENDING RATES

PHILADELPHIA - Call. sh per cent.
Time. An @6 per cent. Commercial, three
to six months, an 04N per cent
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Financial Briefs

the annual meeting of the Philadelphia
Electric Company will be held April IL.
Stockholders of record March 90 will be
entitled to vote at the meeting
Twsnty-nine railroads report gross earn
ings during the first week Of March totaling
S12,7sSs47. an increase Of S6s3.307 over the
corresponding week Of last year.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-03-17
No Action on Accrued Dividends

NEW YORK. March 17.--At the meeting
of the American Water Works and Electric
Company directors. consideration was given
q e" he rsynsss - q cithsr current or q seoruss
livi1eaAG . ~ I ~ esnt eu|Duistivo pro.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-03-17
NERVOUSNESS MARKS
WHEAT PIT TRADING
Feverishness Results From Un-
certainty as to Outcome of
Railroad-Labor Conference

GRAIN BELT WEATHER CONDITIONS
NEW YORK, March 17.-Advices re-
reiyed at the Weather Bureau this morn
ing indicated the following weather condi-
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-03-17

Total sales. 81 .8se, 900, compared with S2.-
OIL 0OC last Saturday; this week, xl5, 82,OOO;
last week, $40, ,28s 900.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-03-17
POULTRY

IlNE-Oferings OF desirable stock were light
and values were firmly maintained with demand
fair. Quotations. Fowls as TO quality 24Q25c;
Stacy ROSTERS, 1S q zoe: old roosters, 18@17c;
spring chickens. soft-meat ted "a @25c: ducks. az
to size and quality. 22Q24c pigeons. old. per
pair ssW30c; do. young. per pair 2O@2oc 80
DRESSED ruled firm. with demand readily
absorbing the limited offerings of desirable
stock. Fowls We're nc higher. Quotations
are as follows Fresh-kiled. dry-packed fowls
IL to box. dry.pcked. fancy selected. .5c; do
Weighing Az lbs. and over apiece, a4hc: do'
weighing 3l2 lbs. apiece. 23l2 c; do, welgn-
ing lbs. apiece, 20 q 23c; fowls In bbls.. fancy
dry-pcked. weighing Az lbs. and over apiece,
24c smaller sizes. 100 a3c old roosters. dry-
picked. zoe; roasting chickens. western, afy-
picked. in boxes, weighing SOLO lbs. per pail
25 Q26c; roasting chickens. western. IN Dosss s;s
Weighing lbs. per pair, 23W2ici roas,uhs roa,h
chickens western. dry-picked. in bbls,, Iua wslsn'
ing SOL lbs. per pair. 25c; roasting chickenssi ~
western. in bbls, weighing lbs. per pair. -
@22c; broiling chickens. western; IN es poaes'
weighing 3gt lbs. per pair 25 26c; ehiGnssnsS ssxsS
weighing SOC lbs per pair. 2l924c; 40; mns sosc.
sizes is@2Qe; broiIers jersey fancy a ss~iSs. Ia
psG 2s ar to
500 sic old toms, 20 s0c; common. 33ssSSS.s; 33sSSS..s;
geese. nearby. 10 a 2Ic; do. western, Sgg&Se' &
squads. per dozen-White. weighing IiWlo f%c %
per dozen, s4.5O@4.75; white, weighing 'ug SwiS
lbs per dozen, So. .75 a 4.25; white. weighingG H.
lbs. per dozen. s3@325; white weiEhlns oiasH AZ
per dozen. s2.50@2,75; white; weshsi,ng MSySsES MSySssES
small and No. ., 5Oc6$1.
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PHILADELPHIA
MARKETS
GRAIN AND FLOITR

