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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-10-13
Whirlwind Effort This Week.

The committees confidence, how
ever, is far from causing it to in
dulge in any overconfidence. On the
contrary, it is mapping Out. cam
paign for the week which Will be of
the most whirlwind nature. Every
effort will be made to prompt the
people of the city to come forward
and subscribe without waiting for
persoal solicitation. which is impos-
Sible since the rigid restrictions were
placed on the campaign work here
on account of the unfortunate spread
of influenza.
At late hour last night no new fig
ures had been received at the local
headquarters since early YESTERDAY
stood at $14.723.000. This amount is
nearly s13.00O.O0O short Of the amount
expected of Washington, and in order
to win another honor flag denoting
that the quota has been raised it will
be necessary to average more than
$500, 900 each day during the remainder
of the drive.
per cent subscriptions. have been
issued during the past two days by
the local committee. These honor
remnants can be displayed in offices
of business houses where there are
more than thirty employees. all of
whom have subscribed to the new
bond issue.
The personal canvass of the BUSH
ness houses of the city is being con-
Quoted upon the most intensive and ac-
tive lines, and as a result the response
has been most gratifying. according
to reports which the local committee
has received from the half hundred
prominent business men who volun-
teered to make this canvass.
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Men Making Canvass.

The emergency volunteers making
this special business canvass include
the following: Milton E. Allies, c. A.
Aspinwall, Alexander Britton, D. J.
Callahan, Arthur Carr. Judge J. Harry
Covington, j. ]. Darlington, w F.
Tobriner, Harry Wardman, Eugene E.
Thompson. Eugene E.. Allies. George
E. Hamilton. George w. Harris, Sig
mund Kann, John B. Larner. John c.
Let's, Arthur D. Marks, John L. New
bold, John Poole. Corcoran Thorn.
Samuel J. Prescott, M. D. Rosenberg
and r. F. Saul.
While corporations and business
houses were vying with one another in
subscriptions, individuals in Washing
ton were by no means tagging behind.
All the banks kept open yesterday
unt:l o'clock and reported excellent
sales throughout the day. Total fig
ures were not available up to last
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night, due to the immense amount of
detail work incident to making the
tabulationS
New Subscriptions.


New Subscriptions.
AS result of this campaign the loan
committee last night announced the
following new subscribers:
American Ice Company. $50 900: A.
L. Baldwin, $4,000; Conrad Becker
$4,000; Becker Leather Goods Com
itaI Traction Company. $4,000
Chemical Products Company, $4,000
Clafiin Optical Company, $1,150; Com
mercial Insurance Company. $4,000;
Corcoran Fire Insurance Company
$1,000; Douglas Shoe Company, 81 900;
Equitable Life Insurance Company
$4,000; The Evening Star Newspaper
Company. 100000: employees and Off
GERS of The Evening Star, $4,000;
Fireman's Insurance Company, $780,
600; German-American Fire Insurance
Company, 5000; Globe-Wernicke
William Hahn & Co. s5.o0o;ssSoi D
Herzog, $1,000; Thomas e. farrell
$4,000; Judd & Detweiler. :s2.s00
Adolph Kahn. $4,000; D. ]: Kaufman
$4,000; Kings Palace, $4,000: Ed'Koh-
ner, $2.500; Life and Casualty Insur-
$4,000: A. Lisner, $4,000; Masonic Mu-
tual Life Insurance Company, $780,
600; National Electrical Supply Com
pany, $4,000; New England Mutual
Life Insurance Company, $4,000;
Newport Life Insurance Company
Sza,oso; &C Ge p,9,a Nordlinger; 5000;
GOO; Perpetual. Building Association,
100000; NJ. Phillipsborn Company,
$4,000; Prudential Life Insurance
Company. 100000; Raleigh Hotel,
$4,000: Riggs National Bank, $1,000
4 @aier RizIh B1others ans $1,000 W
er Company, $1,000; Ellie sheetz, sI0,-
600; F.. H. Smith $1,000: Underwood
Typewriter Company, $500; Ward &
Co, $1,000; Willard Hotel, $4,000;
Hyman Zirkin. $1,000; Republic Rub
Der Company, $4,000; julius Block,
$4,000: Old Dutch Market Company,
$4,000; Potomac Insurance Company,
$4,000; S. N. Meyer, $4,000: E. Held
enheimer, 1000; Saks & Co., total
of $4,000; Metropolitan Life Jnsur-
ance Company, $4,000; Tolman Jaun-
dry COMPANY. $500: Washington Steel
tropoiis Building Association. $4,000;
Powhatan Hotel, $4,000; P. ]. Nee
Company, $500; Peoples Drug Store.
$4,000; M. Goldenberg. additional
SIS 900. making total s65,000; Daniel
Loughran Company. $4,000. and S
| making total S150.000.
Motor Corps After Record.
The Motor Transport Corps. the
| newest staff corps in the Army, is out
to make a record on the fourth loan
It's personnel in Washington numbers
f617, of which 165 are officers, twenty
five enlisted men and 426 are civilians
Since about 20 per cent of the force
has been i'll during the past week, nc
PERSONAL solicitation had been made
but. in response to notices posted in
the various branches 1926 subscrip-
tions had been received up to the
close of business Friday. the total
amount subscribed being $4,000
This week a thorough canvass will be
made, and it is expected that the
total will reach 100000.
Despite the influenza epidemic and
the German peace drive. the fourth
liberty loan campaign among the more
than 10000 workers at the Washing
ton navy yard is being pushed with
degree of enthusiasm and vigor that
bid fair to make the high record
established there on the third loan
look small.
Commander E. J. Marquart, in
charge of the navy yard campaign
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Turkish women are to be counted
among the most Industrious on earth.
A Turkish girl makes all the household
requisites before she is married. $50
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LIBERTY DAY IS ONE
OF LOANS BUSIEST
Washington's Total Thought
to Have Been Raised
to $17,OO0,M0.
MORE HARD WORK AHEAD

