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South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-08-26
LEATHER

tndiana-Fair tonight and Wed
nc-del. not much change In terl-
perature.
lower Michigan-FaIr tonight.
slightly cooler extreme west portion.
wednesday fair
The sun., 1919-07-09
ROADS NET INCOME GAINS.
st. Louis. Rocky Mountain and Pa
clio Earns s8l1.sS2 for 1913.

The annual report Of the st. Louis.
Rocky Mountain and Pacific Company.
covering the operations for 1918. shows
net income Of ss11.ss2. or $3.50 a share
on its 10000. 900 common stock after
deductinG dividends on its preferred. In
the preceding year the company earned
s575,b2l, or S5.26 n share on the stock.
Receipts from coal and coke sales
totalied S4.s4%.ss1. against ss.o62.s2s In
the year ended on June so. 1917 tho
period Of the last fseal year has been
chanred). and deductions for operating
and general expenses aggregated &S,+le.-
see, against s2.2ls.6so. Other income
was slightly lower than in the preceding
year at 3l12.es6. making the total in
come, before charges and depreciation.
1854, 066. Interest charges totalied
$751; os and depreciation Sl72,o6e. maxi
ing the net income for the year Ssll.ss2.
The sun., 1919-07-09
CURB ISSUES SHOW
4 GAINS NEAR CLOSE
Prices Are Irregular During
Most Of Session, but Early
;, Losses Recovered.
Buying POWER DEVELOPS
Total Transactions Arc Fewer
and Large Number of
Stocks Dealt In.

5 During the greater part OF yesterdays
eession prices for curb securities moved
I'm an Irregular fashion. but toward the
knlosc there was better buying power and
tmany more prominent issues recovered
Fall Of their earlier iossos and closed with
kky,nall gains Whilo total transactions
Ayerc on n smaller scale. greater number
kpt issues was dealt In. A few of the
tpeoialtlss dIspiayed strength throughout
ttho seesion, and advances az high ns
fhres points were made in those issues
Z Iron Products was ono of the active
teronS features. rising three points to new
high ground. Cramp Shtpoui,ding scored n
lhimllaf gain to a new high record. and
ls;sw York Shipbuildlng advanced more
Than a point There was a vigorous de-
Rsnand for Philip Morris late in the
~ aiding. sending the price moro than a
Iboint higher. British American Chom-
,fcAl was strong on reports that two OF
sfhe larges; manufacturing chemists In
1he country were buying their raw mate
{laln from that company.
{ Rubber and tire stocks were Irregular.
Ftsk Rubber lost moro than point on
-proft taking. but was in better demand
a. the close. Martin Parry closed frac-
tionaily higher after some erratic move
nuents, while Intercontlnental Rubber on
flight trading fell almost two points
standard Gas and Electric was bought
constantly In the late trading and sold
three points higher.
Less interest was displayed in the oils
except one or two of the lower priced
Issues. Tho Sinclair issues were Irregular
and closed slightly lower. and Common
wealth Petroleum lost an early gain OF a
tpotnt Standard OIL OF New, Jersey was
ave points lower. Livingston OH was
lbne OF the most active of the low priced
issues and sold to a new high record.
buying was due mainly to the steady in
ierease In the company's production dur
ing the last month.
II Mining shares were generally quiet
If,air activity was displayed in South
,hmerican Platinum and Gold and
Magma Copper lost half Of Mondays
advance
n broader list Of bonds was dealt In,
hut the total sales were smaller.
Total sales and range Of prices fol-
how
The sun., 1919-07-09
FINANCIAL NOTES.

W. C. Langley q Co. have issued an
analysis Of the Haskell Barker Car
An issue of ,saS, 900 Port of s..t,i..
Wash. o per cent. bonds, dated June !.
1919. and due ssrialiy on June 1, 1920. TO
1901, In being offered by Hornblower a
Weeks at . price to yield +.so per cent.
The bonds are exempt from all Federal
income taxes
John g. Hammond has assumed the
mana cement OF tho South American de-
partmsnt OF Imbris d Co, Inc. He was
formerly Colonel OF the Twenty -ssvsnt h
Field Artillery and during the war COM
mandsd the Field Artillery hrins centre al
Camp Mcclellan.
Export Finance Corporation has added
the products OF tho Dow Wire and Iron
WORKS. Louisville manufactures OF ornA-
mental and structural steel and bronze
work, TO its selling agencies.
"A Message About Investments From
0ssEas II. 1urs d Co" y the little Of q
The sun., 1919-07-09