WHEAT-Receipts 81, ,456 bushels orsr,,..
were light and prices further advanced &c und.r
a fair export demand. Quotations.. o. r..
Z export sdusbsrn sbeyT'1rNS red q, Ted spot slsiS
red 81 90g1 10; No 3 red. ST 80 a NJ rsio 10
A. SS@l 81 rejected =. sl.s2@iST ''ea
CORN-Receipts, 42.017 bushels o6or,
were light and the market ruled firm. bn, betmss is
was quiet. Quota tions: Car lots for local ,raase
as to location-Western No. yellow. ii sss,
La western No; yellow. 81 30 q / .23; westsrr
No. yellow, 81 2On 1.21; western No 4 veliemnn
:l;lS@l.19; southern No. 3 yellow II pys;
0ATs-Receipts,, 12,i72 bushels. The marks,
ruled firm with demand equal to the jIm,saS
offerings, Quotations: No . white, 55m m7bsutea 7sue q
standard, white. q T4ia CT; No. white. 7sS
73ae: No. white. ria 7o1a c; sample osts ,Ss
FLOUR. Receipts, SIG bbls and 32s 21i I'M.
in sacks. The market ruled steady with a fsi,
demand. The quotations per 100 lbs. in wood
are as follows: Winter, straight. S. 5Odfe.
Kansas. clear. cotton sacks, ss.25d s. 30; Kan.
sas. straight cotton sacks, So. 10 90; do patent
cotton. sacks. S0Qg.25 spring. clear, ys s0@
soO do; patent S9.4OGo;I5: do. faycrits
brands. s10410,60; city mills. choice and fancy
patent, $10M1050. N'
RYE FLOUR was quiet and uncha nged. We
quote s7.5Og7.75 per bbl. as to quality
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PROVISIONS

There was a fair jobbing demand and the mar
ket ruled firm. Following are the quotations:
City beef, in sets, smoked and air dried AZ:
western beef. in sets. smoked, 3ic; city besf.
kn'lckles and tenders. smoked end air dried, sSe;
western beef, knuckles and lenders, smoked abe.
beef hams, s2S Q3O; pork. family si0@ io'SS:
hams $. p cured. loose. 22ia 23c do, skinned
2Sg2shc; do, do. smoked "a a 24h c; other
age, 2Sia Q24c: hams. smoked western cured,
23h V24c; do boiled, boneess. 36c. picnic shou.
dera. 8. p. cured. loose 1Sc; do smoked
19c bellies. in pickle. according to average
loose. 1917 c; breakfast bacon, as to brand and
average, city cured, 231a C: do. western cured,
23h c.; lard. western. refined. tierces, 21c; d.
do. do. tubs. 21c; lard. pure city. kettle rem
dered. in tierces 21c: lard, pure city, kettle
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DAIRY PRODUCTS

BUTTER-Receipts were light and the market
ruled firm, but demand only moderate. Quo
tations: Western, fresh. soid-packed cream
cry. fancy specials, i4c: extras. AZ a 43c: extra
frsts, Ale: frsts. 30 q 4Oc; seconds. 81 G3sc;
nearby prints, fancy. 45c; do. average extra, a
a Q44c; frsts. 38@ilc: seconds. 81 a3 3Sc: spe
cial fancy brands of prints jobbing at 4Sq51e.
EGGS-Demand readily absorbed all 'oner.
ings of desirable stock ana tnc market ruled
firm at the late advance. Quotations: Nearby
extras. Bic per dozen: nearby hrsts. sg.15 per
case; nearby current receipts. 50 per case; west
ern extras, 3is per dozen do. extra frsts.
50 10 per case: do frsts 80 per case: fancy
selected candled eggs We're Jobbing at 3jq36c
per dozen.
:. CHEESE was scarce and ruled firm and slight.
y higher. Quotators: New York. full cream,
FANCY, held. 2IS a :.Sc: do, do. fair TO good.
held, 21@2I,ac: do, part SKINS 14q22c.
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GOVERNMENT BONDS
BAR SILVER

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The f9llowSIns precipitation Gis inches, t was "a
Moorehead; 10. Xalentlnei .3t. Huron.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-10-24
Hy David Cory.

Now this story is going to be all
about Daddy Fox. For It has been 9
long time since we have heard anything
about this naughty old robber, who
steals chickens and geese and even lit
tie rabbits when they are not look
ing
Look here, Mr.. Fox" said Mrs. Fox
one evening when the Twinkle Twinkle
Star was shining and the big white
moon was sailing thru the sky, we
haven't got a thing to eat in the house
We've all got great big appetites but
what's the use Of an appetite when you
have nothing to eat And the only
way Daddy Fox could answer a ques-
ton like that was to say he'd go out
AT once and see what he could find So
off he trotted, keeping in the dark
shadows so as not to be seen, for Dad
dy FOX didn't work for anything he
got Oh, my no.! He stole it, that's
what this old robber fox did.
Well, by and by he came to the Old
Farm Yard where Henry Jenny and
Cocky Docky lived. But as soon as the
Weathercock on the top Of the Big Red
Barn saw him, he began to swing back
and forth, making such creaking
noise that Mrs Cow looked out Of her
window in the old she'd And when she
saw Daddy Fox she gave a great
"Moo!" and when a COW moos at night
you might just as we'll get out Of bed.
for the little dream fairies fly away
and leave you, and then Of course you
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-10-24
soi, All ceId-Paek Vegetables.