Liberty Loan day, proclaimed as
such by President Wilson. and OBJ
served in Washington yesterday
mark the significance of the &C.
oAsion. proved one of the busiest and
1iveliest days of the fourth loan
drive, judging from the reports of
the bond buying here received by
the local committee.
When the banks file tomorrow
their tabulated returns of the bond
sales yesterday. Washington's total
of s14.723.o0o at 10 o'clock yester-
day morning will have jumped to
$1,000, 900, the LEGAL committee init
mates.
Banks Open During Day.
With all the government depart
ments closed yesterday in honor of
Liberty Loan day and with all banks
and trust companies remaining open
for liberty loan transactions until
S o'clock last night. a regular flood
OF subscriptions was turned in at the
various financial institutions of the
city during the afternoon hours. An
especially large amount of bond sales
also was made by the hundred or so
man and woman volunteer workers
who canvassed the downtown sec
tons of the city throughout the day
and until late at night.
There were several hours of lively
bond buying last night at the corner
of 18th and Pennsylvania avenue. where
volunteer workers Of the District wom-
ems liberty loan committee conducted a
spirited canvass of the thousands of
passing persons. The woman work ers
made their appeals from the automobile
offered for the occasion by Byron S
Adams. who was hand to lend as
sistance in making the sales Mrs Jean
Bennett was in charge of this canvass.
Miss Mary Leet of the Treasury ha.f
charge of the selling and DOC" Zim-
herman acted as "ballyhoo" Others
assisting in the work were Mrs Frank
Smell and Mrs Bertha Robbins
Official Truck Successful.
The official auto sales truck of the
local loan committee appealed to the
crowds at the various busy downtown
corners and reported that it met a re-
sDonse in the form of sales greater than
on any previous day of the present
campaign.
sMore than $4,000 bond sales were
made yesterday at noon during the
bond rally conducted for the employees
OF the Fuller Construction COMPANY
working on the government dormi-
tories being erected on the Union sta
ton plaza. Many business houses. in
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swift retribution to the people whl
employ such barbarous methods, qt-
warfare. - .
New-York tribune., 1918-07-27
All Demand and Time
Loan Operations To
Be Inspected
Certificate Advances
Money Rates Easier as Gov
ernment Makes Large
Deposits Here

