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New-York tribune., 1918-02-15
Union Pacific Puts
Stock on Regular
10 Per Cent Basis
Company's Operating In
come Falls; Southern Pa
ci6c Reports Gain

Directors Of tho Union Pacific Rail-
road yesterday declared a quarterly
dividend Of 2h per cent on the $222,-
293,100 outstanding common stock,
placing tho issue on a regular 10 per
cent annual basis. Since last April
the common stockholders have been
receiving dividends at this rate, but
in the form Of per cent quarterly
with "a of l per cent extra. An extra
dividend of 2 per cent was announced
in January a year ago. The regular
semi-annual dividend Of per cent on
the preferred stock was also declared
at yesterdays meeting of the board.
Both dividends will be paid April l to
stockholders Of record March Q.
Union Pacific common responded to
the action of the directors with a net
gain Of 81 points on the days trading
on the Stock Exchange. The high price
was 118 and the closing quotation
1173s.
Comparative Earnings
For December the Union Pacific re-
ported total operating revenues of
11,801 ,524 and operating income after
taxes of $3,246,579, the former being
an increase of $1,827,842 over the cor
responding month Of 1915 and the lat
ter gain Of $1969o2. The smaller in
crease in net was due to an increase
Of $745,077 in operating expenses and
jump of $885,863 in taxes.
The company's gross revenues for
the entire year Of 1917 amounted to
$3.50, 1854, compared with $114,412,-
COZ the preceding year, while operating
income showed decline of $2,1150S5,
the total for last year being $42,941, =
$50. The increase in operating ex-
penses was $13,590,765, while taxes
were $4,213,577 higher than in 1916
The increase in transportation ex-
penses, which covers higher cost of
materials and labor, amounted to $8,-
$4,000.
Southern Pacific's Year
The Southern Pacific Company re-
ported gross earnings for December
OF $17,328, ,493, compared with $780,
S28 for December, 1916. Net earnings
after taxes were s3,930,377, compared d
With $3,6S6,5o3 the previous year.
Operating expenses increased $780,
lao, but taxes fell off $3O2,O67.
The months operating expenses in
cluded a charge of $1,2oo,ooO, repre-
senting estimated additional compen-
sation, covering the period from April,
1915, to October, 1917, inclusive, to be
paid locomotive engineers and firemen
as result of the Chicago arbitration
award of April, 1915. Before the work
of ascertaining the amount due under
this award was finished the Adamson
law went into effect, and this resulted
in further negotiations with the engi-
neers and fremen. Final agreement
and reworking of the figures under
these negotiations were not completed
until the latter part Of 1917.
For 1917 Southern Pacific's gross
earnings were $193,971 ,49o, a gain of
$30,544 ,068. Net operating income
amounted to $62,O70,733, an increase of
$10,868,315. Operating expenses and
taxes increased $23,035,969.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-15
Stock Exchange
Rescinds Monday
Closing Rule

AS result Of the suspension of the
heatless Mondays order bv the Fuel
Administrator, the governing commit
tee of the Stock Exchange at a special
meeting yesterday passed a resolution
resembling the previous ruling that the
exchange would be closed on those
Mondays covered in the original order
of DR.. Garfield. Other exchanges in
the financial district are expected to
take similar action
New-York tribune., 1918-02-15
Toledo, st. Louis & Western
Equitable Life Report

According to the annual statement
OF the Equitable Life Assurance Com
pany, the payments to policyholders
IN 1917 aggregated $62,S31,172, making
a total since organization of Slice.
SS9,011. The insurance now on the
ccompany's books amounts to $1,754,-
sea.sOS, an increase for the year of
alled's251,s44,s52, covering 1870 900
New-York tribune., 1918-02-15
Argentina Calls Bonds

Each year the Argentine governmen.
Calls Tor tenders of its 5 per cent in
ternal gold loan bonds of 1909 with a
view to buying a certain amount in snd
Ieurlng them. 1t was announced yes
terday that J. P. Morgan g. Co. ara
New-York tribune., 1918-02-15

The above rates express the cost Of
foreign money in terms of the Ameri-
can dollar, You buy an English pound
sterling at, say, s4.75Is. The intrinsic
parity is $4.S6fs per pound. Thus you
say either that pounds arc at discount
or that dollars are at a 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
New-York tribune., 1918-02-15

prepared to receive tenders on behalf o.
the Argentine for S6O1,224 OF the per
cent bonds. Each bonl has par vaiuss
Of 1913 in United States money anu
tenders must be at fiat price unceI
par expressed in dollars per bond.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-15
Money and Credit