A disturbing word comes from Dr..
Ernest c. Dickson, Of San Francisco. IN
the journal of the American Medical
Association regarding possible danger
in the cold-pack method OF preserving
fruits and vegetables. but 1t Is reas-
suring that boiling will eliminate any
peril. The evil lies In possible poison
ing from the toxin Of the bacillus
botulinus. which within six years has
sickened twenty-nine persons on tho
Pacific coast and caused twenty-thrso
deaths. DR.. Dickson sums up:
The botulinus toxin Is easily de-
stroyed by heating, and all danger. Of
botulism will be removed from home
canned products IL the food Is always
boiled before, 1t Is eaten or even tasted
Under no circumstances should home
canned products, If the food Is prepared
by the cold-pack method. be served =
salad unless they have been cooked
after their removal from the container.
and. until It Is established what fruits
are suitable for the formation OF tho
toxin, 1t will be safer to reheat al
fruits which have been prepared by this
method. even tho there may be no sp-
parent evidence that the food has
spoiled.-Springfield Republican.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-10-24
SAVING OUR FACE.

IF you had a note coming due next
Saturday you'd be anxious to have the
money where you could lay your hands
on it.
You'd hate to have your credit i'm
paired and your intentions questioned
by the banker
You'd get the money somehow if you
hadn't it and save your face with the
creditors.
The United States must raise that
loan and oversubscribe it to keep its
face.
If America, known and proclaimed
from the palaces of civilization to the
waited huts OF savages and TO snow
huts of Eskimos as the richest of all
countries. lacks dollar Of her bond
sale the United States will have lost
face.
That is, the United States will have
lost none of, her power. She will be as
rich and as strong as before. She can
get the money by taking it.
But the citizens of the Land Of the
Free and the Home of the Brave" will
drop many notches in the estimation Of
the world.
There will be no question of their
wealth and the wealth of the country.
But there will be the question OF
their patriotism and bravery that men
make of any person or people who bras
about wealth and refuse honest debts.
The books close this week. Have you
done your part? ASK your neighbor.
Ask the public. Ask the soldiers you
are sending to defend your prosperity
and the nation and Institutions you
have prospered under. Ask your own
conscience.
If they all agree you've done it. If
they don't agree, do It.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-10-24
Billy Bunny and His Friends

/ can't 20 to Neep again.
"S-s -sch!" said tho old fox. do you
want to wake up the farmerT
II don't want to sec you around
here" said Mrs. Cow, and she took
off her boudoir cap (and II you don't
know what kind Of cap that Is you
must ask your old maid auntie). TIL
ring the bell ON my collar and wake
Everybody up for breakfast II you don't
run away"
"Now be sociable." said Daddy Fox.
ana he took of his old fur cap and
bowed 30 politely to Mrs Cow that she
almost changed her mind II only
came 70 and out how you were"
'well, I'm very we'll" she answered.
"but don't receive callers at night"
And then she gave a dreadful loud
"moo!" which woke up "Sic-em!" tho
Old Watch Dog. And then. all of sud-
den, quicker than that, he bounded out
OF. his little house and went for Daddy
For
But Of course he couldn't catch Daddy
Fox. Nobody could catch him. for ne
was such good runner and such .
wise old fellow, and after while
"Sic-em" came back snd went to sleep
in his little house.. and Daddy Fox
went homo and told Mrs. Fox that no
almost lost his life at the Barn Yard.
And in the next story you shall hear
about another friend of Billy Bunny,
Squirrel Nutcracker Junior, the gray
squirrel who lived in the big hickory
tree close to the Old Brier Patch.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-10-24
PRIDE AND HU NIFTY.
dubuque Times-Journal.