Closer supervision of all do-to- day
operations of the banks in the Wall
Street money market will result from
action just taken by the so-called
bankers money committee, in whose
hands rests the task of stabilizing
money rates during periods of exces-
sive strain.
The committee has called upon the
banks to make daily reports hereafter
on all their call and time loan opera
tions, as we'll as to give figures show
ing what part Of the certificates of in
debtedness purchased by them from
the Treasury are being hypothecated
against loans obtained from the Re-
serve Bank. The first daily report
under the new arrangement was made
by the banks yesterday.
Heretofore the local banks have been
required to make one report week
on their loan operations to the bank
period of the Liberty Loan campaign
when daily figures were required.
While the purpose of the new arrange
ment is not stated, it is understood
that the recent stringency in the
money market, necessitating the as
sistance of the money committee and
it's $20o,O00,000 pool for the past fort
night or so to keep call rates from
climbing above 61a per cent, has made
it necessary for the bankers in charge
of the matter to keep closer record
Result of Tight Money
Since the Treasury began the issue
of the new series of certificates of
indebtedness offerings about three
weeks ago in anticipation of the fourth
Liberty Loan offering in the fall, the
money situation has been growing
tighter, and up until yesterday there
has actually been a great dearth of
call money on the Wall Street market.
Had it not been for the offerings re-
leased from day to day by the money
committee it is believed that the call
rate would have gone far above the So
called "pcg" rate of 61A per cent.
The demand on the banks for a daily
report on the total of certificates of
Indebtedness carried by them is said
to be the result of the practice of some
OF the banks in borrowing against the
certificates at the Federal Reserve
Bank at a rate Of around 4 "a per cent,
and then employing the funds obtained
in this manner in the open money mar
ket at per cent and better.
Call Rate Drops
Yesterday money rates were some
what easier following the action of the
Treasury in redeposting a substantial
amount of its funds with the banks.
This brought reduction in the rate
for call money to per cent late in
the day, compared with high for sew
eral days of 6 per cent. There was no
change in the time money situation,
offerings continuing small.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-27
Buy N. Y. Revenue Bills
At 1926 Per Gent
Salomon Bros. 81 Hutzler Sue
cessful Bidders for
CITY Issues

Salomon Brothers & Hutzler were
the successful bidders Yesterday for
two issues of New York City revenue
bills aggregating $16,OOO,OOO. Their
bid was 1886 per cent for all or none
Of the bills.
A total of thirty-four bids was re-
ceived for the revenue bills. One issue
of $5,oO0,o0o is dated July 80 and ma
lures December 3. The other is dated
July 20 and natures on December 10
next.
j. P. Morgan e. Co. offered to take
the entire $5,000,000 issue of the ma
turity Of December at premium Of
$3.50 and the $10,000,000 maturity of
December 10 on basis of 4.35 per
cent. Other unsuccessful bids were:
Chase National Bank, 4.34 for all;
the National City Company, for all or
none, a premium Of $55 on a basis of
AS; Kidder, Reabody G. Co., $2,5O0,O00
or any part thereof at 4.24; Kuhn, Loeb
& Co., $5,000,000 of either maturity at
424; the First National Bank, 400
for all; the Guaranty Trust Company,
$15,0O0,o00 or any part thereof at
444; the Central Union Trust, $5,-
100000 December maturity at
4.f0; the united States mortgage ana
Trust. 100000 December 3 maturity
at 4.5o; Brown Bros. e. Co., 4.34 for
100000 of December and 100000
of December 10; Blake Brothers, ST.
100000 of either maturity at 4.35;
w. J. Wollman & Co., 100000 each
of December 10 maturity from 1856 to
470, Inclusive; New York Life Insur-
ance Company, 100000 of December
10 at Ats; the Mechanics and Metals
National Bank, 100000 of December
3 at 4.75 and 100000 December 10
at 4.80.
This is the first financing under
taken by the present municipal admin
istration since the Wagner bill, re-
lieving the city of the necessity of ad-
herring to the pay-as-you-go policy Of
financing public improvements, was
signed by Governor Whitman. The
proceeds of the bills sold will be used
to anticipate the collection of taxes due
later in the year.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-27
Fur Garments Will
Advance in Price
Coats in London Are Several
Hundred Per Cent
Higher

