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Evening star., 1919-02-28
THE WEATHER.

District of Columbia, cloudy tonight
and tomorrow, probably rain: warmer
tonight; colder tomorrow night; south
and southwest winds, increasing.
Maryland, cloudy tonight and to-
morrow, probably rain; warmer to-
night; colder tomorrow in west por-
ton and tomorrow night in east por-
ton: south and southwest winds, in
creasing.
Virginia, cloudy tonight and tomor-
row, probably rain; warmer tonight
in the interior; colder tomorrow in
west portion; increasing southerly
winds.
West Virginia, rain tonight; warm
er in east and south portions; tomor-
row colder, with rain turning into
snow; cold wave tomorrow night;
strong southerly winds, shifting to
northwest.
Records for Twenty-Four Hours.
The following were the readings of
the thermometer and barometer at the
weather bureau for the twenty-four
hours beginning at pm. yesterday:
Thermometer-Yest esterday, p-m., 4S;
8 pm, 40; IL midnight, 81; today, 4
a. m, "a; 8 am, 81; IL noon, A: pm.
IS. Maximum, 40, at AIS pm. yester-
day; minimum, 34,. at am. today.
Temperature same date last year
Maximum, So; minimum, 40.
Barometer-Yesterda Pm, 1928;
spm., 1925: IL midnight. 1928; today,
4 am, 1920; S am, 1921; II noon, 80. II;
Q pm, 30.11.
Evening star., 1919-02-28
LONDON MONEY.

LONDON. February 2s.-Money, J3M
per cent. Discount rates-Short and
three month bills, 1882 per cent.
Evening star., 1919-02-28
Extreme Declines Shown.

The conflicting course of prices at
midday indicated the divergent views
of pools and further profit-taking.
SteelS, oils, rails and Specialties
showed extreme declines of l to
points. while shippings and tobaccos
increased their early gains.
Evening star., 1919-02-28
Washington Stock Exchange.

SALES.
Washington Railway and Electric pfd., 10
at 81.
Mergenthaler, 10 Mt 1851.
Columbia Graphophone Manufacturing Co.
CON-, 10 at III.
Bid and Asked Prices.
BONDS.
Evening star., 1919-02-28
Break in General Motors.

The break in General Motors, which
lacked explanation but bore the
marks of a bear raid. was halted by
an extensive buying movement in
shippings, feathers tobaccos and sew
eral of the more representative equip
nents.
General Motors retrieved more than
half its loss. related shares making
proportionate recoveries, after which
the market settled down to comparative
dullness.
The demand for shippings resulted
can International Corporation, At
iantic' Gulf gaining 4.
Hide and Leather, American Car,
American Locomotive, United Cigars
and Pacific Telephone comprised the
other exceptionally strong issues.
Evening star., 1919-02-28
Money to Loan

Secured by First Deed of Trust on Real Estate.
Prevailing interest and commission.
Joseph I. Weller. 4sU R1ss wash; sss Il asa Trust
Evening star., 1919-02-28
STOCK PRICES CLOSE
BELOW THE OPENING

NEW YORK, February 2S.-For the
first time this week. changes at the
irregular opening OF today's stock
market were trivial, in no noteworthy
instance varying more than a small
fraction.
This condition underwent a radical
change before the end of the first half
hour, however, General Motors caus-
ing a reversal throughout the list by
it's precipitate decline of points,
yielding l to points between sales.
Other specialties, particular motors
and their accessories, also oils, lost
to 4 points, but standard shares were
not much affected.
Forenoon prices on liberty bonds
were: avs, $3.50: first As, $3.50; sec
ond As. 1920; first 4As, 95.02; second
AIS. $3.50; third AZ s, 1926; fourth
AIS 1882
Evening star., 1919-02-28
Figures for Maryland Banks.

The Federal Reserve Bank Of Rich
mond has issued a circular showing
apportionments and subscriptions of
Treasury certificates of the series 5-F
by banks of the fifth reserve district.
Among the Maryland banks in the
neighborhood of Washington which
figure in the report are: Takoma Park
Bank. apportionment $1,000. subscrip-
ton $4,000: Silver Spring National
Bank, apportionment $4,000. subscrip-
ton $4,000: Savings Institution of
Sandy Spring, apportionment $4,000,
no subscription; Sandy Spring First
National Bank. apportionment $4,000.
no subscription; Montgomery County
National Bank of Rockville. appor-
tionnent $4,000. subscription the
same; Farmers Banking and Trust
Company of Rockville, apportionment
s1I.o00. subscription the same; Pooles-
Vile National Bank. apportionment
$4,000, subscription the same: Ken
sington Bank. apportionment $1,000.
subscription the same; First National
Bank Of Gaithersburg, apDortionment
$4,000. no subscription: First National
Bank of Southern Maryland at Upper
Marlboro, apportionment $4,000, sub
scription the same: Farmers and Me-
chanics' Bank of Seat Pleasant, appor-
tionment $4,000. no subscriptions; Citi-
sens National Bank of Laurel appor-
sIonment $4,000. subscription the
Evening star., 1919-02-28
OIL STOCKS.

