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The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1918-04-09
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church, the First Church OF Christ, Of
Boston, Mass, Donr miss this lee
ture
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RuY WAR STAMPS" AND SAVE.
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The Red Cross has the conce 3sion
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1918-04-09

President Wilson bought the first
Liberty bond offered in Washing
ten theater Monday night It was
for $1,000.
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Buy bond
Seize q war stamp.
The big drive starts tomorrow
morning. Are YOU ready? If moi why
not?
puddles and qonds, puddlei and
ponds buy less Junk and more Lib
erty Bonds
Conditions in Russia are steadily
growing worse says a headline, AS
II that were possible
Twenty six counties in the state
went over the top in the Liberty
loan campaign Monday,
TO every person who buys Lib
erty bond tomorrow, Furrow 4 COM
ptny will give a carnation,
George McGregor has been appre
hond"d working at the carpenter trade
without holding union card
$1,000 worth of sample knit under
wear will be sold in The Lulz base
ment Thursday, Friday and SATURDAY
at ID Off.
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tdHtain Ralph Smith who has been
taking special work in surgery at Ok
lahoma city left Sunday night for
Allentown Penn. Mr. and Mrs Sam
Smith and daughter. Anabel motored
tc Oklahoma city Mrs Smith and
Miss Ethel Maud Of Tulsa and Lieut.
harry Frant2 were over from Fort
sill to see him before he left
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1918-04-09

French inflicted great losses on the
kaisers forces in the Sunday battles
near Montdidier- And the Hun did
not pass.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1918-04-09

George McCregor has been appre
Eendnd working at the carpenter trade
Wthout holding a union card
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1918-04-09

Twenty six counties in the state
went over the top" in the Liberty
loan campaign Monday,
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1918-04-09

Conditions in Russia are steadily
growing worse, says a headline AS
n that were possible.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1918-10-09
HERE'S WAY ATLANTA
TREATS MEN IN KHAKI
Men Who Come and Go Will Always
Praise National League for Wo-
mems Service. It's Great
Work
(By Frank c. Gilreath.)

ATLANTA-If soldier in train
ing at Camp Gordon feels himself a
stranger in the community of Allan
ia, the reason is that he prefers the
contemplated solitude of his own
companionship to the jolly good
times provided for other soldiers by
the National League for Woman's
Service. which began its work in this
city at the very beginning OF the war
and has not only kept it up but great
ly enlarged it i'll keeping pace with
the wars demands
Ask soldier at Camp Gordon what
the National League for Woman's
Service is, and he will tell you that
it's an organization which maintains
big place in the middle of Peach
tree street where soldier can get
lots OF good things to eat, and listen
to good music, and dance with pretty
girls chaperoned by their mothers,
and write letters home.
Ask a soldier at Fort Mcpherson
what the League is, and he will tell
you that it's an organization of sweet
spirited women who come to the base
hospital and get wounded GONZALES
cent in their automobile and take
him for ride, and carry him to their
homes and show him a garden filed
with flowers and send him interest
ing things to read when the doctors
order him to sit i'll chair and keep
right still while his wound gets well.
Ask an, officer here with his family
and he will tell you that the National
League is an organization that found
him house or an apartment where
he could obtain his room and board at
moderate rates.
All OF these and many other forms
OF patriotic service have been per-
formed by the National League, and
now its commodious quarters in the
heart of the downtown district are
one OF the most popular of all the
places in Atlanta where soldiers en-
JOY the same sort of social inter-
course with nice people to which they
were accustomed when at home. Mrs.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1918-10-09
TWO GEORGIA CITIES
AFTER SCHOOL HEAD
Atlanta and Savannah Both Seek to
Engage Services of Professor c. B.
Gibson.-Committee Named.