LONDON, July 24.-Fur dealers in
London say that furs in America and
Great Britain are to be higher in price
next tall and winter than ever. Alien
turrlers in London have advanced the
price of the furs they are putting on
the market 200 per cent since spring.
and many of these were damaged skins
In some London shops fur coats We're
displayed recently at prices ranging
from $500 to $3.50, which short time
or S75. Wv
, 1--WE are quite at the mercy of the
Russlan alien workman" a British
furrier said. "They know more about
the fur trade than any one else.
would not guarantee the plainest fur
coat at S1OO, as, owing to the lack of
proper workmanship and the shortage
of furs, coat is often made up Of
some pieces that are faulty, though
some parts of it may be good.
ut is difficult just now to get the
alien furriers to do repairing. Thev
are keeping coats and fur wraps in
hand for months, as they do not want
to be bothered with repair work while
they can be preparing new garments
Tor their full harvests Of abnormal
New-York tribune., 1918-07-27

One Stock Exchange house, Clark,
Childs & Co., is convinced that the
inertia of the market is due neither
to uncertainty as to the new tax
legislation nor the delay in execu-
ton of the railroad control con-
tract, but solely to the money stu
alton. "Wall Street must look for
a money rate around 6 per cent in
definitely" it states. "But this is
not a bear argument as to securi-
ties, so long as money remains avail
able and the condition of the money
market seems to be improving.
Dealers in securities must realize
that stiff quotation for collateral
credits is altogether in line with the
high returns realized on securities.
from government bonds right down
the line, as part Of the wars inf1a-
tion. It is simply a matter with the
market Of becoming accustomed to
the new order of things" 1t is
true, Of course, that a rate of 6 per
cent alone should not stop specula-
ton for long, but the keynote of the
situation is not the rate, but rather
in the possibility that it will sooner
or later become extremely difficult
to obtain funds for speculation at
any price.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-27
Industrial Cleavage
Is Widening Fast
War Requirements Causing
Shortage in Materials,
Labor and Fuel

The line Of cleavage between war
industries and what are termed non
essentials is more marked, it iA stated
by "Bradstreet'g" War industries are
becoming more active, while the non
essentials find increased difficulty in
labor and coal and face a serious situa-
ton. The week has seen further large
drafts made upon man power for the
military service, marked shifting OF
existing forces and increased partici-
patton Of women in industry being fore
shadowed. Further heavy orders for
and enlargemcnts Of munition plants,
increased speed in steel production and
in shipbuilding, and heavily augmented
outputs Of clothing and other supplies
for the rapidly growing armies are
other features of the week.
General civilian trade at wholesale
continues good; very heavy, in fact,
consideriog that it is midsummer and
that pending regulation OF prices, pro-
duction of textiles, hides and leather
and variety of other lines holds
down buying, although much of the
merchandise selling is sold subject to
government price regulation.
There has been a perceptible i'm
provement IN crop conditions, owing
to much needed ranfalls, but the crop
situation is spotted because of lack Of
moisture IN Texas and the Southwe st
generally. The retail and mai order
business is quiet, compared with whole
sale and jobbing transactions.
The great basic element Nof unprece-
dented earning power of the people
as whole is, of course, still the gov
ernng features, which seems bound to
carry trade along until the war stu
alton becomes capable of measurement
and of discounting.
Collections rule fair to prompt.
Money is closer, Independently of gov
ernment borrowing, partly because of
liberia; liberal crop movement, partly because
prices are high, and therefore more
capital is needed to swing the same
or larger volume of business, and
partly because credit restrictions call
tor more nearly cash basis of opera
tions than has been hitherto the case.
"Dun's Review" says varied as the eco
nomic readjustments have already been.
the extension of Federal domination
of trade ard industry has continued
without interruption and steadily be-
comes more farreaching in it's influ-
ence.
Not only are the wants of the gov
ernment greatly exceeding earlier ex-
pectations and monopolizing con-
stantly increasing proportion of the
nations producing capacity, but no
precise calculation can be made as to
the supplies that will be available for
ordinary uses, and civilian contracts
ere promptly set aside whenever they
interfere with work of a special char
acter.
Under the conditions, the state of
business obviously cannot be gauged
by the usual standards, and that the
notable activity manifested in MANY
quarters results either directly or in
directly from pressure of war needs
each weeks reports make palmer.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-27
Food Costs in Brazil
European War Causes Great
Advance in Prices