Quotations furnished by W. b. Hibbs & Co.
Evening star., 1919-02-28

On the Washington Stock Exchange
today ten shares Of Washington Rail-
way and Electric preferred sold at g.
ten shares of Mergenthaler at 1851 and
ten shares of Columbia Graphophone
Company common at
f7f.
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Rumania's Ideals

Leonard A. Magnus. III. b., gives a
comprehensive view of subject about
which most Americans (most other ma =
tionals also for the matter of that are
densely ignorant, in "Rumania' $ Cause
and Ideals Rumania' s hesitancy in
entering the war made very bad i'm
preston on many of the Allied peoples.
but that there We're many reasons be-
yond the apparently obvious one of
barter is made plain by Mr.. Magnus.
Settled by Roman legonarics. speaking
Romance tongue. an island of Latin
culture and civilization surrounded by
a sea of Slavism. Rumania had definite
tendencies toward sympathy with the
great Latin nations. France and Italy,
belligerent against Hun kultur. These
were finally realized by entry into the
war on the side of the Entente. Mr..
Magnus gives a concise survey of the
historic backgrounds of Rumania, ana :
lyzes its national and International
problems and explains its cause and its
ideals for the future in an understand
able way. At a time when people, are
closer together than ever before, this
little book will do much to make the Ru-
manian situation understood and ap-
preciated.
RUMANIA's CAUSE AND IDEALS. BY
Leonard A. Magnus. New York: +. p.
Dutton g. &C.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-03
Lipely Memoirs

Further Indlscretions" continues the
wide ranging and widely interesting
revelations begun by "A Woman of No
Importance" in Memories. Discreet and
lndiscreet." Whatever the rating the
anonymous writer gives herself in her
mantle of pseudonym, the variety Of
persons. personalities and personages
who people her lively pages indicates
that she was important enough to en-
joy remarkable acquaintanceship. She
writes with light touch, almost con-
versational in its facility and lack of
consciousness. and her gossip is always
delicious. In addition, her memoirs give
excellent closeup pictures Of many
prominent. eminent and engaging in
dividuas-and with the warts on. Among
the subjects of her later discourses are
Queen Victoria. Queen Alexandra. Ed
ward VII, Cardinal Vaughn, Archbishop
Temple, Lily Langtry. Mr.. Balfour,
"Labby." Joe Chamberlain. the Duchess
of Cleveland, the Duke of Connaught, the
Duke of Hamilton and the former no.
liability. known since November II as
William Hohenzollern.
FURTHER INDISCRETIONS BY "A wo-
man of No IMPORTANCE " New York: e
p. Dutton & Co. IS.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-03
Ferrer0 Pleads for Halv

Guglielmo Ferrero's new book on
"Problems of Peace from the Holy AL
lance to the League of Nations" is
really a plea for the recognition of the
claims of Italy. addressed to the Amer
lean people. He insists that the Italian
claim to the Trentino. Trest and Istria
is modest when compared with the price
Italy has had to pay for the slight
territorial gains which she will make
if everything she asks for is granted.
And he insists also that Italy has suf-
fered greater proportionate material
damage by the war than some of the
other nations because her foreign trade
has been demoralized and because she
has had to spend about one half Of
her total wealth. His book deserves tho
serious consideration of those who wish
to read as skillful statement of fine
Italian case as has yet been made bv
any one.
fEOBIEMs OF PEACE. A Message from q
european writer TO Americans Nv ca
SieIno Ssm ferrere; New York; G. p. Put
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-03
FIRST COMPLETE
LIFE OF ROOSEVELT
William Draper Le,ois Has
Produced a Readable and
Euferf1iniup Book