Offerings of call money on the Stock
Exchange were somewhat more liberal
yesterday, the ruling rate for demand
loans being per cent, compared with
per cent on Wednesday.
The market for fixed date funds was
dull, with very few loans placed. Money
brokers quoted 5A to per cent for
practically all maturities.
Ruling rates for money yesterday,
compared with year ago, were as fol-
lows:
Yesterday. Year ago.
Call money. ........ so 2H%
Time money (nlixed collateraD:
Sixty days. 5340o 4@4La%o
Ninety days. 5240o 4@4il%o
Four months..... 5s4@69o 4@4La%
Five to six months 534@69o 4@4Ia%
Commercial Paper.-The market was
firm, rates being maintained at 5la to
6 per cent ,for the best regular ma
turtles.
Discount Rates.-Official rates of
discount for each OF. the twelve Fed
eral districts arc as follows.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-15

It Is probably more than a coinci-
dence that the gold holdings of the
Reichsbank increased some 1926, 6,O00,-
900 between the end of July and
December z last, while during the
same period the gold reserve of the
Austro- Hungarian bank decreased
about $200,000,000., Evidently Ger
many has been draining the financial
resources of her principal ally to
bolster up her own shaky structure.
The ratio of bullion to notes, the
Reichsbank statement shows, has
nevertheless declined from 48 per
cent before the war to less than IA
per cent at present.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-15

Below is given the current exchange
value Of foreign money in dollars and
cents, together with the intrinsic gold
parity, as calculated by the United
States Mint:
New-York tribune., 1918-02-15

Sub-Treasury.-The banks lost s4s1,-
goo to the Sub-Treasury yesterday.
at 42&d, unchanged; New York, S5Mc.
unchanged; Mexican dollars, 6S cents,
unchanged.
Bank of England.-LONDON, Feb. IA.
The Bank of England in its weekly
statement showed an increase in gold
holdings of f333,607. The proportion
of reserves to liabilities stands at 1896
per cent, compared with 1856 a week
ago. The statement, with the changes
from the preceding week, follows:
Gold ............ s5e,s4a, ,1os s335, ,eo7
Reserve. 31,332,000 4o4, 900
Notes reserve..... 30,214O0o $4,000
Circulation. ...... 46,O60,00O $4,000
Public deposits. 1901 900 *2, 10000
Other deposits. -. 1921, 1000 76hoOo
Govt securities. 56,35O,OOO $4,000
Other securities. 95,581 900 s1,227, 900
"Decrease.
Bank of France.-PARIS. Feb. IA
The weekly statement of the Bank of
France, with changes in francs from
the preceding week, follows:
Increase. \
Gold. ........ 5,365, ,299, 900 5000
Silver. 254,177,000 100000
Circulation. .23,82t, 900 sI,O57 900
Gen. deposits 1851, 1,366,ooo 53,o21 900
Treas. deposits 150,262,0 600 +228,681 600
Bills disc'ntcd 2,453,631 600 *12, 1851 900
Advances. -. 1,196,792, 900 1882 900
sDecrcase.
Iondon Money Market,~LONDON !
Feb. 1a--Nousy was in plentiful SUP.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-15

Bank CIearlngs.-The days bank
clearings at New York and other
cities were:
Exchanges. Balances.
New York. $658, ,790,764 $58,211.491
Boston. 46,506,896 7,087, ,3o4
Chicago. 95,149,143 10,4e1 066
Philadelphia.... 65,423,746 13,626,878
st. Louis. 22,084,412 3,691,561
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-02-12
TryMaking Your DUN
Cough Remedy
You can save about So, and have
better remedy than the
ready-made kind. Easily
done.

If you combined the curative proper
ties of every known ''ready-made
cough remedy, you would hardly have in
them all the curative power that lies in
this simple homemade" cough syrup
which takes only a few, minutes to pre-
pare.
Get from any druggist IL ounces
of Pinex go cents WORTH, pour II int
a pint bottle and fill the bottle with plain
granulated sugar syrup. The total cost
is about So cents and gives you a full
pint of really better cough syrup than
you could buy ready-made for $3.50.
Tastes pleasant and never SOILS.
This PineX and sugar syrup prepare
ton gets right at the cause of a cough
and gives almost immediate relief. It
loosens the phlegm, stops the NASTY
throat tickle and heals the sore, irri-
tated membranes that line the throat.
chest and bronchial tubes, so gently
and easily that it is really astonishing.
A days use will usually overcome
the ordinary cough nd for bronchitis!
Group, whooping coush and bronchial
asthma, there is nothing better
Pinex is a most valuable concentraj-
extract. and has been used for gener-
atiOns to break up severe coughs.
To avoid disappointment, be sure to
ask your druggist for ''2 II ounces Of
Pinex' with full directions, and don't
accept anything else. A guarantee o.
absolute satisfaction or money prompt.
ly refunded, goes with this preparation.
The Pinex Co. FIT. Wayne, Ind.-(A dvt.p
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-02-12
WonderfuEEUes Producer