ATLANTA-.As a result OF the
resignation of Professor ]. c. Ward
law as superintendent of Atlanta pubs
lie schools, which was rendered to
the board of education at noon last
Saturday and Immediately accepted
at his request, so as to permit him to
take up at once his duties as business
manager of the Student Army train
ing Corps units in the southeastern
states, and the city of Atlanta and
the city OF Savannah are now con-
testants for the services of Professor
L. b. Gibson, superintendent of the
public schools of the latter city.
On motion of James l.. Key, MEM
Der OF the board of education and
mayorelect of Atlanta, who goes in
office on January |, the board of edu-
cation appointed special committee
of three to go to Savannah and tender
the. position OF superintendent of
schools to Professor Gibson of that
city. Although Savannah is paying
him salary of $4,000 a year, while
Atlanta pays her school superintend-
ent only $4,000, it is hoped and be-
lieved by members OF the Atlanta
board of education that they will sue
coed in securing Professor Gibson's
services, as they plan to adjust the
matter of the salary in satisfactory
manner Professor Gibson was form
erly superintendent OF the Columbus
schools, and prior to that time was
president of Syracuse University OF
Syracuse, n Y
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1918-10-09

ta's leading women, was the original
chairman of the league. Then she
appointed Mrs. Dunbra Roy to take
her place After extending and en-
larging the scope of the work. Mrs.
Roy appointed Mrs Benjamin Elsas,
and the latter is now devoting a
wealth Of time and attention to it.
Other officers of the League are Mrs.
Howard Bucknell vice-chairman;
Mrs. Robert Aston, recording secre-
tary; Mrs. Victor Smith, treasurer;
Mrs. w. H. Miller, corresponding
secretary; Mrs w. II. kiser,' auditor.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1918-10-09

A MEXICAN families would have less sugar than the
"A people of war torn France if depended entirely
homegrown sugar stocks.
Approximately rs per cent. of our sugar is shipped
shores We produce about 900 900 tons Of sugar
year. Our imports from abroad amount to SOOO,
600 tons year in normal times.
The United States Food Administration asks each
family to limit its of sugar to two pounds month
DER person for household The military stuson de-
mands that every available ship be placed at the disposal
of the Army Navy. When sugar,
shipping.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1918-10-09
Optimistic Thought.

There is satisfaction in the thought
sf having done what we know to be
light.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-21

retail establishments of the United
states you will find that during the
past six months they have been able
to sell many woollen goods at $40, S12
and $3.50 per yard.
The sale price of cotton goods to-
day is advanced in retail from 200 to
"oo per cent. Goods formerly retailed
at l21s cents and Is cents per yard
are sold over the retail counter to-day
at 40 cents and SO cents per yard.
Other glaring instances of advances
In both cottons and woolens could be
multiplied indefinitely, and it is the
retail distributor of merchandise to-
day who is getting the price from the
general public, and it is the new pub
llc that have SUDDENLY acquired wealth
that are paying these prices.
Not alone will this apply to fabrics,
but to metals. Perhaps if you had the
time you might investigate one little
item; i. e., the matter of the insignia
that the officers of our army are COM
pelled to purchase for their uniforms,
Three letters that go on the coat col
lar retail for rs cents and $125. The
cost of manufacturing these cannot be
over a few cents apiece.
Another added proof of the value and
necessity of the silk business is seen
IN their offerings to the government
In the way of subscriptions to the Lib
erty Loan, and this does not begin to
tell the whole story.
would suggest to you a line of
thought for investigation, wherein a
paper like yours might be of infinite
value to the reading public in guiding
and forming their opinions; i. e., that
to-day and until the close of the war
and for sometime aftcrward what we
need is intensive production rather
than curtailment. If working hours
were heightened instead of shortened
ir all lines of business, where it is es-
sential for the welfare of the govern
ment, so that workers may be able to
produce the fullest amount possible,
whether from the farm. the mine or
the machine shop, it would help ma
terially.
might add that if competition is the
life of trade, then by increasing pro-
duction, stocks are built up that be-
come competitive by their very amount.
The necessity for artificial or arbi-
trary price-fxing becomes less neces-
| sary.
trust that you will take this letter
in the spirit in which it is offered to
you, not in any sense of criticism, as
the writer likes your paper and never
a day passes without turning to this
column to see what new thought is ex-
pressed. JOHN J. TWOHEY.
New York, April II, 1918.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-21
Relevant Comment
sloss-sheffield Opens High