The distinguished qualification Of
William Draper Lewis as the bioFrapher
of Theodore Roosevelt lies in the fact
that he knew the man personally and
was believer in his policies. Mr..
Lewis. however. would doubtless be the
first TO insist that his life Of the strenu-
Gus American is what the experts call
definite. IL is too early yet for any
one to write book about Roosevelt
which viii accurately appraise him.
Mr. Lewis's Life of Theodore
Roosevelt was patiently prepared for
IN" purpose of getting on the market
at the earliest possible moment book
which would cover the completed career
of its subject. If the author had de-
voted three years instead of three
months to his task the volume would
have had greater value. Yet it has much
merit. The story of the progressive
movement eliminating in the nomina-
ton of Roosevelt for the presidency in
1912 is told in considerable detail from
first hand knowledge. Mr.. Lewis ad
mits what the critics of Roosevelt have
charged. namely that when he left the
White House he had ambitions to return
there and that his fondness for the
presidency never left him. Mr.. Lewis
makes him willing recipient Of the
nomination in 1872 and not a man
who took it reluctantly. The author also
justifies the rulings of the presiding off
Ger in the Chicago convention under
which the nomination Of Taft was made
possible. He does. however. charge
the committee on credentials with ig-
noring the evidence in seating the Taft
delegates from the districts contested
by Roosevelt delegates and he insists
that mn jority of the Republican voters
of the country preferred Roosevelt to
Taft. Students of political hi story will
find the chapters dealing with these
matters full Of interesting and impor-
tant material.
The story of Roosevelt's career has
been told so many times that Mr..
Lewis's narrative as whole contains
little that is new. He has doubtless
drawn largely from the twelve to fifteen
lives that have previously appeared.
but he has digested his material and
produced consecutive and intensely
interesting narrative.
THE LIFE OF THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
BY William Draper Lewis. with an an
' troductlon by william Howard Taft. Phil
S2.25
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-03
Portraits Of Early Americans

"Portraits of the Founders" is n
most interesting and valuable contribu-
lion to the early history of our country.
Portraits of 125 distinguished people
are given. together with short biograph-
ical sketches of each by Charles
Knowles Bolton. librarian of the Bos-
ton Atheneum. The frontispiece is
Hannah Penn, the wife of the founder
of this state. She was a woman noted
for her brave spirit. and who greatly
aided her husband in his remarkable
enterprise. There are to be found also
several other portraits of leading Phil
adelphians of the early days, as Samuel
Carpenter. treasurer of the tprOvince:
Andrew Hamilton. recorder James
Logan. Penn's secretary and business
agent. aud Isaac Norris. mayor of
Philadelphia in 1924. and his wife
Mary. parents of a family of six sons
and eight daughters. noted for their
''love for languages and polite litera-
ture'.' The headmaster of the first
Quaker school in our city. the Rev.
George Keith. "a very militant Chris
tian,' is also portrayed. as well as
Johannes Kelpius, Pietist. who, with a
Chapter of Perfection in 1894 settled
on the banks of Wissahickon Creek.
near the present Paramount Park.
There their dress, their doctrines and
their holy living attracted much notice,
and there. as Whittier relates:
painful kolpius from his hermit den
BY Wissahickon. maddest of good men
Dreamed Ger the Chiliast dreams of
Petersen
THE FOUNDERS. Portraits OF persous
horn abroad WHO came to the Colonies in
t.orlh America Lefore the year 1901. With
int hioura icnI a,,,Ii,,o.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-03
HISTORY OF THE
AMERICANS CREED
The Unique Patriotic Docu-
ment That Won Balfi-
mOreS $1,000 Prize