Arv poultrr raiser caa easily doube his
7,,fits by doubling the egg production OF his
'.cnS. 4 scientific tonic has been discovered
lat revitalizes the flock and makes hen work
~ toe time. The tonic IS called more Eggs"
Give your hens a few cents worth of More
E=Ss'' and you viii he amazed and delighted
with results. dollars worth OF more
Eggs will double this years production of
eggs, 50 IL You wish to try this great profit
aser, write Z. ]. Refer. poultry expert,
5lJ2 Refer Bids. Kansas City. Mo-. who will
send you seasons supply of More Eggs"
Tonic for Sl.OO (prepaidl. So confident is
Nr. Refer OF the results that a million dollar
oank guarantees il you are not absolutely salts
lied your dollar viii be returned on request
and the 'More Eggs" costs you nothing. Send
a dollar today or ask Mr.. Refer for his free
poultry book, that tells the experience Of a
nau who has made a fortune out Of poultry.
IAdvtl
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-02-12
You May Find
It In Stocking
Cincinnati authority says your
troublesome cornS just
loosen and fall off

Sore corns, hard corns, soft corns or
corn between the toes just loosen in
their sockets and fall off the next day
if you will apply directly upon the corn
a few drops of a drug called freezone.
says a Cincinnati authority.
You merely put a drop or two Of this
freezone on the tender, touchy corn to-
day and instantly the corn stops hurt
ing, then tomorrow sometime you may
find the old torturous pest somewhere in
your stocking, having fallen off entire
ly without a particle of soreness, pain
or irritation. The skin surrounding and
beneath the former corn will be as
healthy, pink and smooth as the palm
of your hand
A quarter ounce of rreeZone is suffi-
cient to rid ones feet of every corn and
callus, and any druggist will charge
but a few cents for it. 1t is com
pound made from ether.-(Advt)
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-02-12
rHon,As JEFFERSON IN 1904

said this great statesman: at is in
comprehensive that government should
refuse the ballot to its most intelligent
wonderland give IL TO its most besotted
and ignorant men"
In the coming years the government
will experience che necessity for giving
the ballot to its intelligent women to
save the government itself. Said wise
chief justice of the southern states: We
let an iIliterate foreigner from Italy.
from Hungary. from Syria. come to our
state. After five years. if he is a
man. and he goes through A formula,
you will adjudge him to be voter. We
let the bartender and those who live
upon the vices and evils of life
have a vote and yet you deny it to your
mothers. your wives, your sisters and
your daughters. They say that a wom-
an has no time to vote. If a woman
can't have half an hour of fonce in two
years to go to the polls they need the
ballot very badly They say there is
dirt in politics The men put IL there,
for they alone have been running il,
and we need the women to give us a
good housekeeping. AS Mr.. Bryan said
we need the ballot of the women more
than they need It for themselves
What Abraham Lincoln Said in 1886
Suffrage should be conferred upon all
persons of sufficient intelligence and
sufficient age-by no means emitting
women"
This was declared eighty-two years
ago in a public speech when Mr.. Lincoln
was a young politician. At this time
women can vote and do hold the balance
of political power i'm sufficient number
Of states TO control one hundred and
ninety-three electoral votes. The wom-
en- Of California threw the election of
1916 TO the Democratic party. Since
1915 New York has added two hundred
thousand voting women in that state
alone. Surely those who read can run
and those who run can read.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-02-12
The Incendiary,s Torch