In almost every small town Gowns
the size OF DubuQue) there is usually
one man or one family-sonetimeS two
or three-whose wealth is considered
to set them off from the rest OF the
community. In most cases, amusing
as it may seem, it Is fact that the
family of wealth accepts this dis
tinguished" position as proper and
lords it arrogantly over the little
creatures Of the community who toady
and scrape to the high and mighty.
The small fry are anxious to claim the
acquaintance Of the big fry. the little
toads want to be recognized by the big
toads in the small puddle. This is the
comedy Of the small town millionaire.
Yet big and little are made Of the
same stuff.
"BuildeS OF water. wind and mud"
But. indeed, small towns are not the
only places in which wealth produces
sycophants. The spectacle is more
noticeable in small cities. but in the
great centers of life and population
men and women are Just as proud and
insolent and just as OBJECTIONABLE
cringing. In the great cities, too. we
-.
high places, conspicuous places, places
Of power, positions endowed with au-
thority.
Is it laughable or is it pitiful that
some men should be so blown up with
pride and others should be SO basely
suhservient? What is wealth that 1t
should be so worshiped. what is au-
thority that those clothed with 1t
should be so revered? Wealth Is az
transitory as other dust and those who
enjoy it have but the same human
capacities Of pleasure and pain hap
piness and sorrow. that others have.
High places places of authority are
only the arbitrary creations set up ny
men for men to fill. The king and the
serf, the millionaire and the beggar,
the great minister Of state and the
grenad der in the soggy trench dwell
under the same dangling sword. arc
circumscribed by the same limitations
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-10-24

prices-that is prices satisfactory to
that sort Of reasonable man who wants
to live and live well and make some
money and let others live. The sort
that ia not insistent that famine and
starvation shall be the basis OF his
prices but asks for d good demand.
The food administration has covered
the outlook fairly well. A'few points
on conditions and prospects should as
sure the farmer Of q continuation OF
high prosperity and satisfactory prices.
The number of ships available for
carrying food supplies. has been seri-
ously depleted by the ravages Of the
German submarine, and by the use OF
many merchantmen for military pur-
poses, and with what result to us?
First that 12O,O00,0O0 more animals
in. Europe have been killed for food
since the war began than have been
raised, and that in consequence Ameri-
can, Argentine and Australian beef and
mutton are going to command high
prices for years to come after peace is
declared, at least until this huge deple-
ton of live stock Is again restored
Second, that great stocks of grain in
Russia, India, Australia, and South
America, which peace times auto
matically went to Europe, now are I'M
available for lack Of ships. Nations
that previously had a full years sup
ply of foodstufts stored within their
own borders are now reduced to mere
hand to mouth living.
Not only has the present enormous
demand to be supplied, but after the
war is over great stores Of all grain
foods must again be accumulated.
The only way the American farmer
can dodge prosperity is toshide him
self in weeds on his own farm.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-10-24
ARTHUR BRISBANE lND IOWA.

Arthur Brisbane took poke at Iowa
when he said recently:
Iowa, we trust, will not change, but
continue sending its elderly ones to
Los Angeles, where they can see a lit
tie real life before they die
To live all your life in Iowa, and
then be chloroformed, just as you are
getting old enough 10 escape to Los
Angeles would be little too hard.
To which the Washington Herald
coming to the defense OF Iowa re-
plies:
Iowa raises more wheat, corn, cat
tie and hogs and less hell than any
state in which MI Brisbane ever lived.
And wheat corn, cattle and hogs are
what we need very much. While hell
is, manifestly, what we do not need at
all.
Mr.. Brisbane owes it to Iowa to apol-
ogize. Either that or be sentenced 10
help pick Iowa's mammoth crop of corn
this fall. So far as Iowa is concerned
it would be better to have him go there
than to endeavor to secure a retrac-
ton Of his most unkind statement. For
II Mr.. Brisbane saw Iowa as she is,
he would De both sorry FOR what he said
and convinced Of his error in saying
1t.
But If he remained here and allowed
a mere retraction to suffice he still
might cherish forever, in his own mind,
the lurking suspicion that what he
said about the Hawkeye state was JUS
tilted and borne out by facts.
But was Mr.. Brisbane entirely to
blame in his sarcastic remark? Doesn't
considerable contingent from Iowa
bear him out? Isn't it a fact that a
respectable number Of our citizens who
have made and are making money out
Of the rich Iowa soil cited by the Her
aid act as tho the main reason for
their stay and toll in Iowa was and is
to get away to Los Angeles and other
points on that seductive vest coast :
And meeting them and hearing them
and watching the way they act isn't
Mr. Brisbane entitled to the benefit
Of the doubt? Isn't it the truth that
some Of US scream like wounded pan
theirs when a good road Is mentioned
for Iowa and go blissfully out with
Iowa gains to happily build paved
| roads for southern California and Los
Angeles county and brag about the
pavements afterward? Huh? Isn't II
| the truth?
Let's be fair to Mr.. Brisbane. He
has his faults the Lord knows. One
Of them Is working for the Hearst syn
dictate. but he is nobody's fool He
sees things as they roll past him. o.
course in this case he didn't see thu
real Iowa and he didn't see the newly
awakened Iowa at all. But ne saw
what he saw and regarding what HI
| saw he didn't lie about it.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-10-24
CORN HUSKERS COMING.
TGeorga NpwS1