As feature Of the nation wide cam
paign for Amcrcanization. probably
2.ooo,om school children memorized
'The Americans Creed" during the
nrst few months Of our partiripatiou in
the world war. In order that 20 900. o.
ooo more may do the same and in order
mat not aIon" the children but their
parents and all adults may know this
creed and how it came to he prcparcd
Matthew Page Andrews has written Il
little volume entitled 1.-The Americans $
Greed and Its Meaning"
AS the year 1916 drew toward its
close and it became more aud more OBJ
Vlous that We were to be drawn into
the war Henry Sterling Chaplin. of New
1ofk, conceived the idea of promoting
NATION wide contest for the writing
or national creed which should be the
brieteSt possible summary of American
political faith, ultimately well cx-
pressed.
Early in 1917 the contest was an
houhred at representative gathering
OF American authors. artists and edi
tors. little later Mayor Preston. on
behalt OF the city Of Baltimore. offered
prize Of $1,000 for the winning of the
creed. The successful competitor was
William Tyler Page. clerk of the House
OF Representatives of the United States
Congress.
The creed committee was swampcd
with requests for copies and all man
ner of questions about it. Finally Mr..
Andrews, chairman of the committee.
lp self-defensc prepared the little book.
'The Americans Greed and Its Mean
ing. Here he tells the whole story
OF the origin and development of the
idea. the original documents from which
the creed was drawn, as we'll as some
thing of the lives of the great Ampri-
can statesmen. Washington. Hancock,
Jefferson, Madison. Webster and Lin
coin. whose words Of imperishable wis
dom have been here formulated in a
new combination and for new pur-
pose.
THE AMERICANS CREED AND IT'S
MEANING. BY Matthew Page Andrews.
Garden city; Doubleday. Page & Co.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-03
DEAN LEWIS,S DEBUT AS A BIOGRAPHER
HENRY VAN DYKE
AS 4 MOR4LIST
His "paliey of Visions" Ele-
rates Lofty Ideals Before
the Gaze of Man

Henry van Dyke is not the greatest
man of letters in America, but he is one
Of the most popular. The publishers
announce that 10000 copies of his
'"rhe Valley of Vision" were sold
within few days of its first appear
ance. After reading it one can readily
understand the demand for it,
Doctor van Dyke has included in the
volume a group of stories, sketches and
impressions of the war. They are all
written from the point of view of a
humanist and moralist. Take the
first one as an example. 1t is a dream
which he says he had twenty five years
ago. He saw in his vision two men in
converse standing on the steps of a
cathedral in a strange foreign city.
They We're of heroic size and they re
sembled each other, but the face of one
was calm and full of compassion. The
face of the other was proud and pas
sonate. The passionate one, after
while, said to the other, II have done
with you. l do not believe in you"
And the compassionate one withdrew.
One was God and the other was Man.
1t was New Years eve and the dreamer
went info tbe cathedral crowded With
neonIe Man stood nm tho stems of tho
nltar nrocla;minu .J am the Lord
Tbere Is none above me-, Then tho
cathedral began n tremble Stones frll
from it's roof and from its towers and
Tho neonIe fled in terror from the Thing
that was hannpnipp The drppm is n
,t e t ,,or, ,,.;.i, .,,I;
sort OF prophetic allegOry with appll-
catiop IN recont avopts Ashes of
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BOOKS RECEIVED
Fiction

New YORK John Lane cCmpany sS AstS9T :! & Bees Fc
TRAVELLING COMPANIONS. By Herrv
James New York: Boni & Liveright
ton Houshton Miniin fSSm company asEk'n; Fo'
LILIES LIES WHITE AND RED BY Frances
Dorsn sG" company. @%pFS SfT siSo York; George H.
ROSY, By Louis Tracy. New York: Charles
scribner's Sons s1.6O. "a" ''es
AlRMEN EoIt y OF WAR; VAR; BY Boyd Gable. New
WOODEN SPOOL. BY Victor Rosseau ,Neu
YORK; George Fl. Doran Company, $50
Juvenile
DAVE PoRTER's WAR HoNoRS BY Ed
& shepard' co. sl.es. essoS'0n' Ao'hrop' Lee
WONDERS OF WAR AT SEA. BY Frsnci,
sSI Shepard %neser co. slso sos'on; Lothr0O' Lee
WHEN 7 WAS A GIRL IN MEXICO. By
shansG MherGedss Ge g Cooley; Boston: Lothrop, Lee /
RAINBOW ISLAND. BY Edna A. Brown
Boston: Lothrop. Lee Shepard Go. 81 20
General
PROBLEMS OF PEACE. BY Gusllelmo
sfFasr0' si.5c. New York G. P Putnam's Sons
A r2I,1 rp2IG,TIqEARY NARY, OF 5000 PHRASES. BY
Fatnams aGia sa%s5s sons csfF si7s New York; G. P
THE CURTAIN OF STEEL BY the author
q I'm the Northern Mists. New York;
George II Doran Company. Sl.50
THE SOCIETY. OF FREE STATES. BY
Rrnt. DwRaEht w Morrow. New York: Harper
A PILGRIMAGE IN PALESTINE. BY John
ssInsy' snnsy' 40 New York. Charles scribner's
ADVENTURES IN PROPAGANDA. By
Cartain Heber Bsnkenhorn. Boston:
Houehton Mifflin Company $3.50
PoLITICAL, LEADERS IN PROVINCIAL
PENNSYLVANIA. by Isaac Sharpless
New York; Macmillan Company. $500.
ALTRUIsM BY George Herbert Palmer
New York; Charles scribner's Sons
SERVICE AND SACRIFICE. Poems sy
Corinne Roosevelt Robinson, New York:
Charles Scribners Sons, s1,25.
ALICE-sTT- BY -THE-FIRE. BY ] NJ Bar
re. New York: Charles scrIbners Sons
THE EARTH TURNS SOUTH. Poems. BY
Clement Woods, New. York: II, p. Dutton
COURAGE, BY Jeanette Marks New
york; The Woman's Press, S1,25,
WITHOUT THE WALLS. A Reading Play
5I,lsh 5X hatrns trina. Trask, New York; Mac
STUDIES IN Marks GOSPEL, BY A. T.
mo6insoaa, New York; Macmillan Com
THE ERoTIc. MOTIVE IN LITERATURE.
sy Albert Nordell. New York; Bcni 4
oask n2oT SAYs ASR o pF TaA A5EsEEs sss sy ASp k
sens q Nelll. New York, BoHi & I.lverlght.
<%H.
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THE FOUNDERS Portraits Of nersons
born abroad who came to the Colonies in
t'orlh America Lefore the year 1901. With
an introduction' biographical outlines and
comments on the portraits. Two volumes
BY Charles Knowles Bolton. Boston: The
Boston Athenaeum.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-03
Exceptional Praise for
ALLEY
By w. GEORGE
Author of Z
"THE SECOND BLOOMING"