The terrible fires and immense de-
struction of munitions and provisions
is satisfactory evidence that incendi-
aries are out to do immense mischief.
The person who uses the torch to carry
on a despicable game of destruction
should be lined up against wall and
shot whenever caught
But it is the catching which is diff
ficuIt These dastards know how to
carry on the game and escape detec-
ton
I had a barn burned. 1t was evident
ly set afire, and according to our be-
lief and the evidence, it was fired by
a desperate negro woman, whom we felt
obliged to dismiss from our premises
for disreputable conduct Few days pre-
viously. We were helpless.
From the various newspaper accounts
in today-s issues, IL is indicated that the
incendiaries are alien enemies. Per-
haps they are of the opinion that they
are fighting a battle for Germany. If
such is the case, they have only to
lay the subject before the kaiser to
be sufficiently rewarded.
During the Civil war of the sixties,
there was a great deal of burning. When
fortified place they burned up all that
would burn to keep whatever would be
Of use to the victorious troops from the
troops. 1 saw Atlanta in 1866 after it
was laid waste by enemy fire. The
union station was mass of burned
brick and mortar. Whitehall street was
a mass of ruins, from West End to
Five Points. The tottering walls fell in
and out during the conflagration until
there was only a wagon track in the
center. and IL was too rough to be used
by a finer vehicle that a rough old dray.
The first night I slept in ruined At
lanta could see two big she'll holes
that had gone through the upstairs
rooms. 1t was an awful time.
War is what General Sherman called
Il. Gainesville was burned up. Cass-
Vile, then our courthouse town, was lit
orally burned up, except three church
houses. Wherever Sherman went along
ne piled the torch. Millions of property
vanished into smoke and ashes all over
the Confederate states. More disappear
ed with emancipated slave property.
War is always ready to burn up, never
to build Up. The wastage is as much
as the other losses, and the many con-
flagrations Of yesterday are proof that
4 good many fire devils are in the land.
IL caught red-handed they should be
shot promptly.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-02-12

or busy work shop. l think I can say
with reasonable certainty that many
more children could have been kept safe
and warm in furnace-heated school
buildings than scattered on the streets
or shivering around scanty fires in pow
erty-stricken homes.
But the thing has been tried and
failed. and anybody that can work at
all can get a job on Monday as we'll as
the rest of the week days.
Two Sundays in seven days is kind
Of over-croppinS general business.
L wish l knew where the plan came
from, and II anybody knows, let them
speak out In meeting"
am requested TO call attention to a
food order which contemplates fine or
Imprisonment for people who have a
supply of eatables laid up to last thirty
days I really think that will work it.
celf into nothing, like the Monday
holidays. but I know very well / am
safe-win not so to Jail on that score.
II is a hand-to-mouth problem with such
as me, and if wanted to lay in a sup
ply for a month 1 don't know where I'd
get it outside a wholesale grocery store.
Small stores in my town are fading out,
and II looks very much like we will APP
preciate sorghum and corn bread after
we have been better fed since the close
Of the war of the sixties.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-02-12
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Dear Children


According promise am this week publishing quite list Of
this good beginning of large acquanan The let
of
the writer prefers to have later letter printed So just tell
of the
letter Let her, for with each week the
to
those
fee at liberty to
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-02-12

love enough to deal justly and religious
ly with each other?
Secularism in education is a fearful
Explosive.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-02-12

you cousins to get behind a stump for l am
going to describe myself. l have black hair.
dark blue eyes, fair complexion, six feet tall
and weigh AS pounds. VIII leave my age for
and twenty Say, some of you cousins write
to me. | will answer all letters received and
would be delighted to hear from you. Well, as
my letter is getting long, guess | better go.
Wishing Aunt Julia much success with the Let
WILLIE F. BROWN.
BELL, Fla. r. F. D. 1. Box 30 A.
p. S.-Aunt Julia, please find incloSed 10
cents in coin for which please send me one of
your club buttons.
Dear Aunt Julia: Will you admit another
Florida boy into your happy band of boys and
girls? am nineteen years Of age, black hair,
Hack eyes, dark complexion, about five feet ten
riches tall, weigh 1855 pounds. l live on farm
near the school. Am in the ninth grade. Well,
! will close, hoping to this in print. With
WV BRODY GOODWIN.
p. s.-would like to correspond with the
cousins.
admit Texas girl into your happy band? Guess
you surprised to hear from Texas. aren t
you? We took The Journal when We lived in
Cornth, Miss. and when came here last
spring we continued our subscription. | know
ono of cur cousins, Lucille Harris, but guess
she has forgotten me by this time. odell Ear-
lell 7 think you were mistaken about your let
ter not being in print, for l read 1t. You must
have overlooked it. If l was Sood-looking |
certainly. would write to you. I will describe
myself and go, for I'm afraid Mr. Wastebasket
will enter and find me here. I have dark brown
hair and eyes, dark complexion; am five feet
three inches tall and am fifteen years old
Who has my birthday. November IL? II ] see
this in print, l will write again and tell you all
about this part of Texas. ! would like to hear
from any of the cousins, but I can't CORE
spond with all. With love and good wishes to
Aunt Julia and cousins. Lovingly,
Iadonia Texas MYRTLE POWER.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-02-12
ruELLEss ssoEDAYs on THE wANE.