The transient corn pickers are COM
ing to the towns in northwestern Iowa
loaded for bear and with a desire to
make big money" husking the crop
that is king of the harvest fields or
this section. There is talk OF asking
all the way from cents a bushel up to
Is cents a bushel, and the probabilities
are that there will be more Decent
corn picking than scent corn picking,
with the average somewhere between
cents and 10 cents a bushel. The
farmers aren't unwilling to pay a rea-
sonably good price, in fact high price,
but lucent corn picking Is consider
ed unreasonable, and If the men ask
it too strongly many won't get 1t, for
the farmers will do lot OF this work
themselves. Some of the town fellows
wko have other jobs are figuring on
earning $40 to s12 day for while IN
the corn fields and the man who can
pick 100 bushels a day or better VIII
do it, too. That's better wages, tho.
than the workers in the ammunition
factories are getting.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-10-24
WILL FARM PROSPERITY LAs17

Will it last? How long will it last
Will there besa terrible slump in prices
when the war cIoses a.d hard t:-es
for the farmer?
Not on his life and his acres. That
there will be lowered prices is certain
because prices now are abnormal and
excessive The ultra high prices that
have their basis in the immediate ne
cessities of mighty armies will not con-
tinue.
But, as one good farmer said the
other day II don't care about that II
I get what I consider fair prices. I'm
satisfied with IS cents a bushel for
corn. OF course I'm going to get mine
along with the rest while the high
price endures but any old time / can
sell corn for Is cents and hogs for
50 or SO I'm going to be q mighty
satisfied and contented little farmer"
Well. he's going TO set satisfactory
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-10-24

concerned there will be no difference.
What the defeat of the amendment
has done is to suggest to everybody
that the legislature which created the
present statute can change 1t, which
when anything arises to hint at a
change Of sentiment in the state car
ries with it the further suggestion
that /, might be possible to elect q
legislature that would change it. Fur
theI than that the defeat of the amend
ment can not but suggest to every
body that enforcement of the present
law Is not popular, and we all know
how slight hint will be needed in
many parts of the state to secure a
practical notification of the law thru
non enforcement. Thus, tho there will
be no immediate change in the legal
status Of the saloon, there will be q
readily perceptible change in the actu-
III situation. with liquor Iut back into
Iowa politics with a vengeance.
The Register does not see how the
state can avoid an election next year
on issue Of wet and dry. Nobody can
be proposed for the legislature who will
not at once be questioned with regard
to the liquor law. The drys dare not
rest on the assurance Of the present,
the vets will not The vets have
gained nothing directly by defeating
the amendment. They must secure a
modification Of the statute and 1t was
to leave that door open that they so
desperately resisted a constitutional
provision. They win attempt to drive
The wedge OF Mondays vote home In
the selection of q wet legislature.
To the end of making prohibition
more unpopular than 1t now Is the vets
will do everything In their power to
secure non-enforcement. They will
prove in as many communities as
possible that the law Is farce that
bootlegging Is worse than the open
saloon. that prohibition does not pro-
hibit, and so on to the end Of the ia
miliar chapter. The first assault will
be on state enforcement which will
he made as unpopular as possible. Lo-
cal officers whoSe sympathies are with
the vets will do nothing to enforce the
law. Liquor win sneak into neighbor-