Sloss- -Sheffield's overnight response
to the action of directors in resuming
dividends on the common stock was an
advance at the opening of 2A points, to
591A, which was also the price at which
the stock closed. 1t was evident that
the declaration of IA per cent quar-
terly dividend had taken the Street by
surprise because yesterdays gain was
preceded by an advance Friday of
points. The statement issued by the
directors following Fridays meeting
explained that the company's cash posi-
ton had been greatly strengthened
since last spring, when dividend pay
ments were stopped. At that time there
was outstanding a demand loan of
100000, in addition to overdue ac-
counts; These obligations have since
been ( i'd, and cash on hand on April
Is al, Mnted to 1851 900, in addition to
100000 in Liberty bonds. "In view
of these conditions" said the official
statement, "the board of directors has
decided that it was consistent with con-
servative policy to resume the pay
ment of dividends on the common
stock"
New-York tribune., 1918-04-21
The Dollar in Foreign Exchange

Sensational strength in Spanish ex-
change furnished the principal feature
of the local market last week. Pesetas
went to high record price of 31A
cents on heavy inquiry, which estab-
lished them at premium of GO per
cent. Toward the close of the week
they declined to 81 cents. Much of the
strength Of Spanish exchange is due to
the extensive purchasing of war sup
plies from Spain by England and
France, thereby creating an abnormally
large demand for exchange on Madrid,
resulting in forcing the London and
Paris rates up sharply.
Sterling and franc exchange contin-
ued to display irmness during the
week. On one day London sight drafts
sold at $4.7555, the highest price in
months. Franc checks held around 5.72.
Rates on the Scandinavian countries
we're firm most of the week. Current
firmness in neutral exchanges is be-
lieved by international bankers to in
dicate a prolongation of the war.
If you calculate the cost of the dollar
in terms of foreign money at par value
that is, as if you were buying dollars
with pounds, marks or francs - its
value at the close of last week, as COM
pared with a year ago, would be about
as follows:
New-York tribune., 1918-04-21

last shows gross earnings of $8,460,O02,
compared with $8,256,470 for 1916.
Balance after expenses and taxes was
S2,152,912, compared with $2,593,309 for
the preceding year. Total income was
1862, ,208, against $1,3se,s72 for 1915.
Preferred dividends amounted to $780,
1875, the same as the year before. Sur
plus after common dividends of $685.
$40, was S270, ,143, compared with $780,
265 for 1916.
Consumers Power Company.-State-
ment for the twelve months ended Feb
ruary %, 1918, shows gross earnings of
$5,S32, ,147, compared with $4,908,416 for
the preceding twelve months. Net
amounted to $2,34s,oo1, against $2,47s,-
726 for the corresponding period of
1916 and 1917. Interest, etc, was $977,-
1928, compared with $906,100 for the
same months of the previous year. Pre-
ferred stock dividend was $582,83 an
increase of $105,S30 over the year be-
fore Balance for the period was $751;
S43, decrease Of $307,783 from the
same months of the preceding year.
Cumberland County Power and Light
Company.-Gross earnings for the
twelve months ended February % last
amounted to $3,06s,576, compared with
s2,911, ,40s for the corresponding period
of the previous year. Interest, etc,
was $780, .466, against SS10,201 for the
same months of 1916 and 1917. Pre-
ferred stock dividend was $138000, the
same as the preceding twelve months.
Balance for the period was deficit of
$25,806.
Republic Railway & Light Company.
Report for the twelve months ended
February %, 1918, shows gross earn
ings of $5,097 ,320, an increase of ST.
OO1 ,049 over the corresponding period
Of 1916 and 1917. Net after taxes was
1881, $50, against s1,628.716 for the
year before. Surplus after charges
amounted to S630,679, decrease Of
$l61 ,429 from the same months of the
preceding year.
Louisville Gas and Electric Company.
The gross earnings for March
amounted to s26o,2s7, compared with
$242, ,102 for March 1917. Net after
taxes was $140,952, an increase of s10,-
o33 over the corresponding period Of
the year before. Gross earnings for
the twelve months ended February 90,
1918. were S2,915.135, compared with
$2,563,S1l for the same months Of 1916
and 1917. Net after taxes for the Pc
riod amounted to $1,566,642, against
S1,4l6,771 for the corresponding period
OF the previous year.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-21