Brazil is. ,nother country in which
the European war has increased food
costs. The advance that has taken
place in staples is shown by 1917 prices
compared with 1913. Increase Of do
mestic product costs in Rio de Janeiro,
figured upon last years prices. include
the following: Peanuts, 46 per cent;
rice, AL per cent; sugar, TOP per cent;
lard, transported by rail, 14.4 per cent;
lard, transported by steamer, 31.9 per
cent; pork, 1872 per cent; mandioca
-four, 95.G per cent; beans, 25.2 per
cent; butter. transported by railway,
1873 per cent; butter, transported by
steamer, 9S.8 per cent; herva matte,
3.5 per cent; tapioca, 1879 per cent;
starch, 1871 per cent, and jerked beef
(maximum quotation), COS per cent.
The same comparison made with i'm
ported products shows the following
percentages Of increase in price from
1913 to 1917: Rice, S58 per cent; olive
oil, TAI per cent; Goldfish, 1892 per
cent; lard, SO per cent; onions, SOB
per cent; wheat flour, 1889 per cent;
beans, 1889 per cent; kerosene, 118
per cent; condensed milk, 56.8 per cent;
corn, 1O44 per cent; wheat, 267.9 per
cent, and jerked beef. 56.6 per cent.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-27
Canada Reports
Industrial Unrest

The country is now passing through
a period of industrial unrest, as is ev
denced by the widespread demands Of
labor for increases in wages, involv'
ing in some cases large sums. This
natural outgrowth of the high coss
of food and clothing and of the scarcity
of labor, but it is imperative at TINS
critical time to employ our industrlsi
resources to the greatest advantage
hence wise mediation in settling diH'-
culties as regards prices or wages was
never SO important. The machinery oi
production, of which our transports
tion system is an essential part, mus'
be kept running to its full capacity.
Any shortcoming in this respect woula
be indicative of greater concern on ou'
part for material considerations thsu
Tor our responsibility to our men II II
the field and to our Allies. 1t wouiu'
however, be a reflection upon the cs
pacity of the leaders of labor anu
upon our business men, and also upv"
their loyalty to the great cause io'
which we are fighting, if the produs'
ton of food and munitions were SER
ously interrupted because of their "
ability to solve these problems. CUES,
tions of profit, wages and persons,
comfort are quite secondary to that -
the defence of the country. No saclI, sa,
fees in these matters made by capils'
or labor are equal to the sacrinees oe
ing made by our soldiers. Their coz.
tdence n our support should nov ~ ~
weakened by disputes at home as 10
remuneration for civilian services uh-
der conditions involving neither priw.
tion nor risk.-Canadian Bank Of le'A'
merce.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-27
Australia's Trade Board
Commissioners To Be Sent All
Over World

The Australian Board of Trade,
winch was recently organized, will take
charge, in connection with the Depart
ment of Trade and Customs, of vast
administrative duties in connection
with commercial affairs which had been
thrust upon the government owing
to the war. The Board of Trade presi-
dent is the Minister for Trade and Gus
toms, who is supported by two assis-
tant ministers, while there is one rep
resentativc of manufacturers and an
other for merchants or importers.
The Board of Trade, it is expected,
soon will appoint trade commissioners
for duty in all the important countries
in the world. 1t will have great influ-
ence upon the operations of exporters
importers and business men in general,
and it is announced that political in
reference with business will be re-
duced to the minimum consistent with
public interest.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-27
Swiss Use of Electricity

The Swiss are taking advantage of
the water power existing in their
small manufacturing plants. In the
Canton of Vaud all the small factories
and industries use electric power to
some degree. This motive force is gem
Grated by water power, and most of the
electricity utilized by municipalities
aud industries is furnished by COM
panies which are controlled as to own
ership by state or municipality. Rates
charged by the two big companies are
practically uniform, and the corpora
tions were founded for public service
and not for profit. However. war prices
for copper, lead and other supplies
have forced an increase of from 25 to
SO per cent in the prices charged for
current