II is understood that the national fuel
agents are now convinced that the holi-
day Mondays do not ''fill the BILL and
they will be relegated to the junk pile OF
needless sacrifices.
IL was an experiment an honest ex-
pertinent. as I believe. but the fuel prob
lem centers about the difficulties in
transportation and not in Monday holt
DAYS
Perhaps I am slow-witted as well as
slow-gaited in my old age, but / think
a great deal more coal was consumed by
idle people sitting around home fires
than would have happened in factory
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-02-12

The newspapers tell MS OF the great
thrush OF young women TO Washington
City, to occupy clerical positions
in the departments. They have gather
ed there by. thousands. The thrush has
been so great that many humanitarian
organizations are active in looking after
these young wonderland but few of
them are chaperoned by their mothers.
But until 7 examined a new congression-
al directory. issued in December. 1917.
I had no idea OF the number OF women
at present employed a. high-priced
clerks-for the senators who hold va
rious chairmanships. These women
clerks are named in this directory, and
there were thirty-hve clerks. and maybe
others, whose names are feminine-but
only initials-and these women clerks
hold extremely responsible positions
with fine pay.
Until I made this examination Of
woman clerks TO senate committees, 1
did not know they employed women
and girls as messengers. counted
thirty women-thus named and thus
employed
There are ninety-six senators-and
from my count. which cannot be lessen
ed and maybe increased, owing to
initials. which do not indicate sex
there are always sixty-Iive women
stantIy in public service. while congress
Is in session 7 was familiar with con-
gressional matters for six years-up to
1881 The very idea OF woman clerk
in congress would have been tabood-
Members wives, like myself. did much
writing for their husbands. but IL was
done at the hotel or boarding house
and without pay.
There are more than four hundred
members in the house OF representa-
tives The names OF but few clerks are
set down-but IL is a fact that there
are many women clerks. This is tangible
evidence of the rapidity Of the woman
movement. in very many lines that
were only mems activities These clerks
and messengers are learning about con-
Eressioual legislation very rapidly. The
work is well divided-the pay extra
-ood-and there's nothing TO hinder
rapid promotion. If the women are dis
Greet
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-02-12

Dear Aunt Tnlia and Corsius: Here ! como
again. 7 am -cinr 70 +nil Won all aNnnt nur
dickens. Mamma has Rhode island Reds and
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-02-12

SARAH HAYNES
Goodwater. Ala, n. T. n. :. Box Q.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-02-12

He1io. Aunt Julia and Cousins! Here 7 come.
Aunt Julia. 7 sure don't like this cold wealth
er for Il is Just terrible 1t is raining today
and I can't do anything but write. I go
ing 70 school and in the seventh grade. Aunt
Julia, I am going to do my Part. All of my
hens are laying and wanting to set. and I am
going to set them. I nave planted some cab
haSe seed. mustard and turnips. and sowed
some tomatoes in hotbed, and ] am going
20 nlsnt lots Of other seed. We have moved
out on a farm. There are all kinds Of fruit
trees around here and going to try 10
can late fruit this year If we can. Enclosed
find 10 cents in stamps, for which send me
4 club pin. Your niece,
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-02-12

Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Win you
nlnaSe admit enothc- little Alabama girl IN
vour hanrv hand Of cousins. We take the
dear oil Journal and I enjoy reading the let
torS fine. 70 school at Mount Olive. /
mn in th" sixth =r'de. viii he thirteen wears
old birthday. February o. Who has nv
birthdav:
Aunt Julia. inclose IN c"ris in money for
which please send me club button
Hone Mr.. Waste Basket will he away when
letter arrives. wouId like "a correspond
With Snrne = the cousins
With much love to Aunt Julia End couSins.
SARAH HAYNES.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-02-12
ORA LEE SMITH.
Il. T. n. No. .. BOX 5. Dover, Ga.

Dear Amt Iulia and Cousins: Will Won
please admit another Alabama girl into your
happy hand Of boys and girls? How many Of
Won girls like garden work? I. for I
made on asmall srTot of ground eighteen bush
els ~ tomatoes last wear. I go to school; like
our tenrhers fine. Their names are Mr.. and
Mrs. Williams. 7 will close with hest wishes
~ Aunt Julia md the COUSINS. Your loving
niece and cousin.
PEET.Ev NEY STRICKLAND.
Kew. Ala. r. T. u. l.
+. S.-Auut Iulia: 7 in"'oen 10 cents. for
which please send me a club button.