Statistics just issued make it DOS
sible, for the first time, to measure
accurately the extent to which rail-
way freight traffic was affected by
the severe weather, congestion and
disorder that prevailed in January.
the first month of government oper-
alton. Compared with January,
i9l7, loaded freight car mileage de-
creased more than 25 per cent, while
the movement Of "empties" was just
as unsatisfactory, though meanwhile
there had been an increase of 3 per
cent IN the number Of freight cars in
service and of one-half of per cent
IN the number of active locomotives.
There was, however, an increase of
IL per cent in loadings, so that the
revenue ton-mileage decreased only
5,l12,o0O,000, or II per cent. The
decrease in service rendered in the
Eastern district, where weather
conditions were most severe and
congestion more acute than else
where, was Is per cent, whereas in
the Southern district it was 18 per
cent and in the Western district
only 5 per cent.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-21
Weather Aids
Recovery of
Cotton Prices
Market Advances ON Re-
ports of Severe
Cold Snap

Unfavorable weather and spot advices
were the chief factors in a further re-
covery in the cotton market yesterday.
The more optimistic sentiment which
had developed after the early break of
Friday appeared to have grown strong
er overnight, and it was promoted by
increasing confidence in the stability of
spot holders, combined with apprehen-
sions Of a further delay in the new crop
start Prices sold more than So bale
over Fridays closing figures, with July
contracts touching 20, or 13O points
above the low level of the previous
morning. That delivery closed at 1882,
with the general list closing steady at
net advance of 46 to 81 points.
The market opened firm at an ad-
vance of to % points, with late
months relatively firm on reports of
low temperatures in the South and
prospects that they would spread from
western to eastern sections over the
week end. Complaints of unfavorable
weather from the Southwest were ac-
companied by bullish comment on the
spot situation, and the near months
soon tirmed up with the rest of the list.
Buying was also promoted by more
optimistic view Of the war situation
and Washington advices claiming lit
tie prospect that the bill to fix cotton
prices at 20 cents a pound would make
any progress in the House. 1t seemed
indeed, that nervousness over this lat
est price-iixing proposition had almost
completely disappeared, and there was
probably rebuyng by people who had
sold out long cotton on the break of
last Thursday. New Orleans was also
buyer here, but the bulk of the de-
mand came from Wall Street sources.
probably rejecting reactionary senti-
ment as we'll as covering. May sold up
to 1880 and October to 2S, with the
general list showing net advances of
81 to 65 points.
Later fluctuations were irregular un-
der realizing for over the week end,
with the close showing reactions of
some to Is points from the best.
/ There was bullish comment on the
weekend figures showing greater de-
crease in the worlds visible supply
than for the same week last year, but
local traders thought the advance chief
ly due TO the weather and spot situa-
tions. Replanting of cotton killed by
the last cold snap was reported in Ala
bama, but the present drop in tenn
peratures is expected to show unfavor-
ably in the weekly report of the
Weather Bureau next Wednesday, Re-
ports from the goyds trade indicated
that demand had been checked by the
break in raw material and that second
hands had been shading prices. No
change was reported in the generally
firm ruling of the primary goods mar
kets, however. and it is anticipated that
the government will require approx
mately half of the country's entire out
put.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-21
Our New Customer

The recent substantial increases in
sales of American construction mate
rials and machinery to Colombia are
pointed out in report made public to-
day by the Bureau Of Foreign and Do
mestic Commerce, Department of Com
merce. These gains are attributed in
part to the fact that the war has cut
off former European sources of supply,
and it is urged that vigorous effort and
n painstaking attention to the require
ments of this market are necessary if
the present position of the United
States is to be maintained when the
war is over
New-York tribune., 1918-04-21
Corporate Returns

Kaufman Department Stores.-Net
sales for the year ended December 81,
1917, were $15,391 ,161, compared with
s13,1S4,483 for the preceding year Net
profits amounted to s723,114, compared
with 81 ,021 ,670 in 1915. Preferred divi-
dends were $147,0O0, decrease of
$1,000. Surplus was $576,114, against
$867,670 for tho previous year.
Jones Brothers Tea Company, Inc
Sales for the month Of March were ST.
100,172, compared with $942,486 for the
Same month last year. For the first
quarter, sales totalled s2,603,719, an in
crease Of $548,853.
New York State Rnilways.~-Annua
report for the year ended December 81
New-York tribune., 1918-04-21
Is Silk a Luxury?
Financial Editor of The Tribune.