folder giving details of selected list OF
public utility and Industrial bonds re-
Gently Issued by that nrm.
Hercules Petroleum Company has brought
In . we'll IN EastlAnd county, on the Holie-
man tract now flowing at the rate of
over 5000 barrels Q day. at depth Of
1900 feet.
Estabrook 4 Co. are offering at ee and
accrued dividend y block of the per
cent cumulative nrst preferred stock OF
the Minute Thpioca Company.
Henry Haslitt. formerly on ths wall
Street star OF tho New York Trbuns
10 with the Mechanics and Metals National
Bank
Solomon Bios. a Hutsler has issued a
adapted tsy The suaDlsynAsnt % tsnaDerAr-
The sun., 1919-07-09

ny Idle funds OF banking inst,tr,,ou
siorlPo,auSns and other investors The lis:
i ndustsi.i ioT , Government. railroad aud
so on the market price. New york c,, 70
revenue bills yielding 4.ss. United s,sts,
SIs ana prime banks and banker as
esptanees maturing in thirty 10 ninety
Federal reserve banks - .Ae
wi william J. Hoey & Co. have opened an
George A, HUM Sons have i.su.A .
special eirenlar on Eastern Steel
Bank OF britiSh West Africa, Ltd. ha,
n noi.ir a ma! di.idend OF "a per cent.
and ! -Dsr cent henuA '-' ''N''
The sun., 1919-07-09

S75, 1000, 900
Government of the Dominion of Canada
TWoYEAR $40 AUGUST t.
AUGUST 1, 1929
payable february n
advised hat these Mumm aa Liat
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Canada"
present
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We of~Me oo~ nd Bond tr nbmr
TheTuo-Y Yam trst toweksi
mouns Too classes h NouegHn
CRETIoN MANAGERS
AMOUNT
Of a
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GUARANTY TRUST COMPANY oFNE BANKERS EsvSE GoMS4NY
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The sun., 1919-07-09
MIRCELLANEOUH.


LONDON. July s.-Bar silver. So I1-lsd.
an ounce; money. ~ per cent dis
count rates; Short bills, az per cent. /;
three months bills. as per can't. gold
premiums at Lisbon. 16a
The sun., 1919-07-09
TORONTO CLOSING.
EnpAI

5000 5000 Indept Brwg. es... g 90 81 So
1000 Steel Ss..iOOK icOH iOcY Io0i
The sun., 1919-07-09

$1,000 Am T 10 " n,usa usH rsa IN
The sun., 1919-07-09

After tho deductions Of $50. 900 dividends
on the preferred and 100000 on the
common. the surplus for tho year was
$26l,s92. making the total surplus on
December 81. 1913, $1.720.22o.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-23
Where Our Troops May Go

Secretary Baker draws a rational
distinction in his announcement re-
garding the use of American troops
abroad. Troops may go to the Rhine
district, where they are fulfilling
the terms of the armistice with
Germany, to which we are a party.
They can also be used for occupa-
tion purposes under the armistice
with Austria Hungary, to which, as
belligerent, we were also a party.
But they cannot be used to carry
out the provisions of the peace
treaty until the United States
ratifies that instrument.
The plebiscite in Upper Silesia
is to be held under the terms of a
settlement arrived at in the peace
treaty with Germany. Allied forces
are not to enter the district to pre-
serve order there pending a plebis-
cite until the treaty becomes eff
fective by the adhesion Of three Of
the principal Allied powers. Even
then it becomes effective only as be-
tween Germany and the Allied ma
tions which have deposited ratifca-
tions. The United States could not
properly participate in the execution
of a compact which still awaits it's
approval, even though neither Ger
many nor the adhering Allied ma
tions should offer objection.
Secretary Baker has wisely de-
cided to divert troops assigned to
Silesia to the Rhine Province. They
have right to go there and can be
held there with other troops of the
army of occupation until this country
accepts the German treaty and our
responsibility for it's execution
begins.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-23
The Labor Debate