q BLIND ALLEY is a wonderful book
-. A deep understanding Of men and wo-
men, A book the depth, the scope, the range
of which put it absolutely out of the class of
anything that the war has produced
H.. There are many who will fly into de-
nunciation of this book, but it is beautiful to
find someone who fees from sentimental gush
and dares to stare situation in the face.
. BLIND ALLEY is an extraordinary
novel. But it is more than that. 1t is cry in
the night.-Chcago Daily Neqos.
g"'BLIND ALLEYS pro- G"'BLIND ALLEY is
duct of cool intelligence and compelling disturbing powerful
ceptonal aBoson Herald >roys T. n tbe FIRST aemp ac-
G"'BLIND ALLEY full curatey and courageouy de-
of passionate protest against pct English society of all classes
and vivid pictures of the de- in its reaction to the war
rucion it has wrought the Here have the only real
lives and hearts Of the English picture of English life when
people Mr.. Georges hand is English and boys dy
always skllful, he close ing at the front
observer of life. This book III is far better novel than
quite up the high standard Joan and Peter. which it
of his other ork-New York something like theme and
Tribune. men." ."-Chicago Tribune
43I Pages, Sis Net
LITTLE, BROWN & COMPANY, Publishers, Boston q
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1919-08-08
GOING AFTER THE PROFITEER

Uncle Sam is now going after the
profiteers. He is starting with the
men higher up, but unless this is
followed over a trail which takes in
the middleman and the retailer the
effort will be without avail.
A few weeks ago very substantial
reduction in the prices Of meats was
made by the big packers, but in spite
of this the prices to the consumer
actually increased. It looks as II the
habit for boosting prices has become
a mania and that nothing but force
will check the practice.
Prices of grain and pork started
on the toboggan yesterday in Chicago.
We should feel a reflection of price
reductions here and the consuming
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1919-08-08

ground and employing nearly 1000
men. The Murphy Iron Works, the
jacksonville Cracker Works, the Con-
zalez & Sanchez cigar factory, the
Florida Metal Products Company and
scores of others might be quoted as
showing what can be done in the way
of growth of factories in a decade
Willis Powell, erstwhile newspaper
man hoard of trade secretary and
general booster for Florida, writes to
the Tampa papers that he has recent
~ discovered something unique in To
ledo, where an immense building has
boen created for small manufactur-
ing enterprises. Spaces are walled
off for factories and power is furn-
;sbed to each by the building company
and in this way many are enabled 10
start in a small way and when tne
business has outgrown these quar-
tors tbev will be in a position to build
factory for themselves and go II
o,one This is not a new plan by any
means as it was in vogue in Dayton
and other cities fifteen or twenty
wears ago. The famous Delco system
90 ignition and lighting was born In
.ncb a building in Dayton about eigh'
+oon wears ago and now it occupies
oany acres with its immense plant
Jacksonville Times-Union.