financial Editor of The Tribune.
cir: In your editorial column to-
oay there appeared paragraph on silk
imports, and the writer wonders if you
are not laboring under the apprehen-
s'Ye idea that existed some years ago
III regard TO silk az luxury There was
time undoubtedly when such condi-
ton was a fact. but in view Of the
kfo"th OF this business in volume and
'he number Of people employed in it's
manufacture and distribution all over
.ne United States, it is no longer
'p1nry, but it Is absolutely ncces-
sl'y, and IL silks to-day were put in
.ne luxury class and their manufacture
ing cnrtailed or stopped, the immedi-
a'e result would be terrific advance
~ the cost of cotton and wool to sup
py the need OF the public. In fact.
my alone would this apply to fabrics
1"r dresses, but also in the mechanical
arts. The curtailment would amount
!" practically danger, az, for instance,
N tne electrical business the neccasity
Tor six to-day in winding coils, etc.
~ sufficiently emphatic TO demand a
'asse portion Of certain grades Of raw
''iN Which come to this country.
row, If there is any truth in the
s|atement luxury" being applied to
iaSrics, IT certainly should be applied
70 both cotton and wool. The wool
'sor,c sItuatjon, where goods are nd
'anced from retail price Of 75 cents
I - sl'bo and 81 and ~ per yard, and
Z x0o1s from ~ per y@vd TO 30 and $40.
1a fact, II you will Ests through the
New-York tribune., 1918-04-21
Regular Declarations

G Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company
Semi-annual dividend of 21a per cent on the
preferred stock, payable May 10.
Bellows Falls Power Company.-scmi-an
nual dividend of 212 per cent on the pre-
ferred stock, payable May Is to stockholders
Of record April 80.
J. G. Brill Company--Quarterly dividend
OF l per cent on the preferred stock, payable
May to stockholders of record April 23
dend of IN per cent on the preferred stock
payable May 16 to stockholders of record
April 80.
Canadian Convcrters Company.-Quarterly
dividend of l.. per cent. payable May Is to
! stockholders of record April 80.
Elmira g. Wiliamsport Railroad Company.
Dividend of $2:25 per share on the COM
mon stock, payable May L to stockholders of
record April 20.
Georgia Southern & Florida Railway Com
pany.-Semi-annua dividends of $3.50 per
share the first and second preferred stock.
both payable May to stockholders of record
April 81.
Houghton County Electric Light Company.
-Semi-annual dividend of per cent on the
prccfererd. stock. payable May l to stock.
holders Of record April 90.
| Idaho Power Company.--Quartery dividend
of ~ per cent on the preferred stock, pay
able May to stockholders of record April 90.
Loft Company. 1nc.-Quarterly dividend of
IA per cent, payable May I.
Montreal Tramways.-Quarterly dividend
of 2H per cent, payable May l to stockhold
of record April IS.
Nashua & Lowell Railroad Company
Semi annual dividend of Az per cent. pay.
able May to stockholders of record April Is
New England Company.-Dividend of ga
per cent on the first preferred stock. payable
May Is to stockholders of record May /.
Vp:.I1- .
9 per cent. payable May Is to stockholders of
record April 80.
Securities Corporation General.--Qunrterly
dividend of Y per cent on the preferred
stock. payable April Is to stockholders OF
record April 12.
Warwick Iron & Steel Company.-Semi-
annual dividend of 80 cents per share. pay
able May Is.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-21
Steel Spring Advances

Railway Steel Spring led the equip
ment list yesterday, with net jump
of ga points, to 5612. At 56s4 the
stock was within an eighth of the high
price of the year. Despite deduction
of S3,500,OO0 for Federal income and
excess profits taxes in 1917, the COM
pany enjoyed in that period the best
year of its history, with earnings
equivalent to 24.91 per cent on the
With 1907 per cent earned in 1916.
Last year s3,12e,O0O of bonds were re-
tired, leaving only S2,967,O00 outstand-
ing on December 81 last. The company
is expected to share in the big equip
men. orders expected to be announced
soon by the government.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-21

The above rates express the cost Of
foreign money in terms Of the Ameri-
can dollar. You buy an English pound
sterling at, say, $4.759s. The intrinsic
parity is $4.86ss per pound. Thus you
say either that pounds are at discount
or that dollars are at premium, which
is owing to the fact that in England
the demand for dollars with which to
settle accounts in this country is greater
than the demand in this country for
pounds with which to settle accounts in
England.