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: There are undoubtedly several
thousand firms or corporations in this
country employing from 100 to 1000
men, who are greatly interested in the
present labor situation and follow daily
the debate before the Industrial Con-
ference at Washington.
l am the head of one of such cor
porations, with 400 employees. We have
an open shop and always have had, and
our men are we'll paid and contented.
When we employ man We do not
ask whether he is an Elk, an Owl. an
Eagle, Red Man, an Odd Fellow, a
Freemason, q knight of Columbus. an
American Machinist or the member OF
foundrymens union or any other union,
We give him rate of wages which he
accepts, and if his work is good we
give him increases at various times, and
if his work is not good we create q
vacancy where he had been, and we all
work together as a happy family. From
this it is seen that we bargain individu-
ally.
What | want to know is what effect
upon our business will result from any
decision which the industrial congress
may make. SO far as can see. nothing
that they will do will be binding upon
my corporation, either morally or legal
ly, and if the conference decides in favor
of collective bargaining, | am wonder
ing if l will be guilty of contempt or
any other crime if I pay no attention
whatever to the decision Of the confer
ence. If this is true in my case it must
be true in the cases Of several thousand
OF other employers similarly situated.
and II 1t is true with all these concerns
then what possible good can be accom-
plished by this conference at Washing
ton?
Personally, do not feel that anv
member in that conference represents
me, and / have suspicion that the
other several thousand employers SINH
larly situated probably feel that thew are
not represented and will not be bound by
anything which happens. If the confer
ence decides in favor of recognizing
unions and dealing collectively it may
make our men uneasy and may make the
employers of the other several thou
sand similar corporations feel uneasy.
but as far as can see nothing that the
conference can do will tend to stabilize
the feeling of our employees, and just
at present what we need is stabiliza ton.
so that we can get adequate and proper
production. If this is so, then | should
humbly suggest that the conference be
dissolved before it accomplishes some
harm. J. E. BENNETT.
New York, Oct. 81, 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-23
The Mayor and His Oil Can

BLESSED are the peacemakers," we
are told. But no beatitude runs in
favor of those who try to be peace
makers and fail. Mayor Hylan may
be excused if he ponders somewhat
bitterly over the omission.
The Mayors pacific endeavors
seem strongly melting. He labored
with the men Of the B. R. T., and
they ran from his presence, deter
mined to listen to no suggestion Of
compromise. He conferred with
representative of the Interborough,
and when he developed to them his
idea that they were in conspiracy
with the company they amazed him
by becoming enraged. He has given
the benefit Of his advice to the
longshoremen, but as often as the
trouble has been about to be ended
a half-hour peace parley at the City
Hall has revived obstinacy. On
Tuesday, by infinite labor, His
Honor persuaded some three thou
sand longshoremen to attend his
mass meeting at Tammany Hall, and
while the men who were not there
are willing to go back to the piers,
those who were are stubbornly re-
solved to continue the strike.
No one has adequately explained
why the Mayors efforts for peace
tend to make for war. But there is
the record. 1t is such as to lead
the cynical to remark: "The Mayor
has got out his oil can. 1t looks as
if the row were to go on"
New-York tribune., 1919-10-23
Relieving ?etrograd

Plans are in forward state for
the feeding of the remaining inhab-
itants of Petrograd. The Northwest
Russian government says that from
Esthonia it will secure at once meal,
meat and vegetables sufficient for
five weeks, and that fuel and sugar
will possibly be obtained. Prepara-
tions are being rushed at Paris to
send a great fleet carrying succor.
The reaction of our Bolshevist
friends to this news will be watched
with interest. For a long time they
have been inflaned because the cruel
Allies would not dispatch relief to
Russia. They have enlarged on the
wickedness Of starving women and
children and have rejected as
calumnious the fear that Bolshevist
bravos would take the food from the
aforesaid women and babies if sent
for their benefit. Now that the
prospect is good of keeping the sup
plies from Lenine, it is possible there
will be sudden cessation of sympa-
thy for starving Petrograd.
Such a decay of concern will
furnish further evidence of the
fraudulency Of the Bolshevist propa-
ganda. In truth, it has never cared
what happened to the average Rus
sian. No blame has been visited on
the Soviet government because it fed
its charter members and their fol-
lowers and let others starve. 1t has
been deemed proper for Trotzky to
occupy grand ducal suite in the
Kremlin and to fare sumptuously.
The maintenance of his dignity, it is
said, demands this. And it is also
all right for him to labor to continue
a regime the necessary consequence
Of whose existence is pervasive
human misery.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-23
The Prussian Way

Our friends the Germans may
or may not succeed in forcing Ger
man opera down the ears Of New
York with the aid of injunctions
and police squads. That seems to US
an important but relatively minor
point alongside the question whether
Germany of to-day will benefit or
suffer in the estimation of Ameri-
cans by such tactics.
Frankly, we think there can be no
question that the whole Lexington
Iheater project is colossally stupid
olunder, as typically Prussian and
i'll advised as the invasion Of Bel
gium, or the U-boat campaign or
any of the other gross errors of the
Prussian mind in the war.
The episode will serve Germany
i'll in two respects. 1t will react i'm
mediately against German music and
musicians, to make them distasteful
and hateful, as they were not, or, at
any rate, as they were rapidly ceas-
ing to be. 1t will confirm the all
too common view that Germany is
still Prussia and always will be.
The extremes Of passion are rap
idly dying down in America, as in
every other country. German music
was finding its way back into pro-
grams. An Austrian violinist
and composer, who had borne him
self with dignity and reserve
throughout the war-Fritz kreisler
had been cordially welcomed in his
hrst operate venture. The processes
OF healing and reconciliation were
taking their natural course. We
have in thousands of loyal Amer
Icans of German blood the best of
reasons for giving the German peo-
pie of the future every opportunity
to demonstrate their will to start
afresh and recover their lost posi-
ton in the world.
The Lexington Theater venture is
not in any wise fresh start, but is
repetition Of the exact Prussian
spirit which applauded the Lusi
tania sinking and convinced the
world OF the vicious barbarism of
the modern German mind. If per-
sisted in, these German rallies in be-
half Of the Fatherland will 20 far
toward persuading Americans that
it is hopeless to expect anything out
New-York tribune., 1919-10-23
The Legal Aid Societies

1t is to the credit of the legal
profession that the most severe criti-
cisms of defects of the laws admin
istration come from it's members.
The priests of the temple of justice
acknowledge that the worship is not
always pure, and thus keep the door
open to reformation. The latest in
dictment is a crashing attack con-
tanned in report to the Carnegie
Foundation, prepared by Reginald
Heber Smith, of the Boston bar.
The ideal Of the law is high, even
perfect. 1t seeks to draw justice
from the skies and to set up its
reign on earth. But it's Instruments
are faulty, and, sadder still, safe
guards established to protect right
are perverted to serve wrong. Far
back in English history a king was
forced to sign a document wherein
he pledged himself not to sell right
or justice, or to deny it, or to defer
it. Yet, in spite Of all the devices
that the wit of men has been able
to conceive, the great principle has
never been completely embodied.
Mr.. Smith admits there is not
equality Of justice for the rich and
the poor, for the powerful and the
weak.
No class distinctions are recog-
nized in Our Jurisprudence, there is
no respect of persons, the courts are
as open to the INDECENT as to the
affluent, legal costs have become
nominal But to save the poor
from oppression it is, of course,
necessary to adopt defensive regula-
tions, and this brings in the lawyer
with his technical skill, and this, in
turn, means delay and that the rich
are the better served. Thus, lofty
endeavor finds it's footsteps doggcd
by evil consequences.
TO secure one man as good a
chance in the courts as any other,
Mr.. Smith seems to think that moth
ing brings better results than the
legal aid society. He eulogizes the
two New York societies which have
assumed the business of providing
legal assistance to those too poor
to hire it--namely, the Legal Aid
Society, which deals with civil cases,
and the Voluntary Defenders Com
mittee, which handles criminal cases.
But, like other enterprises Of phi
New-York tribune., 1919-10-23
KipEng's Never
70 the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: On to-day's editorial page is
reference to "the Kipling dictum of the
East and West that never the twain
shall meet" and to Mr. Julean Arnold's
vigorous controversion Of it.
Kipling, however, added: "Till earth
and sky stand presently at Gods great
judgment seat; but there is neither
East nor West, border nor breed nor
birth, when two strong men stand face
to face tho they come from the ends
Of the earth" AS a qualification of
"never" that would be hard to i'm
prove on.
The only real issue that concerns our
foreign policy to-day is whether the
United States is ready to come out and
stand before the East and the Near-East
as "strong man" unafraid, or whether
we shall listen to the old nurse warn
ings by parish minded Senator'S and
others about the bogies of "foreign en-
tanglemcnts" and "jobs carelessly as
sumed."
Those bogies may sound to timid ears
like good excuses for hiding the head
OF the United States under the domestic
blanket and leaving the Near-East as
we'll az China to work out her own
salvation" without our help. Talk about
bogics has terrified many squealing
infant into temporary inertia. We hear
much less about the subsequent strug-
giles of the grown man to overcome the
educated cowardice.
1t is Gods great judgment seat ut
which this nation has been called to
stand before the Near-East and the
East. Should we refuse to answer as
Strong man." is there comfort in the
thought Of being booted and cuffed and
dragged by the ear, whimpering before
the nations, to do our part eventually
whether we will or no?
Mistakes are always costly, and
rightly so, for thus we learn. But the
costliest Of all, to individual or nation,
is the setishness that squeals repeatedly
"am | my brothers keeper"
TALBOT MUNDY.
New York, Oct 81, 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-23
The Fate of Mike
70 the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: | have read with great interest
the new story of Mike Gilhooley, the
champion boy stowaway--the story of
his being adopted into the United
States, and especially in view Of the
fact that he is going to become the
ward of New Yorker. Being a for
mer member of the A. E. F. and meet
ing not few boys Of Mikes type, I
can assure you that Mike will not tol-
crate becoming the "pampered and
petted' ward of an idle New Yorker,
whose place Of abode is the hotel, with
its men in livery and airshafts. bellhops,
etc. Mike, as / know him in France,
cannot tolerate this kind of stuff.
have known soldiers to weep when
they were unable to bring an orphan
such as Mike home. Why? Because
they were unable to give these boys the
things they would like to, and conse-
quentIy would not take chance on
bringing them at all and possibly shar-
ing with them in want.
Mike should be given a home with a
soldier, for he is a result of the war
and one Of the prizes of the A. E. F.,
and therefore should have a companion,
one who will join him in the outdoor
life OF the country, and not tic Mike
down to a 2xA hotel room.
AN A. E. FER.
New York, Oct. is, 1919.
P. S.-You say in your editorial that
pioneers such as Mike made America.
Pioneers, my dear sir, did not seek
the congested city to do their pioneer
ing. Mike can't be a man in New York,
especially.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-23
An1ericunize Unions

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: What labor union will be the
first to gain the confidence of the public
by thoroughly Americanizng them
selves?
Wouldn't the two following rules be
a step in the right direction?
l. No member of the union who is
not an American citizen shall holc
Office or vote in any of the councils, de.
liberations or elections of the union
although he may enjoy all other rights
Of membership.
2. Officers of the union. walking dele.
gates. committee members and al! who
have any administrative or executive
responsibility or authority shall be
American-born citizens 0. E. S.
New York, Oct 81, 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-23
Another Stanza

To the Editor Of The Tribune
Sir: In the matter of "Old Scngs."
Carry Me Back to Old Virginny' has
another stanza, as follows:
Carry me back TO old Virginny.
There let me live till wither and decay.
Long by the old Dismal Swamp have ! VAN
dered
There's where this old darlSey's life will
pass away.
Massa and Missis have long gone before me.
Soon we will meet on tina. bright ana
golden shore.
There we'll be happy and free from al
sorrow
There's where We'll meet and We'll never
part TO more
The words and music Of both Garry
Me Back and when You and Were
Young" tby }. A. Butterfield and &. W.
Johnson) may be found in a one-yoi-
ume accumulation called Hear
Songs The chorus Of Garry Mo
Back" IS for four parts.
C. 5. B.
Brookfield Center. Conn. Oct. II, lsis'
New-York tribune., 1919-10-23

lanthropy which do not pay their
own way and rest on a sound eco
nomic basis, their work is in constant
danger of breaking down. AS Mr..
Smith says: "The greatest weak
ness of organized legal aid work,
the one factor which constantly bars
it's path, and which may ultimately
prove its undoing, is it's lack of
funds" The New York organiza-
tions, Notwithstanding the great
record behind them, are now suffer-
ing from poverty. Their appeal is
apparently lost in the multitude of
appeals with which the public is DEL
uged. Money is provided generous
ly for many things. but the legal
aid society gets it's income in small
driblets-has never been able to at
tract the attention Of those able to
provide an endowment.
But what educational work could
be more valuable than to have the
humblest citizen know that, no
matter how obscure he may be,
there is an agency with vigilant eye
willing and competent to see that
his rights are protected and his
wrongs redressed? The light Of
Liberty's statue will burn more
brightly, one may assume, when
every incomer can be told, with the
emphasis born of an unshadowed
conviction, that this is a land not
merely Of theoretical but Of applied
justice.
When Mayor Gaynor and Chief
Magistrate McAdoo reformed our
petty courts, the tribunals the
alien comes into contact with,
they were practical workers for
Americanization. In the same laud-
able business the legal aid societies
are engaged. A dollar to them pro-
duces results quite as good as or
better than dollar to an education
al foundation.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-23

tion, and from this the inference
must be drawn that in general the
advance in wages has kept pace
with or exceeded the rise in prices.
The conditions are, of course, abb
normal and cannot last. A depres-
sion scarcely can be avoided. But
why increase the shock and multi
ply thereby its destructive force?
Compromise and adjustment
these are the needs of the hour. The
extremists may be perfect in logic,
but this does not prevent their be-
ing dangerous pests.